Osh.

druski genuinely saying some real shit here

Abdul El-Sayed: “We don’t live in capitalism. We live in corporate socialism. If you’re a corporation, you can buy a politician to get that politician to rig the system for you so you make more money and you ex out every other market in which you compete. You need good healthcare. You need a good education. We need childcare. We need good roads and bridges. We don’t need to send our money to big corporations to subsidize them, we need to be invested in people so they have the human capital to be able to do all the things as they graduate and come out”

Robert Rubin, a former US Treasury Secretary, was paid around 120 million dollars at the top of Citibank. When the bank nearly collapsed in 2008, he blamed an event nobody could have predicted, apologized, and kept every cent. Nassim Taleb has a name for that. He calls it the Bob Rubin trade: you keep the upside when you are right, and someone else pays when you are wrong. His whole philosophy, and this talk at Google, exists to kill it. His fix is almost four thousand years old. The first written law we have, Hammurabi's code, said that if a builder's house collapsed and killed the owner, the builder was put to death. Strip away the cruelty and one rule is left standing: you cannot walk away from a risk you created for someone else. Everything in the talk is that rule in disguise. A plumber is judged by the client whose pipe he fixed, so plumbing works. An economist is judged by other economists, which is how you can hand a Nobel to two men who say opposite things. Any job graded by your peers instead of by reality eventually rots. A pilot is the opposite, because he cannot fool the sky. Taleb asked the room what happens to pilots who only pretend to be experts. "They died and their passengers died." That is exactly why flying is safe. Here is the part worth keeping. Listen from about 22:50. The oldest law humans ever wrote down was not about gods or gold. It was one sentence forcing the people who build things to stand underneath them. "You should own your risks." Before you take anyone's advice, find out what happens to them if they are wrong. If the answer is nothing, it was never advice. It was a sales pitch.

EISMAN: “These companies are very nervous. They realize that there are no moats around their business .. they're trying to manufacture a crisis that will create regulation — that they think they can then manipulate to create .. the duopoly that they want."

I must be among an extremely small group of people (n=1?) that have both 1) trained a frontier LLM and 2) designed and synthesized custom viruses in a lab with my own two hands. And I think that the takes on AI killing us all by creating dangerous viruses is total bogus.

It all started with a male ego

I am still confused by how AI would kill literally everyone on earth. What's the mechanism? A robot sets up a secret lab where it makes a deadly virus? What plausible scenario would result in every last human dying?

This statement from globally respected historian Sarah Paine is without question statement of the year to date. For once you normalize the lie. The writing is on the wall. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZN82P6s5v/

None of his friends have children ! Dating apps are awful.

A man visits different psychiatrists office complaining of the same exact symptoms. Watch as each psychiatrist gives him a different diagnosis and offers all kinds of different medicines. The entire thing is a giant scam as far as I’m concerned.

UN votes to adopt new world map showing Africa's true size bbc.in/46I3e2S

Because wealth accumulation requires a certain level of cruelty. And most smart people are not cruel. For example, let's say I run a business, and I know that in order for it to make me a millionaire, I need to pay my workers 3k p/m. As a smart person, I know that 3k p/m is nowhere near enough for someone to live comfortably on. The only question that remains is whether I care or not.

Any time I see any tech people from SF post I just think of this Ye video