Weaponized autism value investor. Interested in genomics, hard tech and entropy-reduction. 🇮🇹
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Andrea retweeted
It's an iron law of the universe that as soon as you realize this, you become a conservative.
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Everything seems unprecedented when you don’t know any history.
I've served in two White Houses and in Congressional leadership, and I can tell you when the last time a CEO or an industry at large asked to be regulated: never. That's what makes Dario's letter so striking — it's an admission that we're driving down a dark, winding road on wet pavement with the headlights off. And where's President Trump? Looks like he nodded off again. It’s time to turn the lights on, put both hands on the wheel, and regain control before it’s too late.
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Industries and CEOs have often asked to be regulated. Examples include 19th century railroads, Allstate in 2009, hedge funds and tech companies. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/305871… fee.org/articles/we-wa… nationalreview.com/corner/be-wary…
Can you share details about the setup? How do you ensure long term integrity of processes? How specific are each bot’s instructions?
Another involuntary example of “every map of Italy is the same map”. Note that almost every brand below Tuscany (except for Sardinia, well done) is either pastaslop or a prior state-owned enterprise
Most Valuable Italian Brands
Which is your favourite?
Maps for other countries: brilliantmaps.com/company-ma…
"The Europeans can gesticulate at the ref but he's on the other side of the TV"
This whole statement contains zero information except that the Europeans want to ingest US space sovereignty into their regulatory maw. More cookie banners!
Sorry, thank you but no thank you. The table stakes to have a useful or valid opinion in space are extremely high and going up.
If you must have a number, it's currently a launch capacity above 2000 T/year.
I'm not surprised that US interests noped out of this.
Europe realizing a decade after the fact that by standing still they've been left far behind, and not yet realizing they lack the institutions or will to catch up, then spending two years workshopping this statement of priorities rather than machining inconel, is diagnostic. The Europeans will be spectators from this point out. They can gesticulate at the ref but he's on the other side of their TV.
Andrea retweeted
Something I realized truly unsettles me about the EU is that they have learned the correct lesson about China's ruling formula - you only need the full-on totalitarianism for elites, and the proles you can control using ham-fisted censorship - except they are actually much more evil than China. China's solution is to tyrannize its billionaires into submission, which is already fairly evil. But it does generate broad-based advancement for its people. The EU wants total billionaire death, doing everything it can to ensure there is no domestic innovator class to oppose them - and succeeding - because they truly couldn't care less that their people are becoming poorer. They understand, correctly, that they can suppress their people forever as long as there is no organized counter-elite. In that way, they are less copying China and more copying North Korea.
Andrea retweeted
Abortion up to the point of birth completely undermines the Liberal rationalizations for abortion.
The most common argument for abortion is women's bodily autonomy. "My body, my choice." But even if we grant this premise the death of the fetus is an "unfortunate side effect," as an early term fetus cannot survive independent of its mother.
This is not true of a late term abortion, or abortion up to the point of birth. The youngest premature infant born that survived was born at 21 weeks, but this is a tail-end outlier. From 26 weeks the infant has an ~80% survival rate. From 30 weeks I'm seeing a survival rate reported as high as 98%.
If the justification for abortion is simply bodily autonomy, then in the case of a late term infant it is entirely possible to restore a woman her bodily autonomy without killing the baby, as it can be removed from the mother, restoring her bodily autonomy, without actually killing the infant. It can just live its life like the roughly 10% of all children that are naturally born premature.
To "abort" such an infant is just infanticide. To pass a law like this is to functionally say it is legal to murder any of the premature infants in the NICU, provided that infant happens to still be in the womb.
To the extent any abortion is tolerated there will always be some "gray" area with respect to when the cutoff date is applied, but tolerating it up to the point of birth is well outside that gray area. It's pitch black murder.
Andrea retweeted
writing about another’s writing. philosophizing about a philosopher’s philosophies. critiquing the latest critique. definitions rearranged to prove definitions. a meeting about the frequency of meetings 01001
database loops with other database to verify database 0100 discourse disapproving of the discourse. talk show host delivers brutal takedown of rival talk show host.
crypto swapped for crypto to price crypto denominated in crypto 01011110 a portfolio of derivatives hedging against derivative risk. GDP growth by adding services that help GDP. 0101
therapy about your anxiety about therapy. meditating to optimize meditation. 001101 journaling about an inability to journal. 0101011
a podcast that interviews podcasters. content about content creation. seeking engagement to manufacture more engagement.
symbols citing symbols to prove symbols. words pointing to words to prove words 011101 mind referencing mind to validate mind 110110 reasoning leveraging self-referencing reasons to demonstrate its reasonability. 00110001 mirror faces mirror to reflect mirror.
philosophy claiming reality is a construct of philosophy. poison prescribing more poison to see health benefits of poison. an algorithm optimizing another algorithm that optimizes algorithmic optimization.
0111011 mind loops within itself 010111101 symbols stacked on top of symbols 010010111 only concerned with internal coherence, no external correspondence 1010111011 cognition folds inward 11010111111 recursion without exit condition 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
parts of the internet are burning themselves out. the cycles are shortening, getting more obvious. performative-outrage loops are compressing. stultifying repetition gnashing on itself.
tedious and predictable talking points eroding the pageantry. a screaming infant eventually exhausts himself; a screaming adult is no different.
what’s behind a screen is pure chaos. digital fantasies increasingly spinning themselves into froth, unmoored from consequence or time. spiraling into transient noise. almost nothing discussed matters 2-4 weeks later.
the internet isn’t expanding culture anymore, just lubricating humanity’s worst social traits. the notion of “trending” feels saturated.
logging on will hopefully become a more intentional act, rather than passive habit seeking simulacrum of existence. the internet either points to real life and acts as a compression of reality — as any useful symbol does — or it thrashes itself into entropic nothingness.
databases looping recursively without exit condition.
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Andrea retweeted
this is a skill issue, it’s really not that hard, you really just have to listen to women and cultivate empathy. the way women feel about men is closer to the way you feel about whether you’d go into battle with a man than the way you feel about women
New EU-US trade deal: we send you all the hyperproductive, competitive, ambitious people we have left. You send us all your easily frazzled, lazy, slow-life, degrowth-friendly types in return.
A New York family with a young daughter left $2,000/month rent behind and bought a house in a small hilltop town in Abruzzo, Italy for about $13,000 cash. They spent another $17,000 on renovations and now also rent out a second property they bought for $20,000, generating roughly $1,100 per month.
They moved permanently in 2023. Daily costs dropped sharply - preschool is $70 a month, groceries around $140 a week for the whole household. The wife now works locally and says owning their home outright brought huge financial relief and a much slower pace of life.
A practical example of how some Americans are finding affordable home ownership and lower stress by moving to rural Italy.
I don’t understand the whole “AC in Europe” debate. The controversy mostly exists to avoid a much simpler reality: you cannot roll out air conditioning across Europe at the scale and speed needed to solve immediate problems such as the current heatwave.
Several factors are at play:
• Europe did not used to experience this level of heat. Climate change has changed the picture, and relatively quickly.
• Much of Europe’s building stock is old, often centuries old. These buildings were designed to moderate temperature with features such as thick walls and natural ventilation, not to accommodate modern air conditioning systems.
• Those historic buildings are a huge asset. Their façades are part of what makes European cities attractive and economically valuable. You cannot simply cover them with external AC units without damaging that heritage.
• Even with strong political will, who would pay for a continent-wide retrofit that preserves historic architecture? The cost would run into hundreds of billions of euros.
• And even if the money were available, could manufacturers produce the equipment fast enough? Could installers be trained and hired quickly enough? Europe already faces labour shortages in many skilled trades. So where would the workforce come from? More immigration? That would simply create another round of the same xenophobic arguments that already dominate public debate.
So that’s the short version: Europe will not have universal air conditioning anytime soon. Much of its building stock was not designed for it, and the necessary resources, money, industrial capacity, supply chains, and labour simply do not exist at the required scale.
Air conditioning will spread, and in many places it already is. But it will happen gradually, starting with newer buildings where installation is easier and cheaper, and expanding as investment, production capacity, and skilled labour grow.
There may even be an upside. As modern buildings become better adapted to hotter summers, some of the premium currently attached to beautiful old buildings may diminish, making them more affordable.
In the meantime, people invent cultural controversies. Americans, in particular, seem unable to resist them. A European heatwave somehow becomes another opportunity for Europe-bashing, social media outrage, and people taking sides in a debate that ignores the practical constraints. It’s much easier to argue about why Europe doesn’t have air conditioning than to explain how you would install it across an entire continent.
Andrea retweeted
You just have to understand that for the people advocating for this it would be nice if it were revenue positive, but that’s not really the point or a requirement. The whole point of all of this is that wealthy people have it too good and need to be taken down a notch.
We transitioned from "Orwell's 1984 was not an instruction manual" to "Terry Gilliam's Brazil was not an instruction manual"
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Andrea retweeted
In Feng Shui, the fact that 80% of autistic people are bullied or used by 'friends' is because their mental layout is often an 'open Ming Tang (Bright Hall)'—no scheming, no defenses, straightforward. This extremely pure 'Qi field' easily attracts 'Robbing Wealth Afflictions' (people who plunder under the guise of friendship) and 'Hidden Arrow Afflictions' (betrayals from behind) in complex social Feng Shui. The post's grim data reminds us: 'Water that is too clear has no fish; a layout too open invites thieves.' Autistic individuals don't need to change their inner 'pure water quality,' but they must build a 'Xuan Guan (Spiritual Screen)' at their social boundaries. This screen acts as a 'buffer and filter': making the turbid energy of 'scheming' and 'calculating' detour at the door, allowing only the 'vital Qi' (true friends) tested by time to enter the inner chamber. Remember: Your kindness is expensive; it must have Feng Shui 'edges' and 'thresholds.' Don't let just anyone march straight into your natal layout.
