this completely matches my existing model of how most people think laws work

In retrospect, I was too optimistic about the curve being flattened.

A thread on Curtis Yarvin’s take on inflation via Matt Asher on his podcast “the Filter”. The Pod was posted 2-7-2022 but the theory and prognostication are evergreen for anyone the Li(G)BerTarian+ curious community. open.spotify.com/episode/29SMGH…

I'm already using AI tools to create the main illustrations for my substack posts. In the past I've hired illustrators for various projects. I doubt I will again. It won't be up to the those creators, it will be up to the people who hire them.

This is the correct framing. The dumbest takes belong ppl like VR pioneer Jaron Lanier, who said the idea of AI surpassing human abilities is silly, "because it’s made of human abilities". Humans, of course, can summon into existence fires that take on a life of their own.

No matter how much theory you read or data you analyze, you can't truly appreciate the glory of capitalism until you've used a butt spatula on your infants.

This is nonsense. But it is true that the more AI's take on human-like qualities, the more we will compare ourselves to AI's working off an LLM. This happens with every new kind of machine, we compare ourselves to it, not always favorably.

This prediction is still going strong. See theepochtimes.com/us/dating-divi…

I've seen my share of delusional libertarian takes, but this is just... beyond. If you were wearing down a mountain, you could do it one drop at a time. With enough patience anything is possible. If you are fighting a giant, or battling leviathan, filing down it's fingernails

Mongoloid is one of the top 10 pop songs of all time. It gets deeper every time you listen.

The United States cannot remain in military treaty obligations with countries who threaten to extradite Elon Musk for freedom of speech. Unless NATO countries take action against the EU commissioners and UK officials making these threats, we cannot remain in NATO.

I don't think it's a coincidence that Lord of the Flies is assigned right when school kids become capable of revolting against their teaches and deciding they should run things instead.

I wonder if women realize how guys who are out in public know they are always 30 seconds away from a potentially life-threatening fight. Short story… I was out biking with my wife this evening (we live in Amsterdam, so very normal) and a guy in a Vespa swerves across the bike

2. Would also destroy the MAGA movement by getting a large number of Trump supports to knee-jerk back to neocon, "bomb bomb bomb Iran" mode. It would destroy the anti-war right along with Trump himself, and splinter the growing Republican anti-establishment coalition.

Plot twist. Democrats admit Trump actually won in 2020 and is therefore ineligible to be elected a third time.

Sometimes you get a perfect view of just how sad and pointless most modern expressionist art was.

Does anyone else find these "You'll be sorry!" posts tiresome?

Apparently there's an entire generation of Americans who have no idea it blew up twice, scattering humans ashes across the sky.

Even if you accept the adjustment for inflation at face value, this represents a 0.7% increase in real wages per year. That's far outpaced by the "real" rise in the cost of housing, education, healthcare, insurance, and much more, not to mention things you didn't need to buy in