I don't want that money, I want the country to have a smaller deficit and ultimately a smaller national debt.

JD Vance Enough with the war demons.

I'm betting the asteroid hits the Moon. Then the Moon hits the Earth...

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Wow. thefp.com/p/tgif-war-gam…

"I want to see the CIA and the NSA and the FBI severely limited in the role that they play in the world. I want to see U.S. foreign policy far more oriented toward getting along with other countries rather than dominating them." Glenn Greenwald on the Trump admin disrupting DC:

Home Depot is worth more than all the European start ups created in the past 50 years combined. Home Depot.

I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning: I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too

This won't be that hard to solve, if we choose to. Train AI to find and cite reliable sources, especially primary sources. Citing unreliable sources is already a problem with humans. And it was worse in the past! When Adam Smith wrote about the pin factory, he had read about it

Hard to tabulate what a sea change it is to have a president who has the pragmatic, correct view on the origins of the world’s most dangerous war— rather than the fatuous, elite cut that has brought only slaughter

In 2006, a group of students at Xavier High School in New York City wrote to their favourite authors to request a visit to their school. Kurt Vonnegut was the only author to reply. His reply letter to them was absolutely beautiful.

“Everyone is going to make their own apps with AI” My friend you don’t even make your own food. You’ll still pay a few bucks to use an app.

Line of the night.

My thesis is LLMs significantly boost your motivation to work on something. Getting a shitty prototype fast is immensely motivating Code and time are often not the bottleneck, motivation is the bottleneck.

Kierkegaard said the function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays, and the same is true of hope, dreams, so many things. The fruits are internal

Don’t be smart, be curious.

Kinda makes you wonder if these people ever really respected science. Or even knew what it was...

Over the last two and a half years, the two of us, Michael Shellenberger and alex gutentag, have written and published hundreds of articles and testified before Congress on multiple occasions about the clear violations of the spirit and letter of the Constitution by former President Joe