Now if only I can get Noah Smith 🐇 to reconsider his opinions on the New Deal and recovery from the Great Depression! FWIW, Noah, I wrote _False Dawn_ partly with you in mind.

People don't understand that memetic warfare is the primary form of warfare of our age. It's the way to destroy your enemy from within without firing a single bullet. Unfortunately many common memes were planted and amplified by foreign adversaries for our detriment.

Once we achieve brain-like efficiency in converting energy to intelligence in silicon with thermo compute, it will make sense to tack on compute to solar panels and plant them everywhere. This is how we ascend to K1. Then these solar AI hybrids will be sent near the Sun for K2.

Trump going all in on Ukraine. Putin had a chance, he made clear he doesn’t want peace. No one can deny that now.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell Google for under $1m so they could return to their PhDs. Paul Allen had to convince Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard took day jobs until pushed by a professor to start HP. Steve Wozniak wanted HP to build

8 months ago, on election night, we were on top of the world after Polymarket called the election. 8 days later, the FBI broke down my door at 6am and took all my computers and phones, looking for anything that could imply foul play. While traumatic, it etched the story of

Solzhenitsyn warned us.

Explaining why something causes inflation, intentional or not, isn’t an oxymoron. But saying “cognizable” definitely makes you sound like you are oversensitive about being called a moron. It was very impressive. But, assuming all possible inflation from tariffs is only

It’s hard to see complaints about housing costs and the lack of opportunity for gen Z as anything but empty rhetoric if you’re not willing to point to Javier Milei as a real world example of the point because he supports Israel. We have an empirical example for people who have a

Linus used to speak to engineers in 2012 the way I speak to LLMs now.

And none of this would be necessary if the US dropped its sugar tariffs and corn subsidies.

JD Vance The opposite is true: US manufacturers who make things in the US from imported raw materials that aren't available in the US will be hit with big fat tariffs. US manufacturers who move overseas so they don't have to import will avoid these tariffs and get a huge tax cut.

The Senate voted today to defund public broadcasting. I will tell you, its better to just donate money to NPR or PBS than to give money to politicians that promise to fight for them. Spend your money how you like, don't tax me for programming I might not watch.

American polarisation is crazy. MAGA were the number one opponents of Ukraine support and now their support for arming Ukraine is higher than among Democrats Purely because Trump did it

I wanted to learn turbocharging and engine management, but I didn't really want to build a car around it on my first attempt. So I built this intead. I took a GM ZZ502 short block, Trick Flow 340cc heads, and went shopping on eBay for cheap Chinese turbo parts. I found the two

The zero-sum trap: the more people believe that wealth, status, and well-being are zero-sum, the more they back policies that make the world zero-sum. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

"[N]ormative monogamy reduces crime rates, including rape, murder, assault, robbery and fraud, as well as decreasing personal abuses… By shifting male efforts from seeking wives to paternal investment, normative monogamy increases savings, child investment and economic

The three babies are normal, healthy, free of HIV. They are living a happy life. That's the proof that what I've done is ethical.

Warning! The Daily Mail is carrying an article by me that contains numerous errors, introduced by editors while I was without access to a phone signal or internet, hiking in the Rockies. Below is the correct text that I submitted to them: The climate boondoggle is one of the

That's 0.07% of global energy use (comparable to many other random industries, and often using otherwise wasted/stranded energy). Its service is that it gives people an alternative for when the IMF comes and makes a deal with your country's govt to devalue your currency. 😉