in the modern world, you must master one thing above all else. you must become comfortable with deep levels of uncertainty at all times. but most people live in the "meanwhile," in anxious suspension, waiting for life to stabilize before they begin. "i'm not ready yet. i need

here we observe the lupine whelpling in its natural habitat

China’s NUDT mosquito drone is only 1.3 cm long, but it already feels almost low-tech at this point. Soon, battlespace drones will shrink to 1 mm and become undetectable to the naked eye or ear at any practical distance. Now imagine dealing with a swarm of 100 million of them.

As we move through the late 20s and 30s of the third millennium, pattern recognition is and always will be the most important human skill. Don't forget.

Envious of those who have mastered retardmaxxing. Right now there's some dude out there who lives beyond the reach of the matrix. He caught a bass today, has no idea how to pronounce the Strait of Whore Moose, has never heard of X, thinks Elon is a basketball school in North

We just witnessed what is very likely the greatest boomer moment of all time. Never in a million years did I think I'd live to see this.

True introspection is very difficult because the mind has to examine itself while also being the thing doing the examining, and because it can't fully model its own moment-to-moment operation, it can never see the whole system at once. It's sort of like a shitty camera pointed at

The few who get the closest to true introspection usually end up trapped in a conceptual prison because their thoughts can only show them a compressed, fragmented model of reality, and then they mistake the map for the territory. Thought cuts the world into little pieces, labels

One of the most impossible things in science is a brain trying to study itself. Your mind will whisper sweet lies… and you'll believe every word. Try at your own risk.

Game theory + probability theory + supply & demand + marketing psychology + delusional optimism + insane implementation speed = the highest form of leverage.

For advanced players: add narrative control. We're in a memetic competition and narrative war over mindshare and resources, a war that can only be won through the rapid production of winning ideas. A war where words are spells and everything is memes. Win the memes, win the minds

What if I told you that civilization and all its selection pressures created better humans and better technology, and you were never better off in some prelapsarian hunter-gatherer fantasy.

all natty engineers watching 16 year old vibe coders use AI to build

as foretold by the prophecy