Marc Andreessen on how to learn things:

I’ll admit it, I’m a water snob. We have Mountain Valley Spring delivered in 5 gallon *glass* bottles and use it for all drinking and cooking. I endorse this list.

A fleet of F.02 humanoid robots was shipped today from Figure They are being delivered to our commercial customer and will never return Excited to be shipping humanoid robots into the real world, LFG!!

The only tech that truly matters

Great way to say it

Think of it like this: When you raise money, you're playing two separate games. The game of business is about running your company. The game of money is about protecting your equity. Most founders only focus on the first:

Tim Urban

I love people

One of the few hopeful fire posts

Just unbelievable. Prompt to G-D, show me a video of what it would be like if everyone could equally enjoy the stunning views and sunsets on the PCH without a drop of blood being shed.

"Consilience" is the idea that all knowledge should eventually interlock, producing a unified understanding of reality. Below is a network showing this unity, as measured by co-citations. It appears the humanities never received this memo, and have now reached escape velocity!

This global airline map is probably the best derivative way to measure economic activity I've seen

Indian Flying Fox with pup

Victoria Dauberville, a French ballerina, performs a dance in Antarctica, on a ship's bow. x.com/i/status/18815…

Just a cycle that repeats every 10,000 years

I don’t think we can claim to have automated manufacturing in a meaningful way until there are 30000 robots per 10000 human workers in factories Rn the most advanced economies don’t even crack 1000 robots per 10000 workers, we have a long way to go

Byronic Heroine I've long suspected everyone is a basic avatar of like the same thousand type people until they hit big suffering and have to make a choice to change or not. This often involves fully embracing God and dropping one's ego. I'd guess no more than 5% ever do

High IQ people are good at manipulating and fitting mental lego blocks together. They are NOT inherently good at apprehending truth. Give a high IQ person a bunch of retarded building blocks (i.e. flawed axioms), and they’ll build an entire retarded mental castle