We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to 1,000 individuals in the treatment group, with a group of 2,000 people receiving $50/month serving as the control. These are sizable transfers. 1/ 🧵

"I will teach myself mathematics from books." The books:

MIT Entrance Examination for 1869-1870

People haven't really integrated what this means for our civilization, industrial society, and the progress of history because it's too big to wrap your head around. I think what it means is that our civilization is about to collapse. Meaning sometime before 2200.

When I tell this story, all Americans 🇺🇸 and most British 🇬🇧 don’t believe me. Italy 🇮🇹 cannot have startups by design. This is due many items, starting with the untranslable “studio di settore”. The 🇮🇹 tax authorities assume that given x company assets you MUST make a profit 1/5

Whoever invented this needs to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The last thing I ever want to touch is a bathroom door handle.

Q ™️ Where’s the community note??????

That time Sylwester Wardęga bought a giant spider Halloween costume for his dog and let him loose.

Now Donald J. Trump is advocating eliminating the income tax completely and replacing it with tariffs, which was how the federal government was funded prior to 1913. In fact, the 16th Amendment was ratified precisely to replace tariffs on the middle class with income taxes on

Fierce в Ташкенте (сбор на реставрацию окон!) глянь на досуге - тебе понравится как раз подтверждает мысль, что прогрессивные налоги - это способ не дать талантливой молодёжи получить доступ в клубы к "старым деньгам" youtu.be/zOJorDF3up4

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America is great because you can be goldplated elite (Groton, Yale, Yale Law, then Deep State, married to the national security advisor) and you have to debate an insane libertarian Chinese immigrant mum who will insult you in broken English and she may beat you at the election.

From the East European viewpoint, the most important thing about the US election is that Biden administration goes. The year-long brinkmanship that eventually resulted in Russia’s full-out aggression began with with Biden’s arrival in the White House and Zelensky’s simultaneous

Biden can still run again in 2028

Надеюсь что теперь войны начнут сворачиваться.

Brian Marlow Alexandra Marshall exactly, Elon shadow banned me after a comment under his tweet on the flip side, I don't waste as much time as I had been before on useless arguments with strangers, so maybe it's a good thing after all 🤷‍♂️

On the same day, Politico runs these two headlines... In Romania Georgescu is a simple disqualification. In Turkey, Erdogan snuffs out democratic opposition.

I am the 3rd person in the world to receive the @Neuralink brain implant. 1st with ALS. 1st Nonverbal. I am typing this with my brain. It is my primary communication. Ask me anything! I will answer at least all verified users! Thank you Elon Musk!

"I have decided to conduct a special military operation"

the openai IMO news hit me pretty heavy this weekend i'm still in the acute phase of the impact, i think i consider myself a professional mathematician (a characterization some actual professional mathematicians might take issue with, but my party my rules) and i don't think i