Researcher and writer: @palladiummag, @unherd, @im_1776, @AntigoneJournal, @FDRLST. Classics, political philosophy, governance futurism.

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Joined October 2012
My article on what is at stake in the Odyssey. Civilization must be actively recovered through cunning and endurance. Remember what matters and read reality clearly. It is best to live in an expansive age; the second best is to battle all the way home. xitter.cf/palladiummag/status/20…
Battling All the Way Home Homer’s Odyssey offers a window into the Greek view of life, which can teach us what moral excellence truly means. Read the new article by @StephenPiment (link below):
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An AI bubble can pop for reasons having nothing to do with AI capabilities.
As someone with a portfolio of energized land assets here is what I am seeing: 1. Neoclouds are disorganized and poorly capitalized. Some are definitely better than others however. 2. Hyperscalers are intractable, bureaucratic organizations that take 3 months to do an NDA and want 18mo escrow periods. We built our portfolio by competing against these terms because of our speed and simplicity. The more future assets orgs like ours win, the bigger the problem for the hyperscalers downstream (see 3). 3. There are delays in the existing pipeline that will catch people off guard in 2027. Hyperacalers will (obviously) react by focusing on their own internal compute needs over any third party. If the third party is a model company, they will tell them to go through their model router where they will also take a non-trivial vig. Them telling Ant they have no compute for them (rumored in Ant’s S-1) if true is a huge tell that this is already happening. All of this is to say that it does look like there will be a lot of partially stranded compute and compute sitting in inventory in 2027 than is currently forecasted. This is bought and paid for but effectively underearning (below total cost of capital) or collecting dust. We see this as true for everyone - model companies, hyperscalers, neoclouds except ONE (you can guess which one). This dislocation will benefit two kinds of orgs: the non-bureaucratic big scalers who can build industrial scale quickly and the nimble, well capitalized players feeding them. 2027 will be a turbulent year because it will clear out a bunch of wrong/bad bets. It will also be a consolidation year for a few.
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Saint Crispin's Day (October 25) is the feast day of Crispin and Crispinian, twins who were martyred in 286 AD. They are the patron saints of cobblers, leather workers, tanners, saddlers and glove, lace & shoemakers, among other professions.
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Mysticism in no way rests on the borders of scientific knowledge.
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Humani nil a me alienum puto. –– Terence, 163 BC Nothing human is alien to me.
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“Why do people who leave nothing unchallenged still make demands of their own? They live off the fact that gods, fathers, and poets used to exist. The essence of words has been diluted into empty titles. In the animal kingdom, there are parasites that clandestinely hollow out a caterpillar. Eventually, a mere wasp emerges instead of a butterfly. And that is what those people do with their heritage, and with language in particular, as counterfeiters.” –– Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
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El Salvador can conduct overseas operations in difficult urban environments. Data point.
🚨 ACTUALIZACIÓN Y ALERTA MÁXIMA EN HAITÍ 🚨 Fuentes en el terreno me confirman el colapso y la desesperación de las bandas criminales ante la llegada de las fuerzas especiales de El Salvador en Croix-des-Bouquets. 1. COLAPSO DE FACCIÓN CLAVE: Tras una oleada de ataques tácticos con drones y fuego pesado, la base operativa de "Chen Mechan" (aliado crucial en la estructura criminal de la llanura) fue destruida por completo. Su facción ya no existe en la zona. 🩸 2. BAJAS MASIVAS EN LA BANDA DE LANMÒ: La organización de Lanmò San Jou sufrió pérdidas masivas de soldados en los últimos enfrentamientos. El volumen de bajas es tan alto que sus refugios médicos improvisados colapsaron por completo. 🏥 3. INTENTO DE SECUESTRO A MÉDICOS: Ante la desesperación por la cantidad de heridos graves, comandos armados intentaron secuestrar personal médico en el Centro Hospitalario de Santo 22 y en el hospital Sainte Camille para obligarlos a atender a sus hombres bajo amenaza de muerte. La situación es de extrema volatilidad, las batallas son cuerpo a cuerpo y en el terreno. Que Dios bendiga a los héroes salvadoreños en la misión más compleja que han tenido que enfrentar. Pronto más info en 👇 youtube.com/cesarmorenook
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“Why do people who leave nothing unchallenged still make demands of their own? They live off the fact that gods, fathers, and poets used to exist. The essence of words has been diluted into empty titles. In the animal kingdom, there are parasites that clandestinely hollow out a caterpillar. Eventually, a mere wasp emerges instead of a butterfly. And that is what those people do with their heritage, and with language in particular, as counterfeiters.” –– Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
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Open call to merge your party with ours continues! If you're a Halloween host or know one who might be keen, get in touch We can hash out the details in DMs We have room for 500+ people and I would like to use it
What do you guys think. Should the various very online tribes of the Bay Area gather for a grand celebration of the haunting season? Proposal below. Let me know if I've left anything off
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Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes. Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search. greekdrama.johnhboyer.com
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Humani nil a me alienum puto. –– Terence, 163 BC Nothing human is alien to me.
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Precious are the local regimes in which entropy can be reduced.
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El Salvador can conduct overseas operations in difficult urban environments. Data point.
🚨 ACTUALIZACIÓN Y ALERTA MÁXIMA EN HAITÍ 🚨 Fuentes en el terreno me confirman el colapso y la desesperación de las bandas criminales ante la llegada de las fuerzas especiales de El Salvador en Croix-des-Bouquets. 1. COLAPSO DE FACCIÓN CLAVE: Tras una oleada de ataques tácticos con drones y fuego pesado, la base operativa de "Chen Mechan" (aliado crucial en la estructura criminal de la llanura) fue destruida por completo. Su facción ya no existe en la zona. 🩸 2. BAJAS MASIVAS EN LA BANDA DE LANMÒ: La organización de Lanmò San Jou sufrió pérdidas masivas de soldados en los últimos enfrentamientos. El volumen de bajas es tan alto que sus refugios médicos improvisados colapsaron por completo. 🏥 3. INTENTO DE SECUESTRO A MÉDICOS: Ante la desesperación por la cantidad de heridos graves, comandos armados intentaron secuestrar personal médico en el Centro Hospitalario de Santo 22 y en el hospital Sainte Camille para obligarlos a atender a sus hombres bajo amenaza de muerte. La situación es de extrema volatilidad, las batallas son cuerpo a cuerpo y en el terreno. Que Dios bendiga a los héroes salvadoreños en la misión más compleja que han tenido que enfrentar. Pronto más info en 👇 youtube.com/cesarmorenook
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“The first time.” A lie told because the perp is white. But see reader context for the truth.
« Ce qui s’est passé aujourd’hui c’est un tournant. C’est la première fois qu’il y a un acte terroriste planifié pour tuer nos compatriotes, nos enfants, a raison de leur couleur de peau ou de la religion qu’on leur donne » « Ne baissez pas la tête » Emmanuel Macron à Trappes.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
La déclaration citée d'Emmanuel Macron n'est pas exacte. Des attentats terroristes planifiés ont déjà tué des enfants en France en raison de leur religion, comme celui de Mohammed Merah en 2012 à l'école juive Ozar Hatorah de Toulouse. lefigaro.fr/faits-divers/t… lefigaro.fr/actualite-fran…
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Dario’s actions can both be sincere and objectively constitute an attempt at regulatory capture.
We tried to warn the world and far too often, to be frank, we were yelled at for doing so. “Regulatory capture,” “marketing hype,” “doomer anxiety,” “fear-mongering about open source,” “why don’t you talk about the benefits?”
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Compute increases efficacy sublinearly.
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Slipstreaming the AI frontier is a sweet spot.
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“The first time.” A lie told because the perp is white. But see reader context for the truth.
« Ce qui s’est passé aujourd’hui c’est un tournant. C’est la première fois qu’il y a un acte terroriste planifié pour tuer nos compatriotes, nos enfants, a raison de leur couleur de peau ou de la religion qu’on leur donne » « Ne baissez pas la tête » Emmanuel Macron à Trappes.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
La déclaration citée d'Emmanuel Macron n'est pas exacte. Des attentats terroristes planifiés ont déjà tué des enfants en France en raison de leur religion, comme celui de Mohammed Merah en 2012 à l'école juive Ozar Hatorah de Toulouse. lefigaro.fr/faits-divers/t… lefigaro.fr/actualite-fran…
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The paths to power do not entirely track intelligence.
We can end many dumb debates about AGI by instead calling it AGP: artificial general power. The word "intelligence" seems to warp people's brains around interesting philosophical questions like "What does intelligence mean?!?" and "Is it sentient?" But the urgent matter at hand is "Can it (or the human steering it) bend the world to its will? And will that automatically be a good thing or not?"
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We live in a post-apocalyptic world, many times over.
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