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I just don’t have a theory of mind for people who think the SpaceX team hasn’t considered cooling data centers in space. Yes they can build reusable rockets of satellite internet constellations that give you WiFi on airplanes but did you know SPACE IS A VACUUM?

My son took his first independent steps today. Between that and the interpretability stuff I’m really overwhelmed with hope, which I have not been in some time.

Casey’s ‘Domes are overrated’ blog post is an all-timer caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2…

Tiger Woods Awarded Honorary California CDL buff.ly/s8WnE6j

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One of the main guilty acts of Fauci is not the claim that he got the COVID origin wrong at first. It's that he and his Lancet crew fabricated a certainty about COVID's origins they plainly did not possess -- due to entirely self-interested reasons (namely, their careers and reputations would be endangered if COVID had been caused by gain-of-function and other Wuhan research they funded and participated it). They then weaponized that fake, deceitful certainty to label anyone who suggested a lab leak as a racist (which never made sense, since the "wet market" theory was always the more racist one), and then also used that non-existent certainty to bully and coerce media outlets and Big Tech to aggressively censor anyone questioning or dissenting from their proclamation. The complete shutdown of debate, discussion and dissent over some of the this century's most consequential policies was one of the main crimes. That they did this not out of good faith error but crass self-advancement and self-protection made it all the worse.

I cannot stand it when doctors say, “Actually it’s not good that non-doctors get more data. It hasn’t been shown to help.”

Overheard in Silicon Valley: “He’s an autist, but he’s our autist.”

Hot take: Universities charge $300,000 for a degree that teaches you skills any LLM can do for free. At some point we need to have an honest conversation about whether higher education is the greatest individuals misallocation of capital in recent history.

It turns out the greatest moat in the history of SaaS is a vertically integrated reusable orbital class heavy lift rocket

Attempted to write a Steam Engine hype at the era of Industrial Revolution as if it was the age of AI — The steam engine breakthrough is insane right now. Watt’s separate condenser + new GRPO optimization just dropped the 405 hp-class engine. We went from 7 hp → 70 hp → 405 hp+ in basically three years. One machine now does the work of 50+ men or water wheels — nonstop, rain or shine, anywhere. Textile mills, ironworks, everything scaling 5-10x overnight. Productivity exploding. This isn’t incremental. It’s automating physical labor at massive scale. Jobs shifting forever. Society about to look unrecognizable. The Industrial Revolution isn’t coming. It’s here and accelerating faster than anyone predicted. Terrified. Excited. Both. What a time to be alive. 🚂💨

The new 1.5T version of Grok arrives in June. Lately, I use 4.3 increasingly for research, search, and sourcing news. I like it. It thinks differently. Elon doesn't mention it in this post, but he also has big 6T and 10T variants in training.

Nepo baby who has never had a job. Even Grok put quotes around the series of sinecures he’s held in family non-profit activities when describing his “career.” Soros backed NGOs sent paid protestors to my home numerous times because because I have supported public charter schools.

Whether you hate Trump or love him You can see him as a useful instrument of misdirection or an accidental agent of chaos Doesn’t matter. But you must appreciate the strategists in this White House, Treausry, State and DoW orchestrating a long game where America wins.

Great day with @garrytan (CEO of Y Combinator) and @LipBuTan1 (CEO of Intel). They share the same last name but aren’t related — two absolute legends! My gbrain is now running on MyCore Ultra. 🤪

imagine going through this just to have driving get automated 5 quarters into profitability

Irony suggests VR will finally take off right as Zuck decides to pivot away from the metaverse.

why not just raise income tax rates? because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”. you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens. you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.) the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen. the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure. it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking. that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all. i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%. want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes. want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

this went through several layers of approval and days of meetings btw