"Two button meme", with one button labeled "Price Vector" the other "Market free from state interference", captioned "Hayekians in an age of surveillance pricing"
"Two button meme", with one button labeled "Price Vector" the other "Market free from state interference", captioned "Hayekians in an age of surveillance pricing"
what distinguishes Elon Musk from his peers is an incapacity to keep his work — on projects they often share — discreet.
they advertised authentic Vietnamese, but it was faux pho.
i refer to their rabbit soup as “little bunny faux pho”.
[new draft post] When is the economy good or bad? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/12/08/when-is-the-economy-good-or-bad/index.html
Donald Trump is very much like the typical working man, who also can’t be impeached and convicted by Congress.
“the sellers of addictive products that skirt regulations and ruin lives should be summarily executed.”
~social media ceos and investors
AI “alignment is not about imposing universal norms; it is about translation, pluralism, and respect for epistemic diversity. Machines must become fluent in multiple moral languages…to serve more than a single civilization’s idea of what it means to be human.” #PranatiModumudi https://pranmod01.github.io/posts/2025/11/anthro-ai/
ht @glenweyl
this fediverse is a nest of logoterrorists.
how many Americans are killed every year due to collisions involving foreign-produced automobiles? surely the President has the inherent authority to protect Americans and use the armed forces to blow up cargo ships full of these deadly machines. tariffs are for pinheads.
it gets hard to see the turf through the astroturf.
@dpp we are all Lazlo Hollyfeld now.
maybe drone assassinations really were a dangerous precedent.
ours is really the only society to take the Balzac witticism seriously. “Behind every great fortune there is a great crime.”
we wanted a lot of great fortunes, so we set about encouraging great crimes.
the future is an experiment. it always has been.
how do you watch people struggle not to drown for 41 minutes when you have resources to help you could dispatch with a word but instead order they be bombed?
look, if you are sure that god’s own truth is that you are perfection, then whatever makes you look bad is a hoax QED.
when i was a kid, i had a friend who used to get very self-righteously mad when his mom didn’t believe him. even when he was lying. it doesn’t matter, he’s her son, she should trust him.
i feel like he’d be a great advocate before this supreme court.
@arthegall more a matter of bathos.
i think i place methodological individualism among the most destructive ideas in human history.