Hard science != Soft science

Napoleon abandoned his soldiers four times on campaign, giving them a pat on the back and saying, “See you soon.”
Loyalty is idealism, and idealism is a tool of manipulation.

He is leveraging populism to mobilize dissatisfied and politically disengaged voters.

That’s because social media is increasingly used as a tool to drive destabilizing narratives by paying for visibility, ultimately gaining power.

No, People are becoming more and more unsophisticated; they will likely prefer AI-generated slop much more than real content, because AI lowers the level and people adapt to it, like in a video game.

The transition isn’t complete yet.

You need enough knowledge about your investment to weather volatility, which is not risk itself but an unequal balance between knowledge and entropy among the minds involved.

Ideally, knowledge compounds alongside wealth over a long time horizon.

I just love dropping a GitHub link into my agent and making the agent implement whatever is useful into itself.

This is the romantic narrative the rich have used to delude the poor forever.
They create stories to escape the reality that if you are poor, you eat poor-quality food, have poor healthcare, and smart people tend to seek resourceful companions as friends.

So true

Last scene of Fight Club is even better.

“For when they say, ‘Peace and safety!’ then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.”
— 1 Thessalonians 5:3