Just as well humans will have AI to think for them. High-IQ people are having fewer children, & the lower are maintaining fertility. Technological innovation depends disproportionately on the size of the high tail, with selection reducing high-IQ alleles circulating.
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The 1% who want him removed didn’t become millionaires.
88% of surveyed $NVDA employees reportedly want Jensen Huang to remain CEO while just 1% want him removed.
Would've been pretty wild if Nvidia employees turned on the guy who made half of them millionaires.
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Collapsing child mortality is humanities greatest achievement bar none. Clean water & sanitation, vaccines were key.
There is a common view that medieval people adapted to high child mortality by becoming more emotionally distant from them.
Modern scholarship has demolished this: medieval people loved their children just as much as us, made vast sacrifices for them, and expected little in return.
So the @SevaUT is directionally right here in saying that medieval people went about permanently traumatised. Most people had three or four children, of whom one or two died. This was torment for them.
The shadow of death over English childhood did not lift with the passing of the Middle Ages. My great-grandmother, whom I knew well, was born in 1906, when 15% of children died in their first year, against 25% in the Middle Ages. My grandmother, who is still alive, was the only one of her several siblings to survive her first year. The past is very near.
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Man, for a second I thought I was at @FasigTiptonCo or @keenelandsales, watching a broodmare in foal to Gun Runner go through the ring! 😂 Turns out it was Missouri Congressman Billy Long (@auctnr1) running a fake auction in the middle of a congressional hearing just to drown out Laura Loomer! 🤣
That's the Missouri I know and love! I lived in Kansas City, Warrensburg, and Springfield. Some of the friendliest folks in America, and being funny is just in their DNA! 😂 Missouri will always be my favorite state! ❤️🇺🇸
The betting markets usually know long before the talking-head analysts on TV. Always amusing when they’re saying on TV that a contest is too close to call, while the markets are saying it’s a foregone conclusion.
The favorite on Kalshi won 479 of 487 midterm races so far.
That’s 98%, forecasted before a single vote was counted.
The markets beat the polls and the models. The data 🧵
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AI companies have engaged in possibly the worst communications & PR ever witnessed. It’s been utterly dire. Best thing they could’ve done all along is to stop speaking. They’re excellent at what they do daily; just don’t speak techno babble to the public,as they think you’re nuts
AI CEO: My product will destroy half of white collar jobs by 2030, it's also possible, nay, probable, that it will kill you and everyone else on earth.
AI CEO : I'm going to walk right into your house and take your RAM, and there ain't a damn thing you can do about it.
Polls:📉
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The Nazis tried to develop their own physics & called Einstein relativity‘Jewish physics.’ Needless to say, it was just BS, despite having two Nobel Prize-winning physicists helping them.
Quantum pioneers Max Planck and Albert Einstein at a scientific event in Berlin, 1930. Three years later, much to Planck's dismay, Einstein would need to leave Germany and go into exile, due to Nazi threats to his life and work. Einstein would never return to his native land.
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The trees on the farms aren’t just for aesthetic value. They’re visual barriers so the stallions can’t see each other, they all think they’re alpha males & are less stressed being king of their own domain.
It never gets old seeing this! Mesmerizing! Fall colors in the Bluegrass. @WLKY Horse country🐎
…more on the way!
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Imagine putting together an entire halftime show based off of one woman doing a cover of Thunderstruck on xylophone……and having it KICK TOTAL ASS!
The problem in modern education is that moderately smart students are often smarter than the people employed to teach them.
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Big Tech are being forced to spend colossal capex dollars on Ai to stay competitive, yet the very thing they’re spending on generates a lower return than their existing products. Users are using Ai as an alternative to search & rarely clicking on links, so don’t see Google ads.
A year ago, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta generated $60.7 billion of free cash flow in a single quarter. This summer, $7.4 billion.
They didn't sell less. Revenue grew 19% at Microsoft, 25% at Alphabet and 26% at Meta. What changed is the bill: $125.6 billion in three months for data centers, chips and servers, double what they spent a year earlier. Meta put 54 cents of every dollar of revenue into capex. Alphabet spent $9 billion more than it took in, its second negative quarter in a row, and this morning its stock fell 12%. If it closes down more than 9.77%, it will be its worst day after earnings since going public in 2004.
The detail that worries me most is in Google's search numbers. Search ads grew 12% and still missed expectations. Philipp Schindler, Alphabet's chief business officer, said part of the reason is that AI Mode makes less money per search. So Google is spending record sums to build a product that earns less than the one it replaces.
For twenty years these were the best businesses ever invented. You wrote the code once, sold it to billions of people, and almost every new dollar of revenue fell to the bottom line. AI doesn't work like that. Every answer runs on a chip someone had to buy and on electricity someone has to pay for. Big Tech is turning into something closer to a utility: huge upfront costs, long paybacks, and profits that depend on keeping the machines full.
That can still be a great business. But it is a different business, and investors are only starting to price it that way.
The old moat was code. The new one is cash.
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It would have been much better for the world if Microsoft had never existed.
Hard agree.
Microsoft is the worst company of my lifetime, probably responsible for single handedly depressing worldwide GDP by a tenfold via all the the utter shit slop they have released, from Azure to Windows, killing productivity across continents over the course of 50+ years.
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AI or anyone else isn’t going to convince someone who sees a conspiracy in everything. The problem arises not from misinformation, but from an inability to think rationally. When people don’t understand something, a simple explanation with shady characteristics is appealing.
AI could push back against public irrationality like conspiracy theories, fake news, & medical quackery. Whereas social media optimize for sheer engagement (clicks, likes, & reposts), AI is sold as a useful product that aids decision-making in the real world. For all the problems of LLMs, they're less likely to send users down a conspiratorial rabbit hole. This may restore the influence of epistemically responsible expertise. So argues the philosopher Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil open.substack.com/pub/persua…
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Anyone who has ever dealt with the less cognitive able Latin Americans knows that feeling: zero concept of time, zero concept of punctuality, & zero concept of not telling implausible lies. Cultural clashes are quite amusing.
LatAm passport bros from 1970s explains how best to get things done in the 80 IQ world.
Not to be mistaken with the viral ‘it’s so tiring’ Chinese clip - which deals with the 65 IQ world (link in post below).
The 2nd world is not the same as the 3rd world. 1 SD in median IQ is considerable. Learn the difference.
