Not only is it stupid but also mostly slop.
They are trying so hard to be evocative with the Vienna analogy. Also, contrarianism!= independent thought. It reads like an aesthetic of intellectualism to me because none of the ideas seem original.
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As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
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Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are:
• Proprietary data
• Network effects
• A physical component
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Peter Thiel’s take on alcohol is actually deep.
"I'm in favor of it as a civil libertarian. I don't like it as a reflection of our society.”
“Prohibition ended in the 1930s because people were unemployed. There was nothing better for them to do than to get drunk all the time.”
“Whereas in the 1920s, there was a lot of great work to be done, and you couldn't have a hangover in the morning.”
“Look at the drug war over the last hundred years—Nancy Reagan's 'just say no to drugs' happens in the 1980s, when people are very optimistic.”
“You legalize marijuana in a society where people are more pessimistic.”
“So I'm in favor of it as a libertarian, but I don't like what it says about the general pessimism of our society."
Via @AEI
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The thing I learned this year is that when engineers say they like working on “hard problems”, they actually don't. What they like is puzzle solving, and having a repertoire of patterns that they can pattern match onto traditionally hard problems, usually involving databases or something with scale, etc. And they know that the industry used to pay you a lot for how deep and broad this repertoire was. Unfortunately, in 2026, well, you have a cheat code machine that has infinite breadth and depth for pattern matching. So the question is, do you actually like hard problems? Because there are now hard problems that are a complection of engineering, product, society, culture, politics, and they are fairly intractable, probably unsolvable! Because if you do want to work on those actually hard problems, there is so much money that people will pay you for it. But you’ll have to face that truth about yourself first.
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being good at math and physics is systems thinking
being good at social media is systems thinking
being good with people is systems thinking
everything is a system, and i would argue that understanding math and physics is easier because these systems come with to well defined rules
it is only fair that power belongs to those who can understand people at scale
If you’re a true systems thinker then you can understand anything, from technical to social to psychological to nutritional to spiritual, etc
it is all systems
every nerd that has a superiority complex about their intellect but is socially incompetent and unable to accurately read people is essentially in denial over not being as intelligent as they think they are
cus people are just systems too
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Any one who is privileged therefore owes it to the world to work on the most obnoxiously hard problems, not just build a life for themselves, but uplift people by building great companies and employing as many people as they can.
The privileged must risk it all, over and over again, until they are tortured to greatness.
This is my version of socialism, re- distribute risk. The rich have a moral imperative to embrace more risk.
the stochastic parrots are getting quite lucky
🤖 Made with AI
We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.
The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.
The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.
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if i were openai or anthropic, i’d absolutely flood the world with emotional optimistic ads about what ai can actually do for ordinary ppl.
e.g. show the teacher who gets her evenings back. the scientist who finds something sooner. the small business owner who can suddenly do the work of a team. the kid who can learn anything. the disabled person who becomes more independent.
make ai feel like human progress again. basically act like a general before a battle & remind people what the future is for.
