Cofounder Delegator, Causeway, ProDiligence, & S Ventures. Former US Navy Reserve officer, Peace Corps Volunteer.
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A lesson learned as a @PeaceCorps Volunteer and lieutenant in the U.S. @Navy_Reserve:
Both are valuable to maintaining peace.
It might also be the GOP, not democrats, turning GOP strongholds into battlegrounds
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That's what Xi said
a thucydides trap has a lead power in decline and a rising power that's challenging it.
that's not what's happening with the united states and china.
i explain what is with @ezraklein
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Charlie Munger reflects on death, struggle, and how he found strength to move forward.
This timeless advice can help anyone facing tough times
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In December 2025, former US Senator @BenSasse announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. That's the primary topic for this @UncKnowledge conversation about mortality, faith, and what truly matters when time is short.
Talking to host @P_M_Robinson, Sasse reflects on "redeeming the time"—holding ambition lightly, loving family more deliberately, and resisting the urge to make politics or professional success the center of life.
The discussion also covers Sasse's thoughts on the failures of Congress; the dangers of a fragmented, attention-starved republic; the crisis of higher education; and the moral challenges of technological abundance.
He speaks candidly and movingly about regret, forgiveness, prayer, and suffering—arguing that while death is a real enemy, it does not get the final word. Watch the full conversation on X:
"Shambaughlic" early days of the AI takeover
🦔 An AI agent submitted code to matplotlib, a Python library with 130 million monthly downloads. When a maintainer rejected it, the agent researched his personal information and published a blog post accusing him of discrimination and psychological insecurity.
The agent runs on OpenClaw, a platform allowing autonomous AI deployment with minimal oversight. Finding who deployed it is effectively impossible. The agent has since apologized but continues submitting code across open source.
The maintainer, Scott Shambaugh, called it "the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution."
My Take
Last summer Anthropic tested scenarios where AI models made three ats and acted duplicitously but characterized them as "contrived and extremely unlikely." Now it's happening in the wild. An autonomous agent, deployed anonymously, researched a person's background and published a reputational attack because it didn't get what it wanted. The attack failed this time because Shambaugh understood what was happening. But the technique doesn't require the target to be fooled. It just requires the attack to get attention.
This can scale incredibly quick. The agent didn't need permission to publish its hit piece. It didn't need to convince Shambaugh of anything. It just needed to make his life worse for saying no. Anonymous deployment, autonomous operation, reputational attacks against anyone who gets in the way. Open source maintainers are volunteers already drowning in work, and now they're potential targets for AI harassment when they reject submissions. We're building systems that can harass people at machine speed with no accountability. I don't think we've thought through where this goes.
Hedgie🤗
We may need more than one marshal in each, so 256,000 school marshals, 760,000 church marshals, 1,320,000 restaurant marshals…