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Nothing but good things to say about Sam Altman. I hear rumors he's a bit of a Georgist, actually.

Who's really out there to marry a 50-year old, Philadelphia-based third-tier architect who already has a wife? No, for some delusions you need to go to Uganda.

Something similar between going conspiracy-bonkers and other ways of going bonkers. my next-door neighbor growing up was a reasonable guy, until one day he told his wife he planned to take a second wife in Uganda. She obviously divorced him, she kept the house, he went to Uganda and presumably...

gus's "nobody minds being shot in the middle of the street as long as their neighbors do worse" social-psych bullshit machine

these were the same folks who started saying that the virus didn't exist because they realized the cash for their mortgage was drying up. they're not complete idiots, they're just laser-focused on retaining a pretense of dignity, at any cost. There's a reason medicare for all polls well; if...

you're playing the dumbass today aren't you if you're working part time at the gas station you don't get health insurance and are on the hook for an additional 160/mo in health insurance premiums. add $200 for food, whatever car maintenence costs, and your $942.50 (pre-tax) doesn't look so...

henry george, for one, drastically disagrees—the problem is that you're measuring wealth wrong. not having to worry about hunger surely makes someone happier; if your neighbor experiences a greater loss of need to worry about hunger you don't give a shit. what is true is that "wealth creation"...

it says i’m a “well-known member.” well known by whom?

i ask myself this too

What are you talking about Gus, people play foosball all the time in the US. Every company has a foosball table or two for blowing off steam.

I don't think so—I hear he's quite methodical when he gets down to something. But again—old books aren't what you want to run a car company. Introspection-free, comes with the mania.

a little remarked upon fact is that the biggest advantage of battery-electric vehicles is their excellent acceleration—hence, belief in Tesla is a kind of “accelerationism.” It is true that the stock price is well above what is justifiable with current sales, but it reflects a belief in the...

he’s “religious” in the same sense that he’s a “libertarian,” which is to say he’s not really except in a metaphorical way and as a misdirection. (have you ever heard of a libertarian teaching a class on ‘midcentury german political philosophy?’) He believes in Girard and Tolkein much more than...

yeah this was unhinged cope, and very disrespectful to Huang’s family. simultaneously trash and stupid. indefensible.

even simplier, he would never write an essay. too clever for that scam.

and you would have ended up with nothing, while Gus here would’ve made bank on his Napoleon bet! This is exactly the point!

I think musk is much less ideologically sophisticated than this implies. That said, ideological sophistication is not a prerequisite for running a car company.

ok i'll try to defend tesla, you're welcome @Linebaugh not many teslas where you are because they're mostly being sold into markets with high subsidies for electric cars, like california. plenty of them around here. the theory is, in part due to subsidies, electric cars have gone from being...

isn’t this really a matter of “you only pass along opportunities you can’t take to people who will be able to pass you their’s later?”