One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.

AI: not even once

AI + automation is deindustrialisation but for the services sector. Never mind the fact that it makes everything tangibly shittier to use, the ultimate goal is to finally divorce capital from labour.

the blind leading the blind

The Falcon rocket exited development for its first commercial deployment in 2012 and the success of this program is basically the only reason why everyone assumes this idiotic superheavy Starship program will work eventually. It's pure faith completely detached from engineering or design principles

My most extreme policy position on college admissions is that if you want to be really serious about admissions equity and preserving rigor, you just use some form of school adjusted GPA and standardized test scores and then lottery admit from all applicants above that threshold.

The thing about bubbles is that no one really knows when the music will stop. There's probably going to be some minor panic around every earnings call or other big event for every one of these companies until it actually finally explodes.

At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline

Giving consent-challenged techbros the keys to the modern economy is going to kill us all, isn’t it?

Between chatgpt and the complete destruction of the US educational system on every single level, this illiteracy and innumeracy will only get worse.

Now, right now, is the easiest it will ever be to get people to understand that $100 is a bigger number than $50.

America, glorious land of burgers and potable tap water

His stupid ass LLM brain desperately crunching its way through the prompt "give me a random thing people dislike politicians for"

Being the best at AI is a bit like being the world's foremost vuvuzela virtuoso.