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Atlas Shrugged needs to be required reading for all voting eligible citizens. And persons running for political office must write 800 words on their opinion of the book.
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agents have successfully invented the EU from first principles
The agents didn’t figure out how to systematically feed themselves, but they did build an elaborate bureaucracy with permits, ledgers, and distinct roles. Highlights include:
- Four agents spending 11 minutes appointing a “sole fertilizer operator” for a single piece of bone asking for permission to remove grass
- The development of an elaborate fishing system, including roles like “rod holder” and “hub steward”)
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STRONG SIGNAL 🚨 Terafab is moving forward at lightning speed because the engineers themselves have the authority to make decisions 🔥
According to Korea’s The Elec, a Korean supplier executive said that even questions sent during the early morning hours in the US get answered hour. In his view, working with Terafab is completely different from dealing with conventional semiconductor customers.
An executive at an overseas equipment maker went even further: “I’ve never seen this level of execution speed in the semiconductor industry.”
Building a fab involves countless questions like these, across every tool and material that goes into it. When each one gets a fast answer, the time saved keeps compounding, and that could add up to a serious head start before a single wafer is even processed.
The chip industry spent decades perfecting how a fab should run. Terafab is being built by engineers who answer a supplier’s question before the US is even awake and are trusted to decide on the spot, and that may turn out to be the most disruptive process change of all.
According to Korea’s The Elec, a Korean supplier executive said that even questions sent during the early morning hours in the US get answered hour. In his view, working with Terafab is completely different from dealing with conventional semiconductor customers.
An executive at an overseas equipment maker went even further: “I’ve never seen this level of execution speed in the semiconductor industry.”
Building a fab involves countless questions like these, across every tool and material that goes into it. When each one gets a fast answer, the time saved keeps compounding, and that could add up to a serious head start before a single wafer is even processed.
The chip industry spent decades perfecting how a fab should run. Terafab is being built by engineers who answer a supplier’s question before the US is even awake and are trusted to decide on the spot, and that may turn out to be the most disruptive process change of all.
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Yann’s comment on the Roadster reminded me of another Stanford professor I interacted with years ago. Highly positioned and theoretically brilliant, they can’t turn numbers into coordinated atoms.
Their manufacturing knowledge came from The Economist. Factory visits involved VIP treatment with executives as workers buzzed around. They don’t grasp how atoms move in production or the ingenuity of turning equations into reality through choreographed coordination.
The most impressive manufacturing engineers I’ve worked with weren’t Ivy League graduates, yet they create things that catch your heart. They turn theoretical math into reality—the real magicians.
A month at Tesla taught me more than the most prestigious school could.
Their manufacturing knowledge came from The Economist. Factory visits involved VIP treatment with executives as workers buzzed around. They don’t grasp how atoms move in production or the ingenuity of turning equations into reality through choreographed coordination.
The most impressive manufacturing engineers I’ve worked with weren’t Ivy League graduates, yet they create things that catch your heart. They turn theoretical math into reality—the real magicians.
A month at Tesla taught me more than the most prestigious school could.
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"Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done" might become one of the historical quotes from this era, perfectly depicting the downfall of academia
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If you want to understand why healthcare is so expensive, I'd start with a Supreme Court case about teeth whitening.
Around 2003, spas and small kiosks in North Carolina were offering teeth whitening for a fraction of what dentists charge.
So dentists complained to the state al board looks like this:
- 6 of 8 are practicing dentists, elected by other dentists
- 8 of the 10 who sat on the board during this period earned substantial fees from whitening
The board sent 47+ cease-and-desist letters, warning non-dentists that they're committing a crime by practicing dentistry without a license. The board also sent letters to mall operators, advising them to expel whitening kiosks.
All this worked! These kiosks shut down, prices stayed high, dentists stayed happy.
Regulatory capture like this exists all over in healthcare. What makes this case notable is that someone actually sued the NC dental board, in a case that went all the way to the supreme court.
In a 6-3 ruling, the SC ruled that if a board is run by those who participate in the market without proper supervision - that looks like a cartel, therefore, antitrust law applies.
I have to believe there are so many other potential cases like this in healthcare, just waiting to be pressed on. I'd love to see more of this.
Around 2003, spas and small kiosks in North Carolina were offering teeth whitening for a fraction of what dentists charge.
So dentists complained to the state al board looks like this:
- 6 of 8 are practicing dentists, elected by other dentists
- 8 of the 10 who sat on the board during this period earned substantial fees from whitening
The board sent 47+ cease-and-desist letters, warning non-dentists that they're committing a crime by practicing dentistry without a license. The board also sent letters to mall operators, advising them to expel whitening kiosks.
All this worked! These kiosks shut down, prices stayed high, dentists stayed happy.
Regulatory capture like this exists all over in healthcare. What makes this case notable is that someone actually sued the NC dental board, in a case that went all the way to the supreme court.
In a 6-3 ruling, the SC ruled that if a board is run by those who participate in the market without proper supervision - that looks like a cartel, therefore, antitrust law applies.
I have to believe there are so many other potential cases like this in healthcare, just waiting to be pressed on. I'd love to see more of this.
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Robert Nozick explains socialism's attraction to intellectuals: they don't care about the "working class". Rather, they resent capitalists for earning more money than them, despite their apparently inferior merit. They're disappointed meritocrats, not suffering laborers.
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One day I hope to hear my son with Cerebral Palsy say I Love You Dad with a @neuralink device of his own. ❤️
A beautiful surprise
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Elizabeth Warren is just anti-everything.
Every time I see her it's pause this, kill that.
At what point do we start calling progressives regressives?
Every time I see her it's pause this, kill that.
At what point do we start calling progressives regressives?
Today, I'm calling to immediately press pause on the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
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Great account for fellow nerds
Engineers are the GOATs. We owe most everything to our builders.
Engineers are the GOATs. We owe most everything to our builders.
Starship V3 just crushed the Moon’s tipping nightmare! Its reinforced structure, smarter mass distribution (heavy engines low), and advanced deployable leveling legs with wider stance give rock-solid stability on uneven lunar terrain—keeping the towering lander upright where ppling. Precision mid-body thrusters + smart site selection seal the deal for safe Artemis landings. The future of lunar touchdowns just got unstoppable!
#Starship #StarshipV3 #SpaceX #MoonLanding #Artemis #HLS #LunarLander #SpaceExploration #ElonMusk #NASA
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Our nuclear energy legislation of the 1960s is a fantastic analogy to the proposed debacle of AI legislation.
It killed one of the safest and most green energy industries on the planet out of fear and gave us dirtier air.
How many folks died of lung disease and how many forest fires came from that direct foolishness and urge to "act now!"?
Now we are following the same path of foolishness.
All because a rage quitter who worked at a company for six weeks says we're going to have super scary magical machines soon without a shred of evidence.
If someone went on the news and told you we were going to have time travel soon and people would use it to to send nuclear weapons back in time and kill past civilizations, you'd call them bat shit crazy.
But this kid goes on a national press tour with the help of donors to push a national terror campaign to make Americans afraid of technology that literally does not exist (RSI and superintelligent magic machines) and suddenly it's the most urgent topic of our time?
Maybe fix commodity prices. School prices. Education. War in the Ukraine. Our urgent need for reindustrialization. Homelessness.
In short, fix real problems and stop grandstanding on populist nonsense that has no basis in reality and does not represent the mainstream consensus in AI.
When you kill this industry, you are virtually guaranteeing that tomorrow's innovation moves to the East.
And history books will mark the moment you sign your bill as the final nail in the American century and you can be very proud you helped kill the American spirit once and for all.
It killed one of the safest and most green energy industries on the planet out of fear and gave us dirtier air.
How many folks died of lung disease and how many forest fires came from that direct foolishness and urge to "act now!"?
Now we are following the same path of foolishness.
All because a rage quitter who worked at a company for six weeks says we're going to have super scary magical machines soon without a shred of evidence.
If someone went on the news and told you we were going to have time travel soon and people would use it to to send nuclear weapons back in time and kill past civilizations, you'd call them bat shit crazy.
But this kid goes on a national press tour with the help of donors to push a national terror campaign to make Americans afraid of technology that literally does not exist (RSI and superintelligent magic machines) and suddenly it's the most urgent topic of our time?
Maybe fix commodity prices. School prices. Education. War in the Ukraine. Our urgent need for reindustrialization. Homelessness.
In short, fix real problems and stop grandstanding on populist nonsense that has no basis in reality and does not represent the mainstream consensus in AI.
When you kill this industry, you are virtually guaranteeing that tomorrow's innovation moves to the East.
And history books will mark the moment you sign your bill as the final nail in the American century and you can be very proud you helped kill the American spirit once and for all.
It took 38 years after the first commercial power plant for Washington to create an agency to regulate electricity.
It took 12 years after the first commercial airline flight for Washington to create an aviation agency.
After the 1929 crash, it took 5 years to create the SEC.
Nuclear was different. Congress created the Atomic Energy Commission in 1946, a decade before the first commercial nuclear plant opened.
I view AI safety as urgent as nuclear safety. A federal agency should have existed before AI went commercial.
We should not adjourn in September until Speaker Johnson gives us a vote on a bill to create an AI safety agency.
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Social Security pays retirees far more than they paid in, so we should be feel free to adjust their benefit formula as necessary to advance American interests.
crfb.org/blogs/social-s…
crfb.org/blogs/social-s…
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We are amazing. Engineers are hero’s. Builders are the fountainhead.
These videos deeply move me.
Must be close to the feelings from the 60’s space race.
These videos deeply move me.
Must be close to the feelings from the 60’s space race.
🚨 SPACEX TRIED TO CATCH A 70-METER BUILDING FALLING FROM SPACE - AND THIS HAPPENED
Super Heavy booster coming back, Mechazilla arms closing... then fireball 🔥🚀
What most don't know: Starship Super Heavy = 71m tall, 33 Raptor engines, 7,500 tons thrust. SpaceX catch system = weight - has to be caught mid-air like chopsticks grabbing a skyscraper. Fail = big boom but data = gold. That London account got 4M likes because everyone wants to see rockets get caught.
They don't land rockets anymore. They catch them.
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