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I believe in a future.
Where we co-exist with the universe.
Dream in a shared consciousness.
Able to overcome all great filters.
Continually evolving.
- 0.73 Kardashev
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there are no poorly aligned type 2 civilizations
if we build a Dyson sphere, it's because we won the game
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It's really crazy how strongly wealth inverse correlates with regulatory burden
If you make it easy for people to start and run businesses and don't get in their way too much, everyone gets wealthier
If you make it hard for people to start and run businesses and get in their way constantly, everyone gets poorer
You can see the effect clearly within the EU:
Countries with low regulatory burden like Switzerland and Ireland have much higher incomes than places like Spain or Hungary where its regulatory burden is high
nomads.com/europe/chart?char…
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MAiD is not a religious topic.
It's a policy issue.
I hate it because the numbers are an obvious statistical outlier compared to every other country that implemented euthanasia.
I have many friends in healthcare that confirmed MAiD is being dished out like hotcakes.
Make all the data public.
Don't believe the propaganda on MAID.
In 2021, the average recipient was 76.3 years old. Almost two-thirds had cancer, 19% had cardiovascular conditions, 12% had neurological conditions and 8% had organ failure.
This is a humane, rational program that is working about as well as any government program can possibly work.
People hate it for religious reasons, and want to force others to suffer indefinitely for no good reason.
Opposition to MAID is evil. richardhanania.com/p/canadia…
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Here is the other thing.
If Canada was really competitive in regulations, taxes, social services, education, industry, and every 101 vertical that constitutes a country, we would see massive demand from people to move and raise families in Canada.
It's really not that complex.
Seems like things were going relative well until around 2015... And although immigration might improve TFR, it does not lead to higher GDP per Capita.
So, maybe incentivize citizens having kids and graduating in STEM degrees?
Could it be that simple?
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Seems like things were going relative well until around 2015... And although immigration might improve TFR, it does not lead to higher GDP per Capita.
So, maybe incentivize citizens having kids and graduating in STEM degrees?
Could it be that simple?
In 2025, Canada's total fertility rate (TFR) was unchanged at 1.26 children per woman. It was identical to the all-time low observed in 2024.
Without immigration, Canada will be in deep trouble in 30 years.
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So many people have given up. Lots have moved elsewhere. I keep telling everyone: "put your two feet down, protect your social and human capital, stand up and fight". Do something about it! Whether for your country or for your industry. The future is built, not dreamed.
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Ok, this is awesome, but it feels incredibly inconsistent. I hope more will be done around tax reform, that would be a huge win for this country.
JUST IN: Canada has announced to reduce marginal effective tax rate on new business investment to 6.4% from 13%, the lowest among the G7, and half the rate in the US, per the Globe and Mail
The changes will take effect right away and remain permanent.
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Par for the course considering the ethical standards of this leadership. These people haven't built a single thing in their life. Our AI minister is a fucking journalist.
JUST IN: Canada enters the global AI regulation debate, as PM Mark Carney calls for a global “technology stability” body to oversee AI development.
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"The sad truth is that anywhere between one-third and 40% of the country will go along with whatever the Liberals do, no matter how contemptuous it is of our democracy? I struggle to think of any other western democracy that functions this way. But the band plays on..."
- @MAAWLAW
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> Canada: still not in Europe. Getting close to the perks.
The perks are equivalent to Quebec and Ontario ruling Canada on steroids.
The perks are an authoritarian government that continues to make you less free.
The perks are millions of migrants having more rights than you.
WSJ just reported that Carney is exploring Canada as an “associate member” of the EU.
I’m already French-speaking. I’m already Canadian. The only thing between me and living/working in France has been the visa paperwork. If associate membership takes that off the table, I am not asking a single follow-up question.
The trade part is the actual adult move: tying more of Canada’s energy, AI, critical minerals and defence into a $21 trillion European market while things south of the border stay unpredictable. Not romantic. Just smart.
Canada: still not in Europe. Getting close to the perks.😎
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Wooo, more globalism and less sovereignty!
I mean, we don't really want to manage ourselves right? That sounds hard.
We already have a dictator who doesn't show up in Parliament to answer to Canadians.
And Ottawa and Quebec already decide our fate.
Might as well be Brussels!
Carney pushes idea of making Canada ‘associate member’ of EU, WSJ reports ctvnews.ca/canada/article/ca…
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How does this type of social-policy impact the economic sector?
How do you think this type of social-oversight impact companies building their operations here.
Imagine you are a credit rating agency, and now an opinion, "a joke", or a comment can be justified as a hate crime against your company or employees.
Notice the highlight around DEI.
Imagine the risk associated with operating a company in Canada where lawfare can be suddenly waged against you or your staff, such that you may be fined, have to let go of staff, retrain them, or shut things down.
Who is going to expose their company, employees, or capital to lawfare, unstable regulatory changes, and other risk vectors?
Are we really trying to attract capital and investment to grow this company at speeds never seen before?
How is this helping Canada towards becoming a high-trust, high-productivity, top 3rd wealthiest country in the world?
How does this help us create a culture of resilience, unity, merit, and patriotism?
Or quite the opposite, in that these social policies are how we get a "world becoming more dangerous and divided."
‼️ BREAKING: Niagara Police just posted that a JOKE, can be hate.
That an OPINION, can be hate.
Then they linked a DEI page.
They have no leads on your stolen car but they'd love to hear about your uncle's Facebook post.
The Liberals are turning Canada into the UK.
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Regulatory capture happens in many forms.
Not having an educated voter base that can act homogeneously to safeguard their nation state's AI sovereignty will very probably lead to disastrous outcomes.
This new type of capture will make deindustrialization look like childplay.
This is a massive, coordinated, international conspiracy campaign to monopolize ASI and be put in charge of the world government effort behind closed doors by the Doomers
Do not trust them one second
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If you are reading this, the only possible resistance is to build decentralized, permissionless, and sovereign AI.
Open source, self-hosting tools, RL post-training, local inference, open harnesses, we must build it all.
We must fight overcentralization with an open stack.
Well, it was inevitable we'd get here. Glad we got as far as we did. Now priority 0 is to make sure AI access and innovation proliferates as widely as possible. The upside is that the technology wants it that way. It refuses to be caged.
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biomimicry in technology should be one of the leading incentives to build a future that coexists with our environment, nature, and biodiversity
In 4000 BC humans watched silkworms make absurdly good fiber and thought, “we should scale that.”
Silk is an early biomimicry story because humans did not invent the fiber first, they observed it in nature.
Silkworms spin cocoons from a protein filament that is extremely fine, strong for its weight, flexible, and continuous.
Early Chinese silk production is traditionally dated to around the 4th millennium BC, and the key insight was simple but powerful: instead of just admiring the cocoon, people learned they could unwind its filament, combine many strands, and turn an insect-made material into thread, cloth, and eventually a whole industry.
[How it evolved]
- Observation of nature: people noticed silkworm cocoons were made from a lustrous, durable fiber.
- Extraction: they discovered that soaking or heating cocoons softened the natural glue-like sericin, letting the filament be reeled off.
- Processing: multiple fine filaments were twisted together into usable yarn.
- Weaving and dyeing: looms, finishing methods, and dyes turned silk from raw fiber into luxury textiles.
- Agriculture and supply chain: sericulture emerged - cultivating mulberry trees, raising silkworms, harvesting cocoons, reeling, spinning, weaving, trading.
- Industrial scaling: over centuries, production became more standardized, specialized, and geographically distributed.
- Modern evolution: silk moved beyond fabric into sutures, biomedical materials, engineered protein fibers, and inspiration for high-performance synthetic materials.
Humans first copied nature’s material output, then built tools, agriculture, manufacturing, and trade systems around it.
This is an ancient version of biomimicry and it's impact in the human tech tree.
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