"Working hard and doing well in school is good, but extreme Asian grind culture is excessive" is a perfectly intuitive and cogent view—so cogent, in fact, that I suspect Matt agrees with it!

Quasi-RH?!?!???! Are you kidding me? If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields Medal, no questions asked. RH says zeta has no zeros in Re(s)>1/2. The best we had until a second ago was a region that got thinner and thinner the higher up the imaginary axis you go. I thought maybe they’d fatten that up a bit, that’d be a massive breakthrough. But no. They got a zero free strip!!!! Insane

Ok, here’s a story about the Great Asian Grindset Debate. A couple years ago we put our kid in a piano school run by a Korean woman living in France. There’s a recital at the end of the year where all of the kids play; half Asian, which is very unusual for France, half White. The Asian kids were all excellent. They were all an 8 or a 9. The White kids were all over the place. There were 1s. There were 2s. There were 3s. There were also 10s. The Asian kids all played, sorry but it’s true, somewhat robotically (which is no shame for a kid!). The best White kids played with that extra dimension of soul and emotion that made them touch greatness. The Asian kids were *all* 8 or 9. The White kids were all over the place from 1 to 10. At the end the lady who runs the school gave a little speech, which was full of nice things, but had as a big throughline chiding the parents of the White kids for not making their kids practice more. At the end, she made a joke: "Remember, make your kids work, because no matter how hard they work, there’s an Asian kid next door who’s working twice as hard." We all laughed, myself included. Do I think that the culture that produced those 8-9 kids is healthy, or one that I would like to see dominant in my country? Hell no. Do I also wish that the White kids who were below an 8 had worked, say, at least 10% harder? Some 50% harder? Hell yes.

bleak future ahead for brazil. something must be done with the growing global fascistic movement if we want any future worth anything

“You don’t study for the spelling bee” is a deep and important aspect of American culture. I was at a baseball game discussing some young players with a buddy one time and he said to me offhandedly, “hard work is fine, but nothing beats talent.” Americans have this sort of sense that there’s something a little off about working really hard to get good at something that you’re not naturally good at. You’re never really going to be on the same level as the guy who has a natural talent. We have room in our hearts for scrappy little guys who work hard, but we are by default suspicious of grinders and strivers. If you were really meant to do it, then you’d be naturally good at it. You sign your kids up for little league, but you don’t take it too seriously unless they show remarkable early talent. Yes, this sounds sort of ridiculous if you take it too literally. No, nobody is saying that there’s any kind of practical test for this or that anybody should be excluded because we found out that they secretly studied too hard. But this is a part of American culture. And if you can’t understand it, then that just marks you out as foreign to that culture to an even greater degree.

Hell ya man. Maybe kick your legs in the air. Clap ur heels together. Just go for it

Charles Barkley calls Josh Shapiro his favorite 2028 Democrat and says Kamala Harris is a nice woman, but she’s not presidential. — “We have to find a real candidate, or we’ll lose again.” (Chris Cuomo podcast) The names getting the most 2028 noise did not make the cut. “Gavin Newsom will not be president of the United States. AOC, she’s not going to be president of the United States either. We need someone mature in the room, whether it’s Shapiro or Wes Moore or Andy Beshear On , he named the only politicians he’s actually with: “I like James Talarico. I like Josh Shapiro. I like Governor Wes Moore, and I like Governor Beshear of Kentucky.” Asked his favorite, he didn’t hesitate: “Shapiro. But I’m worried about the anti-Semitism that’s rampant in this country right now

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Peter Thiel reveals there's a global trend against democracy right now "Look, I'm not a Hegelian. We can always say there's a way where history seems to be going, there's a certain trend, and then it's not morally good. In Hegel, whatever happens, happens for the best.” “I think there is a trend against democracy. There's a trend where these things are in some trouble.” “What went wrong in Germany in the 1920s and 30s, it was two anti-democratic parties. It was the Nazis and the communists. In the 1932 election, those two parties got over 50% of the vote." "Once over 50% of the people vote for parties that want to get rid of the democracy, it's almost too late. You're really in trouble."

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in 2010 wrote that “I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant’s death" It seems to be a problem that freaks like this are building the most powerful technology in our society

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