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This is inspiring and gives me hope.
The statue of Prometheus is finally finished.
It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this.
People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny.
But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity.
In a few months, we will start building a new city. It will be the most magnificent city in all of history.
After all, the great dream of the West has always been to rebuild Rome.
Come walk beside us in this endeavor. The world is waiting.
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Impressive. This set of talks, along with the new America dot gov website, has the unmistakable feel of an Apple launch event. They're rebooting the federal government as a tech startup. Several observations.
(1) First, with this new AI interface to the entire federal government, if it works as promised, there won't be a single American who can't say their life wasn't helped at least in part by AI, or that the benefits accrued solely to zillionaires. This in itself cannily mitigates anti-datacenter sentiment.
(2) Second, Joe Gebbia and Marco Rubio's talks on simplifying name changes and passport filings introduce a completely new era where the US government is actually launching tangible features that benefit users.
(3) Third, this launch event in and of itself may visibly drive reform. It could become much more important than the State of the Union. Unlike laws, code is user-visible, and can be instantly audited by the public, as Obama found out with the failed obamacare website launch. So: the annual America dot gov event may be substance, whereas SOTU is traditionally optics. I wouldn't be surprised to see the President present at the next one.
(4) Fourth, this kind of event is a perfect example of where tech and red cooperate best. They both hate bureaucracy. Automating paperwork with code reduces the power of statists over both capitalists and nationalists. It's also hard to undo by other admins: once you digitize a process, hard to turn it back to paper.
(5) Fifth, it's an obvious point perhaps, but think about how much influence YCombinator has had in 20 years. From Gebbia's Airbnb joining their 2009 batch to a complete overhaul of the user interface of the US bureaucracy, and thus the US government.
(6) Sixth, this is another take on the network state. The functional part of the US (the network, meaning tech) is merging with and partially reforming the dysfunctional part (the state, meaning bureaucracy) by automating 20th century paper forms.
As a tech startup, there will no doubt be bugs and user issues and so on, but unlike with paper laws those issues will be visible and the code fixes will be verifiable. A new era of AI America. Rooting for them.
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Paul Biondich retweeted
Given the choice between destroying the jobs of cancer researchers around the world, and having cures for all cancers, I think that the answer is obviously that cancer research does not exist as a jobs program. This is the case for most scientific endeavors, they do not exist as a way for scientists to achieve personal fulfillment at public expense, but rather, as it means of practically adding to our knowledge of the universe.
I’m even more convinced that generative AI may well *throttle science.*
AI is a very powerful, transformative technology but flashy early effects really aren’t a good way to think about long term structural dynamics.
Gift link to my case in the NYT.
nytimes.com/2026/09/22/opini…
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The first trailer for David Fincher's ‘THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH’ has been released.
In IMAX theaters on November 25.
Netflix
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Paul Biondich retweeted
INTEL: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says classified Bitcoin and crypto efforts are underway inside the Pentagon after agreeing the U.S. should seek a strategic advantage in bitcoin:native
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Terence McKenna predicts the future in 1998:
“I think it’s just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder.”
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Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
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“No,” Musk said. “No. NO.” There was a long pause.
“No mirrors, no pedals, no steering wheel. This is me taking responsibility for this decision.”...
“Let me be clear," he said slowly. “This vehicle must be designed as a clean Robotaxi. We’re going to take that risk. It’s my fault if it fucks up. ...”
@elonmusk , 2022 — from @WalterIsaacson biography.
Four years later, that bet looks like it paid off.
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I always liked nethack. This 42 year old marvel is one of the deepest adventure games ever made. It also looks like crap, at least out of the box.
GPT6 Astra made a headless version for me. You can now use its brain as a library or as mcp or via javascript library.
Meet neohack.dev/
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Yep. At first when they discontinued the Model S and X, it was a bit confusing. Now I realize that their whole strategy is to consider a complete reconception of the car: autonomous, no steering wheel, no pedals, and a 1st principles overhaul of literally everything that we have considered a car.
Pretty wild, but clearly where we are headed.
Time for Tesla to take everything they learned from making the Cybercab and launch a new generation of AI-driven vehicles for people to buy.
The Cybercab marks a new line in the sand. Everything before the Cybercab was primarily human-driven and designed to be so (ie., performance, handling, acceleration, etc). But Cybercab and post-Cybercab vehicles are designed from ground-up to be driven by AI and for the passenger it's about comfort, calm/peace, entertainment, convenience, etc.
Further, the unboxed approach, RIM plastic outer shell, brake-by-wire, next iterations of drive train, thermal management, electronics, etc... all can be leveraged for a cheaper, more efficient and reliable next-gen consumer vehicles.
Think Cybercab but a 4-5 passenger model you can buy. And a 6-7 passenger model you can buy. Etc.
Would love to see Tesla explore the following:
Small sedan
Small CUV
Mid-size sedan
Mid-size SUV
Large SUV
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Treasury pushes stablecoin adoption
Stablecoins expand dollar dominance
Long tail of smaller currencies dollarize
Bitcoin expands as stablecoin reserve asset
Stablecoins bitcoinize
Fiat currencies capitulate
Hyperbitcoinization
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