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“There is basically no difference between socialism and fascism.” — Friedrich Hayek

The US can’t begin to win an economic and technological competition against China without elite immigration. This is a strong statement, but I can prove it to you with a simple calculation. Consider the fact that China has four times the population of the US. Its 18-year-olds

The sheer lunacy of Heathrow airport swapping reliable diesel generators with a net zero biomass system. ⬇️

How do we prevent powerful agents from causing harm in shared environments while pursuing their own goals? This paper designs a market mechanism where agents report how much they value different actions, and a central system picks the action that maximizes total value while

Would central planning work in a fully automated economy? There's 3 main reasons to think it might: 1. The central planner can just directly learn from the experience of other AIs (think of a much more advanced version of Tesla FSD model learning from millions of driving

Why Tamay Besiroglu and Ege Erdil think we're still 30 years away from AGI:

Central planning--even under AGI--remains a crossword puzzle with too few clues. At 2:55:17, Dwarkesh Patel, Ege Erdil, and Tamay Besiroglu run into the same wall Mises and Hayek diagnosed ~a century ago. I'll explain why:

Anyone. Anywhere. $100k in funding. Global meritocracy is finally here.

Rob Wiblin Capital has become a more general substitute for labor over the past few centuries. Almost everything humans did 300 years ago is now done by capital. Simultaneously, human ability to wield power is higher than ever. The value of labor is higher than ever. It is easier than ever

“The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.” — Friedrich Hayek

I’ve left OpenAI! Already miss everyone on the Training team & my friends ❤️ but very excited to soon announce what’s next Until then, I’ll be taking a break to solve OCR for Sanskrit so we can immortalize the classical Indian literary canon in the weights of superintelligence

Born on this day in 1899, F.A. Hayek became one of liberty’s boldest defenders, taking on socialism, central planning, and the illusion of control. 🧵 How did Hayek become Hayek?

famed psychologist Abraham Maslow

Information is abundant, it's desire that's scarce.

“Our respect for traditions whose origins and rationale we do not know is based on the insight that the experimentation of many generations may embody more experience than any one man possesses.” — Friedrich Hayek

Spill your mind onto the internet for a year and see where it takes you.

Demis Hassabis says true AGI is a theoretical benchmark set by the human brain — the only proven architecture for general intelligence today’s models are impressive but inconsistent; anyone can find flaws within minutes. "real AGI should be so strong that it would take experts

Nothing will force you to be more creative than a looming deadline.

Philosophers as Taylor Swift Songs (in honor of Taylor’s reclaimed property rights) Plato--Daylight Kant--You're On Your Own Kid Camus--August Aristotle--So High School (obvs) Kierkegaard--Back to December Nietzsche--Treacherous Socrates--Tell Me Why JP Sartre--Chloe or Sam or

An academic life … books I have published, books I have edited, dissertations that I advised on that became books, subsequent books by former PhD students, and books in series that I edit. First entry in collection 1990, last entry 2024. More to come, so many more to come.