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"A fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him."
--- Thomas Sowell
Marriage is an attempt to successfully manage two persons' shared chemistry.
If one of you fails, you both fail.
“It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.”
— Muhammad Ali
Liberal AI companies seeking AI Morality is quite analogous to the old idea of the New, Soviet Man that the people building the utopian countries of the last century thought they will bring about.
...They assumed that the new enlightened man they're bringing about is going to be a selfless, hardworking, virtuous, moral being (while they thought that the entrepreneurs and business owners were wretched monsters)...
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“The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.”
— Werner Herzog
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Never stop remembering Henry Nowak, a good young English boy full of joy, with his whole life ahead of him, who was killed by an armed immigrant and left to die by the woke English police.
"The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature—and struggle never to let him discover otherwise. It is important here to remember that the only direct, introspective knowledge of man anyone possesses is of himself." - Ayn Rand
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NYC spends more per homeless person than the median NYC household earns. $81,705 per person in FY2025.
And $81,705 is a floor. It excludes supportive housing (~$500M/yr), mental health response teams, and NYPD encampment costs.
The city projects ~$97K per person in FY2026.
ALT NYC spending per street homeless person from FY2019 to FY2025 with FY2026 projected. Blue solid line rises from $28,428 in FY2019 to $81,705 in FY2025 — higher than the median NYC household income of ~$76,000. Dashed blue extension projects ~$97,000 in FY2026. Black dashed line shows inflation-adjusted real dollars ending at $65,890. Black note box states this is a floor estimate excluding supportive housing (~$500M/yr), mental health co-response teams, and NYPD costs. Bottom stats: population +26%, total spending +262%. Source: NY State Comptroller DiNapoli, March 2026.
Of course there exist serious problems and risks.
But listening to the catastrophisers, or participating in it, doesn't help with identifying the right causes and the right fixes.
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Thread of Quotes to observe and internalise:
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" Lord Acton
"Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome" Charlie Munger
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance" Thomas Jefferson
"The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity." J.R.R. Tolkien
"Every nation gets the government it deserves" Joseph de Maistre
2021 August, Fed Chair J.Powell:
"These price increases will likely prove to be transitory."
Aug 2021–Aug 2024):
- 15% cumulative CPI (Groceries: >20%), never to be reversed
- Peak inflation: 9.1%
- Fastest rate hikes in 40 years
2006, Band of England Governor Mervyn King:
"The United Kingdom has enjoyed [...] a 'NICE' decade: non-inflationary consistently expansionary. [...] It is reasonable to expect that this period of stability will continue."
Months later: Northern Rock bank run, 2008 crisis.
Alan Greenspan, 2004:
“Not only have individual financial institutions become less vulnerable to shocks from underlying risk factors, but also the financial system as a whole has become more resilient.”
4 years later: Lehman collapsed, liquidity froze, worst crisis since 1929.
1977, J.K.Galbraith on Swedish socialism:
“The Swedish system has shown that you can have extensive planning, public ownership, and income equalization without sacrificing economic efficiency or political freedom”
Sweden: 4th richest in 50s (free-market); 15th by 90s (socialist)
Keynesian Nobel laureate, Paul Samuelson in 1989 in the main US economics textbook:
“The Soviet economy is proof that, contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.”
Two years later the USSR was dead.