tensegrity artist, coder, amateur central bank watcher
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FLUXE introduction to Tensegrity youtu.be/xdo_nbC5-GM?is=9vEa… via @YouTube
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I wish people would notice that the safety scare is not driven by people outside of the big labs, but directly from their leadership. The "whistleblowers" are plants that are amplified from within the labs, and supported by the CEOs. The goal is to capture the regulators, which will not shut down the big labs, but turn them into an oligopoly and outlaw decentralized AI.
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The computational universe can be described through rules that describe change in discernible differences with finite resolution, as opposed to the classical view that maintains that time and/or space have infinite resolution. We can only observe finite resolution, and it turns out that the assumption that infinite resolution exists creates problems in all the mathematical languages we use to capture these infinities. In the computational universe, geometry only exists if you squint, in the classical universe, it is foundational.
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Atheists frequently misunderstand that religious indoctrination does not aim to impose propositional beliefs, but to install agents. To believe in God is not a belief, it is a psychological configuration in which the personal self shares the mind with another agent.
David Friedberg Explains America's Economic Crisis in 60 Minutes youtu.be/LGkRR4ZNsEA?si=VvUW… via @YouTube
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In a few years, Europe will be governed by right wing governments, and they will read your encrypted messages, prevent you from posting and reading ideas they disagree with and even jail you for wrongthink, and the current governments create the laws making that possible
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Your experience is a simulation, a virtual reality projected into a virtual observer. The observer is a model of what it would be like if you existed, were uploaded into a monkey and deeply invested in its affairs. The model is used to drive a monkey in the physical universe.
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Consciousness does not seem to come in degrees (but awareness, integration, lucidity and agency do). Either “the lights are on” or off. I suspect that consciousness is like fire, or life: once ignited, its activity creates the conditions for sustaining it.
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In 6 jaar tijd kwamen er 43.000 rijksambtenaren bij (+38% 🔵). De loonkosten stegen zelfs 68% (🔴). Ondertussen spreken alle partijen af te willen bezuinigen op de overheid.
De overheid creëert geen welvaart, ze verdeelt die van anderen.
En ze groeit als een paddenstoel in het donker.
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Beste @EersteKamer leden, voormalige collega’s. Wat Gijs Strijker hier zegt klopt 100%. Gijs houdt zich zelfs nog in. De schade die dit onzalige Box 3 voorstel voor ons investeringsklimaat real time aanricht is gigantisch. Stop dit kansloze gedrocht!
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Beste @EersteKamer leden, voormalige collega’s. Wat Gijs Strijker hier zegt klopt 100%. Gijs houdt zich zelfs nog in. De schade die dit onzalige Box 3 voorstel voor ons investeringsklimaat real time aanricht is gigantisch. Stop dit kansloze gedrocht!
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What makes computation important to understanding life and minds is not the Turing machine, but the principle of causal insulation. Computers create their own, self contained world, fully governed by rules that are independent from the dynamics of the substrate.
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"Taxes on unrealized gains are absurd."
Michael Green (@profplum99) on Dutch box 3 policy.
"They're trying to tax the failure to sell. To incentivize people to sell appreciated stock, sell the house. It's a band-aid on an already flawed strategy."
"High-potential earners will lowball their future earnings and get the hell out. The ones with less confidence in their capability will get stuck."
"You will end up with a nation of losers. But it takes a very long time."
"The Netherlands has incredible resources, an extraordinarily well-educated population — not particularly well-educated in capitalism, but that's okay. It takes a lot to screw up a society."
Quoting Adam Smith: "There's much ruin in a nation."
Translation: bad policy doesn't kill a country. It hollows it out one high earner at a time.
Who is already considering leaving the Netherlands, and where are you going?
I sat down with Michael Green, Chief Strategist at Simplify Asset Management, former Logica Capital, ex-Thiel Macro.
The man who built the passive investing critique that broke Wall Street's biggest assumption now has Bitcoin in his crosshairs.
"Bitcoin's system is a failure. It was reinvented as a speculative monster. It'll eventually collapse. And I really could care less."
This isn't a random hater. @profplum99 has run the simulations on the network and is simply not buying it.
He's been published by the central bank research desks. He came on the show to argue that the entire financial system is about to break.
The brutal case against Bitcoin from someone who understands market structure better than 99% of the people defending it.
Full episode on @new_era_finance.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 — The System Is Broken
10:00 — Passive Investing Owns Everything
20:00 — The Generational Wealth Crisis
30:00 — Why You'll Never Afford A House
40:00 — AI's 25% Hiring Collapse
49:00 — The Brutal Bitcoin Case
56:00 — Why Stablecoins Win, Not Bitcoin