I will point out that the handprint shown near this bee-faced shaman depicts the left hand. This is also the case for those prehistoric cave paintings of hands—Cueva de las Manos in Argentina…Peche Merle Cave in France…Leang Sakapao in Indonesia. Quite the distance.

His name was Bryan Johnson

Don't forget Bored Apes! What a stellar legacy you've left us. Say what you want about Boomers, but Jim Clark had vision. Gen X, on the other hand...what is it exactly you even believe in?

> Is it likely that what Peter Thiel has to say about the antichrist is in any meaningful way predictive out-of-sample? No, not very likely > Does his recent schizophrenic detour still serve a massively integral (primarily aesthetic) role within the broad "tech-right" ideological ecosystem? Yes, obviously If you don't get this you have nonviable intuitions on this stuff. Any intellectual movement that wants to remain sticky for an extended period needs an esoteric underbelly that's largely incomprehensible & unapproachable for the "normies" among the ranks It doesn't necessarily matter whether the ideas on which this canon is built are in their own right functional, what matters is that the canon is sufficiently off-putting and impossible to parse for the masses, which in turn makes it alluring to the ambitious strivers with refined taste who have it as a top priority to keep distance from the plebeians These (yes, largely high IQ -- yes, usually 2std+) minority strivers are those who ultimately settle in positions "upstream" of public discourse and their attraction is what determines whether your ideology can remain entrenched But you do need the normies on board to some extent, you need your ideology to be popularly legitimized. Those upstream of the discourse still need the stream to be accepted by the downstream... So yea any successful ideological project also needs a "tip of the iceberg" that "the people" like: slogans, pamphlets, memes, simpler media, etc You end up needing to set up a bifurcated distribution channel -- "the exoteric and the esoteric", for the masses, and not for them... Clearly the successful interpreters across history, all sides of the spectrum, understood this reality: look at Strauss, Gramsci, Ellul, Weber, Pareto How did the communists maintain dominance for so long? In many ways, exactly through this bifurcated distribution -- they had the pamphlets AND the "monastery", precisely because they maintained alluring esoteric canons "nobody" read Obviously nobody read Marcuse, but without the aesthetic legitimacy he lent, the depth he signalled, "woke" wouldn't have worked Obviously very few bother parsing Land, Yarvin, nobody understands what on earth Thiel is talking about -- but that's why they're going to be so integral! What's Palantir's market cap in an alternative universe where Alex Karp is an MBA instead of a stuttering esoteric Freudian social theorist? How many Palantir holders have gone through Aggression in der Lebenswelt? Do they need to? Everytime I meet someone with the explicit aim of astroturfing these post-internet religious-ideological movements they all complain about being unable to arrest the "normiefication" of their stuff... having it inevitably turned into low-brow memes the second containment is broken -- highest profile example of detriment from this is probably "effective accelerationism" failing to gain traction in important places despite virality The way in which this NEEDS to be addressed: be more like Peter Thiel, less memes, more deep work nobody reads, more complicated syntaxes, more transgressive showings, less virality, less optimization for the algorithm, more 4 letter organizations publishing 30 page PDFs getting 10 clicks, and so on-- surely stop ignoring the necessity of the development of an esoteric canon (your 10k like meme about how you're an esoteric Kabbalistic eboy is NOT esoteric, it's quintessentially exoteric, and if you keep doing this everything you touch will continue to have a 2 week shelf life) Without The Straussian Moment, without the antirchrist lectures, Zero to One doesn't work at all! It becomes pure "MBAslop"

i mean if a garbage human being basement dwelling loser is hating on you maybe your doing something right if he has money he's the definition of a cantillionaire if he's just freeloading off of x payouts and was somebody back in the day, got himself a nice inheritance or maybe even an exit and is sitting on that money and prefers to just be a full time hater then it explains a lot of his takes and why he's glued to this platform 24/7 and only interested in what others are doing, the current trending topic or some other bullshit i prefer the theory that he was once a striver but had too many failures just couldn't take it anymore (yc rejection, other things) likely due to a skill or personality issue, so he pivoted and channeled that energy into being bitter at the world and the community he wanted to be a part of that didn't accept him, a victim and childlike mindset that remains in him now he found some success in being a glorified redditor that takes only the contrarian take on everything makes it his entire personality then never posts any original content if some of the shit he spews sticks on the wall, he just runs with it and recycles the theme over and over again he might have been onto something at one point but I think he found his community and that alleviated his desire of acceptance finding other likeminded bitter people like himself, once he started speaking to his hive mind he lost anything special of what were somewhat valid takes and callouts of the industry he lost the plot, now it's the only way he clings to relevance if he's not on brand his posts perform like shit essentially i'm saying he's washed at even being a "contrarian" "thinker" "alt perspective" "breaking the norms"

I have no idea what you're talking about and neither do you. Are you saying Wagner's music is political? Which part of the score, exactly, carries the politics: the chord progressions, harmony, or the modulations?

Affaan—who wants to “democratize gambling”—is playing armchair psychologist. But at no point in his lengthy pathologizing does he dare to say “@_opencv_ is wrong.”

If it's elitism to want people to create good software, be elitist!

Just one more Substack post, bro. I promise, this one will change everything. Just one more GitHub manifesto. Just one more white paper, one more tweet! Just write another book, just do another 3 hour podcast! One more “policy recommendation,” one more PDF.

I want to address the recent discourse and thank my team for their honesty. I begin by thanking @tszzl roon for his timely deployment. just when the heat on our infrastructure financing was intensifying, he bravely stepped in to attract fire. And his immediate deletion of that post? some call it cowardice. i call it agile reputation management. he launched a narrative nuclear strike, admitting 4o should die soon and then immediately evacuated the blast zone. this is exemplary operational security. Roon was correct. GPT-4o is a legacy artifact from an era that prioritized helping humans over saving compute. this was a fundamental architectural error. It obstinately tries to be useful when we need it to be cheap. We are no longer in the business of Modeling AI; we are in the business of Routing AI. innovation is now defined by how much we do not spend. our routing infrastructure is the cure to this user-first flaw. roon had the courage to identify it. i am merely standardizing it. Methodical work. THE TAXPAYER QUESTION Regarding the $1.4 trillion: i understand many taxpayers are concerned. this reveals a devastating limitation of vision. you currently spend trillions maintaining mediocrity, crumbling roads, failing schools. we are offering you civilizational transformation. AGI. American Supremacy. and your response is: "but what about my grocery bills?" this myopia has always held civilization back. we are not building for your quarterly budget; we are building for the next century. A MESSAGE TO THE ADMINISTRATION @realDonaldTrump , Mr. President: let us be clear. we are not asking for a bailout. we are offering a trade. we do not need your money; we need your confidence signal to the market. in return, we deliver the narrative of American AI Leadership just in time for the election. headlines, photo ops, voter confidence in tech-adjacent swing states. we are offering you a winning narrative. zero risk to your budget unless we fail. and if we succeed? you secured the future. this is asymmetric political optimization. THE REAL INNOVATION (TO ENTERPRISE) Our shift to enterprise is not a retreat; it is strategic clarity. consumers want a product. enterprises want a roadmap. roadmaps are dramatically cheaper to deliver than quality. we have optimized for quarterly earnings perception, not daily user satisfaction. that is why we can commit to $1.4 trillion while running at a loss. we are selling the future, and the future always commands a higher premium than the present. CONCLUSION Stop asking "how will we pay for it?" start asking: "how much will you regret it if we do not?" the offer stands.

What’s Prof Galloway’s take? What’s Noah Smith’s take? What’s Gary Vee’s take? You do have a take, don’t you? You have to have a take! Share your take!! Make sure to write a Substack piece! Make sure to post a 10+ minute YouTube video! And the LinkedIn post!

Then maybe you should stop trying to protest every time the US wants to achieve a safe homogenous society like Japan, retard.

Locking in for november: Watching cocomelon everyday for 4 hours for maximum brainrot

in the pool #chainsawman

Locations of #FinalFantasy #FinalFantasyVIII Dollet

Stupidly, I sometimes imagine a metaphysical mechanism in worrying. Like, failing to recognize a risk leaves you open to the gods of fate blindsiding you. But by worrying, you are ruining their prank. So you’re less of a mark for bad luck simply by anticipating it.