How much of your hard-earned income should the government be entitled to take before it violates your right to keep what you earn?Washington state residents pay an average of nearly 40% of their total earnings to the government. We spend from Monday morning until Wednesday morning working entirely for the state. Does that feel like a fair exchange for your life and labor?
I voted for Trump, but Trump’s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Islamic Republic of Iran reads like a surrender. It is a much worse deal than Obama’s 2015 deal in that it gives far more away in return for far less. I previously shared here my opinion that the only path to victory here would be using ground troops to seize control of the Strait of Hormuz and Iran itself and paying for it by auctioning the $16 trillion in oil fields.… read more “Trump’s MOU Is a Surrender to Iran”
https://paulgraham.com/earn.html
Everyone needs to hear this. Each dollar represents a favor exchanged between people. A billion dollars is a billion favors. A billionaire is someone who did a ton of favors for others.
I asked my friend Ryan, who serves in the Air Force and used to fly F16s, to explain Grandpa’s service records I obtained. Grandpa had volunteered to be a Forward Air Controller, one of the most dangerous jobs in Vietnam and flew 125 missions and received 4 Air Medals for his courageous work. Pretty interesting read!… read more “Grandpa’s Service”
Welcome to the terror dome… AI has surpassed humans.
https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/claude-fable-shepherds-dog
The model that built this, Fable, has now had all access to it blocked by the US government as a national security risk.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
Government’s will begin nationalizing AI models and using them for their own purposes. History shows those purposes are mostly against their own citizens and occasionally against other countries.… read more “Welcome to the new world order”