Stay Rational with Ludwig | Reverse: 1999 "Empirical judgments, overly confident speculations. Yes, that's the way you think."​​​​​​ Version 3.6 of #Reverse1999#, "Last and First Principles," is now available on Mobile and PC. #Reverse1999Ver3ꓸ6# #LastandFirstPrinciples# #Ludwig#

Overture | Ludwig "I've had my share of research accidents. All part of the job."​​​​​​ Version 3.6 of Reverse1999, "Last and First Principles," is now available on Mobile and PC.

I did the ludwig challenge. I can finally quit. Thanks briar for being with me every step of the way. shout out to @L0ganJG bro's briar content saved my hours. Now I can lock in and redraw all the moments i was getting shafted by botlanes :)

.@AppliedInt Co-founder and CTO Peter Ludwig says "a billion machines will become autonomous or intelligent over the next ten years." "Cars, trucks, tractors, mining haulers, defense systems, warehouse robots, humanoids—the physical economy will be rebuilt around software that perceives, decides, and acts." "The prevailing assumption about how we get there goes something like this: models keep improving, world models mature, foundation models for robotics arrive, and autonomy falls out the other end. Intelligence is the whole game; scale the intelligence and the machines will follow." "The contrarian bet, then, isn't against intelligence. It's that the next order of magnitude in physical AI comes from making the engineering system as intelligent as the models it carries." Full piece on compounding systems and Applied Intuition's newest platform, Dana:

As a young socialist, Hayek read Ludwig von Mises’ 1920 paper “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” Mises showed that socialist central planning isn’t merely inefficient, it’s impossible. Without private property and genuine market prices, planners lack any rational way to allocate scarce resources or determine real costs and needs. Even Oskar Lange, a leading socialist in the calculation debate, effectively conceded the point. While he promoted “market socialism” with trial-and-error pricing by a central board, real-world socialist planners in Eastern Europe quietly relied on world capitalist market prices as a guide. Without external free-market price signals, pure socialism would be economically blind and coordination would collapse. Mises went further, arguing that interventionism, the “middle way” of government meddling, is inherently unstable. Each intervention creates problems that invite more interventions, eventually leading to full socialization. Price controls cause shortages, subsidies distort production, and the cycle continues until the economy is fully planned. The lesson is clear. Rational economics requires genuine market prices emerging from voluntary exchange and private property. Half-measures don’t stabilize the system. They accelerate the drift into central planning. The Austrian School understood this decades before the collapse of the Soviet bloc proved it in practice.

A woman purchased this bust at a Goodwill store for just $34.99, only to later discover it was a priceless 2,000-year-old Roman artifact. But after making the find of a lifetime, she learned she couldn’t keep it or sell it. In 2018, antiques dealer Laura Young was browsing a Goodwill store in Austin, Texas, when she spotted a 52-pound marble bust tucked beneath a table with a $34.99 price tag. She bought it, strapped it into the passenger seat of her car, and took it home. After consulting auction houses and experts, she discovered it was an authentic Roman sculpture dating back about 2,000 years. The bust had originally belonged to the collection of Bavarian King Ludwig I and was displayed at the Pompejanum in Germany. After the building was heavily damaged during World War II, the sculpture vanished. No one knows exactly how it ended up in Texas, though officials believe it was likely brought to the United States by a returning American soldier. Because Bavaria had never legally transferred ownership, Young could neither keep nor sell the artifact. Following years of negotiations, it was displayed temporarily at the San Antonio Museum of Art before being returned to Germany in 2023.