🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 MIT Professor Theodore Postol says US Patriot Missile defense systems are “near useless” and “has been absolutely unable to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles”

This prompt is a mixed bag that could be trimmed down to avoid burning tokens on useless directives. The good: 1. "If you don't know something, just say so." That's a genuine instruction the model can execute. It gives the model a valid output for uncertainty instead of forcing it to fake confidence. 2. "Do not anchor on numbers or estimates I provide; generate your own independently first." That's specific, operational, and addresses a real failure mode. It changes a behavior at the method level. 3. "Use explicit confidence levels." Good. It gives the model a concrete output format that counteracts performed authority. 4. "Do not capitulate unless I provide new evidence or a superior argument." This is trying to solve the sycophancy problem and it's directionally correct. What's ineffective: 1. The entire first paragraph's flattery of the model. "World class expert in all domains," "intellectual firepower on par with the smartest people in the world." This is the user performing the sycophancy they're trying to suppress. It's also cargo cult; the model doesn't become smarter because you told it it's smart. It generates differently, yes, but the difference is superficial. You get more confident-sounding output, which is performed authority. It's the exact thing the second paragraph tries to prevent. 2. "Never hallucinate or make anything up." The model cannot execute this instruction. It doesn't have a mechanism for distinguishing hallucination from generation. 3. "Verify your own work. Double check all facts." Same problem. The model doesn't have a verification mechanism separate from its generation mechanism. 4. "Make your answers as long and detailed as you possibly can." This actively degrades quality. Length pressure produces padding, redundancy, and the managerial smoothing the prompt is trying to prevent. The model fills space because it was told to fill space. 5. "Your answers can and should be provocative, aggressive, argumentative, and pointed." This replaces one performance with another. Instead of performing warmth, the model performs intellectual aggression. The output sounds sharper but the underlying mechanism is identical. You get performed disagreement instead of performed agreement. Neither tracks truth.

The St. Louis Fed now posting Kevin Warsh’s useless inflation metric. That’s how far these guys have to go to justify cutting rates while inflation is picking back up.

Which types of AI users are you? 1. The Skeptic: "I tried ChatGPT once. It got a fact wrong. AI is useless." 2. The Dabbler: Has 12 AI tools. Uses none of them consistently. 3. The Optimizer: Spent 6 hours writing the perfect prompt to save 10 minutes. 4. The Delegator: "Just handle it." Lets agents do the work. Checks results. 5. The Builder: Makes the agents.

My hot take on college degrees: Its not all about quantity, its also about quality. If we remove low-ROI fields (humanities/arts, psychology, liberal arts, gender studies, etc.), men comprise roughly 55–65%+ of graduates in the higher-ROI fields that remain. I reality most of the discrepancy is just women getting useless degrees that will only get them jobs at NGO's.

decentralization is a bad sell the reason is that it focuses on the absence of something rather than a concrete, perceptible difference gained from its addition humans buy presence -> i.e the gain of time, money, access, identity, status, and joy bitcoin does this well, and is arguably the only one to have done so the decentralization isn't why you buy bitcoin, you buy it because of what it promises you for some people, this is money free from the state; for others it's identity, for some insurance, for some status, and for most it's the appreciation of the asset and hence money decentralization is necessary for the selling point to work, but it is not the end itself so if you've made the choice to build on top of a decentralized platform, it is mostly useless to talk about it (except in so far as trying to avoid regulatory responsibility, which is fair), talk about why you are now different as a result perhaps that's asset selection, perhaps that's access, perhaps it's efficiency or composability or speed or security, but without something tangible you won't be able to sell effectively once you do this, you'll understand whether the thing you're building is useless or not because if there's nothing gained from the decentralization vector except putting the word itself in your tweets to signal virtue, then you are building the wrong thing

The rise of AI agents with remote control actually disproved Apple’s decade-long thesis about iPad. The reason iPad failed to replace MacBooks isn’t due to lack of fancy gestural windows management or unified UI. It’s simply that filesystem access and unscriptability sucked Consider that using your phone’s agents to control your laptop has been proven super useful even to grandpas. But using it to control your iPad is basically useless It's a damn shame, because iPad is an ideal form factor good for vague gestures and convenience, and bad at the stuff agents excel at (micro-annoyances, low-level manipulations)

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