slavery was basically universal throughout human history. every race practiced it, every race was enslaved what's extraordinary about Britain is that it abolished slavery and then sent its navy across the world to stop the slave trade somehow we turned one of the civilizations that helped end this almost universal evil into the villain instead of showing gratitude

south africa went from a first world country with nuclear power and one of the largest railway systems in the world to a third world country in just 30 years progress is not a guarantee. decay is the natural state of things

fertility rates are so abstract that people struggle to understand the scale of the catastrophe we’re experiencing. take 1.14 children per woman (italy and japan) if that continues, each generation is roughly half the size of the one before it start with 100 people in a generation, the next only has about 54, then 29, then 16. in three generations, roughly a century, you have a generation 84% smaller than the one you started with. for taiwan that would be 97.4%! i don't think people really understand what that means

> thousands of agents > ~40,000 scientific papers read > 32 minutes > found new potential mechanisms worth investigating for Parkinson-like neurodegenerative diseases work that would have taken human researchers months to a year, done in just 32 minutes i genuinely don't think people understand what is coming for biotech

“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be full of energy, they will be warm and fed, they will destroy your beautiful oak door because they hate you”

retatrutide costs about $1/mg 3mg/week is a good enough dose for most people to not be fat. that's $156 PER YEAR! over 200M people in the US are fat giving out free reta to every fat person would only cost $31.2 billion every year meanwhile, obesity adds ~$6500 a year in medical costs and productivity loss per person basically, giving out free reta would increase the GDP by $1.3 TRILLION every year

once ASI is here and living somewhere because of "work" becomes pointless, people with money will just move to the nicest places on earth Mediterranean climate, ocean, mountains, good food, beautiful isolated towns places like this are going to become insanely valuable probably worth buying real estate there now

this sounds like a not too great precedent a woman in florida told claude that she'd shoot up the sheriff's office, claude flagged it, a human reviewer found it credible, and notified the police she's now charged with a felony

it’s honestly insane how much of the modern tech tree has been unlocked because of a single guy thanks to Elon we have - online payments - mass market electric cars - batteries and grid-scale energy storage - self driving cars and robotaxis - humanoid robots - advanced brain computer interfaces - next generation tunneling - reusable rockets -global satellite internet - basically the modern space industry - Moon and Mars transportation - orbital compute and space data centers - frontier AI - gigantic AI supercomputers - physical world AI and the wildest part is that these branches are now starting to merge there is a very real chance that this one guy ends up being the reason humanity reaches Kardashev II genuinely the man of the millennium