Moore's Law: Chips double in power every 2 years
Wirth's Law: Software slows down faster than hardware speeds up
My Law: Every Electron app uses 8GB of RAM to display text that would fit in a .txt file
We are losing.
If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)
Things that are fake:
- Alpha males (debunked by the original researcher)
- MSG causing headaches (never replicated)
- Learning styles (no evidence)
Things that are real:
- People will believe anything if it confirms their priors
Everyone claims to love “nuance” until you actually present them with some. Then suddenly, you’re “both sides-ing” or “overcomplicating.” No one hates black-and-white thinking more than they hate gray.
The internet is a graveyard of good ideas.
Ideas that people never pursued.
Ideas killed by over-planning and over-thinking.
The world doesn’t need new ideas.
It needs more people willing to execute on the obvious ones.
New on YouTube.
For 5,000 years, humans have mistaken turbulence for collapse.
We crave catastrophe because it makes us feel chosen - of course history ends with us.
It doesn’t.
