The condescending tone of the effective altruists is immediately recognizable and may end up being one of their biggest PR problems.
But nobody said taking a west coast rationalism cult mainstream would be easy.
New Founding
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New Founding
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A venture firm focused on American revitalization. DMs open to builders.
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AI will massively cut offshoring. The more routine information-processing skills that are most easily offshored will be best done by AI. The human skills that AI does not replace will be best done by people close (culturally & often geographically) to customers.I shared this note earlier today with the entire team at Opendoor. Today we began to say goodbye to our colleagues in India as we wind down our India operations. Our customers are in America, and that's where our operational work belongs.
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🚨 #BREAKING: Cracker Barrel stock surges nearly 30% after announcing plans to deploy artificial intelligence for critical business operations. - New Founding reposted
Spent some time in Searcy, AR over the weekend at a wedding. It’s a cool little time capsule. Regional hub, Church of Christ stronghold, DRY COUNTY. There’s a whole national power network/mafia centered out of Harding U. All in all, very cool and trad American scene. - New Founding reposted
One of the most impressive military victories in history.Cortes and the Conquest of the Aztecs gets a lot of attention in 16th century history, and rightly so. But the conquest of the Inca Empire by Francisco Pizarro is perhaps even more impressive. Pizarro initially had 168 men (Cortez had about 500) and faced armies of 40-80,000. I
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We don't hype this up on X really because it's only live in PA but ladies & gentlemen... The Sunflower Clinic of Addiction Medicine is officially shipping Rx And "unlike" our competitors, Sunflower IS designed for the treatment of AUD, not simply "drinking less" 🌻
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An awesome article about a family friendly city @devonzuegel is building in California Have visited the site. It’s gorgeous
- New Founding repostedSacks is right that AI Doomerism has replaced Climate Doomerism in many circles. Like Climate Doomerism, AI Doomerism is an eschatological narrative centering on how human technological advance will bring destruction in XYZ years - per [credentialed] expert. However, unlike
00:00With Climate Doomerism fading, AI Doomerism will become as the central organizing catastrophe on the Left. It justifies their takeover of the economy and especially the information space. And it has enough pseudoscience and Hollywood storytelling behind it to seem compelling. - New Founding repostedPowerful 2010s heuristic
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The problem with techbioReplying to @Dan_Jeffries1Did some exponential-pilled bros finally realize that real-world processes have irreducible time constants and that you can't run the real world faster than real time? - New Founding repostedThis is one of the reasons apartment buildings have exploded with amenity offerings You need to put *something* on the ground floor to fill up all of the retail space.Suburban cities often underestimate the density needed for ground floor retail on multifamily projects. Looks cool on a plan but they don’t understand how a few hundred residents above can’t support a Starbucks.
- New Founding repostedYou think laying bricks is fun and sexy? Here’s what being a developer REALLY looks like … “Goal Seek”
01:06Another fun shoot. Tradition isn't outdated; it's innovation that actually worked over a long period of time. In the age of AI and iPhones, I think it's important to remember—we’re not the smartest people who have ever lived. Even if it seems like it.
