I had a 3.5-hour conversation with @naval. We offered fresh interpretations of each concept in the Naval Yearbook: happiness, judgment, knowledge, and leverage. It's now compiled into a single episode and available on Spotify, YouTube, and other platforms.

Writing application code is like starting a podcast.

I believe the tremendous success of the LLM program teaches us one important lesson: a large part of human knowledge and society exists at a very low Kolmogorov level of complexity. We are entering an era in which the smallest representations of human cultural products… (1/12)

Software has been devoured by artificial intelligence.

Think about it carefully. California's wealth tax architect, Saez, admitted that to generate an extra $2 billion in tax revenue annually, he would rather have 80% of billionaires leave California, leading to Silicon Valley bankruptcies and a sharp decline in jobs. Meanwhile, California's annual fiscal expenditure is a staggering $325 billion, a 68% increase from 2019.

Obsession is the mother of invention

So, California's proposed wealth tax is actually an attempt by corrupt healthcare unions to blackmail Gavin Newsom into giving them a bunch of free benefits. They don't care if the proposal passes; they just want free stuff. Great, that's democracy.

Artificial intelligence will diminish many of our advantages.

We don't have public toilets because they'd be a mess within days. We don't build bus stops because they'd become shelters for the homeless. We don't have densely populated, walkable cities because nobody wants to be bothered by strangers. This is because we've chosen to tolerate public disorder, but as other parts of the world have shown, it doesn't have to be this way.

"Computer" was once a job title. Later, "computer" became a tool used by humans. Now, "computer" is becoming a tool used by computers.