Don’t assume your tax dollars are put to good use. If your neighbors are gullible enough, your money will literally be siphoned towards repressing you.

Invest globally.

Lottery system. No more elected positions, just random appointment based on lottery from pools of qualified volunteers that throw their hat in. Similarly for top appointment positions. Some lottery pools have requirements, like to be a supreme court justice, you have to have practiced law for X years. Top generals, you have to have served at or above a certain rank for X years and still be active duty. And so on.

No more campaigning, no more political parties, no more consolidation of power. You essentially just end up with a random assortment of minimally qualified citizen peers every term rotation. They generally don’t know each other, and so aren’t incentivized to cover up institutional corruption.

You could argue that random (but technically qualified) people could be crazy, or have wild values different from their peers. You could also argue they might not be the best choice for the job vs. peers. But look at your elected officials today. Are they anything like your peers? Are they truly the best, brightest picks? Do their values really represent common citizens?

Mayne pedantic, but:

Everyone seems to think CEOs are the problem. They are not. They report to and get broad instruction from the board. The board can fire the CEO. If you got rid of a CEO, the board will just hire a replacement.

This is rhe same reason I will never buy a house on slab: gotta hammer up the floor, fix, repour and refloor if you ever need those pipes down below.

Whoa I never considered AI inbreeding as a death for AI 🤔

Maybe these schools will be forced to go mask-off and drop all their nonprofit academic programs to focus on football, their true cash cow.

Why don’t I just Google. It’s the same data after all.

Idk, the military industrial boys losing all their foreign customers must not be too happy

Ayn Rand collected social security checks after retirement until her death.

That should tell you all you need to know about Ayn Rand.

Tax unrealized capital gains on a generous progressive scale instead of maintaining a realized gains tax.

Buy a cheap pistol, go back in time, and shoot Gutenberg.

We’d still be living in medieval times.

Well assuming you’re not “financially successful” and talking about wealth classes that make their money from working, then by comparison they don’t do anything differently when their paycheck arrives, or even know what day exactly they get their paycheck. If someone is living above their means or otherwise financially at risk, they’re paying close attention to the numbers in their accounts. More subtly, they might say something like “I just got paid, let’s go out for dinner” or “I’ll buy those tickets on Tuesday” when there’s no reason they shouldn’t just get them now for whatever it is.

The idea is to have water or molten salt cool the walls of the torus from outside, and those drive ordinary turbines like any other generator. The main issue is that particles fly out of the confined plasma donut and degrade the walls, whose dust flys into the plasma and reduces the fusion efficiency. They’re focusing on the hard part - dealing with the health of plasma sustainment and the durability of the confinement walls over time. Hot thing that stays hot can boil water or salt to drive regular turbines, that’s not the main engineering challenge. I get your frustration where it feels from news coverage that they’re not focusing on the right stuff, but what you’ll likely eventually see is that the time between “we figured out how to durably confine a healthy plasma” will quickly turn into “we have a huge energy output” much like inventors puttered around with flight for hundreds of years until a sustained powered flight design, however crappy, finally worked. From that point, it was only 15 years until the first transatlantic flight.

So you want to tax all companies a percent of their stock ownership every year? Good luck with that.

You’re falling intro a trollhill. The point is the ultra-wealthy pay very smart people to work out loopholes. If some internet retard can run around your ideas and keep you busy, a team of full time financial experts will have a field day. This is not an easy problem to solve. Pretending like it is leads to support for crappy subpar legislation that doesn’t work.

Lol have you not used o1/o3? They show the inner monologue too. Fun little pretend detail to keep you entertained while the model takes 30 seconds to respond.

Uh…yes it’s about the same, maybe slightly dumber than o3. Which is already mediocre.

I see Tiktok in the news, never downloaded it. Does that make me special?

I don’t get it. Why would DeepSeek supposedly get more downloads from the app store? It’s not like it’s any more interesting to consumers than other LLM apps. It was just notable for purportedly being cheaper to train. Something seems fishy.

My accounting team told me they would open more Panamanian shell companies for me, and the shares would get distributed across them. I’d retain full ownership, of course.

You’re thinking like one of the poors. Us ultra wealthy don’t get paid in dollars. We get paid in shares. And we don’t sell the shares, we take out long term low interest bank loans with the shares as collateral any time we absolutely need to use cash.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/invest-borrow-against-die-scott-114400643.html