An excellent post by Scott Greer, Misunderstanding The MAGA Base. This echoes my sentiments exactly:| Grey Enlightenment
To recap, during the ’90s, Epstein was at the center of a large social circle of well-connected people, such as businessmen and some academics. He also, along with associate/friend Ghislaine Maxwell, engaged in child trafficking. He also had a predilection for younger women. It’s possible some of his guests who accompanied him on his plane and partied at his infamous island were aware of this and even solicited underage sex. Epstein also blackmailed some his acquaintances, which could exp...| Grey Enlightenment
This is going massively viral “OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025”.| Grey Enlightenment
Yesterday, a Bitcoin whale offloaded $8 billion of Bitcoin to Galaxy Digital. | Grey Enlightenment
From Garry Taubes, The Curious Lessons of Calorie Restriction, in which he contrasts his ad libitum low-carb approach to Peter Attia. He writes:| Grey Enlightenment
A common argument is that AI will make smart people redundant, as their jobs are replaced or AI outperform them. I disagree. AI does not change this or devalue IQ. As I argued last week, AI will only amplify differences of human capital. Smarter people will be able to use AI more effectively to increase their already big advantage. In this way, AI is like a force multiplier. | Grey Enlightenment
The big story is the Trump administration’s reversal and denial of the Epstein list. Last night, Trump put out an incoherent rant telling people to ignore Epstein, generating confusion and anger among some of his online “supporters”, which I add in quotes because I also believe some of this controversy is part of a demoralization campaign to split his voters and discourage turnout, similar to when Trump attacked Iran. As I correctly predicted, the Iran attacks were a success, and quick...| Grey Enlightenment
I saw this Reddit post going massively viral, ““Fast metabolism” is a lie, stop making yourself feel bad.” | Grey Enlightenment
I saw this viral post by Dwarkesh Patel, “Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner.” This is a reasonable take on AI, in contrast to the hype that is typical of the topic. There is a middle ground of people, such as myself and Freddie deBoer, who believe AI will lead to improvements in some respects of life, but will not liberate people from work or anything grandiose like that. Nor will AI bring about the end of humanity either.| Grey Enlightenment
Elon’s political party “America party” is official:| Grey Enlightenment