Nuño Sempere

Fondly remembering the days where I was consuming handcrafted artisanal human tokens which didn't get to the point quickly because there were no better alternatives.

Running a second cyberattack wargame if people want to join. Hope is to unearth nonobvious actions you could take in advance of a cyberattack. luma.com/psvimlhc

Salaries for Lightcone people for 2025, from their recently released public form 990. In particular notice Habryka at $150K (increases my respect for him, because he is paying a personal cost to produce a public good: compare with other salaries in his org.)

Actually I find it pretty heartwarming that the next generation of EA-adjacent entrepreneurs are not repeating my mistakes, and nd are doing for profits rather than non profits

Opus knows roughly who I am

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power generates demand for your pettiest impulses to be appealed to, funny to observe that playing out in real time.

Welcome to Paraguay

A review of Israeli assasination campaigns: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n06/andrew-cockburn/beware-the-mattress

I wonder if Raytheon could offer Musk 50B to be CEO for a year? the prime contractors seem like they aren't doing too well producing weapons for the Iran war.

Sometimes I think I'm reasonably well off financially and then I talk to a Mnenonite who is employing 250 people and has 18 gas stations and I realize how true family wealth looks like.

I've been experimenting with making some stock bets based on stuff I read on twitter; mostly it's been a wash, but good for updating that a) people don't know what they're talking about, b) shooting stuff out and selective reporting of wins is rampant

Kinda cute that you have a nominally democratic regime but then the mechanism you use to actually coordinate people about what to do is finance.

If I was dictator of America, why *couldn't* I increase GDP 2x by 2029?

Previously you could trust and install a random github repository, but this changes as people can create malicious repositories at scale <https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1r66u2r/analysis_massive_active_github_malware_campaign/> :(

Global risks this week

Make list of fundamental human needs and invest in things which are complements to intelligence.

AI foids and moids may just charismamaxx and outmog normies in the SMP

The thing about shying away from harsh truths is that eventually you might get outlapped by those who don't, and the equilibrium where this doesn't happen seems fragile. This worries me.

Re: the Washington post Subscriptions of about 150 usd, 2.5M subscribers = 375M in revenues If the paper is losing 100M expenses are 475M. Cutting 1/3rd of the cost brings cost to 316M, in line with revenues

Talked with a friend who had had worked on a really cool project last year and is now feeling less excited by his more normal one now. Interesting shade of grief.

Smart people are better at convincing and principled rationalizations. Sad to see in others because I recognize the impulse in myself.

So do you all use your kin groups and extended families skillfully? I feel like I should be giving my father stock tips but actually he is much better at investing than I.