"We admit purely on test scores, rank every student, and fail those who can’t cut it. The nation’s brightest are coming to Austin"

If you’re a New York business owner who doesn’t like the direction your city is headed, we have a message for you: Tennessee is open for business. Strong economy. Low taxes. Government won’t get in your way. TN is the place for people who value opportunity, security & freedom.

The more it matters who said it, the less it actually matters. @naval

Very wrong. Read Spinoza.

Any law that cannot be enforced, should be unconstitutional

Holy shit… Meta might’ve just solved self-improving AI 🤯 Their new paper SPICE (Self-Play in Corpus Environments) basically turns a language model into its own teacher no humans, no labels, no datasets just the internet as its training ground. Here’s the twist: one copy of the model becomes a Challenger that digs through real documents to create hard, fact-grounded reasoning problems. Another copy becomes the Reasoner, trying to solve them without access to the source. They compete, learn, and evolve together an automatic curriculum with real-world grounding so it never collapses into hallucinations. The results are nuts: +9.1% on reasoning benchmarks with Qwen3-4B +11.9% with OctoThinker-8B and it beats every prior self-play method like R-Zero and Absolute Zero. This flips the script on AI self-improvement. Instead of looping on synthetic junk, SPICE grows by mining real knowledge a closed-loop system with open-world intelligence. If this scales, we might be staring at the blueprint for autonomous, self-evolving reasoning models.

GPT: create a constitution for a new country that incorporates all the lessons from democracy over the past 250 years re what works for the general welfare of the country best, and all the developments in game theory and psycology.

Grokipedia is the best synthetic data you'll ever read. (btw, anything a human writes is synthetic)

Make Puerto Rico Rico Again

Why groups of people shouldn't have rights: 1. Rights are there to encourage helpful behavior. 2. Rewards or punishments to groups of people don't engender behavior because of "tradgedy of the commons" dynamics. 3. Thus, rights given to groups of people are dysfuncional

Meanwhile, the US has an obesity crisis

This is still more advanced than what they typical student is subject to

Kilauea Volcano erupted, with lava fountains shooting as high as 1,500 feet into the air.

Our best friends?

The James Webb Space Telescope detected dimethyl sulfide in its atmosphere (on Earth that comes from marine microorganisms). K2-18b is potentially habitable super-Earth about 2.6 times the size of our planet. It is located 124 light-years from the Solar System.

I think this is superb advice. Worth a careful read: Michael Milken – Lessons on Money, Family, and Success (Forum for Family Asset Management, Milken Conference, Mexico City – paraphrased notes) Spend time with your kids — you’ll pay for it (for better or worse) either now or later. Think about how you measure meaning and success in your children and grandchildren. Give them purpose. For children raised in very successful households, it’s often hard to emulate success — especially financial success. Most successful people are too busy to see their kids and grandkids. That absence shows up later in life. The center of success is the ability to dream. Real success is the freedom to live your life. The financial media is obsessed with lists. Forbes today is mostly about ranking wealth by dollars. There are countless stories of wealthy people who never had a good day with their kids. You’re only as happy as your least happy child — think about that often. He shared a story about a wealthy Chicago family whose fortune was divided into 1/13th shares after one heir demanded his part. That decision ended up dividing the entire family. Be careful not to do something that provides financially but destroys the family. The most important thing to teach children is financial literacy. The greatest failure among wealthy families is not providing financial literacy to their members. Example: an extremely wealthy Latin American family where the great-grandfather is still alive — his mindset is completely different from that of his great-grandchildren. In Asia, inheritance traditionally went only to men — that has changed in recent decades. Recommended reading: Economic Mobility Program – Invest in America. Example: Apollo bought the Venetian Hotel and gave all 7,000 employees stock. They paid a dividend the first year through a recap — everyone saw it as a “Christmas bonus.” The next year, when there was no dividend, employees were upset. No one had explained the difference between a dividend and a bonus. The biggest mistake over the last 50 years has been financial illiteracy — not understanding the business or the source of wealth. Families and employees both need to learn this. Best example of a united family: an Austrian family that’s 11 generations old. They own a resort used only by the five branches of the family. Ownership rotates every three years. To be invited when your branch isn’t in charge, you must get along with the others. No matter how much you build or earn, what truly matters in the long run is your relationship with your kids and grandkids. Define what success means to you — it’s what makes you happy. Entrepreneurs don’t just build companies; they can build nations or religions. One of the most successful entrepreneurs in history is Lee Kuan Yew. It’s not about how many things you own. If you’ve never been responsible for making payroll, your view of the world is very different. Hug your kids and grandkids. Let everyone find their own path. Children growing up around success feel enormous pressure. Remind them how valuable they are. Let kids make mistakes when the stakes are low — not high.

🚨JAVIER MILEI STORMS TO VICTORY IN ARGENTINA The polls were lying The media were lying They said he would lose They said he would struggle He's won in a LANDSLIDE Argentina rejects communism ✊ AFUERA‼️

Argentina rejects socialism while NYC embraces it. The world is upside down. Let’s stop it in NYC before it is too late.

"Be patient, it takes 10 years to build a career in anything." @naval