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Housing is a basic human right, not a commodity! Here's how we fix it: everybody who has a job gets 1 housing token per month. Everyone gets the same size basic house. If you want a nicer house or go on vacation, you make more career or start a business and buy those things with money. But the public housing market is detached from the monetary system. It just costs one housing token per month. If you're homeless by choice and refuse all work opportunities you don't get a housing token but you get a homeless token which is just a bunk bed in a shelter. If you're an entrepreneur and over a certain income threshold you don't get any housing token and you can use money to buy / rent in the private sector (much nicer homes). Minimum wage is always: 1 housing token + 20% cash. So if the min. wage in euros is 1500 per month, then it's now 1 token + 300 euros for food etc. Median income might be around 1 housing token + 1200 euros or something. Above median wage you stop receiving the housing token and can rent / buy private. Who's gonna build the houses? Well, the builders who build them get a 80% salary reduction, as they'll now receive 1 housing token plus some cash for groceries per month. End of the day this boils down to the same wage but without the rent ever going up.So now the building company has all this cash left cause they don't have to pay those salaries, and this money goes back to the government to build more houses. We also add an extra wealth tax on billionaires for extra cash and funsies. You can still become very wealthy, but anything over $20 million in personal wealth / assets just gets taxed more heavily. Yes this creates some cheating and overseas constructions but who cares? This is just bonus, the main point is the housing tokens. Is this a good idea? I don't know. It would take decades to make this transition and requires the country to be 60%+ public housing, but if there's a will there's a way. If AI ends up actually reducing hours worked then why not? This doesn't mean the end of capitalism it just means the public housing market is (fake) detached from money. The main problem with all this UBI stuff is that it might kill ambition. Necessity is the mother of all inventions. Worst case everyone just gets a PlayStation and gives up on their dreams. Best case you have more spare time to chase them.

I'm just listening to old tapes of RSD Owen Cook talking about success and working 16-hour days. But then I also see today's Owen saying it's all bullshit. Is that how it is? When you're young you think working hard matters but as you're older you realize it was just a lie? Can you build a successful business or career without hard work? I mean, define hard work right? Right now I work maybe 35 hours, 7 days a week in my own business. That's actual focused work. I'm quite happy with it. But then are these hustle and grind guys just fucking deranged, or is there something to it?

If you're truly present and engaged in your daily life, what's the difference between work and not work?

Yeah its probably very flawed, it was just a thought I had so I wanted to write it down and used a catchy title Got that housing quote from this video btw, quite interesting. I've seen so many homeless people in Lisbon, many people there simply can't pay the rent anymore.

Good point, where'd you find the anecdotal evidence though? For me it's like that though. When I do long nofap I lose interest in sex and probably come off as a bit weird. I think what women like in a man's aura is authenticity. All these conformist normie dudes look the same so give off a different energy you're gold.

Doubt it. Humans are social creatures so empathy is an important survivor trait.

Worse, theres a whole movement of people who track everything now from their food to their steps. And yes, these people are completely pseudo productive, meaning they feel productive but aren't.

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Through the democratic process, assisted by modern media. If the media were responsible and not so hungry for clicks, he wouldn't have made it even close. It's a popularity contest through media manipulation, it was never intended to be that way.

Why doesn't Leo play the stock market or prediction markets? With his knowledge should be able to make some cash. For example: Leo predicted lots of Trump stuff as he saw he was stage Red well before the mainstream did.

Holy shit that is so try-hard. You can have a fun flirty conversation without any of this.

We should build a machine where hyper rationalist stage orange tech bros can go in and be castrated for a day. If they don't like it then it proves the world doesn't just consist of probability and materialism. Why don't we build a machine that every politician has to get into before they can run for office. And in there they get to experience being an other gender of race for a month. This would reduce bias and increase empathy.

Lol did you actually find all these books sitting there like that? That's crazy. I bet someone put them there together on purpose though.

Very good post thanks 🙏

So you eat kangaroo because of overpopulation, wait until you try Chinese.

Yes this is true, but... it writes the logic in a language it knows (like Python) and translates it line-by-line into your new syntax on the fly.

Even though I disagree with your tone, that was hilarious.

And of course, it just keeps going, so how do you know AGI is not close then Leo? "The Frontier Model Release Velocity Index shows roughly 12+ substantive frontier releases in Q1 2026 versus 6 in Q4 2025, with a sustained pace of about three meaningful launches per week through March."— https://www.digitalapplied.com/blog/frontier-model-release-velocity-index-q2-2026

Kimi K3 achieved frontier-level performance by maximizing architectural scaling efficiency rather than requiring vastly more training data than its competitors. Developed by Moonshot AI as a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, Kimi K3 relies on an ultra-sparse architecture that uses 2.5x less compute to achieve the same capability scaling compared to its previous generations. https://huggingface.co/blog/ResterChed/kimi-k3-model-overview-mxfp4-quantization-open-wei That's the latest Chinese model everyone's talking about. Frontier level at a fraction of the cost, and you can run it fully on your computer. And they did all this while being export banned on the best Nvidia chips that are used to build the American models.

@Pure @LordFall funny enough both represent voices in my head. What a treat.

It sucks. I did it once and the venue was entirely too loud, you couldn't really hear anyone or have a good conversation.

Nobody cares about datacenters when you can run frontier Chinese models on your own machines. That's what's happening at the moment with Kimi K3.

So what's your EXACT benchmark for intelligent AI?

Is a PHP server intelligent? It's doing complex stuff autonomously.

Because humans have a negativity bias, they go towards groups and conformity. If everybody thought positive, there wouldn't be any. Example: the nation state creates a common enemy so they can go to war. Bad news resonates more than good news.