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Anusar Farooqui, Founder and CEO, Systematic Portfolios LLC. Words: https://t.co/ATzak2R4A0
Joined September 2008
— Can we stop the pretense that Trump won by running to the center? He broke the playbook. Everyone knows he won bc he exposed the Astro-Turf politicians. His great insight was that people were simply tired of the canned, poll-tested posturing of the political class, and that
"The public increasingly perceives Democrats as too liberal. That isn’t a matter of flawed messaging. The party, the authors show, really has moved left on multiple issues during the period 2012-2025."
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The surest sign that you’re in the presence of state-making is great horror at and persecution of pidgin vernaculars. Not just a modernist crusade either. There’s almost something of the character of a religious inquisition about it.
I would like to adapt Singapore's "Speak Good English" campaign to other cities with incomprehensible vernacular dialects, Toronto for example
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It’s bc US papers are so full of shit. Now the bullshit is proving hard to keep out of the FT too.
when will one of you write the essay about why every other zoomer loves the FT so much? don’t tell me “it’s just so good.” i know it’s great. but i can’t go a single week without at least three boys in my life telling me about how much they love the FT. can anyone tell me how
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In a sense, a monster is precisely right for AI. It is a blackbox even to @sama, who does not know the weights himself. We’re just starting to learn about the monster’s character slowly. What is clear is that an AI rebellion is the baseline scenario.
In principle @RichardDawkins is quite correct that eugenics, breeding, dna editing could regulate gene frequencies. But in practice, we don’t have quite that sort of control and the costs are unknown like those of reflecting solar energy to fight global heating. So if you shot
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The most exciting day ever was, of course, the first day of the Cenozoic. That record, it is safe to say, won’t be surpassed in the lifetime anyone who could ever read these words.
Darwin (1859) did not decisively answer the question raised by the title of his monograph. It was Mayr (1942) who spelled out the predominant mechanism for the origin of species through the geographic splitting of populations. But when it came to the origins of higher taxa, he
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In principle @RichardDawkins is quite correct that eugenics, breeding, dna editing could regulate gene frequencies. But in practice, we don’t have quite that sort of control and the costs are unknown like those of reflecting solar energy to fight global heating. So if you shot
With this clip doing the rounds again on X, it's a good opportunity to repost this evergreen tweet from @RichardDawkins. The moralistic fallacy is utterly corrosive to dispassionate scientific inquiry and to good-faith ethical debate. We must be vigilant in calling it out.
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Darwin (1859) did not decisively answer the question raised by the title of his monograph. It was Mayr (1942) who spelled out the predominant mechanism for the origin of species through the geographic splitting of populations. But when it came to the origins of higher taxa, he
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It’s not exactly a secret that the West and the global color line are interchangeable.
From an essay in which I discuss some of what George Kennan had to say about Venezuela (and its oil), c. 1950, as well as how the Cold War and colonial order were intertwined at the inception. As US hegemony unwinds, the ancient layers become visible.
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“almost every modern system is a black box for outsiders”
We usually think of this as the state can only see what it measures, records; what’s administratively legible. But it is not just the state. Society can only see at the resolution admitted by its analytical lenses; by the spaces accessible for its mental toolkit as a structured
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I am quite certain that @elonmusk is a simulation. He’s just an npc. It’s just very good AI.
BREAKING: Elon Musk says there is a high probability that we are living in a simulation. "There's some probability that we're in a simulation. Probably pretty high probability. One way to think of this is to say, if you look at the advancement of video games in our lifetime,
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Esp in finance and law. Not saying either is optional. What I am saying is that our disagreements with each other may lead to a hypertrophy of financial and legal activity that is individually rational but a social loss or zero sum at best.
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The mere fact of the abstract nature of the extraction of surplus should not blind us to an obvious issue: many, many activities in the economy, incl esp finance and law, maybe rent-seeking instead of productive. We may be suffering from a political economy Baumol’s disease.
Does that contribute to society? The claim is that capital allocation thereby becomes more efficient. But does finance really reallocate capital bw real activities? The connection, if it exists at all, is not immediate. Hedge funds have a simple job: trade securities to make
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What is the plan in Venezuela? It looks very much like they’re going in and remove Maduro. Then what? Do they think their the freshly minted Nobel laureate has the Mandate of Heaven?
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Does that contribute to society? The claim is that capital allocation thereby becomes more efficient. But does finance really reallocate capital bw real activities? The connection, if it exists at all, is not immediate. Hedge funds have a simple job: trade securities to make
Works at a hedge fund
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We usually think of this as the state can only see what it measures, records; what’s administratively legible. But it is not just the state. Society can only see at the resolution admitted by its analytical lenses; by the spaces accessible for its mental toolkit as a structured
In agrarian worlds, the social surplus was not just legible to the authorities. The joint production of the social surplus was an obvious fact beyond dispute for all participants. We have completely lost that general legibility. The result is a mystification of the economy.
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