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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-20 03:42
RT Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee)Broadly encouraging U.S. military personnel to ignore presidential orders is dangerousDoing that without identifying a single order they deem illegal—and without any effort to explain why—promotes insubordination and winks at mutiny ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-20 03:40
RT Elon Musk (@elonmusk)Poverty can and will be eliminated, but envy is eternal ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-20 03:39
RT HMLE (@1hmle)So now that Bitcoin Core v30 has been released for over a month.Does anybody have some metrics/data on the major improvements to fee estimation, block propagation, and reduction of out of band transactions?You know...the main reasons that Core™ used to justify the contentious change? https://t.co/tpFKrl0NEiSerious question. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-20 03:23
RT Monetary Reset (@monetaryreset)@Gaurav1105 @NickSzabo4 It is no coincidence that housing, healthcare, and education, the sectors in which costs have not yet collapsed, are exactly those in which the State still has an almost absolute control through laws and regulations. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-20 03:21
RT Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen)Here we go with the Chinese propaganda masters. Imagine defending Mao's economic record in the 2025th year of our Lord.You bring up India and Indonesia as "peers?" They may be valid comparisons due to scale, but neither of those nations pursued Mao's radical agenda that led to an unimaginable human toll. India's growth was slower but steadier, without 50 million unnecessary deaths across the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution.Taiwan, under Chiang Kai Shek, achieved ~8% an ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-20 03:20
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@btcplebeian Only if often quite onerous zoning, worksite, environmental, and other such regulations relevant to real estate construction are revised or repealed to enable it. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-20 03:16
RT Gaurav Sharma (@Gaurav1105)The West is a “profession-protected economy,” not a market economy. The highest-cost sectors are shielded by legislation, licensing, guilds, and regulatory capture; not by technology.Wealth is not created by cheaper stuff, it’s created by cheaper constraints. The real bottlenecks are law, housing, healthcare, and education. Until AI collapses those costs, society won’t feel richer.AI breaks abundance. Regulation restores scarcity. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-20 03:06
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)AI and robotics can make cheap widgets even cheaper. That will not make society wealthy.In the developed world our biggest and most important expenses do not primarily involve widgets; they primarily involve law (often indirectly), real estate, health care, and education.It is only if AI can, and is allowed to, "practice" law, health care, and education that we will reap anything like the promised benefits of AI making society "wealthy." ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-20 03:06
AI and robotics can make cheap widgets even cheaper. That will not make society wealthy.In the developed world our biggest and most important expenses do not primarily involve widgets; they primarily involve law (often indirectly), real estate, health care, and education.It is only if AI can, and is allowed to, "practice" law, health care, and education that we will reap anything like the promised benefits of AI making society "wealthy."Breaking911 (@Breaking911):MUSK: "AI & humanoid robots will actually el ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-20 02:55
RT The Atlas Society (@TheAtlasSociety)Free the market, and the results speak for themselves. https://t.co/vcNJ57zGSM ...