I have a theory about us returning to our natural state as our end game, but I haven’t put it down to paper yet. That being said, for now, it’s either all the good things industrialization has brought (along with the bad of course) or we return to the short brutish lives we lived before agriculture.

Anarchy at this point has no real way of being implemented without another state forming the moment we decide we can do better than die short tragic lives.

That just sounds like nothing will ever get done, but it would be worth simulating. Maybe it is good, who knows.

Las time I looked at that institution ownership was lower, but we are still talking about a 40% retail owned company though, that’s a lot and it’s a big driver in the overvaluation.

I think the answer is that no one knows because it’s not a publicly traded company. But I would bet on no, it isn’t profitable, nor will it be for the next 100 years. It is however the good part of Elon’s legacy, and if he stayed out of politics he would have been remembered as one of the greatest men in history for the leapfrog in space exploration that he ignited.

You really do have to die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain.

How could I profit from his death? Just asking so I know to do the short position of whatever that is since he clearly will never die. I wonder if he’s like Dorian Grey except he dies if he goes red for 12 quarters or something like that?

This is good. People get comfortable and forget where their comfort came from.

This is so naive I can’t believe there’s people who think like you. I think Epstein was probably a low level player compared to what goes on in Russia and the Middle East.

If might makes right a state will end up forming anyways. A populist commune is still a state. Anarchy is not possible in any sense of what one might describe as a functional society. As soon as there’s a society a state will form.

But that’s also not how chimpanzee society works anyways, since mostly it’s an alpha challenged by a younger stronger chimp who takes their place and makes sure everyone else follows the rules. They even have something like a police force.

I don’t think so, no. Mostly because I think there’s a high likelyhood that we’re the most advanced species on this side of the galaxy.

I’ve been trading TSLA stock for a few years now, and Elon has been manipulating the stock price using his celebrity status for just as long. I remember that at one point the SEC was gonna press charges but instead they came to a compromise in which Elon would not tweet anything about TSLA without first submitting the tweet for SEC approval.

The other thing is that TSLA is majority owned by retail investors, who generally speaking buy based on vibes and hype rather than sound fundamental analysis. The price is not logical and most analyst have said so for ages now. The company had like one or two real good years, anything before that and after that has been a nonstop hemorrhage of cash. But in my analysis the reason TSLA stock can no longer sustain this price is that their strategic advantage has been almost entirely eroded. Self driving cars? China beat them to the punch. Robotaxis? Awfully behind, they are going to be entering a crowded market by the time their tech is ready. Robots? Same as above, I mean Boston Dynamics has been doing this for two decades now. Cars? Every automaker makes an EV at this point and quite a few of them are actually nicer than Tesla even if they don’t have all the gimmicks.

TSLA is for electric vehicles what IBM was for computers.

I guess you can call it that but as I understand it bio-essentialism denies that society has any roles at all in shaping the individual. For me there’s obvious environmental pressures that force us to act a certain way in order to survive which in turn shapes us as individuals and our societies. Of course I’m talking back to the very first human societies, but all modern societies by necessity must trace their origins there. But at a certain point we started to add rules that are based on idealized humanity, divinity, which is in my view inherently hostile to human nature.

We are animals and we have no real way to discern instinct from rational. For all you know every “rational” thought you’ve ever had is actually just an instinct. How would you be able to tell that it isn’t? But that’s neither here nor there, my point is we need to form societies that are sympathetic to our biological realities, instead of societies formed on moral values sourced from anti-human religions or idealized human religions. We would be much much happier.

I know people don’t like these type of stances because they are sometimes used to exclude trans people, or to justify racism but that’s just using science to arrive at the wrong conclusions.

Im sure there’s people from every side in this shit show so this is one of those bipartisan type deals where everyone covers everyone up. If that weren’t the case, Biden would have released this last year. This is a nothing burger just like JFK files will be a nothing burger, just like the alien files were a nothing burger. NOTHING EVER HAPPENS.

Yes, it’s a little bit better than the anti-science pro terrorist combo in Islam though.

How would you reach consensus between hundreds of millions of people?

Look, I am sympathetic to the cause behind anarchism but it doesn’t work because it insists on ignoring biological realities. We need to look no further than our ape cousins to see how some hierarchical structure is inherent to our society. Only through the existence of a state can we reduce hierarchy and increase equality.

A stateless society wouldn’t last 10 minutes before establishing a state.

Jared Henderson put out a pretty good vlog about this a few days ago, worth checking out.

Maybe its more of a cultural thing than a religion thing? This is Latin America, like people pray to Virgin Mary; so we’re kinda loose with the rules.

I was raised catholic, live in a very catholic country and I can guarantee you that most Catholics are not anti-science. I’d say most Catholics are in fact agnostics who go to church just in case there really is a hell.