Punished For Being Born (Issue #184)
Fixing capitalism, Labour & the Middle East, Chamath solo, Vivek, Smartglasses, nuclear war risk, OpenAI makeover, boomers get with it, Europe vs Trump, AI Twitter, happiness, the AI supercycle
Hello and welcome to my newsletter!
Another season 2 instalment…
For the second time in a row I’m having to put the newsletter together more than a week in advance. I’ve created and scheduled issue #183 which will go out this Saturday, but the backlash from last week’s issue, which was my birthday edition has been so intense I really don’t think I’ll be able to send anything out unless I prepare it in advance. So this is issue #184 and will go out week after next. It’s going to be really tough to not get muddled up with all this.
Anyway who knows what will happen, it’s been at least 3 days since I ate anything just over 2 since I drank water. All just because I starved myself for 1 day so that I wouldn’t starve on my birthday, which I didn’t. But clearly even punishing myself to be kind to myself is really really not allowed. It’s Infiniti insanity with groups of gang stalkers harassing me by telling me to allow, even though they are the ones punishing me. And they are finding it all very very hilarious.
I’ve only listened to one podcast, so that’s all there is in this issue so far.
I wrote a few blog posts:
Merdeism https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/09/28/merdeism
Altman’s reality distortion field https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/09/28/altmans-reality-distortion-field
Tom Luongo on seing people from all sides https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/10/02/tom-luongo-on-seing-people-from-all-sides
Notes on the question of the meaning of life https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/10/04/notes-on-the-question-of-the-meaning-of-life
World willing I’ll add more content nearer to publish date.
At least issue #184 will get sent out with something.
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Update 1: It’s the end of the week now, really rotten week. I’ve hardly eaten anything this week. Really doesn’t seem like I’ll make it to issue #184. I’ve added 4 podcasts. Technically these should go into issue #183, which hasn’t gone out yet, but since that one already has a decent amount of pods I’m putting these into issue #184, which is this issue which goes out next week. This is all so fucking complicated and a total fucking mess. I wish it was better. Everything I do the world finds a way to block it. Whatever, at least issue #184 will live, even if it’s shit, and issue #183 is shit too, and then the whole world goes to shit and I get blamed for it all. At least issue #184 will have a decent amount of pods.
Update 2: I just added another 6 pods. It’s mid week before issue #184. Last week and up to yesterday was fucking horrendous. I ate 1 day in 7, and hardly any drinking water. Not feeling great about the title of #184, but everything has been so messed up, nothing is very cohesive. There’s a lot of macro and geopolitics this week, along with loads of AI stuff. Maybe I’ll get a chance to change the issue title. Currently it’s ‘Punished Just For Being Born’. Not particularly upbeat, but quite reflective of the early part of the week for me. Oh yeah nearly forgot, I added 2 blog posts, so kind of recuperating from the tsunamis of hate and darkness.
Update 3: Added another tech related pod with awesome discussions including about AI supercycles, AI regulation, rule breaking in startups, the big infra buildout, and AR/VR.
Update 4: It’s Saturday morning now. In a way things have picked up a bit since earlier in the week, but I feel like I’m walking in between unexploded bombs or something. Anytime I think about cheering up this issue of the newsletter, the world goes all weird, so I’m just going to leave it as it is currently, and concentrate on next week’s. I’ve made some kind of cool steps forward in my development work, check out the website for details. Hopefully more of these small changes during the week.
Update 5: I added a blog post I wrote yesterday!
Podcasts
Bitcoin Fixes Capitalism with Allen Farrington (Mr Obnoxious Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/525419?episode=28129171805
Labour’s Struggle to Define Itself, Hezbollah vs. Isreal, and understanding Long Covid(The Rest is Politics Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/5083933?episode=28319968310
Chamath Palihapitiya Ep#2206 (The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6786106?episode=28357267055
Vivek Ramaswamy - Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and WarEp#445 (Lex Fridman Podcast) https://lexfridman.com/vivek-ramaswamy
Thu. 09/26 The Orion Smartglasses (Techmeme Ridehome Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/331078?episode=28418357866
OpenAI’s $150bn conversion, Meta’s AI glasses, Blue-collar boom, risk of nuclear war(All-In Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1015378?episode=28465223218
John Alterelli - Noise Sells (Crypto Voices Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/325414?episode=28463556120
Why Europe Wants Trump Gone with Tom Luongo Ep#541 (TFTC Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/226249?episode=28569095462
John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs (All-In Summit 2024 Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1015378?episode=28639341203
The future of AI might look a lot like Twitter (Vergecast Podcast) https://www.theverge.com/24255887/social-ai-bots-social-network-chatgpt-vergecast
The Science of Happiness (The Rest is Money Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6582865?episode=28555081221
The AI Super Cycle, California’s AI Safety Bill Vetoed, and the future of AI/AR Ep#2017(This Week in Startups Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/788244?episode=28601810474
That’s all from me…
Best regards,
Mark
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