Are your voters stupid?
The article argues that if the state treats citizens as too incompetent to vote without tests, the legitimacy of elected governments collapses into either paternalism or a broken democracy.
Author: rensi
In defense of Zoomers
Argues Zoomers are not lazy: older generations upheld a failing status quo, so the young should reject guilt, build personal capital, and demand structural change instead of harder work.
A Place You Want to Live In
The article argues that the best place to live is not the one with the strongest economy but the one where a slow, limited government keeps rights frozen and predictable over decades.
Your AI is shit and useless for a major part of the population.
Claims expensive AI pricing confines frontier models to businesses and the wealthy, since employers capture productivity gains while personal life gets the weaker cheap models, and argues open-weight inference is the fair alternative.
You are halfway China already
Western governments increasingly adopt Chinese-style surveillance and control, which the author argues validates the CCP’s model and erodes universal human rights, making the free world authoritarian in practice rather than in name.
AI is the foundational technology, we must keep it free at all costs.
Claims AI is as fundamental as electricity and the internet, so it must stay free from government regulation and monopolistic companies whose censorship would corrupt a tool that extends human thought and independence.
You’re Evaluating Frontier Models Wrong
Argues that businesses should prefer open models over closed APIs, weighing refusals, outages, terms-of-service changes, and data harvesting against benchmarks, and calls for self-hosting, fine-tuning, and control of runtime parameters.
Purpose of the Government
Defines a government’s proper purpose as expanding citizens’ personal possibilities, arguing that restrictions framed as being for your own good or the collective benefit are a scam and that rights should never be traded for access.
Should China exist?
Contends China remains valuable as an alternative to a Western monopoly, offering payment rails, manufacturing, and infrastructure without conditions, and that attacking it harms global prosperity more than its authoritarianism does.
The ideal dating app.
Proposes a dating app that automates matching and scheduling so users spend minimal time in-app and get guaranteed real-world dates, paid for through a subscription that only succeeds when dates are delivered.