It’s easier to build a new thing than change the old thing

Elon Musk is back on the main quest

Why fight on the beach when you have a 100ft tidal wave of superintelligence coming to remake everything?

Easier to establish a Mars colony than fix the Federal government. 
Easier to build crypto than fix the banking system. 
Easier to attempt network states than fix liberal democracy. 
Easier to homeschool with AI than fix schools. 
Easier to read Substack than fix media. 

Funny

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

Stay Curious // iixii // Head of Crypto at https://www.lazertechnologies.com/  // Prev: CoinDesk, Roc Nation // based @basedevo

Inspired by @antonio 

https://x.com/antoniogm/status/1936073725847228869?s=46&t=LNZpH03544B952EdXOUs2w

helping /bracky, playing /bracket reading /greatbooks

The question of why he was so committed to preserving (and changing) the Union rather than letting the split happen and starting anew is probably the deepest question about the most fascinating statesman I know about.

Id love to do a half year exploration of this question w friends at some point

Abraham Lincoln changed an institution that was less than 100 years old 

The older an institution (or company), the harder it is to change

Love this thought. 

Affirming it is US Founders. 

Refuting it is Abraham Lincoln.

CS Grad |Cognitive Science| Tech, Design & Art.
"Computers don't have taste" – but I do

agreed
change is met with resistance
creation is met with curiosity

Very true. But do you think rebuilding from scratch always outweighs the cost of building an existing system?

It took 12 years to make Squid game , mrbeast did it in like months


Why? Cuz its easy to build on someone else’s idea

easier but no one will give their power away so you can have it

that’s why crypto was pretty much banned and still is in many places

and that’s why we haven’t seen yet a new state gaining significant traction 

even network school at its tiny scale is being targeted by some dems

lessoninthere

facts sometimes starting fresh is the real shortcut