Zac Hill
@zdch
Co-founder/President, 39A. Newest stuff: Neighborhood Trust; Resilient America. Professional Wizard in a previous life.
Finally finished reading what are IMV the three main books that define the ‘abundance canon’: Recoding America, Why Nothing Works, and Abundance (h/t to @pahlkadot for the early edition of WNW). Some thoughts re: the actual content of the books relative to the Discourse / 🧵
Props to Charli D’Amelio for legit putting in the reps to execute very solid/capable ensemble performance work for &Juliet. No fuss, good sport, extra-mile, clearly hungry. Love to see it.
When I talk to radical redistributionists, I’m often surprised at how frequently the main issue is just a magnitudinal difference in a few specific quantitative assumptions
One of the great simple mistakes I see people make is assume that there's enough wealth to bring everyone in the world up to a very high quality of living by US standards. In reality there's enough wealth for everyone to live on $20k per year.
Strong supporter of chip export controls, including H20 and other not-quite-God-tier-but-still-real-good models
From Anthropic's response to the AI Action Plan. Fully agree.
This is a huge deal and per my last thread is exactly the kind of challenge that is currently attention-undersaturated because it doesn’t fit easily into any clean Bigly Ideological Project slash Systems Change lens
Gambling addiction is a slow and quiet killer. You know if someone close to you drinks too much. You don't know if they have a gambling problem. People are embarrassed by their losses. Suicide from gambling debts is rarely directly associated with online sports betting. 12/n