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Marko Jukic
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Finding the golden path to interstellar civilization. Senior Analyst @bismarckanlys.
Jul 9 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The idea that business or even tech are redoubts of freedom and meritocracy where "only money counts," unlike Hollywood, government, or academia, are now 20 years outdated. Every unconventional young startup billionaire posterboy happens to be handpicked by one guy—Peter Thiel. I suspect there are a ton of negative unmeritocratic selection effects, both obvious and illegible, happening in business and tech. This is because every business can live or die on one deal, and every deal can live or die on one investor, one regulator, one HR lady, one wife...
Jul 3 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
The fact the same error appears in both philanthropy and government policy when implemented by non-progressives indicates it is deeper than error. Psychologically they cannot "give something for nothing." But therefore they view both cultural labor and new children as "nothing." This is the real damnation of this mindset. A worldview in which both the production of culture and of children are really considered worthless is not one that will survive. Its own standards are revealed to be deferential to incumbent powers and the conditions they create.
Jun 28 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I wish people would stop the highfalutin spiritual explanations and try some simple material ones: Western elites and masses alike are too lazy and innumerate now to be successful captains of industry or disciplined industrial workers, so they let industry and technology wither. "I don't understand why 43-year-olds who have spent their entire lives on creative writing, office politics, going to music festivals, and gender ideology do not support my proposal to radically reorient the economy around skills in mathematics and engineering."
Jun 27 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The real reason to cultivate physical virtue in the industrial age is that physical virtue cultivates testosterone and testosterone is the hormone that allows you to build and rebuild organizations, which are the real unit of the industrial age. I don't know why IQ is not enough to build and rebuild organizations on its own. It's an interesting question. We have biological general intelligences but they do not operate solely or even primarily on the level of IQ. More on the level of charisma, animal magnetism...
May 30 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
I mean, it's a good question. Why hasn't human civilization naturally developed into a brutal aristocracy of the highly moral and high-IQ? Why don't we have a global "130 IQ high-trust Anglo" paradise already?

What mysterious force obviously overcomes and beats intelligence? I think the only way I can answer it is something like: the force that mysteriously overcomes intelligence is the inertial collapse of structures put together by still yet more intelligent players in the past.
May 26 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It is a massive gaping fallacy threatening to swallow up all organized religions entirely that the only choices are "instrumentalizing religion for other ends" or "total and deliberate inward obscurantism with no outwardly verifiable or tangible signs of functionality needed." E-trads are fully aware that essentially all notable organized religions are in massive decline and incapable of fighting the forces of the secular world in any meaningful way, but somehow also refuse to admit this obviously means religious institutions are dysfunctional.
May 25 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The real problem with organized religions today is the same problem as in any organization: they are too vulnerable to becoming ossified husks full of gerontocrats in expensive clothing who are trivially mogged and defeated by the few young moral and theological entrepreneurs. I think @bronzeagemantis is right about a huge fraction of "religious trads" as functionally suck-ups and suckers for these types of gerontocrats who have in fact failed to keep their tradition alive but are coasting on insights and achievements from literally >1000 years ago.
Apr 2 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There is really no way to explain the U.S. government's decision to launch this Iran War the way it did without reference to extreme ignorance, stupidity, or recklessness. It seems like not one relevant person actually understood the consequences of Iran closing the Strait. If a single relevant person truly grasped the magnitude of what they were doing, they would have had shouting matches with everyone until it was decided against. Even if somehow not, there would have been crystal-clear messaging and five contingency plans ready to go from day 1.
Mar 8 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
97% price reduction? 16% deflation year over year on durable consumer goods? We should put the people who make plasma TVs in charge of the government. That means we need to elect the *opens book* wait a second *flips pages* oh no *sweating profusely* oh no no no not like that Image Do I want to simp for China? No. But China is run by the "97% price reduction" party. Europe and America are run by the "increase the price of housing and education by 500% party," with brief interruptions by the "let's accidentally blow up the world's oil and gas supply" party.
Feb 24 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
If DeepSeek (160 employees) can somehow smuggle huge numbers of scarce, cutting-edge chips into a secret AI facility on the Mongolian steppe in violation of the strictest U.S. government export controls ever, and thus build the AGI before we do—they basically deserve to win. Nobody seems to notice that the overwhelmingly obvious implication of all this breathless fulminating about Chinese AI labs getting any kind of access to Nvidia chips is that, if China had unrestricted access to said chips, they would have left U.S. labs in the dust years ago!
Feb 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I love these posts because they present a cold mathematical fact then try to soften the heavy blow with some non-sequitur pop psychology. No, the real meaning is that no matter how much agency you exercise, everyone older than early 20s is already basically a walking corpse. Here are some actual implications to take away: (1) children and the young deserve any resources far more than decrepit delusional olds (2) olds begin at 30 (3) school robs us of most of our perceived life, that's how evil it is.
Feb 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The West has two kinds of elites. Those who earn their money from suspiciously skyrocketing asset prices. And those who earn it from fraudulent nonprofits with government contracts. The former wants to audit the government. The latter wants a tax on unrealized capital gains. As a Western elite, these are basically your two options to actually cash in on your hard-earned status. In practice you either end up owning enough infinitely-growing tech stocks to never have to work again, or you end up with a suspiciously highly-salaried fake nonprofit job.
Feb 11 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
A bad AI future nobody is currently modeling is we approximate AGI but never create it, resulting in largely automated economies with huge unemployment, redistribution, and demographic decline, but fail to maintain themselves without human expertise and collapse by 2100 or so. Any automated AI economy outcome that falls even one-tenth of a percentage point short of true AGI will require large amounts of human expertise and labor to maintain itself. But the closer it gets, the more it incentivizes the human race to give up even harder on living.
Jan 28 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The purpose of dysfunctional migrants in every country is to create problems that justify bureaucratic budgets for upper-class college-educated white people to give themselves no-show e-mail jobs safe from market forces. Also those migrants vote for continuing the system. The way to solve this problem would be to give upper-class college-educated white people no-show e-mail jobs safe from market forces by fiat. But there are too many people who want such jobs now. So the actual solution is to aggressively remove the status of no-show e-mail jobs.
Jan 28 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
It seems like this is the actual plan of all governments in the developed world. No need to ask hard questions or commit to major reforms when you can just spam Indians until GDP is up 500% just from population growth and establishment parties get 99% of the vote.

Fall of Rome. There really seems to be no solving this without completely breaking out of the modern social-democratic post-industrial paradigm of governance. The fundamental driver of mass immigration is the same as that of money-printing and deindustrialization... civilizational laziness.
Jan 22 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The bear case for AI is that bringing 10x or 100x or 1000x more intelligence to America will not change anything because U.S. institutions are already designed to ignore or waste intelligence and have no idea what to do with any more of it. Unemployed AIs making video essays. AI is not going to bring us post-scarcity, because we have had post-scarcity for a century. A world where nobody has to work is going to be a world where everyone can and will devote 100% of their time and energy to politics. It won't be peaceful.
Jan 4 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Europe is great because you can never find clear information about laws because we peasants are not intended to know them, and even if you do they are written in unclear, useless legalese, because the real law is just "whatever we don't like is illegal," which is "everything." U.S. laws and regulations at least attempt to set clear, simple, and fair guidelines and punishments, but European laws are all deliberately written to be like "the fine can be between zero to one trillion euros" and "breathing in an unsanctioned manner can be an infraction."
Dec 30, 2025 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Acquiring wealth may seem like a rational pursuit in the face of a system apparently too hopelessly broken to fix. But this is a catastrophic error because even if wealth is not confiscated or devalued, the things it could buy now or before will just disappear, at any price. Eventually even the richest man in South Africa or Brazil or whichever parallel you may use will want nothing but for his grandchildren to be able to get a job designing space rockets, and this will be impossible, because there will be no space program and no money to build it.
Dec 28, 2025 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
They aren't our rulers. Our rulers are career bureaucrats, journalists, nonprofit executives, activist jurists, university administrators, and progressive billionaire philanthropists. They are numerous, stay out of the spotlight, and don't bother commentating because it's weak. To actually compete in any meaningful way with this vast organization of political coordination requires graduating from the diminishing returns of inflaming the emotions of the masses to organizing professional cadres financed by long-term-oriented philanthropy.
Dec 21, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A great form of non-progressive philanthropy would be to fund extra-academic schools of history taught by proven outsiders, of which there are many online with followings large and small, since universities are planning to just take history itself and throw it in the trash. If the collectively giga-wealthy opponents of infinite woke cannot figure out how to fund a few independent schools of history to literally save the accurate collective memory of a world-spanning civilization that gives them identity and purpose...
Dec 15, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Outside of occasionally winning scheduled elections, it turns out that unleashing freedom of speech and allowing the masses to vent their frustrations with bad governance at maximal intensity has no discernible effect on governance quality, and may even worsen it due to spite. There is not enough analysis or even awareness of the feedback loops that inform the month-to-month decision-making by the Western governing classes in bureaucracies. They clearly seem to close ranks and deliberately intensify unpopular policies in response to populist pressure.