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We think the collapse in birth rates is a modern problem. It is not. The most powerful man in the world once faced the exact same thing, and he was so alarmed he passed laws to force his people to have children. This was not a modern government: it was Rome 2000 years ago... The emperor was Augustus, and by his reign the Roman elite had grown wealthy, comfortable, and reluctant to marry or raise families. Men preferred bachelorhood and affairs to the burden of a wife and children. Augustus found it alarming enough to legislate. Around 18 BC and again in AD 9, he pushed through the Lex Julia and the Lex Papia Poppaea, a sweeping set of laws designed to engineer a baby boom by decree. The measures were direct: unmarried men and childless couples faced penalties on what they could inherit. Those who married and had children were rewarded with faster careers and public honors. Women who bore three or more children were granted a special legal freedom, the ius trium liberorum, the "right of three children," releasing them from male guardianship. The state was, quite literally, paying its citizens to reproduce and fining them when they did not. It didn't work... The laws were resented, evaded, and endlessly tinkered with, and Rome's elite went on having small families anyway. The historian Cassius Dio records Augustus standing before the childless men of Rome and shaming them to their faces: "You are committing murder in not begetting in the first place those who ought to be your descendants." A city, he warned them, is not its buildings but its people: "For it is human beings that constitute a city, not houses or porticos or market-places empty of men." Now look at the numbers today. For a population simply to hold steady, women need to average about 2.1 children each. South Korea recently hit 0.72, the lowest rate ever recorded for any country on earth, and even after a small rebound to 0.8 in 2025, it remains less than half of what a country needs to sustain itself. Italy and Japan sit near 1.2, China around 1.0, Spain near 1.1. The United States is about 1.6, the United Kingdom 1.5. According to the UN, more than half the world's countries are now below that line. History doesn't repeat itself, the saying goes, but it often rhymes, and this pattern is old and eerily familiar. A society climbs to the height of its wealth and comfort, and at that very peak its people stop having children, and no law, no incentive, no sum of money seems able to talk them back into it. Rome tried, with the full power of an empire behind it, and failed. At its height the city held more than a million people, a size no European city would reach again for 1700 years, until London in the 1800s. The Roman historian Livy, writing as the Republic gave way to the empire, said his was an age that "can endure neither its vices nor their cure." Two thousand years later, staring at the same problem and just as unable to solve it, we may be watching the beginning of the same story... A civilization does not always fall to an enemy at the gates. As the historian Arnold J. Toynbee once said: “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”

🚨 UPDATE: The Karmelo Anthony legal team is IN SHAMBLES after bombshell texts came out that he fantasized about m*rder before killing Austin Metcalf "How many bullets u want coming out of ur chest?" "When I st*b somebody I'm gonna lick their blood off the blade" 2 hours before: "I'm lowkey on the verge" 🤯 UTTER MADNESS He needed the death penalty!

Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 just ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis’ new Speech Agent Arena for highest Task Success Rate This benchmark actually measures what matters Real people talk to hidden voice agents across practical scenarios. Task Success Rate tracks whether the AI understands the request, calls the correct tools, and successfully completes the job It’s not just about sounding natural. It’s about whether the voice agent can actually get things done Grok finished #1

We are operating the first large scale cathode production facility in North America as part of our 4680 cell production in Austin, TX

I am going to start to share the leaderboard at VulcanBench more regularly. VulcanBench is the only benchmark I know that benchmarks across effort levels, on an eval suite of 100% real engineering tasks. Getting ready to sunset eval suite 3 and eval suite 4 is almost ready to go. Here's the current leaderboard for Eval Suite 3, Grok 4.5 High is the highest scoring model still with Fable 5 Low, yes Low, right behind it. What I've been able to uncover with VulcanBench is that way too many people are running models at Max effort, thinking that buys them more accuracy, when really it just costs more and uses more tokens so takes more time. If you're still in the mode of, tell my agent to do something then go get coffee, you're probably still living in the past. You can move faster, with higher accuracy, the key is not thinking you need Max effort all the time.

Elon Musk: "Asylum was supposed to mean that if you go back to your country, you'll get k*lled." "Asylum seekers [now] go on vacation to the country that they're seeking asylum from… That doesn't make any sense."

"Out of curiosity: I randomly picked 5 universities, and looked up their sociology department faculty. I randomly picked papers written by the faculty. Wow, my mind was blown. At least 60% was similar gibberish. Constant politically charged assertions— no underlying data. Anti-colonialism— everything is somehow a legacy of racial injustice and colonialism. Never mind— no actual data to support that claim. The climate catastrophe— Immigration injustice— the department looks like a Democrat think tank." @VPrasadMDMPH drvinayprasad.com/p/10-thoug…

Underground hero was @Starlink which provided my whole group with internet and allowed @MatthewCappucci to do live TV hits from the middle of nowhere 📡 Note the little crescent sun on the dish, which is a result of lens refraction on the iPhone!

Bloody hell. I’ve been grossly misinformed about Bolshevism.

Elon Musk sent every Tesla employee a memo that took authority away from their managers and handed it to them. He never asks for more hours. Every rule moves a decision closer to the person doing the work. Musk: “Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time.” Companies have a role for everyone who creates process and no role for anyone who removes it. Meetings and approval chains survive because removing them was never anyone’s job. Musk: “Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value.” Attendance has always been treated as proof of commitment. He made it worthless, and contribution became the only thing that counts in the room. Musk: “It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.” Ordinary manners protect whoever called the meeting. He moved that protection to everyone else sitting quietly with real work waiting on them. Musk: “Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software, or processes at Tesla. Anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication.” Internal vocabulary converts knowledge into status and charges every newcomer a fee to participate. A company that speaks plainly can absorb talent at full speed. Musk: “Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the chain of command.” Most good ideas die in transit, three levels below anyone with the power to act on them. Musk: “Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.” The only threat in the entire memo. A manager who insists on being routed through is buying his own relevance with everyone else’s time. Musk put a price on it. Musk: “Always pick common sense as your guide. If following a company rule is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, the rule should change.” Following a bad rule normally shields you. Exercising judgment exposes you. He flipped which one carries the risk, and every rule now has to earn its place against the person applying it. Every institution drifts toward protecting its own comfort. The ones that keep building are held together by people who rewrite the rules back down to something a single person can act on. Nothing on that list requires a budget, a headcount, or a title. You can run the entire memo from wherever you are sitting right now. Most people never test it and never learn it was permitted the whole time.

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BREAKING: Grok 4.6 just took the #1 spot on CursorBench 3.2 — while delivering a massive efficiency advantage. ⚡💻 • Grok 4.6 Extra High — 70.8% | $2.81/task • Fable 5 Max — 70.5% | $17.32/task • Opus 5 Max — 70.0% | $8.23/task • GPT-5.6 Sol Max — 67.2% | $5.69/task Grok achieved the highest score while costing roughly 6× less than Fable 5 Max and nearly 3× less than Opus 5 Max per task. For AI agents, raw intelligence is only part of the equation. The ability to maintain high performance across long coding tasks without burning massive amounts of compute could be a major advantage. Grok’s agentic coding efficiency is becoming seriously impressive. 🚀 Source: CursorBench 3.2