[ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book (UBI)

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
> The risk to the stay-closed team is too high that the voters will see nothing has changed all that much during the shutdown.

"Nothing has changed all that much" would, to some, be quite the
marked improvement given the past few months.

> Adrian is the current government shutdown causing you any heartburn?

I am literally dealing with one such bit between these emails
(replying as quick breaks while things print/process).  To quote from
one version of what I'm writing: "Between people being out of office
and the government shutdown, the contracting officer was not available
to sign this form by the proposal due date".

Fortunately, we have savings to ride through for quite a while, and
there are Golden Dome related uses that we can play up in our
proposals, to make funding our work fall into what they call an
"excepted" category in case this shutdown does drag out for multiple
months.

> I will struggle to not think about the other 27 bucks I could have made had I had I grown a spine and held my shares.

I recall that Bitcoin went on a roughly week-long rally after Trump
got reelected - predictably, given the pro-crypto promises he had
made.  Had I been in a position to invest at the time, I might have
gotten in on that.  Alas, what held me back was harder to quickly
overcome than a mere lack of spine.