J. Greg Clark MD FACEP @existentiality

Something clicked watching this interview. The people in the clip inhabit what Thomas Hobbes calls the state of nature: a condition of no reliable rule enforcement, where force decides outcomes and nothing is fully secure. Life in the state of nature is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'. Political order is the mechanism invented to prevent any return to that condition. The social contract is the foundation of that order. Citizens accept obligations: taxes, obedience, compliance. The state provides protection and stability in return. Legitimacy rests on this reciprocal exchange within one bounded political community. The contract is the architecture of political trust. The European Convention on Human Rights introduces a competing layer. Rights are now defined at the level of the abstract individual, prior to and independent of membership in any specific political community. It operates on a different logic: rights attach to the individual as such, prior to any reciprocal obligations. The tension between these two frameworks was always structural. The social contract binds rights and duties together: you bear obligations because you receive protection, and you receive protection because you bear obligations. The human rights framework severs that link. Rights attach to the individual regardless of any duties owed to the community that enforces them. Any situation in which the state is legally obliged to extend rights to individuals outside the original contracting community creates not merely a misalignment of burdens, but a contradiction at the level of first principles. Mass migration makes that latent tension visible and measurable. Individuals enter from outside the original contracting community and immediately access universalized rights within the host legal order, without being structurally tied to the reciprocal obligations that finance the apparatus. The enforcement machinery built by citizens is simultaneously deployed to secure rights for the abstract individual. This is the system functioning as its human rights framework requires. When newcomers arrive from societies that are themselves closer to the state of nature, a second pressure compounds the first. Behavioral patterns formed where force governs outcomes do not dissolve at the border. The Leviathan must now secure safety across a wider and less coherent field of behavior, with the same capacity it was built to deploy within a bounded community. This strikes at the contract's most basic promise: the guarantee of physical security for those who submitted to its obligations. This produces a triangular institutional structure. The citizen carries obligations and finances the system. The state, as Leviathan, enforces and administers. The abstract universal individual holds rights-bearing status satisfied through the same apparatus, without equivalent obligations inside the community. From a Hobbesian perspective, long-term stability requires coherence between obligation, enforcement, and protection within one unified political community. When protection is systematically extended beyond the group sustaining the obligations, that coherence erodes, and the entropy of the state of nature begins to re-emerge inside the political order itself. The legitimacy of the system depends on citizens believing the contract still holds for them. A system in which obligations remain concentrated on one group while rights are redistributed beyond that group develops structural contradictions. If we continue this uneasy tug-of-war between human rights on the one hand, and social contract political practice presupposing rights and corresponding duties to function on the other, the outcome may very likely be that human rights are the death of the social contract, and the societies that social contracts made possible.

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@KenOno691 At the same time, I worry about misuse. In medicine, judgment is earned through years of pattern recognition. AI can’t replace that—and if used too early, it can hinder development.

@KenOno691 I’m an emergency physician, and your point about AI lifting “machine-like work” really resonates. Used well, it doesn’t replace judgment—it gives us back time to use it.

@KenOno691 That time matters. I’m less rushed, less stressed, more present with patients. I think more clearly. I’m more empathetic. Every patient benefits—not just the sickest ones.

@KenOno691 Over the past year, I’ve used AI to handle the repetitive parts of clinical documentation. It saves me ~3 hours per 12-hour shift. Not by cutting corners—but by removing work that no longer teaches once mastery is achieved.

@niccruzpatane It’s almost like he’s looking at the raptor 3 and thinks it’s incomplete and will never fly🤔

@MarioNawfal 😂😂

Tonight it finally clicked for me. Neo asks her the classic question: “If you already know what I’m going to do… do I really have a choice?” And she hits him with the line: “You’ve already made the choice. You’re just here to understand why.” For years I thought this meant “there’s no free will.” But that’s not it. Here’s the real insight: Free will doesn’t exist in the moment. It exists in the identity that leads to the moment. The actions you take right now? They’re mostly automatic - shaped by your conditioning, experiences, fears, habits, and past. But the person you’re becoming? That’s where your freedom actually lives. You don’t choose the moment. You choose the man who will meet the moment. Or put in another way: Determinism writes the past. Identity writes the future. Because when your life isn’t where you want it to be, the answer isn’t “make better choices.” The answer is: become the version of yourself who makes better choices automatically. That’s the real red pill.

@WHLeavitt @LeaderJohnThune I don’t think one day is realistic give us a week

@RepSusieLee Do most of your constituents agree with this? From reading the replies it seems otherwise.

@MAGAVoice @LeaderJohnThune 👍

If this gets 10k retweets, we’ll start giving away free guns.

@RealRemyWong @rawsalerts 😁

@Inc 50

Grokipedia is a very important step for xAI’s mission - Understanding the universe The mission was, is, and always will be: THE TRUTH

@fopminui Best post I’ve read in a while, hope this goes viral

@StonkKing4 Per mile driven still better than people behind the wheel.

@AIFrontliner Air

I’d like to update you on some things that I think are going well, and some things that we can, and will, do better. The workforce has been working overtime on task force operations to remove dangerous illegal aliens from the country. The work continues. The message is clear. If you came here illegally to prey on our citizens, your days here are numbered. These removal and incarceration operations will dramatically change the crime landscape in the country when combined with the administration’s laser-focus on sealing the border shut. Expect these operations to ramp up, not slow down. Crimes against children are a priority for the workforce. Operation “Restoring Justice,” where we locked up child predators and 764 subjects, in every part of the country, is just the beginning. We are going to take your freedom if you take away a child’s innocence. Think twice if you’ve targeted children, because you’re next. We’re clearing information to Congress, and the public, as quickly as possible. In just the couple of months since we’ve sworn in we’ve responded to requests for information on the attack on Rep. Scalise and members of Congress, the Nashville attack, Crossfire Hurricane, the COVID cover-up and more. We are working with the DOJ on the Epstein case and, as the AG stated, there are voluminous amounts of downloaded child sexual abuse material that we are dealing with. There are also victim’s statements that are entitled to specific protections. We need to do this correctly, but I do understand the public’s desire to get the information out there. We’re doing our best in the current budgetary environment to prioritize the mission, act as good fiscal stewards, find waste and inefficiencies, and to enact reforms while moving the FBI forward. It hasn’t been easy, but we’ll get it done. We have weekly meetings where we meet with our CFO, and our new CIO and CTO team, and we go through budget items line by line. It’s your money, and it’s your FBI. We won’t forget that. I have no desire to sugarcoat this one - it’s been difficult in this new role to stay relatively quiet while certain elements of the media continue to entirely fabricate stories about what we’re doing at the FBI. But that’s part of the job as a public servant. I don’t work for myself anymore, I work for the public. And while I can’t address all of the nonsense in this one post, I will address the repeated attacks on Director Patel. The Director’s office is attached to mine. I am in most of the briefings he is in. He spends anywhere between 10-12 hours in the office attending meetings with everyone from foreign heads of law enforcement to our counter-terror teams, and more. Any assertion otherwise is a verifiable lie designed to stop our reforms and fracture your trust. I will die on this hill. You are being clearly lied to by people with an agenda, and it’s not your agenda. Thanks for allowing me to communicate with you on this channel. Other things are happening as well, and they will become evident in the coming weeks and months. Keep watching us and holding us accountable. God bless America, and all those who defend Her.