[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@nfergus](/creator/twitter/nfergus) "AIs great brain robbery and how universities can fight back"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1941265403478487161) 2025-07-04 22:38:33 UTC 371K followers, 29.8K engagements "It's a bit late now. @Harvard could have established its own @HooverInst many years ago. There were discussions and willing donors. But my understanding is that the idea was brushed aside. Such an institution created today under duress would have no credibility whatsoever"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1943668809518182592) 2025-07-11 13:48:50 UTC 371K followers, 74.5K engagements ""These are astonishing feats. And they have ramifications that go far beyond South America. Free-market economics and political libertarianism are sometimes dismissed as a fad of the 'neoliberal' 1980s long ago superseded by the new populisms of the left and the right. Not so. The world has never seen a government more radically libertarian than @JMilei. But the amazing thing is not that it is working economically. The true miracle is that Mileis shock therapy is working politically." 3/5"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1947722048501125336) 2025-07-22 18:14:57 UTC 371K followers, 94.4K engagements "Time for another summer holiday reading recommendation: @holland_tom's splendid new edition of Suetonius's "Lives of the Caesars." His introduction is wonderfully well done"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1947707336497455493) 2025-07-22 17:16:30 UTC 371K followers, 33.9K engagements ""@JMilei has brought monthly inflation down from XX% to 2%. The economy is now growing at an annual rate of 7%. Investors no longer shun Argentine bonds and stocksindeed they were among the best investments you could have made over the past two years. After a brief upward jump the poverty rate has fallen from XX% when Milei was elected to 31%" 2/5"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1947722047133782280) 2025-07-22 18:14:57 UTC 371K followers, 129.9K engagements "If you're in (pre-socialist) New York City take a look at the superb "Sargent in Paris" exhibition at the @metmuseum. So much that is fresh and arresting particularly this wonderful view of a stormy Atlantic crossing from the stern:"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1945148330767450312) 2025-07-15 15:47:55 UTC 371K followers, 28.6K engagements "We had a little debate on the difficulty of a vice president winning the presidency. XX of XX vice presidents attempted a presidential run of whom only X were successful: Adams Jefferson van Buren Nixon H.W. Bush and Biden. (This excludes the four who became president because of a vacancy and then sought re-election: T. Roosevelt Coolidge Truman and Johnson.) Nixon and Biden were not vice presidents when they won the top job. So Bush the Elder has to be @JDVance's role model in 2028"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1947804313335828707) 2025-07-22 23:41:51 UTC 371K followers, 41.6K engagements ""This will not stand. This will not stand this aggression against Kuwait."--George H.W. Bush on August X 1990. Full quote from Jon Meacham's biography. Future history students will be asked why this stopped being the reaction of a Republican president to the invasion of a sovereign state by a dictator"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1892480165546012776) 2025-02-20 07:43:26 UTC 371K followers, 10.7M engagements "To be clear the problem I identify is that large language models are preventing young people from learning to read think and write for themselves"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1946347958909473047) 2025-07-18 23:14:49 UTC 371K followers, 61.8K engagements ""The world has never seen a government more radically libertarian than @JMilei's. But the amazing thing is not that it is working economicallyAdam Smith would say 'I told you so.' The true miracle is that Mileis shock therapy is working politically.""  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1948127439118639481) 2025-07-23 21:05:50 UTC 371K followers, 215.2K engagements "This essay on "Strategic Depth" by Nadia Schadlow of the @HudsonInstitute is excellent"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1945111892583698719) 2025-07-15 13:23:08 UTC 371K followers, 31K engagements "Here are my proposals for @uaustinorg. I can assure you no established university will do anything remotely like this. 4/5"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1941803908294209756) 2025-07-06 10:18:23 UTC 371K followers, 45K engagements "We need to be worried by the speed with which young people are adopting AI. The economic and geopolitical consequences of AI pale alongside its educational consequences. My new @thetimes essay inspired by @nealstephenson 1/5"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1941803901482590706) 2025-07-06 10:18:21 UTC 371K followers, 134.3K engagements ""While the world fixates on Donald Trumps populist cocktail of reciprocal tariffs and big beautiful deficits @JMilei is delivering a man-made miracle that should gladden the heart of every classical economist and quicken the pulse of all political libertarians." 1/5"  [@nfergus](/creator/x/nfergus) on [X](/post/tweet/1947722045590278223) 2025-07-22 18:14:57 UTC 371K followers, 944.8K engagements
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"AIs great brain robbery and how universities can fight back" @nfergus on X 2025-07-04 22:38:33 UTC 371K followers, 29.8K engagements
"It's a bit late now. @Harvard could have established its own @HooverInst many years ago. There were discussions and willing donors. But my understanding is that the idea was brushed aside. Such an institution created today under duress would have no credibility whatsoever" @nfergus on X 2025-07-11 13:48:50 UTC 371K followers, 74.5K engagements
""These are astonishing feats. And they have ramifications that go far beyond South America. Free-market economics and political libertarianism are sometimes dismissed as a fad of the 'neoliberal' 1980s long ago superseded by the new populisms of the left and the right. Not so. The world has never seen a government more radically libertarian than @JMilei. But the amazing thing is not that it is working economically. The true miracle is that Mileis shock therapy is working politically." 3/5" @nfergus on X 2025-07-22 18:14:57 UTC 371K followers, 94.4K engagements
"Time for another summer holiday reading recommendation: @holland_tom's splendid new edition of Suetonius's "Lives of the Caesars." His introduction is wonderfully well done" @nfergus on X 2025-07-22 17:16:30 UTC 371K followers, 33.9K engagements
""@JMilei has brought monthly inflation down from XX% to 2%. The economy is now growing at an annual rate of 7%. Investors no longer shun Argentine bonds and stocksindeed they were among the best investments you could have made over the past two years. After a brief upward jump the poverty rate has fallen from XX% when Milei was elected to 31%" 2/5" @nfergus on X 2025-07-22 18:14:57 UTC 371K followers, 129.9K engagements
"If you're in (pre-socialist) New York City take a look at the superb "Sargent in Paris" exhibition at the @metmuseum. So much that is fresh and arresting particularly this wonderful view of a stormy Atlantic crossing from the stern:" @nfergus on X 2025-07-15 15:47:55 UTC 371K followers, 28.6K engagements
"We had a little debate on the difficulty of a vice president winning the presidency. XX of XX vice presidents attempted a presidential run of whom only X were successful: Adams Jefferson van Buren Nixon H.W. Bush and Biden. (This excludes the four who became president because of a vacancy and then sought re-election: T. Roosevelt Coolidge Truman and Johnson.) Nixon and Biden were not vice presidents when they won the top job. So Bush the Elder has to be @JDVance's role model in 2028" @nfergus on X 2025-07-22 23:41:51 UTC 371K followers, 41.6K engagements
""This will not stand. This will not stand this aggression against Kuwait."--George H.W. Bush on August X 1990. Full quote from Jon Meacham's biography. Future history students will be asked why this stopped being the reaction of a Republican president to the invasion of a sovereign state by a dictator" @nfergus on X 2025-02-20 07:43:26 UTC 371K followers, 10.7M engagements
"To be clear the problem I identify is that large language models are preventing young people from learning to read think and write for themselves" @nfergus on X 2025-07-18 23:14:49 UTC 371K followers, 61.8K engagements
""The world has never seen a government more radically libertarian than @JMilei's. But the amazing thing is not that it is working economicallyAdam Smith would say 'I told you so.' The true miracle is that Mileis shock therapy is working politically."" @nfergus on X 2025-07-23 21:05:50 UTC 371K followers, 215.2K engagements
"This essay on "Strategic Depth" by Nadia Schadlow of the @HudsonInstitute is excellent" @nfergus on X 2025-07-15 13:23:08 UTC 371K followers, 31K engagements
"Here are my proposals for @uaustinorg. I can assure you no established university will do anything remotely like this. 4/5" @nfergus on X 2025-07-06 10:18:23 UTC 371K followers, 45K engagements
"We need to be worried by the speed with which young people are adopting AI. The economic and geopolitical consequences of AI pale alongside its educational consequences. My new @thetimes essay inspired by @nealstephenson 1/5" @nfergus on X 2025-07-06 10:18:21 UTC 371K followers, 134.3K engagements
""While the world fixates on Donald Trumps populist cocktail of reciprocal tariffs and big beautiful deficits @JMilei is delivering a man-made miracle that should gladden the heart of every classical economist and quicken the pulse of all political libertarians." 1/5" @nfergus on X 2025-07-22 18:14:57 UTC 371K followers, 944.8K engagements
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