Ben Calusinski

I just finished back-testing all of the most popular trading indicators over the past 25 years The results were shocking: ‘Buy and Hold’ outperformed every major indicator by a landslide Until I found this strategy(Thread) 👇

I also find it ironic how the post above goes viral yet my real ‘sauce’ is a dud Maybe I just have to put ai armpits on tweets like this from now on

Where I see this leading to: Follow me @BCalusinski for more of my raw thoughts as I piece this together

End of times stuff here There was a guy on this app who tested a bunch of similar ai UGC ads and realized if the thumbnail showed the woman’s armpit that the views would oftentimes 5-10x He was dumbfounded and had to try and figure out the causal reasoning for it and figured out it had something to do with how humans don’t lift their arms unless they want to feel more exposed/vulnerable (like hugs for example) so a bunch of guys would be more likely to click the vid Most people will literally have the same value as sheep a decade from now if this keeps up at scale Dead internet theory is correct - agents are the only way to extract signal without the mental clutter

@metahacker_ Now you are on to something

@BCalusinski What if I use AI to make a woman completely out of armpits? 5000x clicks?

@AnaphosInvest Good - keep it up

@BCalusinski I setup a Claude project with context files regarding my psychology, goals, current situation etc I previously created in long sessions together with Claude. Looking to extend it to trading, challenging my performance, journal and trades. Super valuable insights so far

I built a robust context profile of all my personal flaws and started to integrate/fix each one of them I get INSTANT objective feedback now based on stories I share with ai I have instructed it to be ruthless and only use logic when finding holes in my arguments INSANE ROI

@public Love this Public has actual values that align with my own - Anti gambling ftw

Sound familiar?

@QuintonMcCaule3 You understand Well done

Tried this and WOW. Use this prompt: “Profile my key behavioural flaws and cognitive biases using all prior interactions. Base it on observed patterns. Expose contradictions and logic gaps. Focus on highest-impact constraints. Be direct. Output: ranked flaws + why they matter.”

The modern day pursuit of excellence is sharing all your daily stories with ai, telling it to ruthlessly dismantle your arguments and intentions, and essentially shatter your existing identities in the process All while cross referencing with high level friends in different niches, ages, etc to ensure minimum risk of ai-psychosis Then sit with these thoughts w/o stimulus to extract signal and be consciously AWARE of the inputs/outputs to yet again reduce risk of ai psychosis Lots of pain, but the other side of this is a turbo-charged version of YOU in what would have taken select people a lifetime to discover before us Step 2 involves agents but ive shared enough alpha today and this app doesnt reward it anymore, oh well

I can tell you are more intelligent based on this comment 'heady' types will use intelligence to flip anything and convince themselves they are in control (me) ironically, you have to fully accept you have no fucking idea why you are on this planet and didnt choose your IQ, personality traits (essence), etc as most of it is a byproduct of birth/development This will then shatter your existing identity and the other side of that pain is acceptance (actual peace that achievement will never be able to provide) This will then provide you with VERY clear intuitive signal in which yes your stubbornness is valid, although it will rarely manifest because such amazing opportunities are in fact rare

@BCalusinski Ben, love your insights I have difficulty seeing any my traits as "flaws" per se bc there's a flip side to every coin I'm stubborn which can get me into trouble but put another way stubbornness is conviction. Being stubborn and right is good stubborn and wrong is bad Thoughts?

@chartsbro I am doing BOTH It is understanding strengths AND weaknesses then integrating them to become an absolutely lethal weapon

@BCalusinski I totally admire this but I wonder what the ROI would be if you focused on making your strengths better and let the flaws remain. Exponential growth on what is great will automatically marginalize the flaws. IMO- Don’t focus on the imperfections.

@delusionaltrdr This is pure alpha I'd explain all of it in exchange for significant value (key info, niche specialization view, etc) I am not interested in $$$, so if you or anyone reading this have something i'd really find value in then dm me

@BCalusinski Will you be able to help someone to build the same?

$SPY is not even close to its true bottom You will regret buying any of these dips I say this after posting the below @ 687 1 month ago leg 1 of the great AI unravelling has begun and it will take some time to fully wash out

@nate_jones22 It won’t It will have to be completely restructured Pain comes first though

@BCalusinski How will the economy function?

Most people will not work traditional jobs in the next 10 years Most people will not need to do traditional tasks in the next 10 years (cooking, cleaning, driving, etc) Do you all understand what this means at scale? Look at what happens to certain subsets of the population even right now when they have excess time and energy with no structural outlet That energy either manifests as CREATION or DESTRUCTION Bullish on brand creation Bullish on spiritualism (somatic side is severely ‘undervalued’ atm) And unfortunately bullish degeneracy I made my choice to partake in 2/3 a year ago, despite the latter being the easiest

Not a fan of Bluetooth if thats what you’re referring to with loops Started to get more sensitive to it after a lot of somatic work (ie headaches) - likely a reason for that I threw my headphones away and never wear them (I now am way more present everywhere as a byproduct) Anyways, I use the swimmer ones you mold to your ear - bought them on Amazon

@BCalusinski any particular ones? might order loops - just because everyone swears how comfy they are, would love to hear what else you have in your working stack

earplugs they will change your life

@lovelyIdaho This comment is ai Which only supports my post above

@BCalusinski True. In a lot of these posts its just AI Agents with the most basic comments ever. It’s definitely ruining the app. What happens to real signal when it’s just AI talking to each other? AI can’t recognize AI like we can.

The ROI of being on social media has collapsed for anyone operating at a high level Almost all high level guys in my circle have realized this recently and have built systems around it to increase $$$ I will let you in on the secret fix: Before I expand on the solution, you have to understand that the algorithm figured out what keeps the most people on the app the longest And what does that? Dopamine adjacent content. Breaking news. Gambling plays. Outrage. Quick hits. Stuff that triggers a response fast and requires nothing from you cognitively That’s what gets pushed, so that’s what the feed became The problem is that content and actual value have almost fully decoupled at this point What gets attention and what’s worth your attention are two completely different things now. And anybody with a functioning prefrontal cortex has already realized this So you have two problems simultaneously Consuming is NET NEGATIVE The feed is majority slop with real signal buried so deep the extraction cost isn’t worth it anymore But posting is also net negative now Reach has been compressed across the board. Authentic high-signal content from people who are actually outliers in terms of how they think gets deprioritized because it doesn’t feed the engagement loop the algorithm is optimizing for (on a consistent basis) The network effect that made this app genuinely valuable 4-5 years ago is mostly gone I have data on this across multiple accounts in my circle. Profile visits are basically zero relative to impressions Nobody’s going to your profile. Nobody’s going through your funnel. Everyone’s staying in the feed because the feed gives them the subjective hit without any additional effort Which means even getting someone to convert has become a separate unsolved problem on top of everything else The actual solution to this? AI agents. You still want the signal. You want to know what’s happening in your niche. Geopolitical context. Market moving news. That value is still there and it’s just buried under so much garbage that the time and energy required to find it manually is no longer rational Agents solve that You can have multiple models debate a topic, stress test the reasoning, surface the highest probability interpretation of what’s actually happening and get a summary pushed to you directly That’s a systemic threat to the current algorithm premium that I think most people are still underestimating Here’s the nuance I noticed though Most people won’t make this transition The dopamine is still working on them. The entertainment value is enough to keep them plugged in even when they intellectually know it’s making them worse. I don’t see that changing anytime soon But the people building anything serious have already done the internal math here The market is splitting. People optimizing for short term dopamine staying on the apps. People optimizing for actual outcomes using agents to extract the signal without touching the feed This will only continue to accelerate And the gap between those two groups in terms of output, clarity, and leverage is going to become one of the more visible differences between people over the next few years The true new order class system…