
M9
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M9
@CryptoSammy19
Hitting the Crypto Casino while learning to sharpen my edge ~




Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors. Available today at the same price.

Peter Thiel has moved his family to Argentina, largely due to the direction of California… He sees socialism rising in America, while Milei is taking Argentina in the opposite direction.



🚨 The AI ROI numbers are starting to look very ugly. Even under "best case" assumptions — assuming zero costs, just revenue against capex — the Financial Times calculated the implied return on hyperscaler AI investment from 2025 to 2030. Only one of them clears positive. Implied return on AI investment (FT / Panmure Liberum) – Microsoft: -9.2% – Alphabet: -15.7% – Amazon: +7.2% – Meta: -28.8% – Oracle: -35.6% And remember: that's assuming zero costs. In reality, GPUs depreciate, power bills run, salaries get paid. The real returns are worse. This is exactly why the dot-com comparison keeps coming up. Incredible technology does not automatically mean sustainable economics. The internet survived. Most internet companies didn't. Two anecdotes from this week alone Vivek Garipalli, Fortune 20 insider: a CEO asked for $1B in AI-driven opex savings this year. The team spent $200M on tokens chasing it. The results? Modest customer service savings and slightly less hiring in engineering. The CEO has now ordered token costs to be dramatically slashed because the ROI isn't there. Axios: an AI consultant reported a single client spent half a billion dollars in one month after forgetting to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees. Right now hyperscalers are spending trillions hoping future demand catches up to present capex. That's not certainty. That's a leveraged bet. The technology is real. The infrastructure buildout is real. The eventual winners will be real. But "AI is transformative" and "every hyperscaler will earn its capex back" are two completely different statements. In 2000, the internet was real too. Cisco has recovered. After 26 years…







Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas















No human has lived past 130. But millions of humans only sleep a few hours a day and live healthy lives. Sleeping less is a form of life extension. Getting 8 hrs of sleep in 4 hrs will be the first way we materially extend functional lifespan.









