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Smols fall in between the rare and ultra-rare spectrum in the 6529 thread. PFP + AI + Game + Meme = $Smol Convergence collectoors starting to put that together 👍

Bridgeworld was for the AIs the whole time

@Austen Token prediction is not agi

Every single person I talk to working in advanced research at frontier model companies feels this way, and they’re people I know well enough to know they’re not bluffing. They could be wrong or biased or blind due to their own incentives, but they’re not bluffing.

@rauchg Its the same thing

Immortality is attained by having children, leaving the world in a better place than you found it, and pushing the human frontier. Not by drinking “longevity mix powder”.

@ValerieAnne1970 @BioLayne for your next video

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@GermanStrands Who cares. If the game is fun to play it doesnt matter

Indie Game Awards disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 due to Gen AI usage. Game of the Year now goes to Blue Prince. insider-gaming.com/indie-game-awa…

'STAR WARS: FATE OF THE OLD REPUBLIC' has officially been announced A single player action game set in the Old Republic

what if the AI creates/enables/unlocks new higher-paying jobs? by trying to prevent organizational evolution due to technology, you are limiting technology’s ability to create more value for workers. if you had done this with the emergence of the tractor to protect loss of jobs on farms, we’d have very expensive food, no industrial revolution, and a shitty standard of living for workers. if you had done this with the emergence of the automobile, we’d have lost the economic explosion that arose from highways, lower cost transportation, and countless networked industries. if you had done this with the emergence of the computer and the internet, your entire district would still be based on an economy of oranges and plums. humanity’s ability to compete, organize, and carry itself forward is a magical miracle. in every truly free society, tech evolution has improved the lives of absolutely everyone. in every society where a government stood up to create barriers and gates to tech evolution in the name of “workers rights”, standards of living went into a freefall. your view is luddite at best and authoritarian at its heart. limiting freedom of choice, controlling the rights of workers and capital providers, is the core activity of socialism and will cause unbelievable unintended damage. well-intentiined, sure, but examining the consequences and n-th order effects, it’s clear how this model deeply harms workers, employment standards, wage growth etc. i urge you to deeply study the social and economic history of technology evolutions, speak to folks in your district, and avoid the socialist trap the Dem party seems to be swirling into…

@DrAndyGalpin Amen to this

*If we didn't teach kids how to read & write, we wouldn't expect them to be successful intellectually. *If we don't teach kids how to move their bodies, we shouldn't expect them to be successful physically. No wonder many adults hate exercise, get hurt often, and don't know where to start. Imagine your adherence rate when trying to learn to read for the first time ever as a 45-year-old with 2 kids and a job... "Physical Education" in school should be viewed similarly (not identical, but similar) to mental education. PE is not simply to give kids (and teachers) a much-needed break from academics (though that is a very valid reason as well), or to give them time to get their crazies out. We have a different term for this; it's called "recess." PE is also not just sports tryout time. PE should be viewed as a critical opportunity to teach insanely valuable human movement skills, which will impact physical health for the rest of a kid's life. The current US average for Elementary schools is PE... 2 days per week. My kids currently get it once (1) per week. The major push many years ago to remove/reduce PE in schools was an epic failure.

@therosieum This also extends to the holders of the tokens or assets in these projects. They have no appreciation for what it takes to build things and so they think the team is bad because a 3-5 year PMF cycle isn't happening in 3 months

@musharbash_b Lol how did you spin that into this

This is what outright oligarchy looks like. Here is David Sacks — the billionaire who represents the AI cabal — coming out and essentially threatening every American from the President on down,“Nice economy you got there. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.” And it’s a real threat. This is the amount of power we’ve allowed oligarchs like Sacks to accumulate over us. If a handful of billionaires can threaten to tank our country’s economy if we don’t do what they want — build them thousands of data centers, pay for the electricity it costs to run them out of our own pockets, and waste our resources and fry our planet in the process — then we are no longer truly free. Then our government is no longer ruling by the consent of the governed, but by the permission of an overriding oligarchy. Then our Constitution — which vests the power to govern in “we the people,” not an aristocracy of billionaires — is being infringed at a most fundamental level.

@PEoperator Amen. I dont want your value creation plan if you've never had to go execute one

The biggest mistake I see from Private Equity VPs and Associates isn't the modeling or the deal structure. They are great at that. It's thinking you can run a business without ever having operated one. Spend 2-3 years in operations. Learn how decisions impact real people. See how strategy meets reality. After that, you will have real credibility with every CEO and CFO you work with.

@balajis time to get back on the @theallinpod for a discussion.

DECOUPLING FROM DOLLARS The US sends India billions in printed dollars for valuable goods. This is actually the US government ripping off India, like it does Vietnam, and everyone else, including its own citizens...not vice versa. To be precise: last year India exported $87B of valuable goods to the US for $42B of goods plus $45B worth of increasingly worthless dollars: That difference of $45B was, effectively, made up by money printing, which the Fed does at will: The current administration incorrectly thinks this is a bad deal for America, because they haven’t fully thought through the fact that the US can print dollars. India was giving America something that's always valuable (namely goods) for something that America can just print out of thin air (namely US dollars): So...who was really ripping off whom? As mentioned, this is the same trade America had with Vietnam. Vietnam worked hard to send America shoes, while America sent Vietnam printed dollars. And it’s the same trade America had with many countries, before the trade war. The world sends the US valuable goods, and gets mere Federal Reserve database entries in return: The only reason the US had the right to do that — to run the financial database of the world, to print trillions for itself, and to freeze and seize the funds of billions — is because it set up what we call the rules-based order, what is in reality the American Empire. And of course it profited from that empire tremendously, but so did most of the empire's participants. But now MAGA is dismantling that empire. It’s cutting off trade, talent, and even tourism. It’s abandoning its military commitments and telling allies to fend for themselves. It’s cutting off foreign aid and domestic universities. It is, in short, becoming a country not an empire. The reason is because MAGA is fundamentally confused. It romanticizes 1945 America (the manufacturing country) without fully admitting that 2025 America makes its money in a completely different way, by managing the hub of a global financial empire. Because the US is in denial about what it is — a money printer, not a manufacturer — it's currently on track to lose both the money-printing and the manufacturing. For example, the tariffs target the entire world (thereby reducing demand for the dollar in global trade) while also cutting off machine tools and raw materials from US entrepreneurs (thereby inhibiting the buildout of domestic manufacturing). Anyway, I won't linger on the outlook for the US. It's made its decision and will live with it. Perhaps it will indeed be a Golden Age of Reindustrialization. And perhaps the transition to a "republic, not an empire" will go much better than the similar imperial climbdown of the UK or the USSR. What should countries like India and Vietnam do? They should turn a necessity into a virtue. The trade war has provided a powerful Schelling Point for the entire world to simultaneously stop using the dollar at the same time. This is also what America says it wants, for foreigners to stop "exploiting" it by accepting its printed dollars for hard goods. So: abide by America's wishes and stop trading goods with America for dollars. Instead, trade goods with each other for local currencies (rather than USDs) and use gold for storing value (rather than USTs). Because there is no global reserve currency issued by a single country, trade remains roughly balanced over time. Singapore's former PM calls this "world minus one." It's the continuation of global capitalism, just without America, who has voluntarily taken itself out of the game. Yes, there's a short-term adaptation cost, but the quicker that a country can decouple from the dollar the better. Start saving in hard money instead.

@artibian_maxi @mathcastles then why doesn't @punk6529 own one?

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@ChrisF_0x Generally agree with this. The less popular curated sets should get a big jolt

To summarize, I'm hypothesizing: - We will have an AB500 universal floor that multiple collections will bucket into. - On the high end, collection floors and dynamics will still dominate (Fidenza market gonna Fidenza market) - In the middle we will see emergent markets form.

With the AB 500 locking the collection somewhere in the 220-250k token range, I've started to apply a different thinking around the set and what I'm picking up going forward 🧵 Started last night with a light sweep of ©A®O bracelets.

@BowTied_Sales 100 percent. Was 3 tests done on cpa and 2 done on cfa. And it just felt wrong. Pivoted to saas and tech. Never looked back

I've been in sales my whole professional career, but I never thought that would be the case. When I was in college 15 yeas ago, sales was not valued in academia as craft or a discipline. The smart people in business school had majors like accounting and finance that led to stable careers, so I went for that route. I followed intelligence (as defined by GPA & test scores) and stability. Felt like a safe bet. I hated the courses and was not good at them, but what was I going to do, be a marketing or management major? And then do what? Too vague a path for me... It all changed when I saw a flyer that said "make $10K in one summer!" To a broke 20 year old, $10K looked like ∞ Turned out that job was selling satellite TV door to door for a retailer of Directv & Dish Network. I'm from the South, but they placed me in Michigan with a bunch of other suckers like myself. These Michigan people were mad. It was 2009 and apparently there was some big crisis or something. Who knows, I never really kept up with current events back then Whatever it was, it caused a lot of unemployment and anger. You could feel it on the doors. It was hard. Doors slammed in my face. Yelled at for waking up napping children. Cops called on me just for walking the neighborhood. Every dog all the sudden felt like Cujo. I tried to quit, but turns out I was in a housing contract. If I left, I'd be on the hook for $2K, which was at least 10x my net worth at the time. It was time to figure this thing out. So I did. I practiced the script, I shadowed the best, I had the best shadow me, got feedback on my non-verbals, and even carved out a little niche for myself working country roads. All the sudden I figured it out. I was the top rookie out of 100 that summer and I made $10K+. I'd love to tell you about all the wise financial moves I made shortly thereafter, but obviously I blew that money as hard as possible when I got back to college. That's not the point. The point is this - when you find out that you are good at something early on, double down on it as hard as you possibly can. This may come at a cost. In my case, it was a deeply psychological one. I had to trade in my sense of stability, security, and a future for a completely unknown and way less defined path. This fear was very real back then. I only had 5 classes left to graduate with 2 "smart business guy" degrees. Looking back my fear feels laughable...changing course was actually the least risky thing I could have done. Anchor yourself in what you are good at, not what you think you should be good at. The risk of hating your career and life is far greater

@PEoperator @shots_goal back office typically is the only for sure integration item IMO. payroll, benefits, erp. you can survive a bit with consolidations each month but cross sell gets difficult upstream if you dont do order to cash

@shots_goal 100%. It almost always makes sense on paper, but in practice you can ruin a company. Smart to just be thoughtful vs rushing in

The best way to avoid integration risk in M&A is to not integrate.

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@DGMD22 Well mostly. Better way to say this is over the long run its an own mentality. But even with this surge, tons of mercenaries

Much more than this too. It’s our culture, OUR art medium. People buy NFTs because they want to own them and it gives them pride. People only buy memecoins to try to sell for higher; never ends well.