Ankit Malik

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed. – Lao-tzu

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Play the Reverse Uno Card If you are using AI, it is because it is given you value. Channelise that value into cash - ideally revenue, semi ideally wages. Convert that cash to hard assets and an AI portfolio. AI gets better. Your portfolio gets better. Welcome to the positive AI spiral.

If you want to increase your surface area for luck, focus on producing proof of work. You will make yourself a bigger target for luck.

Losing money is one thing. It is everywhere and in abundance. It comes and goes. Nothing to stress about. Your time? That’s another story. It is something you won’t ever get back. Value your time. Nothing will replace it. Evaluate who you choose to spend it with. There are bad actors everywhere. Every second you spend doing nothing is a disservice to yourself. Value things in terms of your time and watch your whole life change.

I’ve made so many mistakes in my life Be it in investing, in business, in my relationships …and for a while, would carry around the regret and guilt of those decisions “If only this, if only that” I’ve found it really helpful to develop the infinite mindset This is just a continuous race with no end line There’s no winners or losers in this life Just times we’re ahead, times we’re behind It’s an iterative process and each failure, each mistake is feedback to allow us to make the next best decision, the next best move, the next best trade Learning to forgive myself for the mistakes and truly let them go, keeping only the lessons learned has been such an impactful habit to develop It frees up so much mind space and creative energy We only have have this moment of now and we can only make the best decisions we can make with the knowledge we have now to create a better today and a better tomorrow So forgive yourself for the mistakes, learn the lessons and make the next best play to make tomorrow a better day than today

Ten bad years can be erased by two focused ones. Momentum erases mistakes faster than regret ever will.

Your anxiety and depression get worse the less you act on your ideas. Mental illness is metabolic stagnation—energy that wants to move through you but can’t. Every idea that lights you up is your brain is trying to tell you "there's something here worth moving toward." When you ignore that signal, when you postpone or overthink, the energy behind that idea has nowhere to go. So it turns inward and builds pressure. Over time your nervous system adapts to that stagnation. Dopamine decreases and cortisol increases. Your body starts believing that staying stuck = safety. And the longer you suppress your creative ideas and insights, the more restless, emotional, and ADHD you’ll feel. The mind becomes scattered because the energy meant for creation gets trapped inside it. Eventually you realise your ideas aren’t random. They’re precise instructions from your intuition, each one designed to grow you into the next version of yourself. When you act on them, you let your higher self move through your body. You literally feel lighter day to day. So the next time you get an idea and it feels good, trust it. Because action is how you metabolise inspiration. This is how you dissolve negative thinking and self doubt. Have the courage to let what needs to come out of you, finally come out.

There’s 0% chance the government pays off the national debt. There’s 100% chance the debt overload causes Bitcoin and Gold to go higher and higher.

The #1 sign you’re winning in life: No one understands what the hell you do for a living.

I think you need to barbell modern technology you should pretty much be using AI constantly while working and then when you're not working you should be writing on physical paper and reading physical books or doing stuff outside

When your life is nearing its end, you’d give up every dollar just to live one more day, the same kind of day you’re taking for granted right now. Let this be your reminder: it’s okay to step away from the charts this summer and invest your time in memories that last.

crazy how messing up your sleep can throw you into an state where you feel depressed and tired and irritable and your perception of everything becomes horribly skewed. And it will feel very real with no indication that it’s temporary. And then you’ll get a good nights sleep and wake up and go about your day and none of those things will feel true anymore.

One of the best decisions I've made is to stop looking at life through the lens of win and lose. Instead, I focus on: • Improving my character • Improving at my craft • Pursuing my curiosity • Being a good friend • Helping people win Much more enjoyable way to live.

Winning is often just: - more gym - enough sleep - good food - less phone - having a purpose

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There are basically 3 things that matter First - the debt based monetary system is collapsing. This is due to high rates, low productivity growth, hopeless demographic conditions and a general loss of faith in the system itself. This phenomenon is best described by George Soros in his writing on the so-called Super Bubble. The idea here is that there are two fundamental delusions in society - the first is that growth in debt is actual productivity growth. The second -- that when the debt growth periodically implodes, that the aftermath is the "invisible hand of capitalism". When in fact, the clean up crew is a form of crony bailouts which often enriches the people. Soros thought that 2008 would blow up the Super Bubble, but he was wrong. The Super Bubble kept going. I believe that COVID and its aftermath will end the Super Bubble. The difference between 2008 and COVID was that this time, a lot of people died. The state breached its fundamental social contract with massive casualties. You don't come back from that. Underpinning the breakdown of governmental legitimacy is a shady association between the government, intelligence agencies and Organized Crime. This is extensively explored in Whitney Webb's writing - which covers Jeffrey Epstein and how it's not a coincidence that his client book contains the world's most powerful people. Epstein is important because he represents the depths of moral depravity. Pedophilia. Repugnant in every society. If you have a government that cannot protect your life and protects the most disgusting criminals, the effect is too severe. And society will not longer tolerate the State Run economy. Second - super intelligence is probably coming. We don't know the time frame, and this is probably longer than the original 5 years expected for AGI. But at the end of the day, machines are going to be able to code their own improvement within some period in our lifetimes. There is only ever one period in human history when human intelligence becomes obsolete, and so by definition -- this cannot resemble any other historical period. All fiat money is based on the pre-eminence of humanity, which, even absent AGI is already in question due to the collapsing super bubble. The big naivety is what I call the Accenture fallacy. Normal people think that for some reason, super intelligence will be made available to them in their web browser or accessible via an API. They think their organization will be able to hire Accenture to plug god into their data architecture and then their margins will expand. Superintelligence almost by definition will be capable of manufacturing nuclear and bio weapons, or even things we can't imagine like dark matter weaponry. It is not reasonable that this would be accessible to everyone -- as making it so, would expose nearly everyone to massive danger. Even now we are on the brink of war due to Iran gaining access to 1940s nuclear technology. Superintelligence, and the capability to manufacture all weapons in real time -- being available to the general public is laughably absurd. We've already had a hint of this. Sam Altman routinely talks about bio weapons. And the 'big win' of AI so far, was the development of the Moderna vaccine. This vaccine was developed and rolled out before the massive run in the AI sector, and more advanced capabilities. There is a reason Jensen Huang is making a point to attend synthetic biology events even though they comprise a tiny % of Nvidia sales. They comprise a huge % of Nvidia's future upside, and its future risk. And the third point. Buying Time. In the history of money, it was never possible to buy time or to meaningfully influence the genetic lottery. Outside of marrying someone smart or good looking there is nothing you could do, for example, to change the outcomes of your children. And there was certainly nothing you could do to change your own genetic outcomes. Because AI will inevitably unlock the secrets of the human genome if it accelerates quickly or far enough -- it will fundamentally alter how we think about value. Bryan Johnson has written about this extensively, and has his own takes on it. And his work has moved what was previously just a meme in the Sci Fi series Altered Carbon, into the Silicon Valley mainstream If AI systems could cook up a bad vaccine to COVID in 2021 by 2035 you could imagine a world in which they will be able to 1] materially change the genetic outcome of human embryos 2] come up with personalized therapies to radically extend the human life Unlike Johnson, due the extreme risks of exposing these systems to the general public re bio weapons - I don't think Buying Time can ever scale. And due to the points in #1 re debt, governments will not want populations to live forever. This would blow up pension obligations in an unsustainable way. But even if it's not mainstream, the possibility of "buying time" with money - will permanently change the value of money. Before, the best thing you could do with money was maybe buy some luxury. Have a very fine life, pursue your passions, and leave economic security to your children. Valuable and important certainly, but also subject to critiques. People who lived their entire life for money would miss out on life itself. Latin American culture, for example - is all about family, God and social ties. Not generating as much as possible. This equation definitively changes if it's likely that there is 1] a restriction on AI technology due to bio safety 2] an ability of AI technology to create an entirely new class of genetically engineered humans that are smarter and live longer than their non engineered alternatives For the first time in human history, it might be possible to buy your and your family's way into a permanently genetically superior super class. If you've followed me for a while you've probably noted that I seem like a Doomer. I.e. I have a pessimistic view for society at large. How does this square with the above? Here I want to introduce the idea of the Two Tracks. The basic idea is that 1] AI research is inordinately expensive but will continue to enjoy near unlimited funding due to the above points (just national security alone would force the issue) 2] but in the meanwhile AI will generate the most addictive digital media ever created. If Tik Tok and video games right now are morphine, what's being produced is fentanyl. 3] Selling fentanyl (digital or otherwise) is enormously profitable and will (for the most part) fund the AI research even if government debt explodes sporadically and unpredictably The lowest risk bets in public markets are the extrapolation of these ideas to both assets (companies selling addictive AI powered products) and nation states (which will see a productivity collapse exacerbating existing debt problems). The higher upside gains will be the moon shot bets (i.e the coming of AGI) and the possibility of biological immortality for the few. But these -- for the most part will not be good financial investments because they'll be incredibly crowded. And better viewed as expenses. The returns of longevity funds, for example, has been terrible. And it makes sense. If you have the ability to 'buy time', or even do something like get early access to cure your own blindness. You'll invest in a company that does that at an almost insane valuation. Just to get access to the treatment. High valuations will then drop the returns for everyone else. I believe - fundamentally, this is why Bryan Johnson is selling Olive Oil. Not investing in longevity companies. He tried that, and it didn't work for the reasons above. So there will be two tracks. People who get hooked on digital fentanyl. And people who are ambitious enough to avoid the highs and chase genetically augmented immortality. This is all "a lot". And there's probably a third track. Just simply avoid the drug like effects of AI products. And just live a normal life. Try and isolate yourself from the effects of the above. Enjoy time with family and friends. I'm imagining saying all of this at a Puerto Rican barbecue and people just kind of staring at me. "Take it easy! Calm down, try the mofongo". And honestly -- there is nothing wrong with that. I don't judge it. I think it's based, honestly. But unfortunately, I think that's hard. I can see the outcome for median people in the society above decelerate into something extremely undesirable. I don't think you can "just chill" if you think all of this The best option for me is to "go for it". And try to end up on the right side of the genetic divide. If at all possible. Even at enormous personal cost. Because fuck it, you're going to die anyways. And at least for people like me - knowing that the prize was there and not going for it. Would make the rest of life miserable. Always wondering what might have been. The cryptocurrencies or other investments that we have are actually just puzzle pieces into how to navigate all of this effectively. But most of them don't do a particularly good job of it. And I don't want to encourage people to speculate all their funds for a 1% chance to get on the life raft. Seeing clearly is the first step. Clear away the haze, reduce it down to the essentials. Debt is a thing. COVID was a disaster. Epstein isn't a coincidence. AGI is coming. Life extension or Gattaca babies might be a thing due to AI. They probably won't be broadly available due to politics and national security. And once you can see clearly you can start positioning yourself effectively because the vast majority of people will ignore what's right in front of them.