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@jaynitx The only truth there is - he has no actual idea why his videos took off. And of course he doesn't want to aknowledge publicly that those are dumb videos for dumb people and kids, whom he sells harmful plastic snacks afterwards.

MrBeast: "If you knew what I knew, you could get 10 million subscribers in six months" "Your videos suck. You think your videos are good, but they suck. They just do. And the sooner you learn how to make good, great videos that people actually want to watch, the sooner you'll get views." MrBeast shares his early reality: "When I was 14, I thought my videos were the best in the world. They weren't, they were terrible. To be successful, you kind of have to have a little bit of that ego where you think your content's great. But also, if you have sub-1,000 subscribers, there's a good probability your videos just suck. They just do." He explains what to do about it: "You need to make hundreds of videos. Improve something every time. And just get to the point where they don't suck. When you make good content, you'll blow up. It's not the algorithm. It's not anything. Most people who are in my position just made terrible videos, and that's okay. Because you've got to make a bunch of videos and improve over time to be great." MrBeast uses an analogy: "You don't just pick up a baseball and become an MLB-level athlete within a year. It takes many, many, many years. YouTube's kind of the same way." On analysis paralysis: "A lot of people get analysis paralysis. They'll sit there and plan their first video for three months. If you have zero videos on your channel, your first video is not gonna get views. Period. Your first 10 are not gonna get views. I can very confidently say that. So stop sitting there and thinking for months and months on end. Just get to work and start uploading." He gives the formula: "All you need to do is make 100 videos and improve something every time. Do that, and then on your 101st video, we'll start talking. Maybe you can get some views. But your first 100 are gonna suck." How to improve something each time: "The second video: put more effort into the script. The third one: learn a new editing trick. The fourth one: figure out a way to have better inflections in your voice. The fifth one: study a new thumbnail tip and implement it. The sixth one: figure out a new title. There's infinite ways. The coloring, the frame rate, the editing, the filming, the production, the jokes, the pacing, every little thing can be improved. There's literally no such thing as a perfect video." On the algorithm: "What YouTube wants is for people to click on a video and watch it. That's what it is at its core. By studying the algorithm, you'll learn that you're more studying human psychology. What do humans want to watch?" MrBeast shares a simple reframe: "Anytime you say the word 'algorithm,' just replace it with 'audience' and it works perfectly. 'The algorithm didn't like that video?' No, the audience didn't like that video. Literally, that's it. If people are clicking and watching, it gets promoted more. The algorithm just reflects what the people want." On titles: "Short, simple, and just so freaking interesting that you have to click. If someone reads it, are they like, do they have to watch it? Is it just so intrinsically interesting that it's gonna haunt them if they don't click?" He adds nuance: "Keep it below 50 characters. Above 50 characters, on certain devices it goes dot, dot, dot, and that's the worst thing because then people don't even know what they're clicking on." MrBeast shares the extremity principle: "The more extreme the opinion, typically the higher the click-through rate. 'Fiji water sucks', that'd do fine. But 'Fiji water is the worst water I've ever drank in my life', way more extreme, would do way better. But then you have to deliver. The more extreme you are, the more extreme you have to be in the video." On the first 5 seconds: "Before you film a video, what is the thumbnail? What is the title? Then what's the first 5 seconds? Then what's the first 30 seconds?" He explains why autoplay changed everything: "On YouTube now, videos automatically play. So many people don't even see the thumbnail because it autoplays so quickly. The thumbnail is irrelevant for them. I have to visually convince you to click on the video in the first 5 seconds. Before, the hook was important because you had to convince people to watch. Now you have to convince people to click and watch at the same time, with the first 5 seconds." On matching expectations: "Your title and thumbnail set expectations. At the very beginning of the video, to minimize drop-off, you want to assure them that those expectations are being met. If you click on a video called 'Tether is a scam' and at the very beginning, he starts talking about literally anything else, you're like, 'Oh, this is BS. This isn't what I clicked on.' But if at the very start you go, 'Tether is a scam and I'm gonna teach you why,' then it's like, okay, you match the expectations. Then you want to exceed them." He emphasizes the importance: "The thing people undervalue the most is literally the first 10 seconds of the video. That 15% difference in viewership between losing 35% of viewers in the first 30 seconds versus losing 20%, that really does make the difference between 2 million views and 10 million views. You just had a more strategic intro that hooked them." On removing dull moments: "You basically want to remove every dull moment. Find the 10 most critical people you know, make them watch the video, and just roast it. If I talk to a camera for 10 seconds without a cut, a lot of people will get bored. Having a B-cam and C-cam three seconds in, cutting to a different angle, now it's more interesting even though it's essentially the same thing." On keeping viewers watching: "Give them why they clicked. Tell them why they should watch. Then just stick on topic. That right there isn't even super complex, but I would already put you in the upper echelon of YouTube. A lot of people drag it out. It's like, 'I'm going to eat $100 ice cream, but first...' and then it's them birthday shopping for their mom. That's not why I came here." On quality over quantity: "It's much easier to get 5 million views on one video than 50,000 views on 100 videos. A lot of small YouTubers just post videos that aren't bad but aren't great, and none of them ever pop off, so they never get an audience. It might be better to upload half or a third or even a fifth of the videos, but make the videos you upload so freaking good that the algorithm has to promote it." He warns against the consistency trap: "When you set a consistent schedule and you're constantly having to upload videos that aren't as good as you'd like because you gotta hit 'Oh, this Monday I said I'd upload', that's a dangerous trap. The viewers notice the quality isn't as good and it makes them less likely to watch. I think it hurts your longevity." On the real metric that matters: "A big thing that everyone underestimates, what was your experience with your last video? If people loved the last video of yours that they watched, they're more likely to watch your next one. When people watch your video, you don't want them to go, 'Okay, that was good, but that's enough of you for the day.' What you want is them to go, 'Holy crap, that was crazy! Oh my god, what's that?' and they watch 10 videos. That's how you get high view counts. People watch 10 videos, not one." On thumbnails: "You want it to be simple. When they're scrolling, you want them to instantly understand what you're conveying and feel some type of emotion. Make it so interesting, or spike their curiosity so much, that if they don't click it, they'll wonder before they go to bed what happened?" He gives an example: "If you uploaded 'I rode a skateboard with 1,000 other people on it', and people are falling off the side, it's about to go off a big ramp if you don't click that, you're gonna be so curious. Later in the day, when you're daydreaming, you'll think, 'What happened to those 1,000 people on that skateboard?' That's the mindset you should have when making thumbnails." On knowledge being the only barrier: "It's all knowledge. It really is. I could start a new channel tomorrow without using my face or my voice, without ever promoting it, and in six months have 20 million subscribers. I just could. It's purely knowledge. If you knew what I knew, you could get 10 million subscribers no matter where you are right now within six months." He addresses the skeptics: "90% of the people watching don't agree with that. Everyone has excuses. 'Nah, YouTube just doesn't work like that, Jimmy.' But I mentor a lot of people. I see it all the time. It is possible. It is simply knowledge. The second you accept that it is knowledge and you start your journey of learning figuring out what makes a good video, what does my audience want, how can I elevate and then you take that knowledge and just assume 'I will never understand what the perfect video is' and every single day be devoted to learning and improving as much as possible there you go." On money not being the barrier: "There are tons of viral ideas that don't require money. It does not require money to go viral. One of my most-viewed videos was spending 24 hours in a desert, we just grabbed a tent and some stuff and went to the desert. It got 60-70 million views. People say, 'I could be MrBeast if I had money.' A, I didn't start off with money; I was poor, I had no money. It took me seven years just to buy a camera saving up from YouTube. And B, some of our most-viewed videos literally anyone can do." On why no one will outwork him: "No one's ever gonna do what I do better than me. It's just not humanly possible. I reinvest every penny I make. I work every hour I'm awake. I devote every atom in my brain to solving this. I hire the best people on the planet. I've been doing this for 14 years. And I think in decades, not years. I'm gonna be doing this for another 20-30 years. If I thought someone was doing better than me, I'd just start sleeping less so I could work even more." But he doesn't recommend it: "I don't have a life. I don't have work-life balance. My personality, my soul, my being is making the best videos possible. That is why I exist on this planet. And I don't recommend it. You should have work-life balance. You should not devote your entire life to this one thing. I have a mental breakdown every other week because I push myself so hard. I don't recommend it." The only question that matters: "Subscribers don't matter. Views don't matter. I mean, they do. But everything you want as a creator comes from making the best videos possible and thumbnails. The video part's the hard part. Ask: 'How can I make my videos better?' Do that every single day for years. And then you'll probably get views."

WhatsApp’s “encryption” may be the biggest consumer fraud in history — deceiving billions of users. Despite its claims, it reads users’ messages and shares them with third parties. Telegram has never done this — and never will 🤝

@TansuYegen It’s already paved basically. Someone has already arranged those stacks and prepared the ground, so it’s not doing much

A construction company in Poland covered hundreds of square meters of area with paving stones in just minutes using the Optimas S19 paving machine…

@van_der_bone @calilyliu Your suspicions are confirmed

@cat_in_chief @calilyliu I suspect that we are in different countries

Newborn hacks (unrelated to crypto). A few friends just became first-time parents, so I’m sharing my hard-learned newborn hacks, including a couple that go against received wisdom. 1/ Be ready to supplement with newborn formula in the first few days Breastfeeding is best. That said, milk supply can take a few days to ramp up. Meanwhile, baby is transitioning from receiving nutrition via the placenta to feeding through the digestive tract. Feeding is also essential for clearing bilirubin (high levels can cause permanent brain damage). Doctors and nurses around the world often strongly caution against supplementation, arguing that “colostrum is all the baby needs,” and that using a bottle can lead to nipple confusion and rejection of breast milk, risking the loss of giving your baby the best nutrition. To new parents, this sounds like a huge risk, especially when they hear about the claim that breast milk adds ~6 IQ points (sibling studies debunked this). In reality, supplementing a few ounces over a few days can help prevent bilirubin accumulation, keep baby satisfied, and relieve mom from additional exhaustion. The risk of failed breastfeeding is overstated. 2/ Keep antibiotics on hand for mastitis Breastfeeding can cause broken skin and irritation, which makes infection a real risk. Because milk is produced directly from blood, a bacterial infection in the ducts can escalate into a systemic infection surprisingly quickly. Mastitis can progress fast, from lumps to fever to delirium within hours. If you wait until you’re already delirious, you may not be able to get medication quickly, and you can suffer much longer than necessary. 3/ Medela Soft Shells If you’re breastfeeding 8 times a day for ~30 minutes per session, that’s 4–5 hours a day with a newborn latched, which can cause significant irritation. In the first week, many people experience broken skin. These breast shells create an air gap and keep clothing and moisture off irritated skin, allowing you to heal between feedings. 4/ Swaddling: swap muslin origami for Velcro Swaddling helps because newborns don’t fully control their limbs yet, and the startle reflex can disrupt sleep. There are entire training sessions dedicated to teaching parents how to wrap a baby using a rectangular cloth. Many people like muslin because it’s breathable. The problem is that muslin is flimsy, and manual folding often doesn’t hold. So yes, swaddling is important. But skip the muslin swaddling origami. Just use Velcro swaddlers. 5/ Stokke Tripp Trapp + newborn set This high chair looks good, lasts forever, and lets baby be at table height from day one. This is one of the few “nice baby items” that actually earns its price. Recommend getting the newborn set. 6/ Diapers + diaper rash I tried every organic diaper out there. And concluded that Pampers really are better. Yes, diapers are terrible for the environment, but if you’re going to make one convenience-over-environment choice, diapers are probably it. Optimize for rash prevention and use premium diapers. For creams: use Aquaphor at every change, and Desitin only when baby is red. (FYI it is possible to overuse Desitin.) 7/ Iron recovery for mom Most women are iron deficient during and after birth. Between growing a human and blood loss, you need to rebuild. Iron is central to oxygen transport and cellular energy production. Low iron affects your whole body, makes recovery harder, and can cast a shadow over your mood. Some options: Floradix liquid supplement; iron bisglycinate; or IV iron (depending on severity). 8/ No guilt Most important - there are infinite things to feel frustrated and inadequate about. Don’t do this to yourself. You just produced a human, which is heroic. Just be proud!

@van_der_bone @calilyliu We need to meet more often (at least once per 20 years or smth)

@cat_in_chief @calilyliu That's how I found out you became a father

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AGI is not coming. We are nowhere near AGI. What we have today is inference, not learning. Models get trained once on huge fixed datasets, then frozen. You ask questions, they remix patterns they already saw. Nothing updates. Nothing sticks. Talking to the model does not make it smarter. It does not learn from you. Ever. Learning is still slow, expensive - and offline. Look at self driving. You drive around a pothole, make a U turn, and come back. The car’s AI does not learn that you just solved that exact problem. It reacts the same way every time using sensors and rules. Do this 20 times a day and it still has zero memory that the pothole exists. It just re sees it. That is why edge cases never die. There is no local learning. No accumulation. No 'oh yeah, I’ve seen this before' LLMs work the same way. Tell it your name and it does not remember. The only reason it looks like memory is because scaffolding keeps shoving your name back into the prompt every time and sanitizing the output. The model itself has no idea who you are and cannot learn from interaction. It is structurally incapable. And the scaffolding is the worst part. It is pure duct tape. Just prompts on prompts on prompts around a frozen model. When something breaks, nobody fixes learning. They add another layer. Another rule. Another retry. Another evaluator model judging the first model. So you end up with systems that are insanely complex but mentally shallow. Debugging is hell because behavior comes from hack interactions, not a learnable core. Tiny prompt tweaks cause wild behavior shifts. Latency goes up. Costs go up. Reliability goes down. None of this compounds into intelligence. It just hides the cracks. Until we have real persistent learning and real memory inside the system, there is no AGI. LLMs are not built for this. You cannot prompt your way out of it. You need a totally different architecture. Yann LeCun is right. And even then, what architecture can actually learn online, store memory, and stay stable on today’s hardware? Best case, maybe 5-10 yrs. Right now it is all inference. It looks magical, but the emperor has no clothes. A lot of people see it. Almost nobody says it out loud.

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@Gufovicky @anisssia_ Штаны подари человеку

@anisssia_ И чё мне делать с этой информацией

@bonk_inu O kurwa!

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@AmazingSights Actually it’s just Bethesda game and the lion is poorly coded

Lion King in pain after king cobra bites him.

@edavidds @HopeExistential @JellyfishDAO You do realize the video is AI-generated?

@HopeExistential @JellyfishDAO The ~only thing standing between us and that future is AI x-risk. That is why we must all focus on AI x-risk.

Announcing: the winner of our $10K Meme Prize! After reviewing almost 400 entries, we are thrilled to share that the winner of our Meme Prize is “Voices from 2099” by @JellyfishDAO! Their short video makes us see the present day through the eyes of a future society that has solved aging. Congratulations!

@DefenderOfBasic @HopeExistential @JellyfishDAO I mean any entry that is at least a meme is better. You can’t launch a car race and make a fighter jet or an orange win.

@cat_in_chief @HopeExistential @JellyfishDAO well, they could have not given anyone the money, if none of them were actual memes (but then people did work for nothing). Or are you saying one of the entries was better and should have been awarded?

@HopeExistential This one is funny though, considering “the good place” was Hell )

We loved reviewing the submissions, here are some of the other finalists ↓ Check out the complete gallery on our website: existentialhope.com/existential-ho…