CryptoSteve2.0

the openai IMO news hit me pretty heavy this weekend i'm still in the acute phase of the impact, i think i consider myself a professional mathematician (a characterization some actual professional mathematicians might take issue with, but my party my rules) and i don't think i can answer a single imo question ok, yes, imo is its own little athletic subsection of math for which i have not trained, etc. etc., but. if i meet someone in the wild who has an IMO gold, i immediately update to "this person is much better at math than i am" now a bunch of robots can do it. as someone who has a lot of their identity and their actual life built around "is good at math," it's a gut punch. it's a kind of dying. like, one day you discover you can talk to dogs. it's fun and interesting so you do it more, learning the intricacies of their language and their deepest customs. you learn other people are surprised by what you can do. you have never quite fit in, but you learn people appreciate your ability and want you around to help them. the dogs appreciate you too, the only biped who really gets it. you assemble for yourself a kind of belonging. then one day you wake up and the universal dog translator is for sale at walmart for $4.99 the IMO result isn't news, exactly. in fact, if you look at the METR agent task length over time plot, i think agents being able to solve ~ 1.5 hour problems is coming right on time. so in some way we should not be surprised. and indeed, it appears multiple companies have achieved the same result. it's just... the rising tide rising as fast as it has been rising of course, grief for my personal identity as a mathematician (and/or productive member of society) is the smallest part of this story multiply that grief out by *every* mathematician, by every coder, maybe every knowledge worker, every artist... over the next few years... it's a slightly bigger story and of course, beyond that, there is the fear of actual death, which perhaps i'll go into more later. this package -- grief for relevance, grief for life, grief for what i have known -- isn't unique to the ai age or anything like that. i think it is a standard thing as one appreaches end of career or end of life. it just might be that that is coming a bit sooner for many of us, all at once. i wonder if we are ready

There’s this not-so-secret narrative among traders: “This is the last cycle to make it.” Miss your shot, and you (and your bloodline) get relegated to the digital peasant class for eternity as AI and robotics crown a new elite. It’s a compelling, fear-based story. And honestly? It might even be true. But f— man, I hate what that narrative does to college kids. It's turning them into hyperdegenerate gamblers before they’ve even built a safety net. If you're new to investing and treating it like "I've got to make it in the next 2 months," odds are 99% you'll lose everything. You’d be 1000x better off just picking up a second job and DCA’ing every extra penny into Bitcoin, tech stocks, and money markets. But if you're gonna ignore that advice (like I would’ve at your age), at least use the f-- out of AI. Run ALL of your trade ideas past an LLM. Share your financial situation and goals. Ask about position sizing. Ask when to cut losses. Ask if you’re being a complete dumbass. For ~$20/month, you literally have a tool that compiles all of humanity’s experience into a single queryable database. Use that shit!