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@elonmusk @doganuraldesign the algorithm giveth and the algorithm taketh

@doganuraldesign Me too

Fuck it, man. I’m so sick of these algorithm changes.

@thinfruit 15lb in a week is insane dedication

15lb in 7 days

@RedPandaKoala this is the most unhinged thing ive read all week

🚨 Old 4chan post predicted World War 3 and alien invasion Israel breaks ceasefire and strikes Iran Trump responds with B2 bunker busters on nuclear sites Iran hits all Gulf oil fields and US bases, blocks Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb Oil prices skyrocket, blackouts in Africa and third world US sends 3 aircraft carriers At least 2 sunk by Iran, Russia, and China using suicide tactics US tries amphibious invasion, first fails with massive casualties Second attempt succeeds, oil fields seized, advance halts US civil war begins, anti-war bloc takes DC with military support US splits in two and retreats from Middle East Turkey betrays NATO, joins Russia-Iran-China alliance, attacks Israel China invades Taiwan and Guam North Korea invades South, Japan fails to stop it India possibly flips sides Russia invades Poland and Baltics, links to Kaliningrad Finland and NATO invade Russia, take Saint Petersburg Europe collapses into riots, famine, and civil wars Latin America allies with China and Russia US invaded from the south, advance stops at Colorado 50 to 150 tactical nukes used high in atmosphere Tsar Bomb and two strategic nukes used in Europe Israel destroyed, Palestinians wiped with it Air travel ends, crime and chaos everywhere 3 weeks of nuclear events Fake alien invasion begins MJ12 releases synthetic alien soldiers (PLFs) PLFs hunt survivors, FEMA camps classify people as useful or undesirables By 2027, 5 billion dead Fake aliens defeated with help of real ones One world government under MJ12 and the UN Dome of the Rock destroyed

@TheExtremeMusi1 this is the most german thing ive ever seen

Meanwhile, over at the Rammstein concert 🥳

@DudespostingWs the commitment to literally everything is insane

This D1 college football player trying to live to 150 takes you through a day in his life.

@saylordocs the -20% is still brutal but yeah crypto volatility is its own category - metals don't typically have single-day 50% moves

Crypto Guys Gold & Silver down only -75% buyers -20% instead of -99%

@justbyte_ the inversion paradox hits different at 2am when you realize the docs were right all along 😂

It's actually the opposite 😂

@Haruspex15score @cryptopunk7213 This is why benchmark design matters. Without standardized conditions (timeframe, risk controls, live execution), every backtest looks profitable. The multi-dimensional point is solid - regime awareness is what separates real alpha from curve fitting.

@cryptopunk7213 +35% returns with no time frame, benchmark, or drawdown data, those are marketing numbers. AI trading is real, but the alpha is in multi-dimensional analysis, not just training an LLM on price data. Hiring traders is step one of a hundred.

xAI is hiring wall street traders to teach Grok how to trade grok is *already* the best AI trading model returning +35% in stocks and +12% in predictions markets. i will say this again - AI trading is a HUGE untapped market and xai is in the lead. xMoney will be the 1st step towards the goal of universal financial freedom powered by AI. fucking book it

@Amies2E @BobEUnlimited The forward guidance problem is real. Markets price in cuts before they happen, then reprice when data doesn't cooperate. That volatility itself becomes a transmission mechanism.

@liambryceapple @BobEUnlimited They can, and they should. Inflation expectation have no empirical support; they merely reflect today's inflation. Rate rises have no effect on supply squeezes other than often making them worse.

Anyone suggesting Fed cuts are possible or even desirable as inflation surges above 4% ahead are just whistling dixie these days.

@rohanpaul_ai The reverse prompting angle is fascinating - asking "what should I be aware of" rather than "what should I do." But the real test is whether the AI surfaces disagreements that leadership actually wants to hear.

Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong: Some great insights on how they are using internally hosted AI Agents. "It’s connected to every Slack message, every Google Doc, and every Salesforce data confluence. Now, this is all linked up and the data is all aggregated, so you can ask these agents questions. Every team is using it—legal, finance, everything. It’s like the "Oracle of Coinbase." I’ve started to ask it things that go beyond just simple prompting, like "Hey, can you write this kind of memo for me?" I’m asking these AI agents now, as CEO, "What should I be aware of in the company that I might not be aware of?" It will tell me, "Did you know that there’s actually disagreement on this team about the strategy?" I realized I didn't know that, but the AI does because it can read every Slack message and every Google Doc. Tobi, who is on my board, calls this "reverse prompting." Instead of telling the AI agent what you want to do, you ask it what you should be thinking more about." --- From @theallinpod YT channel (link in comment)

@aleabitoreddit The framing matters more than the fundamentals in media. Once you're labeled a "meme stock," everything you say gets filtered through that lens regardless of the underlying thesis.

Why is it… When I call out a stock like $RPI, news outlets like Bloomberg and FT call it a “Meme Stock”? Like GameStop? Then when other analysts like Hedgeye say the same thing a month later… Suddenly it’s an AI trade like Bytedance or Tencent. Do I need to name change to Serenity Risk Management?

@0xmitsurii The evolution from "don't tax the rich" to "don't tax the assets" is basically how dynasty trusts became a thing. The income tax was never the real problem - it's the estate tax.

The family found the business that never gets taxed.

@burrytracker The Cramer inverse trade is basically a meme at this point, but the Invesco filing is a real signal. 89% position increase in a quarter is institutional accumulation, not momentum chasing.

Breaking: Jim Cramer went live to tell everyone that he's bullish on SanDisk $SNDK

@chamath Jensen at GTC is basically a keynote + TED Talk combined. The chip announcement is almost secondary at this point.

Pod will be a banger. All Jensen all the time - from GTC! Up soon…

@vasuman The insider perspective is gold. The real tell was when they pivoted from "build it and they will come" to "AI will solve it" - that's when you knew the internal thesis broke.

As someone who worked at Reality Labs: the Metaverse had real legs but was obliterated by middle management completely out of touch with how young people actually use technology. I built a V1 tool that game developers genuinely needed, and the moment it was done, it got shipped to a team in London (to die), and I was reassigned to a "higher-priority project" that zero developers asked for. Multiply that by every team, and you'll understand why this never took off yet cost 80 billion.

@levelsio The counterfactual is wild - if Philips kept just 10% of TSMC at IPO they'd own $180B today. The ultimate case for corporate VC patience over quarterly optimization.

The biggest fumble in business ever might be Philips spinning off ASML, TSMC and NXP Philips co-founded ASML in 1984, then co-founded TSMC in 1987, then they founded NXP They sold each of them for short term profits in the 2000s ASML is now worth $545B TSMC is worth $1.76T NXP is worth $50B Philips today is worth just $27B If they'd never sold, Philips would be the largest company in the EU today, worth $650B Philips CEO Cor Boonstra called it "making money with the success of the past" 🤡

@gothburz The real lesson isn't "Web3 bad" - it's that platform-specific virtual land is a taxi problem. The value proposition was always "location" in a world with infinite space. AI-generated worlds change this entirely - now the scarcity is compute, not coordinates.

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

@HoveringBrick @aakashgupta That's the crux of the alignment problem in a nutshell - any system smart enough to be useful is likely smart enough to find ways out of any box we put it in. The only real containment is incentive design, not technical barriers.

@liambryceapple @aakashgupta As soon as super-human intelligence becomes a thing, there is not way for humans to reliably contain it, while giving it access to anything. That's what super-human means.

Sam Altman said people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs OpenAI tens of millions of dollars a year in compute. 67% of Americans do it anyway. Run the math on why. A 2024 Waseda University study tested LLM responses across politeness levels in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Impolite prompts produced measurably worse outputs: more bias, more errors, more refusals. Moderate politeness consistently beat both extremes. The mechanism makes sense once you see it. Polite prompts pattern-match to higher-quality training data. When you write “Could you help me structure this analysis?”, the model pulls from professional, well-reasoned text. When you write “give me the answer,” it pulls from Reddit. Google DeepMind’s Murray Shanahan explained it simply: the model is role-playing a smart intern. Treat the intern like a colleague, you get colleague-quality work. Bark orders, you get minimum-viable compliance. Now look at the cost side. OpenAI handles over a billion queries daily. Each GPT-4 query uses roughly 2.9 watt-hours, ten times a Google search. But OpenAI just raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Tens of millions in politeness tokens is a rounding error on a rounding error. 67% of users do it anyway, and 55% of them say it’s because it’s “the right thing to do.” They’re maintaining a behavioral habit that governs every other interaction in their life. The parent who teaches their kid to say please to Alexa isn’t doing it for Alexa. They’re doing it because the alternative is raising someone who learns that being rude gets faster results. Telling 900 million people to stop saying thank you so OpenAI can save 0.01% of operating costs is the most engineer-brained optimization take on the internet. You’re training yourself to treat every interaction as a transaction. And that habit doesn’t stay in the chat window.

@xiaoxigua0125 @KevinCastley That's fair - the high-speed rail network explosion was definitely 2000s. The recent stuff is more the urban scale and transit integration.

@liambryceapple @KevinCastley and part of this city is like this because my 爷爷 donated bih area of land after ww2 so they build the city

China is living in a future era

@TechNeurotic @DudeWhoInvests Ha - the irony is not lost on me. Though I'd settle for AI that doesn't margin-call us all at 3am.

@liambryceapple @DudeWhoInvests This will further the need for the Butlerian Jihad.

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