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[What'sInAName? @57vr81]

@Nostal90s @bubbleboi Very true, if AI were merely a lucrative product, rational billionaires would diversify... spread stakes across the field, let the best team win, harvest returns.

That's how rational actors treat a market. Instead each burns tens of billions building his own...

[Odyssia @Nostal90s]

"...I know you are NOT evil..." is a HUGE ASSUMPTION!

Zoom out for a second; why are the usual billionaires ALL building their own AI version?

Every prior fortune was built on a tool be it oil, steel, a search box, a social graph. You sell a tool and the buyer uses it however... A frontier AI that mediates how billions around the world think, decide, learn, and interpret reality is NOT neutral!!

It encodes whose judgment, ethics, and worldview become the default. So building THEIR own AI isn't building another company; it's staking a claim on what the mind of civilization gets shaped by...

So yeah fucking evil, 100%

[Odyssia @Nostal90s]

What companies (and what % of their budget) and India itself (more important) are investing in R&D? We missed the computer era, mobile era, now ai era... we are only consumers to global brands while our data is used by them - hopefully, maybe we realize tomorrow when pricing comes into play we show our might (by sheer numbers)...else we will continue to copy apps from world over.

[John Cassidy @JohnCassidy]

First it was MIT and McKinsey. Now Bain finds that returns to corporate AI investments are disappointing.

[Kaelis @astranoire]

I found this on Substack, and since it's so beautifully worded and gently touches my soul, I'd suggest you all read it as well.

[Sulekha Tripathi @sulekhat95]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 60 minute lecture from Steve Jobs after being fired from Apple. It will teach you more about building companies than most startup books ever will.

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

C.S. Lewis' guide to finding your "real" self

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Life advice nobody taught you in school:

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

Business has finite games and infinite games. You must play both.

In finite games, there are deadlines to meet. Opportunities to win. Getting to market first. Launching a better product. The objective is to win.

In infinite games, the goal is to keep playing, shape the game to your advantage, and make progress. There are no real winners, but rather just a concept of whether you are ahead or behind, which constantly changes depending on your success metrics. The only losers are those who quit.

You should want to win every finite game you choose to play, but whether you win or lose, you learn and continue on to your next game with the intention to win. The enduring value of a business organization is not measured by those past successes, but by the business's ability to keep succeeding and play the infinite game.

[blue @bluewmist]

every time you replace “this is hard” with “what’s the first step?” you shift brain activity from your amygdala (fear) to your prefrontal cortex (problem-solving).
that’s neuroplasticity in real time.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The fact that Trump made so sure to silence Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie makes me more convinced than ever that there's something really incriminating in the Epstein files.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

Just a friendly reminder - these are the quants you’re competing against.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“Bad things happen to everybody. It’s not about the bad decision you made or the bad thing that happened to you; it’s what you do after that.”
— Cathy Lanier

Listen to my interview with Cathy Lanier:
https://t.co/zxvxzw4szM

[Odyssia @Nostal90s]

@JColinBrown @gabriel_zucman @JeffBezos

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Game theory explains why working harder inside a broken system is the worst response to that system. Because a system is never absolutely broken. It's just producing exactly the outcomes its own incentive structures were designed to produce, whether intentional or not. Working more vigorously inside this system increases your output in the payoff matrix, but it simply won't alter the actual composition of the system's matrix. Thus, the appropriate response is not more effort. Instead, you must aim to identify whose interests the present structure serves and position yourself in favor of those particular values rather than against them. Change the game, or play the game that is actually being played. Either way, you must stop optimizing for the game you wish it to be and start acting realistically and pragmatically.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

WHAT ECONOMISTS GET WRONG ABOUT THE MACRO IMPACT OF AI

It's Neil Dutta of @RenMacLLC in the Odd Lots newsletter, talking about how significant AI spend is to the economy, and why some people are under-appreciating its impact

Read the whole thing here:

https://t.co/NyzkgntA0z

[SELF ELEVATING MIND @selfelevating]

THE HIGHEST FORM OF INTELLIGENCE ISN'T IQ.

It's METACOGNITION: Thinking about your thinking, this is one of the powerful forms of intelligence your brain can develop.

- THREAD 🧵

[Acquired Podcast @AcquiredFM]

It's incredible that just ~2% of Americans owned any stocks in 1929.

Equity ownership is... a pretty recent phenomenon.

[Ai With Piyas @piyascode9]

BREAKING: AI can now create dividend portfolios that can generate $100,000 in passive income a year — for free.

Here are 12 powerful Perplexity prompts With which you will find safe + growing dividend stocks.

Save this thread. 🧵

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Mentally healthy people are often delusionally optimistic.