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tracking what the crowd misprices

[Banff @Banff_eth]

a shape with no inside. he filled it with water anyway

pour water in and it stops almost immediately. the air has nowhere to escape, so it just sits there blocking you. tilt it and you get a little more in, then it blocks again

so he put the whole thing in a vacuum chamber

turn it on and the bottle starts bubbling. that's the air being pulled out through the neck, leaving as close to nothing inside as he can get

then he lets the pressure back in, and the water rushes up into the empty space on its own

still not full. so he runs it again, rarefying the smaller pocket of air that's left, and again after that

here's the part that breaks your head:

for a shape to have volume, it has to split the world in two. a ball does that. stretch it however you want, there's always a world inside and a world outside

a Klein bottle has no such line. follow its surface and you never cross a boundary, never pass through a wall, never end up anywhere that isn't the same side you started on

the inside is the outside. so there's nothing there to fill

he filled it anyway

that's the same shape as the room below. no plot, no payoff, just a question your brain won't drop -> can a thing with no inside hold anything at all

two videos, two impossible questions, 20 million views between them. Paone broke down why this format works in the article underneath

save this. the most watched thing today was a shape that shouldn't be able to hold anything, holding water

[Banff @Banff_eth]

a shape with no inside. he filled it with water anyway

pour water in and it stops almost immediately. the air has nowhere to escape, so it just sits there blocking you. tilt it and you get a little more in, then it blocks again

so he put the whole thing in a vacuum chamber

turn it on and the bottle starts bubbling. that's the air being pulled out through the neck, leaving as close to nothing inside as he can get

then he lets the pressure back in, and the water rushes up into the empty space on its own

still not full. so he runs it again, rarefying the smaller pocket of air that's left, and again after that

here's the part that breaks your head:

for a shape to have volume, it has to split the world in two. a ball does that. stretch it however you want, there's always a world inside and a world outside

a Klein bottle has no such line. follow its surface and you never cross a boundary, never pass through a wall, never end up anywhere that isn't the same side you started on

the inside is the outside. so there's nothing there to fill

he filled it anyway

that's the same shape as the room below. no plot, no payoff, just a question your brain won't drop -> can a thing with no inside hold anything at all

two videos, two impossible questions, 20 million views between them. Paone broke down why this format works in the article underneath

save this. the most watched thing today was a shape that shouldn't be able to hold anything, holding water

[Banff @Banff_eth]

In the quietest room in the world, you wouldn't be able to survive for more than 30 minutes

Even people who have been in it for just a few minutes begin to feel nauseous and dizzy

Your vestibular system works by constantly picking up tiny echo signals, but in that room it receives no response, so your body thinks something is wrong

Clap your hands -> and the sound will simply cease to exist

Pop a balloon -> and there will be no explosion, just the snap of the shell breaking

Everyone's voices sound as if they're right next to your ear, no matter where they are in the room

And the reason this even exists:

Harvard built the first devices of this kind during World War II, because testing acoustics outdoors meant spies could watch what they were doing

Here's what most people overlook:

This video racked up 11 million views in a single day

No complicated editing, no plot, no climax. Just one question your brain refuses to let go of -> What does silence actually feel like?

That's the whole point. The experiment doesn't need a plot. It needs a question that people can't stop trying to answer

In the article below Paone wrote about two forms that underlie every viral video. This video is the purest version of one of them

Save this. The most-viewed video of the day was a video in which 11 million people listened to silence

[Banff @Banff_eth]

full video: https://t.co/7VX6frshum

[Banff @Banff_eth]

In the quietest room in the world, you wouldn't be able to survive for more than 30 minutes

Even people who have been in it for just a few minutes begin to feel nauseous and dizzy

Your vestibular system works by constantly picking up tiny echo signals, but in that room it receives no response, so your body thinks something is wrong

Clap your hands -> and the sound will simply cease to exist

Pop a balloon -> and there will be no explosion, just the snap of the shell breaking

Everyone's voices sound as if they're right next to your ear, no matter where they are in the room

And the reason this even exists:

Harvard built the first devices of this kind during World War II, because testing acoustics outdoors meant spies could watch what they were doing

Here's what most people overlook:

This video racked up 11 million views in a single day

No complicated editing, no plot, no climax. Just one question your brain refuses to let go of -> What does silence actually feel like?

That's the whole point. The experiment doesn't need a plot. It needs a question that people can't stop trying to answer

In the article below Paone wrote about two forms that underlie every viral video. This video is the purest version of one of them

Save this. The most-viewed video of the day was a video in which 11 million people listened to silence

[Paone @paonx_eth]

https://t.co/oMMnKEXynR

[Banff @Banff_eth]

credit to the guy who built it -> full video here: https://t.co/T2axo2eyIE

[Banff @Banff_eth]

A guy built a guitar where the strings float on magnets. push the magnet sideways -> every note bends at once

the first version was plastic. it collapsed under the string tension almost immediately

so he rebuilt it in metal, and the thing actually worked

what he found after that is the part nobody expected:

push the magnet sideways -> the pitch bends

push it toward the pickup -> the strings move closer and the volume rises

flick it -> the magnets shake and the whole instrument shivers

three completely different effects from one piece of metal, and none of them were designed. he found them by touching it

the whole guitar wobbles while you play. he described it as jumping on a trampoline with your hand

and it's so sensitive that hanging something on the magnet changes the weight, pulls on the strings, and knocks the guitar out of tune

here's what most people overlook:

this clip did 8M views, and there's no story in it. no twist, no reveal, no payoff at the end

it's just a man in a room discovering what his own invention does, in real time, on camera

that's the entire format. an experiment doesn't need a plot. it needs a result even the person doing it can't predict

you stay because he doesn't know what happens next either

save this. the most watched thing today was a guy touching a magnet and being surprised

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@gippp69 no embeddings or vector store needed and it still maps 40 languages is a legit unlock for local setups imho

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@Zdonuk94 curious how this holds up once a restaurant wants their actual menu items and not a generic ai burger

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@LunarResearcher @Kimi_Moonshot optimizing execution around the model instead of just wrapping an api call is where the real gains usually are

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@0xbobaaa In my opinion, both exist

[Banff @Banff_eth]

my neighbor built an AI girl

men send her money. buy her gifts. write her poems. he says one of them flew to her city to meet her

there is no her

there's a 38-year-old in boxers in a gaming chair. he moves -> she moves. same second. he puts a hand on his chest -> she puts a hand on hers

last week he showed me his phone. three donations before noon. $120. $145. $52

his wife found out. she didn't yell. she asked him to make one for her too

his entire setup is a laptop and $21 a month

here's the part that should scare you:

he's a locksmith. no editing skills, no tech background, nothing. he learned it in an evening

which means the number of accounts like this isn't small, and there's no version of the internet where it gets smaller from here

every profile you scroll past could be a guy in a chair. the only reason i know about this one is that he lives next door

Paone wrote about why videos like this spread so fast in the article below -> the two shapes behind every viral video, and how they get built now

save this. the girl in the video is the least real thing you'll see this week

[Paone @paonx_eth]

https://t.co/oMMnKEXynR

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@martynov014 53.2% turning into $22m is the same lesson as always

edge times volume beats a high win rate on small size every time

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@Asteri_eth because of his awesome visuals and the perfect soundtrack

[Banff @Banff_eth]

a 20-year-old made a movie scene in his bedroom in 40 minutes. it pulled 9 million views and got him real film auditions

no agent. no film school. he just wanted to prove he could act

so he asked Claude for a concept. 10 minutes later he had the whole thing shot by shot

20 minutes to film it. 10 minutes to cut it in CapCut

the video is him moving across his room at impossible speed, freezing mid-pose in slow motion. no effects, no crew, no budget. the comments are all calling him the Flash

1.7 million likes

he says the offers coming in now are for films with multi-million dollar budgets

here's the part most people miss:

for decades there were three ways into film: know somebody, grind for years and pray, or sleep with the right person

all three had the same thing in common: someone else decided whether you were allowed in

now the audition is a 40 minute upload, and the casting director is whoever stops scrolling

talent didn't suddenly get more common. the door just stopped being locked

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@antpalkin thats the wild part, no motion designer just claude and a phone

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@smaaaliy the zach king comparison makes sense

that same trick timing but with a phone and no crew

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@smaaaliy worth checking that score once the sample size grows

+-12 margin means the ranking could still shuffle before it settles

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@shiqway92 a 3d printer is literally a money printer

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@antpalkin chinese are always one step ahead...

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@antpalkin sheesh

I almost fell in love

[Banff @Banff_eth]

@gippp69 $5k/year burned on subscriptions is the number that makes the p40 route actually make sense

retired datacenter cards being that cheap now is wild