Aftab Singh

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[Aftab Singh @affalytics]

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[Aftab Singh @affalytics]

@MW4Liberty Apollo program cancellations closing hopes of a new land frontier. That comp gap went into land values.

[Aftab Singh @affalytics]

Statistical projects are bubble prone because they show progress fast but take ages to get right.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

[Ben Black | Dynasty Foundry @Dynastus]

They pool resources.
They train their heirs.
They transmit culture.
They accumulate land.
They build for the good of their descendants.

Great families cooperate where others make their children reset.

[Aftab Singh @affalytics]

Britain certainly has the huge attitude problem that @andyburnham is talking about. And breaking the London stranglehold is a solid idea.

[Aftab Singh @affalytics]

An artifact showing the long standing non-racism of Brits is a 1943 training film introducing US troops to Britain during WWII. It shows an English lady casually inviting a (’colored’) US troop to tea and warns the viewer not to be alarmed as it’s normal! https://t.co/MwNuU7kw0V

[Aftab Singh @affalytics]

@DavidSacks The whole affair is Dario’s (somewhat brilliant) jailbreak on the USG for marketing. Benioff’s ‘Always, always go after Goliath’.

[Department of State @StateDept]

Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.

The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.

[Aftab Singh @affalytics]

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[Aftab Singh @affalytics]

Many millennials will live to see 2100.

Quite a few will spend more time in the 2100s than their entire adult lives so far.

Affluent males live until 92 today (women more).

Longevity increases by 2.5/y per decade.

Affluent millennials ('81-'96) will reach 120ish (2101-2117).

[David Senra @davidsenra]

"When filmmakers, industrial designers, software designers, or people in any other creative profession merely cut up and reassemble what has come before, it gives the illusion of creativity, but it is craft without art." — Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar

Strauss Zelnick on why AI won't commoditize great video games:

"You know how many mobile games get put out a year? Thousands. You know how many hits are made in a year? Zero to five. You know who makes them? We do."

"In three years, you can clone GTA, but it won't be GTA. It'd be a clone of GTA. Clones don't sell."

"All hits are by their very nature unexpected. That's the most important thing to take away. Things that are data-driven in their entirety can't be unexpected."

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Strauss Zelnick, the CEO behind Grand Theft Auto 6, is skeptical of AI creating new, original, hit video games:

“What AI is, despite the fact that there are people in Silicon Valley who don't want you to believe this, is big data sets, lots of compute, and a large language model mushed together.

Data sets by their very nature are backward-looking.

Creativity by its very nature is forward-looking.

Right now with AI we can more efficiently create a completely derivative property.

Derivative properties don't work.

Where the thread has been lost is that AI so far is really great at asset creation.

But hit creation isn't asset creation.

Asset creation is a necessary but insufficient condition for hit creation.

I would love to say that AI will make it easier and quicker and better to make hits because who would benefit more than we?

We're in that business already.

We own IP that you know.

Creating new IP is really really hard to do—with or without AI. Getting someone to buy a new video game is incredibly hard.

Getting them to buy GTA 6? Not so hard by comparison.

So it's not that I take lightly the potential benefits of new technology.

It's just that when our stock goes down by 50 points because people are like: "With AI anyone can make a video game.”

It's like anyone could make a video game last week. Anyone could make a video game five years ago.

The technology's readily available. It's been commoditized.

You know how many mobile games get put out a year?

Thousands.

You know how many hits are made in a year?

Zero to five.

You know who makes them?

We do thank you very much.”

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Fun fact Bermuda is nearly 7% golf course

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Footage of the most beautiful interception from this war so far.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This artist plays one of Vivaldi’s most difficult pieces on his accordion, a work that is normally performed by a whole orchestra

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers."

—John F. Kennedy

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

"Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made"

—J.R.R. Tolkien

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

The worst deal in history, Starmer’s Chagos sell-out, would give Mauritius veto power over US-UK use of our military base on Diego Garcia.

Given Mauritius has called for an immediate ceasefire with Iran, when Washington realises, there is no chance of this deal going through.