They say that Ernest Hemingway was out drinking at the bar with his contemporaries when one of them bet him $20 that he couldn’t write a terrifying horror story using only 6 words. Hearing this, Hemingway grabbed a pen and wrote on a napkin, “Tweet translated from Hebrew by Grok”
If I am @sundarpichai, I will bury all competing foundational models in negative gross margin tokens for eternity.
I will NEVER take my foot off the pricing gas: to merely compete, I will force you to dilute your equity into oblivion.
Sam will drown in my tsunami of COGS. $GOOG
You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation to the capital stack. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What are you picking?
King of Sweden figured this out 500+ years ago to price cargo value for import taxes
1. You declare the assessed value of your asset, you pay the tax on your assessed value
2. The king has the right to buy the asset at the declared value
Lindy
Economists are already writing about this. Current generations of economics grad students are essentially being radicalized into anti-rent-seeking jihadists by Acemoglu, Friedman, Mokyr, Stigler, Glaeser, and Hsieh. It is glorious.
ME: fuck, this spreadsheet is going to be unreadable
ENENTARZI (Sumerian accountant whose soul is imprisoned in my Excel program): O great scribe, by the blessing of Nadu, perhaps a pivot table?
ME: hey thanks man
ENENTARZI: Truly this afterlife is a wondrous and blessed one
FIFA having its corrupt way with every single city and country its ever touched until suddenly being shocked and stunned into submission by a final, even more corrupt thing: New Jersey