ÉLI SOKHN☉

A film director with 2B+ views on my work. Passionate about sci-fi, artificial intelligence, and the human condition. I get political and trolly on Twitter.

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The real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish. - Terence McKenna

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@gedamtekle ready

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@zulkarnaimx YouTube

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@Zephyr_hg ideas

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@spwfeijen PRO

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@Whizz_ai prompt

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@ai_artworkgen this is sick.. I tried it but Im getting a cartoonish effect.. what prompt did you use?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 2016 Yemeni engineer Muhammad Abd Allah Hussein Awas presented this design that would regulate a continuous flow of traffic without traffic lights using combined 'half round-abouts'

[source: https://t.co/3zDLPipYaM]
https://t.co/rfv3iW1b0F

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"The measure of wealth is freedom.
The measure of health is lightness.
The measure of intellect is judgment.
The measure of wisdom is silence.
The measure of love is peace."

@naval

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@harari_yuval @lexfridman america was so close to become that 3 years ago

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

In Israel, there is only one check on the power of the government, and it is currently under threat.

From a recent podcast conversation with @lexfridman, to discuss human nature, consciousness, power, and conspiracy. Filmed on July 13, 2023.

https://t.co/WJ3TX52TFb

[Michael Sikand 🦑 @michaelsikand]

Christopher Nolan's movies would be nothing without the secret billionaire who backed them.

Thomas Tull abandoned law school to start a chain of laundromats.

To increase profits he created a computer system that changed prices depending on demand.

After joining an Atlanta investment firm focused on entertainment, and rising to President, Thomas noticed something.

The rise of DVD sales made investing in movies more profitable than ever before.

But the lack of professional capital in Hollywood was puzzling.

Thomas describes the time he spent raising $500M for Legendary Pictures as the hardest of his career.

When the job was done, Thomas had essentially built a bank lending money to moviemakers.

Legendary funded films would go on to generate over $13B at the box office.

The Hangover, 300, Jurassic World the list goes on.

Thomas was known to lean on data analytics and AI to cut marketing costs and predict the success of movies.

But his stroke of genius was an early bet on a young Christopher Nolan.

As the financier behind "The Dark Knight Trilogy" and "Inception", he made 50% of their multi-billion dollar profits.

He even has a Cameo in "The Dark Knight Rises," in the owner’s suite at the Steelers stadium filming site.

Fun fact: he sold another company to Acrisure (the new name bearer of what was Heinz Field).

It makes sense because he’s actually owns a stake in the Steelers.

Seeing the rising demand for American movies in China, Thomas sold Legendary pictures to a Chinese entertainment company for $3.5B.

That’s only $500M less than what Disney paid for Star Wars.

Flush with riches, Tull explains in hindsight he was always more interested in analytics than movie making.

Now Tull is doubling down on a new thesis.

VC's and institutional are warming up to investing in American defense startups.

He's all in on the sector, backing a variety of AI defense companies like one that enables drone swarms to operate autonomously.

[Stephanie J Kent @covertress]

If they came here, something had to fly.

But, I want you to think about this...

Something with the capabilities of traveling light years, not showing a heat signature, the energy capabilities of that, that would put the Pentagon out of business. We wouldn't be fighting these worthless wars overseas, over oil, and American boys and girls wouldn't be dying. It would put the war pigs out of business and they'd have to go somewhere else and I'm all for that.

— Rep. Tim Burchett

#ufotwitter #uaphearings #UFOHearings

[UAP James @UAPJames]

Rep. Tim Burchett and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna talk with reporters following the Congressional UAP Hearing and discuss non-human intelligence in relation to UAP, as well as reverse engineering programs.

#ufotwitter #ufo #uap

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This painting has no brush strokes — it is made from over 2,000,000 individual dots of colour.

And though this may look like nothing more than a sunny afternoon in Paris, it has a much darker hidden meaning...

[John Bull @garius]

Thread on history of X dot com and Melon Husk will have to wait until tomorrow as need to stream.

But in the meantime here is a quick story called:

That Time Elon Totalled his McLaren F1 While Trying to Show Off in Front of Peter Thiel 🧵/1

[John Bull @garius]

To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.

And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.

Here's how that happened. 1/🧵

[Moritz Kremb @moritzkremb]

This is crazy.

Characters in this video game are hooked up to an AI language model.

Now watch this player go around and tell them that they are an AI in a video game...

Makes us question our own reality doesn't it?

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Spend more time making the big decisions. There are basically three really big decisions you make in your early life: where you live, who you’re with, and what you’re doing."

@naval

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my brother this is an L take

[Sam Altman @sama]

everything 'creative' is a remix of things that happened in the past, plus epsilon and times the quality of the feedback loop and the number of iterations.

people think they should maximize epsilon but the trick is to maximize the other two.