another way of thinking about this:
most of the money you'll make is in the future, which is why your rate of improvement matters more than you're starting point
It's crazy to think that just 80 years after we literally nuked their cities, Japan is one of our closest friends and is commemorating our Independence Day with a fireworks show, while Palestinians are still mad that their great great grandparents had to move a few miles after losing a war they started and now need to murder as many people as possible for the rest of time.
soccer is so dumb. wtf do you mean Paraguay is eliminated from the World Cup in a game where france never once showed an edge and only won cause of a red card. low-IQ sport
guys will say shit like "I gotta drink to quiet the voices"
meanwhile, all the voices in my head are saying shit like- "bro. you are amazing. life is so beautiful. everyone is proud of you. you will do great things. you are unstoppable. god wants you to win"
@thaile04 i do a ton of copywork day to day and 4.6 is the most reliable for copy. could be sonnet 5 is better with more instruction, but one-shot it was unusable.
4.8 is fine, just not as good as 4.6, plus takes longer and uses more tokens
@oliverbrocato I noticed myself creating deliverables a few months ago. 20-page docs nobody will read because all I had to do was ask Claude to write it. There’s a new form of prioritization with AI around cognitive load, instead of actual time
It’s great if you have a super common issue that puts Americans in lifelong debt. Terrible if you have anything off the beaten path. My brother had an ear problem as a kid - Canadian doctors said they could solve it but he would be deaf forever. Went to the States and they solved it with minimal hearing loss in one ear
@0xRuzy having 80mil means you can build an exceptional piece of public work (library, park, public art) for 79mil and still be a millionaire. stfu @Sethrogen and look in the mirror
Huge whitepill. Incredible proof that wealth truly is a state of mind. This guy, with $80M, feels as poor and oppressed as the average barista (and has the same ideas). It turns out money really does not make you wealthy, which sounds like sour grapes until you see it in action!
.@AviFelman: “Income inequality is not a real problem, it’s a social problem.
Because income inequality doesn’t directly lead to the degradation of the people at the bottom half of the cake. It doesn’t lead to the degradation of their lives.
What it does lead to is comparison. And comparison is a thief of joy.
But that is probably going to end up, at some point, as people continue to get wealthy in the stock markets, you’re going to see agitation for wealth taxes. You’re going to see agitation for, potentially, at some point, seizing capital.
This is why crypto still has value. This is why, at some point, I will own crypto again.
I own Zcash and a little bit of Monero as well, because I think that it’s important to have these things as a hedge.
But this is where the world is going.
And so, at the same time that you have these massive secular growth trends in all of these incredible areas, you have this dangerous political trend rising.
And those two things are inevitably going to come to a head.
And you have to be prepared. You have to understand what’s going on. You have to be paying attention to what’s happening in the world of politics, so you can start to think to yourself, okay, maybe last year, I thought we were five years off. Now we’re two years off.
With the elections in New York, maybe 2028 looks different.”
Most politics doesn’t baffle me. It might trigger me but I’m rarely at a loss for words. The mental gymnastics of Californians when you bring up the 50 BILLION spent on a train that does not exist to then say we need to give them MORE money to solve problems is incomprehensible to me. Jaw on floor