Read more about how short-sellers could profit from Rug Pulls here:

open.substack.com/pub/gautamr/p/…

Bitcoin, stablecoins, and memecoins aren’t the same.

Memecoins are rife with fraud and need oversight.

But the market should also allow short-sellers, who have proven to be effective whistleblowers in traditional markets.

Damn apparently there aren’t any official crypto exchanges on bsky

Let me Profit from Rugpulls Short Selling on Exchanges is the Missing Tool to Fix Crypto’s Altcoin Problem

LET ME PROFIT FROM MEMECOIN RUGPULLS!!

open.substack.com/pub/gautamr/...

You can pay your taxes to me, I’ll take that money off you hands nw

This is objectively funny

Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom - Jiddu Krishnamurti

tldr: Michael should’ve gaslit Eleanor into believing she was wrong rather than admit she found the correct answer

The real flaw in Michael’s plan isn’t that Eleanor (or Jason, in that one instance) figures out the truth, it is that he fails to convince Eleanor that her thinking is wrong and make her believe that the original setup is actually the good place. That would have been the ultimate trick.

Eleanor only thinks she is in the Bad Place because she has never experienced the traditional Bad or Good Place. She thinks that emotional torture is a foundational element of the bad place, which it is — but she does not know this for a fact, she is making an assumption, a hypothesis.

I love ‘The Good Place’! And while I don’t want to be that guy, I have always been a bit perplexed that in the over 800 reboots, Michael has never been able to convince Eleanor that she is in the ‘Good Place’.

It’s all about momentum, doing a little ,every day, builds up; just keep showing and making whatever progress you can, it builds up

Zizek once said that ideology never truly disappears; it simply goes into hiding, only to resurface later. It seems to me that business faces a similar issue—unresolved issues from the past inevitably find their way back

Oh, I’m just trying to seize the day

black cat, white cat, it doesn’t matter so long as it catches the rat

I recently explored how Markov Chains and existentialism intersect, comparing personal identity to these chains. Our past shapes us, but it shouldn't define our future. Present actions are key to shaping who we become.

I don’t think we are in disagreement

Have you ever noticed how someone could become completely wrapped up in politics or something else? A slow and methodical change until they won’t stop bringing it up? Things subtly taking over someones life has always happened, although I will admit, not to such a novel degree. 3/3

Nowadays, because of LLMs, more than anger and anxiety can be manipulated — but only because LLMs can allow for more nuianced and direct conversations that make you feel a certain way (even horny) so long as they keep making you use the app and paying them money. 2/3

Her reliance on the tool that speaks back to her (LLM) is a tool based on giving her information, thats what manipuates her emotions. Prior to LLMs, anger and anxiety were easy to control, look at how the news (controlled by billionaires) shaped the narrative of the war on terror 1/3

While some high school and middle school students would do their summer readings, I think it would be a fair assumption that some would not. If people don’t want to engage with books critically, it is very hard for someone to force them to think critically, unless you beat them with a stick

Okay, so AI is altering behaviour in a specific way, and that AI is controlled by the oligarchs, leading to our perception of reality changing, is that correct?

How is AI altering our behaviour, such that propaganda or misinformation was not altering our behavior beforehand?

Socrates was just a curious guy, don’t have to mock him like that

Truth has always been molded or suppressed to reinforce the ideas for the ruling class ( that’s what propogranda is)

Imagine this, a slot machine with AI companion encouraging you to gamble !

I really enjoyed the concept of “Her” especially, the idea that AI, to an extent, can teach us how to love each other. However, I absolutely agree with you, that lying to her husband about her finances is mind boggling, especially because Leo isn’t real!

Being bored is a power motivator to something unique

I don’t think there is a hidden kabal that makes it so that people don’t think critically, but if you look at the education that most people are given, they have not had the need to engage in heavy and time consuming skill of critical thinking.

Engaging with long form content (that does not have subway surfers in the background) is hard for many tho. They haven’t built the skill. Univeristy Students are very adept at engaging with paragraphs, but struggle to engage with the whole book, or so univerities say.

Through Run Clubs and Grocery - Dating Spaces, there is an idea that as technology demands more of our attention, the people who are really cool will be enjoying the real world, including books, rather than spending all there time online, which is a facinating future imo

Quantum Stocks Bounce Back: IonQ, D-Wave, and Rigetti Draw Heavy Investor Interest IonQ, D-Wave, and Rigetti rebound as Nvidia tempers quantum expectations and Alphabet stirs optimism

finance.yahoo.com/news/quantum...

D-wave dropped 36% after Jensen’s comments — apparently some people bought the dip. A return in 20 years isn’t bad, especially as the technology will keep progressing throughout, and governments around the world are subsidizing in Quantum Technology.