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AI is the Enronification of the entire stock market. The reason why S&P 500 earnings estimates keep going up is because for the first time in history, capex expense is now being counted as revenue in Wall Street's forward earnings estimates. If Wall Street was counting AI capex expense at the same rate as they are counting the capex revenue, then earnings would be negative. #Economics #Politics…
Goodhart Firewall A Goodhart firewall is a conceptual or structural boundary used in complex systems, AI alignment, and economics to prevent Goodhart’s Law—the principle that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. It separates optimization processes from raw metric evaluation to stop gaming, distortion, and reward hacking. #ML #Philosophy
"The longer I live, the more I am inclined to the belief that this earth is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum." --George Bernard Shaw #Comedy
AI Mode Collapse #ML #Comedy
Task time that models complete with 50% success rate Source - #ML
AI Hallucinations #ML #Comedy
a11y #Design
"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892) #Narrative #Book #Dragon
Notice #fnord #Comedy
This is not a pipe Dick #Comedy #Philosophy
The Farside #Comedy
I can't tell. Is this the distant past or the imminent future? #Comedy
It is Samsara. It is Nirvana. It is both and neither. Nothing ever happens #Mindful #Philosophy #Comedy #fnord
Chinese Pyramids #China #History
"Lilly’s message on solid-state intelligence " - From John C. Lilly’s “The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography”, 1978 In the isolation tank with K, John received a new message as follows: What is the purpose of Man’s existence on the planet Earth? Man is a form of biological life which is sustained in the presence of water. A very large fraction of his body, like that of other organisms on the…
"The good news is it is very difficult to actually get stuck. The action space is always larger then it appears. Action produces Information." - Max Hodak #Philosophy #Business #Design #Technology
Leopold 3.0 A young man with an emperor’s first name loses thirty billion dollars, cancels his honeymoon, marries the chief of staff to Anthropic’s CEO, burns the public book to keep a private Anthropic stake, and buys a chip foundry, all in one week. He has a peasant’s last name: no royal blood, but behaves exactly like a cloaked lineage would. Start with the name. Aschenbrenner - Ash-burner. In…
Good Morning Treepeople #Nature #Schweiz
A Historic Jubilee: The Templars Today Enter St. Peter's Basilica for the First Time Rome, May 4, 2025 #History #Cryptocracy
T he Receptive (K'un, I Ching Hexagram 2) The Receptive is a foundational concept in the I Ching. It consists entirely of broken yin lines, symbolizing the earth, devotion, and nurturing capacity. As the complement to The Creative, it teaches strength through yielding, patience, and support rather than force. Approach (Hexagram 19) APPROACH has supreme success. Perseverance furthers. When the…
Quote by Victor-Émile Michelet in "Le secret de la Chevalerie", 1930 #Narrative #History #Cryptocracy
Good morning treepeople #Nature #Schweiz
Are you suffering from LLM-Induced Psychosis? #ML #Comedy
Popol Vuh Illustrations - by Guillermo Grajeda Mena #Magic #History #Culture #Psychedelic #Art
Popol Vuh #Magic #History #Culture #Psychedelic