“I disagree with some of these people that keep going back to the fact that LLMs are just token tumblers. I'm not saying that they are alive. However, to me, it makes me 100 times more productive. So it is in fact a very, very good token tumbler. And sometimes the tokens it tumbles are hallucinations. And sometimes those hallucinations are actually something new. … and once in a billion tokens, that something new can be something better than what existed. “
“Picks and shovels; that’s where I am pursuing success in this gold rush. “
if I win then I win, and if I lose then I win
opportunities to help people
ask why until they don’t know”
“Treat every on of your dollars as little workers that you send off to work every day. And each of them make a little money for you. If you spend one then it stops working for you and starts working for someone else. Debt is double that. You have to pay every dollar you borrow their wages every day.”
“ dress for where you’re going not where you’ve been.” “ dress for where you’re going not where you’re coming from.”
“don’t take advice from anyone not excelling in the subject area of your concern.”
“In the 2025th year after Jesus died, modern technology; including 40 story rockets that take things to orbit and come back and land on earth, computers in our hand that do trillions of operations per second, humans living in orbit, and artificial intelligence being available to everyone in the world, are all bigger miracles than what was written in the Bible.”
“if people don’t hate you, you have not achieved significant greatness and will not leave an impact in this world”
Forced elegance; Choose poverty to build elegance
“The value of the “oracle” is inherently tied to the seeker’s ability to understand and apply the knowledge.”
“The best token is no token… Latent Neurolese”
“People that tell me they dont judge are totally judging me.”
“In relationships, it's not the count of the grievances, only the final one. “
“I find beauty everywhere, it’s just easier in some people.”
“A team members should be recognized, rewarded and promoted. C team members should be let roll off or otherwise removed. B team members either need to be brought up to the A team’s standards or pushed out. C team members are a poison to the team. B team members add high viscosity, a drag on everyone. A team members are the fuel.”
your # doesn’t work. What good is your # if your money doesn’t work
“If you work or run fast towards retirement then you will find a fast death. The things you want to do in retirement, do them today.”
the race is being chased by everybody. The last may be the hunter, the leader The hunted
“Complacency is easier than change. Focus on proactive self improvement, life-long learning, and constant embetterment.”
“Leaps in fundamental understanding can be found using different perspectives on the same observations.”
aphorism "Probably lost in the simulation."
“naturally evolved physics (NEP) and resource-constrained simulation (RCS) are the yin and Yang of evolution versus simulation”
“Happiness is love because love is happiness.”
“First; Build the machine that builds the machines. Once you create ASI, it will do the rest.”
“It only works if I believe it.”
the most important thing in my life
Few people understand the power of saying no
Quantum mechanics killed determinism
better themselves
“Wealth is a calculation inclusive of your health, family, friends, and your feeling of purpose in this world”
Dumb people don’t know they are dumb, what a gift that must be
“The essence of existence is measured by life’s connections, accomplishments, and growth while understanding that life is finite. Be comfortable taking uncomfortable risks. Focus on your health; physically through exercise and mentally through stoicism. Then try and be more connected, immersed and interactive in your relationships with your partner, family and friends. Focus on a career that brings fulfillment to your life, then on building wealth that is lifestyle sustaining through passive income providing future financial security. Have hobbies that challenge and fill the creative gaps you don’t get from your career. Travel and experience this wonderful world while you are young enough to enjoy it. A good death only comes after a good life.”
“These things that seem shiny and new, hopefully optimistic, worthy of our effort, energy and precious time are just our minds tricking us, filling in the unknowns with checkmarks. It’s a fallacy in the limit, as in the end they are not what we want or need to fill that empty space. To fill that lifelong friendship and partnership. We both let our minds trick us into something that is unwortherly not us. “
At a distance everyone looks the same
If its inescapable or they follow your around: pain level 9
more difficult
discovered
“Even Picasso needed paint to work with”
“Getting older is not the only way to die. Getting older is the only way to stay alive.”
“Once AI reaches a few standard deviations above humans cognitive horizon, humans will no longer be able to understand their logic. The same way most humans would be hopelessly lost stuck in a conversation with Einstein on general relativity.”
“Money can’t buy intelligence, integrity, or self-esteem. For the latter two it’s paradoxical.”
“ Death is the most certain part of living”
“I find it incredibly interesting that everyone thinks they are the protagonist”
“I find it incredibly interesting that everyone thinks they are the interesting.”
“I recently discovered that I have a cognitive bias to my cognitive biases”
“Philosophically I don't believe bringing the state of Florida into a relationship adds any specific value other than tax benefits.”
“Hobbies fill gaps in career aspirations or the need to create and be productive that you are not getting from your job or elsewhere. All very important to psychological health.”
“Most people have the most amazing story inside of them, but most other people don’t take the time to listen.”
“Comfort, safety and security originates from within”
“Every drink removes one filter layer, removing 3-4 layers exposes the real personality and motives hidden behind the masquerade mask”
“The future is an emergent property of the decisions we make now.”
robots, need artificial intelligence as much as artificial intelligence needs robots
Life’s most valuable asset is found in relationships
“the best doesn’t have to be perfect”
“and the great tragedy, for there is no loneliness like the loneliness of having your light unmet” (ARIA POPOVA) “I will say there is a greater loneliness, and that’s the loneliness of being in a relationship with someone you do not love. The real tragedy is when you’re with the wrong person you’ll never meet the right person.”
“You seem very intelligent. I don’t accuse very many people of having that trait.”
“Being attracted to someone is an emergent property. It’s not one thing, it’s a combination of many attributes that, only when combined, produces this new emergent property of attractiveness.”
“Attractiveness is an emergent property as the individual qualities do not have it on their own.”
“The relationship time travel test; a sign of a fabulous relationship is when you’re so immersed in a date that you don’t notice anything or anyone else and all the sudden you look up and the restaurants empty it’s just the two of you left. It’s like you traveled through time.”
“The Theater curtain test is when you’re watching a movie, if you notice the theater curtains, it generally was not a good movie.”
“The best way to dispose of radioactive material is to sell it to someone else”
“Some experts say that intelligence and conciseness is born out of complexity; I don’t find most people very complex.”
determine the value. I know it’s right there in front of me, I just don’t know the decoding process
“I’m single-handedly trying to keep chivalry alive, one door at a time.”
“You should not have to tell someone that which is self evident”
“Money doesn’t matter once you have enough not to matter”
“The world is full of people that used to love someone. The fact that there are more people that used to love someone, than are in love, is a reflection of cancel culture and unmanaged expectations.”
“Our relationship has all of the right ingredients. It’s up to us to put them together to make the perfect entree.”
“All of our decisions, good and bad, led us to where we are right now. Any changes in the past would change our present, and not always for the better. So be weary of regretting or wishing changes on past decisions, mistakes, and unfortunate situations as they forged your present.”
“When two people who bring each other up let go, some will fall.”
“When people laugh at you it doesn’t always mean you’re funny”
I don’t remember your name, but you remind me of a friendly face”
“being hurt in a relationship and carrying that over to a future relationship in some capacity is metaphorically the same to a shoulder injury. The next time you go to lift something even though it had nothing to do with your original injury, and you know that, you still lift it very slow and carefully the first few times.”
“I saw the birth of the computer science field, and due to artificial intelligence, I will likely witness the death of it.”
“Don’t avoid or embrace stress. Too little and you are walking toward your grave, too much and you’re running to the same ending. The optimal amount of stress promotes health, happiness and longevity.”
“Love is holding the other end of the measuring tape”
“The glow that comes off of us, that seems to impact countless people every time we go out in public, is in fact an emergent property. “
“The success of a system (Relationship, Family, Engineering) relates more to emergent that individual discrete properties. For relationships it’s functional emergent properties, for engineering it’s functional And non-functional “
“ some people like me because of my people skills or my ability to write software. It’s really my skills between the sheets , Google sheets and excel sheets. The real trick is you just keep experimenting do you figure out what works for both , both Google sheets and excel. in the end all the fancy things you do under the sheets aren’t what’s important what people see is that they’re happy with the outcome”
“I treat every day like I traded a day of my life for it. I always try and be better and better myself which doesn’t just help me today; but every day for the rest of my life.”
“In life we can not predict the outcome, only the probability of a particular outcome.”
“Don’t measure me by wealth measure me by my family, measure me by my friends, measure me by my accomplishments in life.”
“searching for a life partner is a little like shopping for clothes. You see something from across the room and go in for a closer look. Upon closer inspection the item is obviously not what you were shopping for so you move on. It’s not that you hate the item. You don’t even know the item. It’s not personal. You are just looking for a better fit, so you move on.”
“You shouldn’t fear rejection or someone not liking you; that would just mean they like someone else more which is statistically likely.”
“I only enter into multiyear relationships, unfortunately more recently they only last a few months.”
“Wealth is a requirement to provide for a family and excess capability should not be shamed”
“In every family there’s always at least one person who over exaggerates everything. In my family there’s like 300 of them”
“A successful relationship equals their mistakes minus your mistakes. Zero is the optimum, and has a higher non zero chance of success. But the real takeaway is; you can only control your own mistakes”
“the gym and work have one thing in common; the dumbbells make me work on my control muscles”
“Based on your repeated interruptions, I infer that you do not value my input on this topic, and as such I concede. However, as I am the subject matter expert here, might I recommend active listening instead.”
“ yeah, your mental illness was kind of like your middle name, I didn’t know what it was, but I knew that you had one“ Dustin on Taylor Tomlinson’s act. “But now that your talking it’s like a bright light creating a silhouette of your psychosis”
“Lying to strangers has little impact on your life, lying to friends will hand a moderate impact, lying to your family will have the second highest influence on your life, and lying to yourself will have the largest impact.”
“ It was given to me by my grandfather on my parents side as a gift celebrating my lost virginity, if he hadn’t given it to me I would probably be alive right now”
“Why does it take so long to learn patients!”
“I generally don’t like arrogant people, but tend to love their confidence.”
“I used to be rich, I hope I can stay above that waterline.”
“I don’t believe in keeping dogs as captives. I think in the distant future it will be viewed as mean and barbaric in hindsight.”
“When you improve yourself today, you are not just improving the things you do today, you’re improving every single thing that you do for the rest of your life.”
“Build conviction before you build a position in an investment“
“ The world needs a bad guy just like a book or movie needs an antagonist”
“I love when a girl forgets why they dislike me, and I hate when I forget why I don’t like them.”
“short term thinking and goals are small steps to nowhere.”
“the only time I was wrong is when I thought I had made a mistake.”
“retirement is when you do what you want to do every single day. This may involve activities that other people consider work.”
“on level of skill, sex is like installing tile, the first time you do it you gonna make a mess of it and likely have to apologize to somebody. Hopefully they’ll let you try it again. “
“Advice is better than encouragement”
“ at the end of your life you can’t buy time back not with all the money in the world“
“if your not looking for perfection, you are less likely to find it.”
“Don’t chase women, chase your dreams and find success, women will follow as happiness, confidence and success attracts them.”
“I’m sorry for any bad behavior last night, I was a little drunk, it probably will happen again.”
“Death is when you wake up one less time than you fall asleep.”
“Just because something hasn’t been proven false, doesn’t make it true.”
“Pay raises to adjust for high inflation can fuel the inflation spiral by adding buying power to the system.”
“Marriages we’re not designed to last forever despite the sales pitch. When the average life expectancy was 27 and life was exceptionally hard it was a necessity. for instance if marriages lasted only 1 year the success rate would approach 100%, and if it was 1000 years and we lived that long due to modern medicine the success rate would approach zero.”
“it is a self injustice to be proud of one’s insufficiency”
“there is no such thing as self worth, only value. The value one’s self adds to society.”
“At it’s core success is materially based on luck, and the harder one works the luckier they get.”
“Yes Ma’am; wait what, sorry I have Gendervitus, it prevents me from correctly identifying gender.”
“ A relationship is like the way it functions, you never know where you are until you test it.”
“Ones value to others and society are based on accountability and responsibility. Starting with the responsibility to take care of yourself by adding value to society, then if you have and leftover resources to take responsibility for a family that’s even better, and if they have more leftover they can start a business and add to society. “
“on average most people are average”
“war is a winner take all game for grownups played by juveniles”
“ Blackout drinking is when your brain starts dreaming even if you’re not asleep.”
“You should value a public company or an asset class like crypto by (units_purchased * individual_unit_purchased_price) as opposed to (units_outstanding * last_unit_purchased). Call it Purchased Capitalization Value. This should be measured in Real and Nominal as inflation needs to be factored over long durations.”
“when I tell women that I’m a one girl guy, they always wrongfully assume it’s them”
“I am jealous of all of those who were able to give up, just enough. to retire”
“Will Covid Kids be a reference to the kids that lack social skills because they were home schooled through their high school years, or are they the ones that took the Vaccine and are have post vaccine syndrome. “
“Out of pain and determination was forged the greatest engineer the world has ever seen; Elon Musk”
“The number women at a table is the square root of the simultaneous conversations”
“A Schedule is the only thing keeping time from consuming your whole day”
“Alcohol exposes one’s true personality by removing the filters”
“If you are accumulating shares and have a long investment window then you actually want the lowest stock price for the longest time. I realize this is difficult psychologically, but at the limit you will find the global maximum for your DCA accumulated portfolio by having the lowest average entry price. “
“The people who truly research, understand and have ultra high conviction on crypto scare me to death. To me they are flat earthers or Scientologist. I have tolerance to their beliefs, but that’s all I can muster.”
“I should get your number in case something happens to my girlfriend. …just kidding…. I don’t have a girlfriend.”
“Ideologically I don’t think one should form another into what we think we want; however we have an obligation to communicate just what that might look like.”
“I would like to propose a Marriage metaphor; Buying stock is analogous to getting Married. It’s relatively easy to enter but you have to make sure you have long term conviction. Selling stock is the divorce, and with it comes lots of consequences including taxation, separation anxiety and FOMO. If you have true long term conviction in a stock or potential mate, just get married and stay married until such time as the thesis and thus your conviction changes.”
“I kind of respect people who are so transparent in their self interest”
“ One who does not learn has no advantage over one who cannot learn.” Trentism 2022 “ One who does not use their intelligence has no advantage over the unintelligent.”
“ I really hate when people confuse me with someone that cares”
“Married couples accumulate almost twice the wealth when compared to single people. And then they lose half in the the divorce “
“I want to invoke Occams Razor here; the simplest explanation is usually the correct one”
“If you sell your Tesla stock, where will you put that money? I will hold Tesla until the answer to this question is not Tesla.”
“you are either running for the win or walking toward the exit. There is no middle ground.”
“Everything bad in your life is temporary and everything good in your life is temporary so you have to win and lose every single day.”
“your just talking out loud, or as sane people say; talking”
“what hums and is worth about $100M?”
“I could do nothing for the rest of my life and it would still be too much”
“The chemical bonding of love, fades with age”
“You can prolong your day in the sun by raising to new heights”
“Stay in perfect shape and always look your best because you can’t like someone’s personality from across the room.”
“To not care what anybody else thinks is actually in the definition of sociopath.”
“It’s completely normal to hate on people more successful than you, however it’s better to learn from them.”
“Men age better than women because men focus on appearance and women focus on personality. It’s hard to know someone has a great personality from across the room.”
“Once you have food and shelter, the difference between want and need is a reflection of your self control.”
“ If I lost everything and had to start over, then my money would have that new girlfriend smell”
“Is happiness a lack of regret”
“I’ll be a gentleman until it’s time not to be a gentleman”
“I was married once is why I have not been married twice”
“Wealth is when your resources exceeds your lifetime consumption needs thus your focus shifts to capital allocation and legacy”
“After your wealth exceeds the needs of consumption, you should focus on capital allocation and legacy”
“I love my kids more than life but not at the expense of it”
“Integrity is the one thing people cannot take from you. You have to create and destroy it yourself. “
“Millennials exiting the workforce after paper windfalls is a great example of “the labor shortage problem”. People rich on indexes and crypto are no longer part of our economy and this needs to be a small portion of the populace or it becomes poisonous.”
“if you dont take control of every hour of every day, life will run you the fuck over”
“ When girls don’t like me it confuses me, and when girls like me, it confuses me more”
“ You’ll find that older movies have a much higher production value”
“when is $10 really $0. When it’s born from a SPAC.”
“Evolution is a very slow process, more for some than others.”
“There is good in everyone, sometimes it’s just harder to find.”
“I work out 7 days a week, I invest 5 days a week, I’m a father 4 days a week, and I live every day”
“When you look in the mirror all you can see are your flaws, that’s not what I see”
“Just like that rare berry from the Yukon peninsula, I’m a flavor that not everyone appreciates”
“Remember what David Lee said; Tesla and TSLA are two separate entities. Tesla; a business with strong fundamentals growing at 50-60% YoY for 5-10 years, lead by the protagonist from an epic James Bond movie except he is trying to save the world instead of destroying it. TSLA; an equity driven by a market that rarely acts rationally, and can act irrational longer than you can remain solvent. “
“Asking someone’s age is just as rude as asking their net worth; both represent value accumulated over time.”
“Limitations drive creativity”
“ In 2021 it’s not the have or have Nots it’s the Tesla or Tesla nots”
“ There’s either no god or a god that lets really fucked up shit happen. “
“I will live as a billionaire, but won’t die one.”
“If you can see the less fortunate, then you haven’t hit bottom, it just seems that way”
“If you have room to fall, then you haven’t hit bottom. “
Post Tesla AI Day with Tesla Bot Reveal; new mission statement. “Our mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to a sustainable future.”
“Narcissism is people on the left side of the bell curve bullying people on the right side.”
“There is a distinct difference between ignorance, stupidity, and bias; Using them incorrectly it’s a byproduct of one of them.”
“One may or may not have more money than me, but if you’re talking about wealth, I have a few additional questions; such as about your health, your family, your friends, and your feeling of purpose in this world”
“Apart from sex, everything in life takes longer than planned”
“Don’t water board me with your shitfukery”
“Your time is your most valuable resource, use it wisely.”
“Some people make us better in ways that are not immediately clear to us”
“Some people live to work, some work to live, I do neither; I live for my life.”
“Everyone is always focusing on the accuracy of the answer, but I find most errors in the quality of the question.”
“The thought behind that was that all relationships end, literally 100% of them. For some lucky enough, death ends the relationship. But for most it's 0 to 7 years.”
“I really care about what people think about me; is something I've never said.”
“I find it interesting that most people really want love and happiness but rarely give it a proper chance. “
“I’m a little much for some people.”
“No one knows exactly how much money they have to the penny or dollar, it is however that unit of unknowns that correlate their level of wealth.”
“The people who fear death die a little each day, the people who don’t, only die once.”
“If you never accept anything but the best, sometimes that’s what you’ll get.”
“You shouldn’t stress about things you can’t control, and definitely don’t stress about things you can control.”
“In the big picture you’re done anyway, you just don’t know it yet. So make sure you have fun along the way.”
“In the big picture all relationships are done anyway, they just don’t know it yet. So make sure you have fun along the way.”
“Maintain low expectations, medium hopes, and high standards.”
“Everyone you have a relationship with in life has a purpose; some use you, some test your beliefs, some teach you, and every once in a while, someone will bring out the best in you.”
“Life isn’t always straightforward. Happiness or life satisfaction is the sum of the parts. My philosophy is that the more successful you become the less you can justify low quality. If a high percentage of your life is low quality (Low frequency people, low quality activities, etc.) what do you expect your life’s output to be?”
“Define High Quality People: People who are career focused, spend their time on quality activities, have high moral standards and are reasonably intelligent.”
“I’ve died many times, but luckily none of them have been fatal, and that’s just love’s entry fee.”
“When we look at a specific equity chart we somehow must remove the macro market influence from the data before technical analysis.”
“The definition of success in itself cannot limit the options to reach it. “
“ definitions of success are inherently transient, as reaching them nullifies the goal. “
“You should not look at the stock price as a representation of the value of a company. You have to value a growth company on what you think it will be worth in the future. Today’s stock price is merely a reflection of what other people think it is worth today.”
“Empathy is far more valuable than Sympathy”
“If your drunk, please don’t drive home. Drive here. ;)”
“Don't lose faith in this world it's the only one you have”
Elon Time : eventually but usually late Tesla Time: sandbaggingly early In A Tesla: it’s here before we even realized we wanted or needed it
“A persons true value is measured in net personal worth. How much value does one see in themselves.”
“Based on my clear knowledge of my own faults, I don’t see why any girl likes me; Until I look around at every other guy in the place.”
The Untasted Chocolate: “I like to leave one chocolate in the box that I truly believe would make a great girlfriend, never tasting or otherwise examining it’s true quality, just to give me hope there’s some good in this world.”
“The only consistency in the L3 Harris Covid communications, is the inconsistency.”
Long Term: Investing
“Media has no authority over information.”
“The stock market can be a bit of a chess game sometimes and everybody is looking at the pawn moving. Of much greater importance are the index funds and shadow funds that will robotically buy shares in TSLA in a regular cadence starting Dec 21 2020 and NEVER ENDING. Being in the S&P 500 adds TSLA to everyone’s 401(k) every paycheck. This Matters.”
Intelligent hard-working people are harder to find than one might think
“Who likes dogs better, certainly not the people who keep them captive. “
“Quality is an experience, not a price point”
“Tesla is a shining star of American engineering, technology and most importantly Manufacturing. I would like to officially welcome manufacturing back to the United States. We have missed you.”
“For leaders; Intelligence and Hard work are leading indicators, success is a trailing indicator”
“Regarding Tesla: the competition is coming and always will be”
“Societies goal is to enslave you. It will enslave you financially thus enslaving your most valuable resource which is time.”
“Is it better to outsource or vertically integrate? The answer is irrefutably as vertical as Tesla’s trajectory.”
“Familiarity diminishes beauty”
“Without innovative growth companies such as Tesla, Apple, and Amazon; investing in the stock market would be a zero sum game”
“ Tesla stock price is the only true pseudo random number generator”
“Resolve is soluble in alcohol”
“The universe is fundamentally probabilistic”
“If you study and work hard you are not guaranteed success, but if you don’t; you are almost guaranteed failure”
“Once you really retire, you’re just walking toward your grave.”
“If you don’t like the way you look naked, I probably won’t either. “
“ I care how people feel, but not what they think “
“Losing is the only proof you tried” or “Failing is the only proof you tried”
“What is so important about age? Some like less mature some like more.”
“Life is like a traffic circle, some effort is required to break the routine”
“Every day you workout, you age less than a day”
“Not much people can do about their IQ. Apart from lowering it.”
Happiness is not perfect until it’s shared. Love need not be perfect
Even my faults are a work in progress!
Relativistic constraint: v_x^2 + v_t^2 = c^2 Economic constraint: T_work + T_leisure = T_total Bridge Equation: tau = t * sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2) Which gives the wage: W(v) = R * t * sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2) Both are conservation laws forcing allocation along a fixed budget. The genius move was recognizing that since both have time as a fundamental axis, you could potentially overlay them.”
“When you look in the mirror all you can see are your flaws, that’s not what other people see”
“There’s a fine line between narcissism, and greatness “
"Satisfaction is elusive in the face of too many options"