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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 3h

A lot of people who are not scientists love to break out the word “polycrisis” but global warming is one of the most monocausal crisis ever: the vibrational modes of CO2 have an absorption peak around the same wavenumber the earth’s surface has a reflection peak at. We’ve known this for centuries!

Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 14h

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 11h

The Bezos one in particular rings hollow to me, from what I’ve heard from people who work with him he is actually the insane autocratic detail-oriented micromanager that Elon LARPs as sometimes.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 15h

In my experience self-made rich people can maintain a decent grasp on reality until about $25-50 million or so, and at that point they usually lose it. Heirs maybe $10 million is the normality threshold.

ceej @ceej.online · 15h

someone with a billion dollars no longer experiences the world as 99% of humanity would recognize it, and so any “analysis” or critique of society they offer is fatally, irrevocably flawed. dracula complaining about the price of groceries

ceej @ceej.online · 18h

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

If it wasn’t incredibly obvious before that X revenue sharing is treated as a slush fund for Elon to funnel cash to his future baby mommies and favorite right wing influencers, it is explicit now.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody, even the dumbest retail punter, thinks that their 50x leverage futures or shady offshore exchange is a “safe asset” and they’re basically playing with funny money. Even stablecoins blow up all the time and the response is mostly “lmao I’ll make it back next time I guess?”

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

This is “bad for society” and has all sorts of negative downstream consequences but I don’t think it’s a systemic risk to the financial system is among them, in the same sense that sports gambling is also very bad for society but DraftKings going under isn’t the same as a run on JPM

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

Especially post-FTX the crypto ecosystem has gotten very robust and sophisticated, it’s mostly large trading firms PvP-ing each other in their quest to rip off every hapless click trader and retail pump and dumper.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

Buy the apartment building over the luxury mall! They’re clearly doing the synergies already.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think it’s that much money, especially since the specific consumption basket (nice apartment in ritzy neighborhood, luxury shopping sprees, Michelin private chef, discreet protection agents) is functionally identical to what Mistress #27 gets, so you have economies of scale

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a huge sicko and love Act 1 of BG3 for this reason, you have decent first strike capabilities but will get pasted in any large or long fight so you need to be careful sneaking around and dropping chandeliers on people and picking your battles. Wish the entire game played like the goblin camp.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 2d

I have heard (albeit secondhand) that Cantor is already active in this market.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 2d

1 month SPX chart is straight from a Taleb book lmao

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 3d

How did Milei fuck this up specifically with a peso crisis. Wasn’t devaluing the peso literally the first thing he did when he got into office? Everybody knows you take the day 1 hit and blame it on the prior guy, c’mon.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 3d

Bruh