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Adam Butler
@gestaltu.bsky.social
CIO of ReSolve Asset Management
The banality of an educational objective is revealed by whether AI can deliver A+ work with naive prompting.

The goal of education in the present moment should be to teach students how to employ AI creatively to amplify the breadth & depth of their work product.
June 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Finally figured out DSPy and now realizing I need to spend the rest of my life on data curation.

Or I can just use Gemini-2.5-Pro with silly prompts and let it figure it out.
June 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Posting this thread over here because it articulates the current economic dissonance so well.

Here is the source (couldn’t find him on bsky)

Full thread text below

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April 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Reposted by Adam Butler
A great podcast discussion with #ReSolveRiffs on recent trends in wealth, asset prices, economic growth and inequality. Thanks to @gestaltu.bsky.social Richard Laterman
Link: t.ly/1OqZI
Lifting the Bottom: A Fresh Look at Wealth and Economic Progress with Daniel Waldenström
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February 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
When speculation pays off at multiples of productive enterprise - as it has for the past 15 years - it destroys the codes, norms and contracts that hold societies together. Amplified by social media, this explains most of the reasons why we’re coming apart at the seams.
December 16, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Maybe not ‘best minds’ but definitely a preponderance of ‘great minds’ are wasting life on this zero-sum garbo
best minds of my generation are working on
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December 9, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”
December 5, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Just successfully ran complete unit tests on a full-stack API so I'm officially full-stack dev now, right?
December 1, 2024 at 6:41 PM
The global ‘reserve’ asset is whatever the world’s engine of production is accumulating most aggressively at the margin.
December 1, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Really excited about this episode with Dr. Robert Frank on Perverse Incentives, Positional Goods, Darwin’s Wedge and How Competition Fails

Don’t forget to share and subscribe!

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Dr. Robert Frank on ‘Smart for One But Dumb for All’
YouTube video by ReSolve Asset Management
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November 30, 2024 at 4:44 PM
A great thread worthy of consideration.

“The counter-reaction to expert elites was a consequence of the internet…and unrestricted information flow.”

But:

“Isolating the knowledge generating components of society from the decision-making components of society is unlikely to be a good idea.”
HYPOTHESIS: The current turn towards anti-intellectualism in the US is in part a response to the increasing complexity and interconnectedness of the modern world.
November 30, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Modern markets reward:
* Risk seeking
* Nihilism
* Cognitive dissonance
* Moral relativism

Knowledge, prudence and contact with reality are **maladaptive**.

Markets no longer serve any economic purpose via capital allocation or price signaling. Policy and the social contract should reflect this.
November 29, 2024 at 4:40 PM