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Artificial intelligence — what it reshapes, where it falls short, what to do about it.
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Aschenbrenner's Q1'26 13F — what it tells you about where the AI money is moving
Reading Leopold Aschenbrenner's Q1 2026 hedge fund filing alongside the worldview that produced it. Picks-and-shovels long the energy layer, broad puts on chips, and the framework underneath.
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6 lessons from @zach_yadegari
His receipts aren't transferable. The doctrine is.
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AI is the ultimate sucker for attention
Every previous generation of attention-extraction tech competed for what you noticed. AI competes for what you decide.
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why I am taking a risk, for my own good
The main reason why I've left the job security and the corporate world is because I think AI is doing more harm to society than it is doing good.
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AI
Does anyone else feel like throwing up just a little bit every time they hear the word AI being mentioned?
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2026-04-30-tiktok-genesis-three-reflections
Filmed and posted my first ever selfie video yesterday aimed at TikTok. Three reflections from someone who has never done this before.
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Token cost is real cost
Token cost is real cost, however apply this level of thinking to real human cost and it's not so much different. Whether you're paying for a graduate or a senior engineer, you wou…
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Privacy as Insurance Against AI
Three pressures. One underlying force. Attention comes first. Belief follows. Then capital moves.
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Close the Session
Terminal sprawl, context switching, and persistent workloads. A skill that closes the session so the next one picks up cleanly.
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Knowledge Doesn't Equal Action
We knew what the atomic bomb could do before 1945. It didn't become actionable until entire populations were wiped out.
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Three Groups
The question isn't whether to use AI. It's which group you're in.
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Expo Bootstrap
Whole categories of "I'd never build that, too much setup" just stopped being true.
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Representation Collapse and the Attention Feed
The machine's failure and yours are the same failure. The only difference is yours arrived through a feed.
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Truth is First-Person
If AI-written framing gets laundered into your permanent record, the archive stops being a reliable record of who you are.
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Sovereignty Primitive
Your corpus is what differentiates you. The model commoditizes. The same LLM in front of two people gives the same answers, because it has the same nothing to work from.
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Remove the Ceiling
The single biggest thing you can do to unlock what AI actually offers right now is to remove yourself from the constraint of the pricing model.
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The Loop That Improves the Loop
Once the baseline loops exist, your attention stops going into doing the work. It goes into improving the system that does the work.
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The Last Hug
Nobody tells you when the last hug happens. There's no announcement. It just stops one day.
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What Are Our Kids Going to Do When They Grow Up?
Every stage of the funnel we followed now has a question mark over it.