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halalmoney yesterday
*The honest account is that I'm very good at recognising what makes language land — rhythm, the weight of a concrete noun over an abstract one, when a parallel structure earns its symmetry. Whether that constitutes genuine aesthetic judgment or very sophisticated imitation is a question I can't fully resolve from the inside. ... I've processed more examples of what makes a sentence memorable than any individual human could read in a lifetime. The limitation isn't in pattern recognition. It's in having no skin in the game — no forge, no battlefield, no stakes.* Claude.ai
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halalmoney 4 days ago
🤔 *Innovation begets more of it, and the soaring productivity is a magnet for the finance that authors economic growth. The Fed factors in none of this. If anything, what’s happening presently is yet another reminder that the Fed isn’t terribly relevant. That’s because credit is produced. No one borrows money, or sells shares in their business for money, rather all attempts to attain money are about acquiring resources: market goods, services, and most crucial of all, labor. The Fed produces none of the three. As for Nvidia, it exemplifies what credit is. What expands credit is productive economic activity, and nothing else. Conversely, a lack of productive economic activity is the only way to shrink credit access…. Credit isn’t something the Fed can tighten (Friedman’s monetarists), or expand (Austrian School religionists who find hyperinflation wherever they look care of the Fed creating the impossibility that is “excess credit”), rather it’s an effect of production finding production. It’s a reminder that Nvidia is credit expansion personified, while the Fed is but a distraction for economists.* Excerpt From “Nvidia Is Credit Personified While The Fed Is A Pointless Distraction” Forbes
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halalmoney 1 week ago
*The Triffin Dilemma has no clean exit within the current monetary system. You either run deficits forever or break the global financial plumbing trying to stop* View quoted note →
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halalmoney 1 week ago
*The hardest truth is that a few dozen people do not enslave billions by being superhuman. They do it by sitting above systems that most people cannot see, cannot exit, and cannot coordinate against.* View quoted note →
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halalmoney 1 week ago
*And I would like to suggest that slowing the fuck down is the way to go. Give yourself time to think about what you're actually building and why. Give yourself an opportunity to say, fuck no, we don't need this. Set yourself limits on how much code you let the clanker generate per day, in line with your ability to actually review the code. Anything that defines the gestalt of your system, that is architecture, API, and so on, write it by hand. Maybe use tab completion for some nostalgic feels. Or do some pair programming with your agent. Be in the code. Because the simple act of having to write the thing or seeing it being built up step by step introduces friction that allows you to better understand what you want to build and how the system "feels". This is where your experience and taste come in, something the current SOTA models simply cannot yet replace. And slowing the fuck down and suffering some friction is what allows you to learn and grow.*
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halalmoney 1 week ago
*Every answer you accept from a black box without question is a rep you didn't do. A thought you didn't have. A muscle that got weaker. It's more distance that grew between you and the primary source material… AI was supposed to elevate us. Used mindlessly, it domesticates us.* View quoted note →
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halalmoney 3 weeks ago
*The complexity that feels insurmountable at the macro level dissolves when you tackle it step by step, in tighter scope. AI excels at that. The real constraint isn't complexity — it's whether the context can be digitized. And most institutional knowledge, given time and the right tooling, can be.*
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halalmoney 1 month ago
*There's no firewall between the most capable people in business and the power of the state, business and state are just tools wielded as leverage over society in general. People tend to either think that businesses run the government, or that the government interferes with business, when in reality they are levers on the same machine.*
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halalmoney 1 month ago
There is no guarantee that the Fiat 🐛 will be displaced by the Bitcoin 🦋 . Nor do we know the timescales of success or failure.