Entrepreneur & futurist posting on AI, Bitcoin (no alts), computers, Tesla & Apple. 2013 Pleb. Building the future. Computer obsessed since 1980.
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11 Apr 2018
You think those are dollars in your bank account?
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1. Nathan doesn't understand $
2. Wealth from value creation, not theft, it's MORAL.
3. Nathan's line is arbitrary and shifts with his envy.
4. Nathan can't name the victims and the force used.
==> It is morally justifiable: through consent, creation, and non-coercion
There is no way to morally justify having a trillion dollars
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You can justify it the same way you justify earning a thousand dollars:
You create value, people voluntarily trade with you, and both sides believe they're better off.
The argument isn't really about morality. It's about scale.
If trillionaires didn't exist, billionaires would be condemned.
If billionaires didn't exist, millionaires would be condemned.
If millionaires didn't exist, the successful small business owner would be condemned.
The threshold for "unjust wealth" has a remarkable habit of moving downward until it finds someone richer than the person complaining.
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Jun 13
If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.
The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.
And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.
Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.
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Jun 12
The Left rage against Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire because according to their system wealth can only be seized from others.
The idea that wealth is created by serving others is an alien concept to the Left.
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Jun 12
If you ever think you're retarded, just remember there are people driving Teslas, using X Premium while connected to Starlink, complaining about Elon.
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Jun 13
All countries participating in BRICS are going to get royally screwed. HFSP
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Jun 11
Insane take from Fable 5
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Jun 11
Bitcoin lost $1.2 trillion in market cap.
Some people think that means we need $1.2 trillion of new money to recover.
That's not how market cap works. Here's the simplest way to see it:
A street has 100 identical houses. The last one sold for $1M, so the street is "worth" $100M.
One stressed owner sells his house for $500K.
Now every house is marked at $500K. The street is "worth" $50M. The neighborhood just "lost" $50Mโฆ on a single $500K sale. The other 99 owners did nothing.
Bitcoin is that street. On-chain data shows this crash erased $1.2T of market cap on just $15B of net money actually leaving. The other coins never moved they were repriced by the most desperate sellers.
And it works the same in reverse. You don't need to "refill" $1.2T. Price is set by the next trade, not the whole pile. Last cycle, every $1 of real inflows moved market cap $2.40.
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Jun 12
Great, an isometric view of a city run by a moron.
Jun 11
A GUY AT GOOGLE DEEPMIND MADE AN ISOMETRIC PIXEL-ART MAP OF NEW YORK CITY AND PUT IT ON THE OPEN WEB FOR FREE
it's called isometric.nyc
you open the tab and the city is just sitting there in classic SimCity 2000 isometric pixel art. you scroll. and it keeps going. and going.
i zoomed in on midtown and i could read the H&M signage in times square. in red. as actual pixel-art letters on the side of a building.
i could see the crystalline spire of the Bank of America Tower poking out of a clump of skyscrapers. individual rooftop HVAC units. tiny green roof gardens. the little driveway loops in front of the hotels.
he estimates the map needs roughly 40,000 tiles. nothing is a placeholder.
the guy who made it is Andy Coenen, a senior staff engineer at Google DeepMind. he is not a pixel artist. by his own admission he is "a former electronic musician."
what he actually did is kind of insane:
> pulled NYC's geometry from the Google Maps 3D tiles API
> fine-tuned an open-source image model (Qwen-Image-Edit) on ~40 hand-paired examples of "satellite tile โ pixel art tile"
> spun up 50 parallel instances on rented GPUs and generated tens of thousands of tiles in a few hours
> the fine-tune cost him 12 bucks
his own stated mission for the project, verbatim, is one sentence: "what's possible now that was impossible before?"
apparently the answer is "one engineer can pixel-art most of a metropolis for the price of a sandwich."
and the wildest part to me is he didn't sell it. no signup. no paywall. no NFT. you open the URL and the city is yours to wander.
the post landed at 1,325 points on Hacker News and topped bestofshowhn's 2026 list.
we live in a timeline where a senior engineer at one of the largest AI labs on earth spent his nights pixel-arting Manhattan for fun and then gave it away.
the internet is healing.
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Jun 12
For the last time: Robots cannot make things like prime real estate. That one spot you want that someone else already owns. If property rights exist, money won't disappear.
ELON MUSK:
โWeโre going to have universal high income.
Weโll basically just issue money to people."
"AI and robots are going to make so much stuff and provide so many services that theyโll run out of things to do for humans."
"Money will stop being relevant at some point in the future."
"AI wonโt use human currency. It will care about power and mass: wattage and tonnage.โ
ME:
โSo just as youโre becoming a multi-trillionaire, money starts to have less value?โ
ELON:
โYeah, pretty much.โ
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Jun 11
Just press the summon button in the app.
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Jun 11
People are logical and rational.
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You know what is AWESOME? I don't see any shitcoinery anymore on my X timeline! It's been a long while I didn't see posts about dog coins, wavy ripple moron coins, etc. Yay!
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Jun 11
Bitcoin is a global, incorruptible monetary system. Anyone can use it with a simple wallet app, no accounts or ID required. No banks involved. It allows you to save and protect your money from inflation and confiscation, and send it to anyone, anywhere with no middlemen.
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The application of scientific knowledge to make life easier. Invest in that and you win. Or you can invest in real estate, fine art, rare wines, or commodities, and have fun staying poor.
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Jun 11
You can invest in banalities if you want. There's even a chance you make some money. ๐๐ด
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Jun 11
The universe started with simple hydrogen and gravity. 13.8 billion years later, a tiny planet next to an average star has figured out how to run language models and is about to start spraying that capability across the Milky Way.
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Weโre not just radiating waste heat like a blackbody. Weโre radiating mind.
The galaxy is about to get a lot more interesting. ๐
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