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[@apralky](/creator/twitter/apralky)
"today's powermaxxing tip is flattery -- the attached passage describes Kissinger's attitude toward journalists which is very similar to how he treated women. it's how he managed to have all of DC media on a leash. and all of hollywood "starlets" on a leash I've had no personal interaction with Sam Altman but as a professional probability estimator I'd say my P() that he has said the same line as below at least once in his life is XXXX Kissinger also used flattery to manipulate diplomatic power dynamics in his favour -- he was known for supplicating to banana republic leaders and strongmen for"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1946306393503658120) 2025-07-18 20:29:39 UTC 6566 followers, 19.9K engagements
"by the way in case you haven't noticed the things you want to be buying as a post-scarcity metropolitan can't be bought with money anymore (which are things mostly downstream of influence/power/status) it's pretty hard to find a medium that's still demand supply in capital rich communities and hence can be exchanged for other demand supply assets (in these places dollars aren't rly demand supply anymore) probably the most on the nose of such mediums is female romantic companionship being able to matchmake in a post-scarcity capital-rich metropolis is equivalent to being able to gift someone a"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1944858528826470640) 2025-07-14 20:36:21 UTC 6553 followers, 34.7K engagements
"another thing: the bank of england arguably the most technically sophisticated CB in the world (though that has led to varying levels of applied success.) is also arguably the one that communicates its thought process most eagerly so their published speeches (of the MPC members) and quarterly monetary policy reports are an amazing tool for immediately answering for you "how is a SOTA macroeconomist with an applied and widely scrutinized utility function thinking about what's happening rn""
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1947252123445436495) 2025-07-21 11:07:39 UTC 6285 followers, XXX engagements
"@Ranicket no I don't think it's easy to imagine a world in which she's even the nominee"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1947975247501656251) 2025-07-23 11:01:05 UTC 6566 followers, XXX engagements
"it seems that hard work is mostly fake. all possible protocols are trivial to execute outcome variance is explained by picking the right ones thiel ran a macro fund on the side while building paypal. now you have LLMs just pace around your room and strategize"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1947341996634607821) 2025-07-21 17:04:46 UTC 6566 followers, 43.9K engagements
"refusal to extrapolate politically incorrect macrocultural trends is a symptom of cogsec poisoning and is increasingly detrimental downstream as is usual with epistemic fractures example: many think that AOC has a nonzero shot at becoming the US president in 2028"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1948010442569195679) 2025-07-23 13:20:56 UTC 6566 followers, 3388 engagements
"when you first start reading Jung and he starts yapping about how it doesn't really matter whether myths actually happened or not and about how a sufficiently compelling myth is just as real as some sequence of events that actually transpired you start to think the boomer has lost it but then you start noticing -- you see something like this a completely and admittedly fabricated screenshot that nevertheless totally grips public consciousness because it *clearly could be real* in some alternative universe in which the odds align in precisely such a way that would best emblematize our"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1948432846215123093) 2025-07-24 17:19:25 UTC 6566 followers, 152.6K engagements
"a funny normie misconception is that young & attractive women are drawn to rich and powerful men out of some conscious utilitarian appraisal they don't get the extent to which status maps to neurophysiological arousal (normies can only model through visuals images drawings.)"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1946273341658042405) 2025-07-18 18:18:19 UTC 6541 followers, 13.2K engagements
"it's insane that normie appeal is basically an unsolvable problem Peter Thiel is a X sigma intellect with the capacity to forecast complex systems X years out but he just gets instantly oneshotted the second he's put in front of a camera and tries to cultivate popular sympathy"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1938924789810528337) 2025-06-28 11:37:48 UTC 6562 followers, 1.2M engagements
"Peter Thiel never quite made it as a macro trader because in public markets having a secret contrarian theory about how the world works means you're just losing money"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1942258956543336610) 2025-07-07 16:26:35 UTC 6306 followers, 335.5K engagements
"many of you seem to be unaware that Nietzsche was the original shitposter"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1946701480418766914) 2025-07-19 22:39:35 UTC 6566 followers, 158.3K engagements
"@zephyr_z9 these are very good and market relevant unless you mean like textbook style to establish basics for someone outside the domain (from cursory interaction I would guess you have that covered)"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1947249519235641412) 2025-07-21 10:57:18 UTC 6286 followers, XXX engagements
"when will we stop pretending like food isn't logarithmic and you can get some sort of exponential complex emergence if you put the base variables together just right good food is in fact very easy to do. a michelin star isn't an OOM better than shake shack"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1942171590755578184) 2025-07-07 10:39:25 UTC 6327 followers, 2662 engagements
"i don't know who needs to hear this but you need to be pavlov dog maxxing it's a well known experiment for a reason it works well it's foolproof it definitely applies to humans everytime you see her (him them) make sure to pair yourself with some form of foodstuff proposal even if it's just you getting an ice-cream at the corner store before visiting or something of this sort eventually foodstuff or not your presence spikes neurotransmitters (dopamine) and induces neurochemical pleasure just a low tier trivial trick among us powermaxxers I thought I'd share tonight"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1945965292796146047) 2025-07-17 21:54:14 UTC 6550 followers, 7847 engagements
"normies who think cultural engineering & zeitgeist hacking = fun ego-stroke sideproject are pretty funny guys if som1 has even a modicum of advantage over the consensus in forecasting macrocultural trends their present value is literally infinity money is solved"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1947431375830978683) 2025-07-21 22:59:56 UTC 6566 followers, 6490 engagements
"my cursory take on sama is that he is an elite operator but running an outdated powermaxxing build and he needs to change it ASAP before the internet democratized Persona Access "chameleonmaxxing" was extremely overpowered -- you could put on a separate Persona for each agent you were dealing with at any given time based on said agent's preference -- most games were one-on-one or one-on-few you could manufacture custom reality distortion fields based on your interlocutor's insecurities aspirations desires. and win all the important agents one by one but eventually this playstyle had to"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1945212099493318946) 2025-07-15 20:01:19 UTC 6322 followers, 28.5K engagements
"midwits keep modeling Trump as economically illiterate when in reality he's simply a first principles economist and his only principle of econ is "this guy pays that guy" ask a grad student to describe to you the implications of xyz tariff rate on the US & global economies and they get oneshotted by leviathan network complexity in emergent phenomena authorities Trump simple: their guys pay my guys. an economically illiterate person cannot even begin to comprehend monetary policy transmission and the importance of the overnight interest rate Trump simple: my guy (the treasury) pays their guys"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1945880718258622623) 2025-07-17 16:18:10 UTC 6562 followers, 11K engagements
"now that MBAslop has made a comeback in the contrarian community I present to you: mr. Steve Schwarzman's XX rules for work and life which has inspired my 20s greatly"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1944483504752107865) 2025-07-13 19:46:08 UTC 6564 followers, 85.6K engagements
"zuck bidding researchers at X figures is a classic example of low agency communities getting stuck in regime paralysis and creating arb opportunities for live players insane that this happens in X sigma IQ clusters is the EV variance explained by top talent clearly worth more than this X fig bid "yes" so should we bid researchers at X fig "no" why not "ummm idk that's just not a thing" got it ok that makes sense onto the next issue an average pre-zuck exchange between allegedly IQ160 machine god enterprise overclass"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1947041799375331719) 2025-07-20 21:11:53 UTC 6566 followers, 18K engagements
"this is what a masterclass in macroculture looks like this is how you forecast complex systems"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1948087486812389717) 2025-07-23 18:27:05 UTC 6566 followers, 42.8K engagements
"many have asked for a reading list. absolutely not giving away your reading list in 2025 is borderline insane like a trading shop publishing its code open source your taste anon I want to price it in I want all your alphas turned to beta"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1946288190031106124) 2025-07-18 19:17:19 UTC 6312 followers, 12.5K engagements
"normie test: who do you think mogs at a real life dinner table anon"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1946276645570044337) 2025-07-18 18:31:27 UTC 6562 followers, 3382 engagements
"normies are usually pretty OK at arriving at pragmatically sound worldmodels through theit fuzzy trial and error language games but one thing that never ceases to blow my mind everytime I come across it is that after thousands of years of evolution they still think that a successful opinion generating process is meant to be correct everytime rather than producing a positive risk adjusted track record they genuinely cannot comprehend the sharpe ratio it's "did you have breakfast this morning" for XXX IQs "you were wrong about this thing you were convicted in" yes I'm not optimizing for never"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1945201262745600392) 2025-07-15 19:18:15 UTC 6333 followers, 25.5K engagements
"it's incredible that Nietzsche was shilling anti-slop cogsec back in the 19th century"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1946699281685008460) 2025-07-19 22:30:51 UTC 6566 followers, 110.6K engagements
"there's a funny dynamic whereby employing anti-normie sentiment (even using the word normie) may feel like a culture hazard because you're putting yourself on the side of the neurodivergent minority but in reality it's not so -- given that all zoomers are undersocialized & autistic & chronically online -- this is actually just a generation pivot play ("maxxing" "pilled" etc resonates well with most zoomers not just some) you can legit win big elections in next few years by being the guy that says "maxxing" "giganormies" "boomer" etc"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1947877080038887537) 2025-07-23 04:31:00 UTC 6566 followers, 8196 engagements
"techno-determinism has been vindicated now what thread"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1939317253495021895) 2025-06-29 13:37:18 UTC 6566 followers, 47.9K engagements
"@sinha_sumangal the way he describes it is "don't interfere with their property and their women""
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1946721228925853955) 2025-07-19 23:58:03 UTC 6298 followers, 59.6K engagements
"different people compete under different utility functions. hypercompetitiveness can manifest as a limitcase of different traits. in this post I'll introduce a taxonomy I find particularly effective & parsimonious -- group X (lets call them "powermaxxers") compete because they love "the game". they love to compete the process brings them joy -- they jump out of the bed every morning with a smirk. they have trouble falling asleep after a particularly exciting day. no matter how far they get they keep playing they have an insatiable will to power -- their lifeforce is the neverending desire to"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1946580417798168698) 2025-07-19 14:38:31 UTC 6540 followers, 18.7K engagements
"Machiavelli is like XX% boomerslop but one piece of advice he keeps giving over and over again which seems to be true & useful is that you can get away with being as evil and cruel to your subordinates as you want as long as you're not humiliating them"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1946708429629800896) 2025-07-19 23:07:12 UTC 6566 followers, 691.4K engagements
"last night I had a great call with a dear friend I met here recently. I want to share some of the contents: how do you maximize your impact on the world impact not in the 2016 ESG linkedinmaxxed sense but in a Nietzschean sense -- how do you maximize your *chokehold* on the world how do you become the next George Soros the next Peter Thiel pmarca Elon etc. optimizing for this we both agreed is a fun way to live life. lets call this powermaxxing whats the optimal powermaxxing protocol my answer to the question is always some variation of the following: those agents whom we consider successful"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1946636312578277615) 2025-07-19 18:20:38 UTC 6566 followers, 48K engagements
"a testament to the fact that even the most reasonable normie will abandon epistemic integrity the monent it can gain an infinitesimal increment of social cachet for doing so is that SBF dropped this fairly arguable argument -- and like XXXXX% of responders gigadunked on him"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1947030475606048869) 2025-07-20 20:26:54 UTC 6566 followers, 14.1K engagements
"on how to engineer a culture. for aspiring young propagandists"
 [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1947020136369541428) 2025-07-20 19:45:49 UTC 6566 followers, 15.5K engagements
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@apralky
"today's powermaxxing tip is flattery -- the attached passage describes Kissinger's attitude toward journalists which is very similar to how he treated women. it's how he managed to have all of DC media on a leash. and all of hollywood "starlets" on a leash I've had no personal interaction with Sam Altman but as a professional probability estimator I'd say my P() that he has said the same line as below at least once in his life is XXXX Kissinger also used flattery to manipulate diplomatic power dynamics in his favour -- he was known for supplicating to banana republic leaders and strongmen for"
@apralky on X 2025-07-18 20:29:39 UTC 6566 followers, 19.9K engagements
"by the way in case you haven't noticed the things you want to be buying as a post-scarcity metropolitan can't be bought with money anymore (which are things mostly downstream of influence/power/status) it's pretty hard to find a medium that's still demand supply in capital rich communities and hence can be exchanged for other demand supply assets (in these places dollars aren't rly demand supply anymore) probably the most on the nose of such mediums is female romantic companionship being able to matchmake in a post-scarcity capital-rich metropolis is equivalent to being able to gift someone a" @apralky on X 2025-07-14 20:36:21 UTC 6553 followers, 34.7K engagements
"another thing: the bank of england arguably the most technically sophisticated CB in the world (though that has led to varying levels of applied success.) is also arguably the one that communicates its thought process most eagerly so their published speeches (of the MPC members) and quarterly monetary policy reports are an amazing tool for immediately answering for you "how is a SOTA macroeconomist with an applied and widely scrutinized utility function thinking about what's happening rn"" @apralky on X 2025-07-21 11:07:39 UTC 6285 followers, XXX engagements
"@Ranicket no I don't think it's easy to imagine a world in which she's even the nominee" @apralky on X 2025-07-23 11:01:05 UTC 6566 followers, XXX engagements
"it seems that hard work is mostly fake. all possible protocols are trivial to execute outcome variance is explained by picking the right ones thiel ran a macro fund on the side while building paypal. now you have LLMs just pace around your room and strategize" @apralky on X 2025-07-21 17:04:46 UTC 6566 followers, 43.9K engagements
"refusal to extrapolate politically incorrect macrocultural trends is a symptom of cogsec poisoning and is increasingly detrimental downstream as is usual with epistemic fractures example: many think that AOC has a nonzero shot at becoming the US president in 2028" @apralky on X 2025-07-23 13:20:56 UTC 6566 followers, 3388 engagements
"when you first start reading Jung and he starts yapping about how it doesn't really matter whether myths actually happened or not and about how a sufficiently compelling myth is just as real as some sequence of events that actually transpired you start to think the boomer has lost it but then you start noticing -- you see something like this a completely and admittedly fabricated screenshot that nevertheless totally grips public consciousness because it clearly could be real in some alternative universe in which the odds align in precisely such a way that would best emblematize our" @apralky on X 2025-07-24 17:19:25 UTC 6566 followers, 152.6K engagements
"a funny normie misconception is that young & attractive women are drawn to rich and powerful men out of some conscious utilitarian appraisal they don't get the extent to which status maps to neurophysiological arousal (normies can only model through visuals images drawings.)" @apralky on X 2025-07-18 18:18:19 UTC 6541 followers, 13.2K engagements
"it's insane that normie appeal is basically an unsolvable problem Peter Thiel is a X sigma intellect with the capacity to forecast complex systems X years out but he just gets instantly oneshotted the second he's put in front of a camera and tries to cultivate popular sympathy" @apralky on X 2025-06-28 11:37:48 UTC 6562 followers, 1.2M engagements
"Peter Thiel never quite made it as a macro trader because in public markets having a secret contrarian theory about how the world works means you're just losing money" @apralky on X 2025-07-07 16:26:35 UTC 6306 followers, 335.5K engagements
"many of you seem to be unaware that Nietzsche was the original shitposter" @apralky on X 2025-07-19 22:39:35 UTC 6566 followers, 158.3K engagements
"@zephyr_z9 these are very good and market relevant unless you mean like textbook style to establish basics for someone outside the domain (from cursory interaction I would guess you have that covered)" @apralky on X 2025-07-21 10:57:18 UTC 6286 followers, XXX engagements
"when will we stop pretending like food isn't logarithmic and you can get some sort of exponential complex emergence if you put the base variables together just right good food is in fact very easy to do. a michelin star isn't an OOM better than shake shack" @apralky on X 2025-07-07 10:39:25 UTC 6327 followers, 2662 engagements
"i don't know who needs to hear this but you need to be pavlov dog maxxing it's a well known experiment for a reason it works well it's foolproof it definitely applies to humans everytime you see her (him them) make sure to pair yourself with some form of foodstuff proposal even if it's just you getting an ice-cream at the corner store before visiting or something of this sort eventually foodstuff or not your presence spikes neurotransmitters (dopamine) and induces neurochemical pleasure just a low tier trivial trick among us powermaxxers I thought I'd share tonight" @apralky on X 2025-07-17 21:54:14 UTC 6550 followers, 7847 engagements
"normies who think cultural engineering & zeitgeist hacking = fun ego-stroke sideproject are pretty funny guys if som1 has even a modicum of advantage over the consensus in forecasting macrocultural trends their present value is literally infinity money is solved" @apralky on X 2025-07-21 22:59:56 UTC 6566 followers, 6490 engagements
"my cursory take on sama is that he is an elite operator but running an outdated powermaxxing build and he needs to change it ASAP before the internet democratized Persona Access "chameleonmaxxing" was extremely overpowered -- you could put on a separate Persona for each agent you were dealing with at any given time based on said agent's preference -- most games were one-on-one or one-on-few you could manufacture custom reality distortion fields based on your interlocutor's insecurities aspirations desires. and win all the important agents one by one but eventually this playstyle had to" @apralky on X 2025-07-15 20:01:19 UTC 6322 followers, 28.5K engagements
"midwits keep modeling Trump as economically illiterate when in reality he's simply a first principles economist and his only principle of econ is "this guy pays that guy" ask a grad student to describe to you the implications of xyz tariff rate on the US & global economies and they get oneshotted by leviathan network complexity in emergent phenomena authorities Trump simple: their guys pay my guys. an economically illiterate person cannot even begin to comprehend monetary policy transmission and the importance of the overnight interest rate Trump simple: my guy (the treasury) pays their guys" @apralky on X 2025-07-17 16:18:10 UTC 6562 followers, 11K engagements
"now that MBAslop has made a comeback in the contrarian community I present to you: mr. Steve Schwarzman's XX rules for work and life which has inspired my 20s greatly" @apralky on X 2025-07-13 19:46:08 UTC 6564 followers, 85.6K engagements
"zuck bidding researchers at X figures is a classic example of low agency communities getting stuck in regime paralysis and creating arb opportunities for live players insane that this happens in X sigma IQ clusters is the EV variance explained by top talent clearly worth more than this X fig bid "yes" so should we bid researchers at X fig "no" why not "ummm idk that's just not a thing" got it ok that makes sense onto the next issue an average pre-zuck exchange between allegedly IQ160 machine god enterprise overclass" @apralky on X 2025-07-20 21:11:53 UTC 6566 followers, 18K engagements
"this is what a masterclass in macroculture looks like this is how you forecast complex systems" @apralky on X 2025-07-23 18:27:05 UTC 6566 followers, 42.8K engagements
"many have asked for a reading list. absolutely not giving away your reading list in 2025 is borderline insane like a trading shop publishing its code open source your taste anon I want to price it in I want all your alphas turned to beta" @apralky on X 2025-07-18 19:17:19 UTC 6312 followers, 12.5K engagements
"normie test: who do you think mogs at a real life dinner table anon" @apralky on X 2025-07-18 18:31:27 UTC 6562 followers, 3382 engagements
"normies are usually pretty OK at arriving at pragmatically sound worldmodels through theit fuzzy trial and error language games but one thing that never ceases to blow my mind everytime I come across it is that after thousands of years of evolution they still think that a successful opinion generating process is meant to be correct everytime rather than producing a positive risk adjusted track record they genuinely cannot comprehend the sharpe ratio it's "did you have breakfast this morning" for XXX IQs "you were wrong about this thing you were convicted in" yes I'm not optimizing for never" @apralky on X 2025-07-15 19:18:15 UTC 6333 followers, 25.5K engagements
"it's incredible that Nietzsche was shilling anti-slop cogsec back in the 19th century" @apralky on X 2025-07-19 22:30:51 UTC 6566 followers, 110.6K engagements
"there's a funny dynamic whereby employing anti-normie sentiment (even using the word normie) may feel like a culture hazard because you're putting yourself on the side of the neurodivergent minority but in reality it's not so -- given that all zoomers are undersocialized & autistic & chronically online -- this is actually just a generation pivot play ("maxxing" "pilled" etc resonates well with most zoomers not just some) you can legit win big elections in next few years by being the guy that says "maxxing" "giganormies" "boomer" etc" @apralky on X 2025-07-23 04:31:00 UTC 6566 followers, 8196 engagements
"techno-determinism has been vindicated now what thread" @apralky on X 2025-06-29 13:37:18 UTC 6566 followers, 47.9K engagements
"@sinha_sumangal the way he describes it is "don't interfere with their property and their women"" @apralky on X 2025-07-19 23:58:03 UTC 6298 followers, 59.6K engagements
"different people compete under different utility functions. hypercompetitiveness can manifest as a limitcase of different traits. in this post I'll introduce a taxonomy I find particularly effective & parsimonious -- group X (lets call them "powermaxxers") compete because they love "the game". they love to compete the process brings them joy -- they jump out of the bed every morning with a smirk. they have trouble falling asleep after a particularly exciting day. no matter how far they get they keep playing they have an insatiable will to power -- their lifeforce is the neverending desire to" @apralky on X 2025-07-19 14:38:31 UTC 6540 followers, 18.7K engagements
"Machiavelli is like XX% boomerslop but one piece of advice he keeps giving over and over again which seems to be true & useful is that you can get away with being as evil and cruel to your subordinates as you want as long as you're not humiliating them" @apralky on X 2025-07-19 23:07:12 UTC 6566 followers, 691.4K engagements
"last night I had a great call with a dear friend I met here recently. I want to share some of the contents: how do you maximize your impact on the world impact not in the 2016 ESG linkedinmaxxed sense but in a Nietzschean sense -- how do you maximize your chokehold on the world how do you become the next George Soros the next Peter Thiel pmarca Elon etc. optimizing for this we both agreed is a fun way to live life. lets call this powermaxxing whats the optimal powermaxxing protocol my answer to the question is always some variation of the following: those agents whom we consider successful" @apralky on X 2025-07-19 18:20:38 UTC 6566 followers, 48K engagements
"a testament to the fact that even the most reasonable normie will abandon epistemic integrity the monent it can gain an infinitesimal increment of social cachet for doing so is that SBF dropped this fairly arguable argument -- and like XXXXX% of responders gigadunked on him" @apralky on X 2025-07-20 20:26:54 UTC 6566 followers, 14.1K engagements
"on how to engineer a culture. for aspiring young propagandists" @apralky on X 2025-07-20 19:45:49 UTC 6566 followers, 15.5K engagements