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They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1700977169177206784/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +248% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +26,898% - X Year XXXXXXXXX +122,625% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1700977169177206784/posts_active)  - X Month XXX +30% - X Months XXX +893% - X Year XXX +5,350% ### Followers: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1700977169177206784/followers)  - X Week XXXXX +28% - X Month XXXXX +211% - X Months XXXXX +3,478% - X Year XXXXX +3,787% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1700977169177206784/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1700977169177206784/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [stocks](/list/stocks) [countries](/list/countries) **Social topic influence** [normie](/topic/normie) #8, [money](/topic/money), [maga](/topic/maga), [hahaha](/topic/hahaha), [bessent](/topic/bessent), [put the](/topic/put-the), [luxury](/topic/luxury), [$intu](/topic/$intu), [stablecoins](/topic/stablecoins), [macro](/topic/macro) #23 **Top assets mentioned** [Intuit Inc. (INTU)](/topic/$intu) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1700977169177206784/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "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 5423 followers, 34.2K engagements "@riversposting hahaha or the next stage of enlightenment: not even directionally correct just "there is a way in which X" do I reckon such a way is correct haven't gone that far not my job"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1945204893666423259) 2025-07-15 19:32:41 UTC 5329 followers, XXX engagements "back then every attempt to ask an upper normie to explain this obviously false belief resulted in one being confronted with the notorious upper normie stare"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1945710384825925763) 2025-07-17 05:01:19 UTC 5423 followers, 1572 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 5328 followers, 2593 engagements "these days people have access to the same information sets as everyone else (thanks to the proliferation of the internet etc) yet peoples worldmodels are as polarized as ever with pathological cases such as the one below no less common than before those with the luxury to have lived a geographically varied life or to have read across a variety of domains and chronologies quickly intuit that this is because much of the variance between the emergent belief systems of humankind is driven not by a misinterpretation of available data or an objectively wrong turn in some set of syllogisms but"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1944472272489652377) 2025-07-13 19:01:30 UTC 5402 followers, 4028 engagements "tonight was the first macro roundtable I've been to where AI impact most popular theme after fiscal elon mentioned 5+ times stablecoins mentioned nonzero times grok X mentioned X times thiel mentioned (by me) you're so early anon we're upstream"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1945954525317112251) 2025-07-17 21:11:27 UTC 5423 followers, 12.1K 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 5423 followers, 28K 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 5423 followers, 84.6K engagements "if you're a high taste striver you need to be aware that by striving these are the kind of people whose validation you are optimizing for the further you go along your success chain the more disillusioned you'll grow by how the quality of human capital that surrounds and validates your successes doesn't only not exponentiate but often even decreases your Jungian anima or Daisy Buchanan or Helen of Troy doesn't actually exist and will never appear what will apear are linkedinmaxxers generally not good looking people losers low taste strivers uninteresting characters people that dress badly"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1942624022140682442) 2025-07-08 16:37:13 UTC 5423 followers, 113K 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 5423 followers, 2563 engagements "I wonder if the polite society spiritual boomers that look down on popular novelties like crypto MAGA etc. realize that usually the overclass loses grasp not with a whimper but with condescension disbelief pride and a gradual erosion of real world predictive capacity"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1945158471659233324) 2025-07-15 16:28:13 UTC 5402 followers, 2201 engagements "after spending X days switched off & hanging around normies in Madrid one prior that has come to the fore is that most swathes of the global population aren't optimizing for global influence & status whatsoever it's obvious that within the next decade novel post-internet intellectual financial governmental technological institutions will be formed and stacked by young people and it feels like a severe rat race given there's a gazillion young people out there but nope odds are all 200k of us On Here are gonna make it because literally everyone else is just enjoying life floating not trying"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1942604525459702227) 2025-07-08 15:19:45 UTC 5424 followers, 63.7K engagements "up and coming philosophers be like: Lilith XX PhD UCBerkeley X body modifications BMI XX member of sex cult most controversial opinion held: "we should be nicer to shrimps probably" Luk XX msc KU Leuven looks like base wojak posting his thesis title puts u on an interpol watchlist"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1944506762129990118) 2025-07-13 21:18:33 UTC 5424 followers, 22.2K 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 5423 followers, 10.8K engagements "on the topic of perplexing normie epistemics: isn't it weird that it's broadly impossible for someone with 2std intellect to grasp the concept of "skewed consensus" "uneven prior" or whatever you wanna call it on any question whatsoever no matter how unevenly distributed consensus may be normies decide to engage from a 50/50 perspective and refuse to budge to discussing at the "prevailing market price" no matter what Me: I think it's more likely than you think that earth is flat/medicine is net bad/etc. Normie: wait you're a flat-earther/antivaxxer/etc. M: no I'm just saying that I'd guess"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1945548602321117481) 2025-07-16 18:18:27 UTC 5423 followers, 14.8K engagements "it's strange that we still have to use cash capital as proxy for power/status at this point thousands of startups should be vying to deliver the one true status metric"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1944980148492603750) 2025-07-15 04:39:38 UTC 5361 followers, 1078 engagements "one of the clearest examples of the fact that sometimes crowds of "reasonable" deadplayer upper-normies can get completely oneshotted by groupthink leading to very obvious big picture mispricings: for a year every single public opinion guy firmly held the stance that Elon buying the global intellectual townsquare capable of singlehandedly swaying elections and memetic drifts was an absurd investment because of some random beancounting. like there were IQ140+s unironically oneshotted by this people like Matt Levine never forget this everytime someone wants to blackpill you on how impossible it"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1945706842794897791) 2025-07-17 04:47:15 UTC 5423 followers, 12.7K engagements "citadel guy only one without a suit as normal"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1945954917677470053) 2025-07-17 21:13:01 UTC 5324 followers, XXX 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 5423 followers, 1.2M engagements "I think what a lot of mediocre writers get wrong is that they try to read and write in the same weeks/months you can't really do anything worthwhile without obsession and you can't be obsessed with both reading and writing at the same time they're completely orthogonal"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1944514277668442460) 2025-07-13 21:48:25 UTC 5365 followers, 4646 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 5423 followers, 25.1K engagements "I had a short conversation with a post-soviet friend about the objective odds that this person is a Kremlin spy we didn't come to a very high number (it's too well done for Moscow) but nevertheless it was a nontrivial number and it led me to another pet riff: it's mindblowing that nobody has yet built a "palantir for propaganda" think about it: everyone loves private defence contractors right now western intelligence agencies are known for miserably failing at online ops over and over and over again election campaigns are burning cash by the shovel for the offchance that they make one meme"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1944815005787914660) 2025-07-14 17:43:24 UTC 5404 followers, 7319 engagements "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 5423 followers, 15.4K engagements "why do a significant amount of market participants still believe that Europe holds the leverage in its digital services trade with the US Mag7 aren't ad companies anymore you're not underwriting MSFT's google's meta's amazon's nvidia's earnings out of benevolence how do we think it plays out for European industry/natsec if America blocks GPU shipments cuts off cloud revokes API etc"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1943715480604397664) 2025-07-11 16:54:17 UTC 5365 followers, 1249 engagements "one important lesson that every powermaxxer learns sooner or later (sooner if they read my posts) is that the guy you kingmake will stop picking up your calls once hes got the crown when techright helped MAGA come to power my first metareading was that they needed to be wary of this dynamic the example I liked to use came from the infinitely rich & pertinent case of the great George Soros -- Soros made Obama but Obama stopped answering his calls after he got the POTUS seat (with Soros funding) history is rife with instances of this dynamic: Yeltsin & Putin in Russia Jobs & Sculley at Apple"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1944432838230540400) 2025-07-13 16:24:49 UTC 5423 followers, 15.1K 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 5418 followers, 335.1K 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 5423 followers, 10.3K engagements "btw if ur never doomscrolling you're making a huge mistake you need to treat your attention span as capital that you can invest into becoming one with the zeitgeist once you deplete it you can replenish with zenmaxxing but to never use it is irresponsible"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1944517772433854615) 2025-07-13 22:02:18 UTC 5336 followers, 15.1K engagements "@oxbquant they call him the young casanova"  [@apralky](/creator/x/apralky) on [X](/post/tweet/1944861801809846602) 2025-07-14 20:49:21 UTC 5304 followers, 1381 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 5423 followers, 40.3K engagements
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@apralky yung macro 年轻的宏观
yung macro 年轻的宏观 posts on X about normie, money, maga, hahaha the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX +248%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +26,898%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX +122,625%
Mentions: XX #
- X Month XXX +30%
- X Months XXX +893%
- X Year XXX +5,350%
Followers: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXX +28%
- X Month XXXXX +211%
- X Months XXXXX +3,478%
- X Year XXXXX +3,787%
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Social Influence #
Social category influence finance technology brands celebrities travel destinations stocks countries
Social topic influence normie #8, money, maga, hahaha, bessent, put the, luxury, $intu, stablecoins, macro #23
Top assets mentioned Intuit Inc. (INTU)
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"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 5423 followers, 34.2K engagements
"@riversposting hahaha or the next stage of enlightenment: not even directionally correct just "there is a way in which X" do I reckon such a way is correct haven't gone that far not my job" @apralky on X 2025-07-15 19:32:41 UTC 5329 followers, XXX engagements
"back then every attempt to ask an upper normie to explain this obviously false belief resulted in one being confronted with the notorious upper normie stare" @apralky on X 2025-07-17 05:01:19 UTC 5423 followers, 1572 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 5328 followers, 2593 engagements
"these days people have access to the same information sets as everyone else (thanks to the proliferation of the internet etc) yet peoples worldmodels are as polarized as ever with pathological cases such as the one below no less common than before those with the luxury to have lived a geographically varied life or to have read across a variety of domains and chronologies quickly intuit that this is because much of the variance between the emergent belief systems of humankind is driven not by a misinterpretation of available data or an objectively wrong turn in some set of syllogisms but" @apralky on X 2025-07-13 19:01:30 UTC 5402 followers, 4028 engagements
"tonight was the first macro roundtable I've been to where AI impact most popular theme after fiscal elon mentioned 5+ times stablecoins mentioned nonzero times grok X mentioned X times thiel mentioned (by me) you're so early anon we're upstream" @apralky on X 2025-07-17 21:11:27 UTC 5423 followers, 12.1K 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 5423 followers, 28K 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 5423 followers, 84.6K engagements
"if you're a high taste striver you need to be aware that by striving these are the kind of people whose validation you are optimizing for the further you go along your success chain the more disillusioned you'll grow by how the quality of human capital that surrounds and validates your successes doesn't only not exponentiate but often even decreases your Jungian anima or Daisy Buchanan or Helen of Troy doesn't actually exist and will never appear what will apear are linkedinmaxxers generally not good looking people losers low taste strivers uninteresting characters people that dress badly" @apralky on X 2025-07-08 16:37:13 UTC 5423 followers, 113K 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 5423 followers, 2563 engagements
"I wonder if the polite society spiritual boomers that look down on popular novelties like crypto MAGA etc. realize that usually the overclass loses grasp not with a whimper but with condescension disbelief pride and a gradual erosion of real world predictive capacity" @apralky on X 2025-07-15 16:28:13 UTC 5402 followers, 2201 engagements
"after spending X days switched off & hanging around normies in Madrid one prior that has come to the fore is that most swathes of the global population aren't optimizing for global influence & status whatsoever it's obvious that within the next decade novel post-internet intellectual financial governmental technological institutions will be formed and stacked by young people and it feels like a severe rat race given there's a gazillion young people out there but nope odds are all 200k of us On Here are gonna make it because literally everyone else is just enjoying life floating not trying" @apralky on X 2025-07-08 15:19:45 UTC 5424 followers, 63.7K engagements
"up and coming philosophers be like: Lilith XX PhD UCBerkeley X body modifications BMI XX member of sex cult most controversial opinion held: "we should be nicer to shrimps probably" Luk XX msc KU Leuven looks like base wojak posting his thesis title puts u on an interpol watchlist" @apralky on X 2025-07-13 21:18:33 UTC 5424 followers, 22.2K 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 5423 followers, 10.8K engagements
"on the topic of perplexing normie epistemics: isn't it weird that it's broadly impossible for someone with 2std intellect to grasp the concept of "skewed consensus" "uneven prior" or whatever you wanna call it on any question whatsoever no matter how unevenly distributed consensus may be normies decide to engage from a 50/50 perspective and refuse to budge to discussing at the "prevailing market price" no matter what Me: I think it's more likely than you think that earth is flat/medicine is net bad/etc. Normie: wait you're a flat-earther/antivaxxer/etc. M: no I'm just saying that I'd guess" @apralky on X 2025-07-16 18:18:27 UTC 5423 followers, 14.8K engagements
"it's strange that we still have to use cash capital as proxy for power/status at this point thousands of startups should be vying to deliver the one true status metric" @apralky on X 2025-07-15 04:39:38 UTC 5361 followers, 1078 engagements
"one of the clearest examples of the fact that sometimes crowds of "reasonable" deadplayer upper-normies can get completely oneshotted by groupthink leading to very obvious big picture mispricings: for a year every single public opinion guy firmly held the stance that Elon buying the global intellectual townsquare capable of singlehandedly swaying elections and memetic drifts was an absurd investment because of some random beancounting. like there were IQ140+s unironically oneshotted by this people like Matt Levine never forget this everytime someone wants to blackpill you on how impossible it" @apralky on X 2025-07-17 04:47:15 UTC 5423 followers, 12.7K engagements
"citadel guy only one without a suit as normal" @apralky on X 2025-07-17 21:13:01 UTC 5324 followers, XXX 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 5423 followers, 1.2M engagements
"I think what a lot of mediocre writers get wrong is that they try to read and write in the same weeks/months you can't really do anything worthwhile without obsession and you can't be obsessed with both reading and writing at the same time they're completely orthogonal" @apralky on X 2025-07-13 21:48:25 UTC 5365 followers, 4646 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 5423 followers, 25.1K engagements
"I had a short conversation with a post-soviet friend about the objective odds that this person is a Kremlin spy we didn't come to a very high number (it's too well done for Moscow) but nevertheless it was a nontrivial number and it led me to another pet riff: it's mindblowing that nobody has yet built a "palantir for propaganda" think about it: everyone loves private defence contractors right now western intelligence agencies are known for miserably failing at online ops over and over and over again election campaigns are burning cash by the shovel for the offchance that they make one meme" @apralky on X 2025-07-14 17:43:24 UTC 5404 followers, 7319 engagements
"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 5423 followers, 15.4K engagements
"why do a significant amount of market participants still believe that Europe holds the leverage in its digital services trade with the US Mag7 aren't ad companies anymore you're not underwriting MSFT's google's meta's amazon's nvidia's earnings out of benevolence how do we think it plays out for European industry/natsec if America blocks GPU shipments cuts off cloud revokes API etc" @apralky on X 2025-07-11 16:54:17 UTC 5365 followers, 1249 engagements
"one important lesson that every powermaxxer learns sooner or later (sooner if they read my posts) is that the guy you kingmake will stop picking up your calls once hes got the crown when techright helped MAGA come to power my first metareading was that they needed to be wary of this dynamic the example I liked to use came from the infinitely rich & pertinent case of the great George Soros -- Soros made Obama but Obama stopped answering his calls after he got the POTUS seat (with Soros funding) history is rife with instances of this dynamic: Yeltsin & Putin in Russia Jobs & Sculley at Apple" @apralky on X 2025-07-13 16:24:49 UTC 5423 followers, 15.1K 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 5418 followers, 335.1K 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 5423 followers, 10.3K engagements
"btw if ur never doomscrolling you're making a huge mistake you need to treat your attention span as capital that you can invest into becoming one with the zeitgeist once you deplete it you can replenish with zenmaxxing but to never use it is irresponsible" @apralky on X 2025-07-13 22:02:18 UTC 5336 followers, 15.1K engagements
"@oxbquant they call him the young casanova" @apralky on X 2025-07-14 20:49:21 UTC 5304 followers, 1381 engagements
"techno-determinism has been vindicated now what thread" @apralky on X 2025-06-29 13:37:18 UTC 5423 followers, 40.3K engagements