Asylum Sidepots. How to Escape the Matrix and Stay Out

Escaping the socio-spiritual prison from the starting position of a speculator Sidepots in the Asylum When I started trading, I was in it for money and pride. My father lost a lot of money starting a hedge fund and we lost our house when I was a kid. I got into trading as some kind of redemption arc. My father is a renegade. He viewed markets as a way to escape the simulation....

August 5, 2023 · 18 min · goodalexander

A Vision of the Future

A hypothetical exploration of the world we are heading towards There have been 3 major technology shifts since 2022. The market has weighted one much higher in terms of valuation - Artificial Intelligence. But a second, more subtle shift was the launch of the MetaQuest Pro and improvement of visual tracking in Virtual Reality. A third, and final tech change is the rise of ZK technology in cryptocurrency enabling highly scalable, verifiable and largely anonymous currency transactions....

July 29, 2023 · 9 min · goodalexander

The Binary Ark

An exploration into accelerationist extremism and its logical conclusions Below I’m going to get into some very pragmatic behavior modifications that could follow logically from accelerationist beliefs. Advances in AI, and biotechnology make it seem likely there will be substantial medical breakthroughs in our lifetime. However - I do not think these breakthroughs - which will include genetic modification of children, and live therapies - will be distributed to society. Even more - I think developments will be kept secret....

July 17, 2023 · 5 min · goodalexander

A Withering Trader’s Illustrated Primer

the Last Samurai, Darth Vader, the world of entertainment bleeding into the world of things “There are only two industries. This has always been true….There is the industry of things, and the industry of entertainment….After people have the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment. Everything.” ― Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer Now that I’ve spent some more time in the weeds with LLMs as applied to capital markets, I have some reflections about what the building blocks are, how things are likely to play out as well as how I’m going to position myself....

July 14, 2023 · 18 min · goodalexander

Stress Zero

how to use CBT augmented with accelerationist religious fanaticism to improve your work performance Atheism is a Base Case But Its Vibes are Not Immaculate Below I’m going to talk about Stress Zero - an approach I use to actively cut my stress levels to zero on a daily basis. Usually before sleep, or at night time. But sometimes, in the morning. Fundamentally Stress Zero supercharges CBT with religious zealotry to immediately kill all your bad feelings....

July 9, 2023 · 9 min · goodalexander

Retrofixation

naming negative nostalgia. exploring clarity in a world with infinite RAM Naming the Culprit A single concept applies to bad investing, bad decision making, and bad feelings. The idea is living in the past. I began exploring this concept by speaking to my friend Kyla about nostalgia, and its role in Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, guys who only eat meat, luddite behavior, and economic desperation. She recorded a video about it here...

July 8, 2023 · 11 min · goodalexander

Consciousness as a Building Block

the subject synthesizes various life experiences, failures and ideas into a singular life philosophy revolving around consciousness Consciousness forms a universal building block of existence. In moments of profound exertion, when I am at my best - I experience this vividly. A “flow state” - a peak experience, is defined by a feeling of ‘the universe flowing through me’. Many people experience this when using psychedelics. When the ego dissolves, you can interact with the base layer of reality....

July 6, 2023 · 7 min · goodalexander

Firing Myself P2

minimum viable execution marching towards the singularity Minimum Viable Execution Below I want to outline the list of Diet, Exercise, Mental Health and Personal Automation tactics I’m implementing until at least January 5 2024. This post is meant to be an addendum to my previous post “Firing Myself” where I zone in specifically on Personal Automation tactics. That post, in a nutshell, talked about how to use AI tools like GPT4 to make better regular decisions with less energy....

July 5, 2023 · 11 min · goodalexander

Firing Myself

deprecating Alex 1.0, applied accelerationism, ego death with a postgres backend Encountering the Power of AI in Financial Decisions Algorithms from social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, along with the whole digital marketing industry, work non-stop to hook us on products and services that aren’t good for us. AI differentiates itself from Tech 1.0 by giving users the power of algorithms to improve their lives, rather than be victimized by them....

July 2, 2023 · 11 min · goodalexander

Cracks in the Fishbowl

a reflection on Nietzsche, Artificial Intelligence, goldfish, and new Gods “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?...

April 20, 2023 · 15 min · goodalexander