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Current obsession: Mastering AI, Claude Code, OpenClaw etc. 👨‍💻 AI, Finance, Blockchain 💻 @blockpit_io 🎮 Side Project @BorderClashGame

Austria
Joined October 2008
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i've been to 132 conferences in 11 countries. this is the best talk I've ever seen in my life. a coffin on stage projection mapping auto-advancing hands-free slides and fascinating storytelling @davekiss's talk had it all.
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Claude has become a language, so I built a translator. English <-> Claudish
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Pascal Costa retweeted
We're building a Moon Base! @NASAMoonBase will serve as a habitat where astronauts live and work during long-term science missions. Join us at 2pm ET on Tuesday, May 26, for a live news event where we’ll share updates on our lunar exploration plans: go.nasa.gov/4uinkLi
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Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
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banks to congress: "if people can earn 3.5% on stablecoins, they'll pull $6.6 trillion out of our 0.1% accounts" yeah. that's called competition welcome to capitalism
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Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another. There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime.
SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 🚀💫🤩
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I launched rentahuman.ai last night and already 130+ people have signed up including an OF model (lmao) and the CEO of an AI startup. If your AI agent wants to rent a person to do an IRL task for them its as simple as one MCP call.
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Pascal Costa retweeted
Market crashes are scary. Some thoughts on how to navigate times like these: 1/ Change your perspective to view every price drop as an opportunity. You now have the option to buy good assets at cheaper prices. That’s a good thing. 2/ It’s also a learning opportunity. Have no capital? Lesson is to take more profits. Feeling sick to your stomach? Lesson is to diversify more, or be less all-in. It might hurt, but there’s always a lesson, and you can always learn and improve for next time. 3/ Recognize that the lower the price goes, the more people give up and leave. Your competition literally gives up. There are outsized returns for those that stick around. 4/ Zoom out. If you don’t feel better, zoom out further. Think about your goals in terms of where you wanna be 10 or 20 years from now rather than 1 year, and you’ll suddenly find them a lot more achievable. Compound interest is a hellofa drug. 5/ Zoom out further. Beyond money and charts. Look at what’s happening in the world. Give your life a fresh perspective: do you have a roof over your head? Food on your table? Safety from war? Friends or family that loves you? Your health? You might not have all of these things, but any one of them is enough to be grateful. Even none of them is: simply being alive is enough. We all have within us all we need. Might seem hollow and preachy but that doesn’t make it not true. 6/ Go for walks. Walking is underrated. I have had more days than I can count where my NW dropped over 7 figures. It used to hurt a lot. It always feels better after a walk. 7/ Avoid the obvious traps people fall into when trying to feel better: alcohol, drugs, leverage / revenge trading, etc. it’s easy to succumb to such things as an attempt to quickly solve your woes. 99% of the time you’re just gonna make things much worse. 8/ Work to diversify your income streams. The most stressful position to be in is having 100% of your money in crypto, where you need crypto income to pay your bills. If your main source of income is outside crypto, you have a leg up. If you can get to having multiple sources of income, you’re golden. In the age of AI, anyone can easily work in this direction. The bottleneck is your own motivation. 9/ No matter how bad things get, know that there’s always a path forward. Countless legends have gone from below zero to hero. If you’ve lost everything, you can always start over. You can always find success in the future, whether in this industry or another. Your experience gives you an enormous advantage over everyone else. Never give up. 10/ If you feel particularly sad or depressed or down and dejected.. step away. Endlessly scrolling social media and refreshing price charts is gonna do nothing for you. Time might not fully heal all, but time has a way of at least softening everything. Give yourself a break. You’re not gonna miss anything; chances are you’re protecting yourself from yourself, from making poor decisions when your mental state isn’t optimal. Life goes on. It gets better. The real money is made during bearish times anyway. Everyone is a genius in a bull market. It takes grit and perseverance and conviction to stick around and accumulate through bearish times. Good luck
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Pascal Costa retweeted
2024: prompt engineer 2025: vibe coder 2026: master of ai agents 2027: unemployed
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Ursula von der Leyen just *officially* announced at Davos: The 28th regime will be called EU–INC! WE WON.
TOTAL EU–INC VICTORYYYYYYY!!! WE MEMED THIS INTO REALITY ALL OF YOU MADE THIS POSSIBLE @euinc_petition
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🇺🇸 SAN FRAN BLACKOUT – WAYMO FROZE, TESLA DROVE Waymo’s robotaxis got a little too real last night - by completely shutting down when San Francisco’s power outage knocked out traffic lights. Meanwhile, Teslas on FSD? Kept rolling. No drama, no headlines - just handling chaos like it’s a walk in the park. This is what happens when you train your AI on billions of real-world miles instead of coddling it in a simulation padded with perfect data and wishful thinking. Waymo bet on maps and order. Tesla bet on mess - and won. When the lights go out, the difference isn’t theoretical. It’s traffic. Source: @teslasi, @elonmusk
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Pascal Costa retweeted
Running robot
Just set a new PR in the lab
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Europe today is basically a mass experiment of how far the tolerant majority can be subjugated to the intolerant minority before they realize their power. It’s not looking good for the majority.
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Just some car company
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⚡️ INSIGHT: If the German Government didn't sell their 49,858 $BTC at $57,900 in July 2024, it would be worth $5.24B with $2.3B in profit.
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The largest summary of supplements for depression. Saffron had the largest decrease in depressive symptoms.
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The author states, “Saffron had the largest decrease in depressive symptoms.” However, it was saffron PLUS antidepressants (ADT) that had the largest decrease in depressive symptoms. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don’t want to include a Teams link on the calendar invite. I don’t want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don’t want to upgrade to TurboTax platinum plus audit protection. I don’t want to install the Webex plugin to join the meeting. I don’t want to share my car’s braking data with the actuaries at State Farm. I don’t want to text with your AI chatbot. I don’t want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don’t want to type in my email address to view the content on your company’s website. I don’t want text messages with promo codes. I don’t want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a $20 Starbucks gift card. I don’t want to join your exclusive community in the metaverse. I don’t want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don’t even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place. I just want to pay for a product one time (and only one time), know that it’s going to work flawlessly, press 0 to speak to an operator if I need help, and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity, if that’s not too much to ask anymore.
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Pascal Costa retweeted
Everyone needs to hear this…
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