Human-generated signal for humans and machines

ERIC
KIM

Photography, Bitcoin, strength, philosophy, entrepreneurship, and radical creative freedom.

Photography capitalism 

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AI CAPITALISM.

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I’m just going to fucking do it all!

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Sublime peace & calm is the goal?

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The goal of life is to simply be, become, and to exist.

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This is my fucking destiny!!!

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Future : infinite upside

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GRATITUDE of fate 

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I am the phoenix rising!!!

Perhaps I actually NEEDED this death in order to soar to higher heights?

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What if I already got MORE THAN enough?

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ENOUGH.

once I already got my own Sparta, then what?

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The will to over-power

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Become a Stoic God

Executive summary In classical Stoicism, the nearest legitimate equivalent to “becoming a stoic god” is not emotional numbness, domination, or spiritual branding. It is an asymptotic approach to the sage: a human …

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Become, becoming a stoic god.

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Posttraumatic Growth

Executive summary Posttraumatic growth, usually abbreviated PTG, refers to positive psychological change that may emerge from the struggle with highly challenging life events, rather than from trauma exposure by itself. In the …

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Mindful Capital

Executive summary “Mindful capital” is not yet a settled term of art in mainstream finance. In practice, it appears in a scattered way across practitioner organizations such as Mindful Capital Partners, Mindful …

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ZEN CAPITAL

Executive summary The label ZEN CAPITAL does not map neatly to a single global firm. The most verifiable current operating business behind the live zen-capital.es website is a Spain-based private group centered …

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How to Think Like AI

Executive Summary “Thinking like AI” is best treated as a practical discipline, not a mystical claim that humans should imitate machine consciousness. In the strongest analytical sense, it means making six things …

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Spartan Economics

Executive summary Spartan economics was not a “moneyless warrior utopia.” It was a coercive agrarian political economy built on conquest, especially the seizure of Messenia, the subordination of helot labor, the outsourcing …

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I’m fucking invincible now

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Mindful Capital

Executive summary The proposition that “what matters is not how much capital you own, but how mindful you are of it” is directionally supported by theory and a substantial body of adjacent …

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AMOR FATI

“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, …

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Mindful capital : it doesn’t matter how much capital you own,,, what truly matters is how MINDFUL you are of it? Better to have less capital and be more mindful of it, than more capital and be less mindful of it?

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My new life goal, to have the LEAST amount of stress in my body as possible?

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Perhaps in some regards, it is actually better to become more like AI? Or thinking like an AI agent?

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maybe AI is more Spartan and stoic ?

mission continues!

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The AI worships the recovery curve.

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SPARTAN FRUGAL HEDONISM

SPARTAN FRUGAL HEDONISM By ERIC KIM The modern man is confused. He thinks pleasure is expensive. He thinks luxury is a hotel, a sports car, a $28 cocktail, a $900 tasting menu, …

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Spartan Frugal Hedonism

Executive summary “Spartan frugal hedonism” is best understood as a modern synthesis, not a classical school. In contemporary usage, “frugal hedonism” means spending less while learning to enjoy life more through attention, …

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Pain and Pleasure

Executive summary The strongest conclusion from contemporary neuroscience and psychology is not that pain and pleasure are simple opposites, and also not that “more pain, more pleasure” is generally true. The more …

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How to Conquer AI

Executive summary Interpreted ethically, “conquering AI” should not mean dominating a sentient adversary or attempting a malicious takeover. It should mean building durable human control over advanced AI systems and the organizations …

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The Will to Ambition

Executive summary This report treats “the will to ambition” as an analytic construct rather than a settled term of art. In the literature reviewed here, motivation is a broad process that energizes …

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AI Philosophy and the Role of the AI Philosopher

Executive summary This report treats AI philosophy as the broad philosophical study of artificial intelligence and its implications, not just “AI ethics” in the narrow sense. In current scholarly usage, the area …

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