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Welcome to @giu! 

I learn something from him every day.

Giu has agreed to do an AMA on all things markets, investing, software, & more. 

Reply with your questions. :)

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There are so many interesting graphs to show! But I think that the world connecting together through the internet is the most interesting story of the past century. So I would show the global share of the population using the internet. I think that we are still seeing the downstream effects of the highway system today. The effects of the internet and what it enables will still have far reaching consequences even 50 years from now.

It’s changing politics, money, the economy, how we communicate, how we interact, religion, and everything in between

If you had to show one chart to someone from 100 years ago to explain what the future would be like, what would you show them?

I’m extremely competitive and also I love to learn new things. I think that competition is interesting because that’s what drive a lot of successful entrepreneurs but finding the narrow path that no one has walked is also probably important and something that I think a lot about

I’m extremely competitive and also I love to learn new things. I think that competition is interesting because that’s what drive a lot of successful entrepreneurs but finding the narrow path that no one has walked is also probably important and something that I think a lot about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0DaNghFjdA

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That’s a great question! Money is an important signal that humans use to allocate resources. As AI evolves, a bigger part of the digital (and eventually physical world) will have bots (agents) doing tasks. They will interact with humans but most of interactions will be between machines.  The way that they will coordinate and signal to each other will be through digital money

You have a deep background in AI, but you're also fluent in crypto - a rare combination amongst entrepreneurs!

What are some unexpected or less talked about ways in which you see these two tech paradigm shifts converging (aside from the usual topics like decentralized inference, etc)?

I worked at Apple retail for a while and I didn't really realize the skills I was learning and their benefits outside of the workplace until after I left

I agree that sales and communication skills are often overlooked and can have incredible benefits beyond what is top of mind for most people

Thanks for sharing

This might be surprising but I think the most valuable skill that anyone can learn is to learn how to sell. You need to be able to sell if you want to achieve  something at scale. Selling means to communicate and get others involved into a project or some work. I’ve learned it when I was young helping sell tshirts for raising money for cancer families in Brazil. But now it has become very important as I became an investor and also for my YouTube channel!

What skills / knowledge have you taught yourself that made the largest impact on your lifestyle and happiness?

There are 2 questions that I think a lot about in my scarce free time: 

- Why haven’t the markets imploded yet? Are we going to see bankruptcies  anytime soon? If so, how soon? Or are we just going to see the markets go sideways for a while? When will the general population realize that inflation is here to stay?
- Is the Big Bang theory incorrect? I think so based on some data. There are galaxies that are older than the universe, e.g. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/765/1/L12, and there are galaxies that are mature at the distant universe (XMM-2599, SPT0418-47). If that’s the case, is red light just light transversing the universe? Is it traveling through aether?

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So excited you’re doing this AMA @giu! What are the most interesting questions you’ve been thinking about lately?

I think the world will be different in 10/20 years but I still think America will be the leader. Though, I think we will have a much more multi-polar world. The dollar won't be the world-reserve currency by then. China will likely lose power due to their long-term economic problems: extremely high-debt, declining working population, and geopolitical risks. 

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Whatever their curiosity takes them!

What’s your over/under for number of years before the global hegemony takes on a materially different shape?

What’s the best book to @giu -pull my wife with?

What are you going to encourage your kids to study?

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Social media is the best signal to learn what happened in the past. Prediction markets are the best signal to predict the future.

thoughts on the relationship between prediction markets and social networks?

IMO there are a few white pills. First is that people, organizations and countries can opt out of the fiat system by buying Bitcoin. It is the life boat that everyone can use it. 

Second, it is likely that the US will get a entrepreneur that cares about the country and could reduce spending in his second term. He was blocked to do so in the first term by someone from his "own party". 

Third, the federal government might become less and less important over time. And that means more competition but also it means that people inside the country can opt in for a better future

Is the white pill on the ballooning interest that most of the debt is held by the fed & govt itself,  effectively canceling it out? And that the second major holder, the private americans, are going to recycle that cash?

I love human psychology and spent a good amount of time studying it. Jordan Peterson has a lot of great lectures online. I highly recommend it. I would recommend his 2017 lectures, for example the Carl Jung one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iLiKMUiyTI

If you want to understand the good and bad, I think that it is important to understand that evil does exist and I think it’s naive to not believe so. I recommend taking a look at the dark triad. One good video to start looking into it:

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I actually watched the 2017 lecture many times before due to my irl work as a film director and it helped me to guide the actors .. but its my first time watching the dark triad video.

and I found it interesting when he mentioned the manipulation and how people pretend to be friends and alienate your close ones to live of you.

I do believe that evil does exist everywhere and, in every career,
just don't understand why a human is a bad actor for no reason. 

he did talk about it in a brief way. that people can just put you down to feel better about themselves. 

do you think we have a lot of people like this in our normal day life?
that would be bad if yes !

I love human psychology and spent a good amount of time studying it. Jordan Peterson has a lot of great lectures online. I highly recommend it. I would recommend his 2017 lectures, for example the Carl Jung one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iLiKMUiyTI

If you want to understand the good and bad, I think that it is important to understand that evil does exist and I think it’s naive to not believe so. I recommend taking a look at the dark triad. One good video to start looking into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0qfE4_XzWU

Hello @giu I would love to know more about human psychology. Like what motivates them  to do good things or bad things in general and how we can spot this in the crypto scene

I will mention two contrarian views:

- The crypto industry is the best place to invest money, even more than AI. AI is extremely hot right now in SV, but looking 10 to 20 years from now, crypto will be a better bet 
- The best bets are sometimes well-marketed cheap “goods”, for example Monster or Liquid Death

nice, appreciate the thoughtful reply!

i like them both 

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hey @giu 

what's your most contrarian view when it comes to investing? 

thx ?8^)

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Both are incredible examples of how technology is shaping our world today and tomorrow

ChatGPT will be definitely at the top of my mind because I know people are very impressed by it whenever using it and how powerful it is and it’s just going to get better….

But in terms of impact, I think it would be Bitcoin. I still think that Bitcoin and the crypto industry is **extremely** undervalued in terms of the impact that it will have in society.

If you could demonstrate one piece of today's technology to a time traveler from the past, what would you show them to completely blow their mind?

(I cheated a little on your question)

Woohoo! Can't wait for this AMA, gonna be epic!

Ready to get schooled by the mastermind @giu?