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washedup

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About washedup

background in economics, finance, trading, and data science.

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    Been working on a paper that's my attempt to add a meaningful update to macroeconomic theory, specifically around the effects of high-entropy outputs (waste, heat, harmful byproduc…

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    "All of the severe incidents of this kind that we observed involved earlier versions of Claude Mythos Preview which, while still less prone to taking unwanted actions than Claude O…

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    I personally love Jane Street lore. I think there is a lot of value to this theory, but people saying BTC would be at $150,000 feels misguided, since there are a lot of complex sto…

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    Happy NYE! Was a big one for me: went sober. Alcohol became my band-aid solution for everything, which ended up with me ignoring things that needed to be done and putting my relati…

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    The asteroid isn't big enough to change the trajectory of the Moon (negligible): https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/planetary-defense/2025/06/05/...

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    From what I've read, it's not that much of a concern yet. The immediate threat would be to orbital infrastructure, with debris burning up in the atmosphere. It would not change the…

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    Was flagged, that was fast

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    The Dollar Sign at the top left corner is ridiculous. What a joke.

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