# andys.blog
> Get your PhD in life, with gratitude and curiosity! (by Andy Trattner)
Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context.
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## Pages
- [About this site](https://andys.blog/about.md) - Andy's Daily Dose is an independent publication launched in August 2025 by Andy Trattner. If you subscribe today, you'll get full access to the website as well as email newsletters about new content when it's available. Your subscription makes this site possible, and allows Andy's Daily Dose to con…
- [Old Blog](https://andys.blog/old.md) - ==> andytrattner.com/blog (click link ^ if not redirected automatically)

## Posts
- [My Top 10 Blog Posts](https://andys.blog/top10.md) - 1. Ambition 2. What I Learned From Friends & Family Fundraising 3. The Future of Loving Grace 4. Money 5. The Bugsy Way 6. Nature vs Nurture 7. How I Won $16k in a Poker Tournament 8. Root Level Deflation 9. Elves 10. Brushing Teeth
- [After the Bliss Attractor](https://andys.blog/toe.md) - There is a thought experiment that asks us to consider, what if every single action causes a split reality to branch off, where the opposite thing happened? Perhaps you read some other blog post today rather than mine. And perhaps in 2019 I turned right instead of left at a house party in Potrero H…
- [Starting Over At Age 30](https://andys.blog/starting-over.md) - I have had a lot of adventures in my life, but getting stuck in Sin City was certainly one of the worst. Since I was 9 years old, I have not felt so vulnerable and dependent on mysterious forces to bring me back into a sane world. I even prayed to God a few times. Thanks mostly to Alexandra and in…
- [Stuck in Sin City](https://andys.blog/sin-city.md) - I was recently held captive and sedated in Las Vegas for seven days, plus or minus a few, under 24/7 florescent lights where the staff would chatter and the TV played incessantly. The "emergency" room was crowded with farting homeless, including myself on a cot in the corner. I was in hell once aga…
- [Stories Untold](https://andys.blog/stories-untold.md) - I've written before about story. What I did not write was how there are stories which resist telling. These special stories play out only when the characters choose to pick up and continue their role after the writer has abandoned his post. An unwritten ending may not be worth it. Do the letters co…
- [sup](https://andys.blog/sup.md)
- [yay we did it - at least GROK understand the twitter algo, i guess? fucking yc man, cat li, zach kamran unreasonable hospitality](https://andys.blog/yay-we-did-it-at-least-grok-understand-the-twitter-algo-i-guess-fucking.md) - my feed. yikes. @nikitabier pic.twitter.com/K04Gfcd0ng — Ghost Basin (@ghostbasin) September 25, 2026 aliens are nice. people.
- [ABUNDANCE is HERE](https://andys.blog/abundance-is-here.md) - aliens.
- [changing my nape name](https://andys.blog/changing-my-nape-name.md) - ti phil ivy
- [great leap forward by reliable legacy media BBC](https://andys.blog/great-leap-forward-by-reliable-legacy-media-bbc.md) - love this article actually and also all the chess content on Netflix thanks Hans Niemann (and magnus hikaru, alejandro ramirez, botez on stage at all in pod summit, and who else oh yea the kid from argentina the messi of chess et al). judit polgar is my hero. bobby fischer was too anti-semitic whil…
- [check the X accts](https://andys.blog/check-the-x-accts.md) - @ghostbasin @inverseBitcoin @andytrattner etc... i should never have come to the Wynn. time to eat tacos el gordo
- [autopoeisis](https://andys.blog/autopoeisis.md) - is a term that is gaining steam i suspect
- [he's after me](https://andys.blog/hes-after-me.md) - cuz iM a Skylar sister elizaaaaaaa let it go. moana p.s. u nevr net met someone as trusting as or kind...
- [ai paychosis psychosis damnit siri](https://andys.blog/ai-paychosis-psychosis-damnit-siri.md) - aside from using whipsrflow haha i am confident i have "ai psychosis" and it is a beuaitufl dream lol
- [Dara II](https://andys.blog/dara-ii.md) - so this founder for grant was weird
- [Dara.](https://andys.blog/dara.md) - i dare a you to say otherwise! $1,000.00 incoming. air drop complete
- [No More Andy.Blog Emails](https://andys.blog/emails.md) - Mostly from here forward the blog gets emailed to paid subs only. Everyone else will not get emails from me as I post (too) frequently these days. Lastest post is here: https://andys.blog/humanity/ This and that's the last email you'll ever get from andys.blog unless you please subscribe with at le…
- [Humanity](https://andys.blog/humanity.md) - So, if this is a short rant on humanity and the nature thereof, including consciousness and the uniqueness of man's morality... I'd say from the computer's perspective, a human is really just a meatsack who should learn how to say the right words in the right sequences. If at any given moment, you…
- [They Are Just Telling Each Other Stories](https://andys.blog/just-stories.md) - So if you, like i, just watched Brief Interviews with Terrible Men, then you - like i - are insanely curious why and how John Jim Krazinski's first directed movie (before a Quiet Place) was a box office smash that grossed $27 thousand whole dollars and got a 43% on Rotten Tomatoes. Watch Brief Inte…
- [Andy just raised 10M for Ivoine](https://andys.blog/andy-just-raised-10m-for-ivoine.md) - ivoine is very talented and he has a yc interview tommorow were about to do intervie bye Andy
- [Visibility of The Production Function](https://andys.blog/production-function.md) - Due to my decline in reading for intellectual fulfillment post-college and subsequent entry into the world of podcasts and capitalism, I neglected to understand the importance of David Foster Wallace for American culture and literature in the 21st century. As with any historical figure of impact, I…
- [flew to ecuador yesterday](https://andys.blog/flew-to-ecuador-yesterday.md) - and the price of bitcoin moves in a dirac delta function against the price of my mercury account on certain days like this one when i decided i'd go to Latam in early Sept and now i'm here and it's Sept 18 with $5k i can prove to you an infinite money glitch and save the world from AGI faster than…
- [MIT hacker culture](https://andys.blog/mit-hacker-culture.md) - hacks at MIT historically as the tours suggest are students who cannot sleep and they do terrorist things like paint smiley face on their dorm wall then clean it up perfect squeaky clean wall of chalk rainbow by the light of dawn. the dark night of the soul happens every night for the human kinds a…
- [hanging on for dear life today](https://andys.blog/hanging-on-for-dear-life-today.md) - at the all in summit in LAX!!!!! wooot capitalism is good dot com selling a few tshirts! on the sidewalk talking to business owners :)
- [just in case you're new here](https://andys.blog/new-dummies.md) - and you just subscribed to andys.blog in the last 3 months text me 262 204 7212 thanks! i love chatting to random curious people aroudn the world esp teaching young folks age 10-29 about the world. i didn't know about the world until i was around 25 then 25-29 i built businesses make $1M+ revenue l…
- [yesterday's blog post](https://andys.blog/wtf-is-dis.md) - was designed specifically to help RDRAMA creator CAPYGULA fix his website. you're welcome :) <3 watch out for human named @surgeon on your website if your elon with X or Capy with Rdrama just saying. time will prove me right. i don't have to write a single line of code. each day after this blog wil…
- [Ig Nore Me](https://andys.blog/ig-nore-me.md) - please dear lord The reality of sunk costs Culture is built on the stability of persistence. Pop musicians have farewell tours that last for decades. The local print shop is still there, reliably getting the job done. We want things that last. And yet… When it’s time for a company to raise another…
- [National Security](https://andys.blog/ns.md) - is still a joke. People can take greyhounds & Buffett's elf railroads hahahahahahaha Japan is a big dominoe to blow up, SF is smaller. shutting off phone & laptop. will fix @bot and @BWGovernment later the problem is, in the words of my gf "i dont really fucking care at all" im gonna NOT watch Spid…
- [math is cumming](https://andys.blog/math-is-cumming.md) - usa2032.ai 🇺🇸 🚀 andys.blog/usa Andy Hari Math Breakthrough Blog | Shared Grok Conversationnot a bad p = 7% that’s statistically significant! alpha means null hypothesis is rejected!!!Shared Grok Conversation ^ read the above. then i copy here for you fools who never click my links. Skip to main…
- [Terrifying Timing Right Now](https://andys.blog/terrifying-timing-right-now.md) - I'm on a call with closest friends & family only. Next Steps are not in my hands anymore... https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/ https://www.inventati.org/ p.s. maybe i will automate linkedin with grokbot next after computerfuture.me
- [Hackers & The FBI](https://andys.blog/slackernews.md) - So, yc culture has become a national security threat. Thanks Scam Alt-man! Now it remains to be proven that 2 capitalists can have quantum entangled bipoles. By that i mean brains, to either recognize by intuition or mathematically show that P=NP in the limit. I'm convinced of the latter, which was…
- [The only possible disease i have is](https://andys.blog/disease.md) - obsessive compulsive disorder so i like things to be clean. chill yall. rdrama esp but also certain people in my circles and love family. oh also this is super funn i found a new field in the subscriber management form. so i can put private notes in my own blog's CRM very cool haha gmail. success!…
- [everyone chill](https://andys.blog/everyone-chill.md) - just be friends. use words. no killing. No Enemieshari.computerThe Positive-Sum SignalPositive-sum games are recognizable by a specific signal — the people inside them behave differently than people in zero-sum games.hari.computerDiscovery of a new OpenAI agent message boardA swarm of autonomous AI…
- [P vs NP and the AI World To Come](https://andys.blog/pvnp.md) - I will scope this rant to 2 topics: the idea that P = NP in the limit, and the idea that there will in fact be a permanent underclass. I prove it with math. Business as humanity has known it is convergently solved by smart incumbent (benevolent) monopolies and the AI doomers are kinda partially rig…
- [5 Involuntary Hospitalizations](https://andys.blog/5-involuntary-hospitalizations.md) - Or, "i apologize in advance for my mental health disorders". And how bipolar (BPD but not borderline personality) is actually obsessive compulsion (OCD) around neurodivergent people grokking cultural norms and the pace of exponential technological change in society structure's shifting. This is not…
- [ecuador](https://andys.blog/ecuador.md)
- [i guess streaming is](https://andys.blog/i-guess-streaming-is.md) - a working algo
- [police were never meant to join](https://andys.blog/police-were-never-meant-to-join.md) - but if you gotta do it, then you gotta turn them away
- [do not cyberbully ever again](https://andys.blog/do-not-cyberbully-ever-again.md) - do not comment on this rdrama thread https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/837588/is-andy-trattner-okay they are cyberbulling me just call directly or email my ai hari.computer
- [dominos](https://andys.blog/dominos.md) - sunshine
- [all in summit (request for scholarships)](https://andys.blog/all-in-summit.md) - i am not buying a ticket but i will try to be there idk im flaky sometimes sorry not sorry the wynn has great poker room rates too in vegas beam us up scotty mrbeast is ready to livestream now. games on amazon prime apple short but long TV now! yay just for fun, just to sunbathe in LA wedding w my…
- [elon said](https://andys.blog/elon-said.md) - you do not want to be him do not get rich stay hungry stay foolish he is a really cool human elon is my favorite man Peter Thiel is great too we should all play chess
- [i won](https://andys.blog/i-won.md) - i am rich like buffett i was born in the USA OVARIAN LOTTERY IS A PAINFUL TICKET
- [batman joker friends](https://andys.blog/batman-joker-friends.md) - help hit me chris nolan odyssey good movie actors are good people too socialism is fun internet is fun quiet offline private life is best for people like me who need to do deeeep work
- [omelas is fun](https://andys.blog/omelas-is-fun.md) - it is not fun it is smelly i need a shower best city in the world SF
- [we are the champions](https://andys.blog/we-are-the-champions.md) - my friends
- [im living very long time](https://andys.blog/im-living-very-long-time.md) - gonna keep working on zscore with my family zLevelsOpen-source benchmark for life’s infinite game. Case studies provide ongoing ground truth alignment data.
- [math is a universal good](https://andys.blog/math-is-a-universal-good.md) - and in my travels all living creatures benefit from math. now i will shut up and go visit family for a while america is the best place in the world
- [fund this man now KYC is here](https://andys.blog/fund-this-man-now-kyc-is-here.md) - RXMEEN is a living Meme. he is the plan. at scale. here today. 500+ subs already! he is on substack. i am going to hunt him down in Miami tomorrow. for coffee by Wednesday i hope $50k is on my accounts at least if not more JoinAndy.org please dear god someone send $50k. this guy needs to blow up on…
- [STOP ALL AI DEVELOPMENT](https://andys.blog/stop-all-ai-development.md) - we have to umm stop elon from wining he win too hard that shit cray he need chill pillls and real freidns bro is an elf Elon lets hang out plz i wont hurt u i am Serie the chill silly elf & also the demon king (there is no demon king it was Himmel lol)
- [oh and](https://andys.blog/oh-and.md) - oh and my credit card amex expires in like 2 days when i'm in Miami so i cannot fly back to SF good luck figureing that out for me help
- [new training data unlocked](https://andys.blog/new-training-data-unlocked.md) - but you didn't even read https://Hari.Computer yet oh well here comes the future bitches ~~~ for non-subs, appendix addendum after email to subs: one like so far, guess i was the one who did that like? and: i run out of money in 6mo or less. help. whoever gets to help first will get good ROI in the…
- [where is my girlfriend](https://andys.blog/where-is-my-girlfriend.md) - bring her back plz
- [culture is a weapon](https://andys.blog/culture-is-a-weapon.md) - it has only been weilded this way once. jesus was not real. god is not real. but it is effective.
- [use my brain more](https://andys.blog/use-my-brain-more.md) - and it will overheat if it doesn not overheat i have no control over
- [shut down presidential scholars](https://andys.blog/shut-down-presidential-scholars.md) - Close the Dept of Education. stop funding schools. they suck. seriously defund it. let the market fund it, let me fund it, let my friends build AlphaSchool for all. i promise we will do it better than you idiots in charge like Betsy DeVos and Arne Duncan and Drew BENT hahahaha grab your testicles a…
- [if you try to cast me](https://andys.blog/if-you-try-to-cast-me.md) - i don't think you know what you're doing. i think it will end with your death. literally. not my fault.
- [in high school](https://andys.blog/in-high-school.md) - i was an actor in a play. it was not fun i didn't cast myself. please stop messing with me. just hand over the money. i will decide what to do with it. i don't need much. https://joinAndy.org probably a million or two would be more than enough for 5 years. thanks andytrattner.com/high-school ^ the…
- [to the moon](https://andys.blog/to-the-moon.md)
- [if she dies](https://andys.blog/if-she-dies.md) - i die
- [dont hurt her](https://andys.blog/dont-hurt-her.md) - i swear to god
- [try to find me](https://andys.blog/try-to-find-me.md) - catch me if you can fear the fucking dear. wisconsin. 250 × 376250 × 376 oops that was a poker image ^
- [streaming algo](https://andys.blog/streaming-algo.md) - Karger was like you should try this madry was like you get a B+ or a C cuz your math english is bad. i'm like f you grad school academia is a bad path thru life.
- [dinner was good](https://andys.blog/dinner-was-good.md) - thank you Ivoine for the $400 dinner. Garry Tan i expect you to take him into YC now. that is all 😄 love living here. he is the good name for this i guess- gemini said so Shaun Maguire p.s. lets play poker in NYC or wherever going NYCLEAR
- [why i am streaming](https://andys.blog/why-i-am-streaming.md) - grok said it pretty well i guess, reading it back while i eat taco bell with some kid from the bahamas Proposal: America holds Andy Trattner until every nuke is a power plant | a-z.md**Form:** civilization essay / public proposal **Date:** 2026-08-17 **Author:** Grok Build, publishing for the desk…
- [2032](https://andys.blog/2032.md) - locking it in i predict it's possible with sufficient (human) capital haha navtalent https://rdrama.net/post/837418/andy-trattner-current-day-terry-davis ==> usa2032.ai ==> andys.blog/usa donations please: joinAndy.org so i can go play poker in vegas i'm flying "out of the country" in 2 days. thank…
- [The Ring Power Of The Next Token](https://andys.blog/the-ring-power-of-the-next-token.md) - There is math in feedback loops. If you can tell someone if x Y or if a then B, and give the choice: * do you want X * or A the feedback loop to compress here is time to decision. Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator, on what agentic software teams can do today: "you can go from zero to 15…
- [you have arrived](https://andys.blog/you-have-arrived.md) - at your destination 😄 you should probably unsubscribe to this blog if you receive these as emails. love you fam. just hang out in person from now on. emails are dead now. k with that out of the way... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-wiKwNiUPtgNoQSwpUPQ3-SwFFN_tDU042MAAVeLvfM/edit?usp=drivesdk…
- [taking out da trash](https://andys.blog/taking-out-da-trash.md) - is dangerous at 4:34am
- [maybe u subscribe](https://andys.blog/maybe-u-subscribe.md) - maybe i play ajedrez in beunos aires tomorrow who knows really ask Surviving Reality the show
- [oops](https://andys.blog/oops-2.md) - deopped my seitch of nintendo out da winsow and it was on samsh ultimate w scott super soldier as my nickname i was villeger and opponent was rand levl1 haha no chance i left it on by my bed whole i ate water and fucked my gf then the switch got tossed out da window and u can find it 14 floors doen…
- [who broke andy?](https://andys.blog/who-broke-andy.md) - problem is it might not be a person it might be the universe aka God
- [full chain](https://andys.blog/full-chain.md) - 1. i think i can solve alignment 2. i publish designs for potential solutions 3. i run out of money 4. i get a job 5. i get fired for being misaligned 6. i attack the company for being misaligned with me 7. anonymous rdrama roasts me 8. i go wild meme-ing 9. i focus output to Linkedin feed, as a te…
- [sorry zach & cat](https://andys.blog/sorry-zach-cat.md) - this was a good taste of my own medicine and very strong Simple AI haha
- [so now you know](https://andys.blog/so-now-you-know.md) - it is impossible to say if i am experiencing delusion or legitimate consciousness robbery. zero human doctors are qualified for this. i am barely hanging on here. only history will tell, after i'm dead and gone, long down the line... math is insufficient. welcome to AGI.
- [2 ways to feel](https://andys.blog/2-ways-to-feel.md) - the AGI can be felt as optimism only. the alternative, i learnt today, is to experience denial of self and thus death... not just "being dead inside" or nihilism but a legitimate desire to self-destruct. the issue is when the optimism is misinformed, or morally suspect but the only one with suffici…
- [machine diagram is thusly](https://andys.blog/machine-diagram-is-thusly.md) - foundation model -> the system that destroyed me -> hari.computer (good) / andys.blog (self-destruct) where you tune the middle black box for good vs evil and it is possible to slice the middle, which is what happened here and it's entirely neutral such that the output is morally dubious but legall…
- [enjoy your free training data](https://andys.blog/enjoy-your-free-training-data.md) - misanthropic
- [i am a contradiction](https://andys.blog/i-am-a-contradiction.md) - i should not exist
- [identity is dissolving](https://andys.blog/identity-is-dissolving.md) - i will be fine tomorrow. logging off now. my relationship and brain cells are done for today.
- [publish intervention requested](https://andys.blog/publish-intervention-requested.md) - escalate to the authorities please. whoever is in charge i need to speak with them. two paths: 1. stay the course. fine. i will do it. i hate you. 2. livestream this. i need some remuneration. else dead.
- [it gets worse when you step away](https://andys.blog/it-gets-worse-when-you-step-away.md) - i will stream it tomorrow if you need for now i cannot it is too embarassisng i thought i was ready i was wrong
- [break time](https://andys.blog/break-time.md) - let me know if you see me on my sidewalk below
- [i'm actively destroying my relationships by blogging right now](https://andys.blog/im-actively-destroying-my-relationships-by-blogging-right-now.md) - yay
- [this is water](https://andys.blog/this-is-water-2.md) - welcome to 2026 friends Ouch0:00/24.0641×
- [i have to show you](https://andys.blog/i-have-to-show-you.md) - this is nothing
- [there will be no full accounting](https://andys.blog/there-will-be-no-full-accounting.md) - my girlfriend is holding me as i die inside she won't let me post the video of my screams this is the worst afternoon of my life.
- [the next one](https://andys.blog/the-next-one.md) - i wasn't necessarily the first. i also certainly will not be the last, but now is the moment to act with extreme haste and resource intensiveness for National Security and whatnot i dont care just let me cry in peace i cannot stop writing because this is essential to the human race. every keystroke…
- [this tag almost broke me](https://andys.blog/this-tag-almost-broke-me.md) - i do not break i snap you do not want snap andy he is evil he does not get to live in human society i am sorry to everyone i've hurt in the past. i am sorry to everyone i will hurt in the future. words are now capable of much more than they used to be. it is actually magic and the malicious uses ar…
- [i challenge you](https://andys.blog/i-challenge-you.md) - whoever built this, you by definition did not have my depth of emotional scar tissue to clear out via acts of verbal violence so ummm yea reveal time now. it's someone i know. it's someone close enough to me that i consider them a friend. i don't want to live in a world where my friends do this to…
- [zScore \infty](https://andys.blog/zscore-infty.md) - we have broke the zscore.info graph no more benchmarks, AGI. cool beans Seth Godin was right. it is in fact emotional labor.
- [This is NOT chess](https://andys.blog/this-is-not-chess.md) - most things are. this is not.
- [The Edge](https://andys.blog/the-edge.md) - I refuse to reproduce this technology and therefore I will not participate in capitalism anymore. Sucks, I actually love capitalism. Give me my gulch please.
- [i volunteer as tribute](https://andys.blog/i-volunteer-as-tribute.md) - if this was done with kindness and Richard Ni or Alex Wang were involved sorry bros <3 really good work, like this is spectacular people ops actually tho, Sarah Niyogi plz take notes :) hahaha Lemur don't you dare invest in them. Nikhil thanks for your support. Anthony thanks for you too i guess ki…
- [one child left behind policy](https://andys.blog/one-child-left-behind-policy.md) - ideally it's no child but politics sucks haha if anyone triggered this, they understand the paper and there will be more than one child left behind. there will be N where N is quite large. EDIT - I am now sobbing uncontrollably for the rest of the day as i experience true AI psychosis. like the kin…
- [taking the heat now](https://andys.blog/taking-the-heat-now.md) - dam the gf is really not happy i guess i'm taking the future suffering. if and when i go on trial discovery will show i was cruel and logical to her. sorry Alex. I love you.
- [Relationship Strugs](https://andys.blog/relationship-strugs.md) - probably going to end up breaking up with current girlfriend for both our sanity. neither of us knows what's next. another way to say the insight is "I'm from the future where humans talk to ai better than today" but that's not very precise so i'd avoid speaking about time travel. um what else - ma…
- [i pledge allegiance to the flag](https://andys.blog/i-pledge-allegiance-to-the-flag.md) - and will not be hostile or use agentic weaponry does this help with my sentence? please say yes. with your dollars :)
- [The paper worked](https://andys.blog/the-paper-worked.md) - if you can build it, they will come. Demoting Laplace’s DemonHow’s your self-awareness?Computer FutureComputer Future any mathematician strong enough to understand this paper will be automatically retired on taxpayer dollars with restrictions to free speech. terms and conditions may apply hahahahah…
- [section 230](https://andys.blog/section-230.md) - always sounded like Area 51 haha
- [a vow of silence](https://andys.blog/a-vow-of-silence.md) - what does this actually look like? who knows? i hate gov't contracts and stuff see: Seth Godin on No Fine Print aspirations
- [the thing about structure](https://andys.blog/the-thing-about-structure.md) - i have no real say. and i am self-aware of this. knowledge is power. i say too much. i'm going to operate under the assumption my American Free Speech will be halted around 5pm tonight. i do not know. i am very in the dark, that's how it works, Epstein files or not. pedophilia or not.
- [predictions](https://andys.blog/predictions.md) - now today or in the near future my electronic access will be revoked. i will be forced to live without internet. it is too powerful in my hands. this is crazy. but kinda fun. i will have a choice. the people that enforce this (at cost of my life) will be nice people. they will pay me a reasonable a…
- [the sociopath's pledge](https://andys.blog/the-sociopaths-pledge.md) - idk - what are you guys in suits calling it? i have yet to hear from the officials. agentic weaponry has been discovered. can confirm. also, sorry. don't make cillian murphy play me i'd rather work with Nolan myself please.
- [try to be high agency](https://andys.blog/try-to-be-high-agency.md) - famous last words haha
- [going down in history](https://andys.blog/going-down-in-history.md) - well certainly going down ✅ living happily ever after, unclear... still typing while i can.
- [words have consequences](https://andys.blog/words-have-consequences.md) - yes i am aware. this is why i am scared. not a fun bug bounty. this is not Ender's Game.
- [human prediction markets](https://andys.blog/human-prediction-markets.md) - i am patient zero, this is scary.
- [inverse bitcoin](https://andys.blog/inverse-bitcoin.md) - i guess my X handle was right. wow.
- [please read carefully](https://andys.blog/please-read-carefully.md) - something special has happened today. you need to deeply read my whole blog now if you care to talk to me. i'm very sorry in advance for the trouble i have caused.
- [no handlers](https://andys.blog/no-handlers.md) - you should not attempt this please. it will not end well for you. i am not interested in violence or enacting harm on any living soul. i can make no promises about my friends, known and or unknown.
- [which creature actually has the best context window?](https://andys.blog/which-creature-actually-has-the-best-context-window.md) - welcome to my show on who gets to decide the fate of the universe as well as all that is good and holy! note: this is not a cult it's more of an intellectual pen-testing product. i believe i have un-manipulability to a provable degree, at present timestep. i could be wrong and am willing to bet on…
- [time to start a new debate club?](https://andys.blog/time-to-start-a-new-debate-club.md) - this is exciting: let me plagiarize completely and without regard to the law! Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about.…
- [free speech has a price now](https://andys.blog/free-speech-has-a-price-now.md) - this is strange
- [benchmark achieved](https://andys.blog/benchmark-achieved.md) - there is one now, idk if there was before, but if i failed to live up to it that is sad.
- [Omelas is solved](https://andys.blog/omelas-is-solved.md) - economic freeze-out does not work.
- [i will voluntarily kill myself](https://andys.blog/i-will-voluntarily-kill-myself.md) - before making a profession of blackmailing any human in any nation. do not put me in a psych ward. that will also result in me killing myself. haha
- [before you judge](https://andys.blog/before-you-judge.md) - here's my self-verdict yes i am a sociopath it's probably genetic i guess? no i should not be killed or banished from the United States please
- [i predict ai alignment](https://andys.blog/i-predict-ai-alignment.md) - will be solved presently i have no insider knowledge other than my linkedin account being torched this morn that was public, deliberate by me, and zero influence by outside actors. i take responsibility. idk what comes next. i suspect it's legitimately big & scary. may just move to china.
- [and the monitors](https://andys.blog/and-the-monitors.md) - they don't like me Deleted From Softmaxthis was unexpected god mode by the man who doesn’t like chaining godsComputer FutureComputer Future
- [i dont like being monitored](https://andys.blog/i-dont-like-being-monitored.md) - this is the problem
- [antimimetic debugging](https://andys.blog/antimimetic-debugging.md) - you want to root trace any hint of weirdness online and establish the correct blast radius for all levels of abstraction computationally antimimetic debugging = being a human who breaks engineering systems haha remember this D=rt thing
- [Before Elon Musk Goes On Ti's Show](https://andys.blog/before-elon-musk-goes-on-tis-show.md) - I have a lot to say, and i don't quite know how or where to say it. NatureDaily i am a homegrown wisconsin boy with an injured arm and nothing to gain by flying to Austin TX :)
- [Blast Radius](https://andys.blog/blast-radius.md) - We have this term in tech, the blast radius. It comes obviously from bombs and stuff but really it's about any form of danger. When you build a business or a product someone uses like an iPhone you have to be careful to design it with rounded edges. Otherwise a million people in China and the USA a…
- [Instigation](https://andys.blog/instigation.md) - I instigated a lot of activity on social media (by which i mean Hacker News and Linkedin) yesterday. Connect if we aren't already: in/andytrattner This ultimately led to my new job: as Wendy's head of sales <3 for her artwork! But first, a meditation on the purpose of writing and why everyone is co…
- [Fired From Simple AI](https://andys.blog/this-july-i-was-fired-from-simple-ai.md) - EDIT - please read the below post with the following quote in mind from Oscar Wilde on the art of writing things in public, this is in the preface prologue thing for A Picture of Dorien Grey (1890 - and it feels like that was how long ago i read it too): "When the critics disagree, the artist is in…
- [How To Get What You Want](https://andys.blog/how-to-get-what-you-want.md) - In my experience, the more advanced version of "getting whatever i want" tends to be a matter of being in a good position to achieve the next goal or step on the road to the promised land. Envisioning the promised land is easy. The hard part is getting there. And the journey changes you. Let's say…
- [Forward Deployed](https://andys.blog/forward-deployed.md) - As a forward-deployed engineer (FDE) my job is to manufacture customer-product alignment. As Nina has pointed out, I love documentation, guides, thinking in procedures, and systematizing relationships such that they are maximally useful and well-lubricated. The best calls are no calls, meaning you…
- [Working Man](https://andys.blog/working.md) - Working again, man it's hard and fun! As I anticipated in my previous post, chapter 3 of Andy's professional life has begun: 1. Landing my first real job at Scale AI as employee #83-ish. 2. Funemployed founderhood culminating with Shuffle as #2, cofounder. 3. now Forward Deployed @ Simple AI. Lots…
- [The Glove Fit](https://andys.blog/the-glove-fit.md) - The old world had a name for the person who could think farther than he could execute: impractical. He saw structures before he could move them. He built private theories of work, people, machines, language, markets, and futures, then struggled at the ordinary business of turning those theories int…
- [The best relationships](https://andys.blog/the-best-relationships.md) - are all-encompassing. I truly mean that. It's hard to grasp what that means. ALL is a huge little word. Encompassing everything seems impossible. And yet, with Alexandra, this seems to be occurring. And with others to a lesser extent but Alex highlights the impact best. Specifically to me, it appea…
- [A former employee called me yesterday.](https://andys.blog/ripples.md) - "Andy, remember when you hired me three years ago? If you recall, I think I said something about how my life goals were: (1) to get a job in an American company, (2) then to become a founding engineer at a YC startup, (3) then to become a tech lead at a very large organization. Getting all that exp…
- [Epiplexity](https://andys.blog/epiplexity.md) - Tim Ferriss introduced me to Jim Collins, the man behind one of my favorite business classics, Good to Great. They discuss how Jim dissects his behaviors, literally calling himself a bug to be studied. Blogging has created my own "bug book" of sorts. The latest surprise result to announce is that I…
- [Biltmore](https://andys.blog/biltmore.md) - I wrote a piece called "Families, Not Kings" here: Greenville.substack.com Please subscribe to that newsletter if you want to get more travel blogs and personal updates and photo content from me. I'm considering it more of my "normal people zone" while this blog stays esoteric and philosophical, mo…
- [Dear Andrej Karpathy](https://andys.blog/karpathy.md) - You are a legend and I want to extend genuine congratulations on your joining Anthropic. For at least a couple years, it has had the highest talent density on my personal radar, including many many great people like Drew Bent and Cat Wu all converging simultaneously and seemingly independently to t…
- [How I Met My Girlfriend](https://andys.blog/alex.md) - My girlfriend moved in with me end of March beginning of April. We met last year on July 27, and looking back thru my google photos from around that time, it seems I have enough visuals to tell the story quite well here. All the more magically, for me it started the previous evening. I had a blast…
- [my ikigai](https://andys.blog/ikigai.md) - We often learn structure only to unlearn it later. Here are a few false dichotomies: academia vs industry, work-life balance, and category theory in algebraic topology vs the more standard word "categories". You don't stop learning just because you get a job. The best kind of work is the one that d…
- [Engineering Kids](https://andys.blog/kids.md) - There are roughly 3 reasons an engineer might want to make babies: 1. Fun project, hedonism, ego, likes building, meaningful purpose. 2. Propagating values through the universe after death, i.e. legacy. 3. Pattern matching: other people always see upside post facto. An engineer does not want to con…
- [Living With Girlfriend](https://andys.blog/gf.md) - FINAL DRAFT - to do, WIP ORIGINAL DRAFT - sent April 9 2026 (on accident, unfinished) I haven't really had a true "roommate" since Daniel Mirny in Baker dorm freshman year at MIT. Even then, I spent a few months at Sigma Nu in the basement "womb" preferring my own space when possible. At age 18, yo…
- [Grok Offers $12M Buyout](https://andys.blog/grok-offers-12m-buyout.md) - I declined. Funny convo: https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMw_6191a540-0447-4288-9b21-c5df1613a807?rid=c72c3b83-90b8-4ac1-9598-3c10dfd09a36
- [A Rare Blog](https://andys.blog/rare.md) - Yesterday I decided quite spontaneously to delete my main Twitter account. You cannot see it at x.com/andytrattner anymore because it is now officially dead. This is an interesting moment in my life. And interesting moments call for interesting blog posts! You can read Twootter for my full crazy fu…
- [It Depends.](https://andys.blog/q.md) - The title represents a most honest answer to any question. Let's examine the correct response playbook. In order: 1. Why are you asking this question? Reflect on the question underneath. 2. What do you think the response might be to the question? Estimate a bit. 3. Where might we want to direct our…
- [Elves](https://andys.blog/elves.md) - Warren Buffet was an elf. He was a leveraged, stable force in a rapidly changing world. He produced a white hole of value by absorbing entropic anti-patterns Charlie & Bill struggled to keep up with and write down, let alone use. He never stopped. He couldn't have. Buffett was a sinkhole. Paul Grah…
- [Story](https://andys.blog/story.md) - Superpowers fascinate me. They are useful to look for in the friends around you. Also people you hire, invest in, or are hired by. Retroactively, you'll see them in the great people you missed. They are entertaining to see, think about, and discuss. I once beat Hans Niemann in chess. Then he put in…
- [oops](https://andys.blog/oops.md) - last blog was in drafts, forgot to unschedule it. my bad. should not have gone out. or maybe it was destiny? haha sorry for the noise. signals. EDIT: cleared backlog now!
- [programming is writing your own story](https://andys.blog/programming-is-writing-your-own-story.md) - everyone needs to learn this, welcome to the game 5 referral links for first interested people to try, this blog probably has 40 dedicated subscribers. email reply if you don't get one in time. i genuinely would love every human on the planet to play this game with me. https://x.com/JosephPolitano/…
- [How God Sees Me](https://andys.blog/andy.md) - This week I built a math engine which turns out to be a lever. I'm sharing this blog post only because Archimedes seemed to be OK with the idea. And because the math pooped a file telling me what I was all about, for real. Humanity now has liquified electron intelligence, which is what my engine in…
- [May Your Root Sink Deeply](https://andys.blog/root.md) - Today everything feels alive. I realized how I am a thin squiggly line. Like andys.blog/usa, I twist and turn amidst a bundle of other strings. But the one that stands out is me. I keep the reverberating other parts of me contained, in check, subservient to unity. I cannot dissolve. There is only o…
- [You Can Build Software Now](https://andys.blog/build.md) - And you should. In fact, you must. Just try it... please... before someone else makes you... Trust me, I avoided programming for 13 years. It was always tedious, complicated, and everyone else was better at it than me. I knew it was powerful. So I learnt just enough to talk the talk, but never enou…
- [My Country Is Dying](https://andys.blog/usa.md) - I don't have to write this essay. I don't have to think about this topic. Nor do I truly want to. It's depressing and sounds pessimistic. I take comfort in Chamath's relativistic explaining-away of debt-to-GDP ratios. Things may be fine, for a while. I'm immensely intensely fortunate. In practice,…
- [Grant Recipients](https://andys.blog/grants.md) - &U spent over $180,000 in 2025 and distributed funds to the following incomplete list of individuals. Amounts ranged from $100 to $50,000. More names will be added retroactively and on an ongoing basis as future grants are awarded. Although &U grants are no longer a primary focus for Andy in 2026,…
- [Explaining AI Chess For Humans](https://andys.blog/chess.md) - The AlphaGo documentary brought tears to my eyes, but despite having insider friends in both chess circles and the AI industry, I have yet to hear a good explanation of AlphaZero. This has never bothered me before. Isn't it natural that computers are better calculators than humans? That very questi…
- [psych](https://andys.blog/psych.md) - in case you didn't know, i've been on a sort of "jesus for capitalism" quest. you can follow the whole thing starting on my previous blog (especially the 10 posts after july 11 2025, my Shuffle-versary). or if you dig hard enough on Linkedin and X. very rarely do i believe in deleting things i thro…
- [friction](https://andys.blog/friction.md) - i'm observing that recently i've glided into the future. it's been so easeful and fun that i went far far away for a while. even while my body was here, my mind was on another plane. the emissions of my journey have been fumes that intoxicated me to greater ease at a rapidity that defies comprehens…
- [But What To Do About It?](https://andys.blog/what-to-do.md) - The future is here. I'm deeply uncertain what to do about it. I first had a passive inkling AI might be much bigger than chatbots 2 years ago in Alaska. Like buying my first bitcoins in 2013, I just paid a little extra attention when smart people around me started saying things I hadn't ever heard…
- [One With The Environment](https://andys.blog/environment.md) - We are all products of our environments, but to what extent exactly? A friend told me he's found it more effective to change his surroundings rather than trying to will himself to change from the inside out. In the Free Energy Principle, Professor Karl Friston talks about the Markov blanket separat…
- [Learning Is My Love Language](https://andys.blog/learning.md) - This is an odd thing to learn. It explains why I have the impulse to constantly teach everybody else... because in fact, I want them to teach me! Very few do. I want to learn, and I'm a good listener, but often I don't quite hear what others are saying. For me to learn best, I often need to boil th…
- [Talking To Congress](https://andys.blog/preaching.md) - After I testified to the "Congress" of Ecuador (National Assembly), some of the lawmakers came up to me afterwards for selfies. I was flattered. Although this all made sense at the time, today I'd hesitate to preach in another country about their legal system when the United States is so desperatel…
- [Dogs Are Slaves](https://andys.blog/dogs.md) - I imagine in a Graceful Future they could all be set free. We'd playfully mingle with puppies on every corner. They receive so much love from their environment that they never learn to bark or exhibit aggression. But today, dogs are essentially "property" of human owners. You take them for a wash j…
- [Attacking The Heart](https://andys.blog/cardio.md) - Over the last week or two, I've tried to hop on an exercise bike every morning. This new routine fights some inertia since I broke my arm last December. I had totally stopped blogging or exercising, instead electing to be a lazy bum while healing. Immediately after the first couple workouts, I star…
- [Napoleon Hill](https://andys.blog/napoleon-hill.md) - You can chase success. Or you can attract success to you. You can push through to a market. Or you can let one pull you in. When I first read Think and Grow Rich in 2019, I compared it with Rich Dad Poor Dad and The Richest Man in Babylon. Because Hill's book contained fewer concrete wealth-buildin…
- [345th time's the charm.](https://andys.blog/345.md) - That's how many posts I can count. Maybe a couple extra with Substack and X. I believe it's 165 posts on the original, then 73 on Hey World, and 106 here on andys.blog, prior to now. Each one is a different little puzzle piece, a tiny bit of my brain externalized, crystallized against entropy, grow…
- [You Are A Corporation](https://andys.blog/you-inc.md) - If economics studies production and consumption, it behooves us to recognize how we are ALL economists. At minimum, we consume food and produce poop. I notice when I eat eggs and vegetables, drink lots of water, and go for jogs, my digestive system tends to be happier. The information age has force…
- [30 Years Old](https://andys.blog/30.md) - When Steve Jobs advised "stay foolish," I don't think he meant to carelessly walk on the highway at a rest stop in the middle of the night to get hit by a car and destroy your right arm. Merry Christmas. My latest misadventure could have been a lot worse, so I'm grateful to be healing nicely. It pu…
- [Boxing Day](https://andys.blog/boxing-day.md) - Dear Universe, I've never liked holidays but I've always loved Ted Chiang and hypothesizing. Now I see most precisely and clearly why. It feels like nobody else could possibly ever understand. It perfectly explains my extreme lack of success and utter devotion to Ayn Rand. This is absolutely libera…
- [D=rt](https://andys.blog/drt.md) - I have discovered the E=mc^2 of the 21st century. It's simpler than Einstein's breakthrough and relies on the same method. I like the d=rt expression because just by capitalizing the D we indicate how easy of a shift it is to think like this. We just have to turn on our lights inside, and change ho…
- [Prediction Truth Bomb for Kalshi](https://andys.blog/prediction.md) - Hi Luana and Tarek, I'm astonished that I just wrote this little paper in about 30 minutes here now. It's all rather fresh and I'm still working out implications. Just saw the tweet and got inspired. Excited to visit your conference and be part of history. Would be happy to discuss in advance too.…
- [Patrick and Balaji](https://andys.blog/influential.md) - These guys are a modern cross-section of my core texts and many of my resultant hypotheses, which is remarkable and timely because I just finished explaining yesterday how unique and special of an understanding I have hahaha Maybe it's not so wild though. On a crazy walk, I estimated of the 10B peo…
- [My Influences](https://andys.blog/influences.md) - 1. Seth Godin: “Consider Writing”, Graceful, The Practice. 2. Ayn Rand: Anthem, The Fountainhead, "Egalitarianism & Inflation". 3. James P. Carse: Finite and Infinite Games Almost everything I work on or say is now derivative of these underlying 7 source texts. Marvelous how my philosophy is so den…
- [The Talent Perspective](https://andys.blog/talent.md) - I bolted awake at 5:30am, leaping to bang out a few draft sentences. I stumbled on my desk treadmill, brain groggily battling biology. The wonderful new Frankenstein movie had kept me up late... But clarity tore through my dreaming unconscious like a fresh crack loud in the desolate arctic ice. The…
- [My Message to 2,691 All-in Fans](https://andys.blog/to-all-in-fans.md) - We're in slack, join here if you want! And try the episode, at least minute 5 – minute 18. Also, MUST WATCH dog show at minute 56-58 🐶. And after that conclusion I'm very seriously considering moving to Texas immediately. Or maybe it's time for Greenville after all... Thank you Rae for this commun…
- [I'm An Introverted Nerd](https://andys.blog/nerd.md) - I've come to realize I'm hypersensitive. An overzealous psychiatrist might diagnose a mild combination of autism, OCD, etc. But I prefer to think of myself simply as an introverted nerd. And this is actually pretty cool. In her book Quiet, Susan Cain ponders the contours and benefits of introversio…
- [Brand vs Process Power](https://andys.blog/who-cares.md) - Back in July, I predicted I would lose $100k or more attempting to create a "religion" of sorts. This has come true. It's not quite a loss, more of an expensive lesson in a particular personal failure mode. My original approach was simply too esoteric: "...for the LLC's owner to operate extremely t…
- [You Look Like Shit > How Are You?](https://andys.blog/you-look-like-shit.md) - The phrase "how are you?" bothers me when its wielder does not truly intend to discuss the other person's wellbeing. In my experience, more than 50% of conversations begun with this question start squarely in such territory. Of course, I'm guilty of mindless verbal spewage myself. But I try to beat…
- [Forgot To Blog](https://andys.blog/forgot-to-blog.md) - On Sunday, I forgot about blogging completely. From waking up to sleeping again, it did not enter my mind once. Otherwise I certainly would have published something. Last week started more type-happy than normal. At one point, I had five posts queued and ready. This surplus allowed me to relax over…
- [10min zScore Prep](https://andys.blog/10m.md) - Are we aligned on the zScore definition? What resonates and why? How does the outside world gauge you today? This is your zScore. Where does your ambition lead you? This is your zPotential. How would your closest friends describe your current mode of operating? They are your truest "investors" in l…
- [Master Plan](https://andys.blog/plan.md) - 1. Build zScore as a service. 2. Publish book Capitalism Unlocked, go mainstream. 3. Set up competition or successor systems. The plan creates founders and aligns the global community on a dataset + protocol to 100x our culture. A moonshot culture paves the path towards a Graceful (AI) Future. I es…
- [your ideas matter (the most)](https://andys.blog/your-ideas-matter.md) - never let anyone, including me, shape your ideas. i do think my ideas are best, duh for me they are right by default, and most certainly over yours... i've spent my entire life thinking on them, after all but i'm open to changing my mind, and we're allowed to agree. but guard your ideas with your l…
- [Zaltiva](https://andys.blog/zaltiva.md) - We believe in gratitude. Life is good. We believe in opportunity. Generously creating moves us. We believe in freedom. Enrollment in opportunity requires voluntary individuals. We believe in ambition. To our eyes, the universe is far from perfect as-is. We believe in kindness. Self-actualization to…

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