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Karpathy on [AI’s 30 under 30](https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1748816969858720232)

> [[thoughts/monetary|Money]] is an information system for labor allocation. (this [tweet](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1349977642708168704?s=20))

Money doesn’t have any intrinsic power. You can’t simply throw more money into a system and hope it would fix the problem.

[[thoughts/Chaos|Chaos]] is produced from the act of generating wealth.

What does it really means by accumulating wealth? If capital gains is a property in the pursuit for [[thoughts/Epistemology|knowledge]], chances are you will enjoy your time.

The problems with curiosity without [[thoughts/Alignment|alignment]] of capitalism is that you will run out of time and money sooner or later.

## free market

See also [[library/Capitalism and Freedom]] \[@friedman1962capitalism\]