| 1 | Sep 30, '25 | i have the most liked video on sora 2 right now, i will be enjoying this short moment while it lasts cctv footage of sam stealing gpus at target for sora inference | 520× | 11.5M | 14k | 728 | 2.7k |
| 2 | Jul 19, '25 | i feel like i've had cognitive decline past 2 years. by far two biggest downsides are: 1) i struggle really hard to keep code in my brain while writing or understanding code 2) 100 | 276× | 6.1M | 13k | 359 | 8.9k |
| 3 | Oct 3, '25 | we are number one on app store!!! | 191× | 4.2M | 4k | 104 | 526 |
| 4 | Sep 30, '25 | TODAY WE LAUNCH SORA 2, THE WORLDS BEST VIDEO GENERATION MODEL feature you and your friends with raw real world physics, putting an end to the uncanny ai vibes let me show you how | 136× | 3M | 6.8k | 548 | 2.3k |
| 5 | Aug 3, '25 | if you ever found something that's easy to do but made a huge difference in productivity or health, please reply or quote post people sit on so many life changing secrets that are | 127× | 2.8M | 18k | 1.1k | 20k |
| 6 | Aug 2, '25 | it's a very common theme that people fix all their problems and never talk about it. literally any time i have some new insight at least one of my friends say "oh i did that x year | 124× | 2.7M | 3.4k | 107 | 698 |
| 7 | Mar 5, '25 | >70% of people are in permanent slight suffering because they are allergic to making ANY mentally tough decision when there is also an option to do nothing. rant: | 118× | 2.6M | 27k | 1.4k | 13k |
| 8 | Sep 2, '25 | sf has the most autistic billboards | 105× | 2.3M | 23k | 450 | 3.1k |
| 9 | Feb 25, '25 | sad people don't know that happy people have nearly only green dots (happy days) while happy people don't know unhappy people have mostly red | 89.1× | 2M | 36k | 1.7k | 4.3k |
| 10 | Aug 6 | 3 months ago i resigned from @OpenAI. today we are launching Energy everyone will soon use AI for all work on their computers, but very few do today even though AI is good enough o | 85.1× | 1.9M | 6.5k | 318 | 4k |
| 11 | Mar 9, '25 | never compete when applying for jobs, there are hundreds of applicants with better grades and universities than you. but none of them will be making a personalized demo i used this | 75.5× | 1.7M | 9.1k | 434 | 17k |
| 12 | Apr 18, '25 | i don't know what sf's PR team is doing but i'll do the work for them i just wandered 20 minutes on a beautifully clean market street, no rotten smell, no people screaming in my fa | 70.9× | 1.6M | 9.4k | 222 | 795 |
| 13 | May 5, '25 | it's actually hilarious how tipping is just redistribution of capital from people pleasers to non people pleasers tipping never increases salaries in the long run because free mark | 51.8× | 1.1M | 5.7k | 153 | 871 |
| 14 | Oct 30, '25 | uber banned in germany because it's illegal for drivers to arrange their own rides europe truly hates freedom more than anything else. it shows in their 0% gdp growth last 20 years | 49.3× | 1.1M | 7.1k | 296 | 563 |
| 15 | Aug 26, '25 | what are your best ideas for how to slow perception of time? if you want it to feel like you are 7 years old again and a 1h lecture feels like a day, how do i slow down time to tha | 45.9× | 1M | 6k | 178 | 3k |
| 16 | Jan 29, '25 | burning out is real btw. when i was 18 i thought it was something for dummies who didn't wanna work. it took me ~3 years to recover fully, and could physically not work for 5months | 40.9× | 901k | 13k | 559 | 2.7k |
| 17 | Sep 7, '25 | i 20x'ed another friends salary he used to live in a city with zero engineers in sweden and he just moved to san francisco to work as an ai researcher all he needed to do: | 40.1× | 885k | 3k | 65 | 2.4k |
| 18 | Mar 30, '25 | this is incredibly sad, someone spent their entire childhood to get into MIT with perfect scores without getting in, and now can't live his dream all this effort could have been sp | 39.7× | 876k | 3.4k | 96 | 1.3k |
| 19 | Sep 30, '25 | sora 2: sam altman goes into train station and makes everyone dance with him | 39.1× | 862k | 3.4k | 131 | 619 |
| 20 | Dec 4, '24 | 5 yrs ago, i dropped out of high school in sweden to join a startup, with close to zero experience as an engineer. today i'm joining @OpenAI as a research scientist to build agi wi | 38.4× | 847k | 11k | 380 | 1.5k |
| 21 | Oct 18, '25 | 10% chance elon declare he reached agi a fourth time | 34.8× | 767k | 2.2k | 48 | 115 |
| 22 | Aug 13, '25 | yeah look at that, i woke up in panic exactly at this moment when my blood oxygen dropped to 87% i literally stop breathing at night, and my brain spikes my body with adrenaline so | 33.3× | 733k | 5k | 88 | 1.8k |
| 23 | Aug 27, '25 | I NEED ADVICE, i can't seem to gain weight. just measured myself again and i lost weight, even after heavy lifting and eating 1 pound chicken / salmon per day + nuts in morning, im | 30.9× | 681k | 1.5k | 14 | 445 |
| 24 | Jun 1, '25 | why do middle class people who hate their job buy a handbag that cost 3 months of salary instead of retiring 3 months earlier | 30.9× | 681k | 14k | 413 | 863 |
| 25 | Oct 22, '25 | wow thats so clever, i feel really dumb now | 30.8× | 680k | 6.1k | 65 | 538 |
| 26 | Oct 14, '25 | three years ago in sweden i was thinking "if i worked at openai i would have unlimited motivation and never waste time again" now i work there, and none of my brains promises about | 30.6× | 674k | 5.7k | 184 | 2.8k |
| 27 | Jul 30, '25 | i bought every single one of them, let's see what works | 30.5× | 671k | 2.3k | 42 | 1.8k |
| 28 | Mar 28, '25 | wow this feels great, i'm so done with the current web design meta | 28.2× | 622k | 2.9k | 66 | 1.2k |
| 29 | Mar 16, '25 | i was rejected at xai after failing topological sorting for a frontend role lmao this was a long time ago before i realized i wanna do research, so turned out to be the good outcom | 27.4× | 604k | 4.2k | 62 | 756 |
| 30 | Oct 10, '25 | we are hiring a lot for sora, reach out in dm if you are interested, please write two sentences max about why you are uniquely suited for product/systems/ml | 25.8× | 568k | 2.6k | 83 | 1.3k |
| 31 | Aug 2, '25 | have not had a massage in years, turns out knots build up that ruin your posture & cause long term pain and that you can just remove them most people who are aware of this are | 25.6× | 564k | 6.1k | 131 | 2.1k |
| 32 | Oct 24, '25 | because we play fair at openai we will not disable chatgpt access to all Dave's Hot Chicken employees | 22.9× | 504k | 2.7k | 33 | 158 |
| 33 | Oct 30, '25 | i spent $20k on this sign | 21.5× | 473k | 5k | 19 | 180 |
| 34 | Jan 20, '25 | the average person spends 0.0001% of their life time trying to earn more, have better colleagues, and making sure they love what they do, and then spend 60% of their lives doing th | 21.1× | 465k | 1.1k | 58 | 735 |
| 35 | Mar 20, '25 | funny how inefficient the job market is. had a friend who i finally convinced to apply to the US and now he works remote for a much cooler job in the US with 5x salary. literally t | 18.7× | 412k | 6.1k | 182 | 1.4k |
| 36 | Jul 19, '25 | odd recent things about my health that might impact: - i never feel rested, i think i could sleep for 12h every night - RHR when asleep is like 39 and im not fit, and i wake up gro | 17.4× | 384k | 1.5k | 16 | 154 |
| 37 | May 5, '25 | pretty crazy we see no billionaires that panic over the thought of dying when they are like 50 and put 100% of effort and money into it? | 17.2× | 379k | 3.1k | 30 | 315 |
| 38 | Aug 11, '25 | turns out it's illegal to measure CO (not co2) under 30ppm, in case the general public "panics" from a lower reading that is not "alarming" thank you once again US public safety st | 15.9× | 350k | 7.7k | 187 | 730 |
| 39 | Sep 22, '25 | holy shit i just saw the CEO of loopt in our office | 15.7× | 346k | 1.7k | 14 | 99 |
| 40 | Jul 19, '25 | things that i already do: - i sleep 8.5h same time every day - i workout every other day, strength + cardio - i eat healthy and varied, no sugar - making sure i'm not highly stress | 15× | 330k | 1.1k | 12 | 101 |
| 41 | Oct 12, '25 | europe is waking up and invests nearly a full seed round into ai | 14.9× | 329k | 2.1k | 79 | 242 |
| 42 | Sep 30, '25 | any of my friends need sora 2 access code? | 14.9× | 328k | 1.8k | 27 | 189 |
| 43 | Nov 27, '24 | it takes 3 days to learn diffusion models top down, 6 years before you can learn it bottom up (academia) historically you couldn't start learning about diffusion and then get into | 14.7× | 323k | 1.5k | 90 | 1.3k |
| 44 | Mar 7, '25 | even top 10% people make all their career decisions based of avoiding negative emotion, there is literally zero competition for any job long term if you can take a little emotional | 14.4× | 317k | 3.8k | 164 | 1.7k |
| 45 | May 18, '25 | happiness is sadly a weird and touchy topic. unhappiness is often a chronic addiction to problems if you were upset by the last sentence, that is likely your addiction inventing re | 13.3× | 293k | 1.6k | 69 | 833 |
| 46 | Nov 28, '24 | universities don't have monopoly on foundational knowledge anymore, here is how i learned all the math intuitions behind diffusion models as a high school dropout with with claude: | 10.5× | 232k | 1.4k | 92 | 1.9k |
| 47 | May 2, '25 | "but how do i learn ml with chatgpt" don't ask me, ask chatgpt. that's literally the entire secret. take whatever questions you throw at real people, and ask it to chatgpt. this is | 10.2× | 224k | 1.8k | 58 | 366 |
| 48 | Aug 3, '25 | for us morons that can never do anything that takes less than 5 minutes immediately because we are lazy and have adhd so it will take at least 2h, write up all small things and the | 10× | 221k | 1.5k | 18 | 723 |
| 49 | Aug 24, '25 | the reason interviews consists of questions from the interviewer about is because you are unable to sell yourself and unable to remove all the doubts the person interviewing you ha | 9.7× | 213k | 1.6k | 35 | 1.7k |
| 50 | Aug 1, '25 | if you had bad posture (both when walking / working) and you permanently fixed it, reply what you did, what content you followed, what habits you had if you did not fix or never ha | 9.6× | 212k | 1.7k | 47 | 1.8k |
| 51 | Oct 1, '25 | we just reached number 3 on app store! i have had so many friends tell me sora 2 is the first time ai made them laugh, this is truly a new experience! | 9.4× | 208k | 1.5k | 47 | 108 |
| 52 | Oct 31, '25 | sun is the only source of happiness with no downsides no withdrawals, no addiction, you can't get used to it. it just adds on 50% happiness unconditionally | 9.4× | 207k | 1.5k | 45 | 120 |
| 53 | Mar 20, '25 | it takes max 1-2 years of optimal learning to contribute to frontier ai research starting from nothing, the hard part is the "optimal", not the learning | 8.9× | 197k | 2.3k | 75 | 1k |
| 54 | Sep 5, '25 | reached a record low 35 heart rate asleep | 8.5× | 188k | 2.1k | 5 | 101 |
| 55 | Sep 10, '25 | i haven't seen a broken phone screen for a few years now, they suddenly stopped breaking still all you dumdums use phone cases, huge psyop. aesthetic destruction, stop it | 7.8× | 171k | 1.3k | 26 | 117 |
| 56 | May 8, '25 | it's dangerous to be semi-ambitious, you might end up working 60h weeks for 30% higher salary in a middle management position with people you don't like. it's the sad destiny of se | 7.4× | 162k | 2.3k | 60 | 677 |
| 57 | Apr 30, '25 | practicing leetcode to get good at coding is like practicing iq tests to get good at thinking | 7.3× | 161k | 3.2k | 177 | 356 |
| 58 | Sep 30, '25 | DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS | 7.2× | 159k | 2.1k | 161 | 300 |
| 59 | Mar 5, '25 | "but i made so many tough decisions" no. when choosing university you HAD to choose, otherwise you become a social outcast. when finding a job, you HAD to just to pay bills | 7.1× | 157k | 1.9k | 21 | 91 |
| 60 | Apr 18, '25 | "but you don't actually learn anything when you just ask chatgpt" no one is forcing you to not ask 100s of follow ups, thinking through the answer before asking, or reading through | 7.1× | 156k | 2.6k | 176 | 337 |
| 61 | Mar 5, '25 | then they come up with reasons for why it's so good to not do the thing, and all their friends will agree, because they too don't want the ability to make a tough decision be somet | 7.1× | 156k | 2.3k | 30 | 124 |
| 62 | Aug 29, '25 | i lost count how many people i've convinced & guided through a career transition that has successfully given them x3-10 salary at top companies too bad i can't legally make mon | 6.9× | 152k | 1.4k | 14 | 590 |
| 63 | Sep 5, '25 | this will go down as one of the top 5 moments in my life | 6.5× | 143k | 1.5k | 21 | 158 |
| 64 | Mar 3, '25 | companies just wanna make money, so all you need to do is show them how you can help them make money drop everything you have ever been told about getting a job and start over from | 6.3× | 138k | 2.3k | 142 | 972 |
| 65 | Mar 5, '25 | both these things might cause you immense suffering, but thr decision comes easy because you had to choose. most people have never made a decision where they were not forced to cho | 6.2× | 137k | 1.6k | 28 | 102 |
| 66 | Mar 5, '25 | i have seen so much unfathomable cope, suffering, chronically undiscovered talent, capital destruction, and time wasted, and no convincing in the world can make these people change | 5.8× | 128k | 1.6k | 48 | 230 |
| 67 | Mar 2, '25 | no smart person i have ever met has attributed any of their success to college | 5.7× | 125k | 2k | 93 | 295 |
| 68 | Mar 5, '25 | examples: - the cracked engineer that made 80k for 5y until they changed jobs 5 years to late to make 300k. couple millions lost - the ultra problematic couple that didn't break up | 5.6× | 124k | 2.1k | 32 | 275 |
| 69 | May 8, '25 | explain like i'm 12 years old, be extremely first principles so i really understand everything intuitively and bottom up and exactly what is happening, write out intermediate state | 5.6× | 123k | 1.4k | 66 | 2k |
| 70 | Nov 6, '25 | every single person i know who made a cool video demo of a project that shows agency & great technical ability has been reached out to from top labs & top companies you nev | 5.4× | 119k | 1.9k | 53 | 1.2k |
| 71 | Jun 23, '25 | anything that is motivational but where you took no immediate action is brainrot in disguise strong feelings of motivation are extremely dangerous because they trick you into think | 5.4× | 119k | 1.3k | 98 | 611 |
| 72 | Apr 27, '25 | 70$ in san francisco | 5.3× | 118k | 1.3k | 15 | 75 |
| 73 | Jun 17, '25 | if you are so smart why are you not only doing things you enjoy | 5.3× | 116k | 2.6k | 198 | 461 |
| 74 | Mar 5, '25 | in both these scenarios, they takes huge hits to their quality of living because it's so comfortable to take no action. not until you get a reason to hate your job or until your pa | 5.1× | 112k | 1.6k | 24 | 134 |
| 75 | Mar 5, '25 | why did the engineer take a million dollar paycut? applying for jobs is exhausting, interviewing is nerve wrecking, telling your collegeas you'll leave is extremely sad, getting ne | 4.7× | 103k | 1.5k | 20 | 162 |
| 76 | Aug 29, '25 | 90% of big career decision mistakes happens in these, usually people spend ~0 seconds of their life thinking about them: 1) when they should leave their current company 2) make sur | 4.4× | 97k | 1.3k | 34 | 959 |
| 77 | Feb 25, '25 | i'm virtually green every single day except maybe twice a year, and when i understood that some people are red nearly everyday i thought HOLY SHIT WHAT | 4.4× | 96k | 2.3k | 13 | 50 |
| 78 | Apr 16, '25 | with o3, talent is now magnitudes more scarce than knowledge suddenly highly talented 17 year olds can contribute just like ppl with 10 years experience | 4.4× | 96k | 1.2k | 38 | 327 |
| 79 | Feb 25, '25 | one thing i have noticed is that sad peoples brains have 100s of rationalizations for why they are sad, ie "but the sadness gives me meaning". the only way to know this is false is | 4.3× | 95k | 3.8k | 54 | 153 |
| 80 | Mar 5, '25 | which is all fake obviously - none of these matter. say it's the engineers first job, are you telling me the FIRST job out of 50 million possible jobs happens to have the best coll | 4.3× | 95k | 1.4k | 21 | 138 |
| 81 | Nov 6, '25 | i hope that one day creating trillions in economic value for the world will be seen as heroic, as wealth creation is the only thing we know to increase life standards within the na | 4.2× | 92k | 1.1k | 58 | 144 |
| 82 | Aug 23, '25 | people think getting a job is taking a day and writing a cv then sending to a few companies, something you can do on the side for a day or two if you struggle finding a job or if y | 4.1× | 91k | 1.2k | 33 | 720 |
| 83 | Feb 25, '25 | i've been unhappy multiple day in a row once in life, and i think my current definition of depression is: when you have enough red days in a row so that you don't know when you wil | 4.1× | 90k | 2k | 20 | 90 |
| 84 | Mar 21, '25 | since young people still think you need a phd to do frontier ai research and chatgpt came 3 years ago, there are still 3 more years until they are on the market. and more talent is | 4.0× | 88k | 1.2k | 49 | 529 |
| 85 | Mar 5, '25 | want to change? try seeing your life like playing sims for a second, and imagine you played yourself like a character that wants to be happy and involve no emotion. or ask people t | 3.7× | 82k | 1.7k | 41 | 489 |
| 86 | Mar 5, '25 | 1% of people end up in misery because they took the wrong action, 99% because they did no action. i don't wanna hear any excuses all numbers are against you, go act, be free, live | 3.6× | 79k | 2k | 111 | 433 |
| 87 | Feb 25, '25 | the few people i have met that share the very green experience have one thing in common - when they have a red day they know it will be ok tomorrow so they barely react with sadnes | 3.6× | 78k | 1.3k | 11 | 48 |
| 88 | May 10, '25 | if you wanna maximize productive hours and have more fun when resting, work 12h all days but work nothing on saturday or sunday. waking up and knowing you'll do nothing that day is | 3.4× | 75k | 1.6k | 56 | 516 |
| 89 | Mar 5, '25 | the satisfaction that has come from every single hard decision in my life is huge, but only 2 weeks after the decision has been done. it always feels incredibly obvious in hindsigh | 3.2× | 71k | 1.3k | 31 | 179 |
| 90 | Apr 25, '25 | a lot of ambitious people focus 100% on being more productive doing something and 0% on what the something is | 3.2× | 71k | 1.1k | 37 | 213 |
| 91 | Mar 5, '25 | remember that most people are not value aligned with you - they try to make you happy short term, not long term. the moment they see emotion in you, they'll stop helping and start | 3.0× | 66k | 1.2k | 49 | 171 |
| 92 | Mar 5, '25 | brain does not let you even consider making the decision, and generates a huge emotional response when you try, which clouds your mind. become good at thinking about tough decision | 3.0× | 65k | 1.1k | 22 | 185 |
| 93 | May 2, '25 | the brain loves tricking you into temporary strong motivation, that never leads to anything and fades within 2 days i had this at least 20 times when younger, and it was fake every | 2.9× | 65k | 1.2k | 41 | 369 |
| 94 | Oct 23, '25 | too many smart people unable to optimize anything but their local list of tasks they were just given, never having an honest thought about their own trajectory unless forced to, an | 2.9× | 64k | 1.4k | 71 | 526 |
| 95 | Sep 27, '25 | for the past month, i have written down 1-3 sentences about what i did that day every night in a log i really like this habit. saw someone comment this on the "how to make time slo | 2.9× | 63k | 2.3k | 80 | 1.1k |
| 96 | Oct 18, '25 | @elonmusk guys i think my x payout just went to zero | 2.8× | 63k | 1.3k | 1 | 23 |
| 97 | Oct 8, '25 | smart people often become really good at something in their youth, but even if they have enormous ambition they are stuck with their local ambition if you are extremely good at one | 2.6× | 57k | 1.3k | 62 | 281 |
| 98 | Sep 7, '25 | if you stay present 10s once per 30minutes and meditate 20minutes per day you will decrease volatility in emotion by 80% and remove 99% of frustration | 2.5× | 55k | 1.6k | 83 | 812 |
| 99 | May 3, '25 | "a person who thinks all the time, has nothing to think about except words. so, he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusions. by thought, i mean specifically, cha | 2.4× | 54k | 1.3k | 112 | 370 |
| 100 | Nov 7, '25 | @RolandForTexas disgusting response to one of the most well written responses and simple explanation for why your policies lead to destruction of wealth | 0.9× | 20k | 1.3k | 9 | 19 |
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