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I ran out of money a year ago, spent the last of my savings on a prostitute in Hong Kong, and became a commie.

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Written in 2024. I'm starting full-time at OpenAI tomorrow, so figured this is the last chance to post… My friends often ask me: “Alexey, are you actually broke?”, “How do you live?” Well, I have several tricks up my sleeve. The first one is I'm racking up credit card debt. You might say this is not a "trick": it's what retarded people do. I'm not sure I would dispute this characterization, but I do believe that swimming in credit card debt is also very American of me and this is a sufficient reason for me to continue. Second trick is I'm not paying rent. I used to rent an apartment in San Francisco (it single-handedly almost bankrupted me), but for the last several months, I've been mostly managing to find people who let me stay on their couches or in their spare bedrooms. I spent a week in upstate New York; three weeks sleeping on the single mattress with my friend in Mexico City; a few days in a hostel in Columbus, OH; a week in a spare bedroom of a friend in DC; a week or so in WeW

I ran out of money a year ago, spent the last of my savings on a prostitute in Hong Kong, and became a commie. Alexey Guzey Sep 23, 2025 208 20 12 Share Written in 2024. I'm starting full-time at OpenAI tomorrow, so figured this is the last chance to post… My friends often ask me: “Alexey, are you actually broke?”, “How do you live?” Well, I have several tricks up my sleeve. The first one is I'm racking up credit card debt. You might say this is not a "trick": it's what retarded people do. I'm not sure I would dispute this characterization, but I do believe that swimming in credit card debt is

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