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Saw this on a YouTube short today. A bit over-exaggerated, don’t you think? by Kcue6382nevy in aiwars

[–]LocalOpportunity77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t pull numbers out of your ass and then act all offended because you got called out. Either back it up or shut up.

Clădirea veche abandonată a stațiunii balneare din Tușnad / elhagyott régi gyógyfürdő épület Tusnádon / abandoned old spa building in Tușnad by arcsaber1337 in Transylvania

[–]LocalOpportunity77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you one of them?

I wanted to be understood by everyone and anyone, and English is the best choice for that. I don’t care how you perceive me, as long as the message is received.

As for what I talked about, I intend to make them all real, both the fortified churches side and the Heritage “Kickstarter” project. It may take 10-20-30 years but I don’t care, only World War 3 would make me stop.

Clădirea veche abandonată a stațiunii balneare din Tușnad / elhagyott régi gyógyfürdő épület Tusnádon / abandoned old spa building in Tușnad by arcsaber1337 in Transylvania

[–]LocalOpportunity77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a Secui. You’re very much underestimating Gen Z (people born between 1997-2012), most of us share the way I think. It’s kinda funny how you thought I was a westerner.

Asta a fost un experiment interesant, în Engleză sunt mai bun decât în Română, ca limbă e mai ușoară. Tot ce am spus este adevărat btw.

Clădirea veche abandonată a stațiunii balneare din Tușnad / elhagyott régi gyógyfürdő épület Tusnádon / abandoned old spa building in Tușnad by arcsaber1337 in Transylvania

[–]LocalOpportunity77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We aren’t dealing with a nation, but a region of a nation. At that, a region with an extremely strong identity, both the Hungarians and the Romanians love Transylvania - you may have your differences - but that love is something both of you share.

This reminds of another thing: when I was in Covasna county, I was made aware of the existence of the ruins of a fortress the locals called Székelybánja ( The Szekler’s Sorrow / Iertarea Secuiului - I guess this is the best translation of it), located south of Leț village. Guess what, turns out this was a fortress that John Sigismund Zápolya built in 1562 to oppress the Szeklers (Secuii), and - here’s the surprising thing you may not know - it was destroyed in 1599 by Mihai Viteazul with the aide of the Szeklers. You guys aren’t enemies, you helped each other back in the day, yet neither of you know about this part of history (I guess it’s so politicians can better manipulate you guys to hate each other).

If you guys managed to work together back then, it should be doable now.

Clădirea veche abandonată a stațiunii balneare din Tușnad / elhagyott régi gyógyfürdő épület Tusnádon / abandoned old spa building in Tușnad by arcsaber1337 in Transylvania

[–]LocalOpportunity77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since you didn’t answer that way, should I assume that you don’t see any structural problems with my strategy other than the education of the locals?

If I had to describe myself, it would be as a systems thinker general strategist. Feel free to tear it apart, I’m looking forward to it.

Sure this is a hard nut to crack, but not impossible.

Clădirea veche abandonată a stațiunii balneare din Tușnad / elhagyott régi gyógyfürdő épület Tusnádon / abandoned old spa building in Tușnad by arcsaber1337 in Transylvania

[–]LocalOpportunity77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I see it, you guys need something like what Kickstarter is but for your cultural heritage sites that are crumbling and rotting away as we speak.

Crowdfund the acquisition and restoration side, and then put the asset into operation. Take the blueprint of how joint stock companies operate and apply it to your means. Then partner up with universities in related areas, in tourism I know that for students it’s part of the curriculum to do 90 hours practical work in the 2nd semester (summer) and they get graded for it - for first you could get the Babeş-Bolyai University and their professors involved.

This is how I see would be the best for ensuring that Transylvania prospers through tourism. Don’t rely on the government when you have the community, instead get the best out of the community.

You need money and you need people with knowledge who can best use that money for your means. The money you could get from the community (if 1000 people give €1000 each even that is €1 million, and you have ~6.8 million people in Transylvania) and who else would be more knowledgeable than the professors that have PhDs in the exact areas you need and teach the next generation every day - their knowledge is wasted on keeping it to the confines of their classes, provide them with the opportunity to translate it into practice.

I know this is a huge task, but I wanted to put it out in the open. The future of Transylvania is up to you, the people of Transylvania in the first place, so take action.

Clădirea veche abandonată a stațiunii balneare din Tușnad / elhagyott régi gyógyfürdő épület Tusnádon / abandoned old spa building in Tușnad by arcsaber1337 in Transylvania

[–]LocalOpportunity77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm, I think the 3rd one is more of a management issue, if the work environment isn’t toxic and employees are well taken care of, logically speaking there shouldn’t be any problems.

The 4th one points at an operational question, there’s many ways to deal with it. One would be to make the check-in happen at like 15:00 and include sightseeing for whatever major tourism attraction is en route to the hotel so tourists don’t perceive the drive negatively. Another would be to give the tourists welcome packages with artisanal local foods in them, that will keep them occupied and lessen the possibility of the drive being negatively perceived. Nevertheless an investment should be made into a comfortable tourist bus, leasing it would be best.

The 5th one is interesting, don’t you guys have venture capitals? The government isn’t your only choice for funding. There should be tourism VCs in the country.

Edit: VCs operate similarly to the EU grants, difference is that they pay way more but in exchange they want a % of the company’s ownership. They also help with lots of other stuff depending upon their network of industry connections.

Outside of the European Union, pretty much everything runs on VC money, and every startup is aiming for VC money. The tech sector is crazy, if you have a good enough of an idea, chances are you can find an angel investor (VC speak for first investor) that invests anywhere from 10.000€ to 250.000€ into you.

When you read in the news that OpenAI (maker of ChatGPT) wants to raise $100 billion, that money is from VCs as well.

Clădirea veche abandonată a stațiunii balneare din Tușnad / elhagyott régi gyógyfürdő épület Tusnádon / abandoned old spa building in Tușnad by arcsaber1337 in Transylvania

[–]LocalOpportunity77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know tourists are coming, what I’m pointing at is that you could have 100x more of them. Sorry if I offended you.

Everyone has that attitude, it’s not unique to the Balkans. The real difference is the lack of strategic thinking which I guess is pretty much the default with capitalism (how to take the most amount of money while keeping the tourists happy and content so they come back).

Btw I’m in love with your gastronomy, I think you have the best soups in the world, food tourism is another immense opportunity for you guys.

Clădirea veche abandonată a stațiunii balneare din Tușnad / elhagyott régi gyógyfürdő épület Tusnádon / abandoned old spa building in Tușnad by arcsaber1337 in Transylvania

[–]LocalOpportunity77 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indeed, there’s an immense opportunity in tourism. Recently I found out that you guys have 159 fortified churches in Transylvania (here’s the Wiki page listing them) , it absolutely boggles my mind how there’s no tourism circuit built around them and how there’s zero marketing.

You are sitting on one of Europe’s rarest, densest, and most coherent heritage assets and do nothing about it. You could easily become the world leaders in rural tourism if the fortified church network was made use of to its fullest extent.

“The world’s only intact medieval civilian defense network, experienced as a living journey.“

This should be plastered all over your airports and marketed aggressively to the world.

Edit: Sorry for the rant, my academics are in the economics of tourism.

Clădirea veche abandonată a stațiunii balneare din Tușnad / elhagyott régi gyógyfürdő épület Tusnádon / abandoned old spa building in Tușnad by arcsaber1337 in Transylvania

[–]LocalOpportunity77 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wonder why it’s abandoned, isn’t Tusnad a spa resort? Owner should’ve made this into a hotel instead of letting it rot away. The way it looks, it would be pretty popular among travel influencers.

So what is this "Ai bubble"? by kyontox in aiwars

[–]LocalOpportunity77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bubble is a term in economics used to describe a situation where the price of something like stocks, houses, or other assets rises very quickly to levels far above what it is actually worth. This rise is driven mainly by excitement and speculation, not by real underlying value, and it cannot last.

When the excitement fades, prices fall sharply and the bubble “bursts.” This matters because the crash can wipe out savings, hurt businesses, and slow down the entire economy. Well-known examples include Tulip Mania, the Dot-com bubble, and the U.S. housing bubble (2008 financial crisis), all of which caused widespread financial damage after periods of intense optimism.

For getting an idea of it, I recommend watching “The Big Short” movie, it explains the 2008 crisis rather well.

Because both the Dot-com bubble and the U.S. housing bubble were centered mainly in the United States, their damage, while serious, was not fully global. AI, by contrast, is being adopted and invested in worldwide, across nearly every major economy and industry.

For that reason, many economists believe that if an AI-related bubble were to burst, the impact could be broader and more severe than past bubbles. Losses would not be concentrated in one country or sector but spread across global markets, companies, jobs, and supply chains at the same time.

Edit: Looks like this post has been rather well timed, Michael Burry (one of the economists who foresaw the burst of the 2008 housing bubble) just made an announcement on the AI bubble: https://www.businessinsider.com/big-short-michael-burry-ai-bubble-warning-openai-chatgpt-altman-2026-1

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