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@paulg That’s a real challenge for people who care about having more kids.

If you really want to hold yourself to a high standard, graph the growth rate of the number you care about instead of the number itself. Then you're winning if you can even keep it flat.

@CuriosityonX For reference, El Capitan is about 1 km tall (914 m).

This is cliff. About 1 km tall. On a comet. millions of miles away from us. Captured by Rosetta mission. If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.

@GillVerd @Gaurab @grok No way

@Gaurab @grok generate a picture of the device described in the last sentence

The human brain: 2% body mass, but consumes 20% of its energy. Cortical neurons fire 0.16 times per second. BUT they are capable of firing at 40 or more. A 250-fold gap. If more than a few percent of neurons fired at high rates simultaneously, the brain would literally overheat. So less than 1% fire at any given moment. Frontier AI models have the same two constraints: sparse activation and thermal limits. Mixtral activated 27.6% of its parameters per token. DeepSeek-V2 activated 8.9%. DeepSeek-V3 has 671 billion parameters and activates 37 billion of them. That's 5.5%. NVIDIA hit the same wall. The GB200 generates 120 kilowatts per rack. Air couldn't cool it. They switched to liquid and unlocked 30% more compute. Now, what would happen if we could cool our brains? Neurons that fire faster produce measurably higher IQ scores, but three things stop us: heat dissipation, oxygen delivery, and ion channel reset time. There's already a device that achieved a 3°C brain temperature drop in 30 minutes by running chilled saline through the nasal cavity. So the first human IQ-overclock device might look less like Neuralink and more like a beer helmet with tubes running up your nose.

DUNE PART THREE

@cjd_labs @jasonfried You just have to eat more pizza.

@jasonfried unpopular opinion: pizza is more of a snack than a meal i’ve never gotten full from a pizza

Popular opinion: pizza is delicious.

@davidsenra @pmarca Lol, I read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius because @pmarca recommended it.

Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.

A good workout isn’t one where the weight is easy.

@tlbtlbtlb Probably Tyler Durden.

Who did this?

Huge. Cure for cancer in sight?

@MrBeast @Feastables Noticed a misprint on the peanut butter cups wrapper. Calcium is listed twice under nutrition facts. Second instance should say Potassium.

@dieworkwear @bryan_johnson Good advice.

@bryan_johnson No opinion on the "best" breed, but have raised four dogs, including breeds some people consider "bad." IMO, best way to get a dog is to go to the animal shelter and see who you vibe with. Better than buying from breeder who makes a profit off of creating more animals.

I'm thinking about getting two dogs. What breeds should I consider?

@bryan_johnson Black labs are great dogs.

@elizabethbelsky So their house is now haunted, not by a ghost, but by a dog who flunked out of school.

My childhood friend’s family trained seeing eye dogs and they adopted one who failed the training due to insubordination - he learned the tasks but did them whenever he felt like it. So they just had a lab who would open the garage door and turn lights on and off at random

@nikkharris I was just there today. Not the blue car.

i honestly don't even know how you can be this terrible of a driver

@paulg Good essay and case study (no pun intended). It’d be nice to include photos of the watches. Had to pause reading several times to look them up.

The Brand Age: paulgraham.com/brandage.html

Good one.

@Austen Don’t need to be Mormon, just need to use Mormon apps.

You just need a Mormon grandma who can trace your family tree back to your 13th great grandfather who was born in 1503

@gfodor Some people’s opinions of Trump are practically axiomatic to them. All other opinions must conform.

It's genuinely sad to see some Americans hate Trump so much that they are quietly rooting for the US to lose a war we are now committed to because it would cause him to look bad. It's not as depraved as things we've seen from this in the past, but for me it's more upsetting.

@nathanjay @dexton7 @thedataroom @sama Lol

@austnryder @dexton7 @thedataroom @sama

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

BREAKING: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed dead after Israeli strike.