Divesh Punjabi
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Divesh Punjabi
@dpunjabi
🌊 // prev @BessemerVP @MIT @McKinsey @SteelDAOxyz 🇵🇦
San Francisco, CA Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@tszzl also when you realize lower latency + higher elo around you raises your ceiling more than blind reps. if there was anything to be raised that is
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@minordissent As a born & raised Latin who lived in SF and now am back in Panama, this is the sad reality we live in. The system basically pushes you to defect (or join the underground system). So most end up being extremely hedonistic. Founding is the only way through.
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There's an unfortunate game theory to a large civilization in that it requires hard work, ethical behavior, and deferral of gratification to build. But then eventually people start to forget that and think "why would I work hard when theres all this stuff here already? I should just be hedonistic". Slowly, the civilization starts to decay causing it to take care of people less, which causes more people to defect ("why should I take care of a system that doesn't care for me? Especially when there's so much fun to be had by neglecting it"), until eventually it collapses because everyone has defected.
🥥 𝙇𝘼𝙏𝘼𝙈 🥥@TheLatamGuy
it's getting harder to show up for work each day knowing there are unemployed men in Colombia with 3 girlfriends doing motorcycle wheelies at 2 am
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@visakanv perfect timing. will share one I’ve been stalling for far too long - feedback as the force. and pretty meta ig
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humans are wired to worship. if it’s not god, it’s celebrities, politics, status, money, materialism, wokism etc. the mind will idolise anything to satisfy its instinctual urge, regardless of whether it corrupts your soul in the process.
jane doe ☣︎@f8lfang
i dont get celebrity worship like thats just some guy
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We’re on the verge of interactive, real-time, photorealistic video generation with what are called World Models. These require a fair amount of expensive compute, but costs will come down over time. Today, these interactions are essentially real-time dreams. They lack the persistence and shared logic that turns a video into a multiplayer game. Or concert. Or classroom. Or the holodeck.
We believe the ultimate architecture for gaming (and the holodeck) is Roblox Reality. It’s a hybrid architecture that marries the structured data and logic of the Roblox Engine and Roblox Cloud with the generative power of Video World Models. The Roblox Engine provides the underlying synchronized ground truth—the score, physics, multiplayer sync, etc.—while our video model acts as a Super Upsampler to layer on photorealistic detail.
We believe this will ultimately remove barriers to high-fidelity creation, allowing a team of three people to build a narrative-driven, photorealistic masterpiece in a single week. This is an early look at turning solitary AI dreams into a social, playable reality.
about.roblox.com/newsroom/2026/…
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@aakashgupta @TSM Ulting blindly to enemy's fountains with Ez is one of the most addictive & accomplishing skills in a game. heavily relies on state & intuition
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@aakashgupta Man, grinding League during beta and playing against @TSM on an ESL cup from Panama is one of my proudest feats lol
I was the only one with a positive KDA using Ezreal - 2:1 after they crushed us, but still ha
This definitely shapes your brain in ways we cannot fathom yet, imo.
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68 college students played video games an hour a day for 30 weeks. They got measurably smarter. EEG brain scans confirmed it.
The setup was simple. Half the group played League of Legends, an action game. The other half played Legends of the Three Kingdoms, a strategy card game. Same hours, same schedule, no gaming experience for anyone going in. Both groups improved on attention, working memory, and executive function. The League group's gains were significantly larger in spatial attention and spatial working memory. The benefits were still measurable 10 weeks after the gaming stopped.
None of this is new.
Daphne Bavelier's lab at the University of Geneva has been replicating this finding since the early 2000s. Her 2018 meta-analysis in Psychological Bulletin pulled data from 8,970 participants across 15 years and found the same thing. Action games train attentional control, a brain skill that transfers to other tasks. Strategy games train deliberation, which mostly stays inside the strategy game.
The mechanism is the counterintuitive part. Action games train your brain by giving you no time to think. The brain can't deliberate. League of Legends throws 9 champions, hundreds of minions, dozens of abilities, mana, cooldowns, and map state at you, all updating in milliseconds. The brain learns to perceive faster instead. That perceptual speed transfers to anything else that demands the same skill.
Including surgery.
The 2007 Rosser study in Archives of Surgery found that laparoscopic surgeons who played video games more than 3 hours a week made 37% fewer errors, completed procedures 27% faster, and scored 42% higher on overall performance. The top third of gamers made 47% fewer errors. Laparoscopic surgery is a 2D screen with distorted depth perception, remote-controlled instruments, and multiple data streams updating in real time. The cognitive profile is almost identical to an action video game.
The 10-week persistence is the part that should change how this gets discussed. If the gains were just from practicing the game, they would have disappeared the moment the students stopped playing. They didn't. The 30 weeks rewired the perceptual system, and the rewiring stayed.

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@viemccoy Man it hurts when I see relatives doing it. This must stop lol
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I say this as someone on the side of progress and technology: one of the best things you can do for your cognitive well-being is to resist all attempts by the tendrils of short-form video to invade your attentional space. Don't watch them at all! Even on twitter!
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns
Frankly, they're not just replacing reading with vertical video slop. They're replacing EVERYTHING with vertical video. Streaming, gaming, IRL interactions, all of it is being swallowed by vertical shortform video.
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@colderoshay the sketch makes it seem like an inverted golf club? (also don't golf)
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i don't golf but this is beautiful
Josh Carpenter@JoshACarpenter
The trophy for the Cadillac Championship next week + the idea behind it
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@iamgingertrash Make peace with hoarding the best technology
The way things
Will go from here
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A Chinese company facing chip restrictions can train this
But xAI can’t even get SOTA
With a million H100 equivalents
Xiuyu Li@sheriyuo
Welcome DeepSeek V4 Pro Max huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/De…
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