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@danshipper @paulg I think Aaron Levie said it first a few days ago 😂 x.com/levie/status/2…

the first legitimate edit to @paulg's most famous maxim?

@steipete @OpenAI @openclaw Nothing wrong with OpenAI, but its hard to recreate the unique environment for innovation that you've already found

I'm joining @OpenAI to bring agents to everyone. @OpenClaw is becoming a foundation: open, independent, and just getting started.🦞 steipete.me/posts/2026/ope…

@danshipper @every @kieranklaassen I'd love to see the framework evolve to quantify “each unit of work makes subsequent work easier”

we just published the definitive guide to compound engineering @every by @kieranklaassen if you want to learn to do engineering in the AI age, this is the guide for oyu: every.to/guides/compoun…

@bryan_johnson aka the difference between being ambitious in your thirties vs being ambitious in your forties

Grinding is a destructive ideology. It is metabolic dysfunction that warps reality while leaving the observer oblivious. There is another way. I call it compounding. You gain power, status and wealth while growing biologically younger. This is the new Warrior & Caretaker archetype: the way humans operate in the age of AI. I’ve been living this archetype for the past few years. The following data points are a proof of concept to offer a concrete model of ambition + health for those looking. > started a new career at 42 > in a field I knew nothing about > became #1 in the world > defined a new zeitgeist > built Don’t Die into global movement and ideology > earned 6M+ followers > netflix documentary > founder-mode blueprint into (soon) billion dollar co > founder-mode kernel world’s first mass brain interface > while becoming one of the healthiest ppl on the planet This is value creation while increasing biological vibrance. I share this because many mistakenly believe that I live a stress-free, luxurious life focused solely on longevity. They then conclude that what I say about sleep, recovery and health doesn’t apply to them because I’m not responsible for anything meaningful day to day. That’s false.  I have more responsibility than most founders and CEOs. For the past five years, I've simultaneously been the founder of multiple 0 to 1 builds. The ideology work is the hardest. Thinking clearly about the future of human and AI existence is categorically different from running companies or producing content. It requires long stretches of deep work, fighting your biases and existing beliefs to try and find new conceptual terrain. New ideas are extraordinarily hard work. I also maintain unhinged ambition: to be respected by those who exist in the year 2500. The only way that happens is if I’m able to do something valuable enough to matter a few centuries from now. I believe that Don’t Die will emerge as the world’s leading ideology. It will be the idea that captures the shift from humans inevitably dying to radical life extension and the key to AI alignment. The prevailing delusion is that health is a tax on ambition. That health is somehow anti-ambition. The reality is that health is the leverage that enables it. This is the future of intelligent existence. The first comment to this post will be “Easy for you to say. You already made your billion with Braintree Venmo”. It’s true, money buys conveniences such as food prep, assistance and leverage. That does not change biological reality. Your body requires 7-8 hours of sleep to properly function. Health is a hard constraint, just like capital or time. Biological vibrance is like money. Run out of it and you’re dead. Another way to say this, you don’t write shitty code. Yet when you’re in poor health, you are shitty code. Grinding, aka martyrdom, is an antiquated way of being. It’s primitive and foolish. You’d never run your servers until they’re smoking and melting. You want them to run at optimal temperature ranges and on efficient code. It’s crazy that society somehow tricked people into thinking that metabolic dysfunction is the correct environment to run your own biological code. Builders. Those of you with unhinged ambition. Creating a future that exceeds our imaginations. Become Warriors & Caretakers of existence. Health is your best asset. It gives you sobriety of thought. Mental and emotional well-being will fuel your greatness. Compound.

@maxhodak_ Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954

what are the most exciting research directions in continual learning? i know nothing about this space but would be very curious to be pointed towards the right papers. infinite context windows wen?

@trq212 I was initially very excited with the output, but then I realized it would analyze 1 of 2000+ sessions and assert sweeping generalizations. Needs some work evidencing claims

We've added a new command to Claude Code called /insights When you run it, Claude Code will read your message history from the past month. It'll summarize your projects, how you use Claude Code, and give suggestions on how to improve your workflow.

@corujautx @danshipper Right, an optimized local model as an OS kernel and UI generator. No reason to think this would not be superior to Apples OS given some time

@jonmc12 @danshipper not really, if you want security you probably want the model to run locally too

hot take: Apple is going to be a big winner in AI - native apps are naturally easier to vibe code, you only break things for individual users - apple ecosystem connects to a bunch of extremely important data like health and messaging that makes AI better - everyone’s buying a Mac mini for their agent—the TAM for their hardware is going up 100x

🧵 Elon: “Longevity is an extremely solvable problem” At Vitalist Bay (May 14 - May 17), we’re solving it! 1K+ pioneers, 100+ speakers, 50+ workshops, 40+ activities, 5 critical health tests Join us to spark dozens of SpaceXs for longevity!

@MTomasson @leecronin .. but don't have a formal definition of evolution and don't incorporate evolution into epistemologies

@leecronin Biologist: we know

It’s evolution & selection all the way down.

@trururujke @kieranklaassen Maybe helpful simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/4/cod…

@kieranklaassen Or I can simply use a playwright itself without any wrappers 😉

Opus 4.5's secret superpower: Playwright testing. It navigates pages, captures snapshots, checks console errors, tests interactions, and knows when to pause for your input. Added this to my code review workflow. Now reviews actually verify the UI works. github.com/EveryInc/compo…

@Sara_Imari Agreed, language is not only syntactical structures as an LLM interprets, it is shared intentionality through evolving cultural context.

Language remains the most profound technology we humans ever developed because it implication is that our mind is shared.

@bryan_johnson How evolution and metabolism inform our being and becoming. Martin Picard, Michael Levin, Karl Friston, Terrance Deacon and Lisa Feldman Barrett are strong guides.

This Thanksgiving break, I'm working on building out a new human archetype: warriors and caretakers of existence. A foundational layer for the Don't Die ideology. What should I be learning to prepare me for this?

@siimland HRV is not that accurate or useful on most wearables. I've found Joel Jamieson's Morpheus Training is most predictive of performance. Uses an ECG heart strap; a 2.5min reading upon waking and RMSSD vs SDNN. I learned so much about HRV and recovery using the app and daily lessons.

HRV is high in youth and declines with age High HRV in elderly years is a possible sign of healthy aging and greater life expectancy Low HRV reflects an autonomic nervous system imbalance and inflammation * excessively high HRV could also be afib, so it's not the higher the better, but most people would like to have their HRV a bit higher Some tips to increase HRV: youtu.be/DMzfdUDokGg Graph from: #fig0010" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@drtevinnaidu .. the feeling of experiencing metabolic agency

Consciousness is...

@TOEwithCurt Terrance Deacon and @Sara_Imari

Who’s someone new you’d like to see me speak to on Theories of Everything?

@adamgries Multi-scale cyborgism towards superorganisms with unprecedented metabolic fitness and elevated levels of subjective experience

In the spirit of the Don’t Die news, the most important question of the coming 50 years may be: ======================= *How* should we solve death? ======================= Retweet+comment with your own ideas

@bryan_johnson @karpathy > Andrej's statement that “we will gradually lose understanding of what’s happening.” Where did he say that? I missed it and Gemini can't find

@adamgries I like the take of these doctors - Dr. Alex and Dr. Jan from the YEARS Healthspan Clinic in Berlin. They call it "Scientific Healthspan" to avoid the ambiguity of the "Longevity" label. optispan.life/podcast/v/m88t…

Some people are confused about what a longevity doctor should do. Here's one example: I'm rather sophisticated, and yet my LDL crept up to 112 a few years back - at which point I made substantial lifestyle changes (cut out most animal protein, added Omega-3, NOVOS Core, Vitamin D+K) and lost around 10 lbs, adding some lean muscle. In a few months I knocked the LDL down to 79 - which is consistent with hyper-response to lifestyle measures. But then a couple of years later it happened again in parallel to me growing lax with the change. So I did the same thing again, and got similar results. But what was it about the changes that had the major effect? Did I have to do all of them? Could I tweak and get much more return? I had sequenced my whole genome 2.5 years prior and it took the provider 6 months (!) to send me my results. As compensation, they gave me all their reports for free - all 2643 pages! Before LLMs this would have been infeasible to grok but now, I could throw it in an LLM with all the context and information including my blood tests and additional results. The finding? I have a gene variant that has disrupted lipid metabolism, that is fully correctable with Omega-3 supplementation and increased intake of soluble fiber. The takeaway? If there were somebody in my life whose job it was to synthesize this data and point me in the right direction, I may have discovered this much earlier and a) reduced the overhead of many of the changes I did, making them more sustainable. b) intervened a lot more surgically and effectively, potentially getting even better results. Maybe AI will make humans redundant soon(ish?) and solve for all use cases, but for most people, a human can still do best in synthesizing much of this data and providing feedback and guidance.

@benln I'm in - building

Rebooting my X group chat for people who like to build on Sundays. One rule: you can only post in the chat on Sundays. Let me know if you want in.