Schubert
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No. @OpenAI is not summoning transdimensional aliens through portals built by SuperIntelligence from intelligence that is already superior to PhDs in every single STEM subdomain. Things are about to get very weird without needing to be both weird and dumb. This is a hype cycle.
9/9 A former OpenAI executive described what's being built: "We're building portals from which we're genuinely summoning aliens. The portals currently exist in the United States and China, and Sam has added one in the Middle East. It's just, like, wildly important to get how scary that should be." The full investigation is in @newyorker now. Link is also in bio.
Former Open AI executive says the company is building portals to summon aliens “The truth of this is, we’re building portals from which we’re genuinely summoning aliens. The portals currently exist in the United States and China, and Sam has added one in the Middle East. I think it’s just wildly important to get how scary that should be. It’s the most reckless thing that has been done.” Former OpenAI to the New Yorker
Tennis players live 9.7 years longer than sedentary people. Not 9.7 months. 9.7 years. Nearly a decade. The Copenhagen City Heart Study tracked 8,577 people for 25 years and ranked every sport by how much life it adds. Badminton: 6.2 years. Soccer: 4.7. Cycling: 3.7. Swimming: 3.4. Jogging: 3.2. Tennis almost triples jogging. A separate study of 80,000 adults found racket sports cut all-cause mortality by 47% and cardiovascular death by 56%. Swimming hit 41%. Aerobics hit 36%. The question is why racket sports destroy everything else. Three mechanisms stack on top of each other. First, the physical demands. A tennis rally requires explosive sprints, lateral cuts, and sustained aerobic output. You're training fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers simultaneously. Most cardio only trains one system. Second, the cognitive load. You're reading spin, predicting angles, adjusting position, and executing motor patterns in real-time. Your brain is solving spatial puzzles at 80+ mph. That hand-eye coordination and strategic processing builds neural connections that protect against cognitive decline. Third, and this is the one researchers keep coming back to: you literally cannot play alone. Every racket sport requires another person on the other side of the net. That forced social interaction triggers neurochemical benefits that solitary exercise cannot replicate. Strong social connection alone increases your chance of longevity by 50%. Jogging is you and your thoughts. Tennis is you, a strategic opponent, and a community. Dr. Daniel Amen is right. The data is overwhelming. If you want the single highest-ROI activity for a longer life, pick up a racket.
The S&P 500 fell 10.7% over the last 3 trading days which was the 11th biggest 3-day decline since 1950. What has happened in the past following the biggest 3-day declines? Stocks were higher over the next 1, 3, 5 years every time. bilello.blog/newsletter
Virginia Tech's Diggeridoos Tunnel Digging Team are world champions! They won first place at the Not-a-Boring Competition, run by Elon Musk's The Boring Company. Over 8 days, their tunnel boring machine dug further than any other into wet Texas clay, in a downpour, against 7 university teams from 3 countries. This win has been years in the making. They took the fastest launch design award in 2021 and climbed from there: top 5, then 2nd, then the Innovation Award and 2nd again last year. Each time refining and improving on a shoestring against better-funded international teams. This year, in the worst conditions the competition’s ever seen, they brought the title home to Blacksburg. I'll keep saying it: I don't care what grade you made in Differential Equations. I care about what you did on a team like this. These students poured hundreds of hours into this because they wanted to help crack one of modern engineering’s hardest problems. The bigger picture is why this competition matters so much. @elonmusk started The Boring Company after one too many “soul-destroying” LA traffic jams. He argues cities have maxed out their surface space and the only direction left is down. His vision is for vast underground networks that move people and freight around at superfast speeds, and reclaim the surface space back from cars and trucks. But current tunnelling machines are notoriously slow and expensive, often moving slower than a garden snail once you factor in setup, maintenance, and muck removal (the competition is branded as "Beating the Snail”). The student challenge exists to crowdsource the breakthroughs that will finally make tunneling 10x faster and cheaper, finding the next-generation of engineers who’ll crack it. The Diggeridoos are those engineers. My company @totalshield_llc sponsors this amazing team. If you run a technical company and haven't looked at the competition teams at your local university, you're missing one of the best hiring pipelines in the country. Career fairs don't show you who performs under pressure, but this sure does. Congratulations, Diggeridoos. Go @virginia_tech Hokies!
