Emanuel

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[Exec Sum @exec_sum]

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is coming out as Republican, per NYT

The reporting follows Brin's ambitious efforts to kill the California wealth tax, elect a Republican to California governor, and move his residency out of California.

He finally expressed his sentiment in a comment to NYT:

"I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union. I don't want California to end up in the same place."

[Rune Skovbo Johansen →🦋🐘 @runevision]

My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source.

It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks.

Explainer video:
https://t.co/4PbOmFNfDf

Companion blog post:
https://t.co/JkLbHHdMBC

#ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

[François Chollet @fchollet]

At the moment, ARC-AGI-3 is the only unsaturated agentic AI benchmark. Sub-1% scores from frontier models on the private test set.

If you want to be among the first to know when an AGI breakthrough happens, monitor the ARC-AGI-3 leaderboard. Any sudden score jump will mean something important has changed about AI capabilities.

This happened twice before: sudden ARC-AGI progress marked the advent of AI reasoning (December 2024 jump on ARC 1) and the rise of agentic coding (late-2025 jump on ARC 2)

ARC-AGI-3 will be your early warning signal.

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

@duha_the_best Whoa! this is amazing

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@rocket2guns @LessThan12Parsc

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

@jonstephens85 maybe trying vhttps://github.com/DepthAnything/Video-Depth-Anything

[Andrew Davison @AjdDavison]

I still don't believe that Spatial AI is a big data problem. Massive data won't unlock robotics. Representation is still the hard bit. We need efficient, composable representation of 3D physical scenes to enable mental simulation like humans use to plan creative uses of objects.

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

@drsuffy is it easy to repair?

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

@vitrupo @im_roy_lee

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@DavidSHolz 🙋‍♂️

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

@aidenybai That has an easy solution.

Pass that problem to someone else

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

@ayeejuju Most likely this for the first set

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

@LenteGameDev Congrats!

Beautiful game!

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

@newsystems_ brampton

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

@benhylak Being a top competitive programmer doesn’t really equate to being good at creating useful and innovative software.

It can help, but it’s not the same thing.

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

Not only does that absurd martyrdom take a toll on your body, but it also affects your relationships with the people you love.

No one is going to convince me that sacrificing everything for 120-hour weeks is a life worth living more than a balanced one—where you work hard but also prioritize health and family. Work is more meaningful and of higher quality with a healthy mind

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

The martyrdom playbook is manic.

An engine of depression, anxiety, metabolic dysfunction, and disease. It breeds impaired judgment, immune system collapse, and emotional chaos.

People crave status, respect, and visibility so deeply that they will contort themselves into whatever shape culture demands. Even if it takes them to the edge of insanity, wrecks their bodies, and drives them to the brink of collapse.

People feel trapped and tortured in the current social obligation to maintain 100+ hr/wk and be terminally online, all while pretending as if all is well. Everyone else seems to be ok? No, they're not.

This mania is no different from a 19th-century surgeon boasting about high patient volume. Piling bodies onto an assembly line while dismissing hygiene and sterilization as a waste of time.

The discovery of germ theory, leading to simple interventions like handwashing and sterilization, nearly doubled life expectancy and supercharged human productivity. It turns out that hand washing isn't a waste of time but on par with history's greats.

The irony here is the martyrdom archetype is meticulously designing ultra efficient technology, paying down technical debt, eliminating bugs and upgrading constantly, yet ignore their own biological systems of intelligence.

They snub sleep, exercise, and nutrition which downgrades their intelligence, judgment, emotional stability, and the body's basic processes to fight sickness, and repair and build itself.

We perfect technology as we destroy ourselves.

The martyrdom archetype is not just in the world of technology but has infected every corner of culture.

The weird thing, who even wants this? When I talk to others and they let their guard down to be honest, they want it to stop. It's unsustainable. They feel miserable. They rejoice in even minutes of reprieve. A few days without it and they see the complete insanity of it all.

You can be ambitious AF and also prioritize health. These two things are not mutually exclusive. In fact, your greatest competitive advantage may be prioritizing your own biological and cognitive function because it allows for clear headedness and endurance.

This era will soon be seen as primitive and absurd. A time when we foolishly and recklessly spent down the most precious gift of all: our conscious existence.

We are building superintelligence. We'd be wise to build our own individual and collective intelligence with equal vigor. Honoring our existence with the solemnity it deserves.

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

@walaber This is awesome!

Wishlisted!

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

@uavster 💯 we should aim for hidden automation.

[Emanuel @LessThan12Parsc]

@avstorm How about going outside?