I am filled with optimism at the fact that the world's first trillionaire was made not by hedge funds or market manipulation, but by building the infrastructure to take America to the stars.
@IterIntellectus Growing up, I was taught to seek a practical, functional relationship. Then I read John Adam's biography and learned of his and Abigail's relationship. It remapped what I could aspire to. Secretly I was afraid I'd never find it and forever long. Feel grateful that I found it.
"Men with two children had an estimated brain age that was 0.6 years younger than their childless peers had, and for men with three children, it was 0.7 years younger. That’s similar to the brain benefit associated with exercising 2.5 hours a week." https://t.co/28mz6llyyp
Gm Bryan Johnson eating food that he wouldn’t normally for the sake of hospitality and stepping into the love other people were trying to show him is very beautiful actually
“So you bootstrapped the whole company?”
“Yeah, I turned it down. Turned down the funding.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah, I turned it down just to do this, just to grind it out, build it myself.”
“So you had an opportunity to take venture money?”
“Yeah, a term sheet and everything.”
“From who?”
“Yeah, a big fund out in Menlo Park. It was a top-tier firm, though. And they offered me like 15, some shit like 10 billion or something like that, 5 billion, something like that.”
“Wait, wait, wait. A term sheet.”
“Yeah.”
“Okay, but not 5 billion dollars. They offered you 5 billion dollars for your seed round?”
“Yeah.”
“For a seed round?”
“Yeah.”
“What are we doing here?”
“Like, what the y’all, like, you know what I’m saying?”
“That’s more than the GDP of a small country.”
“But I was so younger, like, I didn’t know what a cap table was.”
“Are you sure they offered you 5 billion dollars?”
“I turned it down.”
“You didn’t even have a product.”
“It was a SAFE, like, I had to give up equity for this decade.”
“But you would get $5 billion?”
“Yeah.”
“You’d be one of the most valuable companies on earth.”
“It was somewhere, it was in the billions, though.”
Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids.
An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.
This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.
The sweet spot with IQ gaps is ~10 points higher than the girl.
That's the zone where she can tell you're smart, but the two of you can still relate.
Beyond 10 points, she just thinks you're a weirdo because she can't understand your thought process at all.
So there's plenty of irony to be found in intelligence as a desirable trait:
The average woman will consistently recognize guys in the 110 - 120 range as impressively "smart" to her liking. Beyond that, you're going to have to dumb yourself down to impress most girls with how "smart" you are.
The flip side of this coin is that there are few souls more tortured than the pretty, high IQ woman. Her whole life is one big search for a desirable guy who can impress her with his mind...
Then when she finally finds one, he's sadly developed the persona of a mid, because that's what he learned he needed for romantic success.
And that's how we all end up on Twitter.
when i was younger, i was very insecure. i did this kind of thing too. over time you learn that it is critical to be truthful and not misleading about every single thing you do. i had to learn this lesson the hard way, but boy, have i internalized it. UNDERSELL yourself.
"yeah, yeah, he founded a company that's more efficient and productive than the rest of the world combined but the only way he became a billionaire is because he stole money" or something