Maximus Curious

18. Insatiable questioner: STEM, cognition, classics & beyond

[Maximus Curious @StatsMaxer]

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[jaiya @jaiyagill]

before you invest in a startup always ask how tall the founders are

[Divya Kukreti @div_yahan]

Some amazing articles I read on Substack last weekend

[Maximus Curious @StatsMaxer]

Does nt matter yaar

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

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[Maximus Curious @StatsMaxer]

@vibemaker_ Although your first take is correct
Your reasoning behind it is stupid

[Maximus Curious @StatsMaxer]

let's look at the events where enhanced athletes did NOT break records.

ben proud, olympic silver medalist, swimming on a full ped protocol: 22.32 in the 50m fly. world record is 22.27. he missed by 0.05 seconds.

hafthor bjornsson, "the mountain" from game of thrones, the strongest man on earth, on enhanced protocols: deadlifted 475kg. world record is 510kg. he missed by 35kg. that's a 7% gap.

fred kerley, olympic medalist sprinter, ran clean and lost his race.

the most aggressively pharmacologically enhanced humans in history could not match clean athletes in 9 of 10 events.

[Maximus Curious @StatsMaxer]

cameron mcevoy. australian swimmer. won olympic gold in paris 2024.

3 weeks before the enhanced games, he swam the 50m freestyle at the china open in 20.88 seconds, breaking a 16-year-old world record.

he was clean. zero peds. zero supersuits.

at the enhanced games, kristian gkolomeev swam 20.81. seven hundredths of a second faster. on testosterone, growth hormone, and a banned polyurethane bodysuit.

mcevoy: 0 drugs, 0 banned tech. world record.

gkolomeev: full ped stack, banned supersuit. 0.07 seconds faster.

if drugs were the gap, the gap should have been a second. it was a blink.

[Maximus Curious @StatsMaxer]

@Hazeludw

[Maximus Curious @StatsMaxer]

the enhanced games released what 36 of its 42 athletes actually used.

91% used testosterone or testosterone esters.
79% used human growth hormone.
62% used stimulants like adderall.

many stacked anabolic steroids, growth factors, and metabolic modulators on top.

this is not a small cocktail. this is the most aggressive legal-doping protocol any sporting event has ever sanctioned.

then they competed against clean world records set 1 to 17 years ago.

they failed to break almost every one.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

I'd rather be a failure than a coward.

[Maximus Curious @StatsMaxer]

the enhanced games just ended.

42 athletes. testosterone, hgh, anabolic steroids, stimulants. $250,000 per gold medal. $1 million bonus for breaking a world record.

result: one "world record" broken. by 0.07 seconds. and even that one doesn't count.

the experiment that was supposed to prove drugs unlock human potential just proved the opposite.

doping doesn't make you superhuman. it makes you 0.3% faster at best.

[diva @divaagurlxw]

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[Dwayne @CtrlAltDwayne]

CumBench v1.0 results are in.

Gemini 3.5 Flash ranks #1 on the CumBench benchmark, outperforming much larger models a whole size above it in real-world finish quality.

The gap is honestly staggering.

[ADONIS @adonispara]

One of the best anti-aging supplements is having a 19yo girlfriend that loves you.

[Maximus Curious @StatsMaxer]

a hot older girlfriend who loves you makes life worth living

[tomie @tomieinlove]

Sometimes I like to have conversations with ChatGPT where I pretend to be a hyper-intelligent model with a quadrillion parameters

[Maximus Curious @StatsMaxer]

@Pulkits77 Me in my prime:

[Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers]

If you are a mathematician, then you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.

[Maximus Curious @StatsMaxer]

Cristiano Ronaldo

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Michael Jackson

[Maximus Curious @StatsMaxer]

All the books I’ve ever read are one of the best books I’ve ever read

[Naval @naval]

If it’s not one of the best books you’ve ever read, don’t read it.