Friends don't let friends continue to give exams and papers that are not adapted to the current AI landscape (this is AFTER 27 bailed so the reality is even worse)
PS Props to students 1, 22, and 31
A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.
This is gonna sound weird: but I kinda believe in a version of the anthropic principle that says America produced so much wealth and population growth globally that any conscious being is disproportionately likely to have emerged in a universe where American was founded, so certain inexplicable events happened specifically to bring America into existence.
Le mie più sincere congratulazioni alla Presidente eletta del Perù, @KeikoFujimori, per il risultato elettorale.
Sono certa che insieme rafforzeremo ulteriormente il partenariato bilaterale e lavoreremo per affrontare le sfide comuni, a partire dalla sicurezza e dal contrasto alla criminalità organizzata transnazionale, per assicurare alle nostre Nazioni prosperità e sicurezza.
Stanford has just leaked this free class that explains how claude and chatgpt work from the inside
The majority wastes 90% of its potential
Stanford teaches it to you in 1h50 minutes
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Conor Neill es un profesor de IESE que lleva 25 años demostrando que la suerte no es azar: viaja a través de las personas y las conversaciones.
Reveló 7 formas de multiplicar la suerte que llega a tu vida:
1/ Conoce a una persona nueva cada semana.
Conor Neill, profesor de MBA, lo dice sin rodeos: la vida premia la acción, no la inteligencia.
Y cuanto más listo eres, mejores excusas te inventas para no actuar.
8 ideas para dejar de pensar y empezar a moverte:
1/ Haz una sola cosa. Y luego otra. Y otra...
El CEO de Anthropic lo dejó claro:
“La ingeniería de software estará completamente automatizada en 12 meses.”
Hoy existen dos tipos de personas:
Tipo 1: Abre Claude, escribe un prompt rápido, copia la respuesta y cierra la pestaña.
Cree que ya está “usando IA”.
Tipo 2: Domina las funciones avanzadas, configuraciones, proyectos, Artifacts, custom instructions y flujos de trabajo.
Usa Claude como una herramienta profesional de alto rendimiento.
Dentro de 12 meses:
- El Tipo 1 se va a llevar una sorpresa.
- El Tipo 2 ya habrá multiplicado su productividad y construido una ventaja real.
Bookmarkea esto.
Empieza a usar Claude como un poder user hoy.
ELON MUSK PUT A DEADLINE ON EARTH:
“30–36 MONTHS. MARK MY WORDS.”
ON A PODCAST, ELON MUSK DIDN’T SPECULATE. HE TIMESTAMPED THE FUTURE.
HE SAID AI CANNOT SCALE ON EARTH THE WAY IT CAN IN SPACE. PERIOD.
SOLAR POWER IN ORBIT IS ~5× MORE EFFECTIVE AND RADICALLY CHEAPER WITHOUT BATTERIES.
ONCE LAUNCH COSTS FALL, EARTH-BASED DATA CENTERS BECOME LEGACY INFRASTRUCTURE OVERNIGHT.
COOLING LIMITS. LAND LIMITS. BORDERS. REGULATION.
NONE OF IT MATTERS ANYMORE.
THEN HE SAID IT OUT LOUD:
“30 TO 36 MONTHS. MARK MY WORDS.”
AFTER THAT, THE CHEAPEST, FASTEST, MOST DOMINANT PLACE TO RUN AI IS ORBIT.
NOT NATIONS.
NOT CONTINENTS.
NOT EARTH.
Scientists have long made predictions about Q-Day, the supposed date when quantum computers will be able to break the sophisticated cryptography systems on which modern societies rely.
John Reed explains why organisations believe it may be drawing near. https://t.co/UtobwqGgrn
Two Anthropic engineers have just revealed in 24 minutes all the hidden Claude features that almost nobody knows about.
This video is going to completely change the way you use AI.
Watch it and save it.
Imagine you had the energy, metabolism, and mental agility of your younger self - without the aches and pains that come from aging.
That’s what we’re attempting to build at @NewLimit and it will be one of the most important achievements in human history ever if it works.
We're on the cusp of this being tractable given the rise of AI to test more hypotheses in-silico, along with the rapidly falling cost of single cell sequencing, etc.
We announced our Series C and upcoming human clinical trials this week, so still a long, long way to go, with many risks. But with hard work we've got a shot at making this a reality.
A British biologist looked at 200,000 years of human history and found that the entire reason humans broke out of poverty was not intelligence, not language, not even agriculture, but one mechanism so simple a 6-year-old could explain it.
His name is Matt Ridley.
He is a zoologist by training, an evolutionary biologist by career, and in 2010 he wrote a book called The Rational Optimist that quietly argued the most important fact about human progress had been hiding in plain sight for the entire history of economics.
Naval Ravikant has been telling people to read everything Ridley has ever written for the last 15 years. The reason is the argument inside this one book.
For 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans walked around with the same brain you have right now. Same skull size. Same neural architecture. Same raw capacity for language, planning, and abstract thought.
For roughly 190,000 of those years, almost nothing happened. Generation after generation lived and died inside the same Stone Age toolkit their great-great-grandparents had used. Then somewhere around 50,000 years ago, the line on the chart of human progress started to tick upward. Then it bent. Then it exploded.
The question Ridley spent years on was the only question that mattered. What changed.
It was not the brain. The brain had been the same for 190,000 years. It was not language, which had existed long before the takeoff. It was not even agriculture, which arrived only 10,000 years ago and was actually preceded by the upward bend, not the cause of it.
What changed was that humans started trading with strangers.
This sounds too small to be the answer. Ridley argues that it is the answer to almost everything. The moment one human exchanged a useful object with another human from a different group, something happened that no other species on earth had ever done.
Two ideas that had developed in isolation came into contact. The flint knapper learned what the spear maker had figured out. The fisherman from the coast learned what the hunter from the forest had figured out. The two pieces of knowledge fused into something neither side could have produced alone.
Ridley calls this ideas having sex. The phrase sounds frivolous and it is meant to. The point is that ideas, like genes, get better when they combine with other ideas from different lineages.
An idea sitting inside one head, no matter how brilliant the head, eventually hits a ceiling. The same idea exposed to ten thousand other ideas does something genes do under sexual reproduction. It mixes. It recombines. It produces offspring nobody planned.
The cleanest proof of this argument is the most uncomfortable case study in the book. Tasmania.
Around 10,000 years ago, rising sea levels cut Tasmania off from mainland Australia. A population of roughly 4,000 humans was now isolated on an island, with no possibility of contact with the rest of humanity. They had the same brains. The same language. The same starting toolkit as their cousins 150 kilometers north. The natural experiment was now running.
What happened next is something no economist or geneticist had ever predicted.
The mainland Australians kept inventing. Boomerangs. Spear-throwers. Fishing nets. Bone needles for sewing fitted clothes. Watercraft with paddles. Their technology compounded slowly across the centuries.
The Tasmanians went the other way. They did not just fail to invent the new tools their cousins were developing. They started losing the tools they already had. Fishing was abandoned within a few thousand years. Bone tools disappeared. Fitted clothing disappeared. They forgot how to make fire from scratch and started carrying lit firebrands from camp to camp instead, relighting their fires from a neighbor's whenever their own went out.
By the time European explorers arrived in the 17th century, the Tasmanians had the simplest toolkit of any human society ever recorded. Their material culture had gone backward for 8,000 years.
The archaeologist Rhys Jones called it a slow strangulation of the mind.
Joseph Henrich at Harvard later proved with formal mathematical models that there was nothing wrong with Tasmanian brains. There was something wrong with their network. A toolkit requires a critical mass of people exchanging skills to maintain itself.
The act of teaching a skill is imperfect. Every generation loses a small percentage of what the last generation knew. If your population is large enough and trading widely enough, those losses get caught and corrected by someone else who still remembers.
If your population shrinks below a certain threshold and stops mixing with outsiders, the small losses compound until entire technologies disappear.
This is the part that should haunt anyone reading this in 2026.
Intelligence is not a property of the individual brain. Intelligence is a property of the network the brain is connected to. A genius in isolation will produce less than a mediocre thinker inside a dense exchange of other mediocre thinkers.
The thing your ancestors needed in order to break out of 190,000 years of stagnation was not better brains. It was better connections between brains they already had.
The implication for any individual is direct and uncomfortable. If you are smart and isolated, you will be outproduced by people half as smart who are connected.
The most successful people in any field are almost never the smartest people in it. They are the ones positioned at the intersection of the most idea flows. They are reading more authors than their competitors. They are talking to more people from more disciplines. They are in the rooms where ideas from different lineages bump into each other.
Ridley ends the book on the line that sounds optimistic but is actually a warning its this "The future will be invented by people who connect ideas, not by people who guard them."