tyler durden

its only after we lost everything we are free to do anything

[Aporia @aporia9n]

This is why so many rich kids become obsessed with unusually hard hobbies (HYROX, Ironmans, ultramarathons, survival expeditions, extreme sports, Everest, etc.)

They’re not necessarily masochists. They need a result where observers, and more importantly themselves, can’t immediately say “yh but your dad…”

Money contaminates most conventional achievement because it can buy you the introductions, runway, education, safety net, first customers and endless second chances. Physical suffering is different. Your dad can hire the trainer, buy the bike and fly you business class to the race, but he still can’t run the last 30km of an ultra for you.

And then you get this funny achievement inflation. Once normal difficulty becomes accessible, you need increasingly absurd difficulty to produce the same clean proof of competence:

A 10k stops feeling exceptional → marathon → Ironman → 100km ultra → Marathon des Sables / UTMB → whatever is sufficiently painful and scarce to still mean something.

Same for mountains: Everest with oxygen → without oxygen → harder mountain → unsupported → faster, etc.

It’s especially funny because their normal life has usually been optimised to remove exactly the things they then seek recreationally: cold, danger, physical exhaustion, uncertainty, getting lost, carrying your own stuff, sleeping badly, not knowing whether you’ll make it. Generations of family wealth go into eliminating friction, then the descendants spend their weekends putting it back in.

And of course an entire luxury industry now exists to package the hardship nicely. Black Tomato sells a “Get Lost” experience starting around £20k per person where they privately transfer you somewhere remote, give you equipment and training, then make you navigate back to civilisation while an expedition team invisibly tracks you as a safety net.

Basically the final stage of wealth is paying a lot of money to recreate problems your grandparents spent their lives making sure you’d never have.

[Mikael Dewabrata 📊 @MikaelDewabrata]

Beasiswa ke luar negeri yang ga wajibin pulang ke Indonesia:

Japan: MEXT, INPEX, Ajinomoto
Korea: GKS
Taiwan: MoE Taiwan
Eropa: Erasmus
Hungaria: Stipendium Hungaricum

Ada yang mau koreksi / nambahin?

[Walang Kopo | ꦮꦭꦁ​ꦏꦺꦴꦥꦺꦴ @walangkopo_]

Pengungsi Palestina di Malaysia ini mengamuk setelah dana sokongan bagi mereka dipotong oleh pemerintah.

Orang Palestina itu dikenal sangat tidak tahu diri, tidak beradab dan egois. Sebab itulah banyak negara-negara Arab menolak untuk menampung mereka.

[Us_militryPower @Trumpspoof__]

Breaking 🚨;

☠️ A hacker group announced at 3:00 AM: "We have locked all Starlink ground stations worldwide. Pay $500 million in Bitcoin, or the world goes offline!"

🚀 Elon Musk replied at 3:01 AM: "Check your firmware. While you were writing that ransom note, Neural-Auto-Patch released a micro-update that routed your entire operation through a dead-end satellite in deep orbit. Thanks for testing our hotfix."

[Capt Kyle @CaptKylePatriot]

‼️ THEY HAVE BEEN LYING TO YOU ABOUT OIL FOR 150 YEARS. 🛢️

Oil is not rare. It is not made from dead dinosaurs. It is the second most common liquid on Earth after water and it is literally the planet’s lifeblood.

The entire “fossil fuel” scam was invented by the Rockefellers and the Smithsonian in the late 1800s to create artificial scarcity and jack up prices to insane levels. They fed you the biotic lie so you would believe oil is some finite dinosaur soup that is about to run dry. Total fabrication.

Oil is abiotic. It is a liquid mineral cooked deep in the Earth’s mantle under crushing pressure and scorching heat. It is the natural lubricant for tectonic plates and the grease that keeps the planet’s massive gears turning smoothly.

That is why wells drilled dry in the 1970s are filling back up again today. The Earth is pumping fresh oil from below and regenerating it nonstop. It does not run out. We are sucking the lubricant out of the planet’s engine and now the whole machine is starting to shake.

More earthquakes. Creaking faults. Grinding plates. Coincidence? No. We are stripping the oil that keeps the Earth’s crust sliding properly and the system is literally seizing up.

The so-called “fossil theory” is the greatest economic hack in human history. Real crude oil has almost zero biological markers. No nitrogen, no phosphorus, nothing that would survive if it came from dead organisms. It is pure polymeric hydrocarbons, primordial stuff from the Earth’s own formation.

Thomas Gold tried to warn the world. He proved hydrocarbons like methane and oil rise from the deep mantle, not from ancient swamps. The establishment destroyed his reputation because the truth would collapse their entire control grid.

If people knew oil is basically tap water for the planet, endlessly generated from below, the entire parasitic geopolitics of wars, sanctions, and price manipulation would evaporate overnight.

They do not want you to know the Earth makes its own oil.
They need you scared, dependent, and paying through the nose while they bleed the planet dry.
Wake up. The dinosaurs had nothing to do with it. This is the biggest lie they ever sold us and it is killing the engine of the world.
@SternDrewCrypto

@CaptKylePatriot

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

The first Starship to Mars will be named "Heart of Gold"

[蔡子博士Chris @caiziboshi]

美国为什么没留住杨植麟？这是一场顶尖人才战略上的失败！

杨植麟本科毕业于清华大学计算机系，随后赴卡内基梅隆大学攻读博士，师从后来进入苹果负责AI研究的Ruslan Salakhutdinov；读博期间，他曾在Google Brain和Meta AI工作，并参与Transformer-XL、XLNet等重要研究。按常规路径，他完全可以留在硅谷，成为Google、Meta或其他顶级实验室的核心科学家。但美国真正失败的地方，不是没有能力给他高薪职位，而是只把他当作一名可以被大公司吸纳的优秀研究员，没有为他提供足够的空间，让他独立掌握资本、算力、团队和技术方向，把个人研究能力转化为一家世界级AI公司的组织能力。相比之下，杨植麟判断，中国快速发展的AI产业、本土资本支持以及庞大的工程人才储备，更适合迅速组建一支真正能打的大模型团队，因此2019年回国创业，2023年创立月之暗面。如今，这位曾在美国顶级实验室学习和工作的年轻研究者，已经带领Kimi进入全球模型第一梯队：最新发布的Kimi K3在月之暗面公布的多项编程、智能体和知识任务测试中超过OpenAI的GPT-5.5、GPT-5.6 Sol以及Anthropic的Claude Opus 4.8，并在部分项目上达到或超过更先进的Fable 5，同时以开放权重和更低成本冲击美国公司的封闭、高价模式。美国当年没有留住的，不只是一个优秀算法工程师，而是一位后来能够组织资本、人才和算力，带领中国模型直接挑战美国AI巨头的创业者；从这个意义上说，美国失去杨植麟，是一次把未来竞争对手亲手培养出来、却没能留在自身体系内的人才战略失败。

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇳 China just torched the U.S. AI lead in a single afternoon.

Moonshot AI, a little-known Beijing startup, dropped Kimi K3 on Thursday and it instantly kicked into the top tier of global models.

It beat Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on coding tests, then edged out Opus 4.8 on a broader ranking while costing 40% less.

Now the knockout blow. On July 27, Moonshot is giving Kimi away as open-weight, so any company or government on Earth can download it and run it on their own machines. No subscription, no permission slip.

For months U.S. labs slept fine telling themselves China was 6 to 12 months behind. That head start just evaporated.

And Kimi doesn't even need to be the best model to win. Near the top, 40% cheaper, and yours to keep is what most buyers actually want.

That's the nightmare in Silicon Valley. The trillion-dollar valuations and hundred-billion-dollar data centers all rest on one bet: U.S. stays ahead.

Kimi just kicked that out from under them.

Source: The AI Rankings, Axios / Writer: Daniyal

[Roan @RohOnChain]

My friend applied to 200 tech jobs in two years. No PhD. No Stanford.

Last month Anthropic offered him $750,000.

I asked him how he broke in from zero.

He sent me a course that was never supposed to get out. A 3-hour video to build a full LLM from scratch.

A developer teaches you exactly how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are actually built.

I watched it last night.

Halfway through, I realized it's embarrassingly simple to break into an AI lab.

Bookmark this and read the article below.

• 00:00 - intro to LLMs
• 05:43 - LLM transformer architecture
• 40:24 - training the LLM
• 1:30:27 - modernizing the LLM
• 2:33:53 - scaling the LLM

[gemchanger @gemchange_ltd]

Some guy on Reddit just handed out a 12-week plan to break into quant finance for free.

He went from bombing mock interviews alone in his bedroom to 3 offers in a single month.

Then he wrote down every single step that got him there:

> Weeks 1-3: foundation - probability, mental math, easy coding
> Weeks 4-7: second pass on everything, start applying before you feel ready
> Weeks 8-10: mock interviews until they stop humiliating you
> Weeks 11-12: don't cram, just sleep and stay sharp

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

Pewd did it again. now he open-sourced a self-hosted AI workspace. bro is building a CV harder than a CS undergrad looking for a job:
> built a 10-GPU home rig
> quantized giant LLM to run local
> built ChatOS, local AI UI
> added RAG/local memory
> built “council” of AI models
> built “swarm”, small models in parallel for data collection
> fine-tuned a Qwen 32B-based coding model
> donated compute from his GPU rig for protein folding research

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

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."

[tyler durden @radenthetalib]

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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

If you ever wanted to work at SpaceX, here’s your golden opportunity

They’re on the hunt for world-class engineers and physicists, even those with absolutely no experience in AI.

What’s the application process? A simple email with around 3 bullet points proving you have the exceptional ability to work with the best of the best.

The bonus? Elon will personally review all emails “that pass reasonable sanity checks.”

What are you waiting for?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

The old man told them he used to be a boxer, but they chose to not believe him 🥲

[tyler durden @radenthetalib]

@Bert_medics @shaneldc13 @MakisMedicine Currently yes, both ivermectin and ferbendazole. May i dm you, doc?

[tyler durden @radenthetalib]

@shaneldc13 @MakisMedicine @bert_medics Thank you, Mr. Banks 🙏