In your brain, 86 billion neurons chitchat with one another in complex networks. Neurons can carry meaning in binary code — whether they fire or not — and also in analog, in a symphony of signals with variable patterns, strengths and frequencies. quantamagazine.org/ai-is-nothing-…

This is what it takes to make life multiplanetary

DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve just broke an 18-year-old math record, twice in one week! Terence Tao: "It is tempting to simplify this to a zero-sum narrative of "winners" and "losers", but I think it is great that different approaches can complement each other here to make mathematical

Quantum Infinity ∞ Free will's a cosmic joke. We're all just stardust puppets dancing to quantum beats.

Interest payments already consume 25% of all government revenue. If the massive deficit spending continues, there will only be money for interest payments and nothing else! No social security, no medical, no defense … nothing.

Finance has four simple rules: maintain a clear mind, figure out asymmetries, detect circularities, and never talk to idiots.

Humanity's progress is accelerating insanely fast: Stone Age→Farming: 100,000 yrs Farming→Steam: 12,000 yrs Steam→AI: 200 yrs 2000-2014: 100 years of progress in 14. Moore's Law predicted 32x. AI chips did 1000x. Law of Accelerating Returns is getting weird with AI🧵👇🏻

If you want to learn about geometry in physics with as littler formal math as possible have a look at 'The Shape of Space' by Jeff Weeks Great book if you're a visual learner and want to get some intuition for everything from manifold to curved spacetime

Solar power is so obviously the future for anyone who can do elementary math

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“The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus has it always been.”

World governments are issuing more debt than ever: Global sovereign bond issuances hit a record ~$18 TRILLION in 2024. ~$16 trillion of debt was issued by developed countries, and ~$2 trillion by emerging market economies. World government bond issuance has nearly DOUBLED

When you're chillin’, your brain is mostly *not* chillin’. quantamagazine.org/how-much-energ…

An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes. Erica Klarreich reports: quantamagazine.org/computer-scien…

History is REPEATING Buckle up. A thread 🧵

The blockchain is the basis for global economic union, because it provides uniform monetary policy, payment rails, smart contract enforcement, encrypted messaging, verifiable identity, and capital formation to anyone with an internet connection.

📈 Systematic buying of US stocks is heating up Three-month realized volatility continues to collapse. So volatility control funds just continue to relentlessly bid stocks under any circumstance. Billions and billions and billions of buying. Buying will accelerate this week

AI is perhaps the most competitive field in the most competitive sector in the world. Somehow Elon Musk built and funded the team capable of getting to global #1 while simultaneously running SpaceX, Tesla, X, Boring, and Neuralink. It is superhuman.

This is why I won't trim any of my Bitcoin below $300,000 this cycle. Ignore this for now. Could take a year or two to confirm.

Bitcoin Breaks All-Time High - Binance Whale's Powerful Punch “Until recently, whales on the U.S.-based Coinbase exchange were driving the market, but today's surge was driven by a significant move from a major whale on the Binance exchange.” – By Crypto Dan