A NEW MENTAL MODEL MEGATHREAD HAS ARRIVED!
In 20 tweets I’ll summarize 20 of the most useful principles I know.
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes.
Value: A lifetime.
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I have never understood the massive economic split in Italy. Why is the North with its various industries one of the wealthiest areas in Europe, but the South so extremely poor? Same country, same language, same laws and taxes. Can someone please explain?
56yo rich, tenured tech exec was in a murder-suicide with his mother in a high society town while inflicted by ChatGPT-induced psychosis.
When the teenager committed suicide last week, many dismissed it as mental illness, but this man’s by most means a very successful person:
Geoffrey Hinton says I'm more optimistic now, not because we'll control AI, but because we might not need to
"don't try to dominate superintelligence; design it to care, like a mother wired to protect her child"
Control through attachment, not power. we want AI to be like that
The Titans of robotics market! 🔥
The global industrial robotics market is consolidating around a few key players, but remains fragmented enough for new players joining the market.
According to Statista, ABB Robotics (Switzerland) and Seiko Epson Corporation (Japan) are tied at
🧵 Farming robots are no longer experimental. They're deployed, profitable, and reshaping agriculture.
In orchards, vineyards, vegetable fields, and beyond, they're tackling labor shortages, precision spraying, and chemical reduction at scale.
This is how robotics is quietly
“Money is essentially an information system for labor allocation, so it has no power in & of itself. it's like a database for guiding people as to what they should do.”
— Elon Musk
Diyelim bir AI Agent yaptınız. Peki bu agent meselesini nasıl yöneteceksiniz?
Yani yaptığınız AI agent amacına göre çalışıyor mu, buradan saptı mı, güvenli cevaplar veriyor mu, kullandığı dil modellerinin zayıflıklarını halledebiliyor mu, kullanıcı ihtiyaçlarına ne kadar yanıt
When you frame legitimate concerns as far-right, you don’t make the concerns look unreasonable, you make the far-right look reasonable.
The ivory tower media’s failure to understand this is a big reason they’re losing.
In US states with higher birth rates, people do more Google searches for pregnancy, whereas in states with lower birth rates, they do more searches for cats.
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Despite labor costs 4x India’s and a shrinking workforce, China’s share of small manufactured goods has GROWN since 2019.
The reason? robotics
China installs more robots each year than the rest of the world combined.
China's advantage used to be cheap labor.
Now it's
Technology can change the world in ways that are unimaginable until they happen.
Switching on an electric light would have been unimaginable for our medieval ancestors. In their childhood, our grandparents would have struggled to imagine a world connected by smartphones and the
Obesity is a major driver of low testosterone in men.
Each 1% increase in body fat lowers total testosterone by 12 ng/dL (120 ng/dL for a 10% increase). A large waist circumference raises the odds of low testosterone by ~75%, more than aging 10 years.
Is this why population
Another bad day for "AI can't do math".
Math, Inc., a new company started by Christian Szegedy, has announced that its agent, Gauss, has autonomously completed Terry Tao and Alex Kontorovich's Strong Prime Number Theorem project in 3 weeks (human experts' progress stalled after