microvoltaire @microvoltaire

I appreciate that Dean Ball, Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI and former Senior Policy Advisor to the White House, is just directly saying, under his legal name, that the purpose of introducing nonsensical regulations is to hurt open source and favor incumbent corporations

Dean W. Ball @deanwball

a day ago

Some observations on Kimi: 1. It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that. In agentic coding sessions, it seems pretty much on par with the best public models of Q1 2026. In my fairly limited use, it also

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You're 35. Your glasses prescription was −2.00 at 18. It's −5.00 now. You can't see anything without glasses these days at all. You spend 9 hours on screens. You wear your glasses. You just got a stronger pair. You've stopped bringing it up. You don't have a vision problem. You have a signal problem. In 2010, researchers at Queensland University put 28 adults under one hour of hyperopic defocus — the same type of blur your glasses create when you look at a screen. Axial length increased by +8 µm. -> Eyesight is measurably worse, in ONE HOUR. They tried the opposite — myopic defocus. Same 60 minutes. Same subjects. Axial length decreased by −13 µm. -> Vision measurably improves, with eyeball LENGTH reducing. One blur grows your eye. The other shrinks it. p < 0.0001. (Read et al., IOVS 2010) Your optometrist lens subscription seller gives you full correction for distance. You wear that same prescription to look at a phone 30 cm from your face. Your eyes under-accommodate. Research confirms myopes have ~2× the accommodative lag of emmetropes — about 0.6 D of hyperopic defocus at near. (PMC9544228) That's the same signal that made the +8 µm happen. Every screen session. Every year. In 2023, a JAMA Pediatrics RCT (n=263) found that naked-eye 3D vision training — creating myopic defocus — reduced axial elongation by 24%. With high adherence, 40%. (Xie et al., JAMA Pediatr 2024) A 2025 study (n=208) showed visual training dropped axial elongation from 0.38 mm/year to 0.23 mm/year — 39.5% reduction. And it was additive — it worked on top of orthokeratology, atropine, and defocus lenses with no statistically significant difference between combinations. (Xu et al., Clin Optom 2025) In 2025, a preprint documented full reversal of −6.00 D myopia in an adult in 5 months — using only myopic defocus and consciously triggered accommodation. n=1, not peer-reviewed. But the trajectory is suggestive. (Martinez-Saito, OSF 2025) The industry has known since 2002 that passive undercorrection backfires. The Chung study showed giving kids −0.75 D blur with no training made things worse. Critics cite this endlessly. They ignore that it tested passive blur — not differential lenses + active focus. Apples and hand grenades. The endmyopia approach is different: Wear differential lenses (1.5–2.0 D weaker aka "computer glasses") for close work — eliminates the hyperopic defocus stimulus entirely Wear normalized lenses (slightly weaker) for distance — creates mild myopic defocus Active focus — consciously clear the blur, retraining the ciliary muscle Two roads. One is a lifetime lens subscription sold by retail optometry, the other is you taking back control. Keep feeding your eyes the signal that says "grow longer, clearer" — 8 hours a day, every day. Or fix the signal. Nobody is coming to tell you this. They make 150 billion dollars a year counting on you not figuring it out.

come for the best model, stay because we don’t treat you with contempt

Preach, my lord.

Xans | Hypnotist + High Performance Hypnosis @xansnds

a week ago

Nope. Peak midwit behavior. You’ll find 110 to 125 IQ smart types usually college educated consultants or higher status career climbers playing these recognition games to feel a sense of superiority over everyone around them. Meanwhile the legit smartest most perceptive people

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America at 250. Amazing. Flawed. Amazing. Founded by risk takers and religious extremists. For the young, watch the people from everywhere in the World marveling at our Freedom, the Beauty. The Openness. The Freedom to speak. To Protest. To fly the Flag. Even the Unity. Maybe you actually do not understand what you have. Those on the far left that want to take it away and far right intolerance will lose. We defeated kings. We are one of the two civilizations in History to END slavery that was practiced by all nations of every creed and color for thousands of years. We saved the world from tyranny. Twice. Won the cold war, defeated the idiocy of socialism and communism. We are the only country where the children of immigrants will out earn the average. Our innovation has fueled the world. Brought billions out of poverty. Ignited the age of information and AI. The great nations copy us-Imitation is the best form of flattery. We are ALL the children and grandchildren of immigrants. We will survive governments you hate, and you forget that governments in USA matter far less that a free people, in a beautiful, bountiful land, where we are imperfect for sure, but good hearted. We need to reject the hatred and division spewed on the left and intolerance on the right and amplified by social media. 80 percent of the country is just fine. Building families, searching for opportunity, defending the weak. Standing up in a complicated and messy world. 250 years of vision. Many years left. So many count us out, and we survive and thrive and lead.

Staying married, a happy household, evidence of the parents working hard, childhood sports and watch all competitions, lots of hugs, reward merit, punish only egregious misbehavior, don't yell, restrict social media, monitor messages through 8th grade, the real expectation is college and academic excellence without pressure from parents, get children reading books early, no pacifiers, respond to needs not wants, babies sleep on their own through the night by 6 months, identify develop and support any talent or aptiude, one sport after age 10 is ok, communicate openly and easily with kids through grade 12, allow mistakes, and leave them alone in college. And then hope.

These things I believe... - All humans should be exercising 2hrs/d for basic fitness (competitive sport demands more) 🚴‍♂️ - The vast majority of these hours should be <70% max HR, i.e. eazzzy. 🫀 - *In addition to this* you should include a lot of regular incidental movement interspersed throughout the day - take the stairs etc. - Nutrition should reflect & support the training, i.e. A LOT of food with an emphasis on "real foods" & balanced macros. 🥩🥦🥑🥔🥕🥒🥗🍓🥥 - Quiet time in nature is a human need 🌲🚶‍♂️ - Sleep is essential & most days shouldn't have you woken by an alarm clock. 💤🛌 If you don't share these beliefs, feel free to drift off.

Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh

3 weeks ago

If you believe in something, say it plainly and directly. The right people will move closer, and the wrong ones drift off. Both outcomes are excellent.

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.@danawhite says one of the keys to longevity is to block out all negativity: “It never even crosses my mind that something's not going to work. I just keep going until it does work.” “There's this Bruce Lee quote where he says, ‘Never say negative things about yourself or what you're working on even if you're joking, because your body doesn't know the difference.’” “I never take in any negativity.”

Newish parents: Teaching your toddler to say “behold” instead of “look” unlocks a whole new level of hilariousness.

@anishgawande Do you avow to no longer call yourself as Rhodes Scholar and distance yourself from its legacy?

@AnjneyMidha @anshulbhide is all this work value accretive? what happens if founders fuck up their health and its not worth it in the end? aren't we better off waiting for ASI?

Neverrr neverrrr look desperate in life. Remain calm during hard times. Understand it’s just your time to suffer like every great man before you.

I've dictated almost everything for 6 months with Wispr Flow. 44,414 words, 161 wpm, top 0.1% of users. Last week I tried FluidVoice. Open source, runs local on my Mac, corrects as I speak with no API key, and handles slang better than I expected. Cancelled my paid plan. If you're on a Mac, this one's for you: altic.dev/fluid @ALTIC_DEV

Lol don't listen to this

Aditya Agarwal @adityaag

3 weeks ago

It is stupidly hard to start a pure software company right now. Customers don't want software, they want outcomes. So you end up having to do a lot of custom work for them. Anything horizontal is on a ticking clock. Every customer wants to deeply customize. There are

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Sam Altman on the Paul Graham advice that not enough founders take to heart “One of the things that Paul Graham used to say that I think never became venerated advice to the degree it should have is this idea that you should try to be relentlessly resourceful. Surprisingly often, if you just keep looking for new attack vectors on a problem in front of you, you can figure it out. And I think this is one of the most important skills in life… it works in almost all scenarios.” Sam recalls trying to get a deal done with a mobile operator that risked killing his first startup when he was 19 years old: “They didn’t really work with startups or technology companies in general, and we probably tried 30 different paths into this company…. [Then] the key decision maker said, I’m finally going to meet with you because I want you to stop bothering us.” He continues: “You can just keep doing that until something works. And I think most people — at the first ignored email or at least the second — would just stop.” Source: @HarvardHBS (Oct 2024)

At the end of the batch, founders often ask about big looming decisions: should they be in-person or remote? stay in SF or live somewhere else? etc The answer is: what would you want your competitors to do? Then do the opposite.

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Paul Graham on the importance of urgency: "Cultivate a habit of impatience about the things you most want to do. Don't wait before climbing that mountain or writing that book or visiting your mother. You don't need to be constantly reminding yourself why you shouldn't wait. Just don't wait."

The Retard gets what he wants because he knows what he wants and simply goes and gets it. The retard doesn't stop and just keeps shooting, completely oblivious to why he misses, he keeps shooting and eventually hits a few shots. Eventually developing real skill after taking enough shots, even if it looks unorthodox and he can't explain it himself. The "Genius" wastes all his time coming up with imagined situations of how things should play out, overthinking every tiny detail of what may happen and what they should do if X happens, or Y or Z. Then spends months mentally masturbating by writing essays about their "special" thoughts, theories and ideas without having talked to one girl. They drown themselves in thinking and explaining just to avoid their own fear of being rejected. Just be retarded and take more shots in every arena. That's how you develop some form of positive momentum. Lesson in there.

Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx

4 weeks ago

Smart guys finish last. “Adolescents with an IQ of 130 were 3-5 times less likely to have had intercourse than those with average IQ. Boys with an IQ that would qualify for intellectual disability (60) were still more likely to have had sex than those with a very high IQ (130)”

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Jony Ive says Steve Jobs key trait was “focus”. And the way Jobs measured it in others was to ask “what thing that you truly care about have you said NO to?”