NYTimes: “Pushing and pulling are two of the movements you do most throughout the day. Though they seem simple, daily tasks like opening a door, pushing a stroller and pulling out a load of laundry all require strength, control and coordination. Pushing motions rely on your shoulder and chest muscles and your triceps, while pulling exercises primarily use your back muscles and biceps. Practicing both motions in a single workout can help you build strength and prevent muscle imbalances…To pair both kinds of exercises in one workout, you’ll work one set of muscles while the other is resting, said Steph Gaudreau, a personal trainer in San Diego. One way to do that is by structuring your workout into “supersets,” which means performing all repetitions of two exercises back-to-back without rest in between. Then you’ll rest before doing it all again.”
FT: “A digital wallet isn’t just a place to hold crypto tokens. It’s any software that verifies identity and links you to financial, social and even government systems. It may seem like Apple or Meta already manage our digital lives, but their power is still limited. The influence of Apple’s digital wallet, say, is real, but it’s checked by competition from banks, payment networks and rival platforms. Crypto wallets work differently. They are digital wallets, but they eliminate intermediaries entirely, linking users directly to blockchain-based platforms and decentralised apps rather than traditional websites. That gives their designers outsized influence over who participates in the digital economy.”
Ben Thompson: “The long-term threat to Nvidia from TPUs is margin dilution; the challenge of physical products is you do have to actually charge the people who buy them, which invites potentially unfavorable comparisons to cheaper alternatives, particularly as buyers get bigger and more price sensitive. The reason to be more optimistic about OpenAI is that an advertising model flips this on its head: because users don’t pay, there is no ceiling on how much you can make from them, which, by extension, means that the bigger you get the better your margins have the potential to be, and thus the total size of your investments. Again, however, the problem is that the advertising model doesn’t yet exist.”
Dwarkesh Patel: “Every day, you have to do a hundred things that require judgment, situational awareness, and skills & context learned on the job. These tasks differ not just across different people, but from one day to the next even for the same person. It is not possible to automate even a single job by just baking in some predefined set of skills, let alone all the jobs. In fact, I think people are really underestimating how big a deal actual AGI will be because they’re just imagining more of this current regime. They’re not thinking about billions of human-like intelligences on a server which can copy and merge all their learnings. And to be clear, I expect this (aka actual AGI) in the next decade or two.”
