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A neuroscientist at the university of wisconsin spent 30 years studying the brains of the happiest people on earth.
He found one specific neural pattern in every single one.
It had nothing to do with genetics or circumstance.
And it can be trained in 12 minutes a day.
Peter retweeted
Avoiding confrontation is single behavior that will ruin your life
You must CONFRONT. Confront your problems, confront your avoidances, confront those behaving improperly
The only way out is through. And to blast through requires confrontation
Peter retweeted
🚨BREAKING: A cognitive scientist from MIT has mathematically proven that evolution guarantees we see zero percent of true reality, that most consciousness in the universe exists without a body, and that non-human intelligences with a wider window on reality than ours can reach in and manipulate it the way a programmer manipulates a video game.
Donald Hoffman (@donalddhoffman) is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine who has spent 40 years building a mathematical theory of the observer. His work was cited by John Wheeler in the "It From Bit" paper. He studied under Marvin Minsky at MIT, spent two decades secretly meeting with Francis Crick to study consciousness, and has nine specific mathematical conjectures on the table that would derive general relativity, quantum field theory and the Big Bang from a single framework. The top high-energy physicists in the world, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Nobel laureate David Gross, are already saying spacetime is doomed. Hoffman thinks he knows what replaces it.
This interview is the first time he has publicly laid out what his mathematical model explains about alien life, embodiment and the structure of reality.
It already derives time dilation and quantum wave functions directly from differences in observer window size. Physics has spent a century failing to solve the measurement problem because it has been looking in the wrong place. The observer has to come first, and no physicalist framework can get you there.
A consciousness with a larger observer window has access to the underlying structure of our reality in ways we can't perceive or counter. A craft going Mach 40 instantaneously in our headset could be a leisurely maneuver in theirs.
The implications for UAP and alien life are immense.
Embodiment, being locked into a body with fingers and toes as your only interface with the world, is a probability zero anomaly in the full space of possible minds. He also says current large language models are dumber than cucumbers. His new framework, the recursive trace logic, is a completely different architecture, and some of the biggest names in frontier AI have already come to him about it.
The framework has no ceiling, and the implication is a single unified consciousness exploring itself through an unbounded number of perspectives, each one capable of waking up.
Death, in this framework, is just the closing of an icon on the desktop.
Full conversation is live now.
Peter retweeted
He literally explained how to get unstuck in 30 seconds
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Peter retweeted
Nature’s Heartbeat : Gross Primary Production (GPP) of the biosphere on land throughout the year
Peter retweeted
this PhD student in AI built a 10-agent Obsidian crew to manage his entire life
his brain couldn't keep up. papers, deadlines, meetings, emails, health stuff.
he kept forgetting what he read, losing track of commitments, falling behind on everything.
tried every Obsidian setup out there.
they all required him to maintain the system manually. which is the exact thing he didn't have time for.
so he built something where he just talks and everything else happens automatically.
the possibilities with this are endless
AND other people can contribute and make it better because its OPEN SOURCE
Peter retweeted
I’m in love with this sentence:
“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”
Peter retweeted
Nobody tells you this: Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. It’s the dopamine from reading, planning, or learning, but never doing. Stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have. Get your dopamine from action.
Peter retweeted
George Galloway:
The massacre of 167 girls, aged 7 to 12, at an elementary school in Iran is the greatest atrocity committed by the United States since the Vietnam War.
It is the largest mass killing of schoolgirls ever recorded in world history.
Yet no one is talking about it
Peter retweeted
how to use obsidian + claude code to build a 24/7 personal operating system and build your startup:
1. write everything in markdown (daily notes, projects, beliefs, people, meetings)
2. link your notes together so they mirror how your brain actually thinks.
3. install obsidian cli so claude code can read your entire vault + the relationships.
4. stop reexplaining projects every session. use reference files instead.
5. build custom slash commands:
/context → load your full life + work state
/trace → see how an idea evolved over months
/connect → bridge two domains you’ve been circling
/ideas → generate startup ideas from your vault
/graduate → promote daily thoughts into real assets
6. keep a strict rule: human writes the vault. agents read it, suggest, execute.
7. let claude aka clode surface patterns you’ve been unconsciously circling for years.
8. delegate from inside your notes. one sentence in obsidian → agent handles the rest.
9. treat writing as leverage.the more you write, the more context your agents have.
10. understand this:markdown files are the oxygen of llms.
i really enjoyed seeing how to use obsidian thanks to @internetvin
vin uses ai like a thinking partner wired into his life’s work.
99.99% of people won’t do this because it requires reflection + setup.
but once the vault exists, the agent stops being generic.
it starts thinking in your voice.
episode is live on @startupideaspod (more there)
this one is different. send this tweet to a friend.
im still processing how game changer obsidian + claude code is, maybe you too
watch
Peter retweeted
Filmmaker David Lynch's Diagram for Transcendental Consciousness is one of the greatest, easiest to understand explanations for how our reality is made of MIND first, MATTER second.
I promise this is genuinely worth your time.
It's fantastic.
Peter retweeted
A groundbreaking 2025 study utilizing novel quantum entanglement-detection methods applied to conscious humans in magnetic resonance imaging scanners revealed strong evidence for macroscopic quantum entangled states in the living human brain, with these states directly correlated to both the conscious state itself and working memory performance.
When participants fell asleep during imaging, the quantum entanglement signal faded and disappeared, demonstrating that this phenomenon is not merely biological noise but intimately connected to conscious awareness
Quantum Biophysics is the next frontier.
Peter retweeted
Rhonda Patrick just leveled up her creatine game—and the reasons will make you rethink that standard 5g scoop.
She used to do 5g for workouts... now it's 10g EVERY DAY as baseline. Why? Brain saturation.
"Once muscles are full at ~5g, the spillover hits the brain"—boosting cognitive function, potentially shielding against brain aging, and even helping depression via better energy production upstairs.
Jet-lagged? Sleepless night? Travel wrecking your rhythm? She cranks to 15–20g (sometimes 20–30g in studies) — calls it "speed without the speed," like caffeine minus the crash/jitters. No addiction, but insanely alert, focused, and resilient. Hits hardest under stress/sleep deprivation (research backs it: single high doses reverse 21+ hour wakefulness cognitive hits and can outperform rested performance).
Vegan twist: One friend (no meat = zero dietary creatine) went from dragging to "Bruce Banner → Hulk" mode after starting. Vegans/vegetarians often run low—liver makes only so much.
Bonus layer: Extra creatine frees up methylation pathways (homocysteine → methionine), gene expression tweaks, brain-wide perks.
3:13 raw clip of Rhonda spilling the science—perfect if you're biohacking focus, longevity, or just surviving modern life chaos.
Are you on creatine? Still at 5g? Gone higher for brain gains? Noticed Hulk-level energy when stressed/sleepless? Vegans—game-changer or nah?
Drop your protocol/experience below—this one's sparking real convos!
Peter retweeted
regular or higher oxytocin makes people attach more to their ingroup and draw hard boundaries with the "other"
dysregulated or reduced oxytocin does the opposite, it flattens attachment and pushes empathy towards the outgroup, into abstractions because the system can’t lock onto anyone in particular.
healthy levels of oxytocin come from stable families, present parents, healthy physical touch, adn predictability. the nervous system is healthy and you bond to your people
when childhood is traumatic (neglected, abused, unhealthy), the oxytocin system downregulates. the bonding system breaks, so the person redirects moral concern away from the near circle and toward strangers
universalism becomes a band-aid for missing a healthy family
basically, healthy families and healthy childhoods tend to create conservative psychologies, inward-focused, loyal and protective
unhealthy or unstable childhoods (or hormonally fucked up) shift people liberal and outward-focused, empathizing with everyone except the people next to them.
being a leftist turns out to be a diagnosis, not an ideology
Peter retweeted
Bret Weinstein just said something that won’t leave my head:
For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding.
Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds.
Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected.
Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.
And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing.
Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?
Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting.
Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something?
Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me.