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Rustin Sotoodeh retweeted
Palmer Luckey says simulation theory is just normal religion repackaged for people who claim to be irreligious
“I ponder it a lot because, I mean, look, we talked earlier about how I would only be able to pull off these things I pulled off if I continue, continuously succeeded over and over again, and it does make you think, like, what are the odds of that? Is it, is it more likely that the world is a simulation or not?"
"And I think actually it just comes down to, it comes down to, I’m a spiritual person. I believe in the existence of a higher creator, of a higher power. And I feel like there’s actually a lot of similarities between that and believing in simulation theory."
"I mean, like, when people, people say, oh, it’s, you know, it’s all a simulation. Is that really so different from having a universe that was created by an all-powerful being?"
"Like, it’s almost, I often feel like simulation theory is just normal religion wrapped up in a package that a person who claims to be irreligious can partake in. They’re like, no, I would never believe in, you know, a sky daddy. I just believe that we live in a world created by a higher being, and that he’s watching our every move and learning from it and helping us along the way.”
Palmer Luckey reveals Oculus repeatedly found wiretap electronics hidden inside product samples from Chinese factories, and says they would listen in and transmit voice samples over cellular radio
“Here’s another example. How many computers exist in the Japanese government, critical utilities, infrastructure and the military? Millions, at least millions of computers.
“So then the question becomes: how many of them are compromised by Chinese intelligence operations placing listening devices or false components in them? Some people would say zero, and I think they’re crazy.
“I actually have personal experience with China placing listening devices into sample products that I would receive from Chinese factories. This was at my previous company, Oculus VR. My first company was a virtual-reality company I started when I was 19 years old.
“There were multiple times when we discovered actual wiretap electronics in product samples that were given to us. They would listen to us and transmit the voice samples over a cellular radio.
“If I experienced them trying to steal our technology and our decisions even as a small company, surely they’re targeting every government, every military, and every company.”
Rustin Sotoodeh retweeted
Que Miyamoto esté vivo hoy es el equivalente a tener entre nosotros a un Edison, un Walt Disney o un Einstein. Básicamente todo lo que nos hace felices hoy en esta industria existe porque a este señor se le ocurrió reinventarla hace 40 años.
Que jodida leyenda.
Rustin Sotoodeh retweeted
Shigeru Miyamoto has been awarded the "Order of Culture" for his contribution to Japanese culture, one of Japan’s highest honors!
He will be the first person from the video game industry to receive the award. Previous recipients have been people such as Nobel prize winners and humanitarian scientists.
news.denfaminicogamer.jp/int…
Rustin Sotoodeh retweeted
19 years ago, when my 1st company got bought, I had to decide between buying a house in Palo Alto or a McLaren F1 (best car ever imo). Was no contest. I bought F1 & a small condo that was much cheaper than the car. New Tesla Roadster will exceed all gas sports cars in every way…
Rustin Sotoodeh retweeted
After 30 hours of playing a strategy video game (StarCraft II), adults showed a ~3-year drop in EEG-estimated brain age
Rustin Sotoodeh retweeted
I'd been working on the podcast for 5 years, 7 months, and 25 days and I only had a few thousand listeners. Then @patrick_oshag sent this tweet and everything changed. Patrick had (by far) the most important and valuable business podcast in the world and had nothing to gain from doing this. He just thought Founders was great and more people should know about it. If you ever received any value from the podcast just know it wouldn't have happened without him.
Rustin Sotoodeh retweeted
127 players on infection, open mics and Breaking Benjamin playing to the lobby.
The second golden age of Halo is underway
(Turn volume on)
reddit.com/r/halo/s/zxZ2s…
Rustin Sotoodeh retweeted
If you're a designer, you must look at this and ask yourself if the world we live in today is as diverse and beautiful as this from an artistic standpoint. These sites we not meant to be functional, they were expressive. Truly free thought and high sense of independence in web design has almost gone extinct in the most expressive of websites. Some of the most creative websites today look indistinguishable from a Shopify template.
Taschen's 1000 Favorite Websites (2003) - Julius Wiedemann.
i think we are living in the ruins of an advanced and creative civilization. jk, but nowadays all UIs seem the same
drive.google.com/file/d/1VWE…
Rustin Sotoodeh retweeted
Bringing autonomy to the next fight: wildfires.
Anduril has earned first place in the Autonomous Wildfire Response Track within the @xprize competition.
Our solution manages the entire wildfire lifecycle with minimal human intervention. Lattice coordinates assets across air, land, and space to detect and respond faster.
The award reflects Anduril's deep experience building firefighting tech including more than two years of dedicated work with XPRIZE. During the rigorous finals test in the Alaskan wilderness, our platform autonomously detected, fought, and suppressed live fires.
Destructive wildfires are a global crisis. Anduril and XPRIZE are pioneering faster, more scalable and more automated ways to fight them.
Rustin Sotoodeh retweeted
One prominent theory says that long before our fish ancestors left the water, they did a lot of this, briefly scooting from pond to pond. Slowly, some evolved to be so good at scooting around on land and breathing air that they became fully amphibious.
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Playing Super Mario 64 for 30 minutes a day for two months physically grew the brains of the people who played it. A 2014 study in Molecular Psychiatry scanned participants before and after two months of daily play and found increases in grey matter in three regions involved in memory, planning, and fine motor control.
The study was led by Simone Kuhn at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. She gave 23 adults a Nintendo DS and told them to play Super Mario 64 for at least 30 minutes a day for two months. A control group played nothing. MRI scans taken before and after showed that the Mario group had measurable increases in grey matter in the right hippocampus, the right prefrontal cortex, and the cerebellum, and the increases were not found in the control group.
The hippocampus is where the brain stores spatial maps. Super Mario 64 is a game built entirely around navigating three-dimensional space, jumping between platforms, remembering which doors lead where, and building a mental model of a world that does not exist. The brain treats a virtual world the same way it treats a real one: it maps it, stores it, and grows to accommodate it.
The prefrontal cortex handles planning and strategy, which the game demands constantly. The cerebellum handles timing and coordination, which every jump requires. The brain was not just entertained. It was being trained, and the tissue responded the same way muscle responds to a weight: it got bigger.
Kuhn said the results suggest that video game training could be used as a therapy for conditions where these brain regions are reduced, including post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, and age-related brain shrinkage. The prescription is a plumber in a red hat, 30 minutes a day. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2416…
Rustin Sotoodeh retweeted
Once everyone calms down this art style is gonna be beloved. It's so cool and unique. So much more interesting than just doing another remastered version of Ocarina of Times original graphics. It feels mystical like a fantasy story book and that's exactly how OOT should feel.
Rustin Sotoodeh retweeted
There’s something powerful about seeing someone and thinking, “If that guy can do it, I can do it too.”
More than 12 years ago, I was selling exotic cars to affiliate marketers. I assumed they were all computer hacker geniuses. I can barely turn my laptop on most days, so I figured this world wasn’t for me and stayed in my lane.
Then one day, a guy walked into my office who was so dumb I’m not sure he could string two logical sentences together.
I remember thinking “If this guy can do it, I can definitely do it.”
That single thought changed the trajectory of my entire life. I pivoted, dove in headfirst, and figured it out as I went (I had the help of an amazing mentor named Dave)
Last night, I was at a private e-commerce event and met a guy doing more than a billion dollars a year in sales.
He’s relatively “new” to e-commerce, only five years in.
I asked how he got started.
He told me he saw a YouTube video of some guy doing massive numbers and thought, “If that guy can do it, I can do it too.”
So he pivoted, dove in headfirst, and figured it out as he went.
Now let me be that guy for someone else.
I’m legitimately not smart.
I’m technologically illiterate.
I’m impulsive, impatient, disorganized, stubborn, and I have a wild temper.
I’ve made nearly every mistake possible and invented a few new ones along the way.
But somehow, I’m still doing it.
You do not have to be the smartest person in the room. You just have to be willing to enter the room, get embarrassed, make mistakes, and stay long enough to figure it out.
If I can do it, you can do it too.
It’s that simple.
