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AI, Autonomy, and Scale: Why Elon Musk’s Timeline Will Break Society

Questions to inspire discussion.

🎯 Q: How should retail investors approach AI and robotics opportunities? A: Focus on technology leaders like Palantir, Tesla, and Nvidia that demonstrate innovation through speed of introducing revolutionary, scalable products rather than attempting venture capital strategies requiring $1M bets across 100 companies.

💼 Q: What venture capital strategy do elite firms use for AI investments? A: Elite VCs like A16Z (founded by Marc Andreessen) invest $1M each in 100 companies, expecting 1–10 to become trillion-dollar successes that make all other bets profitable.

🛡️ Q: Which defense sector companies are disrupting established contractors? A: Companies like Anduril are disrupting the five prime contractors by introducing innovative technologies like drones, which have become dominant in recent conflicts due to lack of innovation in the sector.

⚖️ Q: What mindset should investors maintain when evaluating AI opportunities? A: Be a judicious skeptic, balancing optimism with skepticism to avoid getting carried away by hype and marketing, which is undervalued but crucial for informed investment decisions.

Tesla’s Competitive Advantages.

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Loss of Lipin1 Contributes to Multiple Pathological Processes in the Development of Heart Failure

Loss of lipin1 disrupts heart muscle membrane integrity, driving inflammation, fibrosis, and contributing to heart failure.

BackgroundLipin1 has dual functions acting as phosphatidic acid phosphatase required for lipid synthesis and as a transcriptional coactivator. Our previous research demonstrated that lipin1 is critical for maintaining sarcolemmal integrity in skeletal muscle. Given the importance of sarcolemmal stability for cardiac muscle viability and function, we investigated the role of lipin1 in the heart using a novel cardiac‐specific lipin1 deficient (Myh6‐lipin 1−/−) mouse model.

Agonist‐induced depression of cholinergic current in Aplysia bag cell neurons requires ionotropic acetylcholine receptor trafficking

Kelly H. Lee & Neil S. Magoski of Queen’s University observed that agonist-induced depression of cholinergic current in Aplysia bag cell neurons requires ionotropic acetylcholine receptor trafficking🧠 💉

James Webb telescope confirms a supermassive black hole running away from its host galaxy at 2 million mph, researchers say

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing new insights after other telescopes looked at the event.

Scientists say evolution works differently than we thought

As species evolve, random genetic mutations arise. Some of these mutations become fixed, meaning they spread until every individual in a population carries the change. The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution argues that most mutations that reach this stage are neutral. Harmful mutations are quickly eliminated, while helpful ones are assumed to be extremely rare, explains evolutionary biologist Jianzhi Zhang.

Zhang and his colleagues set out to test whether this idea holds up when examined more closely. Their results pointed to a major problem. The researchers found that beneficial mutations occur far more often than the Neutral Theory allows. At the same time, they observed that the overall rate at which mutations become fixed in populations is much lower than would be expected if so many helpful mutations were taking hold.

Are Alien Machines Wiping Out Civilisations? | The Berserker Hypothesis

Are alien machines hunting civilisations, one by one, until only silence remains?

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The universe should be full of alien civilisations. Billions of stars, billions of planets… yet all we hear is silence. This mystery is known as the Fermi Paradox. But what if the silence isn’t natural? What if it’s enforced?

The Berserker Hypothesis suggests that advanced civilisations may have unleashed self-replicating machines designed to seek out and exterminate intelligent life. These deadly Von Neumann probes could roam the galaxy, wiping out civilisations one by one, leaving behind only empty, lifeless worlds.

In this video, we explore:

The origins of the Berserker Hypothesis in both science fiction and science.

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Teens Spend Most School Phone Time on Social Media

“This moves the conversation beyond anecdotes and self-reports to real-world behavior,” said Dr. Jason Nagata.

How much time during school hours do teens spend on social media? This is what a recent study published in JAMA hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated connections between adolescent phone use during school. This study has the potential to help researchers, academic administrators, students, and parents become aware of the connections between adolescent phone use and all-around health.

For the study, the researchers analyzed data regarding smartphone app usage during school hours from 640 adolescents aged 13–18 through software installed on their phones that was approved by all participants and their parents. The goal of the study was to ascertain phone app usage during school hours, with data being obtained from September 2022 to May 2024. In the end, the researchers found that teens spent about 1.16 hours each school day on smartphones, mostly using social media apps, with higher use among older students and those from underprivileged households.

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