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Everyone don't bother messaging Donald he can't reply for a few days 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
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10 books on the science of living longer:
1) Outlive by Peter Attia
( preventing chronic disease )
1) Outlive by Peter Attia
( preventing chronic disease )
2) Lifespan by David Sinclair
( reversing aging )
( reversing aging )
3) Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
( sleep )
( sleep )
@CiarraDazed @Donaldnnicm LMFAO 😜👍👍
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Dr. Priyam here. Today, let me teach you how to interpret a Kidney Function Test (KFT) exactly how I do it as an Internal Medicine resident.
By the end, you won't have a single question left. And also KFTs aren't just about kidneys actually. Let me break it down.
By the end, you won't have a single question left. And also KFTs aren't just about kidneys actually. Let me break it down.
A standard KFT looks at:
1️⃣ Serum Creatinine
2️⃣ Blood Urea
3️⃣ Uric Acid
4️⃣ Electrolytes (Na+, K+)
Most people just look at the report and check if the numbers are marked high or low in red. But I look at the whole patient. Here is how.
1️⃣ Serum Creatinine
2️⃣ Blood Urea
3️⃣ Uric Acid
4️⃣ Electrolytes (Na+, K+)
Most people just look at the report and check if the numbers are marked high or low in red. But I look at the whole patient. Here is how.
Creatinine: The Filtration Marker
• It's a waste product of daily muscle breakdown. High Cr = Kidneys aren't filtering well.
• BUT context is key! A muscular gym-goer will have a higher baseline than a frail elderly patient. We treat the patient, not just the number.
• It's a waste product of daily muscle breakdown. High Cr = Kidneys aren't filtering well.
• BUT context is key! A muscular gym-goer will have a higher baseline than a frail elderly patient. We treat the patient, not just the number.
"Made in Palestine"—The Chocolate That Exposes the Anti-Israel Lie
Look at this vintage wrapper. A beloved Israeli chocolate brand, Elite (the one every Israeli kid grew up with), proudly stamped "Made in Palestine" decades before the modern State of Israel was reborn in 1948 ⬇️
Look at this vintage wrapper. A beloved Israeli chocolate brand, Elite (the one every Israeli kid grew up with), proudly stamped "Made in Palestine" decades before the modern State of Israel was reborn in 1948 ⬇️
⬇️ This isn't some gotcha for anti-Semites. This is history slapping political propaganda in the face. ⬇️
⬇️ The company was founded in 1934 under the British Mandate of Palestine—the name the international community used for the Jewish national homeland long before "Palestine" became a weaponized slogan. ⬇️
🧵My MIL was a smart woman, a single mother in the late 60s when it wasn't easy and a no-nonsense Arkansas farm girl who was smarter than most people.
She always used to say: "Opinions are a lot like assholes - everybody has one and most of them stink." 👇
She always used to say: "Opinions are a lot like assholes - everybody has one and most of them stink." 👇
"Opinions" aren't hard science. "Opinions" do not make you and authority on a subject. Especially someone who keep bleating "I'm here for the sciiiiiience"
#Biomarkers ARE hard science. In the 1980s gay men were dying by the thousands and hundreds of thousands. Daily. 👇
#Biomarkers ARE hard science. In the 1980s gay men were dying by the thousands and hundreds of thousands. Daily. 👇
The gay community were pariahs - reviled - murdered at will, (still are). AIDS was leveraged to murder them at will. THEIR crisis was existential too.
The gay community GAVE THE WORLD the way to demand #Biomarkers & enforced that demand on the steps of the FDA.
They 👇
The gay community GAVE THE WORLD the way to demand #Biomarkers & enforced that demand on the steps of the FDA.
They 👇
@TheocharousH @IsraelMFA Laughed out loud. Just the other day you got reprimanded by the EU over your shadow fleet. Every accusation is a confession. The whole world knows who you're 'mingling' with through the back door while secretly transporting Russian oil and bypassing sanctions. +
@TheocharousH @IsraelMFA And now you have the audacity to sell those on trial in international courts for occupation, looting, and war crimes as 'lawful visitors'. You two really make a perfect pair: one occupies someone else's land and sheds blood, while the other runs illegal operations with secret +
@TheocharousH @IsraelMFA fleets. Birds of a feather flock together.
Thread: how I think about the growth of AI capabilities and what it means for us as they keep getting stronger.
I think the right model for comparing humans and AI is not any single dimension like intelligence or aggregate performance on economic tasks. Rather, I view both humans and machines as having a whole range of capabilities. This includes both physical (eg. doing things with our hands, walking) and mental (eg. strategic thinking, mental math, emotional intelligence).
For most of human history, machines have only exceeded us in very few areas, eg. a strong early example is water and windmills. So we can look at the situation in 1500 like this:
I think the right model for comparing humans and AI is not any single dimension like intelligence or aggregate performance on economic tasks. Rather, I view both humans and machines as having a whole range of capabilities. This includes both physical (eg. doing things with our hands, walking) and mental (eg. strategic thinking, mental math, emotional intelligence).
For most of human history, machines have only exceeded us in very few areas, eg. a strong early example is water and windmills. So we can look at the situation in 1500 like this:
Then, we had a series of three eras of advancement, in which machines rapidly gained areas of capabilities that far exceeded our own:
* In the industrial revolution, mass manufacturing, or generally the ability to perform the exact same action millions of times
* With calculators and computers, the ability to do mental tasks that can be defined via an analytic-philosophy-style logical definition (eg. computer code)
* With LLMs, the ability to do mental tasks (and physical tasks, eg. already self-driving cars) that can be defined via a large set of examples
But even after all three waves, at least today, there is still a large range of capabilities that remain unique to humans.
A big question facing us is: is the LLM wave "the real deal", in the sense that, as they keep getting better, they will eventually cover either all missing capabilities, or at least enough capabilities that the rest can be worked around, or are LLMs simply a continuation of the same pattern, and it will take some fourth or fifth wave to go the rest of the way?
* In the industrial revolution, mass manufacturing, or generally the ability to perform the exact same action millions of times
* With calculators and computers, the ability to do mental tasks that can be defined via an analytic-philosophy-style logical definition (eg. computer code)
* With LLMs, the ability to do mental tasks (and physical tasks, eg. already self-driving cars) that can be defined via a large set of examples
But even after all three waves, at least today, there is still a large range of capabilities that remain unique to humans.
A big question facing us is: is the LLM wave "the real deal", in the sense that, as they keep getting better, they will eventually cover either all missing capabilities, or at least enough capabilities that the rest can be worked around, or are LLMs simply a continuation of the same pattern, and it will take some fourth or fifth wave to go the rest of the way?
In the previous wave (calculators and computers), many people thought "well if AI can solve hard things like 10x10 digit multiplication and quadratic equations so much better than humans can, then surely it will very soon also do easy things like telling a cat from a dog". As it turned out, they were wrong. This time, we're seeing the same argument replay - except this time there's much stronger arguments for the "LLMs plus a few more improvements can do everything" side, we just don't know yet if those arguments are strong enough that that will turn out to be true.
I feel like the utopia that "AI acceleration optimists" have in mind comes from a position of confidence that, while current wave of LLMs + agents unlock many new capabilities, there is still a significant range of capabilities that will stubbornly resist them, just like happened with the industrial revolution, and then with calculators and computers.
If this is true, then the next AI era will be amazing: every foot soldier becomes a manager, and every manager becomes a general. Tasks like strategic thinking, creativity, reasoning demanding emotional intelligence, other tasks that are not a good fit for the "define it through billions of examples" approach, historically the domain of powerful leaders, will become what *everyone* is doing. And we will almost certainly get wonderful things like very cheap food, vibe-coded 3D-printed big houses (in cities or in nature) for everyone, cures for all diseases and aging, while the world remains fundamentally a recognizable place, with recognizable political and economic structure, and a recognizable leading role for human agency.
My concern is that I am simply not certain that there actually is a significant range of human capabilities that will stubbornly resist LLMs plus the various attachments to them that we will continue to figure out. The utopia story might be true, it might not. There's a big gamble we're taking on the future.
I feel like the utopia that "AI acceleration optimists" have in mind comes from a position of confidence that, while current wave of LLMs + agents unlock many new capabilities, there is still a significant range of capabilities that will stubbornly resist them, just like happened with the industrial revolution, and then with calculators and computers.
If this is true, then the next AI era will be amazing: every foot soldier becomes a manager, and every manager becomes a general. Tasks like strategic thinking, creativity, reasoning demanding emotional intelligence, other tasks that are not a good fit for the "define it through billions of examples" approach, historically the domain of powerful leaders, will become what *everyone* is doing. And we will almost certainly get wonderful things like very cheap food, vibe-coded 3D-printed big houses (in cities or in nature) for everyone, cures for all diseases and aging, while the world remains fundamentally a recognizable place, with recognizable political and economic structure, and a recognizable leading role for human agency.
My concern is that I am simply not certain that there actually is a significant range of human capabilities that will stubbornly resist LLMs plus the various attachments to them that we will continue to figure out. The utopia story might be true, it might not. There's a big gamble we're taking on the future.
45 million Americans alive today will die of Alzheimer's, and they have no idea it can be reversed.
A 2025 clinical trial found 90% of people in the treatment group improved their mild Alzheimer's, with a few fully recovering.
This is the full breakdown of the study:🧵
A 2025 clinical trial found 90% of people in the treatment group improved their mild Alzheimer's, with a few fully recovering.
This is the full breakdown of the study:🧵
Dr. Bredesen is one of the lead researchers of this study, who has spent 30+ years studying Alzheimer's.
He's most known for the ReCODE Protocol, the first program to publish cases of reversed cognitive decline.
He led the study with Drs. Toups, Hathaway and more across 6 clinics.
He's most known for the ReCODE Protocol, the first program to publish cases of reversed cognitive decline.
He led the study with Drs. Toups, Hathaway and more across 6 clinics.
The trial enrolled 73 patients with mild Alzheimer's.
• 50 got the "precision intervention protocol"
• The other 23 got standard care, meaning Aricept or Namenda plus regular check-ups
The average age was 65, with 46 women and 27 men.
Both groups were balanced for age, sex, and genetic risk.
• 50 got the "precision intervention protocol"
• The other 23 got standard care, meaning Aricept or Namenda plus regular check-ups
The average age was 65, with 46 women and 27 men.
Both groups were balanced for age, sex, and genetic risk.
1/ The arrest in Miami of Andrew and Tristan Tate is being celebrated in Russia, where a few weeks ago they were guests of honour at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. Now they're seen as too scummy for Russia; one Russian blogger calls them "genetic garbage". ⬇️
2/ The fact that the Tates were invited to Russia in the first place attracted criticism at the time, given their reputation. Russian nationalist bloggers saw it as a degrading display of subservience to the 'decadent' West. They now see themselves as vindicated by the arrests:
3/ 'Leib-Hussar' isn't mincing words: "This utterly "uncivilised" subservience to the West has been an unquestionable fetish of the domestic authorities for about 40 years. They constantly import and promote all sorts of genetic "garbage" into the country, which,…
Six UK Prime Ministers since 2016.
A seventh incoming.
Average tenure has collapsed from roughly five years to under eighteen months.
Most coverage asks why individuals keep failing.
Wrong question. 🧵
A seventh incoming.
Average tenure has collapsed from roughly five years to under eighteen months.
Most coverage asks why individuals keep failing.
Wrong question. 🧵
Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer. Two general election losses in that list.
The rest were removed by their own parties or resigned under internal pressure.
The mechanism isn't the electorate.
It's party discipline collapsing under its own contradictions.
The rest were removed by their own parties or resigned under internal pressure.
The mechanism isn't the electorate.
It's party discipline collapsing under its own contradictions.
Truss lasted 49 days after a mini-budget crashed the gilt market. The fastest removal in British history, and the clearest case: markets, not voters, ended that premiership within weeks.
1/ The destruction by Ukrainian drones of two of Wildberries' massive warehouses near Moscow is a huge disaster for the Russian economy, which will inflict far more damage than the headline $1.2 billion loss of stock. Here's why. ⬇️
2/ While Wildberries itself can absorb the loss of two of its biggest warehouses – it will not need to compensate sellers as it has very recently disclaimed responsibility for losses caused by enemy action – the impact of the strikes on the wider economy will be significant.
3/ Wildberries is frequently called the 'Russian Amazon', but it has a far more dominant role in the Russian economy than Amazon does in Western economies. Since it was founded in 2004, it's become one of the most structurally important companies in the Russian economy.
