The 1970s were one of gymnastics' defining eras. 🤸♀️
Fifty years ago today, Nadia Comaneci won Olympic balance beam gold ahead of Olga Korbut in the Montreal 1976 final. Here's the story of how two of the sport's biggest stars helped redefine women's gymnastics.
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But AGI is not the same as ASI (artificial superintelligence). To see the difference, let us zoom into what things might look like one year before the singularity. We also need to add a third line to the chart: the centaur (human + machine).
An analogy here is chess. Machine surpassed the average human in the late 1970s, and surpassed the top human (Kasparov) in 1997. But human + machine continued to beat machine alone all the way until around 2017.
What did the twilight of human + machine in chess look like? Actually, it did look like humans being relegated to more and more "high-level strategic thinking" functions, while bots managed the move-by-move. Very similar to vibe coding in 2026.
Before we get to a point where there are no areas where our input is economically helpful, we will be in a regime where there are only a few such areas. And because we humans are scarce, those few areas will become the global economy's bottleneck - they will be the only thing you can't optimize down to near-zero cost (and latency), and so all our attention will go toward those tasks.
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Bret Weinstein 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.
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Alan Greenspan had a way with people in high places. In the 1970s he fell in with Richard Nixon. But it was another American president who chose him for the job that would define his career
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Bitcoin may be following Gold’s 1970s playbook almost perfectly.
Gold exploded after breaking out in 1972.
Then crashed nearly 50% before the real parabolic move began.
$BTC is printing a very similar structure.
What looked like the “end” for Gold was actually the reset before the most explosive phase of the cycle.
I do think Bitcoin will drop a little bit lower first.
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The cutoff of Anthropic’s Mythos is a geopolitical watershed. It has echoes of America’s decision to restrict public-key cryptography, a technology used to secure digital communications, from the 1970s to the 1990s
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Elon Musk in 1970s New York City
A retro street-style reimagining created with Grok Imagine, placing Elon in the heart of NYC’s iconic 70s era.
Vintage fashion, classic city vibes and a glimpse into an alternate timeline brought to life with AI.
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Why don’t you just buy a cute little ranch like your grandpa did in 1970?
A cute little 1970s ranch:
I’ve been following tech girlies on TikTok. Not software tech, the one who build with hardware and I have so much to learn
One girl is building her own mp3 and this one built a communication device. She’s also converting a 1970s Yamaha bike to electric, incredible
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