*Across a 10-year span, the study analyzed the genetic variance of D. pulex in a stable environment. The study showed that the organisms experienced changing selection pressures, but that they all eventually canceled out, meaning no dominant trait took over and influenced the organism’s evolution. In other words, this shows that evolution works on a level much more subtle than what scientists previously believed.*

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*the scientists note that genes located on chromosomes near each other evolved in coordination with each other. This could cause beneficial combinations of gene variants to be inherited, thereby speeding up adaptation to the environment around them*

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An Incredible Lifeform Is Evolving at Lightning Speed—Faster Than We Ever Imagined Possible

Rip up the old rules of biology.

*the scientists note that genes located on chromosomes near each other evolved in coordination with each other. This could cause beneficial combinations of gene variants to be inherited, thereby speeding up adaptation to the environment around them*

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An Incredible Lifeform Is Evolving at Lightning Speed—Faster Than We Ever Imagined Possible

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*"You can't have [a] nothing burger without word salad"*

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"You can't have nothing burger without word salad". TL;DR Run Bitcoin Knots https://bitcoinknots.org/ if you like. [1 comment]

*The concept of people acting against their own long-term interests becomes very obvious when you start asking: - "If the default were the opposite, what % of people would still end up here?" - If the answer is "probably <30%", the current outcome is default-driven, not preference-driven.* View quoted note →

*The antidote isn't stronger opinions; it's stronger defaults and pre-committed rules. Read the incentives; expect the behavior; position ahead of it.* View quoted note →

*People don't "fail" because they don't know; they fail because the environment pays them to fail now and bill them later - in cash, status, and belonging* View quoted note →

*How to consistently pick long-term: - Automate the boring: savings, skills, sleep, strength, deep work. - Deliberately add friction to bad paths. - Make identity explicit: tie your reputation to long-term behaviors* View quoted note →

*How to tell if you're acting against your own long-term interest: - If the benefit is now and the cost is later, assume you're under-pricing the cost. - If a choice preserves belonging, assume you're over-weighting identity. - If the platform chose the default, assume it benefits them more than you. - If the metric is public, assume it's being gamed (by you or to you). - If a habit depends on willpower, assume it will fail under stress.* View quoted note →

*Social risk > factual risk. Getting ostracized today feels worse than being wrong in five years* View quoted note →

*Compartmentalization. Professional intelligence ≠ incentive literacy. People who model markets still miss their own behavioral accounting* View quoted note →

*Meta-incentives dominate beliefs. Even smart people first decide what benefits them (status, income, network), then craft rationalizations* View quoted note →

*Feedback loops (what reinforces) - Immediate reinforcement (likes, payouts, relief) rewires habit faster than distant outcomes* View quoted note →

*Narrative & identity (what feels right) - People protect self-image and in-group membership even when facts conflict (identity-protective cognition). The story that preserves belonging wins over the truth that threatens it* View quoted note →

*Defaults & frictions (what's easiest) - Behavior follows lowest-friction paths. Defaults, one-click choices, and pre-checked boxes beat sermons. Tiny frictions shift billions of decisions* View quoted note →

*Incentive gradients (what pays now) - People follow net-effort -> net-reward gradients, not ideals. If the reward is near-term, visible, and certain - while the cost is delayed, abstract, and probabilistic - behavior will skew short-term every time* View quoted note →

*Many Bitcoiners often say: "We have the best tech, it's permissionless" and I have to agree, the tech is brilliant. However, is the tech good enough to compensate for the deficiency in the psychology of the user base? And when you cut the ideology, the answer here is no. Technology can't solve human preference for safety + ease* View quoted note →

👀 *Bluetooth runs on very low power, way too weak to cook anything. What the researchers point to instead are non-thermal effects. Oxidative stress, disruptions in cell signalling & long term stress on the thyroid’s delicate tissue Official safety limits for wireless devices only consider heating but this study shows there are biological effects happening at much lower levels* View quoted note →

*the world will know that free men stood against tyranny* View quoted note →

*Conspiracy theorists may not be wrong… but that doesn't mean they are not falling into a trap* View quoted note →