Rabbit Hole: Does Tim Ferriss Dream In Japanese? - #1105

“thinking the other day, as somebody who has zero experience in designing hardware or products, that the, I think the future is probably the AirPod case, where you put the AirPods in. And I heard, I saw a tweet the other day that Apple have just patented cameras at the edge of the AirPods.”

“and you can make it big, make it small. That feels inevitable. I mean, there's rumor that the next AirPods, like you said, do have visual cameras, and that's crazy. If you think about it, you're walking around and there's sort of two spatially aware cameras around you.”

“Yeah. Some people seem to benefit. I had a friend who tripled his HRV using a neck based device. I think it was either Truvaga or it was the prescription equivalent of Truvaga.”

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“Babe, I can just, you know, don't worry about me. How do you, um, I had a question for you, you know, on, on the other side of the spectrum, have you seen these devices that stimulate your vagus nerve or whatever? Yeah. I know. I know a lot. Yeah. What are your thoughts on those? Like. Like most of them are bunk.”

“Uh, most of the. The non-invasive vagus nerve stimulators or that are purported to be vagus nerve stimulators don't, don't actually hit it the right way. Um, and they're, they're net there's neck based, right?”

“the future is probably the AirPod case, where you put the AirPods in. And I heard, I saw a tweet the other day that Apple have just patented cameras at the edge of the AirPods. So it could feasibly pick up the visual information here.”

“ears in, and then the box here. One of the problems you have with the hardware is that you need some processing power that's outside of it. That was the hardcore... I mean, you had an Apple Vision Pro before you sent it back. And you need, if you're going to have something on your face or something that's wearable, you need to think about ergonomics and weight. And that means you need to send”

“I do think a great example is Winston Churchill. I posted this the other day. Churchill's biography is so good. You go, Jesus Christ. Which one? The big, I think it's Andrew Roberts, Churchill biography. First off, Jared, could you pull it up? How many times Winston Churchill nearly died?”

“And then the next one was, What if things go right? What are the problems of a solved world? And he had this really interesting example where he said, Basically, everything that we value in other humans can be refined down to the fact that you need to negotiate with a world that is scarce.”

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“memory? Start producing. So I would have people to get a book like drawing with the right side of the brain, which is a bit of a misnomer in the way that it lateralizes things, you know, hemispherically. But if you practice, for instance, this is one tool in the toolkit.”

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“know it. So it's kind of an agentic home screen. For your iPhone, it turns out the iPhone home screen hasn't changed in 20 years. You're roughly using the same device, the same thing. Widgets, I guess. Yeah, and they're underutilized. I think we use them in a creative way. And so, like, you know, we're not going to go, we're like two people, three people.”

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“Retatrutide is going to be one of the most successful drugs in history. For sure. One of the most widely used drugs. Uh Scott Galloway has the uh idea he says it's the America's the best place to earn money and Europe's the best place to spend money.”

“I had a really interesting conversation with Nick Bostrom. So he did his second book, which is kind of like a spiritual sequel to Superintelligence. What If things go wrong? And then the next one was, what if things go right? What are the problems of a solved world?”

“Sorry if I'm completely off here. What? But part of me thinks that, again, I hate to sound like I'm doing an affiliate link for the beginning of infinity, which I am. I'll post it in the link. But problems are infinite.”

“He's incredible. Uh, named Kevin, uh, Tracy. He is the most credible. He wrote a book called the great nerve. He's the most credible publicly and not really, uh, educating scientist, credible, very highly published, uh, scientist who talks about this.”