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Imagine just for a second trying to build a cutting edge
Artificial intelligence using a virtual goat from a video game
Me back in nineteen
Nineteen
Ninety
Nine
Right which just sounds completely absurd on its fate totally
Or you know watching entire nation's railway system suddenly collapse
Because it's running on cell phone tach from the year two thousand
And you have the two g bottm make it is just while
Which sactually look at it
It really is welcome to the deep dive everyone today our mission is to poll apart this really fascinating stack of stories from the june twenty
Eight twenty twenty six edition of the sunday blender
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We are looking at what happens
When human systems are pushed to their absolute breaking points
And how we engineer our way out of extreme conditions and well intense information overload
And you know the defining bottle neck of our era is really highlighted right at the top of the sunday blender
The editor provided this fascinating mednode
That frames are whold discussion today yeah
The their curation strategy exactly they recently overoveruuhow they sourced newsletter completely abandoning exdot com is their primary feed for global news and the mechanising behind that decision is what really caught my eon
I mean
The editor realized the algorithm was essentially filtering out the signal and amplifying the noise
It was just creating this rigid ecoching right so a break out of that they shift ted their primary ourcing over to weet chat
Which is interesting
Because we chat is a much higher friction platform to navigate for western
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It is yeah
But that friction actually acted as a filter
It quietly surfaced these incredibly deenter the esignal global story
They were just completely invisible on western feeds
Wow
So the medium really does dictate the reality
You perceive it really does when a platforms architecture favor's noise the crucial data points are obscured
And that principle that invisible pressures strain our architecture that leads perfectly into the physical extremes
Currently testing the globe right because western europe is trapped under this record breaking heatwave right now
And the infrastructure is simply not designed to handle it no
Not at all we are seeing temperatures in french towns topping forty two degree celseis
Which is uh roughly a hundred and eight degrees fair in height for those view in the us parah
Even even had to shut down the ephl tower in the loove early yeah
And the underlying mechanism here yeah
Meteaologist calall a heat doe it's basically
This massive lid of high atmosphere pressure that acts like a compresser
So the literally pushes the air down
Exactly as the air descends he compresses in heats up
Because the same time supppressing any preoud formation
So it rees this brutal salll sustaining feeddown loobe of relentless solar radiation
And that meteorological feedback goop triggers in economic one i mean air conditioning is pretty standard and much of asia in the americas
But his worically only about one in five euroroan homes
Even has acc right
So when he dome settling like this
You get an instantaneous conneant wide surgeon demand
Which brings in the chinese manufactuture is right companies like medea greree hicents spot on they produce nearly forty percent of the global supply
And right now they are seeing such a bottleneck
That basic portable ac units are reselling on the secondary market that way way over their retail price
And you know securing the hardware doesn't even actually solve the problem
Because the physical architecture of europe literally fights back
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The mitting rules exactly if you buy a modern ac unit
You have to melt the compresser outside
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But these historic europe an town centers have incredibly rigid herititage and zoning laws
You cannot mpmply built buzzing plastic box to a sixteen century masonary facade
Right getting those architectural permits can take weeks meaning
The bureaucratic system is essentially weaponzing aesthetics against basic human survival
It's bunkers
Yeah
But h the inability of a system to adapt to extreme heat is even more pronounced
When we look at india
Yeah
Temperatures in the north of past forty eight degree salelsis yeah
And a recent study just revealed the silent math of this crisis
And it is grim
It is a single day of that extreme heat causes roughly three four hundred access deaths
And a five day stretch causes nearly thirty thousand
Thirty thousand deaths
And the most disturbing part for me is that those thirty thousand deps effectively do not exist in the government data right
Because the official the ecolation mechanism was fundamentally blind to the environmental trigger
When a person it comes to severe heastroke
The official death certificate will typically list the proximate biological failure like uh a heart attack or a ute kidney failure
So the beer creratic record does not categorize it as a hetially old fatality exactly
And the system cannot effectively deploy reources to fight a crisis
Its structurally cannot even measure yeah
And you know it's not just our biological empower grids struggling with modern demands
It's our digital communication networks too
So the train collapsed yeah
On june
Twenty
Three
Twenty
Twenty Six
The entireity of geredododge bond railway network simply froce every single train stopped five milmildidaily passengwere strenandacacross thousds ds of sture wah know of a routine component swapped during mainness right
And to understand how a single swapped part paralyzes a national railway
Yeah
You have to look the protocol running the networit's called gs mr
Which is an incredibly old standard
It is
This is essentially a railway specific version of two g mobile technology literally the same band with capacity
You would use to send a text message on a flip phone
Um around year two thousand
I memeisisn't running one of worworld's disiest or reilways on two g tech
Like trying to stream a forkay movie on a flip phone
That is exactly
What it's like why are we pushing these engine systems to the brink instead of upgrading the sheer volume of modern data just cannot fit through that tiny pipe
So when they swap that component
The system couldn't reroup the data pack
It's fast enough
Right it created a cascacating backlog of information
Which triggered an automatic nationwide safety frees
Because upgraating a live physical system
Like that is astronomicexpensive
So we just push sh legacy systems until they snap we do
But you know if we look at raw computational power
We see a completely different approach to engineering our way at these bottle lag right jumping from two g to the absolute bleeding edge exactly over in shenzz en china just brought line shine online
And it took in number of one spot on the top five hundred supercomputer list
The processing power of this thing is difficult to even wrap your head around line shine executes two quantilan calculations every single sed it's massive
It actually outperforformed the american al capititan machine by about twenty percent and the geopolitical reality driving
This is what's really fascinating here
What the u ininstituted contcontcontors
Ls advancsemiconductors
Chinese engineers could not buy off the shelf components
Where they were forced to design and fabicate the entire architecture of lineshine using strictly their own domestic supply chains
Which is an incredible engineering feet
But what are they actually using all that powerful
Well
The result is a machine custobuild for the very crisis
We were just discussing when scientist model climate change or try to predict the behavior of a sahear and he dome
They have to divide the earth's atmosphere into a three dimensional grid
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So like a bunch of tiny boxes exactly and the more calculations machine can do the small of those grid squares become
Which exponentially increases the resolution of the weather model
Oh
I see so landshine is unning fluid dynamics at a scale
That allows us to simulate the hostility of the natural world in high definition spot on you know it strikes me
That the venues hosting the twenty twenty six world cup over in the
Us are essentially physical manifestations of the environments
The linshine supercomputers trying to simulate there is a great way to put it
We are taking eleven the fl megadiums at a imposing perfect atmosphere at order on them
And the scale of that imposition is just staggering
I mean the final set set mmet life stadium in new york
Which is a one point six billion dollar structure sitating over eight two thousand people and our wes you have so fi stadium in los angeles
Which is this finsolute marvel subtraine engineering
It's dug a hundred feet into the earth with a translucent cannapy ahead
But to adapt these an an ooootball venues to fefist standards construction crews had to fundamentally alter the architecture that were literally ripping out lower able seating to widen the pitch by twenty meters altering sisidelines and managing the indoor microclimate just to keep natural grass alive under artificial right right empyees like dallas
Houston in atlana have massive connetic gofs and industrial air conditioning systems capable of keeping eighty thousand screaming fans perfectly comfortable
Completely defying the extreme weather outside
I mean we are literally engineering our own reality in there we are
And that desire to impose order carries over to the structure of the turnament
Itself the world cup expanded of forty eight teams this year right right
Which means sixteen more teams than usual exactly dividing them into twelve groups of four and the underlying math of that group stage is incredibly elegant to figure out
How many matches occur in a four team group were where everyone plays each other
Once tnament organizers rely on a classic formula
The handshape problem
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Exactly it's end times and minus one diviviby two
So so you take four teams and the math yields exactly six games
It is just this perfect mathematical ecosystem for human competition
But you know moderating that human competition requires highly sophisticatechchnological sight
Every referee out there is equipped with a three piece communications ray
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So they have an year piece linking them to videdereretait the ultimate broadcasting their penalty explanation live to the stadium pa and a tiny high definition camera mounted near their year
But wait
Because a referee is constantly spspinin wouldn't in ear mounted cameron normally produce ulultiable chaotic footage
It would so the novel actually deployed real time stabilization software
It essentially crops the the eges of
Of videdefefeit
It insttly shishifthe frame in the exact opposite didirection of the refeies head movement
Oh wow
So it artificially stabilizes the image for the live broadcast
Exactly it is a massive leap and transprency y rapping the the official in milliof of powars of processing power in hardware
Which is amazing
But i have have to lave at the irony
Here despite all that algorithm smoothing in the live broadcast tech the ultimate mechanism to actually stop the play
Rely lion an ananalog whistle a human ung pushing air through a tiny plastic chamber
Exactly the highest tax still bowed to the physical world
It really does uh the physical performances on the pitch have definitely lived up to the stage
Francis looked absolutely ruthless whose money dumblelay the twenty twenty five five londdoor war scored to first half hatrc and the legacy players are just definying their biological clock
I mean the analmessy at thirty nine years old
Now holds the all time scoring record with nineteen pgoals and he's the first to score in seven consecutive world cut matches and chtime scanor and although is forty one and playing in a record sixth ournament name is even back from that brutal octover
Twenty twenty twenty three injury
But the best part for me
Even tiny cape verthday and island nation of half a million people managed to advanced of the knock out stage on their first try
It's incredible
And whether it's caate verry or brazil playing the crowds are reacting the exact same way
The steady months domomating ating tournament are completely in a form
Yah you hear sevenation army by the way stripes live on a prayer by bond
Jovee
We will rock you by queen david
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Right and why this matters the sociological mechanism behind those specific anthms is brilliant
They all rely on massive wordless percussive hooks right
You don't need to speak english to bet t the ooh the the white ststpes
Exactly these songs act is universal sonic bridges
They bypsed cocognitive load of language translation and physically syncharized the heart rates and breathing of eighty thousand global strangers
Instantly
Wow
And you know ypassing normal rules to find an advantage
Brings us to the uncovenventional strategies
Individuals are using to win
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Consider the dajout dragon boats in guangdon china
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They call the f one on water
Which is such such a great name for ddraon boat racing is obviviouly ly ancient tratration
But the the mnography of dajout forces
This incredible constraint right the village canals are barely three metres wide
But the boats are twenty five meters water which makes no sense the physics of navigating that are mvibenment
I mean you can conconventionally steer sysychronboat at the a three meter right angle
So how do they do it to make the turns the steerce man execute the synchronzed manmaneuvre
Where they plunge their paddles deep into the water at high speed
This creates a sudden massive anchropoint of drag yeah
And the momentum of the whole swings around that pivoet point breaking the surface tentension cacasing sing enentitwenty five five meter boat to literally drift sideways across the water missing the stone banks by inches that is wild their webonizing the physics of their environment
Exactly
And isn't romansh bubble pregnunda doing exactly with the djjboboat steers s
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The chess grandmaster
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Absolutely i mean
He's taking a high stake's environment
And artificially restricting the space in time of his opponents to force a mistake right
That is a perfect analogy pregnant unda is a twenty year old grandmaster from india
And he won the norway chest tournament despite starting position
And his strategy number one magnest carls and twice in his home country
And his strategy was just peer psychological pressure
Because in classical chest time is a physical resource on the clock right
So he blitz through his
His opural mose with unnatural speed banking a massive surplus at time early on he deliberately drag his opponents into highly complex and game positions
Where they had under five minutes left to calculate he
He liover twenty
And that ticking clock degrades cognitive function forcing the best players in the world into catastrophic blenders
Exactly he
He reggnized that constraraint of time was a more potent weapon than board position that is brilliant
But sometimes you know conconrained is the human body
Itself like doctor sarah rugans
Oh
This story is incredible
She just shattered the alterindedccycling record writing from the southern tiof spain
The northern tip of norway
That's over complethousand kilometers in under fourteen days
She at the previous men's record by three days
The metabolic math of what she accomplished a staggering she
It took a dechours of slupe and consuming eleven thousand calories a day processing that much food while under expleme physical derest rethat's res training the human gut as rigorously as the leg muscles in the context of her physiological journey makes it even more profound
When she was fifteen a rare neurological illness left complepleparparyzed way really completely paralyed
Yes
It took a decade of recovery
Just to regain normal function
And she only actually took up cycling in twenty twenty three three three
Completing the complecompleplete records to raise funding for world bicycle relief
That is a stunning display of human whilp hour bibilological limits
It really and
And as we talk about human cognition and limits
The newsletter pivots to the most absurd yet illuminating story of the week adrian to winter
A scientists of microsoft
Using a functioning neural network
Using the ninety nine strategy video game age of empires
The second and he undert it out of virtual goats
I still get get it out of goats
Right
And to understand the brilliance of this yet to look the architecture of artificial intelligence and uural networks operate on logic gates
Essentially microscopic switches
The dictate if this than that and usually computers use electrical current moving through silicon to flip those switches exactly
But the winter use the games maddators
He build physslologiggates
He made patches of grass represent zero
The briatges represent ted one
And because the games path finding algorithm naturally forces the goatto walk toward the grass
The goatact as the electrical curtes and but routing the goatthrough a maziof bridges in grass
The game engine processed logic
And this absurd heheard didigital animals successfully solved the simple mathematical task
That is hilarious
But also kind of mindworld
The so what of the go ai is actually
Tually
Found
Found
When we interact with modern chappots
The we ooth nnatural guguthey gengenerate tricks our brains interprojeting humanity
Empathy and consciousness onto the machine
The fall for the illusion right
The winter stripped away
The language packaging to reveal the underlying mechanaging
The ai is not thinking
It is just executing path finding math
It is just goatwalking king ward grash
That is realization
That our digital world is just a sophisticated illusion of math leads perfectly into how culture helps us process the shock of automation
Yeah
The art section right at the nebbial awards in chicago
Which are voted ture by working authors and best novel went to the buffalo hunter
Hunter by steven gen jones
Which
Which is nator american horror
The winners like i'm all l
Motar and thomas haw exexst in that blurds basase between cyphi and fancy too exactly these jonners prove that human imagination is our best tool for making sense of strange new reality
They aren't about a skipping reality
They are the sandbox where we build narratives to metaboozze the anxiety of technological change and art has always been the counterway to technological disruption
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The sunday blender draws this beautiful historical parallel to eighteen seventy two with claud monany's painting sunrise right at first glance
It is just a hazy unfinished canvas of smugges
Squggles depicting a mystery harour
But the mechanism behind why moni painted that way is directly tied to technology the eighteen seventies otherwize a commercial photography perfect high definition replication of reality with suddenly cheap and accessible so mony realize that if a camera could capture rigid data painting
Had to capture the raw optical experience of light
The messy cognitive impression of a moment
Exactly
And when a critic insult of the painting by calling it a mirriimpimparity monanan is peers embrace the term
They were belled against the expectation of high finished clarity
Fast forward to june
Twenty eighth nineteen
Ninety seven
When radio had ds ok computer hit number one in the uk
Right on the precipice of the internet age
Exactly before smart phones were ubiquitous
They wrote an eleamentirely about the read and anxiety of information overload in machines taking over they deliberately abandon the easy pop success of their hitcreeep to make something stranger and deeper so armona's sunrise in radio had okay computer essentially doing the exact same thing
I think so they both were bebuilled against true definition expectations of their areas
They leaned into the abstraction to prove the true human connection isn't about perfect data
It's found in the messy emotional impression
They understood the clarity does not equal truth
Sometimes the truth requires this mudge what a journey
Today i mean
We have traced the casgating failures of extreme heat dooms in euroroand two g train crashes in germany
We've look at the molecular modeling of chinese supercomputers of billion dola us microclimate stadiums
We've unpacked the math of the world cup
The physics of drifting dragon boats
The wegization exthe cmatck at twenty year old grandmaster all the way down to the logic gates powered by video game goatit really is a massive scope
You know i want to leave you with one final thought to moll over as we wrap up connecting those last few dots
Adririinto winwinter prove that the empathy we feel for ai is just a trick of smooth language packaging
Overlaying cold math and radio had warned us thirty years ago
About the spiritual cost of surrendering to that exact technological takeover
So as you go about your week and navigate digital avvelent ask yourself
When you interact with the algorithm shaping your world
Today are you falling in love with the packaging
Or can you still see the goods doing the math
Wow
Perhaps
The next great breakthrough we need right now isn't a faster supercomputer
But a collective realization of what truly makes us human in automated world
I love that keep looking past the packaging for you listeners out
There keep questioning the systems around you
And ah embrace the this mudge
Thanks for joining some as deep dive
We will see you next time
