Expansion → collapse mechanism (overdrive pushes off optimum)

1:25:03say X, neuron 2 is Y, neuron N is is Z. >> And we sort of see the influence of the reward small, large, and jackpot. Like you know in a 2D image meant to represent it 3D positioning on this X, Y, and Z axis. And the point is sort of saying I'm the large >> the little uh circle with the dots around it. >> That's the optimal that's your target region where you want to be at. >> That's where you want to be because that's where all the balance of all of the inputs and everything is like is just right for you to execute. Yeah. >> And what we're sort of saying here is the introduction of a jackpot reward >> moves you beyond that optimal

1:25:44>> positioning >> because there's so much other stimulus coming in >> coming in and going on which sort of it makes sense because if you just think about athletes right some of the athletes in every sport who we mention as being the goat when you look at them playing almost if you talk about people like Messi Wayne Gretzky uh Usain Bolt etc. Visually, when you're looking at them with the human eye test, it almost appears as if they are totally unperturbed, disturbed, unfazed by anything going on around them. And it's like they're floating. People always describe go Michael Phelps. They're like they are operating >> at a plane that is different than anybody else. >> Yeah. Because they've somehow disconnected that input drive that's

1:26:26coming in. And I think that comes a lot with experience. >> Yes. No. Right. Which is fair. Which is fair. Like when it's your first time at the Olympics like Ilia's mate like I don't know what that's like that's got to be insane. You've been working, you've been dreaming about this moment for the past like god knows how many years. He's probably started, you know, ice skating very, very young, >> like since he could walk probably or some, >> you know, and then you think about the gold medal opportunity. Everyone is there. The NBC is calling you the quad god, right? Like there's so much hype. 99% on on Poly Market. >> Yes. Yeah. [laughter] >> Like that's got to be so much pressure. I would love to see the same group do

1:27:06research on Lamin because this kid is 19 now and he's dominating grown men. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> In every in every level of competition in in soccer football >> globally. And it doesn't make any sense. >> Yeah. >> And it there has to be something >> upstairs that is blocking going to the jackpot. >> Yeah. Space in the in the gradient descent. How is he with like free kicks and penalties? >> He's unbelievable >> cuz that's that's sort of where I would expect choking to happen, right? Cuz that's an individual kind of thing with team sports. I can I don't you know, I wonder if we can take these things. No, no, that's fair. It's a little bit

1:27:47different. It's a little bit Tiger Woods >> cuz also Ilia in the team in the team event, although that was a free skate that he did individual and he he crushed it. Got like over 200. >> No, that's a good point. But then when it came to his individual, which was only a few days later, he followed the same >> procedure and it like >> that's a very good point. I only bring it up cuz he's young. >> Yeah. >> And I like as a counter a counter thesis to the experience point, >> but you you're correct. Team sports and individual sports very different context. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. And um I just want to end with you know Ilia now he's he I mean he's like beside himself and one one of the

1:28:27articles was just about you know it's kind of the point that winning Olympic gold isn't supposed to be easy and I don't know who thought it was a 99%. because with sports at the highest level, anything can happen, you know. And um one of the things he added was, "I just felt like all the traumatic moments of my life really just started flooding in my head >> and there was just too many negative thoughts that just flooded in there and I just did not handle it." This is a quote from him afterwards, which is I mean, it's incredible that such a young man has the vocabulary and mental fortitude after such a traumatic event to even speak to the press. I think I would like give the middle finger and

1:29:07just like leave. >> Um, but you know, I think he's going to be back. >> I have seen him do the >> I've seen like videos of him practicing that quad like axle thing and it's like incredible. So, >> and it's also the when he's doing that in the practice, it looks effortless. >> It looks effortless, >> which is crazy cuz it's so ridiculous. >> Yeah, it's so ridiculous how many turns he's done like four and a half turns landing backwards. is crazy >> on that thin mime blade with the the 100 nmters of slimy water >> balance like it's [laughter] crazy. Yeah. So he'll he'll probably be back be back but um I just took that opportunity as a quick deep dive into neuroscience because I always love that stuff. >> No, it's it's fascinating. Again, I think you know sports as we move into

1:29:49the era of infinite social media and infinite content and TV and movies are sort of losing their luster of all of us watching them for the first time at the same time with binging and all this stuff. Sports as a medium >> and the importance of sports as being a connective tissue >> that's real time. It's it's the only appointment >> uh media left. >> Yeah. >> You you got to you got to be there when it happens. >> Mh. uh both in person or digitally >> and it it is you know we see these kind of situations. This this was not meant to focus on it happens in all sports all of the time. Why is it that Zion Williamson in the NBA was one of the

1:30:30most lauded NBA draft recruits that everyone was super excited for him to be the next big thing in the NBA >> totally flopped. But now Cooper Flag 19year-old comes in same kind of pathway people like he's absolutely dominating and it's it's very interesting to see this play out uh across different sports and across different contexts. >> Yep. >> We are going to wrap up the day with our sort of final main section which is a little bit of a popery. >> Yeah, it's a hodgepodge. >> It's a little miscellaneous. There will be a climate science aspect to this but we're going to cover a lot of different areas. I think you did have some other random thoughts about the Olympics given

1:31:10our >> Olympics uh focus here. So why don't we start with some of this poperri that you got for us? >> Yeah. So the first thing I want to talk about is climate change. It is real and it's going to hurt winter Olympics a lot more than summer Olympics as you can imagine right with the earth warming. Um the first Olympic winter games were held in Shamanics France in 1924. All 16 events took place outdoors. Look at these fine gentlemen in suits. >> Like they're ready to, you know, I think this is the skate um race, the thousand meter skating race. >> Um the athletes relied on natural snow for all the ski runs and the freezing temperatures on the ice rings. Now we

1:31:52get to 2022 in Beijing. All artificial snow. >> Yes. >> Not a single snowflake there was made by like the actual weather. It was all artificial snow in 2022. Okay. And in a recent study, scientists have looked at the past 19 venues on the Winter Olympics to see how each one might hold up given the climate scenarios that we can forecast into the future. >> Um they found that by midentury four of the former host cities including Shamanics, Sochi, Grenobyl, and um somewhere in Germany, Garmish, Partn. >> That's pretty that was pretty good. >> Yeah, German I can do.