Dark talent in Uzbekistan (or anywhere)

Balaji Srinivasan, ex-CTO of coinbase, coined the term Dark Talent. Dark talent is everywhere. It's people with massive potential but they could never realize it due to geography (mostly), lack of information, lack of agency, etc. I believe Central Asia, and Uzbekistan in particular, has a lot dark talent because people there lack the intel on accessing the right information and opportunities. There are a lot of IMO, IPO, etc. medalists who end up teaching in a local university because they simply did not know better and lacked the guidance to access opportunities around the world. That’s why agency is so important. Especially when you don’t have access to mentors who guide you on what’s possible beyond the local university. Agency might not have mattered much a couple of decades ago, but in the age of internet, there is no reason why you shouldn’t be delusional and apply to CalTech given that you are a math genius or a god-tier pianist. You should still apply if you are none of those things, but that’s beyond the point of this post. That being said, dark talent should be cultivated by the state or the community because opportunity is not evenly distributed everywhere. El-Yurt Umidi is an amazing program that sort of goes in line with that philosophy because it directly gives access to the global network of higher educational institutions to everyone in Uzbekistan. I still don’t believe universities are key to unlocking your full potential, but for someone from Uzbekistan, it opens a lot of doors to reach your peak intellectual state faster. If you know dark talent who have no idea on what to do with their life, always try to help them. For free. Never capitalize on it with your consulting services. You never know - you might be one conversation away from changing their life.

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Every time some ai lab releases a new LLM model (this time it’s google releasing Gemini 3), chances of you keeping your white collar job diminishes with a significance level of 5%. But you wouldn’t understand it because you are busy doing SUMIFS in excel right now.

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Why do uzbeks feel the need to speak Russian when they’re fluent in Uzbek?

Ragebait

Sell or hold?

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Lion does not concern himself with occasional bumps in the stock market

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probably nothing...

When cost of software development equals compute which equals electricity, everyone will want to become an electrician. Don’t wait and become an electrician now.

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Crazy ambitious is the baseline in San Francisco.

People here aren’t chasing comfort they’re here because everyone is equally insane. Your Uber driver is building an AI app. The person next to you in a coffee shop just raised a Series A. Someone at the gym is pitching their YC interview story mid-set.

The energy here is different. People are constantly experimenting, failing, iterating, shipping, dreaming. You feel pressure, but the good kind. The kind that forces you to level up just by being in the room.

Crazy ambitious isn’t the ceiling. It’s the baseline. And that’s why everyone here feels one step away from something big.

i started feeling the agi with this model

You’re so cooked man

two things that opened a lot of doors for me:

1. learning english
2. using twitter

A lesson in there☝️

Question to bootstrappers:

Stripe Atlas vs Doola vs Firstbase?

Any suggestions are welcome

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Weekend watch

https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ

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Anyone has a couch for me to crash in SF anytime in January 5-25 for a week?

Is Nvidia going to crash and will step down as the most valuable company of the world? Couple of things pointing in this direction:

1. Ilya is saying age of scaling is over. It’s the age of research now.
2. Shady stuff in nvidia’s Q3 earnings.
3. Google is making their own TPUs and selling to META.

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Isn’t it crazy that you can open an LLC, a bank account and start doing business in just 2 days from anywhere in the globe? No wonder US is one of the most powerful countries in the world.

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alright another banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq5WhoPCWQ8

Do telegram channel blogs count as "Original Contributions of Major Significance" for O1 visa?

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UAE is doing so much in AI/ML space. Consider MBZUAI as an option if you are applying to schools this cycle.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2025/12/04/uae-announces-new-ai-scholarship/

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