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Tech Videos — 2026-06-20#
Watch First#
The single video most worth your time today is What If Intelligence Doesn’t Need a Brain? because it rigorously challenges our neural-centric assumptions of cognition with empirical biological demonstrations of non-neural problem-solving.
Highlights by Theme#
Developer Tools & Platforms#
Playing Pokémon Emerald in a web browser on the GitHub channel showcases a fun but technically notable implementation of WebAssembly. Developer Trip Lions took an existing decompilation of the classic game and successfully recompiled it to Wasm, wrapping it in a browser frontend. While running Nintendo IP on the web is an obvious legal gray area, it operates as a clean, live demonstration of Wasm’s maturity in porting native codebases directly to the browser.
AI & Machine Learning#
What If Intelligence Doesn’t Need a Brain? from Quanta Magazine abstracts the definition of intelligence away from neurons, framing it instead as a system’s “competency to reach the same goal by different means”. The researchers introduce the “cognitive light cone” as a framework to measure the spatial and temporal scale of an organism’s goal-directed behavior, from single cells up to humans. The most striking technical claim is backed by an in-lab experiment: tadpoles with eyes grafted to their tails could successfully see immediately, proving that cellular bioelectricity networks possess remarkable zero-shot adaptation and problem-solving capabilities without needing evolutionary selection.
Hardware & Infrastructure#
Intel CEO on Elon Musk from the No Priors channel is a brief executive snippet regarding AI compute scaling. The Intel CEO notes a shared alignment with Elon Musk that current semiconductor infrastructure is fundamentally lagging behind AI growth in terms of raw capacity, productivity, and efficiency. While the clip lacks deep technical roadmaps, it serves as an indicator of consensus at the highest industry levels regarding structural hardware bottlenecks.
Everything Else#
They loved Trajan so much they rewrote the afterlife for him - Ada Palmer on the Dwarkesh Patel channel dives into a bizarre but fascinating piece of historical revisionism. It explains how medieval and Renaissance Europe essentially retconned the pagan Roman Emperor Trajan’s spiritual status via a posthumous baptism legend, simply because they admired his governance too much to accept the canonical reality of him residing in hell.