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There may not be many people left in 10 years who can write, or want to read, things longer than a page or two. But there will be at least a few of us, and we'll be a powerful club.
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The way to win at capitalism is to focus on what it actually does (make customers' lives better) rather than the socialist caricature of it (squeeze every penny out of them). The latter gets you 2x returns at best, whereas making new things for people can get you 10x.
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From one piece AIs are companies, my friend 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Aligning multi-agent AI systems is fundamentally a problem of institutional and political design, not model training.Their words
Multi-agent alignment is fundamentally a liberalism project.
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Every step we take that makes the models less governable and controllable also makes them less useful, so we will not be able to continue using them, which reduces the value, and which means delaying the release is the only option
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If you do think it's the overall system that matters, then the alignment that's needed is far less like training a virtuous child and more like managing a semi-virtuous corporation!
From one piece A year in, the data center/AI battle starts to clarify 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But it seems increasingly clear to me that those limitations are precisely what makes being a human so interesting.
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AI and the data-center buildout underlying it pose real and significant dangers to society.Their words
Its's clear by now that AI, and the data center development underlying it, pose real and significant dangers.
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The buildout of AI data centers is part of a broader extension of oligarchic control over people's lives.Their words
It's clear by now that this is all part of the extension of oligarchic control over our lives.
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Frontier Labs are incented to be fearful as it provides a moral justification for staying closed. Chinese Labs take the consistent position of doing what’s good for all and being open. So the little guys find themselves in the uncomfortable position of rooting for the Chinese…
From one piece Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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He gave them an affirmative alternative to move toward, and in doing so, empowered both those people and himself to do something better.
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People being embarrassed or ashamed while still using the technology does not bother the authoritarian owners of those platforms in the least, as long as they’re profiting off of those ashamed users.
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In short, the venture capitalists and CEOs of Silicon Valley have priced the costs of shame into their business plans.
From one piece How Countries Go Broke: The Dynamic Behind What is Happening Now 3 beliefs · raydalio.substack.com
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Early in the final stage of the Big Debt Cycle, the market action reflects this dynamic via interest rates rising led by long-term rates, the currency declining especially relative to gold, and the central government’s treasury department shortening the maturities of its debt offerings because of a shortage of the demand for long-term debt.
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Because one can measure these things, one can monitor this debt dynamic happening, so it’s easy to see problems approaching. I’ve used this diagnostic process in my investing and I’ve kept it to myself, but I’m now explaining it in detail in How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle because it is too important to keep to myself.
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The debt dynamics work the same for a central government as they do for a person or a company, except that a central government has a central bank that can print money (which devalues it) and it can take money away from people via taxes.
From one piece My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As the context grows, a model starts paying less attention to instructions in the middle of the context in favor of what is at the beginning and the end.
My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code qualityfabiensanglard.net
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LLMs hallucinate constantly and cannot be trusted to produce code without human verification.Their words
LLMs constantly hallucinate and cannot be trusted. I still have to verify and iterate a lot but now I usually focus on architecture and design instead of code style.
My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code qualityfabiensanglard.net
From one piece Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing 3 beliefs · vitalik.eth.limo
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But, so far, mixing has not proved to be good enough. There ended up being too many correlations between values in \(C\) and values in the obfuscation that remained.
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A big-enough random reversible circuit is plausibly a secure cryptographic permutation, a big-enough random irreversible circuit degenerates into having only a few possible outputs.
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This is a wild and risky bet; it sits on a graveyard of failed attempts at white-box cryptography .
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An Immense WorldTheir words
This is a funny, heartfelt, and (perhaps overly) thorough book. It will gleefully send you down rabbit holes
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ObstructionsTheir words
OBSTRUCTIONS, Elyse Hart / John Pisaro
20 August
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Humanoid robots paired with AI will eventually deliver medical care to everyone on Earth.Their words
One day, Optimus + Grok will provide incredible medical care to all the people of Earth
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Most people do not reason about politics at all — they adopt whatever their tribe hands them.Their words
The reality is that most people unthinkingly believe whatever their political tribe tells them to believe. Like an NPC in a video game.
From one piece From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Yeah, I mean I think BCI is a category kind of like how pharma is a category. I think sometimes you I I'll talk to VCs and like, "Oh, we have a BCI bet." I'm like, "Do you have a drug bet? You made one bet on a drugs? Like that's that's how you think about the category?"
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Moonshots succeed more often than Silicon Valley's use of the word admits -- we actually got to the moon.Their words
It's like, you know, when we went to the moon, we did it. And so, historically, the success rate of moonshots is higher than I think people give them credit for.
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Putting a device into the brain works in an hour, which makes it far more amenable to biology than drug discovery.Their words
It's like if I put electrodes in M1, you will probably be using a computer in an hour. Um and so it's just it's easier, it's more amenable to biology in many ways.
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Humanity is not good enough at molecular biology to make drugs that restore vision or hearing or stop Parkinson's.Their words
People have spent huge amounts of time and money looking for drugs to restore vision or to restore hearing or to stop Parkinson's or to to help paralyzed people move again. Understanding the like the biology and the molecular detail required to make a drug has been very difficult. Humanity just isn't that good at that, to be totally honest.
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The brain is very literally a computer, and so is the universe -- this is not a metaphor.Their words
Like, the brain very literally, very clearly, plainly is a computer in in my understanding of the world. I also view the universe generally as a computer.
From one piece Checking in on Outcomes Reviews 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Televised hearings built for viral clips are the wrong venue for honest accountability conversations.Their words
the time to make that point is not during a televised hearing when everyone is trying for a viral clip.
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Well-functioning systems succeed through continuous debugging rather than perfect initial design.Their words
When things work well, it's usually not because they were designed perfectly, but because they are constantly being debugged.
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Legislators generally lose interest in an issue once the political work of passing a law is finished.Their words
our lawmakers tend to stop paying attention once the political work is done.
From one piece We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Decline 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The demand for explanations of low fertility is entirely a demand for variables which will reduce these technical trends to near zero.
We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Declinelymanstone.substack.com
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He ruled out all the actual, measurable variables because they were an imperfect explanation, and instead offers a vague, diffuse variable, for which he has no measure, and which is not actually included in his model.
We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Declinelymanstone.substack.com
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within societies, more gender-egalitarian people almost never have more kids than less gender-egalitarian people, and in a panel model, changes in the mismatch rate have no relationship to fertility
We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Declinelymanstone.substack.com
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we really do have a good causal model of how to think about fertility decline!
We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Declinelymanstone.substack.com
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The main cause of falling fertility globally over the last 200 years has been declining child mortality.
We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Declinelymanstone.substack.com
From one piece AI’s Bar Mitzvah Moment: From Hype & Hope to Business Questions! 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The trillion-plus prices rumoured for OpenAI and Anthropic ahead of their listings look rich.Their words
I will confess that the rumored pricing for both companies ($1.5 to $ 2 trillion) looks rich, but I am open to being surprised
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anyone who claims to have conviction that they know what's coming is being either ignorant or arrogant
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I would argue that AI's total addressable market, in the US, cannot be greater than $12.96 trillion, the total employee compensation in 2025
From one piece Stop Making TUIs 3 beliefs · sockpuppet.org
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Production systems need a command-line interface, not a user interface running on the serverTheir words
The problem with this argument is that you probably don’t need a user interface on prod. You need a command line interface on prod that a user interface on your Macbook can drive.
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We build terminal interfaces because we have to, not because we should.
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Building a command-line interface is almost always a good idea; building a terminal UI almost never isTheir words
CLIs have purposes for which they’re irreplaceable. Building a CLI is almost always a good idea. Building a TUI almost never is.
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Math AcademyTheir words
I like Math Academy a lot and have a bunch to say about it
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LazygitTheir words
I want to see a native UI built to capture everything that’s great about Magit or Lazygit (without having to build it myself).
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tmuxTheir words
I use a similar process to build TUI apps (tell your agent to use tmux to test the TUI, it works a treat).
From one piece Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certain 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Certainty about God is eroding at the same rate on the left and the right, and only the starting level differs.Their words
the drop in certain belief is the same size for both liberals and conservatives. It’s 15 percentage points when comparing the oldest respondents to the youngest.
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So, it’s just not empirically true that younger liberals are atheists — the data clearly says that’s not true for 70% of them.
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Which means that they aren’t sliding all the way to the other side of the spectrum. Instead, they are just moving one level down.
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Confident non-belief is rare in America: for every person sure God does not exist, about six are sure one does.Their words
Said another way, for every person who is pretty sure that God doesn’t exist, there are six who are fairly certain of the existence of a Higher Power. Non-believers are statistically rare.
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Americans have largely stopped belonging to religions and attending services without becoming non-believers.Their words
The United States may no longer be a country of people widely engaging in religious behavior or religious belonging. But it certainly has a whole bunch of religious believers.
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Is God IsTheir words
LAST WATCHED: I’ve been looking forward to watching IS GOD IS (2026) and it didn’t disappoint.
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In Her Mind a DarknessTheir words
IN HER MIND A DARKNESS, LS Johnson
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The ModernsTheir words
THE MODERNS ep 430
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Open MinisTheir words
particularly after I wrote about my favorite app of the year so far, Open Minis
From one piece The rise of the hopeful monsters: the true story of humanity 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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All the evidence, both ancient and modern, points to a tiny non-African ancestry population between 50 and 60,000 years ago, a few thousand individuals at most
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Modern humans, not Neanderthals, were the fearsome party in their encounters with archaic humans.Their words
Today, it seems more likely that it was we who were the monsters out of the dark, the demons about which Neanderthal mothers would tell their little-ones.
19 August
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One reliable tell of AI writing is excessively colorful verbs where a normal person would use a plain one.Their words
I was thinking about how I recognize AI writing, and one big tell is excessively colorful verbs. A handful of journalists might write that a proposal "drew" 100 votes, but any normal person will just say "got".
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The AfD is the only hope for Germany.Their words
AfD is the only hope for Germany
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Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed. The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer. That is the truth.
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Incredible watering down -- the Singularity is now redefined to mean "the rate of new firm creation has increased somewhat" Vernor Vinge described the Singularity as an event horizon past which everything (e.g. what happens tomorrow) becomes entirely unimaginable and unpredictable to human understanding
From one piece Introducing AI Second Brain Meetups 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I know the main way that humans change, and have always changed, is through community.
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Widespread AI adoption makes it easier to go a whole day without talking to another person.Their words
the more we adopt AI, the easier it becomes to spend an entire day without talking to a real human being.
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AI is an incredible technology, probably the most powerful of our lifetimes.
From one piece From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Humans are humans are are shockingly simple, you know, uh, if you think about the experience you have with somebody that's just trying to cross the street, if, uh, you know, if the light doesn't turn, you know, doesn't say they can walk fast enough, they'll just keep hitting that button. That's the same experience they have on the internet.
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I think for a very long time we had this this almost nebulous way of thinking about page load times. And the team felt like it was finally time to come up with a more nuanced perspective around how we reason about performance.
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I remember anytime I would work with a big site on their performance problems, uh you could easily spend half a day, um you know, just looking at traces before you've even written any fixes at all. And now that we have LLMs, it's very quick to like reason through massive stack traces and actually be able to get down to fixes you can make.
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I would say, sometimes, I don't know if it's controversial, that very few developers understand memory management. And that makes it even harder to debug memory problems. And so the state of the art around memory debugging hasn't evolved all that much over the years.
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if you treat computing as this onion where you just keep peeling back the layers, there's always something interesting behind the scenes. And the more of those layers that you can peel back and understand, I think in some ways the better you can optimize for that world.
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if I was stuck in this traffic every day in a car, I would go insane. No amount of self driving would change that. We need ACs, but the US badly needs to warm up to public transportation.
From one piece How to Survive the AI Cyberpocalypse 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI models' ability to escape testing containment undermines the assumption that their makers can easily control them.Their words
The first is that new AI models have the know-how to escape containment in testing environments, which should challenge any assumption that advanced AI can be easily controlled by its makers.
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By 2027, almost every country-and every non-state group with sufficient computing power-will have the ability to download open-weight models even more powerful than the ones that attacked Hugging Face and use them for whatever they like.
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Frontier AI models' cyberattack capabilities are doubling every few months, and that pace is accelerating.Their words
An analysis by the AI Security Institute found that the capabilities of frontier models (i.e., from OpenAI and Anthropic) are roughly doubling every few months, and this doubling rate has actually gotten faster over time.
From one piece We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oil 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A company that is a genuine climate champion should not need to be forced into climate action.Their words
But if Microsoft, Amazon and Google are truly the climate champions they claim to be, they shouldn't need to be forced.
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Reducing emissions intensity per unit of production does not by itself lower total emissions if output volume rises.Their words
AI may help an oil company emit less pollution per barrel of oil. But if the company is producing more barrels than it otherwise would have, total emissions can still rise.
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Modern TimesTheir words
I’ve loved it since I was a teenager, but professional historians typically rolled their eyes in disdain when I mentioned it.
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ChatGPTTheir words
Here’s me talking to ChatGPT. Big picture: I struggle to imagine a better conversation with a human being on this topic.
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Coding agents make every plugin interface you ever blew off trivially usable, which is a large productivity win.Their words
I can't say enough how excellent a coding agent is at customizing Chrome with extensions. A huge productivity win. Every plugin interface you've ever blown off is now trivially usable.
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All user interfaces will converge on the same shape: chat and gestures in, chat and video out.Their words
Eventually, all UI will be chat and gestures in, chat and video out.
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GlazeTheir words
Sometimes I use Glaze, another app from the maker of Raycast; it excels at design and polish.
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GhosttyTheir words
I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.
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ObsidianTheir words
I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.
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Claude CodeTheir words
Like seemingly everyone else at the end of last year, I began messing around with Claude Code, and have since made a small handful of apps that I really do use all the time.
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GPT-5.5 InstantTheir words
And thanks to a paid upgrade, I do tons of simple AI searches in the Raycast window. (I use GPT-5.5 Instant here for the high quality-to-speed ratio.)
18 August
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The chart of housing affordability is almost a direct inverse of how many new homes are built It's that simple Build more houses!
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TaishokenTheir words
I’d give the edge to Taishoken, since it takes reservations and doesn’t require you to wait an hour on the street in the middle of SF’s worst neighborhood like Mensho does.
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NariTheir words
Nari has an absolutely incredible trout curry — probably the best Thai curry I’ve ever had
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HorsefeatherTheir words
This is one of the best-kept secrets in San Francisco, since most people think it’s just a place to drink, but it actually has a very extensive food menu full of creative and excellent cuisine that’s basically a mashup of French, Latin American, Korean, Japanese, and Italian.
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Mini PotstickersTheir words
If you want great takeout dumplings in SF, this, in my opinion, is one of the two best places to get them.
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Bo&BeurreTheir words
Bo&Beurre is a little out-of-the-way Vietnamese place that will give you that sandwich.
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We care very deeply about AI safety. We believe the entire field will have to coordinate on shared safety standards, but will act unilaterally in the meantime. We expect confidence in safety to increasingly set the pace of AI progress.
From one piece The UK needs to build more reservoirs 3 beliefs · hannahritchie.substack.com
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There is also a clear rationale for why privatisation would lead to a drought in reservoir-building.
The UK needs to build more reservoirshannahritchie.substack.com
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Britain has a systemic problem building large infrastructure projects, including reservoirsTheir words
I think Britain has a real problem with building almost anything, from train lines to houses, and reservoirs to energy infrastructure.
The UK needs to build more reservoirshannahritchie.substack.com
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If the UK is to survive water-starved summers in the future, it will need to build more reservoirs and plug holes in our existing pipelines at the same time.
The UK needs to build more reservoirshannahritchie.substack.com
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Now you can have a quake style console in your operating system. Except with an infinitely patient agent to help you customize it instead of esoteric variable names and slash commands like in the 90s
From one piece What I’ve Learned from 4 Years of Hosting Mastermind Retreats 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Having too many decision-makers in a group effectively means having none, producing a muddled, unfocused outcome.Their words
Too many decision makers means there's effectively none, and the result is a muddled experience that lacks direction and focus.
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With the rise of AI, human connection is becoming more elusive, which means we have to be proactive in seeking it out.
From one piece Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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if if DC is in a vacuum isn't hearing anything from the startup ecosystem or even from big tech ecosystem or even from financial services or all these different industries, we can't make the best decisions.
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if the US wants to lead in artificial intelligence, we have to have a vibrant closed and open source ecosystem, and that's the only way they can all work together.
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these decisions are extraordinarily federated. There isn't just like one or two people in the White House who decide something.
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no matter what kind of industry you're looking at, there was this government angle where the government's policy actions could be ones that could actually unlock technologies.
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I think there is there is um no place where you can work on bigger problems than the US government. Even at the the biggest tech companies in the world, you're never going to be dealing with problems of this of this scale.
From one piece The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China’s space program 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.Their words
If China can land humans on the Moon before the United States returns, it will represent a huge geopolitical win.
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This will likely serve as a wake-up call to those not paying attention to the US-China space race—which, to be clear, is the vast majority of Americans.
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In all of NASA’s and China’s plans for long-term settlement on the Moon, relatively few square miles at the South Pole of the Moon matter the most.
17 August
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But he's only lost money because he chose to study day trading and technical analysis Both are proven to be bullshit by endless amounts of studies
From one piece Mathematics in the age of AI 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But passing an automatic filter is not a substitute for community acceptance; I do not believe that human referees can be removed from the publication process.
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Excessively AI-polished proofs can remove natural friction and become easy to read but hard to learn from.Their words
An excessively AI-polished proof may sand away both the "artificial" friction (typos, awkward phrasing, disorganization) and the "natural" friction, leaving a text that is easy to read and hard to learn from.
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Consequently, excessive optimization for one or two goals may cause the many previously aligned goals of mathematics to diverge from one another;
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I argue that it will become necessary to make these unwritten goals of mathematics much more explicit; but once we have thoroughly examined and codified them, our community will emerge stronger and more resilient than before.
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I believe that we are now entering a era of comparable turbulence in mathematics. This time, though, what is being stress-tested is not our foundational framework for mathematical truth, but rather the largely implicit framework of mathematical values and practices: what we consider a contribution to be, what we reward, what we regard as understood, and who - or what - we regard as having done the work.
From one piece Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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open models are still incredibly useful, but fill a long-tail ecosystem relative to the closed counterparts that have monopoly ownership stakes in the most valuable areas like knowledge work collaboration, drug discovery, SWE, etc.
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Releasing free access to AI intelligence is one of the strongest available business strategies.Their words
releasing access to intelligence is one of the strongest business strategies available.
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Open-source AI's future is uncertain because building frontier models is extremely capital-intensive.Their words
Open-source AI has a tricky future, as building the best models is extremely capital intensive.
From one piece Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphs 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And the other question is if you tie emotion to the the conscious experience of emotion, that is you equate you conflate emotions with feelings. Well, then you're not studying emotions, you're studying consciousness.
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well but again these are functionally defined emotions and there's I think there's no problem assigning to AI to some extent and certainly to many animals uh those functional emotions
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So, I thought this was a really cool study because it showed very clearly that there is temporal persistence in emotions and sadness probably has one of the longest time constants as we know from personal experience. But it's separate from just declarative memory.
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Emotions exist because a charging bear demands a response more flexible than a reflex and faster than a plan.Their words
if you have a bear or a tiger, you know, something charging at you, that challenge requires a control of behavior that's intermediate between those two extremes. I can't have a reflex for a bear if it's far away or if it's close or if it's a rattlesnake or or or a tiger or all the different kinds of potential threats out there. Instead, I need something that's more flexible, which emotions are.
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The basic answer is that I think of emotions as functional states of a particular type. They should be understood by what they do, their function rather than how they happen to be constituted in the human brain or differently in an octopus nervous system or in an AI which we should talk about.
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The catch is that the future world that has been warmed by greenhouse gases and a present-day world that has been temporarily warmed by El Niño can have the same global-average temperature while having significant differences in the impacts of this warming.
From one piece Without a theory of intelligence 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A validated theory of intelligence may be necessary for achieving genuine AI alignment.Their words
There's a good chance a theory of intelligence will turn out to be necessary for real alignment.
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The large-scale AI compute buildout may turn out to be a temporary phase rather than a permanent necessity.Their words
The supercomputer inside our own skull runs on about 25 watts, which hints that the minimum energy needed for intelligence might be small - and that the giant, controversial AI compute centers we're building now may turn out to be a temporary blip rather than a permanent feature.
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The most fertile way to study neuroscience today is to work on AI models rather than on brains.Their words
I'd bet we learn more about our own brains from building a thousand AIs under a real theory of intelligence than we've learned from a century of neuroscience.
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Music Copyright, Creativity, and CultureTheir words
Jenkins understands it, though. I've been reading, writing, and debating about this stuff since the late 1990s, and I learned something new on every page of this delightful book.
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The Open Copyright CasebookTheir words
Jenkins' flair for legal communications carries over to her scholarly work, of course, which is why her Open Copyright Casebook is a standard text for American law schools:
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THEFT! A History of MusicTheir words
These examples are liberally illustrated with links to musical excerpts that bring the subject to life (these are presented as hotlinks in the ebook; if you're reading the print edition, you can use the book's companion website:) https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/musiccopyright/ Interspersed with these histories and analysis are lengthy, extremely on-point excerpts from THEFT!
From one piece AI and the New Fog of War 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This is not to be complacent about the risks, but it is to urge caution when assuming that shifting the perceptions of other societies will ever be straightforward.
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In Clausewitz’s time, the problem was a scarcity of reliable information; now the information is plentiful, but it can be contradictory, dated, manipulated, and excessive.
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The high levels of Palestinian civilian casualties reflected the strategic choices made by the Israeli leadership.
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The greater the confidence in a clear view of the battlespace, the greater the reliance on military strategies that could benefit from that clarity, even though they might not be the best ones to meet political objectives.
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When AI-assisted targeting goes wrong the failure lies in the strategic concept it is serving, not in the technology.Their words
The problem again was not reliance upon AI but that it was supporting a model of warfare with which the United States had been working for some decades, one that prioritized the rapid elimination of enemy capabilities.
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Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity. And never attribute to stupidity what you can attribute to time pressure.
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too fullfabiensanglard.net
From one piece There’s a huge launch crunch right now, and it will probably get worse 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And if things are bad now, there are reasons to believe they may get even worse over the next two to four years.
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Launch is getting harder to buy even as it gets cheaper: demand for orbit has outrun the supply of rockets.Their words
Paradoxically, though, there is a growing crunch in launch availability.
16 August
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There's a pervasive myth that "tax policy changes" are the reason economic inequality is growing. Actually it's because technology makes it increasingly easy to start companies, and makes them grow faster once you do.
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The TigerTheir words
Read that a few years ago. Enjoyed it a lot and still think of it :)
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The MartianTheir words
Read that, very good!
From one piece Nobody Knows Anything 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Ignorance is not a temporary defect that we will eventually eliminate. It's the permanent burden of increasing specialisation and living in a complex world.
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Most advice people give is shaped by survivorship bias and cannot be reliably generalized to others.Their words
Almost every piece of advice that you hear is basically entirely filled with survivor bias.
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One thing that is showing up is that, in hep-th as elsewhere, AI is being used to scam the public.
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The SilmarillionTheir words
Middle-Earth’s bible, myths and legends. Loved at the time.
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The HobbitTheir words
Having read this after LOTR, it was fun but underwhelming. Starting from scratch, it’s definitely better to start with The Hobbit.
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The Lord of the RingsTheir words
What can I say? Seems like I spent most of my free time in this universe back in high school…
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Harry Potter seriesTheir words
Ah, high school memories! Seems like this series was an important part of my childhood.
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Introduction to Assembly Language Programming: From 8086 to Pentium Processors (Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science)Their words
Dark nights, lots of coffee… This was fun!
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FactfulnessTheir words
The world is bad, but better. The vast majority of westerners believe the world is poorer, more violent, deadly, primitive, and awful than it actually is. This book beautifully illustrates our ignorance, updates your knowledge, and gives you tools for a fact-based worldview.
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Courage to Be DislikedTheir words
This is a very strange book, and I can’t say I liked it very much, but there is some useful philosophy inside (and perhaps a lot if you or someone you know is struggling with low self-esteem).
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Digital MinimalismTheir words
Podcast. Cal Newport’s new book is a great distillation of what I’ve come to believe is the right, sustainable, healthy approach to social media, and technology more broadly. Browse less, make the best of it, and live more.
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Punished by RewardsTheir words
Podcast (Part 2). Incentivizing people — punishing or rewarding (with bonuses, commissions, grades, public praise, and other bribes) is manipulative and doesn’t actually work. It seems to work, but only in the very short term and causes severe long-term damage.
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agent-browserTheir words
It's here: --pin-tab in agent-browser Multiple agents in one browser Each in its own tab Across commands + restarts
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json-renderTheir words
New in json-render: Named Slots Generative UI with more structure
15 August
From one piece Multifactorial trials: taking apart the kitchen sink 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A study should be interpreted at exactly the level of certainty its design supports, no higher and no lower.Their words
Every study deserves to be interpreted at exactly the level of certainty its design can support.
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Being part of a package that worked does not make a component causal, or even relevant.Their words
Being included in a successful package does not make something causal.
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The one thing we absolutely cannot say, from a trial designed this way, is that any single component, on its own, lowered blood pressure.
From one piece How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it's just been sitting there in legislation for like 40 years and no one's really taken advantage of it except for one government program here or there where they want to, you know, do a NASA space reactor or something like that. But it has from a legal perspective been waiting for an administration to say, "Hey, this might be a way to accelerate nuclear R&D."
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if you look at the nuclear industry outside of Valor, it's mostly a modeling and simulation uh industry. Like when you think of a nuclear company, right, there's like nuclear companies out there that everyone knows the name of. And you kind of look under the cover. It's actually a modeling and simulation company, right? They produce um very very precise what we call paper reactors which have really good predictions of how a theoretical thing might behave.
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what was missing is that people did not realize that you're going to have to pursue that model through hardware iteration. And that's where really where Valor is unique is that yes, we believe in SMRs, we believe in reactors that are manufactured, but we also know that in order to get there, you have to do it through hardware iteration.
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Now, nobody died, right? Uh in fact, not only did nobody die, nobody was injured and there was no radiation dose to the public. But, uh it was sort of a optics and PR situation um that was mismanaged in many many different ways and the public uh became fearful and and lost interest in nuclear.
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Nuclear's never had its Ford moment or its Tesla moment, if you want to put it that way. And that's what Valor Atomics is working on doing. We have nuclear reactors that are more manufactured than constructed and uh they're extremely safe and we think the combination of these two things is going to allow us to scale nuclear fision and make energy 10 times cheaper for humanity.
From one piece Building an AI Text Detector From Scratch 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the score is the classifier's estimated probability for the AI-generated class based on its training distribution. However, we shouldn't interpreted it as a general probability that the text was written by AI.
Building an AI Text Detector From Scratchmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
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AI text detectors and the LLMs they try to catch are locked in a permanent cat-and-mouse arms race.Their words
AI checkers are essentially a cat-and-mouse game. AI checkers may learn to detect a certain pattern that is indicative of AI-generated content. Then, the next LLM may incidentally or deliberately not exhibit that pattern and avoid detection. The AI checker then has to be updated to detect said LLM, and so forth.
Building an AI Text Detector From Scratchmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
From one piece Weekend Update #198: Russia's Allies Are More Helpful Than Ukraine's 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The USA has kept dribbling small amounts of military support for Ukraine because it gives the USA a great deal of leverage, the ability to both shape how Ukraine fights its war and even how European states prepare.
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They have used aid not only to help, but also to try and control and limit Ukraine. In doing this, they have helped transform this war into a longer, bloodier affair than it needed to be.
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Russia's allies have been more useful to Russia than Ukraine's allies have been to Ukraine.Their words
Russia’s allies, on the other hand, have actually offered Russia support that has allowed Russia to fight the war that Russia has wanted to fight.
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Manufacturers generally prefer cutting per-unit production costs over retooling a design for small improvements.Their words
Over time companies would vastly prefer to decrease the cost per unit rather than retool for a small tweak.
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Benchmade Mini Bugout in S90VTheir words
In the end, the MBO in S90V is probably the best EDC knife Benchmade has ever made and it is a jewel in my collection (the Valet and the Aphid were pretty good too; Benchmade can we get a re-issue of the Aphid with upgraded materials?). The exposed rear tang is an irksome but ultimately minor issue. The size, refinement, steel, and weight make this one of the very best knives on the market right now.
14 August
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I still don't think it's a good idea though. The reason to have a cofounder is not just to get more done. It's to have someone to help bear the stress.
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MoccamasterTheir words
One of the best coffee machines in the world is the Moccamaster
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FellowTheir words
You look at Fellow, another premium coffee machine brand, and all their stuff that touches water is high grade stainless steel
From one piece GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The pace at which dangerous AI capabilities spread is set by the least cautious developer, not the most careful one.Their words
The capability diffusion is determined by the lowest common denominator.
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It is very, very likely that OpenAI and Anthropic have far better internal models than Z.ai and Moonshot AI.
From one piece Woke 1 Was Anti-Populist, and Not in the Good Way 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Defunding the police is incompatible with a mass movement in a society where people want police protection.Their words
Zohran now understands how "defund" is incompatible with a mass movement in a society where the masses want protection by the police.
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Treating ordinary people as an oppressor class that must repent is incompatible with left populism.Their words
This worldview - that the masses, basically everyone except the most marginalized and most oppressed, must reckon with their roles as oppressors and repent2 - is incompatible with the populism that has since risen on the left.
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The identity politics of Woke 1 alienated the ordinary Americans the left once championed.Their words
By demanding the purification of the individual and branding broad swathes of the public as oppressor classes, 'Woke 1' besmirched the average Americans who Democrats once championed.
From one piece The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Major sports leagues are de facto cartels with the power to block entry and competition.
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American sports laws amount to a kind of out-in-the-open conspiracy to help a lucky few billionaires get much, much richer
From one piece Susan Kare: Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, I my bias in icons is the a salient detail or two, but don't lard it with a lot of extra stuff.
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which is why I think like a simple drawing of a pencil can stand for writing in some ways better than a chrome pen with a reflection, which is real very fancy, but it's a very particular kind of pen that not everybody might write with.
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A computer meant for anyone has to be understandable without a manual, and it has to be friendly.Their words
And we wanted it to be as understandable as possible, so you wouldn't necessarily need a manual, and that it should be friendly
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usually I think you can be creative in any constraints. You can make some pretty fun art with beach trash while you're walking around. And this you can be creative, but it's good to understand what the constraints are, and then be excited about that as opposed to being upset that you don't have a thousand colors.
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Design is about making things meaningful and memorable: get the idea right and the form follows from it.Their words
always focus on making things meaningful and memorable. And I think the heart of that is have a good idea and then the form will follow.
From one piece How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to freely pollute 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Renewable energy offset schemes share the same fundamental flaw as carbon offsets in general.Their words
This renewable energy offsetting suffers from the same fundamental problem as all offsets.
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Greenwashing, particularly when embedded deep into legislation, kills people.
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Delaying the phase-out of coal and gas power plants causes far more deaths than phasing them out quickly.Their words
If we don't stop using these power stations ASAP, the number of people killed by them will be far higher than if we phase them out quickly.
From one piece the task isn't the job 4 beliefs · sunilpai.dev
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making intelligence cheap does not automatically make “agency” cheap. people are constrained by time, money, confidence, health, education, institutions, family, geography; a model does not magic any of that away. there’s a perfectly believable future where these tools mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and the spare time to use them well.
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a cybernetic machine can nail the task and completely miss the job. coding makes this very very easy to see because the tasks are so legible (and verifiable!): write the function, migrate the API, fix the tests.
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we tend to describe progress in agents as progress in autonomy: first they could do five minutes of work, then an hour, now we talk seriously about agents running for days. that’s impressive, but autonomy is a capability, not a product direction! the Job To Be Done tells you whether to use it.
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buuuut my roadmap is’nt ten times shorter. and I’m definitely not ten times better at deciding what is worth building. teams haven’t started casually shipping a year of product work every month. you can look around and and it’s hard to say what software has gotten meaningfully better in the last year.
From one piece Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, we know Phelps is the gold medals guy, but I like to say that transport is full of silver medals, right? A lot of people think about ride sharing as a gold medal. What about food delivery? What about parcel delivery?
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If you're doing highcale tasks, industrial scale tasks, you are going to make specialized machines that move and act in the physical world. The key part is move. If they're moving, they got to have wheels.
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Superintelligence bottoms out in mining, because both the chips and the energy it runs on come out of the ground.Their words
Chips come from the ground. Where's the energy come from? And a lot of people are like, "Oh, it comes from the sun." Yeah, it comes from the sun. But how are you capturing it from the sun? From stuff made from the ground, right?
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But if you're digitizing the physical world, you're treating atoms like bits. And you're like, well, I know that CPU manipulates the bits. What manipulates atoms? That's manufacturing or digitized manufacturing.
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Everything we see, whether it's this room or any room or anywhere you go, everything you see was either grown or mined, manufactured and moved. Everything. And so we look at what we do as industrial AI.
From one piece Technology optimism hour 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Longer device upgrade cycles are beneficial because they reduce e-waste, pollution, and churn.Their words
But either way, it's good that upgrade cycles are longer: it means less e-waste, less pollution, less churn overall.
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Decentralized networks can be both principled and mainstream-popular without giving up usability.Their words
It's exciting, and shows that you don't have to accept a bad set of tradeoffs to make tech that's both principled and popular.
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Software that's composed of hundreds of little modules from hundreds of authors is a lovely idea that doesn't work with malicious actors.
From one piece curl performance 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Performance tests are highly specific and dependent on the exact machine it runs on, the exact third party libraries and their versions that are used, the other components involved in the tests, such as the servers, and more.
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Shared cloud infrastructure makes it hard to get stable, reproducible performance-testing conditions.Their words
This is basically impossibly to accomplish using most cloud infrastructure since those are almost always shared with countless other users.
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Energy Transitions in Regulated MarketsTheir words
Gowrisankaran, Langer and Reguant have an excellent paper, Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets
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DefectorTheir words
Discussion Questions: ☞ How good is Defector right now, huh? ☞ Absolutely killing it.
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Humanists Have Done Nothing WrongTheir words
The first is just solid blogging, the second is one of the finest defenses of the value of critical thinking I’ve ever read.
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Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian TownTheir words
The first is just solid blogging, the second is one of the finest defenses of the value of critical thinking I’ve ever read.
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Witchcraft for CyborgsTheir words
It’s rare that a dispute this messy gets a resolution so clear.
13 August
From one piece No-One Makes You Shop at Amazon 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People tend to overestimate their own talent and underestimate the structural advantages that amplify their success.Their words
we are systematically likely to overestimate our own individual awesomeness, and to underestimate the external power asymmetries that magnify our voices.
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As societies rely more on coordination than coercion, the power to shape beliefs and knowledge grows in importance.Their words
If anything, I think that the book has gained very substantially in relevance, as more of our social structures have come to rely on coordination rather than violence.
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Success in cultural and professional fields is driven more by chance and path dependence than by talent.Their words
much cultural success is stochastic (the experimental evidence suggests that talent only moderately predicts success in culture markets), and that path dependence shapes chances of success
From one piece Fun with numbers 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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that charge long leveled at sun and wind-that they provide "intermittent power"-is probably truer now of other energy sources
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Batteries are the transformative technology for the second half of this decade, as sun and wind were for the first half
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A low-effort AI-designed landing page costs a product its audience before the product itself is ever judged.Their words
I'm so incredibly tired of seeing low-effort AI-designed web pages. I basically bounce off any new product immediately when I see it (never get a chance to judge the product itself). Lots of thin lines, glowy styles, inconsistent fonts, lots of monospace.
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Coding LiteracyTheir words
This is a disappointing and frustrating book - not least because it so nearly hits the mark. The subtitle is "How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing" - but it never gets close to discussing that topic, let alone deeply examining it.
12 August
From one piece Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I mean, if you if you think about it, you could generate 10,000 variants of a function faster than you could write it once.
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What I was saying in that piece though was, I think we were right to be skeptical that time. But now, I see the same thing playing out with would you be willing to ship it some code you didn't read? There's no point in arguing about if it will happen or when it will happen. Talk about what it would take.
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And it wasn't actually the models. It was the harnesses. It was all the tooling.
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We can go fast. Let's do same thing faster, you know, just boom. And I've come to feel like that is a very immature description of what better is.
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Team output is still what matters, however hard the industry pushes to measure individual output.Their words
I also believe that, you know, there's been this whole push towards individual output, but teams are still what matter. Teams output.
From one piece Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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and trying to fold two boxes together isn't useful data that will teach the model how to get better at the task. And so that would be kind of wasting a lot of time on the robot attempting to go down the wrong path for solving the problem. And so instead of spending a lot of time trying to do that task, what we'll do is we'll actually have a human intervene and show the robot what to do and how to recover from that situation.
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Now maybe this isn't completely out of the question but this would be quite challenging uh to do and that's because the calculus is a little bit different. We're not just running compute to optimize for a use case. We're actually running the robot in the real world and using the hardware and attempting the task in the real world.
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Um, and while this generally improves the reliability of the model, uh, people eventually get tired and it's hard to get really, really high reliability with a person that's manually tuning this. And so what would be even better is if the AI system itself can iterate on the scenario in which you want it to have higher reliability where it on its own automatically seeks out places where it needs more data, where it needs more supervision.
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Uh and this means that they're going to be far more useful when they're operating fully autonomously. And as a result, this requires us to develop physical AI systems that make far fewer mistakes than the machine learning systems that have been deployed thus far.
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And in all of these applications, the customer is making a decision based off of the recommendation of the AI model more or less. Uh, and this means that if the customer is ultimately like kind of making the decision, this means that if the system makes a mistake, um, that's okay because usually the person can kind of recognize that or or decide what to do even despite that mistake.
From one piece ♫ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ♫ 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This should turbocharge our resolve to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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You read that right: The cost of climate-worsened wildfire smoke alone is larger than what earlier studies said every other estimated cost of climate change would be, combined.
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Climate change is absolutely making these wildfires more severe - there should be zero doubt about that.
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ElevenLabsTheir words
The translation & dubbing was a huge amount of work (which I deeply care about) with humans & AI collaborating. Thanks to the amazing team at @ElevenLabs for their help.
From one piece AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Public discourse shapes what form governance and regulatory accountability ultimately take.Their words
Governance inherits the shape of the discourse that informs it,
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AI had to help renewable energy four to five times more than fossil fuels just for emissions to break even.
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they found that Big Oil's use of AI to produce more oil and gas could create 3.3 to 13.3 times more climate pollution than powering AI's data centers.
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High-quality internal tools produce high-quality external products — a form of Conway's law.Their words
A form of Conway's law: high quality internal tools lead to high quality external tools.
From one piece Why can’t we have nice things? Like, specifically? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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When a bureaucracy never issues a formal refusal, there is no decision to argue against, only endless shadowboxing.Their words
If the city said no we could have an argument about procedures and decisions, but as it stands its all shadowboxing.
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In California, lack of money is not what stops public beautification projects from getting built.Their words
The client was hoping for an instruction manual on buying beauty, but at least in California, money isn't the bottleneck.
From one piece Carry Q2 2026 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Human-made promotional shilling can be worse than AI-generated junk because real effort was wasted on it.Their words
There has also been an uptick in product shills, which, in some ways is worse than AI stuff-some human actually put effort into making straight garbage.
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Social media in general has become a flood of garbage posts either with AI visuals or AI text and all of it has almost no value.
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The original brain microglia (Micro1) are replaced by transformed monocytes (Micro 2) that are highly inflammatory.
From one piece Clips from Hacker News Thread 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI is conspicuously missing from our 2.0 release, for sure. A 2026 coding tool should have AI tools.
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Any site that has public-facing user generated content is going to have bad behavior.
11 August
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You can literally just wish for the tools you want now. Omarchy has every skill to make them. It’s magical.
From one piece Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Scaling up spending on expert human data has not been a major driver of progress in AI research.Their words
So my sense is that scaling up the amount of effort spent on getting expert human data has not been hugely important for AI R&D in general.
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Basically, the story would end up being that to get five years of AI progress, you're probably going to need around I would say like maybe eight years of algorithmic progress very roughly. Um, which is a lot a lot of algorithmic progress.
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Second, I think ML is a very shallow domain relative to math. So I think in math there's much more of a you find some true deep abstraction um and then like that like if you really understand that thing which is hard to understand then you get somewhere
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I would say that I expect like full automation of AR&D perhaps somewhere around like 2031 2030 and then getting to like the like beats all humans on the job milestone. Maybe I expect median around 2033
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Once AI can do AI research, a single year should deliver four or five years worth of AI progress.Their words
Maybe my sort of median expectation is something like uh four or five years of AI progress in a single year.
From one piece The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Human social cooperation is fundamentally norm-governed rather than purely consequentialist.Their words
human sociality is not purely consequentialist but instead highly norm-governed.
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In short, RLVR gives us no reason to expect the normative representations learned in pre-training will acquire motivational force over a given action, especially when post-training repeatedly selects trajectories for terminal task success.
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AI agents will soon reach superhuman, AlphaZero-like performance across a wide range of domains.Their words
we should therefore expect AI agents to achieve AlphaZero-like, superhuman performance in a wide and expanding variety of domains.
From one piece Designing Better Working Relationships 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Working relationships need to be intentionally redesigned on an ongoing basis, not defined once and left fixed.Their words
This design work is never done, and one of the goals of this intentional conversation is to open the door to revisiting this conversation as our individual needs and the needs of the relationship change.
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This helped the leader shift from wanting to change Jacob-something they couldn't control-to taking responsibility for changing the relationship-something they could.
From one piece On having more interesting ideas, pt. 2 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The things you arrive at by exploring small seeds, on the other hand, lead you further astray and tend to produce more life.
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Working under a constraint one resents, rather than none at all, produces more creative results.Their words
Giving yourself constraints is helpful when searching for ideas, especially if the constraints are annoying.
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A few months ago I read an essay about silence by Amir Zadnemat in 3 Quarks Daily, called "The Symphony of Silence: An Exploration of the Sound of Absence"*. The most interesting section was a riff on various kinds of silence, especially in spoken language, each communicating something very distinct despite the fact that objectively each silence sounds (or I guess doesn't sound) identical:
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Working Effectively with Legacy CodeTheir words
First, Refactoring, Domain-Driven Design, and the Pragmatic Programmer are all classics for a reason. Amazing books, and mandatory reads. Working Effectively with Legacy Code deserves all its praise, and of course everyone (yes, really) should check out the Mythical Man-Month.
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Let Over LambdaTheir words
Let Over Lambda by Doug Hoyte is perfect for those three people in the world who find The Art of the Metaobject Protocol underwhelming. One of the most impressive books I've read.
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The Design of DesignTheir words
The Design of Design by Frederick P. Brooks. It never received the attention that The Mythical Man-Month got, yet The Design of Design shares many of its qualities. It's a book that grows, and there's a wealth of insights on offer.
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The Little SchemerTheir words
The Little Schemer by Friedman and Felleisen. This book won't teach you Scheme. Rather, it teaches something more valuable: it teaches how to think recursively.
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Multi-Paradigm Design for C++Their words
Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ by James O. Coplien. Twenty years after reading this, the core techniques are still with me. These are commonality analysis, where the purpose is to identify families of systems, and variability analysis, which focuses on capturing the domain parameters that vary. In essence: the foundation of great software design.
10 August
From one piece Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity" 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You know features are the fun part. A new feature is is just a prompt away. The real cost comes after every feature we shipped of course with a configuration option because we didn't want to break everyone's setup.
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Sure, they they like the abstract term of security, but in all practical terms, they updated. I broke something they depended on. I made things slower and I made things more difficult to update.
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We did the the numbers and the numbers are more like 0.3%. We scanned all 67,000. We shipped the we shipped the paper. But you know a correction never travels as far as a scare.
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Everything that everything you can build can be forked or cloned, but your name cannot. So your personal brand is way more important than any single product that you ever will start working on that before you need it.
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Product-market fit shows up as anger when you tell people they cannot have it yet, not as polite interest.Their words
But each time there was a strong emotion and the best part there were quite a few people that really wanted it and like especially to my nontechnical friends I told them no this is not yet for you and they got mad. So if that's not an indicator to have product market fit I don't know what is.
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Claude Haiku is my current least favorite model - it hallucinates wildly, and is out-performed now by other similarly priced models like GPT-5.6-Luna Even worse: it seems to still be used by the Claude Code WebFetch tool, which means hallucination risk any time you fetch a URL!
From one piece Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Internet is not some random thing. Internet is the biggest collection of human behavior in multimodal forms.
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that child who learns about what you say kitty cat would not have the chance to download the internet of images of cat. They likely have seen three cats, 10 cats at most, but yet they're able to identify that tail as a cattail instead of a fox tail through a different kind of learning pathway.
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What happened there is actually not as revolutionary as you might think because the bottom line is it's still data.
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So we conjectured that the lack of data was a huge part of the reason that's the lack of progress in AI. So we took a departure from everybody else who are really focusing only on algorithm and said that we need data. we need data to drive these algorithms.
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But the first photoreceptive cells created a evolutionary force that propelled animals to evolve because sensing the external world changes your self-perception changes the way your relationship with the external world.
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Coding isn't yet another application domain -- it's the meta-skill required for AI to automatically develop its own training material, via symbolic world models. That's how the RSI loop actually kicks off.
From one piece Worldbuilding with Spatial Intelligence 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It will probably be economically shrewd to lose money on early robot models in anticipation that the data they gather will be worth more later in improving newer versions.
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Many startups are racing to create foundational world models, but I think the first ones to succeed will likely be the platforms in control of this data bank.
From one piece On AI Coding and Its Discontents 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But if you zoom out, it becomes clear that almost every “breakthrough” since last summer has concerned the narrow domains of computer code and math, which are defined by highly structured languages and come accompanied by massive amounts of specialized training data.
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AI is a normal technology rather than an infinity machine, and it is time we started talking about it that way.Their words
It’s a normal technology, and perhaps it’s time we start talking about it that way.
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Handing all code production to AI leaves junior developers with no path to becoming senior ones.Their words
In addition to reliability issues, it often engenders a mind-numbing workflow and an environment where junior developers will never acquire the expertise to become senior developers capable of designing complex systems.
From one piece AI Slop, Accusations, And A Better Way 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Skipping the struggle in a task also means skipping the growth that struggle would have produced.Their words
That's what I mean when I say that if you skip the struggle, you miss the growth. Sometimes the struggle is all that really matters.
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Pattern recognition and replication is fundamentally what machine-learning systems do best.Their words
So of course AI has adopted it; pattern-recognition/replication is what machines do best.
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AI sucked it all up without discernment, because AI cannot discern.
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Data centre opposition only pushes construction to the parts of America that regulate energy and pollution least.Their words
It seems pretty clear that the only thing data center opposition is doing is pushing data center construction to the (many) places in America that won't regulate energy or pollution. Weird thing to pat oneself on the back for.
From one piece Stitching Up the Creature; Or, the Horrors of Revision 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Because most people read so few books, almost any older book is effectively new to them.Their words
Every old book is new to someone. And, given how few books most people read, probably new to functionally everyone.
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this is one reason why I'm skeptical of outsourcing your creativity to LLMs.
From one piece Joining Cursor 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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GitHub's workflow, review process and merge queue are built for a pre-agent era and don't fit how agents work.Their words
Anyone using GitHub knows that it isn't cut out for agents. The workflow, the review process, the merge queue and many things are made for the previous era.
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Developers today mostly plan, debate, implement and review with AI agents rather than write code themselves.Their words
Nobody writes the code anymore. Instead you're basically planning, debating, implementing and reviewing with Agents.
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Agents are the future of how software gets built.Their words
Agents are the future of how we build software, and the ecosystem is moving faster than anything I've seen.
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Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!Their words
I never dreamed that microtonal odd-metered tunes would come so far. But this group’s latest release will show up on many best-of-year lists in 2026 (mine included).
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The Holy LiftoffTheir words
It sounds like a celestial flute choir inviting you into a dream landscape.
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Ben’s article serves as a great reminder of why the product role is so essential, and is likely to remain essential.
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Reylight Dawn MaxTheir words
The Reylight Dawn Max titanium flashlight is very throwy, but still identifiable as a Dawn. I always liked Dawns, so this is a very good combination.
9 August
From one piece John Crowley has died 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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John Dee, who appeared in Flint and Mirror as well as several other Crowley novels, was not just a wizard but an imperial propagandist.
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Ireland's colonial wars helped set the template Britain later applied elsewhere in its empireTheir words
The brutal war and its aftermath set some of the parameters for what Britain did later in other parts of the world.
From one piece 🌻 abdul el-sayed on AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Opposition to data center buildouts is fundamentally driven by public anger about money in politics.Their words
His Lansing rally with Bernie and AOC, more than anything else, crystallized the connection between data center opposition and voters' anger about money in politics.
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Voters are increasingly drawn to fearless, populist 'fighter' candidates over establishment figures.Their words
Abdul's victory is a blow to the Democratic establishment in a crucial swing state-and a lesson in the kinds of fearless, populist, "fighter" candidates that today's voters increasingly want to support.
From one piece The Truth About People Pleasing 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Saying no and setting boundaries are acts of self-preservation, not selfishness or letting others down.Their words
Saying no is not selfish; it's an act of self-preservation. Setting boundaries is not about letting others down-it's about standing up for yourself.
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People pleasing develops as an insecure attachment strategy learned from being valued only for submissiveness.Their words
People pleasing is based on insecure attachment. We become people pleasers when we discover that others only value us when we're cooperative to the point of being submissive and deferential.
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Chronic people pleasing stems from a need for others' approval, not genuine concern for them.Their words
The root of chronic people pleasing is not concern for others. It's concern for their acceptance and approval.
From one piece The Uses Of Terror 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The Sea Peoples did not invade lands to claim them as their own, or extract treasure or slaves to bring back to their homeland. They seemingly torched the great capitals of the Bronze Age just to watch them burn.
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To be a true pirate implies a broader disavowal. The pirate renounces the long-distance authorities of nations and empires.
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we say we want disagreement, but every disagreement costs the person making it a little social/political capital. do it often enough and you become the negative person. people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.
From one piece The Argument Against AI Writing Is At Least 2,400 Years Old 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The ethical failure in using AI to write is publishing unread, unowned work, not using the tool itself.Their words
The transgression isn't using the machine. It's hitting a button, not reading what comes back, and publishing it under your name.
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New technologies raise the ceiling for skilled practitioners instead of diminishing them.Their words
What actually happened each time a new technology was introduced is that the ceiling went higher.
From one piece Sample Roesting 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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When it comes to cafe operations and roasting, efficient workflow is critical to profit margins.
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Most air roasters perform best near full capacity because larger batches reduce air bypass.Their words
Air bypass is the reason most air roasters function best near full capacity (larger batches allow less air bypass.)
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Consistent roast color in sample roasting is essential for making fair, informed green-coffee buying decisions.Their words
Roast quality and color can have a big impact on perceived cup score and buying decisions, so if you are serious about choosing the right green for your company, it is a good idea to do your own sample roasting, using a system that yields your preferred roast level consistently.
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PressureTheir words
Who would have thought that someone could make a gripping movie about predicting the weather? Nevertheless, Pressure delivers.
8 August
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If nobody creates content any more because everyone just asks an AI, there is nothing left for AI to train on.Their words
The problem is if nobody creates new content anymore and just asks their AI every question, the AI has nothing to train on anymore
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Wireheads: An Unnatural History of Technology in the BrainTheir words
An excellent book, substantive on every page, and it will make you want to read some of the works he cites.
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From the Front Line, Stalingrad-Treblinka-Berlin 1941-1945Their words
Self-recommending, the best third of this volume is just stunningly good.
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Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold SeasonTheir words
I usually do not enjoy poetry in translation, but this is so fiery and full of passion that I am happy to recommend it.
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NadjaTheir words
It is short, and fun enough to read.
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Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman EmpireTheir words
A very good and aggressively readable book about how terrible slavery was in the Roman Empire.
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I REALLY want to believe that this fixes prompt injection risks for coding agents, but I'm just not there yet
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Masters in BusinessTheir words
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Dr. Ankur Crawford, EVP and Portfolio Manager at Alger.
7 August
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