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Secure LoveTheir words
Secure Love shows you how to understand your attachment style, calm conflict, and build the secure connection every relationship needs.
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Attachment Style QuizTheir words
Take the free Attachment Style Quiz and get personalised insight into how you connect, where your patterns come from, and your next step toward secure love.
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31 December 2023
From one piece in which an escape route is discovered 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In a subtle but very real sense, every Lua function is an anonymous function.
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most macros don't actually do anything other than pure transformation of their arguments. It's almost always safe to run them during static analysis, except you don't know for sure
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Metaprogramming in a language creates fundamental obstacles to static analysis of its code.Their words
Languages with metaprogramming tend to put up fundamental hurdles to static analysis
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Nothing to HideTheir words
Mind candy thriller, somehow equally about a serial killer and about secrets in marriage. (Previously in this series.)
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Dark CountryTheir words
Mind candy horror/mystery, stalking and being stalked by the somewhat-supernatural serial killer, with extensive local color for contemporary South Africa. There are rough patches, but it's a perfectly enjoyable specimen of this type of novel. It's obviously the set-up for a series, and I'm not sure I need to follow these characters, but I would be happy to read more by Snyman.
30 December 2023
29 December 2023
From one piece My Automated Vehicle Safety Prediction for 2024 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The Cruise debacle of the last few months proved (once again; remember Uber ATG?) that it only takes one company doing one ill-advised thing to hurt the entire industry.
My Automated Vehicle Safety Prediction for 2024safeautonomy.blogspot.com
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At a higher level, the real event was a catastrophic failure of the industry's strategy of relentlessly shouting as loud as they can "Hey, get off our case, we're busy saving lives here!"
My Automated Vehicle Safety Prediction for 2024safeautonomy.blogspot.com
26 December 2023
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The Last InterviewTheir words
The Last Interview by Anthony Bourdain - There are some people who I often wish were still alive so I could have their take on things.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowTheir words
Tomorrow and tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - A gut punch of a book, beautiful and lyrical.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRueTheir words
A wonderful idea for a book and brilliant execution as she lives from Medieval France to modern day.
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Olga Dies DreamingTheir words
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez - Olga grows up in the Puerto Rican community in New York and becomes enormously successful as a wedding planner, but cannot manage her own relationships
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Neural Network Methods for Natural Language ProcessingTheir words
I also read a ton of technical books last year, but the most impactful one for me was Neural Network Methods for Natural Language processing by Yoav Goldberg
24 December 2023
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A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re GoingTheir words
Best books I read in 2023: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna
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The Two-Parent PrivilegeTheir words
Best books I read in 2023: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa S. Kearney
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The Cold War: A New HistoryTheir words
Best books I read in 2023: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa S. Kearney The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
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Keep the Aspidistra FlyingTheir words
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell This lesser known book from Orwell offers an illuminating glimpse into the arrogant, entitled, and self-pitying mindset of downwardly mobile elites.
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A Personal OdysseyTheir words
A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell My review here . Insights into the mindset required to climb out of poverty and remake one’s fortunes. A countervailing perspective from the above Orwell work.
23 December 2023
From one piece The pharma industry from Paul Janssen to today: why drugs got harder to develop and what we can do about it 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Biology is unpredictable, especially when the immune system is involved, and there is no guarantee that a drug that appears safe in animals will be safe in humans.
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The most significant factor preventing us from taking better molecules into clinical trials is not our ability to design arbitrary molecules, but our (lack of) understanding of underlying disease biology. In other words, we often know how to make something, but not what to make.
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The cost to discover and develop a drug today is orders of magnitude higher than in the 1950s. Despite this, the probability that a drug entering clinical trials will eventually reach the market has hardly improved in the intervening years.
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In reality, the productivity crisis in the pharmaceutical industry is the culmination of decades of just about every aspect of drug discovery and development getting gradually harder and more expensive.
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Such prolificacy is unlikely to be repeated any time soon; if current trends hold, a drug discovery scientist starting their career today is likely to retire without ever having worked on a single drug that makes it to market.
22 December 2023
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The OdysseyTheir words
Love the Iliad and Odyssey
21 December 2023
From one piece How Effective Altruism Lost Its Way 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Diverting attention and resources from global health and poverty is an enormous gamble, as it will make many lives poorer, sicker, and shorter in the name of fending off threats that may or may not materialize.
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The more effective altruism has absorbed itself in saving humanity, the less humanistic it has become.Their words
Strangely enough, as EA becomes more absorbed in the task of saving humanity, the movement is becoming less humanistic.
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A movement that has decided its job is to save humanity is uniquely prone to hubris, dogma and motivated reasoning.Their words
This is a worldview that’s uniquely susceptible to hubris, dogma, and motivated reasoning.
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Unlike other interventions EA has sponsored, there are scant metrics for tracking the success or failure of investments in existential risk mitigation.
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While there are interesting theoretical arguments for these causes, there’s a disconnect between an almost-neurotic focus on hard evidence of effectiveness in some areas of EA and a willingness to accept extremely abstract and conjectural “evidence” in others.
20 December 2023
19 December 2023
From one piece NLP Research in the Era of LLMs 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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recent LLMs are reaching the limits of text data online and repeating data eventually leads to diminishing returns
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In the near term, the largest models using the most compute will continue to be the most capable.
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Breakthroughs achieved with massive compute are typically achieved using it inefficiently.Their words
while massive compute often achieves breakthrough results, its usage is often inefficient.
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How Languages are LearnedTheir words
To that end, I read a few different books from the field of second language acquisition (SLA) over the summer, and even wrote a review of How Languages are Learned.
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The Science of Learning PhysicsTheir words
Mestre and Docktor tackle this challenge by reviewing the large body of literature on learning physics. I plan on writing a full review of their book, which I found to be a helpful summary.
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The RepublicTheir words
To my surprise, I really enjoyed The Republic. It is both well-written and weird, which puts it above many other famous philosophical books that are too obscure to be easily read.
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Social Learning TheoryTheir words
Social Learning Theory is a difficult book to summarize, but it has profoundly impacted my thinking.
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Beginning to ReadTheir words
Marilyn Jager Adams's extensive review of the literature concluded essentially the same thing in 1994.
From one piece Take Tesla safety claims with about a pound of salt 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Whatever safety gain a driver-assistance system delivers is cancelled out by the driver complacency it creates.Their words
suggests that any steering automation safety gains (e.g., Level 2 autopilot) are approximately negated by driver complacency, with autopilot on being slightly worse than autopilot off
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Any true safety improvement for Tesla is good to have, but is much more likely due to comparison against an "average" vehicle (12 years old in the US) which is much less safe than any recent high-end vehicle regardless of manufacturer, and probably not driven on roads as safe on average as where Teslas are more popular.
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To look back on a year of reading is to be handed a clear mirror of your priorities and passions, of the questions that live in you and the reckonings that keep you up at night.
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What Looks Like BraveryTheir words
She tells the story of those difficult, transformative learnings in What Looks Like Bravery
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How to Say GoodbyeTheir words
How to move through it is what my talented friend and sometime-collaborator Wendy MacNaughton explores in How to Say Goodbye
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Leaning toward Light: Poems for GardensTheir words
The garden as a place of reverence and responsibility, a practice of ample creative and spiritual rewards, comes alive in Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens
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Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of BeingTheir words
The secret pulse-beat of joy is what Jean-François Beauchemin explores in Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being
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The AskingTheir words
For half a century, Jane Hirshfield has been slaking the world's soul on poems of perspective and consolation, fusing her Buddhist training, her passion for science, and her tenderness for all things living.
18 December 2023
From one piece Performance engineering, profilers, and seeing the invisible 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A profiler measures time already spent in an operation, not how much time would be saved by optimizing it.Their words
a profile tells you how much time a program spent in a given operation; but not how much time it would spend if you optimized that operation.
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Profilers show where time is spent but not which of that time can feasibly be reduced or is worth optimizing.Their words
Profilers can only show you "what is there"; skillful performance engineering requires understanding the information that shapes and informs the profile but is "not there" in the profile itself.
14 December 2023
From one piece Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The only interesting problem is dramatically reducing the cost of access to orbit, which is, if you can do that, you open up a bunch of new endeavors that lots of start-up companies everybody else can do. One of our missions is to be part of this industry and lower the cost to orbit, so that there can be a renaissance, a golden age of people doing all kinds of interesting things in space.
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Efficiency and invention are sort of at odds, because real invention, Not incremental improvement... Incremental improvement is so important in every endeavor, in everything you do, you have to work hard on also just making things a little bit better. But I'm talking about real invention, real lateral thinking that requires wandering, and you have to give yourself permission to wander.
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If you think about the good old days, they're mostly an illusion. In almost every way, life is better for almost everyone today than it was say 50 years ago or 100 years ago. We live better lives by and large than our grandparents did, and their grandparents did, and so on. And you can see that in global illiteracy rates, global poverty rates, global infant mortality rates. Almost any metric you choose, we're better off than we used to be.
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Yeah, the only way to get to that vision is with giant space stations. The planetary surfaces are just way too small.
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I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have, at any given time, 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins. That our solar system would be full of life and intelligence and energy.
13 December 2023
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If I were forced at gunpoint to guess, I'd say that human-level AI seemed to me like a slog of many more centuries or millennia
Their words now
I was wrong, of course, not to contemplate more seriously the prospect that AI might enter a civilization-altering trajectory, not merely eventually but within the next decade.
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precisely because smart people do devote brain-cycles to these possibilities, the rest of us have correspondingly less need to.
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I accepted what’s turned into a two-year position at OpenAI, thinking about what theoretical computer science can do for AI safety.
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If I were forced at gunpoint to guess, I’d say that human-level AI seemed to me like a slog of many more centuries or millennia (with the obvious potential for black swans along the way).
Their words now
I was wrong, of course, not to contemplate more seriously the prospect that AI might enter a civilization-altering trajectory, not merely eventually but within the next decade.
11 December 2023
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Words Without MusicTheir words
Any Glass fan is going to want to read this, I think. But it’s not problem-free.
10 December 2023
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WorkplaceTheir words
Instead of meetings, I used Workplace posts (Meta’s internal version of Facebook Group posts) to share thoughts, start discussions, and make announcements.
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Witch KingTheir words
Witch King is really well-crafted. The combat scenes are explosive.
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The Kaiju Preservation SocietyTheir words
These are blasts of pure fun, with razor-sharp dialog
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Starter VillainTheir words
These are blasts of pure fun, with razor-sharp dialog
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The Saint of Bright DoorsTheir words
It’s as colorful as anything I’ve read in years. I really enjoyed that
9 December 2023
From one piece Food, land, work and rent: the real story of Vallis Veg 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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wherever in the world can be found the cheapest assemblage of land, labour, energy and capital to produce a given food commodity, that will be a preferential site of its production.
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In my opinion, normal market economics is incentivising the wrong things. I think its preference for horse liveries or campsites over vegetables and other local food production will lead us to disaster
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My wife and I have averaged a joint annual income of £5,500 from the market garden over the last ten years.
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One clue to the difficulties I faced, if I hadn’t been too naïve to see it, is that almost nobody works in small-scale, local, agroecological market gardening in Britain and most other rich countries. There’s a reason for that.
8 December 2023
7 December 2023
From one piece Stop Demanding Dumb Answers To Hard Questions 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Demanding simple answers to hard questions is itself a political harm, not just an intellectual one.Their words
The stubborn thirst for simple answers to hard questions is bad for America.
Stop Demanding Dumb Answers To Hard Questionspopehat.substack.com
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Whether calling for the genocide of a group breaches a university's harassment policy genuinely depends on context.Their words
If you think the question “is calling for the genocide of a group against your policy” is an easy question with a one-word answer, you’re wrong.
Stop Demanding Dumb Answers To Hard Questionspopehat.substack.com
6 December 2023
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Opportunity solution trees help product trios: Resolve the tension between business needs and customer needs
5 December 2023
From one piece EMNLP 2023 Primer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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LLMs are still limited in non-English settings and that making LLMs more multilingual is an important direction.
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In light of the increasing number of closed-source LLMs, it is important to continue to promote an open culture of sharing knowledge, data, and software, from which the NLP community has benefited greatly.
3 December 2023
From one piece Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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That was originally one of the hopes of Large Hadron Collider. I’d say at this point, it would be very unlikely given what they’ve already accomplished, but there are these underground detectors, xenon detectors that look for dark matter coming in, and they are going to try to achieve a much stronger bound than exists today.
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A far-fetched idea earns its place in physics only when you can go out and look for its observational consequences.Their words
That’s also why I like the dark disk because there’s a scientific story behind it. As far-fetched as it might sound, you could actually go and look for the experimental consequences, for the observational consequences to test whether it’s true.
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The interesting thing is that if some of the dark matter does radiate, and I like to call it dark light because it’s light that we don’t see, but dark matter would see. It could radiate that and then it could perhaps collapse into a disk the same way ordinary matter collapsed into the Milky Way disk.
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In fact, I would say it’s more surprising that the matter that we know about is constitutes as big a fraction of the universe as it does. We’re limited, we’re human. The fact that we see 5% of the energy density of the universe, about one sixth of the energy density in matter, that’s remarkable.
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It is dark matter, not ordinary matter, that drives galaxy formation; ordinary matter just comes along with it.Their words
In fact, dark matter is in some sense more important because it can collapse more readily than ordinary matter because ordinary matter has radiative forces, which makes it hard to collapse on small scales. Actually it’s dark matter that drives galaxy formation and then ordinary matter comes along with it.
1 December 2023
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BackblazeTheir words
Cloud: entire computer remotely backed up to Backblaze
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TwingateTheir words
Twingate - for remote access
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Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700Their words
Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700
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Logitech ERGO K860 Wireless Ergonomic KeyboardTheir words
Logitech ERGO K860 Wireless Ergonomic Keyboard
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Anker 777 Thunderbolt Docking StationTheir words
Anker 777 Thunderbolt Docking Station
30 November 2023
29 November 2023
From one piece Lant Pritchett, economist: ‘Negativity around migration is the last breath of a moribund system’ 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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When you separate those two questions in public dialogue, the negative attitudes disappear.
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Governments should create three tracks for people who come to live in their country. One track is that of people who hope to become Spanish. Another is that of those who we are going to allow to live and work here; the third is that of those of we are going to allow to be in Spain out of necessity.
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But once the demographics reverse, the challenge will be to find a person for every job. In the coming years, the impact of demographic changes is going to lead to chronic labor shortages.
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Without immigrants Spain’s labour force falls from 22.6 to 15.7 million by 2050, far too few to run its economy.Their words
In the absence of immigrants, between 2020 and 2050 Spain’s labor force (its active population) will drop from 22.6 to 15.7 million people. You’re not going to fill all the jobs needed in a modern and sophisticated economy like that of Spain’s with 15.7 million people.
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Hostility to migration is the last gasp of a dying system rather than the shape of the future.Their words
The negativity around migration is the last breath of a moribund system and the transition to a more realistic approach.
28 November 2023
From one piece In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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These skewed priorities are the exact problem that effective altruism exists to solve - or the exact inefficiency that effective altruism exists to exploit, if you prefer that framing.
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruismastralcodexten.com
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Movements are coalitions. Sometimes this means different people with different priorities choose to work together. But other times it means the same people tend to share both priorities.
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruismastralcodexten.com
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EA has done a great job working on this (see list of accomplishments above), and I think the AI and x-risk people have just as much to be proud of as the global health and animal welfare people.
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruismastralcodexten.com
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And I notice that the tiny handful of people capable of caring about 200,000 people dying of neglected tropical diseases are the same tiny handful of people capable of caring about the next pandemic, or superintelligence, or human extinction.
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruismastralcodexten.com
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I think EA’s track record of accomplishments vs. scandals is as good as any of them, maybe better.
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruismastralcodexten.com
27 November 2023
26 November 2023
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Mars Sample Return as designed is too complicated, too slow and too expensive to succeed.Their words
The brief summary is that MSR’s architecture, pictured below, is incredibly complicated, slow, and expensive.
What is going on with Mars Sample Return?caseyhandmer.wordpress.com
23 November 2023
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ObsidianTheir words
Depending on your goals, needs, and tolerance for customization, Obsidian might be the perfect choice for you.
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TanaTheir words
I encountered much the same experience as I did with Obsidian: too much complexity, most of it front-loaded and unavoidable, making it difficult to get to the task of writing.
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MemTheir words
I liked Mem’s editing experience within notes because it resembled word processing, without extra steps getting in the way. But I found the app otherwise surprisingly lacking in basic functionality, despite its polished appearance.
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EvernoteTheir words
If you look at the sheer number of different methods for getting content into Evernote, it becomes clear how difficult it will be to replicate this functionality.
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How to Switch From Evernote to ObsidianTheir words
I recommend checking out Nick Milo’s video How to Switch From Evernote to Obsidian if that’s you.
From one piece What do I do with these songs? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The only thing a maker really controls is telling the good work from the bad; what arrives is not up to them.Their words
Where we do have control is in identifying which is which.
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But I have come to understand that the feeling of creative control is an illusion, that the songs are predetermined and have their own destiny, that they are not our own.
From one piece My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Up 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In my view, too many critics of “cancel culture” are recklessly promoting not the speech of the powerless, but the censorious resentment of the powerful.
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com
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“Your criticism violates my right to free speech” is a fatuous but common American sentiment.
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com
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Refusing to advertise on a platform is protected expression, not an attack on the platform owner's free speech.Their words
Elon Musk’s sullen yawp amounts to a claim that he has a right for companies to sponsor his speech, no matter what he says. That’s nonsense, both legally and philosophically.
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com
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Not the End of the WorldTheir words
His life and work have influenced my own tremendously—and just a few pages into Ritchie’s essential and hopeful new book, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, it became clear that she was carrying on his tremendous legacy.
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The Song of the CellTheir words
If I had been able to read The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee in school, I might have fallen in love with biology a lot earlier.
19 November 2023
17 November 2023
From one piece John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Economic interdependence does not prevent war, because survival always trumps prosperity.Their words
The point is that economic interdependence at its root has prosperity as the core variable. In the realest story, the core variable is survival, and survival always trumps prosperity.
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Whether a state is a democracy or an autocracy makes no difference to how it behaves abroad.Their words
A realist like me would say that it doesn't matter whether a state is a democracy or not, all states behave the same way because the structure of the system, getting back to our earlier discussion about international anarchy, the structure of the system leaves those states no choice, whether they're democracies or autocracies.
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States are not inherently aggressive; anarchy leaves them no choice but to behave aggressively.Their words
So it's very important to understand that I'm not arguing that states are inherently aggressive. My point is that as long as states are in anarchy, they have no choice but to behave in an aggressive fashion.
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A state's power rests on two material foundations only: the size of its population and its wealth.Their words
The two key building blocks of power are population size and wealth. You want to have a lot of people and you want to be really wealthy.
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I believe that power is the currency of international relations, and by that I mean that states are deeply interested in the balance of power and they're interested in maximizing how much power they control.
16 November 2023
From one piece The Looking Glass: How to tell if work is beautiful 4 beliefs · lg.substack.com
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Better design does not mean more design. Often, the most obvious designs are invisible.
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Obviousness comes from conforming to people’s existing mental models. Don’t waste time reinventing common UI patterns or paradigms unless they are at least 2x better, or you have some critical brand reason to do so.
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If the people a product is designed for cannot generally agree that the design is good, it is not good.Their words
If you cannot get a group of people for whom your product is designed for to generally agree that your design is good, it’s not good.
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Do not judge a product’s beauty by its aesthetics; judge it by how it made you feel.
15 November 2023
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The Vagabond’s WayTheir words
Best travel book I’ve ever read! Shook my soul many times. Tiny “daily meditation” format, with lots of quotes from others, but wow what wonderful insights. They make me yearn to travel again. Love love love these ideas and perspectives so much.
12 November 2023
10 November 2023
From one piece Permitting Reform Or Death 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There is almost no lower-impact use of low-value land than covering it with solar panels.Their words
In summary, it is hard to imagine a lower impact use of low-value land than solar development.
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Delay in permitting clean energy kills more Americans every year than the September 11 attacks did.Their words
The terrorist attacks on 9/11 killed 2996 people in a day of singular horror. Our ongoing indifference to regulatory inefficiency, considering only the area of green energy development, kills more people every year – more than 10 people per day, and that’s only within the US.
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The primary driver of increased impact, longer time scales before displacement, and catastrophically high levels of avoidable pollution is environmental protection regulations.
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The binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.Their words
Yet solar development is hopelessly snarled by dozens of different development regulations which begin with the assumption that it will permanently and severely harm the environment unless proven otherwise, at exhaustive length.
9 November 2023
From one piece Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Look, I think I would just recommend do not send the flower of Ukrainian youth to die in trenches, whether he talks to Putin or not, just don’t do that. Whoever goes on the offensive will lose massive numbers of people and history will not look kindly upon them.
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So generally, I think we obviously want to prioritize civilizational risks over things that are painful and tragic on a local level, but not civilizational.
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So really the question is like for every Hamas member that you kill, how many did you create? And if you create more than you killed, you’ve not succeeded. That’s the real situation there.
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So the counterintuitive thing here, I think that the thing that I think should be done, even though it’s very difficult, is that I would recommend that Israel engage in the most conspicuous acts of kindness possible
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People think of nature as perhaps some sort of peaceful thing, but in fact it is not. There’s some quite funny Werner Herzog thing where he is in the jungle saying that it’s basically just murder and death in every direction. The plants and animals in the jungle are constantly trying to kill each other every single day, every minute. So it’s not like we’re unusual in that respect.
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If the future is like the past, this implies that debt rollovers—that is, the issuance of debt without a subsequent increase in taxes—may well be feasible. Put bluntly, public debt may have no fiscal cost.
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Across advanced economies, the celebrated ( r - g ), i.e., the difference between the interest rate and the growth rate, appears to have durably changed sign or, at a minimum, to have gone from a substantially negative number to a number closer to zero.
From one piece If markets are right about long real rates, public debt ratios will increase for some time 2 beliefs · piie.com
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Thus, once current debt has been refinanced and the average interest on debt reflects the higher long rates, absent changes in policy, debt ratios will increase.
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It is fair to say that, while economists expected the short end of the yield curve to reflect the higher rates needed to win the fight against inflation, the sharply steeper long end of the yield curve in the last few months has come as a surprise. I shall freely admit that I did not predict it.
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One thing that drives me crazy about the React ecosystem, and more specifically "tech influencers" and "thought leaders" in the space, is the infantilization of the developers using and working in it. I’m tired of reading takes like TypeScript generics, mapped types, etc should only be needed and used by library authors for most use cases. Or today’s discourse; Don’t use `useCallback’, ‘useMemo’, and React.memo. If you’re building anything beyond a simple CRUD app or a an incredibly focused app with few features, you _will_ need these features.
4 November 2023
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The VulnerablesTheir words
Sigrid Nunez's novel The Vulnerables: Nunez's most famous novel, The Friend, was what you get when you take autofiction from a well-established NYC writer and add a big, friendly dog.
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Family MealTheir words
Bryan Washington's novel Family Meal: Bryan is the great millennial fiction writer of food, among many other talents. His descriptions of cooking and meals are fantastically rich, as much for the food itself as for the social and emotional exchange involved.
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Stay TrueTheir words
Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True: This book is now out in paperback, and you probably don't need me recommending it (it won a Pulitzer), but it is fantastic.
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ZojirushiTheir words
Turn on the rice cooker for normal or quick cooking (I have a Zojirushi, either setting works).
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Palm Beach FinlandTheir words
Mind candy: black comedy crime fiction / murder mystery, in rural Finland. I enjoyed both the comic darkness and the convincing happy endings all around. (At least, happy by the characters' own lights...) My first Tuomainen, but I'd read more if they crossed my path and I was in the right mood.
30 October 2023
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From one piece Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress (with 24 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Despite evaluations, we cannot consider coming powerful frontier AI systems "safe unless proven unsafe". With current testing methodologies, issues can easily be missed. Additionally, it is unclear if governments can quickly build the immense expertise needed for reliable technical evaluations of AI capabilities and societal-scale risks. Given this, developers of frontier AI should carry the burden of proof to demonstrate that their plans keep risks within acceptable limits.
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Without sufficient caution, we may irreversibly lose control of autonomous AI systems, rendering human intervention ineffective. Large-scale cybercrime, social manipulation, and other harms could escalate rapidly. This unchecked AI advancement could culminate in a large-scale loss of life and the biosphere, and the marginalization or extinction of humanity.
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For AI to be a boon, we must reorient; pushing AI capabilities alone is not enough. We are already behind schedule for this reorientation. The scale of the risks means that we need to be proactive, as the costs of being unprepared far outweigh those of premature preparation.
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Society's response, despite promising first steps, is incommensurate with the possibility of rapid, transformative progress that is expected by many experts. AI safety research is lagging. Present governance initiatives lack the mechanisms and institutions to prevent misuse and recklessness, and barely address autonomous systems.
25 October 2023
From one piece Adversarial Attacks on LLMs 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Universal adversarial trigger attacks are easy to detect because the learned trigger tokens tend to be nonsensical.Their words
One drawback with UAT (Universal Adversarial Trigger) attacks is that it is easy to detect them because the learned triggers are often nonsensical.
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High perplexity makes an attack more vulnerable to be detected and mitigated.
From one piece Age of Invention: Lessons from the Rise of Coal 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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“lots of anonymous people just invented through trial and error and adaptation” just doesn’t cut it for me — I’ve never found such stories to be true upon closer investigation.
Age of Invention: Lessons from the Rise of Coalageofinvention.xyz
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Yet lime is a huge blind spot for economic historians, despite it increasing the productivity of what was still by far the largest portion of the economy: agriculture.
Age of Invention: Lessons from the Rise of Coalageofinvention.xyz
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The Dutch Republic’s Golden Age did not fail because it lacked energy sources.
Age of Invention: Lessons from the Rise of Coalageofinvention.xyz
24 October 2023
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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New TycoonTheir words
Going Infinite is awesome. I would have been happy with my decision on the basis of any one of the following:
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Most people who love the Next.js app directory would also love Remix nested routing, for many of the same reasons.Their words
Most people who love the next.js app directory would also love remix nested routing for many of the same reasons.
19 October 2023
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From one piece The Techno-Optimist Manifesto 2 beliefs · a16z.com
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We believe technology is a lever on the world – the way to make more with less. Economists measure technological progress as productivity growth: How much more we can produce each year with fewer inputs, fewer raw materials. Productivity growth, powered by technology, is the main driver of economic growth, wage growth, and the creation of new industries and new jobs, as people and capital are continuously freed to do more important, valuable things than in the past.
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There is no material problem, whether created by nature or by technology, that cannot be solved with more technology.Their words
We believe that there is no material problem – whether created by nature or by technology – that cannot be solved with more technology.
15 October 2023
From one piece Orbitals 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's important to look around you for solutions instead of accepting the current unavailability of options.
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Reading even one book on a niche topic sharply shrinks the number of people you can discuss it with.Their words
Most people don't read books. If you read a book on a topic (say, clouds, or Italian furniture), you can now only communicate on that topic with 1 in 10 to 1 in 100 people.
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you should be frightened of smart people who don't read. They're the ones that build Jurassic Park, or send all the dentists to build a dam.
12 October 2023
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Meat substitutes have to become clearly cheaper than meat, not merely as cheap, before most people will switch.Their words
Meat substitutes need to be quite clearly cheaper, especially if we want them to break into middle- and low-income markets.
11 October 2023
10 October 2023
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Finite and Infinite GamesTheir words
So abstract. Maybe the most abstract book you’ll ever read. Compares “finite” games with rules and winners, versus “infinite” games without winners where we can play with the game itself. Is it about a job versus a calling? Religion versus spirituality? A story versus story-telling? Who knows. Thought-provoking if you can apply the metaphor to whatever concerns you.
From one piece Multimodality and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A model that can effectively learn from bitstrings or bytestrings will be very powerful, and it can learn from any data mode.
Multimodality and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)huyenchip.com
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Image is the most versatile input modality for a model, since it can represent text, tabular data, and audioTheir words
Image is perhaps the most versatile format for model inputs, as it can be used to represent text, tabular data, audio, and to some extent, videos. There's also so much more visual data than text data.
Multimodality and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)huyenchip.com
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Text is a more powerful output modality for a model than images, because text supports many downstream tasksTheir words
Text is a much more powerful mode for model outputs. A model that can generate images can only be used for image generation, whereas a model that can generate text can be used for many tasks: summarization, translation, reasoning, question answering, etc.
Multimodality and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)huyenchip.com
4 October 2023
From one piece The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But while I have seen no evidence (and Chris provides none) that higher food prices alleviate global hunger, there is a wealth of evidence that they exacerbate it.
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Local self-provisioning cannot feed the world, because most people do not live within reach of enough fertile land.Their words
They show that, while agrarian localism might be great as far as it goes, it simply cannot, by itself, meet the challenge of feeding the world.
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Long-distance food transport is what stops a local harvest failure from becoming a famine.Their words
But without long-distance transport, many more would starve.
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Raising yields on land already farmed is what keeps farming from taking more of the wild world.Their words
It was achieved almost entirely through higher crop yields per hectare.
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In 2023, a world of 8.1 billion people suffers far less hunger and famine than the world of 3.2 billion did in 1963, the year of my birth.
3 October 2023
From one piece A Fertility Reckoning 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It seems to me that an attractive robust approach is to have governments pay lots for kids (at no cost or risk to them!) and then let those who respond to these incentives tell us which compromises seem most attractive.
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the most likely identifiable scenario by which fertility will rise again is via the growth of currently-small insular high-fertility subgroups like the Amish and Orthodox Jews
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Its main causes are tied to deeply held modern values that have been pushing us in this direction for most of this time across most of the world.
1 October 2023
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Returns for performance are superlinear rather than proportional across most domains that matter.Their words
One of the most important things I didn't understand about the world when I was a child is the degree to which the returns for performance are superlinear.
From one piece GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I am myself skeptical that there is a clearly defined notion of who “the right people” might be, and thus I am on public choice grounds far more skeptical of government than Keynes was.
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I view Keynes’s bisexuality and his strong interest in gay sex as a significant cause of what made him interesting and which gave him so strong an ability to grasp different and outside perspectives.
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I often like to say that all thinkers are regional thinkers, namely they are indelibly shaped by the circumstances they grew up in
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I don’t view Keynes primarily as an economist, rather I see him as a British aesthete rationalist who did economics in his spare time, and fortunately he had lots of spare time.
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And indeed overall that interaction fits with my more general reservation about Friedman: he wanted to make economics just a little bit too simple.
29 September 2023
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From one piece Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Open sourcing a foundation model creates significantly more value than the risk it carries.Their words
I think at this point there's the value of open sourcing, a foundation model like Llama 2. It's significantly greater than the risks in my view.
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I don't think we necessarily want there to be one big super intelligence. We want to empower everyone to both have more fun, accomplish their business goals, just everything that they're trying to do. We don't tend to have one person that we work with on everything, and I don't think in the future we're going to have one AI that we work with.
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Screens, books, art and board games are all better as holograms you can summon and dismiss than as physical objects.Their words
I mean, any screen that you have can be a hologram, any media, in any book, art. It can basically be just as effective as a hologram, as a physical object. Any game that you're playing, a board game or any kind of physical game, cards, ping pong, things like that, they're often a lot better as holograms.
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By the end of the 2020s, walking into a room will mean seeing as many holograms as physical objects.Their words
And in that world, I think that there are going to be, not too far off, maybe by the end of this decade, we'll be living in a world where there are as many holograms when you walk into a room as there are physical objects.
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The real world is not the physical world; it is the physical and digital worlds coming together into one experience.Their words
And I kind of think increasingly, the physical world is super important, but I actually think the real world is the combination of the physical world and the digital worlds coming together.
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Nasty, Brutish and ShortTheir words
Nasty, Brutish and Short, is the most accessible and fun book on philosophy you'll encounter this year.
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King: A LifeTheir words
King: A Life, is a clear and direct biography of one of our greatest citizens.
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Nothing Is Missing: A Memoir of Living BoldlyTheir words
My friend Nicole has written a provocative, funny and honest memoir. Nothing Is Missing: A Memoir of Living Boldly. I'll be interviewing her in NYC on October 9.
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MisbeliefTheir words
Dan Ariely's book Misbelief is a must-listen for anyone trying to understand how social dynamics are changing the way some people see the world.
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Kafka on the ShoreTheir words
Years later, Kafka on the Shore remains one of my favorite all-time audiobooks. It's an extraordinary story, beautifully told.
25 September 2023
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From one piece What I learned from analyzing 300 particle size distributions for 24 espresso grinders 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Burr geometry matters more than burr size for how uniform and unimodal a grinder's output is.Their words
It therefore appears that burr geometry may be more important than burr size in determining unimodality and uniformity.
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Grinders that produce fewer fines (more unimodal) also tend to produce more uniform particle sizes.Their words
Contrary to popular hearsay, more unimodal grinders appear to also be more uniform on average.
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Conical burrs tend to be less unimodal and less uniform than flat burrs, though the two overlap a lot.Their words
Conical burrs appear on average less unimodal and less uniform, although there is a large overlap meaning that one can easily find a specific flat burr that is less unimodal and less uniform than a specific conical burr.
From one piece Quantum Confusions, Cleared Up (or so I hope) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The collapse postulate cannot simply be discarded without replacement instructions for measurements.Their words
As we just saw, one cannot just discard the Collapse Postulate. For this reason, if one does calculations in any Many Worlds approach, one must effectively replace the Collapse Postulate by other assumptions, notably about what happens to observers and/or measurement devices when worlds branch.
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Decoherence has not yet satisfactorily solved the measurement problem and does not restore local causality.Their words
while decoherence has the potential to solve this aspect of the measurement problem, it hasn't yet been satisfactorily done. Decoherence also certainly does not return us to Local Causality.
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Violations of Bell inequalities reveal only properties of models, not of nature itself.Their words
Since Local Causality is a property of a model, observing violations of Bell's inequality cannot tell us anything about nature itself, but merely about the properties of the model that we use to describe nature.
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The Copenhagen Model-and because of that, the Copenhagen Interpretation-is not locally causal in Bell's sense.
18 September 2023
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ChatGPT Custom InstructionsTheir words
Using Custom Instructions properly can completely transform your experience with ChatGPT.
14 September 2023
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Less than half their revenue comes from game engines. Over half comes from advertising.
13 September 2023
From one piece Self-exfiltration is a key dangerous capability 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If a model was capable of self-exfiltration, it would have the option to remove itself from your control.
Self-exfiltration is a key dangerous capabilityaligned.substack.com
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Moreover, model exfiltration is likely impossible to reverse.
Self-exfiltration is a key dangerous capabilityaligned.substack.com
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Pulsar dripperTheir words
After years of development, I'm super happy to report that the dripper I dreamed of for so long is finally out!
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Lvl-10 dripperTheir words
I was super excited when I saw the Lvl-10 dripper, because it was very close to what I wanted to achieve, and as I expected, it performed very well in terms of extraction quality.
10 September 2023
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Objective KnowledgeTheir words
The first thing I would do is start meditating, and then I would read, concurrently I would read Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper.
7 September 2023
From one piece Read terrible books, too 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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What you want to avoid, I think, is mediocre writing, which neither thrills nor instructs.
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Reading bad work is instructive as well as reassuring, so a maker should not read only the good stuff.Their words
Yes! Reading bad writing not only boosts one’s confidence, it can be very instructive.
5 September 2023
From one piece Biofuels: the US could switch to electric cars and solar power on just a fraction of the land 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Growing food to put in cars is a mistake at a moment when the world should be farming less land, not more.Their words
The world’s croplands are still expanding. At a time when we should be using less land for farming, allocating high-quality farmland to grow food that we then put into cars is a mistake.
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We worry about the land solar needs while ignoring how wastefully the world already uses its farmland.Their words
While we fret over the amount of land needed for solar, we are often blind to how inefficiently we have used the world’s farmland.
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You can drive about 150 times as far from a solar-powered electric car compared to using corn bioethanol.
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Biofuels have probably raised greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowered them, once the land they take is counted.Their words
They estimate that biofuels have increased emissions, not decreased them.
4 September 2023
2 September 2023
From one piece Why NYT’s Connections makes you feel bad 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A puzzle whose categories can only be seen by the broadly educated is elitist by construction.Their words
But it’s fundamentally elitist — it basically requires you to have a broad education to find the categories in the first place.
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Fundamentally, the game invites you to make guesses, but punishes you for them — and a missed guess doesn’t help you prune the logic space, only the trivia space.
1 September 2023
From one piece Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #394 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So if you think about entire all of nature, let's say all of living systems as a matrix that runs across two axes one is material sophistication, which is terribly relevant for designers, and the other is communication. The termites ace on communication, but their material sophistication is crap.
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So we keep coming back to this answer of nature wants to increase information, but decrease entropy. So find order, but constantly increase the information scale.
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The mycelial network is not the model for a connected nature, because it stops wherever there is a physical gap.Their words
Well, first of all, yes, they're connected, but that network stops when there is a physical gap. That network does not necessarily enable the whales in the Dominican to connect with an olive tree in Israel to connect with a weeping willow in Montana.
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Everybody talks about intelligence these days, but I like to think that nature has kind of wisdom that exists beyond intelligence or above intelligence, and it's that wisdom that we're trying to tap into through technology.
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I think that let's say from the beginning of mankind going back 200,000 years, the products that we have designed have separated us from nature. And it's ironic that the things that we designed and produced as humankind, those are exactly the things that separated us.
31 August 2023
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The evidence that driverless cars are already safer than human drivers is piling up, especially for Waymo.Their words
But the evidence for better-than-human performance is starting to pile up, especially for Waymo.
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Star KingdomTheir words
Buroker is a reliable author of very fluffy mind candy, either science fiction or fantasy. A lot of her output is re-working material from identifiable prior art, without hewing so closely to the canon as to constitute fan fiction.
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Spy IslandTheir words
Comic book mind candy, affectionately parodying several genres at once: glamorous spies, mysterious islands, etc.
30 August 2023
From one piece Farming Needs to Suck Less 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the solutions to our food and climate problems need to scale up absurdly quickly.
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Synthetic fertiliser is a serious climate and pollution problem and also the reason half the people alive are alive.Their words
They suck! But they also feed the world. Half the people alive today would be very not alive if fertilizers manufactured from natural gas weren’t super-sizing our harvests.
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Sony WH-1000XM3Their words
Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones. Best thing I bought in 2019.
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Kindle PaperwhiteTheir words
Kindle Paperwhite e-book reader, for when I don't have access to the print version of the book.
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Razer Viper UltimateTheir words
Razer Viper Ultimate With Charging Duck - Quartz mouse (pink version).
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Akko World Tour Tokyo 87-Key R1Their words
Akko World Tour Tokyo 87-Key R1 pink mechanical keyboard.
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Fujifilm X-T4Their words
Fujifilm X-T4 camera.
29 August 2023
From one piece Language models surprised us 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI progress is faster than people expect, and ordinary scaling can be enough to solve problems that looked very hard.Their words
This rapid scaleup will probably drive another qualitative leap forward in capability like what we saw over the last 18 months.
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Massively underestimating near-future progress could be very risky.
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Most importantly, ML experts and superforecasters both seem to be massively underestimating future spending on training runs.
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Most experts were surprised by progress in language models in 2022 and 2023.
From one piece Age of Invention: Does History have a Replication Crisis? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Historical myths are especially zombie-like. Even when disproven, they just. won’t. die.
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But I’ve become increasingly worried that science’s replication crises might pale in comparison to what happens all the time in history, which is not just a replication crisis but a reproducibility crisis.
25 August 2023
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19 August 2023
From one piece Seth Explains Consciousness 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It is unclear whether a digital emulation of a person could ever be conscious, even in principle.Their words
But it is not clear at all that such a being could even exist in principle.
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Free will does not require violating the laws of physics, yet the subjective experience of it is real and meaningful.Their words
There is no "spooky free will" that violates the laws of physics in our common model of them, but the experience of free will certainly exists and is informative.
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Color as perceived is not an objective property of objects, but a construct generated by the perceiving brain.Their words
Redness is not "objective" in the sense of being "in the object", it only exists in the models generated by the sort of brains which are hooked up to eyes.
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Being YouTheir words
I highly recommend that you read Being You, and then that you spend a good while thinking about it.
18 August 2023
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From one piece What does it mean to “trust science”? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Physics, chemistry and biology can point out problems, but we need history, economics and philosophy to solve them.
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There is no capital-S Science that can stand as an authority; there is only reasoning done systematically.Their words
There is no capital-S Science—a new authority to substitute for God or King.
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Even in that case, though, what we should trust is not the particular output of the scientific process at any given time. It can make wrong turns. Instead, we should trust that it will find the truth eventually, and that it is our best and only method for doing so.
15 August 2023
12 August 2023
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Reading the book had not changed my fundamental belief that, in balance, we were on a good trajectory with AI research: good for science and good for society with expected positive impacts in many domains.
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I now believe that I was wrong and short-sighted to ignore that dual-use nature. I also think I was not paying enough attention to the possibility of losing control to superhuman AIs.
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Instead of decades to centuries, I now see it as 5 to 20 years with 90% confidence.
11 August 2023
From one piece The Myth of the Individual 2 beliefs · terryreal.com
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Neurobiologists tell us that it takes two things to unlock and open up a neural pathway. The first is that the implicit must be made explicit. Sometimes you need help seeing what you don't see. But you must be open to the feedback. Second, there must be some sort of recoil, a sense of discrepancy, of "Oh no, I'm not sure I really want to keep doing that."
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Character is not fixed: therapy works because habitual neural pathways can re-form, sometimes within minutes.Their words
In my practice, I have seen that opening neural pathways can lead to profound change, to brand-new traits and behavior, sometimes in a matter of minutes.
10 August 2023
From one piece I work in the music industry and there is a lot of excitement around ChatGPT... what's wrong with making things faster and easier? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The struggle of making something is not an obstacle in front of the work; it is where the meaning comes from.Their words
It is our striving that becomes the very essence of meaning.
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ChatGPT is fast-tracking the commodification of the human spirit by mechanising the imagination. It renders our participation in the act of creation as valueless and unnecessary.
7 August 2023
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You cannot make America build subways ten times cheaper while only ever talking to Americans.Their words
You can’t change the United States from a country that builds subways for $2 billion/km in New York and $1 billion/km elsewhere to a country that does so for $200 million/km if all you ever do is talk to other Americans.
4 August 2023
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You Can Negotiate AnythingTheir words
Everything is negotiable. Challenge authority. You have the power in any situation. This is how to realize it and use it. A must-read classic from 1980 from a master negotiator. My notes here aren’t enough because the little book is filled with so many memorable stories — examples of great day-to-day moments of negotiation that will stick in your head for when you need them. (I especially loved…
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How Minds ChangeTheir words
The psychology of how and why we believe. How we learn and change. The craft of doubt and persuasion. Insights into the social definition of truth. Epistemology. Certainty is a feeling not based on facts. Well-written with a nice balance of story-telling and deeper dives.
28 July 2023
From one piece Microincentives and Enshittification 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Ranking first in a search has become near enough to being true, which is why search and spam are permanently at war.Their words
Google’s the first — and often the last — place we go to for answers, so snagging top billing in a Google search results page is, approximately speaking, equivalent to being “true.”
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The only way for Google Search to grow is to make itself worse.
23 July 2023
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How Religion EvolvedTheir words
Great anthropology! So many insights into religions, tribes, friendships, organizations, the evolution of minds, superstition, and more. Got me thinking most about friendships.
18 July 2023
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Unshackled: A Practical Guide For Highly-Skilled Immigrants To Thrive In The United StatesTheir words
breaks down how legal immigration works in America in a way that is friendly, accessible, and human
16 July 2023
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It is too early to know whether robotaxis are safer than human drivers where it counts, in fatal crashes.Their words
It is too early to know whether current robotaxi technology is safer than human drivers for fatalities.
AV Safety and the False Dilemma Fallacysafeautonomy.blogspot.com
14 July 2023
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Devil Take the HindmostTheir words
In the fall of 1999, against the backdrop of the massive gains being achieved in tech, media, and telecom stocks, I read Edward Chancellor’s excellent book Devil Take the Hindmost.
9 July 2023
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LunarTheir words
Lunar app is one of the best apps I've used to manage my monitors.
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SoundSourceTheir words
Get truly powerful control over all the audio on your Mac. I use SoundSource for a superior sound management and redirects.
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1PasswordTheir words
1Password is my password manager of choice. I've been using it for years and that's usually the first app I install in any new supported device.
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GrammarlyTheir words
I was born in Brazil and I've been living in the US for the past 11 years, yet, english doesn't feel like my first language. I use Grammarly to help me with that.
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Affinity SuiteTheir words
Affinity Suite is my go to for all my design needs. I use Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo.
7 July 2023
From one piece Are We Getting Rid of Product Managers? 2 beliefs · melissaperri.com
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Product management is not going away, but hiring product owners who just feed developers tasks should stop.Their words
I don’t think Product Management is going anywhere, but I do hope the days of hiring Product Owners who just feed developers tasks are done.
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Product management is merging with the GM role as more companies become software companies, not disappearing.Their words
As more and more companies become predominately software companies, I believe the Product Management role and GM roles are going to merge.
5 July 2023
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From one piece The Food Problem Is Bigger Than Lettuce 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But vertical farms are not technologies. They’re farms.
The Food Problem Is Bigger Than Lettucemichaelgrunwald.substack.com
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it’s going to be incredibly difficult, but also incredibly necessary, for the world to produce much more food with much less land.
The Food Problem Is Bigger Than Lettucemichaelgrunwald.substack.com
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Vertical farming swaps a land problem for an energy problem, and the energy cost is what stops it feeding the world.Their words
I explain why in the essay; the TLDR is that they’re energy hogs. The sun is a really awesome source of calories, and it’s kind of dumb not to take advantage of it.
The Food Problem Is Bigger Than Lettucemichaelgrunwald.substack.com
1 July 2023
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A Mathematician's ApologyTheir words
This idea I learned from Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology
30 June 2023
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SuperhumanTheir words
I’ve been a happy Superhuman subscriber since they were Silicon Valley’s hottest invite-only club, and I’ve been waiting for them to do something like this for a while.
29 June 2023
From one piece George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think we’re going to build super intelligence before we build any sort of robustness in the AI. We cannot build an AI that is capable of going out into nature and surviving like a bird. A bird is an incredibly robust organism. We’ve built nothing like this. We haven’t built a machine that’s capable of reproducing.
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We’re actually going to build that, I think, but it’s not going to be one static tape. I think the human brain is too complex to be stuck in one static tape like that. If you look at ant brains, maybe they can be stuck on a static tape, but we’re going to build that using generative models. We’re going to build the TikTok that you actually can’t look away from.
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When I talked about will GPT12 be AGI, my answer is no. Of course not. I mean, cross-entropy loss is never going to get you there. You need probably RL in fancy environments in order to get something that would be considered AGI-like.
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It is actually all their nuances and quirks and slight annoyances that make this relationship worthwhile. I don’t think we’re going to realize that until it’s too late.
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Whether time really exists does not matter; what matters is that time is a useful model for describing reality.Their words
I think time is a useful model, whether it exists or not. Right. Does quantum physics exist? Well, it doesn’t matter. It’s about whether it’s a useful model to describe reality.
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There is no correct list of best investing books, only the books that speak to a given readerTheir words
In the end, there is no "right" list of the best investing books. There are only those books that speak to you and those that don't.
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A Random Walk Down Wall StreetTheir words
If you haven't heard the argument for passive indexing (or haven't heard it argued well), then A Random Walk Down Wall Street is the book for you.
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The Psychology of MoneyTheir words
So when he decided to release his first book, The Psychology of Money , I knew it would become an instant classic. Thankfully, I was right.
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The Most Important ThingTheir words
Thankfully, Marks published a book called The Most Important Thing , where he lays out his investment philosophy through 20 timeless principles.
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The Money GameTheir words
Trust me on this one and go pick up The Money Game .
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Just Keep BuyingTheir words
My own book, Just Keep Buying , which expands upon many of these ideas.
26 June 2023
From one piece The Articulation Barrier: Prompt-Driven AI UX Hurts Usability 2 beliefs · jakobnielsenphd.substack.com
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GUIs have superior usability because they show people what can be done rather than requiring them to articulate what they want.
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Half the population in rich countries is not articulate enough in writing to use prompt-driven AI well.Their words
For sure, half the population is insufficiently articulate in writing to use ChatGPT well.
23 June 2023
22 June 2023
From one piece AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years 3 beliefs · jakobnielsenphd.substack.com
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Thus, the 2nd UI paradigm will survive, albeit in a less dominant role. Future AI systems will likely have a hybrid user interface that combines elements of both intent-based and command-based interfaces while still retaining many GUI elements.
AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Yearsjakobnielsenphd.substack.com
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I doubt that the current set of generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, Bard, etc., are representative of the UIs we’ll be using in a few years because they have deep-rooted usability problems.
AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Yearsjakobnielsenphd.substack.com
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The third UI paradigm, represented by current generative AI, is intent-based outcome specification. The user tells the computer the desired result but does not specify how this outcome should be accomplished, such as the steps to be executed. Compared to traditional command-based interaction design, this completely reverses the locus of control.
AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Yearsjakobnielsenphd.substack.com
20 June 2023
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Slouching Towards UtopiaTheir words
Slouching Towards Utopia offers one thought-provoking answer to the question that is worth taking seriously, and integrating into your thinking.
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The World Is FlatTheir words
I don’t know about you, but I personally feel starved of ambitious sensemaking frames for recent history that aren’t quite as silly as say Friedman’s World is Flat or Harari’s Sapiens, or quite as ideologically compromised as Graeber’s Debt.
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SapiensTheir words
I don’t know about you, but I personally feel starved of ambitious sensemaking frames for recent history that aren’t quite as silly as say Friedman’s World is Flat or Harari’s Sapiens, or quite as ideologically compromised as Graeber’s Debt.
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Debt: The First 5000 YearsTheir words
I don’t know about you, but I personally feel starved of ambitious sensemaking frames for recent history that aren’t quite as silly as say Friedman’s World is Flat or Harari’s Sapiens, or quite as ideologically compromised as Graeber’s Debt.
14 June 2023
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Anxiety and worry arise from dwelling on an imagined future rather than the present moment.Their words
Most of our fears begin to subside when we just allow ourselves to be in this moment, as anxiety and worry stem from a preoccupation with an anticipated or envisioned future.
10 June 2023
From one piece Whose dream bf is it anyway 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Whether one does find a good spouse or not depends more on one's orientation towards actually building relationships, and whether they can identify non-trivial traits in a partner that would contribute to that.
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It's not that looks and status don't matter, it's that focusing on looks and status as one's dating strategy is perfectly pointless.
7 June 2023
6 June 2023
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FoundationTheir words
Asimov’s Foundation books were a strong influence on me as a child
From one piece Why AI Will Save The World 3 beliefs · pmarca.substack.com
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I even think AI is going to improve warfare, when it has to happen, by reducing wartime death rates dramatically. Every war is characterized by terrible decisions made under intense pressure and with sharply limited information by very limited human leaders.
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The single greatest risk of AI is that China wins global AI dominance and we – the United States and the West – do not.
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My view is that the idea that AI will decide to literally kill humanity is a profound category error. AI is not a living being that has been primed by billions of years of evolution to participate in the battle for the survival of the fittest, as animals are, and as we are. It is math – code – computers, built by people, owned by people, used by people, controlled by people.
1 June 2023
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A world without mass child mortality does not have to be imagined, because rich countries are already living in it.Their words
I think we don’t have to imagine what a future could look like without this immense loss.
What does it mean when fewer people die?scientificdiscovery.dev
30 May 2023
From one piece RedwoodJS’ Next Epoch: All In on React Server Components 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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When it comes to React Server Components, it's still the first inning.
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RSC is the future of React. The React team has made this very clear and we are lucky to be in touch with their amazing team members to help us along this path.
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Building a secure, performant GraphQL API is tricky and adds real cost during early-stage app prototyping.Their words
While we love GraphQL for many use cases, implementing a secure and performant GraphQL API can be tricky and there is a definite cost to requiring it during early prototyping of your app.
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Samuelson was the one claiming realism.
Their words now
I no longer think the main substance of my earlier post was correct.
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Born in BlacknessTheir words
If you’re interested in learning more about the history of Africa, its central role in the world, and the ways in which both have been misunderstood in the West, I highly recommend Born in Blackness.
29 May 2023
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From one piece AI and the Hard Stuff 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But we do not have enough data and we do not have enough insight to use AI/ML to pick better targets that have a higher chance of succeeding in the clinic.
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There are no existing AI/ML systems that mitigate clinical failure risks due to target choice or toxicology.
23 May 2023
From one piece 10 Thoughts from the Fourth Trimester 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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this is the most personal of personal decisions and no one should ever try to pressure anyone else to have kids-it's way too big a thing to be anyone else's business.
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Expecting parents should be required to take a mandatory course before caring for a newborn.Their words
There should obviously be like a mandatory four-hour course every expecting parent has to take before they're actually in charge of a newborn.
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The problem is, when humans went bipedal, our pelvises got smaller, and as humans got smarter, our heads got bigger. So evolution had to get creative. Its solution: all human babies would be premies, born when they were still small enough to pass through a human pelvis.
21 May 2023
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing ProcessTheir words
McPhee is a spectacular writer.
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Levels of the GameTheir words
I’ve read many books about tennis, but it’s still my favorite
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String Theory: David Foster Wallace on TennisTheir words
coming in a close second
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Avid Reader: A LifeTheir words
If you want to understand that in-depth, grab a copy of Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb.
19 May 2023
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Building more housing in a city raises its local prices, because density is what people are moving there for.Their words, before
So empirically, as you move along the density spectrum from the empty North Dakota plain to Manhattan, housing prices go up.
Their words now
Although it wasn't a mistake to ask people to change my mind, I've mostly updated against believing the theory.
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So I can now state with confidence: beating out a crowded field, this is the worst book about quantum computing, for some definition of the word "about," that I've ever encountered.
17 May 2023
16 May 2023
From one piece I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If my class is so boring that I have to devise an additional carrot-and-stick system to get students to pay attention, the problem is my class is boring.
I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copexperimental-history.com
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Evaluation should be taken out of the classroom and given to people whose whole job it is.Their words
One solution is to separate instruction and evaluation. Let teachers be teachers and cops be cops.
I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copexperimental-history.com
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Grading flattens whatever is taught into what can be tested, and teaches students to ignore everything else.Their words
Evaluation forces me to flatten everything I teach into something that can be tested, and it encourages students to ignore everything that isn’t on the test.
I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copexperimental-history.com
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Instruction is collaborative: students want to learn, and I want them to learn, too. Evaluation is adversarial: students want the points, and I have to make sure they don’t get too many.
I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copexperimental-history.com
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Teaching and grading are two different jobs, and doing both at once makes a person worse at teaching.Their words
Grade harder, grade softer, grade with words rather than numbers, hide the grades entirely—none of it works, because the problem was never the grades themselves. The problem was trying to be both a teacher and a cop at the same time.
I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copexperimental-history.com
12 May 2023
From one piece Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The freedom that automation offers is freedom from the very involvement that makes a life meaningful.Their words
The liberation we are offered is a liberation from the very care-driven involvement in the world and in our communities that would render our lives meaningful and satisfying.
Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On Ittheconvivialsociety.substack.com
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Saving time and labour has become an unexamined imperative rather than a judgement made case by case.Their words
The problem is that “saving” time and labor have become default settings and social imperatives.
Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On Ittheconvivialsociety.substack.com
11 May 2023
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Ships are great at carrying bulky and heavy stuff with minimal cost and energy usage. We need a battery chemistry that leans into that and sacrifices performance to reduce cost.
Why Battery Powered Cargo Ships are Compellingaustinvernon.site
9 May 2023
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MacWhisperTheir words
MacWhisper is a little app I just discovered that changed the game for me when it comes to creating high quality subtitles for my videos.
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MimestreamTheir words
Mimestream feels like the Apple Mail app I’ve always wished Apple would make. It’s incredibly fast and fluid, it syncs instantly, and it supports all the keyboard shortcuts that you’d expect in a modern app
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PeteyTheir words
The app costs a few dollars up front and then has an optional subscription for unlimited requests, but I would recommend going directly to OpenAI’s developer dashboard, creating your own account, and copy/pasting your own API key into Petey.
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Readwise ReaderTheir words
is my favorite way to save things to read later, to actually read them, and to sync my highlights wherever I want.
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Apple MailTheir words
unlike Apple Mail, which seemingly uses shortcuts that made sense in 1995 and refuses to change.
8 May 2023
4 May 2023
From one piece Content Shaping 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI will soon let anyone consume any content reshaped into the timeframe, tone, voice and bias they choose.Their words
This isn't perfect, but soon it will be, and you will be able to listen to or read any content you want in the timeframe, tone, voice and bias of your choosing.
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The gap between what media covers and what actually matters, like real causes of death, is very large.Their words
The gap between reality and media is very large: The gap between cause of death and what people search for and read.
2 May 2023
1 May 2023
From one piece Why Chatbots Are Not the Future 4 beliefs · wattenberger.com
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I want to see more tools and fewer operated machines - we should be embracing our humanity instead of blindly improving efficiency. And that involves using our new AI technology in more deft ways than generating more content for humans to evaluate. I believe the real game changers are going to have very little to do with plain content generation.
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Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementation and evaluation. When I work with a chatbot, I'm forced to frequently switch between the two modes.
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Good tools make it clear how they should be used. And more importantly, how they should not be used.
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Chatbots are a terrible interface for large language models, because a text box has no affordances.Their words
Hopefully I've convinced you that chatbots are a terrible interface for LLMs. Or, at the very least, that we can add controls, information, and affordances to our chatbot interfaces to make them more usable.
30 April 2023
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From one piece Performance Excuses Debunked 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Performance-aware programming is a skill a working developer can learn in months rather than years.Their words
Learning basic performance-aware programming skills is something a developer can do in months rather than years.
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the logical conclusion would be that programmers need to take performance more seriously than they have been, not less!
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Software performance is central to long-term business success rather than a niche engineering concern.Their words
Software performance appears to be central to long-term business interests.
23 April 2023
From one piece Some mistakes I made as a new manager 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Neglecting maintenance of infrastructure over time makes it degrade faster and become costlier to repair later.Their words
unmaintained infrastructure degrades more quickly, and is more expensive to fix in the long run.
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People with little experience at a task often welcome a degree of close oversight, provided it is given thoughtfully.Their words
People with low task-relevant maturity appreciate some amount of micromanagement (if they're self-aware and you're nice about it).
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Manage projects according to the owner's level of task-relevant maturity.
20 April 2023
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On changing their mind
There's always a chance I might never see my family again. Because of that, I often regret it. It's usually best to keep options open.
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Removing your own ability to retreat is how you make yourself follow through on a hard change.Their words
I forbid myself from anything too tempting or addicting. I keep no cookies in my home. To prevent myself from falling off the wagon, I strap myself to the mast.
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Design is not the way it looks, or beautiful colors and animations. It's not the brand or the logo. It is how the product works. Designing is the the process of exploring and arriving at a solution. I believe all builders are designers.
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From one piece A design practice for social systems 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A big moment of realization for me is that most of the social sciences are not design practices.
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The job of a multiplayer designer is to grow a community, not to make gamified numbers go up.Their words
We are no longer in the business of delivering systems where players make gamified numbers go up.
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A designer’s obligation is to satisfy real human needs rather than to manufacture needs that pay.Their words
Every team should ensure they are fulfilling real human needs over merely inducing needs for profit.
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Extracting time and money from unhealthy users works in the short run and loses them in the long run.Their words
You may be able to extract time and money from unhealthy players in the short term. But long term, unhealthy players leave extractive services.
28 March 2023
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These are important principles, but they ignore the problems of sustainability, inequity, and bias. In addition, the emphasis is usually on the immediate issues, not the long-term impact. In other words, they describe the way we did things in the past, not the issues in this book, and not the way we need to do things in the future.
22 March 2023
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An AI can already earn an A on a university economics midterm, years earlier than informed forecasters expected.Their words
To my surprise and no small dismay, GPT-4 got an A. It earned 73/100, which would have been the fourth-highest score on the test.
15 March 2023
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Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving RelationshipTheir words
Stop working on yourself as an individual and start working on your relationship as a couple.
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The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love WorkTheir words
Terry shares five non-starters to avoid and practical strategies for bringing honesty, passion, and joy back to even the most difficult relationship.
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How Can I Get Through to You?: Reconnecting Men and WomenTheir words
How Can I Get Through to You? explores the causes of communication blocks between men and women.
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I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male DepressionTheir words
In it, Terry reveals how men can unearth their pain, heal themselves, restore relationships, and break the legacy of abuse.
7 March 2023
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My view is that it’s going to take more than this regulatory campaign to defeat dynamism in China.
Their words now
What I did not sufficiently appreciate is that a state that would so casually decapitate a sector like online tutoring would also have the will to visit catastrophe upon whole cities.
From one piece 2022 letter 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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China's technological competitiveness is grounded in manufacturing capability rather than in scientific research.Their words
Whereas the US has a track record of doing great science, China’s technology competitiveness is grounded in manufacturing capabilities.
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Beijing decided to partner with Russia, an imperial aggressor, when it is the US and Europe that have markets and technology.
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The Chinese state's famous capability is largely spent putting out fires it started itself.Their words
First, it increasingly resembles a crew of firefighters who bring extraordinary skill to dousing fires that they themselves ignited.
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Second, China’s problem is usually not too little state capacity, but too much.
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And on balance I believe we should think of the Chinese state today as an autocratic regime that is occasionally capable of economic pragmatism rather than a technocratic regime that slips occasionally into Marxist faults.
28 February 2023
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The programming practices taught as best practice are ruinous for performance and should not be followed.Their words
The ideas underlying the “clean” code methodology are almost all horrible for performance, and you shouldn’t do them.
26 February 2023
19 February 2023
From one piece Twiddler 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The problem isn’t the existence of intermediaries — it’s how much power the internet gives to intermediaries.
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A platform operator can effortlessly change the distribution of surpluses in an instant, while suppliers and customers have to engage in minute, time-consuming and unreliable Platform Kremlinology just to detect these changes, much less understand them.
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tech barons are ordinary mediocrities, no better and no worse than the monopolists that preceded them, and any differences come down to affordances in technology and regulation, not an especial wicked brilliance.
17 February 2023
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The biggest issue is probably that we don’t control neutral networks enough to be able to ensure AI doesn’t harm humans. We can’t even control AI to not reveal internal prompts.
From one piece A Short History of My Last Six Years 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Liberal societies currently face an existential risk that must be addressed to reach a better future.Their words
This book is my best crack at explaining what I think is an existential risk to liberal societies and what I think we need to do to get to that awesome future I used to be so excited about.
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There were a bunch of bad trends: Tribalism was flaring up everywhere, mass shaming campaigns were roaring back into fashion, politicians were increasingly clown-like, public discourse had become a battle of one-dimensional narratives.
12 February 2023
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Heal SquadTheir words
I spoke with @mariamenounos about the link between emotions and illness, and the importance of focusing on mental health, on her Heal Squad podcast. To listen to the full episode, please follow: https://t.co/XPIKAvi8tH
7 February 2023
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Experiencing sleepiness is normal and does not necessarily imply that you are undersleeping.
Their words now
Therefore, I realized that it’s very important to be as awake as possible and that my model of sleepiness where you can be “awake”, “sleepy” and “asleep” is dumb.
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A cultural focus on psychological health, meditation included, is one of the great obstacles to human progress.On changing their mind
I think meditation has been very good for me and that it would be very good for a lot of other people too.
5 February 2023
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From one piece I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This is how I frame it: if the effort required to replace or fork a dependency should it go unmaintained is measured in engineer-months, that’s a critical dependency and retaining its maintainers probably makes good business sense.
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As a project gets more popular in the ecosystem, the workload increases but the value of that project for the company stays the same, so resources don’t increase accordingly.
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Foundations, on the whole, do not pay the maintainers of the projects they exist to support.Their words
Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employees of large companies. Foundations on average don’t pay maintainers.
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Volunteerism is self-evidently not sustainable, as people’s life circumstances change.
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Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
This experiment started from the observation that despite being critical for the functioning of the Internet—and, by extension, the economy—the role of open-source maintainer has not yet found a sustainable manifestation.
1 February 2023
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Fluvoxamine probably treats COVID, at about 60-40, and doctors should be prescribing it on those odds.Their words, before
At this point I'd give it 60-40 it works.
Their words now
More recent studies have found fluvoxamine does not treat COVID.
30 January 2023
From one piece Cargo airships could be big 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Building a manufactured object at a high enough rate pushes its cost down toward the cost of its inputs.Their words
A high rate of production tends to drive costs down toward the cost of inputs.
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Designing your aircraft for the beachhead market is a huge distraction, particularly when there are certification costs that have to be paid for each new model.
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FAA certification is required before you transport anything for money.
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A small rigid-body airship for good physical reasons should not exist.
27 January 2023
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Likedrcmnd.app
fast.aiTheir words
https://course.fast.ai/ is a free course on deep learning with PyTorch. It helped me get started with deep learning, though I didn’t get that far.
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CryptopalsTheir words
Cryptopals – a set of exercises to learn cryptography by breaking it. Very fun.
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NightmareTheir words
Nightmare – an intro to reverse engineering. I did a few problems and it was really fun.
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
TinyWMTheir words
TinyWM is where I’d start if I wanted to learn how a window manager works
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Go standard library documentationTheir words
the Go standard library documentation is probably my favourite language reference
16 January 2023
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What ChatGPT is, in this instance, is replication as travesty. ChatGPT may be able to write a speech or an essay or a sermon or an obituary but it cannot create a genuine song.
14 January 2023
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The Fed needs PCE inflation to average 1.96% for the remainder of the decade in order to hit their AIT target.
Their words now
I assumed they intended inflation to average roughly 2% during the 2020s.
13 January 2023
12 January 2023
From one piece High Costs are not About Precarity 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Importantly, low-cost countries with more clientelism and politicization of the state tend to be more deferential to the expertise of engineers.
High Costs are not About Precaritypedestrianobservations.com
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Our best explanation is that the UK adopted what we call the globalized system of procurement, privatizing planning functions to consultants and privatizing risk to contractors, which creates more conflict; the UK also has an unusually high soft cost factor.
High Costs are not About Precaritypedestrianobservations.com
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Just giving more support to agencies in their current configuration is not going to help. To the contrary, it only confirms that profligacy gets rewarded.
High Costs are not About Precaritypedestrianobservations.com
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In fact, the worst cost blowouts are for the politically most certain projects; Second Avenue Subway enjoyed unanimous support in New York politics.
High Costs are not About Precaritypedestrianobservations.com
10 January 2023
4 January 2023
From one piece There's No Such Thing as Affordable Housing 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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These shifts in price without any physical change to the housing stock are by far the biggest part of the affordability story. They dwarf the impact of actual new construction.
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Affordability for the masses will live or die not by what we build this year or next, but by what happens to the price of homes that already exist, in which the vast majority of people live.
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Because affordability is not, and has never been, an intrinsic quality of a building.
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Adding chairs to the game—any kind of chairs—will tend to make the competition less cutthroat for the chairs already in play.
3 January 2023
1 January 2023
From one piece Why Not Mars 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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With our current capability, NASA would struggle to keep a crew alive for six months on the White House lawn, let alone for years in a Martian yurt.
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The International Space Station exists mainly to teach its builders how to build another space station.Their words
The ISS crew spend most of their time fixing the machinery that keeps them alive, and when they have a free moment for science, they tend to study the effect of space on themselves.
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A crewed spacecraft does no work: putting people aboard is what stops a mission getting anything done.Their words
In 2023, we simply take it for granted that if a rocket goes up carrying passengers, it’s not going to get any work done.
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Fifty years of miniaturisation have made robotic spacecraft better and cheaper explorers than astronauts.Their words
But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed the balance between robots and humans in space.
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The goal of this essay is to persuade you that we shouldn’t send human beings to Mars, at least not anytime soon.
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The more freedom a design gives people to interact, the more of that freedom will be abused.Their words
The more freedom you give players, the more they will abuse it.
31 December 2022
From one piece I am not a supplier 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If you use this, I owe you nothing. At all. We have no relationship. I put this up online on the condition that if you use it, all the risks are on you.
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But to do that, I am going to have to become a supplier. Which means you are going to have to start to pay me. A fair price, that we can negotiate. Under a different license.
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We are not suppliers. All the people writing and maintaining these projects, we are not suppliers. We do not have a business relationship with all these organisations.
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Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
Hell even worse, a lot of the libraries that underpin the fabric of what we all call the digital economy have trouble getting enough money to pay for food.
From one piece The Dark Forest and Generative AI 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Referencing obscure concepts, friends who are real but not famous, niche interests, and recent events all make you plausibly more human.
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Every time you find a new favourite blog or Twitter account or Tiktok personality online, you’ll have to ask: Is this really a whole human with a rich and complex life like mine?
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Easier said than done, but one of the best ways to prove you’re not a predictive language model is to demonstrate critical and sophisticated thinking.
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But I think the sheer volume and scale of what’s coming will be meaningfully different. And I think we’re unprepared.
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The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.Their words
These new models are poised to flood the web with generic, generated content.
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