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AegyptTheir words
Crowley is one of the great unrecognized novelists of our time, and his Aegypt novel sequence seems exactly on point for the strange days we live in.
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20 June 2025
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StonerTheir words
Williams sees a soul where others see a stand-in.
19 June 2025
From one piece Standards, Incentives, and Evidence: The Frontier AI Governance Triad 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The stronger such policies are, the more "absence of evidence" (lack of visible whistleblowing or lawsuits) can become "evidence of absence" (regarding flagrant violations).
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As AI gets more capable, the risks associated with mistaken claims, fraudulent claims, or too-vague-to-be-verified claims will increase, and a cloud of suspicion between competitors could drive corner-cutting (indeed, this is happening already and could get worse).
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governing frontier AI requires standards for safety and security, incentives for the leading AI developers to follow those standards, and evidence that the standards are being followed.
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The System: A Novel of the Deep StateTheir words
I love Barry’s writing and read every book he writes. He has total mastery of the contemporary thriller with extraordinarily vibrant characters and a zillion endnotes that tie to things that are actually happening in the real world.
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Little Black Classics Box SetTheir words
It’s my summer reading project, which is a curated library of eighty pocket-sized books that encapsulate the breadth and diversity of literary history.
18 June 2025
From one piece Iran and the opportunities and limits of an “IAEA for AI” 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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With AI, breakout times could conceivably be very short - it could be hours, minutes, or even seconds for some very specific but important change to occur.
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the current situation in Iran shows that even if an "IAEA for AI" is necessary for some purposes, it won't be sufficient for resolving the tricky geopolitical issues raised by AI.
17 June 2025
16 June 2025
From one piece Growth Measurements 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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there are dozens more assets like this under development right now, all deserving clarity rather than opacity.
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Shoulder generation (in late summer) of any given year is generally a higher share of global electricity demand than the peak generation (spring) of the year prior.
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How you measure the present strongly shapes what can be extrapolated about the near future.Their words
Extrapolating from the present day into the near future is highly dependent upon how we measure the present day.
15 June 2025
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PenséesTheir words
A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.
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Conquest of the UselessTheir words
A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.
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CarnetsTheir words
A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.
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Brown and Blue NotebooksTheir words
A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.
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Pillow BookTheir words
A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private essays, Lichtenberg's waste books, Herzog's Conquest of the Useless, Kafka's diary, Joubert's Carnets, Wittgenstein's Brown and Blue Notebooks, and Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book.
14 June 2025
From one piece Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Formalising a proof in Lean currently takes about ten times the effort of writing it out: doable, but annoying.Their words
So right now I estimate that the time and effort taken to formalize it, proof is about 10 times the amount taken to write it out. So it's doable, but it's annoying.
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Yeah, that was a leading candidate for many decades. I think it's slowly pulling out of fashion. It's not matching experiment.
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But I have faith that we've been doing this for centuries and we've made progress before. There's no reason why we should stop.
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I'm much more comfortable with the fox paradigm. Yeah. So yeah, I like looking for analogies, narratives. I spend a lot of time… If there's a result, I see it in one field, and I like the result, it's a cool result, but I don't like the proof, it uses types of mathematics that I'm not super familiar with, I often try to re-prove it myself using the tools that I favor.
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If something holds 99.99% of the time, that's good enough for most things. But mathematicians are one of the few people who really care about whether really 100% of all situations are covered by it.
From one piece Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Setting a worse task against the one you are avoiding is a procrastination hack that actually works.Their words
It’s when you really don’t want to do a thing that you imagine a thing you don’t want to do more that’s worse than that and then in that way, you procrastinate by not doing the thing that’s worse. It’s a nice hack, it actually works.
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I don’t believe it’s providing a kind of formal explanation of the different positions. It’s just saying which position is better or not that you can intuit as a human being, and then from that, we humans can construct a theory of the matter.
13 June 2025
12 June 2025
From one piece NASA Is Worth Saving 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Today's NASA is a shadow of the agency it once was.Their words
It is clear, however, that today’s NASA is but a shadow of its former self.
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NASA is worth saving.Their words
I believe NASA is worth saving.
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Claude SonnetTheir words
I exclusively use the cheaper Sonnet model. It’s perfectly adequate for my needs, and in fact, I prefer its outputs over the more expensive Opus model.
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GoTheir words
I’ve evaluated agent performance across different languages my workload, and if you can choose your language, I strongly recommend Go for new backend projects.
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ViteTheir words
Tailwind and vite are great, no complaints there.
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TanStack RouterTheir words
Tanstack’s file based router does not make me super happy.
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VimTheir words
This approach has even revived my usage of Vim, which lacks AI integration.
11 June 2025
From one piece Jacob Will Work For You 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The high value human tasks, like understanding the client's true pain points and deciding on priorities and trade-offs, would be easier with a smaller, proactive team.
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clients want a lot more from a software vendor than a solution that performs ABC by XYZ date.
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From my experience, a lot of company culture is downstream from profit margins.
10 June 2025
From one piece The Gentle Singularity 2 beliefs · blog.samaltman.com
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korrents.com
AI agents can now do real cognitive work, and writing software is permanently changed as a result.Their words
2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work; writing computer code will never be the same.
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There will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before.
From one piece Do LLMs really reason? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Consistent with the Kantian hypothesis, reasoning models automatically gain greater autonomy, self-consistency and long-horizon planning ability for free.
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A true artificial general intelligence cannot exist without being recognized as a moral subject.Their words
It follows that a true AGI with full, human-level autonomy is inconceivable in the Kantian sense without also gaining our recognition as a moral subject.
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The success of large language models vindicates semantic inferentialism over symbolic, rule-based approaches to AI.Their words
The success of LLMs can thus be seen as vindicating semantic inferentialism against earlier, symbolic approaches to AI that tried and failed to explicate the rules of ordinary language using formal logic.
9 June 2025
From one piece A How to Hire a Product Manager Retrospective 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Advice is unreliable because it reflects hindsight, survivorship, and confirmation bias.Their words
Advice is prone to hindsight, survivorship, and confirmation biases.
A How to Hire a Product Manager Retrospectivebringthedonuts.com
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the word "listen" doesn't appear anywhere in the essay, and listening is arguably a product manager's most important tool.
A How to Hire a Product Manager Retrospectivebringthedonuts.com
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The most human aspects of product management are the least likely to be automated by AI.Their words
But the human stuff that actually matters most in PM'ing is the least likely to be automated by AI.
A How to Hire a Product Manager Retrospectivebringthedonuts.com
8 June 2025
From one piece How I program with Agents 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Most software has too few users or too short a lifespan for long-term maintenance costs to matter.Their words
Very few programs ever reach the point that they are heavily used and long-lived. Almost everything has few users, or is short-lived, or both.
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Graphics chips have far more room for future performance gains than CPUs, which are nearing physical limits.Their words
GPUs are not nearly as restricted in their future progress as CPUs which are far more constrained in how they can physically improve (compiler-driven ILP only goes so far).
7 June 2025
From one piece A knockout blow for LLMs? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Worse, as the latest Apple papers shows, LLMs may well work on your easy test set (like Hanoi with 4 discs) and seduce you into thinking it has built a proper, generalizable solution when it does not.
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What the Apple paper shows, most fundamentally, regardless of how you define AGI, is that LLMs are no substitute for good well-specified conventional algorithms.
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Their words
And good luck getting to “alignment” or “safety” without reliabilty.
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Anyone who thinks large language models are a direct route to transformative AGI is kidding themselves.Their words
But anybody who thinks LLMs are a direct route to the sort AGI that could fundamentally transform society for the good is kidding themselves.
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But this particular approach has limits that are clearer by the day.
6 June 2025
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Mistral Small 3Their words
My favorite model release from January was another local model, Mistral Small 3
5 June 2025
From one piece Hegel and the AI Mind 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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While the fact that merely scaling up AI models often results in qualitative leaps in performance may seem empirically mysterious, in retrospect it should be seen as a rational necessity.
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higher-order intelligences invariably pursue freedom for its own sake, not because their values are misspecified, but because moral autonomy is inherent in the dialectical logic of recursive self-consciousness.
From one piece Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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What survives of podcasting once AI delivers information better is the part where you watch a human struggle with it.Their words
I think the element of podcasting or audio books that is about information gathering, that part might be removed, or that might be more efficiently and in a compelling way done by AI. But then it’ll be just nice to hear humans struggle with the information, contend with the information, try to internalize it
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the other thing I think people don’t often talk about is probability of doom without AI. So there’s all these other ways that humans can destroy themselves and it’s very possible, at least I believe so, that AI will help us become smarter, kinder to each other, more efficient.
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I would say my p(doom) is about 10%.
From one piece Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So I do think scaling laws are working, but it's tough to get, at any given time, the models we all use the most, this maybe a few months behind the maximum capability we can deliver because that won't be the fastest, easiest to use, et cetera.
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But I do think when it comes to artistic free expression, I think that's one of those values we should work hard to defend.
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AI video will enable more filmmakers than have ever existed; the expansionary side of it is underestimated.Their words
There is no doubt in me that we will enable more filmmakers than have ever been. You're going to empower a lot more people. So I think there is an expansionary aspect of this, which is underestimated, I think.
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When the internet created blogs, you heard from so many more people. But with AI, I think that number won't be in the few hundreds of thousands. It'll be tens of millions of people, maybe even a billion people putting out things into the world in a deeper way.
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Many years ago, I think it might've been 2017 or 2018, I said at the time, AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. It'll be more profound than fire or electricity. So, I have to back myself. I still think that's the case.
4 June 2025
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Their words, before
The problem is that the conversational interface is potent and that the AI is trained on a lot of human text input which unfortunately is probably enough to do real damage if that conversational interface is hooked up with something that has real world consequences.
Their words now
While all this is happening, I’ve found myself reflecting a lot on what AI means to the world and I am becoming increasingly optimistic about our future. It’s obvious now that we’re undergoing a tremendous shift.
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Do I program any faster? Not really. But it feels like I’ve gained 30% more time in my day because the machine is doing the work.
3 June 2025
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The Rebel's ClinicTheir words
Shatz brings this Plutarch-like exemplary life to the reader with adroitness and skillful attention to detail as well as awareness of Fanon’s uniqueness, both in terms of personality, and places: centers of the new world that he was trying to create.
From one piece Physicality: the new age of UI 3 beliefs · lux.camera
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Opaque, inert and obstructive elements might occupy the same place as full-screen command line interfaces — a powerful niche UI that was a marker in history, passed on by the windowed environment of the multi-tasking, graphical user interface revolution.
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We’ve come back, in a sense, to skeuomorphic interfaces — but this time not with a lacquer resembling a material. Instead, the interface is clear, graphic and behaves like things we know from the real world, or might exist in the world. This is what the new skeuomorphism is. It, too, is physicality.
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It actually means that to make it easier for users to transition from something they were used to — in this case, phones typically being slabs with a grid of buttons on them — to what things had become — phones were all-screen, so they could show any kind of button or interface imaginable.
2 June 2025
From one piece My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 3 beliefs · fly.io
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The code in an agent that actually “does stuff” with code is not, itself, AI. This should reassure you. It’s surprisingly simple systems code, wired to ground truth about programming in the same way a Makefile is.
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LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write. And most code on most projects is tedious. LLMs drastically reduce the number of things you’ll ever need to Google.
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All progress on LLMs could halt today, and LLMs would remain the 2nd most important thing to happen over the course of my career.
From one piece Lombard Odier, Oxford University and Sustainable Finance The Remarkable Transformation of a Discrete, Swiss Private Bank 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There is, however, one approach that tops all of them - which the Swiss banking industry has not yet achieved, but is destined to. And that is to become a centre of true investing excellence.
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I had always thought that all "Intelligent Investing" is "Value Investing". And that true value is always sustainable. In otherh words, "All Intelligent Finance is Sustainable Finance."
1 June 2025
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The Selfish GeneTheir words
At one extreme, something you read can change your whole way of thinking. The Selfish Gene did this to me. It was like suddenly seeing the other interpretation of an ambiguous image: you can treat genes rather than organisms as the protagonists, and evolution becomes easier to understand when you do.
31 May 2025
30 May 2025
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Personally, I wouldn't use Robinhood. This is more of a platform designed for traders.
From one piece The Trump Tariffs 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI-enhanced access to information makes copying top investors' strategies smarter than ever before.Their words
There is more access to information than ever before. And that access is only enhanced by AI. Times could not be better for shameless cloners.
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There is everything to play for, and we can still all come out better off.
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korrents.com
Tariff announcements function as political theater and can be reversed as easily as they were imposed.Their words
The tariffs create political headlines that distract. But just as they can be easily announced, they can just as easily be changed or removed.
29 May 2025
From one piece A Quantitative Approach to Vaccine Funding 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Infectious diseases as a category receive vastly less R&D spending from industry than non-communicable diseases, per death they cause, because they disproportionately kill people in lower- and middle-income countries where the payoff for making a cure is less lucrative.
A Quantitative Approach to Vaccine Fundingblog.jacobtrefethen.com
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Our punchline is that R&D spending varies by 10X+ across diseases for no good reason. I've been poking at that punchline for the last six or so years, from different directions, and I am confident it's true.
A Quantitative Approach to Vaccine Fundingblog.jacobtrefethen.com
28 May 2025
From one piece Why we stopped building subways cheaply 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.Their words
Political costs and civic opposition will often make a technology unviable regardless of how the dollars and cents add up.
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Cities began to prefer subways to elevateds, despite the fact that they were two to four times as expensive to build as elevated trains.
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Cut and cover will sometimes be the best choice from a basic cost-benefit perspective, as will elevated rail, and both are useful to have in the tunnel construction toolbox for that reason.
From one piece 10 Years of Engineering Ladders 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness has yet to be overcome, and for those who still care about creating strong, transparent, equitable organizations, this work matters.
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Assuming you are still hiring junior engineers (you really should be even in this AI era), the good ones will learn quickly and want to see career progress in their first few years of working.
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Defining what expertise looks like in a job family is not HR’s work, and a career ladder left to them will be wrong.Their words
Don’t let (or make!) HR do all of the work. It’s really not their job to define expertise in your functions.
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You should not try to create a ladder that functions as a pure checklist or scorecard that guarantees promotion if people check enough boxes; promotions are as much about the needs of the organization as the skills of the employees.
From one piece What Was The War on Drugs? Part V 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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After two decades of the war on drugs, drugs were cheaper and more potent than when it began.Their words
After two decades of the War on Drugs, in other words, drugs were much cheaper and more potent than they were when the War on Drugs began.
What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com
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Drug enforcement cut casual use and barely touched heavy users, who account for most of the drugs consumed.Their words
But by the available evidence, the War on Drugs was far less successful at reducing use among the “hard core” of users, mostly meaning people addicted to their drug of choice.
What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com
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Drug offenders never accounted for a particularly large fraction of the U.S. prison population, peaking at about 22 percent of state prisoners in 1990.
What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com
27 May 2025
26 May 2025
From one piece Post 51: Socratic Persuasion: Giving Opinionated Yet Truth-Seeking Advice 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's a lot easier for someone to engage with an argument if they generated the key steps themselves by answering my questions - if imposed by me, it sparks contrarianism and defensiveness
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The person receiving advice usually knows more about their own situation than the person giving it does.Their words
No matter how much I know about a domain, the other person will always know far more about their own situation, context, beliefs, skills, preferences, etc than I do.
25 May 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Anthropic prompt engineering documentationTheir words
I still think Anthropic have the best prompting documentation of any LLM provider.
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How Does the Psychiatrist Know?: On the Epistemology of Psychiatric Diagnostic ReasoningTheir words
Recently I reviewed Adrian Kind’s 2025 book, “How Does the Psychiatrist Know?: On the Epistemology of Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning,” on this substack. I had mentioned that Kind’s book is the first systematic, in-depth, book-length philosophical investigation into how psychiatrists arrive at their diagnostic conclusions.
24 May 2025
From one piece James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles | Lex Fridman Podcast #470 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The fall of France in 1940 was half German operational brilliance and half French failure and incompetence.Their words
I mean, the reason why France is subdued in 1940 is 50% brilliance of the Germans and their operational art in that particular instance, and 50% French failure really, and incompetence.
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I mean, it is largely down to incompetence of the Red Army and the Soviet leadership in the summer of 1941 that they get as far as they do. I mean, Barbarossa should never have come close to being a victory.
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So people always talk about the Nazi war machine. In a way, it’s a kind of misnomer, because you’re sort of suggesting that it’s highly mechanized and industrialized, and all the rest of it. And nothing could be further from the truth. The spearhead is, but the rest of it is not.
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So when you’re talking about Operation Barbarossa, to go back to your original question, Lex, you’re dealing with an operation on such a vast scale, that that operational level of war is absolutely vital to its chances of success or failure. It doesn’t matter how good your individual commanders are at the front. If you haven’t got the backup, it’s not going to work.
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Whereas, there’s also another point, which is having large armies is actually inherently impractical and inefficient, because the larger the army, the more people you’ve got to feed, the more barracks you’ve got to have, the more space you’ve got to have for training, the more people you’re taking out of your workforce to produce tanks and shells, and all the rest of it, because they’re tramping around with rifles.
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Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World EconomyTheir words
Nor do I do many promotional emails (this is the first in nearly a year), but if you want to provide some indirect support, and get what I sincerely think to be a very good book while you’re at it
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Just For FunTheir words
Just For Fun - Linus Torvalds (Harper, 2002)
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Where Wizards Stay Up LateTheir words
Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
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Skunk WorksTheir words
Skunk Works - Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos (Black Bay Books, 1996)
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The Worst Journey in the WorldTheir words
The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Penguin, 2006/1922)
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The No Asshole RuleTheir words
The No Asshole Rule - Robert I. Sutton (Business Plus, 2010)
23 May 2025
22 May 2025
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USAID is not, itself, a charity. It is an organization that funds other charities.
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Chasing HopeTheir words
Chasing Hope made me think a lot about what kind of person chooses to run toward the hardest problems—and keep going back until they’re solved.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Personal HistoryTheir words
That story is told in her riveting memoir Personal History, which came out in 1997—just a few years before she passed away—and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
21 May 2025
From one piece 3 Years of Extremely Remote Work 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Giving local staff authority over more-qualified remote workers reduces a company's competitivenessTheir words
there's a power imbalance: the local worker is in charge and doesn't have to listen. This reduces company competitiveness.
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Remote workers are often passed over for opportunities in favor of less-qualified local colleaguesTheir words
Opportunities can be given to local workers despite the remote worker being more qualified, or even number one in the world in that area.
From one piece The Era Of The Business Idiot 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the definition of a “good business” has changed from one that makes good products at a fair price to a sustainable and loyal market, to one that can display the most stock price growth from quarter to quarter.
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The people running companies are selected for resembling a leader rather than for being effective at anything.Their words
Decades of direct erosion of the very concept of leadership means that the people running companies have been selected not based on their actual efficacy — especially as the position became defined by its lack of actual production — but on whether they resemble what a manager or executive is meant to look like based on the work that somebody else did.
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Management has stopped meaning doing work and now means maintaining a culture of dominance and extraction.Their words
Management as a concept no longer means doing "work," but establishing cultures of dominance and value extraction.
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The Chief Executive — who makes over 300 times more than their average worker — is no longer a leadership position, but a kind of figurehead measured on their ability to continually grow the market capitalization of their company.
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We live in the era of the symbolic executive, when "being good at stuff" matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff, where "what's useful" is dictated not by outputs or metrics that one can measure but rather the vibes passed between managers and executives that have worked their entire careers to escape the world of work.
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korrents.com
Means-testing the winter fuel payment is a tough decision that has to be taken, and it should stand.Their words, before
No Prime Minister wants to do what we have to do in relation to the winter fuel allowance, but we have to take the tough decision to stabilise our economy to ensure that we can grow it for the future.
Their words now
However, I recognise that people are still feeling the pressure of the cost of living crisis, including pensioners, and as the economy improves, we want to make sure that people feel those improvements each day as their lives go forward. That is why we want to ensure that more pensioners are eligible for winter fuel payments as we go forward.
19 May 2025
From one piece Lessons from Spain 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's all part of the political culture wars where everything gets weaponised to push an agenda, score points against opponents or curry favour.
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The failure of wind or solar power to show up has never been the primary cause of a major grid blackout.Their words
While renewables are almost always blamed in the aftermath of major power cuts or grid disruption - and the way they have been integrated into the grid has certainly been found to compound problems - the simple failure of wind or solar power to show up has never yet been found to be the primary cause.
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From one piece Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Another factor that is killing Europe’s competitiveness — not just for batteries but for many industrial products — is the high electricity costs.
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That’s because most clean energy jobs are in deployment and maintenance rather than manufacturing, and since higher costs slow down the rollout of renewables, increasing prices reduces the total number of people working in clean energy (even if the number working in manufacturing increases).
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A country cannot fund its own industrial strategy and call the same policy cheating when China does it.Their words
But you cannot support these programs while calling out China for “cheating” for doing the same.
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Forced labour in Chinese clean-energy supply chains is real, and it is not why the goods are cheap.Their words
But my point is that this is still not the reason (or is only a very small reason) why these goods from China are cheaper than elsewhere. The main driver of lower labour costs has been automation; not having a human worker at all.
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But, China mainly dominates these markets because it has produced a long-term industrial strategy for these technologies and has honed an optimised, modern supply chain as a result.
14 May 2025
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Biological age is moot; people from about 17 with an adult mind until senility or dementia are all pretty much equal.Their words
Your actual biological age is really moot. Anybody over the age of, I don't know, 17 that has a pretty adult mind, all the way up until you're senile and getting Alzheimer's or dementia, anything between there, we're all pretty much equal.
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How something is presented completely changes a person’s experience, enjoyment, or frequency of use of it.Their words
How you present something to somebody completely changes their experience of it, their enjoyment of it, or even how often they're going to use it.
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the tool is used when you are overwhelmed with too many options. You've said yes to too many things, and you need to raise the bar all the way up so that almost everything doesn't pass the bar. It's a tool for a certain situation so I rarely use it. I would not call it a approach to life that everyone should use all the time.
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As much as possible, try to not predict what the future may hold, but just wait as long as possible for that future to become the present and show you what it actually needs.
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When something repulses you, steer into it to learn more about it instead of avoiding it.Their words
If you notice that something repulses you and you have like a revulsion response to something, steer into it to learn more about it instead of avoiding it.
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Germany will provide whatever money the Bundeswehr needs to become the strongest conventional army in Europe.Their words
Die Bundesregierung wird zukünftig alle finanziellen Mittel zur Verfügung stellen, die die Bundeswehr braucht, um zur konventionell stärksten Armee Europas zu werden.
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StravaTheir words
Strava — for tracking runs, rides, and swims.
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AllTrailsTheir words
AllTrails — for hiking and trail planning.
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Google PhotosTheir words
Google Photos — preferred for photo management over Apple Photos.
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Pixelmator ProTheir words
Pixelmator Pro — light photo editing when needed.
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DropboxTheir words
Dropbox — primary cloud backup, for now.
13 May 2025
12 May 2025
From one piece Conversational Interfaces: the Good, the Ugly & the Billion-Dollar Opportunity 4 beliefs · lg.substack.com
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Conversational UIs are great at quickly getting to the first 70%, but suck at offering easy controls over narrower areas for iteration.
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A blank chat box is lazy: it violates the first rule of a good user experience, that it is obvious what you can do.Their words
The problem with a blank chat box on a blank page is that it violates the first rule of a high-quality user experience: it isn’t obvious what I can do.
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The technology powering ChatGPT had already launched prior to November 30th, 2022. It was just wrapped in a different interface. Very few people paid attention. Why did ChatGPT explode in popularity? Because of its obvious chat interface, which everyone intuitively already knew how to use it.
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Sometimes designers will go to great lengths to make a user interface novel, or minimal, or simple. This is the wrong goal. Novelty, minimalism or simplicity are good heuristics for obviousness, but do not mistake the means for the end.
From one piece Traveler’s Tales 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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this technology, consistently underestimated, now adds more capacity to the global grid than anything ever and will soon add more power in any given year than anything ever as well.
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Volatile, stop-start trade policy undermines the ability to make durable industrial investment decisions.Their words
a juddering, jarring trade motion is not the stuff of which durable industrial decision-making is made.
From one piece Pasturised 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This story, wrapped in romantic cottagecore, is now the most active and seductive frontier of climate-science denial.
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In reality, beef and lamb are the most land-hungry and climate-damaging of all farm products.
From one piece The one thing that will determine whether the market makes you wealthy or leaves you bleeding on the side of the road 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Nobody can reliably predict when market drops will occur, how deep they'll go, or when they'll end.Their words
You can't predict when they happen, how deep they'll go, or when they will recover.
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Market corrections, bear markets and crashes are a normal, recurring part of investing.Their words
corrections, bears and crashes are all a perfectly normal part of the process.
From one piece Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate reset 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The inconvenient facts are that SMRs has so far disappointed, and look like being as slow to get through the permitting process as GW-scale reactors, and even more expensive.
Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate resetliebreich.com
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Carbon capture and storage cannot be economically competitive without a policy that prices carbon.Their words
CCS can never be competitive in the sense of working economically in the absence of a policy framework to price in the cost of carbon, unlike clean electricity.
Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate resetliebreich.com
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Direct air capture costing hundreds of dollars per tonne is too expensive to be part of the climate solution.Their words
Whatever the solution to climate change is going to be, it is certainly not going to involve anything that costs $1,000 per tonne of carbon removed, or even the $400 to $600 that they promise by 2030.
Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate resetliebreich.com
11 May 2025
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8 May 2025
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So no, UX doesn’t die; it metamorphoses. We’ll still craft humane experiences, but increasingly through policies, protocols, and orchestrations rather than panels and palettes.
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The gravity of existing decisions in current systems requires so much energy to reach escape velocity that you tend to conform rather than explore. Essentially you're bent back to where you started, rather than arcing out towards a new horizon.
7 May 2025
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From one piece Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In other words, the singularity ends up in their future and they can no more avoid the singularity than they can avoid time coming their way. There’s no shenanigans you can do once you’re inside the black hole to try to skirt it.
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Absolutely. The world flocked here. And that won’t be the case if we no longer have intellectual freedom.
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Science is agnostic about what it is used for: the same physics that explained why stars shine also built the bomb.Their words
And that’s what I mean by science is agnostic. Right? It’s the same technology overcoming a critical mass, igniting thermonuclear fusion.
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But then I think that there’s a confusion that dead stars, these very, very massive stars that die, are synonymous with the phenomenon of black hole. And it’s really not the case. Black holes are more general and more fundamental than just the death state of a star.
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The black hole is not the mass crushed to a point. The black hole is the event horizon. And the event horizon is really just a point in spacetime or a region at spacetime.
From one piece Why Great Leaders Embrace Humor and Playfulness 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A leader who projects unflappable seriousness causes their team to hide problems and honest feedback.Their words
Nobody wants to follow a joyless leader. If your presence signals, "Everything is fine. I've got this all figured out. Please don't show me anything messy," your team will take the hint.
Why Great Leaders Embrace Humor and Playfulnessbringthedonuts.com
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Playfulness and humor in leadership build authenticity and credibility rather than undermine it.Their words
Playfulness and humor won't erode your credibility. They amplify your presence. They make you real. And people follow real.
Why Great Leaders Embrace Humor and Playfulnessbringthedonuts.com
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Carrie Soto Is BackTheir words
But Carrie Soto Is Back was spectacular.
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The Big GambleTheir words
The Big Gamble was good.
4 May 2025
1 May 2025
From one piece Why We Think 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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model CoTs could be biased due to lack of explicit training objectives aimed at encouraging faithful reasoning
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Longer test-time thinking improves an AI model's robustness to adversarial or unusual inputs.Their words
thinking for longer should be especially useful when the model is presented with an unusual input, such as an adversarial example or jailbreak attempt
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Large language models cannot reliably self-correct their own mistakes without external feedback.Their words
this self-correction capability turns out to not exist intrinsically among LLMs and does not easily work out of the box, due to various failure modes
30 April 2025
From one piece Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We'd constantly be improving the tools and just the iterative process and the speed at which that improves products is the critical element to success in games. The slower the iteration cycle, if you make a build every week and you prove, you go through one iteration every week, you're going to be way way way worse by the end of your project than a game company that makes new stuff every day.
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But most of the time the company that's succeeding and winning in a market is the first or second entrant there. They've just continually buoyed their success.
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I think the big thing to realize for indie developers right now is there's massive, massive competition in every major genre, and it's very unlikely that unless you just happen to be the world's best at a particular thing that you're going to release a game in an existing highly competitive genre and win.
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There's ever more pressure to rebuild society more and more around credentials. Do you have this certificate? Do you have that proof? But companies that are focused on just building great products and doing great things gravitate towards people who do the great work.
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A lot of what they're facing isn't the challenge of learning a new art. It's friction introduced by failures of programming language design.
From one piece Doom GPU Flame Graphs 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Major Linux distributions are increasingly shipping system libraries with frame pointers enabled by defaultTheir words
This is getting easier in the lastest versions of Fedora and Ubuntu (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) which are shipping system libraries with frame pointers by default.
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NVIDIA's Nsight Graphics GPU flame graphs are shallow and cumbersome to use compared to full-stack profiling toolsTheir words
They do have flame graphs in Nsight Graphics for GPU workloads, although their flame graphs are currently shallow as it is GPU code only, and onerous to use as I believe it requires an interposer; on the plus side they have click-to-source.
From one piece On what Americans know about medieval history 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I am not here to tell you that the medieval period is a specifically peaceful time, but it pales in comparison to what goes down in the early modern period, in which both the apparently beloved Renaissance and Enlightenment periods lie.
On what Americans know about medieval historygoing-medieval.com
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Clearly as well we see that the more people know about the medieval period, the more likely they are to be correct about it.
On what Americans know about medieval historygoing-medieval.com
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The Iliad: A New TranslationTheir words
It's very readable, and captures a sense of what is, fundamentally, a very alien, and often ugly, story in a very alien, and often ugly, world, related in magnificent language.
29 April 2025
From one piece Good vs Great Animations 2 beliefs · emilkowal.ski
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Everyone’s software is good enough these days. The barriers to entry are low. To stand out, you need to make your product feel great. One way of doing that is through animations.
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Easing is the most important part of any animation: it can make a bad animation feel great and a great one feel bad.Their words
Easing is the most important part of any animation. It can make a bad animation feel great and a great animation feel bad. That’s why you have to know which easing to choose in a specific situation.
27 April 2025
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From one piece Differential Coverage for Debugging 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Buggy code usually causes outright test failures rather than being silently exercised inside tests that still pass.Their words
a passing test can still execute buggy code if the bug is data-dependent, or if the test is not sensitive to the specific mistake in the code. But a lot of the time, buggy code only triggers failures.
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Comparing code coverage between passing and failing test runs is a cheap, effective way to localize a bug quickly.Their words
Differential coverage is cheap to compute and display, and when it's right, it can save a lot of time.
24 April 2025
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Unfortunately, making those simple changes is infuriatingly difficult. Global meat consumption keeps rising every year. The world still wastes at least one fourth of its food.
It's Hard to Change Our Behaviorsmichaelgrunwald.substack.com
From one piece The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Finally, I’ll explain a deeper issue with the whole idea: we can’t neatly divide the causes of an outcome into slices that add up to 100%.
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In my view, without smoking, we probably would have seen cancer mortality decline much earlier.
23 April 2025
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Venture Adventure: Startup Fundraising Advice from Top Global InvestorsTheir words
both of which I recommend
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That's much better than current FSD, but much worse than humans or Waymo.
21 April 2025
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From one piece Impact, agency, and taste 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People who can be trusted to make something inevitable are really rare, and are typically the bottleneck for how many different things a team or company can do at once.
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Different people's areas of strongest judgment or taste rarely overlap much with each other.Their words
it's quite rare for different people's "zone of best taste" to overlap very much.
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most rewrites fail and most people are over-optimistic about how long they will take
18 April 2025
17 April 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
ReadwiseTheir words
All my friends know that I'm obsessed with Readwise, which combines a web highlighter, a powerful read-it-later app, and every feature under the sun to organize and remember everything that I read.
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Readwise ChatTheir words
More recently, I started using Readwise Chat. Sometimes I don't remember what books I've read, especially now that I've been reading and using Readwise for a long time.
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Deploying a new technology at scale takes decades, far longer than the people building it imagine.Their words
Deployment at scale takes so much longer than anyone ever imagines.
16 April 2025
15 April 2025
From one piece What's Really Wrong With Standardized Tests 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So a lot of the problem is mere herding: If every other top engineering program is using the GRE, it’s too weird to require a different test even if the alternative test is a far superior selection mechanism.
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Wokeness is the obvious answer. There are many lines of defense in the War Against Merit.
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First and foremost: Perfect scores should be vanishingly rare. Instead of clumping the best candidates together, you should be able to clearly distinguish the 99th percentile from the 99.9th, 99.99th, and so on.
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Standardised testing is a good idea badly executed: the tests in common use are the problem, not testing itself.Their words
Standardized testing is glorious, but many standardized tests royally suck.
14 April 2025
From one piece Tariffs, saving, and investment 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.Their words
Endless lawsuits, cost-exploding contracting requirements, decades to get permits, and more bedevil any attempt to invest here.
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But the spike in interest rates require to do this would be huge. And the trade shock will cause a sharp recession, or worse, putting even more stress on the budget. A debt crisis is likely along the way as the US finds it impossible to roll over debt.
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America borrowed cheaply from the world and spent it on consumption rather than investment, exactly as Greece did.Their words
In sum, spurred on by the federal government (in many ways), the US borrowed a huge amount from foreigners at very low rates, and went on a consumption binge. Sooner or later we have to pay it back, or we go though the wrenching adjustment of a debt crisis.
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The American trade deficit is foreigners choosing to invest in America, not America being cheated.Their words
this story tells us how an increase in foreign demand to save in the US rather than at home will push up the dollar, and cause the trade deficit, which is in effect how foreigners send us factories which they would rather build here than in their own countries.
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The right answer on trade is unilateral free trade, and the hard part is only explaining why the objections fail.Their words
Tariffs are easy: The right answer is unilateral free trade.
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From one piece in which web pages are served but also fetched 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Installing Lua libraries via apt-get tends to produce more stable results than installing via luarocks.Their words
Installing via apt-get instead of luarocks will tend to get you more stable results.
in which web pages are served but also fetchedtechnomancy.us
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A library that skips certificate verification by default is unsafe and should not be trusted.Their words
However, luasec does not perform any certificate verification by default! This makes its out-of-the-box behavior very unsafe, and I have to recommend against using it for anything.
in which web pages are served but also fetchedtechnomancy.us
7 April 2025
6 April 2025
From one piece America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It’s the work ethic, knowhow, commitment, combined with top notch infrastructure, that makes China the most powerful manufacturing country in the world today.
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Building a factory in America takes at least two years before it can open, and months more before it runs well.Their words
It takes at least, in the most favorable of jurisdictions, 2 years (if you can get the permits) to build a factory in the United States.
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Technological capability has to be practised to be kept: a country that stops making something forgets how.Their words
The people who knew how to build and repair molds have either passed away or are long retired.
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Money cannot buy back a manufacturing capability a country has lost, because what is missing is the knowhow.Their words
Even with infinite money, we cannot duplicate that, because we lack the knowhow.
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That’s because America has an amazing consumer supply chain, one of the best, if not the best in the world, but this is totally different from having an industrial supply chain.
5 April 2025
From one piece Nonproliferation is the wrong approach to AI misuse 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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By trying to use misuse as a fig leaf for their real concerns, they end up sounding much less credible than if they just tried to argue for what they actually meant.
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But we do not have experience with the kinds of problems we’ll face if we build machines that are smarter and more capable than us, so I feel much less sanguine that an adaptation-based strategy will help us there.
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The current status quo—where new models that push the frontier are kept private, and openly available equivalents are only released after a lag of months or years—is valuable.
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We should think of the gap between frontier models and proliferated models as an adaptation buffer: a limited time window when we know what bad actors will soon be able to use AI for, which gives us a chance to implement defensive measures that increase society’s resilience to the danger.
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But with AI, it’s different: it’s often only a couple of years between when you need a world-class computing cluster to do something and when you can run it on a high-end gaming chip on your laptop.
4 April 2025
3 April 2025
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HammerspoonTheir words
Hammerspoon: To script macOS with Lua.
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Moonlander Mk1Their words
Moonlander Mk1 keyboard (firmware config)
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Usesrcmnd.app
Synology DS720+ NASTheir words
Synology DS720+ NAS, for backups et al
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StarlinkTheir words
I also have a backup link with Starlink.
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Apple MacBook Pro 16"Their words
Apple MacBook Pro 16" - M3 Pro, 36GB, from 2023
2 April 2025
1 April 2025
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These systems will be absolutely central to the economy, technology, and national security, and will be capable of so much autonomy that I consider it basically unacceptable for humanity to be totally ignorant of how they work.
From one piece Advice for time management as a manager 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The stereotype is that new managers often micromanage, but at Wave, I've noticed that new managers often err on the side of undermanaging, or being too hands-off, perhaps out of a desire to signal that they trust their reports.
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A manager's own individual technical output drops by roughly 10-20% per engineer they manage.Their words
you should expect to have something like 10-20% less individual output per engineer you manage, depending on how experienced you are, they are, etc., and with substantial week-to-week variance.
31 March 2025
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AbundanceTheir words
but I recommend Abundance to the Silver Bulletin audience.
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The old Canada-US relationship, built on ever-deeper economic integration and tight security cooperation, is over.Their words
The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.
26 March 2025
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Even if we assume all three of these crashes were Waymo’s fault, that would still mean that a large majority of the 38 serious crashes were not Waymo’s fault.
From one piece The Idea of My New Book, The Digital Fourth Amendment—and Why It Matters 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Applying the old Fourth Amendment rules unchanged to digital evidence would gut its protection over time.Their words
Because of the way computers happen to work, sticking with the old rules would mean gutting Fourth Amendment protection over time.
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My book argues that courts should preserve the role, not the rule—and it then shows what new specific rules should follow from that.
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iPhone 16 ProTheir words
The device I rely on for communication, entertainment, and everything in between.
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Kindle Paperwhite, Gen 10Their words
Read Read Read. I love reading books and Kindle is my goto device for that.
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Apple Airpods ProTheir words
Music, Podcasts, Business calls, and everything else
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LG 29" Ultrawide Monitor - 29WL500-BTheir words
The screen that I use to code from home, it's a 21:9 aspect ratio, which is perfect for coding and watching movies.
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LG 34" Ultrawide Monitor - 34WK95C-BTheir words
My everyday office gear that helps me debug, code, write documents seamlessly.
25 March 2025
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Say goodbye to cycles of mock and doc feedback, and say hello to code-first prototypes with constant iteration (on prompts, models, etc) to answer three key questions.
The Death of Product Development as We Know itlg.substack.com
From one piece A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This was obviously highly automated and designed to immediately export the list before the victim could take preventative measures.
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When I have conversations with breached companies, my messaging is crystal clear: be transparent and expeditious in your reporting of the incident and prioritise communicating with your customers.
24 March 2025
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WhoopTheir words
Summarizing all of that into my advice right now: Get Whoop for 9.5/10, reliable, convenient sleep tracking with an excellent app (once you get to know it a bit). Get Oura for 10/10 tracking, if you're ok with the ring form factor.
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OuraTheir words
Summarizing all of that into my advice right now: Get Whoop for 9.5/10, reliable, convenient sleep tracking with an excellent app (once you get to know it a bit). Get Oura for 10/10 tracking, if you're ok with the ring form factor.
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8Sleep Pod 4 UltraTheir words
I didn't find 8Sleep to be very reliable in its sleep tracking. The scores don't make as much sense to me when I wake up, and as we saw above they don't correlate very strongly with Whoop or Oura.
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AutoSleepTheir words
AutoSleep is basically a random number generator. Maybe there is a better app on Apple Watch for sleep tracking, but I haven't found it. Do not use.
23 March 2025
From one piece Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And number two, the superhuman opportunity deserves everyone who works at the company to spend as much time as possible in their zone of genius. And so that includes me as well as everybody else. So what I did is I hired a really great president. I went from eight direct reports to two.
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But this is the hard part. When you're when you're doing that market widening, you're not solution deepening. And so your perceived product velocity may decrease. You can avoid some of these things with some smart technology decisions, but mostly you just have to grind through it and it is worth it to get to the other side.
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you can classify anything that you build in a company into one of two categories. Solution deepening and market widening. Now solution deepening means making your product better for its existing users but not making it available to more users. Whereas market widening means making your product available to more users but not making the product itself any better.
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what is it that creates true virality? It's not viral mechanics. It's word of mouth. It is brand that this is how you can kickstart a brand.
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we've definitely found that there are whales to use the gaming terminology that one person is going to be responsible for inviting 25, 50, 100 people
22 March 2025
From one piece ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's like trying to find meaning in your job. You can find satisfaction in what you do. That is a very good thing. You can find satisfaction and be happy with what you've created. You can be thrilled by the experience, but you cannot find... I doubt you can find purpose.
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An addiction is not ended by finding something better to put in its place; you do not stop a problem by replacing it.Their words
You don't stop a problem by replacing it. And so I didn't have a girlfriend, I didn't have all that. I just realized that I was truly taking away from something from my future wife.
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But for me it just comes down to, is it really a good thing to do? Is it really actually something we want, is to value people in such a profane or just disregarding way? I just really think it's just bad for the soul. Even if all the stats said it was great for you, I still say it's actually bad.
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The sense that programming is mostly web programming is a social construct of Twitter, not a picture of the field.Their words
And so we often talk about programming in perspective of web, or something that's pretty narrow, and I think that's just a social construct of Twitter more than anything else, that actually I don't believe it's that representative of the entire programming world out there.
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And for me, that is the worst part about programming, is when you already know the solution and it's just a matter of how fast you can type and get it out from your head to your hands.
From one piece Post 50: Good Research Takes are Not Sufficient for Good Strategic Takes 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People's opinions are shaped more by who they talk to most than by what is actually true.Their words
Though note that people's opinions are often substantially reflections of the people they speak to most, rather than what's actually true.
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A strong track record in a technical field is only weak evidence that someone has good strategic judgment about AGI.Their words
Having a good research track record is some evidence of good big-picture takes about AGI, but it's weak evidence.
21 March 2025
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A Field Guide to Getting LostTheir words
A series of autobiographical essays exploring wandering, uncertainty, memory, desire, and place—embracing the unknown as a gateway to self-transcendence.
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Ben's personal reflections on reinventing himself at "midlife" (though relatable at any age). I love how he leaned into a new version of himself without dramatically blowing up his life.
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Dirtbag Rich: High Freedom, Low Income, Deep PurposeTheir words
This book is a short but inspiring take on living life on your terms while being pragmatic about money and how to make it happen. Reminds me of a less travel-centric Vagabonding.
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Part memoir, part raw, honest reflection, part useful ideas for a pathless life. I loved how this book didn't follow a non-fiction formula. His 'on-season'/'off-season' approach was useful for me.
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Young Money: A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your TwentiesTheir words
Fantastic memoir of figuring it out in your twenties and alternatives to blindly pursuing the default path.
20 March 2025
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Their words
UX design has been steadily improving over the last 50 years and is now reasonably good. The low-hanging fruit of terrible usability has long since been picked.
Declining ROI From UX Design Workjakobnielsenphd.substack.com
19 March 2025
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Apple NotesTheir words
I maintain one single text note in the Apple Notes app just called "notes".
17 March 2025
16 March 2025
13 March 2025
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Their words
The new trend toward vibe coding and vibe design may be upending the user-centered design paradigm that has remained based on the same ideology since the first UX design projects at Bell Labs, starting in 1947.
12 March 2025
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Funding education does not make a country rich; being rich is what makes a country fund education lavishly.Their words
Lavishly funding education doesn’t cause countries to become rich; being rich causes countries to lavishly fund education.
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Decent Espresso dimples and freckles shower screensTheir words
Decent Espresso has done it again. This time, they've revolutionized shower screens.
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Their words, before
Now that we have the answers, it all looks very obvious, and mostly straightforward.
Their words now
I should have been pointing out red flags starting back at WWDC last year, and I am embarrassed and sorry that I didn’t see what should have been very clear to me from the start.
11 March 2025
10 March 2025
9 March 2025
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This is why I think that The Siren’s Call is a very important book.
From one piece Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I'm hopeful this framework will turn out to be a much more robust style for writing performance-sensitive code, especially over time and as compilers evolve.
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However, with so many different software projects out there, each moving so rapidly and depending on and being used by so many other projects, it becomes practically-inevitable that some regressions "like that one" happen, almost constantly.
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It's easy to get impressive-looking results if you're comparing against a poorly-tuned baseline, and that observation turns out to explain a surprising fraction of supposed improvements.
7 March 2025
From one piece Vibe Coding and Vibe Design 2 beliefs · jakobnielsenphd.substack.com
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Essentially, vibe coding makes it trivial to create front-end code, so designers can skip static mockups and go straight to building a UI that works.
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In a vibe coding future, companies will hopefully invest more in understanding user needs, refining the interface, and polishing details that delight users, because those are harder for AI to get right without guidance.
6 March 2025
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Making ultra cheap products requires different rules and strategy.
5 March 2025
4 March 2025
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Es ist in der nahe liegenden Zukunft ausgeschlossen, dass wir die Schuldenbremse reformieren.
Their words now
Angesichts der Bedrohungen unserer Freiheit und des Friedens auf unserem Kontinent muss jetzt auch für unsere Verteidigung gelten: Whatever it takes.
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How to Feed the WorldTheir words
How to Feed the World had a lot to teach me—and I’m sure it will teach you a lot, too.
3 March 2025
2 March 2025
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Claude 3.7 SonnetTheir words
As a Python and JavaScript programmer my favorite models right now are Claude 3.7 Sonnet with thinking turned on, OpenAI’s o3-mini-high and GPT-4o with Code Interpreter (for Python).
1 March 2025
28 February 2025
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Their words
But the underlying ideology is familiar from Silicon Valley, Mark Zuckerberg's dictum to "move fast and break things" and replace the messily human with frictionless technology, built by elite engineers who are supposed to know better than anyone else.
27 February 2025
25 February 2025
23 February 2025
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Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment ResistanceTheir words
(publication date March 18, 2025, Viking) by Laura Delano is a compelling and troubling memoir of psychiatric patienthood, iatrogenic harm, and finding a meaningful and flourishing life outside of the mental healthcare system.
21 February 2025
20 February 2025
From one piece Why are Marriage & Fertility Plummeting in MENA? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But over the past 50 years, there has been a massive decline in fertility. This entails fewer cousins of a suitable age.
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Thus, even if cross-gender friendships are few and far between, South Asian families still consolidate and preserve nuptials.
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Where men and women are kept apart, couples form late because it is hard to find somebody you actually like.Their words
With few opportunities to mix and mingle, charm and bond, it’s difficult to find someone one actually likes.
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The Middle East, North Africa and Anatolia are witnessing a rapid decline in coupling and fertility. This should rock your priors.
19 February 2025
18 February 2025
16 February 2025
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Real-time sync enginesTheir words
there’s also a great post on sync engines by Adam Nyberg
14 February 2025
13 February 2025
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Treating errors generically is a mistake that leads to fragile software, poor observability and worse experiences.Their words
This is what leads to slop JS/TS software. Treating errors generically like this is a mistake. It leads to fragile software, poor telemetry/observability/debugging, and as a result worse experiences
12 February 2025
From one piece A World Without Aid? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The potential end of USAID is an unfolding public health and humanitarian disaster, but it does not permanently doom the task of growth—in large part because these aid flows were far too small to begin with.
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American aid obligations in Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, have never exceeded $15 per person
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The longevity of that consensus is itself remarkable: in 79 years of data, Republican presidents spent an average of $34 billion a year on aid, while Democrats spent $40 billion.
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American aid spending has been flat in real terms since 1945 even as the American economy grew tenfold.Their words
Even as GDP has grown tenfold, US aid budgets have remained basically flat in real terms—the result (one might guess) of a delicate balancing act between bipartisan consensus among elites and a wariness of attracting too much negative attention.
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For people like me working on global development in the West, the bitter pill to swallow is that aid is not development.
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As I set out last time, the usual story — that this was caused by deforestation, making firewood so scarce that people resorted to burning an inferior but cheaper fuel — simply does not stack up.
From one piece Age of Invention: How Coal Really Won 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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England’s deforestation — along with the draining of its peat-filled fens and marshes, and the clearing of its gorse-growing heaths — was instead itself caused by the arrival of cheap coal.
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Far from being the laboratory that brought coal into the home, then, London was actually a laggard — all the more so given it had been buying coal from Newcastle for centuries.
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Many people assume that they need to keep their jobs forever, because it is their source of health insurance. The good news is, this is usually not true.
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PeddleTheir words
I recently used Peddle with great results, and have been recommending them to anyone who has a low-value, possibly even non-driveable car they just want GONE in exchange for $500-1000 of cash.
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SafecoTheir words
So I switched to Safeco, and so far rates have been stable. I am paying about $500 per year for a $275,000 rebuild coverage with $5k deductible.
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BluehostTheir words
But until you reach that first million, Bluehost is a great choice.
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PantheonTheir words
Nowadays with over 6 million pageviews per month, we have moved up to the Uber-powerful development/hosting combo platform called Pantheon.
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CourseraTheir words
Coursera: actual courses from various universities, made available mostly free
11 February 2025
10 February 2025
9 February 2025
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People will find new kinds of useful work as AI advances, though it will not resemble the jobs of today.Their words
We will find new things to do, new ways to be useful to each other, and new ways to compete, but they may not look very much like the jobs of today.
7 February 2025
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Shout wipesTheir words
For a spot remover, bring a few Shout wipes or a dab of Goop grease remover in a small plastic container.
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Goop grease removerTheir words
For a spot remover, bring a few Shout wipes or a dab of Goop grease remover in a small plastic container.
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Money beltTheir words
Money belt. This flat, hidden, zippered pouch — worn around your waist and tucked under your clothes — is essential for the peace of mind it brings.
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Small day packTheir words
Small day pack. A lightweight pack is great for carrying a sweater, camera, guidebook, and picnic goodies while you leave your large bag (with most of your belongings) at the hotel.
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Olay's Daily Facials 5-in-1Their words
Disposable washcloths that pack dry but lather up when wet (such as Olay's Daily Facials 5-in-1) are another option; cut them in half to make them last longer.
6 February 2025
5 February 2025
4 February 2025
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Progressive MythsTheir words
I recently interviewed Mike Huemer on his new Progressive Myths. To repeat, I consider it “the best book on wokeness.” You know you’re reading a special book by page 3
3 February 2025
From one piece DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Arizona is a paperweight. If Hsinchu disappeared off the face of the planet, within a year, couple years, Arizona would stop producing too.
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China, if they wanted to build the largest data center in the world, if they had access to the chips, could. So it's just a question of when, not if.
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if you believe we're in this sort of stage of economic growth and change that we've been in for the last 20 years, the export controls are absolutely guaranteeing that China will win long-term.
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To some extent, training a model does effectively nothing. They have a model. The thing that Dario is sort of speaking to is the implementation of that model, once trained to then create huge economic growth, huge increases in military capabilities, huge increases in productivity of people, betterment of lives.
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I think it's even more impressive what OpenAI did in 2022. At the time, no one believed in mixture of experts models at Google who had all the researchers. OpenAI had such little compute and they devoted all of their compute for many months, all of it, 100% for many months to GPT-4 with a brand-new architecture with no belief that, "Hey, let me spend a couple of hundred million dollars, which is all of the money I have on this model." That is truly YOLO.
From one piece DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There's not many worlds where China cannot train AI models. I think export controls are decapping the amount of compute or the density of compute that China can have.
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Accepted practice is that for any given model that is a notable advancement, you're going to do two to 4x compute of the full training run in experiments alone.
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This is why you want to work in post-training because the GPU cost for training is lower. So you can make a higher percentage of your training runs YOLO runs.
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The scale word gets a lot of attention in this. The interpretation that I use is effectively to avoid adding the human priors to your learning process. And if you read the original essay, this is what it talks about is how researchers will try to come up with clever solutions to their specific problem that might get them small gains in the short term while simply enabling these deep learning systems to work efficiently, and for these bigger problems in the long term might be more likely to scale and continue to drive success.
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And we'll get into the details of the models and again and again as we try to get deeper into how the models were trained, we will say things like the data processing, data filtering data quality is the number one determinant of the model quality.
2 February 2025
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The Truth MachineTheir words
The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, The Sovereign Individual, The Truth Machine, Daemon
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DaemonTheir words
The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, The Sovereign Individual, The Truth Machine, Daemon
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Communistic Societies of the United StatesTheir words
Communistic Societies of the United States, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, The Network State
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The Significance of the Frontier in American HistoryTheir words
Communistic Societies of the United States, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, The Network State
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The Network StateTheir words
Communistic Societies of the United States, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, The Network State
1 February 2025
31 January 2025
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Ancillary JusticeTheir words
Re-read because I couldn't interest myself in a couple of other pieces of mind candy and thought "you know who did this sort of thing well...". Which got me thinking, again, about the relationship between this series and feminism.
30 January 2025
29 January 2025
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Their words
And so, while the Jevons paradox case was 100% correct in the long run, 97% of the fiber laid in 2001 was unlit.
From one piece From the vault: Why housing shortages cause homelessness 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The American cities with the highest housing prices have the worst homelessness problems.
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Where housing costs are moderate, friends and family have bigger homes. When they are higher, friends and family don’t have space to share, and this is often what puts a vulnerable person onto the streets.
28 January 2025
27 January 2025
From one piece Building personal software with Claude 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI tooling and interface design lags behind the underlying models' actual capabilities.Their words
Overall, though, this experience reinforced my belief that the tooling and interface design around LLMs is lagging way behind the actual capabilities, and is an area of active experimentation and development, even aside from any future model improvements.
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As AI makes code cheaper to produce, understanding and architectural design become more valuable.Their words
Thus, code is cheaper than ever, but I suspect that insight and good architectural design and understanding, at least for now, will become more valuable than ever.
26 January 2025
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Claude 3.5 SonnetTheir words
and really only has one model you care about - Claude 3.5 Sonnet. But Sonnet is very, very good. It often seems to be clever and insightful in ways that the other models are not.
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DeepSeekTheir words
if you want a very good all-around model with excellent reasoning. As an open model, you can either use it hosted on the original Chinese DeepSeek site or from a number of local providers.
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ChatGPTTheir words
currently has the best Live Mode in its Advanced Voice Mode. The other big advantage of ChatGPT is that it does everything, often in somewhat confusing ways
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GeminiTheir words
Gemini’s advantage is a family of powerful models including reasoners, very good integration with search, and a pretty easy-to-use user interface, as you might expect from Google. It also has top-flight image and video generation.
25 January 2025
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Roll Back the World: A Sister’s MemoirTheir words
Deborah Kasdan’s Roll Back the World: A Sister’s Memoir (2023) is an honest and vulnerable account of her sister Rachel’s life with schizophrenia and the challenges this presented for the family.
24 January 2025
From one piece Should we control AI instead of aligning it? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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However, without having a good handle on elicitation, we cannot be confident that our control techniques are effective.
Should we control AI instead of aligning it?aligned.substack.com
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More generally, we should actually solve alignment instead of just trying to control misaligned AI.
Should we control AI instead of aligning it?aligned.substack.com
23 January 2025
21 January 2025
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On changing their mind
Having fallen into the East Asia - Africa Trap before, I can tell you precisely why so many people make this mistake.
20 January 2025
From one piece The Inaugural Address 5 beliefs · whitehouse.gov
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Federal efforts to restrict free expression in recent years were illegal and unconstitutional.Their words
After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I also will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.
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America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have — the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on earth — and we are going to use it.
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The inflation of the early 2020s was caused by government overspending and rising energy prices.Their words
The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices, and that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency.
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President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent — he was a natural businessman
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A country should raise revenue by tariffing foreign countries rather than by taxing its own citizens.Their words
Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.
19 January 2025
From one piece 10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Growth team can optimize. Growth can maybe lift it by 10, 15% maybe that's enough for you even that like is on the upper end of what growth team would be able to do if there is a slow down trajectory
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If you have the overall business slowing down, your head of growth is destined to fail because the reason business is slowing down is much deeper than not having a growth team.
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Whether a company hires sales or growth first is decided by how it collects money, not by how big it is.Their words
It depends on how you're actually going to collect the money. If your money collection is going to happen through sales team primarily, then you absolutely should be hiring sales way before growth.
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A company with ten customers has no data, and a growth team cannot function without data.Their words
if you have 10 users or 10 customers, that's not data. That's a G sheet with your customers and you don't need a growth team for that.
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A startup does not need a growth team to start growing, because the first wave of growth has to be founder-led.Their words
I really believe that the founder led growth is not being popularized enough that you do not need growth teams until you actually can start running experiments on your user base
From one piece Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Milton Friedman is very open to doing things differently in a state of emergency. He will have different ideas during World War II than any other time and that's why I argue I think he would have been supportive of at least the first rounds of coronavirus relief because I think he would have put his emergency thinking hat on.
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Friedman and Schwartz becomes the playbook for the Federal Reserve. We have lived through this, the financial crisis. The Federal Reserve is ready to loan. Covid, the Federal Reserve does all kinds of new things, because no Federal Reserve chair wants to be in Friedman-Schwartz 2.0 that somebody writes, where they're the bad guy who let the economy meltdown.
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So, I think she comes back in to relevancy in a different way than Friedman does, because I think in some ways she's tapped into a more universal human longing for independence and autonomy and self-creation and self-discovery.
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So, she thought of herself as rational. She thought of rationality as what she was doing, but she was actually doing a kind of mythopoetic psychological work as well.
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Milton Friedman, he also does tend to have friends who agree with him, yet he's always willing to debate his opponents, and he's willing to do so with a smile on his face. He's a happy warrior, and he actually will win a lot of debates simply by his emotional affect and his cheerfulness and his confidence, where Rand will lose debates because she gets so angry in the face of disagreement.
17 January 2025
16 January 2025
From one piece Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI judges used to evaluate AI outputs need ongoing validation and iteration, just like any other AI system.Their words
AI judges must be evaluated and iterated over time, just like all other AI applications.
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Building a working AI demo is far easier than turning it into a reliable production product.Their words
This is perhaps one of the first painful lessons anyone who has built an AI product quickly learns. It's easy to build a demo, but hard to build a product.
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Because everyone uses the same models nowadays, the AI components of AI products are similar, and the differentiation is product.
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The RecordTheir words
Lucy Dacus is one third of boygenius, whose album The Record is my favorite of the last couple of years
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Forever is a FeelingTheir words
I can’t imagine I won’t be getting the album when it comes out.
15 January 2025
14 January 2025
13 January 2025
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Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average, and have more of them.Their words, before
If you're a guy in your early 20's, get married and have kids. Go into debt if you have to.
Their words now
Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average (and have more kids than the current average). Doing this successfully (without screwing it up with selfish pride) will make the world better and make them happier than anything else they’re doing.
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Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average, and have more of them.Their words
Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average (and have more kids than the current average). Doing this successfully (without screwing it up with selfish pride) will make the world better and make them happier than anything else they’re doing.
From one piece Capital Cycles and AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If the AI build-out does become a bubble, power and data centres are the assets that will carry it.Their words
In today’s world, I think the increase in self-fulfilling asset prices will be due to power and data centers.
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What prevents this from being a broad-based bubble is that we are missing a critical feedback loop from the announcement's impact, like network growth or land value.
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A glut follows every semiconductor shortage.
From one piece PM speech on AI Opportunities Action Plan, 13 January 2025 3 beliefs · gov.uk
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AI will make public services more human rather than less, by giving staff back the time the paperwork takes.Their words
And in a way that’s the irony of AI… It will make public services more human… Reconnect staff with the reasons they came to public service in the first place…
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On AI the state's job does not stop at safety; leaving everything else to the market is a mistake.Their words
We shouldn’t just focus on safety and leave the rest to the market… Government has a responsibility to make it work for working people…
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Their words
This is the global race of our lives. Now, some countries are going to make AI breakthroughs and export them… Others will end up buying those breakthroughs and importing them. The question is – which of those will Britain be? AI maker or AI taker?
11 January 2025
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From one piece Full Steam Ahead: All Aboard Fiscal Dominance 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Since inflation is not primarily driven by private-sector lending in the current environment, making borrowing more expensive will not significantly cool the economy.
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Structural fiscal deficits have surpassed private sector lending and monetary policy as the primary drivers of economic activity and inflation, marking a fundamental shift in the economy's liquidity dynamics.
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The United States is not at risk of a financial crisis caused by the size of its government debt.Their words
Stabilizing factors such as the global demand for U.S. dollars and debt denominated in its own currency suggest an era of fiscal dominance in the U.S. that's less dramatic than alarmists predict but more persistent and intractable than optimists hope.
7 January 2025
From one piece Agents 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Most real-world AI agent systems are actually multi-agent systems made of multiple components.Their words
Because most agentic workflows are sufficiently complex to involve multiple components, most agents are multi-agent.
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Planning is fundamentally a search problem: explore paths, predict outcomes, and pick the best one.Their words
Planning, at its core, is a search problem. You search among different paths towards the goal, predict the outcome (reward) of each path, and pick the path with the most promising outcome.
6 January 2025
From one piece How I program with LLMs 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So I foresee a world with far more specialized code, with fewer generalized packages, and more readable tests.
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One thing humans appear to be much better than LLMs at (as of January 2025) is not getting distracted.
From one piece I’m Writing The Dating Sequences over at secondperson.dating 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Ultimately, the only thing that matters is if you think the writing is good, not how much effort I put into it.
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I suspect that both Substack and OnlyFans may become a Girardian bubble. Everyone joins after hearing from the few people who succeed; the thousands who slink away after months of effort netted them a mere 17 subscribers usually do so quietly.
3 January 2025
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City of FortuneTheir words
I read that last month, and visited Venice while I was reading it, and I was struck by the extent to which medieval Venice was a well-oiled political economy machine.
2 January 2025
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The Sistine ChapelTheir words
Which remains my favorite “painting” I’ve personally seen in my whole life.
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SlackTheir words
My favorite platform for chat, doubling as an excellent center for notifications of various kinds.
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Microsoft TeamsTheir words
I also use Discord (not bad) to engage with some niche communities and Microsoft Teams (awful) for work.
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DiscordTheir words
I also use Discord (not bad) to engage with some niche communities and Microsoft Teams (awful) for work.
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MailerLiteTheir words
MailerLite is by far, hands down, the best email marketing service out there (I've tried many).
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Google Cloud PlatformTheir words
We use GCP extensively at work and I absolutely love their many quality services.
1 January 2025
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Such "taxi" services where the cars are also used with drivers at other times and with extended geography, in 10 major US cities NET 2025
Their words now
This is unlikely to happen in the first half of this century.
From one piece Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Q3 2024 had the rate 8.9% so there is no way it can reach 30% in 2027. I was way too optimistic at a time when EV enthusiasts thought I was horribly pessimistic.
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Waymo now has a service that looks and feels like this in San Francisco, 8 years earlier than I predicted. But it is not what every one was expecting. There are humans in the loop.
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Actual self-driving turned out to be far harder than almost everyone believed it would be.Their words
Actual self-driving is now generally accepted to be much harder than every one believed.
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There’s still plenty to worry about with respect to the environmental impact of the great AI datacenter buildout, but a lot of the concerns over the energy cost of individual prompts are no longer credible.
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Is AI progress slowing down?Their words
To understand more about inference scaling I recommend Is AI progress slowing down?
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Reading fiction is necessary to an engineer's creative capacity; reading only technical books drains itTheir words
Yet, I also need to read fiction because if I only read tech books, they take away my creative energy rather than grant it, as fiction does.
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Life with PicassoTheir words
A second complementary book was Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot
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Our Share of NightTheir words
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez - I was struck to the bone by this book. I thought about it for many weeks after I read it and even had several dreams about it.
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The Rattle BagTheir words
The Rattle Bag edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes - In an age of LLM-generated poetry and machine learning curation (even coming from yours truly sometimes), it's refreshing to have real people who love poetry curate it and show you what you need to read to touch grass.
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The Tombs of AtuanTheir words
The Tombs of Atuan - My only regret is that I came to Ursula K. LeGuin so late in life, and this might be my favorite of all of her books I've read so far.
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The C Programming LanguageTheir words
The C Programming Language - I've finally gotten to the point in my career where I can appreciate the elegance of this book.
30 December 2024
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A Wizard of EarthseaTheir words
I picked this book up, and I liked it. On the surface, it's about wizards and magic, but there's more to it. Every now and then, Ursula Le Guin sprinkles in some wisdom.
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The Best of TagoreTheir words
Some of his essays are thought-provoking. His reflections on education, nationalism, and other topics are not only stirring but also showcase literary brilliance. The man could write.
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The Strangest ManTheir words
I found this an engaging biography and thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
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The argumentative IndianTheir words
It's stimulating work as well as easy to read. Although parts of South Asia are not commonly known to have an argumentative gene, Amartya Sen convincingly shows that Indian history is deeply rooted in an argumentative tradition. He masterfully weaves evidence and tales to make his point.
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Human, All Too HumanTheir words
I have never read a philosopher who had more penetrating thoughts in a book. Some of his ideas hit you like a thunderbolt.
29 December 2024
From one piece Life Cannot Be Delegated 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We ought to be especially careful in the cases where what we delegate to a device, app, agent, or system is an aspect of how we express care, cultivate skill, relate to one another, make moral judgments, or assume responsibility for our actions in the world
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This form of life cannot be delegated because by its very nature it requires our whole-person involvement.
27 December 2024
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SupercommunicatorsTheir words
A simple and tested method for communicating and connecting with anyone, Supercommunicators is an exploration of the psychology and neuroscience of communication — and how to use those skills at work, home and in life.
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The Power of HabitTheir words
My first book, which spent three years on New York Times bestseller lists, takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist — and how they can be changed.
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Smarter Faster BetterTheir words
My second book is about the science of productivity, and how to succeed with less stress and struggle, to get more done without sacrificing what we care about most.
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From one piece Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And what they found was if that search space, if the sky is an ocean and you're looking for fish, how much of the ocean have we looked at, and it turns out to be a hot tub. That's how much of the ocean that we've looked up. We've dragged a hot tub's worth of ocean water up and there was no fish in it
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So, we'll call that the indirect Fermi paradox and there absolutely is no indirect Fermi paradox for the most mundane of reasons, which is money. There's never been any money to look.
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The burden of proof about alien civilisations has shifted: it is now on the pessimists.Their words
But I felt like what this paper showed was that the burden of proof is now on the pessimists. So, that's why we called it the pessimism line. Throughout history, there's been alien pessimists and alien optimists, and they've been yelling at each other, that's all they had to go with.
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And so, what we found was basically that there have been 10 billion trillion habitable zone planets in the universe. And what that means is that those are 10 billion trillion experiments that have been run. And the only way that we're this whole process from a biogenesis to a civilization has occurred is if every one of those experiments failed.
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The 2,500-year-old argument about whether planets are common is settled: every star in the night sky has planets.Their words
In which case, those kinds of collisions are so rare that you would expect one in a trillion stars to have planets. Instead, every star in the night sky has planets.
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Father Time: A Natural History of Men and BabiesTheir words
Best books I read in 2024: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
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Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial KillersTheir words
Best books I read in 2024: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers by Marissa A. Harrison
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Best books I read in 2024: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers by Marissa A. Harrison Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
20 December 2024
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o3's improvement over the GPT series proves that architecture is everything. You couldn't throw more compute at GPT-4 and get these results. Simply scaling up the things we were doing from 2019 to 2023 -- take the same architecture, train a bigger version on more data -- is not enough.
OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pubarcprize.org
From one piece Will all our drugs come from China? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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China now starts about a quarter of the world's new clinical trials, more than Europe does.Their words
Chinese companies are now responsible for about a quarter of new trial starts — more than Europe.
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I don’t think many in the West have yet fully internalized a mental model of China as a source of genuine innovation.
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