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From one piece Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt 3 beliefs · astralcodexten.com
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This Is Going To Hurt is, read with a clinical eye, a textbook case study of moral injury and post-traumatic stress in a competent doctor, narrated by the patient himself, with the diagnosis hidden in plain sight.
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The medical system that broke Adam Kay in 2010 is still producing more similarly damaged doctors, and faster.Their words
the system that broke him in 2010 is, in 2026, still producing more of him, faster.
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The bargain is, in any meaningful sense, moribund. The state retained the monopsony. It stopped paying out the gold.
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It's isn't just to people with ADHD that this happens. Some tasks inherently take a certain amount of time. An appointment that breaks the afternoon into two blocks of time could leave you with no block long enough to complete a task.
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Effective Altruism lets people appear both rational and moral and is the ultimate ego trip.Their words
Effective Altruism lets you appear rational and moral - the ultimate ego trip.
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People who want to appear moral are attracted to the left. People who want to appear rational are attracted to the right.
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From one piece AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA 2 beliefs · astralcodexten.com
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I run an advocacy group that works on reforming clinical trials and the FDA, and I think cheap superforecasting could revolutionize our field.
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Within a few years, ordinary people will have on-demand AI superforecasters comparable to top human forecasters.Their words
AI superforecasters are coming. Within a few years, the average person will have the equivalent of a Nate Silver in their pocket, ready to predict whatever question they can think to ask it.
AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDAastralcodexten.com
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He's in the early stage, where problems ≈ deciding what to do in what order.
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Noncitizen voting is a fake problem, with potential cases extremely rare even as an upper bound.Their words
And that's an an upper bound; these are merely "potential" noncitizens. This is a fake problem.
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The best way to pace the AI frontier is to hold labs fully liable for their models' behavior.Their words
The best way to pace the frontier is to hold the labs fully liable for the behavior of their models.
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The future is more likely AIs fighting AIs (on behalf of humans) than AI fighting humanity.
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If AI is risky like fire, everyone should have it; if it is risky like a nuclear weapon, no one should.Their words
If AI is risky like fire is risky, then you want everyone to have it. If AI is risky like a nuclear weapon is risky, then you want no one to have it.
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Tokens are not the true unit of AI inference, because better models yield more problem-solving per token.Their words
Although you pay for AI by the token, that's not the unit of inference, because you get more problem solving per token as models improve.
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Paul Buchheit meme-ranks with Jobs, Zuck, and Elon. (He's the one who came up with "Don't be evil.")
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Eterna-MaticTheir words
Eternas are some of the biggest bargains in vintage watches. This 1963 Eterna-Matic cost $509 at auction + $69 to be serviced = $578 total. It's still accurate to 7 sec/day (dial up).
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If you learn key consensus results from many different fields, you will often find that they are in conflict, in ways one or both fields are unaware.
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