Nabeel S. Qureshi
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18 December 2025
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In Search of Lost TimeTheir words
Now I am inclined to say it is Proust. I finished In Search of Lost Time a few weeks ago, and can’t stop thinking about it.
15 October 2024
From one piece Reflections on Palantir 8 beliefs · nabeelqu.co
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Good founders have an instinct for reading rooms, group dynamics, and power. This isn’t usually talked about, but it’s critical: founding a successful company is about taking part in negotiation after negotiation after negotiation, and winning (on net).
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The big productivity gains of this AI cycle are going to come when AI starts providing leverage to the large companies and businesses of this era - in industries like manufacturing, defense, logistics, healthcare and more.
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Most activist types are, in my view, deluded about the degree to which we do actually need a strong military.
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A pro-West stance is mostly right: a world more aligned with the CCP or Russia seems a bad one.Their words
The company is unabashedly pro-West, a stance I mostly agree with – a world more CCP-aligned or Russia-aligned seems like a bad one to me, and that’s the choice that’s on the table.
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I’d rather be one of those than one of the pontificators. Sure, it’ll involve difficult decisions. But it’s better to be in the room when things happen, even if you later have to leave and sound the alarm.
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Calling for a pause on AI is a fantasy, and not engaging with AI is unlikely to be the best stance.Their words
Not engaging with it – or calling for a pause/stop, which is a fantasy – is unlikely to be the best stance.
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But it seems to me that ignoring category 3 entirely, and just disengaging with it, is also an abdication of responsibility. Institutions in category 3 need to exist.
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The world needs more companies that compete on execution, like SpaceX and Palantir, rather than on political games.Their words
The world needs more companies like SpaceX, and Palantir, that differentiate on execution - achieving the outcome - not on playing political games or building narrow point solutions that don’t hit the goal.
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27 December 2023
From one piece Principles 8 beliefs · nabeelqu.co
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Original thinking needs uncorrelated inputs: minor works, older things, obscure journals.Their words
seek uncorrelated inputs. Read minor works, older things, obscure journals.
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Luck isn’t a constant, it increases with surface area: be in the right places, have lots of conversations, put yourself out there, ask for what you want and be optimistic and positive.
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Most people are probably too risk-averse, and writing out the worst outcomes shows they are not that bad.Their words
You are probably too risk-averse. Write out the worst things that can happen, realize they’re not that bad, then take the leap.
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Any single bet is likely to fail, so success comes from taking many bets and trying as hard as possible at each.Their words
Any given “bet” you take is likely to fail. Success is making lots of “bets” and trying as hard as possible at each of them.
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Real learning is extremely hard and effortful. (Podcasts, Atlantic articles, pop science books, anything that’s a bit too digestible is more “entertainment” than real learning).
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Most intelligent people want status, prestige and wealth, even the ones who claim not to.Their words
Most intelligent people want status, prestige, wealth and the like -- even the ones who claim not to.
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80% utilitarian, 15% deontologist, 5% virtue ethics.
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Be very suspicious of a priori arguments on empirical matters (e.g. “AI will certainly kill everyone”), they’re usually wrong no matter how convincing. Reality is endlessly surprising.
2 October 2023
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Rob Burbea's talksTheir words
99% of books/resources on this are quite bad - I’d recommend looking at Rob Burbea’s talks and jhana practice as a way in.
11 July 2023
25 May 2023
From one piece Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI (WIRED) 5 beliefs · wired.com
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We need to ensure that AIs adopt prohuman values because we cannot maintain oversight of AI indefinitely.
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Utilitarianism would tend to create a power-seeking AI, and deontological rules are vulnerable to Waluigi-style attacks. Virtue ethics, in which agents are intrinsically motivated to care about certain qualities such as transparency, may be a more promising paradigm.
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All of this suggests that we are not necessarily creating distant, cold, threatening alien minds. AI will be humanlike.
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An AI ban, as some have called for, would be short-sighted; we would be giving up on the problem too early.
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Tackling sprawling ecosystems with simple rules is doomed to fail—and, for similar reasons, applying restrictions to deep-learning-based general AIs will not work.
10 May 2023
From one piece Principles 3 beliefs · nabeelqu.co
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Understand power laws. Outlier math rules all.
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Status is fake and transient. Just focus on substance and doing valuable work.
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Wealth can be created, there is not a fixed amount of it in the world. Somebody doing well doesn’t always come at someone else’s expense.
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