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20 September
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the distinctive modern pathology is unopposed rhetoric: values statements and PR that pre-empt criticism as they are designed to never face an advocate on the other side.
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10 September
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AI has always been very jagged, and we are making models which are superhuman goal-seekers at math and software engineering, but they have massive limitations on intuitions, creativity, and other types of reasoning that humans are strong at.
9 September
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every time Mehdi comes at me with his "Anyone who doesn't like me is an ISLAMOPHOBE" shit, he gets massively ratioed. People have HAD IT with this crap, man.
5 September
24 August
From one piece How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husain 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, I think the key point here is the self is not immutable. It's something that can change. People might think my personality is this way. It can never change. Well, your personality is the product of your society of mind.
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it was only about 15 years ago I started beginning to be aware that there may be a an important biology underlying motivation and when that biology goes wrong, it can lead to loss of motivation and even pathological apathy.
20 August
17 August
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If I just take the general population on average it's the case that those people who would have a diagnosis of autism or who score higher on autistic traits even if they don't have a diagnosis look less at faces.
13 August
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that charge long leveled at sun and wind-that they provide "intermittent power"-is probably truer now of other energy sources
12 August
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Something intertwined with this story, which I stumbled upon when thinking about agents, is how your pace of understanding won't increase by using agents.
9 August
6 August
From one piece What’s the Right Mix of The Four Tendencies in a Team? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But this concentration weakens a team, because you end up with too much of certain qualities, and not enough of others.
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Obligers, the most common Tendency, tend to work well alongside every other Tendency, which makes them worth having on any team.
31 July
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Startup opportunities are not fleeting; Silicon Valley has reliably had a surfeit of them for decades.Their words
You know, in hindsight, I think that um that was a a poor intuition. Uh it's been pretty robustly and reliably the case over many decades in Silicon Valley has a surfeit of opportunities.
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our Tendency is a hard-wired part of our nature. It's not a product of upbringing, generation, birth order, nationality-it's part of our inborn nature.
27 July
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And the model is not like that. It's um the way to think about it is almost like a like a living creature, like it's something more organic.
26 July
From one piece Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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whatever it takes to fit the car to you whatever it takes to fit the organization to you, that's what you got to do. And the next CEO, whatever the personality is, they can figure it out.
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in a lot of ways I think a a CEO is in service of the company, in service of all the people that are working there. And you want to empower them with some insight. And so that's really where it's coming from. It's not so much a management technique, but a personality technique.
20 July
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I came to the same conclusions independently before I encountered Krashen's work, and decades of learning across 20+ languages have only reinforced them. The research supports the intuition: input is where acquisition happens.
15 July
From one piece Context engineering with Dex Horthy 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We can we can teach we can teach somebody, I think, to be a really good AI developer in a few months. You can build enough intuition where you are, you know, accelerated off the ground and you can go like keep growing there. It's really hard to teach someone a CS undergrad program in in 3 months.
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But if you don't have good LLM intuition, like 100K for smaller models, 200K for these like really beefy like Codeex and Opus 4.8 models is usually a good like training wheel guideline of like if you pass there, your quality of results may be degrading.
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there's a different kind of intuition that you that you develop over years as a software engineer and uh there's many categories of it but the one I'll I'll call attention to that is like a thing that you cannot teach you cannot do you cannot learn in a textbook. The only way to learn it is like I know bad patterns in software because I have debugged them at three in the morning.
13 July
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They get women to sleep with them, but they attract both men and women and cause them to surrender their better judgment and make bad choices in a variety of contexts, including the voting booth.
5 July
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Taste is not about consensus or criticism, but the courage to value what genuinely resonates with you.Their words
Taste isn't consensus. It's not judgment first, either. It's easy to be a critic. Curiosity has to come first, because without curiosity you never broaden your horizons.
29 June
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Criticism as a field of writing is declining today.Their words
David Remnick, who has given me free rein at a time when criticism is withering away
27 June
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Perfectionism is caused by unreasonably demanding expectations and unduly harsh criticism from others.Their words
Perfectionism stems from unreasonably demanding expectations and unduly harsh criticism.
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11 March
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Now part of the skillset is being able to weather like a fire hose of criticism like the world has never seen.
12 February
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Most of the alarming MoltBook screenshots were humans prompting the bots to go viral, not autonomous AI behaviour.Their words
my criticism of MoltBook is that I believe a lot of the stuff that was screenshotted is human prompted. Which, just look at the incentive of how the whole thing was used. It’s obvious to me at least that a lot of it was humans prompting the thing so they can then screenshot it and post it on X in order to go viral.
9 December 2025
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Literary criticism is itself a form of literature.Their words
I know that this is a contested idea, but my favorite books of the last five years have all been books of criticism, so...I mean, it's literature to me!
6 December 2025
31 October 2025
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Because I always thought that the games were kind of a mathematical equation. They were the personality of the world, you know, multiplied or divided by the personality of the protagonist.
30 October 2025
5 October 2025
From one piece Finding hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Yeah, I mean I used to think it was versus, but now I realize that they combine really well. It could be rocket fuel for for your growth.
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So as opposed to going against I guess human intuition and trying to get them to share stuff that they otherwise wouldn't on the margins want to share like lean into it more actually like grab the moments where users are already organically screenshotting and make those much much much better and you can kind of 5x or 10x and and drive a lot of growth that way too.
21 September 2025
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And you have to understand the strengths of of you know used to be people but now it's basically models and different models have different strengths. So it's like they have different personalities
18 September 2025
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I believe those things are utterly incorrect now. I I I I think people love leadership. Like they like they they love complaining about it, too, which they should. And it like it deserves all criticism it gets, but like there's something absolutely wonderful being part of a group that's being led.
31 July 2025
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I nonetheless found this book somewhat disappointing, because Jay seemed content to expound the authors he covers in more or less their own terms, rather than subjecting them to anything like actual epistemological or methodological criticism.
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Mind candy: A fun travelogue which does what it says in the title. It pretty much satisfies any impulses I might have to actually see any of the artworks in question. No familiarity with art-critical jargon required, though long passages are (more or less explicitly) art criticism.
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.
26 March 2025
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The Inner Compass: Cultivating the Courage to Trust YourselfTheir words
A perfect sized companion (~100 pages) to understanding and trusting your intuition—breaking free from external validation and building courage through three core principles.
6 November 2024
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Nonlinear Dynamics and ChaosTheir words
Pictures, examples, geometric intuition.
22 April 2024
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The simplest explanation for why we have never noticed an alien civilization is that there are none out there.Their words
But I think your intuition is right that it would’ve been easy for there to be lots of civilizations then we would’ve noticed them already and we haven’t. Absolutely the simplest explanation for why we haven’t is that they’re not there.
26 March 2024
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Criticism is what happens when someone with domain knowledge who is not trying to earn status by hurting you is able to help you see the world as it is. And those three pieces are the key, right? Because most of the criticism I've gotten in my life has come from people who felt like they would feel better if I felt worse.
25 January 2024
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criticism is part of the job description of success, that the respect and admiration you want will always come with a healthy serving of critics eager to tear you down.
29 December 2023
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At a higher level, the real event was a catastrophic failure of the industry's strategy of relentlessly shouting as loud as they can "Hey, get off our case, we're busy saving lives here!"
My Automated Vehicle Safety Prediction for 2024safeautonomy.blogspot.com
20 November 2023
From one piece My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Up 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In my view, too many critics of “cancel culture” are recklessly promoting not the speech of the powerless, but the censorious resentment of the powerful.
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com
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“Your criticism violates my right to free speech” is a fatuous but common American sentiment.
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com
9 November 2023
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Yeah. I mean, I would say that I’m pathologically optimistic on schedule. This is true.
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The Righteous MindTheir words
Brilliant insights into human nature. Moral reasoning, inventing victims, emotional reactions, the elephant (emotions) and its rider (explanations). Intuition reacts then logic confabulates a reason. Survival of the fittest applied to groups. Understanding religion and tradition. Great from start to finish.
20 April 2023
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The more your target audience does not look like you, the more you should be skeptical of your design intuition.Their words
The more your target audience does not look like you, the more you should be skeptical of your design intuition. Despite having seen thousands of a/b test results for minor design details, I am still regularly surprised and humbled by my intuition being wrong.
24 January 2023
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