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It's hard to escape that economic engine, and easy to mistake its machinations for reality-a supply rising to meet demand, say, rather than a warped supply that whips up demand.
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Large language models are grown rather than built, and nobody really knows how the resulting working AI functions.Their words
Large language models are “grown, not built”. Researchers run training data through a neural network. Eventually this creates a working AI; nobody really knows how.
3 September
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Rising AI capability is undermining the assumptions that justify slow, manual government processes.Their words
AI creates a crisis by making the assumptions on which government operates untenable.
2 September
1 September
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The reason for this hardline stance is that we believe in the value of human thought and experience, as told by people with first-hand knowledge. It’s also about the audience: The “audience” for AI-written code is usually a machine, whereas the writing in Pragmatic Engineer is for humans, by humans. AI produces a statistical average in its output which creates uniform, dull text that’s an inferior reading experience to human writing – at least today it is.
31 August
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these kids have a block that they can't do it. You do whatever you can including paying them to break through the block. they then see themselves as a different person
25 August
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I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc. Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team members use different tools. Just unnecessary.
20 August
12 August
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they found that Big Oil's use of AI to produce more oil and gas could create 3.3 to 13.3 times more climate pollution than powering AI's data centers.
8 August
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If nobody creates content any more because everyone just asks an AI, there is nothing left for AI to train on.Their words
The problem is if nobody creates new content anymore and just asks their AI every question, the AI has nothing to train on anymore
7 August
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I think the best companies in my experience come from what might be characterized as scenes. There's like a moment that enables a new company to be born and there's a bunch that comes together that really creates this like unique nucleation for the new company.
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What’s fallacious is to argue that this fact necessarily means the prohibition does not “work,” or is not better than legalization.
12 July
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Another example is Bitcoin. It’s the Unix of money. You can send millions with a keystroke or rm your entire fortune. That’s more upside and more downside, by making people power users, and taking away the system administrator.
7 July
22 June
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although students' personal statements seem more creative because they use more varied words, they actually feature less original ideas. AI writing produces an illusion of creativity.
18 June
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Active investing collectively drags down portfolio returns, and the evidence leaves almost no counter-argument.Their words
there is almost no counter to the argument that active investing collectively creates a drag on portfolio performance
16 June
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And soon we have a precedent that every new pope feels he has the authority to knock down every pawn upon the chessboard if he feels like it. Once that is the norm, even a fairly nice pope still inherits the idea that the pope is going to overthrow and replace governments. And this creates a unique instability within Italy that no other part of Europe is subject to
9 June
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the competitive dynamic in China is more intense because it's more intense. Everyone's chosen to go open source and that creates a system that in my mind is capable of innovating far faster than the competitive system we have here. All the models learn from one another.
7 May
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there is no principal-agent problem, because the human driving the machine takes on the responsibility for its actions by owning the deployment.
20 March
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So, I think AI has basically driven the cost of idea generation down to almost zero in a very similar way to how the internet drove the cost of communication down to almost zero, which is an amazing thing, but it you know, it it it doesn't make it doesn't create abundance by itself.
10 March
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This, in turn, creates serious estimation problems for the diversion rate, which is why environmental benefit-cost analyses underrate the effect of urban rail construction.
3 March
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Long stretches of being disconnected -- no internet, no phone, no people -- are what make creative work possible.Their words, before
All the best, happiest, and most creatively productive times in my life have something in common: being disconnected.
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Media silence creates a vacuum, which your own thoughts expand to fill.
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Long stretches of being disconnected -- no internet, no phone, no people -- are what make creative work possible.Their words
Media silence creates a vacuum, which your own thoughts expand to fill.
7 January
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The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest TeamsTheir words
sports section looks at the leadership qualities of the most successful sports leaders in history. And they’re not what you think.
1 January
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the cost of your good habits is in the present. The cost of your bad habits is in the future. And so what you find is that a lot of things that typically get categorized as a bad habit, eating too many donuts or smoking a cigarette or something like that feels good in the moment, but it creates some kind of cost or consequence in the future.
5 December 2025
14 October 2025
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immigration is mathematically irrelevant to the central policy problem of low fertility
Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com
5 October 2025
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And the third one is like we did a lot of actually PR uh prior to the service going out just to get the word out. Um and you know PR has has its time and place. Uh but I think doing it before you have validation that customers definitely want the thing is quite risky. It can lead to a lot of sunk cost uh once you get it out because you're you're just you know you need to see it through.
23 July 2025
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Including things like universal basic provision or something like that where a lot of the increased productivity gets shared out and distributed to society and maybe in the form of services and other things where if you want more than that, you still go and get some incredibly rare skills and things like that and make yourself unique. But there's a basic provision that is provided.
1 July 2025
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Having children is contagious: people are more likely to become parents when the people around them already are.Their words
Community comes into play. If everyone else has kids, this shifts expectations and creates club goods.
10 June 2025
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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.
23 March 2025
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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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18 February 2024
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The more addicts rely on these stimuli, the less pleasure they receive. At a certain point, this cycle creates anhedonia—the complete absence of enjoyment in an experience supposedly pursued for pleasure.
31 December 2023
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Metaprogramming in a language creates fundamental obstacles to static analysis of its code.Their words
Languages with metaprogramming tend to put up fundamental hurdles to static analysis
19 December 2023
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Whatever safety gain a driver-assistance system delivers is cancelled out by the driver complacency it creates.Their words
suggests that any steering automation safety gains (e.g., Level 2 autopilot) are approximately negated by driver complacency, with autopilot on being slightly worse than autopilot off
28 September 2023
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Open sourcing a foundation model creates significantly more value than the risk it carries.Their words
I think at this point there's the value of open sourcing, a foundation model like Llama 2. It's significantly greater than the risks in my view.
12 January 2023
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Our best explanation is that the UK adopted what we call the globalized system of procurement, privatizing planning functions to consultants and privatizing risk to contractors, which creates more conflict; the UK also has an unusually high soft cost factor.
High Costs are not About Precaritypedestrianobservations.com
1 June 2022
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The proposition is that the cancellation of the bonds held by the central bank would decrease the amount of interest payments and thus the debt service of governments. And indeed, it would. But it would have another effect—namely, to decrease the revenues of the central bank and thus the profits that the central bank turns in to the government. This second effect would be exactly of the same size as the first, and the net effect on the government budget constraint would be equal to zero.
30 May 2022
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Experiencing a wild animal on its own terms creates a real connection that seeing the same animal in a zoo cannot.Their words
Being on the orangutans schedule and at his convenience vs. going to the zoo is something like love vs. prostitution.
30 May 2019
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Sharing credit generously benefits everyone because it encourages future collaboration.Their words
Credit isn't zero sum. It is often in everyone's benefit to be generous with credit, because it creates an incentive for others to help in the future.
3 December 2018
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21 Lessons for the 21st CenturyTheir words
In his fascinating new book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the historian Yuval Noah Harari creates a useful framework for confronting these fears.
14 July 2018
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I’ve historically done this myself, but I’ve moved towards innovating within existing teams.
13 June 2018
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Open source projects on GitHub represent billions of dollars in value creation, but none of that is captured on GitHub.
2 June 2018
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Thinking in BetsTheir words
Amazing point: Would your belief in something stand up to the question, “Wanna bet?” If you had to gamble significant money on that belief, would you still feel 100% about it? Or maybe more honestly 60%? This creates healthy skepticism encouraging you to seek the best information instead of just defending your belief. Now objective accuracy wins instead of argument. Combine with “The Biggest Bl…
6 September 2017
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