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19 September
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The power that comes from the ability to disrupt trade is a wasting asset and cannot be used indefinitely.Their words
the power that comes from the ability to disrupt trade is a wasting asset. You can use it for a time, but not indefinitely.
18 September
17 September
From one piece The open houses at the edge of disaster 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Surviving without damage so far is not evidence a property is prepared for future climate riskTheir words
Surviving up to now is not evidence that a property is prepared for what comes next, she said-especially when the conditions around it are changing.
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Sellers and real estate agents are financially incentivized to avoid learning about or disclosing climate riskTheir words
sellers and agents are incentivized not to know about climate risk or communicate it. Everyone involved only needs the property to look safe long enough to pass it along
15 September
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The AI boom has become a huge political liability for Trump and clinging to it will not workTheir words
But of course it won’t work. The AI boom, once Trump’s last remaining political asset, is now a huge liability.
8 September
1 September
26 August
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the performance of your software is generally determined by the longest serial dependency chain because it's something that cannot be parallelized.
21 August
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This is a wild and risky bet; it sits on a graveyard of failed attempts at white-box cryptography .
17 August
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So, as soon as you switch into something, there's a cost carried over from the previous task, and you're much slower and more difficult for the couple of next trials on the new task. So, there's always a switching cost
29 July
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I love formal methods, but I think it's a fairly niche tool for most people and I think like property-based testing is in general going to be useful for more people.
27 July
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I think evals, they outlive the harness a little bit, but not by that much. Like an eval might live for maybe one, two, three model generations, but nowadays the you know, we're on the exponential. The model is improving so quickly, very often we just saturate the eval, and then we have to throw it away, and we have to come up with a new eval.
24 July
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korrents.com
Calling an intelligent, self-aware being legal property does not resolve whether it has an interest in freedom.Their words
But it recognizes that calling an intelligent, self-aware, emotionally complex being "property" does not answer the question of whether that being has an interest in freedom.
“KEY OUT”: When a Chimpanzee Asks to Be Freeboldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com
22 July
9 July
29 June
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The most powerful primitive that has been conceived in cryptography is obfuscation
26 May
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audit independence is not a property of the model. It is a property of the system around the model.
10 May
From one piece How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Ries 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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as leaders we get so focused on value statement mission statements we forget the mission statement is not the mission. The map is not the territory. Mission is an emergent property of the living superorganism of the thing we're birthing.
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Trustworthiness is the most underrated asset in business, and prioritizing by ROI always ranks it last.Their words
Trustworthiness is the most underrated asset in all of business. And the things that create trustworthiness by definition stack rank to the bottom if we do it by ROI because doing the right thing has intangible rewards but tangible costs.
22 April
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korrents.com
Scalability is not a property a system has; it is the set of mechanisms it has for coping with a change in load.Their words
Scalability is just like what mechanisms we have for dealing with changes in load. If load increases, how can we add computing capacity to a system, for example, so that the system still continues working?
15 April
7 April
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Ideas like public key cryptography are I mean, they're just incredibly deep um very non-obvious ideas uh which in some sense lay hidden uh already sort of in in the 1930s.
6 April
25 March
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With an orchestrated army of agents, there is no bottleneck, no human pain. These tiny little harmless booboos suddenly compound at a rate that's unsustainable. You have removed yourself from the loop, so you don't even know that all the innocent booboos have formed a monster of a codebase. You only feel the pain when it's too late.
20 March
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Um and uh I think we would very rapidly abandon any cryptography based on the primes because if there was a one pattern that we didn't know about there's probably more.
20 February
18 January
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korrents.com
Careful step-by-step thinking is a property of the developer, not something a tool or framework can enforceTheir words
Notebooks don't force you to write clean code. AI tools don't force you to think carefully. Discipline comes from the developer, not the environment.
9 December 2025
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There’s a consistent history of transformational technologies generating excessive enthusiasm and investment, resulting in more infrastructure than is needed and asset prices that prove to have been too high. The excesses accelerate the adoption of the technology in a way that wouldn’t occur in their absence.
20 November 2025
31 October 2025
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Luckily, if you want to do what we’re forced to do and also what I want to do, which is make new IP, you need single-player games. You can launch a multiplayer game with new IP. It’s just extremely hard.
29 October 2025
21 September 2025
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And so it's not really about the environment or the wall. It's really about how we see it and whether we can find the thing that is deep and rich and infinite in that direction.
2 September 2025
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film was this high margin product where they had a bunch of unique intellectual property and digital cameras are a low margin um commodity where they were competing with the entire consumer electronics industry with no differentiation.
18 August 2025
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I mean I've heard from multiple investors that foundation models are the fastest deteriorating asset of all time. And so if step one of your business is to burn through tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars of capital before you find product market fit and that asset has value for like a a week, I'm not sure it's like a great business model.
6 July 2025
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So, daily leverage is pretty bad unless you're a short-term trader. Volatility hurts that type of leverage.
1 July 2025
24 May 2025
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Applied CryptographyTheir words
Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schneier (Wiley, 1996)
1 March 2025
13 January 2025
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korrents.com
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.
22 November 2024
26 September 2024
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korrents.com
Respect for trademarks and other intellectual property is part of what open source means, not a departure from it.Their words
WordPress is licensed under the GPL; respect for copyright and IP like trademarks is core to the GPL and our conception of what open source means.
24 September 2024
From one piece Bitcoin: A Global Liquidity Barometer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Bitcoin tracks the direction of global liquidity more consistently than any other major asset class.Their words
Bitcoin moves in the direction of global liquidity 83% of the time in any given 12-month period, which is higher than any other major asset class, making it a strong barometer of liquidity conditions.
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Since then, these unconventional monetary policies have increasingly become the dominant force moving asset prices.
30 April 2024
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korrents.com
The real price of debt is paid in options and flexibility, which is the asset that matters most.Their words
you start to see it as a constraint on the asset that matters most: having options and flexibility
5 January 2024
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But hierarchy is not intrinsically authoritarian. Hierarchy did not originate as a political structure that humans invented for controlling and dominating one another, it is in fact a property of self-organizing systems, and it emerges for the benefit of the subsystems.
1 October 2023
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As it turns out, after Schumpeter wrote most recessions were caused by either the bursting of asset price bubbles, monetary policy mistakes (unnecessary deflations), or sharp increases in the price of oil.
21 September 2023
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korrents.com
Violations of Bell inequalities reveal only properties of models, not of nature itself.Their words
Since Local Causality is a property of a model, observing violations of Bell's inequality cannot tell us anything about nature itself, but merely about the properties of the model that we use to describe nature.
19 August 2023
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korrents.com
Color as perceived is not an objective property of objects, but a construct generated by the perceiving brain.Their words
Redness is not "objective" in the sense of being "in the object", it only exists in the models generated by the sort of brains which are hooked up to eyes.
29 June 2023
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The Intelligent Asset AllocatorTheir words
If you want to know which book made me fall in love with investing, then check out The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein.
29 May 2023
25 April 2023
2 March 2023
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korrents.com
Labour-saving innovation in rich countries is aimed at the only asset most of the world’s poor have to sell.Their words
Therefore, we have the perverse situation that the richest people are hiring some of the most talented and technologically sophisticated people on the planet to engage in innovation aimed at driving down the demand for labor—the major and often only asset of the world’s poor.
17 January 2023
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Likedrcmnd.app
CryptopalsTheir words
Cryptopals – a set of exercises to learn cryptography by breaking it. Very fun.
4 January 2023
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Because affordability is not, and has never been, an intrinsic quality of a building.
7 September 2022
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korrents.com
AI will out-think us, but it will not become conscious, because consciousness is a property of life.Their words
But in terms of what we value the most as humans, which is to say our feelings, our emotions, our sense of what the world is in a very personal way that I think means as much or more to people than their information processing. And that’s where I don’t think that AI necessarily will become conscious because I think it’s the property of life.
1 June 2022
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I believe that, except in times of hyperinflation, the price level does not behave as an asset price but as the aggregate of billions of mostly backward-looking decisions, and that expectations of future primary balances have little effect on the price level today.
22 November 2021
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Finally, not just old chips and new chips, but the companies that make the chips (semiconductor fabs) are becoming more consolidated and more strategic.
The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Costfabricatedknowledge.com
1 July 2019
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Speed in software is probably the most valuable, least valued asset. To me, speedy software is the difference between an application smoothly integrating into your life, and one called upon with great reluctance.
12 June 2017
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It is incrementally rising land values, combined with the ability to redevelop to something more intense, that naturally prompts the redevelopment of property in decline.
13 January 2017
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The fact that WhatsApp handles key changes is not a “backdoor,” it is how cryptography works.
4 March 2016
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korrents.com
Stored personal data is a toxic asset: it is a liability that keeps growing for as long as it is kept.Their words
What all these data breaches are teaching us is that data is a toxic asset and saving it is dangerous.
1 February 2015
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Concurrency in Go is a facet of how you choose to model your program, and not a color seared into each function in the standard library.
27 November 2008
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