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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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  Surviving without damage so far is not evidence a property is prepared for future climate risk

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  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.

  The open houses at the edge of disasterheated.world

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  Sellers and real estate agents are financially incentivized to avoid learning about or disclosing climate risk

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  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

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Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  The speed of a system is set by its longest serial dependency chain, which is a property of the architecture and cannot be parallelised away afterwards.

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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.

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Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.

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  Switching between tasks carries a real and measurable cost, and switching well is a trainable skill rather than a fixed property of a brain.

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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

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Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Formal methods are a niche tool; property-based testing is the one most engineers should adopt, and stopping there is a fine place to stop.

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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.

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

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  Calling an intelligent, self-aware being legal property does not resolve whether it has an interest in freedom.

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  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

Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".

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  Audit independence is a property of the surrounding system and its evidence flows, not an inherent property of the auditing model itself.

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  audit independence is not a property of the model. It is a property of the system around the model.

  Who Audits the Auditors?strangeloopcanon.com

Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.

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  A mission statement is not a mission; a mission is an emergent property of the organization and has to be built in rather than labelled on.

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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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Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  Scalability is not a property a system has; it is the set of mechanisms it has for coping with a change in load.

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  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?

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Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.

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  The human bottleneck is a safety property: remove it and small, individually harmless coding errors compound at a rate nobody feels until it is too late.

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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.

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Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.

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  Careful step-by-step thinking is a property of the developer, not something a tool or framework can enforce

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  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.

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Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

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  New intellectual property needs single-player games, because launching a multiplayer game on a world nobody knows yet is extremely hard.

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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.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  Boredom is a missing skill rather than a property of the situation: there is infinity in every direction, including a blank wall.

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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.

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Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.

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  What destroyed Kodak was not missing digital photography but that digital cameras were an undifferentiated low-margin commodity.

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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.

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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  Respect for trademarks and other intellectual property is part of what open source means, not a departure from it.

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  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.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  Hierarchy is not intrinsically authoritarian: it is a property of self-organising systems that emerges for the benefit of the parts.

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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.

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Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.

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  Violations of Bell inequalities reveal only properties of models, not of nature itself.

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  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.

  Quantum Confusions, Cleared Up (or so I hope)arxiv.org

Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  Color as perceived is not an objective property of objects, but a construct generated by the perceiving brain.

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  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.

  Seth Explains Consciousnessputanumonit.com