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hey I heard you like sankey diagrams that show huge populations making terrible decisions
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Work is a terrible place to litigate societal or political questions unrelated to the business with coworkers.Their words
Work is a terrible place to litigate societal/political questions unrelated to the business with coworkers.
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people are always saying that YC has jumped the shark. You know, and like I remember when people started saying this, which is in about like 2008, right? YC is always this thing that was great, but now it's not what it was, right? Cuz they can't say it was always terrible. They have to admit it was once great.
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The problem is that "number of recalls" is a terrible metric because we don't know what we don't know.
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Like that just does not seem like the ideal artifact. We should be able to store them somewhere. We should be able to have architecture diagrams that we can review and discuss that generate that code to spec.
8 August
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman EmpireTheir words
A very good and aggressively readable book about how terrible slavery was in the Roman Empire.
6 August
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Write something, in any old mood – feeling great about it or terrible, doesn’t matter.
On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com
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That’s a lesson we could all learn about our approach to supplements and even drugs: not to fall for hazy promises that a single molecule will deliver vaguely-defined benefits for all aging persons, but to demand rigorous evidence for well-defined benefits for well-defined problems in well-defined populations.
Metformin and cancer: active surveillance neededpeterattiamd.com
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1 July
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But they are terrible at making decisions. They have the worst judgement.
30 June
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but I do think that in a future of probable energy constraint there will be a need for a more peopled agriculture, with populations spreading out to tap diffuse solar energy input.
4 June
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rather than thinking about individual forecasts like what me and Phil are going to do, rather looking at kind of like basically generating prediction markets, where you get aggregate forecasts, where you get like kind of wisdom of the crowd effects. And kind of the reason that I think this is because we have been famously terrible at forecasting.
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From one piece David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farming 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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there's as populations become more apart, there begins to be biological incompatibilities rapidly developing, probably as the square of the distance separation, because you need pairs of interacting genes, and therefore it's the square of the separation.
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So we're talking about strong measurable selection coefficients on the order of half a percent or more in this study and all of those are going to work in small populations or large populations. It's not going to be affected by the population size.
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I think I see people who are writing code with coding agents and they're not writing any tests at all. That's a terrible idea.
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Native OS APIs are worse to develop against than web APIs, and platform vendors discourage native app development.Their words
Native APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.
1 January
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And so what ends up happening is the emails that the AI write are pretty good. Okay? If you're getting terrible emails, it's a poorly trained product from a bad vendor.
21 November 2025
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It isn't easy dealing with peer pressure and a room of warm and friendly staff begging you say something, anything nice about their terrible product for fear of losing their jobs -- and realizing you must be brutal to their faces otherwise you're not helping the vendor or your own company.
17 October 2025
From one piece Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals” 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Reinforcement learning is terrible, and it only looks good because everything we had before it was much worse.Their words
reinforcement learning is a lot worse than I think the average person thinks reinforcement learning is terrible. It just so happens that uh everything that we had before is much worse
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Um so I almost feel like because the internet is so terrible, we actually have to sort of like build really big models to compress all that. Uh most of that compression is memory work instead of like cognitive work. But what we really want is the cognitive part actually delete the memory
28 August 2025
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Language is a terrible way to describe visual, spatial, and temporal things.
20 March 2025
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UX design has been steadily improving over the last 50 years and is now reasonably good. The low-hanging fruit of terrible usability has long since been picked.
Declining ROI From UX Design Workjakobnielsenphd.substack.com
19 February 2025
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Most of a degree's value comes from finishing it, so starting one you will not complete is a bad investment.Their words
Since about 70% of the college payoff comes from completion, non-completion implies a terrible return on investment.
17 December 2024
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"Hire great people and get out of their way" is dangerous advice for anyone in a leadership role.Their words
Earlier this year I started writing a piece on why “hire great people and get out of their way” is such terrible, dangerous, counterproductive advice to give anyone in a leadership role.
1 November 2024
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As every population ages, countries will have to compete for migrants rather than choose freely among them.Their words
One more word of caution: the world is a closed and shrinking box. As all populations age, competition for talent will only intensify.
30 September 2024
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The Maya did not collapse; they moved a few kilometres out into perishable houses, and archaeology could not see it.Their words
I think it’s a failing of archeology to properly see what was happening. I think that most of those cities populations moved no more than 20 to 40 kilometers out and started their own farm, and they lived in perishable houses.
13 June 2024
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That’s one of these standard different definitions that a lot of people in my field like to use in astrobiology is life as a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution, which I was once quoted as agreeing with, and I was really offended because I hate that definition. I think it’s terrible, and I think it’s terrible that people use it. I think every word in that definition is actually wrong as a descriptor of life.
26 March 2024
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The internet is a micro medium. It is the best medium ever developed to reach specific people, but it is terrible at reaching everyone. There is no homepage. It is impossible to reach a hundred million people in one day on the internet, which is something TV used to do every night.
18 March 2024
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I expect that the delta between 5 and 4 will be the same as between 4 and 3 and I think it is our job to live a few years in the future and remember that the tools we have now are going to kind of suck looking backwards at them and that’s how we make sure the future is better.
8 February 2024
6 June 2023
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I even think AI is going to improve warfare, when it has to happen, by reducing wartime death rates dramatically. Every war is characterized by terrible decisions made under intense pressure and with sharply limited information by very limited human leaders.
1 May 2023
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Chatbots are a terrible interface for large language models, because a text box has no affordances.Their words
Hopefully I've convinced you that chatbots are a terrible interface for LLMs. Or, at the very least, that we can add controls, information, and affordances to our chatbot interfaces to make them more usable.
21 January 2023
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"Monetize" is a terrible word that tacitly admits that there is no such thing as an "Attention Economy." You can't use attention as a medium of exchange.
7 September 2022
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So they have explored genetic sequence space far more thoroughly than eukaryotes ever did because they’ve had twice as long at least, and they’ve got much larger populations, and they never got around this problem. So why can’t they? It seems as if you can’t solve it with information alone. So what’s the problem? The problem is structure.
9 August 2022
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Groups as a rule make terrible decisions; one person should decide and the group should only supply input.Their words
I have problems with group decisions. I think groups as a rule like a heuristic make terrible decisions. Individuals should make decisions. Groups should provide input. Um but there should be one sort of person making the decision.
11 May 2022
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There’s a reasonable amount of evidence that housing prices tend to adjust to match regional incomes.
25 January 2022
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When a system's incentives produce bad behaviour, the blame belongs entirely to whoever created the incentives.Their words
And then you have a choice which is do you blame the people who are exhibiting the terrible behavior or do you blame the people who created the incentives? Right? And and and he he believes and I agree on this. I I think 100% you blame the people who created the incentives.
4 June 2020
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while the myth of the golden Renaissance does terrible damage to how we understand the Middle Ages, it does just as much damage to how we understand the Renaissance.
24 October 2017
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A superintelligence whose goal system is even slightly misaligned with ours could, being far more powerful than any human or human institution, bring about human extinction for the very same reason that construction workers routinely slaughter large populations of ants.
5 October 2017
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Uncle Bob gives terrible advice. Following it will make your code worse.
5 April 2017
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But trauma is not restricted to horrific experiences. It refers to any set of events that, over time, impose more pain on the child than his or her sensitive organism can process and discharge.
5 November 2013
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OmnigraffleTheir words
When I need to draw diagrams, I use Omnigraffle.
31 January 2013
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Windows SurfaceTheir words
I have a MacBook Air 11", MacBook Air 13", MacBook Pro 15", Mac Pro, Chromebook, iPad Mini, 24" iMac, hideous HP laptop running Ubuntu, iPhone 4s, Nexus 7, and a Windows Surface with the terrible non-clicky keyboard cover.
2 October 2012
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GIMPTheir words
I'll use GIMP for many image editing tasks (for me, this usually is just making test images for themes, or making small tweaks to existing images). I prefer Photoshop but find it to be ridiculously overpriced, and I am terrible with either of them anyway and will let the professionals make things.
6 August 2009
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