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I recently spoke with a cool group of high school students. I quite liked the conversation and where they pushed it. It ended up being a good summary of my beliefs currently. I wrote it up here:
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Roughly half of Trump's State Department political appointees hold apocalyptic End Times religious beliefs.Their words
Perhaps half of Trump State Department political appointees are such people.
17 September
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First, if most of our beliefs are handed to us by the society in which we live, it is vital that our society itself values truth and truth-telling.
Why the story of the Vegetable Lamb was believedtimharford.com
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People will almost always align their beliefs and their interests.
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Universities and their administrations should remain ideologically neutral toward faculty's political viewsTheir words
An institution must remain neutral with regard to the ideological beliefs of its faculty.
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However senseless it is, American rhetoric of the non-existence of Canada is concerning, because it resembles the way the Kremlin spoke about Ukraine, and rightly reminds Canada that their sovereignty is indeed the issue.
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As societies rely more on coordination than coercion, the power to shape beliefs and knowledge grows in importance.Their words
If anything, I think that the book has gained very substantially in relevance, as more of our social structures have come to rely on coordination rather than violence.
11 August
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I would also note that my sense is that like the place where the misalignment most lives is the place where you're trying to really push the eyes hard and get them to like do work that's really on the cutting edge of what they are capable of
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I think the the key thing is you need to develop conviction in a set of beliefs that nobody else um agrees with. Like, I think if you look at all the most successful companies in the world, um they were started at a time long before the sort of like core idea was popular.
12 July
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new laws are like code that is pushed live to production without even being read (let alone tested), often in the face of tremendous opposition, affecting millions of citizens, with minimal monitoring to ensure they’re producing the desired results, an extremely slow customer feedback cycle, and few ways to truly opt out.
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I think Google has pretty much gone to on-sites at this point, back to the traditional whiteboard format. And they'll let you code on a laptop if you want to, as well, but it's going to be in person. Somebody's going to be watching you code, and you're probably not going to be able to cheat your way through that.
8 May
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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my sense is that these complex traits have not pushed in one direction because there's advantage there's spectrums where there's advantages to both ends of the spectrum
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But I think it's highly likely that if natural selection was pushed pushed any of these traits in more in one direction than it is, the mean would move.
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Pirate WiresTheir words
Yesterday, I spoke with Mike Solana of the excellent newsletter Pirate Wires, one of the best places anywhere to find some truly heterodox takes about the relationship between tech and politics.
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Story of A PoemTheir words
Could a book be more up my alley? The way he unpacks his feelings about giftedness, overachieving, language, disability, and difference really spoke to me.
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Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your OrganizationTheir words
. Understanding how we grow and develop will help you become a better leader and a more empathetic colleague. More accessible than his academic work, this book also provides a framework for understanding underlying beliefs and motivations that might be holding you back.
5 January
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No belief is true: the moment something is proven it stops being a belief and becomes a fact.Their words
No beliefs are true. If a belief was proven true, it would no longer be a belief.
12 December 2025
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But they wouldn’t destroy the library because it was the giant brain from which the Assyrians ran a world empire, and it had all the knowledge in the world. They destroyed that? They spoke the same language, they had the same writing system. They’d have taken them all safely home, cart after cart after cart.
5 December 2025
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ChatGPT, in particular, seemed to just want to validate me, tell me how great I was, reinforce any bad beliefs I might have had, and avoid saying anything uncomfortable.
19 September 2025
From one piece Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA | Lex Fridman Podcast #481 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And I spoke with my father, who had been a high judge in Germany. What does the law actually say? And the law says if you plan a crime and then maybe when you commit it, you are under the influence, it does not diminish your responsibility.
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And I spoke with Anthony Beevor once about the attempt of British intelligence to assassinate Hitler, and he had seen some evidence that at the point in time, they dropped those plans because they knew that drugged Hitler or malfunctioning Hitler, which he was after, you know, the summer of 1943, is better for Britain than, you know, killing Hitler and then having to deal with, like, some kind of, you know, maybe the army would have taken over the country
21 August 2025
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I suspect that if you decided to be open-minded, then the Being would probably be extremely persuasive. But I don’t think it’s very common to do that.
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I take it back. Instead of being unsure, I now lean strongly towards the idea that the Being would in fact be very good at convincing people of stuff, and far better than any human.
15 August 2025
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because it's not competing against humans for most of those roles, it would be competing against the other labs, right? And so you'd actually see like the cost pushed down to, you know, a mult a small multiple of whatever the marginal production cost of those tokens is.
13 August 2025
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Industrial policy was heavily criticized and again, if I talk to my Harvard professors, they’ll be very, very, very skeptical about the role of the state, especially in such a major way. But if you look at the Chinese experience, the evidence for success is all there. The cities that have pushed the most on supporting that particular sector ultimately did the best in terms of production, but also in terms of innovation, measured by patents. It’s all in the data.
26 May 2025
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The person receiving advice usually knows more about their own situation than the person giving it does.Their words
No matter how much I know about a domain, the other person will always know far more about their own situation, context, beliefs, skills, preferences, etc than I do.
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Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World TravelTheir words
If you desire to live a life with more travel and adventure, this is a must read. It challenges our default beliefs about time and money through the lens of travel.
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Contrary to some people’s beliefs, companies do not in fact have sufficient incentives to mitigate all major risks, and competition is driving corner-cutting that needs to be reined in somehow.
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You only retain what you were pushed to your limit on: if learning feels like coasting, you are not learning.Their words
So that’s why I think this is a thing that I come back to over and over again, is that you will retain information better if you’re constantly pushing yourself to your limit. If you are feeling like you’re coasting, then you’re actually not learning
9 May 2024
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The human mind functions as an association-forming machine, linking past experiences to present beliefs.Their words
Exposure therapy works because the human mind is an association machine.
18 March 2024
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That’s a theatrical risk. That is a thing that can really take over how people think about this problem. And there’s a big group of very smart, I think very well-meaning AI safety researchers that got super-hung up on this one problem, I’d argue without much progress, but super-hung up on this one problem. I’m actually happy that they do that, because I think we do need to think about this more. But I think it pushed out of the space of discourse a lot of the other very significant AI- related risks.
22 February 2024
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But unfortunately, today, we know conclusively that it is simply not true. A great amount of people's personalities, dispositions, beliefs, and dysfunctions are genetically-driven.
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The beliefs worth changing are the defended ones, so changing a mind is a siege rather than a conversation.Their words
To impart wisdom, then, is to lay siege to someone’s mind-castle, because the only things worth being wise about are hidden behind the walls.
You can't reach the brain through the earsexperimental-history.com
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Heal SquadTheir words
I spoke with @mariamenounos about the link between emotions and illness, and the importance of focusing on mental health, on her Heal Squad podcast. To listen to the full episode, please follow: https://t.co/XPIKAvi8tH
21 January 2023
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An enshittification strategy only succeeds if it is pursued in measured amounts. Even the most locked-in user eventually reaches a breaking-point and walks away, or gets pushed.
12 October 2022
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Writing gets better when it is handled physically, like a collage of scraps pushed around, rather than composed.Their words
I’m constantly on a quest to make writing more hands on — more manipulative, in the sense that you’re using your hands to shape it. The more I treat writing like one of my collages, the better it gets.
9 August 2022
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Breaking through a skill plateau requires unlearning beliefs and conventions that are wrong or narrower than assumed.Their words
people get up to a certain level of performance, and then they start to stagnate. And they start to plateau. And people who who break through and move to the next level um are the ones who have to who engage in unlearning. Who realize there are certain uh conventions they've bought into or beliefs they hold that are either wrong or are limited and and don't apply as broadly as as they imagine.
22 June 2022
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Awaken the Giant WithinTheir words
This 1992 book changed everything about my life. It’s my Bible. Most of my beliefs come from it. I read it many times at a formative age, but re-read it now 30 years later, taking notes. It’s not a perfect book. It’s too verbose and full of expired American references. But its core messages are the wisest, most effective life philosophy I’ve ever encountered. You choose how you feel. Your emoti…
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Imaginary trends could thus spuriously shape people's real beliefs and behaviors.
10 February 2022
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It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe.
23 November 2021
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Almost everything anyone believes rests on trusting other people, and there is no alternative to that.Their words
I think it's completely reasonable to form the vast majority of one's beliefs based on trust like this. I don't really think there's any alternative.
25 October 2021
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The constraint on point-to-point air travel is runway and tarmac capacity, not room in the sky.Their words
There is much more space in the air than on the airport tarmac. Our current hub and spoke system means some hub airports operate near runway capacity already.
14 April 2021
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People should feel free to enjoy art they love regardless of the artist's personal failings or beliefs.Their words
I think in most cases, we should feel fine loving the art we love, regardless of who the artist is, what they did, or what they believed.
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The likelihood that someone is providing high-quality information in these domains is lower than in less controversial areas like physics or neuroscience.
13 November 2017
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