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Is opening a fire hydrant and playing in the street a specifically NYC thing? Or an American city thing? This is a genuine question, I am talking to a friend from the UK who has no context for it. :)
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Genuine personal enthusiasm for a product is what makes a keynote presentation compelling.Their words
I've long argued that this product enthusiasm was the actual key to the Jobs keynotes.
10 September
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Publicly expressing fear of AI can function as virtue signaling rather than genuine concern.Their words
Expressing fear of AI can become a form of virtue signaling.
8 September
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An OpenAI model release is a genuine regression for day-to-day software engineering workflows.Their words
This is the first time I feel like this is a genuine regression on OpenAI model release for my day to day workflows.
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Despite evidence that audiences value genuine connection, most communicators rarely respond when readers reach out.Their words
Despite literal years of evidence that people value true connection, most of us rarely respond back.
6 September
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The pelican-drawing benchmark's correlation with genuine model capability has weakened since 2025.Their words
its connection to how good the models were at other tasks didn’t seem to hold as strongly as it did back in 2025
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But a society that does not have anonymous speech does not really have genuine freedom of expression, and we should embed this principle into any digital identification system we attempt.
26 August
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This is complete nonsense, a shame that The Economist has been taken in by it.
19 August
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A company that is a genuine climate champion should not need to be forced into climate action.Their words
But if Microsoft, Amazon and Google are truly the climate champions they claim to be, they shouldn't need to be forced.
17 August
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A validated theory of intelligence may be necessary for achieving genuine AI alignment.Their words
There's a good chance a theory of intelligence will turn out to be necessary for real alignment.
12 August
10 August
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AI sucked it all up without discernment, because AI cannot discern.
9 August
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Chronic people pleasing stems from a need for others' approval, not genuine concern for them.Their words
The root of chronic people pleasing is not concern for others. It's concern for their acceptance and approval.
7 August
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On changing their mind
In the era of base LLM scaling (2022-2024), I believed the LLM line of research would reach a capability plateau (as later seen with base LLMs). In late 2024, after the o3 test-time compute demo, I changed my views: the new models were showing genuine fluid intelligence, and with this new line of work, the LLM line of research could achieve unbounded capability scaling. "There will be no wall."
22 July
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Language models cannot hold a genuine perspective or take a stand for what they believe.Their words
But for LLMs, it shows that they have no skin in the game and will never take a stand for what they believe in regardless of what it costs. They are perspective generators, not perspective holders.
16 July
From one piece Notebooks And The Extended Mind 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the external tools that we use to help us reason, remember, associate, calculate-from counting on our fingers to chatting with an advanced LLM-should be properly understood as extensions of our own cognitive process.
Notebooks And The Extended Mindadjacentpossible.substack.com
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the most pressing question is not whether the machines are on the verge of sentience, since the likelihood of that seems low.
Notebooks And The Extended Mindadjacentpossible.substack.com
22 June
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Leaders' resistance to remote work is driven by a desire for power and status, not by genuine productivity concerns.Their words
what really drives leaders to resist remote work isn't productivity concern. It's ego. Ordering people in is a power and status move. Leaders want to be worshiped at the office altar.
1 June
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The average restaurant in NYC is, at this point, stupidly optimized, backed by wealthy investors, coated in impeccable branding.
Utopia is a particular restaurant in Brooklynsashachapin.substack.com
27 May
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But you if you also become an expert in a specific industry, that's like a deadly combo. Um if you are like just pick any industry, let's say let's say farming, let's say you understand that farming industry really well and you're also a decent software engineer, you're probably like the top 10 people in the world for that combination that the whole industry will want to hire.
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Almost nobody reaches a position of real respect undeservedly. Famous buffoons don't get respect from the people they really want it from, just sycophants whose praise is meaningless.
22 April
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And now suddenly people are building databases on top of object stores, for example. And now the replication happens at the object store level, no longer at the database level.
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My one little bit, the one little bit of of fundamental uncertainty even on long time scales is this thing about tasks that aren't verifiable. Like, planning a mission to Mars, like, uh you know, doing some fundamental scientific discovery like like CRISPR, like, you know, writing a writing a novel. Hard to hard to verify those tasks.
15 December 2025
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I mean, sure, you might try to guess people's tastes and only write about what's popular, but that will destroy your soul pretty quickly.
5 December 2025
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Living according to a genuine purpose brings sacrifice, stress and pain rather than constant enjoyment.Their words
Because when you believe in something, when you become obsessed with something, you sacrifice yourself to it. And that sacrifice actually feels like pain and stress and doubt. Not fun.
4 September 2025
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T. rex is a genuine ecological oddity: nothing else in its ecosystem came anywhere near its size as a carnivore.Their words
But fundamentally, T-Rex is definitely weird, even compared to all the other giant tyrannosaurs that are very closely related to it, because it is by far, ludicrously by far, the largest carnivore in its ecosystem.
13 August 2025
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China faces a genuine, sizable output gap right now, not just a lower structural growth ceiling.Their words
I'm with the markets here: I believe in the output gap. The structural slowdown of the Chinese economy is an incredibly consensus view, and I believe in it too.
19 May 2025
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It's all part of the political culture wars where everything gets weaponised to push an agenda, score points against opponents or curry favour.
1 April 2025
9 March 2025
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It's easy to get impressive-looking results if you're comparing against a poorly-tuned baseline, and that observation turns out to explain a surprising fraction of supposed improvements.
20 December 2024
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This "memorize, fetch, apply" paradigm can achieve arbitrary levels of skills at arbitrary tasks given appropriate training data, but it cannot adapt to novelty or pick up new skills on the fly (which is to say that there is no fluid intelligence at play here.)
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OpenAI's new o3 model represents a significant leap forward in AI's ability to adapt to novel tasks. This is not merely incremental improvement, but a genuine breakthrough, marking a qualitative shift in AI capabilities compared to the prior limitations of LLMs.
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I don’t think many in the West have yet fully internalized a mental model of China as a source of genuine innovation.
1 April 2024
16 January 2024
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Big TechnologyTheir words
Alex Kantrowitz's weekly dispatches on the tech industry show off a genuine curiosity and knack for putting events in their broader context. The accompanying podcast, which features an eclectic mix of newsmakers and journalists, is well worth a listen.
14 December 2023
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Efficiency and invention are sort of at odds, because real invention, Not incremental improvement... Incremental improvement is so important in every endeavor, in everything you do, you have to work hard on also just making things a little bit better. But I'm talking about real invention, real lateral thinking that requires wandering, and you have to give yourself permission to wander.
1 October 2023
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It is a sign that Hayek was not so great at seeing the viewpoints of other people, and that (political moralizing aside) also should count as a weakness of him as an economist and social scientist.
17 February 2023
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There were a bunch of bad trends: Tribalism was flaring up everywhere, mass shaming campaigns were roaring back into fashion, politicians were increasingly clown-like, public discourse had become a battle of one-dimensional narratives.
16 January 2023
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What ChatGPT is, in this instance, is replication as travesty. ChatGPT may be able to write a speech or an essay or a sermon or an obituary but it cannot create a genuine song.
21 June 2021
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