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The expression “making time” is strange. Time cannot be manufactured. It can only taken from one thing and given to other.
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Rather than thinking of this set of preferences as incoherent, or merely the expression of a sectional petty bourgeois interest, it makes more sense, surely, to view it as a coherent set of anti-systemic views.
7 September
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America’s large trade deficit in manufactured goods does mean that we have fewer manufacturing jobs than we would if that trade were balanced.
Neo-Nazis and the Impotence of Trumponomicspaulkrugman.substack.com
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A neural network's latent space is closer to an uncopyrightable syntax than to copyrightable expression.Their words
The latent spaces of an LLM are closer to something like a syntax which is not copyrightable.
6 September
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there exists a wisdom in the involuntary, and that our attempts to shape reality, however intentional, are themselves a form of unintentional expression.
#281: You, with a layer of paranoia shaved offhaleynahman.substack.com
5 September
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There is something powerful and strange about how LLMs diffuse knowledge and capabilities, while perhaps also nudging us all simultaniously and independently toward building the same things.
4 September
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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.
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So it's strange because it's also perhaps the major software release that I've worked on the least in terms of lines of code. I have the least number of personally hand-chiseled lines of code in Quattro than I've had in any major release I've ever done. And yet, I am insanely proud of what we've accomplished.
20 August
17 August
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We took stock of the whole literature and asked is this really true? Is Ecman's claim really true? Can you tell how someone feels from their facial expression? And the answer is well not nearly as well as you would think and in general not.
16 August
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Courage to Be DislikedTheir words
This is a very strange book, and I can’t say I liked it very much, but there is some useful philosophy inside (and perhaps a lot if you or someone you know is struggling with low self-esteem).
15 August
From one piece How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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what was missing is that people did not realize that you're going to have to pursue that model through hardware iteration. And that's where really where Valor is unique is that yes, we believe in SMRs, we believe in reactors that are manufactured, but we also know that in order to get there, you have to do it through hardware iteration.
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Nuclear's never had its Ford moment or its Tesla moment, if you want to put it that way. And that's what Valor Atomics is working on doing. We have nuclear reactors that are more manufactured than constructed and uh they're extremely safe and we think the combination of these two things is going to allow us to scale nuclear fision and make energy 10 times cheaper for humanity.
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Nuclear energy is the safest form of energy empirically. If you look at the amount of power generated versus the amount amount of deaths, um it's even safer than solar, which is very strange because how does someone die from solar? that actually most solar is installed on roofs and people sometimes die falling off of a roof installing solar and if you add those deaths up it is actually a higher death per energy than the totality of nuclear energy in the world.
14 August
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Everything we see, whether it's this room or any room or anywhere you go, everything you see was either grown or mined, manufactured and moved. Everything. And so we look at what we do as industrial AI.
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And up until now that like could only really happen if one of those people in that family that community or that school was like really really into computers. But now it's possible for everybody to have situated software.
From one piece Chartbook 462: China shocked - beyond 1.0 and 2.0 to the "Big One". 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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China shock 2.0 threatens high status manufactured goods: European cars and engineering.
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China's industrial lead was manufactured by deliberate state industrial policy rather than by market forces alone.Their words
What China is delivering in the 2020s is an industrial policy shock of global scale.
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16 June
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The assumption is everybody sins all the time. There is no such thing as purity. Everybody sins every 5 minutes.
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Not monetizing what you put online now reads as strange behaviour that has to be explained.Their words
Slowly the culture around me changed, so now it seems I need to explain my strange behavior — why I don't monetize everything like everyone else.
23 April
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Putting a price on creative expression makes it suffer, while giving it away freely lets it thrive.Their words
I know my work will suffer if I put a price on creative expression that is as sloppy and homespun as spaghetti, and I know it will thrive if I give it generously and get messy while making it.
31 March
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A Billion Days of EarthTheir words
It's not pleasant, but it is skillful, and strange, and makes me interested in Piserchia's other books.
8 March
28 December 2025
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PlaygroundTheir words
Playground by Richard Powers is a strange and wonderful novel set (mostly) on a remote atoll in French Polynesia that follows the tangled lives of an environmental advocate, a sculptor, a tech entrepreneur, and a brilliant bookworm trying to escape the grinding poverty of Chicago's South Side. The richly drawn characters drive the story, but what I love most about the book is that it's a love letter to the ocean with prose that comes closer than anything else I've read to capturing what it feels like to, for example, dive a thriving coral reef.
16 December 2025
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Cahokia JazzTheir words
A hard-boiled mystery set in an alternative 1920s America, by turns familiar and strange.
15 December 2025
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the average athlete who's taking a few million dollars more to move his wife and kids from one family, one city that they loves him and that he loves to some strange place where everybody's going to be unhappy.
26 November 2025
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season three)Their words
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season three). Maybe didn’t enjoy this quite as much as the previous two season, but I love spending time with these people and look forward to doing more of that when season four drops. (B+)
23 November 2025
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There's even a case to be made that those policies actually depressed the manufacturing share of GDP: by boosting output and capacity above where they would have been otherwise, subsidies probably contributed to the sustained decline in prices for China's manufactured goods over the past few years, weighing on their share of nominal output.
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it's, I think, critical that ideas don't die on the vine because you've got, um, a visual expression that doesn't match what everyone else expects. Sometimes people will just filter them out because they don't look right.
28 September 2025
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That’s how educational miracles are manufactured: through artificially creating selection bias, which is the most powerful force in education.
There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com
4 September 2025
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The papers claiming Spinosaurus was a diver or a strong swimmer rest on very weak evidence at best.Their words
So Spinosaurus is a super weird and exaggerated version of what was already a kind of super weird group of theropods. So Spinosaurus is properly strange. And then, as you kind of hinted at, super controversial as well, because various papers have claimed it's a diver or a really good swimmer, and I think the evidence for that is very weak at best.
2 August 2025
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Yet the production methods still can’t make them below $10 per gram, so they’re still not cheap enough for some “obvious” applications like preventing kids getting malaria in a rainy season.
AI will not suddenly lead to an Alzheimer's cureblog.jacobtrefethen.com
31 July 2025
From one piece Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And when he conquered a city, he always made sure there are plenty of refugees to go to the next city because it's going to weaken them. It's going to weaken their food supply, and they're going to terrorize the people with tales of the millions of people that the Mongols killed with their steel chisel teeth and eating children and all kinds of horrible tales. Genghis Khan encouraged it.
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Mongols produced nothing. They could produce felt to make their tents, but they were not craftsmen. And so they had to get these items from somewhere, and it was through raiding.
20 June 2025
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AegyptTheir words
Crowley is one of the great unrecognized novelists of our time, and his Aegypt novel sequence seems exactly on point for the strange days we live in.
5 June 2025
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But I do think when it comes to artistic free expression, I think that's one of those values we should work hard to defend.
20 January 2025
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Federal efforts to restrict free expression in recent years were illegal and unconstitutional.Their words
After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I also will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.
4 January 2025
9 November 2024
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Inert glass rectangles that, placed on the ground, print out wealth, at roughly 100x the rate of the best farm land.
Solar and batteries for generic use casescaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
31 August 2024
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Moon's KnightTheir words
Mind candy portal fantasy, in which Our Protagonist's struggles to escape back to Mundania are rather complicated by her growing recognition that her life there sucked, actually, and maybe fighting strange beasts and stranger people isn't so bad in comparison...
26 August 2024
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On top of that, leaping to criminal charges against an exec over civil penalties for a company… seems strange.
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From one piece 2023 letter 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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China's industrial lead was manufactured by deliberate state industrial policy rather than by market forces alone.Their words
The foundations of China’s success in EVs were built a decade ago, when the state decided to bet on batteries, and then bought up a lot of the mines for these metals.
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As I’ve written in each of my previous letters, the party’s strangling of free expression has rendered China into a pitiful underperformer relative to Japan and South Korea in the creation of cultural products.
3 January 2024
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SolarisTheir words
Classic scifi. Guy shows up on a research station above a planet with a strange (alive??) ocean
8 December 2023
20 November 2023
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Refusing to advertise on a platform is protected expression, not an attack on the platform owner's free speech.Their words
Elon Musk’s sullen yawp amounts to a claim that he has a right for companies to sponsor his speech, no matter what he says. That’s nonsense, both legally and philosophically.
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com
30 August 2023
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Synthetic fertiliser is a serious climate and pollution problem and also the reason half the people alive are alive.Their words
They suck! But they also feed the world. Half the people alive today would be very not alive if fertilizers manufactured from natural gas weren’t super-sizing our harvests.
30 January 2023
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Building a manufactured object at a high enough rate pushes its cost down toward the cost of its inputs.Their words
A high rate of production tends to drive costs down toward the cost of inputs.
8 December 2022
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The Court and the CastleTheir words
It was in such a place that I found the book The Court and the Castle by Rebecca West. It's a strange little book but a brilliant one, provocative and cunning.
21 November 2022
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Stranger in a Strange LandTheir words
Of all the sci-fi I read as a teenager, Stranger in a Strange Land is my favorite.
8 December 2021
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