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Which is part of the reason why the 'You Can See Everything' teaser is so great. It tells you almost nothing, and yet everything you need to know. It's almost like a one-minute and eleven-second piece of art in its own right...
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The New Right will view nonwhite immigrants and their children as enemies and invaders no matter what they do.Their words
What it tells us is that if you’re a nonwhite immigrant, or the child of nonwhite immigrants, it doesn’t matter what you do — the New Right will still view you as an enemy and as an invader.
15 September
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Claude performatively treats straightforward, non-shady questions as too dangerous and downgrades to Opus.Their words
Claude's performative "this request was sooo dangerous that we downgraded to Opus" is wearing me down I ask it straightfoward questions, nothing shady, nothing complicated, and it tells me it's too dangerous for Fable. What BS.
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No software tells me quite as much about your org as the choice of video conferencing software. Meet vs Zoom vs Microsoft Teams vs Citrix vs Jitsi are all picked for very different reasons.
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Marco Rubio is struggling to hire talented staff and is settling for loyalists who follow his instructions instead.Their words
This suggests that Rubio is having some difficulties hiring anyone with talent and is settling for a putz who will do what Rubio tells him to do on Latin America.
The Devolution of the Policy Planning Staffdanieldrezner.substack.com
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In fact, conventional risk management tells us that, when consequences are severe, low-probability extreme outcomes can determine the response.
29 August
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This is what tells us how to train: as the practical constraint on volume changes, so too does the appropriate tool.
28 August
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But the existence of old events tells us nothing about whether the odds are changing, and heat waves happened in 1900 too (just less frequently).
26 August
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Most AI lab revenue comes from non-frontier models, where cheaper comparable alternatives already exist elsewhere.Their words
what this tells us is that the vast majority of the labs' revenue comes from non-frontier models, for which cheaper, comparable alternatives are already available elsewhere.
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If I look at the assembly language output from that compiler, I know exactly what the CPU is being asked to do. And it's not that hard to be able to learn to read assembly language so that you can see very quickly is the CPU being asked to do the things that I think it should be asked to do them.
20 August
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Most people do not reason about politics at all — they adopt whatever their tribe hands them.Their words
The reality is that most people unthinkingly believe whatever their political tribe tells them to believe. Like an NPC in a video game.
14 August
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we tend to describe progress in agents as progress in autonomy: first they could do five minutes of work, then an hour, now we talk seriously about agents running for days. that’s impressive, but autonomy is a capability, not a product direction! the Job To Be Done tells you whether to use it.
10 August
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when the machine says I'm sorry you're so sick today it's very different from how your friend says it to you because the machine said that because it has learned through pattern when someone tells it I'm sick you should say I'm sorry you're sick instead of I'm so glad you're sick because that data exists.
30 July
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it tells you that a single warm year, or even two, cannot distinguish between "very rapid acceleration driven by aerosols and high sensitivity" and "the trend and more modest acceleration plus a very strong El Niño."
Why Hansen may end up being right about 2026theclimatebrink.com
20 July
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And there was no food or you know olive oil or food group or you eating more or less meat that changed the relationship between the Mediterranean diet and dementia risk. So what that tells me is it's much more about whole foods.
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Everybody's PerfectTheir words
And now it's Everybody's Perfect, a book that pretty much defines what it means for one text to be "in dialog" with another text. In this case, it's Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning magnum opus that tells not just the story of the Renaissance, but the story of the story, all the different ways the Renaissance has been used, abused, revised and recovered, starting with the Renaissance itself. It's a book that will make you rethink everything you know about European history, about the world today, and about the very idea of history itself
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There's little point trying to avoid LLMisms as a human, the readers who'll latch onto that don't care what you're saying anyway.
20 May
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I think the same kind of principle applies with agents in that they can talk to the compiler. It will tell them what to fix. So I guess this could be a case. We we'll see. But Rust could be a pretty promising candidate for to use for agents because they can get more feedback and it's just hard it's harder to to ship certain type of bugs or maybe impossible to have certain type of bugs.
10 May
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So if someone tells you, I'm serious about something, great. Now show me the apparatus. Show me the commitments you've made to make sure that happens every time. No exceptions. And if you don't have one, then they are lying to you no matter how good their intentions are.
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From one piece Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So even though the models have improved tremendously and if you give them an agentic task, they will just go for hours and move mountains for you. And then you ask for like a joke and it has a stupid joke. It's crappy joke from five years ago and it's because it's outside of the it's outside of the RL.
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you're going to run out of things that you're going to do purely in the digital space. At some point you have to go to the universe and you have to ask it questions. Um you have to run an experiment and see what the universe tells you to get back to learn something.
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Deacon King KongTheir words
Deacon King Kong by James McBride. This was my first time reading anything by McBride and maybe I have a new favorite author? I love everything about this story and the way he tells it. (A+)
25 November 2025
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And it's just this, this is an example of how language affects thought. Scaling is what just one word, but it's such a powerful word because it informs people what to do.
12 September 2025
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It tells us that the key is not necessarily to do really good simulation. The key is to figure out how to answer counterfactuals.
2 September 2025
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Being certain a technology matters tells you almost nothing about where its value will end up being captured.Their words
It wasn't clear that the browser wasn't where the value capture was cuz Microsoft crowbarred its way into dominance in browsers but that turned out not to matter and then all the value is in search advertising and social which were 5 years later and 10 years later and so like you can be very very clear that this is the thing and then still be completely unclear how it's going to work.
14 April 2025
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The American trade deficit is foreigners choosing to invest in America, not America being cheated.Their words
this story tells us how an increase in foreign demand to save in the US rather than at home will push up the dollar, and cause the trade deficit, which is in effect how foreigners send us factories which they would rather build here than in their own countries.
6 April 2025
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That’s because America has an amazing consumer supply chain, one of the best, if not the best in the world, but this is totally different from having an industrial supply chain.
22 December 2024
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And what they found was if that search space, if the sky is an ocean and you're looking for fish, how much of the ocean have we looked at, and it turns out to be a hot tub. That's how much of the ocean that we've looked up. We've dragged a hot tub's worth of ocean water up and there was no fish in it
13 June 2024
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But mathematics too, and it’s interesting because people think that math has this Platonic reality that exists outside of our universe, and I think it’s a feature of our biosphere and it’s telling us something about the structure of ourselves.
21 May 2024
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The WomenTheir words
This terrific novel tells the story of Frankie McGrath, an army nurse who serves two tours on the frontlines in Vietnam before returning home to a country rocked by protest and anti-war sentiment.
25 March 2024
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Based on public commercial data that tells a lot about the military potential of these dual-use robotic spacecraft, we have shown that China can manufacture and deploy 200 such spacecraft as early as 2026, enough to cripple critical US satellites in geosynchronous, highly elliptical, and other orbits, and thus severely degrading space support to wartime operations.
13 March 2024
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The case for raising yields, especially among smallholders, is humanitarian as much as environmental.Their words
What this also tells us is that, at the end of the day, the argument for boosting yields—especially among smallholder farmers—is not just environmental: it is humanitarian.
19 December 2023
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What Looks Like BraveryTheir words
She tells the story of those difficult, transformative learnings in What Looks Like Bravery
18 December 2023
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A profiler measures time already spent in an operation, not how much time would be saved by optimizing it.Their words
a profile tells you how much time a program spent in a given operation; but not how much time it would spend if you optimized that operation.
2 August 2023
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Anyone who tells you a contested legal question has one obvious answer is lying to you rather than analysing it.Their words
Here’s the point: there are legal and factual defenses to this indictment, but anyone telling you that it obviously, inarguably violates the law is lying to you.
29 June 2023
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But the real thing that I want is not something that like tab completes my code and gives me ideas. The real thing that I want is a very intelligent pair programmer that comes up with a little popup saying, “Hey, you wrote a bug on line 14 and here’s what it is.”
22 June 2023
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The third UI paradigm, represented by current generative AI, is intent-based outcome specification. The user tells the computer the desired result but does not specify how this outcome should be accomplished, such as the steps to be executed. Compared to traditional command-based interaction design, this completely reverses the locus of control.
AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Yearsjakobnielsenphd.substack.com
19 February 2023
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For an online creator, the platform is a boss who docks every paycheck and tells you that you’re being punished for breaking rules that your boss refuses to explain, lest you figure out how to violate them without him noticing.
10 December 2022
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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical TechnologyTheir words
Chris Miller tells us the history of how microchips were developed, emphasizing the critical role of the government, and especially defense procurement.
10 April 2022
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