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20 September
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Creating institutional forms that can incorporate diversity and respond flexibly to a changing environment while maintaining legitimacy in the eyes of citizens is the fundamental project of state capacity that faces us.
19 September
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Time spent on bureaucratic paperwork is a real economic cost even though it doesn't appear in government budgets.Their words
it is simply ridiculous that a ruinously expensive policy can be budget-neutral if the expense consists of wasted time rather than wasted money. But that's still a cost!
18 September
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Effective Altruism lets people appear both rational and moral and is the ultimate ego trip.Their words
Effective Altruism lets you appear rational and moral - the ultimate ego trip.
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People who want to appear moral are attracted to the left. People who want to appear rational are attracted to the right.
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In this model, if someone or something could “commandeer” the Intelligence sector, their power over society would be much more limited than it might appear at first. The world does not change that much at first, because the necessary complements are lacking.
A simple model of AI-aided economic growthmarginalrevolution.com
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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.
5 September
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People are simple creatures, you have to talk to them on their level sometimes.
Claude Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1: Capabilitiesthezvi.substack.com
4 September
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Large engineering projects are more soluble in IQ than they appear, and many tech companies are overstaffedTheir words
Large-scale engineering projects are more soluble in IQ than they appear Many tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed
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Happier couples respond to a partner's lapses by assuming distraction or tiredness rather than indifference.Their words
Happier couples tend to give each other the benefit of the doubt. Rather than assuming "My partner doesn't care," they're more likely to consider that the other is tired, distracted, overwhelmed or simply unaware of the impact of their behavior.
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AI text detectors and the LLMs they try to catch are locked in a permanent cat-and-mouse arms race.Their words
AI checkers are essentially a cat-and-mouse game. AI checkers may learn to detect a certain pattern that is indicative of AI-generated content. Then, the next LLM may incidentally or deliberately not exhibit that pattern and avoid detection. The AI checker then has to be updated to detect said LLM, and so forth.
Building an AI Text Detector From Scratchmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
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Emotion regulation is about choosing how to respond, not about controlling what one feels.Their words
Emotion regulation is not about controlling what you feel. It's about choosing how you respond.
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corporations, organizations are the oldest form of artificial intelligence on the planet. They are an example of this emergent intelligence.
7 April
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if somebody, you know, is standing behind the dessert table and is replenishing, restocking the desserts and keeps kind of you know, adding adding new ones in, it may turn out that you know, a little bit later a much better desserts appear.
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Libertarians always want to let industries regulate themselves, arguing that if they do harmful things then the market will respond. But the market will only notice immediate, severe harm.
0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, linksscattered-thoughts.net
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12 November 2025
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even if the tech is diffusing fast uh this time around for true economic growth to appear it has to sort of diffuse to a point where the work the work artifact and the workflow has to change and so that's kind of one place where I think uh the change management required for a corporation to truly change I think is something we shouldn't discount
31 October 2025
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A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.Their words
I am far from certain that NASA can regain anything like the vigor necessary to respond decisively to the Chinese threat, but I am determined that the free people of Earth not live under a Red Moon
NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Is Flaming Garbagecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
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26 September 2025
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If you go to look about how psychologists think about learning, there's nothing like uh imitation. Maybe there are some extreme cases where humans might do that or appear to do that, but there's no basic animal learning process called imitation.
4 September 2025
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So birds did not appear as a result of the dinosaurs going extinct. Birds lived alongside the dinosaurs for 100 million years. The birds were not new on the scene, and it's not like, "Oh, the dinosaurs died, and from the ashes rose the birds." No, they've been knocking around forever.
9 June 2025
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the word "listen" doesn't appear anywhere in the essay, and listening is arguably a product manager's most important tool.
A How to Hire a Product Manager Retrospectivebringthedonuts.com
5 June 2025
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the text embeddings across LLMs appear to largely converge on a "universal geometry" despite differing architectures, parameter counts, and training sets.
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One thing humans appear to be much better than LLMs at (as of January 2025) is not getting distracted.
30 September 2024
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I think that when people wanted to build a big building without rebar or cement, you end up building something with a fat base that goes up to a skinny top, and that turns into a pyramid.
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It seems to me that an attractive robust approach is to have governments pay lots for kids (at no cost or risk to them!) and then let those who respond to these incentives tell us which compromises seem most attractive.
21 September 2023
From one piece What I learned from analyzing 300 particle size distributions for 24 espresso grinders 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Grinders that produce fewer fines (more unimodal) also tend to produce more uniform particle sizes.Their words
Contrary to popular hearsay, more unimodal grinders appear to also be more uniform on average.
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Conical burrs tend to be less unimodal and less uniform than flat burrs, though the two overlap a lot.Their words
Conical burrs appear on average less unimodal and less uniform, although there is a large overlap meaning that one can easily find a specific flat burr that is less unimodal and less uniform than a specific conical burr.
10 June 2022
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The field calling itself AI safety is not being remotely productive on the problems that are actually lethal.Their words
It does not appear to me that the field of ‘AI safety’ is currently being remotely productive on tackling its enormous lethal problems.
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Many alignment problems of superintelligence will not naturally appear at pre-dangerous, passively-safe levels of capability.
25 January 2022
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the reality is the kids that make new things work from scratch. It actually turns out that they actually have been deep in the domain for a long time. Almost every case, they've been thinking hard about the problem that they're trying to solve actually for in in a lot of cases for many years.
8 April 2019
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Hidden FiguresTheir words
The book and movie only tangentially touch on Apollo itself (although it does appear!), but they make the list because they are well worth the read / watch, and they tell an important story of yet another facet of the immense collaboration that was the space program, and the incredible diversity of people and backgrounds and stories and kinds of work that went into making it all work.
28 July 2018
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The Messy MiddleTheir words
I was up very late last night reading a great book that will appear in stores soon written by Scott Belsky entitled The Messy Middle that explains why this passion is required.
5 June 2018
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Pretty much any time you're using numbers outside a regular sentence, you should be using tabular figures.
28 October 2011
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Most jobs and most good candidates never appear publicly; hiring travels through personal networks instead.Their words
Most jobs are never available publicly, just like most worthwhile candidates are not available publicly
1 July 2009
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QuicksilverTheir words
I've tried LaunchBar and a few others, but I always come back to Quicksilver. I want my launcher to appear, react to my input, and disappear instantly. Quicksilver has always felt the snappiest to me.
1 January 1985
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