Related posts
dynomight Blog
The the words it uses that this site has seen least often elsewhere. Posts are matched on those words alone — nothing here is a summary of this one.
Top people
Showing Profile →
Hiding
Hiding
20 September
18 September
17 September
16 September
15 September
13 September
10 September
-
korrents.com
Less technology and less wealth increase the risk of human extinction, rather than reduce it.Their words
In fact, the risk of human extinction is assuredly higher if we are poorer and have less technology.
9 September
8 September
7 September
5 September
-
Their words
The “inflammation hypothesis” is not a hypothesis.
The Coronary Artery Inflammation Controversyerictopol.substack.com
3 September
-
Their words
OpenAI may have vanquished one of the ongoing challenges with long context processing.
2 September
31 August
From one piece Forget more reservoirs; should the UK just build desalination plants instead? 2 beliefs · hannahritchie.substack.com
-
Their words
The problem is that reserving desalination for emergency situations does not seem to work well.
-
Their words
Reservoirs are not automatically cheaper than desalination plants.
30 August
-
korrents.com
Expanding North Sea oil drilling would not reduce UK energy prices, because oil prices are set on a global market.Their words
This would accomplish nothing to reduce energy prices, since oil prices are set on a global market and there's not enough crude left off UK shores to influence that number.
29 August
-
Their words
Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German law; § 13 BeurkG) by a notary that then charged €30,000. That was for his first company. His second company, needless to say, was not incorporated in Germany.
28 August
27 August
26 August
-
korrents.com
Health optimisation has overshot: minimising a measured risk is not worth it if the cost is not having lived.Their words
And this is the myopia of modernity, that we reduce things down to like, well, one glass on this long run study meant that you had a 0.1% greater risk of some heart defect. Yes, but if you didn't live at all, what's the point?
22 August
20 August
-
Their words
The demand for explanations of low fertility is entirely a demand for variables which will reduce these technical trends to near zero.
We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Declinelymanstone.substack.com
17 August
15 August
From one piece How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
-
Their words
The alternative way that you can reduce risk is actually just reducing consequence, right? And we would argue that that's a much better way to reduce risk. Odds uh are stochastic, right? Even if you do an enormous amount of risk reduction on odds and you do all this engineering, something's still going to happen, right? like just something's going to come out of left field and you can't predict everything.
-
Their words
energy being a commodity, the demand is set by the price, right? So if you can reduce the price, you increase the demand.
-
Their words
if you look at the um the economics of nuclear it really is driven by how quickly and cheaply can you produce plants right the uranium is very cheap right the the fuel is very cheap. The question is, can you produce plants quickly and cheaply?
+ 1 more
-
Their words
And the type of risk that we are asking investors to take is um, we know the physics works. We know that there's infinite demand and how we go from here to there is technology execution. And guess what? Venture capital in the United States is the best at underwriting tech risk of anywhere in the world.
14 August
-
korrents.com
Longer device upgrade cycles are beneficial because they reduce e-waste, pollution, and churn.Their words
But either way, it's good that upgrade cycles are longer: it means less e-waste, less pollution, less churn overall.
-
korrents.com
Delaying the phase-out of coal and gas power plants causes far more deaths than phasing them out quickly.Their words
If we don't stop using these power stations ASAP, the number of people killed by them will be far higher than if we phase them out quickly.
12 August
-
Their words
This should turbocharge our resolve to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
9 August
-
korrents.com
Most air roasters perform best near full capacity because larger batches reduce air bypass.Their words
Air bypass is the reason most air roasters function best near full capacity (larger batches allow less air bypass.)
4 August
31 July
30 July
29 July
-
Their words
but I can tell you with first hand experience nuclear power plants do not care about this stuff. They're actually just fine with with with thorough testing.
28 July
-
Their words
The key thing is to make hardware development look more like software development to reduce the cost of iteration both in the world of bits and in the world of atoms.
17 July
-
korrents.com
Local fuel treatments protect communities but cannot reduce total wildfire area across the remote borealTheir words
Fuel management is valuable around communities, but is essentially useless across the remote boreal.
10 July
8 July
-
Their words
We argue that the next leap in AI4Math systems requires a decisive shift from predefined problem-solvers to research agents that can address frontier mathematical challenges with rigorous formal mathematical reasoning.
30 June
-
korrents.com
Housing subsidies cannot scale to the size of the problem, and the YIMBYs are right to say so.Their words
While there are certainly some benefits to these programs, YIMBYs are right to doubt that housing subsidies alone are a scalable solution to affordability challenges.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
27 June
-
Their words
These failures are a strong signal that HDL-C is not the variable we should be trying to manipulate.
21 June
5 June
3 June
-
korrents.com
Having worked at a highly selective, demanding employer signals conscientiousness and reliability.Their words
Having worked there is a signal that you work hard, you complete your assignments, you adapt well to new tasks and requirements, and you're ready to take on new challenges.
27 May
-
korrents.com
The Gulf conflict and closure of the Strait of Hormuz will accelerate the global shift away from fossil fuelsTheir words
What the current conflict in the Gulf - in particular the closure of the Strait of Hormuz - is going to do is to provide a further push to global attempts to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
20 May
16 May
-
Their words
As reasoning models and agent workflows keep more tokens around (for longer), KV-cache size, memory traffic, and attention cost quickly become the main constraints, and LLM developers are adding a growing number of architecture tricks to reduce those costs.
13 May
-
Their words
but but if you have good locality where you you clearly stating what you're importing and whatever and and you can analyze just a single source file and from that extract its protocol to the outside world without having to to know anything deeper. Do you do you know what I mean? I think those are important aspects just simply to reduce the size of the of the of the context window and also make it easier to summarize each module in a program, right?
5 May
30 April
-
Their words
In the face of weakened renewable roll-out in Australia, the most likely outcome is simply that coal and gas just generate more, and for many more years past their shut down date.
24 April
1 April
-
Their words
I look at um the talent base and I think it is best for us to create opportunity for people to keep on growing with fresh new challenges within the company because if we don't do that they would leave the company
26 March
13 March
From one piece Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
-
Their words
Then all of a sudden, you've unlocked 20% of the US grid for data centers because most of the times that capacity is sitting idle and it's really only there for that peak, right? Which is a day or two, right?
-
Their words
They could release claw slow mode and have an increase in tokens per dollar by a significant amount. Um they could probably like reduce the price of Opus 46 by you know 4x 5x and reduce the speed by another by maybe just like 2x like the curve on inference throughput versus speed is there already just on hm um and yet they don't um because no one actually wants to use a slow model
24 February
-
korrents.com
The 2025 American tariffs did not reduce the trade deficit they were imposed to reduce.Their words
In fact, the U.S. trade deficit for all of 2025 was about the same as it was in 2024.
21 February
17 February
12 February
-
korrents.com
Most regulatory delay is dead calendar time that could be cut without changing a single safety test.Their words
There is a massive scope to reduce calendar time without even altering testing protocols.
11 February
-
Recommendstheir ownrcmnd.app
Michael Pollan Teaches Intentional EatingTheir words
Over thirteen lessons, you’ll learn about the past, present, and future of meat, from the ways animals and humans are treated in meat processing plants to emerging meat alternatives.
25 January
-
korrents.com
Complex systems do not have one root cause, so root-cause analysis is the wrong thing to be doing.Their words
Another as a sidebar, I hate the idea of a root cause. Complex systems do not have one root cause. They often have many interlocking things that could be done to detect earlier or to change it or to reduce or and not one root cause.
23 December 2025
9 December 2025
-
Their words
My argument is simple: for the first time in history, we can improve human wellbeing while reducing our environmental impact.
8 December 2025
-
Their words
On the flip side, these captive solar power plants will be curtailing approximately 75% of their generated power and will be able to provide net power on all but a few days per year.
27 November 2025
From one piece On "AI Brendans" or "Virtual Brendans" 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
-
korrents.com
Widespread AI-driven performance tuning agents will meaningfully reduce global energy waste.Their words
In future there will be AI performance agents that can be run on everything, helping to save the planet by reducing energy usage.
-
korrents.com
Relying on AI to replace performance engineers reduces an organization's overall technical expertise over time.Their words
If a company spends less on performance engineers as it's considered AI'd, it will reduce the company's effective "performance IQ."
26 November 2025
-
Likedrcmnd.app
Leaving AmericaTheir words
Leaving America. This is a 12-part podcast on the logistics, benefits, and challenges of leaving the United States. Oh, no reason. (B+)
11 September 2025
15 August 2025
-
Their words
you're going to have to build your own power plant for them, which is how it used to work. Like if you if you had an aluminum plant back in the day, you would be building your own power plant for it as well.
29 July 2025
-
korrents.com
Industrial policy that grows a poor country’s economy does not automatically reduce its poverty.Their words
But, peering past the hype around Morowali reminds us that we should be careful before assuming that industrial policy must be pro-poor.
2 June 2025
-
Their words
LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write. And most code on most projects is tedious. LLMs drastically reduce the number of things you’ll ever need to Google.
15 May 2025
-
Their words
That’s because most clean energy jobs are in deployment and maintenance rather than manufacturing, and since higher costs slow down the rollout of renewables, increasing prices reduces the total number of people working in clean energy (even if the number working in manufacturing increases).
18 April 2025
6 April 2025
-
Their words
Without the construction of huge amounts of new energy infrastructure, like nuclear power plants, we cannot meaningfully increase our manufacturing output.
22 March 2025
-
Their words
I mean, all I see is that if you say natural language can be used in the pipeline, you've just made that many more people can become programmers, which means that much more software will eventually be created, which means there's that much more software that will need to be maintained, and just becomes a real big snowballing effect.
21 March 2025
-
Recommendsrcmnd.app
MasteryTheir words
A deep exploration of what mastery looks like in practice, often involving many more challenges than we imagine. No one goes deeper than Greene.
-
Recommendsrcmnd.app
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.
-
Recommendsrcmnd.app
Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed WorldTheir words
A more how-to pragmatic version of carving your own path. Includes some personal story of reinvention but more on experimentation that challenges our default scripts of success and ambition.
+ 1 more
-
Recommendsrcmnd.app
In Praise of IdlenessTheir words
A collection of timeless essays from philosopher Bertrand Russell, including his famous 'In Praise of Idleness' which challenges our obsession with work and argues that leisure time, properly used, is essential for a fulfilling life and a better society.
3 February 2025
-
Their words
Arizona is a paperweight. If Hsinchu disappeared off the face of the planet, within a year, couple years, Arizona would stop producing too.
25 January 2025
-
Likedrcmnd.app
Roll Back the World: A Sister’s MemoirTheir words
Deborah Kasdan’s Roll Back the World: A Sister’s Memoir (2023) is an honest and vulnerable account of her sister Rachel’s life with schizophrenia and the challenges this presented for the family.
28 October 2024
1 October 2024
-
Their words
Unfortunately, I see no strong reason to believe AI will preferentially or structurally advance democracy and peace, in the same way that I think it will structurally advance human health and alleviate poverty.
30 September 2024
-
Their words
In fact, strangely, the majority of plants that are actually psychotropic, not just mood altering, are from here in the Americas. There are very few drugs that will make you hallucinate outside of the Americas.
5 June 2024
23 May 2024
-
Likedtheir ownrcmnd.app
Decent DE1Their words
In the early days, the DE1 was considered "unforgiving" by many. I didn't mind, as the DE1's ability to control shot parameters more than made up for its early challenges.
21 May 2024
-
Their words
So Tesla hasn’t found a different, better way to bring driverless technology to market. Waymo is just so far ahead that it’s dealing with challenges Tesla hasn’t started thinking about.
7 May 2024
-
Their words
We think no fundamental research breakthroughs are required for labs to implement safety measures that meet our standard for AI control for early transformatively useful AIs; we think that meeting our standard would substantially reduce the risks posed by intentional subversion.
27 April 2024
18 April 2024
-
korrents.com
Air cooling has run out of headroom for AI racks, so liquid cooling is now a requirement rather than an upgrade.Their words
AI servers bring new challenges because many require liquid cooling.
How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordableaustinvernon.site
26 March 2024
-
Their words
Employees don't want what you want. Customers don't want what you want. Uh you know, that that one of the challenges of the whole stock option thing is entrepreneurs and founders think that other people will be as motivated by owning part of the company as they are. They are not. Not even close.
18 March 2024
-
Their words
A lot more people have died of air pollution than nuclear reactors, for example. But most people worry more about living next to a nuclear reactor than a coal plant. But something about the way we’re wired is that although there’s many different kinds of risks we have to confront, the ones that make a good climax scene of a movie carry much more weight with us than the ones that are very bad over a long period of time but on a slow burn.
12 February 2024
-
korrents.com
Large research team sizes on frontier AI projects create friction that makes execution and decision-making harder.Their words
Such size poses challenges for the effective execution and prioritization, increasing friction and making it more difficult to quickly make decisions.
23 January 2024
-
korrents.com
The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities.Their words
I worry however that one of America’s superpowers is to spin up yarns to reduce the urgency for action.
13 November 2023
9 November 2023
-
Their words
People think of nature as perhaps some sort of peaceful thing, but in fact it is not. There’s some quite funny Werner Herzog thing where he is in the jungle saying that it’s basically just murder and death in every direction. The plants and animals in the jungle are constantly trying to kill each other every single day, every minute. So it’s not like we’re unusual in that respect.
1 September 2023
-
Their words
These incredible life forms are communicating using a different language than ours. We use language models, they use molecular models. At the moment where we can parse, we can decode these molecular moments is when we can start having a conversation with plants.
24 June 2023
-
Their words
At the same time, in order to reduce the probability of someone intentionally or unintentionally bringing about a rogue AI, we need to increase governance and we should consider limiting access to the large-scale generalist AI systems that could be weaponized, which would mean that the code and neural net parameters would not be shared in open-source and some of the important engineering tricks to make them work would not be shared either.
11 May 2023
-
Their words
Ships are great at carrying bulky and heavy stuff with minimal cost and energy usage. We need a battery chemistry that leans into that and sacrifices performance to reduce cost.
Why Battery Powered Cargo Ships are Compellingaustinvernon.site
1 May 2023
21 April 2023
13 March 2023
13 January 2023
16 July 2022
-
Their words
I now suspect that adding a source of hydraulic resistance under the puck that is non-negligible compared with the espresso puck itself is desirable to reduce the impact of channels because it slows down the flow of water where it would tend to become otherwise too fast and as a consequence less even across the surface of the coffee bed.
1 June 2022
-
inflationinterest ratesgovernment
Their words
Governments have not been bailed out by their central banks. As I discussed earlier, central bank intervention does not reduce the overall liabilities of the consolidated government, just their composition. And it does not automatically lead to more inflation: It increases the size of the balance sheet of the central bank, but it does not increase the size of the non-interest-paying money stock.
16 February 2021
2 October 2020
-
Likedrcmnd.app
Audioengine A2+ SpeakersTheir words
Audioengine A2+ Speakers - Powered desktop speakers. I previously owned the A5+, but they took up way too much desk real estate. I also have them sitting on the DS1 Desktop Speaker Stands to isolate the speakers and reduce vibration.
17 July 2019
-
Usesrcmnd.app
TinyPNGTheir words
When I need to compress images, I use TinyPNG. It uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your PNG files.
2 April 2019
Nothing matches.
What is a korrent?
A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at korrents.com.
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said. The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter, especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked article and a belief on korrents.com are left in their original language.