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18 September
17 September
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korrents.com
Safely routing AI tasks to cheaper models requires accumulated observation of many prior task outcomes.Their words
Routing to a cheap model is only safe if you know which tasks it clears, & that knowledge comes from watching ten thousand versions of the same work.
16 September
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AI-assisted biological research still depends on physical wet-lab work that remains a necessary bottleneck for now.Their words
This physical work will remain necessary for the foreseeable future.
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
15 September
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I think we should use this kinds of data to completely turn around Europe's immigration policy: - We should have super easy inflow for immigrants from countries whose previous immigrants have shown low crime rates You're from Japan? Just fly here and you can stay forever - We should then almost completely ban any inflow from countries whose previous immigrants have shown high crime rates with instant deportations
14 September
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anything that feels like a way to get out of doing the work will come back to bite you. You have to go through yourself to get anywhere good.
13 September
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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
12 September
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korrents.com
The War on Terror, including the fight against ISIS, was generally successful and necessary.Their words
the War on Terror, including the fight against ISIS, was generally successful and necessary.
11 September
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3 September
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It’s a simple truth that if you want your economy to escape poverty, you need lots of energy consumption
2 September
1 September
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korrents.com
Anthropomorphizing AI systems is necessary for reasoning about, explaining, and predicting their behavior accurately.Their words
Anthropomorphizing the AIs is the only way to reason about, explain to civilians about, or make good predictions about current AIs.
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Writing is itself an act of thinking, so automating the writing removes the thinking, not just the labor.Their words
The act of writing is an act of thinking, and to automate our paragraphs is to populate our screens with words without filling our minds with the ideas necessary to conceive of them.
We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internetderekthompson.org
22 August
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We now know that fires are necessary for healthy forests, that a century of fire suppression in the West has been disastrous.
17 August
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I argue that it will become necessary to make these unwritten goals of mathematics much more explicit; but once we have thoroughly examined and codified them, our community will emerge stronger and more resilient than before.
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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.
11 August
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And so there's some like deep underlying properties of the model that are being sort of transferred between model generations because basically you you train your AI on data from the prior generation and keep going.
5 August
26 July
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The evidence would show that and it makes perfect sense that AI and automation is creating jobs everywhere. The narrative about AI destroying jobs is exactly backwards. AI eliminate tasks. AI automates tasks away. But it doesn't necessary doesn't necessarily eliminate jobs.
19 July
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I think there's a difference between being able to write lines of code in a particular language like Python or C++ and understanding how code, computer systems, products work. And I don't think the latter is going away.
16 July
11 July
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I find what is most precious is to eliminate the friction necessary to write.
4 July
30 June
29 June
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it’s also true that their impact on our output was never as tremendous or as clear-cut as that of prior innovations, such as the steam engine or the power loom, and that integrating them effectively into the workforce took a long time
5 June
4 June
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we don't have any data. I've been kind of saying we need a Manhattan Project for data. We don't have data on basically consumer demand elasticities. We don't know what they are.
2 June
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Most business advice is necessary but not sufficient on its own to achieve success.
1 June
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If AI-driven labor displacement ends up being large in magnitude and permanently drives down the demand for labor, it will likely be necessary to go beyond mere incentive programs to long-term income support for a significant fraction of the labor force.
28 May
22 May
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korrents.com
Republican lawmakers have lost the party cohesion needed to shield a Trump ally from an impeachment trial.Their words
My guess is Republicans have lost the necessary cohesion to fall on Trump's sword and block a trial.
9 May
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The necessary tax rates depend on how big a government you want, but all these systems rely on people paying taxes.
22 April
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korrents.com
AI-written code makes formal proof necessary, because human review of all that generated code becomes the bottleneck.Their words
But also LLMs increase the need for these formal proofs because, you know, we're live coding a bunch of stuff. If we have to manually review all of that code, then that will become the bottleneck.
15 April
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my mental model of our company the input is electron the output is tokens that is in the middle Nvidia and our job is to to do as much as necessary as little as possible to enable that transformation to be done at incredible capabilities
1 April
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No new feature necessary. Just make sure that we can do that. And then that allow the business the company to just pour a whole bunch of hardware behind that and it will scale.
23 March
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And if everything is proprietary, it's hard to do research and it's hard to innovate on top of, around, with. And so… Open source is fundamentally necessary for many industries to join the AI revolution.
12 February
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These corner allocations create a distinct source of cross-market misallocation, separate from the aggregate quantity loss (the Harberger triangle) and from within-market misallocation emphasized in prior work.
10 February
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korrents.com
Manufacturing and mining in space will never be lucrative enough to pay for human settlement of space.Their words, before
Furthermore, I believe it’s very unlikely that space-based manufacturing or mining could be lucrative enough to fund the venture.
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Today, exploding demand for power-intensive AI applications provides enough of an upside to justify producing components in space, providing the economic engine necessary to justify and fund the trillions of dollars necessary to build and sustain space factories.
5 February
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Immediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini on the web, etc.). Chatbots have real value and are a daily part of my AI workflow, but their utility in coding is highly limited because you're mostly hoping they come up with the right results based on their prior training, and correcting them involves a human (you) to tell them they're wrong repeatedly.
4 February
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Eight SleepTheir words
Consider using a noise machine to offset environmental sounds or earplugs if necessary. Temperature controlled mattresses such as Eight Sleep are great.
21 December 2025
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It had the best opening sentence of any nonfiction book I read this year: "In 2012, 146 million children were born. That was more than in any prior year. It was also more than in any year since. Millions fewer will be born this year. The year 2012 may well turn out to be the year in which the most humans were ever born—ever as in ever for as long as humanity exists." Such a simple and obvious fact but I had not known it before. I had to keep reading.
18 December 2025
25 November 2025
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What I meant to say is that language math and coding and especially math and coding suggests that whatever it is that makes people good at learning is probably not so much a complicated prior but something more some fundamental thing.
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The Roman Empire, therefore, is actually not necessary for keeping industry going.
18 November 2025
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Very often, learning skills that are automated in practice is a necessary stepping stone to cultivating uniquely human skills.
31 October 2025
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korrents.com
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
5 October 2025
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And the third one is like we did a lot of actually PR uh prior to the service going out just to get the word out. Um and you know PR has has its time and place. Uh but I think doing it before you have validation that customers definitely want the thing is quite risky. It can lead to a lot of sunk cost uh once you get it out because you're you're just you know you need to see it through.
30 September 2025
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korrents.com
A phone is not a necessary device; set your own agenda and the phone only gets in the way.Their words
I don't think a phone is a necessary device. I remember growing up, I didn't have a mobile phone. When I was a student at the university, I didn't have a mobile phone. When I finally got to use a mobile phone, I never used phone calls.
26 September 2025
From one piece Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We don't we don't really know what information they had prior. We are we have to guess because they've been fed so much. This is one reason why they're not a good way to do science. Uh it's just so uncontrolled, so unknown.
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So there's no ground truth. You can't have prior knowledge if you don't have ground truth because the prior knowledge is supposed to be a hint or an initial belief about what the truth is.
9 September 2025
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With Web forms, the burden is on people to adapt to databases. Today's AI models, however, can flip this requirement. That is, they allow people to provide information in whatever form they like and use AI do the work necessary to put that information into the right structure for a database.
15 August 2025
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And the bottleneck prior to what we call the industrial revolution was uh metabolism, right? It's just like how much like oats can a human or a horse physically digest and then convert into useful mechanical output for you know their their um their peasant overlord or whatever.
18 June 2025
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the current situation in Iran shows that even if an "IAEA for AI" is necessary for some purposes, it won't be sufficient for resolving the tricky geopolitical issues raised by AI.
16 June 2025
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Shoulder generation (in late summer) of any given year is generally a higher share of global electricity demand than the peak generation (spring) of the year prior.
12 May 2025
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The technology powering ChatGPT had already launched prior to November 30th, 2022. It was just wrapped in a different interface. Very few people paid attention. Why did ChatGPT explode in popularity? Because of its obvious chat interface, which everyone intuitively already knew how to use it.
22 April 2025
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Ecosystem Arabia: The Making of a New EconomyTheir words
I have written forewords for Amir in the past on two of his prior books, Ecosystem Arabia: The Making of a New Economy and Venture Adventure: Startup Fundraising Advice from Top Global Investors, both of which I recommend.
29 January 2025
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korrents.com
Good storytelling doesn't require inventing something entirely new; it can be built from existing material.Their words
One myth of good storytelling is that it requires dreaming up something entirely new from scratch. That's not necessary.
31 December 2024
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korrents.com
Reading fiction is necessary to an engineer's creative capacity; reading only technical books drains itTheir words
Yet, I also need to read fiction because if I only read tech books, they take away my creative energy rather than grant it, as fiction does.
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.
11 October 2024
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Neurosymbolic AI — combining such machinery with neural networks – is likely a necessary condition for going forward.
31 August 2024
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What you create doesn’t have to be utterly unlike every prior piece of art in human history to be valuable; the fact that you’re the one who is saying it, the fact that it derives from your unique life experience and arrives at a particular moment in the life of whoever is seeing your work, is what makes it new.
18 March 2024
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I kind of hate ads just as an aesthetic choice. I think ads needed to happen on the internet for a bunch of reasons, to get it going, but it’s a momentary industry. The world is richer now. I like that people pay for ChatGPT and know that the answers they’re getting are not influenced by advertisers.
20 February 2024
From one piece Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #413 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media.Their words
So having an independently owned powerful platform is very important for truth, for free speech, for hearing the other side of the story, for counterbalancing the power of the government.
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korrents.com
A large, respected owner on the board is what buys a CEO the time to make decisions that only pay off years later.Their words
That large owner on the board can help buy the time necessary for management to behave in a longer term way. And that's, I think, good for all the shareholders.
16 January 2024
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I suspect that in the future, it'll be easier to get models to output exactly what we need with minimal prompting, and these techniques will become less important.
5 December 2023
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Full fine-tuning of LLMs has become prohibitive and requires parameter-efficient methods instead.
31 August 2023
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Star KingdomTheir words
Buroker is a reliable author of very fluffy mind candy, either science fiction or fantasy. A lot of her output is re-working material from identifiable prior art, without hewing so closely to the canon as to constitute fan fiction.
3 July 2023
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it’s going to be incredibly difficult, but also incredibly necessary, for the world to produce much more food with much less land.
The Food Problem Is Bigger Than Lettucemichaelgrunwald.substack.com
11 October 2022
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Prior to this inflection point, productivity growth had increased before, but every time had induced a response of higher population growth rates, eroding any gains in per-person living standards.
7 September 2022
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So, there is no necessary trajectory towards great complexity in human beings at the end of it. It’s very easy to imagine that without photosynthesis arising or without eukaryotes arising, that the planet could be full of bacteria and nothing else.
15 July 2022
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In order to move this army or sustain it in place it is thus necessary to ensure a massive and relatively continuous supply of food to the army. Failure to do that will result in the army falling apart long before it comes anywhere close to the enemy.
28 May 2022
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
13" MacBook Pro 2019Their words
Previous development machine. I was using an Intel-based 13" MacBook Pro prior to this and the difference is night and day. Served well for years before upgrading to the M2 version.
25 May 2022
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For starters, it’s abundantly clear that both practice and instruction are necessary for effective learning.
25 January 2022
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And so all of the people who have achieved positions of power and authority in the world based on prior generations of technology are inherently threatened by new technology because new technology will upend the power and status structures and then a new set of people will, you know, come to the foreground and and take the power.
16 November 2021
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Adding a dependency is a serious decision which requires consensus within the team, an audit of the new dependency, an understanding of its health and long-term prospects, and an ongoing commitment to re-audit them and be prepared to change course as necessary.
I will pay you cash to delete your npm moduledrewdevault.com
1 February 2021
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No matter what your model of obesity is, in order to explain the development of an obese body, energy imbalance has to be a link in the model’s causal chain.
25 November 2020
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But nobody will ever get to the billions of representative miles necessary to say anything compelling about expected safety until after they actually deploy their fleet.
2 June 2020
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Lovedrcmnd.app
SelmaTheir words
I had taken my kids to see DuVernay's superlative Selma years prior, and I had heard about 13th (and I had recalled my wife saying she wanted to watch it), but it was – like many things – "in the queue."
1 June 2020
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Recommendssponsoredrcmnd.app
Khan AcademyTheir words
They are probably most famous for the videos Sal does, but arguably the site is most valuable as a source of problems you can drill on, starting from the very basics if necessary. I may be biased, though, given that I used to work there!
28 May 2020
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Here we show that scaling up language models greatly improves task-agnostic, few-shot performance, sometimes even reaching competitiveness with prior state-of-the-art fine-tuning approaches.
15 May 2020
5 November 2019
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We argue that solely measuring skill at any given task falls short of measuring intelligence, because skill is heavily modulated by prior knowledge and experience: unlimited priors or unlimited training data allow experimenters to "buy" arbitrary levels of skills for a system, in a way that masks the system's own generalization power.
13 July 2018
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korrents.com
Every website needs HTTPS, including a static site with no login and nothing sensitive on it.Their words
So that's precisely what I've done - intercepted my own traffic passed over an insecure connection and put together a string of demos in a 24-minute video explaining why HTTPS is necessary on a static website.
20 April 2018
20 January 2016
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Existing code exerts a powerful influence. Its very presence argues that it is both correct and necessary.
12 October 2012
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korrents.com
Speaking badly is not a failure on the way to speaking well; it is a stage that has to be passed through on purpose.Their words
I learned a long time ago that speaking like “Tarzan” is an absolutely necessary stage to go through, so you get used to using the language in SOME way. You learn to get used to the embarrassment and get on with learning quicker.
17 September 2012
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