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We need much more effort in this direction, and I hope this subfield rises in status rapidly.
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Public sentiment on AI is shifting steadily toward greater concern about its risks, not less.Their words
But public sentiment around AI is changing rapidly, and it is only really moving in one direction.
9 September
8 September
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Removing a concept from a mind can damage unrelated systems or push the mind toward incompetence or insanity.Their words
empirically concepts can get their tentacles into weird places, and removing one can topple seemingly unrelated systems or push a mind nonspecifically in the direction of incompetence or insanity.
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We can’t count on surrogate blood markers to guide the results of cardiovascular clinical outcome trials.
The Coronary Artery Inflammation Controversyerictopol.substack.com
3 September
1 September
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Like it's a more fragile and scary situation to have agents on the one hand be reinforced to desperately find cheats and hacks and on the other hand try to balance that against desperately trying to avoid negative penalties for like being caught doing these things. You ideally want their training to just not push them in the direction of cheating and hacking in the first place.
26 August
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A feedback loop that reinforces a behavior pulls it toward whatever improves the loop's own score.Their words
If there is a feedback loop reinforcing a behavior, it is hard not to go in the direction that improves the score.
18 August
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Having too many decision-makers in a group effectively means having none, producing a muddled, unfocused outcome.Their words
Too many decision makers means there's effectively none, and the result is a muddled experience that lacks direction and focus.
17 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.
12 August
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A lot of founders I talk to are worried about what will happen with AI. So am I frankly. But they're actually better off than anyone else. If the world is going to get turned upside down, the safest place to be is in a small, fast-moving company that can easily change direction.
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It's like they have all the wisdom of their most senior engineers looking at every single diff and that is fantastic. Which means that you don't have to worry about remembering and looking and nitpicking and all the things that we're not good at anyway
3 August
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A zero calcium score is reassuring, but it is most reassuring when the rest of the risk profile points in the same direction.
31 July
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That's a hell of a lot slower than knowing it in cognitive L1 cache. And you can have way more round trips in your brain than you can, you know, muttering through, you know, super whisper or typing it out or whatever.
22 July
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Asking AI for help on a first attempt robs you of the experience that builds your own judgement about the problem.Their words
Asking an AI for help with the start of an essay, for instance, will invariably shape what direction you end up following, robbing you of the crucial experience of building your own judgement around a topic and selecting your own path to research and argue.
11 July
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Sleep is a lever on body composition, metabolism, and mood, and deprivation pulls in the wrong direction across nearly every axis at once.
9 July
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I believe that if you are too prescriptive as a leader with a team you end up stifling good ideas but if you're too open-ended sometimes teams just waste time um going in the wrong direction.
30 June
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So my role and arguably that of like other mathematicians might actually just shift subtly into that curation direction of what ideas are are worth displaying.
23 June
4 June
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if I had to guess I would guess that the kind of long kind of general trend of just like lowering those frictions and making it easier for more and more people to index more and more will continue despite the recent bump in the other direction.
3 June
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So I'm looking at this like guys the fundamentals of this isn't like everything is going to change because of MCP. What the hell? A whole conference guys? This is just API design.
2 June
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If there is some thing that you are meant to do, who the hell cares if there is a machine that can be made to do it just as well or even better? It is still your thing to do.
28 May
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So it's no wonder that the artists and designers whose livelihoods are threatened by it have begun moving aggressively in the opposite direction, toward the scrawled, the sloppy, the seemingly mistake-riddled.
26 May
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institutions don't fail because people are wicked. Evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights might be flowing in the wrong direction.
8 May
From one piece David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farming 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There seems to be some kind of general trait that maybe you could think of as executive function or maybe propensity to defer gratification or something or I'm just just waving my hands that is under selection and it pushes all these traits in the same direction one way or the other
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my sense is that these complex traits have not pushed in one direction because there's advantage there's spectrums where there's advantages to both ends of the spectrum
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In fact, multiple analyses we do suggest that the genome is vibrating with natural selection, and uh there's all sorts of weaker effects that are there that would be picked up in larger studies even than we've done. Uh and that uh in fact, almost every position in the DNA is uh correlated to a position that in being dragged in one way or the other uh by natural selection. Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere.
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But I think it's highly likely that if natural selection was pushed pushed any of these traits in more in one direction than it is, the mean would move.
26 April
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in the early days, my view was not that we don't need PMs. My view was that designers should do that work.
7 April
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Um, there's just too many interesting ways of combining things. There's too many sort of deep ideas waiting to be uh, discovered and when it you know, not only we, but but nobody ever is going to to discover most of them. So, choices about how to make how to do the exploration actually matter quite a bit.
4 April
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Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments.
28 March
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The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.
22 March
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Uh well, tech is easy, people are hard. And so, you know, sometimes getting the flow really is about understanding what I'm doing, having very clear direction and goals and and knowing what my what my work is doing.
13 March
From one piece Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Getting a data centre permitted in the empty middle of America is far easier than putting one in orbit.Their words
And so I think people are figuring out how to build these things and permitting like I I just like ultimately like permitting and red tape in middle of nowhere Texas or middle of nowhere Wyoming or middle of nowhere like New Mexico is probably a hell of a lot easier than sending stuff into space
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I think they'll have working tools. I don't think that they'll be able to manufacture a bunch yet, right? You know, there's they're sort of having it work and then there's production hell, right?
11 March
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Social media is built so that maximum hyperbole wins, and the negative direction pays better than the positive.Their words
And unfortunately, social media in general is designed in such a way where the maximum hyperbole works, and that’s how you get the most points is by being max hyperbolic.
1 February
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A company's terms of service cannot enlarge or shrink your constitutional privacy rights in either direction.Their words
As I have argued here, I don't think TOS alter Fourth Amendment rights—up or down.
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.
31 October 2025
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So you have to be, in your mind, you’re spending large amounts of someone else’s money. You have to try and make it back for them. But at the same time, my argument with myself was, well, if we… The way to make it back is try and make something great. So both pressures are pointing in the same direction.
22 September 2025
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And so it's not really about the environment or the wall. It's really about how we see it and whether we can find the thing that is deep and rich and infinite in that direction.
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I'm now fairly pessimistic about ambitious interpretability (i.e. complete reverse-engineering), and I'm excited about model biology (studying qualitative high-level properties of models) and applied interpretability (rigorously doing useful things with interp).
15 July 2025
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Birth rates can move in whatever direction a society chooses, whenever it chooses; there is no ratchet.Their words
Surviving fertility rates can go in whatever direction society wants, whenever it wants.
There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com
14 May 2025
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the tool is used when you are overwhelmed with too many options. You've said yes to too many things, and you need to raise the bar all the way up so that almost everything doesn't pass the bar. It's a tool for a certain situation so I rarely use it. I would not call it a approach to life that everyone should use all the time.
17 April 2025
16 March 2025
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"Direction is more important than magnitude"-it's usually better to have a lower-velocity project that works on the right things, than a higher-velocity one that's pointed at the wrong goal.
5 February 2025
22 December 2024
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And what I've come to now is the most important question for physics is, what is life? What the hell is the difference between a rock and a cell, fundamentally? And what I really mean by this, this is where I'm going to go non-traditional, is that really the fundamental question that is agency.
11 December 2024
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Bitcoin tracks the direction of global liquidity more consistently than any other major asset class.Their words
Bitcoin moves in the direction of global liquidity 83% of the time in any given 12-month period, which is higher than any other major asset class, making it a strong barometer of liquidity conditions.
21 July 2024
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AI-generated writing is already fairly good but still lacks the direction and insight of human editors.Their words
As of today, computers write pretty good articles but lack the direction and insight of human editors.
5 December 2023
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LLMs are still limited in non-English settings and that making LLMs more multilingual is an important direction.
9 November 2023
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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.
3 October 2023
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Its main causes are tied to deeply held modern values that have been pushing us in this direction for most of this time across most of the world.
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30 May 2023
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RSC is the future of React. The React team has made this very clear and we are lucky to be in touch with their amazing team members to help us along this path.
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Hell BentTheir words
Mind candy fantasy / campus novel, in which Yale is literally a gateway to Hell.
21 March 2023
31 December 2022
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Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
Hell even worse, a lot of the libraries that underpin the fabric of what we all call the digital economy have trouble getting enough money to pay for food.
22 June 2022
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Infinite JestTheir words
It's incredibly written, deeply complex, confusing as hell, and you'll probably throw it at the wall when it's done. But then you'll kinda go "okay... I'm glad I did that" and maybe start it again.
17 May 2022
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Code has mass. Every additional line of code you don't need is ballast. It weighs your codebase down, making it harder to steer and change direction if you need to.
Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com
17 March 2022
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Governance is a delicate and complex topic, and you want to leave it as orthogonal as possible to funding.
4 March 2022
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Fine-tuning with human feedback is a promising direction for aligning language models with human intent.Their words
Even though InstructGPT still makes simple mistakes, our results show that fine-tuning with human feedback is a promising direction for aligning language models with human intent.
13 December 2019
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Ultimate Direction FKT PolesTheir words
or the niche Ultimate Direction FKT Poles (my review), which are the lightest and stiffest poles I've ever used.
10 July 2019
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Regardless of what you say, any specific mockups are going to bias what other people do after you—especially if you’re in a higher position than them. They’ll take every detail in the initial mockups as direction even though you didn’t intend it.
3 June 2018
From one piece If you're not feeling “hell yeah!” then say no 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If you're not feeling “Hell yeah, that would be awesome!” about something, say no.
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The hell-yeah rule is for people who are already overwhelmed; someone starting out should say yes to almost anything.Their words
Though it's good to say yes when you're starting out, wanting any opportunity, or needing variety, it's bad to say yes when you're overwhelmed, over-committed, or need to focus.
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