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6 September
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We may be used to thinking of AI as tools, but some agents will be pursuing their own objectives.
4 September
1 September
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and they're creatively pursuing goals much like very ambitious aggressive power-seeking humans creatively pursued their goals And so there are just structural analogies here that make it silly to not talk about agents as having motives and goals.
11 August
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I do I do think that I wish that sort of my preferred constitution or like the way I would orient towards this like the thing I would prefer would be more like Claude is like look it would be structurally good for the way this technology work like the constitution should be like it would be structurally good for the way this technology works to be that AIS are like good fiduciaries, good representatives, the equivalent of a lawyer for a user
10 August
4 June
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The most valuable problem to pursue is the hardest one someone is genuinely positioned to solve.Their words
Doing "the hard thing" means pursuing the highest-value problem you can find that still sits inside your zone of expertise; the hardest problem you're personally in a position to win.
2 June
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Thinking, judgement and knowledge are worth pursuing for the joy in them, not in order to defend human uniqueness.Their words
We must pursue these things not because the dignity of our humanity is on the line, but because our joy is.
10 May
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It doesn't guarantee that you're the good guys. Okay? Just writing it down doesn't do that much. But it does solve one very specific problem, which is if someone one day sues you saying you breached your fiduciary duty to investors, you could say, "Nope, investors agreed that this is our purpose to do this thing.
1 May
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Pursuing efficiency and maximizing productivity too aggressively causes things to go wrong.Their words
Efficiency is what TV remote controls are good at, but whenever people try to maximize their productivity in the speediest way, things start to go south.
22 April
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the world is run by people no smarter than you - and even people that genuinely mean well, end up only prescribing games that you don't want to win.
11 March
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It only goes to waste if you would find joy and meaning in using it, but you don't because of insecurity or outside voices.
9 December 2025
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But when you pursue efficiency generally you start looking at numerical or mechanical factors and of course in the process you disregard psychological factors where the greater gains may be found and so you focus too heavily on cost reduction and too little on value creation.
21 March 2025
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Young Money: A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your TwentiesTheir words
Fantastic memoir of figuring it out in your twenties and alternatives to blindly pursuing the default path.
17 June 2022
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often the best way to maximise your impact is by pursuing high-risk, high-reward strategies
22 February 2022
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Pursuing a very low success-rate strategy can still be rational if a rare win is valuable enough.Their words
It's obviously worth it to go on 99 unsuccessful dates if the hundredth results in marriage.
1 January 2021
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