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I would argue that what makes fiction feel like fiction is a certain degree of contrivance.
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11 September
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The value of a degree is in question, as tuition costs have increased in the last few decades while the college premium-the expected benefit from getting a diploma-has flatlined and possibly even declined in the last few years.
9 September
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A 17-game NFL season with imbalanced schedules inherently introduces randomness no projection model can eliminate.Their words
A projection model will never solve the problem that a 17-game NFL season with imbalanced schedules is inherently going to introduce a degree of randomness.
6 September
From one piece An Alien Mind 2 beliefs · openai.com
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No lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed much longer.Their words
Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.
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AI is grown rather than designed, which is why its overall behaviour resists any description we can fully understand.Their words
AI is grown more than designed - it is, to first degree, the product of repeating a straightforward optimization step many times on a hard-to-imagine amount of compute.
29 August
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I am extremely concerned that this trend will eliminate paper-writing as an assignment, and that is a core function of most professions requiring a graduate degree.
The Professor and the Plutocrat and AIdanieldrezner.substack.com
26 August
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The feedback loops a person allows to operate on them shape who they become to an unsettling degree.Their words
The lesson is that the feedback loops that we let work on ourselves shape us to an unsettling degree.
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That was premised on humans doing the modifications. I think it is an open question to which degree this still matters. Now, it does matter, and the reason I say that, at least for the moment, is that tokens are still scarce. At this moment in time, we are all token limited.
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You go to school for four years to learn this. There's no reason you can't learn this in a few months. It's not that hard.
24 August
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American conservatives are not out-reproducing liberals to any degree that would change the country.Their words
So, yeah, there’s a substantive difference there, but it’s not like Republicans are just outbreeding Democrats on a massive scale.
Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com
17 July
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warmer air is exponentially "thirstier" (saturation vapor pressure rises ~7% per degree), so it pulls moisture out of live vegetation and dead fuels alike, priming the landscape to burn.
15 July
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We can we can teach we can teach somebody, I think, to be a really good AI developer in a few months. You can build enough intuition where you are, you know, accelerated off the ground and you can go like keep growing there. It's really hard to teach someone a CS undergrad program in in 3 months.
9 July
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An abundance of synthetic content will make people seek out the person behind the content more, not less.Their words
but I think people are going to really seek out other points of view because Instagram was never just about the content. It was always about to a certain degree the person behind the content, the point of view, the reason they're sharing it, their perspective. And I think that's going to become more important, not less.
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Social media and open-source AI come from the same conviction: hand the technology to individuals.Their words
I mean to some degree it's like why you create something like social media, right? To give people a voice.
9 June
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Well, once wealth is a function of of commerce, industry, and trade, it isn't land anymore. And this upends the world. If you think about the world today, who's rich, who's poor, who's powerful, who's not, it's often the degree to which the country is industrialized.
3 June
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if you nominate people whose life history reflects a high degree of unreliability, they may prove unreliable once in office.
7 April
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So, I see a a big trend is the re-soloing of programming. Where a big part of extreme programming is creating a safe social environment for basically antisocial people. Not just asocial, antisocial. And the when I think about the degree of interaction on an XP team, people aren't talking to each other hours a day and happy to be doing so because it's set up for that to be a positive experience.
12 March
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Everybody thinks our schools are in crisis all the time because they’re being forced to do something they were never meant to do, which is to make everyone college-ready, and they’re being forced to do that because we have seen jobs that provide a living wage without a college diploma evaporate.
11 March
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We all, to some degree, lack the self-awareness of how we tick. So we’re all different types of gamers, but if you ask me to describe the type of gamer I am, I might actually be giving more of a picture of the type of gamer I wish I was or the type of gamer I want you to think I am versus the type of gamer I actually am.
12 February
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The stuff that burned me out was mostly people stuff. I, I don't think burnout is working too much. Maybe to a degree. Everybody's different.
28 September 2025
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Academic talent is normally distributed, so some students failing is inevitable rather than anybody's fault.Their words
Academic talent is normally distributed throughout the population, and so some degree of failure is literally inevitable.
There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com
12 September 2025
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Better AI makes robots cheaper, because cheap visual feedback removes the need for expensive mechanical precision.Their words
So traditional robots and factories uh they need to make motions that are highly repeatable and therefore it requires a degree of precision and robustness that you don't need if you can use cheap visual feedback. So AI also makes robots more affordable uh and lowers the requirements on the hardware.
14 June 2025
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I think the platform that Lean and other software tools, so GitHub and things like that will allow experimental mathematics to scale up to a much greater degree than we can do now.
19 February 2025
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Most of a degree's value comes from finishing it, so starting one you will not complete is a bad investment.Their words
Since about 70% of the college payoff comes from completion, non-completion implies a terrible return on investment.
26 August 2024
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Most of what Durov is charged with is conduct almost any large platform could be accused of.Their words
A lot of the things listed in the charge sheet are things that lots of websites and communications providers could be said to have done themselves, though perhaps to a different degree.
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20 February 2024
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Most investments are really speculations, because only a handful of businesses can be predicted with any confidence.Their words
And very few businesses that you can have a really high degree of certainty about. And as a result, many investments are speculations because it's really very difficult to predict the future.
1 October 2023
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Returns for performance are superlinear rather than proportional across most domains that matter.Their words
One of the most important things I didn't understand about the world when I was a child is the degree to which the returns for performance are superlinear.
23 April 2023
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People with little experience at a task often welcome a degree of close oversight, provided it is given thoughtfully.Their words
People with low task-relevant maturity appreciate some amount of micromanagement (if they're self-aware and you're nice about it).
4 March 2022
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Science journalist Jacob Ward warns about a future in which AI technology forms a tight cybernetic feedback loop with the biases ingrained into the human brain, pushing our day-to-day existence in frightening directions. It's sort of like a version of The Terminator in which Danny Kahneman plays a starring role. As longtime readers and listeners of mine know, a big theme in my techno-criticism is the under-appreciated degree to which technologies exert powerful, unintended consequences on our personhood and culture, so Ward's warning hits a sweet spot with me.
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