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16 September
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korrents.com
Nervous credit-market sentiment around the AI datacenter buildout could suddenly reverse and collapse the boom.Their words
And when market opinion is nervous, it might turn and collapse the boom at any moment.
15 September
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While the average overall quality of Apple's shows are higher than those on Netflix or Prime Video, they still don't have the type of 'A+' content that HBO was regularly pumping out at their peak.
14 September
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Lovedrcmnd.app
QuakeTheir words
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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StarCraftTheir words
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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UnrealTheir words
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
12 September
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korrents.com
The era of heavy U.S. involvement in the Middle East has been a disaster for U.S. power and prestige and should end.Their words
But overall, the era of heavy U.S. involvement in the Middle East has been a disaster for U.S. power and prestige, and it’s time for that era to end.
11 September
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the truth is that while there are plenty of haters, overall we are a better, more tolerant society than we were in 2001.
10 September
9 September
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"Carbon intensity" is a greenwashing term: It measures pollution per barrel, allowing oil companies to claim climate progress even as rising production drives up total overall emissions.
8 September
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korrents.com
A knife company's clip design quality is a sign of the maturity of its overall design aesthetic.Their words
Good, endemic clip designs are the sign of a mature design aesthetic in a knife company
7 September
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QBs literally account for almost a third of overall player value in the NFL, based on our analysis.
6 September
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korrents.com
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.
3 September
31 August
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from HistoryTheir words
It is a quick read, an excellent book whose main virtue is not, in my opinion, direct analogy with the World War I, but a treatment of how in a multipolar world relatively small international events, misunderstandings, idiosyncratic fits of leaders, “hubris and fear” (as Westad often writes), resentment of the elite and of the public prodded by the media, can produce colossal miscalculations which then produce even more colossal wars and, in the era of the weapons of mass destruction, may end the civilization.
30 August
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Overall, I’m very surprised at how little media coverage there’s been around the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. It’s clearly one of the most important things to happen this year.
26 August
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Start with Opus. I'd say start with Opus. It's the best frontier model.
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But to answer your question, the best model in general right now is Fable. The second-best model, in my opinion, is Opus 5.
From one piece DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But to answer your question, the best model in general right now is Fable. The second-best model, in my opinion, is Opus 5.
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So, in my opinion, this is the absolute best time to ever have been an open source software maintainer. Not only do we get this wealth of glorious pull requests made by agents with all the boxes ticked, we also get to tap into a creativity of people who did not have access to contribute to a project before.
25 August
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korrents.com
The data-centre backlash is about the buildings themselves, not about what people think of AI.Their words
All this combined with the survey data on Americans’ stated reasons for opposing data centers makes me think that attitudes toward AI are probably a meaningful factor for a minority of people opposed to data centers, but I don’t think the backlash overall is driven by people’s thoughts on AI.
23 August
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just because something does one thing better than another thing doesn't mean it is superior.
21 August
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If you do think it's the overall system that matters, then the alignment that's needed is far less like training a virtuous child and more like managing a semi-virtuous corporation!
18 August
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Likedrcmnd.app
Mini PotstickersTheir words
If you want great takeout dumplings in SF, this, in my opinion, is one of the two best places to get them.
15 August
14 August
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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.
5 August
2 August
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korrents.com
When nobody in the room has data, the chief executive's opinion should win, and that is fine.Their words
if it nobody's got data, it's just two opinions, the CEO's opinion is going to win.
22 July
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korrents.com
The US warming trend since 1970 is consistent across raw, adjusted, satellite, and surface temperature datasetsTheir words
The overall US warming trend (around 0.5F per decade since 1970 in max, min, and mean temperatures) is robust in every dataset, raw or adjusted, satellite or surface.
20 July
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And there was no food or you know olive oil or food group or you eating more or less meat that changed the relationship between the Mediterranean diet and dementia risk. So what that tells me is it's much more about whole foods.
19 July
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It was instead a very strongly held opinion that that you get to excellence by giving people a lot of agency and accountability. By pushing decisions as deep in the organization as possible, hiring great people who can be trusted to have good judgment and make good decisions.
17 July
14 July
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Stay Calm: Learn to Embrace Uncertainty in Investing and LifeTheir words
It might have worked even better as two separate books, rather than as one short book trying to do two things. But Booth's writing is soothing, and his overall message — investing is simply a bet on human innovation and progress — is a truism worth repeating. Young people, in particular, might benefit from reading it.
12 July
11 July
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
Caldigit TS4Their words
I got the CalDigit TS4 as soon as it was released, in 2022. It was perhaps a little bit better but overall I was disappointed to still sometimes encounter a machine that would not wake up.
29 June
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korrents.com
Getting genuinely original output from AI requires working hard against the grain of its defaults.Their words
You have to work very hard, against a lot of friction, to get anything remotely original out of AI.
28 June
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Likedrcmnd.app
8BitDo Retro Mechanical KeyboardTheir words
sounds like a dream, and is overall an excellent keyboard that I have used a lot to play Diablo II: Resurrected.
23 June
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korrents.com
The mind's planning and goal-setting function is only a small fraction of a person's overall intelligence.Their words
The planning part of your mind, the one that generates ambitions and hypothetical situations, is a small part of your overall intelligence.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com
16 June
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korrents.com
A human life has no overall narrative arc, so nothing is lost by refusing to see it as a story that needs an ending.Their words
But there’s no overall narrative arc—it’s just been one thing after another.
Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actuallysmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net
15 June
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Sanodesk 72x30 Standing DeskTheir words
Another part of my recent office upgrade was the Sanodesk 72x30 Standing Desk. Overall, I love this desk so far. The bamboo top looks and feels great, and I have plenty of room on the desk to set it up how I want to. Being able to raise it to a standing position is also nice too when I get sick of sitting.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
16-inch MacBook Pro M4 MaxTheir words
Overall, I'm loving the M4 Max so far, and I've noticed that it does handle certain tasks such as running Pest PHP tests about twice as fast sometimes as the M1 Pro did, which is nice.
12 June
7 June
From one piece Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
A version 1.0 has no data to be driven by, so one or two people must make the opinion-based decisions and own them.Their words
And so, if most of your decisions are going to be opinion-based decisions for a 1.0, you have to have one or two or a very, very small set of people who are in charge with making the opinion-based decisions
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Because an opinion-based thing on highly innovative, differentiated stuff, it doesn't have a model for that. There's not that stuff in there. You got to You still need the very version one to be done.
4 June
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I do think there's this qualitative shift that we I think we agree is coming, which is that there will be at least some goods whose network-adjusted capital share goes to one, right? Because the whole supply chain can be automated and there's no part in it that we care intrinsically about having a human do. Um, so that'll be a, you know, that'll be a qualitative shift. Interestingly, the implications of that shift for the overall capital share are ambiguous
3 June
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korrents.com
The hardest problem a company full of brilliant engineers has is not how to build something — it is what to build.Their words
So you have a lot of smart Googlers. These people are brilliant. I mean extremely brilliant to the point where the hardest problem Google had in my opinion was what to build. Not how to build it, what to build.
2 June
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To change course in democratic nations will require a major change in public opinion as a signal to political leaders that the current course is not acceptable.
20 May
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My opinion is that the least mature area is front end. There have been some attempts to compile Rust to Web Assembly and then run it on the web as a front end as a replacement for TypeScript. But if I was writing a web server, I would totally use Rust for the back end and TypeScript for the front end. I would not really go the web assembly route.
30 April
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Likedrcmnd.app
Orlando Furioso: A New Verse TranslationTheir words
I can have no opinion about whether the translation is accurate, but it is pretty good English verse.
23 April
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Construction costs tend to rise at, or above, the level of overall inflation, and it rarely (if ever) gets cheaper to build houses, offices, or other buildings.
22 April
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Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software.
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.
3 March
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Recommendstheir ownrcmnd.app
Unbeatable: The Brutally Honest Case for Free MarketsTheir words
It is definitely my broadest and least inhibited book — and in my judgment, the best-written and the best overall.
1 January
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Lovedrcmnd.app
I Shall Wear MidnightTheir words
I Shall Wear Midnight was the best of the remaining Pratchett novels. It's the penultimate Tiffany Aching book and, in my opinion, the best. All of the elements of the previous books come together in snarky competence porn that was a delight to read.
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The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with CommentaryTheir words
There is something deeply satisfying with reading out loud phrases like: “for in mere breath did it come, and into darkness it goes, and in darkness its name is covered.” Though King James is iconic, Robert Alter better conveys overall the literary power of the Hebrew Bible.
30 December 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Audio-Technica AT2005Their words
I use an Audio-Technica AT2005 dynamic microphone. In my opinion it’s the best screencast / podcast microphone you’re going to find unless you spend $800+.
25 December 2025
23 December 2025
12 December 2025
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korrents.com
The text of the Hebrew Bible was drawn up in Babylonian exile, to stop the Judean refugees dissolving into Babylonia.Their words
And the authorities who were there prevented this by drawing up a kind of charter of their history, explaining things from the beginning of time up until now, how it happened and what happened, and it was all intentional. So that is, in my opinion, the driving force behind the Hebrew text.
11 December 2025
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Overall, my take when looking at this data is that stagnant construction productivity is an extremely widespread problem.
27 November 2025
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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."
23 November 2025
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korrents.com
The main advantage of an LLM evaluator over human annotators is scalability, not higher accuracy.Their words
In my opinion, the true benefit isn't higher accuracy than human annotators-it's scalability.
12 November 2025
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the thing that is the biggest competitor for any new accelerator is kind of even the previous generation of Nvidia right I mean in a fleet what I'm going to look at is the overall TCO
17 October 2025
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And actually, you don't actually need or want the knowledge. I actually think that's probably actually holding back the neural networks overall because it's actually like getting them to rely on the knowledge a little too much sometimes.
10 October 2025
1 October 2025
30 September 2025
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Well, it's in line with my overall philosophy. I think competition leads to progress. If you want to create an ideal process for selecting the most qualified people for certain specific tasks you have in mind, what can be better than a competition?
29 August 2025
17 August 2025
15 August 2025
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actually it turns out that you can significantly decrease power consumption with a very small reduction in overall compute. So if you if you've got like three really bad days in a row or something, you can actually just like you can dial back your power usage quite a lot without compromising your inference or or um or training.
23 July 2025
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But it seems like you can understand it through passive observation, which is pretty surprising to me. And again, I think hints at something underlying about the nature of reality in my opinion, beyond just the cool videos that it generates.
5 June 2025
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I feel like we are in the AJI phase where dramatic progress, some things don't work well, but overall you're seeing lots of progress.
21 May 2025
18 May 2025
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27 January 2025
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korrents.com
AI tooling and interface design lags behind the underlying models' actual capabilities.Their words
Overall, though, this experience reinforced my belief that the tooling and interface design around LLMs is lagging way behind the actual capabilities, and is an area of active experimentation and development, even aside from any future model improvements.
19 January 2025
From one piece 10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If you have the overall business slowing down, your head of growth is destined to fail because the reason business is slowing down is much deeper than not having a growth team.
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And my contrarian opinion is that full-time jobs are not the best way to monetize the skill that you have. It's one of the packages that everybody should evaluate and take advantage of, but too many people blindly default to that package
30 December 2024
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Likedrcmnd.app
Principles of the SPIN Model CheckerTheir words
This book gave me both insight and a deeper curiosity about the subject. This book introduces the SPIN model checker and exposes the reader to the nuances of verifying programs using SPIN. A nice feature of the book is how it explains concepts using thoughtfully developed, freely available tools (such as jSpin) that the author created for pedagogical purposes. It's a demanding book, but the content was interesting. The book presents details about concurrency, temporal logic, non-determinism, advanced SPIN topics, and even case studies. I've already written a few blog posts about the topics I explored while reading this book, and I plan to write more. Overall, it's a good book. I'm sure I'll revisit the latter half again.
16 December 2024
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Engineering Executive's PrimerTheir words
"It’s honest in how it covers topics like navigating tricky power dynamics with CEOs, surviving 'peer panic,' dealing with competition within leadership teams, and in its overall breadth and depth."
30 September 2024
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But he is the one creator deity, in my opinion, through all of these cultures. And the people in the Amazon still talk about him there. His name is Viho Masse in some groups, but they say that his emissaries on earth are the jaguars and that he is the creator deity.
9 September 2024
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korrents.com
Riding in a Waymo robotaxi is a better overall experience than being driven by a human driver.Their words
I found it to be a superior experience to a human driver, for a few key reasons.
Inflecting and Overtaking, SunPower, Waymonathanielbullard.com
19 August 2024
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Dream MachineTheir words
The Dream Machine -- probably the best overall book about the early days of computing and the internet.
1 August 2024
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Their words, before
I’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.
Their words now
I’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me
21 July 2024
3 July 2024
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Likedrcmnd.app
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af KlintTheir words
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint (Germany, 2019, CC) 3.6 When thinking about the most overlooked female artist, Artemesia Gentileschi often comes to mind. This documentary makes a persuasive case for Hilma af Klint. To my eyes, her most appealing works are not the large scale abstractions, rather it’s the small Klee-like gems that stand out. Don’t assume that if you have seen a half dozen of her most famous works that you have any conception of her overall career.
29 June 2024
29 May 2024
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In fact — and this is a point that is, in my opinion, underappreciated by the pro-housing side — building a bunch of housing in Santa Monica would probably not lower rents in Santa Monica. It would bring more people to Santa Monica, creating lower rents elsewhere in Greater Los Angeles as the spillovers from Santa Monica lessened.
19 May 2024
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korrents.com
Ideas that first circulate in private group chats often become mainstream public opinion.Their words
Time and time again I've seen group chat conversations act as the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion.
22 March 2024
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Now, does that mean that every UFO sighting in the world has been a U-2? No, but I come from it from that lane of thinking, and there are so many strategic deception campaigns, and as I look over the decades of how these same UFO stories, and again, this is just my opinion based on my reporting, this narrative that keeps reoccurring, it seems to me like a very large catch- all to keep the public’s attention on that, not on that.
21 March 2024
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La Sportiva MutantTheir words
The La Sportiva Mutant (men's, women's) is my overall pick for backpacking and light canyoneering, and my personal favorite.
11 March 2024
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10 December 2023
9 December 2023
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In my opinion, normal market economics is incentivising the wrong things. I think its preference for horse liveries or campsites over vegetables and other local food production will lead us to disaster
1 December 2023
From one piece NeurIPS 2023 Primer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Overall, while initial plans of LLMs can be useful as a starting point, LLM-based planning currently works best mainly in conjunction with external tools.
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korrents.com
Current large language models still struggle to compose operations into correct multi-step reasoning paths.Their words
Overall, current LLMs still struggle with composing operations into correct reasoning paths.
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Usesrcmnd.app
BackblazeTheir words
Cloud: entire computer remotely backed up to Backblaze
1 October 2023
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And indeed overall that interaction fits with my more general reservation about Friedman: he wanted to make economics just a little bit too simple.
12 August 2023
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Their words, before
Reading the book had not changed my fundamental belief that, in balance, we were on a good trajectory with AI research: good for science and good for society with expected positive impacts in many domains.
Their words now
I now believe that I was wrong and short-sighted to ignore that dual-use nature. I also think I was not paying enough attention to the possibility of losing control to superhuman AIs.
29 June 2023
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the only ASIC that is remotely successful is Google’s TPU. The only reason that’s successful is because Google wrote a machine learning framework. I think that you have to write a competitive machine learning framework in order to be able to build an ASIC.
13 October 2022
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It is, overall, an excellent book and one of the better ones on grand history I’ve read
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The HistoriesTheir words
Overall, far more interesting than I had expected. Surprisingly funny or interesting anecdotes.
19 August 2022
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Dislikedrcmnd.app
Anbernic Win600Their words
I don't know who I would reccomend this device to. The premise of this device has a lot of promise, but in practice it has so many problems that it's overall not really worth choosing in comparison to devices like the Steam Deck.
25 July 2022
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In my opinion the root cause of this bug is that when a white american developer sees a terminal they immediately interpret it as this idealized cartesian plane where they can lay out any writing they want in neatly-spaced characters that behave in "predictable" ways (in other words, behave exactly like English).
10 June 2022
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korrents.com
The field calling itself AI safety is not being remotely productive on the problems that are actually lethal.Their words
It does not appear to me that the field of ‘AI safety’ is currently being remotely productive on tackling its enormous lethal problems.
7 June 2022
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Sense of StyleTheir words
Overall, I'm still firmly on team Strunk and White. But this was a pretty damned entertaining grammar book.
2 June 2022
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Manual for LivingTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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When Breath Becomes AirTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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Influence: The Psychology of PersuasionTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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The War of Art: Break Through Your Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative BattlesTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
1 June 2022
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inflationinterest ratesgovernment
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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.
7 March 2022
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Overall, our findings suggest that widely shared stereotypes of the past lead people to misperceive attitude change, and these misperceptions can lend legitimacy to policies that people may not actually prefer.
6 March 2021
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DuneTheir words
The book is worth reading for its own sake, and it's particularly worth reading (in my opinion) to get a sense of how it has impacted so much of sci-fi and pop culture.
1 March 2021
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Stillness Is the KeyTheir words
But the book was great, the best out of all his stoicism books, in my opinion.
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The Three-Body ProblemTheir words
It’s one of the best fiction experiences I’ve ever had in my life. A stunning achievement. And a must-read for anyone who is even remotely into sci-fi or nerdy space science stuff.
24 January 2021
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Usesrcmnd.app
Zoom H6Their words
My field recorder, which I also use when I am recording remotely, is a Zoom H6.
18 September 2020
15 March 2020
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