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High-power amplifiers (e.g. 500 watts) offer no real listening benefit over much lower-power designs.Their words
I have always believed there is no need for massive 500-watt power amps, as I have never personally heard a benefit from having that much power.
Luxman L-100 Centennial Review. Class A Returns.stevehuffphoto.com
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In short: the awkward group did better but believed they did worse.
1 September
From one piece On the Loose 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This is the sole intrinsic thing about AI that prevents agents from truly infinite self-replication. They will be constrained by the need to find and pay for sufficient compute to run themselves.
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To be clear, I am not saying the arrival of self-sovereign AI is a good thing. Indeed, I believe there is a chance that the deliberate acts I referenced above will one day be considered crimes, or at least grave sins. Instead, I am saying it is an inevitable thing.
31 August
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That everyone believes childhood has got worse is not evidence that it has, because every generation has believed it.Their words
But it does suggest that the popularity of despair can’t be taken as good evidence that this despair is warranted.
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Once mining is automated end to end, a mining company is nothing but the owner of some real estate.Their words
Will mining get automated? And if it does, not just the movement of the materials, but every part of mining. Then what is a mining company? It just owns real estate.
12 August
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There is no human in the loop: you own the loop, and what comes out of it is your work rather than the model's.Their words
Another another thing we point out is just there is no human in the loop. You own the loop. The loop is yours. The loop is mine. It would not exist if it was not for me. So I am the owner, right?
10 August
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On changing their mind
In the era of base LLM scaling (2022-2024), I believed the LLM line of research would reach a capability plateau (as later seen with base LLMs). In late 2024, after the o3 test-time compute demo, I changed my views: the new models were showing genuine fluid intelligence, and with this new line of work, the LLM line of research could achieve unbounded capability scaling. "There will be no wall."
26 July
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one of the things I've always believed believed in is what makes great companies is a unique perspective about the world that you deeply believe in. It's not so much the technology, it's not so much uh the market even.
12 July
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If you want to produce moral and not just technological progress, you’re going to have to introduce new moral premises that invert what people previously believed.
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I wish Tensor the best, but I think this is going to be a hard sell.
4 May
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Coffee processing method's effect on fines production is much smaller than popularly believed.Their words
Many people believe coffee processing affects fines production, and sometimes it does a little, but its effect is drastically overstated.
18 February
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Extrapolators have a remarkable track record in the AI field, being repeatedly early to trends and capabilities that empiricists believed were still decades away.
9 December 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Dyson vacuumTheir words
Dyson vacuum. The laser light thing makes me happy. I never vacuumed before I got this, which meant my apartment was constantly in dire straits since I am the proud owner of two extremely fluffy dogs. I love it.
25 October 2025
2 September 2025
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The interesting Tesla point is people always looked at it and said, "It's the iPhone of cars." No, it's not. What's happening is that cars are becoming Android with no iPhone. And then Tesla is just selling and is is in that metaphor Tesla is just another android phone maker
22 June 2025
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Since these datasets are likely already part of model training data, we shouldn't rely solely on them to evaluate our Q&A system.
23 March 2025
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And it struck me how the most well-known brands have stood for one clear thing. Like they have a clear position. And so in order for superhuman to be memorable, I believed that we needed to occupy a clear position that was unique and which was available and which reinforced our product strategy.
3 February 2025
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I think it's even more impressive what OpenAI did in 2022. At the time, no one believed in mixture of experts models at Google who had all the researchers. OpenAI had such little compute and they devoted all of their compute for many months, all of it, 100% for many months to GPT-4 with a brand-new architecture with no belief that, "Hey, let me spend a couple of hundred million dollars, which is all of the money I have on this model." That is truly YOLO.
19 January 2025
From one piece Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Over time, they all come to share Ayn Rand's views and opinions on everything, from music to art, to clothes. She gets a dining room table and a bunch of them get the same dining room table, and it becomes incredibly conformist, because they've all believed they're acting rationally. And they believe that to act rationally is to agree with Ayn Rand and they believe there's no other way to make decisions than rationality. To disagree with her is to be irrational.
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So, she thought of herself as rational. She thought of rationality as what she was doing, but she was actually doing a kind of mythopoetic psychological work as well.
1 January 2025
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Such "taxi" services where the cars are also used with drivers at other times and with extended geography, in 10 major US cities NET 2025
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This is unlikely to happen in the first half of this century.
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Actual self-driving turned out to be far harder than almost everyone believed it would be.Their words
Actual self-driving is now generally accepted to be much harder than every one believed.
20 December 2024
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If you can’t control where AI weights go (i.e., prevent leaking or theft), you can’t govern the technology.
1 December 2024
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FulgentiusTheir words
Point being that it was probably inevitable I would love this short and absurd novel about a sexagenarian Roman general who is obsessed with staging the sole play he ever wrote—back as a precocious young artist—over and over again.
22 March 2024
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So, in addition to the Launch on Warning concept, there’s this other insane concept called Sole Presidential Authority. And you might think, in a democracy that’s impossible, right? You can’t just start a war. Well, you can just start a nuclear war if you are the commander in chief, the President of the United States. In fact, you’re the only one who can do that.
20 February 2024
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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.
23 November 2023
20 November 2023
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Refusing to advertise on a platform is protected expression, not an attack on the platform owner's free speech.Their words
Elon Musk’s sullen yawp amounts to a claim that he has a right for companies to sponsor his speech, no matter what he says. That’s nonsense, both legally and philosophically.
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com
13 September 2023
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Moreover, model exfiltration is likely impossible to reverse.
Self-exfiltration is a key dangerous capabilityaligned.substack.com
23 April 2023
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Manage projects according to the owner's level of task-relevant maturity.
14 March 2023
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Even when advice is understood and believed, people discount it by assuming their own case is the exception.Their words
Even when we understand the words, and even when we trust them, we still have another eject button: we assume they don’t apply to us.
You can't reach the brain through the earsexperimental-history.com
14 April 2021
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People should feel free to enjoy art they love regardless of the artist's personal failings or beliefs.Their words
I think in most cases, we should feel fine loving the art we love, regardless of who the artist is, what they did, or what they believed.
8 January 2021
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Hamilton: The RevolutionTheir words
It reveals a depth to the show that makes it even stronger than previously believed.
20 November 2020
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And yes, you are building a business. You need to start thinking of your project as a business and of yourself as a business owner.
28 October 2020
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The Startup Owner's ManualTheir words
This is Steve Blank's textbook to starting a company. It's the Four Steps to the Epiphany, expanded and much more readable. If you want to deep dive into the Lean methodology, this is the book to read.
24 June 2020
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