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20 September
18 September
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It's isn't just to people with ADHD that this happens. Some tasks inherently take a certain amount of time. An appointment that breaks the afternoon into two blocks of time could leave you with no block long enough to complete a task.
17 September
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The blank slate fallacy is a false premise that is highly damaging to both humans and AI.Their words
It’s amazing how damaging a single false premise (the blank slate fallacy) can be for humans. Same holds true for AI.
12 September
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Our adversaries have the training techniques, the data, and the will to attack. And they won’t be slowed down with “embedded evaluators.” They’ll likely have embedded accelerators!
11 September
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They see what needs to happen but don’t want to be the bad guy. I’m happy to just make the call if I agree with the premise. Saves enormous amounts of meetings and change management etc.
9 September
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A powerful new technology that benefits only part of society is inherently politically destabilizing.Their words
It's highly destabilizing to have such a transformative, productive tool only bring half of society along.
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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.
7 September
31 August
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Reservoirs are not automatically cheaper than desalination plants.
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal ExperienceTheir words
It’s one of those things that make perfect sense once you think about it. Great book, very important premise and a short and concise explanation. Can’t recommend enough.
14 August
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Greenwashing, particularly when embedded deep into legislation, kills people.
2 August
29 July
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I think the case of TLA+ and most, not all, but most formal methods, they shine the most in highly computational domains, where most of the problems are highly technical and not like business embedded.
24 July
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The speed at which a product is developed doesn't inherently make the product better or worse. The number of commits doesn't make the product better or worse. The number of people or agents working on it doesn't make it better or worse.
12 July
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I disagree with the fundamental moral premise of Maximalism, which is that Bitcoin is the only coin and all other digital assets are sins.
17 June
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Writers of such concentrated style can pose a danger for composers.
5 June
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One of the many problems with being human is that we're Completion Freaks.
30 May
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A digital-service team embedded in an unchanged agency produces no lasting change once it moves on.Their words
A digital service team that works with an agency that continues to hire and manage for the same jobs they did last year, and structures the work in the same way it did last year, is just a tourist.
29 May
20 May
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Even for back end, it can be a problem because if you have a request incoming right when it checks all of your objects like you have some sort of latency spike where you it takes much longer to to reply. So that's one of the reasons it can be helpful in in back end as well.
11 April
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exceptions are an inherently poor way of handling errors because they make it easier to write bugs which won't be immediately obvious on casual code inspection
28 December 2025
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There Is No Antimemetics DivisionTheir words
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is a mind-bending psychological thriller about a secret agency tasked with fighting dangerous "antimemes"—ideas that refuse to be remembered. Plenty of stories start with a clever high-concept premise and just let it play out. This one pushes its premise to extremes I never imagined possible, ratcheting up an astonishing amount of tension along the way.
9 December 2025
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economists have this fantasy of the world of companies in direct competition driving down price and increasing efficiency while supplying the same thing which is based on a false premise that people know what they want to begin with. Now I would argue when you don't create differentiation, everybody suffers.
4 September 2025
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Local-first sync architectures are a natural fit for AI agents, since both are inherently multiplayer.Their words
Agentic and sync are natural complements because local-first is multiplayer by default, and agents are another sort of "player" in addition to human collaborators.
20 August 2025
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Whereas, there’s also another point, which is having large armies is actually inherently impractical and inefficient, because the larger the army, the more people you’ve got to feed, the more barracks you’ve got to have, the more space you’ve got to have for training, the more people you’re taking out of your workforce to produce tanks and shells, and all the rest of it, because they’re tramping around with rifles.
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22 December 2024
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Large language models will not get to real agency, because a mind has to be embedded in a world through a body.Their words
But they said, "Look, in the end, actually the only way to actually get a real brain in the VAT is actually to have a brain in a body." And it could be a robot body, but you still need a brain in the body. So I don't think LLMs will get there because they can't. You really need to be embedded in a world, at least that's the E-four idea.
25 July 2024
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AI models are probabilistic, making their outputs unreliable.
18 July 2024
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One of the hardest things about debugging is running a program backward: there's a data structure with a bad value, or the control flow has zigged instead of zagged, and it's very difficult to understand how it could have gotten into that state.
22 April 2024
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I think that specifically the question why is there something rather than nothing? does not have the kind of answer that we would ordinarily attribute to why questions because typical why questions are embedded in the universe. And when we answer them, we take advantage of the features of the universe that we know and love. But the universe itself, as far as we know, is not embedded in anything bigger or stronger, and therefore it can just be.
20 February 2024
From one piece Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #413 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Investing well requires reversing the human instinct to grow excited as prices rise and fearful as they fall.Their words
People tend to get excited about investments when stocks are going up and they get depressed when they're going down. And I think that's just inherently human. You have to reverse that. You have to get excited when things get cheaper and you got to get concerned when things get more expensive.
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So we at Pershing Square short a very few stocks. And the reason for that is short selling is just inherently treacherous.
17 November 2023
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States are not inherently aggressive; anarchy leaves them no choice but to behave aggressively.Their words
So it's very important to understand that I'm not arguing that states are inherently aggressive. My point is that as long as states are in anarchy, they have no choice but to behave in an aggressive fashion.
28 July 2023
19 August 2022
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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.
1 June 2022
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The main challenge in discussing fiscal policy is the widely held and nearly religious belief that public debt is very bad.
4 March 2022
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Making language models bigger does not inherently make them better at following a user's intent.
22 February 2022
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Thinking harder about a decision has diminishing returns because reality is inherently unknowable.Their words
Reality is not fully knowable. And thinking harder has costs.
25 January 2022
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And so all of the people who have achieved positions of power and authority in the world based on prior generations of technology are inherently threatened by new technology because new technology will upend the power and status structures and then a new set of people will, you know, come to the foreground and and take the power.
30 July 2020
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PsychotherapySchema therapyNarcissism
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the approach that I use is called Schema Therapy, and Schema Therapy is designed to work with very complex personality types, personality disorders, and even those that are happening along a spectrum
22 May 2020
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face-to-face meetings are not inherently better. They can be time wasters just like anything else.
9 February 2020
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The 5 Love LanguagesTheir words
The lesson is that connecting with others starts with recognizing that people are so different, especially in how they communicate. But there’s a much broader lesson embedded in this book if you read between the lines.
11 April 2019
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But given the already complicated premise of long exposure photography, the best possible thing we could do — and as a designer this is hard to admit — was to stick to a fairly conventional design and let the actual features surprise and delight.
31 October 2018
From one piece Governance without foundations 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Rather, I think that “the foundation”, as a single point of failure, is structurally at odds with the idea of “the project”, which is inherently distributed.
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There is nothing about a foundation that is inherently good, neutral, or charitable, simply because they have a 501(c) status.
2 June 2018
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Brutalist buildings often age badly; Habitat 67 is proof that they don't need to, not even when they're built in a rush out of pre-fabricated units.
17 February 2017
1 October 2016
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