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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.
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If there is a 3x productivity boost now, the correct assumption is that in the future the productivity boost, in places it carries over, will a lot more than 3x. Indeed, given how this scales, a better model might be in practice 10x or 100x or even 1,000x or more.
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The idea that individual action cannot help stop climate change is a more damaging lie than climate denial itself.Their words
The most harmful lie being spread about climate change today is not that it is fake. It's that nothing you can do can help save the world.
9 August
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People who choose a chronological feed are happy in the moment and measurably less satisfied months later.Their words
the individual who made that choice might be happy at the moment, but when you just get pummeled with stuff you're less interested in over the course of months, we ask, we run surveys at massive scales, we just see people start to become less and less satisfied with Instagram.
6 July
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I believe the same is true of the current intelligence explosion being driven by AI. We are in desperate need of new social structures that allow us to harness its power, without damaging or destroying human values in the process.
1 July
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Both hide the fact the company is simply choosing the climate-wrecking road, consciously.
29 June
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A lot of HSTS deployments are weaker than they look.
13 May
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we knew from experience that you cannot build good tooling without a type system. You can build decent tooling, but it's never going to scale. It's never going to scale to large teams cuz you can't describe your intents in in the code.
11 May
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Almost any time I hear that someone has had a damaging experience with meditation, I find that it's because they're violating this rule.
3 May
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Victorinox CompactTheir words
There is no perfect SAK, but the Compact is the best SAK. And this is not a "smartest Kardashian" scenario. Over the years I have genuinely loved carrying the Compact. Adding the pocket clip and the excellent PDW scales has made it one of my most frequently carried items.
22 April
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Replication earns its place even in a small system, because what it buys is fault tolerance rather than scale.Their words
And uh replication is still relevant even at smaller scales because that's for fault tolerance, that's not for scalability.
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And so the next scaling law is the agentic scaling law. It's kind of like multiplying AI. Multiplying AI, we could spin off agents as fast as you want to spin off agents. And so, you know, I… You know, I have four scaling laws.
20 March
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There isn't this cumulative process which is, uh, sort of built up interactively. Um, it it it seems to be a lot more trial and error and just repetition, brute force, um, you know, which can see it scales and it can work amazingly well in in certain contexts, um, but yeah, this this idea this this sort of building up cumulatively from, um, from partial progress is kind of is what's still not quite there yet.
13 February
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My one little bit, the one little bit of of fundamental uncertainty even on long time scales is this thing about tasks that aren't verifiable. Like, planning a mission to Mars, like, uh you know, doing some fundamental scientific discovery like like CRISPR, like, you know, writing a writing a novel. Hard to hard to verify those tasks.
12 May 2025
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In reality, beef and lamb are the most land-hungry and climate-damaging of all farm products.
5 May 2025
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I think that this is suggesting that there might not be a theory of quantum gravity, that gravity will emerge at a macroscopic level, out of quantum phenomena. Now, we don’t know how to do that yet, but these are all hints.
30 September 2024
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A civilization that advanced and that large would have left something behind, and archaeologists find fish scales.Their words
And archeologists, all of our ideas are theories. Very few of them are facts, and we could have the story wrong, but one thing we’re real good at is finding stuff. We find fish scales, so I find it just too big a pill to swallow that there was a civilization that was that technologically advanced and that large that we can’t even find a potsherd from.
20 August 2024
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We got inflation, but we did not get the devastation that would have been caused by price controls and rationing.
3 December 2023
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It is dark matter, not ordinary matter, that drives galaxy formation; ordinary matter just comes along with it.Their words
In fact, dark matter is in some sense more important because it can collapse more readily than ordinary matter because ordinary matter has radiative forces, which makes it hard to collapse on small scales. Actually it’s dark matter that drives galaxy formation and then ordinary matter comes along with it.
10 November 2023
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The primary driver of increased impact, longer time scales before displacement, and catastrophically high levels of avoidable pollution is environmental protection regulations.
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Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip GustonTheir words
This is a brilliant piece of social history. It's a daughter's expression of love for her father, even though it was a complicated love. I think it's a very memorable portrait of a particular painter. She relates his work to his life, to his fathering, and regrets the toll taken on him by the rather damaging macho culture of the male artists of the New York School, who seemed to have felt obliged to drink at least a bottle of whiskey and smoke five packets of Camel no-filter cigarettes every day. It's amazing that he lived as long as he did, given that he died in his mid-sixties.
6 November 2018
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