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19 September
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Taking feedback from an LLM does not bleach out writing style the way model-generated text does.Their words
The most common pushback I'm getting to this post is that taking this kind of feedback from an LLM is going to bleach out your style just like having the model generate the text, because models can't be trusted with "style". No.
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The Trump administration's approach to Greenland is widely perceived as threatening across Europe.Their words
The Trump administration's ongoing obsession with Greenland feels menacing to everyone in Scandinavia, indeed everyone in Europe.
15 July
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AI-generated junk papers risk overwhelming the hep-th physics field with worthless content.Their words
The result is something completely worthless, but not obviously distinguishable from many other things on hep-th, which is in serious danger of going from something sad and unhealthy to something completely overwhelmed with crud.
21 June
7 June
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Making your customers unhealthy is a short-term gain that ends with having no customers.Their words
Sure, you could have a short-term gain in your customers, but if you make your customers unhealthy, you're not going to have customers.
26 April
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I think technology leaders think that folks will just blindly adopt uh new technology as it comes out and I think we're going to enter a period of time where there's going to be a huge amount of societal pushback on a lot of the changes that are coming uh with AI.
12 March
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But if you know anything about my obsession with selection bias, you can predict the outcome: when you expand access from a population that excludes more students to one that excludes fewer, you’re very likely to see declining performance.
11 March
12 November 2025
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Excluding less healthy members from a health cost-sharing pool makes it cheaper for the remaining healthy members.Their words
And by excluding unhealthy people, they've created a better, cheaper option for healthy people.
1 September 2025
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Listening to customers is invaluable, but you should not build the thing they asked you for.Their words
Customer Obsession is great, but I often see Amazonians taking this too simplistically: "Start with the customer" doesn't have to mean "ask customers what they want and then give them faster horses".
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21 March 2025
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RestTheir words
A refreshing counterargument to our culture's obsession with busyness, showing how deliberate rest is an essential component of the good life.
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In Praise of IdlenessTheir words
A collection of timeless essays from philosopher Bertrand Russell, including his famous 'In Praise of Idleness' which challenges our obsession with work and argues that leisure time, properly used, is essential for a fulfilling life and a better society.
12 February 2025
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Aid to African states has been large enough to warp their politics and too small to transform their economies.Their words
As scholars like Nicolas van de Walle have pointed out, aid can also foster an unhealthy dependency—in his coinage, many African states live in a state of “permanent crisis”, where aid is large enough to reshape (and warp) the political economy around it, but not large enough to be fundamentally transform countries’ economies.
10 February 2025
31 August 2024
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The Black CompanyTheir words
Mind candy military fantasy, in which Our Protagonists find themselves working as mercenaries for the Dark Lord's only-barely-less-evil ex-wife, on whom the narrator develops an unhealthy crush.
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The White RoseTheir words
Mind candy military fantasy, in which Our Protagonists find themselves working as mercenaries for the Dark Lord's only-barely-less-evil ex-wife, on whom the narrator develops an unhealthy crush.
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Shadows LingerTheir words
Mind candy military fantasy, in which Our Protagonists find themselves working as mercenaries for the Dark Lord's only-barely-less-evil ex-wife, on whom the narrator develops an unhealthy crush.
21 December 2023
7 April 2023
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Extracting time and money from unhealthy users works in the short run and loses them in the long run.Their words
You may be able to extract time and money from unhealthy players in the short term. But long term, unhealthy players leave extractive services.
14 March 2022
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