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17 September
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The human mind is incredibly complex and understanding and treating the nearly infinite ways it can stumble is hard.Their words
One of the most important for me is just how incredibly complex the human mind is, and how hard the task is of understanding & treating the nearly infinite ways it can stumble/faulter.
16 September
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korrents.com
AI policy discussions should start with China rather than treating it as an afterthought.Their words
Whatever your ideas for regulating AI, I say start with China. Do not put China as an afterthought at the end of your proposal, mentioned in a vague wish that something good ought to happen and that maybe the future of humanity can be secured.
When discussing AI policy, start with Chinamarginalrevolution.com
14 September
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I think a huge failure mode for progressive politics is looking at a difficult problem like climate change that can only be addressed through a mix of hard international coordination problems and hard technical problems, only to decide that it's really just a political question of beating the fossil fuel industry.
A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.slowboring.com
13 September
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korrents.com
Treating people as incapable of governing themselves makes it easier to justify governing them without their consent.Their words
once a person is no longer regarded as capable of governing himself, it becomes easier to justify governing him without his consent.
12 September
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a recognition that AI is powerful (and will reshape power relations among humans) but that the consequences will flow messily through multiple complex processes that we really need to start mapping and understanding
How should social science think about AI?programmablemutter.com
10 September
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korrents.com
The Linux press should stop treating free-tier user anger at large corporate donations as news.Their words
At some point, the Linux press has to stop treating it as news that some weirdo who got comped a $50 droplet is mad about DigitalOcean donating $3m to the Omacom Foundation.
7 September
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korrents.com
A foreign manufacturer that wants access to the American market should have to build in America.Their words
If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a “piggybank.”
3 September
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20 August
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Yeah, I mean I think BCI is a category kind of like how pharma is a category. I think sometimes you I I'll talk to VCs and like, "Oh, we have a BCI bet." I'm like, "Do you have a drug bet? You made one bet on a drugs? Like that's that's how you think about the category?"
15 August
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I would make one big division in nuclear companies and it is people who believe that nuclear is essentially a hardware execution problem and people who believe that it's a design problem. Um Valor is solidly in the camp that we believe this is a hardware and execution problem.
14 August
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But if you're digitizing the physical world, you're treating atoms like bits. And you're like, well, I know that CPU manipulates the bits. What manipulates atoms? That's manufacturing or digitized manufacturing.
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korrents.com
Treating ordinary people as an oppressor class that must repent is incompatible with left populism.Their words
This worldview - that the masses, basically everyone except the most marginalized and most oppressed, must reckon with their roles as oppressors and repent2 - is incompatible with the populism that has since risen on the left.
10 August
7 August
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It gives you these effect sizes that you just don't really see in medicine. Like if you have a patient on on a dopamineergic drug for Parkinson's that works for some period of time, but it's a it's a relatively small effect after a little while. You turn on a deep brain stimulator and a patient goes from not being able to hold a cup of water to being able to write cursive in like 10 seconds.
1 May
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korrents.com
Preventing the underlying causes of public health fears works better than debunking them after they take hold.Their words
The only solution is preventing the disease, not treating the symptoms.
3 April
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Likedrcmnd.app
Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization 1953-1991Their words
This one is well written, broad in scope, and yet rich in detail, treating the covered era as a living, breathing time in human history.
9 December 2025
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We have a whole variety of different mental mechanisms at our disposal gifted to us by, you know, a few million years of evolution as a social species. And yet we've made rationality the gold standard.
16 October 2025
4 September 2025
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And that's the thing, it's the pool of data, and I think that's what people miss. We as paleontologists get caught up on single superlative specimens and then try and treat them as a silver bullet almost.
2 June 2025
13 February 2025
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korrents.com
Treating errors generically is a mistake that leads to fragile software, poor observability and worse experiences.Their words
This is what leads to slop JS/TS software. Treating errors generically like this is a mistake. It leads to fragile software, poor telemetry/observability/debugging, and as a result worse experiences
19 January 2025
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korrents.com
Your growth problem is not unique, and treating it as unique is a pure opportunity cost.Their words
but I'm very sorry to break it to all of you, but your problem is not unique. I'm 99% sure of that. Your problem has been felt by somebody somewhere and probably many, many places
15 January 2025
13 June 2024
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Physics hardly even acknowledges that the universe is random at its base. We like to think we live in a deterministic universe and everything’s deterministic. But I think that’s probably an artifact of the way that we’ve written down laws of physics since Newton invented modern physics and his conception of motion and gravity, which he formulated laws that had initial conditions and fixed dynamical laws.
23 January 2024
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So it feels to me that the US is treating its deficiencies — an inability to build stuff or create a functional system for admitting high-skilled migrants — as mysteries to be endured rather than problems to be solved.
20 November 2023
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“Your criticism violates my right to free speech” is a fatuous but common American sentiment.
My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com
23 September 2022
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korrents.com
Treating the org chart as a ladder on which higher is always better is the central lie of hierarchy.Their words
The “Big Lie” of hierarchy is that your organizational structure is a vertical tree from the CEO on down, where higher up is always better.
16 June 2022
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korrents.com
Somebody with trauma should try a trauma-focused therapy such as EMDR before treating their nightmares directly.Their words
I would recommend that anyone who thinks they're suffering from trauma (eg PTSD) try a trauma-focused therapy like EMDR before trying to address nightmares directly, unless the nightmares are overwhelmingly worse than all their other trauma symptoms.
29 May 2022
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I’ve noticed that, instead of treating them like other kinds of conflicts—where you put your hands up and admit to them but then do your best to make sure they don’t influence your science—scientists sometimes revel in political conflicts.
Science is political - and that's a bad thingsciencefictions.org
1 January 2020
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I find it bizarre that the world has decided that consumer internet is the highest form of technology.
31 October 2018
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