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Biased reasoning and recklessness in AI systems are intermediate symptoms, neither the cause nor the final result.Their words
Biased reasoning and recklessness are intermediate symptoms, neither the cause nor the final result.
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19 September
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China is not yet big enough to be the hegemon, but the United States truly is not big enough to be the hegemon. So we are just not in that world anymore.
From one piece The Beclowning of the State Department Continues Apace 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The Trump administration's recent foreign policy failures have significantly eroded U.S. deterrent power.Their words
the steady accumulation of humiliating defeats that have badly eroded U.S. deterrent power.
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Trump's foreign policy and national security team is staffed with incompetent people at every level.Their words
Remember: when it comes to Trump's foreign policy and national security team, it's incompetents all the way down.
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And I fear that the covert and overt influence campaigns will continue.
18 September
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But foreign leaders have more or less given up trying to placate Trump.
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You are not trying to compete with AI in producing outputs, that is a losing game. Instead, you want to use your human advantages as basis of working with AI to do things that neither of you could do alone.
15 September
13 September
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The deniers of free will haven't improved society. They have merely produced a more forgiving vocabulary for those who damage it.
12 September
11 September
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If Bush had wanted to whip people up into an inward-looking demagogic fervor instead of an external-facing one, he clearly could have accomplished that, too.
9 September
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the Trump administration's foreign policymakers are so lazy that they keep self-sabotaging.
8 September
7 September
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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.”
4 September
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A conspiracy theory can be used as a pretext to dismantle government programs and target researchers and citizens.Their words
Since 2025, MAGA ideologues have been using this alleged plot as an excuse to dismantle government programs, stifle research, intimidate American citizens, and even distort American foreign policy.
The Myth of the “Censorship Industrial Complex”anneapplebaum.substack.com
3 September
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It’s not orderly. But neither is water flowing in a stream. It flows around obstacles. Everything is opportunistic, selfishly taking the effective path, exploiting available gaps. It’s natural.
1 September
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So I think one of the most comforting aspects of this situation or the like most important mitigating factor is these agents really didn't seem concerned with humans one way or another.
30 August
25 August
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I have a long separate post here looking at the evidence we have, and I come away thinking the data center backlash is basically entirely homegrown.
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12 August
From one piece Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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One of the things that's ironic though is that both of these sides feel like they are the tiny minority and they're outmanned and they're being suppressed and they are standing up for what is truth and valor in the face of the big AI folks or the big skeptics.
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Neither the AI enthusiasts nor the AI sceptics are making it up; both camps are looking at real trends.Their words
See, the problem is that neither side is making it up. Like they are seeing really scary trends.
10 August
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it is always tempting to add this one feature that looks really cool but what you rarely think about is when you merge this feature it really means here's this pile of code that I don't that the person probably doesn't really understand that I don't fully understand
28 July
From one piece Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jet 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It now takes Lockheed more than two years to build a new Patriot missile interceptor. This is crazy. This is no way to build the future and this is no way to win a war.
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In 1969, we landed on the moon for the first time and the same year we flew Concord, the faster than the speed of sound airliner. The future was supposed to be faster and better. where we're supposed to look forward to innovation in air and in space. And yet, half a century later, we can't go to the moon and we can't fly faster than the speed of sound.
12 July
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After the financial deplatforming of Western proles and foreign elites, of Canadian truckers and 145M Russians, it’s clear that digital finance is a weapon of war.
22 June
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The phrase "your feelings are valid" does not invite curiosity or deeper self-understanding, which is the point of psychotherapy. It is the mirror image of "stop whining and get a grip." One sounds warm and one sounds harsh, but neither deepens self-awareness.
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From one piece Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can't escape geography 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And Russia's never had a commerce-driven economy. China much more so under Deng Xiaoping, but recently Xi Jinping has been privileging the crony sector over the private sector and neither one has stable government institutions.
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So, China and Russia certainly have maritime ambitions, but I'm not clear they actually understand what goes into a full maritime paradigm.
5 June
27 May
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General problem solving abilities are neither learned nor taught. While some problem-solving methods have broader applicability than others (such as the scientific process of hypothesis testing), students learn these methods better when they’re explicitly taught rather than simply giving students projects and hoping they’ll reinvent them on their own.
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Consciousness belongs only to simulations, not to the physical brains or computers running them.Their words
neither brains nor computers are conscious, as only simulations can be conscious.
13 April
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Classroom activities like grammar drills and vocabulary tests feel productive. You are doing something. But none of it builds the network your brain actually needs.
7 April
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And so, you have what seem like three very different disconnected phenomena all being explained by this one set of ideas.
12 February
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We show that equilibrium generically occurs at neither the Harberger nor Glaeser-Luttmer benchmark. Cost-minimizing suppliers drive allocations to vertices, not interiors. Corners are not an assumption but an outcome about what cost-minimizing suppliers choose. The correct benchmark is corners, not random, and corners generate qualitatively different welfare properties: losses far larger than either efficient or random distributions, and discontinuous jumps from small parameter perturbations.
25 January
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But the truth is we don't know what the probability is. We don't know what the probability curves look like. We actually can't use expected value.
9 December 2025
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Debt is neither a good thing nor a bad thing per se. Likewise, the use of leverage in the AI industry shouldn’t be applauded or feared.
25 November 2025
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There is no human analogue to pre-training — neither childhood nor evolution is the same thing as it.Their words
I don't think there is a human analog to pre-training.
22 August 2025
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18 August 2025
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Neither seats nor tokens can price an agent, because neither of them measures whether the job got done.Their words
Seat based. Well, what is a seat? That doesn't make any sense. Consumption where it's like is it per message? Is it per token? Is it per conversation? And none of these things actually mapped very well to getting a job done and getting a job done well.
15 August 2025
From one piece China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In terms of things that are causing us to lose to China, tariffs are neither here nor there because, as we've discussed, we're not sensitive to cost on power. But the environmental regulations that are actively preventing us from deploying renewable energy in the United States, like this is the reason Texas is winning. Texas is out deploying California 10 to1.
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so the mainstream view would say, well, China has cheaper labor, which is no longer true, uh, say compared to Mexico, and it's got lower environmental regulations, uh, which is true, and that it is more businessfriendly, which is absolutely crazy.
14 August 2025
14 April 2025
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The American trade deficit is foreigners choosing to invest in America, not America being cheated.Their words
this story tells us how an increase in foreign demand to save in the US rather than at home will push up the dollar, and cause the trade deficit, which is in effect how foreigners send us factories which they would rather build here than in their own countries.
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12 February 2025
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The longevity of that consensus is itself remarkable: in 79 years of data, Republican presidents spent an average of $34 billion a year on aid, while Democrats spent $40 billion.
20 January 2025
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A country should raise revenue by tariffing foreign countries rather than by taxing its own citizens.Their words
Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.
19 January 2025
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And so my argument is, that has now opened the door to the presidency of Donald Trump, which is potentially a deeply transformative moment that will change the size and shape of government, that may change our foreign policy profoundly, that may change our immigration policy, that may change the demographics of our country, all of that, and my thesis is that that's all been made possible by inflation.
24 December 2024
17 December 2024
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Either can work. Both have tradeoffs and implications. If you try to import either philosophy wholesale, it will break in unexpected ways; if you try to mix and match, it will probably be an unfettered nightmare.
1 November 2024
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For rich countries to maintain their working-age population ratios in 2050 through permanent migration (where each worker brings one dependent), Lant Pritchett estimates they would need to become 40-50% foreign-born.
16 October 2024
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But that is not going to help you get dozens of 70 ton granite blocks 300 feet in the air to form the roof of the King’s Chamber and the floor of the chamber above it, and the roof of that chamber, and the floor of the chamber above that, and so on and so forth. Wet sand never got those objects up there.
2 October 2024
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Without SpaceX, neither the United States nor Europe would have adequate access to space of its own.Their words
But for SpaceX, both the US and Europe would lack adequate strategic access to space.
26 September 2024
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This isn’t a money grab: it’s an expectation that any business making hundreds of millions of dollars off of an open source project ought to give back, and if they don’t, then they can’t use its trademarks.
9 September 2024
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Plug-in hybrids have moved past being a worst-of-both-worlds compromise and are now genuinely thriving.Their words
Neither condition is now true, but plug-in hybrids are thriving.
Inflecting and Overtaking, SunPower, Waymonathanielbullard.com
1 October 2023
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Friedman’s focus on the money supply has not held up, as Samuelson suggested, but the alternative Keynesian macro models recommended by Samuelson in the same interview have not done better and they were not outperforming simple random walk models of predicting the macroeconomic future.
7 September 2023
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What you want to avoid, I think, is mediocre writing, which neither thrills nor instructs.
25 May 2023
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But we do not have enough data and we do not have enough insight to use AI/ML to pick better targets that have a higher chance of succeeding in the clinic.
3 November 2022
26 August 2022
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If you had given the Romans the designs for a Newcomen steam engine, they couldn’t have built it without developing whole new technologies for the purpose (or casting every part in bronze, which introduces its own problems) and then wouldn’t have had any profitable use to put it to.
16 August 2022
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1 January 2022
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The US focus on efficiency has revealed the brittleness of its economy, which has neither the manufacturing capability to scale up domestic production of goods nor the logistics capacity to handle greater imports.
23 September 2021
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7 September 2019
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So if progress is a moral imperative, it is also a moral imperative to understand its causes, so that we can protect them and reinforce them.
31 May 2019
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With regards to sexual desire and songwriting, creativity and desire have always been inextricably linked for me.
22 August 2018
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I do not sign CLAs and I think they’re a harmful practice for this very reason. Asking a contributor to sign them is a slap in the face to the good will which led them to make a contribution in the first place.
5 April 2017
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It is time to realize, then, addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a psychological and physiological response to painful life experiences.
1 January 2016
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Start with WhyTheir words
We tend to focus on the “what” and “how” of our companies and products. This manifesto reminds us to always start with “why” — the reason we do the things we do, to let that guide our decisions, the whats and hows. Personally, I found the book neither very insightful nor inspiring, but YMMV.
2 September 2014
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Reaching a conversational level in a language within three months of arriving is not something to expect.On changing their mind
When Vat and I initially made plans, neither of us were confident that it would be possible to reach a conversational level in any of the languages.
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Learning a language in a hurry and learning one by slow patient habit are both legitimate; neither refutes the other.Their words
Just because we attempted to learn with intensity, doesn’t denigrate learning languages through slow, patient habit.
Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without Englishscotthyoung.com
10 June 2014
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There is no need for any Markov chains or unrolled approximate inference networks during either training or generation of samples.
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