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17 September
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Humans are amazing. In part, because our minds are such a damn complicated mess.
8 September
7 September
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This is, by the way, also why the category of “an AI trained on person X” is absolutely BS. People change their minds in light of new information, the “AI trained on X’s writing/videos/tweets” does not
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In a fast-changing industry, anyone genuinely keeping up will change their mind as the developments happen.Their words
Especially in technology - one of the fastest changing industries - anyone keeping up with developments WILL change their minds when those developments happen!!
1 September
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Writing is itself an act of thinking, so automating the writing removes the thinking, not just the labor.Their words
The act of writing is an act of thinking, and to automate our paragraphs is to populate our screens with words without filling our minds with the ideas necessary to conceive of them.
We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internetderekthompson.org
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you know Elon buying Twitter is like the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal. That's a big deal. We should all thank Elon for that.
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Renewable energy offset schemes share the same fundamental flaw as carbon offsets in general.Their words
This renewable energy offsetting suffers from the same fundamental problem as all offsets.
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Population-level studies will keep struggling to prove that short sleep shortens life, because they are structurally unable to separate cause from symptom—and the genetic tools meant to overcome this limitation inherit a different fatal flaw.
30 June
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You could imagine systematizing that or like having multiple different agents deliberately given different pieces of context and try to like compare and contrast there. Like we we don't have the same level of manipulation on our own context.
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Comparing this to The Fifth Season, it is striking how different two fantasy novels about worlds over-supplied with natural disasters, and the people with the psychic gifts to stop those disasters with their minds, can be in tone and execution. This is immensely fluffier, but it has no pretensions to be anything except candy, and succeeds as such.
19 June
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Getting feedback on a flaw early saves far more effort than discovering it after building much more on top of it.Their words
I would rather learn a chapter is broken now, from you, than after I've built ninety more on top of it.
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We know from decades of research that blaming and shaming only leads people to get defensive, dig in their heels, or tune you out altogether.
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29 April
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When you get angry fast, it usually is not because you are "too much." It is often because your nervous system learned to live on alert.
1 April
From one piece Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Complacency is death. I mean like every the world will move faster and faster and the moment we stand still we are falling behind.
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pretty soon by asking those leading question, the engineer now discovered a flaw that this thing would not scale,
29 November 2025
20 November 2025
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Learning loss is a global phenomenon, exacerbated by a catastrophic event, not a structural flaw unique to the American education system.
18 November 2025
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