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17 September
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15 September
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korrents.com
Roughly half of the possible outcomes of advanced AI development would be good or great for society.Their words
There is nearly an infinite range of outcomes here between being fine and being dead. Also, many of them - probably half! - have outcomes which end up being good, if not great, for society.
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It's absolutely wild how many times Volvo has managed to refresh this platform. They are basically the same cars as in 2015/2017 but now they have 150km range plus electric and they still look amazing.
14 September
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korrents.com
Spending more on ultra-high-end audio gear does not necessarily yield better sound, just different sound.Their words
You can spend more on an integrated amp in the ultra-high-end price range, but I do not feel you will necessarily get "better" sound-just something different.
Luxman L-100 Centennial Review. Class A Returns.stevehuffphoto.com
11 September
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Usesrcmnd.app
Claude Fable 5.1Their words
We ran an extensive audit using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of different bugs.
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Usesrcmnd.app
GPT-5.6 SolTheir words
We ran an extensive audit using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, then fixed a range of different bugs.
10 September
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Pharmacy FirstTheir words
That's why we're expanding Pharmacy First. The idea is simple: Qualified pharmacists can assess patients, dispense medicines and prescribe treatment for a range of common conditions, helping people get care quickly and close to home.
9 September
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korrents.com
The Canadian economy is not a miniature U.S. economy but specializes in a limited range of goods.Their words
That is, the Canadian economy isn’t a miniature version of the U.S. economy, producing the same mix of stuff on a smaller scale. Instead, Canada concentrates on producing a limited range of goods.
Adding Injury to Insult, Canada Editionpaulkrugman.substack.com
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korrents.com
PC boot and BIOS keys are inconsistently assigned across the F-key range, Delete, and Escape.Their words
I really want to fix consistent boot and bios keys for PCs!!! How did we end up using the entire F-key range AND delete AND escape across the range? THIS IS MADNESS.
8 September
6 September
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korrents.com
Most of a song's useful bass information sits in the 60–120 Hz range rather than in the deepest frequencies.Their words
That area between 60-120Hz is where the most bass info lies in music today. I feel many subwoofers focus on the lowest Hz number rather than being musical, fast and invisible.
My Fave Speakers Ever and Why. Fleetwood Helios.stevehuffphoto.com
1 September
31 August
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21 August
19 August
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Incredible watering down -- the Singularity is now redefined to mean "the rate of new firm creation has increased somewhat" Vernor Vinge described the Singularity as an event horizon past which everything (e.g. what happens tomorrow) becomes entirely unimaginable and unpredictable to human understanding
18 August
From one piece Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the answer to that really is you don't want to set very firm red lines in the sand because they ultimately don't work.
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have to abide by this rule that was written before LLMs were even a thing. And that shows how challenging sort of the the the situation is if you try to set the line too firm to begin with.
17 August
11 August
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korrents.com
AI agents will soon reach superhuman, AlphaZero-like performance across a wide range of domains.Their words
we should therefore expect AI agents to achieve AlphaZero-like, superhuman performance in a wide and expanding variety of domains.
30 July
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korrents.com
Before building on a gap in the general models, work out whether that gap survives six months or three years.Their words
Um but I I would also caution that the general models are definitely getting better at a broader and broader range of things. So you have to figure out, you know, is that thing you're working on, is that going to be a durable thing or do you think the models uh at the forefront are going to get better at that in the next six months or 12 months or is it something they're not going to be able to do for a couple years or three years? And you know, you you want to weigh that as you're as you're deciding what to work on.
28 July
20 July
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I will say that the best evidence we have just says in reality don't be deficient. If you can reach that threshold of not being deficient or insufficient, maybe that's enough.
9 June
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This world is not about the operational win of totally eliminating a problem. It's rather it's containing it at acceptable cost.
4 June
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but of course, that's not what's happened, because as we've accumulated more wealth and you know, more advanced machines and and so on, we've expanded the range of things other than singers to spend our money on, and the share spent on singers has stayed sort of negligible. Um so likewise, that's sort of my central prediction about how future unfolds, though I it could go either way.
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korrents.com
Some firms are laying people off mainly so as not to look behind on AI, in a cascade of keeping up with the Joneses.Their words
let's say we get into a narrative where like if you're a firm and you're not laying people off, then you're seen as like not adapting AI enough. So like then you'll get you're going to just get a cascade effect of firms like just needing to keep up with the Joneses in terms of like starting to lay people off.
2 June
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know your goal or suffer a death by a thousand compromises. Because what I had done my whole career and most of us do is compromise to get that next engineer, CTO, investor. You put a jerk on your board because you impressed with their firm name and the valuation and all your friends are going to be impressed and it's going to be so much easier. We make all these compromises and contort ourselves and eventually we wake up and it's company we don't want to work at.
28 May
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korrents.com
Whether AI augments or automates workers depends on a firm's economic context, not on the technology itself.Their words
The same technology that augments workers in a growing firm automates workers in a shrinking one.
30 April
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korrents.com
Data centres will become the majority driver of electricity demand growth in Australia's National Electricity Market.Their words
Even if a small fraction of this pipeline ends up operational, data centres will drive far more than 50% of demand growth in the NEM.
26 April
From one piece How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the companies that are very successful actually have both types of organizations inside their company. And that the leaders of the organization are the ones who are responsible for creating a healthy, functioning relationship between the two types of organizations.
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Design is really about, you know, empathizing with your customer, empathizing with your audience, your viewer, whoever it is, and then building something that will really resonates with them. And And that means you need to have a an extraordinary amount of range.
16 April
7 April
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korrents.com
Ultra-processed foods have epidemiological evidence of harm comparable to what existed for smoking.Their words
There's strong epidemiological evidence associating ultra-processed foods with a range of negative health outcomes, at least on par with the evidence we had for smoking.
0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, linksscattered-thoughts.net
28 February
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Even if AI can help design more effective drugs, timelines will not compress until we solve the operational and regulatory bottlenecks of trials.
19 January
13 January
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When someone is asked to reflect on their own life, they draw on a wide range of experiences. When people are asked about “the world”, they recall a very small number of recent events (the availability bias).
1 January
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korrents.com
Tesla's robotaxi service is a facade rather than a real driverless service, and it is not on a path to becoming one.Their words
Tesla (owned by Tesla) has put on a facade of being operational, but it is not operational in the sense of the other two services, and faces regulatory headwinds that both Waymo and Zoox have long been able to satisfy. They are not on a path to becoming a real service.
21 November 2025
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If you are in regular meetings with a hardware vendor as a customer (or potential customer) you can accomplish a lot by providing firm and tough feedback, particularly with Intel today.
16 October 2025
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take prompting and as an engineer, there's a range of prompting abilities. uh the way you discretize and split up your task matters. And if you assume that uh a model can do more than it can do, then you're going to have a bad time.
12 October 2025
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modern instruments generally have more reliable tone, wider range, and better projection than traditional instruments-they are better as instruments.
First explorations in Indian classical musicandrewbatson.com
18 September 2025
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korrents.com
A job title is a calcification of how a company once solved a problem, not a description of what a person is.Their words
you are you are a sales operations expert, right? Like what is that? That's that's that that's like a title for a particular way how companies end up solving a particular operational problem they had at some point.
16 July 2025
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I've always been very risk-conscious. And risk-conscious does not mean getting rid of risk. It means properly pricing it and understanding the potential outcomes.
24 May 2025
From one piece James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles | Lex Fridman Podcast #470 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So when you’re talking about Operation Barbarossa, to go back to your original question, Lex, you’re dealing with an operation on such a vast scale, that that operational level of war is absolutely vital to its chances of success or failure. It doesn’t matter how good your individual commanders are at the front. If you haven’t got the backup, it’s not going to work.
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korrents.com
The fall of France in 1940 was half German operational brilliance and half French failure and incompetence.Their words
I mean, the reason why France is subdued in 1940 is 50% brilliance of the Germans and their operational art in that particular instance, and 50% French failure really, and incompetence.
21 May 2025
5 May 2025
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So the idea is that they’re closer to something that you would want to map as a sound, than it’s something as a picture.
1 April 2025
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We need to leap into action on many of the same things that could help if it does turn out that we only have a few years.
20 December 2024
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If there are ways that you can help improve the governance of AI in these and other countries, you should be doing it now or in the next few months, not planning for ways to have an impact several years from now.
8 June 2024
30 April 2024
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korrents.com
Debt is best understood as narrowing the range of outcomes you can survive, not as a cost of capital.Their words
I think this is the most practical way to think about debt: As debt increases, you narrow the range of outcomes you can endure in life.
22 March 2024
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there is an absolutely existential flaw in the system, which Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta confirmed with me, which is that our ICBMs do not have enough range. If we launch a counterattack against, say, North Korea, our ICBMs must fly over Russia. They must fly over Russia.
1 October 2023
1 September 2023
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With silkworms, absolutely let's not modify it genetically. Let's not modify it genetically. And then some. Because why did we get there to begin with 4,000 years ago in the Silk Road? And we should never get to a point where we evolve life for the service of mankind at the risk of these wonderful creatures across the across the kingdom of life. I don't think about the same kind of ethical range when I think about bacteria.
12 August 2023
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Instead of decades to centuries, I now see it as 5 to 20 years with 90% confidence.
15 July 2022
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So there are sharp limits to how much extra range an army can get by adding carrying capacity; in practice about a month and a half’s logistics buffer is the maximum that’s possible and even doing that is expensive.
8 July 2022
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The drone-like architecture of the multicopters is simple, but as the rotors are responsible for keeping the unit at a constant altitude with hover power, they represent an energy-intensive version of VTOLs. Their range is, therefore, short, typically less than 20 miles.
28 May 2022
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Usesrcmnd.app
Lucide IconsTheir words
Collection of open-source icons for use in web and mobile applications. Provides a wide range of icons for various use cases.
22 November 2021
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Likedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
RationalityTheir words
Steven Pinker, Rationality – the joy of this book (other than Pinker’s playful wit) is the sheer range.
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Likedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
Think AgainTheir words
Adam Grant, Think Again – Grant is always witty and humane, but assembles a terrific range of ideas and research to analyse and overcome the obstacles to rethinking our own views and (even harder) persuading others to rethink theirs.
9 November 2021
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korrents.com
The e-bike market has no cheap standard model, which is what it would take to make the e-bike a mass product.Their words
E-bikes range in price from $1000 to $10,000. The market is still lacking a Toyota Corolla equivalent.
1 September 2021
8 December 2020
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Likedrcmnd.app
RangeTheir words
I learned this from reading a good, myth-debunking book called Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.
5 November 2019
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If intelligence lies in the process of acquiring skills, then there is no task X such that skill at X demonstrates intelligence, unless X is actually a meta-task involving skill-acquisition across a broad range of tasks.
31 October 2018
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On the other hand, by avoiding foundations, projects also avoid the question of how to formalize their governance, thus risking a “tyranny of structurelessness” that might range from projects living inside a company forever, to disorganized chaos that negatively impacts project velocity.
9 July 2018
15 November 2017
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