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5 September
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We can’t count on surrogate blood markers to guide the results of cardiovascular clinical outcome trials.
The Coronary Artery Inflammation Controversyerictopol.substack.com
31 August
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Mastery is actually the part everybody forgets about on that. If you have a tutor that's not mastery based, you won't get the top 2%. One sigma came from the tutor. One sigma comes from mastery, which once again we'll talk about we all accept mastery in in athletics, but we reject it explicitly reject it in education.
30 August
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27 August
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judges and juries have begun to accept the argument that platform design is not covered by either of those, and companies can be punished for harmful features.
25 August
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The problem is that "number of recalls" is a terrible metric because we don't know what we don't know.
24 August
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If I had thought in those ways, it probably wouldn't have happened. I just didn't think that we should have these boundaries to what you can do.
22 August
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Canada should walk away from the trade deal Washington is offering rather than accept a bad one.Their words
We cannot accept what they have offered, and we will not give what they have asked.
20 August
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so I'm in the camp that like continuity is greatly important. And so people will accept significant drift in their identity over time as long as they have continuity.
15 August
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Nuclear energy is the safest form of energy empirically. If you look at the amount of power generated versus the amount amount of deaths, um it's even safer than solar, which is very strange because how does someone die from solar? that actually most solar is installed on roofs and people sometimes die falling off of a roof installing solar and if you add those deaths up it is actually a higher death per energy than the totality of nuclear energy in the world.
14 August
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Decentralized networks can be both principled and mainstream-popular without giving up usability.Their words
It's exciting, and shows that you don't have to accept a bad set of tradeoffs to make tech that's both principled and popular.
12 August
10 August
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If you count all the permutations, you can write all the tests you want. It is impossible to cover all of these and not break things from time to time. It is infinitely harder to evolve software that has users.
9 August
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A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on.Their words
Just don’t do it. Accept it, whatever it is, as a starting place in the long game of exerting your taste on your own prose.
On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com
23 July
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When two truths conflict and both are hard to accept, people resolve the tension by discarding one of them.Their words
Reality hands us two truths at once, and when we can't stomach both, we eliminate one.
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The genuinely new idea in a product will probably fail; its job is to give people a reason to try the product at all.Their words
And we have to accept that that new idea is probably going to fail. It's a reason to try it for people, but it's probably going to fail.
10 May
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I looked down the panel and I realized not a single one of these companies has standard governance. That's how bad it is.
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Pick your ASIC team where you can say I can bet the farm of I can bet my entire business that you will be here for me every single year. Your cost, your token cost will decrease by an order of magnitude every single year. I can count on it like I can count on the clock.
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20 March
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you know, right now we're going through uh an in um an cognitive version of the Copernican revolution where we used to think that human intelligence is the center of the universe. And now we're actually seeing that there's there's very different types of intelligence um that that that are out there uh with very different strengths and weaknesses.
11 March
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Nobody will believe a resume any more; what will count is visible proof of the work you actually did.Their words
we are moving into a world very quickly this year where proof of work is so important and I mean proof of work not in the Bitcoin sense but your proof of what you have done, your resume. And I don't mean your resume because nobody's going to believe that. I mean the actual work that you did which has to be visible
22 February
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We need to accept that at best, we will just barely avoid some of the worst case scenarios (e.g., an AI-enabled biological weapon that kills billions, a rogue AI takeover, or stable global totalitarianism enabled by AI), given the current pace of AI capabilities relative to the pace of governance.
We're in Triage Mode for AI Policymilesbrundage.substack.com
5 January
1 January
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But you cannot outwork the person who's working on a better thing. And so um it is possible if you really grind maybe you can work 10% harder or 20% harder than you are now. But if you work on the right thing you get 100x of the results or thousandx the results. And so what you need I I almost feel like we should change the definition of what it means to work hard. It should not only mean putting in the hours. It should also mean outthinking the other person.
5 November 2025
8 September 2025
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But with education and intelligence, we’re unwilling to countenance the simple reality that some people are better equipped to succeed and some worse.
13 August 2025
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Do you want technological supremacy and radical breakthroughs? Well, yes. If you do, then you have to tolerate that there are going to be some people who are just going to be uncomfortably rich, like in the United States. You can’t say that you detest the financial system for its greed, but then not accept the fact that it is what fuels innovation, right?
14 June 2025
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And that's a phase shift, because suddenly it makes sense when you write a paper to write it in Lean first, or through a conversation with AI, which is generally on the fly with you, and it becomes natural for journals to accept.
26 December 2024
16 October 2024
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Actually by condemning those alternative point of view, archaeologists make it much more likely that the general public will accept those alternative point of view, because there is a great distrust of experts in our society today.
7 October 2024
30 September 2024
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I mean, if that’s right, that means the Maya and the people of Mesoamerica will all share it together, when they thought about, “We need a count of time for us,” they didn’t look up into the heavens, they looked into their bodies. “What’s the first cycle that we actually go through as humans?” and they picked this nine-month thing. It really is our cycle, and no other culture on the planet looked inside themselves to create their calendar like that.
26 September 2024
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A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.Their words
If WP Engine wants to find another open source project with a more permissive license and no trademarks, they are free to do so; if they want to benefit from the WordPress community, then they need to respect WordPress trademark and IP.
21 August 2024
7 May 2024
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So when evaluating control, we should count catching an AI red-handed as a win condition.
22 March 2024
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So you don’t have wise decision makers. Long gone are the days where we had presidents who had advisors on both sides of the aisle. That’s really important, because you want to have differing opinions. But as things become more viperous, both here in the United States and in nuclear armed nations, all bets are off at whether your advisors are going to give you good advice.
21 December 2023
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While there are interesting theoretical arguments for these causes, there’s a disconnect between an almost-neurotic focus on hard evidence of effectiveness in some areas of EA and a willingness to accept extremely abstract and conjectural “evidence” in others.
17 November 2023
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Russia's refusal to accept NATO on its border is exactly what the United States demands for its own neighbourhood.Their words
Well, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And if we don't like great powers coming into our neighborhood, it's hardly surprising that the Russians did not want NATO on their doorstep.
15 October 2023
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It's important to look around you for solutions instead of accepting the current unavailability of options.
1 October 2023
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It is a sign that Hayek was not so great at seeing the viewpoints of other people, and that (political moralizing aside) also should count as a weakness of him as an economist and social scientist.
1 September 2023
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So if you can predict it doesn't count as emergence, actually.
12 January 2023
27 December 2022
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Compressing a piece of research into a journal paper's word count is itself a distortion of what was found.Their words
The mere act of squeezing a complex process into a few thousand words—limited by a journal-imposed word count—is itself a distortion of reality.
13 December 2022
From one piece The rise and fall of peer review 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Scientists have run studies where they deliberately add errors to papers, send them out to reviewers, and simply count how many errors the reviewers catch. Reviewers are pretty awful at this.
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Making peer review harsher would also exacerbate the worst problem of all: just knowing that your ideas won’t count for anything unless peer reviewers like them makes you worse at thinking.
5 November 2022
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All radically new products, and air taxi eVTOLs certainly count as radically new, require the convergence of many different capabilities and technologies. Often one or more technology will be lagging and it may take decades for them all to come together in the right place at the right time.
8 October 2021
1 February 2021
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This suggests that overfeeding had caused their body fat regulatory system to durably accept a higher “setpoint”.
29 July 2014
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