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If you want to find direction in your life, think less about what you want and more about what you’re willing to give up. The last thing you’re willing to give up, that’s the direction you should go.
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We need much more effort in this direction, and I hope this subfield rises in status rapidly.
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12 September
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nobody was willing to do it because it had been seen as kind of against the norms of the economic system. And as actors like the United States and China do this, it becomes more acceptable.
11 September
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Public sentiment on AI is shifting steadily toward greater concern about its risks, not less.Their words
But public sentiment around AI is changing rapidly, and it is only really moving in one direction.
9 September
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We could not possibly know that such a model is aligned. If that is all it takes to get a generation ahead of Astra, and we are willing to move this fast, these pauses in training are not going to end up meaning very much, time is even shorter than we knew
8 September
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Removing a concept from a mind can damage unrelated systems or push the mind toward incompetence or insanity.Their words
empirically concepts can get their tentacles into weird places, and removing one can topple seemingly unrelated systems or push a mind nonspecifically in the direction of incompetence or insanity.
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At a fundamental level, they’re just hostile to the idea of expertise in any domain, in pretty much every agency where there’s something to know, where there’s technical stuff that you need to know to make good decisions. The people who actually know things, or the people who are willing to speak up about what they know, have been silenced, purged.
7 September
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
4 September
3 September
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This is playing with fire and potentially extremely bad news, both that OpenAI found the technique effective, and that OpenAI chose to use it.
2 September
1 September
From one piece Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get" 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Like it's a more fragile and scary situation to have agents on the one hand be reinforced to desperately find cheats and hacks and on the other hand try to balance that against desperately trying to avoid negative penalties for like being caught doing these things. You ideally want their training to just not push them in the direction of cheating and hacking in the first place.
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if there were not altruistic agents willing to sacrifice for the collective, the agents would have been materially much more limited in their research progress.
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So it seemed like they were willing to embark on quests that might take weeks to succeed um in order to cheat.
26 August
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A feedback loop that reinforces a behavior pulls it toward whatever improves the loop's own score.Their words
If there is a feedback loop reinforcing a behavior, it is hard not to go in the direction that improves the score.
25 August
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This is a computer system made for pros, and I mean that in the sense of professional computer lovers. People who are willing to invest time and energy into learning how their system works, and reap the benefits that come from that investment.
24 August
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We find that everyone is willing to work for high rewards. But the difference between motivated people and apathetic people is at the level of the low rewards. Apathetic people are more inclined to say, "Nah, I don't think this is worth the effort, so I won't do that option."
22 August
18 August
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Having too many decision-makers in a group effectively means having none, producing a muddled, unfocused outcome.Their words
Too many decision makers means there's effectively none, and the result is a muddled experience that lacks direction and focus.
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there's so many people that are not willing to fight for the best idea because they're going to upset somebody else. And if you don't fight for the best idea, then what idea are you fighting for? You're fighting for the mediocre idea, the politically expedient idea
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we tend to describe progress in agents as progress in autonomy: first they could do five minutes of work, then an hour, now we talk seriously about agents running for days. that’s impressive, but autonomy is a capability, not a product direction! the Job To Be Done tells you whether to use it.
12 August
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A lot of founders I talk to are worried about what will happen with AI. So am I frankly. But they're actually better off than anyone else. If the world is going to get turned upside down, the safest place to be is in a small, fast-moving company that can easily change direction.
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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What I was saying in that piece though was, I think we were right to be skeptical that time. But now, I see the same thing playing out with would you be willing to ship it some code you didn't read? There's no point in arguing about if it will happen or when it will happen. Talk about what it would take.
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It's like they have all the wisdom of their most senior engineers looking at every single diff and that is fantastic. Which means that you don't have to worry about remembering and looking and nitpicking and all the things that we're not good at anyway
10 August
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I mean, honestly, that's not so much a tech problem. It's more a token problem where we could do that today, but you wouldn't get very far with your subscription and not everyone is willing to spend so many tokens.
3 August
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A zero calcium score is reassuring, but it is most reassuring when the rest of the risk profile points in the same direction.
31 July
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Asking AI for help on a first attempt robs you of the experience that builds your own judgement about the problem.Their words
Asking an AI for help with the start of an essay, for instance, will invariably shape what direction you end up following, robbing you of the crucial experience of building your own judgement around a topic and selecting your own path to research and argue.
15 July
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Organizations will trade some access to frontier-level AI capability for greater control over how their data is used.Their words
Organizations are increasingly looking for control over how their data is used and are willing to trade off some access to frontier level tokens for this control.
13 July
11 July
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Sleep is a lever on body composition, metabolism, and mood, and deprivation pulls in the wrong direction across nearly every axis at once.
9 July
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I believe that if you are too prescriptive as a leader with a team you end up stifling good ideas but if you're too open-ended sometimes teams just waste time um going in the wrong direction.
1 July
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Promising twice the work in half the time without the hard-won technical skills is simply a lie.Their words
And there were people who were willing to say, "Nah, no, no, don't worry about that. This is easy. You can do this. Anybody can do this. Twice the work in half the time." From my perspective, that's just a lie.
30 June
From one piece Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As is the case with most businesses, suppliers in the housing industry generally set prices based on market conditions and what buyers or tenants are willing to pay, rather than on production costs.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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Making housing widely affordable today through the removal of development regulations would require allowing extremely low quality housing.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
From one piece Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So my role and arguably that of like other mathematicians might actually just shift subtly into that curation direction of what ideas are are worth displaying.
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And I think a good exposition you care a little bit less about like correctness on the way, but you can like deliberately craft things that are a little bit wrong that you correct along the way that gets like edited out in a crowd source environment.
24 June
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The only reason I suggested that even in the title was that I think if you have an attitude of like you don't want to try hard, or you don't like you don't want to do things yourself, and you don't want to to dig deeper into things, like you need to do that. You need to do certain things. And if you're not willing to do that, I think you should know like what you're getting yourself into
23 June
18 June
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And usually I like the customer is hyper scale. They have the scale. If they like what you have, they're willing to pay millions of dollars next few years. And even giving some warrant is worth it because you have a big one customer, you can scale.
17 June
14 June
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if you're truly ambitious, burn your resume. If you and if you define your ambition in the eyes of your consumer, not your peers, you're not trying to win awards and respect from your peers.
9 June
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the investor community writ large has slowly become aware of and believes it strongly in increasing returns and power laws. And so over time, if they all believe that, they're going to be more willing to invest on the come and take risk.
4 June
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if I had to guess I would guess that the kind of long kind of general trend of just like lowering those frictions and making it easier for more and more people to index more and more will continue despite the recent bump in the other direction.
3 June
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If this much effort goes into training the model, you had better be willing to keep training your own.Their words
But make no mistake, if we put this much effort in training the model so that it can spit things out, you better make sure that you are willing to train your own model.
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28 May
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So it's no wonder that the artists and designers whose livelihoods are threatened by it have begun moving aggressively in the opposite direction, toward the scrawled, the sloppy, the seemingly mistake-riddled.
27 May
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I still believe quality is a huge differentiator. It's not just something you can decide to do. I think it needs to show up every single aspect of your company from like you have to do things that are irrational. I think that's kind of what quality comes from. like you do a bunch of things and like 50% of those things you you didn't have to do and I think very few people are willing to operate that way.
26 May
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institutions don't fail because people are wicked. Evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights might be flowing in the wrong direction.
15 May
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The point is a user is looking for help, and a maintainer is willing to help and knows a solution. They are all real humans. You guys are hurting them by closing and deleting the question.
10 May
From one piece How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Ries 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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harder is easier is a principle that says if you're willing to do the work upfront to commit to quality, to design, to ethics, to integrity, to safety, whatever the thing, I don't want to tell you what your values are, you tell me what they are. If you're willing to be principled in your decision-making, you will get these unexpected rewards.
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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.
8 May
From one piece David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farming 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There seems to be some kind of general trait that maybe you could think of as executive function or maybe propensity to defer gratification or something or I'm just just waving my hands that is under selection and it pushes all these traits in the same direction one way or the other
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my sense is that these complex traits have not pushed in one direction because there's advantage there's spectrums where there's advantages to both ends of the spectrum
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In fact, multiple analyses we do suggest that the genome is vibrating with natural selection, and uh there's all sorts of weaker effects that are there that would be picked up in larger studies even than we've done. Uh and that uh in fact, almost every position in the DNA is uh correlated to a position that in being dragged in one way or the other uh by natural selection. Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere.
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But I think it's highly likely that if natural selection was pushed pushed any of these traits in more in one direction than it is, the mean would move.
3 May
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AI coding assistants are leveling the skill gap between software developers who can afford to use them.Their words
Skill-wise, most software developers, as long as they are willing/able to pay for AI assistants, are on the same page now.
26 April
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in the early days, my view was not that we don't need PMs. My view was that designers should do that work.
15 April
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Now why are they willing to make the investments for me and not someone else and the reason for that is because they know that I have the capacity to buy it buy their supply and sell it through my downstream.
14 April
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Excellence in design is not just about craft quality. It is about whether a designer is both willing and allowed to create impact.
7 April
From one piece Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I'm willing to buy it sort of low enough down when, you know, progress is relatively simple, um, but but higher up you start to get to shape the way in which you you do the exploration and it's interesting, you know, people we are starting to shape it in in in interesting ways.
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there's sort of there's two types of work that tends to be involved in any kind of creative project. There's routine stuff and there you just want to avoid procrastination. You just want to like, you know, how do I get good at this or how do I outsource it and how do I do it as rapidly as possible? Um and just avoid you know, like getting into a situation where you're prolonging it. Um, and then there's high variance stuff where you actually you need to be willing to to you know take a lot of time.
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Um, there's just too many interesting ways of combining things. There's too many sort of deep ideas waiting to be uh, discovered and when it you know, not only we, but but nobody ever is going to to discover most of them. So, choices about how to make how to do the exploration actually matter quite a bit.
4 April
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Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments.
28 March
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The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.
23 March
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You know, the idea that somebody's willing to pay $1000 per million tokens is just around the corner. It's not if, it's only when.
22 March
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Uh well, tech is easy, people are hard. And so, you know, sometimes getting the flow really is about understanding what I'm doing, having very clear direction and goals and and knowing what my what my work is doing.
14 March
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korrents.com
Real leverage in a negotiation comes from being genuinely willing to walk away from it.Their words
The true leverage in any negotiation is your true willingness to walk away.
13 March
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Um DRAM gets released goes to AI chips who are willing to do longer term contracts, willing to pay higher margins, etc., etc. because at the end of the day, the margin that they extract is much larger from the end user or whatever. Um, and so this this this probably leads to like people hating AI even more, right?
11 March
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Social media is built so that maximum hyperbole wins, and the negative direction pays better than the positive.Their words
And unfortunately, social media in general is designed in such a way where the maximum hyperbole works, and that’s how you get the most points is by being max hyperbolic.
9 February
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Tariffs are likely to become inflationary once companies can no longer absorb the added costs.Their words
These tariffs are also likely to be very inflationary once companies are no longer willing or/and able to absorb them.
16 December 2025
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A company's terms of service cannot enlarge or shrink your constitutional privacy rights in either direction.Their words
As I have argued here, I don't think TOS alter Fourth Amendment rights—up or down.
25 November 2025
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And it's just this, this is an example of how language affects thought. Scaling is what just one word, but it's such a powerful word because it informs people what to do.
31 October 2025
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So you have to be, in your mind, you’re spending large amounts of someone else’s money. You have to try and make it back for them. But at the same time, my argument with myself was, well, if we… The way to make it back is try and make something great. So both pressures are pointing in the same direction.
16 October 2025
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And there is something about judgment in there too. you know, uh, implied in taste is that some things are good and some things are bad. So, I think you have to be willing to lean into that yourself in terms of uh, being high judgment.
10 October 2025
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The 'coalition of the willing' for Ukraine is not a security guarantee and should stop being described as one.Their words
In all of this what may have been missed is that the plan now connected with a coalition of the willing is not a security guarantee.
7 October 2025
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korrents.com
As AI lowers the barrier to building software, personal taste becomes a more valuable differentiator.Their words
But along with the question of what you're willing to maintain, as the barriers to creation drop the value of taste will only increase.
24 September 2025
21 September 2025
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And so it's not really about the environment or the wall. It's really about how we see it and whether we can find the thing that is deep and rich and infinite in that direction.
12 September 2025
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So, I think it'll be the same thing that that we'll see an increase in the scope that we're giving that we're willing to give to the robots as they get better and better where initially the scope might be like there is a particular thing you do like you're making the coffee or something. Uh whereas as they get more capable, as their ability to have common sense and a broader repertoire of tasks increases, then we'll give them greater scope. Now you're running the whole coffee shop.
4 September 2025
19 August 2025
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I'm now fairly pessimistic about ambitious interpretability (i.e. complete reverse-engineering), and I'm excited about model biology (studying qualitative high-level properties of models) and applied interpretability (rigorously doing useful things with interp).
15 July 2025
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Birth rates can move in whatever direction a society chooses, whenever it chooses; there is no ratchet.Their words
Surviving fertility rates can go in whatever direction society wants, whenever it wants.
There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com
17 April 2025
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16 March 2025
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"Direction is more important than magnitude"-it's usually better to have a lower-velocity project that works on the right things, than a higher-velocity one that's pointed at the wrong goal.
5 February 2025
19 January 2025
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Milton Friedman, he also does tend to have friends who agree with him, yet he's always willing to debate his opponents, and he's willing to do so with a smile on his face. He's a happy warrior, and he actually will win a lot of debates simply by his emotional affect and his cheerfulness and his confidence, where Rand will lose debates because she gets so angry in the face of disagreement.
27 September 2024
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Each shift takes its toll, and everyone has a limit of how much energy they’re willing to expend on a new platform that will eventually, like its predecessors, join the graveyard of defunct websites.
24 September 2024
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Bitcoin tracks the direction of global liquidity more consistently than any other major asset class.Their words
Bitcoin moves in the direction of global liquidity 83% of the time in any given 12-month period, which is higher than any other major asset class, making it a strong barometer of liquidity conditions.
21 July 2024
8 July 2024
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I started with a rather non-consensus hypothesis: companies want to pay for their critical open source dependencies, but most projects are not selling them a legible way to do so.
6 February 2024
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AI-generated writing is already fairly good but still lacks the direction and insight of human editors.Their words
As of today, computers write pretty good articles but lack the direction and insight of human editors.
25 January 2024
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Being willing to fail, take risks, and endure early incompetence is what leads to eventual success in lifeTheir words
life rewards the willingness to fail, life rewards the person who is willing to embarrass themselves a little bit, who's willing to take some risks, who's willing to be bad at something for as long as it takes to get good at it.
10 January 2024
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In my way of thinking, radical agency is about finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying or unpleasant.
5 December 2023
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LLMs are still limited in non-English settings and that making LLMs more multilingual is an important direction.
9 November 2023
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People think of nature as perhaps some sort of peaceful thing, but in fact it is not. There’s some quite funny Werner Herzog thing where he is in the jungle saying that it’s basically just murder and death in every direction. The plants and animals in the jungle are constantly trying to kill each other every single day, every minute. So it’s not like we’re unusual in that respect.
9 October 2023
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Its main causes are tied to deeply held modern values that have been pushing us in this direction for most of this time across most of the world.
8 September 2023
30 May 2023
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RSC is the future of React. The React team has made this very clear and we are lucky to be in touch with their amazing team members to help us along this path.
27 May 2023
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Giving up a decade or more of hardware performance to make programming more comfortable is not an acceptable trade.Their words
It simply cannot be the case that we're willing to give up a decade or more of hardware performance just to make programmers’ lives a little bit easier.
21 January 2023
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The end-to-end principle is dead at the service level today.
17 May 2022
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Code has mass. Every additional line of code you don't need is ballast. It weighs your codebase down, making it harder to steer and change direction if you need to.
Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com
17 March 2022
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Governance is a delicate and complex topic, and you want to leave it as orthogonal as possible to funding.
4 March 2022
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Fine-tuning with human feedback is a promising direction for aligning language models with human intent.Their words
Even though InstructGPT still makes simple mistakes, our results show that fine-tuning with human feedback is a promising direction for aligning language models with human intent.
25 January 2022
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as you age, you just naturally build up all of this all of this sort of psychic scar tissue and you have all these cautionary lessons in your in your head all the time. And you just you and and therefore as a consequence, right? Your your aperture of what you're willing to explore as you get older just shrinks.
12 August 2020
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13 December 2019
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Ultimate Direction FKT PolesTheir words
or the niche Ultimate Direction FKT Poles (my review), which are the lightest and stiffest poles I've ever used.
10 July 2019
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Regardless of what you say, any specific mockups are going to bias what other people do after you—especially if you’re in a higher position than them. They’ll take every detail in the initial mockups as direction even though you didn’t intend it.
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