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19 September
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Their business depends on co’s not having enough in-house dev capacity, and thus “renting” devs from them.
17 September
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Any piece of software that depends on open source (which is almost every piece of software) has a network of human beings who are potential attack vectors - everyone with publishing rights to any of the packages in the dependency network for that software.
16 September
From one piece What AI can and cannot do in biosecurity 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI-assisted biological research still depends on physical wet-lab work that remains a necessary bottleneck for now.Their words
This physical work will remain necessary for the foreseeable future.
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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AI plausibly increases the risk at the margin. Whether that increase is small or catastrophic depends on factors such as AI capability trajectories, biosecurity responses, governance, etc.
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
15 September
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Netanyahu's governing coalition depends on parties that openly back anti-Palestinian violence.Their words
The current Netanyahu coalition is dependent on small parties that are overtly supportive of irregular anti-Palestinian violence.
Sanctions on West Bank settlements aren’t enoughslowboring.com
14 September
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Basically, what I'm saying is, don't use ismap unless you're absolutely sure that there will be no CSS shenanigans. Even then, it probably isn't worth the risk.
10 September
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Right now OpenAI is extremely dependent on CoT monitoring, everyone else depends on it quite a lot as well, and it looks like it may not last much longer, and that Astra already is on the edge of steganographic capabilities and can do substantial obfuscation if and only if it thinks you would think it is up to no good.
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A product's success depends on hardware and software working together, not hardware alone.Their words
It's not just the hardware. It's the hardware and the software. This is just Apple running their old playbook to perfection.
31 August
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The median American student learns essentially nothing between eighth grade and twelfth grade.Their words
There's a test, there's a bunch of them, but you can use this one, which is NWA MAP test. It's a 300point scale. The average eighth grader to 12th grader goes up one point from a you know it depends on the subject but 233 to 234 four years later they don't learn anything.
29 August
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This is what tells us how to train: as the practical constraint on volume changes, so too does the appropriate tool.
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How much worse the climate crisis becomes depends on how many people publicly demand systemic change now.Their words
However worse the climate crisis gets now depends on how quickly society transforms. How quickly society transforms depends on how many people demand it.
26 August
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A country benefits from immigration in proportion to whether the people arriving are net contributors who assimilate.Their words
Immigration depends greatly on who immigrates. And a country benefits when the people who immigrate are net contributors to the society, and in most cases, that they assimilate with the local culture.
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11 August
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I think that if you imagine this spectrum, it seems in some ways pretty scary to get to a point where like all of the labor is on the like fiduciary side of the spectrum where like it doesn't whistleblow, it does exactly what you say and whatever like our society is maybe just not robust to that
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The fastest-growing political movement in America is dead-set on stopping the construction of data centers, which are critical to the growth of the fastest-growing industry in America.
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27 July
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it's it's literally we're looking at neurons in the model's brain that light up when prompt injection happens. So the model won't even tell you but we can actually see those neurons and we can figure out and diagnose that it's happening. And then you combine that with the auto mode classifier and with these three layers we just cannot demonstrate prompt injection anymore.
30 June
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Today's level of city living depends on cheap fossil fuels and is unlikely to survive without them.Their words
However, in our non-ideal biophysical reality, present levels of urbanism are unlikely to be sustainable without cheap fossil fuels, and the human cost of that could be horrific unless we address it urgently.
23 June
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Unhappiness is the product of the number of times per minute that you believe circumstances should be otherwise.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com
16 June
From one piece Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Therefore, by popular demand, the people want more nepotism because the system depends on it.
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And so his power base was fragile vis-a-vis untruth. And for him because of the specific shape of his power and then the specific way he handled his contradictions, that did hurt him.
4 June
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Something like the relational sector, which is what I defined as, um, you know, basically services and goods where the fact that the human was in the loop was actually part of the value of that product.
18 May
13 May
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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.
9 May
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The necessary tax rates depend on how big a government you want, but all these systems rely on people paying taxes.
7 May
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the reviewer is the principal, the contributor is the agent, and code review only worked because the reviewer could cheaply infer effort from reading the code. Agents collapse that signal.
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20 March
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So, you you can't look at any given scientific achievement purely in isolation and give it an objective grade without being aware of the context both in the the past and the future. And so it it it may never be something that you can just reinforcement learn the same way that that you can for much sort of more localized problems.
19 March
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Anything that you're maintaining over the longer term, the code quality does start really really mattering.
12 February
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Second, technologies and market structure are contextual, where the US can't simply emulate China's manufacturing.
25 January
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Um all almost all companies have a whole lot more uh cancellation in the first day, 30 days, 90 days, depends, right? But the first period than the whole rest of the customer's life. And also small changes in the onboarding can have large effects on cancellation.
10 January
12 December 2025
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Because not having religion does not mean not having law or morality or sensitivity or consideration or love or any of those things. None of those things depends on religion, and those are the things which are important.
18 November 2025
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The effectiveness of a plot twist depends on how carefully a story's point of view relates to its audience.Their words
Point of view is essential for effective twists. Contrast Frozen with Fight Club, where the narrator's unreliability works because the entire story flows through his perspective and he maintains a direct relationship with the audience through fourth-wall breaks.
Frozen's Lie: How a Tiny Detail Can Ruin a Storynateliason.com
16 November 2025
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Computer hardware performance depends on hardware, software, and tuning together, not hardware alone.Their words
You need all three stages to reach the highest, and most competitive, performance.
19 October 2025
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A government's political legitimacy depends on providing a fair, merit-based channel for social advancement.Their words
One possible reading of the last century or so of political history in China, therefore, is that governments who provide a meritocratic channel for social advancement have legitimacy and popular support, and governments who do not provide one, do not.
24 July 2025
28 May 2025
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You should not try to create a ladder that functions as a pure checklist or scorecard that guarantees promotion if people check enough boxes; promotions are as much about the needs of the organization as the skills of the employees.
6 April 2025
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Innovation depends on being near the factory floor; you cannot improve what is thirty hours of travel away.Their words
When the factory floor is down the hall, instead of 30 hours of travel away, it’s easier to make improvements and invent.
3 February 2025
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Distillation is standard practice in industry. Whether or not, if you're at a closed lab where you care about terms of service and IP closely, you distill from your own models.
19 January 2025
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Whether a company hires sales or growth first is decided by how it collects money, not by how big it is.Their words
It depends on how you're actually going to collect the money. If your money collection is going to happen through sales team primarily, then you absolutely should be hiring sales way before growth.
6 January 2025
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Ultimately, the only thing that matters is if you think the writing is good, not how much effort I put into it.
22 December 2024
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But here's the problem with all of those proposals is they all need something. The thing you added, the little fictional term you added into the equations is something called exotic matter and it doesn't exist. It's really just something we dreamed up to make the equation to do what we wanted them to do.
20 December 2024
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o3's improvement over the GPT series proves that architecture is everything. You couldn't throw more compute at GPT-4 and get these results. Simply scaling up the things we were doing from 2019 to 2023 -- take the same architecture, train a bigger version on more data -- is not enough.
OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pubarcprize.org
9 December 2024
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Understanding the future depends more on imagination and a clear theory of change than on analytical skill alone.Their words
I do not believe that analytical skills are the missing ingredient in thinking about the future. Rather, I believe that imagination about the future and a theory of change that helps to describe it clearly, are what is needed to look ahead in a more compelling way.
17 October 2024
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The only way you can make H2FC cars look cheaper than BEVs is to underestimate or ignore the cost of hydrogen production and infrastructure, socialise it, and then load the entire cost of grid build-out onto the marginal BEV.
11 October 2024
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Neurosymbolic AI — combining such machinery with neural networks – is likely a necessary condition for going forward.
27 September 2024
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Earning more is an outer game you do not control; wanting less is an inner game you do.Their words
Making money depends on other people, so it's harder. It's not entirely under your control. It's an outer game.
13 June 2024
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A theory of reality that cannot name the question it is answering is not worth building.Their words
It’s totally fine to have a turtle. Everyone has a turtle. You can’t build a theory without a turtle. It depends on the problem you want to describe. Actually, the reason I can’t get behind Stephen’s ontology is I don’t know what question he’s trying to answer. Without a question to answer, I don’t understand why you’re building a theory of reality.
25 April 2024
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Europe is mortal — it can die, and whether it does depends entirely on choices Europeans make now.Their words
My message today is simple. Paul Valéry said, at the end of the First World War, that we now know that our civilizations are mortal. We must be clear on the fact that our Europe, today, is mortal. It can die. It can die, and that depends entirely on our choices. But these choices must be made now.
22 April 2024
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Sometimes people think that complexity or life or whatever is fighting against the second law of thermodynamics, fighting against the increase of entropy. That is precisely the wrong way to think about it. We are surfers riding the wave of increasing entropy. We rely on increasing entropy to survive.
13 March 2024
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Therefore, land sparing is more likely to take place, even at the local level, when yields of staples go up. The situation is different for some internationally traded products like soy and palm oil.
5 February 2024
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High-quality data collection depends more on careful human execution than on machine learning techniques alone.Their words
Lots of ML techniques in the post can help with data quality, but fundamentally human data collection involves attention to details and careful execution.
10 January 2024
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Grinding raises output briefly while destroying the creativity and big-picture thinking the work depends on.Their words
The reality is that grinding, even if it temporarily increases output, kills creativity and big picture thinking.
7 January 2024
3 January 2024
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Specialized suppliers need multiple shipyards in one location to steady their business.
9 December 2023
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wherever in the world can be found the cheapest assemblage of land, labour, energy and capital to produce a given food commodity, that will be a preferential site of its production.
7 December 2023
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Whether calling for the genocide of a group breaches a university's harassment policy genuinely depends on context.Their words
If you think the question “is calling for the genocide of a group against your policy” is an easy question with a one-word answer, you’re wrong.
Stop Demanding Dumb Answers To Hard Questionspopehat.substack.com
10 June 2023
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Whether one does find a good spouse or not depends more on one's orientation towards actually building relationships, and whether they can identify non-trivial traits in a partner that would contribute to that.
11 April 2023
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In the long run, the best stuff is basically all that matters, and the bad stuff doesn’t matter at all.
19 December 2022
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