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The case for building AGI has always been framed around invention, such as curing cancer or solving fusion energy.Their words
The narrative around why building AGI was a good idea has always been about invention -- "it will cure cancer", "it will solve fusion energy", etc.
4 September
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It looks to me like OpenAI’s sandbox for this agent suffered from the (quite naïve) assumption that GET requests cannot be used to update data. That’s certainly how the web is supposed to work, but clearly there are applications that don’t hold to that contract.
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Applying scale-first, profit-later to every business is a cookbook that turns small failures into big ones.Their words
Any investor or founder who blindly follows the pathway of scaling first and profiting later for every business is using a cookbook approach to business building, and runs the risk of making small failures into big ones.
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The Selfish GeneTheir words
Having an interest in genetics and molecular biology, I was completely enchanted by the narrative.
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Design is about making things meaningful and memorable: get the idea right and the form follows from it.Their words
always focus on making things meaningful and memorable. And I think the heart of that is have a good idea and then the form will follow.
11 August
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence ProgrammingTheir words
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig. Learning the AI described in this book probably won't land you a job today. But reading the code examples will transform how you think about source code. The book shines when it comes to code comments, a topic that I've never seen demonstrated well in other sources. Here we get to see how comments become valuable as a narrative that explains both intent and reasoning. Brilliant, just brilliant.
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The evidence would show that and it makes perfect sense that AI and automation is creating jobs everywhere. The narrative about AI destroying jobs is exactly backwards. AI eliminate tasks. AI automates tasks away. But it doesn't necessary doesn't necessarily eliminate jobs.
14 July
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Glorious CountryTheir words
I loved this historical biography of America's greatest landscape painter, and not just because I have an intense personal interest in Church. Johnson's writing is luminously beautiful, her assiduous research never impedes the narrative, and the illustrations are spectacular.
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Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard ChoicesTheir words
His narrative of the development of decision-making research over the past half-century is rich with personal anecdotes, gentle humor, continuous learning, and profound humility about how prone we all are to misjudge and misunderstand risks.
9 July
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So if you do a pure chronological feed, the incentive for everybody is to just post as much as possible uh because it will always be at the top of everyone who follows you's feed as soon as you post.
22 June
From one piece There Are More than Five POVs 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A first-person 'I' narrator and a collective 'we' narrative voice produce dramatically different narrative effects.Their words
Narratively, there is a dramatic difference between an "I" narrator and a collective "we" narrative voice.
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The traditional five-part POV taxonomy is organized around grammatical person rather than narrative effect.Their words
It's not that the categories are wrong exactly. But they are rooted more in grammar than narrative.
18 June
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The Great WhenTheir words
It is an epic tale full of rogues and reprobates. The story is excellent even though the plot follows a fairly basic structure. Although set up to be a series, it is a satisfying stand-alone tale.
16 June
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A human life has no overall narrative arc, so nothing is lost by refusing to see it as a story that needs an ending.Their words
But there’s no overall narrative arc—it’s just been one thing after another.
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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.
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Explicit signals like follows and subscriptions are as brittle and hard to maintain as manually tuned filter rules.Their words
Following and subscribing are heavyweight signals, and thus suffer from the same problem of manually tuning rules and filters.
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The practical instruction that follows from the research is simple and hard to do: listen and read a great deal.Their words
The practical takeaway from SLA research is both simple and demanding: you need to listen and read a lot.
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that was the most brilliant thing because by doing the hardest thing first once you launch that everything else is downhill from there
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Everybody thinks our schools are in crisis all the time because they’re being forced to do something they were never meant to do, which is to make everyone college-ready, and they’re being forced to do that because we have seen jobs that provide a living wage without a college diploma evaporate.
14 January
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there are no cliches in actual human life. Cliché is an aspect of narrative, and life is not a narrative.
13 January
From one piece The Agrarian Fall 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Over the past three decades, scholars have identified a massive, unexplained gap in the timeline between the first domestication of crops and the emergence of the first agrarian states, complicating the narrative popularized by authors like Harari and Diamond.
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But the "Fall" into agriculture turns out to be a much more nuanced-and jagged-story than the standard account would have it.
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Though written accessibly, Segerstrale’s narrative rewards repeat reading, because it is so dense with historical detail that remains relevant today.
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Austria 1867-1955Their words
John Boyer’s Austria 1867-1955 offers parts of the answer, though not in a conceptually organized way. It’s a work of history written for specialists, which means that the narrative serves the footnotes rather than the other way around.
28 December 2025
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PlaygroundTheir words
Playground by Richard Powers is a strange and wonderful novel set (mostly) on a remote atoll in French Polynesia that follows the tangled lives of an environmental advocate, a sculptor, a tech entrepreneur, and a brilliant bookworm trying to escape the grinding poverty of Chicago's South Side. The richly drawn characters drive the story, but what I love most about the book is that it's a love letter to the ocean with prose that comes closer than anything else I've read to capturing what it feels like to, for example, dive a thriving coral reef.
14 December 2025
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The DoorTheir words
The Door by Magda Szabo: My all-around favorite. Addicting, deeply charming, devastating. A protagonist I'll never forget.
31 October 2025
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Because I always thought that the games were kind of a mathematical equation. They were the personality of the world, you know, multiplied or divided by the personality of the protagonist.
30 September 2025
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The one muscle worth training is self-discipline; once that is trained, everything else follows by itself.Their words
I think the main muscle you can exercise is this muscle, the muscle of self-discipline. Not your biceps or your pecs or anything else. Because if you get to train that one, everything else just comes by itself.
10 June 2025
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A true artificial general intelligence cannot exist without being recognized as a moral subject.Their words
It follows that a true AGI with full, human-level autonomy is inconceivable in the Kantian sense without also gaining our recognition as a moral subject.
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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And this is why I say that history doesn’t repeat itself. Of course it doesn’t. It can’t possibly repeat itself because we’re always living in a constantly evolving time. But patterns of human behaviour do. And what you always get after economic crisis is political upheaval, always, always, always.
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And so, one of the reasons why you have this narrative that Britain was a bit rubbish and hanging on the shirttails of the Americans and all the blood was spilt in eastern front and Germany had the best army in the world and was only defeated because Hitler was mad and blah, blah, blah, that kind of traditional narrative, that narrative emerges through the prism of what was going on in the 1970s and what was going on in the 1980s and the changing world, rather than looking at it through the prism of the late 1930s or early 1940s.
23 March 2025
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I always say the same thing when it comes to pricing, which is before you figure out pricing, you must first figure out positioning.
3 February 2025
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I think that they're trying to shift the narrative. They're trying to protect themselves. We saw this years ago when ByteDance was actually banned from some OpenAI APIs for training on outputs. There's other AI startups that most people, if you're in the AI culture, were like they just told us they trained on OpenAI outputs and they never got banned.
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A glut follows every semiconductor shortage.
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Every Hand RevealedTheir words
A hand-by-hand narrative of Professional poker player Gus Hansen winning the 2007 Aussie Millions tournament.
7 October 2024
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The Big ShortTheir words
the Big Short is a dramatization of a gang of outsiders (and insiders who are presented as outsiders for narrative convenience, a theme Lewis will return to frequently, not always with self-awareness) who correctly predict the mechanism and course of the global financial crisis.
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The Phoenix ProjectTheir words
The Phoenix Project is actually assigned at some infrastructure companies, because the narrative makes the pedagogy about project management go down more easily.
31 August 2024
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Moon's KnightTheir words
Mind candy portal fantasy, in which Our Protagonist's struggles to escape back to Mundania are rather complicated by her growing recognition that her life there sucked, actually, and maybe fighting strange beasts and stranger people isn't so bad in comparison...
13 June 2024
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Or is it really that we’re building some super machine in a box that’s going to be smart and kill everybody? It’s not even a science fiction narrative. It’s a bad science fiction narrative. I just don’t think it’s actually accurate to any of the technologies we’re building or the way that we should be describing them.
22 March 2024
From one piece Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy | Lex Fridman Podcast #420 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You don’t wind up as STRATCOM commander unless you are someone who follows orders. You follow orders.
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Now, does that mean that every UFO sighting in the world has been a U-2? No, but I come from it from that lane of thinking, and there are so many strategic deception campaigns, and as I look over the decades of how these same UFO stories, and again, this is just my opinion based on my reporting, this narrative that keeps reoccurring, it seems to me like a very large catch- all to keep the public’s attention on that, not on that.
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First millions, then tens of millions, then hundreds of millions of people will die in the first 72 minutes of a nuclear war. And then, comes nuclear winter where the billions happen from starvation.
22 February 2024
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HeadshotTheir words
Rita Bullwinkel follows up her excellent and weird story collection Belly Up with a knockout punch of a debut
12 January 2024
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The Past That Would Not DieTheir words
by Walter Lord is a riveting, must read narrative nonfiction thriller about James Meredith’s brave and bold campaign to integrate Ole Miss in 1962.
12 January 2023
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