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3 September
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The people being worried is in and of itself a problem for jobs.
31 August
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The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from HistoryTheir words
It is a quick read, an excellent book whose main virtue is not, in my opinion, direct analogy with the World War I, but a treatment of how in a multipolar world relatively small international events, misunderstandings, idiosyncratic fits of leaders, “hubris and fear” (as Westad often writes), resentment of the elite and of the public prodded by the media, can produce colossal miscalculations which then produce even more colossal wars and, in the era of the weapons of mass destruction, may end the civilization.
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27 August
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Don't expect a response to an AI-written email, or a templated email. I get it, you think it's a numbers game: send a tweaked email out to 100 podcasts, and hope that at least one replies. In reality, by playing the same game as everyone else does, you are assisting to the noise, and end up drowning yourself in it as well.
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But the problem of nuclear today is like the Toyota Camry problem, right? Like we don't want to make Lamborghinis. We want to make a very simple, very cheap, very safe reactor that we can make literally tens of thousands of. Um and actually that is going to make the cheapest energy in the world, right?
14 August
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Defunding the police is incompatible with a mass movement in a society where people want police protection.Their words
Zohran now understands how "defund" is incompatible with a mass movement in a society where the masses want protection by the police.
7 August
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Mass-produced AI-generated podcast shows are not a major threat to podcasting because listeners do not like them.Their words
I don't think mass-produced AI-generated shows are a big threat to podcasting, mostly because I don't think consumers like them.
4 June
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I think in some ways like one of the worst scenarios is a drip scenario because of the political economy piece. Right? Because like you know, people essentially what you what you might see is like people not really being unemployed in mass, but kind of like moving into sectors that pay them less money, kind of basically getting uh what happened with phone operators in in in the mid-century of the of the between 1920 and 1940, phone operators were completely automated, right? But it took 20 years even though the technology existed.
24 May
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But the like mass unemployment thing I think that like some AI CEOs are talking about like I think that's not going to happen.
8 May
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At even $500/kg, launch cost is only 5% of the total satellite deployment cost, so a lunar mass driver is unlikely to drastically improve the economics of space-based AI, by reducing launch costs.
25 April
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As the software industry is largely driven by trends and fashion, React's "cool factor" led to a mass amnesia regarding how to make normal, well-designed web apps made of HTML with a sprinkling of scripting on top and everything became one big tangled, brittle mass of Javascript that completely keeled over when scripting wasn't available.
10 March
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Beyond the scale of a neighborhood or maybe a college town, cars and mass transit are substitutes for each other.
12 February
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The modern world is so bountiful that mass production is no longer the limiting factor.
23 January
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Over-indexing on small daily improvements causes a business to miss bigger, more impactful opportunities.Their words
if you over-index on the idea of small improvements, then you stop seeing the pivotal, critical mass movements that you might make.
6 January
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When most people expect a top-five-per-cent outcome, mass disappointment is guaranteed.Their words
But when a majority of people expect a top 5% outcome the result is guaranteed mass disappointment.
28 December 2025
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Jurassic ParkTheir words
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a surprisingly weird and weirdly underrated novel given how many copies it sold and the popularity of the blockbuster franchise it spawned. The story weaves together many apparently disparate threads and there are extensive speculative digressions into the biotechnology, business interests, and institutional dynamics that make the park possible and its dissolution inevitable. If the movie is supremely entertaining, the book is supremely thought-provoking.
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The Spy Who Came in From the ColdTheir words
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré is a perfect espionage novel: tight, taught, twisty, and thought-provoking. Le Carré brings the subtle machinations of intelligence operations to vivid life, illustrating their geopolitical ramifications and human cost with equal care.
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All five mass extinctions were ultimately climate change — the climate shifting faster than life could adapt to it.Their words
There are five recognized mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth, and all of them are ultimately some form of climate change. Whether it's volcanic eruptions or hyper-oxygenation, or an ice age or whatever, it's climate changing too quickly for things to adapt to.
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If a new monetary network with its own unit (i.e. not pegged to an existing currency as a credit rail on top of it, but rather a fully parallel system to central banks) is going to bootstrap from zero to massive, it requires upward volatility.
28 May 2025
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Drug offenders never accounted for a particularly large fraction of the U.S. prison population, peaking at about 22 percent of state prisoners in 1990.
What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com
5 May 2025
From one piece Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The black hole is not the mass crushed to a point. The black hole is the event horizon. And the event horizon is really just a point in spacetime or a region at spacetime.
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So they’re flawless in the sense that you can completely understand a black hole by looking at just its electric charge, its mass and its spin. And every black hole with that charge mass and spin is identical to every other black hole.
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Science is agnostic about what it is used for: the same physics that explained why stars shine also built the bomb.Their words
And that’s what I mean by science is agnostic. Right? It’s the same technology overcoming a critical mass, igniting thermonuclear fusion.
30 December 2024
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The Best of TagoreTheir words
Some of his essays are thought-provoking. His reflections on education, nationalism, and other topics are not only stirring but also showcase literary brilliance. The man could write.
30 November 2024
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A kilometre-wide telescope assembled in space out of mass-produced mirror satellites would cost about what JWST cost.Their words
The same as JWST, only 150 times wider and 22000 times more sensitive.
It Is Time To Build The Monster Scopecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
3 May 2024
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The second is that producing semiconductors requires almost unfathomable levels of precision.
How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fabconstruction-physics.com
2 April 2024
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Bulk building materials are already mass-produced in factories, and are among the cheapest materials civilization is capable of producing.
4 March 2024
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And then guess what? A few years later, the Soviet Union collapses very much also thanks to the mobilization of people over the issue of Chernobyl and nuclear energy.
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Finite and Infinite GamesTheir words
So abstract. Maybe the most abstract book you’ll ever read. Compares “finite” games with rules and winners, versus “infinite” games without winners where we can play with the game itself. Is it about a job versus a calling? Religion versus spirituality? A story versus story-telling? Who knows. Thought-provoking if you can apply the metaphor to whatever concerns you.
1 October 2023
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A very dynamic economy probably will be very good at building lots of robots cheaply, which may make us more rather than less likely to end up in Malthusian dilemmas.
17 June 2023
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Slouching Towards UtopiaTheir words
Slouching Towards Utopia offers one thought-provoking answer to the question that is worth taking seriously, and integrating into your thinking.
6 June 2023
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The world spends an area larger than California growing under four per cent of its transport fuel.Their words
The world now uses a land mass larger than California to grow less than 4 percent of our transportation fuel.
A Climate Killer Disguised as a Climate Solutionmichaelgrunwald.substack.com
1 June 2023
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A world without mass child mortality does not have to be imagined, because rich countries are already living in it.Their words
I think we don’t have to imagine what a future could look like without this immense loss.
What does it mean when fewer people die?scientificdiscovery.dev
17 February 2023
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There were a bunch of bad trends: Tribalism was flaring up everywhere, mass shaming campaigns were roaring back into fashion, politicians were increasingly clown-like, public discourse had become a battle of one-dimensional narratives.
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All propulsion systems are air pumps, and they work more efficiently if they accelerate a large mass of air to a small overspeed than vice versa.
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
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25 January 2022
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we built that system and then we set it on autopilot um and it's been on autopilot for 100 years and here we are and it doesn't fit at all to the world we live in today.
9 November 2021
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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.
11 September 2021
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Falling fertility is transmitted by the values that mass media spread, not by how rich any individual is.Their words
It seems to be correlated strongly with societal (not individual) wealth, and mediated by norms transmitted via mass media.
20 July 2021
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The problem that companies like Apple need to solve is not preventing exploits forever, but a much simpler one: they need to screw up the economics of NSO-style mass exploitation.
A case against security nihilismblog.cryptographyengineering.com
1 February 2021
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Body fat is biologically regulated, so losing weight provokes a starvation response that pushes the weight back on.Their words
This is a phenomenon I call the “starvation response”, and it happens because body fat mass is biologically regulated.
28 October 2020
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Practically RadicalTheir words
Those who stick to the status quo will be left with average success at best. This book, by the one of the founders of Fast Company magazine, makes the case for this with some thought-provoking examples and stories.
4 June 2020
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Using history to understand our present is a great impulse, but it means some of the false myths we tell about the Black Death and Renaissance are doing new damage, one of the most problematic in my view being the idea that sitting back and letting COVID kill will somehow by itself naturally make the economy turn around and enter a period of growth and rising wages.
14 August 2019
From one piece Nota bene: Mass shootings 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Media coverage of mass violence functions as a socially acceptable outlet for anti-Trump sentiment.Their words
the media reaction to mass violence is in reality a sublimated and socially acceptable reaction to Trump.
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The more coverage that mass shootings receive, the more scared the country becomes.
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Mass shootings are a relatively small share of American gun deaths compared to other causes.Their words
Mass shootings are a relatively small phenomenon even by the standard of American gun deaths.
19 July 2019
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