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people who believe they control their lives do better on almost EVERYTING. even people dealt a genuinely terrible hand do better believing it. never perceive yourself as a victim ... even if victimhood is true. turns out agency always wins.
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Believing that Trump might yet help Ukraine is not harmless optimism: it is part of a manoeuvre that buys Putin time.Their words
In other words, it is not harmless optimism to act like Trump might help Ukraine, it is falling for a deadly, pro-Putin maneuver that is and will increasingly lead to Ukrainian suffering.
13 July
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And actually, more recent research shows that those who have a positive attitude live longer, they're less likely to develop dementia.
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3 August 2025
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But I don’t claim you should always maximize the good, no matter the self-sacrifice, and no matter what means are involved.
16 July 2025
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1929, and man, history does rhyme. Too much leverage, too much risk. Everyone thinks it's going to be great. No one thinks it's going to go down a lot.
7 June 2025
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Worse, as the latest Apple papers shows, LLMs may well work on your easy test set (like Hanoi with 4 discs) and seduce you into thinking it has built a proper, generalizable solution when it does not.
31 August 2024
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Believing that inspiration outweighs everything else is, I suspect, a sign that someone is unfamiliar with the medium.
21 May 2024
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It's time for the field to stop attributing benefits to clinical experience. Beyond the obvious ethical concerns, doing so actually prevents us from improving our effectiveness!
13 March 2024
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Claims to the contrary could lead to a misallocation of investments and, consequently, worse environmental (and social) outcomes.
4 March 2024
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So, imagine under those conditions and context that someone is persecuting ethnic Russians or Russian speakers. One, to believe in something like that, one important precondition is never to step your foot in Ukraine.
3 December 2023
From one piece Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The lesson of the LHC is a cautionary one: you must not assume what is there before it has actually been found.Their words
I’d say for humanity, it’s both a tribute to the ability of discovery and the ability of really believing in things so that you have the confidence to go look for them, but it’s also a cautionary tale that you don’t want to assume things before they’ve been actually found.
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I think the weird thing about being a scientist or an academic in general is you have to believe really strongly what you do while questioning it all the time. That’s a hard balance to have.
19 May 2023
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Building more housing in a city raises its local prices, because density is what people are moving there for.Their words, before
So empirically, as you move along the density spectrum from the empty North Dakota plain to Manhattan, housing prices go up.
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Although it wasn't a mistake to ask people to change my mind, I've mostly updated against believing the theory.
20 February 2022
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