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AI turns people who are bad at their jobs into people who are good at their jobs, for better and worse.Their words
AI, for both better and worse, turns Bad At Job into Good At Job, making it less relevant that the humans are Bad At Job via doing the things.
12 September
7 September
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I agree with Jakub that alignment is not a side problem, it is the central problem, if you ‘solved alignment’ in the relevant senses the rest becomes easy and if you don’t the rest is impossible or worse
4 September
3 September
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open sourceAnthropicOpenAIChina
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in this whole USA vs China thing OpenAI and Anthropic aren't relevant because they're positioned differently them building better models doesn't hurt china at all the competitor has to be - american - open source - enough compute to do inference at scale that can shift things
20 August
15 August
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Being part of a package that worked does not make a component causal, or even relevant.Their words
Being included in a successful package does not make something causal.
5 August
3 August
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The 1930s U.S. Dust Bowl heat wave was caused by destructive farming practices rather than fossil-fuel emissions.Their words
The relevant human activity was not fossil-fuel combustion but bad farming practices that contributed to the Dust Bowl.
17 July
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Modern technology has made seasonal clock changes far less burdensome than they were decades ago.Their words
the main relevant difference between 1974 and now is that technology handles clock changes on our behalf, so time changes are less burdensome than they used to be.
15 July
From one piece Context engineering with Dex Horthy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think context engineering has been so long lived because it's it's grounded in the fundamentals of how transformer attention works and until we have post transformer models or linear attention or whatever it is which who knows when that's going to happen context engineering will be interesting and important to anyone building on AI
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You're not actually getting a like smarter model. like the intelligence of the model is is what drives its ability to attend to all of the tokens in the context window to figure out on the next turn which parts of this 100k or 200k context window are the most relevant to making the decision of like what is the next tool we call and doing that over and over again in a loop.
13 July
12 July
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If you run a two-sided marketplace, you’ll find contra Hayek that not all knowledge is local.
9 July
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power shifting from institutions to individuals across industries, the easiest example is sports where players are more relevant than teams now.
1 July
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Likedrcmnd.app
So You Want to Own Greenland?Their words
A useful and dispassionate overview of the relevant history and issues.
30 June
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I feel like a relevant insight in learning was um recognizing that like who matters more than what. So, like advice to any college student when they're choosing what courses to take. Uh, care a little bit less about your pre-existing interests because they're kind of arbitrary right now. and care a little bit more about whether like the person teaching it is a good educator and someone you resonate with.
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a more relevant metric in the long term is the cost, not the efficiency, of food production methods at sustainable levels of energetic and material throughput.
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Replication earns its place even in a small system, because what it buys is fault tolerance rather than scale.Their words
And uh replication is still relevant even at smaller scales because that's for fault tolerance, that's not for scalability.
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TSMC will never throw Apple off its leading node; Apple will simply stop mattering enough for TSMC to cater to it.Their words
and so I don't think TSMC would kick out Apple. I think Apple will become a smaller and smaller and smaller percentage of TSMC's revenue and therefore be less relevant for TSMC to cater to their demands.
12 February
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Tariffs on imported components and machinery hurt the American manufacturers they are supposed to help.Their words
These end manufacturers (new and old) are vulnerable to tariffs on their inputs and they are the buyers that the "speed strategy" is relevant for.
7 January
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The Mythical Man-MonthTheir words
If you could only read one computer science book, this would be it. Almost fifty years old, it’s as relevant as ever. I promise you’ll nod your head as Brooks skewers mistakes that engineering leaders continue to make to this day.
1 January
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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.
28 December 2025
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Player of GamesTheir words
The Player of Games by Ian M. Banks is about a champion board-game player who gets roped into an espionage operation infiltrating an alien culture where political power is determined by the outcome of a uniquely complex strategy game. Set in a far-future human civilization run by a constellation of (mostly) benevolent and inscrutable AIs, Banks's science fiction is more relevant than ever.
7 December 2025
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Promoting a cause builds audience loyalty.Their words
When you have a Cause you promote - whether relevant to your listeners' lives or work or sense of self, you have loyalty.
5 November 2025
15 August 2025
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You you also don't know like in order to make that money back, you have to then operate that plant at that capacity for 20 years, right? And if I was looking at the same charts as they're looking at right now, I'd say what are the odds that in 25 years time we can produce gas turbines at a price that is relevant in a world where solar is already at its current price and batteries at a price where they're already like you cannot win.
2 August 2025
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Close to the MachineTheir words
Ellen Ullman's Close to the Machine is a memoir I couldn't believe I hadn't read earlier. Many of her observations about engineering culture feel as relevant today as when she was a programmer in the 1980s
30 June 2025
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Rough DiamondsTheir words
If these topics are relevant to your interests, you should absolutely jump on this.
19 June 2024
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In Google, even though we call it 10 blue links, you get annoyed if you don’t even have the right link in the first three or four. The eye is so tuned to getting it right. LLMs are fine. You get the right link maybe in the 10th or ninth. You feed it in the model. It can still know that that was more relevant than the first.
12 February 2024
1 September 2023
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So if you think about entire all of nature, let's say all of living systems as a matrix that runs across two axes one is material sophistication, which is terribly relevant for designers, and the other is communication. The termites ace on communication, but their material sophistication is crap.
12 August 2023
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Their words, before
Reading the book had not changed my fundamental belief that, in balance, we were on a good trajectory with AI research: good for science and good for society with expected positive impacts in many domains.
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I now believe that I was wrong and short-sighted to ignore that dual-use nature. I also think I was not paying enough attention to the possibility of losing control to superhuman AIs.
23 April 2023
From one piece Some mistakes I made as a new manager 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People with little experience at a task often welcome a degree of close oversight, provided it is given thoughtfully.Their words
People with low task-relevant maturity appreciate some amount of micromanagement (if they're self-aware and you're nice about it).
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Manage projects according to the owner's level of task-relevant maturity.
1 January 2023
21 November 2022
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Inner Game of TennisTheir words
But The Inner Game of Tennis is just as relevant today as it was in 1974.
1 June 2022
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Their words
The analysis in this chapter has shown that there is no such thing as a universal threshold over which debt becomes unsustainable, and that the relevant debt level depends on many factors, in particular the real interest rate on debt.
20 February 2022
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