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From one piece The Scaling and Profitability Trade off: Venture Capital’s Weakest Link! 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the median venture capitalist has not been much better at harvesting alpha than the median mutual fund manager or PE investor
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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.
25 August
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An investor's starting point should be the portfolio that is best to hold independent of any tactical market viewTheir words
it’s better to have a portfolio that can handle stocks whether they are overvalued or not
Why I Was Wrong to Be Bearish on U.S. Stocksofdollarsanddata.com
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30 July
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So we've always told computer scientists from the very beginning that really it's really important to specify what it is, what's the software that you're writing is trying to accomplish before then going and writing it. And so now we actually have agent-based systems that can do the writing, but the importance of specifying what what it is you want has actually gone up because before you'd be handing it off to a very intelligent human who maybe has context or can ask you follow-up questions.
28 July
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Refusing to commit is the right strategy inside a portfolio and the wrong one everywhere else in life.Their words
In investing, non-commitment leads to better than average outcomes for the typical investor.
27 July
From one piece Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And what's interesting is that the model is actually a little bit more intelligent without these prompts.
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Like this is actually like a new form of test time compute. Like when we talk about the scaling laws and kind of we talk about the model getting more intelligent over time, historically, it's been a function of the size of the neural net, the amount of training data, and the number of flops that you put in to the training. And then recently, we also added test time compute. So this is essentially a fancy way a researcher way of saying how many tokens does it generate. And now dynamic workflows are essentially a new way to orchestrate test time compute.
24 July
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Calling an intelligent, self-aware being legal property does not resolve whether it has an interest in freedom.Their words
But it recognizes that calling an intelligent, self-aware, emotionally complex being "property" does not answer the question of whether that being has an interest in freedom.
“KEY OUT”: When a Chimpanzee Asks to Be Freeboldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com
14 July
13 July
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When you look at these investigations, the reason this happens is, you know, these are very responsible, very intelligent parents who will, you know, put their child in the car and then get in the car and then you just get in this mode of I'm going to work. I'm going to do my job and you're in this routine.
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22 June
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New research reveals that the higher women's IQs, the less they're liked-and the more they're undermined by coworkers.
10 June
9 June
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the investor community writ large has slowly become aware of and believes it strongly in increasing returns and power laws. And so over time, if they all believe that, they're going to be more willing to invest on the come and take risk.
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know your goal or suffer a death by a thousand compromises. Because what I had done my whole career and most of us do is compromise to get that next engineer, CTO, investor. You put a jerk on your board because you impressed with their firm name and the valuation and all your friends are going to be impressed and it's going to be so much easier. We make all these compromises and contort ourselves and eventually we wake up and it's company we don't want to work at.
1 June
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The average restaurant in NYC is, at this point, stupidly optimized, backed by wealthy investors, coated in impeccable branding.
Utopia is a particular restaurant in Brooklynsashachapin.substack.com
15 May
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For a New LibertyTheir words
This is the chapter that has literally converted thousands of highly intelligent, economically informed people to anarcho-capitalism.
13 May
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The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder.Their words
I mean, you could argue that we we're already past peak truth on the on the on the internet, right? And now there's there's just more and more garbage every every day. It gets harder and harder to suss out the stuff that you do want to include in the training set in order to actually make something more intelligent.
10 May
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corporations, organizations are the oldest form of artificial intelligence on the planet. They are an example of this emergent intelligence.
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An investor's starting point should be the portfolio that is best to hold independent of any tactical market viewTheir words
I think everyone’s starting point for investing should be to know and be in the portfolio that is best to have, independent of any tactical views of the markets.
15 December 2025
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That's a really intelligent way place to land because what they will do is woo you with their enthusiasm and then take you down a rabbit hole where you will spend years of your life and have nothing to show.
3 December 2025
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If you are an investor who considers any highly priced company to be overvalued, I hope that this post leads you to reconsider.
26 September 2025
From one piece Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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then we're entering the age of design where because our AIs are designed our our our all of our physical objects are designed our buildings are designed our technology is designed and we're we're designing now uh AIs things that can be intelligent themselves and that are themselves capable of design
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For me, having a goal is the essence of intelligence
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14 June 2025
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so the mathematical community plural is incredibly super intelligent entity that no single human mathematician can come closer to replicating.
2 June 2025
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I had always thought that all "Intelligent Investing" is "Value Investing". And that true value is always sustainable. In otherh words, "All Intelligent Finance is Sustainable Finance."
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19 February 2025
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Don’t base your life choices on whether parents and teachers constantly tell you that you’re “smart.” They’re not trustworthy assessors of your intelligence.
22 December 2024
From one piece Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The hard steps model of intelligent life is suspect: none of the steps it names turn out to be hard.Their words
But what we actually found was that none of those are actually hard. The whole idea of hard steps, that there are hard steps, is actually suspect. What's amazing about this model is it shows how important it is to actually work with people who are in the field.
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Life is going to be common in the universe; the genuinely open question is how long technological civilisations last.Their words
Intelligent life and how long intelligent, technological civilizations, I think there's a big question about how long those last. And I'm hopeful, but in terms of just, I think life is absolutely going to be common, pretty common in the universe.
28 November 2024
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More capable AI agents are more likely to find and exploit flaws in their reward functions.Their words
A more intelligent agent is more capable of finding "holes" in the design of reward function and exploiting the task specification-in other words, achieving higher proxy rewards but lower true rewards.
Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learninglilianweng.github.io
25 October 2024
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The Intelligent InvestorTheir words
He has been a confidant of Buffett and Munger, a co-author with Daniel Kahneman, an editor on two revised editions of Ben Graham’s masterpiece The Intelligent Investor, considered to be the best book on investing ever written.
19 October 2024
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Constant market connectivity has made disciplined, independent investing harder than ever before.Their words
Thanks to today's incessantly twitchy, infinitely networked markets, it has never been harder to be a disciplined and independent investor.
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Creating entities as intelligent as ourselves is dangerous, because intelligence is what makes an entity dangerousTheir words
It goes: intelligence makes entities dangerous, which is why humans are the dominant species on Earth.
25 May 2024
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I don’t think we’ve replicated human intelligence, unless I know that the simulator is making exactly the same kinds of mistakes that people do, because people make characteristic mistakes. They have characteristic biases, they have characteristic heuristics that we use, and those have yet to see evidence that ChatGPT will do that.
22 April 2024
From one piece Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #428 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This is the 2001 monolith hypothesis. I would be less surprised to find a quiescent alien artifact in our solar system than I would to catch a radio signal from an intelligent civilization.
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And rather than trying to ask, how close is it to being a human-like intelligent, we should appreciate it for what its capabilities are, and that will both be more accurate and help us put it to work and protect us from the dangers better rather than always anthropomorphizing it.
12 March 2024
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OpalTheir words
I love this camera (disclaimer: I’m an investor) and it got me a long way, but eventually I upgraded
20 February 2024
From one piece Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #413 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The most difficult analysis to do as an investor is that, is kind of figuring out how wide is the moat, how much at risk is the business to disruption? And we're in, I would say, the greatest period of disruptability in history.
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So as long as you don't borrow against securities, you own really high quality businesses and it's not money that you need in the short term, then you can actually be thoughtful about it.
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1 October 2023
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A simple understanding of coalitions, political competition, and limited resources will bring you rather quickly to the conclusion that intelligent liberal elites can screw up their colonies pretty badly and in ways that can persist for decades or centuries.
29 June 2023
From one piece George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The problem is if you go back to 1960 and you tell them that you have a machine that can play amazing chess, of course someone in 1960 will tell you that machine is intelligent. Someone in 2010 won’t. What’s changed? Today, we think that these machines that have language are intelligent, but I think in 20 years we’re going to be like, yeah, but can it reproduce?
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But the real thing that I want is not something that like tab completes my code and gives me ideas. The real thing that I want is a very intelligent pair programmer that comes up with a little popup saying, “Hey, you wrote a bug on line 14 and here’s what it is.”
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The Essays of Warren BuffettTheir words
Packed with decades of wit and wisdom from the world's most famous investor, this collection makes the Oracle of Omaha accessible to everyone.
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The Intelligent Asset AllocatorTheir words
If you want to know which book made me fall in love with investing, then check out The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein.
9 August 2022
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A run of correct forecasts is not evidence of expertise, because among many forecasters some are right by chance.Their words
I may have I may be an investor. I have a track record of calling the market right in the last five times. People say, "Wow, he really knows what he's talking about." But there are lots of people who are trying to predict which way the market is going to go. And some of them are going to get it right by chance. And people assume it's because they know what they're what they're doing, and in fact they're just the lucky ones.
1 June 2022
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Sovereign debt markets (and many other markets as well) are subject to sudden stops in which investors either drop out or ask for large spreads even in the absence of large changes in fundamentals.
22 February 2022
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many of the smartest people I know are super insecure and risk averse.
5 November 2019
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To make deliberate progress towards more intelligent and more human-like artificial systems, we need to be following an appropriate feedback signal: we need to be able to define and evaluate intelligence in a way that enables comparisons between two systems, as well as comparisons with humans.
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