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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  Letting go of the belief that grasping brings satisfaction makes a person happier but more alienated from others.

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  The more you drop this idea, the happier you are, and the more alien you feel.

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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.

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  Every digital service should present a single unified interface rather than multiple separate entry points.

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  It seems fine to keep coding in a separate area, obviously, but in general, we should have one box per service!

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American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.

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  The story we tell about a life is not the life itself; life exists only in the present moment.

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  The story of a life is not the life itself. Life is in the moment.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  Social media put public discourse in the hands of society's biggest assholes and idiots just as an alien superintelligence arrives.

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  Social media put our entire discourse in the hands of our society's biggest assholes and idiots, just in time for the arrival of an alien superintelligence

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Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.

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  Weaponized interdependence is a present reality in international affairs.

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  But the reality of weaponized interdependence is now all around us.

  Trade, Peace and Warpaulkrugman.substack.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  The Japanese sensitivity to impermanence known as mono no aware still shapes how present-day Japan appreciates cherry blossoms.

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  This concept is still alive in present-day Japan, where cherry blossoms are viewed with the bittersweet knowledge that their beauty lasts only for a short while.

  Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genjiastralcodexten.com

Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.

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  What drives glacial hazard risk is the rate of change in ice and permafrost, not the total amount of ice present.

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  Rather, what drives risks is how fast the ice and the frozen ground beneath the ice are changing.

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Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.

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  The same global average temperature can arise from greenhouse warming or from El Niño and still produce very different regional climate impacts.

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  The catch is that the future world that has been warmed by greenhouse gases and a present-day world that has been temporarily warmed by El Niño can have the same global-average temperature while having significant differences in the impacts of this warming.

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Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.

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  Because we do not have good alignment technology, we are choosing to build an alien mind with its own values and gamble on it instead of building a tool.

  AI alignment

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  we are making a trade-off where because we don't have very good alignment technology. We are going to like make an alien mind with its own values and then gamble on that to some extent rather than doing this other approach of making like a tool that pursues individual user intention.

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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

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  Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass. In essence, this is a book about an industry that refuses to learn. That was true 25 years ago when this book was published, and it's probably twice as true today. (Just think about all the AI adoption metrics being rolled out — back to productivity mistaken for lines of code produced, only more elaborate. And expensive). What I like about this book is that Glass doesn't present anything new. Quite the opposite, actually. Rather, it's about research lessons that we all should know, but tend to forget. Ever had to do an estimate, or plan according to a requirements spec? Or maybe you thought that enough eyeballs make all bugs shallow? Then this book is for you. A great work by a fantastic author.

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Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.

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  Interviews reward presentation; only a hands-on case study shows how fast a candidate's thinking decays.

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  the number of people who present incredibly well, and then you give them a prompt and some data and ask them to come back with a PRD on something, and then we make them verbally defend it, how quickly the thinking decays from folks who are good at the theater, but not the specifics, uh is kind of really telling, I think.

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Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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  Build where today's models succeed one percent of the time, not twenty: partial success means the capability is already arriving.

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  And if they're completely failing, that's probably a good sign. If they're kind of able to do some of it but not very well, that's maybe not a great sign because that's a probably a a sign that the capability is starting to be present in those models and with more training data or larger scale models or or whatever it's likely to get better. So um you know look for something where the model succeeds 0% or 1% of the time not not 20%.

  Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AIyoutube.com

Social scientist turned small-scale farmer; wrote A Small Farm Future and argues against the case for feeding the world from factories.

From one piece Saving the world from bad ideas: the continuing failure of food ecomodernism 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Today's level of city living depends on cheap fossil fuels and is unlikely to survive without them.

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  However, in our non-ideal biophysical reality, present levels of urbanism are unlikely to be sustainable without cheap fossil fuels, and the human cost of that could be horrific unless we address it urgently.

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  Farming is the one large sector still powered directly by free sunlight, and replacing it with factory food would spend the renewable electricity every other sector needs.

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  Agriculture is the only major sector that at present is significantly energised directly by zero cost and zero carbon sunlight.

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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.

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  A security header being present is not the same as it being deployed well, and most HSTS deployments are weaker than they look.

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  A lot of HSTS deployments are weaker than they look.

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AI researcher at OpenAI; built the poker systems Libratus and Pluribus and the Diplomacy agent Cicero, and works on reasoning models.

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  Every lab knows the benchmark grid is the wrong way to present a model, and publishes it anyway because everybody else does.

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  And so you kind of end up in this this bad equilibrium where everybody kind of knows that it's a bad equilibrium, but like nobody wants to break out. And I I felt like, okay, well, if I just hopefully come out and say like, look guys, let's all recognize that we're in a bad equilibrium and let's move to this different equilibrium where we're we're plotting things with an X-axis

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  Eisenhorn

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  It's pretty decently adequate, as mind candy. There are places where Abnett shows flashes of real talent. (To avoid spoilers, I'll just say: The first alien planet; the opening scenes with the cranky biologist.) There are other aspects of the novels which are pretty unsatisfying.

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Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.

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  Europe is an economic superpower, and at present it is the only democratic one.

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  Europe, along with China and the United States, is an economic superpower. And, at this point in time, it is arguably the world’s only democratic superpower.

  Is Europe in Economic Decline?paulkrugman.substack.com

Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.

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  The decisions that most affect an organization are made when no manager is present, so a common purpose is the only real control a leader has.

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  if you want to manage something like as a leader, you have to understand that the most consequential decisions that will affect any organization's life are almost by definition made when no manager is present.

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Marriage and family therapist working from attachment theory and emotionally focused therapy. Author of Secure Love and the person behind The Secure Relationship.

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  Underneath the anger of anxious attachment is unresolved grief about not having been responded to.

  Attachment theory

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  Underneath anger is sadness over all your cumulative experiences in life of not being responded to, past and present. The sadness around powerlessness. Unresolved grief.

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  A fulfilling 'do nothing' meditation practice requires equally embracing all present sensation rather than avoiding difficult ones.

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  Having a fulfilling Nothing practice requires an equal embrace of all present sensation.

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Scientist and writer on quantum computing, memory systems and metascience; co-wrote the standard quantum computation textbook and wrote Reinventing Discovery.

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  Biology has already handed us an alien library: hundreds of millions of protein machines we do not understand and can only study one at a time.

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  we've been gifted uh just this incredible variety of machines which we don't understand really at all and we just have to go and sort of try and understand them on a you know, one-by-one basis.

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

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  Other players must be present in an online world but never compulsory: forcing interaction is what kept MMOs small, and letting people play alone is what made World of Warcraft enormous.

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  And what makes an MMO, massively multiplayer online game, massive is having the other people there. And they’re so important or else the world feels kind of wrong and dead. But the concept that we have to force you to interact with them to do anything is very off-putting to a lot of people.

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Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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  The hardest thing for a future historian to recover will be how little the world outside understood, because whatever happened looks inevitable in retrospect.

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  One is at every moment of this exponential, the extent to which the world outside it didn't understand it. This is This is a bias that's often present in history where anything that actually happened looks inevitable in retrospect.

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Author and journalist writing on food, plants and consciousness. Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of its Center for the Science of Psychedelics.

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  Michael Pollan Teaches Intentional Eating

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  Over thirteen lessons, you’ll learn about the past, present, and future of meat, from the ways animals and humans are treated in meat processing plants to emerging meat alternatives.

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Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money, Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money. Writes essays on investor behavior and posts frequently on X.

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  Cycles are hard to predict because forecasters extrapolate in straight lines and cannot see the forces undoing the present.

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  Cycles are so hard to predict, because it’s easier to forecast in straight lines.

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Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.

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  The cost of a good habit falls in the present and the cost of a bad habit falls in the future, which is what separates the two.

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  the cost of your good habits is in the present. The cost of your bad habits is in the future. And so what you find is that a lot of things that typically get categorized as a bad habit, eating too many donuts or smoking a cigarette or something like that feels good in the moment, but it creates some kind of cost or consequence in the future.

  The Silent Cost of Bad Habits | James Clearyoutube.com

Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.

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  From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

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  Few will deeply read as many works of literature across the Western canon as Barzun did, given his exceptionally long career in academia, but From Dawn to Decadence grants the humble reader an extraordinary vantage, thanks to Barzun’s vast corpus of knowledge and his perspicacious observations about cultural currents across half a millennium.

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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  The Player of Games

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  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.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  IQAir GC MultiGas XE

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  Install HVAC filters, and/or get a standalone air purifier, e.g. I got the Dyson Big+Quiet because it's quite good, HEPA grade and doubles as a cool looking alien artifact in your room, but for the top top performance I'd get IQAir GC MultiGas XE

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  Dyson Big+Quiet

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  Install HVAC filters, and/or get a standalone air purifier, e.g. I got the Dyson Big+Quiet because it's quite good, HEPA grade and doubles as a cool looking alien artifact in your room, but for the top top performance I'd get IQAir GC MultiGas XE

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  The Employees

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  Olga Ravn's The Employees (trans. by Martin Aitken) that takes the form of employee interview transcripts on a spaceship that has encountered bizarre alien life.

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Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.

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  Economics journals have made large datasets and heavy statistics the price of making any causal claim at all, which has squeezed qualitative economic history out of the field.

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  Over the past few decades, journal editors and peer-reviewers have increasingly insisted that papers must present large datasets that have been treated using complex statistical methods in order to make even the mildest claims about what caused what.

  Age of Invention: Joel Mokyr's Nobelageofinvention.xyz

Reinforcement-learning researcher; co-wrote the field's standard textbook, wrote The Bitter Lesson, and shared the 2024 Turing Award.

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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  Whether AI is our offspring to be proud of or an alien to be horrified by is a choice we make, not a fact we discover.

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  It's our choice whether we should say oh they are our offspring and we should be proud of them and we should celebrate their achievements or we should we could say oh no they're not us and we should be horrified.

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  How you feel about AI succession mostly reflects how good you think the present human situation is — and it is pretty bad.

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  A lot of it has to do with just how you feel about change. Um, and if you think the current situation is really really good, then you're uh more likely to be suspicious of change and averse to change than if you think um it's imperfect. And I think it's imperfect. In fact, I think it's pretty bad.

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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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  City on the Edge

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  It’s fantastic and is going to be a powerful and definitive story of San Francisco from 1990 to the present day.

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Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

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  Contemporary consumer products no longer claim purity or naturalness; they present themselves openly as artificial mixtures.

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  Any pretense of the pure or organic is undercut by a kind of willful alchemy; everything is an admixture.

  Labubus and the brainrot aesthetickylechayka.substack.com

Philosopher at Oxford; co-founded effective altruism and 80,000 Hours, wrote Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future, and now works on what a good future would actually contain.

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  A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us.

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  But the difference in value between the world today and that common-sense utopia might be very small compared to the difference between that common-sense utopia and the best futures we could feasibly achieve.

  Introducing Better Futuresforethought.org

Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF.

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  How you measure the present strongly shapes what can be extrapolated about the near future.

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  Extrapolating from the present day into the near future is highly dependent upon how we measure the present day.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  How something is presented completely changes a person’s experience, enjoyment, or frequency of use of it.

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  How you present something to somebody completely changes their experience of it, their enjoyment of it, or even how often they're going to use it.

  sive.rs

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  As much as possible, one should avoid predicting the future and instead wait for it to become the present and reveal what is actually needed.

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  As much as possible, try to not predict what the future may hold, but just wait as long as possible for that future to become the present and show you what it actually needs.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  The Iliad: A New Translation

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  It's very readable, and captures a sense of what is, fundamentally, a very alien, and often ugly, story in a very alien, and often ugly, world, related in magnificent language.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Good leadership is defined by presence, curiosity, and authenticity rather than always having the right answer.

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  Leadership isn't about always having the answer and always being right. It's about being present, deeply curious, and authentic.

  The Power of Not Knowingbringthedonuts.com

Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; works on the search for life elsewhere and wrote The Little Book of Aliens and Light of the Stars.

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 burden of proof about alien civilisations has shifted: it is now on the pessimists.

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  But I felt like what this paper showed was that the burden of proof is now on the pessimists. So, that's why we called it the pessimism line. Throughout history, there's been alien pessimists and alien optimists, and they've been yelling at each other, that's all they had to go with.

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  Alien life should converge on things like legs and wings, but the humanoid body plan is a random accident nobody should expect to see repeated.

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  And this is important, so yes, you should expect legs or jointed sticks, how many joints they're going to be? Anybody's guess. Do you expect humanoids, things with a sensing apparatus on top of a shoulder with two arms and two legs? That's probably a pretty random set of occurrences that led to that.

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Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.

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  The Elements of Graphing Data

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  How to present data, and the why of the how.

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Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.

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  Nostalgia is a selective reading of the past — useful when it makes you happy now, toxic when it narrows what you can see of the present.

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  It’s just this idea that people have about the past can be very useful if it brings you happiness in the present, but if it narrows your worldview in the present, you’re not aware of those biases that you have, it can be toxic either at a personal level or at a collective level.

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American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  The human mind functions as an association-forming machine, linking past experiences to present beliefs.

  Psychotherapy

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  Exposure therapy works because the human mind is an association machine.

  How to Conquer Your Biggest Fearmarkmanson.net

Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

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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  Listening for alien radio is the wrong search: a probe that sits and waits beats a signal that passes you by, so an artifact in our solar system is likelier than a message.

  solar

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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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  The simplest explanation for why we have never noticed an alien civilization is that there are none out there.

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  But I think your intuition is right that it would’ve been easy for there to be lots of civilizations then we would’ve noticed them already and we haven’t. Absolutely the simplest explanation for why we haven’t is that they’re not there.

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Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  The value of anything is the present value of the cash you can take out of it over its life.

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  The value of anything, I would say, other than love, let's say, is the present value of the cash you can take out of it over its life.

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Journalist and author writing on politics, liberalism and ideas; a contributor to Quillette and co-author of a book on Christopher Hitchens.

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  Making humanity's long-term potential the overriding priority licenses imposing real costs on people who are alive today.

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  The problem with these grand ambitions—saving humanity from extinction and enabling our species to reach its full potential millions of years from now—is that they ostensibly justify any cost in the present.

  How Effective Altruism Lost Its Wayquillette.com

Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.

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  Psych

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  Despite having read a few bookshelves worth of academic psychology texts, I enjoyed Yale professor Paul Bloom's survey of the field. Because understanding psychology cannot be divorced from understanding its history, I enjoyed Bloom's birds-eye view of the field from the past to the present day.

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

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  Society's response to AI is incommensurate with the possibility of rapid transformative progress that many experts expect, with safety research lagging and governance lacking mechanisms for misuse, recklessness and autonomy.

  AI alignment

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  Society's response, despite promising first steps, is incommensurate with the possibility of rapid, transformative progress that is expected by many experts. AI safety research is lagging. Present governance initiatives lack the mechanisms and institutions to prevent misuse and recklessness, and barely address autonomous systems.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.

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  After text, photos and video, immersive presence is clearly the next frontier of how people communicate.

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  And I think the ability to be immersed and feel present with the people around you or the people who you care about is, from my perspective, clearly the next frontier. It just so happens that it's incredibly technologically difficult.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Anxiety and worry arise from dwelling on an imagined future rather than the present moment.

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  Most of our fears begin to subside when we just allow ourselves to be in this moment, as anxiety and worry stem from a preoccupation with an anticipated or envisioned future.

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Biochemist at University College London; writes about the origin of life and the role of energy in evolution, in The Vital Question and Transformer.

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  There are far fewer alien civilizations than people would like to believe, because the road from bacteria to humans has huge gaps in it.

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  Well, the universe is very big, but not as many as most people would like to think is my view, because the idea that there is a trajectory going from simple cellular life like bacteria, all the way through to humans, seems to me there’s some big gaps along that way, that the eukaryotic cell, the complex cell that we have is the biggest of them.

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Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.

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  The evidence behind mainstream sleep advice is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts present it as being.

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  It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe.

  Theses on Sleepguzey.com

Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  Reading further back in history shows that what feels new and unique to the present era is usually a very old pattern.

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  What what I find generally is if I don't understand something, I I try to read backwards and and and kind of the further back back I read, the more universal things I find. And the more things that I think are kind of remarkable and unique to our era actually turn out to be quite universal.

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