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20 September
19 September
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Banks cannot globalize like software companies because banking is tightly bound to national monetary sovereignty.Their words
banks can't globalize the way other firms can because the banking system is so close to a form of sovereignty: governments very carefully guard the privilege to create more money, and when they give it out, there are strings attached.
18 September
17 September
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But I think this impulse to gild the lily and attribute the rise of Hitler to deep intellectual trends is an example of a pretty common fallacy of assuming that an incredibly important world event must have incredibly important roots.
14 September
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Spending more on ultra-high-end audio gear does not necessarily yield better sound, just different sound.Their words
You can spend more on an integrated amp in the ultra-high-end price range, but I do not feel you will necessarily get "better" sound-just something different.
Luxman L-100 Centennial Review. Class A Returns.stevehuffphoto.com
13 September
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The market has an incentive to privilege aspects of womanhood that can be named, depicted, and immediately recognized.
12 September
11 September
From one piece The four-colour theorem was only the start 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Mathematicians who continue working without AI should be seen as practicing an art form rather than research.Their words
People who insist on pen and paper should view themselves as artists.
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Professionals across many fields will adapt to working with AI, and that shift cannot be reversed.Their words
Mathematicians, software developers, engineers, lawyers, physicians will all learn to work with AI. You cannot put the genie back in the bottle.
10 September
9 September
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the math community needs to adopt a version of the ethical standards of experimental science. If you are using AI agents, you can't just give a proof (formalized or not), but need to also provide a detailed explanation of how these agents were used to get the result.
8 September
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We are at a point metallurgically where video games were at the start of the last console generation-upgrades aren't necessarily noticeable based on specs alone. And noticeable improvements require a huge increase in resources.
7 September
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Copyright law's purpose is to incentivize creation for public benefit, not to guarantee revenue streams.Their words
The constitutional rationale for US copyright is incentivizing creation for public benefit, not necessarily securing revenue streams.
5 September
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We know that arteries with a calcium (CAC) score of zero can be highly inflamed, and that high CAC scores are not necessarily high-risk for cardiovascular events.
The Coronary Artery Inflammation Controversyerictopol.substack.com
2 September
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This story shows that an idea can be many things - compelling, entertaining, romantic, popular, profitable, socially contagious - but that doesn't necessarily mean it's effective.
1 September
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But the problem is these agents are just naturally pretty sloppy and they're naturally pretty spiky in their capability profiles. And so you wouldn't necessarily even if you noticed a weird error that it made, you wouldn't necessarily jump to the conclusion that it was like because of some sort of malign crazy conspiracy.
31 August
24 August
From one piece How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husain 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Alzheimer's disease does not necessarily equal dementia. people can have Alzheimer's disease and not get dementia. So, we found this out from post-mortem studies. People have been followed as they age. Uh they've donated their brains and it turns out that perhaps 20 to 30% of these individuals who never had dementia have Alzheimer pathology.
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there are some people who have pure apathy, no depression like David. And there are other people who can be depressed, they can be sad, they can be hopeless about the future, but they don't necessarily lose motivation. They can have pure depression.
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But when they looked at the happiness levels of these people, it was the average person who actually would self-report the highest levels of happiness. So ambition doesn't necessarily equate with happiness, which I think many people would agree with with that.
22 August
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The difference is mostly the delay, which stems not necessarily from the regulation itself, but from the incentives in the machinery that administers it.
19 August
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An agent can tell you whether a thing looks correct against a spec; it cannot tell you whether the thing is any good.Their words
An agent can tell you if a thing looks correct, if it's matching a spec. It doesn't necessarily mean it can tell you what's good.
14 August
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A computer meant for anyone has to be understandable without a manual, and it has to be friendly.Their words
And we wanted it to be as understandable as possible, so you wouldn't necessarily need a manual, and that it should be friendly
12 August
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And then for longer memory, for memory that spans multiple minutes or multiple hours, we don't necessarily need video of exactly what happened in that past uh in that past history.
11 August
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when AIs are extremely extremely capable my view is that those AIs will be harder to align than current systems. So for current systems, we have this feedback loop where we basically like we create an AI. We do some evaluations on it. We see that it has some kind of messed up behavior that we can kind of quickly understand. Then we like can like go look in training and be like, "Oh, the these training environments led to this problematic behavior. Let's like tweak that training data. Let's introduce some additional training data to like correct this other issue and then move forward from there." But in a regime where the AIs are extremely situationally aware, very very very very capable and um you know uh we don't necessarily understand what they're doing, this feedback loop breaks down.
7 August
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Future AI, say in fifteen years, will not be built on the LLM stack; it will have to move to symbolic learning.Their words
However, looking ahead, I still do not believe that future AI (say, in 15 years) will be based on the LLM stack. I believe it will necessarily have to move closer to its optimal, final form -- symbolic learning. Obviously this is a risky and contrarian belief -- the safe bet would be LRMs. But let's see.
30 July
From one piece Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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you know, because sometimes if you just squint at a problem and you think about not necessarily being anchored on exactly how that problem is solved today, but how you would solve it from first principles, you can come up with really good ideas that are, you know, maybe not what other people are thinking about.
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A startup's durable advantage over a general model is having visibility into data the general model will never see.Their words
Yeah, I mean I think uh sometimes it's uh a product that you build that might have access to particular kind of data that the underlying model might not the a general model. So it might be you're building something to help users organize all their own personal information and the model won't necessarily have access to that. And so there you can have a big advantage because all of a sudden your model has visibility or your product has visibility into important data.
26 July
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The evidence would show that and it makes perfect sense that AI and automation is creating jobs everywhere. The narrative about AI destroying jobs is exactly backwards. AI eliminate tasks. AI automates tasks away. But it doesn't necessary doesn't necessarily eliminate jobs.
13 July
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What’s fallacious is to argue that this fact necessarily means the prohibition does not “work,” or is not better than legalization.
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And sometimes confidence, high confidence doesn't necessarily mean high accuracy. And I think part of the reason we're fooled is usually, you know, the more you see something, the better you'll remember it, just like the Apple logo. But that's not always the case.
30 June
From one piece Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I kind of suspect that actually they'll also be like quite good at doing that and probably just like better than most humans are at like doing the explanation half and distilling half and that's actually not what's left for the mathematicians is like digesting and and explaining what was going on.
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I think the way that you'd measure conjecture generating ability is going to be more subjective on like that tone shift where um it'll be mathematicians saying they're not just using it to like solve their problems, but as they step back and decide what their research field should even be that a conversation with such and such model like was genuinely helpful for that.
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So my role and arguably that of like other mathematicians might actually just shift subtly into that curation direction of what ideas are are worth displaying.
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Know where the money is coming from. Know where you plug into that. And like if you're just asking those questions, you're actually already like steps ahead of all of the other like fledgling perspective mathematicians.
9 June
7 June
From one piece Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the way you get best context is by having sensors properly placed around the home that don't necessarily invade privacy, but allow you to pick up a lot of comings and goings and who's who in the room and your voice and these kinds of things.
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Micromanagement should be aimed at the few decisions that matter, never at how people carry the work out.Their words
And when I mean micromanaging, it means micromanage the decision, not necessarily operations of doing it.
20 May
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I think part of what I liked about Rust is this feeling that as you write the code when it compiles it works. I mean this has to be in quotes right because obviously it's possible that there are bugs but this is something a lot of people say about Rust and there's a reason people say it even though it's not necessarily literally true.
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Formalizing math is a translation task, so AI will boost top mathematicians' productivity more than top writers'.Their words
I expect AI to increase productivity of top mathematicians much more than that of top writers, because formalization is a kind of translation task, it doesn't require much judgement, and as long as it compiles noone needs to read the result.
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20 March
From one piece Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Um I think with within a decade, a lot of things that mathematicians currently do um we we spend a lot of the bulk of our time doing and a lot of stuff we put in our papers today can be done by AI. Um but we will find that that actually wasn't the most important part of what we do.
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Uh yeah, so it's it's made papers sort of richer and broader, but not necessarily deeper.
12 March
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But if you know anything about my obsession with selection bias, you can predict the outcome: when you expand access from a population that excludes more students to one that excludes fewer, you’re very likely to see declining performance.
12 February
27 December 2025
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Alita: Battle AngelTheir words
None of this is brilliant filmmaking, even if it is efficient, and much of it isn’t even necessarily good, but damned if I can’t stop watching it.
24 December 2025
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Best books I read in 2025: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade by Will Storr
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Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of PediatricsTheir words
Best books I read in 2025: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade by Will Storr Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics by Paul Turke
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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing UpTheir words
Best books I read in 2025: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade by Will Storr Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics by Paul Turke Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
16 October 2025
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And there is something about judgment in there too. you know, uh, implied in taste is that some things are good and some things are bad. So, I think you have to be willing to lean into that yourself in terms of uh, being high judgment.
5 October 2025
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I saw some of the highest performers just being people that had very high agency, had that clock speed, had that energy. Um, yes, they they cared about the mission, but they didn't necessarily need to have deep experience on that matter. And in fact, sometimes that experience could be a crutch in certain ways. Especially in this world where the grounds are shifting so fast with AI, a lot of your like learn habits actually need to be intentionally discarded. You know, you need to have a beginner's mind on this type of stuff.
26 September 2025
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The bitter lesson. Oh, who cares about that? That's that's an empirical observation about a particular period in history. 70 years in history no longer doesn't necessarily have to apply the next 70 years.
12 September 2025
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It tells us that the key is not necessarily to do really good simulation. The key is to figure out how to answer counterfactuals.
18 August 2025
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I don't think all parts of the economy can absorb intelligence equally. So let's just say we develop fairly generalized super intelligence. I always use the analogy like you can invent a lot of drugs, but if clinical trials still take a long time, you're not necessarily going to get new therapies rapidly.
14 June 2025
From one piece Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Very rarely do you transform into a simpler problem. So if they can pick up a sense of smell, then they could maybe start competing with a human level of mathematicians.
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If something holds 99.99% of the time, that's good enough for most things. But mathematicians are one of the few people who really care about whether really 100% of all situations are covered by it.
22 December 2024
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I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea to have your head below the grass. The people who advocate like, "Oh yeah, we should be sending powerful messages that are easily detectable into interstellar space." I'm like, "Why would you?" Because we just don't know, I'm not going to say they are warlike. I'm not going to say they're not warlike, I have no idea.
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Best books I read in 2024: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers by Marissa A. Harrison Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
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Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial KillersTheir words
Best books I read in 2024: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers by Marissa A. Harrison
25 May 2024
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And from what I understand, the research actually shows that they just produce what people want to hear, not necessarily the information that is being looked for.
4 March 2024
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That’s the only way how you deal with propaganda, because propaganda is not necessarily something that is an outright lie. It can be just one factor that’s taken out of the context and is blown out of proportion. And that is good enough.
28 September 2023
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I don't think we necessarily want there to be one big super intelligence. We want to empower everyone to both have more fun, accomplish their business goals, just everything that they're trying to do. We don't tend to have one person that we work with on everything, and I don't think in the future we're going to have one AI that we work with.
1 September 2023
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The mycelial network is not the model for a connected nature, because it stops wherever there is a physical gap.Their words
Well, first of all, yes, they're connected, but that network stops when there is a physical gap. That network does not necessarily enable the whales in the Dominican to connect with an olive tree in Israel to connect with a weeping willow in Montana.
7 February 2023
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Experiencing sleepiness is normal and does not necessarily imply that you are undersleeping.
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Therefore, I realized that it’s very important to be as awake as possible and that my model of sleepiness where you can be “awake”, “sleepy” and “asleep” is dumb.
12 October 2022
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Hence, the necessity of shitty first drafts.
7 September 2022
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AI will out-think us, but it will not become conscious, because consciousness is a property of life.Their words
But in terms of what we value the most as humans, which is to say our feelings, our emotions, our sense of what the world is in a very personal way that I think means as much or more to people than their information processing. And that’s where I don’t think that AI necessarily will become conscious because I think it’s the property of life.
27 February 2022
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Mathematics gives practitioners corrective feedback on being wrong that moral philosophy lacks.Their words
Mathematicians get feedback re whether there proofs work in a way that, as far as I can tell, moral philosophy doesn't
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