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Letting go of the belief that grasping brings satisfaction makes a person happier but more alienated from others.Their words
The more you drop this idea, the happier you are, and the more alien you feel.
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The world is completely mutable; most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.Their words
the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.
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From one piece How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandt 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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these kids have a block that they can't do it. You do whatever you can including paying them to break through the block. they then see themselves as a different person
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the best teacher you had, like everybody remembers the one or two teachers who changed their life. It wasn't because they marked up your paper really well. That wasn't what did it for them. It was because you had some block. They saw you and they convinced you you could do so much more.
20 August
From one piece Belief Isn't Dying, It's Just Getting Less Certain 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Which means that they aren’t sliding all the way to the other side of the spectrum. Instead, they are just moving one level down.
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Certainty about God is eroding at the same rate on the left and the right, and only the starting level differs.Their words
the drop in certain belief is the same size for both liberals and conservatives. It’s 15 percentage points when comparing the oldest respondents to the youngest.
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Confident non-belief is rare in America: for every person sure God does not exist, about six are sure one does.Their words
Said another way, for every person who is pretty sure that God doesn’t exist, there are six who are fairly certain of the existence of a Higher Power. Non-believers are statistically rare.
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One of the things that's ironic though is that both of these sides feel like they are the tiny minority and they're outmanned and they're being suppressed and they are standing up for what is truth and valor in the face of the big AI folks or the big skeptics.
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.
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I have always been of the belief, and still have this belief, that audio should be judged by the ear.
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I mean, obviously aviation was was a pretty big deal, but uh I I I don't think it was sort of quite the um the sociological rewriting that some of the you know excitable proponents at the time imagined. So I am you know it's it's hard to predict anything especially the future but I would I would take the under on this being the last couple of years to get a company going.
28 July
From one piece Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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is find the things that you can develop like reasonable conviction in that people decide like the conventional wisdom is they're just wrong. And be okay with it taking a long time and having people be like very you know, very frustratingly wrong and dismissive.
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I think if you can't find anybody else that shares your belief, you should pay attention to that. Um, and it's also very hard to do a startup on your own and very lonely. But I don't think you need to find a lot of people. And in fact, if everybody believes it, that's also like a bad a bad sign.
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Much of active investing is built around publicly available information and a belief in the power of mean reversion, not original research and seeking information.
14 June
From one piece The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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there's a difference between belief and hope. Hope is confidence without basis. Hope is just, you know, it's it's a prayer, but it's but it's it's not it's not founded in anything that your your lived experience.
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Distribution has to be part of your product and part of baked into the strategy deeply and and proven from the beginning. And if you're just building this product and hoping they will come, hoping it'll spread virally or word of mouth, you know, that's hope strategy, you know, not a belief strategy.
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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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From now until forever, most people regulating, protesting, and talking about AI will not be interested in AI per se, but rather how it impacts their preexisting belief systems and political agendas.
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Good documentation is produced by effort, not by tooling that keeps code and docs togetherTheir words
This reinforced my belief that good documentation comes from effort, not tooling.
5 January
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No belief is true: the moment something is proven it stops being a belief and becomes a fact.Their words
No beliefs are true. If a belief was proven true, it would no longer be a belief.
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From one piece The Silent Cost of Bad Habits | James Clear 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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behavior and belief is like two-way street. You know, what you believe will influence the actions that you take, but the actions that you take can also influence what you believe about yourself. And you know, every time you show up and do it in some small way, you prove to yourself a little bit, hey, maybe I am that kind of person. And so, my encouragement, my suggestion is to let the behavior lead the way.
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When accuracy and belonging conflict, most people take the belief that keeps them accepted by their community.Their words
if you have to choose between, well, I could believe this thing and be ostracized or criticized or outcast from my community, or I could believe this other thing, which may not be that accurate, but it will get me praised and rewarded and accepted by my community. A lot of the time, the desire to belong overpowers the desire to understand.
12 December 2025
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And it was in no one’s interest whatsoever. Nobody would ever concede any interest in the idea of literacy for all.
10 December 2025
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In form and tone it resembles a business class airport book—and this comparison is insulting to the airport paperbacks.
25 November 2025
From one piece Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Like it would be different for sure but like is the belief that if you just 100x the scale everything would be transformed. I don't think that's true. So it's back to the age of research again just with big computers.
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And then the top down belief is the thing that sustains you when the experiments contradict you. Because if you just trust the data all the time, well, sometimes you can be doing a correct thing, but there's a bug.
26 September 2025
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So there's no ground truth. You can't have prior knowledge if you don't have ground truth because the prior knowledge is supposed to be a hint or an initial belief about what the truth is.
2 September 2025
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The belief that this technology will produce bioweapons and kill everyone rests on childish logical fallacies.Their words
Personally, like most people in tech, I think the idea that this is all going to kind of produce bioweapons and take over the world and kill us all is just idiotic. Like I think I think it's just a bunch of kind of childish logical fallacies within that.
13 August 2025
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The biggest misunderstanding is somehow that a group of people or even just one person runs the entire Chinese economy. It is far from the reality. It is a very complex, large economy, and even if there is an extreme form of political centralization, the economy is totally decentralized.
30 July 2025
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This means that working on neural networks is NOT getting us closer to AGI, except indirectly.
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It’s become very difficult for me to maintain the belief in the stupidity of ChatGPT when every time I laugh at it, it ends up ridiculing me 6 months later.
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I think it's even more impressive what OpenAI did in 2022. At the time, no one believed in mixture of experts models at Google who had all the researchers. OpenAI had such little compute and they devoted all of their compute for many months, all of it, 100% for many months to GPT-4 with a brand-new architecture with no belief that, "Hey, let me spend a couple of hundred million dollars, which is all of the money I have on this model." That is truly YOLO.
27 January 2025
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AI tooling and interface design lags behind the underlying models' actual capabilities.Their words
Overall, though, this experience reinforced my belief that the tooling and interface design around LLMs is lagging way behind the actual capabilities, and is an area of active experimentation and development, even aside from any future model improvements.
19 January 2025
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And to go back to thinking about money, money works because we all believe in it. It's a form of social trust, and it's a form of belief and faith in our society and in the other people in it. And when that breaks down, the money system will break down as well.
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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.
1 June 2022
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The main challenge in discussing fiscal policy is the widely held and nearly religious belief that public debt is very bad.
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I believe this needs to change because, as a former longtermist who published an entire book four years ago in defence of the general idea, I have come to see this worldview as quite possibly the most dangerous secular belief system in the world today.
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Common obesity is not caused by a slow metabolism: people with obesity burn more energy, not less.Their words
This tells us that common obesity is not the result of a reduced metabolic rate– a common but erroneous belief.
18 July 2019
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The belief that an adult can no longer learn a good accent is false: singers and actors do it routinely.Their words
But that can’t possibly be true. Singers and actors learn new accents all the time, and they’re not, on average, smarter than everyone else (and they certainly don’t all start before the age of 7).
Discover the Key To Learning Pronunciationblog.fluent-forever.com
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Changing your mind in light of new facts should be celebrated rather than held against you.Their words
Inability to change one’s mind is a hallmark of an irrational belief system.
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Thinking in BetsTheir words
Amazing point: Would your belief in something stand up to the question, “Wanna bet?” If you had to gamble significant money on that belief, would you still feel 100% about it? Or maybe more honestly 60%? This creates healthy skepticism encouraging you to seek the best information instead of just defending your belief. Now objective accuracy wins instead of argument. Combine with “The Biggest Bl…
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