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NPR listeners have long known what modern podcast listeners only realized more recently - that storytelling often hits way harder when it's delivered by the human voice.
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No matter who is and is not at fault, it is rather alarming that the labs cannot cooperate on something like assigning credit for a mathematical proof. This is a very bad sign and also a wake-up call.
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Needing to build defences is not a licence to race: racing forward at all costs is absurd given the stakes.Their words
The idea of racing forward at all costs seems absurd once one internalizes the seriousness of the stakes.
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it's more about what do you want to do? Like what why are you spending this time, right? It's a philosophical question, not a productivity question.
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open models are still incredibly useful, but fill a long-tail ecosystem relative to the closed counterparts that have monopoly ownership stakes in the most valuable areas like knowledge work collaboration, drug discovery, SWE, etc.
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Now, if we had a tech if we had a magical BCI that allowed me to see the instant state of every neuron in the brain and and drive them, I think we'd figure out consciousness pretty fast. I don't think I think this is a practical problem, not a philosophical problem.
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that your model is really table stakes, but eval and metrics, that's your most important. That's your strategic moat. So, build your eval before you build your technology.
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I think it's a real reminder of the stakes of what's happening and that loss of control accidents are not entirely theoretical things.
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I have a hard time picturing entertainment that doesn't have humans at the heart of it. So that that's humans in the creation of the storytelling, which I think is a scarce and valuable skill.
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On everyday high-stakes questions, a model's answer can now be trusted more than an expert human's.Their words
And I think they're at a point now where they've actually been at a point for a while now where I feel like I can just trust the outputs arguably more than I could trust the output from from a human,
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because too many times when we're technology-led, we talk about the what. We don't talk about the why. And the why is where the storytelling is.
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In the world of high-stakes digital strategy, the “average user” is a dangerous statistical artifact.
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The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them BetterTheir words
One of the most common requests I receive is for resources to become a better storyteller. In this book, award-winning novelist Will Storr looks at how the brain responds to stories, and how to captivate your audience and connect with their emotions.
28 December 2025
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BreakneckTheir words
Breakneck by Dan Wang takes you on a fascinating journey through China's engineering state, juxtaposing it against America's lawyerly society in an effort to reveal what each country should learn from the other. I've been a keen reader of Dan's personal blog for many years and am delighted to report that this book, his first, features everything I love most about his writing: his unbounded curiosity, thoughtful analysis, compelling storytelling, self-awareness, offbeat sense of humor, and insights born of lived experience.
13 December 2025
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Raiders of the Lost ArkTheir words
I am a relic of the 80s as much as Raiders of the Lost Ark, and while I acknowledge how storytelling has changed between now and then, as a storytelling vehicle, in many ways it is still peerless and endlessly watchable.
22 November 2025
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Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical LifeTheir words
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I think to the extent that it can predict the next frames in a coherent way, that is a form of understanding, not in the anthropomorphic version of, it's not some kind of deep philosophical understanding of what's going on, I don't think these systems have that, but they certainly have modeled enough of the dynamics, put it that way
25 May 2025
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How Does the Psychiatrist Know?: On the Epistemology of Psychiatric Diagnostic ReasoningTheir words
Recently I reviewed Adrian Kind’s 2025 book, “How Does the Psychiatrist Know?: On the Epistemology of Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning,” on this substack. I had mentioned that Kind’s book is the first systematic, in-depth, book-length philosophical investigation into how psychiatrists arrive at their diagnostic conclusions.
21 March 2025
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The Sovereign Artist: Meditations on Lifestyle DesignTheir words
A collection of short essays and aphorisms on crafting a life of autonomy, creativity, and intentional leisure—challenging hustle culture with elegance and philosophical depth.
29 January 2025
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Reading aloud to children teaches more about storytelling than books on public-speaking technique do.Their words
You'll learn more about becoming a better storyteller from reading to your children than from any book with a title like "How To Deliver a TED Talk."
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Good storytelling doesn't require inventing something entirely new; it can be built from existing material.Their words
One myth of good storytelling is that it requires dreaming up something entirely new from scratch. That's not necessary.
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Great storytelling skill comes from immersion in the liberal arts, not from corporate media training.Their words
Steve Jobs was an incredible storyteller because he was immersed in the liberal arts, not because he went to corporate media training.
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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I don’t think that there’s any philosophical knockout objection to the simulation hypothesis. I also think that there’s absolutely no reason to take it seriously.
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I think that that story about the latter part is completely wrong, almost 180 degrees wrong. I think that Einstein understood quantum mechanics as well as anyone, at least up through the 1930s. I think that his philosophical objections to it are correct. He should actually have been taken much more seriously about that.
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Employees don't want what you want. Customers don't want what you want. Uh you know, that that one of the challenges of the whole stock option thing is entrepreneurs and founders think that other people will be as motivated by owning part of the company as they are. They are not. Not even close.
19 December 2023
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The RepublicTheir words
To my surprise, I really enjoyed The Republic. It is both well-written and weird, which puts it above many other famous philosophical books that are too obscure to be easily read.
23 November 2021
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of HumanityTheir words
I wouldn’t say that this is the most compelling book I’ve ever read in terms of the prose style or storytelling, but it does provide a very helpful, almost quantitative overview of all the potential threats looming out there
18 January 2021
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High consequences cannot be what makes work engineering, because most traditional engineering is low-stakes too.Their words
Much of the engineering there is low-stakes, low-consequence, just like much software is.
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The Emperor of All MaladiesTheir words
History of cancer (and the research and people trying to combat it) taught through (very good) storytelling.
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