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In the Title IX debate, conservatives are the side seeking to shrink funding and opportunities for girls' sports.Their words
And the broader Title IX fight is a classic left/right political battle, where conservatives just want to shrink opportunities and funding for girls' sports.
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If the useful life of an NVIDIA H100-vintage cluster turns out to really be three years rather than six, the capex cycle's economics invert, and the leverage that looked prudent looks reckless.
14 September
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Domain experts consistently underestimate how quickly AI can master their field and surpass them.Their words
Domain experts consistently underestimate how quickly AI can master their field and surpass them, because they mistake human difficulties for universal difficulty.
Two missing pieces in the AI safety discussionnoahpinion.blog
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Specialized robots will invent techniques in their domain that humans never thought of or could not do.Their words
Basketball robots are likely to invent new basketball moves that humans didn't think of doing, or couldn't do easily.
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Technologies are not neutral, but political. Money is indeed one of the incentives, but not the only one. A mixture of millennialism, eugenics, search for utopia and for a spread of the specie beyond the confines of the Earth, are all elements we find among the founders’ views.
12 September
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I suspect that some of the labs' willingness to put money into the social sciences stems from the realization of senior people that the practical build out of AI is highly unpopular in the U.S and their urgent desire to figure out how to sugarcoat the pill so that it will get swallowed
How should social science think about AI?programmablemutter.com
11 September
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Germany's crisis is too deep to be solved by conventional tax, spending, or regulatory adjustments.Their words
Germany is in trouble. But the trouble goes deep and cannot be addressed by "more of the same" socio-economic measures in the domain of taxes or social spending or regulation.
10 September
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Neural networks do not have a one-to-one mapping between individual neurons and concepts.Their words
researchers started by seeking a 1:1 mapping between neurons and concepts, like a neuron that always fired when the AI was thinking about cats, but quickly learned that nothing like that existed.
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At a fundamental level, they’re just hostile to the idea of expertise in any domain, in pretty much every agency where there’s something to know, where there’s technical stuff that you need to know to make good decisions. The people who actually know things, or the people who are willing to speak up about what they know, have been silenced, purged.
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China is more likely to cooperate on AI safety if the US maintains a clear and comfortable lead in AI capabilities.Their words
But given the Chinese Communist Party’s power-seeking nature, it seems much more likely that China would agree to cooperate on AI safety if U.S. capabilities were comfortably ahead.
America is still beating China in the AI racenoahpinion.blog
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and they're creatively pursuing goals much like very ambitious aggressive power-seeking humans creatively pursued their goals And so there are just structural analogies here that make it silly to not talk about agents as having motives and goals.
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The specific vaccine brand or formulation matters less than simply getting vaccinated at all.Their words
There are nuances to consider for those seeking maximum protection, but ultimately, the best vaccine is the one you receive.
Your guide to fall 2026 vaccinesyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
18 August
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With the rise of AI, human connection is becoming more elusive, which means we have to be proactive in seeking it out.
16 August
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You're It! On Hiding, Seeking, and Being FoundTheir words
Love it. Can’t get enough. The series of lectures by Alan Watts did shape a lot of my life.
15 August
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The USA has kept dribbling small amounts of military support for Ukraine because it gives the USA a great deal of leverage, the ability to both shape how Ukraine fights its war and even how European states prepare.
11 August
From one piece Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think this constitution is in some sense very compatible with Claude doing huge amounts of power seeking because it thinks that will result in better outcomes.
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Second, I think ML is a very shallow domain relative to math. So I think in math there's much more of a you find some true deep abstraction um and then like that like if you really understand that thing which is hard to understand then you get somewhere
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Working Effectively with Legacy CodeTheir words
First, Refactoring, Domain-Driven Design, and the Pragmatic Programmer are all classics for a reason. Amazing books, and mandatory reads. Working Effectively with Legacy Code deserves all its praise, and of course everyone (yes, really) should check out the Mythical Man-Month.
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The Mythical Man-MonthTheir words
First, Refactoring, Domain-Driven Design, and the Pragmatic Programmer are all classics for a reason. Amazing books, and mandatory reads. Working Effectively with Legacy Code deserves all its praise, and of course everyone (yes, really) should check out the Mythical Man-Month.
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Multi-Paradigm Design for C++Their words
Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ by James O. Coplien. Twenty years after reading this, the core techniques are still with me. These are commonality analysis, where the purpose is to identify families of systems, and variability analysis, which focuses on capturing the domain parameters that vary. In essence: the foundation of great software design.
10 August
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Coding isn't yet another application domain -- it's the meta-skill required for AI to automatically develop its own training material, via symbolic world models. That's how the RSI loop actually kicks off.
3 August
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So, the lesson here is to bet on a system that's maximally learned and minimally constrained and leverage structure intentionally to boost performance and scaling laws both in training and in evaluation.
2 August
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you can have one very senior PM across more things and they can be more efficient than having, you know, three relatively entry-level PMs.
1 August
31 July
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Um in our domain, to answer your last question, because we had to do so much stuff around security and partners and money movement and infrastructure and reliability and you know, all the things. We just we didn't feel like we could scale a really good self-serve experience without getting a lot of the kind of the preconditions um and the infrastructure in place.
30 July
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I mean I think like if you look at uh my colleagues work on say alpha fold that was a very specific model for uh protein folding and it was highly successful um and was able to really handle that domain quite well so that all of a sudden you now have this amazing tool and model that can give you answers to questions about proteins and their structure um really effectively um but it's not a general model it's a very specific one and there are other I domains where that kind of approach can work really well. Uh maybe in material science or chip design or things like that that uh will enable you to leverage the capabilities of a very accurate but but niche model uh to do things that are hard today.
29 July
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when you start talking about like most interesting domain problems, you have to pull in so much context that basically even writing what the function is supposed to do becomes a nightmare. The imperative program you write that will get correct 99% of the time is probably good enough to use in almost all cases.
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And now I actually think with the power of agents um and AI broadly speaking, it's much closer to Goliath versus Goliath. Like I think but maybe the startup is like a Mecca Goliath that is like vastly enhanced by the power of agents and AI and you know, the the large companies are the sort of like more traditional Goliath, so to speak. But I think that startups now like if you properly embrace AI agents and um figure out the way to leverage their strengths in the most like ambitious ways, you can easily outcompete incumbents.
26 July
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we realized early on uh that it's not about building a great chip, it's about accelerating an algorithm domain.
19 July
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So, we are hiring more people who can look across all the business domains and abstract that to here's the building blocks we're going to need in a world with AI.
15 July
From one piece An Alternative to Private Equity: Introducing ORANGE JUICE 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Businesses acquired by private equity funds fail more often than average because of the leverage loaded onto them.Their words
Businesses that emerge out of PE funds have higher failure rates than average, thanks to being saddled with a lot of leverage.
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Privately held businesses in the United States are collectively worth trillions of dollars, and demographically speaking, they have an aging set of owners who are seeking liquidity or diversification as they explore how to pass on what they've built.
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And the plan doc, what was bad about it is it didn't give you leverage. The plan was every single line of code that was going to change like in diff blocks and like all the new stuff to write. And so like people would review these plans. We recommended this. We told people to read the plans. We read all our plans. And then eventually I found myself like I just kind of skimmed the plans.
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9 July
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But I also am worried about kids not learning how to leverage AI and then being sort of at a disadvantage.
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we're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating trust and that sense of trust comes from me struggling to understand some domain concept I get it. I represent it in the code. I have I write tests that demonstrate that I really did understand it. And now I trust my program.
24 June
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I think like in startups the term is agency. Like somebody who's high agency who's just going to get things done, who's never going to like say no to something. I think like that attitude is really important of like okay, if I don't know something, I'll just learn it.
18 June
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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.
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The governed have something the governors need: labor, tax revenue, military service, consumer spending. This dependency is the source of democratic leverage.
25 May
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Considering every lab wants to "eat the world" the focus on how to work in real-world messy situations seems apt as their primary home.
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The New Age community, where people pretend to be benevolent Teletubbies, but behind the scenes are as money-hungry, power-seeking, and gossip-spreading as anyone.
10 May
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Was it ever the right time? No, it is never the right time to do this. If you put this off, you will eventually find yourself in a situation where you can no longer do it. You will have lost the leverage. Success will not protect you because success is what makes you a target.
9 May
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Seeking special tax treatment that could not sustainably be extended to everyone is morally wrong.Their words
it's also morally wrong to seek out special treatment that could not sustainably be offered to everyone.
15 April
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the ability for general purpose computing to continue to scale has largely run its course and the only the the not the only way but the the way to do that is through domain specific acceleration
7 April
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and part of it is just power, I think. Like, once there's a sufficiently large power imbalance, um, very often, not always, but very often groups of people seem to to sort of shift into this other mode where they just seek to dominate.
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So I think for me I take a kind of uh OCD enjoyment in the in the craft. And I need to let go of that. Because that that satisfaction of getting this one function just right just doesn't make a difference anymore.
27 March
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Meanwhile, others like Spotify and Netflix leverage their dominant positions in the market to coerce creators to abandon open podcasts entirely, in favor of proprietary formats that require listeners to be on those platforms — locking in both creators and their audiences so they are stuck as they begin the enshittification process.
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And so you're kind of like you're either on rails and you're part of the super intelligence circuits or you're not on rails and you're outside of the verifiable domains and suddenly everything kind of just like meanders.
14 March
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Real leverage in a negotiation comes from being genuinely willing to walk away from it.Their words
The true leverage in any negotiation is your true willingness to walk away.
11 March
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The bitter lesson is don't try to be smarter than the AI, okay? You think that you've got special knowledge. The humans bring special domain knowledge to this problem and we're going to teach it something to AI and it will be smarter. What we found was bigger is smarter. Always.
10 March
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iwantmyname.com - Where I buy all my domain names.
4 March
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When rare skills become more attainable, people feel pressure to move "up the stack" to prove their value.
12 February
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If you get really good at coding that means you have to be really good at general purpose problem solving. So that's a skill, right? And that just maps into other domains.
29 January
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you can make your life easier on the biology front by building better engineering tooling and the fact that that's possible is a huge deal. Like that is that is not true for most problems in biology and it gives you a lot of leverage on the problem.
14 January
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The main reasons for males suffering from a higher burden of global TB cases, compared to females, may be in large part due to population-scale factors, such as employment type, the quantity and type of social contacts they make, and their health-seeking behaviours (e.g. differences in diagnostic and treatment delays between genders).
1 January
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Even more recently, we’ve begun to use mechanistic interpretability techniques to improve our safeguards and to conduct “audits” of new models before we release them, looking for evidence of deception, scheming, power-seeking, or a propensity to behave differently when being evaluated.
9 December 2025
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Debt is neither a good thing nor a bad thing per se. Likewise, the use of leverage in the AI industry shouldn’t be applauded or feared.
21 October 2025
From one piece Solving regex crosswords with Z3 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Augmenting a general-purpose solver with domain-specific heuristics commonly gives it a meaningful performance boost.Their words
My sense is that this hybrid is fairly common in practice; solvers aren't magical and if you can deduce additional structure using domain-specific analysis, it will often give the solver an important boost.
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I suspect the pattern generalizes: If Z3 has first-class support for your problem domain, it's worth starting there!
11 October 2025
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This is intentional and I believe good AI drivers are experts in their domains and utilize AI as an assistant, not a replacement.
5 October 2025
From one piece Finding hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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.
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The system matters just as much as any given experiment. Probably even more. Right. I think starting with a growth model so you have an understanding of how your company grows in the first place and which channels you're going to leverage is critical. You need to make sure that you are instrumenting your product in and out otherwise you're going to run experiments and have wonky results.
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if it produces incorrect code our philosophy is don't fix the code fix the context that cursor had that produced the bad code
13 August 2025
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And what’s more, you use your leverage once, and that leverage has a half-life. It becomes a lot less effective the second time around because other countries, other companies are going to try to substitute away. If China uses the rare earth leverage, which I think it is now a little bit, there will be alternatives and substitutes.
16 July 2025
From one piece The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So you if you look at the leverage in some of these securitization books and mortgage books if you have 30 times leverage and you're getting 20% of the profits you'll go to 40 times leverage. It's just going to it's literally will add you know 25% to your bonus.
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1929, and man, history does rhyme. Too much leverage, too much risk. Everyone thinks it's going to be great. No one thinks it's going to go down a lot.
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In financial services what kills you is leverage and aggressive accounting, not bad luck.Their words
And and the thing about financial services, leverage kills you. Aggressive accounting can kill you, which a lot of companies do do.
6 July 2025
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So, daily leverage is pretty bad unless you're a short-term trader. Volatility hurts that type of leverage.
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The person receiving advice usually knows more about their own situation than the person giving it does.Their words
No matter how much I know about a domain, the other person will always know far more about their own situation, context, beliefs, skills, preferences, etc than I do.
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But really the software engineering agents I think can be done faster sooner than any other agent because it is a verifiable domain. You can always unit test or compile, and there's many different regions of it can inspect the whole code base at once, which no engineer really can.
20 December 2024
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AI that exceeds human performance in nearly every cognitive domain is almost certain to be built and deployed in the next few years.
7 October 2024
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The platforms have installed themselves in a position of power, but they are also vulnerable. They must do everything perfectly to maintain that position of power—not enrage their users too much, not push the regulators too far, not miss any of those competitors who are seeking to take a portion of that power.
7 August 2024
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I use GoDaddy for domain names.
19 June 2024
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Loneliness is one of the major problems in people. That said, I don’t want that to be the solution for humans seeking relationships and connections. I do see a world where we spend more time talking to AIs than other humans, at least for our work time.
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From one piece Seth Godin: "Failure is Learning on Your Way to Mastery" and Other Advice for Creativity (The Knowledge Project #105, published 23 February 2021) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Criticism is what happens when someone with domain knowledge who is not trying to earn status by hurting you is able to help you see the world as it is. And those three pieces are the key, right? Because most of the criticism I've gotten in my life has come from people who felt like they would feel better if I felt worse.
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reassurance is futile. Reassurance that we seek is like a warm bath, it feels great, and then you need more of it. Because the future is unpredictable, and when the future doesn't match what you hoped for, the reassurance you used to have isn't enough. You need more reassurance.
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It means that you have to extend yourself with empathy to the person you're seeking to serve, to the person who the work is for. And you have to extend yourself not just through space, but through time into the future, announcing something that might or might not work. You don't know yet. That's what makes it creative. If you exert the emotional labor to do those two things, sometimes you will have a successful creative outcome. That's a choice.
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If you aren’t trying to get real feedback from people who know you, you’re cooking without tasting.
14 December 2023
From one piece Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So if I generalize what you're asking, you are talking in general about truth-telling and we humans are not really truth-seeking animals. We are social animals.
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But one of the problems is PowerPoint is really designed to persuade. It's kind of a sales tool. And internally, the last thing you want to do is sell. Again, you're truth seeking. You're trying to find truth. And the other problem with PowerPoint is it's easy for the author and hard for the audience.
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But power is ultimately held by those with the will to power. That will does not grow in decoupled idea labs, and would immediately corrupt them if it did.
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From one piece Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessen 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Almost everything worth doing sits in a probabilistic domain where a perfect score is not available.Their words
in quote-unquote real life, right? Which is starting businesses or you know, writing books, right? Or composing music or playing basketball or playing poker, right? Or basically doing anything interesting we're in a probabilistic domain, right?
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the reality is the kids that make new things work from scratch. It actually turns out that they actually have been deep in the domain for a long time. Almost every case, they've been thinking hard about the problem that they're trying to solve actually for in in a lot of cases for many years.
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