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That seems quite a hard line to define. Nothing is allowed to contribute to improving itself in any way? Or just that the gains don't have increasing returns?
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Someone needs to define the unit, perhaps using a chain of increasingly hard problems, each pair of which can be solved by a single model.
14 September
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Serverless was the last chapter of the cloud, and Steren helped define the paradigm at Google.
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From one piece DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Vibe coding is not programming, and the line between them is whether you look at the implementation at all.Their words
And vibe coding, if we define it here, is you tell an agent to build software for you. You do not look at the implementation. That, to me, is what separates vibe coding from programming or, let's say, agent-accelerated development.
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So, in my opinion, this is the absolute best time to ever have been an open source software maintainer. Not only do we get this wealth of glorious pull requests made by agents with all the boxes ticked, we also get to tap into a creativity of people who did not have access to contribute to a project before.
20 August
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Russia's allies have been more useful to Russia than Ukraine's allies have been to Ukraine.Their words
Russia’s allies, on the other hand, have actually offered Russia support that has allowed Russia to fight the war that Russia has wanted to fight.
7 August
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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.
3 August
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If you can't quantitatively define what good enough means, you're not really building a product, you're just iterating on your demo.
23 July
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People tend to unconsciously overestimate how much they personally contribute to shared work compared to others.Their words
In unconscious overclaiming, we unconsciously overestimate our contributions relative to others.
19 July
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Candidates should be allowed to use AI tools in a coding interview, because that is what the work now requires.Their words
And even for things like coding interviews, allowing candidates, of course, to use AI tools because that's going to be part of what the work requires now.
11 July
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AI has made ability nearly free, making taste the main bottleneck separating good creators from mediocre ones.Their words
As AI has allowed more and more people to create things, the biggest differentiation, the biggest skill people are lacking, is taste itself.
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if you're truly ambitious, burn your resume. If you and if you define your ambition in the eyes of your consumer, not your peers, you're not trying to win awards and respect from your peers.
5 June
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DezKVM-GoTheir words
If this were $200 I'd complain, but not for $25. For that, it's a neat little box that maybe more people could contribute to, to make it the most handy way to jack in from a crash cart.
20 May
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Another thing that's really cool is you can contribute to the Linux kernel without contributing to the Linux kernel, right? because you might take a Rust language feature we need and implement it and now you've contributed to the Linux kernel indirectly
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The only lasting path to satisfaction, happiness, skin in the game, maximizing learning, is to really study everybody's game, define your own, and then play it to the best of your ability.
14 April
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Excellence in design is not just about craft quality. It is about whether a designer is both willing and allowed to create impact.
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But okay, they shouldn't actually be enacting these ideas. There is a queue of ideas and there's maybe an automated scientist that comes up with ideas based on all the archive papers and GitHub repos and it funnels ideas in or researchers can contribute ideas, but it's a single queue and there is workers that pull items and they try them out.
17 February
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Like any addictive consumer product that routinely exposes users to graphic sex, extreme violence, and anonymous sexual predators, social media in its current form causes a variety of harms to people of all ages. But we allow adults (often defined as age 18) to make decisions that are bad for them.
26 December 2025
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Every person has a purpose in life, and each person gets to define what that purpose is.Their words
The pretty truth is that you have a purpose on this planet. The gorgeous truth is that you get to define that purpose.
20 December 2025
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Likedrcmnd.app
HelixTheir words
Helix: my previous favorite terminal editor. I've been a Visual Studio Code user for a long time. But this change has really allowed me to move faster.
9 December 2025
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do not define an objective which is designed to serve human beings without considering psychological factors because you might be able to solve your problem very very cheaply and efficiently by changing the psychology not by changing the technology
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31 July 2025
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It allowed that, but he said, every person has the right to choose their religion. No one can stop them. No one can force them. The idea that it was individual choice, no one in history had ever thought of that, that it belonged to the person.
15 July 2025
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the key point is that as child mortality declines, live births can be allowed to decline without changing desired family size
There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com
7 June 2025
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What the Apple paper shows, most fundamentally, regardless of how you define AGI, is that LLMs are no substitute for good well-specified conventional algorithms.
5 June 2025
From one piece Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Today, we are constraining the models, the models can't quite express themselves in terms of the UI to people. But if you think about it, we've kind of boxed them in that way, but given these models can code, they should be able to write the best interfaces to express their ideas over time.
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But I do think when it comes to artistic free expression, I think that's one of those values we should work hard to defend.
28 May 2025
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Defining what expertise looks like in a job family is not HR’s work, and a career ladder left to them will be wrong.Their words
Don’t let (or make!) HR do all of the work. It’s really not their job to define expertise in your functions.
21 May 2025
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Once shareholder value is the only goal, nothing else — the customer, the product, the workplace — is anybody’s job.Their words
When you care only about shareholder value, the only job you have is to promote further exploitation and dominance — not to have happy customers, not to make your company "a good place to work," not to make a good product, not to make a difference or contribute to anything other than further growth.
21 March 2025
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Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define UsTheir words
Roberts reflects on the wild problems we face in our lives and how to navigate them—like career changes, marriage, or children—that can't be solved on a spreadsheet.
3 February 2025
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So, Japan has a law which you're allowed to train on any training data and copyrights don't apply if you want to train a model, A. B, Japan has 9 gigawatts of curtailed nuclear power. C, Japan is allowed under the AI diffusion rule to import as many GPUs as they'd like.
19 January 2025
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Industry benchmarks are a dangerous target because every company defines the underlying metric differently.Their words
So, taking also any benchmark that is derived from competition and saying this is where we should be is also so dangerous because it might not even be applicable depending on how you define the metric.
17 September 2024
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Users of an open source project should choose which vendors to pay by how much those vendors contribute back to it.Their words
So it’s at this point that I ask everyone in the WordPress community to vote with your wallet.
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From one piece Shortages and Spillovers: How People Misunderstand the Housing Crisis 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, when housing demand can’t be met in a given place, it doesn’t evaporate. It spills over. It goes somewhere.
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The biggest barrier of all, of course, is that the majority of neighborhoods are not allowed to add any housing at all.
23 May 2024
1 May 2024
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Most of us spend our days within the confines of a handful of platforms, wandering around to admire what people have done with the seeds they are allowed in the space they are allotted, with platform owners directing us to the gardens they think we might like — or, more often, the ones they think will keep us within their walls for longer.
18 April 2024
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The cooling systems in most data centers are energy hogs and contribute no direct value.
How to Make Off Grid Data Centers Affordableaustinvernon.site
26 March 2024
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the way to be on the hook is to say, "This is only for people who are like this." Because if those people hate it, then you were wrong. Whereas if you say, "This is for everyone," you're allowed to hide behind, "Well, everyone hasn't found it yet."
4 March 2024
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So, there is a period of collaboration, and that’s what propaganda tries to define him by, or there is a Division Galizien by 20,000 people, and somehow it makes irrelevant the experience of 2-3 million people.
3 December 2023
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I do think that we might be in the middle of an extinction right now if you define it by the number of species that are getting killed off. It’s subtle, but it’s a complex system.
29 November 2023
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Governments should create three tracks for people who come to live in their country. One track is that of people who hope to become Spanish. Another is that of those who we are going to allow to live and work here; the third is that of those of we are going to allow to be in Spain out of necessity.
9 November 2023
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So there’s a diversity of viewpoints and free speech only matters if people you don’t like are allowed to say things you don’t like. Because if that’s not the case, you don’t have free speech and it’s only a matter of time before the censorship has turned upon you.
10 June 2023
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Whether one does find a good spouse or not depends more on one's orientation towards actually building relationships, and whether they can identify non-trivial traits in a partner that would contribute to that.
5 November 2019
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To make deliberate progress towards more intelligent and more human-like artificial systems, we need to be following an appropriate feedback signal: we need to be able to define and evaluate intelligence in a way that enables comparisons between two systems, as well as comparisons with humans.
29 September 2019
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