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• Ryan Burge Korrent 20 Aug It is not true that young American liberals are atheists. So, it’s just not empirically true that younger liberals are atheists — the data clearly says that’s not true for 70% of them.
• Terry Cavanagh Bluesky 8 Apr it's so true
• Rasmus Andersson x.com 8 Sept It’s amazing to see people discover the joy of making your own personal-scale software. Interestingly most of what at least I see on my timeline is art/entertainment, not productivity software. I have a growing…
• Tommy Wood Korrent 20 Jul Crosswords and sudoku are closer to meditation than to cognitive training, because they keep you focused without ever making you struggle. …Gloria Mark, the things like crossword and sudoku, they're less of like a true cognitive challenge, right? It's it's almost has more of like a meditation meditative like effect, right? Which can be a good thing,…
• Casey Handmer Korrent 15 Aug 2025 China's advantage in solar manufacturing is neither cheap labour nor a friendlier business environment: the first is gone and the second was never true. so the mainstream view would say, well, China has cheaper labor, which is no longer true, uh, say compared to Mexico, and it's got lower environmental regulations, uh, which is true, and that it is more…
• Derek Sivers Liked 22 Jun 2023 Nothing & Everything — Val N. Tine I love this book so much. It's the joy of nihilism. Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. I agree completely. I would give it a 10-out-of-10 rating but I disliked the whole second half of the book. So just read the…
• Michael Lewis Korrent 15 Dec 2025 The aim of a story is to be so complete that once it has been told there is nothing left to say. I want to give something that's good and pure and true and is like is like the thing that will once it's said there's nothing else to say. It's like done.
• Ilya Sutskever Korrent 25 Nov 2025 Another hundredfold of scale would not transform anything; the field is back in the age of research, only now with big computers. 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.
• Jacob Trefethen Korrent 29 May 2025 R&D spending varies more than tenfold across diseases for no good reason, which is where the best opportunities in science funding are. Our punchline is that R&D spending varies by 10X+ across diseases for no good reason. I've been poking at that punchline for the last six or so years, from different directions, and I am confident it's true.
• Andrej Karpathy x.com 28 Mar - Drafted a blog post - Used an LLM to meticulously improve the argument over 4 hours. - Wow, feeling great, it’s so convincing! - Fun idea let’s ask it to argue the opposite. - LLM demolishes the entire argument and…
• Charan Ranganath Korrent 25 May 2024 There is no such thing as a true or a false memory: every memory is a mix of fragments of what happened with the theories and inferences we used to fill the gaps. Well, I like to say there’s no such thing as true or false memories. It’s like Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols, he had a saying that’s like, “I don’t believe in false memories any more than I believe in false songs.”…
• Terence Tao Korrent 14 Jun 2025 His prediction that research-level mathematics papers would be written in collaboration with AI by 2026 has already come true. …replicate all the skills needed to do mathematics, but they can replicate some non-trivial percentage of them, 30, 40%, so they can fill in…
• Mark Nottingham Mastodon 26 Oct 2025 …do their job at frantic Lucy-in-the-chocolate-factory cadence. While it’s true that this is the only way that their companies could possibly be worth the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been pumped into…