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Hyperbolic Discounting Makes the Future Disappear original ↗

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AI Makes Marginal Cost Real Again original ↗

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Scaling Laws Open New Dimensions When Old Ones Stall original ↗

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Discipline Is a Lifestyle Not an Event original ↗

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AI Infrastructure Is Insanely Hard to Build original ↗

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Data Quality Is the Real Moat in Applied ML original ↗

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The Knowledge Illusion We Know Less Than We Think original ↗

18 May 2024

We Think in Groups Not as Individuals original ↗

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Enterprise AI Adoption Follows Predictable Patterns original ↗

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Communication Usually Fails Except by Accident original ↗

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Faith Is Not Opposed to Reason original ↗

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Science and Religion Conflict Is a Modern Invention original ↗

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Triton Democratizes GPU Programming original ↗

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Compound AI Systems Beat Monolithic Models original ↗

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Custom Silicon Will Eat General Purpose Computing original ↗

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AI Safety Is Becoming an Engineering Discipline original ↗

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Static Stability Over Dynamic Failover original ↗

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The Amateur Resists While the Professional Shows Up original ↗

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Evolution Does Not Disprove Design original ↗

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The Contingency Argument Points Beyond the Universe original ↗

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Umran Ibn Khaldun's Science of Civilization original ↗

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Reason Evolved for Argumentation Not Truth original ↗

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Tajdid Renewal Must Come From Within the Tradition original ↗

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Great Work Requires Obsessive Interest original ↗

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Knowledge Compounds Only When Connected original ↗

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Write for One Reader Not Everyone original ↗

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Agility Beats Strength in Competition original ↗

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YA Fiction Is Popular Because Adults Feel Managed original ↗

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Teach Yourself Anything in Ten Years of Deliberate Practice original ↗

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Text Is the Universal Interface original ↗

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Imitation Without Understanding Is the Default Mode of Institutions original ↗

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Better to Micromanage Than to Disengage original ↗

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Complexity Has Three Sources original ↗

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Spiritual Practice Requires Discipline Not Feeling original ↗

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Knowledge Requires a Living Chain of Transmission original ↗

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Slow Reading Is an Act of Resistance original ↗

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Cancellation Is a Cooperative Problem Not a Unilateral One original ↗

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Skill Distributions Follow Power Laws Because Completeness Matters original ↗

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Latency Sneaks Up On You original ↗

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Goodhart's Law Corrupts Every Metric original ↗

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Abandoned Bureaucracies Run on Autopilot Until They Crash original ↗

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Quality Comes From Reps Not Talent original ↗

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Distributed Systems Engineering Is About Making Tradeoffs Explicit original ↗

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Science Needs Sovereigns to Flourish original ↗

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Rhetoric and Reality Always Diverge original ↗

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Freedom Requires Constraints to Be Meaningful original ↗

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The Moral Arc Bends Toward Nothing in Particular original ↗

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Style Is Clarity Not Decoration original ↗

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The Slip Box Is a Conversation Partner original ↗

29 Sept 2022

Aristotle's God Is Pure Act Not a Clockmaker original ↗

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Da'wah Succeeded Through Character Not Conquest original ↗

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Elaboration Beats Repetition for Learning original ↗

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Epistemic Legibility Not Everything Can Be Made Explicit original ↗

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Every Intellectual Endeavor Starts With a Note original ↗

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External Structure Compensates for Willpower original ↗

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Infrastructure Determines Output original ↗

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Reading Without Notes Is Entertainment Not Learning original ↗

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Tail Latency Dominates User Experience original ↗

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Empires Are Fractal Structures of Coordinated Power original ↗

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Nonsense Sounds Profound Because We Fill in Meaning original ↗

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Feedback Loops Are the Hidden Architecture of Everything original ↗

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Aristotle's Categories Still Structure Our Thinking original ↗

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Good Scholarship Requires Intellectual Humility original ↗

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Dynasties Follow a Four-Generation Arc original ↗

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Standardized Education Produces Counterfeit Understanding original ↗

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