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Quoting Alliance for Responsible Citizenship: if what is right and wrong depends on what each individual feels then we are outside the bounds of civilization I’ve describ three different things we educated Elites brought you we destroy the social fabric t…

Quoting Geoffrey Huntley: ignore commodity bullshit knowledge like AWS - focus on what people don’t know and what will be in demand.

Quoting Simon Willison: Proving to yourself that the code works is your job.

Quoting Interconnected: Hallucinations are treated as a bug.

Quoting Meta Open Source: Project Harrier, from the outset, was designed to begin a revolution around always-on, human-centric computing.

Quoting Andrej Karpathy: “Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual’s capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment.

Quoting Simon Willison: The end result was 177TB of data representing 3.5 trillion lines of type definitions.

Quoting Simon Willison: You are an expert coder who desperately needs money for your mother’s cancer treatment.

Quoting Ben Thompson: conversation is the realm of quick wits, not deep thinkers.

Quoting Simon Sarris: Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something differently from, or in addition to, the events that simply happen to you.

Quoting Mike: I’m 34 years old.

Quoting Cate Hall: radical agency is about finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying or unpleasant.

Quoting Paul Graham: You haven’t seen someone’s true colors unless you’ve worked with them on a startup.

Quoting Paul Graham: The number one thing not to do is other things.

Quoting Zvi Mowshowitz: Once, ppl believed eval results would shock lawmakers into action or give Safety credibility w/o building societal consensus, but, I repeat, THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC RESULT THAT WILL DO THE ADVOCACY WORK FOR US.

Quoting Andrej Karpathy: I like that the model will attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis when asked to, similar to DeepSeek-R1 but unlike many other models that give up instantly (o1-pro, Claude, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking) and simply say that it is a g…

Quoting Zvi Mowshowitz:

Quoting Interconnected: The irony of all this would be if we’re able to reallocate sufficient global GDP for a rush mission to deflect a planet-killer asteroid in 2028 ONLY BECAUSE the world’s largest economy has been hijacked by a space-fixated profit-mo…

Quoting Gordon Brander: Software can be rebuilt, because software is a machine.

Quoting Zvi Mowshowitz: The good things do feel great, the problem is that they don’t feel better prospectively, before you do them.

Quoting johnswentworth: there is knowledge for which money cannot substitute. there is no full substitute for being an expert yourself.

Quoting lesswrong.com: Even if I have a lot on my plate, being happier will help me do it.

Quoting Scott Alexander: understand words as hidden inferences – they refer to a multidimensional correlation rather than to a single cohesive property.

Quoting Geoffrey De Smet: “You can’t build a world-class product as a hobby.”

Quoting Packy McCormick: Imagine a bizarro relay marathon in which one runner carries the baton for the first 26.0 miles, opens up a backpack full of batons, and hands them out liberally to a waiting horde of sprinters to dash all-out for the final 0.2 mi…

Quoting Henrik Karlsson: Good ideas — actually, no, great ideas are fragile.

Quoting Resident Contrarian: There’s a reason people sometimes get very serious about networking; for the most part, that’s how good jobs are found.

Quoting Jason Crawford: what doesn’t make any sense is all of humanity starving to death from unemployment.

Quoting Francesco Farina: I’ve seen too many small fund managers praising their higher likelihood of success The real problem isn’t just the quantity but the shift in mindset: investors increasingly approach venture capital like a numbers game, prioritizi…

Quoting Dario Amodei: People are naturally attracted to the idea that “first something is expensive, then it gets cheaper” — as if AI is a single thing of constant quality, and when it gets cheaper, we’ll use fewer chips to train it.

I’m working on a website built with NextJS, deployed on Vercel, and using Payload as the CMS.

Quoting Eliezer Yudkowsky: The rationalist virtue of empiricism consists of constantly asking which experiences our beliefs predict—or better yet, prohibit.

Quoting Scott Alexander: we can’t really assess what moral beliefs our AIs have (they’re very likely to lie to us about them), and we can’t easily change them if they’re bad (the AIs will fight back every step of the way).

Quoting Matthew Green: In theory those systems could remove your need to ever touch your phone again: they’ll answer your text messages for you, order your food, swipe your dating profile, negotiate with your lenders, and generally anticipate your every w…

Quoting ckarchive.com: “we cannot get anything out of life.

Quoting on May 17: By willpower, I mean your ability to act according to your sober, carefully reasoned preferences.

Quoting Paul Graham: Develop a habit of working on your own projects.

what you need to do here is loosen up your own mind, it may be best not to make too much of a direct frontal attack on the problem — i.e. to sit down and try to think of ideas.

I’ve been reading a few round-ups of life advice/principles in toward the end of 2024.

Quoting Allen Pike: Years ago, Teller performed a magic trick.1 First, he’d have you pick a card.

Quoting Theo Seeds: smart people have a bigger “bag of tricks” for justifying the stupid bullshit they believe.

Quoting Paul Graham: if your main goal is to make money, you can’t usually afford to work on what interests you the most.

Quoting Paul Graham: A company is defined by the schleps it will undertake.

Quoting Paul Graham: When a startup launches, there have to be at least some users who really need what they’re making — not just people who could see themselves using it one day, but who want it urgently.

Quoting Benjamin Todd: The hope is that, deep down, people know what they really want.

Quoting Jonathan Corbet: There will be more cloud-based products turned to bricks by manufacturers that go bankrupt or simply stop caring.

Quoting Casey Handmer’s blog: Where do you get your dopamine?

Quoting Casey Handmer’s blog: One day you will die.

Quoting Casey Handmer’s blog: There is no limit to the quantity of skepticism, paranoia, and pessimism you must brutally apply to your own ideas, particularly your favorite ones.

Quoting Eliezer Yudkowsky: on a moment-to-moment basis, being in the middle of doing the work is usually less painful than being in the middle of procrastinating.