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Thank you for saying this. I feel like your car hack comes down on the effort side of the equation (and I admire the hack!), and I also want to say that I respect what you're sayin…

B.J. Fogg makes this point in his book Tiny Habits. And his point *is* that you can form a habit in much less than 21 days, let alone 66. This whole question revolves around the ef…

One of the main advantages Anthropic currently has over Google is the tooling that comes with Claude Code. It may not generate better code, and it has a lower complexity ceiling, b…

A better way to think of it is: you need to live in a host state that may be hostile to you (refugees fleeing conflict or natural catastrophe). You need to work and can do it remot…

We're in a Cold War with hot proxies. The original Cold War was also like that. Now, China, Iran and North Korea are backing Russia without engaging in direct confrontation in Ukra…

personal theory: burnout is basically when you're expending more energy than than you're able to recover during rest -- over chronic timelines. that is, i think getting physical he…

more along these lines: https://vonnik.substack.com/p/how-to-take-your-brain-back ultimately, maintaining focus is tied to overall physical energy (because suppressing distractions…

Thank you for saying that. I learned something.

very true. this is just about controllable inputs tho.

in a sense, yes, because distraction and "success" are just different types of work. you're burning neurons either way. the important thing is to latch onto the the independent var…

BJ Fogg's book Tiny Habits is great, particularly about the important of motivation vs ability in starting new routines. His main point is that ability relative to the task is much…

This is true. Focus = Energy - Distraction and Success = Focus x Time The way you gain stamina is by doing things to increase your energy and decrease distraction. I wrote and talk…

Sincere question - why doesn't RL-based fine-tuning on top of LLMs solve this or at least push accuracy above a minimum acceptable threshhold in many use cases? OAI has a team doin…

Some authors of this piece are deeply involved themselves in building robots and other hardware technology. They should be taken seriously. The US is moving into a trade war, howev…

Please keep in mind that Dan Hendrycks helped write the disastrous AI quashing bill SB 1047, which Newsom vetoed last year. If these people get their way, the US has no competitive…

Gary would know.

This book was truly excellent. Shows the precursor network triggering similar benefits and harms to its successors. Also a great narrative that recalibrated my sense of how signifi…

The thing is we can't wholly give up our devices and apps, because so many peoples' professional and social lives depend on them. So we have to manage it. It's more like a food add…

I disagree with many of the current cuts, but other administrations did the work that got us the plane crashes. https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-fa...

Equally important: the cats died days later. Here's a good map of the bird flu breakouts. https://investigatemidwest.org/2025/01/21/134m-poultry-and-c... Most people are not paying…

Cedric Chin has a great series on this and has done a deep dive into Deming: https://commoncog.com/becoming-data-driven-first-principles/

For me, what this post illustrates most is the cost of information. By making hasty decisions, buyers are trading present time that might be spent shopping and comparing with futur…

The missing clause in the headline is: AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably ... by people who don't read much poetry.

Robert Lustig has been preaching this for years: https://www.amazon.com/Metabolical-Processed-Nutrition-Moder... A good rule of thumb if you care about avoiding UPFs but don't want…

Sorry, I should have specified he was the last in the Senate.