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lionhearted

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About lionhearted

Hi, I'm Sebastian Marshall.

My most popular post ever --

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/the-million-dollar-question

Check out the rest of the site too.

I'm more accessible than most people, feel free to reach out --

Email: sebastian@sebastianmarshall.com

Facebook: http://facebook.com/sebastmarsh

Twitter: http://twitter.com/sebastmarsh

June 2012: In Beijing, China. If you're going to be in Beijing, Taipei, or Ulaanbaatar, reach out and we'll grab coffee.

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    Try to break that down into the positive versions - estimation, requirements, design, etc - and then list projects that went better because you're on them. Ideally get a quote or r…

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    Hey, think might like this one — it was such a joy to build. Our CTO and myself linked up 1-on-1 in Japan to end the year, and we just wanted to give some fun design and coding in.…

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    Respectfully, I think you're being a little uncharitable here. I'm on the periphery of the EA / Longtermist scene — I have friends and customers in that space and have studied and …

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    Respectfully, I spent a few years fascinated with Taoism and quite a bit of time studying it and reckon you probably get some wrong impressions from this article. The challenge in …

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    "Difficult Conversations" was a great read — https://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-... The basic idea is that in any difficult conversation, there's actually …

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    Oh man, I'm happy to see this here — I've been slowly working my way through various science and engineering done in the Soviet Union since there was some incredible work done that…

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    While we're on the topic, Xenophon's "Anabasis" is probably both the greatest military memoir of all-time and the greatest adventure story of all-time. Heck, maybe also a candidate…

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    That was a really, really fun read.

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    I'm voting you up, but a respectful disagreement... I think that sometimes seeing a person meander through related concepts and take a fresh look at them can be quite valuable; lik…

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    I wonder if the causality might run the other way — like, if you imagine a set of "all possible commitment levels of sports fans" you'd have hardcore committed... moderately commit…

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    This brings to mind one of my favorite essays on good science. "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" by Peter Norvig — https://norvig.com/experiment-design.html…

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    The Pax Britannica trilogy is often sublime — an incredibly interesting approach to history. The audiobook versions are well-narrated and highly recommended.

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    This reminds me of a funny thought I had a while ago — We never talk about it like this, but almost the entire food supply of most places was "organic" until very recently.

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    Well said.

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    That's right, yeah. But here's what they're investigating: > ”In this paper, we introduce a concept that might be accurately portrayed as “supply creates its own excess demand”. Na…

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    Quick take on a first skim and thinking: 1. Looks interesting. Worthwhile type of thinking. 2. Control+F "savings" / "saving" ... no results. You'd think that the amount and distri…

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    I'm probably a standard deviation or so below you — I've met 2-3 people like you; it's really incredible and refreshing to converse with those people. I'll be making an argument, "…

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    You merge with artificial intelligence and you live happily ever after.. CONGRATS YOU WIN

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    > You successfully lobby the government to make sure that AI are not considered property or something

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