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lionhearted
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About lionhearted
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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Comment #33627091
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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Comment #27408671
"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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Comment #26324240
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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Comment #25240161
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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Comment #25175292
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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Comment #24550572
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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Comment #24024213
Well said.
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Comment #23469680
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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Comment #21721374
> You successfully lobby the government to make sure that AI are not considered property or something
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