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← A feeling that information is easy to process gets mistaken for genuine understanding of it.
17 connected korrents · 14 moments from 15 Jul 2021 to 18 Sept 2026.
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Read this korrent: A feeling that information is easy to process gets mistaken for genuine understanding of it.
A feeling that information is easy to process gets mistaken for genuine understanding of it.
Last stated 7 months ago
8 Apr 2026
AC
Anne-Laure Le Cunff — holds since 2026-04-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Feeling that one could have discovered a mathematical result oneself is a better measure of deep understanding than simply verifying that it must be true. — tap to centre the map on it
Feeling that one could have discovered a mathematical result oneself is a better measure of deep understanding than simply verifying that it must be true.
Last stated a month ago
18 Sept 2026
GS
Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Easy external access to information makes it harder for people to notice they lack real knowledge of it internally. — tap to centre the map on it
Easy external access to information makes it harder for people to notice they lack real knowledge of it internally.
Last stated 7 months ago
8 Apr 2026
AC
Anne-Laure Le Cunff — holds since 2026-04-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Feeling that you are learning does not mean you are. — tap to centre the map on it
Feeling that you are learning does not mean you are.
Last stated 5 years ago
24 Sept 2021
DP
David Perell — holds since 2021-09-24 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A person is best understood as a loose jumble of barely intelligent, looping processes producing only the illusion of coherent subjectivity. — tap to centre the map on it
A person is best understood as a loose jumble of barely intelligent, looping processes producing only the illusion of coherent subjectivity.
Last stated a month ago
18 Sept 2026
MW
Matt Webb — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Once an explanation is revealed, people tend to believe they already knew it, even when they did not. — tap to centre the map on it
Once an explanation is revealed, people tend to believe they already knew it, even when they did not.
Last stated 7 months ago
7 Apr 2026
JB
Jamie Brandon — holds since 2026-04-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A framing of an experience can accurately capture how it feels while being wrong about why it happens. — tap to centre the map on it
A framing of an experience can accurately capture how it feels while being wrong about why it happens.
Last stated 2 months ago
19 Aug 2026
KR
Kenneth Reitz — holds since 2026-08-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Simple, practical decisions executed at a really high level often give a feeling of confidence in the experience. — tap to centre the map on it
Simple, practical decisions executed at a really high level often give a feeling of confidence in the experience.
Last stated 3 months ago
29 Jul 2026
CD
Charlie Deets — holds since 2026-07-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: When exploring, you want to feel in reality as quickly as possible what the result of your choices is. — tap to centre the map on it
When exploring, you want to feel in reality as quickly as possible what the result of your choices is.
Last stated 8 months ago
12 Mar 2026
JP
Josh Puckett — holds since 2026-03-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work. — tap to centre the map on it
A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work.
Last stated 3 months ago
14 Aug 2026
SK
Susan Kare — holds since 2026-08-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A culture that is uncompromising but also kind and supportive is the most fertile ground for creativity. — tap to centre the map on it
A culture that is uncompromising but also kind and supportive is the most fertile ground for creativity.
Last stated 7 months ago
12 Apr 2026
ES
Evan Spiegel — holds since 2026-04-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them — tap to centre the map on it
A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
IA
Isaac Asimov — holds since c. 1959 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A persistently rising dividend yield eventually forces capital appreciation as the market rerates the stock. — tap to centre the map on it
A persistently rising dividend yield eventually forces capital appreciation as the market rerates the stock.
Last stated 8 months ago
3 Mar 2026
SB
Sanjay Bakshi — holds since 2026-03-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A proof and an explanation are different things, and a theorem can stay an unsolved expository problem long after it is proved. — tap to centre the map on it
A proof and an explanation are different things, and a theorem can stay an unsolved expository problem long after it is proved.
Last stated 4 months ago
30 Jun 2026
GS
Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent. — tap to centre the map on it
A stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent.
Last stated 4 months ago
30 Jun 2026
GS
Grant Sanderson — holds since 2026-06-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A compound's AI origin story is not by itself a reason to expect it to do better in the clinic. — tap to centre the map on it
A compound's AI origin story is not by itself a reason to expect it to do better in the clinic.
Last stated 2 years ago
13 May 2024
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Derek Lowe — holds since 2024-05-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck. — tap to centre the map on it
A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck.
Last stated 2 years ago
17 Sept 2024
AT
Alex Telford — holds since 2024-09-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A computational method can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even when no similar structure is known. — tap to centre the map on it
A computational method can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even when no similar structure is known.
Last stated 5 years ago
15 Jul 2021
DH
Demis Hassabis — holds since 2021-07-15 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2015 to today — full is today a face: someone who holds the claim — tap it for who they are