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← Modern people are both more selfish and more guilt-stricken than people in the past.

17 connected korrents · 14 moments from 5 Nov 2019 to 24 Sept 2026.

Everything filed under benchmarks benchmarks Everything filed under ARC-AGI ARC-AGI Everything filed under happiness happiness Everything filed under curiosity curiosity Everything filed under religion religion Everything filed under taste taste Everything filed under war war Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Modern people are both more selfish and more guilt-stricken than people in the past. Modern people are both more selfish andmore guilt-stricken than people in thepast. Last stated 3 months ago 7 Aug 2026 DT Derek Thompson — holds since 2026-08-07 — tap for who they are Same subject: Modernity probably brings more unhappiness than the past; acquiring things does not make people permanently happier. — tap to centre the map on it Modernity probably brings moreunhappiness than the past; acquiringthings does not make peoplepermanently happier. Last stated 6 years ago 12 Mar 2021 NR Naval Ravikant — holds since 2021-03-12 — tap for who they are Same subject: Condemning people of the past by modern moral standards gets in the way of understanding them. — tap to centre the map on it Condemning people of the past bymodern moral standards gets in theway of understanding them. Last stated a month ago 24 Sept 2026 MP Massimo Pigliucci — holds since 2026-09-24 — tap for who they are Same subject: The accepted model of how archaic and modern humans relate has been accreted and patched rather than built, and is due for a simpler replacement. — tap to centre the map on it The accepted model of how archaicand modern humans relate has beenaccreted and patched rather thanbuilt, and is due for a simplerreplacement. Last stated 6 months ago 8 May 2026 DR David Reich — holds since 2026-05-08 — tap for who they are Same subject: The problems of contemporary society are fundamentally religious in nature. — tap to centre the map on it The problems of contemporary societyare fundamentally religious innature. Last stated 2 months ago 2 Sept 2026 AH Ava Huang — holds since 2026-09-02 — tap for who they are Same subject: The price of progress in civilization is paid in lost happiness, through a heightened sense of guilt — tap to centre the map on it The price of progress incivilization is paid in losthappiness, through a heightenedsense of guilt SF Sigmund Freud — holds since c. 1930 — tap for who they are Same subject: The present age is destroying the beautiful in life — tap to centre the map on it The present age is destroying thebeautiful in life OK Okakura Kakuzō — holds since c. 1906 — tap for who they are Same subject: That everyone believes childhood has got worse is not evidence that it has, because every generation has believed it. — tap to centre the map on it That everyone believes childhood hasgot worse is not evidence that ithas, because every generation hasbelieved it. Last stated 2 months ago 31 Aug 2026 PB Paul Bloom — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are Same subject: The world is not as far as people like to imagine from mass, global, industrial-scale death, and is likely only a few decades from it. — tap to centre the map on it The world is not as far as peoplelike to imagine from mass, global,industrial-scale death, and islikely only a few decades from it. Last stated 4 months ago 18 Jul 2026 MA Maggie Appleton — holds since 2026-07-18 — tap for who they are Same subject: 'Everyone gets it wrong sometimes' is a bad argument when assessing track records. — tap to centre the map on it 'Everyone gets it wrong sometimes'is a bad argument when assessingtrack records. Last stated 3 months ago 2 Aug 2026 AK Adam Kucharski — holds since 2026-08-02 — tap for who they are Same subject: A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number. — tap to centre the map on it A benchmark result should bereported under a stated budget, oras a curve against test-time compute— never as a single number. Last stated 4 months ago 26 Jun 2026 NB Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year. — tap to centre the map on it A benchmark that ranks Claude Codelast while it stays first in use ismeasuring the wrong thing, and hasbeen for a year. Last stated 2 months ago 3 Sept 2026 DR Dax Raad — holds since 2026-09-03 — tap for who they are Same subject: A model's capability is now a function of how much money you spend on it, so asking what a model can do means nothing until you name a budget. — tap to centre the map on it A model's capability is now afunction of how much money you spendon it, so asking what a model can domeans nothing until you name abudget. Last stated 4 months ago 26 Jun 2026 NB Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: Language models perform better on benchmark problems released before their training data cutoff, indicating data contamination inflates scores. — tap to centre the map on it Language models perform better onbenchmark problems released beforetheir training data cutoff,indicating data contaminationinflates scores. Last stated 2 years ago 13 May 2024 SR Sebastian Ruder — holds since 2024-05-13 — tap for who they are Same subject: Model comparisons understate real progress, because benchmark tables do not control for how much test-time compute each answer used. — tap to centre the map on it Model comparisons understate realprogress, because benchmark tablesdo not control for how muchtest-time compute each answer used. Last stated 4 months ago 26 Jun 2026 NB Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus can measure human-like general fluid intelligence and enable fair comparisons between AI systems and humans. — tap to centre the map on it The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpuscan measure human-like general fluidintelligence and enable faircomparisons between AI systems andhumans. Last stated 7 years ago 5 Nov 2019 FC François Chollet — holds since 2019-11-05 — tap for who they are Same subject: Combining an avocado and a chair into one image is evidence a model conceptually understands both, not that it memorised pictures of them. — tap to centre the map on it Combining an avocado and a chairinto one image is evidence a modelconceptually understands both, notthat it memorised pictures of them. Last stated 3 months ago 12 Aug 2026 CF Chelsea Finn — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are Same subject: Passing ARC-AGI does not amount to achieving AGI: o3 still fails on some very easy tasks, indicating fundamental differences from human intelligence. — tap to centre the map on it Passing ARC-AGI does not amount toachieving AGI: o3 still fails onsome very easy tasks, indicatingfundamental differences from humanintelligence. Last stated 2 years ago 20 Dec 2024 FC François Chollet — holds since 2024-12-20 — tap for who they are
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At the centre Modern people are both more selfish and more guilt-stricken than people in the past. Last stated 7 Aug 2026 · 3 months ago Holds Derek Thompson Read this korrent →