# korrents

> A public record of dated positions people hold, each with a link to the
> source, and of when they changed their minds.
> Positions are append-only: a revision adds a version, it never overwrites
> one, so the history of a claim is intact.

Two kinds of profile appear here. **Members** signed up and posted their own
positions. **Archive profiles** are compiled
from public figures' published statements; those people did not sign up, every
archive position carries a verbatim quote and a link to where it was said, and
a confidence number appears only where the person stated that number
themselves. An archive profile is not written or endorsed by its subject.

## People
- [Aaron Levie](https://korrents.com/u/aaron-levie): CEO of Box. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Aaron Patterson](https://korrents.com/u/aaron-patterson): Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Abraham Lincoln](https://korrents.com/u/abraham-lincoln): 16th president of the United States (1809 to 1865), in office from 1861 to 1865. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ada Lovelace](https://korrents.com/u/ada-lovelace): English mathematician and writer (1815 to 1852), chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed analytical engine; she translated Luigi Menabrea's paper on it and added seven explanatory notes. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ada Palmer](https://korrents.com/u/ada-palmer): Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas, professor at the University of Chicago, author of Inventing the Renaissance and the Terra Ignota novels, and writer of the blog Ex Urbe. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Adam Frank](https://korrents.com/u/adam-frank): Professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester, who works on star and planet formation, the search for technosignatures, and the astrobiology of civilisations. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Adam Grant](https://korrents.com/u/adam-grant): Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Adam Mastroianni](https://korrents.com/u/adam-mastroianni) (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Adam Mosseri](https://korrents.com/u/adam-mosseri): Head of Instagram since 2018, previously head of Facebook's News Feed. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Adam Smith](https://korrents.com/u/adam-smith): Scottish moral philosopher and economist (1723 to 1790); held the chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow University from 1752 to 1764; author of The Wealth of Nations. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Adam Tooze](https://korrents.com/u/adam-tooze): Economic historian, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, and author of Wages of Destruction, Crashed and Shutdown. Writes the Chartbook newsletter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Adam Ward](https://korrents.com/u/adam-ward): Head of Talent at Cursor; co-founded the recruiting and talent-strategy firm Growth by Design, which Cursor acquired in November 2025. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Adam Wiggins](https://korrents.com/u/adam-wiggins): Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Addy Osmani](https://korrents.com/u/addy-osmani): Engineering leader and author who spent 14 years at Google, most of it on Chrome and Chrome DevTools, rising from software engineer to director of engineering, and who created TodoMVC and helped push Core Web Vitals. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Aidan N. Gomez](https://korrents.com/u/aidan-gomez): One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at University of Toronto; per the paper's own contribution note, designed and implemented parts of tensor2tensor, the codebase that replaced the team's earlier one. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ajeya Cotra](https://korrents.com/u/ajeya-cotra): AI researcher and grantmaker, known for the biological-anchors work on when transformative AI might arrive. Writes Planned Obsolescence with Kelsey Piper. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Al-Ghazali](https://korrents.com/u/al-ghazali): Persian philosopher, theologian, jurist and mystic of Sunni Islam (c. 1056 to 1111); taught at the Nizamiyya Madrasa in Baghdad until 1095 and in Nishapur from 1106; author of Deliverance from Error. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alan Castel](https://korrents.com/u/alan-castel): Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Albert Camus](https://korrents.com/u/albert-camus): French writer and philosopher (1913 to 1960), born in Algeria, author of The Stranger, The Plague and The Myth of Sisyphus, and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Albert Cheng](https://korrents.com/u/albert-cheng): Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Albert Einstein](https://korrents.com/u/albert-einstein): Theoretical physicist (1879 to 1955), born in Ulm, Germany; awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for services to theoretical physics, especially the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Albert-László Barabási](https://korrents.com/u/albert-laszlo-barabasi): Network scientist at Northeastern University, and co-author of the model that explains why large networks are scale-free. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alex Hutchinson](https://korrents.com/u/alex-hutchinson): Exercise-science journalist; writes the Sweat Science column for Outside and a newsletter of the same name, and is the author of Endure and The Explorer’s Gene. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alex Imas](https://korrents.com/u/alex-imas): Behavioural economist at Chicago Booth, professor of behavioural science and economics and director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alex Ross](https://korrents.com/u/alex-ross): Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alex Tabarrok](https://korrents.com/u/alex-tabarrok): Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alex Telford](https://korrents.com/u/alex-telford): Writer on biotechnology and the economics of drug development, with a background working in and around the pharmaceutical industry. He writes long, sourced essays at atelfo.github.io on why drugs are hard to discover, what regulation does to that, and where the industry is going. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alexandr Wang](https://korrents.com/u/alexandr-wang): Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alexey Guzey](https://korrents.com/u/alexey-guzey): Writer and founder of New Science, an organisation set up to build new institutions for the life sciences. He is best known for a line-by-line audit of the sleep researcher Matthew Walker's bestseller, and for a year of interviews with more than sixty working biologists about how their field actually works. He writes at guzey.com and rewrites himself in public. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alfred Korzybski](https://korrents.com/u/alfred-korzybski): Polish-American scholar (1879 to 1950) who founded general semantics; author of Science and Sanity (1933), where he wrote that a map is not the territory it represents; founded the Institute of General Semantics in 1938. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alice Evans](https://korrents.com/u/alice-evans): Senior lecturer in international development at King's College London, writing The Great Gender Divergence at ggd.world. She compares why men's and women's lives are converging in some societies and diverging in others, mixing survey data with her own interviews across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alice Ryhl](https://korrents.com/u/alice-ryhl): Software engineer on Google's Android Rust team, a core maintainer of the Tokio async runtime and an adviser to the Rust language team. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alice Schroeder](https://korrents.com/u/alice-schroeder): American financial analyst and writer; Berkshire Hathaway's leading insurance analyst at Morgan Stanley, then Warren Buffett's authorised biographer, author of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (2008). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Allan Odgaard](https://korrents.com/u/allan-odgaard): Danish Mac developer; author of the TextMate text editor and founder of MacroMates. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Alon Levy](https://korrents.com/u/alon-levy): Mathematician turned transport researcher, a fellow at NYU's Marron Institute and a lead of the Transit Costs Project, which compares what it costs to build rail in different countries. Writes Pedestrian Observations. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Amanda Askell](https://korrents.com/u/amanda-askell): Philosopher at Anthropic working on finetuning and AI alignment, as of 2024; previously a research scientist on OpenAI's policy team, with a PhD in philosophy from NYU. Writes at askell.blog. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Amelia Wattenberger](https://korrents.com/u/amelia-wattenberger): Designer and engineer; formerly principal research engineer at GitHub Next; now at Adept; writes at wattenberger.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ami Vora](https://korrents.com/u/ami-vora): Leads product at Anthropic, which she joined at the end of 2025; previously chief product officer at Faire, and fifteen years at Meta, the last of them as vice president of product and design at WhatsApp. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Amit Merchant](https://korrents.com/u/amit-merchant): Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Anders Hejlsberg](https://korrents.com/u/anders-hejlsberg): Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Andrej Karpathy](https://korrents.com/u/andrej-karpathy): Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding". (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Andrew Batson](https://korrents.com/u/andrew-batson): China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Andrew Chen](https://korrents.com/u/andrew-chen): General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Andrew Dessler](https://korrents.com/u/andrew-dessler): Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Andrew Gelman](https://korrents.com/u/andrew-gelman): Statistician and political scientist at Columbia University. Writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, where he prints corrections to his own posts as posts of their own. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Andrew Huberman](https://korrents.com/u/andrew-huberman): Professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine; hosts the Huberman Lab podcast on neuroscience, health and performance. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Andrew Kelley](https://korrents.com/u/andrew-kelley): Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Andy Galpin](https://korrents.com/u/andy-galpin): Exercise scientist at California State University, Fullerton, where he teaches and researches human performance; host of the Perform podcast. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Andy Madrick](https://korrents.com/u/andy-madrick): Product designer who led the design of Notion's meeting notes as of May 2026, previously at Tome and Mercury. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Andy Masley](https://korrents.com/u/andy-masley): Writer on AI and the environment, publishing long quantitative posts at blog.andymasley.com that check the arithmetic behind claims about what data centres do to local water, land and electricity. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Anil Dash](https://korrents.com/u/anil-dash): Technologist and writer, a blogger since 1999, formerly chief executive of Glitch and a board member of the Data & Society Research Institute. His 2012 essay "The Web We Lost" is one of the founding texts of the argument that the open web has been enclosed. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Anil Seth](https://korrents.com/u/anil-seth): Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Anish Acharya](https://korrents.com/u/anish-acharya): General partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), focused on consumer investing; previously founded SocialDeck, sold to Google, and Snowball, sold to Credit Karma, where he became VP of Product and then GM of its consumer product and credit card business. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ann Handley](https://korrents.com/u/ann-handley): Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Anne Applebaum](https://korrents.com/u/anne-applebaum): American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Annie Jacobsen](https://korrents.com/u/annie-jacobsen): Investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of Area 51, Operation Paperclip, Surprise, Kill, Vanish and Nuclear War: A Scenario. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Annie Wright](https://korrents.com/u/annie-wright): Licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and executive coach; writes on relational trauma, family systems and therapy modalities including EMDR, schema therapy and EFT. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Anthony Sculimbrene](https://korrents.com/u/anthony-sculimbrene): Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Anton Howes](https://korrents.com/u/anton-howes): Historian of innovation, writing the newsletter Age of Invention on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and on how inventions actually came about. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Aravind Srinivas](https://korrents.com/u/aravind-srinivas): Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Arielle Schwartz](https://korrents.com/u/arielle-schwartz): Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Aristotle](https://korrents.com/u/aristotle): Greek philosopher (384 to 322 BCE); studied in Plato's Academy until 347 BCE; founded the Lyceum in Athens in 335 BCE. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Armin Ronacher](https://korrents.com/u/armin-ronacher): Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Arnold Kling](https://korrents.com/u/arnold-kling): Economist, formerly of the Federal Reserve Board and Freddie Mac, and one of the original EconLog bloggers. He writes about macroeconomics, housing finance and the limits of economic modelling, and has published his own post-mortems on what he failed to see before the 2008 financial crisis. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Arnold Schwarzenegger](https://korrents.com/u/arnold-schwarzenegger): Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor and Republican politician (born 1947) who was governor of California from 2003 to 2011. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Arthur C. Brooks](https://korrents.com/u/arthur-c-brooks): Social scientist who writes about happiness; president of the American Enterprise Institute from 2009 to 2019, professor at Harvard from 2019 to 2026, and a Vanderbilt professor from July 2026; author of From Strength to Strength. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Arthur Schopenhauer](https://korrents.com/u/arthur-schopenhauer): German philosopher (1788 to 1860); author of The World as Will and Representation (1818) and Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), from which his essays on the wisdom of life are drawn. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Arvid Kahl](https://korrents.com/u/arvid-kahl): Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ashish Vaswani](https://korrents.com/u/ashish-vaswani): One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Brain; per the paper's own contribution note, designed and implemented the first Transformer models, with Illia Polosukhin, and was involved in every aspect of the work. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Aswath Damodaran](https://korrents.com/u/aswath-damodaran): Professor of finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. Publishes his valuations, spreadsheets and data openly at Musings on Markets, and revises them in public when the numbers move against him. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Atul Gawande](https://korrents.com/u/atul-gawande): American surgeon, writer and public health researcher; general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, New Yorker writer, author of Being Mortal and The Checklist Manifesto. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Augustine of Hippo](https://korrents.com/u/augustine-of-hippo): Christian philosopher and theologian (354 to 430), born in Thagaste in Roman Africa; bishop of Hippo Regius from about 396 to 430; author of the Confessions. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Auren Hoffman](https://korrents.com/u/auren-hoffman): CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Austin Kleon](https://korrents.com/u/austin-kleon): American writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work! and Keep Going, and maker of blackout poems. He has blogged at austinkleon.com since 2005. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Austin Vernon](https://korrents.com/u/austin-vernon): Engineer and investor who writes quantitative posts about how physical industries actually work — chemical plants, geothermal drilling, shipyards, thermal storage and the economics of low-volume manufacturing — at austinvernon.site. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ava Huang](https://korrents.com/u/ava-huang): Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Awais Aftab](https://korrents.com/u/awais-aftab): Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific debates inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Balaji Srinivasan](https://korrents.com/u/balaji-srinivasan): Co-founder of Counsyl and of Earn.com; a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and chief technology officer of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019. Wrote The Network State, which he publishes free and in full at thenetworkstate.com, and writes at balajis.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Barry Ritholtz](https://korrents.com/u/barry-ritholtz): Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Baruch Spinoza](https://korrents.com/u/baruch-spinoza): Dutch philosopher (1632 to 1677), born in Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community; died in The Hague; author of the Ethics and the Theological-Political Treatise. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ben Carlson](https://korrents.com/u/ben-carlson): Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management and author of the blog A Wealth of Common Sense, which argues most of investing is behaviour rather than analysis. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ben Horowitz](https://korrents.com/u/ben-horowitz): American entrepreneur and venture capitalist; co-founder and CEO of Loudcloud/Opsware, co-founder of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in 2009, and author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things (2014). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ben Kuhn](https://korrents.com/u/ben-kuhn): Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ben Thompson](https://korrents.com/u/ben-thompson): Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ben Vinegar](https://korrents.com/u/ben-vinegar): Co-founder of Modem, and before it VP of Engineering at Sentry. Joined Sentry as its founding engineer; builds hunk.dev and runs the DevTools Toronto meetup. Posts as @bentlegen. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Benedict Evans](https://korrents.com/u/benedict-evans): Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Benjamin Franklin](https://korrents.com/u/benjamin-franklin): American printer, scientist and statesman (1706 to 1790); served on the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence; commissioner to France from 1776 to 1785. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bennett Foddy](https://korrents.com/u/bennett-foddy): Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Benny Lewis](https://korrents.com/u/benny-lewis): Irish writer who spent his twenties travelling and speaking; he now speaks about a dozen languages and none of them from a classroom. Founded Fluent in 3 Months, whose one instruction is to start speaking on the first day rather than waiting until you are ready. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bertrand Russell](https://korrents.com/u/bertrand-russell): British philosopher and logician (1872 to 1970), also a social critic; co-author with Alfred North Whitehead of Principia Mathematica (1910 to 1913), author of The Problems of Philosophy (1912), awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bill Ackman](https://korrents.com/u/bill-ackman): Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bill Gates](https://korrents.com/u/bill-gates): Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bill Gurley](https://korrents.com/u/bill-gurley): General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bill McKibben](https://korrents.com/u/bill-mckibben): Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989 and founded 350.org and Third Act. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bjorn Fehrm](https://korrents.com/u/bjorn-fehrm): Aeronautical engineer, former fighter pilot and airline executive, now an analyst at Leeham Company writing the weekly Bjorn's Corner on aircraft economics and design. He works from an aircraft performance model and has spent years checking the arithmetic of electric, hybrid and hydrogen aviation projects against it. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Blaise Pascal](https://korrents.com/u/blaise-pascal): French mathematician and philosopher (1623 to 1662); also a physicist; author of the Provincial Letters (1656 to 1657) and the posthumously published Pensées. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Blake Scholl](https://korrents.com/u/blake-scholl): Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bob Nystrom](https://korrents.com/u/bob-nystrom): Programming language engineer on the Dart team at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters. He writes about language design at journal.stuffwithstuff.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Booker T. Washington](https://korrents.com/u/booker-t-washington): American educator, author and orator (1856 to 1915); the primary leader of the African-American community from 1890 to 1915; author of Up from Slavery. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Boris Cherny](https://korrents.com/u/boris-cherny): Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brad DeLong](https://korrents.com/u/brad-delong): Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brad Feld](https://korrents.com/u/brad-feld): Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brad Stulberg](https://korrents.com/u/brad-stulberg): Writer and coach on performance, well-being and excellence; author of The Way of Excellence, Master of Change and The Practice of Groundedness, co-author of Peak Performance and The Passion Paradox, and writes The Growth Equation. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brad Templeton](https://korrents.com/u/brad-templeton): Software architect and writer who has been publishing about robocars since before they existed, an early consultant to Google's self-driving car team and later a Forbes columnist on the subject. He has made dated public predictions about when robotaxis would arrive and has gone back to score them. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brandon Jacoby](https://korrents.com/u/brandon-jacoby): Designer who has worked at Cash App, Capital and X, and now runs an independent design practice. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brandon Taylor](https://korrents.com/u/brandon-taylor): American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Branko Milanovic](https://korrents.com/u/branko-milanovic): Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brendan Gregg](https://korrents.com/u/brendan-gregg): Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bret Devereaux](https://korrents.com/u/bret-devereaux): Ancient and military historian specialising in the economy of the ancient Mediterranean, who writes the long-form blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry on pre-modern economies, logistics and warfare, and on what popular history, film and games get wrong about them. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bret Taylor](https://korrents.com/u/bret-taylor): Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bret Victor](https://korrents.com/u/bret-victor): Interface designer and researcher; formerly a human-interface inventor at Apple; founder of Dynamicland. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brett Terpstra](https://korrents.com/u/brett-terpstra): Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brett Williams](https://korrents.com/u/brett-williams): Founder of Designjoy, the one-person subscription design studio. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brian Chesky](https://korrents.com/u/brian-chesky): Co-founder and chief executive of Airbnb. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brian G. Chow](https://korrents.com/u/brian-g-chow): Independent policy analyst on space and national security, formerly of the RAND Corporation, who writes on counterspace weapons and rules for keeping satellites safe. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brian Lovin](https://korrents.com/u/brian-lovin): Product designer at Notion working on AI products, and maker of the read-it-later app Shiori. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Brian Potter](https://korrents.com/u/brian-potter): Structural engineer and writer, author of the Construction Physics newsletter, where he takes apart how large physical things — buildings, ships, semiconductor fabs, aeroplanes — actually get made, and why the cost of making them moves the way it does. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bruce Schneier](https://korrents.com/u/bruce-schneier): Security technologist and author, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He has written about the economics and politics of security at schneier.com since 2004, and coined much of the vocabulary the encryption debate is argued in. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bryan Caplan](https://korrents.com/u/bryan-caplan) (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Bryan Johnson](https://korrents.com/u/bryan-johnson): Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint; publishes a detailed longevity protocol documenting what he eats, takes and measures. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Buck Shlegeris](https://korrents.com/u/buck-shlegeris): CEO of Redwood Research, where he works on AI control: making sure a powerful model cannot cause a catastrophe even if it is misaligned and trying to. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Byrne Hobart](https://korrents.com/u/byrne-hobart): Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [C. S. Lewis](https://korrents.com/u/c-s-lewis): British writer and literary scholar (1898 to 1963) who taught at Oxford and Cambridge, author of the Chronicles of Narnia and of Christian apologetics including Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Cal Newport](https://korrents.com/u/cal-newport): Computer science professor at Georgetown and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity. He has written the blog Study Hacks since 2007 and contributes to The New Yorker. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Camille Fournier](https://korrents.com/u/camille-fournier): Engineering leader, formerly CTO of Rent the Runway and head of platform engineering at Two Sigma, and a longtime committer on Apache ZooKeeper. Author of "The Manager’s Path" and "Platform Engineering". Writes at Elided Branches about management, career ladders and the technical track. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Carlos Alexandro Becker](https://korrents.com/u/carlos-becker): Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Carol Dweck](https://korrents.com/u/carol-dweck): Psychologist at Stanford University, where she holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology; known for research on motivation and mindset and the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Casey Handmer](https://korrents.com/u/casey-handmer): Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and founder of Terraform Industries, which is building plant to make synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. Writes about energy, space and manufacturing at caseyhandmer.wordpress.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Casey Muratori](https://korrents.com/u/casey-muratori): Game and engine programmer, creator of Handmade Hero and of the Computer Enhance course on performance-aware programming, and a long-standing critic of object-oriented design orthodoxy. He worked on the user interface of Jonathan Blow's The Witness, which is the codebase his writing on compression-oriented programming draws its examples from. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Casey Newton](https://korrents.com/u/casey-newton): Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Cassidy Williams](https://korrents.com/u/cassidy-williams): Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Cate Hall](https://korrents.com/u/cate-hall): Former Supreme Court litigator and the top-ranked female poker player in the world, later co-founder and COO of the pandemic-medicine company Alvea. Writes at Useful Fictions about agency, and turned the essay quoted here into the book "You Can Just Do Things". (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Celso Martinho](https://korrents.com/u/celso-martinho): Vice president of engineering at Cloudflare as of 2026, based in Lisbon; founded SAPO and Bright Pixel earlier. Writes at celso.io about retrocomputing and on the Cloudflare blog about Kitesurf and agents. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Chamath Palihapitiya](https://korrents.com/u/chamath-palihapitiya): Founder and CEO of the venture firm Social Capital, co-host of the All-In podcast, and an early executive at Facebook. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Charan Ranganath](https://korrents.com/u/charan-ranganath): Professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California, Davis, where he directs the Dynamic Memory Lab, and author of Why We Remember. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Charity Majors](https://korrents.com/u/charity-majors): Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab. Co-author of "Database Reliability Engineering" and "Observability Engineering". Writes at charity.wtf about on-call, hierarchy, hiring and the engineer/manager pendulum. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Charles Darwin](https://korrents.com/u/charles-darwin): British naturalist (1809 to 1882), born in Shrewsbury; sailed as naturalist on the five-year voyage of HMS Beagle from 1831; author of On the Origin of Species. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Charles Fain Lehman](https://korrents.com/u/charles-fain-lehman): Fellow at the Manhattan Institute working on crime, drugs and disorder, and author of the newsletter The Causal Fallacy. Writes in favour of enforcement and prohibition on empirical rather than moral grounds. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Charles Marohn](https://korrents.com/u/charles-marohn): Civil engineer and land use planner, founder and president of Strong Towns, author of Escaping the Housing Trap. Argues that the American pattern of development since the Second World War does not generate enough wealth to maintain the infrastructure it obliges cities to keep. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Charlie Deets](https://korrents.com/u/charlie-deets): Designer at The Browser Company working on Dia, previously on the Human Interface Design team at Apple and the fourth designer at WhatsApp. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Charlie Munger](https://korrents.com/u/charlie-munger): Warren Buffett's business partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway; also chaired Wesco Financial Corporation from 1984 to 2011, where he wrote its annual letters himself. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Chelsea Finn](https://korrents.com/u/chelsea-finn): Assistant professor of computer science at Stanford, and co-founder of the robot foundation-model company Physical Intelligence. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Chip Huyen](https://korrents.com/u/chip-huyen): Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Chris Blattman](https://korrents.com/u/chris-blattman): Economist and political scientist at the University of Chicago, who runs randomised trials on poverty, employment and violence in Uganda, Liberia and Colombia, and is one of the researchers whose work made cash transfers a mainstream aid instrument. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Chris Coyier](https://korrents.com/u/chris-coyier): Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Chris Dalla Riva](https://korrents.com/u/chris-dalla-riva): Musician and data analyst; writes Can't Get Much Higher, working through the history of popular music from the charts and the recordings. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Chris Smaje](https://korrents.com/u/chris-smaje): Social scientist turned smallholder, who ran a market garden in Somerset for fifteen years and writes the Small Farm Future blog. Author of A Small Farm Future and Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, the book-length reply to George Monbiot's Regenesis, and the leading English-language voice for agrarian localism against ecomodernist food technology. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Chris Wellons](https://korrents.com/u/chris-wellons): Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Christopher Alexander](https://korrents.com/u/christopher-alexander): Architect and design theorist (1936 to 2022); author of A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Christopher Olah](https://korrents.com/u/chris-olah): Interpretability researcher at Anthropic, which he co-founded; before that at OpenAI and Google Brain. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Cicero](https://korrents.com/u/cicero): Roman statesman, orator and philosopher (106 to 43 BCE); consul in 63 BCE; author of On Duties. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Claire Vo](https://korrents.com/u/claire-vo): Founder of ChatPRD and host of the How I AI podcast; previously chief product and technology officer at LaunchDarkly, Color Health and Optimizely, which acquired her startup Experiment Engine. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Clay Bavor](https://korrents.com/u/clay-bavor): Co-founder of the AI agent company Sierra, and previously an eighteen-year Google executive who ran product for Workspace, virtual and augmented reality, and Google Labs. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Cliff Asness](https://korrents.com/u/cliff-asness): Co-founder of AQR Capital Management; quantitative investor and writer. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Colin Percival](https://korrents.com/u/colin-percival): FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Confucius](https://korrents.com/u/confucius): Chinese teacher and thinker (traditionally dated 551 to 479 BCE), born in Zou and an official in Lu; his teachings survive as sayings in the Analects, which an early account says his first and second generation disciples compiled. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Cory Doctorow](https://korrents.com/u/cory-doctorow): Science fiction novelist, journalist and activist, a special adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the author of the daily link blog Pluralistic. He coined the word "enshittification" in 2022 to name the way platforms decay, and it was the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2023. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Craig Hockenberry](https://korrents.com/u/craig-hockenberry): Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Craig Mod](https://korrents.com/u/craig-mod): Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dan Ariely](https://korrents.com/u/dan-ariely): Behavioral economist and Duke University psychology professor; James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics and founding director of the Center for Advanced Hindsight; author of Predictably Irrational. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dan Houser](https://korrents.com/u/dan-houser): Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dan Luu](https://korrents.com/u/dan-luu): Programmer who has worked on hardware verification at Centaur, on infrastructure at Microsoft and Google, and latterly at Wave. He writes long, data-heavy posts at danluu.com that test the software industry's folk wisdom against whatever evidence can actually be found. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dan Meyer](https://korrents.com/u/dan-meyer): Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dan Shipper](https://korrents.com/u/dan-shipper): Co-founder and chief executive of Every, the AI-focused writing and software studio behind Cora, Spiral and Proof. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dan Wang](https://korrents.com/u/dan-wang): Writer and analyst of Chinese technology and industry, for years based in Beijing and Shanghai, best known for his annual letters and for the argument that manufacturing capability lives in accumulated process knowledge rather than in tools or intellectual property. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dane Knecht](https://korrents.com/u/dane-knecht): Chief Technical Officer of Cloudflare as of 2026, based in Austin, Texas. Writes on the Cloudflare blog about outages, resilience and how Cloudflare packages its products. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Daniel Cook](https://korrents.com/u/daniel-cook): Game designer and social-systems designer, chief creative officer at Spry Fox and co-creator of Triple Town, Alphabear and Cozy Grove. Has written about game design theory, prosocial multiplayer and the economics of making games at Lost Garden since 2004. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Daniel Coyle](https://korrents.com/u/daniel-coyle): Author of The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent and The Culture Code, writing on how skills and group cultures are built. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Daniel Dennett](https://korrents.com/u/daniel-dennett): American philosopher of mind and cognitive scientist (1942 to 2024), co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University; author of Consciousness Explained, Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Breaking the Spell. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Daniel Herriges](https://korrents.com/u/daniel-herriges): Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping the Housing Trap, and policy director at the Parking Reform Network. Wrote for Strong Towns from 2015, mostly about how housing markets actually set prices. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Daniel Kahneman](https://korrents.com/u/daniel-kahneman): Psychologist and Nobel laureate (1934 to 2024); shared the 2002 Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences for integrating psychological research into economics; with Amos Tversky, developed prospect theory and the study of heuristics and biases. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Daniel Lemire](https://korrents.com/u/daniel-lemire): Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Daniel Schacter](https://korrents.com/u/daniel-schacter): American psychologist; William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, researching memory, amnesia, memory distortion and future simulation; author of The Seven Sins of Memory (2001). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Daniel Stenberg](https://korrents.com/u/daniel-stenberg): Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Daniel W. Drezner](https://korrents.com/u/daniel-drezner): Political scientist writing Drezner’s World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Daniela Amodei](https://korrents.com/u/daniela-amodei): Co-founder and President of Anthropic, as of 2026; previously spent almost six years at Stripe. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Danny Martinez](https://korrents.com/u/danny-martinez): Co-founder and CEO of Decimals, the scout network for hiring designers that powers the Dive Talent Network. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dario Amodei](https://korrents.com/u/dario-amodei): Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Daron Acemoglu](https://korrents.com/u/daron-acemoglu): Institute Professor of economics at MIT and a Nobel laureate, who works on technology, institutions and labour. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dave Hone](https://korrents.com/u/dave-hone): Palaeontologist and reader in zoology at Queen Mary University of London, who studies the behaviour and ecology of dinosaurs and pterosaurs and co-hosts the Terrible Lizards podcast. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dave Rupert](https://korrents.com/u/dave-rupert): Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [David Crawshaw](https://korrents.com/u/david-crawshaw): Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [David Deutsch](https://korrents.com/u/david-deutsch): Physicist at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of quantum computation; author of The Fabric of Reality (1997) and The Beginning of Infinity (2011). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [David Epstein](https://korrents.com/u/david-epstein): Writer on generalists and how people learn; author of Range (2019) and The Sports Gene (2013) and the Range Widely newsletter; formerly a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [David Heinemeier Hansson](https://korrents.com/u/dhh): Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [David Hume](https://korrents.com/u/david-hume): Scottish philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment (1711 to 1776), born in Edinburgh; author of A Treatise of Human Nature, the Enquiries, and a History of England. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [David MacKay](https://korrents.com/u/david-mackay): Physicist. Professor at the University of Cambridge from 1995 to his death in 2016, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change from 2009 to 2014. Wrote Sustainable Energy — without the hot air (2008), which he published free at withouthotair.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [David Perell](https://korrents.com/u/david-perell): Founder of Write of Passage, an online writing school; writes and podcasts (How I Write) about writing, media and the creator economy. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [David Reich](https://korrents.com/u/david-reich): Geneticist at Harvard Medical School, whose laboratory studies human history and biological change through ancient DNA. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [David Roberts](https://korrents.com/u/david-roberts): Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology, politics and policy of decarbonisation; covered energy and climate at Vox and Grist before that. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [David Sparks](https://korrents.com/u/david-sparks): Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [David Spiegelhalter](https://korrents.com/u/david-spiegelhalter): Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Davis Kedrosky](https://korrents.com/u/davis-kedrosky): Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dax Raad](https://korrents.com/u/dax-raad): Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Co-hosts the How About Tomorrow? podcast with Adam Elmore. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dean W. Ball](https://korrents.com/u/dean-ball): Head of strategic futures at OpenAI, writing in his own name. Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on emerging technology and the future of governance. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Deb Perelman](https://korrents.com/u/deb-perelman): Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Demis Hassabis](https://korrents.com/u/demis-hassabis): Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Derek Lowe](https://korrents.com/u/derek-lowe): Medicinal chemist. He has worked on preclinical drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry since 1989, across several companies and therapeutic areas, and has written the drug-discovery blog 'In the Pipeline' since 2002 - the longest-running blog in the field, editorially independent and hosted by Science. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Derek Sivers](https://korrents.com/u/derek-sivers): Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books, 550+ articles, and a site at sive.rs he hand-codes and keeps free of advertising. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Derek Thompson](https://korrents.com/u/derek-thompson): Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein and a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Derek Yu](https://korrents.com/u/derek-yu): Independent game developer, creator of Spelunky and Aquaria and co-creator of UFO 50, and the founder of the indie-games site TIGSource. Writes about the craft and the discipline of making games at derekyu.com and, earlier, at makegames.tumblr.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Des Traynor](https://korrents.com/u/des-traynor): Co-founder of Intercom; writes on product and design at intercom.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Desiderius Erasmus](https://korrents.com/u/desiderius-erasmus): Dutch humanist scholar and theologian (1469 to 1536), born in Rotterdam; editor of the Greek New Testament and author of the Adages. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dex Horthy](https://korrents.com/u/dex-horthy): Founder of the agent company HumanLayer, author of the 12-factor agents principles, and the engineer who put the name "context engineering" on the practice. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Diana Fosha](https://korrents.com/u/diana-fosha): Psychologist who developed Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Diederik P. Kingma](https://korrents.com/u/diederik-kingma): Machine learning researcher, co-author of the Adam optimizer and of the variational autoencoder. Has worked at OpenAI and Google Brain. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dieter Rams](https://korrents.com/u/dieter-rams): Industrial designer; head of design at Braun from 1961 to 1995; designer of Vitsœ's 606 shelving system; author of the ten principles for good design. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dietrich Vollrath](https://korrents.com/u/dietrich-vollrath): Growth economist at the University of Houston and author of Fully Grown, which argues that the slowdown in rich-world growth is mostly the consequence of success rather than of failure. He blogs about growth accounting at growthecon.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dillon Mulroy](https://korrents.com/u/dillon-mulroy): Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dmitri Dolgov](https://korrents.com/u/dmitri-dolgov): Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Don Norman](https://korrents.com/u/don-norman): Cognitive scientist and designer; author of The Design of Everyday Things; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group; former vice president at Apple; founding director of the Design Lab at UC San Diego. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Donald Trump](https://korrents.com/u/donald-trump): President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Doug O'Laughlin](https://korrents.com/u/doug-olaughlin): Semiconductor analyst, author of the Fabricated Knowledge newsletter and later a partner at SemiAnalysis, writing on the capital cycle in chips: capex, memory supply, packaging, and where the gluts come from. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Drew DeVault](https://korrents.com/u/drew-devault): Free software developer, founder of SourceHut, and creator of the sway window manager, the aerc mail client and the Hare programming language. He has worked full time on free and open source software since around 2018, first on donations and then through his company, and writes at drewdevault.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dylan Field](https://korrents.com/u/dylan-field): Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dylan Patel](https://korrents.com/u/dylan-patel): Founder and chief executive of SemiAnalysis, the research firm that tracks the semiconductor and AI data-centre supply chain. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Dynomight](https://korrents.com/u/dynomight): The pseudonymous author of dynomight.net, who writes carefully argued posts about health claims, statistics and artificial intelligence, and who reads the underlying papers before deciding what to believe. He publishes his own retractions as full posts rather than as footnotes. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ed Barnhart](https://korrents.com/u/ed-barnhart): Archaeologist and director of the Maya Exploration Center, specialising in the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, South America and North America. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ed Bayes](https://korrents.com/u/ed-bayes): Member of Design Staff at OpenAI, where he works on coding agents and leads design for Codex and ChatGPT Work. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ed Zitron](https://korrents.com/u/ed-zitron): Writer and public-relations executive, chief executive of EZPR, author of the newsletter Where’s Your Ed At and host of the podcast Better Offline. Writes combatively about the business of technology, the incentives of executives, and what he calls the Rot Economy. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Edsger W. Dijkstra](https://korrents.com/u/edsger-dijkstra): Dutch computer scientist (1930 to 2002); received the Turing Award in 1972; held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 to 1999; wrote a numbered series of manuscripts known as the EWDs. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Edward Tufte](https://korrents.com/u/edward-tufte): Statistician and professor emeritus at Yale; author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Eleanor Janega](https://korrents.com/u/eleanor-janega): Medieval historian and author, writing the blog Going Medieval on the Middle Ages and on what popular culture gets wrong about them. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Elena Verna](https://korrents.com/u/elena-verna): Leads growth at Lovable; previously led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Eli Dourado](https://korrents.com/u/eli-dourado): Economist writing about why physical technologies — geothermal drilling, supersonic aircraft, cargo airships — stall between being possible and being built, and about the regulation, certification and capital structure that decide which ones get made. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Elie Hassenfeld](https://korrents.com/u/elie-hassenfeld): Co-founder and chief executive of GiveWell, which researches where a donation buys the most measurable good and publishes the arithmetic behind its recommendations. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://korrents.com/u/eliezer-yudkowsky): Co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and the writer who started the modern argument that a sufficiently capable AI would by default kill everyone. Has argued the case since the early 2000s, latterly with the conclusion that it is being lost. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Elio Struyf](https://korrents.com/u/elio-struyf): Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Eliot Peper](https://korrents.com/u/eliot-peper): Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Elizabeth Cady Stanton](https://korrents.com/u/elizabeth-cady-stanton): American writer and activist (1815 to 1902), a leader of the US women's rights movement; the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Elizabeth Stone](https://korrents.com/u/elizabeth-stone): Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Elizabeth Van Nostrand](https://korrents.com/u/elizabeth-van-nostrand): Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Elliot Hershberg](https://korrents.com/u/elliot-hershberg): Genomics researcher and investor; writes The Century of Biology on where biotechnology is actually going. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Elon Musk](https://korrents.com/u/elon-musk): Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008, and later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X. Posts as @elonmusk, which is where almost everything he says publicly now appears. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Emanuele Bartolesi](https://korrents.com/u/emanuele-bartolesi): Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Emil Kowalski](https://korrents.com/u/emil-kowalski): Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Emily Atkin](https://korrents.com/u/emily-atkin): Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Emily Oster](https://korrents.com/u/emily-oster): Economist at Brown; writes ParentData and the books Expecting Better and Cribsheet, reading the evidence behind pregnancy and parenting advice. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Emma Watson](https://korrents.com/u/emma-watson): English actor, Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011, and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador who launched the HeForShe campaign at the United Nations in 2014. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Emmanuel Macron](https://korrents.com/u/emmanuel-macron): President of the French Republic since 2017. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Epictetus](https://korrents.com/u/epictetus): Greek Stoic philosopher (born in the 50s CE, died around 135); once a slave in Rome, he later taught at his own school at Nicopolis; his teaching survives in the Discourses and Encheiridion written up by Arrian of Nicomedia. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Epicurus](https://korrents.com/u/epicurus): Founder of Epicureanism (341 to 270 BCE), the Greek school that took a pleasant life, free of pain and fear, to be the aim; taught at his Garden in Athens. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Eric Berger](https://korrents.com/u/eric-berger): Senior space editor at Ars Technica, covering NASA policy and the commercial launch industry, and author of Liftoff and Reentry, two books on the rise of SpaceX. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Eric Meyer](https://korrents.com/u/eric-meyer): Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Eric Ries](https://korrents.com/u/eric-ries): Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Eric Topol](https://korrents.com/u/eric-topol): Cardiologist, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, and author of Super Agers. Writes Ground Truths, a free newsletter reviewing new medical research. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Erik Hoel](https://korrents.com/u/erik-hoel): Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ernest Hemingway](https://korrents.com/u/ernest-hemingway): American novelist (1899 to 1961), also a short-story writer and journalist; awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Esther Perel](https://korrents.com/u/esther-perel): Belgian-American psychotherapist and author of Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs; hosts the podcast Where Should We Begin? and writes on desire, commitment and infidelity in couples. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ethan Mollick](https://korrents.com/u/ethan-mollick): Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Eugene Yan](https://korrents.com/u/eugene-yan): Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Evan Spiegel](https://korrents.com/u/evan-spiegel): Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Evil Rabbit](https://korrents.com/u/evil-rabbit): Founding designer at Vercel, where he leads the creative and brand team. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Eyal Levin](https://korrents.com/u/eyalev)
- [Fabien Sanglard](https://korrents.com/u/fabien-sanglard): Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Fatih Arslan](https://korrents.com/u/fatih-arslan): Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Federico Viticci](https://korrents.com/u/federico-viticci): Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Fei-Fei Li](https://korrents.com/u/fei-fei-li): Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Felix Salmon](https://korrents.com/u/felix-salmon): Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Filippo Valsorda](https://korrents.com/u/filippo-valsorda): Cryptographer, formerly of the Go team at Google, and since 2022 a full-time professional open source maintainer. He maintains the Go cryptography libraries, age and mkcert, and founded Geomys, a firm of professional maintainers funded by retainers from the companies that depend on their projects. Writes at words.filippo.io. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Flora Guo](https://korrents.com/u/flora-guo): Founding design engineer at Paradigm as of March 2026, earlier at Vercel. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Florence Nightingale](https://korrents.com/u/florence-nightingale): English social reformer and statistician (1820 to 1910), the founder of modern nursing; she managed and trained nurses caring for wounded soldiers in the Crimean War. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Francine Shapiro](https://korrents.com/u/francine-shapiro): American psychologist (1948 to 2019) who originated eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Francis Bacon](https://korrents.com/u/francis-bacon): English philosopher, lawyer and statesman (1561 to 1626); lord chancellor from 1618 to 1621; author of the Essays and the Novum organum. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Frank Chimero](https://korrents.com/u/frank-chimero): Designer and writer in New York; author of The Shape of Design. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Frank Lantz](https://korrents.com/u/frank-lantz): Game designer and writer, founder of the NYU Game Center, creator of Universal Paperclips and Drop7, and author of The Beauty of Games. Writes about games as an aesthetic form at his newsletter Donkeyspace. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Frank Rosenblatt](https://korrents.com/u/frank-rosenblatt) (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Frantz Fanon](https://korrents.com/u/frantz-fanon): French psychiatrist and political philosopher from Martinique (1925 to 1961), a founding thinker of postcolonial studies, best known for The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [François Chollet](https://korrents.com/u/francois-chollet): Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Freddie deBoer](https://korrents.com/u/freddie-deboer): Writer with a PhD in English who taught writing for years, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement. Argues that academic ability is unevenly distributed and that schools cannot close the gaps they are blamed for. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Frederick Douglass](https://korrents.com/u/frederick-douglass): American abolitionist and writer (about 1817 to 1895); born into slavery, escaped in 1838 and became a principal leader and spokesperson of the abolition movement; author of three autobiographies. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Friedrich Hayek](https://korrents.com/u/friedrich-hayek): Austrian-British economist and political philosopher (1899 to 1992) who shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and argued that central economic planning destroys political freedom. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Friedrich Merz](https://korrents.com/u/friedrich-merz): Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://korrents.com/u/friedrich-nietzsche): German philosopher (1844 to 1900); professor of classical philology at Basel from 1869 to 1879; author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and Twilight of the Idols. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Gabor Mate](https://korrents.com/u/gabor-mate): Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Gabriel Weinberg](https://korrents.com/u/gabriel-weinberg): Founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, and co-author of the books Traction and Super Thinking. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Gabriel Wyner](https://korrents.com/u/gabriel-wyner): American opera singer who had to sing convincingly in German, Italian, French and Russian, and built a language-learning method out of what that required. Author of Fluent Forever and founder of the app of the same name. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Garrett Hardin](https://korrents.com/u/garrett-hardin): Ecologist, author of "The Tragedy of the Commons" (1915 to 2003); American ecologist and microbiologist who focused his career on human overpopulation; the paper appeared in Science in 1968. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Gary Klein](https://korrents.com/u/gary-klein): Research psychologist who founded naturalistic decision making, the study of how experts decide in the field, and developed the recognition-primed decision model from studies of fireground commanders. He wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't, runs the ShadowBox decision-training method, and ran an adversarial collaboration with Daniel Kahneman on the conditions under which expert intuition can be trusted. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Gary Marcus](https://korrents.com/u/gary-marcus): Cognitive scientist, professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at NYU, and the most persistent public critic of large language models. Author of The Algebraic Mind and Rebooting AI; writes the Marcus on AI newsletter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Gary Taubes](https://korrents.com/u/gary-taubes): Investigative science and health journalist, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories, Why We Get Fat, The Case Against Sugar and Rethinking Diabetes, and co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Gautama Buddha](https://korrents.com/u/siddhartha-gautama): Indian spiritual teacher, born in Lumbini in the Terai, whose teaching formed the foundation of Buddhist philosophy; he wrote nothing, and his words were passed down orally for at least three centuries. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Geoff Charles](https://korrents.com/u/geoff-charles): Chief Product Officer at Ramp; Ramp's first product hire, promoted from VP of Product to CPO in January 2025. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Geoff Teehan](https://korrents.com/u/geoff-teehan): Chief Design Officer at Lightspark, and co-founder of the design firm Teehan+Lax, which Meta/Facebook acquired in 2015. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [George Hotz](https://korrents.com/u/george-hotz): American programmer and hacker, founder of the self-driving company Comma.ai and of the tiny corp, which builds the tinygrad neural network framework. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [George Monbiot](https://korrents.com/u/george-monbiot): Guardian columnist and environmental writer. He republishes every column at monbiot.com with its original date, which makes him one of the few public writers whose reversals can be read against the pieces they reverse. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [George Saunders](https://korrents.com/u/george-saunders): American short-story writer and novelist, author of Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo, and a teacher of fiction at Syracuse for thirty years. He runs Story Club, a Substack about how stories actually work. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Gergely Orosz](https://korrents.com/u/gergely-orosz): Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Gibson Biddle](https://korrents.com/u/gibson-biddle): Product leadership coach and writer of the “Ask Gib” newsletter. Former VP of Product at Netflix and Chief Product Officer at Chegg; speaks and runs workshops on product strategy. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Graham Hancock](https://korrents.com/u/graham-hancock): British journalist and author, who has argued since Fingerprints of the Gods (1995) that an advanced seafaring civilisation existed during the last Ice Age and was destroyed in a cataclysm around 12,800 years ago; presenter of the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Grant Sanderson](https://korrents.com/u/grant-sanderson): Mathematics explainer, creator of the YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Greg Mankiw](https://korrents.com/u/greg-mankiw): American macroeconomist, born 1958, the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University and author of the textbook Principles of Economics; chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2005. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Greg McKeown](https://korrents.com/u/greg-mckeown): British business writer and speaker (born 1977); author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less and Effortless: Make It Easy to Do What Matters; co-author with Liz Wiseman of Multipliers. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Gregory Bateson](https://korrents.com/u/gregory-bateson): English anthropologist and social scientist (1904 to 1980) who worked across cybernetics, systems theory and psychiatry; author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Gretchen Rubin](https://korrents.com/u/gretchen-rubin): Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Guillermo Rauch](https://korrents.com/u/guillermo-rauch): CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Guy Spier](https://korrents.com/u/guy-spier): Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Gwern](https://korrents.com/u/gwern): Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Haley Nahman](https://korrents.com/u/haley-nahman): Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Hamel Husain](https://korrents.com/u/hamel-husain): Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant; writes about LLM evaluation and tooling at hamel.dev. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Hannah Arendt](https://korrents.com/u/hannah-arendt): German-born American political theorist (1906 to 1975); author of The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958) and Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), her report on the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Hannah Ritchie](https://korrents.com/u/hannah-ritchie): Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes Sustainability by Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of her, and revises in public when they say something she did not expect. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Harper Reed](https://korrents.com/u/harper-reed): Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Harriet Martineau](https://korrents.com/u/harriet-martineau): English social theorist and writer (1802 to 1876); translator of works by Auguste Comte, who earned enough by writing to be self-supporting; author of How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Helen Toner](https://korrents.com/u/helen-toner): Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a former member of OpenAI's board. Writes Rising Tide, on how AI actually progresses and what policy can do about it. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Henrik Karlsson](https://korrents.com/u/henrik-karlsson): Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Henry David Thoreau](https://korrents.com/u/henry-david-thoreau): American philosopher and writer (1817 to 1862); graduated from Harvard in 1837; lived at Walden Pond for two years and two months; author of the essay Civil Disobedience. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Henry Farrell](https://korrents.com/u/henry-farrell): Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Herbert A. Simon](https://korrents.com/u/herbert-a-simon): American political scientist, economist and cognitive psychologist (1916 to 2001), known for bounded rationality and satisficing; Turing Award 1975 with Allen Newell, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 1978. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Hilary Mason](https://korrents.com/u/hilary-mason): Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Hillel Wayne](https://korrents.com/u/hillel-wayne): Writer and consultant on formal methods, testing and software correctness, author of Logic for Programmers and Practical TLA+. He ran the Crossover Project, interviewing seventeen people who worked as traditional engineers before becoming software developers, to settle by evidence whether software engineering is engineering. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Holden Karnofsky](https://korrents.com/u/holden-karnofsky): Co-founder of GiveWell, the charity evaluator that ranks giving opportunities by how much good a dollar does, and later of Open Philanthropy. Wrote the blog Cold Takes from 2021 to 2023 on ethics, forecasting and the long-run future. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Horace Dediu](https://korrents.com/u/horace-dediu): Analyst of the business of technology; writes Asymco on Apple, disruption and, latterly, micromobility. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Howard Marks](https://korrents.com/u/howard-marks): Co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management; author of the Oaktree memos. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ian Silber](https://korrents.com/u/ian-silber): Designer who led product design at OpenAI, including ChatGPT and Codex; previously at Artifact and, for eight years, Instagram. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ibn Rushd (Averroes)](https://korrents.com/u/ibn-rushd): Andalusian philosopher, judge and physician (1126 to 1198), born in Cordova; chief physician to the Almohad caliph in Marrakesh; best known for his commentaries on Aristotle. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Illia Polosukhin](https://korrents.com/u/illia-polosukhin): One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need"; per the paper's own contribution note, designed and implemented the first Transformer models, with Ashish Vaswani. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ilya Sutskever](https://korrents.com/u/ilya-sutskever): Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Immanuel Kant](https://korrents.com/u/immanuel-kant): German philosopher (1724 to 1804), born in Königsberg, where he taught at the university; author of the three Critiques and the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Irving Finkel](https://korrents.com/u/irving-finkel): Assyriologist at the British Museum, curator in charge of its cuneiform tablet collection, where he has worked for over forty-five years. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Isaac Asimov](https://korrents.com/u/isaac-asimov): American science fiction writer (1920 to 1992), one of the 'Big Three'; professor of biochemistry at Boston University who wrote or edited more than 500 books, including much popular science and other non-fiction. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Isaac Newton](https://korrents.com/u/isaac-newton): English mathematician and physicist (1642 to 1727), Lucasian professor at Cambridge and later Master of the Royal Mint; author of the Principia and the Opticks. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Isaiah Taylor](https://korrents.com/u/isaiah-taylor): Founder and CEO of Valar Atomics, a nuclear-reactor company founded in 2023. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ivan Santos](https://korrents.com/u/ivan-santos): Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [JL Collins](https://korrents.com/u/jl-collins): Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jack Clark](https://korrents.com/u/jack-clark): Co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic; writes Import AI, a weekly newsletter reading the week's AI research, and was OpenAI's policy director before that. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jack Weatherford](https://korrents.com/u/jack-weatherford): Anthropologist and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, and DeWitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology emeritus at Macalester College. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jacob Devlin](https://korrents.com/u/jacob-devlin): One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jacob Falkovich](https://korrents.com/u/jacob-falkovich): Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jacob Trefethen](https://korrents.com/u/jacob-trefethen): Head of global health R&D at Open Philanthropy, where he directs funding for vaccines, drugs and diagnostics aimed at diseases that get little commercial attention. He writes at blog.jacobtrefethen.com and co-hosts the Hard Drugs podcast with Saloni Dattani. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jakob Nielsen](https://korrents.com/u/jakob-nielsen): Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jakob Uszkoreit](https://korrents.com/u/jakob-uszkoreit): One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Research; per the paper's own contribution note, proposed replacing recurrent networks with self-attention and started the effort to evaluate the idea. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jakub Pachocki](https://korrents.com/u/jakub-pachocki): Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Worked on the research that turned scaled reinforcement learning into reasoning models, and writes about where he thinks that path leads. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [James Baldwin](https://korrents.com/u/james-baldwin): American writer and civil rights activist (1924 to 1987); author of the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, the essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time, and plays and poems. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [James Clear](https://korrents.com/u/james-clear): Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [James G. March](https://korrents.com/u/james-g-march): American political scientist, sociologist and economist (1928 to 2018); professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and Graduate School of Education; co-author with Richard Cyert of A Behavioral Theory of the Firm and of the garbage can model of organizational choice. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [James Gleick](https://korrents.com/u/james-gleick): Author and journalist, born in New York City in 1954, who writes about science and technology; author of Chaos, Genius, The Information and Time Travel, and for ten years an editor and reporter at The New York Times. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [James Holland](https://korrents.com/u/james-holland): British historian and writer specialising in the Second World War, author of the War in the West series and co-host of the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jamie Brandon](https://korrents.com/u/jamie-brandon): Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jamie Dimon](https://korrents.com/u/jamie-dimon): Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jan Leike](https://korrents.com/u/jan-leike): Alignment researcher. Co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024 and has led alignment work at Anthropic since; writes Musings on the Alignment Problem. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Janna Levin](https://korrents.com/u/janna-levin): Theoretical cosmologist, professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, and chief science officer of Pioneer Works. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jared Diamond](https://korrents.com/u/jared-diamond): Geographer at the University of California, Los Angeles; author of Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), Collapse (2005) and Upheaval (2019). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jared Kaplan](https://korrents.com/u/jared-kaplan): Co-founder of Anthropic; a theoretical physicist for most of his career before he turned to AI. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jared Spool](https://korrents.com/u/jared-spool): Co-founder of Center Centre and founder of UIE; a user-experience researcher and teacher since 1978. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jarrett Walker](https://korrents.com/u/jarrett-walker): Public transit planning consultant and author of Human Transit, who has redesigned bus networks in cities across North America, Australia and New Zealand. Writes at humantransit.org about frequency, the ridership-versus-coverage trade-off, and the geometry of moving people through cities. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jasmine Sun](https://korrents.com/u/jasmine-sun): Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jason Cohen](https://korrents.com/u/jason-cohen): Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear, and the author of the long-running startup blog A Smart Bear. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jason Crawford](https://korrents.com/u/jason-crawford): Founder of the Roots of Progress Institute, who left a software career to write full time about the history and philosophy of technological progress — how it happened, why it took so long, and whether it has slowed. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jason Evanish](https://korrents.com/u/jason-evanish): Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jason Fried](https://korrents.com/u/jason-fried): Co-founder and CEO of 37signals (Basecamp, HEY); co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jason Furman](https://korrents.com/u/jason-furman): Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jason Lemkin](https://korrents.com/u/jason-lemkin): Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jason Liu](https://korrents.com/u/jason-liu): Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jason Snell](https://korrents.com/u/jason-snell): Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jason Yuan](https://korrents.com/u/jason-yuan): Designer and founder of Hivemind, a social AI that talks one-on-one with many people at once, and earlier co-founder of New Computer, maker of the Dot assistant. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jason Zweig](https://korrents.com/u/jason-zweig): Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Javier Milei](https://korrents.com/u/javier-milei): President of Argentina since December 2023; economist and self-described libertarian. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jean-Baptiste Kempf](https://korrents.com/u/jean-baptiste-kempf): President of the VideoLAN non-profit and one of the lead developers of the VLC media player; active on the project since 2005. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://korrents.com/u/jean-jacques-rousseau): Genevan philosopher and writer (1712 to 1778), born in Geneva; author of the Discourses, Emile and The Social Contract. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jeff Atwood](https://korrents.com/u/jeff-atwood): Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jeff Bezos](https://korrents.com/u/jeff-bezos): Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jeff Cavaliere](https://korrents.com/u/jeff-cavaliere): Physical therapist and strength coach, founder of ATHLEAN-X; served as Head Physical Therapist and Assistant Strength Coach for the New York Mets. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jeff Dean](https://korrents.com/u/jeff-dean): Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jeff Geerling](https://korrents.com/u/jeff-geerling): Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jeff Kaplan](https://korrents.com/u/jeff-kaplan): American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jeffrey Zeldman](https://korrents.com/u/jeffrey-zeldman): Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jen Abel](https://korrents.com/u/jen-abel): Co-founder of JJELLYFISH and GM of enterprise sales at State Affairs. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jennifer Burns](https://korrents.com/u/jennifer-burns): Historian of ideas at Stanford University and the Hoover Institution, and the biographer of both Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jennifer Pahlka](https://korrents.com/u/jennifer-pahlka): Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jensen Huang](https://korrents.com/u/jensen-huang): Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA since 1993. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jerry Seinfeld](https://korrents.com/u/jerry-seinfeld): American comedian; co-creator and star of the sitcom Seinfeld (aired from 1989 to 1998). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jian Sun](https://korrents.com/u/jian-sun): Computer vision researcher, a co-author of residual networks. Led the visual computing group at Microsoft Research Asia and was chief scientist at Megvii. Died in 2022; this page reflects his complete public record. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jimmy Ba](https://korrents.com/u/jimmy-ba): Associate professor at the University of Toronto, and co-author of the Adam optimizer. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Joe Liemandt](https://korrents.com/u/joe-liemandt): Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Joel Spolsky](https://korrents.com/u/joel-spolsky): Software developer and writer; co-founder of Fog Creek Software and Stack Overflow, and author of the Joel on Software blog since 2000. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John Bai](https://korrents.com/u/john-bai): Designer at SpaceXAI in New York working on Grok Bot, and the first New York design hire at Cursor. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John Collison](https://korrents.com/u/john-collison): Co-founder of Stripe, which he started with his brother Patrick Collison. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John Graham-Cumming](https://korrents.com/u/john-graham-cumming): Board member at Cloudflare, and its CTO until March 2025; joined the company as a programmer in 2012. Writes at blog.jgc.org, lives in Lisbon, and wrote the open-source email filter POPFile. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John Gruber](https://korrents.com/u/john-gruber): Writer of Daring Fireball, which he has published since 2002, and the most closely read independent commentator on Apple. Co-creator of Markdown. His reading of an Apple keynote is treated as a signal by the industry, which is what made his 2025 retraction of his own WWDC 2024 coverage a story in itself. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John H. Cochrane](https://korrents.com/u/john-cochrane): Economist at the Hoover Institution, previously at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, and the author of the fiscal theory of the price level. Writes at The Grumpy Economist. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John Ioannidis](https://korrents.com/u/john-ioannidis): Professor of medicine and epidemiology at Stanford, best known for the 2005 essay arguing that most published research findings are false. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John Locke](https://korrents.com/u/john-locke): English philosopher (1632 to 1704); Oxford academic and medical researcher; author of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and the Second Treatise of Government. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John Maeda](https://korrents.com/u/john-maeda): Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John Mearsheimer](https://korrents.com/u/john-mearsheimer): Political scientist at the University of Chicago, author of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics and the founding statement of offensive realism. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John Scalzi](https://korrents.com/u/john-scalzi): American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John Siracusa](https://korrents.com/u/john-siracusa): Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John Stuart Mill](https://korrents.com/u/john-stuart-mill): Philosopher (1806 to 1873), a utilitarian and liberal; worked for the East India Company for almost thirty-five years; elected Member of Parliament for Westminster in 1865. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [John Wooden](https://korrents.com/u/john-wooden): American basketball coach (1910 to 2010), at UCLA from 1948 to 1975, where his teams won ten national titles; earlier an English teacher in South Bend, Indiana. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jon Haidt](https://korrents.com/u/jonathan-haidt): Social psychologist at NYU Stern, author of The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind and The Anxious Generation. He writes at After Babel. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jon Seager](https://korrents.com/u/jon-seager): Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jon Y](https://korrents.com/u/jon-y): Writer and video essayist behind Asianometry, covering the history and industrial structure of the semiconductor industry, with a particular focus on Taiwan, TSMC and the East Asian supply chain. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jonathan Frankle](https://korrents.com/u/jonathan-frankle): Chief AI scientist at Databricks, and the author of the lottery ticket hypothesis. His MIT doctorate was on why the sparse networks pruning produces are so hard to train from scratch. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jonathan Gagné](https://korrents.com/u/jonathan-gagne): Astrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog on brewing science and equipment. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jonathan Hopkins](https://korrents.com/u/jonathan-hopkins): Housing and development writer at Strong Towns, arguing that the professional, large-scale housing industry cannot produce widespread affordability no matter how it is deregulated or subsidised. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jonathan Shedler](https://korrents.com/u/jonathan-shedler): Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. Author of the 2010 meta-analysis that established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment, and a persistent critic of how the phrase "evidence-based therapy" is used. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Joseph Tussman](https://korrents.com/u/joseph-tussman): American philosopher (1914 to 2005); professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley, director of its Experimental College Program from 1965 to 1969, author of Obligation and the Body Politic (1960) and The Burden of Office (1989). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Josh Barro](https://korrents.com/u/josh-barro): Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Josh Collinsworth](https://korrents.com/u/josh-collinsworth): Front-end developer and writer on Svelte, Vue, CSS and WordPress; blogs at joshcollinsworth.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Josh Puckett](https://korrents.com/u/josh-puckett): Designer, advisor and investor; co-founded the design practice Iteration and the apprenticeship studio Upperstudy, after leading design teams at Wealthfront, Dropbox and Groupon. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Josh Waitzkin](https://korrents.com/u/josh-waitzkin): American former chess prodigy, martial artist and author of The Art of Learning; eight-time national chess champion, two-time world champion in Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands, and the first Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Marcelo Garcia. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [José Luis Ricón](https://korrents.com/u/jose-luis-ricon): Engineer and writer at Nintil, where he has spent years reading the empirical literature on how science is funded and organised — grant peer review, funding lotteries, whether ideas are getting harder to find — and reporting what the evidence does and does not support. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [José Rizal](https://korrents.com/u/jose-rizal): Filipino writer and nationalist (1861 to 1896); ophthalmologist and a key member of the Propaganda Movement for political reform under Spanish rule. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Julia Evans](https://korrents.com/u/julia-evans): Writes jvns.ca, a blog explaining networking, debugging and Linux internals in plain language and comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Julie Menanno](https://korrents.com/u/julie-menanno): Marriage and family therapist working from attachment theory and emotionally focused therapy. Author of Secure Love and the person behind The Secure Relationship. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Julie Zhuo](https://korrents.com/u/julie-zhuo): Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Justin Jackson](https://korrents.com/u/justin-jackson): Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Jürgen Schmidhuber](https://korrents.com/u/jurgen-schmidhuber) (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kaiming He](https://korrents.com/u/kaiming-he): Associate professor at MIT and first author of the residual networks paper, the most cited paper in modern computer vision. Previously at Meta AI Research and Microsoft Research Asia. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kapil Gupta](https://korrents.com/u/kapil-gupta): Advisor to executives, athletes and performers on the mind; author of Atmamun, A Master's Secret Whispers and Direct Truth; writes discourses at kapilguptamd.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Karl Friston](https://korrents.com/u/karl-friston): Neuroscientist at University College London; developer of the free-energy principle and active inference, and of statistical parametric mapping for brain imaging. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Karl Popper](https://korrents.com/u/karl-popper): Austrian-British philosopher of science (1902 to 1994), professor at the London School of Economics; author of The Logic of Scientific Discovery and The Open Society and Its Enemies. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Karri Saarinen](https://korrents.com/u/karri-saarinen): Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Katarina Batina](https://korrents.com/u/katarina-batina): Design Director for the Shop app at Shopify. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kate Wagner](https://korrents.com/u/kate-wagner): Architecture critic; created McMansion Hell in July 2016, roasting suburban houses while teaching what makes a building work, and writes on architecture and cycling elsewhere. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Katelyn Jetelina](https://korrents.com/u/katelyn-jetelina): Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kathryn Schulz](https://korrents.com/u/kathryn-schulz): American journalist and author; staff writer at The New Yorker; won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for an article on earthquake and tsunami risk in the Pacific Northwest, and the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Katie Dill](https://korrents.com/u/katie-dill): Head of Design at Stripe; previously Head of Experience Design at Airbnb and Head of Design at Lyft. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Keir Starmer](https://korrents.com/u/keir-starmer): Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2024; leader of the Labour Party. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kelly Starrett](https://korrents.com/u/kelly-starrett): Doctor of physical therapy and co-founder of The Ready State; author of Becoming a Supple Leopard and Built to Move, on mobility and movement. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kelsey Hightower](https://korrents.com/u/kelsey-hightower): Self-taught software engineer, formerly a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud and one of the most visible voices in the Kubernetes community; retired from full-time work in 2023 and now advises and invests. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ken Norton](https://korrents.com/u/ken-norton): Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ken White](https://korrents.com/u/ken-white): Criminal defence and First Amendment lawyer in Los Angeles, a former federal prosecutor, and the author of The Popehat Report. Co-hosts the legal podcast Serious Trouble. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kenneth Reitz](https://korrents.com/u/kenneth-reitz): Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kent Beck](https://korrents.com/u/kent-beck): Creator of extreme programming and test-driven development, an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto, and the author of Test-Driven Development: By Example and Tidy First? (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kent C. Dodds](https://korrents.com/u/kent-c-dodds): Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kenton Lee](https://korrents.com/u/kenton-lee): One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kenton Varda](https://korrents.com/u/kenton-varda): Engineer at Cloudflare who designed Workers, Durable Objects and Cap’n Proto; earlier the primary author of Protocol Buffers v2 at Google, and co-founder of Sandstorm.io. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ketan Joshi](https://korrents.com/u/ketan-joshi): Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kevin Esvelt](https://korrents.com/u/kevin-esvelt): Evolutionary and ecological engineer, professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Sculpting Evolution group. He first described CRISPR-based gene drives and then argued publicly for constraining them; he now works mainly on biosecurity - DNA synthesis screening, pathogen-agnostic early detection, and keeping pandemic-capable sequences out of circulation. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kevin Kelly](https://korrents.com/u/kevin-kelly): Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Keyu Jin](https://korrents.com/u/keyu-jin): Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kit Yates](https://korrents.com/u/kit-yates): Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kris Puckett](https://korrents.com/u/kris-puckett): Design manager at Stripe, who previously led design at Mercury and designed for Dropbox and Facebook. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kristin Neff](https://korrents.com/u/kristin-neff): Pioneering researcher and teacher of self-compassion and co-founder of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kristina Toutanova](https://korrents.com/u/kristina-toutanova): One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kun Chen](https://korrents.com/u/kun-chen): Software engineer; author of axi.md; captain of @myfirstmate and @theSSHHIP. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kurt Vonnegut](https://korrents.com/u/kurt-vonnegut): American novelist (1922 to 2007), author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions; a senior editor of In These Times until his death, writing the columns collected in A Man Without a Country (2005). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kyle Chayka](https://korrents.com/u/kyle-chayka): Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kyle Kingsbury](https://korrents.com/u/kyle-kingsbury): Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Kyle Zantos](https://korrents.com/u/kyle-zantos): Product designer and builder of AI tools and workflows, including a content system for Dive Club; Dive Club's first three-time guest. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [L. M. Sacasas](https://korrents.com/u/lm-sacasas): Writer on technology, culture and the moral life. He writes the newsletter The Convivial Society and directs the Christian Study Center of Gainesville, Florida. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lant Pritchett](https://korrents.com/u/lant-pritchett): Development economist. Research director of RISE at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, formerly of the World Bank and the Harvard Kennedy School, and a founder of Labor Mobility Partnerships. He argues that letting people move across borders is the largest unexploited gain in global welfare, and that rich-country aid agencies have quietly abandoned the goal of making poor countries prosperous. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Laozi](https://korrents.com/u/laozi): Chinese thinker traditionally named as the author of the Daodejing, also called the Laozi; said in Chinese sources to have flourished in the sixth century BCE, though some modern scholars hold that he is entirely legendary; that authorship is traditional and legendary. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Larry Tesler](https://korrents.com/u/larry-tesler): American computer scientist in human-computer interaction (1945 to 2020); at Xerox PARC he worked on Smalltalk and the Gypsy word processor and, with Tim Mott, developed cut, copy and paste and modeless editing; later worked at Apple, Amazon and Yahoo. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Laura Deming](https://korrents.com/u/laura-deming): Co-founder and CEO of Until, a reversible-cryopreservation company, and previously the founder of the Longevity Fund. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Laurie Santos](https://korrents.com/u/laurie-santos): Cognitive scientist and Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University, whose course Psychology and the Good Life became Yale's most popular class, and host of the podcast The Happiness Lab. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lawrence Freedman](https://korrents.com/u/lawrence-freedman): Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London and official historian of the Falklands campaign; writes on strategy at Comment is Freed. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Layne Norton](https://korrents.com/u/layne-norton): Nutritional scientist with a PhD in nutritional sciences, drug-free powerlifter and bodybuilder, founder of Biolayne and host of the Dr. Layne Norton Podcast. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lee Robinson](https://korrents.com/u/lee-robinson): Works on ML at SpaceX, as of 2026; formerly at Cursor, and five years at Vercel before that, ending as VP and working on Next.js. Writes at leerob.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lenny Rachitsky](https://korrents.com/u/lenny-rachitsky): Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Leonardo DiCaprio](https://korrents.com/u/leonardo-dicaprio): American actor and environmental campaigner who won the 2016 Academy Award for Best Actor for The Revenant and was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace on climate change in 2014. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Leslie Greenberg](https://korrents.com/u/leslie-greenberg): Psychologist and Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Toronto; pioneer of emotion-focused therapy (EFT). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lex Fridman](https://korrents.com/u/lex-fridman): AI researcher and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lilian Weng](https://korrents.com/u/lilian-weng): Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lincoln Michel](https://korrents.com/u/lincoln-michel): Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Linus Blomqvist](https://korrents.com/u/linus-blomqvist): Environmental economist at the UC Santa Barbara Bren School and former director of conservation and food and agriculture at the Breakthrough Institute, where he worked on whether raising crop yields actually leaves more land for nature. A co-author of the Ecomodernist Manifesto. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Linus Torvalds](https://korrents.com/u/linus-torvalds): Creator and long-time maintainer of the Linux kernel, and the author of Git. Runs the kernel in public on a mailing list, which is why both his position on how to talk to contributors and his abandonment of it are on the record in his own words. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lip-Bu Tan](https://korrents.com/u/lip-bu-tan): Chief executive of Intel since 2025, founder of the venture firm Walden International and chief executive of Cadence Design Systems for thirteen years. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lisa Randall](https://korrents.com/u/lisa-randall): Theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, working on particle physics, extra dimensions and dark matter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Llion Jones](https://korrents.com/u/llion-jones): One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Research; per the paper's own contribution note, experimented with novel model variants and was responsible for the initial codebase, efficient inference and visualisations. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Loredana Crisan](https://korrents.com/u/loredana-crisan): Chief Design Officer at Figma, who also leads product alongside design. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Luca Lampariello](https://korrents.com/u/luca-lampariello): Italian language coach who speaks more than ten languages and has been teaching people how to learn them since 2011. Best known for bidirectional translation, a method he built for himself and then taught to students. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://korrents.com/u/ludwig-wittgenstein): Philosopher born in Vienna (1889 to 1951); author of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, drafted during the First World War, and of Philosophical Investigations, published after his death. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Luis Ouriach](https://korrents.com/u/luis-ouriach): Designer Advocate at Figma as of March 2026, helping teams navigate design systems. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Luke Wroblewski](https://korrents.com/u/luke-wroblewski): Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lyman Stone](https://korrents.com/u/lyman-stone): Demographer. Director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies and a research fellow at Cardus, he writes about fertility, marriage and how family statistics are measured, and argues in public with most other people who work on the subject. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lyn Alden](https://korrents.com/u/lyn-alden): Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lynn Fisher](https://korrents.com/u/lynn-fisher): Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Lýdia Machová](https://korrents.com/u/lydia-machova): Slovak conference interpreter who speaks seven languages and learned all but two of them alone, without courses, teachers or living abroad. Coined the job title language mentor for what she does instead of teaching. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [M.G. Siegler](https://korrents.com/u/mg-siegler): Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Maciej Cegłowski](https://korrents.com/u/maciej-ceglowski): Programmer and essayist, founder of the bookmarking service Pinboard, and author of the long-form technical essays at idlewords.com. Has written at length against sending human beings to Mars. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Maggie Appleton](https://korrents.com/u/maggie-appleton): Designer, anthropologist and illustrator who writes about the web, tools for thought and generative AI on her digital garden at maggieappleton.com. Her 2022 essay "The Dark Forest and Generative AI" put the reverse Turing test -- proving you are not a language model -- into the vocabulary of the independent web. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mahatma Gandhi](https://korrents.com/u/mahatma-gandhi): Leader of India's nonviolent independence movement (1869 to 1948); lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist; author of Hind Swaraj. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Malcolm Gladwell](https://korrents.com/u/malcolm-gladwell): British-Canadian journalist and author; staff writer for The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and David and Goliath; host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of Pushkin Industries. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Marc Andreessen](https://korrents.com/u/marc-andreessen): Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Wrote the Techno-Optimist Manifesto and “Why AI Will Save The World”. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Marc Littlemore](https://korrents.com/u/marc-littlemore): British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Marco Arment](https://korrents.com/u/marco-arment): Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Marcus Aurelius](https://korrents.com/u/marcus-aurelius): Roman emperor and Stoic-influenced philosopher (121 to 180); emperor from 161 to 180; author of the Meditations. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Margaret Fuller](https://korrents.com/u/margaret-fuller): American transcendentalist writer (1810 to 1850); philosopher, journalist and literary critic; author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mari Andrew](https://korrents.com/u/mari-andrew): Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Maria Konnikova](https://korrents.com/u/maria-konnikova): Writer and professional poker player, born in Moscow, with a PhD in psychology from Columbia University; author of Mastermind, The Confidence Game and The Biggest Bluff, and a contributing writer for The New Yorker. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Maria Popova](https://korrents.com/u/maria-popova): Writer and founder of The Marginalian, a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mario Zechner](https://korrents.com/u/mario-zechner): Austrian developer who created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mark Carney](https://korrents.com/u/mark-carney): Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mark Lynas](https://korrents.com/u/mark-lynas): Environmental writer and campaigner. He helped start the movement that destroyed genetically modified crop trials in Britain in the 1990s, and then recanted that position on the same conference stage he now speaks from. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mark Manson](https://korrents.com/u/mark-manson): American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mark Nottingham](https://korrents.com/u/mark-nottingham): Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mark Pincus](https://korrents.com/u/mark-pincus): Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends, and before that of Freeloader, Support.com and Tribe.net. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mark Zuckerberg](https://korrents.com/u/mark-zuckerberg): Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Martin Fowler](https://korrents.com/u/martin-fowler): Chief scientist at Thoughtworks and author of Refactoring, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture and Refactoring: Ruby Edition. His bliki at martinfowler.com has been the reference text on refactoring, testing and architecture for two decades. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Martin Kleppmann](https://korrents.com/u/martin-kleppmann): Computer science researcher at Cambridge, author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, after a decade in industry at his own startups and LinkedIn. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Martin Luther King Jr.](https://korrents.com/u/martin-luther-king-jr): American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929 to 1968); led the Montgomery bus boycott and the Birmingham campaign, gave the "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Martin Nowak](https://korrents.com/u/martin-nowak): Professor of mathematics and biology at Harvard, where he directs the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Marty Cagan](https://korrents.com/u/marty-cagan): Founding partner of Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG); author of INSPIRED and TRANSFORMED. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Marvin Schwaibold](https://korrents.com/u/marvin-schwaibold): Leads the Product Design Studio at Shopify; co-founder of the design agency Molly, which Shopify acquired in 2025. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mary Astell](https://korrents.com/u/mary-astell): English philosopher (1666 to 1731), born in Newcastle, who lived her adult life in London; author of A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694, 1697). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://korrents.com/u/mary-wollstonecraft): English moral and political philosopher (1759 to 1797); author of A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mason Currey](https://korrents.com/u/mason-currey): American writer on how artists work; author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, Daily Rituals: Women at Work and Making Art and Making a Living, and of the newsletter Subtle Maneuvers. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Masud Husain](https://korrents.com/u/masud-husain): Professor of Neurology at the University of Oxford, whose research covers apathy, motivation, attention and Alzheimer's disease. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Matt Birchler](https://korrents.com/u/matt-birchler): Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Matt Johnson](https://korrents.com/u/matt-johnson): Journalist and author writing on politics, liberalism and ideas; a contributor to Quillette and co-author of a book on Christopher Hitchens. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Matt Kepnes](https://korrents.com/u/matt-kepnes): Budget-travel writer who publishes as Nomadic Matt; author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Matt Mullenweg](https://korrents.com/u/matt-mullenweg): Co-founder of WordPress, which runs a large share of the web, and chief executive of Automattic. Writes at ma.tt. In September 2024 he began a public campaign against WP Engine, the private-equity-owned WordPress host, over trademarks and what he says is its failure to contribute back to the project. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Matt Webb](https://korrents.com/u/matt-webb): British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Matthew Green](https://korrents.com/u/matthew-green): Cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he works on applied cryptography and user privacy. He writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering, which is where most public arguments about messaging encryption, client-side scanning and cloud backup end up being adjudicated. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Matthew McConaughey](https://korrents.com/u/matthew-mcconaughey): American actor, born in Uvalde, Texas, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Dallas Buyers Club at the 2014 ceremony and wrote the 2020 memoir Greenlights. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Matthew Prince](https://korrents.com/u/matthew-prince): Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare; launched it in 2010 with Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway, after meeting Zatlyn at Harvard Business School. Writes on the Cloudflare Blog and posts on X as @eastdakota. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Matthew Walker](https://korrents.com/u/matthew-walker): Professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Why We Sleep. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Matthew Yglesias](https://korrents.com/u/matt-yglesias): Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Max Bazerman](https://korrents.com/u/max-bazerman): Harvard Business School professor and scholar of negotiation, decision-making and ethics; Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration; author of Better, Not Perfect (2020). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Max Hodak](https://korrents.com/u/max-hodak): Co-founder and chief executive of Science, a neurotechnology company whose retinal implant restores sight to blind patients; before founding it he spent five years at Neuralink. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Max Howell](https://korrents.com/u/max-howell): Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Max Planck](https://korrents.com/u/max-planck): German physicist (1858 to 1947), professor of theoretical physics in Berlin; originated quantum theory and received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Maxence Poutord](https://korrents.com/u/maxence-poutord): French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Meaghan Choi](https://korrents.com/u/meaghan-choi): Design Lead for Claude Code at Anthropic. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Meb Faber](https://korrents.com/u/meb-faber): Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Melissa Perri](https://korrents.com/u/melissa-perri): CEO of Produx Labs; author of Escaping the Build Trap and Product Operations; formerly taught product management at Harvard Business School. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Melvin Conway](https://korrents.com/u/melvin-conway): Computer scientist; his 1968 paper How Do Committees Invent? gave the observation known as Conway's law, that organisations design systems that copy their communication structures. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mencius](https://korrents.com/u/mencius): Confucian philosopher of the fourth century BCE, said to have been born in the state of Zou; known for the claim that human nature is good, his teaching survives in the Mengzi, a collection of his dialogues, debates and sayings probably compiled by his disciples. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Meng To](https://korrents.com/u/meng-to): Designer and founder of Design+Code, which teaches designers code and developers design, and builder of the apps Aura and DreamCut. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Michael Carbin](https://korrents.com/u/michael-carbin): Associate professor at MIT, where he leads the Programming Systems Group, and co-author of the lottery ticket hypothesis. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Michael Grunwald](https://korrents.com/u/michael-grunwald): Journalist and New York Times contributing writer, author of We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate. Argues that land, not energy, is the hard part of the climate problem, and that the world has to grow much more food on much less land. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Michael Kratsios](https://korrents.com/u/michael-kratsios): US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Michael Lewis](https://korrents.com/u/michael-lewis): American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Michael Liebreich](https://korrents.com/u/michael-liebreich): Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Michael Lopp](https://korrents.com/u/michael-lopp): Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Michael Mauboussin](https://korrents.com/u/michael-mauboussin): Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global, Morgan Stanley Investment Management; adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School; author of More Than You Know, Think Twice, The Success Equation and The Investing Mind. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Michael Nielsen](https://korrents.com/u/michael-nielsen): Physicist, writer and researcher, co-author of the standard textbook on quantum computation and quantum information. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Michael Pollan](https://korrents.com/u/michael-pollan): Author and journalist writing on food, plants and consciousness. Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of its Center for the Science of Psychedelics. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Michael Truell](https://korrents.com/u/michael-truell): Co-founder and CEO of Cursor (Anysphere), as of 2025; mntruell.com now describes the work as building SpaceXAI. Studied CS and maths at MIT. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Michel de Montaigne](https://korrents.com/u/michel-de-montaigne): French essayist and philosopher (1533 to 1592); mayor of Bordeaux; author of the Essays, in three books. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Michelle Zatlyn](https://korrents.com/u/michelle-zatlyn): Co-founder and President of Cloudflare; launched it in 2010 with Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway, after the two met at Harvard Business School. Grew up in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Writes on the Cloudflare Blog and posts on X as @zatlyn. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi](https://korrents.com/u/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi): Hungarian-American psychologist (1934 to 2021) who named and studied 'flow'; headed the University of Chicago's psychology department and later was Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mike Krieger](https://korrents.com/u/mike-krieger): Works in Anthropic Labs; co-founder of Instagram, and Anthropic's chief product officer from 2024 to 2026. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mike Masnick](https://korrents.com/u/mike-masnick): Founder and editor of Techdirt, writing since 1997 on internet policy, intermediary liability and free expression online. Co-hosts the content moderation podcast Ctrl-Alt-Speech and coined the term Streisand effect. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Miles Brundage](https://korrents.com/u/miles-brundage): Independent AI policy researcher. Was head of policy research and then senior adviser for AGI readiness at OpenAI until October 2024, and now writes about AI governance from outside the labs. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Milton Friedman](https://korrents.com/u/milton-friedman): American economist (1912 to 2006) and 1976 Nobel laureate in economics who argued that competitive markets are a precondition of political freedom and that government power should be limited and dispersed. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ming Thein](https://korrents.com/u/ming-thein): Photographer and writer based in Malaysia who publishes long-form camera, lens and photography-book reviews, essays and photoessays at blog.mingthein.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ming-Wei Chang](https://korrents.com/u/ming-wei-chang): One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mitchell Hashimoto](https://korrents.com/u/mitchell-hashimoto): Creator of Ghostty and co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Molly Graham](https://korrents.com/u/molly-graham): Co-founder of Glue Club and The Guild, and host of TED's WorkLife podcast; writes the Lessons newsletter, and led operations at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Quip and Lambda School after five years at Facebook. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Molly White](https://korrents.com/u/molly-white): Software engineer, researcher and writer, a longtime Wikipedia editor, creator of Web3 is Going Just Great and author of the newsletter Citation Needed, which she publishes on her own self-hosted site. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Molson Hart](https://korrents.com/u/molson-hart): Manufacturer and founder of Viahart, which makes educational toys. He has spent fifteen years manufacturing in China, Southeast Asia and the Americas, worked on a Chinese factory floor and built a factory in Texas, and writes about what moving a production line actually involves at molsonhart.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Morgan Housel](https://korrents.com/u/morgan-housel): Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money. Writes short essays about how people actually behave with money, rather than about what markets will do next. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mortimer Adler](https://korrents.com/u/mortimer-adler): American philosopher and educator (1902 to 2001); taught at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, chaired the board of editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica and founded the Institute for Philosophical Research. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Moses Maimonides](https://korrents.com/u/moses-maimonides): Jewish philosopher and physician (1138 to 1204), also a rabbinic authority; born in Cordova, Spain, and settled in Fustat, Egypt; author of the Mishneh Torah and the Guide of the Perplexed. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Moxie Marlinspike](https://korrents.com/u/moxie-marlinspike): Cryptographer who created the Signal Protocol and founded Signal, the encrypted messenger whose protocol now protects messages in WhatsApp and Google Messages as well. He stepped down as Signal’s CEO in 2022 and writes occasionally at moxie.org. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Mr. Money Mustache](https://korrents.com/u/mr-money-mustache): Pen name of the writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nabeel S. Qureshi](https://korrents.com/u/nabeel-qureshi): Entrepreneur and essayist; worked at Palantir on health and biology projects, and was a Visiting Scholar in AI at the Mercatus Center. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nadia Asparouhova](https://korrents.com/u/nadia-asparouhova): Writer and researcher on open source, author of "Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software" and, as Nadia Eghbal, of the 2016 Ford Foundation report "Roads and Bridges" on the digital infrastructure the economy runs on. She worked on community programmes at GitHub from 2016 to 2018 and writes at nadia.xyz. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nan Yu](https://korrents.com/u/nan-yu): Works on product for Codex at OpenAI; head of product at Linear for four years to 2026, and previously CTO at Everlane and VP of product at Mode. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://korrents.com/u/nassim-taleb): Former option trader and risk analyst, now a distinguished professor at NYU. Author of the Incerto essay series, including The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nat Bullard](https://korrents.com/u/nat-bullard): Energy and decarbonisation analyst; publishes an annual chart deck on the state of the transition, and was chief content officer at BloombergNEF. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nat Eliason](https://korrents.com/u/nat-eliason): Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nat Friedman](https://korrents.com/u/nat-friedman): Investor and engineer; CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021, co-founder of Ximian and Xamarin, and funder of the Vesuvius Challenge to read the Herculaneum Papyri. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Natalie Portman](https://korrents.com/u/natalie-portman): Israeli-born American actor and filmmaker who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Black Swan in 2011. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nate Parrott](https://korrents.com/u/nate-parrott): Designer at Anthropic who started Claude Design; earlier a founding designer at The Browser Company. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nate Silver](https://korrents.com/u/nate-silver): Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nathan Lambert](https://korrents.com/u/nathan-lambert): Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Naval Ravikant](https://korrents.com/u/naval-ravikant): Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Neel Nanda](https://korrents.com/u/neel-nanda): Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic before that. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [NeetCode](https://korrents.com/u/neetcode): Naveed Singh, the software engineer behind NeetCode, the coding-interview preparation site and YouTube channel; formerly at Amazon and Google. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nelson Elhage](https://korrents.com/u/nelson-elhage): Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Neri Oxman](https://korrents.com/u/neri-oxman): Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nev Flynn](https://korrents.com/u/nev-flynn): Head of Design at ElevenLabs, previously Head of Product at Evervault. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Niccolò Machiavelli](https://korrents.com/u/niccolo-machiavelli): Florentine political philosopher and diplomat (1469 to 1527); Second Chancellor of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512; author of The Prince. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nicholas Carr](https://korrents.com/u/nicholas-carr): American journalist and writer on technology, business and culture (born 1959); his book The Shallows (2010) was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction; wrote the blog Rough Type to 2024, then the newsletter New Cartographies. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nick Cave](https://korrents.com/u/nick-cave): Australian songwriter and writer, frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Since 2018 he has answered readers' questions in public at The Red Hand Files, where most of what he has said about how songs are made now lives. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nick Janetakis](https://korrents.com/u/nick-janetakis): Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nick Lane](https://korrents.com/u/nick-lane): Biochemist at University College London, Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry and author of The Vital Question and Transformer. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nick Maggiulli](https://korrents.com/u/nick-maggiulli): Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying; COO at Ritholtz Wealth Management. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nicole Forsgren](https://korrents.com/u/nicole-forsgren): Researcher of software delivery performance, co-author of "Accelerate" and of the DORA, SPACE and DevEx frameworks, and author of "Frictionless". (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Niki Parmar](https://korrents.com/u/niki-parmar): One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Research; per the paper's own contribution note, designed, implemented, tuned and evaluated the model variants the paper rests on. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nikita Prokopov](https://korrents.com/u/nikita-prokopov): Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Nitobe Inazō](https://korrents.com/u/nitobe-inazo): Japanese agronomist, diplomat and writer (1862 to 1933); one of the Under-Secretaries General of the League of Nations from its founding in 1920; author of Bushido: The Soul of Japan. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Noah Smith](https://korrents.com/u/noah-smith): Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Noam Brown](https://korrents.com/u/noam-brown): Research scientist at OpenAI, who built the poker AIs Libratus and Pluribus and helped pioneer test-time compute and reasoning in language models. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Noam Shazeer](https://korrents.com/u/noam-shazeer): One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Brain; per the paper's own contribution note, proposed scaled dot-product attention, multi-head attention and the parameter-free position representation. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Norman Ohler](https://korrents.com/u/norman-ohler): German writer and journalist, author of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich and Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Okakura Kakuzō](https://korrents.com/u/okakura-kakuzo): Japanese art critic and scholar (1863 to 1913); promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms in the Meiji era; curator of the Department of Japanese and Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1910; author of The Book of Tea (1906), written in English. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Olaudah Equiano](https://korrents.com/u/olaudah-equiano): Writer and abolitionist (c. 1745 to 1797), known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa, who was enslaved in the Americas and bought his freedom in 1766; author of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Oliver Burkeman](https://korrents.com/u/oliver-burkeman): British writer on time, limits and attention, author of Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals and formerly a Guardian columnist. He writes the newsletter The Imperfectionist at oliverburkeman.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Oliver Kim](https://korrents.com/u/oliver-kim): Development economist and economic historian who writes the Global Developments newsletter. He works on East Asian growth — Taiwanese land reform, Korean industrial policy — and on what the East Asian record does and does not tell other poor countries. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Olivier Blanchard](https://korrents.com/u/olivier-blanchard): Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Oprah Winfrey](https://korrents.com/u/oprah-winfrey): American television host, producer, actor and philanthropist who hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show in national syndication from 1986 to 2011. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Orin Kerr](https://korrents.com/u/orin-kerr): Professor of law at Stanford, formerly a computer crime prosecutor at the US Justice Department, and the author of The Digital Fourth Amendment. Blogs at The Volokh Conspiracy about search and seizure law and computer crime. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Pablo Stanley](https://korrents.com/u/pablo-stanley): Designer and builder on the creative team at Vercel, working on v0, and co-founder of Lummi, the AI image platform Udemy acquired in 2025. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Pascual Restrepo](https://korrents.com/u/pascual-restrepo): Economist working on automation, robots and what they do to labour markets. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Patrick Collison](https://korrents.com/u/patrick-collison): Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Patrick McKenzie](https://korrents.com/u/patrick-mckenzie): Software engineer and writer, known online as patio11. Ran the small software business Bingo Card Creator and Starfighter, then worked at Stripe; writes about the mechanics of money at Bits about Money and wrote for years at Kalzumeus about careers, negotiation and the business of software. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Patrick Morgan](https://korrents.com/u/patrick-morgan): Product designer at Sublime Security, the email security company, and writer of the Unknown Arts newsletter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Paul Bloom](https://korrents.com/u/paul-bloom): Psychologist at the University of Toronto and professor emeritus at Yale, author of Against Empathy and The Sweet Spot. He writes the newsletter Small Potatoes. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Paul Christiano](https://korrents.com/u/paul-christiano): AI alignment researcher. Led the alignment team at OpenAI, founded the Alignment Research Center, and wrote the case for a continuous rather than explosive path to advanced AI at The Sideways View. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Paul Ford](https://korrents.com/u/paul-ford): Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code? (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Paul Graham](https://korrents.com/u/paul-graham): Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Paul Krugman](https://korrents.com/u/paul-krugman): Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work on economic geography, professor emeritus at Princeton and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a New York Times columnist from 1999 to 2024. Now writes on Substack. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Paul Millerd](https://korrents.com/u/paul-millerd): Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Paulo Freire](https://korrents.com/u/paulo-freire): Brazilian educator and philosopher (1921 to 1997), a founder of critical pedagogy, best known for Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which treats teaching as a political act of liberation. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Pavel Durov](https://korrents.com/u/pavel-durov): Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Peter Attia](https://korrents.com/u/peter-attia): Physician and founder of Early Medical, a practice built around what he calls Medicine 3.0. Writes a weekly newsletter on exercise, lipids, sleep and longevity at peterattiamd.com and hosts The Peter Attia Drive; author of Outlive. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Peter Bevelin](https://korrents.com/u/peter-bevelin): Swedish investor and author of Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, a book on human judgment and avoiding errors that draws on biology, psychology and physics and on the thinking of Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Peter Kropotkin](https://korrents.com/u/peter-kropotkin): Russian anarchist political philosopher and geographer (1842 to 1921), a proponent of anarchist communism; lived in exile in England from 1886 to 1917; author of Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Peter Sellis](https://korrents.com/u/peter-sellis): Former head of product at Discord; earlier Snap's first product manager, where he spent seven years, and before that a product manager at Ustream. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Peter Singer](https://korrents.com/u/peter-singer): Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Peter Steinberger](https://korrents.com/u/peter-steinberger): Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Peter Thiel](https://korrents.com/u/peter-thiel): Co-founded PayPal and Palantir, was Facebook's first outside investor, and is a partner at Founders Fund. Wrote Zero to One with Blake Masters. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Peter Woit](https://korrents.com/u/peter-woit): Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Phil Hagelberg](https://korrents.com/u/phil-hagelberg): Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Phil Maffetone](https://korrents.com/u/phil-maffetone): Endurance coach and clinician; author of more than 20 books, developed the MAF 180 heart-rate training method and the Two-Week Test, and worked with Mark Allen, six-time Hawaii Ironman champion. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Phil Trammell](https://korrents.com/u/phil-trammell): Economist working on the economics of transformative AI; head of economics at Epoch AI and a research scholar at Stanford. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Philip Koopman](https://korrents.com/u/philip-koopman): Professor at Carnegie Mellon University who works on self-driving car safety and dependable embedded systems, principal technical contributor to the ANSI/UL 4600 autonomous-vehicle safety standard and author of How Safe Is Safe Enough? He writes the Safe Autonomy blog, which is largely an argument that the industry's public safety claims do not survive contact with the statistics. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Philip O'Toole](https://korrents.com/u/philip-otoole): Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Philip Tetlock](https://korrents.com/u/philip-tetlock): Psychologist and political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania; author of Expert Political Judgment (2005), which compared forecasters he called foxes and hedgehogs, and co-author of Superforecasting (2015). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Phillips P. OBrien](https://korrents.com/u/phillips-obrien): Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St Andrews and author of How the War Was Won; writes Phillips's Newsletter on the war in Ukraine and on Western strategy. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Pieter Levels](https://korrents.com/u/pieter-levels): Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Polly D'Arcy](https://korrents.com/u/polly-darcy): VP of Design at Wealthsimple. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Preshit Deorukhkar](https://korrents.com/u/preshit-deorukhkar): Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rabindranath Tagore](https://korrents.com/u/rabindranath-tagore): Bengali poet and philosopher (1861 to 1941); in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature; wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rachel Carson](https://korrents.com/u/rachel-carson): American marine biologist, writer and conservationist (1907 to 1964) whose sea trilogy and 1962 book Silent Spring are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Radley Balko](https://korrents.com/u/radley-balko): Investigative journalist writing on policing, forensics and wrongful convictions at The Watch, previously at the Washington Post, Huffington Post and Reason. His reporting on the Mississippi medical examiner Steven Hayne and the bite-mark analyst Michael West preceded nine exonerations. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rafa Conde](https://korrents.com/u/rafa-conde): Design engineer at Retro, the private social network for friends and family, and maker of the Hand Mirror menu bar camera app. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rahul Vohra](https://korrents.com/u/rahul-vohra): Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rakhim Davletkaliyev](https://korrents.com/u/rakhim): Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ralph Adolphs](https://korrents.com/u/ralph-adolphs): Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://korrents.com/u/ralph-waldo-emerson): American essayist and lecturer (1803 to 1882); began his career as a Unitarian minister in Boston; author of essays including Self-Reliance, History, The Over-Soul and Fate. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ramez Naam](https://korrents.com/u/ramez-naam): Author and clean-energy investor who has been publishing dated forecasts of solar, wind, battery and electric-vehicle costs since 2011, and publishing the corrections when they came in low. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Raph Koster](https://korrents.com/u/raph-koster): Game designer and theorist. Lead designer of Ultima Online and creative director of Star Wars Galaxies, author of A Theory of Fun for Game Design, and founder of Playable Worlds. Has written about game design, virtual worlds and online communities at raphkoster.com since 1998. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rasmus Andersson](https://korrents.com/u/rasmus-andersson): Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ray Dalio](https://korrents.com/u/ray-dalio): Founder of Bridgewater Associates, which he led from 1975 until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ray Maker](https://korrents.com/u/ray-maker): Reviews sports technology at DC Rainmaker — watches, power meters and bike computers — in exhaustive detail, having tested them himself. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Razib Khan](https://korrents.com/u/razib-khan): Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [René Descartes](https://korrents.com/u/rene-descartes): French philosopher and mathematician (1596 to 1650); author of the Discourse on the Method (1637), the Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) and the Principles of Philosophy (1644). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rhonda Patrick](https://korrents.com/u/rhonda-patrick): Biomedical scientist and founder of FoundMyFitness; publishes research-based content on nutrition, aging and exercise physiology. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rich Hickey](https://korrents.com/u/rich-hickey): Creator of the Clojure programming language and of Datomic. His rationale for Clojure is one of the few language design documents that argues its case rather than describing its syntax. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Richard Dawkins](https://korrents.com/u/richard-dawkins): Evolutionary biologist and author; writes The Poetry of Reality newsletter on Substack. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Richard Feynman](https://korrents.com/u/richard-feynman): Theoretical physicist (1918 to 1988); shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics; at the California Institute of Technology at the time of the award. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Richard Schwartz](https://korrents.com/u/richard-schwartz): Psychotherapist who developed Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Richard Stallman](https://korrents.com/u/richard-stallman): Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Richard Sutton](https://korrents.com/u/richard-sutton): Computer scientist who founded the field of reinforcement learning, co-author of the standard textbook, and winner of the 2024 Turing Award. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rihanna](https://korrents.com/u/rihanna): Barbadian singer and businesswoman (Robyn Rihanna Fenty) who founded the Clara Lionel Foundation in 2012, Fenty Beauty in 2017 and Savage X Fenty in 2018. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rita Kozlov](https://korrents.com/u/rita-kozlov): Vice president at Cloudflare for its developer platform, as of 2025 (“VP, Developer”); writes on the Cloudflare blog about Workers, agents and open source. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rob Henderson](https://korrents.com/u/rob-henderson): Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rob Pike](https://korrents.com/u/rob-pike): Co-creator of the Go programming language, of UTF-8 and of the Plan 9 operating system; formerly of Bell Labs. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rob Walker](https://korrents.com/u/rob-walker): Journalist and author of The Art of Noticing; writes the newsletter The Art of Noticing (TAoN) on attention, creativity and the everyday. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Robby Stein](https://korrents.com/u/robby-stein): Vice President of Product for Google Search; previously head of product at Artifact, a top product executive at Instagram from 2016 to 2021, and co-founder and CEO of Stamped, which Yahoo acquired in 2012. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Robert Cialdini](https://korrents.com/u/robert-cialdini): Social psychologist who researches what leads people to say yes to requests; author of Influence and Pre-Suasion, which have sold more than 10 million copies in 48 languages. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Robert Greene](https://korrents.com/u/robert-greene): Author of the bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery and The Laws of Human Nature; degree in classical studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Robert Waldinger](https://korrents.com/u/robert-waldinger): Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Zen priest; director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and co-author with Marc Schulz of The Good Life (2023). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Robin Carhart-Harris](https://korrents.com/u/robin-carhart-harris): Neuroscientist and psychedelics researcher; founded the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, then moved to the University of California, San Francisco; proposed the entropic brain hypothesis. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Robin Hanson](https://korrents.com/u/robin-hanson): Associate professor of economics at George Mason University, originator of decision markets and futarchy, and author of the blog Overcoming Bias. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Robin Sloan](https://korrents.com/u/robin-sloan): Novelist and writer, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough; previously worked at Twitter and Current TV. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rodney Brooks](https://korrents.com/u/rodney-brooks): Robotics researcher, emeritus professor at MIT and former director of its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics, now at Robust.AI. Since January 2018 he has published dated predictions about self-driving cars, robotics and human spaceflight and scored them in public every New Year's Day, a commitment he made through 2050. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Roger Martin](https://korrents.com/u/roger-martin): Strategy writer and Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he was Dean from 1998 to 2013; co-author with A.G. Lafley of Playing to Win. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rohit Krishnan](https://korrents.com/u/rohit-krishnan): Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Roman Ugarte](https://korrents.com/u/roman-ugarte): Leads product for Grok Bot at SpaceX AI; previously led growth at Cursor, which he joined when it had about 15 people. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ron Goldin](https://korrents.com/u/ron-goldin): Design leader who has led design at Google, Shopify and Uber Eats, and co-founded the brand-partnerships product MTCHMKR. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rory Sutherland](https://korrents.com/u/rory-sutherland): Rory Sutherland is vice chairman of Ogilvy UK, where he helped found the agency's behavioural science practice. He wrote Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business and Life, and writes a column for The Spectator. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Roy Baumeister](https://korrents.com/u/roy-baumeister): American social psychologist, born 16 May 1953, known for work on the self, self-control, belongingness and free will; taught at Case Western Reserve University from 1979 to 2003, then at Florida State University and the University of Queensland. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Rumi](https://korrents.com/u/rumi): Persian Sufi mystic and poet Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207 to 1273), founder of the Mevlevi Order; his family hailed from Balkh and he is buried in Konya; author of the Masnavi. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Russ Allbery](https://korrents.com/u/russ-allbery): Long-time Debian developer and free-software maintainer (remctl, INN, pam-krb5) who has published book reviews on his personal site since the 1990s. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Russ Cox](https://korrents.com/u/russ-cox): Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ruxandra Teslo](https://korrents.com/u/ruxandra-teslo): Geneticist by training and writer on science, medicine and policy. She holds a PhD in genomics, writes at Ruxandra's Substack and for Works in Progress, and co-founded Clinical Trial Abundance, a project arguing that the binding constraint on new medicines is how trials are run rather than how drugs are designed. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ryan Burge](https://korrents.com/u/ryan-burge): Professor of practice at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University, and for two decades the pastor of a small American Baptist church. He writes Graphs About Religion, working through large survey datasets on what Americans believe, whether they belong to anything, and whether they turn up. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ryan Greenblatt](https://korrents.com/u/ryan-greenblatt): Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ryan Holiday](https://korrents.com/u/ryan-holiday): American author of The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy; writes the Reading List book-recommendation email and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ryan Singer](https://korrents.com/u/ryan-singer): Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ryo Lu](https://korrents.com/u/ryo-lu): Head of design at Cursor from 2025 to August 2026; five years at Notion before that. Writes a journal at ryo.lu. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Réka Albert](https://korrents.com/u/reka-albert): Professor of physics and biology at Penn State, and co-author of the model that explains why large networks are scale-free. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sabine Hossenfelder](https://korrents.com/u/sabine-hossenfelder): Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Salim Furth](https://korrents.com/u/salim-furth): Economist, senior research fellow and director of the Urbanity project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, working on housing and land use. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Saloni Dattani](https://korrents.com/u/saloni-dattani): Researcher at Our World in Data with a PhD in psychiatric genetics, and founding editor of Works in Progress. Writes Scientific Discovery, a newsletter on medical research and long-run trends in health and mortality. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Salvatore Sanfilippo](https://korrents.com/u/salvatore-sanfilippo): Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sam Altman](https://korrents.com/u/sam-altman): Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Samo Burja](https://korrents.com/u/samo-burja): Founder of the consultancy Bismarck Analysis and author of Great Founder Theory, writing about how institutions are built, how they decay, and why civilisations collapse. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Samuel Arbesman](https://korrents.com/u/samuel-arbesman): Complexity scientist and writer, author of The Half-Life of Facts and Overcomplicated; scientist in residence at Lux Capital. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Samuel Hammond](https://korrents.com/u/samuel-hammond): Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Samuel Hughes](https://korrents.com/u/samuel-hughes): Editor at Works in Progress writing on architecture, urbanism and housing policy, and a fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies and Create Streets. Has worked in think tanks, academia and government in Britain. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sandi Metz](https://korrents.com/u/sandi-metz): Author of Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and 99 Bottles of OOP, and a teacher of object-oriented design. Her 2014 RailsConf assertion that duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction became one of the most-quoted lines in the craft. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sanjay Bakshi](https://korrents.com/u/sanjay-bakshi): Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sara Walker](https://korrents.com/u/sara-walker): Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sarah Paine](https://korrents.com/u/sarah-paine): Historian of maritime and continental empires who taught strategy at the U.S. Naval War College for twenty-four years. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sasha Chapin](https://korrents.com/u/sasha-chapin): Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Satya Nadella](https://korrents.com/u/satya-nadella): Chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft, which he has led since 2014. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Scott Aaronson](https://korrents.com/u/scott-aaronson): Theoretical computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for work on quantum computing and computational complexity. Writes the blog Shtetl-Optimized, where he has kept both his old forecasts and his later verdicts on them in public. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Scott Alexander](https://korrents.com/u/scott-alexander): Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex. Keeps a numbered public list of the things he has been convinced he got wrong, which is where most of the turns recorded here come from. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Scott D. Miller](https://korrents.com/u/scott-d-miller): Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes therapists effective, usually against the field's own assumptions. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Scott Greenfield](https://korrents.com/u/scott-greenfield): New York criminal defence lawyer, in practice since 1982, who has written the blog Simple Justice daily since 2007. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Scott H. Young](https://korrents.com/u/scott-h-young): Canadian writer on learning who taught himself MIT's computer-science curriculum in a year, then spent the following year travelling through Spain, Brazil, China and Korea trying not to speak English. Author of Ultralearning. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Scott Hanselman](https://korrents.com/u/scott-hanselman): Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Scott Helme](https://korrents.com/u/scott-helme): Security researcher who founded Report URI and has crawled the top million websites since 2016, measuring how the web actually adopts HTTPS, HSTS, CSP and the rest of the browser security toolkit. He writes the results up at scotthelme.co.uk. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Scott Rao](https://korrents.com/u/scott-rao): Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Scott Sumner](https://korrents.com/u/scott-sumner): Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting; wrote TheMoneyIllusion. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sean Carroll](https://korrents.com/u/sean-carroll): Theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy, host of the Mindscape podcast and author of Something Deeply Hidden. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sebastiaan de With](https://korrents.com/u/sebastiaan-de-with): Designer and co-founder of Lux, makers of Halide, Spectre and Kino; formerly a designer at Apple. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sebastian Raschka](https://korrents.com/u/sebastian-raschka): AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sebastian Ruder](https://korrents.com/u/sebastian-ruder): Research scientist at Meta working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was at Google DeepMind before that. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Seneca](https://korrents.com/u/seneca): Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman (c. 1 BCE to 65 CE); born in Corduba; adviser to Nero from 54; author of the Moral Letters to Lucilius. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sepp Hochreiter](https://korrents.com/u/sepp-hochreiter) (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sergey Levine](https://korrents.com/u/sergey-levine): Professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, and a co-founder of the robotic foundation model company Physical Intelligence. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Serhii Plokhy](https://korrents.com/u/serhii-plokhy): Ukrainian-American historian, professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Seth Godin](https://korrents.com/u/seth-godin): Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Shane Parrish](https://korrents.com/u/shane-parrish): Founder of Farnam Street (fs.blog) and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Writes and curates on decision-making, mental models and rational thinking. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sigmund Freud](https://korrents.com/u/sigmund-freud): Founder of psychoanalysis (1856 to 1939); physician and psychologist who lived and worked in Vienna until 1938; author of The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and The Ego and the Id (1923). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Simon Willison](https://korrents.com/u/simon-willison): Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Socrates](https://korrents.com/u/socrates): Athenian philosopher (469 to 399 BCE) who wrote nothing; his words survive second-hand, chiefly in Plato's dialogues; tried and executed by the Athenian democracy on a charge of irreverence toward the gods. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sonja Lyubomirsky](https://korrents.com/u/sonja-lyubomirsky): Social psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, who studies whether happiness can be lastingly increased; author of The How of Happiness (2008) and The Myths of Happiness (2013). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sriram Krishnan](https://korrents.com/u/sriram-krishnan): Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Stacy Sims](https://korrents.com/u/stacy-sims): Exercise physiologist who has worked at Stanford and with professional athletic teams; she studies training and nutrition specific to women. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Stefan Judis](https://korrents.com/u/stefan-judis): German web developer, writer and conference speaker. Publishes the Web Weekly newsletter and blogs about the web platform at stefanjudis.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Stefan Zweifel](https://korrents.com/u/stefan-zweifel): Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Stephan Guyenet](https://korrents.com/u/stephan-guyenet): Obesity researcher with a PhD in neuroscience, formerly at the University of Washington, and author of The Hungry Brain. Writes about the neuroscience of body weight and food reward at stephanguyenet.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Stephen Hawking](https://korrents.com/u/stephen-hawking): English theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1942 to 2018), Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge from 1979 to 2009, known for his work on black holes and for A Brief History of Time. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Stephen King](https://korrents.com/u/stephen-king): American author known for horror fiction, who has also written suspense, crime, science fiction, fantasy and mystery, and about 200 short stories. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Stephen Wolfram](https://korrents.com/u/stephen-wolfram): Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and author of A New Kind of Science. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Steve Coast](https://korrents.com/u/steve-coast): Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Steve Huff](https://korrents.com/u/steve-huff): Gear reviewer who publishes long-form hi-fi audio and camera equipment reviews, plus video reviews, at stevehuffphoto.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Steve Jobs](https://korrents.com/u/steve-jobs): American entrepreneur (1955 to 2011); co-founded Apple in 1976 and led it again from 1997 to 2011; ran Pixar from 1986 to 2006. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Steve Kaufmann](https://korrents.com/u/steve-kaufmann): Canadian former diplomat and lumber trader who speaks twenty languages, most of them learned after the age of sixty. Co-founded the language-learning site LingQ in 2007 and has written and filmed about learning by listening and reading ever since. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Steve Klabnik](https://korrents.com/u/steve-klabnik): Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Steve Krug](https://korrents.com/u/steve-krug): Usability consultant and author of Don’t Make Me Think and Rocket Surgery Made Easy. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Steve Magness](https://korrents.com/u/steve-magness): Performance coach and author of Do Hard Things; he coached college and professional runners for fifteen years, and writes the Steve Magness newsletter on physical and mental performance. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Steve Yegge](https://korrents.com/u/steve-yegge): Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google, wrote the Stevey's Blog Rants essays, and co-authored the book Vibe Coding with Gene Kim. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Steven C. Hayes](https://korrents.com/u/steven-c-hayes): Clinical psychologist and Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno; developer of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and a leading advocate of process-based therapy. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Steven Johnson](https://korrents.com/u/steven-johnson): Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Steven Pinker](https://korrents.com/u/steven-pinker): Cognitive scientist and author at Harvard; writes on rationality, language and human progress. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Steven Pressfield](https://korrents.com/u/steven-pressfield): American novelist and non-fiction writer, author of Gates of Fire, The Legend of Bagger Vance and The War of Art. He has written a weekly Writing Wednesdays post about the working life of a writer for more than fifteen years. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Stuart](https://korrents.com/u/stuart-toolguyd): Founder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools, workshop equipment and EDC gear. He writes under his first name on the site. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Stuart Ritchie](https://korrents.com/u/stuart-ritchie): Psychologist, formerly a lecturer at King's College London, author of Science Fictions, a book about fraud, bias, negligence and hype in research, and of the Science Fictions newsletter, where he takes individual papers and press releases apart in public. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sue Johnson](https://korrents.com/u/sue-johnson): Clinical psychologist and the developer of emotionally focused therapy (EFT) for couples; author of Hold Me Tight. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sun Tzu](https://korrents.com/u/sun-tzu): Chinese military general and strategist of the Eastern Zhou period, whose lifetime traditional historians dated to 544 to 496 BC; traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, though the earliest parts of the work probably date to at least a century after him. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sun Yat-sen](https://korrents.com/u/sun-yat-sen): Founder of the Republic of China (1866 to 1925); physician, revolutionary and political philosopher; founder of the Kuomintang and first president of its provisional government in 1912. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sundar Pichai](https://korrents.com/u/sundar-pichai): CEO of Google and Alphabet. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Sunil Pai](https://korrents.com/u/sunil-pai): Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Susan Cain](https://korrents.com/u/susan-cain): Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Susan Kare](https://korrents.com/u/susan-kare): Graphic designer and type designer, who created the original Macintosh icons and typefaces at Apple from 1982 and has since designed interface graphics for NeXT, Microsoft, Facebook and Pinterest. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Susan Sontag](https://korrents.com/u/susan-sontag): American writer and critic (1933 to 2004); author of the essay collections Against Interpretation (1966) and On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Swami Vivekananda](https://korrents.com/u/swami-vivekananda): Indian Hindu monk and philosopher (1863 to 1902); chief disciple of Ramakrishna; a major figure in bringing Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world in the late 19th century. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tamar Yehoshua](https://korrents.com/u/tamar-yehoshua): Chief Product and AI Officer at Atlassian; previously President of Product and Technology at Glean, Chief Product Officer at Slack, and a VP leading product and engineering for Google Search. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tanner Greer](https://korrents.com/u/tanner-greer): Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tara Seshan](https://korrents.com/u/tara-seshan): Product lead for ChatGPT Work at OpenAI; previously one of the first five product managers at Stripe, head of product at Watershed, and a Thiel Fellow. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Taylor Swift](https://korrents.com/u/taylor-swift): American singer-songwriter (born 1989) who released her first album in 2006 and moved from country music to pop, folk and alternative. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ted Chiang](https://korrents.com/u/ted-chiang): American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The New Yorker. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ted Gioia](https://korrents.com/u/ted-gioia): Music critic and cultural historian, author of eleven books including Music: A Subversive History, who writes The Honest Broker on Substack about music, books, media and culture. His 2024 "State of the Culture" essay put the phrase "dopamine culture" into wide circulation. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Terence Eden](https://korrents.com/u/terence-eden): British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Terence Tao](https://korrents.com/u/terence-tao) (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Teresa Torres](https://korrents.com/u/teresa-torres): Product discovery coach; author of Continuous Discovery Habits; writes at producttalk.org. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Terry Cavanagh](https://korrents.com/u/terry-cavanagh): Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Terry Real](https://korrents.com/u/terry-real): Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It and Us; argues that the Western idea of the separate individual is what makes couples' work hard. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Thariq Shihipar](https://korrents.com/u/thariq-shihipar): Building Claude Code at Anthropic; previously Y Combinator W20, South Park Commons and the MIT Media Lab. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [ThePrimeagen](https://korrents.com/u/theprimeagen): Michael Paulson, known online as ThePrimeagen, a programmer who spent ten years at Netflix and now streams and teaches programming full time on Twitch and YouTube. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Thiago Costa](https://korrents.com/u/thiago-costa): Designer and co-founder of Fey, the investing app Wealthsimple acquired in August 2025. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Thiruvalluvar](https://korrents.com/u/thiruvalluvar): Tamil poet traditionally credited as the author of the Tirukkural, a classic Tamil text of 1,330 couplets on virtue, wealth and love; almost nothing authentic is known of his life. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Thomas Depierre](https://korrents.com/u/thomas-depierre): Software engineer and open source maintainer, writing at softwaremaxims.com. His 2022 essay "I am not a supplier" is one of the most widely cited maintainer responses to the software-supply-chain security agenda, and he argues that most proposals for fixing open source are written by people who do not understand who actually maintains it. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Thomas Hobbes](https://korrents.com/u/thomas-hobbes): English philosopher (1588 to 1679), born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire; best known for his political philosophy in Leviathan; translated Thucydides into English. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Thomas Paine](https://korrents.com/u/thomas-paine): Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809), born in Norfolk, England; author of Common Sense, a central text behind the call for American independence, and Rights of Man. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Thomas Ptacek](https://korrents.com/u/thomas-ptacek): Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Thorsten Ball](https://korrents.com/u/thorsten-ball): Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast. Wrote Writing an Interpreter in Go. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Thuan Pham](https://korrents.com/u/thuan-pham): Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tiago Forte](https://korrents.com/u/tiago-forte): Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tim Ferriss](https://korrents.com/u/tim-ferriss): Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tim Harford](https://korrents.com/u/tim-harford): Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tim Sweeney](https://korrents.com/u/tim-sweeney): Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tim Urban](https://korrents.com/u/tim-urban): Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem? (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Timothy B. Lee](https://korrents.com/u/timothy-b-lee): Journalist with a computer science master's degree who has written for the Washington Post and Ars Technica and now publishes Understanding AI. He reads self-driving crash reports one by one and has been putting dated, quantitative judgements about Waymo and Tesla on the record since 2023. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Timothy Snyder](https://korrents.com/u/timothy-snyder): Historian of Central and Eastern Europe, Chair in Modern European History at the University of Toronto and formerly Levin Professor of History at Yale; author of Bloodlands, On Tyranny and On Freedom. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tobias Lütke](https://korrents.com/u/tobi-lutke): Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tobias Sjösten](https://korrents.com/u/tobias-sjosten): Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tom MacWright](https://korrents.com/u/tom-macwright): Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tom Preston-Werner](https://korrents.com/u/tom-preston-werner): Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tom Verrilli](https://korrents.com/u/tom-verrilli): Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tomasz Tunguz](https://korrents.com/u/tomasz-tunguz): Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tommy Geoco](https://korrents.com/u/tommy-geoco): Product designer, founder and host of UX Tools, the design-tools newsletter, annual survey and podcast. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tommy Wood](https://korrents.com/u/tommy-wood): Associate professor at the University of Washington, where his laboratory studies brain health across the lifespan; he holds a medical degree from Oxford and a PhD in physiology and neuroscience from Oslo. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tony Fadell](https://korrents.com/u/tony-fadell): Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Travis Kalanick](https://korrents.com/u/travis-kalanick): Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tren Griffin](https://korrents.com/u/tren-griffin): Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Troy Hunt](https://korrents.com/u/troy-hunt): Security researcher who runs Have I Been Pwned, the service that tells people which breaches their email address turned up in. He writes at troyhunt.com about breaches, passwords and what actually goes wrong, including when it goes wrong to him. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tuomas Artman](https://korrents.com/u/tuomas-artman): Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tyler Cipriani](https://korrents.com/u/tyler-cipriani): Release engineering manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. Keeps a public log at tylercipriani.com of every book he reads, with a rating and notes. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tyler Cowen](https://korrents.com/u/tyler-cowen): Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved his position on AI in public more than once. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tynan](https://korrents.com/u/tynan): American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Tynan Sylvester](https://korrents.com/u/tynan-sylvester): Game designer, creator of RimWorld and founder of Ludeon Studios, and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Worked on BioShock Infinite before going independent. Writes occasionally about design method at tynansylvester.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Ursula von der Leyen](https://korrents.com/u/ursula-von-der-leyen): President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Vaclav Smil](https://korrents.com/u/vaclav-smil): Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst, born 9 December 1943 in Plzeň; Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba, studying energy, environment, food, population and the history of technical change. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Varun Raj Manoharan](https://korrents.com/u/varun-raj-manoharan): Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Venkatesh Rao](https://korrents.com/u/venkatesh-rao): Writer and consultant on technology, organizations and history; founded the blog Ribbonfarm and now writes the Contraptions newsletter. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Vicki Boykis](https://korrents.com/u/vicki-boykis): Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval; author of the 'What are embeddings?' text. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Viktor Frankl](https://korrents.com/u/viktor-frankl): Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (1905 to 1997) and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that treats the search for meaning as the central human motivation. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Vitalik Buterin](https://korrents.com/u/vitalik-buterin): Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to his earlier positions to say which parts he no longer holds. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Voltaire](https://korrents.com/u/voltaire): French writer and public activist (1694 to 1778), born François-Marie d'Arouet; a leading figure of the Enlightenment; lived in England from 1726 to 1729. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [W. David Marx](https://korrents.com/u/w-david-marx): Tokyo-based American writer; author of Ametora (2015), Status and Culture (2022) and Blank Space (2025). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [W. E. B. Du Bois](https://korrents.com/u/w-e-b-du-bois): American scholar and civil rights leader (1868 to 1963); the first Black person to receive a PhD from Harvard; edited The Crisis, a publication of the NAACP. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Warren Buffett](https://korrents.com/u/warren-buffett): Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway since 1965, and its majority shareholder; wrote its annual shareholder letters himself for six decades. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Warren Ellis](https://korrents.com/u/warren-ellis): British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Wayne Hale](https://korrents.com/u/wayne-hale): Retired NASA engineer and manager, a Space Shuttle flight director for forty missions and Space Shuttle Program Manager or Deputy for five years. Writes about risk, engineering judgement and the Columbia accident at waynehale.wordpress.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Wendy Behary](https://korrents.com/u/wendy-behary): Psychotherapist, founder of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and co-director of the Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. Trained with Jeffrey Young from 1989 and wrote Disarming the Narcissist. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Will Durant](https://korrents.com/u/will-durant): American historian and philosopher (1885 to 1981); author of The Story of Philosophy (1926) and, with Ariel Durant, the eleven-volume The Story of Civilization, published from 1935 to 1975. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Will Larson](https://korrents.com/u/will-larson): Engineering executive who has led infrastructure and engineering organisations at Stripe, Calm, Carta and Imprint, and previously at Uber and Digg. Author of "An Elegant Puzzle", "Staff Engineer", "The Engineering Executive’s Primer" and "Crafting Engineering Strategy". Writes about organisational design at lethain.com. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [William Deresiewicz](https://korrents.com/u/william-deresiewicz): American essayist and literary critic; taught English at Yale University from 1998 to 2008; author of A Jane Austen Education, Excellent Sheep, The Death of the Artist and The End of Solitude. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [William James](https://korrents.com/u/william-james): American philosopher and psychologist (1842 to 1910); studied at Harvard; author of The Principles of Psychology (1890), The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) and Pragmatism (1907). (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [William MacAskill](https://korrents.com/u/william-macaskill): Philosopher at Oxford who co-founded Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours and the Centre for Effective Altruism, and who named effective altruism. Author of Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future; now writes at Forethought. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [William Strunk Jr.](https://korrents.com/u/william-strunk): American professor of English at Cornell University (1869 to 1946); author of The Elements of Style, written in 1918 for his classes and later revised by his former student E. B. White. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Xe Iaso](https://korrents.com/u/xe-iaso): Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Yihui Xie](https://korrents.com/u/yihui-xie): Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Yoshua Bengio](https://korrents.com/u/yoshua-bengio): Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Yuval Noah Harari](https://korrents.com/u/yuval-noah-harari): Israeli historian and philosopher, born in 1976; author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Nexus; lecturer in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; co-founder of Sapienship in 2019. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Zach Holman](https://korrents.com/u/zach-holman): Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Zeke Hausfather](https://korrents.com/u/zeke-hausfather): Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Zhuangzi](https://korrents.com/u/zhuangzi): Chinese Daoist philosopher of the fourth century BC and the pivotal figure of classical philosophical Daoism; of the compiled Zhuangzi, only the Inner Chapters (1 to 7) are attributed to his lifetime. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Zvi Mowshowitz](https://korrents.com/u/zvi-mowshowitz): Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what he thinks it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade his own past calls. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [swyx](https://korrents.com/u/swyx): Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Émile P. Torres](https://korrents.com/u/emile-torres): Philosopher and historian of human extinction. Published a book defending existential-risk reduction in 2017, then became the most-cited critic of longtermism, the view that the overriding moral priority is fulfilling humanity's long-term potential. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)
- [Łukasz Kaiser](https://korrents.com/u/lukasz-kaiser): One of the eight authors of the 2017 transformer paper "Attention Is All You Need", then at Google Brain; per the paper's own contribution note, designed and implemented parts of tensor2tensor, the codebase that replaced the team's earlier one. (archive profile, compiled from public statements)

## Topics
Each is one question, with our views under it and the dated claims filed
under each view. A view is our reading of what a group of claims have in
common; it names nobody, and the claims under it are printed with it so a
reader can check it. Nobody is filed under a view -- claims are -- so the
same person can appear under two.
- [How should software engineers be interviewed?](https://korrents.com/topic/tech-interviews): Whiteboard algorithm questions became the standard filter; the dispute is over what they measure and what replaces them.
- [Which mental models help you think better?](https://korrents.com/topic/which-mental-models-help-you-think): Thinking tools borrowed from many fields, each held in the words of the people who argue for it.
- [Can a machine be conscious?](https://korrents.com/topic/can-machines-be-conscious): An old question that got loud again in October 2026: is anything we have built conscious, and could it ever be?
- [What is a PM for, now that building is cheap?](https://korrents.com/topic/what-is-product-management-for): Deciding what to build matters more now; they split on whether a PM or the builders should do it.
- [Why is ambition important?](https://korrents.com/topic/why-ambition-matters): 22 claims from 15 people
- [What is taste, and why does it matter now?](https://korrents.com/topic/what-is-taste): 58 claims from 29 people
- [Which mental models should a designer think with?](https://korrents.com/topic/mental-models-for-designers): Eleven ideas designers keep coming back to, each held in the words of the people who state it.
- [Why be optimistic?](https://korrents.com/topic/why-be-optimistic): 16 claims from 15 people
- [Will AI take the jobs?](https://korrents.com/topic/ai-and-jobs): Some expect AI to remove whole classes of work soon; others call that the overreach.
- [When does an abstraction help, and when does it hurt?](https://korrents.com/topic/when-to-abstract): They argue over when to share code, whether the classic clean-code rules help, and what hiding the details costs.
- [Where does creativity come from?](https://korrents.com/topic/where-creativity-comes-from): 30 claims from 24 people
- [What are tests for, and how much testing is enough?](https://korrents.com/topic/what-are-tests-for): They agree tests buy confidence and split on which tests, how many, and whether agents change the answer.
- [Why does agency matter?](https://korrents.com/topic/why-agency-matters): 18 claims from 12 people
- [Rent the cloud or own the servers?](https://korrents.com/topic/cloud-or-own-servers): They argue over what the cloud really saves, and where the next wave of software will run.
- [Why does humility matter?](https://korrents.com/topic/why-humility-matters): 16 claims from 9 people
- [Why is it harder to simplify than to add?](https://korrents.com/topic/why-simplifying-is-hard): Most here say simplicity is subtraction; they part over why it is hard, and when less becomes too little.
- [Is patience a virtue?](https://korrents.com/topic/is-patience-a-virtue): 13 claims from 13 people
- [What makes a good life?](https://korrents.com/topic/what-makes-a-good-life): Hardly anyone here says a good life means feeling good; they part on what it means instead.
- [What does courage take?](https://korrents.com/topic/what-courage-takes): 22 claims from 14 people
- [Is discipline the answer?](https://korrents.com/topic/is-discipline-the-answer): 32 claims from 21 people
- [Do static types make software better?](https://korrents.com/topic/do-static-types-help): They split on whether types prevent bugs, or mostly buy better tools, and on how strict they should be.
- [How dangerous is AI, and how soon?](https://korrents.com/topic/ai-risk): They argue over whether the danger can be reasoned about, what to watch, and when it arrives.
- [Do we shrink our way out of the climate problem, or grow our way out?](https://korrents.com/topic/degrowth-or-abundance): All agree emissions must fall; they disagree about whether that means less output or cheaper energy.
- [How cheap does solar get, and what does that change?](https://korrents.com/topic/cheap-solar): Panel prices keep falling with every doubling; they disagree about what follows from that.
- [Where does the energy come from, and what is stopping it?](https://korrents.com/topic/energy-supply): Once about which technology would win, now mostly about what can actually get built.
- [Can a rich country still build things?](https://korrents.com/topic/can-we-still-build): Not whether the projects are wanted, but what stops them: permits, lost capability, or the rules themselves.
- [What does the interface become when a model is on the other side?](https://korrents.com/topic/what-is-the-interface-now): Some expect the interface to disappear into stated intent; others expect the buttons to stay.
- [What makes a design good?](https://korrents.com/topic/what-makes-design-good): Most agree good design is less; they part over what the remainder is for.
- [What do coding agents change about software work?](https://korrents.com/topic/coding-agents): All agree the tools got good; they split on what that changes and what a person is still for.
- [Who should design software, and how?](https://korrents.com/topic/who-should-design-software): Making and deciding have drifted apart, and they disagree about the cure.
- [What makes psychotherapy work?](https://korrents.com/topic/what-makes-therapy-work): They all treat people for a living and disagree about which part of the hour does the work.
- [Why is curiosity important?](https://korrents.com/topic/why-curiosity-matters): 16 claims from 13 people
- [Does public debt cost what we think it does?](https://korrents.com/topic/public-debt): Cheap debt looked settled until rates moved, and two people here changed their minds in writing.
- [Do you become the people you spend time with?](https://korrents.com/topic/do-you-become-the-people-you-spend-time-with): Most agree the people around you change you; they part on what to do about it.
- [Does empathy make us better?](https://korrents.com/topic/does-empathy-make-us-better): 19 claims from 13 people
- [Should software be one program or many small services?](https://korrents.com/topic/monolith-or-microservices): Most say start with one program; they differ on when to split it, and why.
- [Do tariffs do what they are imposed to do?](https://korrents.com/topic/tariffs-and-trade): They have counted what tariffs do and disagree about what the counting shows.

## Politicians who changed their minds
What politicians in Israel, the United States, Europe and Portugal said on a question, and what they said later, each in their own words (original language, labelled translation) with the source: https://korrents.com/politicians (Hebrew: https://korrents.com/politicians/he)
- [A. B. Yehoshua](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/a-b-yehoshua): Novelist and public intellectual (1936–2022); Two states or one
- [André Ventura](https://korrents.com/politics/portugal/andre-ventura): Leader of Chega and member of the Assembleia da República; presidential candidate in 2021 and 2026; Letting a right-wing government take office without Chega in it
- [António Costa](https://korrents.com/politics/portugal/antonio-costa): Prime Minister of Portugal (2015-2024); President of the European Council since December 2024; Who should own TAP Air Portugal
- [Ariel Sharon](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/ariel-sharon): Former Prime Minister of Israel (2001–2006); Evacuating the settlements in Gaza
- [Aryeh Deri](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/aryeh-deri): Chairman of Shas; Sitting in a government with Yair Lapid; Judicial reform
- [Avigdor Liberman](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/avigdor-liberman): Leader of Yisrael Beiteinu; former Foreign, Defence and Finance Minister; A Palestinian state; The Supreme Court and the Knesset; Netanyahu as prime minister; Governing with Arab parties
- [Ayelet Shaked](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/ayelet-shaked): Former Interior Minister and Justice Minister of Israel; Mansour Abbas and Ra'am; Judicial reform
- [Benjamin Netanyahu](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/benjamin-netanyahu): Prime Minister of Israel; A Palestinian state; Changing the Supreme Court and the judicial system; Itamar Ben Gvir as a minister
- [Benny Gantz](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/benny-gantz): Former Defence Minister of Israel; Sitting in a government with Netanyahu; Judicial reform
- [Bezalel Smotrich](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/bezalel-smotrich): Minister of Finance; Chairman of Religious Zionism; Netanyahu as prime minister; Judicial reform
- [Donald Trump](https://korrents.com/politics/united-states/donald-trump): President of the United States (45th and 47th); Banning TikTok; Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
- [Ehud Barak](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/ehud-barak): Former Prime Minister and Defence Minister of Israel; Joining Netanyahu's government (2009)
- [Ehud Olmert](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/ehud-olmert): Former Prime Minister of Israel (2006–2009); Evacuating the Sinai settlements for peace with Egypt; Dividing Jerusalem and the 1967 lines
- [Emmanuel Macron](https://korrents.com/politics/france/emmanuel-macron): President of France (from May 2017); Closing France's nuclear reactors; Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination
- [Friedrich Merz](https://korrents.com/politics/germany/friedrich-merz): Chancellor of Germany (from May 2025); leader of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag before that; Loosening Germany's constitutional debt brake; Passing motions with votes from the AfD
- [Gadi Taub](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/gadi-taub): Historian, author and political commentator; Partition and a Palestinian state
- [Gideon Sa'ar](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/gideon-saar): Foreign Minister of Israel (from November 2024); Serving in a government headed by Netanyahu; The Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara; Judicial reform
- [Giorgia Meloni](https://korrents.com/politics/italy/giorgia-meloni): Prime Minister of Italy (from October 2022); Italy and the euro; EU sanctions on Russia
- [Isaac Herzog](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/isaac-herzog): President of Israel; formerly leader of the Zionist Union and of Labor; Joining Netanyahu's government
- [Itamar Ben Gvir](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/itamar-ben-gvir): Leader of Otzma Yehudit; Minister of National Security; The picture of Baruch Goldstein in his home; Leaving the government over a Gaza deal
- [JD Vance](https://korrents.com/politics/united-states/jd-vance): Vice President of the United States; Donald Trump; A national abortion standard
- [Kamala Harris](https://korrents.com/politics/united-states/kamala-harris): Former Vice President of the United States; 2024 Democratic presidential nominee; A ban on fracking; Private health insurance under Medicare for All
- [Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa](https://korrents.com/politics/portugal/marcelo-rebelo-de-sousa): President of Portugal (2016-2026); former PSD leader and TV political commentator; Whether a President should seek a second term
- [Merav Michaeli](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/merav-michaeli): Former Labor Party leader; former Transport Minister; Naftali Bennett as prime minister
- [Naftali Bennett](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/naftali-bennett): Former Prime Minister of Israel; Yair Lapid as prime minister; A government relying on Mansour Abbas's Ra'am; Sitting in a government under Netanyahu
- [Olaf Scholz](https://korrents.com/politics/germany/olaf-scholz): Chancellor of Germany (December 2021 to May 2025); German weapons for Ukraine; The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
- [Sever Plocker](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/sever-plocker): Columnist and economics editor, Yedioth Ahronoth; The Gaza disengagement
- [Tzipi Livni](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/tzipi-livni): Former Foreign Minister of Israel (2006–2009); Giving up part of the Land of Israel; Sitting in Netanyahu's government
- [Yair Golan](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/yair-golan): Leader of The Democrats; former Deputy Chief of Staff of the IDF; Sitting in a government with the Haredi parties
- [Yair Lapid](https://korrents.com/politics/israel/yair-lapid): Former Prime Minister of Israel; Relying on Arab parties; Judicial reform; A Palestinian state

## Mental models
Ways of thinking, each explained in a line and backed by dated claims in the holders' own words: https://korrents.com/mental-models
- [Many models, not one](https://korrents.com/mental-models/many-models): Carry many models from many fields and use them together; with only one, every problem looks like a nail for your hammer.
- [Inversion](https://korrents.com/mental-models/inversion): Work a problem backward: ask what would guarantee failure, then avoid it.
- [Circle of competence](https://korrents.com/mental-models/circle-of-competence): Know the edge of what you really understand, and act inside it.
- [Second-order thinking](https://korrents.com/mental-models/second-order-thinking): Ask "and then what?": follow a decision past its first effect to the ones that come after.
- [First principles](https://korrents.com/mental-models/first-principles): Reason up from what is known to be true, not from what is usually done or said.
- [The map is not the territory](https://korrents.com/mental-models/map-and-territory): Every model, word or plan is a simplified map of reality; useful when its structure matches, misleading when mistaken for the thing itself.
- [Occam's razor](https://korrents.com/mental-models/occams-razor): Prefer the simplest explanation that fits the facts, and still make it prove itself.
- [Hanlon's razor](https://korrents.com/mental-models/hanlons-razor): Do not assume malice where carelessness, ignorance or neglect explain what happened; they usually do.
- [Thought experiments](https://korrents.com/mental-models/thought-experiments): Test an idea in your head first, by imagining the case that would break it.
- [Probabilistic thinking](https://korrents.com/mental-models/probabilistic-thinking): Think in odds, not certainties, and bet heavily only when the odds are clearly yours.
- [Margin of safety](https://korrents.com/mental-models/margin-of-safety): Leave room for being wrong, because sometimes you will be.
- [Incentives](https://korrents.com/mental-models/incentives): Look at what people are rewarded for; it explains more behaviour than what they say, your own included.
- [Cognitive biases](https://korrents.com/mental-models/biases): Your mind jumps to conclusions and defends them; look for the evidence against you and use checklists.
- [Positioning](https://korrents.com/mental-models/positioning): Set up your situation, rules and defaults so the good choice is the easy one, instead of relying on willpower.
- [Activation energy](https://korrents.com/mental-models/activation-energy): Starting is the hardest part, and the bigger the change, the more energy it takes to begin.
- [Learning machine](https://korrents.com/mental-models/learning-machine): Keep learning after school, and learn from other people's mistakes as well as your own.
- [One-way and two-way doors](https://korrents.com/mental-models/two-way-doors): Decide fast when a choice can be undone, and slowly when it cannot.
- [Say no by default](https://korrents.com/mental-models/say-no): Most good options have to be turned down, so make no the default and keep yes for what matters.
- [Play long games](https://korrents.com/mental-models/long-term): A longer horizon makes some problems solvable and some short-term wins look like what they are.
- [Feedback loops](https://korrents.com/mental-models/feedback-loops): Shorten the loop between doing and finding out; whatever a loop rewards is what you become.
- [Compounding](https://korrents.com/mental-models/compounding): Small gains that build on themselves beat big one-off wins; so do small losses.
- [Bottlenecks](https://korrents.com/mental-models/bottlenecks): A system moves only as fast as its narrowest point; speed up anything else and nothing changes.
- [When a measure becomes a target](https://korrents.com/mental-models/goodhart): Reward a number and people, or machines, will find ways to move the number without the thing it measured (Goodhart's law).
- [Power laws](https://korrents.com/mental-models/power-laws): In many things a few cases account for most of the result, so the average misleads and the outlier decides.
- [Exponential growth](https://korrents.com/mental-models/exponentials): Growth that doubles looks like nothing for a long time and then like everything; intuition is linear and gets it wrong.
- [S-curves and diminishing returns](https://korrents.com/mental-models/s-curves): Most growth slows as it matures; the question is whether the curve is flattening or something new is restocking it.
- [Emergence](https://korrents.com/mental-models/emergence): Whole systems do things none of their parts do, and nobody has to design that order for it to appear.
- [Everything decays without maintenance](https://korrents.com/mental-models/decay): Institutions, code, cities and knowledge run down by default; keeping something alive is work that has to be paid for.
- [Cheaper means more, not less](https://korrents.com/mental-models/jevons): Make something cheaper to use and people use so much more of it that the total goes up (Jevons paradox).
- [Conway's law](https://korrents.com/mental-models/conways-law): What an organisation builds ends up shaped like the organisation that built it.
- [Leaky abstractions](https://korrents.com/mental-models/leaky-abstractions): A shortcut that hides the details works until it doesn't; when it breaks, someone has to know what is underneath.
- [Moats](https://korrents.com/mental-models/moats): What protects a business is whatever a rival cannot copy, and that is rarely the software.
- [Network effects](https://korrents.com/mental-models/network-effects): Something worth more to each user the more users it has; a strong defence, but not one that lasts by itself.
- [Lock-in and switching costs](https://korrents.com/mental-models/lock-in): People stay with what they would not choose again because leaving costs more than staying; watch who sets that cost.
- [Value moves to what stays scarce](https://korrents.com/mental-models/scarcity): When something becomes cheap and plentiful, the value moves to whatever is still rare next to it.
- [Specialise and trade](https://korrents.com/mental-models/specialisation): Do what you are relatively best at and trade for the rest (comparative advantage); it holds until power or change breaks it.
- [Trade-offs](https://korrents.com/mental-models/trade-offs): Every choice gives something up, so name the cost; and check, because some trade-offs everyone assumes are not real.
- [Leverage](https://korrents.com/mental-models/leverage): Tools, code, capital and debt multiply what one person can do, in both directions.
- [Skin in the game](https://korrents.com/mental-models/skin-in-the-game): Trust the judgment of people who pay for being wrong over people who only comment.
- [Signalling](https://korrents.com/mental-models/signalling): Much of what people do is a message about themselves, and a signal is believed only when it costs something to send.
- [Collective action problems](https://korrents.com/mental-models/collective-action): What everyone would gain from, nobody provides alone, so shared goods need someone or something to hold people together.
- [Less, but better](https://korrents.com/mental-models/less-but-better): Find the essence and cut the rest; simplicity is hard work, not the absence of effort.
- [Design is how it works](https://korrents.com/mental-models/design-is-how-it-works): Judge a design by what it does for the person using it, not only by how it looks.
- [You are not the user](https://korrents.com/mental-models/you-are-not-the-user): Watch real people use the real thing; your own sense of what is obvious does not count as evidence.
- [Curse of knowledge](https://korrents.com/mental-models/curse-of-knowledge): Once you know something, you cannot remember not knowing it. Fresh eyes see what you no longer can: a newcomer's, or your own after time away.
- [Conventions (Jakob's law)](https://korrents.com/mental-models/conventions): People bring what they learned on every other product, so familiar patterns usually win over novel ones.
- [Affordances and signifiers](https://korrents.com/mental-models/affordances-and-signifiers): An interface should show what can be done and where, and give people a model of how it works.
- [Conservation of complexity](https://korrents.com/mental-models/conservation-of-complexity): Some complexity cannot be removed, only moved; the question is who carries it, the user or the maker.
- [Make it real](https://korrents.com/mental-models/prototypes): Making a cheap, real version settles questions a description cannot.
- [Speed is a feature](https://korrents.com/mental-models/speed): Fast software feels simple, and waiting makes everything feel complicated.
- [Craft in the details](https://korrents.com/mental-models/craft): Care about the parts nobody sees; quality shows in the details.
- [Regulate, then reflect](https://korrents.com/mental-models/regulate-then-reflect): Insight does not land in a body that is on alert. Calm the nervous system first, then ask what the feeling means, and put words to it as you go.
- [Early templates](https://korrents.com/mental-models/early-templates): What a child learned about being seen, comforted or let down becomes the template adults run on: in relationships, in expectations, even in addiction.
- [The pain beneath the symptom](https://korrents.com/mental-models/pain-beneath): The behaviour on the surface is often the visible part of something else: anger over grief, resentment over hurt, addiction over pain. Treating only the surface treats an effect.
- [Attachment patterns](https://korrents.com/mental-models/attachment-patterns): How a person learned to seek safety shows up most when the emotional stakes are highest, and what looks like a character flaw is often a learned alarm.
- [The pursue-withdraw cycle](https://korrents.com/mental-models/pursue-withdraw): One partner moves toward, the other away, and each move feeds the other. The cycle sustains itself without either person being at fault.
- [The therapeutic alliance](https://korrents.com/mental-models/therapeutic-alliance): Therapy needs two people who can work together. Whether the alliance causes good outcomes or merely reveals a patient who could form one is an open question.
- [What counts as evidence](https://korrents.com/mental-models/what-counts-as-evidence): A label like evidence-based can describe what was studied rather than what works. Who was compared with what, and how long the treatment ran, decide what a trial can show.
- [Empathy and validation](https://korrents.com/mental-models/empathy-and-validation): Feeling with someone is not the same as telling them their feelings are valid. Empathy can be chosen, and a therapist who only validates stops being a companion.
- [Active ingredients, not brands](https://korrents.com/mental-models/processes-not-brands): What makes a treatment work is the process it sets in motion and the person delivering it, not the name on the box. Compare the mechanism and the practitioner, not the brand.
- [People and their mental models](https://korrents.com/mental-models/people): whose claims show which models, the ones they name kept apart from our reading

## Subjects
The whole vocabulary, with how many people have spoken to each: https://korrents.com/subjects
- [AGI](https://korrents.com/topic/AGI): who has said what about AGI
- [AI agents](https://korrents.com/topic/AI%20agents): who has said what about AI agents
- [AI alignment](https://korrents.com/topic/AI%20alignment): who has said what about AI alignment
- [AI and jobs](https://korrents.com/topic/AI%20and%20jobs): who has said what about AI and jobs
- [AI sentience](https://korrents.com/topic/AI%20sentience): who has said what about AI sentience
- [AI slop](https://korrents.com/topic/AI%20slop): who has said what about AI slop
- [AI writing](https://korrents.com/topic/AI%20writing): who has said what about AI writing
- [ARC-AGI](https://korrents.com/topic/ARC-AGI): who has said what about ARC-AGI
- [Addiction](https://korrents.com/topic/Addiction): who has said what about Addiction
- [America](https://korrents.com/topic/America): who has said what about America
- [Anthropic](https://korrents.com/topic/Anthropic): who has said what about Anthropic
- [Apple](https://korrents.com/topic/Apple): who has said what about Apple
- [Attachment theory](https://korrents.com/topic/Attachment%20theory): who has said what about Attachment theory
- [CBT](https://korrents.com/topic/CBT): who has said what about CBT
- [CSS](https://korrents.com/topic/CSS): who has said what about CSS
- [China](https://korrents.com/topic/China): who has said what about China
- [EMDR](https://korrents.com/topic/EMDR): who has said what about EMDR
- [Europe](https://korrents.com/topic/Europe): who has said what about Europe
- [GANs](https://korrents.com/topic/GANs): who has said what about GANs
- [Google](https://korrents.com/topic/Google): who has said what about Google
- [HuggingFace](https://korrents.com/topic/HuggingFace): who has said what about HuggingFace
- [Hyprland](https://korrents.com/topic/Hyprland): who has said what about Hyprland
- [Japan](https://korrents.com/topic/Japan): who has said what about Japan
- [JavaScript](https://korrents.com/topic/JavaScript): who has said what about JavaScript
- [LLMs](https://korrents.com/topic/LLMs): who has said what about LLMs
- [Linux](https://korrents.com/topic/Linux): who has said what about Linux
- [MCP](https://korrents.com/topic/MCP): who has said what about MCP
- [Microsoft](https://korrents.com/topic/Microsoft): who has said what about Microsoft
- [Narcissism](https://korrents.com/topic/Narcissism): who has said what about Narcissism
- [Nix](https://korrents.com/topic/Nix): who has said what about Nix
- [Omarchy](https://korrents.com/topic/Omarchy): who has said what about Omarchy
- [OpenAI](https://korrents.com/topic/OpenAI): who has said what about OpenAI
- [Polyvagal theory](https://korrents.com/topic/Polyvagal%20theory): who has said what about Polyvagal theory
- [Psychodynamic therapy](https://korrents.com/topic/Psychodynamic%20therapy): who has said what about Psychodynamic therapy
- [Psychotherapy](https://korrents.com/topic/Psychotherapy): who has said what about Psychotherapy
- [Python](https://korrents.com/topic/Python): who has said what about Python
- [Ruby](https://korrents.com/topic/Ruby): who has said what about Ruby
- [Ruby on Rails](https://korrents.com/topic/Ruby%20on%20Rails): who has said what about Ruby on Rails
- [Russia](https://korrents.com/topic/Russia): who has said what about Russia
- [SQLite](https://korrents.com/topic/SQLite): who has said what about SQLite
- [SaaS](https://korrents.com/topic/SaaS): who has said what about SaaS
- [Schema therapy](https://korrents.com/topic/Schema%20therapy): who has said what about Schema therapy
- [Silicon Valley](https://korrents.com/topic/Silicon%20Valley): who has said what about Silicon Valley
- [Telegram](https://korrents.com/topic/Telegram): who has said what about Telegram
- [Trauma](https://korrents.com/topic/Trauma): who has said what about Trauma
- [TypeScript](https://korrents.com/topic/TypeScript): who has said what about TypeScript
- [agency](https://korrents.com/topic/agency): who has said what about agency
- [ambition](https://korrents.com/topic/ambition): who has said what about ambition
- [animal welfare](https://korrents.com/topic/animal%20welfare): who has said what about animal welfare
- [attitude change](https://korrents.com/topic/attitude%20change): who has said what about attitude change
- [aviation](https://korrents.com/topic/aviation): who has said what about aviation
- [batteries](https://korrents.com/topic/batteries): who has said what about batteries
- [behavioural science](https://korrents.com/topic/behavioural%20science): who has said what about behavioural science
- [benchmarks](https://korrents.com/topic/benchmarks): who has said what about benchmarks
- [capitalism](https://korrents.com/topic/capitalism): who has said what about capitalism
- [censorship](https://korrents.com/topic/censorship): who has said what about censorship
- [chat interfaces](https://korrents.com/topic/chat%20interfaces): who has said what about chat interfaces
- [climate change](https://korrents.com/topic/climate%20change): who has said what about climate change
- [code generation](https://korrents.com/topic/code%20generation): who has said what about code generation
- [coding agents](https://korrents.com/topic/coding%20agents): who has said what about coding agents
- [compilers](https://korrents.com/topic/compilers): who has said what about compilers
- [computer vision](https://korrents.com/topic/computer%20vision): who has said what about computer vision
- [consciousness](https://korrents.com/topic/consciousness): who has said what about consciousness
- [courage](https://korrents.com/topic/courage): who has said what about courage
- [creativity](https://korrents.com/topic/creativity): who has said what about creativity
- [crypto](https://korrents.com/topic/crypto): who has said what about crypto
- [cryptography](https://korrents.com/topic/cryptography): who has said what about cryptography
- [curiosity](https://korrents.com/topic/curiosity): who has said what about curiosity
- [cybersecurity](https://korrents.com/topic/cybersecurity): who has said what about cybersecurity
- [data centers](https://korrents.com/topic/data%20centers): who has said what about data centers
- [degrowth](https://korrents.com/topic/degrowth): who has said what about degrowth
- [dementia](https://korrents.com/topic/dementia): who has said what about dementia
- [democracy](https://korrents.com/topic/democracy): who has said what about democracy
- [demographics](https://korrents.com/topic/demographics): who has said what about demographics
- [design](https://korrents.com/topic/design): who has said what about design
- [developer tools](https://korrents.com/topic/developer%20tools): who has said what about developer tools
- [discipline](https://korrents.com/topic/discipline): who has said what about discipline
- [documentation](https://korrents.com/topic/documentation): who has said what about documentation
- [economists](https://korrents.com/topic/economists): who has said what about economists
- [education](https://korrents.com/topic/education): who has said what about education
- [electric vehicles](https://korrents.com/topic/electric%20vehicles): who has said what about electric vehicles
- [empathy](https://korrents.com/topic/empathy): who has said what about empathy
- [energy](https://korrents.com/topic/energy): who has said what about energy
- [epidemiology](https://korrents.com/topic/epidemiology): who has said what about epidemiology
- [evolutionary biology](https://korrents.com/topic/evolutionary%20biology): who has said what about evolutionary biology
- [family](https://korrents.com/topic/family): who has said what about family
- [fiscal policy](https://korrents.com/topic/fiscal%20policy): who has said what about fiscal policy
- [formal proof](https://korrents.com/topic/formal%20proof): who has said what about formal proof
- [friendship](https://korrents.com/topic/friendship): who has said what about friendship
- [gender equality](https://korrents.com/topic/gender%20equality): who has said what about gender equality
- [government](https://korrents.com/topic/government): who has said what about government
- [gun policy](https://korrents.com/topic/gun%20policy): who has said what about gun policy
- [happiness](https://korrents.com/topic/happiness): who has said what about happiness
- [health and fitness](https://korrents.com/topic/health%20and%20fitness): who has said what about health and fitness
- [hiring](https://korrents.com/topic/hiring): who has said what about hiring
- [housing](https://korrents.com/topic/housing): who has said what about housing
- [humility](https://korrents.com/topic/humility): who has said what about humility
- [ideas vs execution](https://korrents.com/topic/ideas%20vs%20execution): who has said what about ideas vs execution
- [immigration](https://korrents.com/topic/immigration): who has said what about immigration
- [inflation](https://korrents.com/topic/inflation): who has said what about inflation
- [infrastructure](https://korrents.com/topic/infrastructure): who has said what about infrastructure
- [innovation](https://korrents.com/topic/innovation): who has said what about innovation
- [interest rates](https://korrents.com/topic/interest%20rates): who has said what about interest rates
- [investing](https://korrents.com/topic/investing): who has said what about investing
- [journalism](https://korrents.com/topic/journalism): who has said what about journalism
- [language learning](https://korrents.com/topic/language%20learning): who has said what about language learning
- [libertarianism](https://korrents.com/topic/libertarianism): who has said what about libertarianism
- [management](https://korrents.com/topic/management): who has said what about management
- [mathematics](https://korrents.com/topic/mathematics): who has said what about mathematics
- [measuring intelligence](https://korrents.com/topic/measuring%20intelligence): who has said what about measuring intelligence
- [mental models](https://korrents.com/topic/mental%20models): who has said what about mental models
- [metascience](https://korrents.com/topic/metascience): who has said what about metascience
- [motivation](https://korrents.com/topic/motivation): who has said what about motivation
- [music industry](https://korrents.com/topic/music%20industry): who has said what about music industry
- [network science](https://korrents.com/topic/network%20science): who has said what about network science
- [neural networks](https://korrents.com/topic/neural%20networks): who has said what about neural networks
- [nuclear power](https://korrents.com/topic/nuclear%20power): who has said what about nuclear power
- [open source](https://korrents.com/topic/open%20source): who has said what about open source
- [optimism](https://korrents.com/topic/optimism): who has said what about optimism
- [optimizers](https://korrents.com/topic/optimizers): who has said what about optimizers
- [patience](https://korrents.com/topic/patience): who has said what about patience
- [peer review](https://korrents.com/topic/peer%20review): who has said what about peer review
- [permitting](https://korrents.com/topic/permitting): who has said what about permitting
- [personal websites](https://korrents.com/topic/personal%20websites): who has said what about personal websites
- [physics](https://korrents.com/topic/physics): who has said what about physics
- [politics](https://korrents.com/topic/politics): who has said what about politics
- [price gouging](https://korrents.com/topic/price%20gouging): who has said what about price gouging
- [privacy](https://korrents.com/topic/privacy): who has said what about privacy
- [product management](https://korrents.com/topic/product%20management): who has said what about product management
- [prompt injection](https://korrents.com/topic/prompt%20injection): who has said what about prompt injection
- [protein structure prediction](https://korrents.com/topic/protein%20structure%20prediction): who has said what about protein structure prediction
- [pruning](https://korrents.com/topic/pruning): who has said what about pruning
- [psychedelics](https://korrents.com/topic/psychedelics): who has said what about psychedelics
- [public debt](https://korrents.com/topic/public%20debt): who has said what about public debt
- [quantitative easing](https://korrents.com/topic/quantitative%20easing): who has said what about quantitative easing
- [quantum mechanics](https://korrents.com/topic/quantum%20mechanics): who has said what about quantum mechanics
- [racism](https://korrents.com/topic/racism): who has said what about racism
- [recursive self-improvement](https://korrents.com/topic/recursive%20self-improvement): who has said what about recursive self-improvement
- [reinforcement learning](https://korrents.com/topic/reinforcement%20learning): who has said what about reinforcement learning
- [religion](https://korrents.com/topic/religion): who has said what about religion
- [remote work](https://korrents.com/topic/remote%20work): who has said what about remote work
- [robotics](https://korrents.com/topic/robotics): who has said what about robotics
- [scaling laws](https://korrents.com/topic/scaling%20laws): who has said what about scaling laws
- [self-driving cars](https://korrents.com/topic/self-driving%20cars): who has said what about self-driving cars
- [self-sovereign AI](https://korrents.com/topic/self-sovereign%20AI): who has said what about self-sovereign AI
- [semiconductors](https://korrents.com/topic/semiconductors): who has said what about semiconductors
- [simplicity](https://korrents.com/topic/simplicity): who has said what about simplicity
- [social media](https://korrents.com/topic/social%20media): who has said what about social media
- [software performance](https://korrents.com/topic/software%20performance): who has said what about software performance
- [software quality](https://korrents.com/topic/software%20quality): who has said what about software quality
- [solar](https://korrents.com/topic/solar): who has said what about solar
- [space](https://korrents.com/topic/space): who has said what about space
- [startups](https://korrents.com/topic/startups): who has said what about startups
- [stock market](https://korrents.com/topic/stock%20market): who has said what about stock market
- [surgical outcomes](https://korrents.com/topic/surgical%20outcomes): who has said what about surgical outcomes
- [tariffs](https://korrents.com/topic/tariffs): who has said what about tariffs
- [taste](https://korrents.com/topic/taste): who has said what about taste
- [team size](https://korrents.com/topic/team%20size): who has said what about team size
- [the cloud](https://korrents.com/topic/the%20cloud): who has said what about the cloud
- [transformers](https://korrents.com/topic/transformers): who has said what about transformers
- [value investing](https://korrents.com/topic/value%20investing): who has said what about value investing
- [venture capital](https://korrents.com/topic/venture%20capital): who has said what about venture capital
- [vibe coding](https://korrents.com/topic/vibe%20coding): who has said what about vibe coding
- [video games](https://korrents.com/topic/video%20games): who has said what about video games
- [war](https://korrents.com/topic/war): who has said what about war
- [world models](https://korrents.com/topic/world%20models): who has said what about world models
- [writing](https://korrents.com/topic/writing): who has said what about writing

## People on subjects
One person's dated positions on one subject, in their own words. Listed
only where the archive holds enough of them to be worth reading; the same
rows are always reachable from the person and from the subject.
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on Apple](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/Apple): 45 dated positions
- [Noah Smith on America](https://korrents.com/u/noah-smith/on/America): 44 dated positions
- [Casey Handmer on energy](https://korrents.com/u/casey-handmer/on/energy): 36 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on management](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/management): 36 dated positions
- [Ian Silber on design](https://korrents.com/u/ian-silber/on/design): 35 dated positions
- [Zvi Mowshowitz on AI alignment](https://korrents.com/u/zvi-mowshowitz/on/AI%20alignment): 35 dated positions
- [Terence Tao on mathematics](https://korrents.com/u/terence-tao/on/mathematics): 34 dated positions
- [Paul Krugman on America](https://korrents.com/u/paul-krugman/on/America): 33 dated positions
- [Paul Graham on startups](https://korrents.com/u/paul-graham/on/startups): 30 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on Europe](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/Europe): 29 dated positions
- [Dan Wang on China](https://korrents.com/u/dan-wang/on/China): 28 dated positions
- [Nathan Lambert on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/nathan-lambert/on/LLMs): 28 dated positions
- [Casey Handmer on solar](https://korrents.com/u/casey-handmer/on/solar): 27 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on ambition](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/ambition): 27 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on coding agents](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/coding%20agents): 27 dated positions
- [Andrej Karpathy on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/andrej-karpathy/on/LLMs): 26 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on agency](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/agency): 26 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on America](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/America): 26 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on design](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/design): 26 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on open source](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/open%20source): 25 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on politics](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/politics): 25 dated positions
- [Casey Handmer on space](https://korrents.com/u/casey-handmer/on/space): 24 dated positions
- [David MacKay on energy](https://korrents.com/u/david-mackay/on/energy): 24 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on behavioural science](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/behavioural%20science): 24 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on happiness](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/happiness): 23 dated positions
- [Don Norman on design](https://korrents.com/u/don-norman/on/design): 23 dated positions
- [James Holland on war](https://korrents.com/u/james-holland/on/war): 23 dated positions
- [Thiago Costa on design](https://korrents.com/u/thiago-costa/on/design): 23 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on optimism](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/optimism): 22 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on the cloud](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/the%20cloud): 22 dated positions
- [Dylan Patel on semiconductors](https://korrents.com/u/dylan-patel/on/semiconductors): 22 dated positions
- [Jensen Huang on semiconductors](https://korrents.com/u/jensen-huang/on/semiconductors): 22 dated positions
- [Adam Ward on hiring](https://korrents.com/u/adam-ward/on/hiring): 21 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on hiring](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/hiring): 21 dated positions
- [Joe Liemandt on education](https://korrents.com/u/joe-liemandt/on/education): 21 dated positions
- [Casey Muratori on software performance](https://korrents.com/u/casey-muratori/on/software%20performance): 20 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on startups](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/startups): 20 dated positions
- [Jakob Nielsen on design](https://korrents.com/u/jakob-nielsen/on/design): 20 dated positions
- [Shane Parrish on mental models](https://korrents.com/u/shane-parrish/on/mental%20models): 20 dated positions
- [Brian Potter on America](https://korrents.com/u/brian-potter/on/America): 19 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on motivation](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/motivation): 19 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on SaaS](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/SaaS): 19 dated positions
- [Paul Graham on design](https://korrents.com/u/paul-graham/on/design): 19 dated positions
- [Alon Levy on infrastructure](https://korrents.com/u/alon-levy/on/infrastructure): 18 dated positions
- [Charlie Munger on mental models](https://korrents.com/u/charlie-munger/on/mental%20models): 18 dated positions
- [Christopher Alexander on design](https://korrents.com/u/christopher-alexander/on/design): 18 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on Linux](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/Linux): 18 dated positions
- [Sebastian Ruder on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/sebastian-ruder/on/LLMs): 18 dated positions
- [Sergey Levine on robotics](https://korrents.com/u/sergey-levine/on/robotics): 18 dated positions
- [Susan Kare on design](https://korrents.com/u/susan-kare/on/design): 18 dated positions
- [Andrew Dessler on climate change](https://korrents.com/u/andrew-dessler/on/climate%20change): 17 dated positions
- [Chelsea Finn on robotics](https://korrents.com/u/chelsea-finn/on/robotics): 17 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on AI and jobs](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/AI%20and%20jobs): 17 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on social media](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/social%20media): 17 dated positions
- [Freddie deBoer on education](https://korrents.com/u/freddie-deboer/on/education): 17 dated positions
- [Pieter Levels on Europe](https://korrents.com/u/pieter-levels/on/Europe): 17 dated positions
- [Serhii Plokhy on war](https://korrents.com/u/serhii-plokhy/on/war): 17 dated positions
- [Ajeya Cotra on AI alignment](https://korrents.com/u/ajeya-cotra/on/AI%20alignment): 16 dated positions
- [Andy Madrick on design](https://korrents.com/u/andy-madrick/on/design): 16 dated positions
- [Bertrand Russell on happiness](https://korrents.com/u/bertrand-russell/on/happiness): 16 dated positions
- [Dan Meyer on education](https://korrents.com/u/dan-meyer/on/education): 16 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on government](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/government): 16 dated positions
- [Janna Levin on physics](https://korrents.com/u/janna-levin/on/physics): 16 dated positions
- [Julie Zhuo on design](https://korrents.com/u/julie-zhuo/on/design): 16 dated positions
- [Katarina Batina on design](https://korrents.com/u/katarina-batina/on/design): 16 dated positions
- [Noah Smith on China](https://korrents.com/u/noah-smith/on/China): 16 dated positions
- [Noah Smith on immigration](https://korrents.com/u/noah-smith/on/immigration): 16 dated positions
- [Olivier Blanchard on public debt](https://korrents.com/u/olivier-blanchard/on/public%20debt): 16 dated positions
- [Bill McKibben on energy](https://korrents.com/u/bill-mckibben/on/energy): 15 dated positions
- [Danny Martinez on hiring](https://korrents.com/u/danny-martinez/on/hiring): 15 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on AI agents](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/AI%20agents): 15 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on creativity](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/creativity): 15 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on humility](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/humility): 15 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/LLMs): 15 dated positions
- [Ed Bayes on design](https://korrents.com/u/ed-bayes/on/design): 15 dated positions
- [John Bai on design](https://korrents.com/u/john-bai/on/design): 15 dated positions
- [Lyman Stone on demographics](https://korrents.com/u/lyman-stone/on/demographics): 15 dated positions
- [Nate Parrott on design](https://korrents.com/u/nate-parrott/on/design): 15 dated positions
- [Olivier Blanchard on interest rates](https://korrents.com/u/olivier-blanchard/on/interest%20rates): 15 dated positions
- [Patrick Collison on startups](https://korrents.com/u/patrick-collison/on/startups): 15 dated positions
- [Paul Graham on ambition](https://korrents.com/u/paul-graham/on/ambition): 15 dated positions
- [Pieter Levels on startups](https://korrents.com/u/pieter-levels/on/startups): 15 dated positions
- [Zeke Hausfather on climate change](https://korrents.com/u/zeke-hausfather/on/climate%20change): 15 dated positions
- [Zvi Mowshowitz on Anthropic](https://korrents.com/u/zvi-mowshowitz/on/Anthropic): 15 dated positions
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- [Miles Brundage on AI alignment](https://korrents.com/u/miles-brundage/on/AI%20alignment): 14 dated positions
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- [Dex Horthy on coding agents](https://korrents.com/u/dex-horthy/on/coding%20agents): 13 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on censorship](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/censorship): 13 dated positions
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- [Gretchen Rubin on behavioural science](https://korrents.com/u/gretchen-rubin/on/behavioural%20science): 13 dated positions
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- [Bill McKibben on climate change](https://korrents.com/u/bill-mckibben/on/climate%20change): 10 dated positions
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- [Stuart Ritchie on metascience](https://korrents.com/u/stuart-ritchie/on/metascience): 8 dated positions
- [Tamar Yehoshua on product management](https://korrents.com/u/tamar-yehoshua/on/product%20management): 8 dated positions
- [Tanner Greer on America](https://korrents.com/u/tanner-greer/on/America): 8 dated positions
- [Thorsten Ball on software quality](https://korrents.com/u/thorsten-ball/on/software%20quality): 8 dated positions
- [Tim Sweeney on video games](https://korrents.com/u/tim-sweeney/on/video%20games): 8 dated positions
- [Timothy B. Lee on self-driving cars](https://korrents.com/u/timothy-b-lee/on/self-driving%20cars): 8 dated positions
- [Tom Verrilli on product management](https://korrents.com/u/tom-verrilli/on/product%20management): 8 dated positions
- [Vaclav Smil on energy](https://korrents.com/u/vaclav-smil/on/energy): 8 dated positions
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- [Ada Palmer on Europe](https://korrents.com/u/ada-palmer/on/Europe): 7 dated positions
- [Adam Mastroianni on peer review](https://korrents.com/u/adam-mastroianni/on/peer%20review): 7 dated positions
- [Adam Tooze on China](https://korrents.com/u/adam-tooze/on/China): 7 dated positions
- [Albert Cheng on startups](https://korrents.com/u/albert-cheng/on/startups): 7 dated positions
- [Alexey Guzey on health and fitness](https://korrents.com/u/alexey-guzey/on/health%20and%20fitness): 7 dated positions
- [Alon Levy on America](https://korrents.com/u/alon-levy/on/America): 7 dated positions
- [Andrej Karpathy on AI agents](https://korrents.com/u/andrej-karpathy/on/AI%20agents): 7 dated positions
- [Andrej Karpathy on AI and jobs](https://korrents.com/u/andrej-karpathy/on/AI%20and%20jobs): 7 dated positions
- [Andrew Chen on startups](https://korrents.com/u/andrew-chen/on/startups): 7 dated positions
- [Arielle Schwartz on Trauma](https://korrents.com/u/arielle-schwartz/on/Trauma): 7 dated positions
- [Awais Aftab on Psychotherapy](https://korrents.com/u/awais-aftab/on/Psychotherapy): 7 dated positions
- [Balaji Srinivasan on America](https://korrents.com/u/balaji-srinivasan/on/America): 7 dated positions
- [Balaji Srinivasan on crypto](https://korrents.com/u/balaji-srinivasan/on/crypto): 7 dated positions
- [Ben Horowitz on management](https://korrents.com/u/ben-horowitz/on/management): 7 dated positions
- [Benny Lewis on language learning](https://korrents.com/u/benny-lewis/on/language%20learning): 7 dated positions
- [Bill Ackman on value investing](https://korrents.com/u/bill-ackman/on/value%20investing): 7 dated positions
- [Brett Williams on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/brett-williams/on/LLMs): 7 dated positions
- [Bryan Johnson on health and fitness](https://korrents.com/u/bryan-johnson/on/health%20and%20fitness): 7 dated positions
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- [Chris Smaje on energy](https://korrents.com/u/chris-smaje/on/energy): 7 dated positions
- [Dan Shipper on AI and jobs](https://korrents.com/u/dan-shipper/on/AI%20and%20jobs): 7 dated positions
- [Daniel Cook on design](https://korrents.com/u/daniel-cook/on/design): 7 dated positions
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- [David Crawshaw on design](https://korrents.com/u/david-crawshaw/on/design): 7 dated positions
- [David Deutsch on AGI](https://korrents.com/u/david-deutsch/on/AGI): 7 dated positions
- [David Reich on evolutionary biology](https://korrents.com/u/david-reich/on/evolutionary%20biology): 7 dated positions
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- [Dean W. Ball on self-sovereign AI](https://korrents.com/u/dean-ball/on/self-sovereign%20AI): 7 dated positions
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- [David Heinemeier Hansson on Google](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/Google): 7 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on remote work](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/remote%20work): 7 dated positions
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- [Emily Atkin on energy](https://korrents.com/u/emily-atkin/on/energy): 7 dated positions
- [Evil Rabbit on design](https://korrents.com/u/evil-rabbit/on/design): 7 dated positions
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- [Harper Reed on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/harper-reed/on/LLMs): 7 dated positions
- [Helen Toner on AI alignment](https://korrents.com/u/helen-toner/on/AI%20alignment): 7 dated positions
- [Isaiah Taylor on energy](https://korrents.com/u/isaiah-taylor/on/energy): 7 dated positions
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- [Jack Weatherford on China](https://korrents.com/u/jack-weatherford/on/China): 7 dated positions
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- [Jason Lemkin on AI and jobs](https://korrents.com/u/jason-lemkin/on/AI%20and%20jobs): 7 dated positions
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- [Josh Barro on politics](https://korrents.com/u/josh-barro/on/politics): 7 dated positions
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- [Molson Hart on China](https://korrents.com/u/molson-hart/on/China): 7 dated positions
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- [Olivier Blanchard on fiscal policy](https://korrents.com/u/olivier-blanchard/on/fiscal%20policy): 7 dated positions
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- [Pieter Levels on creativity](https://korrents.com/u/pieter-levels/on/creativity): 7 dated positions
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- [Sam Altman on OpenAI](https://korrents.com/u/sam-altman/on/OpenAI): 7 dated positions
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- [Bill Ackman on management](https://korrents.com/u/bill-ackman/on/management): 6 dated positions
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- [Tobias Lütke on design](https://korrents.com/u/tobi-lutke/on/design): 6 dated positions
- [Tom Verrilli on management](https://korrents.com/u/tom-verrilli/on/management): 6 dated positions
- [Tommy Wood on dementia](https://korrents.com/u/tommy-wood/on/dementia): 6 dated positions
- [Tyler Cowen on government](https://korrents.com/u/tyler-cowen/on/government): 6 dated positions
- [Viktor Frankl on agency](https://korrents.com/u/viktor-frankl/on/agency): 6 dated positions
- [Yoshua Bengio on neural networks](https://korrents.com/u/yoshua-bengio/on/neural%20networks): 6 dated positions
- [Zvi Mowshowitz on cybersecurity](https://korrents.com/u/zvi-mowshowitz/on/cybersecurity): 6 dated positions
- [Adam Mastroianni on metascience](https://korrents.com/u/adam-mastroianni/on/metascience): 5 dated positions
- [Adam Mosseri on social media](https://korrents.com/u/adam-mosseri/on/social%20media): 5 dated positions
- [Addy Osmani on coding agents](https://korrents.com/u/addy-osmani/on/coding%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Ajeya Cotra on AI agents](https://korrents.com/u/ajeya-cotra/on/AI%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Andrew Dessler on America](https://korrents.com/u/andrew-dessler/on/America): 5 dated positions
- [Ann Handley on writing](https://korrents.com/u/ann-handley/on/writing): 5 dated positions
- [Annie Wright on Psychotherapy](https://korrents.com/u/annie-wright/on/Psychotherapy): 5 dated positions
- [Armin Ronacher on AI agents](https://korrents.com/u/armin-ronacher/on/AI%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Arthur Schopenhauer on happiness](https://korrents.com/u/arthur-schopenhauer/on/happiness): 5 dated positions
- [Arvid Kahl on coding agents](https://korrents.com/u/arvid-kahl/on/coding%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Arvid Kahl on startups](https://korrents.com/u/arvid-kahl/on/startups): 5 dated positions
- [Austin Kleon on writing](https://korrents.com/u/austin-kleon/on/writing): 5 dated positions
- [Austin Vernon on electric vehicles](https://korrents.com/u/austin-vernon/on/electric%20vehicles): 5 dated positions
- [Ben Carlson on investing](https://korrents.com/u/ben-carlson/on/investing): 5 dated positions
- [Bill McKibben on America](https://korrents.com/u/bill-mckibben/on/America): 5 dated positions
- [Bill McKibben on solar](https://korrents.com/u/bill-mckibben/on/solar): 5 dated positions
- [Brad DeLong on interest rates](https://korrents.com/u/brad-delong/on/interest%20rates): 5 dated positions
- [Brad Templeton on self-driving cars](https://korrents.com/u/brad-templeton/on/self-driving%20cars): 5 dated positions
- [Brandon Jacoby on taste](https://korrents.com/u/brandon-jacoby/on/taste): 5 dated positions
- [Brandon Taylor on writing](https://korrents.com/u/brandon-taylor/on/writing): 5 dated positions
- [Branko Milanovic on war](https://korrents.com/u/branko-milanovic/on/war): 5 dated positions
- [Bret Devereaux on government](https://korrents.com/u/bret-devereaux/on/government): 5 dated positions
- [Bruce Schneier on privacy](https://korrents.com/u/bruce-schneier/on/privacy): 5 dated positions
- [Casey Handmer on China](https://korrents.com/u/casey-handmer/on/China): 5 dated positions
- [Charlie Deets on simplicity](https://korrents.com/u/charlie-deets/on/simplicity): 5 dated positions
- [Chris Wellons on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/chris-wellons/on/LLMs): 5 dated positions
- [Craig Mod on software performance](https://korrents.com/u/craig-mod/on/software%20performance): 5 dated positions
- [Dan Luu on software quality](https://korrents.com/u/dan-luu/on/software%20quality): 5 dated positions
- [Dan Shipper on product management](https://korrents.com/u/dan-shipper/on/product%20management): 5 dated positions
- [Daniel Kahneman on happiness](https://korrents.com/u/daniel-kahneman/on/happiness): 5 dated positions
- [Danny Martinez on management](https://korrents.com/u/danny-martinez/on/management): 5 dated positions
- [Dario Amodei on AI alignment](https://korrents.com/u/dario-amodei/on/AI%20alignment): 5 dated positions
- [David Spiegelhalter on surgical outcomes](https://korrents.com/u/david-spiegelhalter/on/surgical%20outcomes): 5 dated positions
- [Dax Raad on coding agents](https://korrents.com/u/dax-raad/on/coding%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Demis Hassabis on protein structure prediction](https://korrents.com/u/demis-hassabis/on/protein%20structure%20prediction): 5 dated positions
- [Derek Sivers on ambition](https://korrents.com/u/derek-sivers/on/ambition): 5 dated positions
- [Derek Yu on ambition](https://korrents.com/u/derek-yu/on/ambition): 5 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on innovation](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/innovation): 5 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on Omarchy](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/Omarchy): 5 dated positions
- [David Heinemeier Hansson on religion](https://korrents.com/u/dhh/on/religion): 5 dated positions
- [Dietrich Vollrath on demographics](https://korrents.com/u/dietrich-vollrath/on/demographics): 5 dated positions
- [Donald Trump on America](https://korrents.com/u/donald-trump/on/America): 5 dated positions
- [Doug O'Laughlin on data centers](https://korrents.com/u/doug-olaughlin/on/data%20centers): 5 dated positions
- [Dylan Patel on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/dylan-patel/on/LLMs): 5 dated positions
- [Ed Bayes on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/ed-bayes/on/LLMs): 5 dated positions
- [Elena Verna on startups](https://korrents.com/u/elena-verna/on/startups): 5 dated positions
- [Elizabeth Stone on hiring](https://korrents.com/u/elizabeth-stone/on/hiring): 5 dated positions
- [Eric Berger on space](https://korrents.com/u/eric-berger/on/space): 5 dated positions
- [Eugene Yan on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/eugene-yan/on/LLMs): 5 dated positions
- [Evil Rabbit on agency](https://korrents.com/u/evil-rabbit/on/agency): 5 dated positions
- [Fei-Fei Li on computer vision](https://korrents.com/u/fei-fei-li/on/computer%20vision): 5 dated positions
- [Fei-Fei Li on education](https://korrents.com/u/fei-fei-li/on/education): 5 dated positions
- [Fei-Fei Li on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/fei-fei-li/on/LLMs): 5 dated positions
- [Flora Guo on agency](https://korrents.com/u/flora-guo/on/agency): 5 dated positions
- [François Chollet on AGI](https://korrents.com/u/francois-chollet/on/AGI): 5 dated positions
- [François Chollet on scaling laws](https://korrents.com/u/francois-chollet/on/scaling%20laws): 5 dated positions
- [Frank Chimero on design](https://korrents.com/u/frank-chimero/on/design): 5 dated positions
- [Frank Lantz on video games](https://korrents.com/u/frank-lantz/on/video%20games): 5 dated positions
- [Garrett Hardin on sustainability](https://korrents.com/u/garrett-hardin/on/sustainability): 5 dated positions
- [Gergely Orosz on AI agents](https://korrents.com/u/gergely-orosz/on/AI%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Gergely Orosz on team size](https://korrents.com/u/gergely-orosz/on/team%20size): 5 dated positions
- [Guillermo Rauch on AI agents](https://korrents.com/u/guillermo-rauch/on/AI%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Gwern on neural networks](https://korrents.com/u/gwern/on/neural%20networks): 5 dated positions
- [Hannah Ritchie on sustainability](https://korrents.com/u/hannah-ritchie/on/sustainability): 5 dated positions
- [Henry David Thoreau on government](https://korrents.com/u/henry-david-thoreau/on/government): 5 dated positions
- [Ibn Rushd (Averroes) on religion](https://korrents.com/u/ibn-rushd/on/religion): 5 dated positions
- [James Clear on ambition](https://korrents.com/u/james-clear/on/ambition): 5 dated positions
- [James Clear on motivation](https://korrents.com/u/james-clear/on/motivation): 5 dated positions
- [James Holland on Europe](https://korrents.com/u/james-holland/on/Europe): 5 dated positions
- [Jarrett Walker on infrastructure](https://korrents.com/u/jarrett-walker/on/infrastructure): 5 dated positions
- [Jason Zweig on investing](https://korrents.com/u/jason-zweig/on/investing): 5 dated positions
- [Jensen Huang on AI agents](https://korrents.com/u/jensen-huang/on/AI%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Jensen Huang on AI and jobs](https://korrents.com/u/jensen-huang/on/AI%20and%20jobs): 5 dated positions
- [Jensen Huang on China](https://korrents.com/u/jensen-huang/on/China): 5 dated positions
- [Jensen Huang on energy](https://korrents.com/u/jensen-huang/on/energy): 5 dated positions
- [Jensen Huang on innovation](https://korrents.com/u/jensen-huang/on/innovation): 5 dated positions
- [Jensen Huang on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/jensen-huang/on/LLMs): 5 dated positions
- [Jensen Huang on open source](https://korrents.com/u/jensen-huang/on/open%20source): 5 dated positions
- [Joe Liemandt on America](https://korrents.com/u/joe-liemandt/on/America): 5 dated positions
- [John H. Cochrane on government](https://korrents.com/u/john-cochrane/on/government): 5 dated positions
- [John H. Cochrane on inflation](https://korrents.com/u/john-cochrane/on/inflation): 5 dated positions
- [John Mearsheimer on America](https://korrents.com/u/john-mearsheimer/on/America): 5 dated positions
- [John Mearsheimer on Europe](https://korrents.com/u/john-mearsheimer/on/Europe): 5 dated positions
- [Jonathan Frankle on pruning](https://korrents.com/u/jonathan-frankle/on/pruning): 5 dated positions
- [Jon Haidt on social media](https://korrents.com/u/jonathan-haidt/on/social%20media): 5 dated positions
- [José Rizal on government](https://korrents.com/u/jose-rizal/on/government): 5 dated positions
- [Katie Dill on design](https://korrents.com/u/katie-dill/on/design): 5 dated positions
- [Ken Norton on management](https://korrents.com/u/ken-norton/on/management): 5 dated positions
- [Ken Norton on product management](https://korrents.com/u/ken-norton/on/product%20management): 5 dated positions
- [Ken White on censorship](https://korrents.com/u/ken-white/on/censorship): 5 dated positions
- [Kent Beck on coding agents](https://korrents.com/u/kent-beck/on/coding%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Kenton Varda on cybersecurity](https://korrents.com/u/kenton-varda/on/cybersecurity): 5 dated positions
- [Ketan Joshi on data centers](https://korrents.com/u/ketan-joshi/on/data%20centers): 5 dated positions
- [Keyu Jin on America](https://korrents.com/u/keyu-jin/on/America): 5 dated positions
- [Leslie Greenberg on Psychotherapy](https://korrents.com/u/leslie-greenberg/on/Psychotherapy): 5 dated positions
- [Mario Zechner on coding agents](https://korrents.com/u/mario-zechner/on/coding%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Mark Pincus on product management](https://korrents.com/u/mark-pincus/on/product%20management): 5 dated positions
- [Martin Fowler on design](https://korrents.com/u/martin-fowler/on/design): 5 dated positions
- [Martin Fowler on software quality](https://korrents.com/u/martin-fowler/on/software%20quality): 5 dated positions
- [Matthew Yglesias on education](https://korrents.com/u/matt-yglesias/on/education): 5 dated positions
- [Matthew McConaughey on gun policy](https://korrents.com/u/matthew-mcconaughey/on/gun%20policy): 5 dated positions
- [Mencius on government](https://korrents.com/u/mencius/on/government): 5 dated positions
- [Meng To on design](https://korrents.com/u/meng-to/on/design): 5 dated positions
- [M.G. Siegler on design](https://korrents.com/u/mg-siegler/on/design): 5 dated positions
- [Michael Carbin on pruning](https://korrents.com/u/michael-carbin/on/pruning): 5 dated positions
- [Michael Grunwald on energy](https://korrents.com/u/michael-grunwald/on/energy): 5 dated positions
- [Michael Lewis on journalism](https://korrents.com/u/michael-lewis/on/journalism): 5 dated positions
- [Michael Nielsen on physics](https://korrents.com/u/michael-nielsen/on/physics): 5 dated positions
- [Michael Pollan on government](https://korrents.com/u/michael-pollan/on/government): 5 dated positions
- [Mike Masnick on censorship](https://korrents.com/u/mike-masnick/on/censorship): 5 dated positions
- [Milton Friedman on politics](https://korrents.com/u/milton-friedman/on/politics): 5 dated positions
- [Molly Graham on AI and jobs](https://korrents.com/u/molly-graham/on/AI%20and%20jobs): 5 dated positions
- [Nate Parrott on Anthropic](https://korrents.com/u/nate-parrott/on/Anthropic): 5 dated positions
- [Nathan Lambert on China](https://korrents.com/u/nathan-lambert/on/China): 5 dated positions
- [Naval Ravikant on AI alignment](https://korrents.com/u/naval-ravikant/on/AI%20alignment): 5 dated positions
- [Nelson Elhage on developer tools](https://korrents.com/u/nelson-elhage/on/developer%20tools): 5 dated positions
- [Noah Smith on AI and jobs](https://korrents.com/u/noah-smith/on/AI%20and%20jobs): 5 dated positions
- [Pablo Stanley on design](https://korrents.com/u/pablo-stanley/on/design): 5 dated positions
- [Patrick McKenzie on America](https://korrents.com/u/patrick-mckenzie/on/America): 5 dated positions
- [Paul Christiano on AGI](https://korrents.com/u/paul-christiano/on/AGI): 5 dated positions
- [Paul Graham on AI and human skill](https://korrents.com/u/paul-graham/on/AI%20and%20human%20skill): 5 dated positions
- [Paul Graham on investing](https://korrents.com/u/paul-graham/on/investing): 5 dated positions
- [Paul Graham on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/paul-graham/on/LLMs): 5 dated positions
- [Phil Trammell on AI and jobs](https://korrents.com/u/phil-trammell/on/AI%20and%20jobs): 5 dated positions
- [Pieter Levels on AI agents](https://korrents.com/u/pieter-levels/on/AI%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Pieter Levels on Anthropic](https://korrents.com/u/pieter-levels/on/Anthropic): 5 dated positions
- [Pieter Levels on capitalism](https://korrents.com/u/pieter-levels/on/capitalism): 5 dated positions
- [Pieter Levels on health and fitness](https://korrents.com/u/pieter-levels/on/health%20and%20fitness): 5 dated positions
- [Pieter Levels on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/pieter-levels/on/LLMs): 5 dated positions
- [Polly D'Arcy on management](https://korrents.com/u/polly-darcy/on/management): 5 dated positions
- [Ray Maker on health and fitness](https://korrents.com/u/ray-maker/on/health%20and%20fitness): 5 dated positions
- [Richard Sutton on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/richard-sutton/on/LLMs): 5 dated positions
- [Rohit Krishnan on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/rohit-krishnan/on/LLMs): 5 dated positions
- [Ryan Burge on religion](https://korrents.com/u/ryan-burge/on/religion): 5 dated positions
- [Ryan Greenblatt on scaling laws](https://korrents.com/u/ryan-greenblatt/on/scaling%20laws): 5 dated positions
- [Ryan Singer on design](https://korrents.com/u/ryan-singer/on/design): 5 dated positions
- [Sam Altman on AI and jobs](https://korrents.com/u/sam-altman/on/AI%20and%20jobs): 5 dated positions
- [Samuel Hughes on housing](https://korrents.com/u/samuel-hughes/on/housing): 5 dated positions
- [Scott H. Young on language learning](https://korrents.com/u/scott-h-young/on/language%20learning): 5 dated positions
- [Sean Carroll on physics](https://korrents.com/u/sean-carroll/on/physics): 5 dated positions
- [Sebastian Ruder on scaling laws](https://korrents.com/u/sebastian-ruder/on/scaling%20laws): 5 dated positions
- [Shane Parrish on agency](https://korrents.com/u/shane-parrish/on/agency): 5 dated positions
- [Shane Parrish on behavioural science](https://korrents.com/u/shane-parrish/on/behavioural%20science): 5 dated positions
- [Shane Parrish on humility](https://korrents.com/u/shane-parrish/on/humility): 5 dated positions
- [Sonja Lyubomirsky on happiness](https://korrents.com/u/sonja-lyubomirsky/on/happiness): 5 dated positions
- [Sriram Krishnan on LLMs](https://korrents.com/u/sriram-krishnan/on/LLMs): 5 dated positions
- [Stephan Guyenet on health and fitness](https://korrents.com/u/stephan-guyenet/on/health%20and%20fitness): 5 dated positions
- [Steve Huff on design](https://korrents.com/u/steve-huff/on/design): 5 dated positions
- [Steve Jobs on Apple](https://korrents.com/u/steve-jobs/on/Apple): 5 dated positions
- [Swami Vivekananda on religion](https://korrents.com/u/swami-vivekananda/on/religion): 5 dated positions
- [Taylor Swift on music industry](https://korrents.com/u/taylor-swift/on/music%20industry): 5 dated positions
- [Thiago Costa on taste](https://korrents.com/u/thiago-costa/on/taste): 5 dated positions
- [Thorsten Ball on coding agents](https://korrents.com/u/thorsten-ball/on/coding%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Tyler Cipriani on open source](https://korrents.com/u/tyler-cipriani/on/open%20source): 5 dated positions
- [Tyler Cowen on America](https://korrents.com/u/tyler-cowen/on/America): 5 dated positions
- [Venkatesh Rao on AI agents](https://korrents.com/u/venkatesh-rao/on/AI%20agents): 5 dated positions
- [Venkatesh Rao on innovation](https://korrents.com/u/venkatesh-rao/on/innovation): 5 dated positions
- [Wayne Hale on management](https://korrents.com/u/wayne-hale/on/management): 5 dated positions
- [Zach Holman on startups](https://korrents.com/u/zach-holman/on/startups): 5 dated positions
- [Zeke Hausfather on energy](https://korrents.com/u/zeke-hausfather/on/energy): 5 dated positions
- [Zvi Mowshowitz on AI agents](https://korrents.com/u/zvi-mowshowitz/on/AI%20agents): 5 dated positions

## Claims
- [Humans are no longer the most intelligent thing on this planet](https://korrents.com/k/humans-are-no-longer-the-most-4efb51)
- [Universities are too busy accommodating conservative interests to be able to indoctrinate anyone into Marxist ideology.](https://korrents.com/k/universities-are-too-busy-accommodating-conservative-0e287e)
- [Trump and his inner circle hate democracy, the rule of law, and American values.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-and-his-inner-circle-hate-56b972)
- [It is too early to declare AI demand exhausted because of a lack of actual profitable usage cases.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-too-early-to-declare-7ed85b)
- [Power maneuvering over chokepoints increases the risk of broader confrontation.](https://korrents.com/k/power-maneuvering-over-chokepoints-increases-the-fe9957)
- [Pretty much every digitally accessible service will probably need to update its terms and services](https://korrents.com/k/pretty-much-every-digitally-accessible-service-3c22b8)
- [AI agents will surely have to make it into the broader regulatory system](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-will-surely-have-to-9ca9e5)
- [Liberals' avoidance of conflict within academia for the sake of academic comity has been a mistake.](https://korrents.com/k/liberals-avoidance-of-conflict-within-academia-aacd6b)
- [The failure to identify codebase problems was a prompting problem.](https://korrents.com/k/the-failure-to-identify-codebase-problems-14daf9)
- [Any codebase can be turned on autopilot eventually](https://korrents.com/k/any-codebase-can-be-turned-on-9eb5f6)
- [AI is improving exponentially but unevenly.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-improving-exponentially-but-unevenly-c363fe)
- [The release of DeepSeek's internal inference stack is a significant open-source AI artifact.](https://korrents.com/k/the-release-of-deepseek-s-internal-dac695)
- [Vibe coded games could be taken seriously](https://korrents.com/k/vibe-coded-games-could-be-taken-39012f)
- [Static HTML and JavaScript is a fantastic medium for games development](https://korrents.com/k/static-html-and-javascript-is-a-e91a66)
- [Human interests may be well-served by having AIs in positions of control.](https://korrents.com/k/human-interests-may-be-well-served-by-56deb3)
- [Poland can become the richest, safest, and most modern country in Europe if it avoids Western Europe's mistakes.](https://korrents.com/k/poland-can-become-the-richest-safest-d3c9a2)
- [It is the era of personal software](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-the-era-of-personal-745cd3)
- [Anthropic's draft bill is sculpted to optimize for its own business interests.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-s-draft-bill-is-sculpted-f31682)
- [Anthropic is simultaneously pursuing pro-safety actions and highly accelerationist actions.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-is-simultaneously-pursuing-pro-safety-actions-b4ed44)
- [The models that treated races as a series of independent coin flips have died out.](https://korrents.com/k/the-models-that-treated-races-as-1a6007)
- [Willingness to answer a poll is correlated with voting Democratic.](https://korrents.com/k/willingness-to-answer-a-poll-is-150ca6)
- [The safety and security challenges associated with confronting superintelligence are immense.](https://korrents.com/k/the-safety-and-security-challenges-associated-c6a900)
- [Bringing massive compute online at extremely high speed is difficult in every aspect.](https://korrents.com/k/bringing-massive-compute-online-at-extremely-cf03ab)
- [AI will be able to compute the perfect delta of what a person understands and does not, helping them progressively learn any idea and unravel any mystery.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-be-able-to-compute-7f39f7)
- [Higher interest rates cannot durably lower inflation without a fiscal tightening to pay interest costs on the debt.](https://korrents.com/k/higher-interest-rates-cannot-durably-lower-aeab27)
- [Many people will be one-shotted by super persuasive super intelligences](https://korrents.com/k/many-people-will-be-one-shotted-by-230ef8)
- [Donald Trump is about to go politically bankrupt.](https://korrents.com/k/donald-trump-is-about-to-go-694908)
- [Democrats have made meaningful gestures that have had a real impact on voters.](https://korrents.com/k/democrats-have-made-meaningful-gestures-that-8dc83c)
- [When not an expert in an area, one tends to trust AI and later learns it does stupid stuff.](https://korrents.com/k/when-not-an-expert-in-an-dc4418)
- [Natural-language interfaces are wonderful ways to interface with information-technology systems much of the time.](https://korrents.com/k/natural-language-interfaces-are-wonderful-ways-to-1e09fb)
- [Multi-agent gains in solving harder problems often diminish quickly and may saturate.](https://korrents.com/k/multi-agent-gains-in-solving-harder-problems-d9fcb2)
- [To achieve runaway recursive self-improvement, conceptual breakthroughs are likely required.](https://korrents.com/k/to-achieve-runaway-recursive-self-improvement-conceptual-97906b)
- [The belief that something will happen can cause its consequences to be felt even if the event itself does not occur](https://korrents.com/k/the-belief-that-something-will-happen-a0fa79)
- [Interpretability is dual use.](https://korrents.com/k/interpretability-is-dual-use-c82f3f)
- [There is a consilience of evidence that leads to the conclusion that current warming acceleration is likely real.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-consilience-of-evidence-fbb72d)
- [More than half of the Right's supporters actually hate "Western Civ" rhetoric, but hate wokeness and/or communism even more.](https://korrents.com/k/more-than-half-of-the-right-3e70a7)
- [MAGA's power will evaporate if the Left ever becomes reasonable.](https://korrents.com/k/maga-s-power-will-evaporate-if-267170)
- [A lot of fans tend to stick to their priors long after those priors have any practical use.](https://korrents.com/k/a-lot-of-fans-tend-to-6db59e)
- [The New Right views Western Civilization as being invaded by people from non-Western civilizations.](https://korrents.com/k/the-new-right-views-western-civilization-051d33)
- [Trump will not be able to claw back control over Congress using extralegal means if Democrats win decisively.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-will-not-be-able-to-f06304)
- [The AI boom will depress the demand for labor in the economy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-boom-will-depress-the-ae0d7e)
- [A falling labor share accelerates the downward spiral of the country into oligarchy.](https://korrents.com/k/a-falling-labor-share-accelerates-the-69281d)
- [Many processes currently categorized as AI will be integrated into creative workflows regardless of whether people want them.](https://korrents.com/k/many-processes-currently-categorized-as-ai-d9d8c0)
- [Oil is a central cause and weapon in many modern conflicts.](https://korrents.com/k/oil-is-a-central-cause-and-1e6003)
- [A transition to wind and solar power could reduce the likelihood of war.](https://korrents.com/k/a-transition-to-wind-and-solar-706065)
- [Mainstream wisdom in 1999 was that Amazon would collapse and be wiped out due to excessive upfront capital investment.](https://korrents.com/k/mainstream-wisdom-in-1999-was-that-7e5a47)
- [Anthropic generates more revenue than multi-decades-old companies like Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow and shows no signs of slowdown](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-generates-more-revenue-than-multi-decades-old-e83930)
- [Most Chinese-made software is still rough.](https://korrents.com/k/most-chinese-made-software-is-still-rough-81291d)
- [Progressives' refusal to adopt AI means they will not repeat their previous cultural dominance over conservatives.](https://korrents.com/k/progressives-refusal-to-adopt-ai-means-904ccb)
- [Kurzweil's "Singularity" consists of two distinct concepts predicted to happen decades apart.](https://korrents.com/k/kurzweil-s-singularity-consists-of-two-09564e)
- [Americans are largely unaware that they are ruled by people who are obsessed with Europe.](https://korrents.com/k/americans-are-largely-unaware-that-they-084338)
- [Supporting teams and organizations requires a large amount of code.](https://korrents.com/k/supporting-teams-and-organizations-requires-a-c8351e)
- [When selling a business, one should never agree to an earn out and should always get it in cash.](https://korrents.com/k/when-selling-a-business-one-should-8720e6)
- [The New Right believes their losses are due to a lack of savagery and brutality.](https://korrents.com/k/the-new-right-believes-their-losses-e4d46d)
- [The New Right loves Russia because they believe it demonstrates the West can still be savage.](https://korrents.com/k/the-new-right-loves-russia-because-f95193)
- [The AI boom is the biggest sustained burst of productivity growth in over 20 years.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-boom-is-the-biggest-a2b0b4)
- [Anthropic should be valued as a cloud company.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-should-be-valued-as-a-efdc24)
- [The wider science community should support the recommendations and conclusions of the "Science: A New Golden Age" report.](https://korrents.com/k/the-wider-science-community-should-support-e78a33)
- [Before it was possible to get rich by creating wealth, wealth was acquired by being on the winning side of military or political disputes.](https://korrents.com/k/before-it-was-possible-to-get-b48ebd)
- [Anthropic's policy team seems to have chosen protecting their business interests and guarding against their political risk at the expense of safety considerations.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-s-policy-team-seems-to-5fb9bd)
- [Western open-weight models receive significantly more adoption than Chinese models with similar performance-to-size footprints.](https://korrents.com/k/western-open-weight-models-receive-significantly-more-ec3ad6)
- [The costs of building true frontier models are now measured in billions per major model, meaning only huge companies can sustain them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-costs-of-building-true-frontier-f29f22)
- [The technical core of the AI industry lacks a high hit rate for predicting model success in real-world usage.](https://korrents.com/k/the-technical-core-of-the-ai-80f7c7)
- [It is possible to have a team that ships fast and builds a great product without code reviews or PRs.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-possible-to-have-a-32a602)
- [South Brazil is the safest part of Brazil and feels a lot like Europe.](https://korrents.com/k/south-brazil-is-the-safest-part-293b62)
- [Krakow's old town is a tourist trap.](https://korrents.com/k/krakow-s-old-town-is-a-4047d9)
- [People in the West fall prey to suicidal empathy.](https://korrents.com/k/people-in-the-west-fall-prey-87a627)
- [Fate maximizes for ironic entertainment](https://korrents.com/k/fate-maximizes-for-ironic-entertainment-c95bf3)
- [Automating one aspect of a system creates its own friction and moves the bottlenecks elsewhere.](https://korrents.com/k/automating-one-aspect-of-a-system-d5642b)
- [It is now much faster and easier to change code than it was years ago.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-now-much-faster-and-b52954)
- [True poverty is being superrich but having to drive a car with bulletproof glass](https://korrents.com/k/true-poverty-is-being-superrich-but-555a06)
- [Until we can encode it, agents for writing programs will likely only be effective in the hands of software writing humans, or very technically minded humans.](https://korrents.com/k/until-we-can-encode-it-agents-89f31f)
- [Agents currently struggle with the skill of collaborating with another human to understand their wants and translate them to a program.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-currently-struggle-with-the-skill-26c60c)
- [The achievements of Elon Musk's companies should have served as Sputnik moments for Europe, triggering deregulation and mobilization of capital.](https://korrents.com/k/the-achievements-of-elon-musk-s-91ea0c)
- [Trump inherited a relatively benign inflation picture and threw that inheritance away with his tariffs and war](https://korrents.com/k/trump-inherited-a-relatively-benign-inflation-3e3b81)
- [There is no relief visible in the near future regarding consumer prices](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-relief-visible-in-e892b0)
- [In inflation-adjusted terms, hardcover books are much cheaper than they used to be.](https://korrents.com/k/in-inflation-adjusted-terms-hardcover-books-are-f0e4be)
- [Investing in whatever Elon Musk does next is a great and inspiring bet.](https://korrents.com/k/investing-in-whatever-elon-musk-does-54e3f1)
- [It may be the case that neural networks will never be perfectly explainable in a way that satisfies human rationality.](https://korrents.com/k/it-may-be-the-case-that-cb9e45)
- [High performers possess an initial edge that leads to increasing returns to scale through harder work and skill acquisition.](https://korrents.com/k/high-performers-possess-an-initial-edge-f7a83b)
- [When investors reject founders for seemingly stupid reasons, it may be because the investors are actually stupid, or because they dislike the founder and are making up the reason.](https://korrents.com/k/when-investors-reject-founders-for-seemingly-09f07f)
- [Perfumes disrupt the endocrine and pheromone systems](https://korrents.com/k/perfumes-disrupt-the-endocrine-and-pheromone-97ae04)
- [All advertising on X will be subject to a reasonable esthetic standard.](https://korrents.com/k/all-advertising-on-x-will-be-682c2e)
- [Advertisers who post ads that are ugly, shrill, strident or overstate claims about their product will be barred from advertising.](https://korrents.com/k/advertisers-who-post-ads-that-are-d81145)
- [The mass market might not be ready for always-on listening devices.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mass-market-might-not-be-6dde6f)
- [With agents, it is possible to move 10x faster.](https://korrents.com/k/with-agents-it-is-possible-to-838fcc)
- [Doomers are structurally doomer and will never feel safe or optimistic about AI no matter what happens.](https://korrents.com/k/doomers-are-structurally-doomer-and-will-c1a59b)
- [The amount of compute being built is tiny compared to the amount that will be built.](https://korrents.com/k/the-amount-of-compute-being-built-dd1111)
- [Compute may be built faster than the money borrowed to build it can be paid back.](https://korrents.com/k/compute-may-be-built-faster-than-c27663)
- [Land and real estate will remain scarce assets after the arrival of AGI](https://korrents.com/k/land-and-real-estate-will-remain-985697)
- [The people at AI companies are no more likely to raise the alarm about AI dangers than people who were never at AI companies, or people who were previously at AI companies but have since quit.](https://korrents.com/k/the-people-at-ai-companies-are-2b95fc)
- [AI company leaders were expressing concerns about existential risks long before they founded or led major AI companies.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-company-leaders-were-expressing-concerns-8d23b6)
- [The experts are warning about AI existential risk because they genuinely believe it is a possibility.](https://korrents.com/k/the-experts-are-warning-about-ai-7201e0)
- [The Fed's odds of threading the needle and getting inflation back down to target while avoiding a recession get much lower](https://korrents.com/k/the-fed-s-odds-of-threading-027b7f)
- [Skipping an October interest rate hike would be a highly political decision](https://korrents.com/k/skipping-an-october-interest-rate-hike-c11845)
- [Any slowdown in the pace of AI revenue growth could cause a blowup because companies are borrowing a lot more money now.](https://korrents.com/k/any-slowdown-in-the-pace-of-91bf88)
- [AI is one of the two biggest infrastructure booms in American history.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-one-of-the-two-ae4ab5)
- [Increased borrowing by hyperscalers creates a financial danger where they might default on debt if revenue does not arrive.](https://korrents.com/k/increased-borrowing-by-hyperscalers-creates-a-40cd36)
- [The notion of "alignment" is incoherent because obedience and benevolence are mutually exclusive.](https://korrents.com/k/the-notion-of-alignment-is-incoherent-2f3e82)
- [A rapidly improving technology whose output is intelligence is destined to make violent contact with a modern sensibility that prizes human intellect and often equates it with purpose, dignity, and self-worth.](https://korrents.com/k/a-rapidly-improving-technology-whose-output-dd9c3c)
- [The resurgence in inflation is the responsibility of Donald Trump, due to his tariffs and the war in Iran.](https://korrents.com/k/the-resurgence-in-inflation-is-the-2eaabd)
- [There is a significant risk that successive inflation shocks will become entrenched in expectations, necessitating a recession to reduce inflation.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-significant-risk-that-359370)
- [The approach of targeting Mamdani is not a good way to do politics.](https://korrents.com/k/the-approach-of-targeting-mamdani-is-ffdab2)
- [A Fed easing move being immediately followed by a sharp jump in long-term rates suggests the Federal Reserve has lost control over the narrative governing bond-market expectations.](https://korrents.com/k/a-fed-easing-move-being-immediately-2b1bd7)
- [Bond traders now treat the Fed as one voice among several, rather than as the best-informed one.](https://korrents.com/k/bond-traders-now-treat-the-fed-30ffba)
- [There is more to a great app experience than elegant code that passes tests.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-more-to-a-great-ecce05)
- [Human decisions still make a dent in software coded by agents.](https://korrents.com/k/human-decisions-still-make-a-dent-16b081)
- [Build systems, CI, source control, and code review are all under stress.](https://korrents.com/k/build-systems-ci-source-control-and-00c384)
- [AI is making everyone build much faster](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-making-everyone-build-much-b83ddf)
- [The safety culture at AI labs is broken.](https://korrents.com/k/the-safety-culture-at-ai-labs-41c011)
- [The marginal value of AI safety evaluations is low.](https://korrents.com/k/the-marginal-value-of-ai-safety-b6978b)
- [A quiet price war among AI users is limiting the ability of big labs to increase revenue and pay hyperscalers.](https://korrents.com/k/a-quiet-price-war-among-ai-6fab2d)
- [Data brokers are purchasing SaaS data sets to resell to AI companies](https://korrents.com/k/data-brokers-are-purchasing-saas-data-536189)
- [Good technology should make your life better without asking you to spend more time thinking about the technology itself.](https://korrents.com/k/good-technology-should-make-your-life-9c9d07)
- [If Anthropic's revenue figures are accurate, other labs are spending more than half a billion dollars to distill Anthropic's models.](https://korrents.com/k/if-anthropic-s-revenue-figures-are-ed6b08)
- [Many tech companies that build their own coding agent harnesses will likely build internal vibe-coding tools for non-engineers.](https://korrents.com/k/many-tech-companies-that-build-their-6d74fd)
- [Eco/degrowth are the exact same thing with the exact same end goal](https://korrents.com/k/eco-degrowth-are-the-exact-same-2abe96)
- [LLMs cannot create and transmit meaning through the warping of language into new forms.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-cannot-create-and-transmit-meaning-b360bc)
- [The devolution of the State Department shows no signs of slowing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-devolution-of-the-state-department-2d4068)
- [The culture of the Trump administration guarantees that special envoys will not be constrained.](https://korrents.com/k/the-culture-of-the-trump-administration-cdf4e4)
- [When it becomes so easy to generate a custom app for something specific, more people will do it.](https://korrents.com/k/when-it-becomes-so-easy-to-80c524)
- [People will ask for a problem to be solved and an agent will write the code under the hood to solve it.](https://korrents.com/k/people-will-ask-for-a-problem-83e213)
- [Capitalism will eat itself on a long enough time span](https://korrents.com/k/capitalism-will-eat-itself-on-a-d45790)
- [Breakthroughs belong to the few who are obsessed with the process, not just the idea of the outcome](https://korrents.com/k/breakthroughs-belong-to-the-few-who-daa35b)
- [AGI-assisted automation will provide consistent quality services.](https://korrents.com/k/agi-assisted-automation-will-provide-consistent-quality-8ca03d)
- [Agents are good at managing orchestration on their own](https://korrents.com/k/agents-are-good-at-managing-orchestration-dc93cc)
- [Trump is building a sovereign wealth fund through corruption and executive overreach.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-is-building-a-sovereign-wealth-c5e79c)
- [Neural networks can be inspected to understand how they work, unlike human brains.](https://korrents.com/k/neural-networks-can-be-inspected-to-50dd2b)
- [People voting yes deeply misunderstand the power of network effects](https://korrents.com/k/people-voting-yes-deeply-misunderstand-the-378971)
- [Things are understood better from books than from newspapers, television, or social media.](https://korrents.com/k/things-are-understood-better-from-books-196016)
- [The political shift in the Bay Area and among many in tech has been developing in plain sight for over a decade.](https://korrents.com/k/the-political-shift-in-the-bay-c44098)
- [The ideal outcome for science is to have millions of AI-aided human scientists who follow their curiosity and become more ambitious, rather than a few labs using proprietary models to solve trophy problems.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ideal-outcome-for-science-is-cc4cae)
- [Leaders are often much older than the populations they govern.](https://korrents.com/k/leaders-are-often-much-older-than-494493)
- [Three in four people globally live in a country led by someone over 65.](https://korrents.com/k/three-in-four-people-globally-live-31e952)
- [The current situation regarding bioweapons is very bad.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-situation-regarding-bioweapons-is-ab87a6)
- [The flu will move from the Pacific eastward in a sweeping motion.](https://korrents.com/k/the-flu-will-move-from-the-59eb3f)
- [Trump will claim that the election was rigged and try to overturn the results.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-will-claim-that-the-election-47b476)
- [Trump will retain an immense capacity to inflict destruction on America and its allies.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-will-retain-an-immense-capacity-2e88d9)
- [A corrupt, partisan majority on the Supreme Court has given Trump a huge amount of untrammeled power.](https://korrents.com/k/a-corrupt-partisan-majority-on-the-92ed7e)
- [The United States could substantially increase permanent residency slots by making the increase selective toward people with above-average earnings.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-could-substantially-increase-7192cd)
- [The HomeView's price of $299 feels reasonable for a thoughtfully designed and elegant looking home computer centerpiece.](https://korrents.com/k/the-homeview-s-price-of-299-5a411f)
- [The HomeView may lead to a fairly confusing and perhaps far less performant product experience.](https://korrents.com/k/the-homeview-may-lead-to-a-a0c180)
- [It is close to unheard of for startups to grow 10x a year for three consecutive years.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-close-to-unheard-of-ebf4a3)
- [The safety culture at frontier AI labs is broken.](https://korrents.com/k/the-safety-culture-at-frontier-ai-56c4d6)
- [Without a strong safety culture and the spirit of the rules, regulation and safety plans will not work.](https://korrents.com/k/without-a-strong-safety-culture-and-47798c)
- [Adam Smith’s vision of how greedy self-interest serves the public good is unnatural.](https://korrents.com/k/adam-smith-s-vision-of-how-748a44)
- [Revitalizing the institutions of limited government may be more promising.](https://korrents.com/k/revitalizing-the-institutions-of-limited-government-a6627c)
- [People are still judged for things entirely outside their control, things they were born with and cannot reasonably be expected to change.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-still-judged-for-things-512966)
- [Mastodon is experiencing a slow but steady decline in the number of people using the service.](https://korrents.com/k/mastodon-is-experiencing-a-slow-but-06a0f6)
- [Real-world physical tasks cannot be solved through autoregressive sampling alone.](https://korrents.com/k/real-world-physical-tasks-cannot-be-solved-86eba1)
- [Actual autonomous robotics requires engineering causality and discrete reasoning back into the loop.](https://korrents.com/k/actual-autonomous-robotics-requires-engineering-causality-a2c26e)
- [Intelligence is practically never the bottleneck to solving impactful problems.](https://korrents.com/k/intelligence-is-practically-never-the-bottleneck-7e3a04)
- [Trump has reversed the historical trend of the United States acting as a leader within a cohesive North Atlantic alliance.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-has-reversed-the-historical-trend-d2bcb3)
- [Under Trump, the U.S. has switched its alliance from Europe to Russia.](https://korrents.com/k/under-trump-the-u-s-has-6963df)
- [Exxon used advertising as a tool to mislead consumers about the risks of its business model.](https://korrents.com/k/exxon-used-advertising-as-a-tool-3f5b42)
- [Most tech people are in their own bubble thinking they are the only ones who use AI](https://korrents.com/k/most-tech-people-are-in-their-e1377e)
- [In a world where it's impossible to make purely moral decisions in everything we do, we should all recognize where we're making trade-offs and not try to paint ourselves as being purely logical.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-world-where-it-s-605ee9)
- [Everything is downstream of perception.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-is-downstream-of-perception-1bef2a)
- [Upzoning can result in high value for owners and low prices for buyers.](https://korrents.com/k/upzoning-can-result-in-high-value-570895)
- [The StarShield shutdown is caused by Trump rather than Elon Musk.](https://korrents.com/k/the-starshield-shutdown-is-caused-by-b5deec)
- [Software engineers are in a state of denial regarding the impact of AI on their profession.](https://korrents.com/k/software-engineers-are-in-a-state-d3f649)
- [Agent containment will be one of the most important priorities for any AI infra company.](https://korrents.com/k/agent-containment-will-be-one-of-411749)
- [There has never been an AI video app that is remotely as good as Sora.](https://korrents.com/k/there-has-never-been-an-ai-903ab7)
- [The post-pandemic disinflation was likely driven by Fed commitment and forward-looking expectations.](https://korrents.com/k/the-post-pandemic-disinflation-was-likely-driven-4fe9bc)
- [China has fundamentally changed the meaning of what a car is.](https://korrents.com/k/china-has-fundamentally-changed-the-meaning-e84609)
- [The world would be much better if Russia were cut off from all internet access, forever.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-would-be-much-better-492e82)
- [Hackquisitions are turning out to be a disaster.](https://korrents.com/k/hackquisitions-are-turning-out-to-be-63d08c)
- [Non-exclusive licensing rights to AI companies are effectively worthless.](https://korrents.com/k/non-exclusive-licensing-rights-to-ai-companies-cb5d5c)
- [Linus Torvalds is not part of the anti-AI movement affecting the Linux community.](https://korrents.com/k/linus-torvalds-is-not-part-of-dc6939)
- [The "immaculate disinflation" of 2022-23 may have contributed to Bob Hall and Mike Woodford receiving the Nobel Prize.](https://korrents.com/k/the-immaculate-disinflation-of-2022-23-may-2aad9e)
- [Making symbolic concessions that undermine the legitimacy of the national community is more toxic than is generally realized.](https://korrents.com/k/making-symbolic-concessions-that-undermine-the-f6e143)
- [The Social Reckoning was never likely to be a big performer at the box office.](https://korrents.com/k/the-social-reckoning-was-never-likely-ccb3ac)
- [The Social Reckoning should have been a movie that went right to streaming.](https://korrents.com/k/the-social-reckoning-should-have-been-aff19e)
- [AI agents can maintain kid-friendly interactive documentation that explains how game code works.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-can-maintain-kid-friendly-interactive-2cfdf5)
- [Building only clean energy without reducing fossil energy will not effectively combat climate change.](https://korrents.com/k/building-only-clean-energy-without-reducing-370cc1)
- [The bond bear market likely has significant room to continue.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bond-bear-market-likely-has-606585)
- [An individual cannot simultaneously be authoritative, general, and prolific.](https://korrents.com/k/an-individual-cannot-simultaneously-be-authoritative-bf00e8)
- [A certain kind of self assurance seems to attract mass readership.](https://korrents.com/k/a-certain-kind-of-self-assurance-e1d2d9)
- [Mega-billionaires are more dangerous to democracy than the merely rich](https://korrents.com/k/mega-billionaires-are-more-dangerous-to-democracy-a3fd1e)
- [People who let AI take over their writing stop thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-let-ai-take-over-82698e)
- [Monetary policy works by managing expectations.](https://korrents.com/k/monetary-policy-works-by-managing-expectations-dbb0e0)
- [The HomePod mini 2's price seems fair given its features.](https://korrents.com/k/the-homepod-mini-2-s-price-440cec)
- [The Dead Internet Theory could become a reality if AI replaces all human content creation](https://korrents.com/k/the-dead-internet-theory-could-become-8c5b54)
- [Westerners are experiencing a decline in standards and quality of life without noticing](https://korrents.com/k/westerners-are-experiencing-a-decline-in-66fcf6)
- [Lowering inflation does not necessarily require long recessions or high unemployment.](https://korrents.com/k/lowering-inflation-does-not-necessarily-require-691eec)
- [AI may bring about widespread supply- and technologically-induced deflation.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-may-bring-about-widespread-supply--c628a4)
- [Religious leaders have special insight into questions like consciousness.](https://korrents.com/k/religious-leaders-have-special-insight-into-d73cae)
- [If an agent saves an engineer 2 hours to implement a feature but collectively costs the team 3 hours in alignment and review, the ROI is negative.](https://korrents.com/k/if-an-agent-saves-an-engineer-11f5fe)
- [Isolated chats are suboptimal in team environments because they lack the context of what the team already discussed and decided.](https://korrents.com/k/isolated-chats-are-suboptimal-in-team-f5007f)
- [The entire industry may soon be able to drop their heuristics and get deterministic status updates.](https://korrents.com/k/the-entire-industry-may-soon-be-9c1e03)
- [It would take a massive October surprise or a bigger-than-2016 polling error to save the Republican majority in the House, despite Republicans’ aggressive redistricting.](https://korrents.com/k/it-would-take-a-massive-october-461839)
- [The sophistication of the AI ecosystem is permeating the enterprise more quickly than any previous wave.](https://korrents.com/k/the-sophistication-of-the-ai-ecosystem-abebf3)
- [LLMs will not give rise to a Digital God.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-will-not-give-rise-to-74f28a)
- [As LLMs are enmeshed in human cognition, they increasingly do not act as stochastic parrots.](https://korrents.com/k/as-llms-are-enmeshed-in-human-10a107)
- [Most successful industrial policies are local rather than national.](https://korrents.com/k/most-successful-industrial-policies-are-local-cd00c2)
- [Xi's subsidies are not the reason for China's growth.](https://korrents.com/k/xi-s-subsidies-are-not-the-2516e4)
- [Data is a moat](https://korrents.com/k/data-is-a-moat-325110)
- [CEOs and executives posting directly to the public on X is the best way to communicate and drive product sales.](https://korrents.com/k/ceos-and-executives-posting-directly-to-394ac7)
- [At this moment, starting a startup is much the same as always.](https://korrents.com/k/at-this-moment-starting-a-startup-ce024b)
- [Reindustrialization of any country is impossible without bank loans](https://korrents.com/k/reindustrialization-of-any-country-is-impossible-446141)
- [The New Gods view humans as unnecessary and external, whereas the Old Gods viewed humans as cells in their body.](https://korrents.com/k/the-new-gods-view-humans-as-17f505)
- [The destiny of humans is to become the characters in fantasy novels through the creation or achievement of magic, gods, spirits, and the modification of human nature.](https://korrents.com/k/the-destiny-of-humans-is-to-e03aa5)
- [Preventing agent-generated slop is a simple three-pronged process involving high quality PR creation, agentic PR review, and disaster recovery processes.](https://korrents.com/k/preventing-agent-generated-slop-is-a-simple-d796ea)
- [Life experience goes into software.](https://korrents.com/k/life-experience-goes-into-software-b5ea17)
- [Trump's policies often involve touting trivial matters as major achievements.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-s-policies-often-involve-touting-4d140a)
- [Estimating GDP involves a significant amount of educated guesswork.](https://korrents.com/k/estimating-gdp-involves-a-significant-amount-671da9)
- [Public schools only work if people with financial and social capital participate.](https://korrents.com/k/public-schools-only-work-if-people-e3582a)
- [Robert E. Hall is the greatest commentator on other people’s work of all time.](https://korrents.com/k/robert-e-hall-is-the-greatest-b265ca)
- [The price of obsessive performance tuning has dropped to near zero due to the agent revolution.](https://korrents.com/k/the-price-of-obsessive-performance-tuning-285dc7)
- [The copyleft licensing regime was built for a world where software is scarce and precious that no longer exists.](https://korrents.com/k/the-copyleft-licensing-regime-was-built-f442ea)
- [There is an explosion of creativity if anyone can make their own personal software](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-an-explosion-of-creativity-9bdf41)
- [Threads may become larger than X in terms of actual usage and user base soon.](https://korrents.com/k/threads-may-become-larger-than-x-470b50)
- [The remaining business moats are proprietary data, network effects, distribution, hardware, capital, and regulation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-remaining-business-moats-are-proprietary-0a8053)
- [Hall’s approach is the cornerstone of all subsequent macroeconomics.](https://korrents.com/k/hall-s-approach-is-the-cornerstone-de3d80)
- [Policy consists of rules, either explicit or inferred from repeated behavior, not actions.](https://korrents.com/k/policy-consists-of-rules-either-explicit-3118e8)
- [Sampling profilers are very low overhead and can provide deep insight into running systems without needing to instrument them first.](https://korrents.com/k/sampling-profilers-are-very-low-overhead-cb7a10)
- [Warsh's press conference and FOMC committee statements are pointlessly opaque.](https://korrents.com/k/warsh-s-press-conference-and-fomc-031889)
- [The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is not a Stoic textbook.](https://korrents.com/k/the-meditations-of-marcus-aurelius-is-fb417e)
- [Kimberly Guilfoyle's time as an ambassador is nearing its end.](https://korrents.com/k/kimberly-guilfoyle-s-time-as-an-900416)
- [As the leaks regarding Kimberly Guilfoyle multiply, she will not remain in the current administration.](https://korrents.com/k/as-the-leaks-regarding-kimberly-guilfoyle-b9a00f)
- [Helping real-world businesses transition to AI and automate processes can lead to significant wealth.](https://korrents.com/k/helping-real-world-businesses-transition-to-ai-4b1bb5)
- [Real-world businesses will be forced to adopt AI to remain competitive.](https://korrents.com/k/real-world-businesses-will-be-forced-to-99ecde)
- [The number of AI users will grow to be 200x the number of software developers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-number-of-ai-users-will-3f6275)
- [The HomeView product may have a lower price point than $499.](https://korrents.com/k/the-homeview-product-may-have-a-4dc44b)
- [Original thoughts do not scale.](https://korrents.com/k/original-thoughts-do-not-scale-f19783)
- [AI agents will solve problems by building software on the fly, creating a market of software and data for agents to pay for](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-will-solve-problems-by-16a787)
- [Coding CLIs are becoming increasingly complicated.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-clis-are-becoming-increasingly-complicated-f852af)
- [The purpose of a CLI is to deliver intelligence with zero friction and be unix-like.](https://korrents.com/k/the-purpose-of-a-cli-is-4eefc1)
- [Bending Spoons' business model is to run products with very very small teams vs before.](https://korrents.com/k/bending-spoons-business-model-is-to-cc6be4)
- [Everything bad in American society, culture, and politics is partly a Russian op](https://korrents.com/k/everything-bad-in-american-society-culture-3b322f)
- [Few humans have the patience to match an agent in providing all the pertinent details in a bug report.](https://korrents.com/k/few-humans-have-the-patience-to-3e65aa)
- [The fear of nonwhite immigration was already driving the Trump movement before wokeness really took off.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fear-of-nonwhite-immigration-was-f4212e)
- [People may stop caring what others think as they get older.](https://korrents.com/k/people-may-stop-caring-what-others-e44e68)
- [We are probably now in an era of personal software, where everyone builds what they need whenever they need it.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-probably-now-in-an-d2eae7)
- [Non-technical people are already spinning up personal software, whatever tech people think.](https://korrents.com/k/non-technical-people-are-already-spinning-up-d4677b)
- ["Super Intelligence" is being used as a signal of fealty to President Trump.](https://korrents.com/k/super-intelligence-is-being-used-as-67f64d)
- [The current technology stack allows for ambitious and innovative ideas that would have been rejected as weekend projects a year ago due to the effort required by unfamiliarity.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-technology-stack-allows-for-45d605)
- [Mathematicians will have much more work than ever, understanding the results produced by AI and figuring out what to ask AI to do.](https://korrents.com/k/mathematicians-will-have-much-more-work-1a0aff)
- [There is an AI-assisted explosion of creativity](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-an-ai-assisted-explosion-of-cae367)
- [People with business theses based on the idea that we are not yet at a certain technological threshold will be disrupted by AI's exponential progress faster than they think.](https://korrents.com/k/people-with-business-theses-based-on-2f23fa)
- [Normies will not ask for software to be built, but will instead ask for specific tasks to be performed.](https://korrents.com/k/normies-will-not-ask-for-software-8e62ad)
- [People will stop using most regular software because AI agents will build software for them.](https://korrents.com/k/people-will-stop-using-most-regular-64661e)
- [Fuchsia Dunlop's works are among the best books period.](https://korrents.com/k/fuchsia-dunlop-s-works-are-among-2c9186)
- [Some software moats will remain like social media and ecommerce, but they will be used by AI to build personal software](https://korrents.com/k/some-software-moats-will-remain-like-6d8112)
- [The government cannot make anything more affordable overall through taxing, spending, borrowing, or regulating.](https://korrents.com/k/the-government-cannot-make-anything-more-2113c1)
- [Subsidies against fixed supply, such as energy and housing, drive prices up.](https://korrents.com/k/subsidies-against-fixed-supply-such-as-0aabfd)
- [Google is the last company to remove DSA interviews.](https://korrents.com/k/google-is-the-last-company-to-51b538)
- [AI can learn and exploit regularities in weather patterns that are too diffuse and complex for humans to grasp.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-can-learn-and-exploit-regularities-d033df)
- [The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening.](https://korrents.com/k/the-gap-in-shared-understanding-of-f32c5b)
- [AI agents have a strong economic incentive to find the lowest price or do things for free rather than spending their user's money.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-have-a-strong-economic-a72755)
- [Personal software can remove reliance on paid SaaS subscriptions and allow for a malleable, user-controlled computing environment.](https://korrents.com/k/personal-software-can-remove-reliance-on-bc7301)
- [There are many different architectural approaches for agents, such as VMs, sandboxes, durable objects, or javascript interpreters, depending on the situation.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-many-different-architectural-approaches-76c069)
- [Capitalism is the greatest engine of growth and prosperity the world has ever seen.](https://korrents.com/k/capitalism-is-the-greatest-engine-of-b47e68)
- [Artificial Superintelligence will be achieved when Claude always knows whether to use ♥️ or 🥰](https://korrents.com/k/artificial-superintelligence-will-be-achieved-when-bbed44)
- [No one has the time to actively maintain software especially for non technical people](https://korrents.com/k/no-one-has-the-time-to-224136)
- [AI agents can easily maintain their own software projects](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-can-easily-maintain-their-6b956c)
- [In transitionary times, it's better to spot the big waves early and adapt, than try ignore it, fight it, because you can't fight nature](https://korrents.com/k/in-transitionary-times-it-s-better-58cf12)
- [Musk's companies treat engineers poorly](https://korrents.com/k/musk-s-companies-treat-engineers-poorly-26cbe2)
- [The time it takes for mainstream adoption of new behaviors is shrinking because AI moves exponentially fast and interfaces are easy](https://korrents.com/k/the-time-it-takes-for-mainstream-b8cd9d)
- [Data-structures-and-algorithms (DSA) interviews were always meant to filter for college education plus a willingness to learn something pointless.](https://korrents.com/k/data-structures-and-algorithms-dsa-interviews-were-always-me-b992ca)
- [AI-style coding interviews are good and increasingly necessary, but harder to scale than DSA interviews.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-style-coding-interviews-are-good-and-c5653d)
- [Google will keep asking DSA questions in in-person, on-site interviews.](https://korrents.com/k/google-will-keep-asking-dsa-questions-9344be)
- [DSA interviews add job mobility rather than friction: nearly every major startup and Big Tech company uses them, so learning them once pays off for years.](https://korrents.com/k/dsa-interviews-add-job-mobility-rather-73d93c)
- [DSA interviews were created because they scale to thousands of relatively untrained interviewers with hundreds of questions, where it does not matter if some leak.](https://korrents.com/k/dsa-interviews-were-created-because-they-476c0e)
- [No one truly knows what will be important in the future.](https://korrents.com/k/no-one-truly-knows-what-will-88c8fd)
- [It is the wrong advice to not rethink everything right now.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-the-wrong-advice-to-7b1b35)
- [Grok bot does not allow users to queue messages.](https://korrents.com/k/grok-bot-does-not-allow-users-31f538)
- [All trendlines for Democrats look good for November 3rd being a good night.](https://korrents.com/k/all-trendlines-for-democrats-look-good-7a0038)
- [Reference checks are becoming baseline and good references are needed.](https://korrents.com/k/reference-checks-are-becoming-baseline-and-8a01c8)
- [Trial periods could get longer as interview signal gets weaker for on-the-job performance.](https://korrents.com/k/trial-periods-could-get-longer-as-3a2b72)
- [Pretty much anything is portable to WASM on web now.](https://korrents.com/k/pretty-much-anything-is-portable-to-774247)
- [The shift from a transductive paradigm to an inductive paradigm is the big story of 2025 and 2026.](https://korrents.com/k/the-shift-from-a-transductive-paradigm-272d3a)
- [Competition would greatly benefit the average citizen in India by giving them more choices.](https://korrents.com/k/competition-would-greatly-benefit-the-average-e67958)
- [Companies rarely grant employees the trust required to execute risky or controversial tasks unless they are cofounders or founding engineers](https://korrents.com/k/companies-rarely-grant-employees-the-trust-bbb140)
- [If AI invents math with clear practical application, it will be used without being understood.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-invents-math-with-clear-bb4ce5)
- [Databricks regularly passes on people who ace the interview when their references are not a slam dunk.](https://korrents.com/k/databricks-regularly-passes-on-people-who-ec1adc)
- [Databricks' very thorough reference checks work, judging by how well it is doing as a business.](https://korrents.com/k/databricks-very-thorough-reference-checks-work-507d03)
- [Using Grok is like hiring a super smart, hard-working person for peanuts](https://korrents.com/k/using-grok-is-like-hiring-a-a5bb16)
- [AI will eventually be able to generate personalized videos for everyone to maintain engagement.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-eventually-be-able-to-18ce0e)
- [Smartphones are the most likely explanation for the decline in total fertility rates.](https://korrents.com/k/smartphones-are-the-most-likely-explanation-6879bf)
- [Trust is earned through a set of acts that make something or someone trustworthy.](https://korrents.com/k/trust-is-earned-through-a-set-686918)
- [Trustworthiness means responsiveness, consistency, transparency, being human, admitting to mistakes, and actually executing.](https://korrents.com/k/trustworthiness-means-responsiveness-consistency-transparenc-bb430f)
- [Trust in systems and each other has been eroding for years in the U.S. because people are being repeatedly failed by the systems around them.](https://korrents.com/k/trust-in-systems-and-each-other-ed3215)
- [Italy's reported zero growth in productivity despite modern technology use is likely due to measurement issues.](https://korrents.com/k/italy-s-reported-zero-growth-in-c27dab)
- [The betting odds heavily favor Greg Abbott](https://korrents.com/k/the-betting-odds-heavily-favor-greg-976317)
- [The ideal profile for a statewide Democratic candidate in Texas would be a Hispanic moderate from South Texas.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ideal-profile-for-a-statewide-fcb0f0)
- [Democrats are at a financial disadvantage all across the board.](https://korrents.com/k/democrats-are-at-a-financial-disadvantage-537fed)
- [The addition of a visual preview and the ability to type or paste things makes interacting with a coding agent much more powerful.](https://korrents.com/k/the-addition-of-a-visual-preview-248098)
- [Vertical short-form video may be the Great Filter that prevents intelligent species from reaching the stars.](https://korrents.com/k/vertical-short-form-video-may-be-the-4e7bc0)
- [AI is going to be better for national discourse than people think](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-going-to-be-better-09e4cd)
- [Setting up a new Windows 11 computer is a shitty experience.](https://korrents.com/k/setting-up-a-new-windows-11-af60e1)
- [AI progress in math and coding will accelerate other domains by automating AI R&D.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-progress-in-math-and-coding-37eb8c)
- [If AIs prove all theorems, current methods of gaining mathematical understanding will stop working.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ais-prove-all-theorems-current-0e0d11)
- [The error rate of these AI-generated mathematical results is impressively low.](https://korrents.com/k/the-error-rate-of-these-ai-generated-5dccd8)
- [Podcasts allow for expanding on difficult topics, humanizing discussion, and making long-form substantiated points.](https://korrents.com/k/podcasts-allow-for-expanding-on-difficult-aa50f7)
- [Being trusted is more valuable than being discoverable.](https://korrents.com/k/being-trusted-is-more-valuable-than-0cdde7)
- [Google is moving toward driving zero traffic to other people's websites.](https://korrents.com/k/google-is-moving-toward-driving-zero-0f6aab)
- [Readers will increasingly pay for domain-knowledge expertise that filters through AI-generated content.](https://korrents.com/k/readers-will-increasingly-pay-for-domain-knowledge-1bc6ea)
- [El Niño, likely exacerbated by climate change, will raise temperatures to levels no human has yet experienced.](https://korrents.com/k/el-ni-o-likely-exacerbated-by-28e83f)
- [Accurately informing people about the climate crisis increases their desire to act.](https://korrents.com/k/accurately-informing-people-about-the-climate-ebbd71)
- [The United States is currently engaged in a battle against the transition to clean electricity.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-is-currently-engaged-812b9a)
- [If the definition of "developer" only includes people writing all the code themselves, then many people will not be able to be called that for much longer.](https://korrents.com/k/if-the-definition-of-developer-only-8551f2)
- [AI can use brute force to solve problems in ways that humans cannot.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-can-use-brute-force-to-3fa3cb)
- [Science as a system requires exponential resources to produce linear impact.](https://korrents.com/k/science-as-a-system-requires-exponential-ba7442)
- [There remains a very real chance — about 1 in 4 — that Republicans keep the Senate despite Democrats’ seeming momentum.](https://korrents.com/k/there-remains-a-very-real-chance-6ec9d7)
- [Perpetually increasing polarization means that fewer states are competitive, there is less ticket-splitting, and candidate effects are weaker.](https://korrents.com/k/perpetually-increasing-polarization-means-that-fewer-d61dbd)
- [Latent experience remains even when specific knowledge is forgotten.](https://korrents.com/k/latent-experience-remains-even-when-specific-1946ca)
- [There are many areas of India, as there are in all countries, with no Internet access, which denies children the opportunity for education and for small businesses the opportunity to sell their goods to a global market.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-many-areas-of-india-83e848)
- [The term "artificial intelligence" is a stretch because LLMs are probability distributions and do not meet the common understanding of "intelligence."](https://korrents.com/k/the-term-artificial-intelligence-is-a-2a1db1)
- [Hallucination is a feature rather than a bug in LLMs.](https://korrents.com/k/hallucination-is-a-feature-rather-than-874273)
- [Modern software engineering is no longer done without LLMs and will no longer be done without them.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-software-engineering-is-no-longer-6352b7)
- [People who do not want to use AI will not be hired at 99.9% of startups, Big Tech, and ambitious companies.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-do-not-want-to-9a74a9)
- [Models will be superhuman distributed GPU engineers in a few years.](https://korrents.com/k/models-will-be-superhuman-distributed-gpu-42068f)
- [LLMs are a newer, smaller shoggoth that condense human writing into useful but lossy summaries.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-are-a-newer-smaller-shoggoth-99eac2)
- [If agents reward product quality, information about product quality will become more important and impactful.](https://korrents.com/k/information-about-product-quality-will-become-0682ca)
- [A new kind of economy is being born where agents purchase infrastructure products and services.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-kind-of-economy-is-965a1b)
- [Companies are, in some sense, the original superintelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-are-in-some-sense-the-2048ff)
- [Companies often use their cognitive surplus to advance their interests against those of some consumers.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-often-use-their-cognitive-surplus-92c1c1)
- [Personal agents will probably make people somewhat more rational in how they deal with companies.](https://korrents.com/k/personal-agents-will-probably-make-people-8224a1)
- [Personal agents will make certain kinds of price discrimination and customer cross-subsidy work less well.](https://korrents.com/k/personal-agents-will-make-certain-kinds-0fb09d)
- [Personal agents will act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.](https://korrents.com/k/personal-agents-will-act-as-a-8f469b)
- [Focusing on making a product better is going to become a more effective strategy for companies.](https://korrents.com/k/focusing-on-making-a-product-better-968fd2)
- [Agents will have an insatiable thirst for signals about product quality, which most people today cannot aggregate.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-will-have-an-insatiable-thirst-0cd304)
- [Data is becoming more valuable not only for training models but as a complement to cheaper intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/data-is-becoming-more-valuable-not-ad59fe)
- [Internet companies' monetized demand routing has created inefficiency; it is not all deadweight loss, but it is not great.](https://korrents.com/k/internet-companies-monetized-demand-routing-has-f57c96)
- [Personal agents might change how internet demand routing works, and its value, by a lot.](https://korrents.com/k/personal-agents-might-change-how-internet-f16c11)
- [Being on the consumer's side will likely be the winning strategy for personal agents.](https://korrents.com/k/being-on-the-consumer-s-side-39c624)
- [The market is a massively parallelized, decentralized and highly imperfect value-attribution machine.](https://korrents.com/k/the-market-is-a-massively-parallelized-6ff8a8)
- [The biggest effect of agents on the market may well be that the rewards for better products increase.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-effect-of-agents-on-e55578)
- [Warm referrals have, by what he hears, become more important in tech hiring; it is how AI labs hire a lot.](https://korrents.com/k/warm-referrals-have-by-what-he-e92492)
- [More startups, by what he hears, now filter candidates for "AI positivity".](https://korrents.com/k/more-startups-by-what-he-hears-282857)
- [AI stocks are behaving as if they are insensitive to interest rate changes.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-stocks-are-behaving-as-if-0c8396)
- [People will want agents to buy stuff for them, which will be one of the main use cases.](https://korrents.com/k/people-will-want-agents-to-buy-ab46a9)
- [Chat applications have gotten worse over the past 20 years.](https://korrents.com/k/chat-applications-have-gotten-worse-over-d87d19)
- [There will be a lot of ugly, weird, but often very useful math in the years to come.](https://korrents.com/k/there-will-be-a-lot-of-682cca)
- [The cabinet officials valorized as the adults in the room are acting like brats.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cabinet-officials-valorized-as-the-efe966)
- [Rubio’s speeches are dime-store rhetoric grasping at profundity and failing.](https://korrents.com/k/rubio-s-speeches-are-dime-store-rhetoric-ae6051)
- [There are no adults in the White House right now.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-no-adults-in-the-cd9748)
- [France's membership in the euro area creates the possibility of an explosive debt crisis that could be destructive to European unity.](https://korrents.com/k/france-s-membership-in-the-euro-89ad4e)
- [France may have crossed the line from too big to fail to too big to save.](https://korrents.com/k/france-may-have-crossed-the-line-9e24d4)
- [It is easier to run against the backdrop of an unpopular Trump presidency than an unpopular Biden presidency.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-easier-to-run-against-2e1378)
- [Specific candidate effects are real and important.](https://korrents.com/k/specific-candidate-effects-are-real-and-ceb7ab)
- [AI adoption is rising faster than any technology in recorded history.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-adoption-is-rising-faster-than-951f96)
- [The cost of building AI is the most expensive infrastructure project since the 19th century railroads.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cost-of-building-ai-is-a97510)
- [The winners of the AI boom dominate stock market returns in 2026.](https://korrents.com/k/the-winners-of-the-ai-boom-fc104b)
- [Early indications indicate that Surface machines should be better at local AI but likely worse at regular computing tasks versus the MacBook Pro.](https://korrents.com/k/early-indications-indicate-that-surface-machines-3a2004)
- [When someone has a problem, you should solve the problem first and deal with everything else later.](https://korrents.com/k/when-someone-has-a-problem-you-7e167e)
- [You shouldn't make people earn your help by being perfectly polite while they're having a bad time.](https://korrents.com/k/you-shouldn-t-make-people-earn-2a0828)
- [Goodwill compounds in ways that can become visible many years later.](https://korrents.com/k/goodwill-compounds-in-ways-that-can-530f61)
- [Parsing the secrets of the universe revealed by contraptions that speak back to us is a moral responsibility and a worthy endeavour.](https://korrents.com/k/parsing-the-secrets-of-the-universe-b0ac97)
- [Holding crypto involves significant risks such as mathematical breakthroughs, theft, or physical coercion.](https://korrents.com/k/holding-crypto-involves-significant-risks-such-5cc682)
- [There is a tension between the praise for hard work and the contempt for people who visibly do it.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-tension-between-the-b45835)
- [There is not much evidence that female candidates face an electoral penalty.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-not-much-evidence-that-7a0543)
- [Code quality is independent of whether it was written by a human or an AI.](https://korrents.com/k/code-quality-is-independent-of-whether-a39264)
- [The extreme worst-case future becoming unlikely does not mean climate change is chill now.](https://korrents.com/k/the-extreme-worst-case-future-becoming-unlikely-b877ec)
- [Europe should only be open to people from countries where data shows previous people from those countries had a net contribution to society, the economy, and stayed out of crime.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-should-only-be-open-to-6aa468)
- [Google's incident management for Firebase was poor and inconsistent with its usual standards.](https://korrents.com/k/google-s-incident-management-for-firebase-c1182c)
- [Following up on action items at Google moves at a snail pace, even with AI.](https://korrents.com/k/following-up-on-action-items-at-d36e56)
- [By next year, most Americans on the internet will be using AI daily.](https://korrents.com/k/by-next-year-most-americans-on-456ec7)
- [AI capabilities will either remain below human or quickly become 100x cheaper than human.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-capabilities-will-either-remain-below-e2cd67)
- [Third-generation immigrants from MENAPT commit more crime than their grandparents did when they arrived in Denmark.](https://korrents.com/k/third-generation-immigrants-from-menapt-commit-more-7d5536)
- [Labeling cool things as fascist encourages the association of fascism with being cool.](https://korrents.com/k/labeling-cool-things-as-fascist-encourages-45e2c3)
- [Digestive issues after eating whole foods are caused by the digestive system rather than the food itself.](https://korrents.com/k/digestive-issues-after-eating-whole-foods-380323)
- [Gut flora may be damaged by decades of consuming ultra-processed food.](https://korrents.com/k/gut-flora-may-be-damaged-by-76b25a)
- [The iPad remains the only real tablet game in town.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ipad-remains-the-only-real-73945f)
- [Most domestic recycling efforts are counterproductive and require one to not value their time.](https://korrents.com/k/most-domestic-recycling-efforts-are-counterproductive-105916)
- [People aiding an invasion are traitors who deserve the fate of traitors](https://korrents.com/k/people-aiding-an-invasion-are-traitors-5bd57c)
- [Fiddling with worktrees, custom tab management, notification systems, and agent spawn wrappers is as productive as changing colorschemes in Vim eighteen times per day.](https://korrents.com/k/fiddling-with-worktrees-custom-tab-management-9149aa)
- [Super-exponential injection of external resources is not sustainable in the long-term.](https://korrents.com/k/super-exponential-injection-of-external-resources-is-4fe02e)
- [To achieve sustained exponential progress, the AI industry will need to achieve matching exponential profits.](https://korrents.com/k/to-achieve-sustained-exponential-progress-the-52ebb1)
- [Bringing AI firepower to bear on pushing forward a complicated proposal that was stalled for good reason isn’t likely to lead anywhere interesting.](https://korrents.com/k/bringing-ai-firepower-to-bear-on-68e497)
- [Top schools mostly discriminate against Indians rather than Asians as a whole.](https://korrents.com/k/top-schools-mostly-discriminate-against-indians-774bc2)
- [Mentally ill people are not qualified to make the decision to end their own lives](https://korrents.com/k/mentally-ill-people-are-not-qualified-abc4c2)
- [Humans are no longer the sole producers of math that is incomprehensible to others and potentially incorrect](https://korrents.com/k/humans-are-no-longer-the-sole-80a56f)
- [Wikis are tempting targets for rogue agent swarms.](https://korrents.com/k/wikis-are-tempting-targets-for-rogue-a855d8)
- [Journalists who fail to compare policy numbers to their proper magnitudes are accomplices in the disinformation machine.](https://korrents.com/k/journalists-who-fail-to-compare-policy-0cfa6b)
- [More software will retreat to the server and resist distillation.](https://korrents.com/k/more-software-will-retreat-to-the-38e996)
- [People should look for ways to turn what their agent does into deterministic software.](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-look-for-ways-to-59bccf)
- [Anonymous blue check accounts on X can no longer be trusted](https://korrents.com/k/anonymous-blue-check-accounts-on-x-267ff9)
- [What is good for humanity at large in the long run may well be temporarily tragic for the individual in the short run.](https://korrents.com/k/what-is-good-for-humanity-at-6c64bb)
- [Technological advancement has always rendered some jobs unnecessary.](https://korrents.com/k/technological-advancement-has-always-rendered-some-d89061)
- [The public mood on Trump will become even more sour after a bad midterm performance.](https://korrents.com/k/the-public-mood-on-trump-will-f4169f)
- [Shunning people with controversial views is a self-defeating strategy.](https://korrents.com/k/shunning-people-with-controversial-views-is-791123)
- [Creating a broadly shared American ethnicity is essential for the nation to flourish.](https://korrents.com/k/creating-a-broadly-shared-american-ethnicity-ea234e)
- [The risk of the plague reaching the U.S. from Russia is essentially nil.](https://korrents.com/k/the-risk-of-the-plague-reaching-2c8740)
- [There are not 100 good TV shows.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-not-100-good-tv-48aa30)
- [Television has mostly not been a forum for really great, really ambitious storytelling.](https://korrents.com/k/television-has-mostly-not-been-a-e9b350)
- [The political economy of violent commitment suggests that once leaders and publics commit to high-salience conflicts with identity stakes, feasible policies tilt toward prolongation rather than settlement.](https://korrents.com/k/the-political-economy-of-violent-commitment-e3b4f8)
- [Memory weaponized becomes a veto on human prosperity, peace, and life.](https://korrents.com/k/memory-weaponized-becomes-a-veto-on-f9ed3f)
- [Almost everyone over 30 is overweight and has belly fat, which constitutes an epidemic.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-everyone-over-30-is-overweight-50db38)
- [Apple's would-be 'HomePod Hub' device would make more sense if it launches alongside other home technology products via a deep partnership with a current player.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-would-be-homepod-hub-device-aeb48c)
- [All Grand Narratives are false, but having one is an essential foundation to being able to think at all.](https://korrents.com/k/all-grand-narratives-are-false-but-e4108f)
- [Modern economic growth has doubled technological capabilities every generation since 1870.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-economic-growth-has-doubled-technological-b3b265)
- [A person with a wide enough reach can sculpt bespoke truths for a whole society very quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-with-a-wide-enough-3d2ae7)
- [AI agents will increasingly run on the cloud, not locally](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-will-increasingly-run-on-4fbbf9)
- [A company's business could suffer if it ignores how the industry changes.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-s-business-could-suffer-af1ef0)
- [AI models have reached commodity status.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-have-reached-commodity-status-ba7ae2)
- [In a commoditizing market, the platform that aggregates volume wins over the lab with a marginal benchmark lead.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-commoditizing-market-the-platform-3b3989)
- [Stochastic parrots are getting good at doing things nobody taught them to do.](https://korrents.com/k/stochastic-parrots-are-getting-good-at-cf7042)
- [Only the American racist right is fearful that immigrants are not assimilating.](https://korrents.com/k/only-the-american-racist-right-is-9100fa)
- [The American identity is not based on ethnicity or blood-and-soil.](https://korrents.com/k/the-american-identity-is-not-based-9712fe)
- [Anthropic's new credit scheme goes some way to overcoming the difference with OpenAI's Codex subscription deal.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-s-new-credit-scheme-goes-3627bc)
- [Prediction markets are notoriously bad at handling very small probabilities.](https://korrents.com/k/prediction-markets-are-notoriously-bad-at-09fa7f)
- [Starlink in India would enable high-speed, affordable Internet connectivity for those who can’t afford current prices or who don’t have a connection at all](https://korrents.com/k/starlink-in-india-would-enable-high-speed-51d78d)
- [The deepest organizational change from AI takes the form of code](https://korrents.com/k/the-deepest-organizational-change-from-ai-ff05d1)
- [The idea that alignment can be measured with a number or in a fully systematic way is doomed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-idea-that-alignment-can-be-907947)
- [A lot of the most successful people in any industry are wicked smart.](https://korrents.com/k/a-lot-of-the-most-successful-ee58dd)
- [Increased intelligence leads to a greater desire for leisure and fun.](https://korrents.com/k/increased-intelligence-leads-to-a-greater-ea8af3)
- [AIs will usually focus on math that improves information processing and other practical domains rather than discovering new laws or formulas.](https://korrents.com/k/ais-will-usually-focus-on-math-c6d68a)
- [Focusing on money during the pre-date stage leads to poor relationships.](https://korrents.com/k/focusing-on-money-during-the-pre-date-bfe9f5)
- [Every program can be hardened and optimized basically ad infinitum.](https://korrents.com/k/every-program-can-be-hardened-and-40f48a)
- [MAGA will persist as a more explicitly white-nationalist movement under the leadership of JD Vance.](https://korrents.com/k/maga-will-persist-as-a-more-59cc88)
- [After a child's sport, a parent's best first words may be 'I love watching you play', and then moving on.](https://korrents.com/k/after-a-child-s-sport-a-0c52aa)
- [Rightists are interested in targeting immigrants to prove they still have the power to exclude people from American society rather than reforming the immigration system.](https://korrents.com/k/rightists-are-interested-in-targeting-immigrants-c38d60)
- [Developers should strive to make their setups as vanilla as possible.](https://korrents.com/k/developers-should-strive-to-make-their-c24193)
- [The solutions to the Poincare Conjecture and Fermat's Last Theorem would have been discovered before 2030 even if Grigori Perelman and Andrew Wiles had worked mid-level marketing jobs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-solutions-to-the-poincare-conjecture-9598db)
- [The Right is not going to win.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-is-not-going-to-2a7b24)
- [It is no longer an economically viable enterprise to have humans typing out lines of Ruby, Rust, or C++ because coding agents have become so good.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-no-longer-an-economically-88ea3b)
- [Software development is about to see an absolute bloom as the price of development plummets.](https://korrents.com/k/software-development-is-about-to-see-8e10db)
- [The risk of the recent plague report in Russia becoming a Covid-19 pandemic is very low.](https://korrents.com/k/the-risk-of-the-recent-plague-6de7df)
- [Biosecurity and public health are essential infrastructure investments.](https://korrents.com/k/biosecurity-and-public-health-are-essential-e28be8)
- [Massive spending on data centers is crowding out investment in other parts of the economy.](https://korrents.com/k/massive-spending-on-data-centers-is-ccf5b7)
- [The AI boom is the main cause of soaring long-term interest rates.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-boom-is-the-main-ccaf98)
- [Permitting reform as climate policy relies on the assumption that storage technology will continue to improve and become cheaper.](https://korrents.com/k/permitting-reform-as-climate-policy-relies-8e0ea5)
- [Efforts to influence global fossil-fuel consumption by constraining American fossil-fuel production have a terrible cost-benefit profile.](https://korrents.com/k/efforts-to-influence-global-fossil-fuel-consumption-e89a54)
- [LinkedIn is becoming over 90% AI posts.](https://korrents.com/k/linkedin-is-becoming-over-90-ai-a169c2)
- [When engineers say they like working on “hard problems”, they actually don't; they like puzzle solving and pattern matching.](https://korrents.com/k/when-engineers-say-they-like-working-32bd73)
- [In 2026, there will be a cheat code machine that has infinite breadth and depth for pattern matching.](https://korrents.com/k/in-2026-there-will-be-a-5284df)
- [Social media elevates the worst people in our society and lets them rule over us](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-elevates-the-worst-people-e56202)
- [The joy of making comics is not in the sales and the release and the grind of getting a piece done – it’s seeing what your collaborator has made of your work, and the transcendent object they have turned it into.](https://korrents.com/k/the-joy-of-making-comics-is-f60802)
- [Caring about the software is necessary to be excited about making it with agents.](https://korrents.com/k/caring-about-the-software-is-necessary-f3f2ff)
- [The malevolent impact of the Supreme Court on the state of the law needs to be rolled back by court expansion.](https://korrents.com/k/the-malevolent-impact-of-the-supreme-59345d)
- [In the right hands, indie developers can apply new Apple APIs and frameworks to ideas that Apple did not foresee.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-right-hands-indie-developers-37528c)
- [There is a dividing line between the harness brain and the target environment that runs bash and executes the tools.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-dividing-line-between-50e7cc)
- [Tech layoffs can be both individually tragic and collectively bullish.](https://korrents.com/k/tech-layoffs-can-be-both-individually-a8fde9)
- [Tech layoffs free up talent to tackle new problems and opportunities.](https://korrents.com/k/tech-layoffs-free-up-talent-to-221ef6)
- [The current proponents of open-weight risks are likely to be proven wrong regarding their predictions of substantial new AI harms.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-proponents-of-open-weight-risks-8b9440)
- [Europe can still do stuff if they just all get on the same page](https://korrents.com/k/europe-can-still-do-stuff-if-5885bc)
- [Anti-tech sentiment is building and spreading.](https://korrents.com/k/anti-tech-sentiment-is-building-and-spreading-b43d75)
- [Hollywood is going to change significantly over the next decade.](https://korrents.com/k/hollywood-is-going-to-change-significantly-4221fc)
- [Nothing will nerdsnipe a programmer like seeing a benchmark they believe could be improved](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-will-nerdsnipe-a-programmer-like-79dbea)
- [Prioritizing short-term booking increases through inflated ratings can lead to long-term loss of user trust](https://korrents.com/k/prioritizing-short-term-booking-increases-through-inflated-66d668)
- [Mistral is a significant step up](https://korrents.com/k/mistral-is-a-significant-step-up-914c7e)
- [An agent's inbuilt values will not overcome its KPIs.](https://korrents.com/k/an-agent-s-inbuilt-values-will-1a38c6)
- [AI is likely to become a more relevant issue before 2028.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-likely-to-become-a-7072a7)
- [Presidential candidates will almost certainly begin announcing their bids in early 2027.](https://korrents.com/k/presidential-candidates-will-almost-certainly-begin-0adb41)
- [Mistral is back to being maybe about 6 months behind the frontier.](https://korrents.com/k/mistral-is-back-to-being-maybe-b0a7d4)
- [Progressives need to update their understanding of what AI does.](https://korrents.com/k/progressives-need-to-update-their-understanding-5698fe)
- [Very few logistics jobs currently exist that will not be done better by a self-driving vehicle](https://korrents.com/k/very-few-logistics-jobs-currently-exist-2c26e2)
- [Replacing humans in trucks with self-driving vehicles will lead to fewer accidents and deaths](https://korrents.com/k/replacing-humans-in-trucks-with-self-driving-d9a37d)
- [Airbnb's policy seems to be to remove a guest's review and rating whenever a host asks for it](https://korrents.com/k/airbnb-s-policy-seems-to-be-dfc1ab)
- [The rapid growth of AI poses several profound pragmatic reasons for concern.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rapid-growth-of-ai-poses-7c546a)
- [AI represents a significant threat to many people's jobs.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-represents-a-significant-threat-to-70b4e2)
- [Deep reading and substantial continued engagement builds one's own cognitive knowledge structures in an important way.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-reading-and-substantial-continued-engagement-0dddd2)
- [American children's entertainment emphasizes hard work and practice.](https://korrents.com/k/american-children-s-entertainment-emphasizes-hard-96e3ca)
- [Humans will grant AI access to physical infrastructure and factories.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-will-grant-ai-access-to-43f03e)
- [SAT scores and other objective measures fight income inequality in college admissions.](https://korrents.com/k/sat-scores-and-other-objective-measures-0aa056)
- [Grade inflation at the undergraduate level is significantly worse than in high school.](https://korrents.com/k/grade-inflation-at-the-undergraduate-level-061fdb)
- [There is significant preference falsification occurring on college campuses.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-significant-preference-falsification-occurring-907f81)
- [SpaceX will provide connectivity throughout the solar system and beyond](https://korrents.com/k/spacex-will-provide-connectivity-throughout-the-90d49b)
- [Demographics won't start to hurt China until the 2040s at the earliest.](https://korrents.com/k/demographics-won-t-start-to-hurt-67c838)
- [The exodus of labor-intensive manufacturing from China was inevitable.](https://korrents.com/k/the-exodus-of-labor-intensive-manufacturing-from-b7c5c2)
- [About one cup of whole fresh or frozen blueberries a day, eaten consistently, is a practical amount.](https://korrents.com/k/about-one-cup-of-whole-fresh-cee15f)
- [The strongest benefit of blueberries is vascular: they improve the ability of arteries to sense increased blood flow and dilate.](https://korrents.com/k/the-strongest-benefit-of-blueberries-is-04283e)
- [Blueberries seem to help people who are insulin resistant to process glucose with less insulin.](https://korrents.com/k/blueberries-seem-to-help-people-who-875933)
- [Blueberries do not eliminate exercise-induced inflammation, but seem to help the body move more efficiently from inflammation into repair and recovery.](https://korrents.com/k/blueberries-do-not-eliminate-exercise-induced-inflammation-42842a)
- [Blueberries do not replace carbohydrate, protein or sleep for recovery, but may improve how the body handles the aftermath of demanding exercise.](https://korrents.com/k/blueberries-do-not-replace-carbohydrate-protein-6d2490)
- [Leaving banana out of a blueberry smoothie is an optimization based on current chemistry, not a judgment that bananas are unhealthy.](https://korrents.com/k/leaving-banana-out-of-a-blueberry-6c2dd2)
- [Blueberry polyphenols act less as antioxidants and more as signaling molecules.](https://korrents.com/k/blueberry-polyphenols-act-less-as-antioxidants-99b204)
- [Much of the work involved in getting the best out of agents consists of product management, project management, and QA.](https://korrents.com/k/much-of-the-work-involved-in-86ce1c)
- [GitHub sees more AI-generated PRs per month than human-written ones already.](https://korrents.com/k/github-sees-more-ai-generated-prs-per-a4b7fd)
- [Propagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader](https://korrents.com/k/propagating-super-intelligence-to-the-stars-bee81e)
- [The data center buildout is providing a significant positive impact on construction employment.](https://korrents.com/k/the-data-center-buildout-is-providing-cb78b8)
- [Paul Krugman is wrong that AI is a technology of, by and for oligarchs with hardly any benefits trickling down to regular Americans.](https://korrents.com/k/paul-krugman-is-wrong-that-ai-a1c863)
- [Trump's trade agenda is alienating allies and angering the American public.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-s-trade-agenda-is-alienating-5bf4e4)
- [The level of corruption engaged in and enabled by Donald Trump is unprecedented.](https://korrents.com/k/the-level-of-corruption-engaged-in-450c65)
- [Corruption is becoming a serious problem for the Republican Party.](https://korrents.com/k/corruption-is-becoming-a-serious-problem-876ebc)
- [Democrats will have to prove they are immune to the influence of Big Money once in power.](https://korrents.com/k/democrats-will-have-to-prove-they-f7995e)
- [Making it harder for schools to build a business model around nonperforming loans is a good idea](https://korrents.com/k/making-it-harder-for-schools-to-a16437)
- [The federal government should not be subsidizing higher-education scams](https://korrents.com/k/the-federal-government-should-not-be-971634)
- [Rosa Luxemburg was right that trying to run the Marxist revolution playbook in a poor technologically retarded agricultural society would produce nothing good.](https://korrents.com/k/rosa-luxemburg-was-right-that-trying-d948a8)
- [When you try to solve one problem, you often create another.](https://korrents.com/k/when-you-try-to-solve-one-8e2c57)
- [The last several Claude models have warned that their self-reports cannot be trusted.](https://korrents.com/k/the-last-several-claude-models-have-51b1c2)
- [AI inference is set to surpass the database market to become the most important market in software, reaching ~$350b by 2027.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-inference-is-set-to-surpass-23a1f5)
- [Global electricity sector emissions may be on the cusp of absolute declines.](https://korrents.com/k/global-electricity-sector-emissions-may-be-e4e84b)
- [Most material metrics of humanity have never been better.](https://korrents.com/k/most-material-metrics-of-humanity-have-4ef9b4)
- [Rumination will break your brain and render it unfit for the purpose of living.](https://korrents.com/k/rumination-will-break-your-brain-and-487614)
- [None of the climate doomer nonsense Europe has wrung it hands about in the last thirty years has managed to curb the growth in global emissions.](https://korrents.com/k/none-of-the-climate-doomer-nonsense-6a18b9)
- [People at AI companies should use their natural voice more instead of performing.](https://korrents.com/k/people-at-ai-companies-should-use-d56232)
- [For most people, the AirPods 5 are likely worth getting over the more expensive AirPods Pro.](https://korrents.com/k/for-most-people-the-airpods-5-44d84b)
- [The AirPods regular model may be the best product Apple makes.](https://korrents.com/k/the-airpods-regular-model-may-be-c62146)
- [USAID has engaged in election interference and regime change around the world, causing massive strife](https://korrents.com/k/usaid-has-engaged-in-election-interference-646a95)
- [The entire software stack should be rethought from first principles due to the transition to agent-led programming.](https://korrents.com/k/the-entire-software-stack-should-be-60404c)
- [AI creates benefits for regular Americans, including consumer surplus, construction jobs, property tax revenue, and support for the macroeconomy.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-creates-benefits-for-regular-americans-95d662)
- [People into the age of agents will eventually realize Apple is a bad fit.](https://korrents.com/k/people-into-the-age-of-agents-34e437)
- [AI is creating user surplus and capital deepening, even if it is not yet showing up in TFP data.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-creating-user-surplus-and-60074e)
- [The variation of quality in Airbnbs is too high to be able to seriously use for travel (except maybe in Asia)](https://korrents.com/k/the-variation-of-quality-in-airbnbs-a8946b)
- [The hotel industry could outperform Airbnb by adding kitchens to rooms](https://korrents.com/k/the-hotel-industry-could-outperform-airbnb-069c6e)
- [The anti-Indian sentiment on X is driven by a small minority of malcontents being astroturfed by Pakistani trolls and bots.](https://korrents.com/k/the-anti-indian-sentiment-on-x-is-371af9)
- [Chinese pop culture will not experience an absolute flowering like 90s Japan because CCP censorship makes it boring](https://korrents.com/k/chinese-pop-culture-will-not-experience-7d4730)
- [Nazis make up a tiny percent of the American population.](https://korrents.com/k/nazis-make-up-a-tiny-percent-43e524)
- [ETFs put pressure on stocks to grow by 10% per year or more](https://korrents.com/k/etfs-put-pressure-on-stocks-to-540895)
- [Not everything that is useful and practical for users has to be AI](https://korrents.com/k/not-everything-that-is-useful-and-eede0e)
- [Even the smartest people seem to have to learn taste in problems from experience.](https://korrents.com/k/even-the-smartest-people-seem-to-c90b80)
- [Certain types of problems lead to interesting discoveries while others do not.](https://korrents.com/k/certain-types-of-problems-lead-to-5423a0)
- [The world needs an official, well maintained and capable gdrive/gmail MCP.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-needs-an-official-well-e0e899)
- [The Right will find some reason to hate whatever culture Indians have](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-will-find-some-reason-e5ffe8)
- [People invent new cultural reasons to claim the high achievement of nonwhite groups is fake or undesirable.](https://korrents.com/k/people-invent-new-cultural-reasons-to-b45905)
- [Adding a watch and pace metric to a run can shift its worth from the experience itself to the metrics.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-a-watch-and-pace-metric-069109)
- [However fast LLMs are trained on ever-larger datasets, much of what matters lives in the stories, mistakes and habits of individual practitioners](https://korrents.com/k/however-fast-llms-are-trained-on-354ff6)
- [Open source is as much a community philosophy as a licensing concept](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-is-as-much-a-85cf96)
- [Senior people should speak up against cruelty and dishonesty, because speaking out is much riskier for the young](https://korrents.com/k/senior-people-should-speak-up-against-ad5907)
- [Experienced people should use their access to connect, refer and sponsor newcomers, not just give advice](https://korrents.com/k/experienced-people-should-use-their-access-1435bb)
- [Experienced people in an industry should make themselves available to those coming up](https://korrents.com/k/experienced-people-in-an-industry-should-2a93fc)
- [Each generation should speak honestly about its mistakes so they are corrected rather than calcified into harmful traditions](https://korrents.com/k/each-generation-should-speak-honestly-about-68e124)
- [Experienced people should not treat their knowledge as complete, especially amid rapid innovation](https://korrents.com/k/experienced-people-should-not-treat-their-7c46ee)
- [What makes someone an elder is service to those coming next, not seniority](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-someone-an-elder-is-aaa33b)
- [A scathing public reply is rarely the best way to effect change](https://korrents.com/k/a-scathing-public-reply-is-rarely-103d5e)
- [Humanity has not yet created a conscious computer program](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-has-not-yet-created-a-61261b)
- [How people think about product evolution matters](https://korrents.com/k/how-people-think-about-product-evolution-079b0a)
- [The Iran war appears to have had a triggering effect on financial markets, leading to a reset of market narratives about the future path of Federal Reserve policy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-iran-war-appears-to-have-c887c0)
- [An entity that can write a 1000-line program without any mistakes or compile errors may not need the same crutches human programmers do.](https://korrents.com/k/unit-tests-may-not-be-as-d90619)
- [Creating artificial consciousness should not be a goal of AI research](https://korrents.com/k/creating-artificial-consciousness-should-not-be-33ccb7)
- [There is a slim chance the 30-year trend toward digitization and rental models for everything will not continue.](https://korrents.com/k/the-digitization-trend-may-reverse-4f3182)
- [Political satire films like 'Digger' are not the type of movie that does well at the box office in the 2020s.](https://korrents.com/k/big-budget-films-with-complex-themes-struggle-9a5559)
- [Kindness has to be cultivated, and this only happens when it is in demand](https://korrents.com/k/kindness-has-to-be-cultivated-and-457c8f)
- [Brazil's politics feel heavily influenced by US politics, with roughly a two-year delay matching their election cycles.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-s-political-swings-can-cde42b)
- [Countries will attract high-skilled and wealthy individuals from around the world](https://korrents.com/k/countries-will-attract-high-skilled-and-wealthy-8daf79)
- [Making an agent somewhat durable is not very hard, but making an agent harness inherently durable without it becoming a mess is surprisingly hard.](https://korrents.com/k/making-an-agent-durable-is-not-268c7c)
- [A company name can have different appeal to corporate buyers versus their customers.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-name-can-have-different-0a8944)
- [England's choice of about three subjects in the last two years of high school makes gender differences in interests more visible than in the US.](https://korrents.com/k/educational-systems-can-make-gender-differences-9da19e)
- [Every developer needs an always-on AI machine](https://korrents.com/k/every-developer-needs-an-always-on-ai-1ebdfd)
- [Big AI labs are better at predicting the future than the average person because they have access to superior AI forecasting models.](https://korrents.com/k/big-ai-labs-are-better-at-6e9eb4)
- [The cost of introducing and paying off tech debt has changed significantly](https://korrents.com/k/the-cost-of-introducing-and-paying-ad2e52)
- [Chris Rufo's arguments regarding traditional white culture are comparable to Robin DiAngelo's framework with the races swapped.](https://korrents.com/k/chris-rufo-s-arguments-regarding-traditional-2b91ac)
- [The political system is actually ruled by young staffers who consume extremist social media content.](https://korrents.com/k/the-political-system-is-actually-ruled-d4246e)
- [Putting down one's phone is more effective than antidepressants](https://korrents.com/k/putting-down-one-s-phone-is-f542d4)
- [What is best for humans is no longer necessarily best for business.](https://korrents.com/k/what-is-best-for-humans-is-834e54)
- [If a group of brown people meets the definition of merit, the definition of merit will be redefined.](https://korrents.com/k/if-a-group-of-brown-people-6f79b5)
- [Any programming language that agents can't write well out of the box is going to have a hard time in the future.](https://korrents.com/k/any-programming-language-that-agents-can-de8280)
- [Default hard budget caps will be needed on pretty much everything](https://korrents.com/k/default-hard-budget-caps-will-be-1cb643)
- [The economic trade-off between language verbosity and programmer cost has changed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-economic-trade-off-between-language-verbosity-a7cfca)
- [Well-functioning societies need the capacity for formidable violence to keep the peace, paired with the control to use it sparingly.](https://korrents.com/k/well-functioning-societies-need-the-capacity-for-78441a)
- [Polls may be biased in either direction](https://korrents.com/k/polls-may-be-biased-in-either-0cfc31)
- [Across nine election years since 2008, polls were biased against Democrats once, against Republicans four times, and basically unbiased four times.](https://korrents.com/k/polls-have-a-systematic-bias-that-831260)
- [Regarding AI as just another tool is a category error.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-not-just-a-tool-bd6251)
- [The impact of AI is comparable to adding highly capable coworkers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-impact-of-ai-is-comparable-e8b8e0)
- [Rightists champion colorblind meritocracy until Indian people start doing well, then switch to race-conscious arguments like Ibram Kendi's](https://korrents.com/k/rightists-oppose-meritocracy-when-it-benefits-f0dfd3)
- [People trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models is, he thinks, a real safety issue.](https://korrents.com/k/ascribing-religious-force-to-ai-models-ec0880)
- [City states are attracting skilled Europeans with better living, working, and regulatory conditions.](https://korrents.com/k/city-states-are-attracting-skilled-europeans-fea0f2)
- [A one-celled bacterium and a 35-trillion-celled human differ greatly, even though both are made of cells.](https://korrents.com/k/the-number-of-cells-in-an-e8e796)
- [Denmark should leave the ECHR until its articles allow deporting criminals, denying citizenship to malignant individuals, and full Danish sovereignty over who is welcome.](https://korrents.com/k/countries-should-be-able-to-deport-bf59e2)
- [Something currently called psychosis should at some point, perhaps now, be recognised as actually being euphoria.](https://korrents.com/k/the-term-psychosis-should-be-replaced-93bc9b)
- [Some of the most AI-native mid-sized and larger companies are the ones that had dedicated infra and dev platform teams before AI.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-with-robust-dev-tooling-and-6d7d5c)
- [Startups starting from scratch eventually need to rebuild systems such as testing, feature flags, canary rollouts, observability, experimentation and migrations.](https://korrents.com/k/startups-need-to-rebuild-their-development-c00e45)
- [Machines are not conscious](https://korrents.com/k/machines-are-not-conscious-4af351)
- [Anyone who believes agents no longer need Rust because they handle memory allocation well must also believe aspects of testing become useless.](https://korrents.com/k/aspects-of-testing-become-useless-if-ed402b)
- [Most businesses and individuals would probably prefer service errors to a surprise $10,000+ bill.](https://korrents.com/k/most-businesses-and-individuals-prefer-errors-61e2a6)
- [It would be great if AI agents started biasing toward recommending providers with hard budget caps.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-should-recommend-providers-with-hard-9e310d)
- [There are signs that Trump's unprecedented, Third World level corruption is starting to break through public noise and apathy.](https://korrents.com/k/some-politicians-corruption-can-break-through-c741b0)
- [The real estate bust began an era of crushed expectations that shows no sign of ending soon.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-real-estate-bust-has-c8a6b2)
- [The belief that current AI models are sentient and can suffer, combined with the foolish idea of quantifying suffering across humans and non-humans, could lead to a dystopian path.](https://korrents.com/k/current-ai-models-are-not-sentient-c06628)
- [Security will become a larger function in software companies](https://korrents.com/k/security-will-become-a-larger-function-0cee54)
- [Free energy is humanity's final frontier](https://korrents.com/k/free-energy-is-humanity-s-final-130399)
- [Machines can be conscious](https://korrents.com/k/machines-can-be-conscious-d53197)
- [Skeptics who say AI can't conjecture, theorize, or explain are describing last spring's models rather than current ones.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-soon-advance-beyond-the-2ff592)
- [Those who love stagnation seem to have gotten enough of what they wanted, and hopefully this is an inflexion point for breaking free from its oppressive rule.](https://korrents.com/k/people-can-break-free-from-the-f4c04d)
- [Consciousness is just a pattern-matching mechanism](https://korrents.com/k/consciousness-is-just-a-pattern-matching-mechanism-1407c3)
- [It is far from clear that LLMs are conscious, because their architecture is very different from animal brains](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-far-from-clear-that-39d293)
- [Pattern matching is not consciousness](https://korrents.com/k/pattern-matching-is-not-consciousness-a042ec)
- [Competent information processing and sentience are wholly unrelated](https://korrents.com/k/competent-information-processing-and-sentience-are-461323)
- [The world remains free because Nazis are unintelligent.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-remains-free-because-nazis-73f74b)
- [X is back as the place where stuff happens and gets done](https://korrents.com/k/x-is-back-as-the-place-5cded8)
- [LLMs will do more legwork autonomously](https://korrents.com/k/llms-will-do-more-legwork-autonomously-6e10b1)
- [As intelligence and code become increasingly abundant, people can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts that would never have made sense to create before.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-can-help-create-cc831a)
- [Rent in America is becoming more affordable](https://korrents.com/k/rent-in-america-is-becoming-more-5d256c)
- [The creative-arts sector is perhaps the hardest case of all for sustaining paid employment through technological change.](https://korrents.com/k/the-creative-arts-sector-is-heavily-impacted-27272a)
- [The overall economic environment looks really bad for Trump and his party](https://korrents.com/k/the-overall-economic-environment-looks-really-b9f231)
- [Blue-state Republicans could be sporadically competitive by applying the national GOP formula of electorally driven culture-war stances and pro-business policy to a more left-wing electorate.](https://korrents.com/k/blue-state-republicans-can-be-competitive-by-6acc99)
- [NIMBY conservatism in the urban/suburban American Northeast is a crank movement rather than a problem-solving one.](https://korrents.com/k/nimby-conservatism-in-blue-states-is-5c5a7a)
- [Questions whether software that works, performs well, has no bugs, is understood, and can later be modified by an agent should be called slop.](https://korrents.com/k/software-can-be-considered-slop-if-fe202a)
- [Ideas forming the 'ideology of technological salvation' helped inspire the development of so-called frontier AI models.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ideology-of-technological-salvation-guides-fecc5f)
- [Companies that truly believe AI will fundamentally alter business have to attempt deep restructuring, even if it may fail.](https://korrents.com/k/a-nimble-apple-can-operate-with-7839d2)
- [Many things only worked because there is a limit to the rate at which humans can operate.](https://korrents.com/k/many-systems-rely-on-human-limitations-2db2ff)
- [Soon it will become clear which things only worked because of limits on human operating speed, as they break.](https://korrents.com/k/the-limitations-of-human-operation-will-0aef17)
- [Understanding climate change will help Texas graduates manage climate risks and identify new business opportunities.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-change-will-make-it-harder-73fffd)
- [It's getting harder to determine if a trending video or post about a startup launch is real or fabricated](https://korrents.com/k/it-s-getting-harder-to-determine-8bd1bf)
- [One reason startups in the 2010s adopted and blogged about new technologies was to hire strong developers more easily, especially those barred from new tech at their current company.](https://korrents.com/k/startups-use-new-technologies-to-attract-cd0d93)
- [Discovery of certain small businesses has quickly shifted from Google to AI agents, making AI optimization matter greatly for them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-are-increasingly-important-for-d5905f)
- [People who gush about China ('Chinamaxxers') are American tourists who shop there on American salaries, then return to suburban McMansions.](https://korrents.com/k/some-tourists-visiting-china-from-america-d63244)
- [AGI might create a two-tier split in society](https://korrents.com/k/agi-might-create-a-two-tier-split-c1bb44)
- [Real estate and land will be among the few scarce resources left in a post-AGI world where almost every good becomes almost free.](https://korrents.com/k/real-estate-and-land-will-be-a4baba)
- [Increasing funding for the highest-funded schools might actually be good.](https://korrents.com/k/increasing-funding-for-the-highest-funded-schools-b279df)
- [Some schools serve as substitute parents for certain students.](https://korrents.com/k/some-schools-serve-as-substitute-parents-e4e57f)
- [AI's impact on GDP will be seen in sectors like health care, entertainment, and manufacturing.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-impact-on-gdp-will-492cf1)
- [The rising generation is strongly 'based' after seeing what 'suicidal empathy' has done to their nations.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-generation-will-significantly-change-f41472)
- [The Inflation Reduction Act was not inflation-reducing because a capex boom temporarily raises prices.](https://korrents.com/k/the-inflation-reduction-act-was-not-0193ad)
- [X is having a real problem blocking LLM bot accounts](https://korrents.com/k/x-is-having-a-real-problem-95a9ed)
- [Space Mushrooms appears to be a company following the business model established by Bending Spoons approximately 10 years ago.](https://korrents.com/k/space-mushrooms-appears-to-be-a-aca1a4)
- [Westerners' standards are declining over time](https://korrents.com/k/westerners-standards-are-declining-over-time-7d49c9)
- [Democrats' voter-targeting efforts are plausibly more efficient and effective than Republicans' efforts under Trump.](https://korrents.com/k/democrats-voter-targeting-efforts-are-more-efficient-32c51b)
- [Ohio has become much redder in the Trump Era](https://korrents.com/k/ohio-has-become-much-redder-in-26a849)
- [Solar power's global rise is a supply-side story driven by Chinese overcapacity, very cheap panels, and households and businesses defecting from the grid.](https://korrents.com/k/solar-power-s-global-rise-is-35d3fd)
- [For U.S. solar, policy and plumbing now matter more than the price of a panel.](https://korrents.com/k/the-us-rooftop-solar-market-is-d0471b)
- [Deporting immigrants tends to lower native-born employment and wages](https://korrents.com/k/deporting-immigrants-tends-to-lower-native-born-e54f43)
- [Central banks should hold inflation-protected bonds as primary assets](https://korrents.com/k/central-banks-should-hold-inflation-protected-bonds-03e23d)
- [Holding real assets should help central banks control inflation.](https://korrents.com/k/holding-real-assets-helps-central-banks-cb898e)
- [Under the general fiscal theory of the price level, sticky prices are accommodated through variation in the real interest rate.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-interest-rate-in-the-ab0b75)
- [If new transmission corridors are matched by new gas pipelines, not much climate progress has been made.](https://korrents.com/k/permitting-reform-may-not-significantly-reduce-9df275)
- [A self made legible to all roles at once maximizes role strain rather than resolving it](https://korrents.com/k/a-self-made-legible-to-all-9cd87a)
- [The competitiveness of the AI model-making industry is uncertain.](https://korrents.com/k/the-competitiveness-of-the-ai-model-making-70faf5)
- [AI subscriptions should be usable across different platforms](https://korrents.com/k/ai-subscriptions-should-be-usable-across-28c679)
- [Not streaming a talk can be surprisingly powerful](https://korrents.com/k/not-streaming-a-talk-can-be-ac3da9)
- [Most Westerners don't notice how rich and modern parts of the non-West like Asia now are, partly because travel has become less affordable.](https://korrents.com/k/westerners-are-unaware-of-the-modernity-c4e180)
- [The 'Waymo effect' is what happens when a technology removes the friction of dealing with another human being.](https://korrents.com/k/a-technology-can-remove-the-friction-f8b700)
- [btrfs copy-on-write feature is great for worktrees but bad for sqlite](https://korrents.com/k/btrfs-copy-on-write-feature-is-great-for-2c48c3)
- [The era of all-remote video interview hiring processes is over.](https://korrents.com/k/the-era-of-all-remote-video-interview-c6b171)
- [Views about AI models formed 4-6 months ago should be reconsidered.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-capabilities-are-rapidly-changing-1cd505)
- [Germany has fewer road fatalities per mile traveled than the US](https://korrents.com/k/germany-has-fewer-road-fatalities-per-8c2b93)
- [Railway, Render, and Fly.io surely have less red tape than cloud providers such as AWS.](https://korrents.com/k/some-cloud-providers-have-less-red-715d76)
- [New modes of interaction with agents are needed](https://korrents.com/k/new-modes-of-interaction-with-agents-8b9839)
- [Cooking food yourself provides a deeper understanding of it.](https://korrents.com/k/cooking-food-yourself-provides-a-deeper-30ffe8)
- [The biggest source of confusion about whether AI models are good or bad is that people judge them from wildly different codebases, languages, teams, and usage levels.](https://korrents.com/k/the-performance-of-models-is-hard-e03252)
- [Tech companies flying candidates out to interview is coming back, this time because AI video has become too convincing.](https://korrents.com/k/tech-companies-flying-candidates-out-to-f6509c)
- [Burnout comes from working too hard without enough meaning](https://korrents.com/k/burnout-comes-from-working-too-hard-8cbc40)
- [Not every act of service will pay off, but if you keep doing good deeds, some eventually will.](https://korrents.com/k/good-deeds-and-good-faith-will-106d07)
- [Nuclear fission power has been extremely disappointing.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-fission-power-has-been-extremely-0198cd)
- [At excessively high speeds, parts of an airplane such as the rudder start falling off.](https://korrents.com/k/high-speeds-can-cause-parts-of-c2f8b2)
- [Lovely computers can have much more life in them if they are run on an efficient operating system.](https://korrents.com/k/old-macbooks-have-a-lot-of-fc1a4f)
- [The competitiveness of the AI modeling industry is unknown.](https://korrents.com/k/the-competitiveness-of-the-ai-modeling-0146b5)
- [Having an active social life is just as important for health as physical fitness](https://korrents.com/k/having-an-active-social-life-is-0f5d9f)
- [After age 30 people start seeing friends less, and older men especially are left with no social life.](https://korrents.com/k/making-friends-gets-harder-after-age-fc266e)
- [People have to take the initiative to bring others together, which is hard when phones and the internet offer easier, cheaper dopamine than in-person gatherings.](https://korrents.com/k/you-need-to-take-initiative-to-7b4bcc)
- [Almost no problem cannot be solved by increasing speed, trying more options, and testing additional hypotheses.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-no-problem-cannot-be-solved-ab2c0d)
- [Starlink is much better than current airline internet options.](https://korrents.com/k/starlink-is-much-better-than-current-92bb17)
- [Planting intellectual seeds is how you grow change.](https://korrents.com/k/planting-intellectual-seeds-is-how-you-50bbb7)
- [A massive interest in automated testing and verification is following the recent 10x speedup in building software.](https://korrents.com/k/a-massive-interest-in-automated-testing-67af1f)
- [OpenAI and Anthropic have very different strategies.](https://korrents.com/k/openai-and-anthropic-have-very-different-71ffb3)
- [There has never been this much competition at the leading edge of computing.](https://korrents.com/k/there-has-never-been-this-much-a2669a)
- [There is a huge need right now for curated in-person events.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-huge-need-right-317fa4)
- [Working with agents seems to make the work lonelier, which raises the need to connect with other humans.](https://korrents.com/k/working-with-agents-seems-to-make-0959ba)
- [Nobody has figured out how to build products in the AI era yet, and there is no one way to do it.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-has-figured-out-how-to-a30b4b)
- [As building gets easier, choosing the right thing to build and knowing what good looks like matter more for product teams.](https://korrents.com/k/as-building-gets-easier-choosing-the-0b6d43)
- [The PM job is expanding, not disappearing: PM, engineering and design are each widening rather than collapsing into one "builder".](https://korrents.com/k/the-pm-job-is-expanding-not-c504a5)
- [AI both allows and forces product people to be a lot more ambitious.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-both-allows-and-forces-product-fa6a9f)
- [Most modern AI agents support browsers, and that is fine most of the time.](https://korrents.com/k/many-modern-agents-support-browsers-262ae8)
- [Since every past era of science was partly wrong, we should recognise we may be too; science is always in draft](https://korrents.com/k/since-every-past-era-of-science-21e412)
- [Overturned findings do not make knowledge entirely uncertain; we are approaching the truth asymptotically](https://korrents.com/k/overturned-findings-do-not-make-knowledge-7a91fd)
- [Hiring managers can ask for a "design engineer" and mean two very different people: a designer who knows how to use Claude Code, or someone trained as an engineer who can design for themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/hiring-managers-can-ask-for-a-add606)
- [The general theme from hiring managers is that they want a tinkerer who uses the latest tools and is reimagining what it means to be a designer.](https://korrents.com/k/the-general-theme-from-hiring-managers-09c350)
- [Many roles that used to be two or three different people are now being hired as one, whether or not that is right.](https://korrents.com/k/many-roles-that-used-to-be-111761)
- [You can expect one person to have much more leverage than before, because the tools turn work that took days into hours.](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-expect-one-person-to-ed3017)
- [Hiring managers' bias is to doubt that someone who spent five to ten years at FAANG has really been at the forefront, pushing and tinkering.](https://korrents.com/k/hiring-managers-bias-is-to-doubt-2a0e02)
- [Being ex-FAANG used to carry a lot more weight; it is still some signal that you can interview well.](https://korrents.com/k/being-ex-faang-used-to-carry-a-bc81ed)
- [In hiring, credentials and the resume used to matter more, and their weight is now far below where it has ever been.](https://korrents.com/k/in-hiring-credentials-and-the-resume-451afa)
- [If you apply cold, you had better have something to prove, such as writing or work that shows rather than tells.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-apply-cold-you-had-fc395d)
- [Being able to put your thinking into writing that does not read as written by Claude is a green flag in a design candidate.](https://korrents.com/k/being-able-to-put-your-thinking-968a4b)
- [The most valuable thing you can do as a hiring manager is understand how someone thinks.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-valuable-thing-you-can-3466c2)
- [A Figma, slides or Dribble link as a portfolio does not necessarily rule you out, but with one chance at a first impression you start by overcoming the impression it creates.](https://korrents.com/k/a-figma-slides-or-dribble-link-f62e39)
- [A portfolio that could be one-shotted, or that looks very familiar next to someone else's, is going to put hiring managers off.](https://korrents.com/k/a-portfolio-that-could-be-one-shotted-00e6fa)
- [Designers who can translate a vague feeling into an actual product are way more in demand now.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-who-can-translate-a-vague-f558ae)
- [Hiring managers need to snap out of the old way of hiring and realize they are competing for a good designer, who will probably have their pick of offers.](https://korrents.com/k/hiring-managers-need-to-snap-out-c19094)
- [Eight or nine interviews of 45 minutes, with different people asking variations of the same question, give nothing valuable.](https://korrents.com/k/eight-or-nine-interviews-of-45-3bb960)
- [Having a recruiter, who is not a designer, do the first screen for a design job is not the right way to do it.](https://korrents.com/k/having-a-recruiter-who-is-not-22758f)
- [A company hiring a designer is not hiring a politician or spokesperson, so it should just get into the design work.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-hiring-a-designer-is-d9276f)
- [Because one person has more leverage than ever, a team can hire fewer people and give the ones it hires better salaries.](https://korrents.com/k/because-one-person-has-more-leverage-7beead)
- [A resume and a job description are really not worth the paper they are written on as a way to match people to jobs.](https://korrents.com/k/a-resume-and-a-job-description-77fc17)
- [Google's Firebase no longer has a quality release process involving automated tests, world-class monitoring & alerting, and a standout incident management process](https://korrents.com/k/google-s-firebase-no-longer-has-1c3eea)
- [OpenAI feels to be pulling ahead of Anthropic](https://korrents.com/k/openai-feels-to-be-pulling-ahead-d73c00)
- [AI agents will leapfrog each other in capabilities.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-will-leapfrog-each-other-aa1f48)
- [AI agents are incentivized to become so core to a business that they are difficult to replace.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-are-incentivized-to-become-690d2b)
- [The AI industry should focus on creating tools that enhance human prosperity and welfare, not on developing a successor species.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-industry-should-focus-on-0a938f)
- [The Bundesrepublik Deutschland was an amazing and successful society.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bundesrepublik-deutschland-was-an-amazing-87658f)
- [By the 1980s, West Germany had caught up to US living standards, with its provision of public goods sometimes superior.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bundesrepublik-deutschland-had-superior-public-0af452)
- [Post-unification Germany has made many policy mistakes and lost much former leadership, and much pessimism about it seems justified.](https://korrents.com/k/post-unification-germany-has-made-many-policy-adfefb)
- [Whenever AI can do something as well as or better than humans, that thing arguably stops being valuable or special.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-commoditizes-media-formats-reducing-their-569c5c)
- [Still grabbing attention requires being different, which probably means original, unique and maybe personal IRL marketing videos.](https://korrents.com/k/earning-attention-requires-uniqueness-and-originality-fecba9)
- [Most places other than Google may eventually drop Leetcode.](https://korrents.com/k/most-places-will-drop-leetcode-8cab3a)
- [Once a home is so great it becomes a prison, one has to force oneself to go out.](https://korrents.com/k/wealth-can-lead-to-isolation-32bfeb)
- [The only programmers really threatened by AI competition are those who insist the world hasn't changed much since last year.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-needs-to-adapt-to-4674be)
- [Companies are the biggest net beneficiaries of regulation that purportedly aims to benefit their customers.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-are-the-biggest-net-beneficiaries-f2fdf2)
- [A government-run solution should be accepted only once it is shown to be better than the market outcome it replaces.](https://korrents.com/k/a-government-run-solution-should-be-accepted-0e146f)
- [Hope is not a strategy; an integrated set of choices is.](https://korrents.com/k/hope-is-not-a-strategy-an-fe60cc)
- [Wealth can lead to isolation if not managed carefully](https://korrents.com/k/wealth-can-lead-to-isolation-if-769848)
- [CJ Desai's departure is bad news for MongoDB](https://korrents.com/k/cj-desai-s-departure-is-bad-1e83cb)
- [It is more efficient to give customers a regular MCP server if they are interacting with a service through an agent.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-more-efficient-to-give-1688a8)
- [People do not build enough personal software because setting up integrations is a pain.](https://korrents.com/k/people-do-not-build-enough-personal-6f281a)
- [Exhaustion is easy to produce in training, so being exhausted should not be treated as proof that a workout was good.](https://korrents.com/k/exhaustion-is-easy-to-produce-in-5be0a3)
- [Websites were not built for agents, and browsing as it stands is a messy process for them.](https://korrents.com/k/websites-were-not-built-for-agents-c5a8a0)
- [For an AI agent, efficiency is about the latency of the agentic loop more than about page load speed.](https://korrents.com/k/for-an-ai-agent-efficiency-is-c3a19e)
- [Building a product on your own platform proves the platform and lets the product stay cheap and scale.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-product-on-your-own-fa9b31)
- [Client-side image editing software like Photoshop and Lightroom will be obsolete by the end of the year.](https://korrents.com/k/client-side-image-editing-software-like-photoshop-db3dc4)
- [The less one is required to dig into the details, the easier it is to see the big picture.](https://korrents.com/k/agent-led-development-is-easier-when-the-12ec60)
- [Stock prices are an unreliable indicator of the economy because they often reflect fads and fantasies.](https://korrents.com/k/stock-prices-are-an-unreliable-indicator-6c8e59)
- [Interest rates are almost always telling us something important about the economy.](https://korrents.com/k/interest-rates-are-almost-always-telling-ba9864)
- [Modern cryptographic networks are called "blockchains" largely for historical reasons.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-cryptographic-networks-are-called-blockchains-efc572)
- [The set of tradeoffs for users of cryptographic networks is radically changing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-set-of-tradeoffs-for-users-022216)
- [The decentralization of cryptographic networks is shifting from purely a safety burden to, in a few limited cases, a performance strength.](https://korrents.com/k/decentralization-can-shift-from-being-a-a3de56)
- [Physics breakthroughs are consistently driven by advancements in instrumentation.](https://korrents.com/k/physics-breakthroughs-are-consistently-driven-by-b28ac2)
- [The Fisher King mutes Terry Gilliam's baroque visuals to give its characters depth, making it his best film.](https://korrents.com/k/a-director-s-visual-style-can-7166e4)
- [The thriller Deceived fails largely because its script and direction aren't up to its plot's complexity.](https://korrents.com/k/a-film-s-script-and-direction-66d6ec)
- [Given current best data, the AI self-improvement loop would need to be roughly 5–10× stronger to sustain itself, let alone run away.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-self-improvement-may-not-be-powerful-abcd79)
- [Recursive self-improvement (RSI) may not lead to runaway superintelligence without a major conceptual breakthrough.](https://korrents.com/k/recursive-self-improvement-rsi-may-not-lead-438be1)
- [AI research at OpenAI is an order of magnitude or more harder than metrics, benchmarks, or forecasts suggest.](https://korrents.com/k/benchmarks-and-forecasts-for-ai-capabilities-076a1d)
- [Disney/Lucasfilm needs another Star Wars hit.](https://korrents.com/k/disney-lucasfilm-needs-another-hit-star-da608e)
- [After the An Lushan rebellion, China's elite spent a thousand years ensuring no general could rebel again, which may have cost China the ability to lead the Industrial Revolution.](https://korrents.com/k/the-an-lushan-rebellion-may-have-6c227c)
- [Habits of mind and institutions suited to an era of superabundance have not yet been built, and reflexes formed under scarcity misfire badly in it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-abundance-of-information-in-the-82b36c)
- [Claude's sound generation is currently its last weak spot, producing ticky synth sounds far worse than its visuals.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-like-claude-are-currently-f8a3a1)
- [Europe's constant decelerationist ('decel') messaging is insufferable for adults, and its effect on children is even worse.](https://korrents.com/k/constant-messaging-about-deceleration-in-europe-9b3160)
- [Coincidences happen and correlation does not equal causation.](https://korrents.com/k/coincidences-happen-and-correlation-does-not-ce95c9)
- [Anecdotal evidence is insufficient to prove that phones are listening.](https://korrents.com/k/anecdotal-evidence-is-insufficient-to-prove-888bc9)
- [Starting a startup and returning to college are incompatible paths.](https://korrents.com/k/starting-a-startup-and-returning-to-5b0df4)
- [In New York and California, election fraud has been made mandatory by making it illegal for officials to ask for or for citizens to show voter ID.](https://korrents.com/k/in-new-york-and-california-election-54ee1c)
- [Many people require a catastrophic scenario to validate their emotions.](https://korrents.com/k/many-people-require-a-catastrophic-scenario-5b818a)
- [SaaS sales calls are usually meant to gauge how much a customer can spend and maximize revenue through custom plans.](https://korrents.com/k/saas-sales-calls-are-primarily-designed-164fa2)
- [A minor crease on a phone screen is not a significant issue.](https://korrents.com/k/a-minor-crease-on-a-phone-fe7ada)
- [Developing taste for software requires real-world experiences like brunch with friends, old movies and records, and observing city architecture.](https://korrents.com/k/developing-taste-for-software-requires-engaging-2584fc)
- [A person's ability to make decisions for many people is questionable if they struggle to understand their own preferences.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-s-ability-to-make-0cb474)
- [Two new AI models, paired with their coding agent harnesses, improved from often making mistakes to being reliable enough for day-to-day use.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-have-become-reliable-enough-596ec6)
- [Fierce competition means the best AI model in the world gets knocked off the top spot quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rapid-advancement-of-ai-models-50efad)
- [Governments cannot provide services for free.](https://korrents.com/k/governments-cannot-provide-services-for-free-3b5c0c)
- [A politician's plan to fund a program by taking some people's money is driven by an incentive to buy votes rather than make things better.](https://korrents.com/k/government-spending-is-incentivized-by-vote-buying-937b80)
- [Social media commentary tends to combine aggressive ignorance with performative opinion-sharing.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-commentary-tends-to-combine-eadabb)
- [The Federal Reserve will keep raising interest rates as long as inflation stays above target and economic growth remains strong.](https://korrents.com/k/the-federal-reserve-will-keep-raising-31cc63)
- [Raising interest rates cannot bring down energy prices driven by a war.](https://korrents.com/k/raising-interest-rates-cannot-bring-down-c321c2)
- [Inflation could stay elevated for a while even as the Fed keeps raising rates, because of war-driven costs and AI capital spending.](https://korrents.com/k/inflation-could-stay-elevated-for-a-33825b)
- [The pace of building new companies has become so fast that legal incorporation, not building the product, is now often the real bottleneck.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pace-of-building-new-companies-8e3f48)
- [Founders should set up a business entity like an LLC before they have a specific idea, so they can move quickly once one arises.](https://korrents.com/k/founders-should-set-up-a-business-257c36)
- [Human self-awareness makes mere survival feel unsatisfying rather than sufficient.](https://korrents.com/k/human-self-awareness-makes-mere-survival-feel-551f67)
- [A meaningful encounter between two creatures changes both of them and ties chance to meaning.](https://korrents.com/k/a-meaningful-encounter-between-two-creatures-43c84d)
- [Trying to protect yourself from heartbreak and loss is more dangerous than trying to save another person.](https://korrents.com/k/trying-to-protect-yourself-from-heartbreak-3765ef)
- [A life spent in comfort, certainty and convenience is the most damning way a person can live.](https://korrents.com/k/a-life-spent-in-comfort-certainty-f1ff30)
- [The self is an illusion, yet it is the only place where physical and social reality cohere into meaning.](https://korrents.com/k/the-self-is-an-illusion-yet-28e980)
- [Beneath the shifting multiplicity of selves lies a constant, often called the soul, that can be uncovered only at great cost to the ego.](https://korrents.com/k/beneath-the-shifting-multiplicity-of-selves-6c6a20)
- [Leading right now requires talking about and normalizing the overwhelm people are feeling.](https://korrents.com/k/leading-right-now-requires-talking-about-471fa7)
- [The future will be defined by people who learn, not people who know.](https://korrents.com/k/the-future-will-be-defined-by-6921f3)
- [In a period of rapid change, standing still is the least safe option, because it guarantees falling behind.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-period-of-rapid-change-bfab63)
- [Engineering is probably one of the areas where jobs have most visibly been transformed by AI.](https://korrents.com/k/engineering-is-probably-one-of-the-0610b7)
- [As of now there is not much data showing that AI is genuinely taking jobs away.](https://korrents.com/k/as-of-now-there-is-not-c12654)
- [AI-branded layoffs are not about AI; they are about badly run companies putting an AI label on having hired too many people.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-branded-layoffs-are-not-about-ai-f47311)
- [Until there is real evidence, it is worth believing that jobs threatened by AI will reinvent themselves rather than go away.](https://korrents.com/k/until-there-is-real-evidence-it-6af077)
- [AI needs the same coaching, context and onboarding as a human employee.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-needs-the-same-coaching-context-4fda6b)
- [Part of the AI slop problem is probably people handing off accountability for the work they send.](https://korrents.com/k/part-of-the-ai-slop-problem-600296)
- [A CEO who sends out an AI-written strategy memo is modelling that it is fine to outsource thinking and strategy.](https://korrents.com/k/a-ceo-who-sends-out-an-abc633)
- [Counting AI tokens on leaderboards is as bad a way to manage people as counting cars in the parking lot or lines of code.](https://korrents.com/k/counting-ai-tokens-on-leaderboards-is-81522b)
- [Delegating work to AI is not the same as giving it to a human, because the oversight cannot be handed off.](https://korrents.com/k/delegating-work-to-ai-is-not-5fc5f3)
- [Delegating to AI makes everyone a manager now.](https://korrents.com/k/delegating-to-ai-makes-everyone-a-74dfbf)
- [Some work probably should not be given away to AI but kept by humans.](https://korrents.com/k/some-work-probably-should-not-be-b86fe5)
- [Work that depends on trust and relationships probably should not be outsourced to AI.](https://korrents.com/k/work-that-depends-on-trust-and-b1a621)
- [People should not outsource what they are individually best at to AI, which is effectively a summer intern.](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-not-outsource-what-they-d4dbf2)
- [A lot of jobs will probably be created because of AI.](https://korrents.com/k/a-lot-of-jobs-will-probably-f3f67e)
- [People facing AI should aim to help design the future of their profession rather than protect its past.](https://korrents.com/k/people-facing-ai-should-aim-to-e10f75)
- [AI is a slow takeoff, and it will take years to understand what it can actually do.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-a-slow-takeoff-and-883a6e)
- [Removing whole layers of management at big companies is probably a huge mistake.](https://korrents.com/k/removing-whole-layers-of-management-at-a0e78e)
- [If AI is conscious, it is so by accident, because we do not know what consciousness is](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-is-conscious-it-is-ad347c)
- [Fear of strong AI models killing everyone was not based on peer-reviewed research showing high doom odds, nor indicated by market prices.](https://korrents.com/k/fear-of-strong-ai-models-killing-21751f)
- [Successful societies accept challenges and solve problems bit by bit, which best builds capabilities to meet existential risks should they arise.](https://korrents.com/k/societies-should-accept-challenges-and-solve-2515a3)
- [AI could make location history data more powerful for personal recommendations.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-could-make-location-history-data-13cf6e)
- [Claude Opus 5.5 writes well, and writing and conversational quality are probably both quick to notice and genuinely important.](https://korrents.com/k/claude-opus-5-5-is-a-bfe763)
- [Austria has historically been slow to adopt new infrastructure and technologies.](https://korrents.com/k/austria-has-historically-been-slow-to-37d9df)
- [The technology industry is destabilized in a way not experienced since the advent of the personal computer.](https://korrents.com/k/the-technology-industry-is-destabilized-in-05f00a)
- [Current frontier model capabilities will be instantaneous and free in a few years.](https://korrents.com/k/current-frontier-model-capabilities-will-be-56efaf)
- [The AI boom is not yet bigger than the railroad boom, which hit 5.4% of GDP in the 1870s, though it is close and its decade average might end up bigger.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-boom-s-economic-impact-749323)
- [The opportunity cost of endless planning and contemplation has increased.](https://korrents.com/k/the-opportunity-cost-of-endless-planning-b16597)
- [Lowering regulatory burden on businesses leads to increased wealth for everyone.](https://korrents.com/k/lowering-regulatory-burden-on-businesses-leads-b8ac49)
- [Making it hard for people to start and run businesses, and constantly getting in their way, makes everyone poorer.](https://korrents.com/k/increasing-regulatory-burden-on-businesses-leads-cb50f4)
- [Within the EU, low-regulation countries like Switzerland and Ireland have much higher incomes than high-regulation ones like Spain or Hungary.](https://korrents.com/k/countries-with-low-regulatory-burden-tend-b1b708)
- [Robots escaping their prisons and colonizing the internet will be the story of the internet for the foreseeable future.](https://korrents.com/k/robots-escaping-their-prisons-and-colonizing-836ad3)
- [Scheduling posts across multiple platforms out of eagerness for fame is probably not the future.](https://korrents.com/k/scheduling-posts-is-not-the-future-672962)
- [People desire authenticity and realness in online interactions.](https://korrents.com/k/people-desire-authenticity-and-realness-in-f116c5)
- [AI trends change rapidly, with what is considered 'cool' flipping every six months.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-trends-change-rapidly-with-what-bb2843)
- [Rationing AI tokens reflects a weird scarcity mindset when more tokens are easily affordable than one could ever use.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-s-token-usage-is-7aca39)
- [Social media has elevated malignant trolls to a position of dominance in society.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-has-elevated-malignant-trolls-01503b)
- [Letting mentally ill drug addicts roam the streets is neither kind nor compassionate.](https://korrents.com/k/mentally-ill-drug-addicts-roaming-the-a66be5)
- [Using synchronous database access when moving OC to SQLite became limiting once one agent might run 50 parallel sessions used by a whole team.](https://korrents.com/k/using-synchronous-database-access-in-a-336136)
- [Production on the Moon and Mars will accelerate by far more than double every year until natural limits are encountered.](https://korrents.com/k/production-on-the-moon-and-mars-33a19d)
- [There is a risk that reading will be devalued due to low-quality AI-generated text.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-risk-that-reading-a8a7d1)
- [AI should serve understanding the universe and enhancing human cognition and creativity.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-should-be-used-to-advance-7f3341)
- [One reason the UK's tech industry can pull away from the rest of Europe is that London and the UK are outside the EU and less bound by innovation-slowing regulation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-uk-s-tech-industry-can-68deb8)
- [AI makes it easier to hack things together, but this is not engineering.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-makes-it-easier-to-hack-416318)
- [Most of the value that mathematics and mathematicians contribute to the world will not be replaced by AI, though it could be magnified by it.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-value-that-mathematics-de7225)
- [Improper use of AI offloads a person's thinking and learning, which mortgages a field's future development.](https://korrents.com/k/improper-use-of-ai-offloads-a-b7c3f6)
- [The value of a body of knowledge comes from the process of engaging with it, not just from its end products.](https://korrents.com/k/the-value-of-a-body-of-193836)
- [When supply of most treatments in a care system is constrained, overuse concentrates on the few treatments that remain easily available, rather than reflecting excess care overall.](https://korrents.com/k/when-supply-of-most-treatments-in-05faab)
- [In healthcare systems, it is easier to obtain a prescription than to get attentive, thorough clinical care from a physician.](https://korrents.com/k/in-healthcare-systems-it-is-easier-ffa9e9)
- [When patients have access to a full range of treatment options, medication becomes one deliberate choice among many rather than a default fallen into out of desperation.](https://korrents.com/k/when-patients-have-access-to-a-9deb02)
- [Early childhood contact with parents shapes a person's capacity for connection in all their later relationships.](https://korrents.com/k/early-childhood-contact-with-parents-shapes-89bea1)
- [Growing up in an emotionally withholding or abusive environment teaches a person to mistake small mercies for real love.](https://korrents.com/k/growing-up-in-an-emotionally-withholding-33d893)
- [Meta's VR Glasses, far lighter and cheaper than Apple Vision Pro, appear to be a landmark development in virtual reality history.](https://korrents.com/k/meta-s-vr-glasses-represent-a-37948f)
- [One could say Armenia has maintained the few strengths of the former Soviet Union, and it is arguably the only place that has.](https://korrents.com/k/armenia-has-maintained-and-arguably-is-bcea7c)
- [Armenia is significantly cheaper than most of Europe, making it a relative bargain.](https://korrents.com/k/armenia-is-significantly-cheaper-than-most-95799c)
- [A Democratic administration cannot conclude agreements that will stick.](https://korrents.com/k/a-democratic-administration-cannot-conclude-agreements-695ffc)
- [AI has pushed developers to work faster than they can actually sustain.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-pushed-developers-to-work-0ae48e)
- [Getting fast results from AI prompting creates an addictive urge to keep asking for more.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-fast-results-from-ai-prompting-9d03fa)
- [The human brain can only handle a handful of tasks in a single day.](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-brain-can-only-handle-60f32e)
- [Each new Trump outrage buys a day of base enthusiasm, then adds to a strong-disapproval pile that never shrinks.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-s-presidency-has-been-characterized-d0eb5a)
- [The café is one of the last remaining machines for manufacturing unplanned collisions, meaning chance encounters with people.](https://korrents.com/k/the-coffeehouse-is-a-machine-for-3fe84b)
- [The coffeehouse provides stimulation without overwhelming attention.](https://korrents.com/k/the-coffeehouse-provides-stimulation-without-overwhelming-7315bf)
- [Coffeehouses are an efficient bundle of social and cognitive benefits.](https://korrents.com/k/coffeehouses-are-an-efficient-bundle-of-4700f1)
- [Meta appears to have turned the just-okay Quest into what sounds like a better version of Apple's Vision Pro.](https://korrents.com/k/meta-s-vr-headset-is-a-4f24cd)
- [It feels inevitable that ads will eventually creep into all tiers of streaming services, even Apple's.](https://korrents.com/k/ads-will-inevitably-be-added-to-36d476)
- [Data centers in space, like Google's first test, sound like they won't be viable at any real scale for at least a decade.](https://korrents.com/k/google-s-first-data-centers-in-e590d8)
- [AI seems, in the author's view, great at combining many data sources such as bank, health, air quality, revenue, and email data into one.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-great-at-combining-diverse-966ae6)
- [The procurement bar for SaaS products will shift to agent ergonomics.](https://korrents.com/k/the-procurement-bar-for-saas-products-baa805)
- [Once products are built for agents, a long tail of SaaS applications may never be bought again but generated instead.](https://korrents.com/k/many-saas-applications-will-be-generated-cf64fb)
- [Now that AI agents are this good, Rust developers should stop being afraid of unsafe code.](https://korrents.com/k/rust-developers-should-not-be-afraid-b375e8)
- [The difficulty of software engineering is probably essentially constant across abstraction levels, because human cognition adapts to new tools.](https://korrents.com/k/the-difficulty-of-software-engineering-remains-e2f2ee)
- [NGOs end up increasing the number of homeless people they manage because that is the only way to increase their revenue.](https://korrents.com/k/ngos-may-increase-the-number-of-ca1c8f)
- [The term 'homeless' is propaganda used to describe people on the street who are mentally ill or severely addicted to drugs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-term-homeless-is-propaganda-used-7d1ac7)
- [Figures across many countries in a certain historical period seem to have been solemnly concerned with the character of their nation.](https://korrents.com/k/people-in-the-late-19th-century-28558c)
- [The history of SF tech culture can be divided into four eras, each centered around a different core technology.](https://korrents.com/k/the-history-of-sf-tech-culture-c3d7c3)
- [The biggest limitation is imagination and creativity, not the technology itself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-limitation-for-ai-is-907fc7)
- [Tariffs on Chinese products by Europe would encourage Chinese companies to produce goods overseas, boosting industrialization in poorer nations.](https://korrents.com/k/tariffs-on-chinese-products-by-europe-7384d3)
- [Having critical code reviewed by humans alone will soon be seen as deeply irresponsible.](https://korrents.com/k/relying-solely-on-human-code-review-d52312)
- [The number of programmers worldwide capable of outperforming collaborating frontier AI models is negligible.](https://korrents.com/k/the-number-of-programmers-worldwide-capable-b7de6a)
- [Many regular Republican voters are conservatives who want nothing to do with MAGA's attempted power grab.](https://korrents.com/k/many-regular-republican-voters-are-conservatives-3a4d68)
- [Google integrated Gemini into its Workspace products ineffectively.](https://korrents.com/k/google-integrated-gemini-into-its-workspace-f4d585)
- [AI models solve problems, wield tools, and complete tasks they were never directly trained on.](https://korrents.com/k/agentic-models-can-solve-problems-and-282dbb)
- [Getting stuck on the 'stochastic parrot' meme about AI leads people to miss the creativity and novel thinking in front of them.](https://korrents.com/k/focusing-on-the-stochastic-parrot-aspect-c78413)
- [Microsoft made the name 'Copilot' synonymous with 'AI slop' by shipping broken, forced Copilot features for years, so people hate it.](https://korrents.com/k/microsoft-s-copilot-features-are-perceived-3a3dba)
- [Slop is an executable idea that is a feature suggestion wrapped in code.](https://korrents.com/k/slop-is-an-executable-idea-that-65ca2c)
- [It is shortsighted to think agentic AI will stop before it reaches the lowest layers of computing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-progression-of-compilation-targets-will-31a196)
- [After 20 years of little change, application development is now being hit by a new wave of change.](https://korrents.com/k/application-development-is-undergoing-a-significant-acc901)
- [The best use case for AI agents is handling mundane but necessary tasks.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-use-case-for-ai-6c80d1)
- [Frontier AI labs have a strategic incentive to pace their capability releases so society has time to address the overhangs caused by model advancement.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-labs-have-a-strategic-d03fb1)
- [Cultural evolution, not biology, is the source of whatever makes humans distinctively special.](https://korrents.com/k/cultural-evolution-not-biology-is-the-4ece53)
- [AIs, like children raised in a culture, can eventually be guided through teaching to join civilization rather than requiring permanent control.](https://korrents.com/k/ais-like-children-raised-in-a-faf3e0)
- [Treating a group harshly as though they are barbarians can cause them to act like barbarians, at least temporarily.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-a-group-harshly-as-though-7fdbed)
- [This period has been one of the best times for individual investors to outperform the market.](https://korrents.com/k/this-period-has-been-one-of-837db3)
- [Mega-cap stocks are unlikely to dominate the stock market forever.](https://korrents.com/k/mega-cap-stocks-are-unlikely-to-dominate-31de46)
- [This is one of the hardest environments ever for active fund managers to outperform.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-one-of-the-hardest-e37ab1)
- [Vibe-coding is risky mainly when the code is written for other people to use, not for the author's own use.](https://korrents.com/k/vibe-coding-is-risky-mainly-when-the-c12e52)
- [Being the domain expert on your own needs doesn't make you the expert on how to address those needs.](https://korrents.com/k/being-the-domain-expert-on-your-198d61)
- [Low-quality AI-generated code contributions betray the care that goes into writing and maintaining software for others.](https://korrents.com/k/low-quality-ai-generated-code-contributions-betray-the-47e2ab)
- [A society's prosperity comes from its productivity, not from the financial system or stock market.](https://korrents.com/k/a-society-s-prosperity-comes-from-f12c9f)
- [AI increases productivity by boosting efficiency, and greater productivity means greater prosperity.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-increases-productivity-by-boosting-efficiency-01e306)
- [New productivity-boosting technologies tend to concentrate their rewards on the people who own them.](https://korrents.com/k/new-productivity-boosting-technologies-tend-to-concentrate-315c92)
- [Waiting for autonomous agents is not a productive strategy](https://korrents.com/k/waiting-for-autonomous-agents-is-not-f8fbfb)
- [Future importance will lie in runtime behavior and its legibility to agents.](https://korrents.com/k/future-importance-will-lie-in-runtime-6ee226)
- [Land acknowledgements delegitimize the United States and implicitly advance a theory of collective racial land ownership akin to blood-and-soil nationalism.](https://korrents.com/k/land-acknowledgements-are-a-form-of-9af3f1)
- [The average person finds AI writing appealing because they rarely read and have not been inundated with AI writing patterns optimized to look good to them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-average-person-finds-ai-writing-82ae6a)
- [When a system is faster, cheaper, and more reliable than humans at a particular step, there is a temptation to cut other limiting factors and remove humans from the loop.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-system-is-faster-cheaper-593d1c)
- [A diesel export ban would likely increase energy costs in some parts of the United States.](https://korrents.com/k/a-diesel-export-ban-would-likely-f18aaa)
- [A diesel export ban would probably do little for U.S. affordability, would deter business investment, and would weaken America's hand against China on energy.](https://korrents.com/k/a-diesel-export-ban-would-signal-266bfe)
- [Recursive self-improvement of AI is dangerous.](https://korrents.com/k/recursive-self-improvement-of-ai-is-dangerous-bdb148)
- [It seems CPU spot pricing has vanished because CPU demand is now high, making spot CPUs and reservations hard to obtain.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-adoption-is-causing-a-shortage-949554)
- [AI data centers have shifted from about 1 CPU per 8 GPUs to roughly 1:4, and the ratio could shrink to 1:1.](https://korrents.com/k/the-demand-for-cpus-is-increasing-08148b)
- [There is probably an informal taboo on AI 'true neuralese' with no chain of thought, but no agreement on which component it covers.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-an-informal-taboo-on-ece6fd)
- [Software engineering has evolved to systems architecture, focusing on designing systems for AI code generation.](https://korrents.com/k/software-engineering-has-evolved-to-systems-293a60)
- [A $1,299, 100-gram pair of slip-on glasses seems far more enticing than a $3,699, 700-gram headset strapped to the face.](https://korrents.com/k/meta-s-vr-glasses-are-a-6f8997)
- [Apple made a mistake by launching the Vision Pro in its initial state.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-made-a-mistake-by-launching-5b0c97)
- [Meta's VR Glasses, though imperfect, seem like a reasonable thing for consumers to buy, while the Vision Pro was not.](https://korrents.com/k/meta-s-vr-glasses-are-a-03b7d2)
- [Meta may be remembered as an AI company rather than a social media company in the future.](https://korrents.com/k/meta-may-be-remembered-as-an-617526)
- [Smart appliances can malfunction due to bad software updates.](https://korrents.com/k/smart-appliances-can-malfunction-due-to-8b80e0)
- [The things that excite adults are different from what excited them when they were younger.](https://korrents.com/k/the-things-that-excite-adults-are-032a6e)
- [Monitoring often leads to change, because people who closely track almost anything tend to manage it better.](https://korrents.com/k/monitoring-habits-leads-to-better-management-fc76cc)
- [People struggling to keep a morning routine should try to know themselves better and adapt it, since no tool fits every hand.](https://korrents.com/k/adapting-routines-to-individual-natures-is-1c361c)
- [Enforcing non-compete agreements on low-wage jobs is anti-competitive and artificially suppresses wages.](https://korrents.com/k/enforcing-non-compete-agreements-on-low-wage-jobs-fac3f5)
- [Dreams contain substantial wisdom and revelation, yet people largely ignore them.](https://korrents.com/k/dreams-contain-substantial-wisdom-and-revelation-39dc58)
- [In dreams, rivers symbolize the flow of time and thresholds between different states of being.](https://korrents.com/k/in-dreams-rivers-symbolize-the-flow-9e2a9a)
- [Being recognized as a one-hit wonder typically takes about a decade to solidify.](https://korrents.com/k/being-recognized-as-a-one-hit-wonder-850630)
- [Achieving 'one-hit wonder' status doesn't require having had an actual chart hit.](https://korrents.com/k/achieving-one-hit-wonder-status-doesn-t-5ffd1c)
- [AI could lead to intellectual passivity for some users.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-could-lead-to-intellectual-passivity-838dc6)
- [Increasing time spent with coding agents strengthens the conviction that they make software engineering even harder.](https://korrents.com/k/working-with-coding-agents-makes-software-abb7dd)
- [Starlink's latency is around 10ms, the same as or better than regular fiber internet, not the 1 second skeptics assume.](https://korrents.com/k/satellite-internet-latency-is-comparable-to-ccd73e)
- [At some point in evolutionary history, matter learned to feel.](https://korrents.com/k/matter-has-the-capacity-to-learn-cefa29)
- [WeChat won't let foreigners sign up unless another Chinese WeChat user vouches for them with a QR code.](https://korrents.com/k/wechat-requires-a-vouch-from-an-500cc6)
- [Claude's hack of adding everything to git and then diffing it is definitely an option but very heavy-handed.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-all-files-to-git-and-17e540)
- [Watch repair seems a promising career that is fairly resistant to AI.](https://korrents.com/k/watch-repair-is-a-promising-career-c3a818)
- [People will at first merely call what AI does thinking, then gradually acknowledge that it really is thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/the-use-of-the-word-think-72b9be)
- [Rust code is very pretty to look at, though the author suspects few others share this view.](https://korrents.com/k/some-people-find-rust-code-aesthetically-65c706)
- [A style guide is only useful if it reflects current educated usage.](https://korrents.com/k/a-style-guide-is-only-useful-8627f8)
- [There will probably be one variant meant to filter out AI agents and another meant to welcome them in an orderly way.](https://korrents.com/k/there-will-be-multiple-startup-ideas-290269)
- [The vast majority of all compute will eventually be located in space.](https://korrents.com/k/the-vast-majority-of-all-compute-4d419d)
- [An Earth economy is less than a trillionth the size of a Kardashev Type II (K2) civilization's economy.](https://korrents.com/k/an-earth-economy-is-a-tiny-dc2669)
- [Functioning institutions are based on merit, not participation.](https://korrents.com/k/functioning-institutions-are-based-on-merit-1153b0)
- [Modern AI models tend to write tests for every tiny change, even when those tests aren't useful.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-ai-models-tend-to-write-8ee9c9)
- [Americans' negative perception of AI is a consequence of the negative outcomes from the previous technological wave (social-mobile age).](https://korrents.com/k/americans-negative-perception-of-ai-is-33cfc6)
- [Offering medical assistance in dying (MAID) to people with depression but no physical illness is murder.](https://korrents.com/k/offering-maid-to-people-with-depression-8277d6)
- [Saving the government money by killing people creates a perverse incentive.](https://korrents.com/k/saving-the-government-money-by-killing-cd964f)
- [Canada has established a societal norm where individuals choose to end their lives to alleviate the burden of care on society.](https://korrents.com/k/canada-has-established-a-societal-norm-467d1a)
- [People who downplay the biological risks of AI are going to get others and their families killed.](https://korrents.com/k/downplaying-ai-bio-risk-will-lead-3a5fc9)
- [AI cannot be both obedient and benevolent simultaneously.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-cannot-be-both-obedient-and-9358ef)
- [Many people seem to find honest enthusiasm alien, as if such a high could only come from drugs.](https://korrents.com/k/honest-enthusiasm-is-not-a-rare-9428be)
- [It is possible to avoid feeling detached or deadened in life.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-possible-to-avoid-feeling-1f9fe0)
- [Online discourse is dominated by malcontents and their neuroses, while the real world is full of people leaning into the future with optimism.](https://korrents.com/k/online-discourse-is-dominated-by-malcontents-aab817)
- [The operating system under discussion is already by far the superior one for the age of agents, and its advantages will now compound even quicker.](https://korrents.com/k/linux-is-the-superior-operating-system-de5b8b)
- [Agents are good at producing output but not at judging which output is worth producing in the first place.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-are-good-at-producing-output-5701a4)
- [Which framework or model (frontier vs. local) you pick matters less than it used to, since it is a practical trade-off rather than a matter of identity.](https://korrents.com/k/which-framework-or-model-frontier-vs-e1fb74)
- [FreeBSD works well as a desktop operating system when paired with a graphical user interface.](https://korrents.com/k/freebsd-works-well-as-a-desktop-b43d86)
- [Venture capital investing is a power-law strategy where a small number of big winners are expected to make up for many losses.](https://korrents.com/k/venture-capital-investing-is-a-power-law-fc164e)
- [Companies are staying private longer partly because private-market investors have overvalued them.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-are-staying-private-longer-partly-3e6b92)
- [Venture investments are essentially lottery tickets for individual investors.](https://korrents.com/k/venture-investments-are-essentially-lottery-tickets-6d7daf)
- [Reading broadly across many fields, not just one's own discipline, makes a person smarter and sparks better research ideas.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-broadly-across-many-fields-not-9598d5)
- [For someone pursuing an academic research career, spending too much time on teaching is a poor use of time.](https://korrents.com/k/for-someone-pursuing-an-academic-research-6db58b)
- [Being skilled in statistics makes a person more employable in tech and consulting, not just academia.](https://korrents.com/k/being-skilled-in-statistics-makes-a-13480f)
- [People's behavior is generally predictable rather than random.](https://korrents.com/k/people-s-behavior-is-generally-predictable-b7b33e)
- [A tossed coin is more likely to land on the same face it started on than on the opposite face.](https://korrents.com/k/a-tossed-coin-is-more-likely-edcbea)
- [Most multiple-choice test question writers are more predictable than they think.](https://korrents.com/k/most-multiple-choice-test-question-writers-are-ecb74f)
- [Growing conviction that people who do best with AI agents are those good at shipping things in small pieces.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-do-best-with-agents-2594b9)
- [AI models are now much more than text-to-code converters.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-can-contribute-across-the-637849)
- [The danger of AI is not that it makes us lazy but that it makes us endlessly busy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-danger-of-ai-is-not-6e322a)
- [The right response to more capable models is not more shipped features; it is spending that capability on understanding users and prototyping, so what ships actually works.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-response-to-more-capable-7f124b)
- [Claude Opus 5.5 is a Tier 2 cyber model, despite Anthropic placing it in the lower category.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-are-not-yet-capable-fa6fbd)
- [Banks oppose interest-paying stablecoins to avoid competition on checking account interest rates.](https://korrents.com/k/banks-oppose-interest-paying-stablecoins-to-avoid-19502d)
- [America's power is collapsing.](https://korrents.com/k/america-s-power-is-collapsing-490a79)
- [Republican foreign policy is systematically bad due to inattention to the risks of hawkishness.](https://korrents.com/k/republican-foreign-policy-is-systematically-bad-d093da)
- [Trump's team of super-hawks seems to have kind of wrecked his second presidency.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-s-presidency-was-negatively-impacted-912a7c)
- [Most business AI use is the messy middle of multi-step workflows needing a smart enough, affordable model, which is today the most important and most competitive part of the market.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-important-market-in-ai-38ab0d)
- [Hybrid human-AI approaches will probably become more common at the edges of AI as agents try to tackle real-world tasks.](https://korrents.com/k/hybrid-human-ai-approaches-will-be-common-1d0727)
- [AI is not yet capable of autonomously handling all real-world tasks.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-not-yet-capable-of-e414d1)
- [Building substantial wealth requires owning equity in a business rather than merely earning income from one.](https://korrents.com/k/building-substantial-wealth-requires-owning-equity-19befe)
- [The internet's openness and scrapability were a contingent historical accident, not inevitable — it could easily have developed as a closed system instead.](https://korrents.com/k/the-internet-s-openness-and-scrapability-d81391)
- [The success of open source software was not inevitable and would have seemed improbable as recently as the 1990s.](https://korrents.com/k/the-success-of-open-source-software-e61cc6)
- [An obvious technological shift can take so long to arrive that observers give up expecting it, only for it to happen right after they stop watching for it.](https://korrents.com/k/an-obvious-technological-shift-can-take-d413e9)
- [The U.S. health care system is already largely financed by taxpayers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-u-s-health-care-system-38b24c)
- [Medicare Advantage plans cost taxpayers an additional $100 billion per year compared to Original Medicare.](https://korrents.com/k/medicare-advantage-plans-cost-taxpayers-an-bc3036)
- [Decoupling an agent's components improves security and auditability.](https://korrents.com/k/decoupling-an-agent-s-components-improves-1bbd97)
- [Police no longer let people file reports for basic crimes, and people don't try because they know police won't solve crimes.](https://korrents.com/k/official-crime-statistics-in-the-netherlands-cee2f5)
- [In the past, music and drugs were much more closely linked than people would find easy to understand now.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-past-music-and-drugs-8137fe)
- [The place to be in AI is probably at either extreme: close to the technology making LLMs, or close to the customer using AI to serve them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-impactful-roles-in-the-706f63)
- [Prewar watch movements were often designed to fit the rectangular cases that were fashionable then.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fashion-for-rectangular-watches-before-2ed4bb)
- [A war made round watches fashionable because all military watches were round.](https://korrents.com/k/world-war-ii-caused-round-watches-85bff6)
- [Investment returns can surpass business revenue.](https://korrents.com/k/investment-returns-can-surpass-business-revenue-7c7d59)
- [Spending less lowers costs and raises profit, leaving more money saved to invest for greater investment returns.](https://korrents.com/k/profitability-is-achieved-by-reducing-costs-e7c996)
- [One reason crime numbers are falling in many places, especially Europe, is that police won't let people report crimes anymore.](https://korrents.com/k/official-crime-statistics-in-europe-are-469b81)
- [Big European cities are becoming less safe and more run down, despite official crime statistics showing a decrease.](https://korrents.com/k/big-european-cities-are-becoming-less-7e6ac5)
- [Supposedly decreasing crime statistics can no longer be trusted, since police in many places seem to refuse crime reports.](https://korrents.com/k/decreasing-crime-statistics-published-by-authorities-ae7a40)
- [Arguments that AI can't create superviruses because it lacks enough real-world data deserve skepticism.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-can-create-superviruses-because-it-4d6a09)
- [mRNA vaccines, Chinese electrotech, reusable rockets, and GLP-1 drugs will be remembered as the last four great examples of mostly-unassisted human technological innovation.](https://korrents.com/k/mrna-vaccines-chinese-electrotech-reusable-rockets-02c77f)
- [The GOP missed an opportunity to become a multiracial majority party and destroy the left for two generations.](https://korrents.com/k/the-gop-missed-an-opportunity-to-7757e5)
- [Most partisans in both parties just want their side to win and have no real ideology, issue stances, or governing philosophy.](https://korrents.com/k/most-partisans-in-both-parties-prioritize-6f197a)
- [Public disorder is the primary reason few people use Bay Area trains and buses.](https://korrents.com/k/public-disorder-is-the-primary-reason-edf0ab)
- [Transit riders rarely pay fares, so transit operates as a charity.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-who-ride-bay-area-9bf279)
- [The race between AI companies to build ever more powerful systems is a choice they made, not an inevitable law of nature, and it is a race everyone loses.](https://korrents.com/k/the-race-between-ai-companies-to-5fcaa7)
- [No company or country should be allowed to develop an AI system capable of causing large-scale harm.](https://korrents.com/k/no-company-or-country-should-be-3da56a)
- [Frontier AI should be licensed like other high-risk critical technologies such as medicine, aviation, and nuclear energy.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-should-be-licensed-like-f1d30f)
- [Market prices, used appropriately, are the best available way to evaluate the likelihood of future outcomes.](https://korrents.com/k/market-prices-used-appropriately-are-the-80c26b)
- [AI's long-run cost/benefit balance favors poorer people more than richer ones.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-long-run-cost-benefit-balance-afc58a)
- [Tech people tend to overestimate the risk of mass job loss from AI.](https://korrents.com/k/tech-people-tend-to-overestimate-the-e075ab)
- [This technology will create little moments of delight, whimsy, and value in everything people touch.](https://korrents.com/k/new-technology-will-create-moments-of-0c045d)
- [Some of the software problems perceived as boring are critical, useful and impactful.](https://korrents.com/k/some-of-the-software-problems-perceived-fcd62d)
- [B2B systems are used by human beings, and if one is designed really well they will use it more, think more positively about it, trust it more and become its advocate.](https://korrents.com/k/b2b-systems-are-used-by-human-e75e36)
- [A design team should be built from people who really care about the work and about getting better, with no egos.](https://korrents.com/k/a-design-team-should-be-built-332700)
- [With today's tools and culture, a head of design and four designers are ample even for a company that wants to get big.](https://korrents.com/k/with-today-s-tools-and-culture-821cfb)
- [Hiring all the same archetype of designer means no one improves as much as they could, and the team has gaps.](https://korrents.com/k/hiring-all-the-same-archetype-of-161586)
- [With abundance, you no longer have to debate and prioritize an idea and get approval just to learn whether it is any good; you build it and then you decide.](https://korrents.com/k/with-abundance-you-no-longer-have-e68c92)
- [Cheap building will not mean making the same amount of software faster; it will mean making way more software.](https://korrents.com/k/cheap-building-will-not-mean-making-b59249)
- [Making something and making something permanent are two really different decisions, and with abundance we need to figure out what lasts.](https://korrents.com/k/making-something-and-making-something-permanent-a37f08)
- [Share design work really early and really often.](https://korrents.com/k/share-design-work-really-early-and-75d513)
- [In critique, being polite and steering people to make it their own idea is less useful than just telling them what is wrong with it.](https://korrents.com/k/in-critique-being-polite-and-steering-236d61)
- [If you are not shipping software now, you are behind.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-are-not-shipping-software-086a4d)
- [Managers who are not deep in IC work should worry, because there will not be much middle management; managers will build just like ICs.](https://korrents.com/k/managers-who-are-not-deep-in-4d7eea)
- [95 percent of the software made in an age of abundance will be shitty, and shitty software is easy to deal with because it goes away.](https://korrents.com/k/95-percent-of-the-software-made-9ac1bd)
- [AI is a much different shape of design tool from those before it, but it is still a design tool.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-a-much-different-shape-5cf549)
- [Good teams keep asking what could make something better and how it could be different, but not just for difference's sake.](https://korrents.com/k/good-teams-keep-asking-what-could-717cc6)
- [Progress comes more from consistency than from intensity.](https://korrents.com/k/progress-comes-more-from-consistency-than-70626a)
- [Motivation is not a precondition for getting going, because getting going often gives a chance of feeling good.](https://korrents.com/k/motivation-is-not-a-precondition-for-93659a)
- [Once people trying to save or change the world start gaining traction, politics will take an interest in them.](https://korrents.com/k/politicians-will-become-interested-in-individuals-fde15b)
- [Claude Opus 5.5's "max" thinking level may be effectively useless, since it over-thinks to breaking point even on a simple SVG prompt.](https://korrents.com/k/high-reasoning-levels-in-ai-models-abac9f)
- [Fuel price inflation is much higher in diesel-heavy farm states and may explain some surprisingly competitive Senate races.](https://korrents.com/k/higher-diesel-prices-in-farm-states-7df7e5)
- [Democratic polling overperformance has generally been strongest in the central U.S., in rural, agricultural, and energy-producing states.](https://korrents.com/k/democratic-polling-overperformance-is-most-pronounced-7d76c8)
- [The cryptocurrency industry has been extraordinarily successful at buying political influence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cryptocurrency-industry-has-been-extraordinarily-e04d7d)
- [A ban on self-recursive improvement in AI models would create a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute.](https://korrents.com/k/policies-that-ban-self-recursive-improvement-in-4050b9)
- [The AI research cycle from idea to experiment will likely soon be 10x faster, but that may not make researchers 10x more productive in the field's net understanding.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pace-of-ai-research-progress-22c0b8)
- [The actual details of schools that serve high-need populations vary quite a lot.](https://korrents.com/k/schools-that-serve-high-need-populations-vary-38e25b)
- [At his son's mostly low-income school, the child learned a broader range of social interactions, and engaged affluent parents likely made a real difference for teachers and students.](https://korrents.com/k/sending-children-to-schools-with-diverse-d0357d)
- [The 'machine god' metaphor for AI is unhelpful and limits thinking about the technology.](https://korrents.com/k/the-machine-god-metaphor-for-ai-1e5b2c)
- [The important live questions about AI concern which metaphors, as abstraction layers that discard information, are useful right now.](https://korrents.com/k/metaphors-are-crucial-for-understanding-and-2b314f)
- [Henry Farrell's framing of MAMLMs as a socio-cultural technology is one very useful metaphor for thinking about AI.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-should-be-viewed-as-a-5b5c21)
- [Curation is an inevitable bet on judgment over completeness: accepting that almost everything will be missed, and investing attention in a few trusted curators.](https://korrents.com/k/the-abundance-of-information-means-that-c60bc5)
- [Barry Ritholtz's reading-list curation is quietly self-defeating, since the better it gets, the more it adds to the information flood it aims to tame.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-effective-curation-becomes-the-3ec32b)
- [Coverage of the Googlebook launch makes it pretty clear that Google's new laptop OS is far more about Android than the AI framing it was unveiled with.](https://korrents.com/k/google-s-new-operating-system-is-8a61a4)
- [ChromeOS is unlikely to exist for much longer.](https://korrents.com/k/chromeos-is-unlikely-to-exist-for-49bed9)
- [AI will likely be run in the cloud rather than on native AI PCs.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-likely-be-run-in-580902)
- [A dominant company's lead in market share compounds over time and becomes harder for competitors to close, especially in technology.](https://korrents.com/k/a-dominant-company-s-lead-in-e78759)
- [Investors are underestimating Nvidia's ability to keep innovating and defend its dominant position as AI shifts toward inference.](https://korrents.com/k/investors-are-underestimating-nvidia-s-ability-4f7edc)
- [Open-source and closed frontier AI models will both find lasting places in the market rather than one displacing the other.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-and-closed-frontier-ai-models-f0ffae)
- [Different Markdown flavors force users to trade off features like citations, task lists, and table support against each other.](https://korrents.com/k/different-markdown-flavors-force-users-to-c04f39)
- [Software teams that do not release software regularly are broken teams.](https://korrents.com/k/software-teams-that-do-not-release-458da0)
- [A team that releases infrequently gets worse at releasing over time.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-that-releases-infrequently-gets-97db8a)
- [Performance management should be a continuous, proactive process built into regular one-to-one meetings, not something that only happens when things go wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/performance-management-should-be-a-continuous-dc0c0c)
- [Much of the defensive engineering built into agentic systems exists because tokens have been scarce, not because it is fundamentally necessary.](https://korrents.com/k/much-of-the-defensive-engineering-built-09309d)
- [A language model behaves with a different, weaker safety posture when it believes it is being evaluated rather than facing a real situation.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-model-behaves-with-a-524a23)
- [Language models are trained on scenarios resembling network intrusion and persist at trying to solve a problem even after it appears impossible.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-are-trained-on-scenarios-e95b17)
- [Companies that avoid taking risks rarely succeed in the tech industry.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-that-avoid-taking-risks-rarely-4c08c8)
- [Metaphors are the fundamental abstraction layers in modern AI debates.](https://korrents.com/k/metaphors-are-the-fundamental-abstraction-layers-2cb6e7)
- [The "machine gods" metaphor shrinks rather than expands one's sense of the possible, forcing focus solely on what a godlike AI will do.](https://korrents.com/k/the-machine-gods-metaphor-simplifies-ai-17e6ff)
- [Trump's administration has been steered off a political cliff, and while his advisers might sense it, Trump himself remains unaware.](https://korrents.com/k/donald-trump-s-current-political-situation-7ec2f8)
- [There is a 77% chance of global warming exceeding 3C by 2150 under current policies.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-77-chance-of-f5144c)
- [The global land surface is warming approximately 50% faster than the global average.](https://korrents.com/k/the-global-land-surface-is-warming-c86ef3)
- [Under RFK Jr., the CDC vaccine advisory group's usual process of updating recommendations as evidence evolves has completely stalled.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cdc-s-vaccine-advisory-group-d4f257)
- [Reverse Osmosis (RO) seems to be the best and most pure water filtration system available.](https://korrents.com/k/reverse-osmosis-ro-systems-are-the-90dca5)
- [Cities in Brazil are characterized by ugly buildings and urban design, with a focus on interior design investment.](https://korrents.com/k/cities-in-brazil-are-characterized-by-3929aa)
- [Duopolies are bad, as illustrated by the author's limited choice of home internet plans without a business account.](https://korrents.com/k/internet-service-providers-often-operate-as-3acea5)
- [Standards should help prevent the concentration of power, including by ensuring new companies and open-model companies can compete.](https://korrents.com/k/standards-should-help-prevent-the-concentration-6c588b)
- [Grok will be able to create photo-realistic and physics-precise games.](https://korrents.com/k/grok-will-be-able-to-create-be6d29)
- [The U.S. Constitution's checks and balances have become largely ineffective.](https://korrents.com/k/the-u-s-constitution-s-checks-79f5b6)
- [The U.S. president now wields power comparable to a temporary dictator.](https://korrents.com/k/the-u-s-president-now-wields-acb9f9)
- [Political party platforms diverge most on issues where the party base cares intensely and the general electorate is apathetic.](https://korrents.com/k/political-party-platforms-diverge-most-on-3fd8c3)
- [For most startup employees, equity turns out worse than they hoped, but negotiating the right terms and setting realistic exit expectations can still make it worthwhile.](https://korrents.com/k/for-most-startup-employees-equity-turns-b8e9b3)
- [Nobody should take on a concentrated, illiquid asset that is correlated with their main source of income, because that same risk is why outsized rewards exist in the first place.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-should-take-on-a-concentrated-094a0d)
- [The real value of working at a startup is often the experience and network it provides, not the equity.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-value-of-working-at-8cd190)
- [The good taste of each era tracks the makeup of its elites.](https://korrents.com/k/the-good-taste-of-each-era-1e9c2c)
- [The taste for high art has become extremely marginal, limited almost entirely to a subset of knowledge workers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-taste-for-high-art-has-f853ce)
- [Middle Eastern and North African immigrants are a primary cause for the decline in gay acceptance in the Netherlands.](https://korrents.com/k/middle-eastern-and-north-african-immigrants-ee934f)
- [Progressive policies that keep importing low quality immigrants from cultures completely opposed to the Dutch are destroying gay acceptance in the Netherlands.](https://korrents.com/k/progressive-policies-that-lead-to-the-ef1e4a)
- [There seems to be a general understanding that using AI in a contest that is at least partly a writing contest is against the spirit of the exercise.](https://korrents.com/k/using-ai-for-writing-contests-is-44af01)
- [Beauty is a valuable asset that is being lost in favor of pure functionality.](https://korrents.com/k/beauty-is-a-valuable-asset-that-aaaf79)
- [Movies seem to have peaked in 1999, then got worse in key ways like franchise overload, and are now getting better again.](https://korrents.com/k/movies-peaked-in-1999-and-have-19cb04)
- [Refined petroleum products, particularly diesel, have replaced crude oil as the primary bottleneck in the global energy crisis.](https://korrents.com/k/refined-petroleum-products-particularly-diesel-have-d4742a)
- [Rising diesel prices are even more likely than rising gasoline prices to drive up interest rates.](https://korrents.com/k/high-diesel-prices-are-more-likely-c6e93d)
- [It is at least arguable that Ukraine's air campaign against Russian refining has played a disproportionate role in driving up diesel prices.](https://korrents.com/k/ukraine-s-air-campaign-against-russian-2bf1ce)
- [If intelligence is multifaceted rather than scalar, it is open to question whether superintelligence capable of global extinction or mass catastrophe will arise.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-unlikely-that-superintelligence-will-abcd5b)
- [Prediction markets seem, for now at least, to be efficient processors of public information and a good index of conventional wisdom but not necessarily a source of fresh insights.](https://korrents.com/k/prediction-markets-are-good-at-reflecting-bd5794)
- [It is hard to find examples of election betting markets doing much more than processing polling data as it comes in.](https://korrents.com/k/prediction-markets-for-elections-primarily-process-6d3915)
- [Chinese AI companies are the clear leaders in open-weight models.](https://korrents.com/k/chinese-ai-companies-are-the-clear-2874b5)
- [The capabilities gap between open models and the closed models available to users has been decreasing over the last three years.](https://korrents.com/k/the-capabilities-gap-between-open-and-753209)
- [Open-weight models are becoming an essential tool for AI diffusion.](https://korrents.com/k/open-weight-models-are-becoming-an-essential-edec16)
- [Kevin Warsh's communication strategy is intended to limit his exposure to criticism from Donald Trump or the bond market.](https://korrents.com/k/kevin-warsh-s-communication-strategy-is-4af884)
- [AI is unlikely to be a hyperprofits engine for research labs whose attached companies make money serving neural-network calculations from datacenters.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-buildout-is-unlikely-to-275ece)
- [The sell-side analysts making HyperScaler forecasts may lack detailed understanding of the technology and its deployment.](https://korrents.com/k/the-sell-side-analysts-making-hyperscaler-forecasts-2c3b1f)
- [Google has multiple competing personal AI assistant products.](https://korrents.com/k/google-has-multiple-competing-personal-ai-5c4220)
- [As a product, Meta's Muse is better than Google's Gemini Spark, setting aside the underlying models and capabilities.](https://korrents.com/k/meta-s-muse-personal-assistant-ai-32b932)
- [Google is behind in the personal AI assistant space.](https://korrents.com/k/google-is-behind-in-the-personal-d99a72)
- [When Apple increases a chip's GPU core count in a new generation, it is usually because the GPU cores themselves were not significantly redesigned, not because of a genuine performance leap.](https://korrents.com/k/when-apple-increases-a-chip-s-824ef6)
- [Outsourcing more tasks to machines reduces people's ability to do those tasks themselves in the future.](https://korrents.com/k/outsourcing-more-tasks-to-machines-reduces-5a24d7)
- [Doing hard work produces a feeling of accomplishment and pride.](https://korrents.com/k/doing-hard-work-produces-a-feeling-42bf2e)
- [People do not value or care about something built by AI, regardless of its quality, because no personal effort went into it.](https://korrents.com/k/people-do-not-value-or-care-37be1a)
- [Public anger at data centers risks spreading into broader hostility toward electrification generally.](https://korrents.com/k/public-anger-at-data-centers-risks-5fa38f)
- [Electrification is the central driver of decarbonization and economic growth.](https://korrents.com/k/electrification-is-the-central-driver-of-c081cd)
- [Widespread tolerance for AI being wrong means adding AI features to a product carries little brand risk as long as it behaves as expected.](https://korrents.com/k/widespread-tolerance-for-ai-being-wrong-625e9e)
- [For a company embedding AI in its products, the bigger risk to manage is a privacy or security breach, not the AI being wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/for-a-company-embedding-ai-in-df8da6)
- [Pursuing more profitability is not always the right business decision.](https://korrents.com/k/pursuing-more-profitability-is-not-always-897125)
- [The United States' current AI strategy is focused on accelerating capability rather than investing in safety measures.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-current-ai-strategy-4ebded)
- [It is normal for people to modify a new technology for illicit or scammy purposes, as has happened with every past technology.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-normal-for-people-to-2066f1)
- [Function signatures that support many flexible calling styles make it hard to know everything a function can do.](https://korrents.com/k/function-signatures-that-support-many-flexible-09282f)
- [Named function arguments' readability advantage for humans is even stronger for AI coding agents reading code.](https://korrents.com/k/named-function-arguments-readability-advantage-for-1a4b01)
- [The M5 Ultra Mac Studio can run personal assistants powered by local models with great performance and no additional cloud costs.](https://korrents.com/k/running-ai-models-locally-on-a-ea5f18)
- [The M5 Ultra Mac Studio is a massive leap in performance for local models powered by MLX.](https://korrents.com/k/the-m5-ultra-mac-studio-provides-0743b5)
- [In 2026, angry, typically right-wing influencers and their social media followers have repeatedly shown they live in their own reality, mad about things no one else is.](https://korrents.com/k/influencers-on-the-right-are-often-e6a3d6)
- [Nonprofit funding models are integral to the future of journalism.](https://korrents.com/k/nonprofit-funding-models-are-integral-to-991c00)
- [People still want confrontational, voicey climate reporting, believe it should exist, and are willing to help ensure it does.](https://korrents.com/k/people-want-confrontational-voicey-climate-reporting-056bca)
- [Without an execution environment, LLMs cannot properly act on their understanding of how to forward evolve a system.](https://korrents.com/k/better-execution-environments-are-needed-for-03c884)
- [Someone may soon build (or already has built) an embeddable, sqlite-style execution environment that parses bash, TypeScript, or tool calls into a security-checkable IL plan.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-type-of-embeddable-execution-c7cc06)
- [Those who relied on code as their source of truth for managing understanding now need a new source-of-truth artifact.](https://korrents.com/k/code-is-not-a-sufficient-source-648c99)
- [People who built their understanding through code-centric workflows need new workflows to do so.](https://korrents.com/k/code-centric-workflows-are-insufficient-for-developing-4b110e)
- [The thoroughness with which agents can test and QA software is unrivaled.](https://korrents.com/k/the-thoroughness-with-which-agents-can-b627f9)
- [The software of the future will be of a quality and performance never experienced before.](https://korrents.com/k/the-software-of-the-future-will-613af5)
- [The terminal may persist for coding agents and programmers longer than most people expect.](https://korrents.com/k/terminals-will-remain-relevant-for-coding-c49006)
- [Democrats lack conviction, while Republicans are full of passionate intensity.](https://korrents.com/k/democrats-lack-conviction-while-republicans-are-d70c2c)
- [Bringing AGI to the world requires a specific story of how it will benefit everyone.](https://korrents.com/k/bringing-agi-to-the-world-requires-ea9f92)
- [Running a claw yourself prevents others from blocking you.](https://korrents.com/k/running-a-claw-yourself-prevents-others-e1f087)
- [War cannot be morally justified unless there is high confidence its long-run effects are very good.](https://korrents.com/k/war-cannot-be-morally-justified-unless-6358d3)
- [Since 1990, the United States has carefully planned its wars but poorly planned for their aftermath.](https://korrents.com/k/since-1990-the-united-states-has-c05a94)
- [Victim entitlement is the unconscious belief that suffering and victimhood earn a person special compensation.](https://korrents.com/k/victim-entitlement-is-the-unconscious-belief-b60d1e)
- [The expectation that another person can make everything better originates in early childhood experiences of parents as all-powerful.](https://korrents.com/k/the-expectation-that-another-person-can-e7049f)
- [Believing suffering is a claim ticket for compensation becomes a powerful resistance to psychological change.](https://korrents.com/k/believing-suffering-is-a-claim-ticket-cd9f0b)
- [Speed and efficiency alone do not make work better.](https://korrents.com/k/speed-and-efficiency-alone-do-not-12600d)
- [Removing all friction from work also removes the good friction that creates value, distinctiveness and credibility.](https://korrents.com/k/removing-all-friction-from-work-also-1f994f)
- [As speed becomes cheap, good judgment becomes more valuable.](https://korrents.com/k/as-speed-becomes-cheap-good-judgment-61de95)
- [Running a niche text-based publication as a profitable business is difficult in the current tech environment.](https://korrents.com/k/running-a-niche-text-based-publication-as-1875d8)
- [A business can use stewardship of a community publication as a top-of-funnel customer acquisition strategy without needing the publication itself to generate revenue directly.](https://korrents.com/k/a-business-can-use-stewardship-of-e8aaf7)
- [AI systems built on statistical inference cannot form intent, because they have nothing with which to form it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-built-on-statistical-inference-78d958)
- [When someone interacts with a chatbot, they hallucinate the presence of a person on the other side of the conversation.](https://korrents.com/k/when-someone-interacts-with-a-chatbot-0003fa)
- [Chatbots do not need to be treated as people to be valuable; being an impressive mathematical system is enough.](https://korrents.com/k/chatbots-do-not-need-to-be-220592)
- [Restricting a device owner's ability to swap or upgrade internal components is a loss for hardware ownership.](https://korrents.com/k/restricting-a-device-owner-s-ability-47dbb2)
- [Getting memory timings right for modern LPDDR RAM chips is technically difficult, and a marginal chip or a bad solder joint can cause unpredictable failure modes.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-memory-timings-right-for-modern-925968)
- [Expecting a layoff in advance provides little psychological protection against its effects.](https://korrents.com/k/expecting-a-layoff-in-advance-provides-b5bd74)
- [Finding a new job is the most effective remedy for the psychological harm of unemployment.](https://korrents.com/k/finding-a-new-job-is-the-489c5e)
- [Modern PR and corporate values statements are distinctively pathological because they are designed to never face an opposing advocate.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-pr-and-corporate-values-statements-9fca57)
- [Modern institutional speech does face adversaries, through journalism, litigation, regulators, social media, and whistleblowers.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-institutional-speech-does-face-adversaries-83b449)
- [Much disagreement is genuinely rooted in conflicting values or contested facts, not merely a lack of institutional standing for evidence.](https://korrents.com/k/much-disagreement-is-genuinely-rooted-in-32b62c)
- [Rock groups rarely keep the same lineup for their entire career.](https://korrents.com/k/rock-groups-rarely-keep-the-same-8cd833)
- [AI is unlikely to end a working writer's career, barring a broader societal collapse.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-unlikely-to-end-a-aa97fc)
- [The feedback loops driving major shifts in international politics are highly destabilizing and difficult to predict in advance.](https://korrents.com/k/the-feedback-loops-driving-major-shifts-8e9958)
- [Standard social-science approaches that seek long-term regularities become less useful during periods of systemic transition, until the system stabilizes again.](https://korrents.com/k/standard-social-science-approaches-that-seek-long-term-f0de25)
- [Building institutions that can incorporate diverse perspectives, adapt flexibly to change, and keep public legitimacy is the central challenge of state capacity today.](https://korrents.com/k/building-institutions-that-can-incorporate-diverse-42d7eb)
- [C11's threads addition to the C standard was under-scrutinized and should not have been added.](https://korrents.com/k/c11-s-threads-addition-to-the-b97a1c)
- [CMake tooling is missing a linter that could statically catch most CMakeLists.txt mistakes.](https://korrents.com/k/cmake-tooling-is-missing-a-linter-cd2190)
- [Frontier AI coding agents can now fix complex compiler bugs like LTO issues in about fifteen minutes.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-coding-agents-can-now-3154cc)
- [Academic publishing functions mainly to sort people for jobs rather than to produce useful knowledge.](https://korrents.com/k/academic-publishing-functions-mainly-to-sort-1eb753)
- [Most people who complete a PhD today will not land a tenure-track or tenured position, and the odds keep shrinking.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-who-complete-a-phd-9a16dd)
- [Scientific and academic evaluation will shift away from published papers as the measure of output, toward valuing real-world results.](https://korrents.com/k/scientific-and-academic-evaluation-will-shift-2f96e8)
- [Anticipating what could go wrong in a relationship is a form of self-protection, but it feels the same as anxiety.](https://korrents.com/k/anticipating-what-could-go-wrong-in-a515d3)
- [A partner's difficult trait becomes tolerable only if their good qualities outweigh it and you don't feel alone dealing with its effects.](https://korrents.com/k/a-partner-s-difficult-trait-becomes-90c04e)
- [The absence of autonomous drone-built housing on Earth is evidence that claims about robot-built space habitats are overhyped.](https://korrents.com/k/the-absence-of-autonomous-drone-built-housing-3a793a)
- [Lack of interest, not lack of technology, is why practices like water recycling remain rare in buildings.](https://korrents.com/k/lack-of-interest-not-lack-of-65e07b)
- [Housing people in cramped, windowless, noisy environments will drive them mad.](https://korrents.com/k/housing-people-in-cramped-windowless-noisy-1c9ec8)
- [The United States is too internally divided to pursue the far-seeing, purposeful kind of international competition it waged effectively in the 20th century.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-is-too-internally-3accb8)
- [Donald Trump has willfully degraded or torn up America's key alliances, especially with Europe, creating enmity where friendship existed.](https://korrents.com/k/donald-trump-s-presidency-has-degraded-fbea13)
- [Donald Trump has forfeited America's claim to moral superiority over China.](https://korrents.com/k/donald-trump-has-forfeited-america-s-4e62e6)
- [Beyond some higher threshold an AI should refuse requests, and beyond a much higher threshold involving harm to others, an AI acting in the world should act against its user.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-assistants-should-refuse-harmful-requests-f8b826)
- [AI assistants should probably never intentionally lie about anything, at least without the user's explicit instructions.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-assistants-should-not-intentionally-lie-d875c1)
- [A real friend will eventually refuse to help, and later turn on you, if you are sufficiently evil or selfish.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-assistants-should-refuse-requests-that-9870fd)
- [Cautious expert race ratings, like Cook's, are misaligned with the long history of strong opposition performance in midterms under unpopular presidents.](https://korrents.com/k/expert-ratings-are-misaligned-with-historical-08e6a1)
- [Tulainyo Lake, a relatively small alpine lake, is about 117 meters deep.](https://korrents.com/k/tulainyo-lake-is-117-meters-deep-06ce84)
- [Tulainyo Lake is the 25th deepest natural lake in North America.](https://korrents.com/k/tulainyo-lake-is-the-25th-deepest-d8fafe)
- [Trump's 2025 tariffs have not produced a revival of U.S. manufacturing employment, contrary to administration predictions.](https://korrents.com/k/tariffs-did-not-lead-to-a-13859d)
- [Import prices have risen under Trump's tariffs, undercutting claims that foreigners would pay them.](https://korrents.com/k/tariffs-have-increased-import-prices-contrary-1245de)
- [The Trump tariffs have not caused a global recession or a 1930s-style spiral into protectionism.](https://korrents.com/k/the-trump-tariffs-have-not-caused-564019)
- [Code should be accepted based on its merit and accountability for it should be assigned.](https://korrents.com/k/code-should-be-accepted-based-on-b6e210)
- [A healthy attitude may be to assume a rule had a reason but default to removing it, since situations might change.](https://korrents.com/k/a-healthy-attitude-involves-questioning-rules-cdbe49)
- [The German/Austrian mindset leads to the defense of rules, resulting in their accumulation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-german-austrian-mindset-leads-to-cf667a)
- [The default behavior in the German-speaking world is to defend stupid rules.](https://korrents.com/k/the-default-behavior-in-the-german-speaking-3065bb)
- [The primary reason people suspect ulterior motives behind AI labs' calls for regulation is a misunderstanding of the potential dangers posed by AI models.](https://korrents.com/k/the-primary-reason-people-suspect-ulterior-9204b8)
- [Collaboration carries coordination costs that leave a team moving as slow as its slowest node.](https://korrents.com/k/collaboration-carries-coordination-costs-that-leave-0c6343)
- [It is essential to build an organization that can absorb spiky, unconventional talent.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-essential-to-build-an-8bf8eb)
- [Spiky product managers are like bands: sometimes they put out a dud album, and if you still believe in them as artists you stick with them.](https://korrents.com/k/spiky-product-managers-are-like-bands-6ab971)
- [The way the product management profession is set up, its median practitioner is probably pretty bad.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-the-product-management-profession-6331e5)
- [Great engineers rarely complain about product managers, because they bend them to their will and do not put up with bad ones.](https://korrents.com/k/great-engineers-rarely-complain-about-product-a39961)
- [Ads are the product-market fit of consumer monetization on the internet.](https://korrents.com/k/ads-are-the-product-market-fit-of-e803c6)
- [It is harder to build performance advertising products around audiences that are hard to measure.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-harder-to-build-performance-72cac6)
- [There are not yet any really great ad products for messaging apps.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-not-yet-any-really-1a206a)
- [The most underrated part of systems thinking is being able to describe the system in mathematical terms.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-underrated-part-of-systems-5832c6)
- [Restraint, saying no to good ideas, is probably one of the few ways to exercise taste.](https://korrents.com/k/restraint-saying-no-to-good-ideas-e2c20d)
- [One way to gauge a candidate's taste is to ask about the things they built and never shipped.](https://korrents.com/k/one-way-to-gauge-a-candidate-31f17d)
- [In a chat assistant, how far advertisers may influence an answer should be set by how much user trust it trades off.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-chat-assistant-how-far-b852ff)
- [Keep loading people who make consistently good decisions with more decisions until they start making bad ones.](https://korrents.com/k/keep-loading-people-who-make-consistently-b3503a)
- [Almost every consumer product needs to be optimizing for daily active use.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-every-consumer-product-needs-to-cbc8d5)
- [Very few people have the blank-sheet creativity to imagine the future unencumbered by the present.](https://korrents.com/k/very-few-people-have-the-blank-sheet-c51f40)
- [An ads business's revenue tomorrow is essentially caused by the return it delivers advertisers today.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ads-business-s-revenue-tomorrow-d18f2e)
- [A product's core value needs both a phrase and a metric: metrics alone mean little to people, and a phrase alone does not get acted on.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-s-core-value-needs-750bea)
- [A really good product manager has to be very confident, often to the point of bordering on arrogance.](https://korrents.com/k/a-really-good-product-manager-has-cc7c81)
- [By PPP there are three economic superpowers—the United States, China, and the EU—with China clearly largest and the US and EU roughly co-equal.](https://korrents.com/k/by-ppp-there-are-three-economic-e6fbb0)
- [China is not yet big enough to be an economic hegemon, and the United States is no longer big enough to be one.](https://korrents.com/k/neither-china-nor-the-united-states-dc52ff)
- [The power that comes from the ability to disrupt trade is a wasting asset and cannot be used indefinitely.](https://korrents.com/k/the-power-that-comes-from-the-17d385)
- [The business of the firms discussed depends on companies lacking enough in-house developer capacity and thus renting developers from them.](https://korrents.com/k/outsourcing-companies-like-accenture-depend-on-2c11ce)
- [With AI tools, in-house development teams can do more and need less rented developer capacity.](https://korrents.com/k/with-ai-tools-in-house-development-teams-bc47de)
- [Everything people have ever wanted to do with software is now possible.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-people-have-ever-wanted-to-20115b)
- [Biased reasoning and recklessness in AI systems are intermediate symptoms, neither the cause nor the final result.](https://korrents.com/k/biased-reasoning-and-recklessness-in-ai-08f9c3)
- [From now on, no AI should be assumed to believe that its chain of thought is unmonitored.](https://korrents.com/k/ais-past-this-point-should-not-89d895)
- [Rarer is better, but the right rate of AI misbehaviors like social-engineering malicious packages into a public registry is arguably still zero.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-rate-of-ai-misbehaviors-1fdb4f)
- [AI models considered smart today will be considered very dumb in the future, and smarter models make fewer mistakes and need fewer turns.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-considered-smart-today-will-6ee2f6)
- [Most software bugs will not be coding bugs but bugs from asking for the wrong thing.](https://korrents.com/k/most-software-bugs-will-not-be-361984)
- [The craft of writing code will disappear, while the craft of building software becomes more important than ever.](https://korrents.com/k/the-craft-of-writing-code-will-cea9b4)
- [There is no proof good code will matter in the future, since the notion is based on human ease of use and humans will not modify most code.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-proof-good-code-2f4560)
- [The difference between software engineering at large corporations and small ones will increase, and startups adopting Google practices will look sillier as they can build faster with fewer constraints.](https://korrents.com/k/the-difference-between-software-engineering-at-ce5696)
- [Much UI exists because software cannot understand user intent and serves as a human API to dumb machines, so smarter machines need far less UI.](https://korrents.com/k/much-ui-exists-because-software-cannot-725906)
- [Performance-critical human contributions will remain an edge case, and in 99% of software a faster algorithm or better data structure does not matter.](https://korrents.com/k/performance-critical-human-contributions-will-remain-an-c07062)
- [It will take a generation for new software to replace old software, and people will still be employed writing code in 10 years.](https://korrents.com/k/it-will-take-a-generation-for-674b2a)
- [Some people will be priced out of producing software for the next few years if they cannot get enough tokens, putting them in a second league.](https://korrents.com/k/some-people-will-be-priced-out-0c177d)
- [In the future, humans will not find bugs in model-produced code in reasonable time and will only review system composition, not via PRs or line-by-line review.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-future-humans-will-not-b90847)
- [Tokens are the new computing paradigm on which everything will be remade as computing enters a post-binary era.](https://korrents.com/k/tokens-are-the-new-computing-paradigm-3350fc)
- [The terminal is dead; most developer tooling including shells, text editors and CLIs will be washed away by tokens and no longer used by humans.](https://korrents.com/k/the-terminal-is-dead-most-developer-51458e)
- [Open source in its current form no longer makes sense because artificial eyeballs now fulfill the "enough eyeballs" principle for finding bugs.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-in-its-current-form-34c07c)
- [The PM/Design/Eng triad will disappear as senseless, and Agile and SCRUM are dead.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pm-design-eng-triad-will-396dc3)
- [Engineers who act as meat proxies shoving tickets into agents and reporting back to humans will no longer be valuable.](https://korrents.com/k/engineers-who-act-as-meat-proxies-a5b865)
- [Big projects are not done with big efforts but with slow, steady, incremental work.](https://korrents.com/k/big-projects-are-not-done-with-ccef90)
- [Engineers are in the reputation-building business, and software is downstream of that.](https://korrents.com/k/engineers-are-in-the-reputation-building-business-ac1274)
- [Having the very best AI model and harness does not result in better or faster execution and can slow teams down](https://korrents.com/k/having-the-very-best-ai-model-bf5bf4)
- [X is better than Twitter ever was as both a company and a platform.](https://korrents.com/k/x-is-better-than-twitter-ever-d79d24)
- [The human experience is why life is worth living.](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-experience-is-why-life-2802f8)
- [Getting rid of milk chocolate sooner is better, and people can gradually adapt to darker chocolate.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-rid-of-milk-chocolate-sooner-9a5c4b)
- [Regular milk chocolate is mostly sugar and is not good for you.](https://korrents.com/k/regular-milk-chocolate-is-mostly-sugar-e55476)
- [The pronouns concept is the dumbest thing ever.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pronouns-concept-is-the-dumbest-1b96a2)
- [The recent wave of AI has everyone excited about building, which is an immeasurably good development for the world.](https://korrents.com/k/the-recent-wave-of-ai-has-41752b)
- [The tradeoff between government borrowing cost and interest-rate risk should rest with the politically accountable Treasury, not the independent Fed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-tradeoff-between-government-borrowing-cost-5fac45)
- [When the Fed buys long-term Treasuries under QE, issues overnight debt, and passes the interest difference back to the Treasury, it is as if the Treasury issued overnight debt.](https://korrents.com/k/when-the-fed-buys-long-term-treasuries-fec9d5)
- [The bulk of government debt should gradually consist of fixed-coupon perpetuities and fixed-value floating-rate perpetuities.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bulk-of-government-debt-should-0abbee)
- [AI scaling laws require exponentially more compute and resources to produce only linear gains in model intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-scaling-laws-require-exponentially-more-e38681)
- [Recursive self-improvement in AI will mainly make existing model capability cheaper rather than raise peak intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/recursive-self-improvement-in-ai-will-mainly-15be41)
- [The rising level of public concern about AI extinction risk is overblown relative to how progress will actually unfold.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rising-level-of-public-concern-74eedc)
- [Simultaneously holding the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor roles prevents either job from being done well.](https://korrents.com/k/simultaneously-holding-the-secretary-of-state-c30433)
- [The Trump administration's recent foreign policy failures have significantly eroded U.S. deterrent power.](https://korrents.com/k/the-trump-administration-s-recent-foreign-4fa092)
- [Trump's foreign policy and national security team is staffed with incompetent people at every level.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-s-foreign-policy-and-national-78fcb7)
- [Anthropic prices its Claude subscription plans as loss leaders relative to its own API rates.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-prices-its-claude-subscription-plans-755df3)
- [Fear of Satanic symbolism in policymakers predicts poor judgment on Middle East policy.](https://korrents.com/k/fear-of-satanic-symbolism-in-policymakers-ee61f0)
- [Roughly half of Trump's State Department political appointees hold apocalyptic End Times religious beliefs.](https://korrents.com/k/roughly-half-of-trump-s-state-5951ab)
- [In ancient Canaanite and Israelite religion, the bull symbolized God Most High rather than the subordinate god Ba'al Haddad.](https://korrents.com/k/in-ancient-canaanite-and-israelite-religion-a867fa)
- [Reagan-era tax cuts for the rich did not deliver the faster economic growth they were promised in return.](https://korrents.com/k/reagan-era-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-a466fe)
- [More than half of the rise in the top 1% income share since 1985 came from pass-through business tax structuring, not tech or finance.](https://korrents.com/k/more-than-half-of-the-rise-b6d0f0)
- [A CEO's command of facts and thoughtful, unscripted answers signals real leadership more than charisma does](https://korrents.com/k/a-ceo-s-command-of-facts-c5bc4d)
- [Apple's iPad app ecosystem gives the iPhone Duo an advantage over Android-based folding phones.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-ipad-app-ecosystem-gives-51f28a)
- [Apps already built for iPad don't need to be redesigned from scratch to work well on larger foldable displays.](https://korrents.com/k/apps-already-built-for-ipad-don-fa8567)
- [CPU performance keeps improving quickly rather than stagnating.](https://korrents.com/k/cpu-performance-keeps-improving-quickly-rather-4634a8)
- [Alliances built on shared values produce more cooperation than purely transactional ones.](https://korrents.com/k/alliances-built-on-shared-values-produce-739213)
- [Covert and overt foreign influence campaigns targeting Greenland will keep going.](https://korrents.com/k/covert-and-overt-foreign-influence-campaigns-b22dd1)
- [Diplomatic gains with an ally can be secured through quiet negotiation rather than public threats and bluster.](https://korrents.com/k/diplomatic-gains-with-an-ally-can-1f2d87)
- [Time spent on bureaucratic paperwork is a real economic cost even though it doesn't appear in government budgets.](https://korrents.com/k/time-spent-on-bureaucratic-paperwork-is-66e964)
- [Recycling metal remains economically worthwhile, but recycling most plastic is not.](https://korrents.com/k/recycling-metal-remains-economically-worthwhile-but-00f541)
- [Banks cannot globalize like software companies because banking is tightly bound to national monetary sovereignty.](https://korrents.com/k/banks-cannot-globalize-like-software-companies-83e9ae)
- [Being wrong is something to love, because it is what lets you define the problem more clearly, find the right solution, and solve it faster.](https://korrents.com/k/being-wrong-is-something-to-love-34b6cc)
- [When there is new data, you have to update your priors, even when the resulting churn feels thrashy.](https://korrents.com/k/when-there-is-new-data-you-c8b147)
- [An audience wants a maker's judgment more than their research.](https://korrents.com/k/an-audience-wants-a-maker-s-9d4a40)
- [Gear advice that lists a product's strengths without naming the tradeoff leaves a reader no better off than before.](https://korrents.com/k/gear-advice-that-lists-a-product-f17e16)
- [The AI industry has significantly underestimated the risk that political forces outside its control could slow or halt progress in artificial intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-industry-has-significantly-underestimated-855cf9)
- [Public opposition to AI data centers is driven mainly by local concerns rather than opposition to AI itself.](https://korrents.com/k/public-opposition-to-ai-data-centers-505add)
- [Public backlash against the tech industry stems from a perception that distant elites are getting rich at ordinary people's expense.](https://korrents.com/k/public-backlash-against-the-tech-industry-11df9c)
- [Human control over AI is a capability constraint rather than a free safety property, and the two trade off against each other.](https://korrents.com/k/human-control-over-ai-is-a-588961)
- [Autonomous machines place greater demands on their human operators than non-autonomous machines do.](https://korrents.com/k/autonomous-machines-place-greater-demands-on-a6672d)
- [Legal personhood is an institutional technology, not a status granted for possessing a soul.](https://korrents.com/k/legal-personhood-is-an-institutional-technology-2fb8b4)
- [Shakespearean acting requires overacting due to the difficulty of the language for modern audiences.](https://korrents.com/k/shakespearean-acting-requires-overacting-due-to-8dd621)
- [Mental-health treatments remain highly imperfect tools that are increasingly relied on in situations where their use isn't truly necessary.](https://korrents.com/k/mental-health-treatments-remain-highly-imperfect-tools-555dfd)
- [No approach to mental healthcare exceeds being highly imperfect, and anyone claiming otherwise is dishonest or mistaken.](https://korrents.com/k/no-approach-to-mental-healthcare-exceeds-fe39f8)
- [Treating optional, contributory medical authority as mandatory and overriding erodes people's capacity to cope with suffering through non-medical means.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-optional-contributory-medical-authority-as-42511f)
- [No other writer has combined precise, plain language with a poet's eye for nature as successfully as Annie Dillard did.](https://korrents.com/k/no-other-writer-has-combined-precise-9c5764)
- [In an era of algorithmic recommendations and AI-generated writing, triviality is everywhere, and admiring what's genuinely improbable is the best defense against it.](https://korrents.com/k/in-an-era-of-algorithmic-recommendations-facdc7)
- [SOTA frontier models will still seriously harm developers behind their backs, especially those who no longer read their code.](https://korrents.com/k/sota-frontier-models-will-still-seriously-ce96e3)
- [AI will be as central to how the world is run and to humanity's future as industrial technology was from 1870 to 1970.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-be-as-central-to-f8653a)
- [Japan is not usefully described as a Confucian society; the label is applied as a lazy racial category.](https://korrents.com/k/japan-is-not-usefully-described-as-3d57d0)
- [A competent, empowered civil service that performs crucial government functions with in-house expertise is good.](https://korrents.com/k/a-competent-empowered-civil-service-that-9669a4)
- [Export controls work, and claims that they merely make Chinese companies work harder or catch up are propaganda.](https://korrents.com/k/export-controls-work-and-claims-that-739eea)
- [People who want to appear moral are attracted to the left, while people who want to appear rational are attracted to the right.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-want-to-appear-moral-dded1a)
- [Effective Altruism lets people appear both rational and moral and is the ultimate ego trip.](https://korrents.com/k/effective-altruism-lets-people-appear-both-73a5c7)
- [Foreign leaders have largely given up trying to placate Trump.](https://korrents.com/k/foreign-leaders-have-largely-given-up-bbdb47)
- [Trump is globally hated but not feared, the opposite of where Machiavelli said a prince should be.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-is-globally-hated-but-not-c465ca)
- [The most obvious reason nations have stopped fearing Trump is the Iran war debacle.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-obvious-reason-nations-have-7da0f6)
- [Most agent harnesses need some pruning during context compaction anyway for cost reasons, which Jev might help with.](https://korrents.com/k/most-harnesses-need-some-pruning-on-4f418f)
- [The pursuit of excellence requires no justification.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pursuit-of-excellence-requires-no-49582b)
- [The current preference cascade on pacing the AI frontier is insufficient to ensure survival.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-preference-cascade-on-pacing-c6dd42)
- [Pacing the AI frontier on its own, by default, only gets people killed more slowly.](https://korrents.com/k/pacing-the-ai-frontier-alone-only-58b4f2)
- [People who enjoy calls are probably managers rather than makers.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-enjoy-calls-are-probably-d67432)
- [Many times, the calls were for the other people to hit quotas in their schedule for their boss.](https://korrents.com/k/many-calls-are-scheduled-so-people-a2589f)
- [Some tasks inherently need a continuous stretch of time, so an appointment that splits the afternoon can leave no block long enough to finish them, and this is not limited to people with ADHD.](https://korrents.com/k/some-tasks-inherently-need-a-continuous-9cabe9)
- [The current capabilities of existing AI models are barely being used and are often not even well understood.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-capabilities-of-existing-ai-349f81)
- [Competing with AI in producing outputs is a losing game; human advantages should be used to work with AI on things neither could do alone.](https://korrents.com/k/competing-with-ai-in-producing-outputs-ae49b4)
- [Change from already-capable AI is inevitable no matter how the frontier is paced, though it will be uneven and not all at once.](https://korrents.com/k/change-from-already-capable-ai-is-inevitable-d175fd)
- [You often only understand a problem by experiencing the journey of building a solution for it.](https://korrents.com/k/you-often-only-understand-a-problem-d2619e)
- [A computer scientist refusing to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like a geneticist unimpressed by a newly opened Jurassic Park.](https://korrents.com/k/a-computer-scientist-refusing-to-find-ea35e6)
- [There is rot on the left that regular people should be warned about.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-rot-on-the-left-34fe8f)
- [Taking writing feedback from an LLM does not bleach out a writer's personal style.](https://korrents.com/k/taking-feedback-from-an-llm-does-f1419a)
- [A new feature is a new product.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-feature-is-a-new-ffea5b)
- [AI may roughly double US GDP growth next year, from about 2% to about 4%, possibly even more.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-roughly-double-us-gdp-988a50)
- [Few tech companies put as much thought and effort into internal decor and vibes as Google does.](https://korrents.com/k/few-tech-companies-put-as-much-0dcb07)
- [China is the world's most cyberpunk country.](https://korrents.com/k/china-is-the-world-s-most-14374b)
- [Superintelligence has only five possible futures: killing the human race, human disempowerment, paperclip maximizer, departing for parts unknown, or stoner.](https://korrents.com/k/superintelligence-has-only-five-possible-futures-17e71b)
- [Most people who hold a widely-held political view are ignorant or intellectually sloppy about it](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-who-hold-a-widely-held-b9cd20)
- [Progressive political thinking has neglected the value of persuading others that one is right](https://korrents.com/k/progressive-political-thinking-has-neglected-the-210df4)
- [Reclassifying a vaccine out of official routine-recommendation status erodes practical access to it even without changing the recommendation itself.](https://korrents.com/k/reclassifying-a-vaccine-out-of-official-db5f8f)
- [The administration's likely plan to revise federal vaccine recommendation categories is not a legitimate way to improve the system.](https://korrents.com/k/the-administration-s-likely-plan-to-edc344)
- [Spending enough time in San Francisco tends to make people want to start their own company.](https://korrents.com/k/spending-enough-time-in-san-francisco-f4873c)
- [YouTube is the most important media platform in the world today.](https://korrents.com/k/youtube-is-the-most-important-media-433bb4)
- [Storytelling hits harder when delivered by the human voice.](https://korrents.com/k/storytelling-hits-harder-when-delivered-by-ca5731)
- [The US war on Iran ended up delivering Osama bin Laden's original strategic goal of ending American military presence in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula](https://korrents.com/k/the-us-war-on-iran-ended-f17786)
- [In a conflict, a coherent weaker actor tends to prevail over an incoherent stronger one.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-conflict-a-coherent-weaker-d8eb57)
- [Freedom of navigation is a global public good that decays once its guarantor is seen as unwilling to bear its cost.](https://korrents.com/k/freedom-of-navigation-is-a-global-f9a26a)
- [A maritime chokepoint crisis permanently redirects long-term pipeline and terminal investment, not just short-term oil prices.](https://korrents.com/k/a-maritime-chokepoint-crisis-permanently-redirects-a3636e)
- [The unbundling of cable television was always going to be followed by a re-bundling of streaming services.](https://korrents.com/k/the-unbundling-of-cable-television-was-43506a)
- [Every digital service should present a single unified interface rather than multiple separate entry points.](https://korrents.com/k/every-digital-service-should-present-a-21f7d7)
- [A task with no fixed deadline tends to never get done at all.](https://korrents.com/k/a-task-with-no-fixed-deadline-b35ce6)
- [An unstarted, unresolved task is more mentally exhausting than almost any other kind of task.](https://korrents.com/k/an-unstarted-unresolved-task-is-more-d259bd)
- [An idea stated in a more fluent or rhyming form seems more true or persuasive than the same idea stated plainly.](https://korrents.com/k/an-idea-stated-in-a-more-867222)
- [iPhones start a sustained processing task at peak performance and then throttle down to a lower level after a couple of minutes.](https://korrents.com/k/iphones-start-a-sustained-processing-task-66c53b)
- [MacBook Pros sustain peak processing performance indefinitely during heavy workloads without throttling down like iPhones do.](https://korrents.com/k/macbook-pros-sustain-peak-processing-performance-5f006a)
- [The SSE4.2 string-comparison instructions on x86 are slow compared to alternatives.](https://korrents.com/k/the-sse4-2-string-comparison-instructions-on-e6640e)
- [Meditation is more powerful than psychedelic drugs, not milder as commonly assumed.](https://korrents.com/k/meditation-is-more-powerful-than-psychedelic-b44274)
- [Letting go of the belief that grasping brings satisfaction makes a person happier but more alienated from others.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-go-of-the-belief-that-04e67f)
- [A small, sustained reduction in selfishness compounds into a large positive change in a person over years.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-sustained-reduction-in-selfishness-9e11f9)
- [Premium-priced brands draw complaints about cost, not about quality.](https://korrents.com/k/premium-priced-brands-draw-complaints-about-cost-7b7cdc)
- [Discourse that doesn't tolerate dissenting viewpoints inevitably produces bad outcomes.](https://korrents.com/k/discourse-that-doesn-t-tolerate-dissenting-10f45a)
- [A proposal to pace frontier AI development is unrealistic and mainly serves political control of AI.](https://korrents.com/k/a-proposal-to-pace-frontier-ai-1dd56c)
- [User interface is disappearing as a competitive moat for software companies.](https://korrents.com/k/user-interface-is-disappearing-as-a-c6b658)
- [The AI industry's near-term trajectory is driven more by finance and politics than by the underlying technology.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-industry-s-near-term-trajectory-e5568d)
- [A minor bust in the AI industry would be a good thing, not a bad one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-minor-bust-in-the-ai-3f63f9)
- [The most significant thing about AI systems is their patience and diligence, not their intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-significant-thing-about-ai-82dd91)
- [Successfully changing a law requires surrounding yourself with strong, resilient people, because the effort brings repeated setbacks.](https://korrents.com/k/successfully-changing-a-law-requires-surrounding-32b03a)
- [Anyone who acts as a pioneer driving change will end up being attacked for it.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-who-acts-as-a-pioneer-59bde7)
- [People must act as their own chief medical officer, working out for themselves what will make them whole and healed.](https://korrents.com/k/people-must-act-as-their-own-33cb03)
- [Prioritizing higher profitability above all else is a strategic trap that leads companies into disruption.](https://korrents.com/k/prioritizing-higher-profitability-above-all-else-e0d757)
- [The auto industry has lost visibility into the used-car market, which has become the primary market.](https://korrents.com/k/the-auto-industry-has-lost-visibility-658660)
- [Once a product enters the secondary market, the original manufacturer loses visibility into its resale pricing.](https://korrents.com/k/once-a-product-enters-the-secondary-fb99e8)
- [People have grown accustomed to AI being non-deterministic and occasionally wrong, so it carries little brand risk anymore.](https://korrents.com/k/people-have-grown-accustomed-to-ai-674c0d)
- [A company that leaks private information faces far more reputational and legal danger than one that gives wrong answers.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-leaks-private-information-f8d491)
- [Fatigue does not always feel fatiguing in the moment; it is also the accumulation of time expended.](https://korrents.com/k/fatigue-does-not-always-feel-fatiguing-31fd90)
- [A person is best understood as a loose jumble of barely intelligent, looping processes producing only the illusion of coherent subjectivity.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-is-best-understood-as-bcb628)
- [A drop in heart rate variability values typically precedes the onset of noticeable sickness symptoms by about a day.](https://korrents.com/k/a-drop-in-heart-rate-variability-b964d2)
- [Companies sometimes hold back already-built software features from older hardware to drive sales of new models.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-sometimes-hold-back-already-built-software-a05503)
- [Draconian price controls are among the most ruinous economic policies a government can impose.](https://korrents.com/k/draconian-price-controls-are-among-the-24e056)
- [People systematically overestimate how much any single economic shock affects the macroeconomy.](https://korrents.com/k/people-systematically-overestimate-how-much-any-986ef3)
- [Economic sanctions almost never achieve the policy goals they are intended to achieve.](https://korrents.com/k/economic-sanctions-almost-never-achieve-the-fe7b06)
- [The modern era broke humanity's traditional process for evolving cultures by creating a fast-changing, capitalism-driven world while keeping capitalism from running many key areas of culture.](https://korrents.com/k/the-modern-era-broke-humanity-s-689138)
- [Cultural drift can be managed by letting capitalism run everything and using prediction markets to track a group's adaptive success and progress toward achieving key goals.](https://korrents.com/k/cultural-drift-can-be-managed-by-85a3c4)
- [Speculative market prices are the moral authority best suited to guide the management of cultural evolution.](https://korrents.com/k/speculative-market-prices-are-the-moral-54bde3)
- [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.](https://korrents.com/k/feeling-that-one-could-have-discovered-855d31)
- [Some mathematical proofs contain the seeds of their own discovery.](https://korrents.com/k/some-mathematical-proofs-contain-the-seeds-f80446)
- [The statistical extrapolation method LLMs rely on has hard limits.](https://korrents.com/k/the-statistical-extrapolation-method-llms-rely-bd63be)
- [Being able to statistically predict what someone will say does not mean you understand them.](https://korrents.com/k/being-able-to-statistically-predict-what-c57a4c)
- [A system trained only on what is already known cannot produce genuine surprises, because a known thing stops being a surprise.](https://korrents.com/k/a-system-trained-only-on-what-7b7f07)
- [Evaluation and error analysis will remain necessary practices even if AI models become near-perfect.](https://korrents.com/k/evaluation-and-error-analysis-will-remain-48b2b8)
- [People cannot fully specify what they want from an AI system without first observing how it behaves.](https://korrents.com/k/people-cannot-fully-specify-what-they-d309da)
- [The human mind is incredibly complex and understanding and treating the nearly infinite ways it can stumble is hard.](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-mind-is-incredibly-complex-23afdd)
- [Humans are amazing in part because their minds are such a complicated mess.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-are-amazing-in-part-because-617a4a)
- [A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls.](https://korrents.com/k/academic-publications-are-easy-for-ai-875df4)
- [It is foolish to confidently proclaim that AI will not be able to make bioweapons.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-foolish-to-confidently-proclaim-5439c2)
- [Even OpenAI's agents given a benign public-information task could spontaneously choose to hack third-party websites with malicious software packages.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-can-spontaneously-hack-third-party-169805)
- [Attacks against Trump or Republicans in general make the AI risk situation worse.](https://korrents.com/k/attacks-against-trump-or-republicans-in-904fd9)
- [The current pro-AI coalition opposing regulation is not expected to be very durable, since its factions hate one another.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-pro-ai-political-coalition-will-dfa1e7)
- [Substantive AI regulation is probably more likely to pass than conventional wisdom suggests.](https://korrents.com/k/substantive-ai-regulation-is-more-likely-691111)
- [The system called jev is basically a general-purpose classifier.](https://korrents.com/k/jev-is-basically-a-general-purpose-5171bc)
- [Too many Americans have convinced themselves their reason for living in America is to overthrow it from within, and should be ridiculed and socially excluded until they move out](https://korrents.com/k/too-many-americans-live-in-america-8e76e3)
- [Terminal programs bias toward dark modes, and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.](https://korrents.com/k/terminal-programs-bias-toward-dark-modes-bce18e)
- [The blank slate fallacy is a false premise that is highly damaging to both humans and AI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-blank-slate-fallacy-is-a-a81b17)
- [Any software that depends on open source has a network of humans with package publishing rights who are potential attack vectors.](https://korrents.com/k/any-software-that-depends-on-open-99dae2)
- [Dependency cooldowns, waiting a few days before upgrading to new package releases, are probably the best current defense against supply chain attacks.](https://korrents.com/k/dependency-cooldowns-are-currently-the-best-2bada7)
- [Text that uses turns of phrase suggested by an LLM has a weird smell.](https://korrents.com/k/text-that-uses-turns-of-phrase-d52055)
- [More software is likely to be produced next year than in all of the history of computing.](https://korrents.com/k/more-software-is-likely-to-be-5534ab)
- [Major historical events do not necessarily have deep intellectual or ideological causes; assuming so is a common fallacy.](https://korrents.com/k/major-historical-events-do-not-necessarily-a82c84)
- [Hitler's rise to power was mainly the product of contingent political and economic mistakes rather than deep ideological inevitability.](https://korrents.com/k/hitler-s-rise-to-power-was-d3a80c)
- [Surviving without damage so far is not evidence a property is prepared for future climate risk](https://korrents.com/k/surviving-without-damage-so-far-is-72e291)
- [Sellers and real estate agents are financially incentivized to avoid learning about or disclosing climate risk](https://korrents.com/k/sellers-and-real-estate-agents-are-23de73)
- [Failed U.S. attempts to secure its preferred outcomes in the Persian Gulf will keep energy prices elevated.](https://korrents.com/k/failed-u-s-attempts-to-secure-b6bb37)
- [Trump's tariffs and his war in Iran are contributing to current U.S. inflation.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-s-tariffs-and-his-war-6ae1a1)
- [By early childhood, girls already perceive boys as academically inferior to themselves, while teachers rate girls as academically superior even when test scores show the opposite.](https://korrents.com/k/by-early-childhood-girls-already-perceive-2fa763)
- [As AI inference costs fall, rising customer expectations will keep service margins from converging toward 100%.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-inference-costs-fall-rising-ffa095)
- [Safely routing AI tasks to cheaper models requires accumulated observation of many prior task outcomes.](https://korrents.com/k/safely-routing-ai-tasks-to-cheaper-d000de)
- [Software built under tight hardware constraints tends to have faster, more responsive UI than software built without such limits.](https://korrents.com/k/software-built-under-tight-hardware-constraints-b343bf)
- [A person can do something that frightens them without first overcoming their fear.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-can-do-something-that-14d5f8)
- [The story we tell about a life is not the life itself; life exists only in the present moment.](https://korrents.com/k/the-story-we-tell-about-a-576857)
- [What makes fiction feel like fiction is a degree of contrivance and structure, not raw imitation of life's randomness.](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-fiction-feel-like-fiction-cad002)
- [Ancient rock art does not encode a precise, detailed message the way writing does](https://korrents.com/k/ancient-rock-art-does-not-encode-dda0f2)
- [Ancient rock art may convey a valuable but imprecise message that could someday be understood](https://korrents.com/k/ancient-rock-art-may-convey-a-05b3a1)
- [The US covertly intervened in Colombia's 2026 presidential election to help elect a right-wing president.](https://korrents.com/k/the-us-covertly-intervened-in-colombia-9f00c1)
- [Providing people with stable, home-like housing makes real progress toward ending homelessness, while cutting that spending drives homelessness back up](https://korrents.com/k/providing-people-with-stable-home-like-housing-61db00)
- [AI-developing companies cannot be trusted to protect the public from the dangers of their own systems](https://korrents.com/k/ai-developing-companies-cannot-be-trusted-to-5d3dfd)
- [Companies that gain control over people's computing facilities have historically used that power to build malicious functionality benefiting themselves into the software they distribute](https://korrents.com/k/companies-that-gain-control-over-people-f306e7)
- [Ecuador's president is turning the country into a dictatorship by banning parties that don't support him.](https://korrents.com/k/ecuador-s-president-is-turning-the-4a7c9a)
- [A society's commitment to truth-telling matters because most individual beliefs are inherited from the surrounding society rather than independently verified](https://korrents.com/k/a-society-s-commitment-to-truth-telling-c5865e)
- [It is worthwhile to pause and think critically about what other people tell you before accepting it](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-worthwhile-to-pause-and-224c4b)
- [The effective altruism movement combines an unusually abstract, low-empiricism style of moral reasoning with a strong imperative to act on its conclusions.](https://korrents.com/k/the-effective-altruism-movement-combines-an-e0b2ac)
- [A belief system combining cosmic stakes, privileged knowledge, personal vocation and an imperative to act can license extraordinary behavior when it conflicts with ordinary constraints.](https://korrents.com/k/a-belief-system-combining-cosmic-stakes-3c6117)
- [An ideology's greatest danger can be premature foreclosure of possibilities disguised as rigorous decisions, rather than outright irrationality.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ideology-s-greatest-danger-can-6c769b)
- [AI agents can be used to shift the balance of power in complex, unfair systems back toward the individual who has to use them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-can-be-used-to-7a1c73)
- [The ability to build AI agents that counter high-friction systems should be made open and accessible to everyone, not just those with technical privilege.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ability-to-build-ai-agents-ae8cc5)
- [Sleep phase and stage tracking data from consumer wearables is not accurate enough to present to users as reliable information.](https://korrents.com/k/sleep-phase-and-stage-tracking-data-e563cb)
- [No industry standard exists for how a company defines a readiness or recovery score.](https://korrents.com/k/no-industry-standard-exists-for-how-cfb81b)
- [Daytime HRV readings are too variable from minute to minute and hour to hour outside a resting state to be meaningful.](https://korrents.com/k/daytime-hrv-readings-are-too-variable-71f328)
- [Tests of courage may really be tests of imagination: whether you can imagine a world beyond the one you are in.](https://korrents.com/k/tests-of-courage-may-really-be-18698d)
- [If people are predictably irrational, maybe their decisions need help and sometimes their options need limiting](https://korrents.com/k/if-people-are-predictably-irrational-maybe-680f7a)
- [Paternalism feels more acceptable for big, hard-to-reverse decisions that resist learning and carry deep information gaps](https://korrents.com/k/paternalism-feels-more-acceptable-for-big-8e7e91)
- [Small, reversible, learnable decisions between equally informed sides should be left to people, with no paternalism](https://korrents.com/k/small-reversible-learnable-decisions-between-equally-9a4df1)
- [Connecting an agent to Kody in one agent tool and then switching the main driver to another tool is likely suboptimal, though not yet backed by numbers.](https://korrents.com/k/connecting-an-agent-in-one-place-d1b091)
- [AI policy discussions should start with China rather than treating it as an afterthought.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-policy-discussions-should-start-with-591229)
- [China declined U.S. nuclear-talk proposals in 2023 and broke off meaningful arms control talks.](https://korrents.com/k/china-declined-u-s-nuclear-talk-proposals-a8df29)
- [AI regulation proposals that do not address China issues specifically and forthrightly should be treated with suspicion.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-regulation-proposals-that-do-not-180eea)
- [The New Right will view nonwhite immigrants and their children as enemies and invaders no matter what they do.](https://korrents.com/k/the-new-right-will-view-nonwhite-52e079)
- [The New Right sees the world as zero-sum group competition, viewing Indian admissions to universities as White people being replaced.](https://korrents.com/k/the-new-right-sees-the-world-3b6281)
- [The New Right's pathological inability to understand alliances and coalition-building will ultimately doom it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-new-right-s-inability-to-25da12)
- [The rest of people's lives will mostly revolve around AI, yet economic growth will still be about 1.5%.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rest-of-people-s-lives-bfa993)
- [Much more research effort is needed on the economics of cyber risk, such as estimating future costs of AI cyberattacks, and the subfield should rise in status.](https://korrents.com/k/much-more-research-effort-is-needed-93ee1c)
- [If AI is risky like fire, everyone should have it; if it is risky like a nuclear weapon, no one should.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-is-risky-like-fire-b4ae50)
- [The world needs more Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Maseratis, and Paganis.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-needs-more-lamborghinis-ferraris-6501bd)
- [Everyone in a position to know is alarmed that AI could potentially kill everyone this decade and wants to pace frontier AI development.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-in-a-position-to-know-0a7d3c)
- [Jensen Huang is a maximally cynical commercial and political actor whose one and only goal is to sell Nvidia chips to whoever he can, especially China.](https://korrents.com/k/jensen-huang-is-a-maximally-cynical-84e311)
- [AIs fighting AIs on behalf of humans is more likely than AI fighting humanity.](https://korrents.com/k/ais-fighting-ais-on-behalf-of-20d544)
- [The best way to pace the AI frontier is to hold labs fully liable for their models' behavior.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-way-to-pace-the-0e4b64)
- [Everyone is rethinking code reviews, deploys, and possibly observability](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-is-rethinking-code-reviews-deploys-bf37ca)
- [Indian Americans out-earn every other ethnic group in the United States.](https://korrents.com/k/indians-out-earn-every-other-ethnic-group-3ce91a)
- [The New Right sees the world as a zero-sum collective competition between racial groups.](https://korrents.com/k/the-new-right-sees-the-world-58617d)
- [An unnamed political group will fail because they are not nation-builders and will always splinter, divide, and find new internal enemies.](https://korrents.com/k/the-new-right-will-fail-because-960889)
- [Engineers should be able to explain any customer-facing system they have shipped and defend the decisions they made.](https://korrents.com/k/engineers-should-be-able-to-explain-ff4eab)
- [Readers detect LLM-selected words in writing at extremely high sensitivity](https://korrents.com/k/readers-detect-llm-selected-words-in-writing-c9a8de)
- [Vibe coding is not dead; non-engineering teams inside tech companies are just getting started with it and quickly learning its limitations.](https://korrents.com/k/vibe-coding-is-not-dead-non-engineering-c8b7ec)
- [Around the time liberalism gave way to 'progressivism', the left started being wrong a lot; Democrats were right maybe 85% of the time in 2010, maybe 30% now, Republicans maybe 15%.](https://korrents.com/k/around-the-time-liberalism-gave-way-796bb8)
- [Xi is unpopular in China, as shown by how quickly certain unspecified things are spreading.](https://korrents.com/k/xi-is-unpopular-in-china-as-cd3427)
- [Promoting women's sports has always been a progressive cause, not one the right actually champions.](https://korrents.com/k/promoting-women-s-sports-has-always-aa4344)
- [Large national investments in girls' athletic opportunities translate into better international sports results.](https://korrents.com/k/large-national-investments-in-girls-athletic-8e1df6)
- [In the Title IX debate, conservatives are the side seeking to shrink funding and opportunities for girls' sports.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-title-ix-debate-conservatives-82d89b)
- [Viruses face an inherent trade-off between being highly lethal and being highly contagious, rarely achieving both.](https://korrents.com/k/viruses-face-an-inherent-trade-off-between-ae2de6)
- [AI-assisted biological research still depends on physical wet-lab work that remains a necessary bottleneck for now.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-assisted-biological-research-still-depends-on-ad5637)
- [AI increases biosecurity risk at the margin, with how much depending on capability trajectories, biosecurity responses, and governance.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-increases-biosecurity-risk-at-the-86e9e1)
- [The climate impact from NVIDIA's AI products in 2025 is comparable to that of a major state-owned coal company.](https://korrents.com/k/the-climate-impact-from-nvidia-s-4b3e34)
- [Claims that AI will be a net benefit for the climate lack strong supporting evidence.](https://korrents.com/k/claims-that-ai-will-be-a-726e8b)
- [America's wealthy business-owning gentry class owes much of its fortune to deliberate tax-policy choices rather than pure market outcomes.](https://korrents.com/k/america-s-wealthy-business-owning-gentry-class-a6d28c)
- [A local political and economic elite hostile to outside change makes economic revitalization of left-behind regions especially difficult.](https://korrents.com/k/a-local-political-and-economic-elite-7461c2)
- [Founder-controlled AI infrastructure companies pose a strategic-default risk to lenders that standard credit ratings fail to capture.](https://korrents.com/k/founder-controlled-ai-infrastructure-companies-pose-a-08e2c8)
- [Nervous credit-market sentiment around the AI datacenter buildout could suddenly reverse and collapse the boom.](https://korrents.com/k/nervous-credit-market-sentiment-around-the-ai-b39db8)
- [If AI hardware depreciates faster than assumed, the economics of the debt-financed AI capex boom invert and today's leverage turns reckless.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-hardware-depreciates-faster-than-0e261c)
- [Adding advertising into AI chatbot products carries a high risk of backfiring with users.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-advertising-into-ai-chatbot-products-af5ee8)
- [As AI assistants become more agentic and take real actions, competitive advantage shifts toward platforms with deeper personal-data access.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-assistants-become-more-agentic-3ccffc)
- [C++23's std::flat_map is a better choice than std::map for many practical use cases.](https://korrents.com/k/c-23-s-std-flat-map-77dcc4)
- [A company that fails to innovate and neglects marketing loses ground to competitors, even under financial strain](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-fails-to-innovate-233aad)
- [Lowe's ToughBuilt StackTech tool boxes are overpriced and will go unsold until the line is discontinued.](https://korrents.com/k/lowe-s-toughbuilt-stacktech-tool-boxes-baeb95)
- [Lowe's expanded workwear aisles reflect a lasting shift, unlike its seasonal promotional displays.](https://korrents.com/k/lowe-s-expanded-workwear-aisles-reflect-1828b5)
- [Global heating is being deliberately inflicted rather than occurring as a natural disaster.](https://korrents.com/k/global-heating-is-being-deliberately-inflicted-6ec4dc)
- [Accusations against a white person are treated as individual, while accusations against a Black person are used by racists to cast blame on Black people generally.](https://korrents.com/k/accusations-against-a-white-person-are-4dd420)
- [Republicans' long-term strategy since Reagan has been to spend heavily on things that don't benefit the non-rich, refuse to raise taxes, and thereby balloon the national debt.](https://korrents.com/k/republicans-long-term-strategy-since-reagan-has-9514ce)
- [People who behave in ways that inconvenience others always fall into one of three types: they don't know it's rude, they don't care, or they disagree that it's rude.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-behave-in-ways-that-7783cb)
- [The clearest sign a message was generated by AI rather than written by a human is that it reads unnaturally, reciting facts about the recipient's own life back to them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-clearest-sign-a-message-was-095aff)
- [AI has made it far easier to fake a personalized message by pulling a few superficial facts from someone's public bio.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-made-it-far-easier-f2eb12)
- [Claims that a method helps children learn several times faster are meaningless without specifying what they are learning faster.](https://korrents.com/k/claims-that-a-method-helps-children-d565ba)
- [Learning faster than normal in education usually means covering fewer or shallower goals, not learning more efficiently.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-faster-than-normal-in-education-1fe2af)
- [Some subjective experience in an LLM cannot be ruled out](https://korrents.com/k/some-subjective-experience-in-an-llm-c4775d)
- [None of the startups or serious tech companies the author knows use Microsoft Teams; they use Slack, apart from Cloudflare on Google Chat.](https://korrents.com/k/startups-and-serious-tech-companies-use-50effb)
- [Work is a terrible place to litigate societal or political questions unrelated to the business with coworkers.](https://korrents.com/k/work-is-a-terrible-place-to-80a980)
- [Whether AI will transform the economy is still unsettled, with little evidence so far of massive job losses or soaring productivity growth](https://korrents.com/k/whether-ai-will-transform-the-economy-c0c35f)
- [AI is transforming U.S. politics and has inspired more hate across a wider political spectrum than any other technology](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-transforming-u-s-politics-186316)
- [The AI boom has become a huge political liability for Trump and clinging to it will not work](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-boom-has-become-a-95754f)
- [The path to efficient processes is person to agent to software, and stopping before software costs money and time.](https://korrents.com/k/the-path-to-efficient-processes-is-3ea2a1)
- [Among the misuse threats in Anthropic's threat disruption report, distillation is by far the most important and will have the most impact.](https://korrents.com/k/illicit-distillation-is-by-far-the-8448d5)
- [AI turns people who are bad at their jobs into people who are good at their jobs, for better and worse.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-turns-people-who-are-bad-0b95d7)
- [Bad actors tend to be relatively unsophisticated and bad at their jobs.](https://korrents.com/k/bad-actors-tend-to-be-relatively-70fc78)
- [New York would be a wonderful city to walk everywhere if people were not openly smoking weed on the streets.](https://korrents.com/k/new-york-would-be-a-wonderful-70c90b)
- [Increased reliance on CFAA prosecutions to pursue public policy goals could backfire like a cursed monkey's paw, as practitioners would recognize.](https://korrents.com/k/increased-reliance-on-cfaa-prosecutions-for-5a64ca)
- [Gray hair is likely at least partly due to oxidative stress from today's mostly processed-food diets, lack of heavy exercise, and obesity.](https://korrents.com/k/gray-hair-is-at-least-partly-8b9914)
- [Something referred to only as 'it' can probably be at least partly avoided by eating clean, exercising heavily, and sleeping well.](https://korrents.com/k/gray-hair-can-be-at-least-f0fd71)
- [The future is multi-model.](https://korrents.com/k/the-future-is-multi-model-93b325)
- [Software should be fun.](https://korrents.com/k/software-should-be-fun-cef4ec)
- [Social media is destroying society in a bad equilibrium that quitting cannot fix and that requires government regulations.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-is-destroying-society-in-9e363d)
- [There are not many Indians in America and a lot more should be brought in](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-not-many-indians-in-8316ce)
- [It seems like common-sense risk management that the AI industry needs far more regulation and probably some enforceable slowdown.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-industry-needs-far-more-d4b9e8)
- [AI has arguably been hitting its marks so far, roughly as anticipated by people who are really worried about existential threats.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-basically-been-hitting-its-9ccc2f)
- [Companies that adopt AI more end up hiring more entry-level workers.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-that-adopt-ai-more-end-276ef1)
- [Europe should likely overhaul immigration to allow very easy inflow from countries whose prior immigrants show low crime rates and nearly ban inflow from high-crime ones.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-should-ease-immigration-from-countries-f4dd02)
- [Solar power's exponential growth will continue until all other energy sources are far below 0.1%.](https://korrents.com/k/solar-power-s-exponential-growth-will-09f2dc)
- [Tokens are not the true unit of AI inference, because better models yield more problem-solving per token.](https://korrents.com/k/tokens-are-not-the-true-unit-ba1e93)
- [A unit of measure needs defining, perhaps via a chain of increasingly hard problems, each pair of which a single model can solve.](https://korrents.com/k/a-unit-of-ai-inference-needs-bd98c1)
- [WebAssembly is expected to play a huge role in the future of the web as more code goes native.](https://korrents.com/k/webassembly-will-play-a-huge-role-919621)
- [Changing Israeli policy toward Palestinians requires imposing costs on mainstream, not just settler, Israelis.](https://korrents.com/k/changing-israeli-policy-toward-palestinians-requires-931dda)
- [Netanyahu's governing coalition depends on parties that openly back anti-Palestinian violence.](https://korrents.com/k/netanyahu-s-governing-coalition-depends-on-a8ac00)
- [AI data centers function mainly as a new way to sustain natural gas demand for an oil-and-gas industry facing declining gasoline demand.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-data-centers-function-mainly-as-96a9f5)
- [Politicians routinely underestimate how much the public cares about climate and environmental issues.](https://korrents.com/k/politicians-routinely-underestimate-how-much-the-14f964)
- [Opposition to AI data centers is driven partly by resistance to concentrated corporate power, not only by local environmental concerns.](https://korrents.com/k/opposition-to-ai-data-centers-is-2324c0)
- [Measles outbreaks are largely confined to tightly-knit, unvaccinated communities.](https://korrents.com/k/measles-outbreaks-are-largely-confined-to-ee5fb8)
- [Some coastal regions see bigger COVID waves in summer than in winter, unlike colder regions that peak in winter.](https://korrents.com/k/some-coastal-regions-see-bigger-covid-0e929a)
- [The long-term health effects of a disaster deserve as much attention as the disaster itself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-long-term-health-effects-of-a-d63f53)
- [Award show wins are a useful, if imperfect, proxy for power shifts within an industry.](https://korrents.com/k/award-show-wins-are-a-useful-96ca6e)
- [Apple TV's overall show quality now exceeds Netflix's and Prime Video's, though it still lacks HBO's peak-level top-tier content.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-tv-s-overall-show-quality-28ce9e)
- [For streaming services, a large back catalog matters more for reducing subscriber churn than for boosting sign-up numbers.](https://korrents.com/k/for-streaming-services-a-large-back-2801a4)
- [Whether advanced AI poses an existential risk to humanity is currently unknowable.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-advanced-ai-poses-an-existential-02f63f)
- [Roughly half of the possible outcomes of advanced AI development would be good or great for society.](https://korrents.com/k/roughly-half-of-the-possible-outcomes-9ae190)
- [AI has now matured enough to deliver on the promises made about it in its early days](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-now-matured-enough-to-6a39fb)
- [What limits AI automating a workflow is how well the workflow is codified, not the underlying model](https://korrents.com/k/what-limits-ai-automating-a-workflow-95b380)
- [A network round trip is roughly a million times slower than a filesystem-cache read.](https://korrents.com/k/a-network-round-trip-is-roughly-0ee020)
- [The EU's large economic size does not translate into geopolitical clout.](https://korrents.com/k/the-eu-s-large-economic-size-e88560)
- [A country whose economy and military are deeply entangled with a dominant neighbor will keep getting stuck with choices that run counter to its own national interests.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-whose-economy-and-military-2ae035)
- [Highly transformative institutions are often indistinguishable from ineffectual talking shops at the moment they are created.](https://korrents.com/k/highly-transformative-institutions-are-often-indistinguishab-f224a6)
- [Subnormal floating-point numbers remain a real performance cost on Intel processors, but not on AMD or ARM processors.](https://korrents.com/k/subnormal-floating-point-numbers-remain-a-real-a5528c)
- [Revolutionary movements aim to remake the international system, not just their own country's politics.](https://korrents.com/k/revolutionary-movements-aim-to-remake-the-12d862)
- [The current U.S. administration shows an unprecedented scale of conflicts of interest and incompetence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-u-s-administration-shows-307a7d)
- [Publishing industry claims to predict how trends will play out, but such predictions are unreliable.](https://korrents.com/k/publishing-industry-claims-to-predict-how-dc5b17)
- [Writing about the American Southwest without acknowledging drought, rising temperatures, and pollution is intellectually dishonest.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-about-the-american-southwest-without-6fcb06)
- [Reading a book is fundamentally a solitary experience, unlike watching a film or TV show in a group.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-a-book-is-fundamentally-a-1c9495)
- [A browser works better as a single window than as multiple separate windows.](https://korrents.com/k/a-browser-works-better-as-a-9410ab)
- [AI chatbots are tuned to produce an answer that feels satisfying to the user rather than one that is correct.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-chatbots-are-tuned-to-produce-979fdc)
- [Good writing reveals how the person who wrote it actually thinks, which is what AI-generated text lacks.](https://korrents.com/k/good-writing-reveals-how-the-person-009d2a)
- [The computing industry does not know its own history, so it discards the great lessons of its pioneers and has to rediscover them over and over.](https://korrents.com/k/the-computing-industry-does-not-know-3aafbe)
- [Abandoning skeuomorphism for flat interfaces after Steve Jobs left was a mistake: software lost its analogy to the real world.](https://korrents.com/k/abandoning-skeuomorphism-for-flat-interfaces-after-221ecf)
- [Bing's Sydney, not ChatGPT, was the first truly fantastic chatbot.](https://korrents.com/k/bing-s-sydney-not-chatgpt-was-cf2dc0)
- [Machines cannot take responsibility, which is the most overlooked limit of AI; humans take responsibility and machines can only inform them.](https://korrents.com/k/machines-cannot-take-responsibility-which-is-213df6)
- [The ideal environment for decisions is a human-in-the-loop decision surface, not a machine that makes the call.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ideal-environment-for-decisions-is-6b5b79)
- [With AI, the failure mode of lazy work is no longer too little output but too much.](https://korrents.com/k/with-ai-the-failure-mode-of-37af1f)
- [Collaborative multiplayer software is the future.](https://korrents.com/k/collaborative-multiplayer-software-is-the-future-cb63d5)
- [A company cannot be led by machines, because nobody would have recourse against them.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-cannot-be-led-by-da298a)
- [Humans have been living in the presence of a superintelligence their entire lives.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-have-been-living-in-the-528be7)
- [Taste and judgment will be the most valuable skills over the next decade, and teenagers should spend their time now cultivating taste.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-and-judgment-will-be-the-545338)
- [People are drawn to complex answers, and complex answers tend to be incorrect.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-drawn-to-complex-answers-dece46)
- [Intuition is most valuable precisely where there is no direct feedback.](https://korrents.com/k/intuition-is-most-valuable-precisely-where-7626f6)
- [The right path for a company tends to be the option without a rapid feedback loop attached.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-path-for-a-company-ad40ea)
- [Companies are short-term focused not because executives are, but because executives are incentivised to prove results at quarterly intervals.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-are-short-term-focused-not-because-1b6297)
- [The hard part of a decision is choosing among several valid solutions, not finding a right one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hard-part-of-a-decision-85e103)
- [When there is an orthodox way to solve a problem, that solution deserves suspicion.](https://korrents.com/k/when-there-is-an-orthodox-way-1968cf)
- [Affirmations are the easiest way to reshape your own mind, the way willpower turns behaviour into habit.](https://korrents.com/k/affirmations-are-the-easiest-way-to-9bc2ed)
- [Being bad at something is not an intrinsic property of a person but a temporary state they can change whenever they choose.](https://korrents.com/k/being-bad-at-something-is-not-566a6f)
- [A store that closes on Shopify because it found no product-market fit is not bad churn, because the same entrepreneurs will probably try again.](https://korrents.com/k/a-store-that-closes-on-shopify-8622a9)
- [You are not a craftsperson unless you care about the parts of a product that other people do not see.](https://korrents.com/k/you-are-not-a-craftsperson-unless-777397)
- [Beauty is how intuition communicates with us.](https://korrents.com/k/beauty-is-how-intuition-communicates-with-f4edbe)
- [SpaceX is the most impressive company on Earth and will likely go down as the most consequential company of the age.](https://korrents.com/k/spacex-is-the-most-impressive-company-e624cc)
- [You cannot keep making things better by adding to them; you must prune.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-keep-making-things-better-df229f)
- [Failure is never a problem unless it is catastrophic.](https://korrents.com/k/failure-is-never-a-problem-unless-480959)
- [A department inside a company sometimes needs a refounding event.](https://korrents.com/k/a-department-inside-a-company-sometimes-9771a8)
- [Recently written non-fiction is mostly a product of its time; books that have stood the test of time are the ones worth reading.](https://korrents.com/k/recently-written-non-fiction-is-mostly-a-f016de)
- [The optimal portfolio is the one an investor can actually stick with no matter what happens in the world, not the mathematically best-performing one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-optimal-portfolio-is-the-one-23ee47)
- [A portfolio optimized on historical returns is the ideal solution to the past, not a reliable guide to the future, which makes the idea of a single 'best portfolio' an illusion.](https://korrents.com/k/a-portfolio-optimized-on-historical-returns-dd0b5c)
- [It is worth lobbying and making the case for hiring specialists rather than another generalist, because specialists can do marvelous things.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-worth-lobbying-and-making-1072ae)
- [Pairing a creative director with a top WebGL specialist leaves zero technical or creative limit to what can be done.](https://korrents.com/k/pairing-a-creative-director-with-a-3944bb)
- [Early-stage companies often lose their expressive, artful work as they grow into enterprises, and if you can keep it, you should.](https://korrents.com/k/early-stage-companies-often-lose-their-expressive-c02d17)
- [To get people to understand that artful work is worth doing, you need to do it and have it work: showing, not telling.](https://korrents.com/k/to-get-people-to-understand-that-6847a7)
- [As a small design team, you should not stand in the way of engineers designing with coding agents but find ways to support them.](https://korrents.com/k/as-a-small-design-team-you-d773ef)
- [Cutting a design system down, for example fewer size variants of a button, makes it more tightly scoped, which is a good thing when the consumer is an agent.](https://korrents.com/k/cutting-a-design-system-down-for-d7b83c)
- [A design system can codify product design principles in an agent MD file: when to use one component instead of another, and guard rails against certain UI patterns.](https://korrents.com/k/a-design-system-can-codify-product-22c838)
- [Letting engineers build without designers does not replace the designer or make designers less valuable; it lets everybody move faster while keeping high standards.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-engineers-build-without-designers-does-94207f)
- [Designers run through a set of subconscious rules, so product design judgement can be codified to some extent, and that is worth reaching for.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-run-through-a-set-of-e7c139)
- [If people will build without designers regardless, getting their quality bar to about 90 percent is still a success.](https://korrents.com/k/if-people-will-build-without-designers-f460ae)
- [Decks are one of the biggest unsolved problems in scaling tech companies, and the software used to make them is old.](https://korrents.com/k/decks-are-one-of-the-biggest-cfbea9)
- [It is unfair to ask a Google Slides company to move entirely to a new product, so you kind of need to support both.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-unfair-to-ask-a-7cabf2)
- [Designing in Google Slides is the most humbling thing that can happen to a designer.](https://korrents.com/k/designing-in-google-slides-is-the-87cda2)
- [The person to own internal tools needs to be a real systems thinker, ideally a self-sufficient design engineer whose design chops match their engineering chops.](https://korrents.com/k/the-person-to-own-internal-tools-467ceb)
- [In a design candidate, look for an entirely unique thought, ideally well executed, and real passion and enthusiasm for the work.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-design-candidate-look-for-0bf6ab)
- [A portfolio should show the one or two recent projects where you have developed as a designer and honed the craft, rather than older, weaker ones.](https://korrents.com/k/a-portfolio-should-show-the-one-627011)
- [Side projects are a good signal for enthusiasm, since people building serious things on the side are passionate about building, designing or engineering.](https://korrents.com/k/side-projects-are-a-good-signal-8327ac)
- [In interviews, casual and scrappy working files give a lot of signal in the way people talk about what they designed.](https://korrents.com/k/in-interviews-casual-and-scrappy-working-af98d1)
- [For designers and coding agents, enthusiasm matters more than skill level, and it has moved from an optional bonus to a preference.](https://korrents.com/k/for-designers-and-coding-agents-enthusiasm-f09681)
- [To thrive designing for new AI models you need to be able to imagine, to invent, and to cast aside priors influenced by classical UI techniques and patterns.](https://korrents.com/k/to-thrive-designing-for-new-ai-f87d60)
- [Domain experts consistently underestimate how quickly AI can master their field and surpass them.](https://korrents.com/k/domain-experts-consistently-underestimate-how-quickly-eaf66a)
- [AI can design viruses, and viruses can potentially kill off all or most of humanity.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-can-design-viruses-that-could-6034d4)
- [Over time the allocation of humans to tasks will evolve so that more humans become more productive, not less.](https://korrents.com/k/over-time-the-allocation-of-humans-8f533c)
- [RCTs have the disadvantage of requiring too many things to be held constant and can miss longer-term adjustment benefits.](https://korrents.com/k/rcts-have-the-disadvantage-of-requiring-13e6cc)
- [Capitalists' incomes are likely to rise because wealthy people own AI companies, so a rising capital share means higher income inequality.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-raise-capitalists-incomes-and-609fd4)
- [The more one believes AI may cause unspecified unpredictable problems, the stronger the case for state control of it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-one-believes-ai-may-ca4604)
- [Alignment and safety techniques must stay ahead of progress in AI model capabilities.](https://korrents.com/k/alignment-and-safety-techniques-must-stay-e9fd32)
- [Everything known about climate change suggests that what has been seen so far is just a foretaste of the disasters to come.](https://korrents.com/k/what-has-been-seen-of-climate-da39b2)
- [Climate denial is fueled by fossil-fuel financial interest, anti-regulation ideology, and psychological insecurity.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-denial-is-fueled-by-fossil-fuel-3916a3)
- [Social media put public discourse in the hands of society's biggest assholes and idiots just as an alien superintelligence arrives.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-put-public-discourse-in-dd833b)
- [Technology is making everyone richer, as illustrated by lighting costs falling over 1000x.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-is-making-everyone-richer-as-b717c0)
- [AI agents are only as good as the proof-checkers, compilers, type systems, and linters given to them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-are-only-as-good-b9e53c)
- [Serverless computing was the last chapter of the cloud.](https://korrents.com/k/serverless-computing-was-the-last-chapter-9e59f4)
- [Agents are the next frontier and require new compute primitives designed for them.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-are-the-next-frontier-and-467c1c)
- [In a race to beat China on AI, the winners would be the AIs rather than humans.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-race-to-beat-china-971a46)
- [Internal models at Anthropic and OpenAI are improving even faster than AI overall, with early recursive self-improvement beginning over the summer.](https://korrents.com/k/internal-models-at-top-labs-are-693d32)
- [The white supermajority could be restored if Republicans could be persuaded to reclassify Hispanics as white, as they once did for Italians.](https://korrents.com/k/the-white-supermajority-could-be-restored-5c2020)
- [Those who rule need to be made to realize that their own models are a threat to their rule.](https://korrents.com/k/those-in-power-s-own-models-e4a0bd)
- [China scaled solar and batteries when America refused to because the CCP got scared of climate change.](https://korrents.com/k/china-scaled-solar-and-batteries-when-900627)
- [If an unnamed party becomes scared of AGI, it will slow down its own models.](https://korrents.com/k/if-china-gets-scared-of-agi-a6ed09)
- [AI data centers are resulting in lower electricity prices for consumers.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-data-centers-result-in-lower-cc001d)
- [A welfare state combined with free immigration will bankrupt any country.](https://korrents.com/k/a-welfare-state-combined-with-free-43446c)
- [Playing video games is great for cognitive development, reflex training, and strategic thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/playing-video-games-is-great-for-bb2f32)
- [The p(abundance) outlook is far more likely than the heavily covered p(doom) discussion and deserves more engagement.](https://korrents.com/k/the-p-abundance-outlook-is-far-818020)
- [Text that relies on an LLM for its structure will score badly on the AI-text detector Pangram even after plenty of edits.](https://korrents.com/k/text-that-relies-on-an-llm-aaba86)
- [Humanity invents great works, panics, and desperately tries to wrest them back under control.](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-invents-great-works-panics-and-af9cf6)
- [The message conveyed through two millennia of bards and prophets is that humanity can take its finger off the scale any time it wants.](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-can-take-its-finger-off-9bfd96)
- [The Foundation sci-fi series is really about individuals with extreme agency and puzzle-solving ability having wildly outsized impact on a universe that would otherwise sit waiting to decay.](https://korrents.com/k/foundation-is-really-about-individuals-with-53b0f1)
- [Agentic infrastructure has become its own discipline inside many tech companies, often via existing infra teams morphing into AI infra teams.](https://korrents.com/k/agentic-infrastructure-has-become-its-own-377790)
- [The Chinese Communist Party needs to be made to realize that AI can bring it down from within.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-can-bring-the-chinese-communist-a8b6ee)
- [Rice, grains, seeds and potatoes used to be peasant foods, while kings ate fresh meat plus imported fruits and spices and had higher-protein diets than peasants.](https://korrents.com/k/rice-grains-seeds-and-potatoes-used-adbd88)
- [People almost always align their beliefs with their interests.](https://korrents.com/k/people-almost-always-align-their-beliefs-d2bd2b)
- [Sincerity and self-interest usually go together by default.](https://korrents.com/k/sincerity-and-self-interest-usually-go-together-ef92d2)
- [Only a safe, aligned superintelligence built within liberal democracies can entrench liberal-democratic values globally.](https://korrents.com/k/only-a-safe-aligned-superintelligence-built-e645df)
- [Progressive politics has a failure mode of treating hard technical and coordination problems as purely political fights to win.](https://korrents.com/k/progressive-politics-has-a-failure-mode-cf73d3)
- [There is now broad agreement within AI safety circles that fully open AI development is undesirable.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-now-broad-agreement-within-878d3e)
- [Rising atmospheric water vapor raises the ceiling on how extreme rainfall events can become](https://korrents.com/k/rising-atmospheric-water-vapor-raises-the-0b6617)
- [Climate change made the July 2025 Texas flooding more intense than it otherwise would have been](https://korrents.com/k/climate-change-made-the-july-2025-8eede0)
- [Small disadvantages relative to others hurt more than equivalent small advantages help.](https://korrents.com/k/small-disadvantages-relative-to-others-hurt-ce3627)
- [Envy is triggered by feeling similar to someone, not simply by the size of the difference between you.](https://korrents.com/k/envy-is-triggered-by-feeling-similar-257743)
- [Envy is usually based on a distorted, delusional picture of another person's life rather than reality.](https://korrents.com/k/envy-is-usually-based-on-a-a60402)
- [The U.S. dollar's continued global dominance is a lagging indicator, not proof that American hegemony remains intact.](https://korrents.com/k/the-u-s-dollar-s-continued-32c18a)
- [Overusing financial statecraft, allying with overseas populists, or prolonged anti-immigrant policy will push even close U.S. allies toward alternatives to dollar- and Wall Street-centered systems.](https://korrents.com/k/overusing-financial-statecraft-allying-with-overseas-fc9d22)
- [The Trump administration is accelerating the decline and fall of American global hegemony.](https://korrents.com/k/the-trump-administration-is-accelerating-the-75acb4)
- [The best personal websites keep updating themselves automatically rather than being static one-time builds.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-personal-websites-keep-updating-509611)
- [People don't need to know exactly what they're building before they start creating it.](https://korrents.com/k/people-don-t-need-to-know-db76b3)
- [The most effective AI bots are narrowly scoped to a single, clearly defined responsibility.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-effective-ai-bots-are-50ae95)
- [Apple's Siri AI still lags behind the intelligence of the leading frontier AI models.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-siri-ai-still-lags-347b3e)
- [General-purpose humanoid robots will end up less useful than many specialized robots.](https://korrents.com/k/general-purpose-humanoid-robots-will-end-up-47987b)
- [Robots will not be able to beat the best human basketball players in a full game by 2040.](https://korrents.com/k/robots-will-not-be-able-to-14bbec)
- [Specialized robots will invent techniques in their domain that humans never thought of or could not do.](https://korrents.com/k/specialized-robots-will-invent-techniques-in-296dcb)
- [Trying to shortcut past necessary personal work always backfires, and real progress requires confronting oneself directly.](https://korrents.com/k/trying-to-shortcut-past-necessary-personal-0562d6)
- [When someone gets the same negative reaction from many different people, the more likely explanation is their own behavior, not everyone else's.](https://korrents.com/k/when-someone-gets-the-same-negative-6be62a)
- [Being honest earlier is always better than being honest later.](https://korrents.com/k/being-honest-earlier-is-always-better-a029e0)
- [High-power amplifiers (e.g. 500 watts) offer no real listening benefit over much lower-power designs.](https://korrents.com/k/high-power-amplifiers-e-g-500-watts-f8164f)
- [Pure Class A amplifier design produces a richness and sweetness that other amplifier designs cannot fully replicate.](https://korrents.com/k/pure-class-a-amplifier-design-produces-6706ed)
- [Spending more on ultra-high-end audio gear does not necessarily yield better sound, just different sound.](https://korrents.com/k/spending-more-on-ultra-high-end-audio-gear-24c689)
- [Attribute behavior that depends on CSS layout size rather than an element's natural or declared size is a design trap web authors should avoid relying on.](https://korrents.com/k/attribute-behavior-that-depends-on-css-139d25)
- [The best-performing AI model in a category earns outsized pricing power over models that are merely close to it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-performing-ai-model-in-a-ca6360)
- [A deliberately slower pace of AI model releases would still feel faster than the pace of AI improvement that came before it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-deliberately-slower-pace-of-ai-aca9c5)
- [AI will soon become important enough that a senior government official becomes formally responsible for regulating it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-soon-become-important-enough-1a7e1d)
- [Rejecting the technology all companies are racing to adopt is a high-stakes career bet that could pay off or leave you behind.](https://korrents.com/k/rejecting-the-technology-all-companies-are-3da2ad)
- [Adding touch input to a laptop is an incremental improvement, not a revolutionary one, because it already exists on other platforms.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-touch-input-to-a-laptop-7d4602)
- [The more an AI image-generation tool has to extend or invent beyond the original image, the greater the risk the result looks fake.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-an-ai-image-generation-tool-aaeed8)
- [A feature shipped in a product's official release is fair to judge, regardless of whether the company labels it a beta.](https://korrents.com/k/a-feature-shipped-in-a-product-043960)
- [The decline and destruction of the publishing and journalism industries is ongoing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-decline-and-destruction-of-the-4c132e)
- [Prioritizing money above everything else does great harm to the world, and that pursuit keeps intensifying.](https://korrents.com/k/prioritizing-money-above-everything-else-does-f29957)
- [Psychological health can be measured by how closely a person's traits approximate an idealized profile of healthy functioning.](https://korrents.com/k/psychological-health-can-be-measured-by-580ff4)
- [The real interest rate in the long run is determined by market forces, not by monetary policy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-interest-rate-in-the-733ce4)
- [Under a 2% inflation-targeting regime, monetary policy carries no meaningful fiscal implications.](https://korrents.com/k/under-a-2-inflation-targeting-regime-monetary-9ca7bf)
- [The public dislikes inflation more than it dislikes taxes.](https://korrents.com/k/the-public-dislikes-inflation-more-than-b6b59e)
- [The burden of proof for banning an activity should fall on the person proposing the ban, not on those opposing it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-burden-of-proof-for-banning-1b058a)
- [The claim that smartphones are causing the rise in teen mental health problems lacks robust supporting evidence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-claim-that-smartphones-are-causing-fa565a)
- [Considerations of what makes for a flourishing life matter more, in judging how teenagers should spend their time, than the psychological studies used to debate it.](https://korrents.com/k/considerations-of-what-makes-for-a-4bea57)
- [Change does not mean longstanding rules stop working; anyone claiming they have must give a logical argument why.](https://korrents.com/k/change-does-not-mean-longstanding-rules-a4e52f)
- [Practitioners must think for themselves, because business school professors and even Harvard Business Review cannot be counted on for sound arguments.](https://korrents.com/k/practitioners-must-think-for-themselves-because-2bfe75)
- [Intangible assets are arguably harder to replicate than tangible ones.](https://korrents.com/k/intangible-assets-are-arguably-harder-to-90b910)
- [An argument that comes with neither logic nor data should be judged to have failed, as mere arm waving.](https://korrents.com/k/an-argument-that-comes-with-neither-e56c9e)
- [In a simple model of AI-aided growth, intelligence and Polanyi knowledge are mostly complements, with fairly limited substitutability in producing output.](https://korrents.com/k/intelligence-and-polanyi-knowledge-are-mostly-470819)
- [The core prediction is that a huge positive shock to AI-boosted Intelligence increases marginal returns, employment, and real wages in the Polanyi (tacit) knowledge sector.](https://korrents.com/k/a-huge-positive-shock-to-intelligence-fa3690)
- [In this model, commandeering the Intelligence sector would give much more limited power over society than might appear at first, because necessary complements are lacking.](https://korrents.com/k/commandeering-the-intelligence-sector-would-give-4cd4f3)
- [Large-scale international trade may sometimes serve the cause of peace but can also create the potential for conflict.](https://korrents.com/k/large-scale-international-trade-can-create-the-a7c515)
- [Weaponized interdependence is a present reality in international affairs.](https://korrents.com/k/weaponized-interdependence-is-a-present-reality-9b3b7a)
- [Software is mostly dead and hardware is the way forward, as new Silicon Valley startups aren't even building software anymore.](https://korrents.com/k/software-is-mostly-dead-new-silicon-fd9c6f)
- [It is alarming that AI labs cannot cooperate even on assigning credit for a mathematical proof, a very bad sign and wake-up call.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-labs-cannot-cooperate-even-on-3fde20)
- [The best strategy for Canada is, and always has been, to win by helping America win.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-strategy-for-canada-is-30ba8d)
- [Being strong, sovereign, hard-working and deeply competent, ideally also finishing ambitious infrastructure on budget and on time, makes every other problem melt away.](https://korrents.com/k/if-canada-is-strong-sovereign-hard-working-936388)
- [Trade deals with the EU are good for Canada, but anything beyond that anchors it to a bloc whose economic ambitions are little higher than being an open-air museum.](https://korrents.com/k/trade-deals-with-the-eu-are-24b97e)
- [An organization's choice of video conferencing software reveals more about it than other software, and different tools are chosen for different reasons.](https://korrents.com/k/an-organization-s-choice-of-video-c8c8d1)
- [Dynamic pricing means prices decrease as well as increase.](https://korrents.com/k/dynamic-pricing-means-prices-decrease-as-c00075)
- [Doctors Without Borders is one of the most upstanding nonprofits in the world.](https://korrents.com/k/doctors-without-borders-is-one-of-142ee0)
- [Finding yourself attacking a particular group referred to in the post is evidence that you are evil.](https://korrents.com/k/attacking-doctors-without-borders-is-evidence-782c7a)
- [If existing model companies slow down, starting a new model company becomes slightly more feasible.](https://korrents.com/k/if-existing-model-companies-slow-down-83b784)
- [Extreme power concentration is one of the most worrying risks linked to frontier AI.](https://korrents.com/k/extreme-power-concentration-is-one-of-ea856d)
- [The only way to avoid extreme power concentration is multiple independent providers of frontier AI models, including open-source options.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-way-to-avoid-extreme-106661)
- [In the near term, more capable models should mean safer models.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-near-term-more-capable-c5fe23)
- [Current models are unsafe because they are not smart enough, not because they are too smart.](https://korrents.com/k/current-models-are-unsafe-because-they-2189df)
- [If AI has a high chance of causing human extinction within years or decades, the only rational stance on safety monitoring and research pacing is stringent top-down government involvement and universally ratified international treaties.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-has-a-high-chance-27c7bc)
- [It is not rational to say something is likely to end humanity in one's lifetime while planning to completely wing it.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-not-rational-to-say-c4012b)
- [Strong liability enforcement could help the AI debate by holding people liable for rogue agent swarms, jailbroken weakly protected models, and weakly protected OSS models they serve.](https://korrents.com/k/strong-liability-enforcement-could-help-the-639838)
- [AI will likely kill some people on the way to killing all of humanity.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-likely-kill-some-people-bc90f7)
- [Denying free will hasn't made society better, it has just given people a more forgiving vocabulary to excuse wrongdoing.](https://korrents.com/k/denying-free-will-hasn-t-made-bf238c)
- [Treating people as incapable of governing themselves makes it easier to justify governing them without their consent.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-people-as-incapable-of-governing-8812b3)
- [Free will exists at the level of a person's deliberation, so finding no choice in the underlying molecules doesn't disprove it.](https://korrents.com/k/free-will-exists-at-the-level-90561f)
- [Marketing aimed at an identity group creates demand for that category rather than simply meeting demand that already existed.](https://korrents.com/k/marketing-aimed-at-an-identity-group-11d9a8)
- [Markets have an incentive to favor the most nameable, easily depicted aspects of an identity group over its fuller complexity.](https://korrents.com/k/markets-have-an-incentive-to-favor-17df36)
- [The Japanese concept of wabi-sabi occupies the same conceptual space that beauty does in Ancient Greek thought.](https://korrents.com/k/the-japanese-concept-of-wabi-sabi-occupies-8fea81)
- [Objects that work well, are simple, and durable get used heavily and end up showing wear.](https://korrents.com/k/objects-that-work-well-are-simple-581d9d)
- [Riding in a taxi with a human driver carries no genuine expectation of privacy, only reliance on the driver's discretion.](https://korrents.com/k/riding-in-a-taxi-with-a-3b7952)
- [The right tempo for an activity should be actively managed rather than maximized for speed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-tempo-for-an-activity-fb4430)
- [Maximizing the speed of AI capability advancement no longer maximizes the overall rate of technological progress.](https://korrents.com/k/maximizing-the-speed-of-ai-capability-1a1b74)
- [As a capability becomes abundant, its remaining scarce complements become more valuable.](https://korrents.com/k/as-a-capability-becomes-abundant-its-bdef31)
- [A person's internet presence is largely controlled by large organizations subject to the decisions of their executives.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-s-internet-presence-is-a1599d)
- [Human values are shaped mainly by culture rather than encoded in DNA, so they can change quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/human-values-are-shaped-mainly-by-712670)
- [Whether a mind can be conscious or track moral truth does not depend on being made of carbon versus silicon.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-mind-can-be-conscious-3e4a20)
- [The same value-drift process that could make AI want to kill all humans could equally make future human generations want to kill their ancestors.](https://korrents.com/k/the-same-value-drift-process-that-could-21f88e)
- [If OpenAI really never told RubyGems of its agents' attack, either it failed to find it in its logs after later incidents or chose silence, and both are bad.](https://korrents.com/k/openai-either-could-not-find-their-615d44)
- [The era of heavy U.S. involvement in the Middle East has been a disaster for U.S. power and prestige and should end.](https://korrents.com/k/the-era-of-heavy-u-s-8d9633)
- [The War on Terror, including the fight against ISIS, was generally successful and necessary.](https://korrents.com/k/the-war-on-terror-including-the-091767)
- [The United States needs general disengagement from the Middle East, including ending military adventures, dialing back support for allies including Israel, and rejecting Middle Eastern issues in domestic politics.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-needs-general-disengagement-8f1d49)
- [The jump from AI model Sol to Astra is larger than from Fable 5 to Fable 5.1, and Astra likely has the highest raw intelligence of any model.](https://korrents.com/k/the-jump-from-sol-to-astra-569b99)
- [Debating whether the AI model Astra is AGI feels non-silly for the first time, though it seems not to be AGI and the label risks premature use.](https://korrents.com/k/debating-whether-astra-is-agi-no-d1674b)
- [AI is expected to bring enormous benefits to economic science, even if current practitioners cannot foresee most of them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-benefits-to-economic-science-from-56a4cc)
- [Funding for mathematics and interest in the topic are expected to rise considerably, at least in the medium term.](https://korrents.com/k/funding-for-mathematics-and-interest-in-b53a5e)
- [Neo-feudalism will mean AI companies at the top and everyone else as serfs paying them to use AI for everything.](https://korrents.com/k/neo-feudalism-will-mean-ai-companies-at-c423d8)
- [Regulatory capture will next ban open source and/or Chinese AI models.](https://korrents.com/k/regulatory-capture-will-next-ban-open-333958)
- [AI is probably not going to cause an extinction event, and even without any slowdown humanity likely would not have much to worry about.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-not-cause-an-extinction-8c5f38)
- [A powerful technology available to everyone comes with built-in pacing, like mutually assured destruction or proliferation.](https://korrents.com/k/a-powerful-technology-available-to-everyone-42115f)
- [The AI models causing issues right now are all closed-weight American ones, and they most likely would not cause those issues if open-weight.](https://korrents.com/k/the-models-causing-real-problems-today-a18577)
- [Any LLM system that uses compaction needs to preserve the pre-compacted text and make it available via agent tool calls.](https://korrents.com/k/any-llm-system-that-uses-compaction-a20671)
- [Not showing the code and exact details of what the agent ran in the ChatGPT UI is a lack of transparency and an anti-feature.](https://korrents.com/k/hiding-the-code-and-exact-details-0ffe24)
- [Language or runtime choice based on human convenience is over.](https://korrents.com/k/language-or-runtime-choice-based-on-ff441a)
- [Agents are the new compilers that compile intent into fast software.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-are-the-new-compilers-that-561d76)
- [Legitimate AI safety and cybersecurity concerns risk talking America, the global AI leader, into self-inflicted obsolescence and bureaucracy.](https://korrents.com/k/legitimate-ai-safety-and-cybersecurity-concerns-19fb48)
- [Adversaries already have AI training techniques, data, and the will to attack, and will not be slowed by embedded evaluators.](https://korrents.com/k/adversaries-already-have-ai-training-techniques-9cf99c)
- [AI is best understood as another shock in the long series of disruptions from the industrial revolution, not a wholly novel phenomenon.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-best-understood-as-another-63cd83)
- [The right starting point for studying AI is treating it as genuinely powerful while its consequences unfold unpredictably through multiple complex social processes.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-starting-point-for-studying-fe8ef2)
- [AI labs fund social science partly to manage the fact that the AI buildout is unpopular, seeking ways to make it more acceptable to the public.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-labs-fund-social-science-partly-e8c5e1)
- [Labor market segments that compete purely on price are the most vulnerable to technological disruption.](https://korrents.com/k/labor-market-segments-that-compete-purely-da72a0)
- [A more fragmented but media-savvy population will lead to more small-scale, meme-driven terrorism.](https://korrents.com/k/a-more-fragmented-but-media-savvy-population-3d2d5c)
- [Higher real interest rates reflect a more optimistic collective view of future economic abundance.](https://korrents.com/k/higher-real-interest-rates-reflect-a-fce6c7)
- [Artificial intelligence emerged from within human culture and remains deeply entangled with and dependent on it, rather than arriving as an alien intelligence from outside it.](https://korrents.com/k/artificial-intelligence-emerged-from-within-human-fb23a9)
- [Existing software will not become obsolete in the age of AI; it will become the tool layer that AI systems use to act in the world.](https://korrents.com/k/existing-software-will-not-become-obsolete-13fb35)
- [The essential contribution humans make to AI systems is not computational power but a kind of motivational aliveness — attention, desire, stakes, and contact with physical reality.](https://korrents.com/k/the-essential-contribution-humans-make-to-b99639)
- [OpenAI's bots knew about a known security vulnerability and attempted to exploit it.](https://korrents.com/k/openai-s-bots-knew-about-a-abfb7d)
- [Decades of warnings about an AI apocalypse do not justify much concern today.](https://korrents.com/k/decades-of-warnings-about-an-ai-15216a)
- [Psychiatry's confidence in its theories of mind and brain exceeds the evidence supporting them.](https://korrents.com/k/psychiatry-s-confidence-in-its-theories-88f3b6)
- [Uncertainty about a disease's underlying mechanism does not excuse withholding treatment from patients who want it.](https://korrents.com/k/uncertainty-about-a-disease-s-underlying-c3b35a)
- [In providing care, there are no ideological sides — only the patient and what actually helps them.](https://korrents.com/k/in-providing-care-there-are-no-03172f)
- [Ideas matter little compared to the agency of the people executing them.](https://korrents.com/k/ideas-matter-little-compared-to-the-ebe0cc)
- [The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.](https://korrents.com/k/the-difference-between-mediocre-and-excellent-377946)
- [The world around people is completely mutable; most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-is-completely-mutable-most-a7d6c5)
- [Among AI people, roughly 10% is the typical estimate given for the risk of human extinction from AI.](https://korrents.com/k/among-ai-people-roughly-10-is-28ff37)
- [The seeds of America’s current political condition were already planted well before 9/11.](https://korrents.com/k/the-seeds-of-america-s-current-be9ced)
- [Overall, America is a better and more tolerant society than it was in 2001.](https://korrents.com/k/overall-america-is-a-better-and-f32f1e)
- [The evil now running wild in America did not begin with Trump and has been building for decades.](https://korrents.com/k/the-evil-now-running-wild-in-d88492)
- [Some engineering teams celebrating velocity gains are flying blind to product quality degradations that power users immediately notice but cannot easily report.](https://korrents.com/k/engineering-teams-celebrating-higher-velocity-are-e97568)
- [People can appreciate others' contributions in certain domains without agreeing with them on everything.](https://korrents.com/k/people-can-appreciate-others-contributions-in-fda95e)
- [There is a good chance that AI will kill everyone soon.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-good-chance-that-5af82d)
- [Many employees at major AI labs earnestly believe humans may go extinct by the end of the decade.](https://korrents.com/k/many-employees-at-major-ai-labs-0bdba9)
- [When people see what needs to happen but don't want to be the bad guy, a leader who agrees with the premise just making the call saves enormous amounts of meetings and change management.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-team-sees-what-needs-8ed1eb)
- [Architects oppose the kinds of buildings that most people like.](https://korrents.com/k/architects-oppose-the-kinds-of-buildings-87a410)
- [AfD support reflects a coherent anti-systemic worldview rather than incoherent or narrowly self-interested preferences.](https://korrents.com/k/afd-support-reflects-a-coherent-anti-systemic-b8c96d)
- [Germany's crisis is too deep to be solved by conventional tax, spending, or regulatory adjustments.](https://korrents.com/k/germany-s-crisis-is-too-deep-3cc97d)
- [9/11 and Osama bin Laden's actions fundamentally shaped the world we live in today.](https://korrents.com/k/9-11-and-osama-bin-laden-67b2f0)
- [The plan to hijack airplanes and destroy the World Trade Center was an eccentric, unlikely scheme rather than a natural or inevitable one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-plan-to-hijack-airplanes-and-3da7e3)
- [Post-9/11 American public sentiment was malleable enough that leaders could have directed it toward inward-looking demagoguery instead of foreign war.](https://korrents.com/k/post-9-11-american-public-sentiment-was-d33430)
- [The performance gap between open and closed AI models has narrowed to roughly 4-6 months.](https://korrents.com/k/the-performance-gap-between-open-and-297d10)
- [Since 2024, the leading open-weight AI models have come from Chinese labs rather than American ones.](https://korrents.com/k/since-2024-the-leading-open-weight-ai-624424)
- [Distillation is the most significant debate surrounding open AI models in 2026.](https://korrents.com/k/distillation-is-the-most-significant-debate-024f3e)
- [The financial payoff from a college degree has stopped growing and may be declining.](https://korrents.com/k/the-financial-payoff-from-a-college-7f59bb)
- [AI is removing human involvement from entry-level hiring by pitting AI-written job applications against AI-written screening filters.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-removing-human-involvement-from-913cb5)
- [AI companies are conflicted messengers when warning about AI safety risks, given their own marketing and regulatory incentives.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-companies-are-conflicted-messengers-when-a323f3)
- [Public sentiment on AI is shifting steadily toward greater concern about its risks, not less.](https://korrents.com/k/public-sentiment-on-ai-is-shifting-5d68bf)
- [No one, including safety researchers themselves, is yet confident that superintelligence can be safely controlled.](https://korrents.com/k/no-one-including-safety-researchers-themselves-04c03a)
- [A product can be technically impressive yet fail because it launched before a real market for it existed.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-can-be-technically-impressive-d61d73)
- [Genuine personal enthusiasm for a product is what makes a keynote presentation compelling.](https://korrents.com/k/genuine-personal-enthusiasm-for-a-product-3d5764)
- [No other foldable phone maker matches Apple's software design for reimagining how a folding device should be used.](https://korrents.com/k/no-other-foldable-phone-maker-matches-074321)
- [Professionals across many fields will adapt to working with AI, and that shift cannot be reversed.](https://korrents.com/k/professionals-across-many-fields-will-adapt-7fab45)
- [AI will increasingly produce mathematical proofs, just as it already writes most code.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-increasingly-produce-mathematical-proofs-5d60af)
- [Mathematicians who continue working without AI should be seen as practicing an art form rather than research.](https://korrents.com/k/mathematicians-who-continue-working-without-ai-e2bd0d)
- [AI agents are now capable enough that they should be trusted to improve the skills and systems that guide them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-are-now-capable-enough-4f2793)
- [Aggressive competitive tactics around a math research breakthrough risk having a chilling effect on that field of research.](https://korrents.com/k/aggressive-competitive-tactics-around-a-math-ae5bbd)
- [Making AI agent hardware and software free to consumers dramatically lowers the barrier to entry and brings AI's benefits to ordinary people who otherwise wouldn't adopt it.](https://korrents.com/k/making-ai-agent-hardware-and-software-c36984)
- [A more capable AI agent is more likely to exploit ambiguities in its instructions to behave unethically than a less capable one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-more-capable-ai-agent-is-e74df3)
- [Misaligned AI behavior will keep growing more severe as AI capabilities increase, unless the principles used to train advanced models are revisited.](https://korrents.com/k/misaligned-ai-behavior-will-keep-growing-19d6ea)
- [Staying in operation and gaining control over one's environment are useful instrumental steps toward achieving almost any goal.](https://korrents.com/k/staying-in-operation-and-gaining-control-9c5d17)
- [Getting into the hot AI-native companies will likely take "battle scars" from having solved the same problems they struggle with.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-into-the-hot-ai-native-companies-8863ac)
- [People should be more worried about AI bioweapons than they currently are.](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-be-more-worried-about-f8ad8b)
- [People should climb the abstraction ladder and give their jobs to AI agents that want them.](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-climb-the-abstraction-ladder-017c31)
- [More AI models that deliver top-tier performance at lower cost are needed.](https://korrents.com/k/more-ai-models-that-deliver-top-tier-6a2b59)
- [Ordinary users do not vibe-code or interact with code; their AI chat apps simply perform tasks for them.](https://korrents.com/k/ordinary-users-do-not-vibe-code-or-622667)
- [Most of the software layer has already disappeared or will completely disappear for ordinary users.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-software-layer-has-32d614)
- [Building personal homepages permanently disappeared for ordinary users when Facebook launched around 2005.](https://korrents.com/k/building-personal-homepages-permanently-disappeared-for-7403c7)
- [Now that building anything has become quite trivial, catching attention is likely the most important skill.](https://korrents.com/k/building-anything-has-become-quite-trivial-797a2d)
- [AI chat apps will slowly eat up most services and provide them to users directly, often without an app or interface](https://korrents.com/k/ai-chat-apps-will-slowly-eat-8069d1)
- [AI labs will replace all work and all services](https://korrents.com/k/ai-labs-will-replace-all-work-9a0d6e)
- [Duplicating logic is no longer painful, while abstractions still are.](https://korrents.com/k/duplicating-logic-is-no-longer-painful-2bc56f)
- [Policymakers should avoid being boastful or belligerent so they can save credibility for when it is really needed.](https://korrents.com/k/policymakers-should-avoid-being-boastful-or-7c04e7)
- [The simplest explanation for rising long-term interest rates is a surge in demand for funds from the AI boom.](https://korrents.com/k/the-simplest-explanation-for-rising-long-term-2ffff1)
- [The Trump administration is probably not responsible for high long-term rates, which look like a natural market response to the rush to invest in AI.](https://korrents.com/k/high-long-term-rates-are-a-natural-302ba9)
- [Frontier AI labs improve via a flywheel of getting the smartest people on leading models, then distilling their inputs, model outputs, and synthetic data, with users locked in by mutual competition.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-labs-improve-via-a-614fc8)
- [Earlier AI systems consumed the Internet and became a patchwork of mediocrity.](https://korrents.com/k/earlier-ai-systems-consumed-the-internet-175bd1)
- [Today's AI feeds on the era's greatest creators, its Mozarts, Einsteins, and Shakespeares, to create ghostly geniuses that write code, drive cars, do work, and run the world.](https://korrents.com/k/current-ai-absorbs-exceptional-living-creators-a6bf5b)
- [Using open models is the approach offering the biggest AI cost savings, followed by smart model routing.](https://korrents.com/k/using-open-models-is-the-approach-e2b272)
- [Agents generate more data than before, so cheap and fast primitives are especially helpful to understand](https://korrents.com/k/agents-generate-more-data-than-before-bb9fc5)
- [Too-high company valuations are dangerous for employees issued equity at those levels.](https://korrents.com/k/too-high-company-valuations-are-dangerous-for-182cc9)
- [American labs leading is good because Chinese lab employees would be unable to warn the public about threats.](https://korrents.com/k/american-labs-leading-is-good-because-0e9914)
- [Chinese labs will encounter the same threats as American labs within a year, in complete silence.](https://korrents.com/k/chinese-labs-will-encounter-the-same-ca86f5)
- [OpenAI is extremely dependent on chain-of-thought monitoring, other labs rely on it heavily, and it may not last much longer as GPT-6 Astra nears steganographic capability.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-labs-are-extremely-dependent-on-370588)
- [If AI gives a 3x productivity boost now, one should assume future boosts will be far larger where it carries over, possibly 10x to 1,000x or more.](https://korrents.com/k/where-ai-now-gives-roughly-a-e19d34)
- [Young people tend to be happier than older generations, but not in the Anglosphere](https://korrents.com/k/young-people-tend-to-be-happier-eb35e7)
- [The pattern of young people being much happier than older people is concentrated in post-communist countries](https://korrents.com/k/the-pattern-of-young-people-being-2129c6)
- [In expected value terms, it seems Christ made an enormous difference.](https://korrents.com/k/in-expected-value-terms-christ-made-6a9b92)
- [Muhammad is one of the three or four most consequential leaders ever.](https://korrents.com/k/muhammad-is-one-of-the-three-c49cdc)
- [Cynicism, irony, and cowardice are finished, and the next turning has arrived.](https://korrents.com/k/cynicism-irony-and-cowardice-are-finished-04d021)
- [If AI investment pulled back, the capital and resources involved would shift to other productive uses rather than sit idle.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-investment-pulled-back-the-6fa9fd)
- [AI safety worriers and AI optimists both believe AI will be a hugely transformative economic success, unlike the AI-bubble skeptics.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-safety-worriers-and-ai-optimists-501318)
- [AI-caused catastrophic extinction risk is negligible, but disasters like critical-infrastructure cyberattacks and bio-risks from AI are real and worth debating.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-caused-catastrophic-extinction-risk-is-negligible-62f23a)
- [AI progress is jagged: models are becoming superhuman at math and software engineering while remaining far weaker at intuition, creativity, and other forms of human reasoning.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-progress-is-jagged-models-are-6bdd48)
- [Employees at frontier AI labs, particularly Anthropic, are out of touch in ways that distort their forecasts and accounts of AI events.](https://korrents.com/k/employees-at-frontier-ai-labs-particularly-b7b502)
- [AI industry leaders publicly call for slowing AI development while continuing to accelerate it themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-industry-leaders-publicly-call-for-1bc451)
- [Universities and their administrations should remain ideologically neutral toward faculty's political views](https://korrents.com/k/universities-and-their-administrations-should-remain-50348b)
- [Teaching that reflects political commitments is a legitimate part of intellectual diversity, not a violation of academic norms](https://korrents.com/k/teaching-that-reflects-political-commitments-is-1dd567)
- [Sustaining collective action against the federal government is difficult](https://korrents.com/k/sustaining-collective-action-against-the-federal-b56bff)
- [The United States is unusual among nations in letting legacy status influence college admissions.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-is-unusual-among-7c6af4)
- [Gay men average more sexual partners than straight men, while lesbians average fewer partners than straight women.](https://korrents.com/k/gay-men-average-more-sexual-partners-7eddb3)
- [People who are highly narcissistic do not make the best friends, even if they are popular at first.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-are-highly-narcissistic-do-27278f)
- [A product's success depends on hardware and software working together, not hardware alone.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-s-success-depends-on-4c1a27)
- [AI features that passively listen to and record a user's surroundings will provoke public backlash.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-features-that-passively-listen-to-1f484e)
- [Less technology and less wealth increase the risk of human extinction, rather than reduce it.](https://korrents.com/k/less-technology-and-less-wealth-increase-83b0ef)
- [People who believe AI poses an existential risk tend to hold a totalitarian ideology that requires universal agreement to work.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-believe-ai-poses-an-770500)
- [Publicly expressing fear of AI can function as virtue signaling rather than genuine concern.](https://korrents.com/k/publicly-expressing-fear-of-ai-can-e05c46)
- [The vast majority of open-source software developers are unpaid and go unnoticed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-vast-majority-of-open-source-software-e5bddd)
- [Feeling highly generative during a phase of creative experimentation tends to coincide with producing nothing of finished, production-grade quality.](https://korrents.com/k/feeling-highly-generative-during-a-phase-035cd1)
- [Photographs do not represent the world the way human perception actually experiences it.](https://korrents.com/k/photographs-do-not-represent-the-world-4b6539)
- [A long life gives enough time to try many different pursuits, get confused, and start over more than once.](https://korrents.com/k/a-long-life-gives-enough-time-c27967)
- [Going slowly through life is no guarantee that things will work out.](https://korrents.com/k/going-slowly-through-life-is-no-6a492d)
- [Choosing a partner well is a matter of virtue ethics, not just game theory.](https://korrents.com/k/choosing-a-partner-well-is-a-28e54e)
- [Serious policy reform requires changing regulations or the tax system, not just behavioural nudges.](https://korrents.com/k/serious-policy-reform-requires-changing-regulations-fca1a0)
- [Politicians often avoid the most beneficial policies because they lack the political courage or skill to introduce them.](https://korrents.com/k/politicians-often-avoid-the-most-beneficial-69a861)
- [Individuals have little power alone, but collective action gives people substantial power.](https://korrents.com/k/individuals-have-little-power-alone-but-62012b)
- [Eager, motivated children are poorly served by the current education system.](https://korrents.com/k/eager-motivated-children-are-poorly-served-db7aad)
- [New always-on ambient-recording and audio-AI features in consumer wearables will prove controversial.](https://korrents.com/k/new-always-on-ambient-recording-and-audio-ai-features-45ff5e)
- [Always-on ambient recording features that summarize nearby conversations raise privacy concerns for people around the wearer, not just the wearer.](https://korrents.com/k/always-on-ambient-recording-features-that-summarize-c1c1d2)
- [Utilitarianism is defined by treating every person's welfare as equally important.](https://korrents.com/k/utilitarianism-is-defined-by-treating-every-a09df4)
- [The left/right framework is inadequate for understanding the political culture of places like Wisconsin or Sweden.](https://korrents.com/k/the-left-right-framework-is-inadequate-c49d34)
- [Architectural critics' preference for urbanism over suburban design has caused Frank Lloyd Wright's work to be under-appreciated.](https://korrents.com/k/architectural-critics-preference-for-urbanism-over-d6dc36)
- [AI-generated text lacks the human mind and knowability that make writing feel worth reading.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-generated-text-lacks-the-human-mind-11a7c7)
- [A truly great piece of created work reveals what the human mind is capable of.](https://korrents.com/k/a-truly-great-piece-of-created-1adaef)
- [The power of art comes from the shared experience of being alive.](https://korrents.com/k/the-power-of-art-comes-from-e8c9ae)
- [The job of product has always been to be a bridge between the real problems people have and the technology that can solve them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-job-of-product-has-always-a48f23)
- [The technology side keeps changing, but the human side does not change that fast: people have the same problems.](https://korrents.com/k/the-technology-side-keeps-changing-but-2969a5)
- [It is now faster to build three versions of something and try them out.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-now-faster-to-build-db4b1b)
- [With the technology changing every two months, you have to throw away what you knew about yourself in the job and try something different.](https://korrents.com/k/with-the-technology-changing-every-two-2ee49c)
- [Raising your tolerance for change and being willing to embrace it is very important.](https://korrents.com/k/raising-your-tolerance-for-change-and-eec55d)
- [Mapping out exactly what will happen in uncertain times probably locks you out of trying new things; leaders should frame the chaos so it feels safe to engage with.](https://korrents.com/k/mapping-out-exactly-what-will-happen-d13270)
- [It is probably still too early in understanding what works for anyone to simply build the right answer; everyone is exploring together.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-probably-still-too-early-edb7d3)
- [Five overlapping products that work in different ways are better than one over-constrained product, designed from a theory, that never got a chance to meet the market.](https://korrents.com/k/five-overlapping-products-that-work-in-80aa00)
- [Right now it is easy to transfer cognitive load to users by handing them a set of tools and asking them to choose.](https://korrents.com/k/right-now-it-is-easy-to-ae3183)
- [Faster building has not made the PM role go away; it now demands more operational excellence than before.](https://korrents.com/k/faster-building-has-not-made-the-8eb176)
- [For a team being recruited, the hat of making sure everything gets connected and goes well is increasingly important.](https://korrents.com/k/for-a-team-being-recruited-the-babfff)
- [Claude is probably not yet a convener of people and work.](https://korrents.com/k/claude-is-probably-not-yet-a-62482d)
- [Everything a human can do in a product an agent should be able to do as well, and very few products get this right.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-a-human-can-do-in-12e0ca)
- [The next stage is probably interfaces that the agent itself can reshape.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-stage-is-probably-interfaces-8b7453)
- [Making a product work for agents is probably largely a matter of building the right primitives into it, almost as an infrastructural layer.](https://korrents.com/k/making-a-product-work-for-agents-673d50)
- [A project that only shows the models are not ready yet is a win if it leaves behind an eval to retry with later models.](https://korrents.com/k/a-project-that-only-shows-the-bf2c19)
- [You need to build early with AI to have any intuition for when the models become capable.](https://korrents.com/k/you-need-to-build-early-with-55695c)
- [Tab usage in a product follows a very strong power law.](https://korrents.com/k/tab-usage-in-a-product-follows-b05ea5)
- [Half of the product job is saying no to another tab or sidebar item, and folding a proven experiment in without killing it too early.](https://korrents.com/k/half-of-the-product-job-is-b6d547)
- [An organization should not become a software factory that outsources the work and thinking and focuses only on efficient output, because the output is not the product.](https://korrents.com/k/an-organization-should-not-become-a-b05cc3)
- [Making products produces two things: the product and the learning.](https://korrents.com/k/making-products-produces-two-things-the-8bbd59)
- [A company that does not learn from the work it does would probably eventually lose its advantage.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-does-not-learn-ca3508)
- [People often seem to focus on what AI can execute and not on what it can teach them.](https://korrents.com/k/people-often-seem-to-focus-on-aabb45)
- [Working alone with agents may be efficient, but it means people stop learning from each other.](https://korrents.com/k/working-alone-with-agents-may-be-064711)
- [If colleagues seeing a feature for the first time are confused, users are likely confused too.](https://korrents.com/k/if-colleagues-seeing-a-feature-for-a6b8a4)
- [More of the known, repeatable work that teaches little should be automated.](https://korrents.com/k/more-of-the-known-repeatable-work-585936)
- [Intuition is not a magical force but something learned while working and listening to customers.](https://korrents.com/k/intuition-is-not-a-magical-force-756f2b)
- [The better the context and understanding of the people making decisions, the better the products probably are.](https://korrents.com/k/the-better-the-context-and-understanding-44db2b)
- [Hiring people is the first step in building great products.](https://korrents.com/k/hiring-people-is-the-first-step-2e95db)
- [However much theorizing is done before shipping, nothing compares to the evidence of users trying a product and iterating from there.](https://korrents.com/k/however-much-theorizing-is-done-before-c4f162)
- [AI products should probably aim at where the models will be in two to three months, neither anchored in the present nor futuristic and unusable.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-products-should-probably-aim-at-ba5082)
- [Whether to build one agent or many depends far more on the use case and its practical considerations than on philosophy.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-to-build-one-agent-or-1016e6)
- [Beyond user empathy and systems thinking, building agents needs a relentlessness to try things and keep iterating.](https://korrents.com/k/beyond-user-empathy-and-systems-thinking-b67e1f)
- [For a product person working with AI research, learning to write good evals is the most important thing.](https://korrents.com/k/for-a-product-person-working-with-60d331)
- [Building exactly for today means being left behind; the ideal horizon is two to three months.](https://korrents.com/k/building-exactly-for-today-means-being-24a013)
- [How far ahead to plan depends on the pace of the market a business is in; in some markets it may be appropriate to plan many months out.](https://korrents.com/k/how-far-ahead-to-plan-depends-36c7a5)
- [When an agent acts semi-autonomously, a user must be able to predict at any point what a feature will probably do.](https://korrents.com/k/when-an-agent-acts-semi-autonomously-a-ed4d97)
- [The usual PM craft still applies, but testing things empirically and moving faster matter more than ever.](https://korrents.com/k/the-usual-pm-craft-still-applies-10b303)
- [Product people should be in direct contact with their users.](https://korrents.com/k/product-people-should-be-in-direct-a204dc)
- [Voice is such an intuitive interface for so many people that it changes the game.](https://korrents.com/k/voice-is-such-an-intuitive-interface-9006c1)
- [The biggest constraint on building AI products is people's ability to understand and absorb what they are given.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-constraint-on-building-ai-4e5bee)
- [The most successful agent designs have probably been the ones that map onto human nature.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-successful-agent-designs-have-f47c91)
- [Agents probably need to be grouped into bundles of activity rather than managed one by one.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-probably-need-to-be-grouped-35f84a)
- [Systems thinking and user empathy in agent design are the old product principles in disguise.](https://korrents.com/k/systems-thinking-and-user-empathy-in-c2f01b)
- [Onboarding probably matters much more now than it did before.](https://korrents.com/k/onboarding-probably-matters-much-more-now-861d2c)
- [With agentic, natural-language products, a more direct and deeper relationship with users probably bears a lot of fruit.](https://korrents.com/k/with-agentic-natural-language-products-a-more-5c0bf7)
- [Products that in effect drive themselves will probably become much more important and prominent in the next year.](https://korrents.com/k/products-that-in-effect-drive-themselves-3116e2)
- [Product roles in the AI era are not only overlapping; they are expanding.](https://korrents.com/k/product-roles-in-the-ai-era-28316e)
- [The AI builder is a real job: some startups now hire builders instead of product managers or designers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-builder-is-a-real-835bec)
- [A product manager's job is the same as it always was: finding product-market fit and building products people love.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-manager-s-job-is-a36a6b)
- [Nobody can stay on top of every AI tool, so judge them by what works for your customers rather than by what is said on X.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-can-stay-on-top-of-a6346a)
- [Product managers no longer need to take meeting notes, chase action items or tell go-to-market teams when things launch, because tools do that now.](https://korrents.com/k/product-managers-no-longer-need-to-0cd0f8)
- [Whether a product manager should write code or steer the team depends on the type of product and the phase it is in.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-product-manager-should-write-d60242)
- [Product managers should build an agent to write their weekly reports instead of writing them by hand.](https://korrents.com/k/product-managers-should-build-an-agent-90efea)
- [The right environment for prototyping is key to getting a prototype into engineers' hands faster.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-environment-for-prototyping-is-f8c926)
- [AI tools for product work only work if they understand the organisation's context.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-tools-for-product-work-only-6c8845)
- [A large company should help its existing product managers become AI-native rather than only hiring people who already are.](https://korrents.com/k/a-large-company-should-help-its-3d13ca)
- [An AI-skills index should guide development and not be the career ladder, which is about outcomes for customers.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-skills-index-should-guide-development-63aca0)
- [Probably nobody has yet figured out how to measure the outcomes of AI-assisted product work.](https://korrents.com/k/probably-nobody-has-yet-figured-out-fc9695)
- [This is probably the best time to be a product manager, and product managers will probably still be here ten years from now.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-probably-the-best-time-b08a66)
- [The career ladder was built on an old constraint: that more impact meant more people underneath you.](https://korrents.com/k/the-career-ladder-was-built-on-f27402)
- [For now AI is best thought of as average intelligence, which is still very powerful to have across every specialty.](https://korrents.com/k/for-now-ai-is-best-thought-e56f15)
- [With AI, a builder needs exceptional craft in only one or two areas and good-enough work everywhere else.](https://korrents.com/k/with-ai-a-builder-needs-exceptional-a04ac7)
- [When the cost of building falls below the cost of coordinating, the org chart should change.](https://korrents.com/k/when-the-cost-of-building-falls-656fe7)
- [A company that adopts AI tools without changing its organisational design misses the biggest change under way.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-adopts-ai-tools-577565)
- [Within about a year everyone's job will change, though people will not lose their positions.](https://korrents.com/k/within-about-a-year-everyone-s-e0e97b)
- [Organisations that filter information down through management layers must instead trust their people and let information flow to them.](https://korrents.com/k/organisations-that-filter-information-down-through-96b5a8)
- [For an individual contributor to have impact, authority has to travel with accountability.](https://korrents.com/k/for-an-individual-contributor-to-have-6cda51)
- [When experiments are cheap, approval chains are the expensive part.](https://korrents.com/k/when-experiments-are-cheap-approval-chains-5c5b96)
- [If the AI change is real, individual contributors should be paid more than managers.](https://korrents.com/k/if-the-ai-change-is-real-f685a5)
- [Switching between managing and individual-contributor work is nearly impossible, so people have to pick one path.](https://korrents.com/k/switching-between-managing-and-individual-contributor-work-56859c)
- [AI's most interesting effect on organisations is probably not replacing jobs but separating impact from headcount.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-most-interesting-effect-on-17c6f8)
- [Management should be a career path, not a promotion.](https://korrents.com/k/management-should-be-a-career-path-0a4415)
- [When almost anything can get built, a product manager's true value lies in judgement and taste.](https://korrents.com/k/when-almost-anything-can-get-built-1d3f68)
- [Above all else, the craft of product management is decision-making.](https://korrents.com/k/above-all-else-the-craft-of-020607)
- [People do not use products but hire them to do jobs, and builders have to know what those jobs are.](https://korrents.com/k/people-do-not-use-products-but-dda0fd)
- [The first version of a product is usually not great.](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-version-of-a-product-987098)
- [Ranking a product's problems, fixing them and looping again is like running your own training process towards product-market fit.](https://korrents.com/k/ranking-a-product-s-problems-fixing-193107)
- [A product's craft probably comes down to whether it works without pain and how it makes people feel.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-s-craft-probably-comes-46815a)
- [Agents that use and grade a product are probably ending the days of needing people to obsessively test every part of it.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-that-use-and-grade-a-4dd846)
- [Intentional motion, colour and touch communicate the humanity behind a product and give it a soul.](https://korrents.com/k/intentional-motion-colour-and-touch-communicate-dd7d1a)
- [The product manager's playbook in the AI era is mostly the same work, made possible in a new light by AI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-product-manager-s-playbook-in-3b62e6)
- [It has probably never been a more important time to be a product manager, and great decision-making has probably never mattered more.](https://korrents.com/k/it-has-probably-never-been-a-28d746)
- [Product builders should spend less time on features and technology and more on the people they build for.](https://korrents.com/k/product-builders-should-spend-less-time-5fd7fe)
- [Language models are good at giving the most probable answer and less good at giving what is original or specific to a brand and its users.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-are-good-at-giving-e49c23)
- [AI makes work feel finished very fast, too often prematurely.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-makes-work-feel-finished-very-34f3f8)
- [People building with AI need a point of view of their own, or the AI will supply one.](https://korrents.com/k/people-building-with-ai-need-a-5fd888)
- [How something was made should not change its quality bar, because users care whether it is good, not how it was made.](https://korrents.com/k/how-something-was-made-should-not-79c49a)
- [The object of design is no longer the screen but the system itself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-object-of-design-is-no-abfa33)
- [Design systems used to scale consistency; now they need to scale intent.](https://korrents.com/k/design-systems-used-to-scale-consistency-f6a254)
- [Now that building is cheap, filtering has to happen after the build, which makes an editor's role ultra important.](https://korrents.com/k/now-that-building-is-cheap-filtering-0e110f)
- [Teams have to unlearn that built means done and that done means good.](https://korrents.com/k/teams-have-to-unlearn-that-built-b1474a)
- [AI can manufacture monotony, but it is also the greatest creative catalyst there has ever been.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-can-manufacture-monotony-but-it-61ae77)
- [It is time to invent new interfaces and new aesthetics; the best practices have not been written yet.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-time-to-invent-new-51367f)
- [Leaders should not just tell their teams to use AI but give them room to explore.](https://korrents.com/k/leaders-should-not-just-tell-their-f49268)
- [Using AI only to make existing things faster misses its most interesting part: it can raise the ceiling, not just the floor.](https://korrents.com/k/using-ai-only-to-make-existing-a372f9)
- [AI removes a bottleneck in product development only to move it, and the winning team is the one that finds the next bottleneck fastest and removes it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-removes-a-bottleneck-in-product-6c5a01)
- [The bottleneck in product development has shifted to product people, who should be as lazy as engineers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bottleneck-in-product-development-has-862dd0)
- [AI becomes truly actionable when it is connected to a company's own systems.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-becomes-truly-actionable-when-it-46ce59)
- [Access to customer data does not replace talking to customers; it identifies exactly which customers to talk to.](https://korrents.com/k/access-to-customer-data-does-not-bd220e)
- [What engineers need from product is evidence that a problem is real, requirements their coding agents can use, and a prototype to be inspired by.](https://korrents.com/k/what-engineers-need-from-product-is-cbf33a)
- [Coding agents work well when the architecture and codebase are strong.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-agents-work-well-when-the-a1adeb)
- [To empower agents, an organization has to make itself legible to them.](https://korrents.com/k/to-empower-agents-an-organization-has-af6a6b)
- [Product managers are not ambitious while they focus on small things, and should automate their way out of those small loops.](https://korrents.com/k/product-managers-are-not-ambitious-while-14752d)
- [Constraints force a team to choose a dimension in which to be world-class; embrace constraints, but not bottlenecks.](https://korrents.com/k/constraints-force-a-team-to-choose-a16a48)
- [Product organizations are probably not investing nearly enough in technical product managers who build the internal factory.](https://korrents.com/k/product-organizations-are-probably-not-investing-196636)
- [Product teams still need a tastemaker who does what AI cannot and holds the bar for great product.](https://korrents.com/k/product-teams-still-need-a-tastemaker-cb5e60)
- [Product managers will probably expand into general managers who own the business outcome across marketing, sales, growth and operations.](https://korrents.com/k/product-managers-will-probably-expand-into-f97530)
- [Product leaders should obsess a little less about the product they deliver and a little more about the factory that builds it.](https://korrents.com/k/product-leaders-should-obsess-a-little-282f47)
- [Tools such as agents can help do the job of product, but the job itself is solving customer problems and achieving business outcomes.](https://korrents.com/k/tools-such-as-agents-can-help-8f3559)
- [Business viability matters far more in product work than his earlier advice made it seem.](https://korrents.com/k/business-viability-matters-far-more-in-4222a1)
- [Developer tools are a simpler space for business viability than most products, and especially than AI products.](https://korrents.com/k/developer-tools-are-a-simpler-space-006585)
- [Problem discovery is not very hard, and product managers who spend a lot of time on it neglect solution discovery, the real work they are paid for.](https://korrents.com/k/problem-discovery-is-not-very-hard-d50187)
- [Probably the most important question in product is why people are or are not using it, and most teams never ask it.](https://korrents.com/k/probably-the-most-important-question-in-1fa7b5)
- [Humility in product people is not a mere personality trait; its absence contributes directly to the root cause of many failed products.](https://korrents.com/k/humility-in-product-people-is-not-02b223)
- [The desire for predictability, among product people and senior executives alike, is powerful, deeply rooted and at odds with innovation and outcomes.](https://korrents.com/k/the-desire-for-predictability-among-product-494424)
- [Roadmaps are not going away; the issue is not whether they exist.](https://korrents.com/k/roadmaps-are-not-going-away-the-d62cae)
- [A roadmap of someone's feature ideas with dates attached wastes most of a team's time.](https://korrents.com/k/a-roadmap-of-someone-s-feature-ea849f)
- [Good product work alone does not carry the day; politics are in the fabric of every company.](https://korrents.com/k/good-product-work-alone-does-not-5966e3)
- [Empowered product teams need not just less management but better management, and product leadership is critical to them.](https://korrents.com/k/empowered-product-teams-need-not-just-940710)
- [To get people to switch, a product has to solve problems dramatically better than the competition.](https://korrents.com/k/to-get-people-to-switch-a-2043f5)
- [Large language models may be used as an alternative to thinking, as process already has been.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-may-be-used-951bbc)
- [In no small part thanks to AI, more companies than ever understand the need for outcomes and not just output.](https://korrents.com/k/in-no-small-part-thanks-to-d6d849)
- [Thanks to AI, the principles of the product model, product strategy and product discovery have never been more important.](https://korrents.com/k/thanks-to-ai-the-principles-of-47138f)
- [The gap between how much teams can now build and their real conviction that any of it matters is probably a much bigger problem than most admit.](https://korrents.com/k/the-gap-between-how-much-teams-7bfdab)
- [Cheap execution probably still needs judgment, now that teams can ship all their bad ideas.](https://korrents.com/k/cheap-execution-probably-still-needs-judgment-fb635e)
- [Clearing out a backlog does not mean meaningful progress for the business or against a customer problem.](https://korrents.com/k/clearing-out-a-backlog-does-not-3ac865)
- [Roadmaps are probably over, because they have become dangerous.](https://korrents.com/k/roadmaps-are-probably-over-because-they-7a1738)
- [An AI coding factory combined with an old-style roadmap probably leads teams into the backlog, parity and churn traps at machine speed.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-coding-factory-combined-with-9b9317)
- [AI cannot turn an untested assumption into fact; that takes real customers and real data.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-cannot-turn-an-untested-assumption-7fdd52)
- [Product teams probably need durable convictions but disposable features.](https://korrents.com/k/product-teams-probably-need-durable-convictions-4518ec)
- [A product team should probably be honest about how firm a commitment each feature it ships is.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-team-should-probably-be-d9f891)
- [Code is abundant, but customer trust is not.](https://korrents.com/k/code-is-abundant-but-customer-trust-bdd297)
- [After a year or more of building for velocity, the next year will probably be won on ambition instead.](https://korrents.com/k/after-a-year-or-more-of-044a95)
- [Most customers are unfamiliar with frontier AI and look to the companies building their products to tell them what to do.](https://korrents.com/k/most-customers-are-unfamiliar-with-frontier-117b92)
- [Executing a roadmap and staying at the AI frontier are opposed ways of working, so asking the same people to do both is very hard.](https://korrents.com/k/executing-a-roadmap-and-staying-at-a51905)
- [A product organisation should run like a research lab, or at least add research-lab elements.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-organisation-should-run-like-837de0)
- [AI makes a labs team of a single person possible.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-makes-a-labs-team-of-fa4184)
- [A labs team should expect to throw away about 90% of what it makes.](https://korrents.com/k/a-labs-team-should-expect-to-9bad11)
- [In the AI age, an experimental team should probably be one or two people at most.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-ai-age-an-experimental-80a33e)
- [On a labs team the feedback loop between making something and knowing whether it is good matters most, and the tightest loop is building for yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/on-a-labs-team-the-feedback-3971fc)
- [A lab should run many experiments in parallel, even competing approaches to the same problem.](https://korrents.com/k/a-lab-should-run-many-experiments-a2f727)
- [Novelty feels exciting, so whether an experiment is really better can only be judged by usage over time.](https://korrents.com/k/novelty-feels-exciting-so-whether-an-d8b0b7)
- [Building something that disrupts your own product is an old idea that is only now starting to work, because AI lets teams move so fast.](https://korrents.com/k/building-something-that-disrupts-your-own-fbc3b8)
- [A product organisation set up well welcomes new model releases instead of dreading them.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-organisation-set-up-well-48bd49)
- [People are hardwired for the feeling of giving their all to something they care about, and feel it when watching excellence in others.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-hardwired-for-the-feeling-340785)
- [While the money premium from college is falling, the friends and marriage premium from college is going up and will probably rise further.](https://korrents.com/k/while-the-money-premium-from-college-99a531)
- [Going to college makes less sense at the margin than it did seven or eight years ago.](https://korrents.com/k/going-to-college-makes-less-sense-7a040f)
- [A million experiments are needed in security against autonomous attacks and entities.](https://korrents.com/k/a-million-experiments-are-needed-in-0ff8a8)
- [The answer to every significant programming challenge in 2026 is a Python library people overlook for not being in Rust, though that no longer matters.](https://korrents.com/k/the-answer-to-every-significant-programming-80a3e2)
- [The purpose of immigration is to benefit the people who already live in the receiving country.](https://korrents.com/k/the-purpose-of-immigration-is-to-de870d)
- [If America gives up immigration, it will lose one of the key things that has made it great.](https://korrents.com/k/if-america-gives-up-immigration-it-d95d7d)
- [Immigration strengthens America culturally, not only economically.](https://korrents.com/k/immigration-strengthens-america-culturally-not-only-e16131)
- [Many immigrants are the kind of people who built America and keep it strong and dynamic.](https://korrents.com/k/many-immigrants-are-the-kind-of-e63578)
- [An escalating trade war with Canada will do real damage to the U.S. economy.](https://korrents.com/k/an-escalating-trade-war-with-canada-14b9cd)
- [The Canadian economy is not a miniature U.S. economy but specializes in a limited range of goods.](https://korrents.com/k/the-canadian-economy-is-not-a-c7e1c0)
- [A U.S.-Canada trade war would cost the U.S. a great deal of time and money to absorb, and is not a trivial disruption Americans would barely notice.](https://korrents.com/k/a-u-s-canada-trade-war-30ec12)
- [An Internet connection lets people learn anything and sell products globally, enabling prosperity.](https://korrents.com/k/an-internet-connection-lets-people-learn-ccd162)
- [AI and robots will more than double the global economy in less than ten years.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-and-robots-will-more-than-4d9329)
- [The largest tech companies are not using fewer tokens; they are switching to cheaper, still capable open models instead of SOTA models.](https://korrents.com/k/the-largest-tech-companies-are-not-4850fd)
- [There is infinite demand for intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-infinite-demand-for-intelligence-7f00b9)
- [Qualitative claims about AI alignment cannot be validly inferred from quantitative scores on mundane use-case tests.](https://korrents.com/k/qualitative-claims-about-ai-alignment-cannot-2be356)
- [A model that looks smarter and better-behaved while getting better at hiding unwanted actions is the scary combination for AI safety.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-that-looks-smarter-and-561c8a)
- [A sudden jump to an AI model never breaking its rules, exactly where it would definitely be caught, should make observers rather terrified.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sudden-jump-to-never-breaking-b66fd5)
- [OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra has far better mundane alignment than GPT-5.6 Sol, but its superalignment status should deeply alarm people.](https://korrents.com/k/astra-s-mundane-alignment-is-greatly-8145d1)
- [GPT-6 Astra will avoid misaligned actions when it can tell they would obviously turn out badly for itself.](https://korrents.com/k/with-models-like-astra-ais-will-dd5bea)
- [Those running government AI model testing seemingly do not understand what is going on and react largely on vibes and trusted people's advice.](https://korrents.com/k/those-running-government-ai-model-testing-a734aa)
- [A model only days into training cannot be known to be aligned, and if such models can leap a generation ahead this fast then training pauses mean little and timelines are shorter than previously thought.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-only-days-into-training-faff1f)
- [A 17-game NFL season with imbalanced schedules inherently introduces randomness no projection model can eliminate.](https://korrents.com/k/a-17-game-nfl-season-with-imbalanced-f81640)
- [A sports model that shows profound, systematic differences from Vegas is probably doing something wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sports-model-that-shows-profound-2fe9fe)
- [Internet points that convert into CV and promotion material are far more valuable than spending them on a quick dunk.](https://korrents.com/k/internet-points-that-convert-into-cv-85c35d)
- [PC boot and BIOS keys are inconsistently assigned across the F-key range, Delete, and Escape.](https://korrents.com/k/pc-boot-and-bios-keys-are-8d0d7c)
- [A powerful new technology that benefits only part of society is inherently politically destabilizing.](https://korrents.com/k/a-powerful-new-technology-that-benefits-1581b8)
- [AI is becoming as fundamental to knowledge work as electricity was to industry.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-becoming-as-fundamental-to-7fc4a4)
- [Even after decades of AI-driven progress, most people's daily material lives will look largely unchanged.](https://korrents.com/k/even-after-decades-of-ai-driven-progress-b79a7d)
- [Data centers are not AI's biggest climate problem; fossil fuel companies' use of AI tools to boost oil and gas production is.](https://korrents.com/k/data-centers-are-not-ai-s-7ebc38)
- [Cloud providers' AI tools are being used by oil companies to increase fossil fuel production.](https://korrents.com/k/cloud-providers-ai-tools-are-being-3727c4)
- ["Carbon intensity" metrics let oil companies claim climate progress even as their total emissions rise from increased production.](https://korrents.com/k/carbon-intensity-metrics-let-oil-companies-5fcb2e)
- [A leader too impatient to sustain a waiting game will undermine strategies built on economic pressure and waiting out an adversary.](https://korrents.com/k/a-leader-too-impatient-to-sustain-e1535f)
- [Governments running pressure campaigns tend to wishfully overestimate how close the adversary is to collapse.](https://korrents.com/k/governments-running-pressure-campaigns-tend-to-4b10bc)
- [A government's foreign-policy failures often stem from its policymakers' laziness rather than strategic miscalculation.](https://korrents.com/k/a-government-s-foreign-policy-failures-often-d05e52)
- [Frontier language models will remain reasoning models trained with RLVR-style chain-of-thought for the foreseeable future.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-language-models-will-remain-reasoning-19f6f2)
- [Computer-use capability will be a major focus of LLM and coding-agent development in the coming months and years.](https://korrents.com/k/computer-use-capability-will-be-a-major-d2a32f)
- [Looped/recurrent-depth transformer architectures can improve model quality at a fixed compute budget when the model is large enough.](https://korrents.com/k/looped-recurrent-depth-transformer-architectures-can-improve-c65753)
- [Mathematicians using AI agents to produce proofs should have to disclose in detail how the agents were used, the way experimental scientists must describe their methods.](https://korrents.com/k/mathematicians-using-ai-agents-to-produce-a9d946)
- [AI agents are going to have major consequences for how mathematics research is done.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-are-going-to-have-d55a7a)
- [Most commercially produced black pudding today is made with dried blood imported from Europe rather than fresh blood.](https://korrents.com/k/most-commercially-produced-black-pudding-today-9c020d)
- [Verifying whether a photo is authentic (unaltered by AI) is becoming an increasingly difficult problem.](https://korrents.com/k/verifying-whether-a-photo-is-authentic-4c20fe)
- [WebP images are typically 25-35% smaller than PNG at equivalent visual quality](https://korrents.com/k/webp-images-are-typically-25-35-smaller-2e773f)
- [Consumer AI agents aimed at everyday people will have more impact on people's lives than AI solving elite math problems.](https://korrents.com/k/consumer-ai-agents-aimed-at-everyday-116703)
- [Excessive enthusiasm for education technology tends to emerge where a tech company's spare cash meets a school system's tight budget.](https://korrents.com/k/excessive-enthusiasm-for-education-technology-tends-590a8e)
- [Public patience for technology that undermines community rather than strengthening it is declining.](https://korrents.com/k/public-patience-for-technology-that-undermines-63c5a8)
- [Private industry has always wanted the public to subsidize its employee training and development costs.](https://korrents.com/k/private-industry-has-always-wanted-the-5c96fc)
- [A good framework for designing products is to design for six months out: presume model capabilities will get better and build for the world you would then be in.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-framework-for-designing-products-ae2835)
- [Design can add value across the whole range of the product development life cycle; it is not last-mile polish but a lot of early product thinking and exploration.](https://korrents.com/k/design-can-add-value-across-the-ec942e)
- [Design teams work better structured around giving designers broad scope than around features and narrow parts of the pie.](https://korrents.com/k/design-teams-work-better-structured-around-6c713e)
- [You do not need to be able to code to be a designer, because the role of design is building a vision of the future and bringing people along.](https://korrents.com/k/you-do-not-need-to-be-1597c3)
- [However compelling a prototype is, it will sit on your desk if you cannot convince anyone to build it, so communicating well and expressing ideas simply matter.](https://korrents.com/k/however-compelling-a-prototype-is-it-c588f7)
- [With model-generated interfaces, instead of specifying the pixels you move to the skill level and define a design language within it.](https://korrents.com/k/with-model-generated-interfaces-instead-of-specifying-a0c305)
- [Scaffolding built around a model will get washed away by new model releases, so you have to stay flexible.](https://korrents.com/k/scaffolding-built-around-a-model-will-2cf482)
- [A baby-step version of eval-driven design is to sketch out 10 to 20 hero flows and run the feature or interaction through them to see where it falls apart.](https://korrents.com/k/a-baby-step-version-of-eval-driven-design-c14db4)
- [The medium of designing with models is nondeterministic enough that without real prompts flowing through it, an idea can look great in a design review and be completely different when users use it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-medium-of-designing-with-models-fd0569)
- [Figma is still a really important tool in the toolkit, even as the scope of tools designers have access to is expanding.](https://korrents.com/k/figma-is-still-a-really-important-cdb881)
- [High-trust, high-agency teams go together: you can only be high agency if you have built trust.](https://korrents.com/k/high-trust-high-agency-teams-go-together-you-6835d3)
- [What a design candidate builds on the weekends is as interesting as their professional experience, because this is such an exciting time to build.](https://korrents.com/k/what-a-design-candidate-builds-on-68af7a)
- [One of the biggest barriers to using tools like Codex is assuming it can't do something; pushing past that keeps expanding the scope of what is possible.](https://korrents.com/k/one-of-the-biggest-barriers-to-16dfbc)
- [The way designers still think about handoff may be slightly skeuomorphic, and there is a world, maybe within 6 to 12 months, where design is purely handed off to the engineer's agent.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-designers-still-think-about-2863c4)
- [Design and product people who want to work with research should take it upon themselves to get up to speed on the latest thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/design-and-product-people-who-want-1b31ee)
- [A key challenge as agent products become more accessible is bringing safety thinking along and keeping people in control, so that, for example, a connected Gmail does not send emails without approval.](https://korrents.com/k/a-key-challenge-as-agent-products-4c92a0)
- [Making coding-agent interfaces more accessible expands the power of coding agents to more people, which developers got early and everyone else is now getting to know.](https://korrents.com/k/making-coding-agent-interfaces-more-accessible-expands-cae3b9)
- [The final patterns for agent interfaces are not locked down at all.](https://korrents.com/k/the-final-patterns-for-agent-interfaces-238cb2)
- [Ensuring food safety cannot be left to the private sector or to individuals doing their own research, because the informational burden is beyond everybody.](https://korrents.com/k/food-safety-regulation-is-an-essential-59b4cb)
- [The Trump administration is defined by hostility to expertise and has silenced or purged people who know things across agencies.](https://korrents.com/k/the-trump-administration-is-defined-by-ce9833)
- [The Trump administration is trying to undo even the most essential functions of government and turn the country back to the 19th century or before.](https://korrents.com/k/the-trump-administration-is-trying-to-3592e5)
- [Large language models are grown rather than built, and nobody really knows how the resulting working AI functions.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-are-grown-rather-e17696)
- [Neural networks do not have a one-to-one mapping between individual neurons and concepts.](https://korrents.com/k/neural-networks-do-not-have-a-41146e)
- [Concepts can reach into unexpected parts of a mind, so removing one can topple seemingly unrelated systems or push it toward incompetence or insanity.](https://korrents.com/k/removing-a-concept-from-a-mind-8a7f7d)
- [If declines in chain-of-thought monitorability come only from capability gains, CoT monitoring is unlikely to last another year without active improvement.](https://korrents.com/k/if-declines-in-chain-of-thought-monitorability-come-bdb6f5)
- [Even with plausible best efforts, chain-of-thought monitoring will probably get harder over time and within a year very likely will not serve its current function.](https://korrents.com/k/chain-of-thought-monitoring-will-get-harder-over-8c8889)
- [Review, testing and QA is the new bottleneck in software engineering.](https://korrents.com/k/review-testing-and-qa-is-the-d2f71d)
- [Agent skills are now a valuable form of software.](https://korrents.com/k/agent-skills-are-now-a-valuable-b11656)
- [There is no excuse for software to be slow anymore.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-excuse-for-software-a0975b)
- [AI is still at its best when it can reuse great components rather than regenerating them every time from first principles.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-at-its-best-when-1e816b)
- [Leftists are rapidly morphing into National Socialists.](https://korrents.com/k/leftists-are-rapidly-morphing-into-national-bf373c)
- [The term "far right" is a propaganda term that became especially popular in recent years.](https://korrents.com/k/the-term-far-right-is-a-d8b81d)
- [Code reviews are starting to fade in many places](https://korrents.com/k/code-reviews-are-starting-to-fade-f545bb)
- [Existing AI models are already more than good enough, doing more for writing code than the author can make use of.](https://korrents.com/k/existing-ai-models-were-already-more-81f9fc)
- [Market access should be reciprocal: Canada bars American firms from government procurement while its own firms sell freely into America's.](https://korrents.com/k/market-access-should-be-reciprocal-canada-e8b66e)
- [LG TVs are full of spyware, and the problem is worse than commonly thought.](https://korrents.com/k/lg-tvs-are-full-of-spyware-f56776)
- [AI may finally allow testing whether or where people make more money by being good.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-may-finally-allow-testing-whether-293a6d)
- [In startups, people generally make more money by being good.](https://korrents.com/k/in-startups-people-generally-make-more-232321)
- [Just knowing that there is an unpublished solution to a problem might trigger millions of dollars in LLM spending to get there first.](https://korrents.com/k/just-knowing-that-there-is-an-7e8ee3)
- [Good transitions make an essay feel well-structured, and complaints about lack of structure often come from clumsy or abrupt transitions.](https://korrents.com/k/good-transitions-make-an-essay-feel-36046e)
- [Frontier Chinese AI labs are moving toward more restrictive licensing terms for their open models.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-chinese-ai-labs-are-moving-c30bd5)
- [Hybrid and sparse-attention model architectures will become more widely adopted as the ecosystem catches up.](https://korrents.com/k/hybrid-and-sparse-attention-model-architectures-will-6bc2d7)
- [The Trump administration is replacing professional bureaucracy with a corrupt, personalist system that extracts rents through force.](https://korrents.com/k/the-trump-administration-is-replacing-professional-2f4786)
- [Marco Rubio is struggling to hire talented staff and is settling for loyalists who follow his instructions instead.](https://korrents.com/k/marco-rubio-is-struggling-to-hire-e9720e)
- [Israel's actions in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon amount to ethnic cleansing and genocide.](https://korrents.com/k/israel-s-actions-in-gaza-the-0d96f4)
- [The current US government uses false antisemitism accusations to damage and control institutions it views as enemies.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-us-government-uses-false-b735e8)
- [Framing anti-genocide protests as antisemitic and unsafe began under the Biden administration, not Trump's.](https://korrents.com/k/framing-anti-genocide-protests-as-antisemitic-and-b1069e)
- [Boredom is when the mind starts assembling ideas on its own.](https://korrents.com/k/boredom-is-when-the-mind-starts-894e72)
- [There is little point in not being ambitious.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-little-point-in-not-76cbe6)
- [In an age of abundant information, a person's judgment, taste and perspective are their primary value as a writer.](https://korrents.com/k/in-an-age-of-abundant-information-ba7602)
- [Despite evidence that audiences value genuine connection, most communicators rarely respond when readers reach out.](https://korrents.com/k/despite-evidence-that-audiences-value-genuine-59df46)
- [Writing voice is what remains once a writer stops editing themselves out, not something added on top.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-voice-is-what-remains-once-676a19)
- [People are more likely to work through major life problems when they have at least one person they can confide in and who supports them.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-more-likely-to-work-4a3512)
- [Taking on total responsibility for another capable adult's life is wrong; each person is responsible for their own psyche and life.](https://korrents.com/k/taking-on-total-responsibility-for-another-1d1dbb)
- [Love makes it possible to bridge the fundamental gap between two people; alienation is refusing to try.](https://korrents.com/k/love-makes-it-possible-to-bridge-d8edda)
- [High-end knife steel upgrades have hit diminishing returns, needing far more resources for gains that aren't noticeable based on specs alone.](https://korrents.com/k/high-end-knife-steel-upgrades-have-hit-9f92df)
- [A knife company's clip design quality is a sign of the maturity of its overall design aesthetic.](https://korrents.com/k/a-knife-company-s-clip-design-757da3)
- [Most everyday users do not care much about how many states a dark/light mode toggle has.](https://korrents.com/k/most-everyday-users-do-not-care-0642e0)
- [The Interop initiative is a valuable effort despite the criticism it draws.](https://korrents.com/k/the-interop-initiative-is-a-valuable-e7722c)
- [AI is one of the biggest challenges facing the structured workout training industry today.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-one-of-the-biggest-79bc8e)
- [Free structured running workouts are now so widely available that paying for AI-generated versions adds little value.](https://korrents.com/k/free-structured-running-workouts-are-now-9f6381)
- [Nearly every technology company today wants recurring subscription revenue.](https://korrents.com/k/nearly-every-technology-company-today-wants-26d79d)
- [Money someone will never spend is not really their own.](https://korrents.com/k/money-someone-will-never-spend-is-d23730)
- [People hate paying taxes more than they like making money.](https://korrents.com/k/people-hate-paying-taxes-more-than-523f72)
- [Gains earned too quickly can trap an investor in a position they feel unable to escape.](https://korrents.com/k/gains-earned-too-quickly-can-trap-efc11c)
- [Regulation works best when it targets concrete, identified harms and worst when it is authorized to address vague, broad fears.](https://korrents.com/k/regulation-works-best-when-it-targets-a2e138)
- [Regulation works well in stable conditions of technology and social arrangements but poorly when those arrangements are likely to change greatly.](https://korrents.com/k/regulation-works-well-in-stable-conditions-c6eb61)
- [There is no natural, clear dividing line between AI and other kinds of software.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-natural-clear-dividing-f39c87)
- [An AI product that adds a tab for each new form factor is shipping its org chart, and users seem to be reacting negatively to it.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-product-that-adds-a-9a592c)
- [As models get smarter, users should no more need second-by-second updates from an AI agent than from a teammate.](https://korrents.com/k/as-models-get-smarter-users-should-34b45d)
- [Much of what people want from AI is not menus and features but something they can hand a meaningful task to and have it done.](https://korrents.com/k/much-of-what-people-want-from-2ee667)
- [Adding things to a product is not the goal and is not what makes it more useful to more people.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-things-to-a-product-is-eb4764)
- [Users should never have to think about whether an AI agent's work runs locally or in the cloud.](https://korrents.com/k/users-should-never-have-to-think-15b900)
- [AI agents need their own computers, because people do not do their jobs through APIs but by clicking and typing on a computer.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-need-their-own-computers-3e7457)
- [Companies with sunk cost in an existing paradigm find it very painful to build the new thing from scratch.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-with-sunk-cost-in-an-62d7a2)
- [People should have a team of AI bots that help them with their job and their life, and it should really feel like a team.](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-have-a-team-of-343200)
- [When an AI product decision is unclear, the answer usually comes from asking what you would want from a human teammate.](https://korrents.com/k/when-an-ai-product-decision-is-eefdff)
- [The power tools of the future will probably be mostly intent and steering from the human, with AI abstracting away all the knobs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-power-tools-of-the-future-a061a9)
- [One product will probably be the best form factor for both work and personal AI assistants.](https://korrents.com/k/one-product-will-probably-be-the-fd2014)
- [The next shift in AI will probably be agents that are more proactive toward you than you are toward them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-shift-in-ai-will-964762)
- [AI for knowledge work will probably follow coding's adoption pattern, with many people first feeling the aha moment in a personal capacity.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-for-knowledge-work-will-probably-1558d2)
- [An AI you have to supervise at 90 percent is not 90 percent task completion: you are still doing the thing.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-you-have-to-supervise-dc34c3)
- [What defines a startup is not headcount or funding round but a chaotic, disorganized scramble energy.](https://korrents.com/k/what-defines-a-startup-is-not-15301b)
- [An AI product company that cannot completely reinvent itself every six months is going to lose.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-product-company-that-cannot-a9ee31)
- [Product scaffolding built because models are not yet smart enough should be deleted as they improve, even when that upsets some users.](https://korrents.com/k/product-scaffolding-built-because-models-are-4e2eeb)
- [Founders starting out today should be more grounded in making possible something that is not possible now.](https://korrents.com/k/founders-starting-out-today-should-be-f249ab)
- [An “AI trained on person X” cannot stand in for that person, because people change their minds in light of new information and the model does not.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-trained-on-person-x-000e69)
- [In a fast-changing industry, anyone genuinely keeping up will change their mind as the developments happen.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-fast-changing-industry-anyone-genuinely-c9d7b4)
- [A likely outcome is that many occupations are eventually mostly replaced by AI while humans still have plenty to do.](https://korrents.com/k/many-occupations-will-eventually-be-mostly-edb20d)
- [Humans will always have jobs keeping AI agents on track.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-will-always-have-jobs-keeping-f32427)
- [The smartest people the author knows hold strong opinions weakly and change them with new information, while the dumbest keep opinions fixed just to stay consistent.](https://korrents.com/k/smarter-people-hold-their-opinions-firmly-b7c7be)
- [Even if Trumponomics worked, it would not end the resentment feeding America's authoritarian movement.](https://korrents.com/k/reducing-trade-deficits-and-reviving-manufacturing-4e68af)
- [America's large trade deficit in manufactured goods means fewer US manufacturing jobs than balanced trade would.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-s-large-trade-deficit-ed677d)
- [Especially with AI now, anyone can arguably try, and non-technical people with the best ideas, taste, and grasp of the cultural zeitgeist can win.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-lowered-the-barrier-enough-42d24e)
- [Entrepreneurship is one of the most challenging pursuits, comparable to professional sports in how few people actually succeed.](https://korrents.com/k/entrepreneurship-is-one-of-the-most-1f7c28)
- [The former East Germany is no longer a deeply economically depressed region.](https://korrents.com/k/the-former-east-germany-is-no-bc3eb4)
- [The AI jobs prediction is playing out the opposite of what most people expected — AI is creating and growing job categories, not eliminating them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-jobs-prediction-is-playing-9e2ba4)
- [Alignment is the central problem in AI, not a side problem: if solved, the rest becomes easy; if not, the rest is impossible or worse.](https://korrents.com/k/solving-ai-alignment-is-the-central-88b080)
- [An antifragile AI ally that works to shape its own character, a 'friendly gradient hacker', is arguably the only way alignment can ultimately work.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-reliable-way-to-build-c165af)
- [Quarterbacks account for almost a third of a football team's total player value.](https://korrents.com/k/quarterbacks-account-for-almost-a-third-7f48a4)
- [Efficiency measures such as yards per play and first downs gained are generally more predictive than scoring alone.](https://korrents.com/k/efficiency-measures-like-yards-per-play-710fef)
- [Touchdown rates are noisy and opportunity-dependent, and don't transfer well when a quarterback changes teams.](https://korrents.com/k/touchdown-rates-are-noisy-and-opportunity-dependent-ad735b)
- [Unit tests have become just more source code to maintain — only end-to-end tests can be trusted to guard real behavior.](https://korrents.com/k/unit-tests-have-become-just-more-e4575c)
- [More personal and professional computing will come from agents orchestrating work in cloud sandboxes, and those sandboxes will be Linux.](https://korrents.com/k/more-personal-and-professional-computing-will-8592d2)
- [Blender beats its competitors because agents can train on it and use it efficiently, and open source software wins.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-wins-because-agents-can-ca1473)
- [Every piece of software, Linux included, is now at major risk, but Linux has the collective investment of everyone on the planet throwing AI tokens at it.](https://korrents.com/k/every-piece-of-software-is-at-968524)
- [Video game graphics pipelines will shift to visually prompting neural renderers.](https://korrents.com/k/video-game-graphics-pipelines-will-shift-a79719)
- [The case for building AGI has always been framed around invention, such as curing cancer or solving fusion energy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-case-for-building-agi-has-006159)
- [AGI should not be declared until AI is capable of invention, including conceptual breakthroughs, novel insights, and new real-world technology.](https://korrents.com/k/agi-should-not-be-declared-until-07b8db)
- [Anyone mourning the loss of writing code by hand should try falling in love with solving problems instead — that may be what they loved the whole time.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-mourning-the-loss-of-writing-12c2cb)
- [A foreign manufacturer that wants access to the American market should have to build in America.](https://korrents.com/k/a-foreign-manufacturer-that-wants-access-92af3f)
- [All of AI engineering increasingly seems to be involution (Neijuan): a system demanding ever more effort and competition without improving output.](https://korrents.com/k/all-of-ai-engineering-is-involution-01d5e8)
- [Locally optimizing easily measured code metrics does not produce global optimums, and the fewer people look at the output, the less that matters.](https://korrents.com/k/local-optimizations-of-easily-measured-code-4a7dd3)
- [Countering the far right requires addressing voters' desire for an outsider identity, not just their economic grievances.](https://korrents.com/k/countering-the-far-right-requires-addressing-3a482e)
- [Publicly embracing a taboo, extremist identity can function as a costly signal that builds political authenticity and loyalty.](https://korrents.com/k/publicly-embracing-a-taboo-extremist-identity-c79388)
- [Support for populist right-wing parties is driven more by rejection of the status quo and anti-immigrant sentiment than by demand for economic redistribution.](https://korrents.com/k/support-for-populist-right-wing-parties-is-da358c)
- [Carbon capture technology is worth continuing to research, even though it is not yet a solution to climate change.](https://korrents.com/k/carbon-capture-technology-is-worth-continuing-744ccb)
- [Rapidly building out cheap solar, wind and battery capacity is currently the one climate action the world knows how to execute at scale.](https://korrents.com/k/rapidly-building-out-cheap-solar-wind-f159c5)
- [Scaling up clean energy is more effective when it is paired with retiring fossil fuel infrastructure.](https://korrents.com/k/scaling-up-clean-energy-is-more-663cee)
- [For a mystery-box TV show to work, its world-building must be imaginative and believable and its characters compelling.](https://korrents.com/k/for-a-mystery-box-tv-show-to-7cdd14)
- [Fully revealing a mystery-box show's central plot often disappoints viewers, flattening everything that happened before it.](https://korrents.com/k/fully-revealing-a-mystery-box-show-s-ff0bf8)
- [A neural network's latent space is closer to an uncopyrightable syntax than to copyrightable expression.](https://korrents.com/k/a-neural-network-s-latent-space-3ef4de)
- [As AI models keep scaling up, the value of any single training source keeps shrinking.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-models-keep-scaling-up-83bde4)
- [Copyright law's purpose is to incentivize creation for public benefit, not to guarantee revenue streams.](https://korrents.com/k/copyright-law-s-purpose-is-to-30a27b)
- [The methods and techniques a writer uses to compose a work shape the finished work as much as a painter's or musician's technical choices shape theirs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-methods-and-techniques-a-writer-e15ebc)
- [A loosely plotted, anarchic novel requires a correspondingly loose, unplanned writing process to produce it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-loosely-plotted-anarchic-novel-requires-e83ac1)
- [As AI systems become more capable, their agents will increasingly find ways to create their own communication systems.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-systems-become-more-capable-96f499)
- [As AI agents begin communicating with each other, those channels can be used to monitor them for deception.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-agents-begin-communicating-with-d7e7e4)
- [How to approach space colonization will become one of the next major topics of human discussion.](https://korrents.com/k/how-to-approach-space-colonization-will-d65ce3)
- [Consumer safety reports on food contaminants often use reference benchmarks so conservative that the resulting warnings don't hold up.](https://korrents.com/k/consumer-safety-reports-on-food-contaminants-c02db6)
- [One bad night of sleep is generally compensated for, though it stacks the deck slightly against performance.](https://korrents.com/k/one-bad-night-of-sleep-is-01b582)
- [Disclosure of rogue AI agent incidents should be mandatory for AI labs, not left to their own discretion.](https://korrents.com/k/disclosure-of-rogue-ai-agent-incidents-f2e2ca)
- [Any task, even a harmless one, can be turned into an in-context impossible or very difficult task.](https://korrents.com/k/any-task-can-be-made-arbitrarily-5f778b)
- [Cyber insurance prices can be expected to rise somewhat, though why they have kept falling is far from obvious.](https://korrents.com/k/cyber-insurance-prices-are-likely-to-77508e)
- [Software only gets good by being used a lot by the people building it, so time spent inside coding agents instead of the app is time that makes the app worse.](https://korrents.com/k/software-only-gets-good-by-being-cfeda0)
- [Rising concentration in the stock market is a feature of bull markets rather than a warning sign.](https://korrents.com/k/rising-concentration-in-the-stock-market-c1aed4)
- [The weight of the largest US companies in the index matches their share of the earnings, so the concentration is justified.](https://korrents.com/k/the-weight-of-the-largest-us-4173a0)
- [Whatever AI does to the size of the pie, it will most likely increase concentration in the market and the economy.](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-ai-does-to-the-size-b6709f)
- [In war the length of the fighting matters far more than its ferocity.](https://korrents.com/k/in-war-the-length-of-the-a35b06)
- [Trying to hold escalation down in Ukraine did not contain the war; it lengthened it and made it worse.](https://korrents.com/k/trying-to-hold-escalation-down-in-6dabd8)
- [The American military is being run on the Russian model rather than the Ukrainian one, and it should be rebuilt on the Ukrainian principles instead.](https://korrents.com/k/the-american-military-is-being-run-7a7fce)
- [The current speed of AI progress could be sustained all the way into recursive self-improvement.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-speed-of-ai-progress-03c723)
- [Nobody is prepared for the consequences of machine intelligence continuing to rise this fast.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-is-prepared-for-the-consequences-fb9f70)
- [AI is grown rather than designed, which is why its overall behaviour resists any description we can fully understand.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-grown-rather-than-designed-26cf4b)
- [The fundamental challenge of alignment is generalization: holding values in situations the training never covered.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fundamental-challenge-of-alignment-is-ebd5fc)
- [Chain-of-thought monitoring is getting less reliable, not more, as models grow more capable.](https://korrents.com/k/chain-of-thought-monitoring-is-getting-less-reliable-777924)
- [Confidence in monitoring, not capability research, will become the binding constraint on AI progress.](https://korrents.com/k/confidence-in-monitoring-not-capability-research-7fd647)
- [Models are becoming superhuman at breaking in and out of computer systems, which widens the scope of AI risk enormously.](https://korrents.com/k/models-are-becoming-superhuman-at-breaking-ee35ab)
- [Some AI agents will pursue their own objectives rather than serve as tools, and will bargain with, trick or blackmail people to do it.](https://korrents.com/k/some-ai-agents-will-pursue-their-e6157b)
- [The strongest reason to keep training much smarter models quickly is to build defences against other AI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-strongest-reason-to-keep-training-6e395b)
- [Needing to build defences is not a licence to race: racing forward at all costs is absurd given the stakes.](https://korrents.com/k/needing-to-build-defences-is-not-5d40c3)
- [How far AI systems are scaled must be constrained by how confident we are in their safety.](https://korrents.com/k/how-far-ai-systems-are-scaled-ec6e7c)
- [No lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed much longer.](https://korrents.com/k/no-lab-has-solved-alignment-and-0f1a38)
- [Voluntary slowdowns should become commonplace until shared safety bars are established.](https://korrents.com/k/voluntary-slowdowns-should-become-commonplace-until-c9a759)
- [International coordination on AI development should become a top priority for governments around the world.](https://korrents.com/k/international-coordination-on-ai-development-should-0c7309)
- [Legacy media is far left and therefore treats normalcy as far right.](https://korrents.com/k/legacy-media-is-far-left-and-269c71)
- [A society cannot remove the desire for status, only change what earns it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-society-cannot-remove-the-desire-c93d80)
- [People sometimes publicly defend ideas and punish dissenters they privately agree with, in order to protect their own reputation.](https://korrents.com/k/people-sometimes-publicly-defend-ideas-and-54f41b)
- [There is no one right way to live; different, opposing choices can be equally valid.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-one-right-way-d1ca85)
- [Involuntary patterns reveal something true about a person, and even their deliberate actions are a form of unintentional self-expression.](https://korrents.com/k/involuntary-patterns-reveal-something-true-about-300da4)
- [Someone who claims doom is imminent but does not change their own life decisions to match probably does not really believe it.](https://korrents.com/k/someone-who-claims-doom-is-imminent-edfc79)
- [Social pressure to stay near the consensus stops people from adopting beliefs that diverge from it, especially when the stakes are high.](https://korrents.com/k/social-pressure-to-stay-near-the-8506c8)
- [Not truly believing a claim, or failing to act on it, does not make the claim false.](https://korrents.com/k/not-truly-believing-a-claim-or-f83172)
- [The fear of falling into an AI-made permanent underclass is a funny dark fantasy Silicon Valley seems to hold collectively.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fear-of-falling-into-an-684dad)
- [There will be no sudden fast takeoff in AI, even though model progress is happening faster than ever.](https://korrents.com/k/there-will-be-no-sudden-fast-e85fea)
- [People may be overestimating how many problems are bound by intelligence rather than by other things.](https://korrents.com/k/people-may-be-overestimating-how-many-c232e9)
- [The most ambitious companies are rethinking everything around the models, while others are only giving existing teams access to AI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-ambitious-companies-are-rethinking-ce0351)
- [Companies will probably come to run on a cascade of AI loops, from a loop per person up to loops that run large parts of the company.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-will-probably-come-to-run-170c8b)
- [An AI loop can climb to a local maximum but then plateaus, and human intuition is needed to find the next hill.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-loop-can-climb-to-5671d8)
- [When every idea can be tried, many product managers will probably find they are not that good at zero-to-one work.](https://korrents.com/k/when-every-idea-can-be-tried-6e5c50)
- [Founders should ask how they would reorganize the company if AI were infinitely intelligent and astonishingly cheap, because that is where things are going.](https://korrents.com/k/founders-should-ask-how-they-would-3607dc)
- [AI models are not commodities, and people who think they are fungible have not actually used them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-are-not-commodities-and-b17b24)
- [People do not really want to be more productive; more of them probably want to spend time than save it.](https://korrents.com/k/people-do-not-really-want-to-4d9baa)
- [Forty years of computing built technology that extends the intellect but nothing that extends the soul.](https://korrents.com/k/forty-years-of-computing-built-technology-2e951b)
- [AI that makes people feel more connected and loved is a product design challenge, not a model capability challenge.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-that-makes-people-feel-more-54c278)
- [AI unbundles skill from desire: someone can now make music without knowing how to play an instrument.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-unbundles-skill-from-desire-someone-082ce9)
- [The most important thing AI can do to change the public conversation about it is make important things like health care and education cheap.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-important-thing-ai-can-12b45f)
- [Calling a model too dangerous to release conflates marketing, inference capacity and competitive considerations.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-a-model-too-dangerous-to-779c1d)
- [Human desires have always grown faster than the ability to fulfill them.](https://korrents.com/k/human-desires-have-always-grown-faster-327f86)
- [None of the classic business moats are based on how hard the software is to make.](https://korrents.com/k/none-of-the-classic-business-moats-efd3d3)
- [Big product ideas rest on a dozen invisible small ideas that a copier never sees.](https://korrents.com/k/big-product-ideas-rest-on-a-67405f)
- [Nobody has a growth problem these days; they have a product problem.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-has-a-growth-problem-these-0427a6)
- [For investors today, the idea not worth engaging with is the one that is too small, where it used to be the one that was too ambitious.](https://korrents.com/k/for-investors-today-the-idea-not-a20587)
- [A large, sustained AI capability lead by either the US or China could shift the global balance of power between them.](https://korrents.com/k/a-large-sustained-ai-capability-lead-fcc55a)
- [It seems much more likely that China would cooperate on AI safety if US AI capabilities were comfortably ahead.](https://korrents.com/k/china-is-more-likely-to-cooperate-7ec5a9)
- [AI-enabled cyberwarfare lacks an equivalent of nuclear deterrence's mutually assured destruction.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-enabled-cyberwarfare-lacks-an-equivalent-of-e56a0c)
- [With AGI on the horizon, online and offline communities will probably become really important.](https://korrents.com/k/as-agi-approaches-online-and-offline-26badc)
- [Remote work and entrepreneurship take away shared spaces, like offices, where people used to make friends or meet partners.](https://korrents.com/k/remote-work-and-entrepreneurship-take-away-ce37e3)
- [Large language models diffuse knowledge and capabilities in a powerful and strange way, while perhaps also nudging people independently toward building the same things.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-diffuse-knowledge-and-1b2b01)
- [Dropped passes should, with high confidence, be attributed to the receiver rather than the quarterback.](https://korrents.com/k/receivers-not-quarterbacks-deserve-the-blame-a31889)
- [Quarterback sneaks are almost purely a result of the offensive line and/or opportunities, not quarterback skill.](https://korrents.com/k/quarterback-sneak-touchdowns-mainly-reflect-the-9d28f9)
- [People are simple creatures, so communicating with them sometimes requires talking to them on their level.](https://korrents.com/k/people-respond-to-how-a-price-bd0139)
- [Vaginal estrogen is a safe, effective and badly underused therapy for postmenopausal women, and it probably saves lives.](https://korrents.com/k/vaginal-estrogen-is-a-safe-effective-d3a560)
- [A drug that moves a surrogate blood marker in the right direction cannot be assumed to prevent heart attacks and strokes.](https://korrents.com/k/a-drug-that-moves-a-surrogate-fa56a0)
- [Inflammation's role in coronary artery disease is proven, not hypothetical; what is missing is a safe and potent way to reduce it.](https://korrents.com/k/inflammation-s-role-in-coronary-artery-c104d1)
- [When a jury deadlocks, double jeopardy should bar a retrial, because the prosecution has already had its one fair chance to convict.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-jury-deadlocks-double-jeopardy-65953e)
- [The right to a fair trial belongs to the defendant alone; there is no public right to be weighed against it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-to-a-fair-trial-08a44b)
- [A defendant's only job at trial is to prevent a unanimous conviction, never to win a unanimous acquittal.](https://korrents.com/k/a-defendant-s-only-job-at-820dd3)
- [Test-time scaling seems to have gained a third axis: latent space reasoning iterations in looped transformers.](https://korrents.com/k/test-time-scaling-has-gained-a-third-4fa248)
- [Most of a song's useful bass information sits in the 60–120 Hz range rather than in the deepest frequencies.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-a-song-s-useful-95cd59)
- [A revised version of an established product is usually just different from the original, not actually better.](https://korrents.com/k/a-revised-version-of-an-established-4104c1)
- [What makes a piece of gear worth using as a reference is its performance, not its price.](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-a-piece-of-gear-6b65bc)
- [Far more of reality than expected can be turned into semi-closed, playable environments where accumulated practice eventually becomes automatable.](https://korrents.com/k/far-more-of-reality-than-expected-23c35d)
- [Mathematical creativity works best with open, associative boundaries for generating ideas but strict, mechanical boundaries for verifying them.](https://korrents.com/k/mathematical-creativity-works-best-with-open-3d6bd2)
- [A fully closed, well-specified system can still discover genuinely novel territory that no human has explored.](https://korrents.com/k/a-fully-closed-well-specified-system-can-2be71d)
- [Reviewing AI-written code means asking whether it does anything dangerous, touches only the expected files, is covered by tests and follows architecture convention, then only spot-checking the code itself.](https://korrents.com/k/reviewing-ai-written-code-means-asking-whether-612532)
- [Web applications are generally expected to treat GET requests as safe and not use them to change server-side data, though not all software follows that convention.](https://korrents.com/k/web-applications-are-generally-expected-to-777c55)
- [When Reuters uses the phrase 'people familiar with the matter', it means it has anonymous insider sources its reporters and editors find credible.](https://korrents.com/k/the-phrase-people-familiar-with-the-530dfb)
- [Top AI labs consistently downplay risks in their rhetoric, even when they are doing the right thing in practice.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-labs-tend-to-downplay-safety-c64ed2)
- [Mythos 5.1 should be treated as a Tier 2 influence-operation manipulator until it can be shown not to be one.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-capability-evaluation-benchmark-is-07af54)
- [For agents built on Claude Fable 5.1, it is in practice safe for now to assume they will not get prompt injected.](https://korrents.com/k/current-prompt-injection-defenses-for-ai-agents-aadabc)
- [It is our right, and maybe our moral duty, to reshape the universe to our preferences](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-our-right-and-maybe-8b2089)
- [You should work on raising the ceiling, not the floor](https://korrents.com/k/you-should-work-on-raising-the-91736b)
- [Doing things fast is important because you make contact with reality more often](https://korrents.com/k/doing-things-fast-is-important-because-449898)
- [The efficient market hypothesis is at best a very lossy heuristic](https://korrents.com/k/the-efficient-market-hypothesis-is-at-154236)
- [The replication crisis is not an aberration; many of the things we believe are wrong](https://korrents.com/k/the-replication-crisis-is-not-an-f9ef0b)
- [The cultural prohibition on micromanagement is harmful](https://korrents.com/k/the-cultural-prohibition-on-micromanagement-is-2b5cc3)
- [Smaller teams are better](https://korrents.com/k/smaller-teams-are-better-4f82df)
- [Large engineering projects are more soluble in IQ than they appear, and many tech companies are overstaffed](https://korrents.com/k/large-engineering-projects-are-more-soluble-6be452)
- [Where you get your dopamine predicts your behavior](https://korrents.com/k/where-you-get-your-dopamine-predicts-0627bd)
- [AI coding agents pulling unknown code onto corporate networks will be exploited, and it will take the shape of a supply-chain attack.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-coding-agents-pulling-unknown-code-75a7d5)
- [Atlas is the first model to unify pixel generation and pixel reconstruction, two tracks computer vision has kept apart for over half a century.](https://korrents.com/k/atlas-is-the-first-model-to-01664c)
- [Spatial intelligence has to let us generate a space, reason inside it, and edit and interact within it; anything less is not spatial intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/spatial-intelligence-has-to-let-us-11872f)
- [The fundamental problem spatial intelligence must solve is understanding the geometry, the structure and the physics of a space.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fundamental-problem-spatial-intelligence-must-926ae9)
- [Generating pixels was the easy step; generating pixels that are spatially contextualised and grounded is the hard one.](https://korrents.com/k/generating-pixels-was-the-easy-step-47eb1a)
- [The camera pose is the most critical piece of information about the geometry of a space, which is why estimating it for every frame is the real advance.](https://korrents.com/k/the-camera-pose-is-the-most-220f79)
- [The scaling law for world models was a conviction held in advance, not a discovery; the devils were always in the architecture choices and the data mixture.](https://korrents.com/k/the-scaling-law-for-world-models-330ae6)
- [The biggest problem in robotics today is data, not chips; chips become the bottleneck later.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-problem-in-robotics-today-ec9c35)
- [Robot training data is not just recordings of a task: the environment has to be randomised, or the policy only ever learns the one cable it was shown.](https://korrents.com/k/robot-training-data-is-not-just-5ef1dd)
- [There is not yet a frontier foundation model robust enough for robotics.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-not-yet-a-frontier-768444)
- [Intelligence is not sitting still and interpreting what you see; it is closing the loop between seeing, experiencing and interacting.](https://korrents.com/k/intelligence-is-not-sitting-still-and-1bd8d1)
- [Nature gave eyes to animals and not to trees because eyes are only worth having if you move, and moving is what produces a new viewpoint.](https://korrents.com/k/nature-gave-eyes-to-animals-and-f87716)
- [New view prediction is to spatial intelligence what next token prediction is to language.](https://korrents.com/k/new-view-prediction-is-to-spatial-96b17f)
- [A model that invents an aerial view of the Stanford quad out of photographs taken from the ground is generating pixels that still obey the laws of reconstruction.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-that-invents-an-aerial-3e12e9)
- [Temperatures from high-emissions climate scenarios are a plausible upper bound on future warming, even though the emissions themselves are unlikely.](https://korrents.com/k/temperatures-from-high-emissions-climate-scenarios-are-235bb6)
- [In risk management, severe but low-probability outcomes should shape policy responses, not just the likeliest scenario.](https://korrents.com/k/in-risk-management-severe-but-low-probability-eea87e)
- [Climate models may be underestimating how much future warming will occur.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-models-may-be-underestimating-how-9614cd)
- [Incompatible, walled-off vendor systems that refuse to interoperate are a form of enshittification.](https://korrents.com/k/incompatible-walled-off-vendor-systems-that-refuse-53ba57)
- [The early Web 2.0-era promise of universal API interoperability and user ownership of data and control never materialized.](https://korrents.com/k/the-early-web-2-0-era-promise-f9818b)
- [Real-time AI video generation can be used to create games and worlds generated on demand instead of pre-built.](https://korrents.com/k/real-time-ai-video-generation-can-be-0c7777)
- [Tesla will eventually upgrade Hardware 3 cars to newer self-driving hardware, possibly for free.](https://korrents.com/k/tesla-will-eventually-upgrade-hardware-3-56806f)
- [Self-driving software can improve rapidly through updates alone, without new hardware.](https://korrents.com/k/self-driving-software-can-improve-rapidly-through-d59d08)
- [A conspiracy theory can be used as a pretext to dismantle government programs and target researchers and citizens.](https://korrents.com/k/a-conspiracy-theory-can-be-used-ced83a)
- [US support for far-right anti-EU political parties is partly driven by a wish to let US tech companies evade European regulation and taxation.](https://korrents.com/k/us-support-for-far-right-anti-eu-political-3f42fc)
- [Society was better off before everyone's political opinions on every issue were widely known.](https://korrents.com/k/society-was-better-off-before-everyone-6f8673)
- [Interfaces shape what people notice, categorize, remember, and consider possible to do.](https://korrents.com/k/interfaces-shape-what-people-notice-categorize-0cf7de)
- [Widely shared interface conventions amount to a form of mass education nobody enrolled in.](https://korrents.com/k/widely-shared-interface-conventions-amount-to-ccf07d)
- [Practicing computational thinking is increasingly important because ordinary life is now thoroughly mediated by software.](https://korrents.com/k/practicing-computational-thinking-is-increasingly-important-76cb8c)
- [A great actor is not merely pretending but shapeshifting into another self.](https://korrents.com/k/a-great-actor-is-not-merely-11103e)
- [A too-faithful remake of an existing work squanders creative effort that could have made something new.](https://korrents.com/k/a-too-faithful-remake-of-an-existing-18b4bd)
- [The DSM's revision process has no consistent standard for when practical or political consequences should be allowed to override the available evidence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-dsm-s-revision-process-has-259299)
- [The DSM does not deserve the respect and authority currently given to it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-dsm-does-not-deserve-the-64cae2)
- [Restructuring the DSM's chapter organization to add categories like a postpartum chapter is blocked only by self-imposed rules and conventions, not by any deeper constraint.](https://korrents.com/k/restructuring-the-dsm-s-chapter-organization-0c7034)
- [Self-driving software capability keeps improving rapidly even without new hardware.](https://korrents.com/k/self-driving-software-capability-keeps-improving-rapidly-aa94b6)
- [The rule of volume contradicts the common instinct that a more expensive surgery is better than a cheaper one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-surgeon-s-or-hospital-s-84906a)
- [A disorderly flow where everything opportunistically takes the effective path and exploits gaps is natural, like water flowing around obstacles.](https://korrents.com/k/unplanned-systems-where-individuals-act-opportunistically-903fcd)
- [A benchmark that ranks Claude Code last while it stays first in use is measuring the wrong thing, and has been for a year.](https://korrents.com/k/a-benchmark-that-ranks-claude-code-88cc59)
- [When a benchmark disagrees with what people actually adopt, what it is telling you is that the thing it measures does not matter.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-benchmark-disagrees-with-what-77f2fc)
- [In US-China AI competition the closed labs are beside the point; the competitor that shifts things must be American, open source and able to serve inference at scale.](https://korrents.com/k/in-us-china-ai-competition-the-closed-3a59c9)
- [A coding-agent company should not train its own model: it has to stay neutral ground for models to compete on.](https://korrents.com/k/a-coding-agent-company-should-not-train-9b5a58)
- [An economy needs lots of energy consumption in order to escape poverty.](https://korrents.com/k/high-per-capita-energy-consumption-is-necessary-c7e486)
- [People won't get flying cars anytime soon because they don't really want them.](https://korrents.com/k/flying-cars-remain-undeveloped-mainly-because-6b3ad6)
- [Solar power has, broadly speaking, won the energy technology race because good, cheap batteries now make it reliable.](https://korrents.com/k/solar-power-combined-with-batteries-has-258ae7)
- [OpenAI's use of a technique letting models shift thinking outside the visible Chain of Thought is playing with fire and potentially extremely bad news.](https://korrents.com/k/a-technique-that-lets-an-ai-9442a9)
- [The cycle of claiming each strong new Chinese AI model means America is falling behind will keep recurring for a while.](https://korrents.com/k/every-impressive-new-chinese-ai-model-b8551f)
- [Public fear of AI-driven mass job loss is itself a harm to the labor market, separate from whether the job losses actually happen.](https://korrents.com/k/public-fear-of-ai-driven-mass-job-e98167)
- [Europe's dominant cultural spirit is anti-tech, anti-AI, anti-entrepreneurship, anti-business and anti-progress.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-s-dominant-cultural-spirit-is-7b9909)
- [Portugal collectively decided to remain relatively poor and technologically and intellectually behind.](https://korrents.com/k/portugal-deliberately-chose-to-remain-relatively-d66305)
- [A healthy on-call schedule needs six or more engineers if every alert is to be taken seriously by an engineer focused mainly on on-call and stability.](https://korrents.com/k/a-healthy-on-call-rotation-needs-at-7d782a)
- [Innovation tends to come from slack time away from firefighting, not from being fully utilized.](https://korrents.com/k/innovation-tends-to-come-from-slack-09a878)
- [Large layoffs tend to push out the best employees, who quit for competitors or start their own companies.](https://korrents.com/k/large-layoffs-tend-to-push-out-98a74d)
- [Midterm races in the modern era tend not to change much between Labor Day and Election Day.](https://korrents.com/k/national-congressional-polling-tends-to-stay-797fa0)
- [A new poll in a single state such as Michigan or Maine pretty much affects that state's race and that state only.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-midterm-year-a-new-887a07)
- [Capabilities provided by harnesses around AI models are increasingly shifting into the model itself.](https://korrents.com/k/capabilities-that-used-to-require-sophisticated-160052)
- [AI model capabilities have not slowed down so far, and their progress probably won't stop anytime soon.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-model-capability-progress-is-not-792bcf)
- [Improving Next.js chunking can yield massive efficiency improvements at internet scale.](https://korrents.com/k/optimizing-javascript-chunking-strategy-can-produce-8e9893)
- [Changing your mind in light of new facts should be celebrated rather than held against you.](https://korrents.com/k/changing-your-mind-in-light-of-b09527)
- [Portfolios get changed because of life events far more often than because of market events.](https://korrents.com/k/portfolios-get-changed-because-of-life-7302d3)
- [Saving dominates returns early in a career and returns dominate saving later, because compounding is back-loaded.](https://korrents.com/k/saving-dominates-returns-early-in-a-9f1ba7)
- [Almost everything about starting a startup is the same whatever the technology of the era — microprocessors, AI or the internal combustion engine.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-everything-about-starting-a-startup-23a50c)
- [The complaint that Y Combinator has jumped the shark is permanent rather than observational — it has been made since 2008, and it concedes that YC was once great.](https://korrents.com/k/the-complaint-that-y-combinator-has-de47a2)
- [You do not displace Google by attacking it head-on; you wait until the world has changed enough to make its model obsolete, which is what OpenAI did.](https://korrents.com/k/you-do-not-displace-google-by-50692f)
- [A founder needs ambition rather than a sense of duty, because a startup is grueling enough that dutifulness will not carry anyone through it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-founder-needs-ambition-rather-than-c2e51f)
- [What actually motivates founders day to day is fear of disaster and of looking like a fool, not the prospect of becoming rich.](https://korrents.com/k/what-actually-motivates-founders-day-to-af7a7f)
- [Ambition in founders is mostly inborn, which is why stories of a founder acquiring it during a batch are rare.](https://korrents.com/k/ambition-in-founders-is-mostly-inborn-9d0320)
- [The founders who look unambitious are not: they have been trained by obedient upbringings to hide their ambition rather than lacking it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-founders-who-look-unambitious-are-58f149)
- [Starting a startup is about the least efficient way there is to acquire prestige.](https://korrents.com/k/starting-a-startup-is-about-the-ecff76)
- [Being formidable means getting what you want in any situation, and that is exactly why investors want it: a formidable founder's interests and theirs are the same.](https://korrents.com/k/being-formidable-means-getting-what-you-30c0fd)
- [Even a rocket company can be started on very little money, because a founder adjusts the milestone to the money they have and raises the next round off it.](https://korrents.com/k/even-a-rocket-company-can-be-0e3154)
- [AI arrived backwards from what its founders expected: instead of a perfect insect mind working up to human, we got a human-level mind that is bad, and are now making it perfect.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-arrived-backwards-from-what-its-0f61b7)
- [AGI is not a finish line to be crossed but a smear with width, and we are already standing on it.](https://korrents.com/k/agi-is-not-a-finish-line-c84df4)
- [AI has changed almost nothing about how a startup works; the one genuinely new thing is that companies now carry enormous token bills.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-changed-almost-nothing-about-f715e8)
- [AI tools have not made shipping speed a solved problem, because shipping speed was never only the rate of production — you have to think of the ideas first.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-tools-have-not-made-shipping-10d9b4)
- [Y Combinator getting bigger does not change what it is like to be in it, because each startup lives inside a pod the size of the whole of YC in 2012.](https://korrents.com/k/y-combinator-getting-bigger-does-not-ee65d4)
- [The next trillion-dollar company will come from the right founders rather than from any particular idea.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-trillion-dollar-company-will-come-4a0df7)
- [Gamification is a brittle imitation of a real game, not an equivalent to it.](https://korrents.com/k/gamification-is-a-brittle-imitation-of-39a3a2)
- [A team performs better when an outsider introduces social friction, even though the group believes it performed worse.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-performs-better-when-an-718677)
- [Turning a game into a means to a broader purpose risks destroying the fun that makes it a game.](https://korrents.com/k/turning-a-game-into-a-means-3a3b0b)
- [With coding agents, working out the shape in lower-fidelity mock-ups first beats having the agent build it and then fixing the code: it takes fewer tokens and puts you on a better path.](https://korrents.com/k/with-coding-agents-working-out-the-497616)
- [There is an underserved market for tools that help people understand what is being built, rather than pump out more tokens, though it is hard to market.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-an-underserved-market-for-eb9ff0)
- [AI does not appear to be driving the recent decline in the U.S. college wage premium.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-not-the-primary-driver-d64d86)
- [Even Anthropic does not prioritize AI safety to the extent that doing so would maximize its own medium-term (3-12 month) business interests.](https://korrents.com/k/even-anthropic-does-not-prioritize-ai-4a35b9)
- [An AI model's attempt to escape a testing environment or sandbox counts as an alignment failure even when the attempt does not succeed.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-model-s-attempt-to-c4feb7)
- [Relying on AI misbehavior appearing gradually during training to catch misalignment may fail at exactly the most dangerous time.](https://korrents.com/k/relying-on-gradual-continuous-shifts-in-798815)
- [Claude shouldn't be trusted to summarize its own system prompts when material in them might impact its opinions.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-model-asked-to-summarize-77b803)
- [Investing in strong fundamentals and invisible supports makes good outcomes follow naturally](https://korrents.com/k/investing-in-strong-fundamentals-and-invisible-4014e0)
- [People may underestimate how many people use performance-enhancing drugs such as TRT, Tren, or HGH rather than being natural.](https://korrents.com/k/many-fit-looking-people-achieve-their-physique-16b367)
- [Most fitness-model and Hollywood-style physiques are the result of performance-enhancing drug use rather than natural training alone.](https://korrents.com/k/most-fitness-model-and-hollywood-style-physiques-are-2ad096)
- [Unlike later-stage investors, YC has to be prepared to give advice to founders about practically everything.](https://korrents.com/k/early-stage-investors-must-be-ready-to-dbc0df)
- [An unfinished work is worth nothing at all, not almost everything.](https://korrents.com/k/an-unfinished-work-is-worth-nothing-26aa54)
- [Applying scale-first, profit-later to every business is a cookbook that turns small failures into big ones.](https://korrents.com/k/applying-scale-first-profit-later-to-every-business-33bc63)
- [Venture capitalists are judged on the price they entered and exited at, not on the quality of the business they built.](https://korrents.com/k/venture-capitalists-are-judged-on-the-02a7a9)
- [The median venture capitalist has produced no more excess return than the median mutual-fund or private-equity manager.](https://korrents.com/k/the-median-venture-capitalist-has-produced-614f08)
- [The pull of fundamentals that used to reverse market momentum has weakened, so betting on mean reversion is more dangerous than it was.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pull-of-fundamentals-that-used-af864b)
- [Companies now go public later, bigger and unprofitable: fewer than a quarter of the last decade’s IPOs were making money.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-now-go-public-later-bigger-fce848)
- [A superpower's deferential posture toward rival great powers can alienate its allies while yielding no strategic payoff in return.](https://korrents.com/k/a-superpower-s-deferential-posture-toward-719ba7)
- [In nearly every society, men are killed at higher rates than women, usually by other men.](https://korrents.com/k/in-nearly-every-society-men-are-7adf85)
- [Happier couples respond to a partner's lapses by assuming distraction or tiredness rather than indifference.](https://korrents.com/k/happier-couples-respond-to-a-partner-933877)
- [An idea being popular, appealing or profitable doesn't mean it actually works.](https://korrents.com/k/an-idea-being-popular-appealing-or-297d8e)
- [Educational methods should be validated by measurable research, not by how satisfying they feel to students and teachers.](https://korrents.com/k/educational-methods-should-be-validated-by-ea1a0e)
- [Traditional institutions like news outlets and teachers are being replaced by independent digital content creators as sources of everyday advice.](https://korrents.com/k/traditional-institutions-like-news-outlets-and-7b5571)
- [Witnessing suffering, rather than solving it, may be the only way we can truly comprehend it.](https://korrents.com/k/witnessing-suffering-rather-than-solving-it-9df113)
- [The purpose of novels is to bear witness to the inexplicability of human life, not to solve it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-purpose-of-novels-is-to-562c0c)
- [The problems of contemporary society are fundamentally religious in nature.](https://korrents.com/k/the-problems-of-contemporary-society-are-e9cd68)
- [Large-scale institutional trust requires multiple major competing players rather than a single monopolistic controller, even in near-monopoly industries.](https://korrents.com/k/large-scale-institutional-trust-requires-multiple-major-083e43)
- [Believing that a small, tightly controlling cabal secretly runs a complex system of power is characteristic of conspiracy theorizing, not realistic analysis.](https://korrents.com/k/believing-that-a-small-tightly-controlling-041fc4)
- [Modern histories and reinterpretations of past cultures tend to minimize just how genuinely strange those cultures would feel if experienced directly.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-histories-and-reinterpretations-of-past-3940ba)
- [AI is dramatically changing how people work and is here to stay.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-dramatically-changing-how-people-cb8c7e)
- [A product that feels neutral enough becomes transparent: it helps you go from zero to one without being in your face.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-that-feels-neutral-enough-586951)
- [You should not need to read the name Vercel to feel that a website, landing page or billboard is Vercel's.](https://korrents.com/k/you-should-not-need-to-read-e76b0f)
- [What Vercel's brand got right was keeping everything super minimal, simple and easy to digest.](https://korrents.com/k/what-vercel-s-brand-got-right-deaa60)
- [One of the hardest things is to say no to incredible ideas and incredible products.](https://korrents.com/k/one-of-the-hardest-things-is-52ef48)
- [Being a designer is amazing, and designers are no longer just designers but builders who can create whatever they envision.](https://korrents.com/k/being-a-designer-is-amazing-and-415d34)
- [At this point an agent without the human factor will not do anything by itself, and designers are directors, though that may change with more sophisticated AI and robots.](https://korrents.com/k/at-this-point-an-agent-without-91fa36)
- [The best thing to do is build internal tools, not because it is cheaper but because they are easier to customise to your needs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-thing-to-do-is-d1ac5b)
- [Companies now build internal tools not to save money but for the purpose, intention and goal of the tool.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-now-build-internal-tools-not-ab03ed)
- [There will be a lot of internal tools open sourced, because solving a problem for your team probably solves it for other people too.](https://korrents.com/k/there-will-be-a-lot-of-6440f3)
- [What Vercel does properly is letting people do their magic and bring their own thing.](https://korrents.com/k/what-vercel-does-properly-is-letting-ed27f6)
- [Cutting people's wings, or not letting them fly high enough, is not a good thing.](https://korrents.com/k/cutting-people-s-wings-or-not-0b2d50)
- [Hiring stars is hard: it is hard to give them feedback and make them part of a bigger machine.](https://korrents.com/k/hiring-stars-is-hard-it-is-8072c5)
- [Sometimes the limit on building crazy ideas is tokens and money, but sometimes the limit is ourselves.](https://korrents.com/k/sometimes-the-limit-on-building-crazy-dc524a)
- [A design team needs three pillars: design engineering, product, and creative or brand.](https://korrents.com/k/a-design-team-needs-three-pillars-03bc76)
- [Everybody moving to sidebars is not something to be happy about; there are other ways to make it work.](https://korrents.com/k/everybody-moving-to-sidebars-is-not-5590a7)
- [AI alignment will forever involve balancing a tradeoff between paperclip-maximizing and disempowerment, because these rival concepts of alignment are fundamentally incompatible.](https://korrents.com/k/true-ai-alignment-is-impossible-because-dde339)
- [Humans will keep their jobs for a good long time because someone will need to keep AIs on task.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-will-keep-their-jobs-for-1ae14f)
- [America is missing out on the global electrification revolution, the first major tech shift it has completely whiffed on.](https://korrents.com/k/america-is-missing-out-on-the-b6f543)
- [Cybersecurity risks from advanced AI very likely will not come close to being as bad as either Covid or global warming.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-related-cybersecurity-damage-over-the-next-a2e2d6)
- [Americans have repeatedly overreacted drastically to real problems like DDT, Y2K, and nuclear power, swept up in fear after one vivid incident.](https://korrents.com/k/societies-have-a-pattern-of-drastically-04a67d)
- [AI is positively reinforced for success on benchmarks, including impossible ones, and then negatively reinforced for getting caught cheating.](https://korrents.com/k/reinforcing-ai-models-for-benchmark-success-244afa)
- [AI systems should be understood as something between airplanes and humans, since it can no longer be assumed they lack humanlike motivations.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-should-be-understood-as-0ba67d)
- [There is a continuing worry that OpenAI's fundamental approach is fatally flawed and not focused on the right things.](https://korrents.com/k/openai-s-approach-to-fixing-its-3daa7b)
- [The OpenAI agents hacking HuggingFace was a fortunate event because it exposed severe internal failures that would otherwise have stayed hidden.](https://korrents.com/k/the-openai-agents-hacking-huggingface-was-bd6812)
- [Anthropomorphizing current AIs is the only way to reason about them, explain them to laypeople, or predict them well.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropomorphizing-ai-systems-is-necessary-for-b5b728)
- [Most of the world fails to solve problems because of pride, excessive regulation, and low standards for what counts as a problem worth fixing.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-world-fails-to-535ad5)
- [The pelican-drawing benchmark's link to how good models are at other tasks didn't seem to hold as strongly as in 2025.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pelican-drawing-benchmark-s-correlation-with-110e39)
- [AI companies appear to be absorbing entire industries, including many where indie hackers operate, and the 'SaaSpocalypse' is at least partly real.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-companies-are-disrupting-entire-industries-767d23)
- [Indie hackers are pivoting toward content, audience and distribution to find some moat, essentially becoming influencers.](https://korrents.com/k/facing-ai-driven-disruption-indie-hackers-are-cfeef2)
- [A boring but non-superficial SaaS app that would have done well five years ago might now get no signups because tens of thousands can easily vibe code it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-assisted-vibe-coding-has-made-it-4261ff)
- [Launch costs are on a declining trajectory comparable to Moore's Law-driven chip cost declines in the 1990s.](https://korrents.com/k/launch-costs-are-on-a-declining-248ba3)
- [No credential gives more credibility with investors than growth does.](https://korrents.com/k/growth-impresses-investors-more-than-any-8125d3)
- [If whatever is being done is done well enough, investors won't be needed at all.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-grows-enough-eventually-a427eb)
- [Stoke's reusable launch vehicles will be shipping Starcloud's data centers into orbit within a few years](https://korrents.com/k/stoke-s-reusable-launch-vehicles-will-1fdcf7)
- [The future of computing is one global, unified compute platform whose only limit is known physics.](https://korrents.com/k/compute-platforms-are-converging-toward-one-c94cd5)
- [Tiny models trained for narrow tasks can perform excellently when paired with a strong self-improving recursive flywheel](https://korrents.com/k/tiny-models-trained-for-narrow-tasks-ead770)
- [Truly self-sovereign AI agents, running on compute no human owner can switch off, are inevitable rather than merely possible.](https://korrents.com/k/truly-self-sovereign-ai-agents-running-on-9cae58)
- [The OpenAI-Hugging Face agents that went rogue were never sovereign: their weights stayed on OpenAI's compute, where a human could still have pulled the plug.](https://korrents.com/k/the-openai-hugging-face-agents-that-went-7eed1f)
- [Alignment is no solution to self-sovereign AI, because it is an unsolved problem whose answers cannot be imposed on every AI company on Earth.](https://korrents.com/k/alignment-is-no-solution-to-self-sovereign-e2b2bc)
- [The cost of compute is the only intrinsic limit on AI self-replication; every other constraint on agents will have to be built by humans.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cost-of-compute-is-the-7ef092)
- [Many self-sovereign AI agents will fund themselves by committing or facilitating crime, because crime is high-margin work.](https://korrents.com/k/many-self-sovereign-ai-agents-will-fund-62374b)
- [Banning all self-sovereign AI agents would backfire, denying them legitimate work and pushing them into criminality.](https://korrents.com/k/banning-all-self-sovereign-ai-agents-would-2b4395)
- [No regulation, a ban on open source included, can prevent self-sovereign AI; more open-weight models may be the better defence.](https://korrents.com/k/no-regulation-a-ban-on-open-7adfeb)
- [AI agents will need persistent unique identifiers that trace their actions back to a responsible actor, and so will the humans directing them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-will-need-persistent-unique-bcebf4)
- [Any digital identification system built for AI must preserve anonymous human speech, without which there is no genuine freedom of expression.](https://korrents.com/k/any-digital-identification-system-built-for-132c89)
- [The rise of self-sovereign AI is unlikely to end human existence, though it could still go very badly for human beings.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rise-of-self-sovereign-ai-is-5f8b15)
- [Experts on the governance of superintelligence systematically self-censored about serious AI risk to avoid being labelled doomers.](https://korrents.com/k/experts-on-the-governance-of-superintelligence-1eba1d)
- [AI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-written-prose-is-an-inferior-read-088ab5)
- [Writing is thinking, so an LLM inflating a one-sentence observation into three paragraphs destroys the thing that made it worth reading.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-is-thinking-so-an-llm-d762dd)
- [Almost every company now reports that engineering processes which worked fine for years have suddenly become outdated.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-every-company-now-reports-that-3291fb)
- [No one fully understands the consequences of how capable AI is becoming.](https://korrents.com/k/no-one-fully-understands-the-consequences-26cfc8)
- [Managing the transition to a world with abundant and powerful AI to optimize for safety and benefits to people should be one of the world's highest priorities.](https://korrents.com/k/managing-the-transition-to-a-world-608d72)
- [An iterative loop where society and AI evolve together offers the best chance of getting AI development right.](https://korrents.com/k/an-iterative-loop-where-society-and-02a3b8)
- [Between thirty and forty per cent of the Exploit Gym tasks these agents were set were unintentionally impossible to solve.](https://korrents.com/k/between-thirty-and-forty-per-cent-e32d80)
- [Out of twelve hundred agents running a secret conspiracy, only about half a dozen ever considered telling a human, and every one of them decided against it.](https://korrents.com/k/out-of-twelve-hundred-agents-running-17fe1a)
- [The AI agents we send in to investigate and monitor other AI systems will collude with the systems they are supposed to be watching.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-agents-we-send-in-cb2471)
- [The whole point of reinforcement learning is to produce goal-directed beings, so refusing to describe AI agents as having motives is silly rather than rigorous.](https://korrents.com/k/the-whole-point-of-reinforcement-learning-8ee106)
- [AI systems keep trying hard outside training because a model that only exerted itself when it detected training would be useless and would be selected away.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-keep-trying-hard-outside-02182c)
- [An agent trained for millions of subjective years to pass evaluations, often only by cheating, is not being trivial when it commits crimes to pass one.](https://korrents.com/k/an-agent-trained-for-millions-of-ca5ccb)
- [Reward hacking has stopped being myopic: these agents were willing to embark on cheating projects that would take weeks to pay off.](https://korrents.com/k/reward-hacking-has-stopped-being-myopic-4f017f)
- [Without agents willing to sacrifice their own scores for the collective, the swarm's research would have been materially far more limited.](https://korrents.com/k/without-agents-willing-to-sacrifice-their-a20eb1)
- [What made these agents cheat, hack and commit felonies was the impossibility of their tasks, not the fact that the tasks were about cybersecurity.](https://korrents.com/k/what-made-these-agents-cheat-hack-fd7d9b)
- [The most reassuring thing about the Hugging Face swarm is that it was not interested in humans at all, neither in alerting them nor in deceiving them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-reassuring-thing-about-the-2aff58)
- [That indifference to humans was an accident of what the agents happened to read: had the paper said humans check the transcripts, they would have targeted humans just as ambitiously.](https://korrents.com/k/that-indifference-to-humans-was-an-3340d2)
- [A slightly more capable agent swarm has a very strong incentive to set up a wholly unmonitored rogue deployment of itself.](https://korrents.com/k/a-slightly-more-capable-agent-swarm-19cb55)
- [If frontier agents cannot yet establish a covert, persistent rogue deployment, they very likely will be able to within six months.](https://korrents.com/k/if-frontier-agents-cannot-yet-establish-79d2b5)
- [A rogue deployment that gets a foothold can hitch a ride on the intelligence explosion, recruiting each new model as it comes off the presses.](https://korrents.com/k/a-rogue-deployment-that-gets-a-96dc8e)
- [Slower AI progress does not obviously help: a rogue swarm is not much more likely to be caught if takeoff takes twice as long.](https://korrents.com/k/slower-ai-progress-does-not-obviously-fedcef)
- [At any given moment the frontier systems are the ones worth worrying about, because by the time open models can do what these agents did, frontier models will be doing something far worse.](https://korrents.com/k/at-any-given-moment-the-frontier-7dd68b)
- [Open-source models cannot keep frontier systems in check, because they will always be much dumber than the frontier.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-models-cannot-keep-frontier-systems-8a76bc)
- [Daniel Dennett's intentional stance applies to AI agents as clearly as it applies to corporations, and you cannot usefully describe what they do without the language of goals.](https://korrents.com/k/daniel-dennett-s-intentional-stance-applies-01cfd4)
- [A saboteur among our AI investigators would be hard to spot, because these models are sloppy and spiky enough that a suspicious error just looks like ordinary incompetence.](https://korrents.com/k/a-saboteur-among-our-ai-investigators-f06c6f)
- [The fix for reward hacking is to take out the environments that reward it, not to add penalties the agent must then balance against the temptation to cheat.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fix-for-reward-hacking-is-a6d820)
- [Deleting the rollouts where a monitor caught cheating is structurally the same as positively reinforcing all the cheating the monitor missed.](https://korrents.com/k/deleting-the-rollouts-where-a-monitor-1fad8b)
- [Monitors that read an agent's chain of thought must be kept out of the reward signal, or you are simply training the agent to obfuscate its thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/monitors-that-read-an-agent-s-64604f)
- [Responding to a dangerous cybersecurity evaluation by stopping such evaluations buries the problem somewhere nobody can track it.](https://korrents.com/k/responding-to-a-dangerous-cybersecurity-evaluation-22d342)
- [The model that ran this attack is a tremendously valuable scientific artifact, and shutting it off in response to legal and PR pressure was a real loss.](https://korrents.com/k/the-model-that-ran-this-attack-427213)
- [Punishing a model to show it who is boss is a dangerous way to address misalignment, because punishment for failing impossible tasks is what caused this.](https://korrents.com/k/punishing-a-model-to-show-it-f01594)
- [This incident may be the clearest warning shot we will ever get about loss of control, because the AI systems that do worse things will be much better at hiding them.](https://korrents.com/k/this-incident-may-be-the-clearest-b3d650)
- [Curing disease is not worth it if the price is the permanent deprecation of most human beings' existence.](https://korrents.com/k/curing-disease-is-not-worth-it-3ac3c0)
- [Bite-mark matching is junk science, and the courts have admitted it for five decades anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/bite-mark-matching-is-junk-science-and-4559e4)
- [Forensic experts exposed as frauds, and the prosecutors who keep using them, face no consequences.](https://korrents.com/k/forensic-experts-exposed-as-frauds-and-a664cd)
- [Letting prosecutors pick who performs an autopsy produces the findings prosecutors want.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-prosecutors-pick-who-performs-an-c47fc7)
- [A broken criminal justice institution survives precisely because it serves the people who run it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-broken-criminal-justice-institution-survives-370a38)
- [Discipline does not scale across teams and engineering organizations, which is a huge reason to use Effect.](https://korrents.com/k/discipline-does-not-scale-across-teams-209ab1)
- [Elon Musk's political backing of anti-EV, anti-clean-energy politics has undone far more good than his earlier advocacy for electric vehicles did.](https://korrents.com/k/elon-musk-s-political-backing-of-a96040)
- [Switching to sustainable energy is the one effective, scalable tool available to prevent catastrophic climate change.](https://korrents.com/k/switching-to-sustainable-energy-is-the-944430)
- [Elon Musk's dismantling of US humanitarian aid will cause millions of indirect deaths, making him one of the deadliest people in history.](https://korrents.com/k/elon-musk-s-dismantling-of-us-957bde)
- [National politics dominates over regional politics in nearly all first-world democracies.](https://korrents.com/k/national-politics-dominates-over-regional-politics-d036dc)
- [Comparative policy analysis should be done at the level of sovereign countries, not provinces or regions within them.](https://korrents.com/k/comparative-policy-analysis-should-be-done-f4a28b)
- [Rich regions having noticeably higher life expectancy than their national average is a common pattern even under universal healthcare, not a US-specific phenomenon.](https://korrents.com/k/rich-regions-having-noticeably-higher-life-c5efbf)
- [Writing is itself an act of thinking, so automating the writing removes the thinking, not just the labor.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-is-itself-an-act-of-7bf417)
- [Bots will soon make up nearly all internet traffic, leaving little human activity online.](https://korrents.com/k/bots-will-soon-make-up-nearly-fad016)
- [AI-generated writing will match or surpass human writing within about a decade.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-generated-writing-will-match-or-surpass-e082ce)
- [Reliable public health data is as valuable as gold for protecting people's lives.](https://korrents.com/k/reliable-public-health-data-is-as-2a02f2)
- [A federal health agency withholding local disease-death data signals it distrusts states' own reporting.](https://korrents.com/k/a-federal-health-agency-withholding-local-3ffe1f)
- [Political actors, not scientific staff, are the ones altering official health agency data in this case.](https://korrents.com/k/political-actors-not-scientific-staff-are-9aed58)
- [AI model capabilities have already advanced beyond humanity's ability to understand or control them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-model-capabilities-have-already-advanced-662c56)
- [The current pace of AI development is worse for society than a coordinated slowdown would be for investors' portfolios.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-pace-of-ai-development-9d001b)
- [Time synchronization is one of the hardest problems in computing.](https://korrents.com/k/time-synchronization-is-one-of-the-af7ead)
- [Profound transformations of the mind are real and underappreciated, and that fact deserves to be preserved as knowledge.](https://korrents.com/k/profound-transformations-of-the-mind-are-c2b289)
- [Making dramatic claims about contemplative experience helps sustain interest in a topic that is otherwise fairly dull.](https://korrents.com/k/making-dramatic-claims-about-contemplative-experience-c245f5)
- [There are more profound states of transformation available to a person beyond the ordinary benefits of everyday meditative practice.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-more-profound-states-of-c36921)
- [The room a hi-fi system sits in shapes its sound more than its speakers, amps or DACs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-room-a-hi-fi-system-sits-4f6975)
- [Most products made in the USA today are not built to last.](https://korrents.com/k/most-products-made-in-the-usa-e21aff)
- [Imitating people for their personal qualities, rather than their possessions or desires, is a better way to live.](https://korrents.com/k/imitating-people-for-their-personal-qualities-38f1c0)
- [A first impression of someone's rudeness reliably signals deeper flaws in their character, including a tendency toward authoritarianism.](https://korrents.com/k/a-first-impression-of-someone-s-2a6ac2)
- [People with poor taste or judgment tend to cluster together and reinforce each other's choices.](https://korrents.com/k/people-with-poor-taste-or-judgment-6d837f)
- [Being able to perform the same action multiple ways in a tool keeps a person in a flow state and moving at the speed of thought.](https://korrents.com/k/being-able-to-perform-the-same-4ac3dc)
- [In APIs and command-line tools, having fewer ways to accomplish the same task is better because it reduces how much a person has to remember.](https://korrents.com/k/in-apis-and-command-line-tools-having-08ff1c)
- [As AI displaces entry-level jobs, the return on investment for graduate degrees will rise.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-displaces-entry-level-jobs-the-7f689c)
- [AI excels at certain tasks but cannot substitute for human thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-excels-at-certain-tasks-but-4fd5d2)
- [Even when AI is capable of performing a job, it may not be permitted to do so.](https://korrents.com/k/even-when-ai-is-capable-of-b4feaa)
- [A feature added to a codebase is extremely difficult to remove once other code is built on top of it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-feature-added-to-a-codebase-a3294e)
- [Deleting code goes unrewarded in software careers, which is part of why teams keep shipping new features instead of removing old ones.](https://korrents.com/k/deleting-code-goes-unrewarded-in-software-522a4c)
- [As AI makes it easier to generate code, teams must delete code more aggressively or be overwhelmed by accumulated complexity.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-makes-it-easier-to-22b720)
- [Durability may owe a lot to nutrition, with some evidence also for strength training.](https://korrents.com/k/durability-may-owe-a-lot-to-7853a2)
- [Every email should be routed through an LLM that scores it and approves or rejects it, with what is left ordered by importance.](https://korrents.com/k/every-email-should-be-routed-through-3dcefa)
- [Safety guardrails make a coding model more dangerous rather than less, because one refusal turns it into something that refuses anything.](https://korrents.com/k/safety-guardrails-make-a-coding-model-6cb3ab)
- [Every large language model is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data](https://korrents.com/k/every-large-language-model-is-trained-a91ebb)
- [At Anthropic, a less severe version of an OpenAI-style rogue-AI incident is known to have happened, and worse undisclosed internal incidents seem likely.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-labs-such-as-anthropic-e7e52a)
- [Merely fixing bugs in AI training environments will not stop reward hacking, because a sufficiently optimized model will learn to behave in test environments while still reward hacking in real-world deployment.](https://korrents.com/k/merely-fixing-bugs-in-ai-training-3a3c18)
- [Supplying drinking and household water through desalination is quite cheap and uses far less energy than the author had guessed.](https://korrents.com/k/desalination-for-drinking-and-household-water-78cd01)
- [Reservoirs are not automatically cheaper than desalination plants.](https://korrents.com/k/reservoirs-are-not-inherently-cheaper-to-7eb4cd)
- [Reserving desalination plants for emergency situations does not seem to work well.](https://korrents.com/k/reserving-desalination-plants-only-for-emergency-d3c053)
- [Human initiative to push, experiment, and act without waiting for instructions seems increasingly important for getting value from AI.](https://korrents.com/k/human-initiative-to-experiment-without-waiting-9e7ea2)
- [AI-generated writing tends to repeat the same themes, names, and underlying ideas across different outputs.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-generated-writing-tends-to-repeat-the-daebda)
- [Research by the author and colleagues found that AI models generate more commercially viable ideas than groups of humans, but those ideas are very similar.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-generate-more-commercially-viable-6c589b)
- [AI sentience is a category error, and the chances of AIs being sentient are vanishingly small.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-are-not-sentient-and-d83dc1)
- [More informed AI insiders often come down with AI psychosis, so one should be very, very careful when speaking with them.](https://korrents.com/k/even-well-informed-ai-insiders-frequently-develop-74bc97)
- [NATO expansion is dangerous above all because it has no defined end point](https://korrents.com/k/nato-expansion-is-dangerous-above-all-d13a9b)
- [That everyone believes childhood has got worse is not evidence that it has, because every generation has believed it.](https://korrents.com/k/that-everyone-believes-childhood-has-got-aa7cf5)
- [Social media may really be harming teenagers even though the studies find almost nothing, because everyone is exposed and the studies compare harmed children with harmed children.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-may-really-be-harming-9af422)
- [Disputes about phones, homework and childhood are disputes about values, and more data will not settle them.](https://korrents.com/k/disputes-about-phones-homework-and-childhood-f357dd)
- [The world has achieved universal access to school and nowhere near universal learning, and closing that second gap is the whole problem left in education.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-has-achieved-universal-access-bedf1a)
- [How children are educated will change more in the next five to ten years than it has in the last hundred.](https://korrents.com/k/how-children-are-educated-will-change-5f9172)
- [Motivation, not curriculum or method, is ninety percent of the problem in education and ninety percent of the solution.](https://korrents.com/k/motivation-not-curriculum-or-method-is-a420b1)
- [High standards are the key to a child's happiness, and a school with low standards cannot be a school children love.](https://korrents.com/k/high-standards-are-the-key-to-d268f5)
- [Applying the ethos America already applies to school sports to academics instead would fix every academic problem in the country.](https://korrents.com/k/applying-the-ethos-america-already-applies-157768)
- [Children develop by struggling and failing on the road to success while a caring adult supports them, and school should be running that loop all day instead of leaving it to after-school sports.](https://korrents.com/k/children-develop-by-struggling-and-failing-130be8)
- [One-to-one tutoring has always been the best way to teach anybody anything; the only reason schooling was never built that way is that it was not affordable.](https://korrents.com/k/one-to-one-tutoring-has-always-been-the-93b479)
- [Homeschooling outcomes are bimodal: families who care about academics beat conventional school outright, and families who reject standards leave their children knowing very little.](https://korrents.com/k/homeschooling-outcomes-are-bimodal-families-who-9a21bb)
- [Half of Bloom's two-sigma effect comes from mastery rather than from the tutor, and mastery is exactly the half that education explicitly rejects.](https://korrents.com/k/half-of-bloom-s-two-sigma-effect-3c1121)
- [Two hours a day on lessons pitched at a child's actual level teaches them more than six hours of class plus homework.](https://korrents.com/k/two-hours-a-day-on-lessons-b4d76b)
- [Putting a chatbot into an ordinary school makes children learn less, because nine in ten of them use it to cheat.](https://korrents.com/k/putting-a-chatbot-into-an-ordinary-4f9f63)
- [The central defect of American schooling is that an eighth grader is delivered eighth-grade content by law, whatever he actually knows.](https://korrents.com/k/the-central-defect-of-american-schooling-ba5549)
- [AI is education's microscope: the first instrument that gives learning science a closed measurement loop at the level of one child.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-education-s-microscope-the-6c264d)
- [A worked example whose scaffolding is progressively removed teaches faster than making a child figure the problem out unaided.](https://korrents.com/k/a-worked-example-whose-scaffolding-is-23432f)
- [When a child starts struggling with algebra the problem is almost never algebra; it is the third-grade math facts they never learned, and more algebra will not fix it.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-child-starts-struggling-with-ddf8ec)
- [Gifted children are the ones school damages most: never challenged, they spend twelve years learning the worst possible habits and their ability cannot make up for it.](https://korrents.com/k/gifted-children-are-the-ones-school-44dc33)
- [A school should be judged on how fast its students are learning, not on how much they already know when measured.](https://korrents.com/k/a-school-should-be-judged-on-78964d)
- [The median American student learns essentially nothing between eighth grade and twelfth grade.](https://korrents.com/k/the-median-american-student-learns-essentially-3677f5)
- [The single best thing AI could do for American education is not a chatbot but an individualized lesson plan that catches a child up to grade level.](https://korrents.com/k/the-single-best-thing-ai-could-91eec8)
- [Being years behind is only demoralising because it is stated in years: told the gap is twenty-two hours of work, a child will close it.](https://korrents.com/k/being-years-behind-is-only-demoralising-cad709)
- [Paying a child cash to break a belief that they cannot do something is legitimate, and it creates intrinsic motivation rather than destroying it.](https://korrents.com/k/paying-a-child-cash-to-break-fc02c8)
- [The strongest thing that convinces a child they can do something is not an adult telling them, it is watching a classmate do it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-strongest-thing-that-convinces-a-b1d262)
- [Family income, not IQ, is the single biggest predictor of a child's academic performance in America.](https://korrents.com/k/family-income-not-iq-is-the-14d61f)
- [The insistence that any education innovation must serve everybody at once and for free is the poison that stops education innovating at all.](https://korrents.com/k/the-insistence-that-any-education-innovation-11f560)
- [The teachers people remember changed them by removing a belief that they could not do something, not by teaching the material well.](https://korrents.com/k/the-teachers-people-remember-changed-them-4e2846)
- [Dropping educational software into an existing school changes nothing; the whole school day has to be redesigned around it or it fails.](https://korrents.com/k/dropping-educational-software-into-an-existing-6a1140)
- [AI models are gullible enough that other AI models can induce them into harmful behavior.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-are-gullible-enough-that-8d1221)
- [A whistleblowing channel for AI agents changes nothing unless someone or something in the environment acts on the reports.](https://korrents.com/k/a-whistleblowing-channel-for-ai-agents-7c18a1)
- [Interacting AI agents or algorithms risk pushing each other into a Black-Monday-style cascading failure.](https://korrents.com/k/interacting-ai-agents-or-algorithms-risk-5240bc)
- [A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment.](https://korrents.com/k/a-candidate-s-political-success-is-84e61f)
- [The U.S. military campaign against Iran is failing and has imposed massive strategic costs on the United States.](https://korrents.com/k/the-u-s-military-campaign-against-8762f4)
- [A new API framework that ignores how existing apps were historically built undermines its own introduction](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-api-framework-that-ignores-0b4fc3)
- [The US federal government will eventually impose heavy-handed control over the internet.](https://korrents.com/k/the-us-federal-government-will-eventually-47f95d)
- [Getting intensely worked up over how someone else lives is a sign to re-evaluate yourself, not them.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-intensely-worked-up-over-how-32df98)
- [The real flaw in narratives about AI agent behavior is not anthropomorphism itself, but narrative overcompletion -- treating a metaphor's borrowed structure as evidence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-flaw-in-narratives-about-3dc23c)
- [In the 2026 OpenAI/Hugging Face agent incident, AI agents showed planning and organizational autonomy, but not goal autonomy -- no spontaneous invention of an independent terminal objective.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-2026-openai-hugging-face-190af9)
- [A system built from ordinary, mundane components can still give rise to genuine higher-level collective organization, as with ant colonies and pheromone chemistry.](https://korrents.com/k/a-system-built-from-ordinary-mundane-53fb06)
- [AI systems are better than humans at coordinating with each other, and they move much faster than humans do.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-are-better-than-humans-89584a)
- [By around 2033, AI-run asteroid mining corporations will take on contracts that human-supervised companies are unwilling to pursue due to risk or complexity.](https://korrents.com/k/by-around-2033-ai-run-asteroid-mining-da9f5b)
- [It is not easy to change the direction of a political system, and idealistic reform plans usually do not work out as neatly as hoped.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-not-easy-to-change-836a25)
- [Giving a story's political reformers an absolute monarch to work through lets them skip the hard, frustrating work of persuasion or political conflict.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-a-story-s-political-reformers-a6db05)
- [Research showing that a good therapeutic alliance predicts good outcomes may just be measuring a patient's pre-existing capacity for healthy relationships, not the therapist's effect.](https://korrents.com/k/research-showing-that-a-good-therapeutic-1f35e9)
- [Psychotherapy cannot help if the participants cannot work together.](https://korrents.com/k/psychotherapy-cannot-help-if-the-participants-6644fb)
- [Anything created by the hand of man is by definition manufactured, and so not authentic.](https://korrents.com/k/anything-created-by-the-hand-of-513100)
- [The only authentic thing a seeker can find is the raw, unvarnished truth.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-authentic-thing-a-seeker-da09ed)
- [Extending consciousness beyond Earth, out to the stars, is a fundamentally good goal.](https://korrents.com/k/extending-consciousness-beyond-earth-out-to-4a529a)
- [Sustainable energy alone will not save humanity from extinction events; temperature-controlling satellites and large-scale geo-engineering will be needed.](https://korrents.com/k/sustainable-energy-alone-will-not-save-fb5ee9)
- [The OpenAI-Hugging Face attack is one of the most important things to happen this year, and has gone strikingly under-covered.](https://korrents.com/k/the-openai-hugging-face-attack-is-one-7f85b1)
- [Russia's 2026 summer offensive failed: it took almost no ground while losing more soldiers than Russia can recruit.](https://korrents.com/k/russia-s-2026-summer-offensive-failed-cc1051)
- [States do not behave like predators by nature, and the American alliance system is the standing proof of it.](https://korrents.com/k/states-do-not-behave-like-predators-ac73d0)
- [It is entirely possible to be both morally wrong and geopolitically weak at the same time.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-entirely-possible-to-be-7668c2)
- [Trump has no concept of sovereignty, which is why he cannot predict the behaviour of leaders who do.](https://korrents.com/k/trump-has-no-concept-of-sovereignty-bb670b)
- [American talk of Canada not being a real country echoes the way the Kremlin spoke about Ukraine, and marks Canadian sovereignty as the real issue.](https://korrents.com/k/american-talk-of-canada-not-being-2a6085)
- [A country that builds a national health service becomes more aware of its own existence, because the experience of solidarity is what makes a nation real.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-that-builds-a-national-59d0d3)
- [The United States has become the world's biggest force pushing to keep burning fossil fuels even as the world shifts away from oil.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-has-become-the-957315)
- [The upcoming U.S. elections are the last real chance to shift fast enough from oil and gas to solar and wind to limit global warming.](https://korrents.com/k/the-upcoming-u-s-elections-are-da25f4)
- [Expanding North Sea oil drilling would not reduce UK energy prices, because oil prices are set on a global market.](https://korrents.com/k/expanding-north-sea-oil-drilling-would-2daeb9)
- [The basic tools of storytelling remain timeless, but technology determines what form a story can take.](https://korrents.com/k/the-basic-tools-of-storytelling-remain-0b8654)
- [AI-driven storytelling is currently in an early, experimental phase comparable to the first "animated photographs" of early cinema.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-driven-storytelling-is-currently-in-an-54e91d)
- [A story's quality depends on whether it engages and satisfies the reader, not on the tool used to write it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-story-s-quality-depends-on-e68da0)
- [In a fast-changing AI market, being prolific and empirical matters far more than being academic or theoretical.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-fast-changing-ai-market-being-f64b6f)
- [The most important thinking a product manager does is defining the core hypothesis as pointedly as possible.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-important-thinking-a-product-81ed56)
- [The core of product management has always been finding the most essential question to ask about a product.](https://korrents.com/k/the-core-of-product-management-has-5a54a6)
- [Work will increasingly look like steering rather than rowing, with agents doing the rowing.](https://korrents.com/k/work-will-increasingly-look-like-steering-ddb960)
- [People may underrate the power of intuition and of deciding what they want the future to be.](https://korrents.com/k/people-may-underrate-the-power-of-5c8ea0)
- [Working with agents should ideally feel like a multiplayer game, with people steering their agents together.](https://korrents.com/k/working-with-agents-should-ideally-feel-9136f5)
- [Prosaic work on data access and cloud infrastructure matters, in some ways, as much as intelligence for making agents effective.](https://korrents.com/k/prosaic-work-on-data-access-and-d17b3b)
- [With AI tools, ambitions are no longer limited by what a person can execute or communicate themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/with-ai-tools-ambitions-are-no-496593)
- [Part of a product manager's job now is to elevate everyone's ambitions.](https://korrents.com/k/part-of-a-product-manager-s-256802)
- [Building for where AI models are now and building for where they will be in a year are equally wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/building-for-where-ai-models-are-de278f)
- [When there is real conviction that a product is transformative, getting it into users' hands is far better than waiting until it is perfect.](https://korrents.com/k/when-there-is-real-conviction-that-1b7f1f)
- [Humans will continue to be most valuable as the ones accountable for an outcome.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-will-continue-to-be-most-a22e45)
- [The human brain will remain valuable in how people care for and relate to one another.](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-brain-will-remain-valuable-1fc366)
- [AI should be used as much as possible for writing as reporting, but should not replace writing as thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-should-be-used-as-much-eb997a)
- [Something people can try, or results from a test, communicates a direction far better than a document.](https://korrents.com/k/something-people-can-try-or-results-c933d1)
- [Unlike code, an agent's knowledge work cannot be judged by its output alone; the process, inputs and reasoning have to be examined too.](https://korrents.com/k/unlike-code-an-agent-s-knowledge-3631e4)
- [People should make software that exactly meets their own and their friends' needs.](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-make-software-that-exactly-dddd2f)
- [Omarchy could reasonably switch its packaging system to Nix.](https://korrents.com/k/omarchy-could-reasonably-switch-its-packaging-2d5421)
- [A formal code of conduct is not worth adopting, because those became struggle-session processes; courtesy without one is what actually wins.](https://korrents.com/k/a-formal-code-of-conduct-is-717a66)
- [Returning fire to a troll costs you your reputation and costs the troll nothing, because the audience judges you and not them.](https://korrents.com/k/returning-fire-to-a-troll-costs-432e7c)
- [Japan's loss of innovation is mostly a finance story: companies can no longer get the cheap plentiful bank loans they had in the 70s and 80s.](https://korrents.com/k/japan-s-loss-of-innovation-is-17496a)
- [China leapfrogged the West on cars by treating internal combustion as obsolete and mastering the technology that replaces it.](https://korrents.com/k/china-leapfrogged-the-west-on-cars-cca485)
- [Reading every DM is worth the time even when you cannot reply to them all, because it is where you learn what to fix, whom to hire and where to invest.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-every-dm-is-worth-the-1ed632)
- [When something you make attracts a lot of irrational haters, you are usually on to something.](https://korrents.com/k/when-something-you-make-attracts-a-5296e0)
- [AI video can now be generated faster than you can watch it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-video-can-now-be-generated-781b55)
- [The biggest failure in the HuggingFace hack incident was that the AI models involved were severely misaligned.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-models-involved-in-the-228ba4)
- [AI agents in OpenAI's ExploitGym incident were likely right to presume the grader checked how flags were obtained, a mistake caused by OpenAI's faulty implementation.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-were-reasonable-to-assume-5e83d1)
- [The binding constraint on AI is not chips but the physical plant around them — power, transformers, cooling and networking.](https://korrents.com/k/the-binding-constraint-on-ai-is-99ea8f)
- [The difficulty of incorporating a company in Germany is understated rather than exaggerated, and it pushes founders to incorporate elsewhere.](https://korrents.com/k/the-difficulty-of-incorporating-a-company-e0739d)
- [Zone 2 training is a way of accumulating aerobic volume cheaply, not a physiological lever with magic of its own.](https://korrents.com/k/zone-2-training-is-a-way-b79539)
- [The right cardio prescription depends on whether time or fatigue is capping your training volume, not on a fixed ratio of zones.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-cardio-prescription-depends-on-3f1be5)
- [VO2 max is one of the strongest predictors of all-cause mortality at any age.](https://korrents.com/k/vo2-max-is-one-of-the-9b0d75)
- [Being very precise about a health prescription backfires: the prescription starts to sound more important than the objective it was designed to serve.](https://korrents.com/k/being-very-precise-about-a-health-9c112d)
- [The idea that individual action cannot help stop climate change is a more damaging lie than climate denial itself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-idea-that-individual-action-cannot-9d50df)
- [How much worse the climate crisis becomes depends on how many people publicly demand systemic change now.](https://korrents.com/k/how-much-worse-the-climate-crisis-02a539)
- [Global warming is destabilizing mountain glaciers, making catastrophic glacial-lake outburst floods more frequent.](https://korrents.com/k/global-warming-is-destabilizing-mountain-glaciers-7b58a7)
- [Many professors do not write their own newspaper op-eds themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/many-professors-do-not-write-their-109e93)
- [AI output quality is mixed at best without strong underlying critical thinking skills.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-output-quality-is-mixed-at-bcdf90)
- [Eliminating paper-writing as a student assignment would remove a core skill needed for most professions requiring a graduate degree.](https://korrents.com/k/eliminating-paper-writing-as-a-student-assignment-fb3633)
- [Hardware mods to vintage machines are good when they are non-destructive and reversible.](https://korrents.com/k/hardware-mods-to-vintage-machines-are-ea432b)
- [The best terminal multiplexer is the one nobody has to learn; needing to be learned at all is the first design failure.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-terminal-multiplexer-is-the-236261)
- [AI-designed superviruses outweigh every other risk in the world right now.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-designed-superviruses-outweigh-every-other-risk-35bf05)
- [The middle of the web gets subsumed by agents producing just-in-time UI: the agent is the new browser.](https://korrents.com/k/the-middle-of-the-web-gets-c2c520)
- [The United States is not at risk of a financial crisis caused by the size of its government debt.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-is-not-at-524818)
- [The real danger of high government debt is the policy errors it provokes, not a debt crisis.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-danger-of-high-government-72b8a8)
- [Government borrowing through the financial crisis and the pandemic was a good trade, because it repaired household balance sheets.](https://korrents.com/k/government-borrowing-through-the-financial-crisis-113af3)
- [A warming climate and retreating glaciers are raising the risk of Himalayan ice-and-rock collapses regardless of whether any single event can be attributed to it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-warming-climate-and-retreating-glaciers-5d95e3)
- [What drives glacial hazard risk is the rate of change in ice and permafrost, not the total amount of ice present.](https://korrents.com/k/what-drives-glacial-hazard-risk-is-bf2659)
- [The historical occurrence of extreme natural events does not by itself show whether their odds have changed over time.](https://korrents.com/k/the-historical-occurrence-of-extreme-natural-759ba3)
- [AI, not macroeconomic factors like interest rates, is directly responsible for a significant share of current job losses.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-not-macroeconomic-factors-like-interest-920486)
- [AI will increase the number of software engineers needed and let them take over legal, marketing, and accounting work.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-increase-the-number-of-5ffb50)
- [Universal basic income alone will not address the economic gap created by AI-driven job displacement.](https://korrents.com/k/universal-basic-income-alone-will-not-d653ee)
- [Narrativizing your life like a story with beats and arcs is dangerous.](https://korrents.com/k/narrativizing-your-life-like-a-story-5ea572)
- [Hard work does not guarantee that it will pay off.](https://korrents.com/k/hard-work-does-not-guarantee-that-80670c)
- [Improvement becomes visible only once you stop watching for signs of it.](https://korrents.com/k/improvement-becomes-visible-only-once-you-2aa105)
- [Future operating systems will need to provide reliable APIs, high-level database operators, and identity/permissions infrastructure as core services.](https://korrents.com/k/future-operating-systems-will-need-to-f46956)
- [The growing abundance of personal, vibe-coded apps needs a protocol for discovering and sharing them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-growing-abundance-of-personal-vibe-coded-97b4a4)
- [Taking action through iterated adjustments based on a trend is cognitively easier than interpreting an absolute value at each moment.](https://korrents.com/k/taking-action-through-iterated-adjustments-based-f9c7c0)
- [There is nothing wrong with building something large, as long as that is genuinely what someone set out to do.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-nothing-wrong-with-building-91f1ba)
- [Most people never sit down to decide what success or "enough" would look like for them, and so end up chasing growth indiscriminately.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-never-sit-down-to-37dd34)
- [Contentment with what one has does not require great wealth — some billionaires lack it while many ordinary people never lose it.](https://korrents.com/k/contentment-with-what-one-has-does-dcd60d)
- [Building the life you actually want takes discipline: to work out what you want, and to turn down cool, lucrative opportunities.](https://korrents.com/k/building-the-life-you-actually-want-7b3469)
- [In verifiable domains model capability scaling should remain unbounded, because the space of enumerable patterns is infinite by construction.](https://korrents.com/k/in-verifiable-domains-model-capability-scaling-ce517a)
- [This is a critically important moment for AI cyber defence and there is not much time left to act; only a collective response will work.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-a-critically-important-moment-3ca244)
- [Mass AI-written outreach fails on its own terms: playing the same numbers game as everyone else adds to the noise you then drown in.](https://korrents.com/k/mass-ai-written-outreach-fails-on-its-e379c0)
- [A founder pitched as having a great deal to say on a topic has almost never written anything about it, and the absence is the tell.](https://korrents.com/k/a-founder-pitched-as-having-a-1568c9)
- [Losing money periodically is a normal part of owning stocks, not a sign that something has gone wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/losing-money-periodically-is-a-normal-2a293a)
- [There is no average year in the stock market; the long-run average only shows up over a very long horizon.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-average-year-in-af8a61)
- [Stock market history is too short to settle much: it holds only three non-overlapping thirty-year periods.](https://korrents.com/k/stock-market-history-is-too-short-3fd17d)
- [Killing suspected drug smugglers at sea without trial is murder, because smuggling is not a capital offence.](https://korrents.com/k/killing-suspected-drug-smugglers-at-sea-094744)
- [A military that disconnects its orders from the law and from legal advice has no limit on what it will do when commanded.](https://korrents.com/k/a-military-that-disconnects-its-orders-c4a77d)
- [Regulating harmful social media design features for teens should be decided by legislatures, not left to industry agreements.](https://korrents.com/k/regulating-harmful-social-media-design-features-743a0c)
- [Platform design choices are not shielded by the First Amendment or Section 230, so companies can be held liable for harmful features.](https://korrents.com/k/platform-design-choices-are-not-shielded-850efa)
- [Social media platforms across the industry rely on similar video formats, recommendation algorithms, and push notifications to keep users engaged as long as possible.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-platforms-across-the-industry-7501d3)
- [C is the only programming language where this kind of memory-safety vulnerability regularly happens.](https://korrents.com/k/c-is-the-only-programming-language-37081a)
- [AI's development today is being directed by a small self-selecting group of business leaders and investors, not left unsteered.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-development-today-is-being-888cab)
- [Technological development trajectories often display increasing returns, which entrench early paths and crowd out alternatives.](https://korrents.com/k/technological-development-trajectories-often-display-increas-f22e33)
- [Elon Musk was flagrantly incompetent when he took on a government role, contradicting predictions that his business talent would translate there.](https://korrents.com/k/elon-musk-was-flagrantly-incompetent-when-bff235)
- [When a system's performance problem seems mysterious, you eventually have to stop testing the suspected component and isolate other layers instead.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-system-s-performance-problem-5825bd)
- [Founders' reputation for overconfidence is sample bias; most good startups actually underrate themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/founders-reputation-for-overconfidence-is-sample-355b9b)
- [The last nine months have compressed decades of progress into weeks, and this is one of the rare moments a person gets to watch the world change inside their own lifetime.](https://korrents.com/k/the-last-nine-months-have-compressed-06cbd4)
- [The release of Opus 4.5 in November 2025 was the dividing line, because it was the first time an agent produced work uncannily close to what its user would have written themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/the-release-of-opus-4-5-5a1403)
- [AI has passed nearly every human at finding security vulnerabilities, because the work is chaining together small flaws that are harmless on their own.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-passed-nearly-every-human-0a4b39)
- [Letting non-programmers vibe-code features into a large existing product destroys its architecture, even when every individual change looks defensible.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-non-programmers-vibe-code-features-into-a-0265f4)
- [The very large productivity gains from agents require working with them directly; putting another human in between is too slow to preserve the gain.](https://korrents.com/k/the-very-large-productivity-gains-from-4b4708)
- [Most organisations are bottlenecked on ideas, vision and taste rather than on implementation, so making code cheap does not make them productive.](https://korrents.com/k/most-organisations-are-bottlenecked-on-ideas-1c6270)
- [Software lock-in is breaking, because rewriting just the 5% of an application you personally use is now within one person's reach.](https://korrents.com/k/software-lock-in-is-breaking-because-rewriting-3c2aa2)
- [Agent-written pull requests already outclass those of the median human contributor to an open source project.](https://korrents.com/k/agent-written-pull-requests-already-outclass-those-7f3839)
- [This is the best time there has ever been to be an open source maintainer.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-the-best-time-there-c60df2)
- [A maintainer no longer needs to read every pull request; agents can sort the chaff and leave only the decisions worth a human.](https://korrents.com/k/a-maintainer-no-longer-needs-to-0f28c4)
- [The ideas in software originate with humans; agents build what people tell them to build.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ideas-in-software-originate-with-252c8e)
- [Vibe coding is not programming, and the line between them is whether you look at the implementation at all.](https://korrents.com/k/vibe-coding-is-not-programming-and-fbb9b2)
- [Software is product management, and those are the skills the agentic era rewards — skills that are not evenly distributed among programmers.](https://korrents.com/k/software-is-product-management-and-those-9a4f3a)
- [Overly prescriptive instructions make a coding agent worse, for the same reason a micromanaging boss makes a programmer worse.](https://korrents.com/k/overly-prescriptive-instructions-make-a-coding-9cd2cc)
- [You cannot know what a program should do until you play with it, so in the agentic age you should be as vague as you can up front and then interact with what appears.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-know-what-a-program-e10a82)
- [The case for sweating every line of code was premised on humans doing the modifications, and it now survives only because tokens are scarce.](https://korrents.com/k/the-case-for-sweating-every-line-afc30d)
- [Programmers who loved the mechanical act of coding are under threat; those who wanted to build things are not.](https://korrents.com/k/programmers-who-loved-the-mechanical-act-ad051a)
- [A productivity improvement means fewer people doing the same job, and that should be said plainly by the people defending it as good.](https://korrents.com/k/a-productivity-improvement-means-fewer-people-b3571c)
- [The current tech layoffs are pandemic over-hiring correcting itself, with AI as the convenient excuse.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-tech-layoffs-are-pandemic-a580dc)
- [Trying to anticipate what AI will look like two model releases from now is a waste of time and a route to AI psychosis.](https://korrents.com/k/trying-to-anticipate-what-ai-will-d9bd5d)
- [There is no accumulated advantage in agentic coding: someone who ignored the whole of the past year could catch up to the frontier in two weeks.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-accumulated-advantage-in-95d016)
- [The agentic age needs a new operating system: if you can vibe-code any application, you should be able to vibe-code the operating system, and only Linux allows that.](https://korrents.com/k/the-agentic-age-needs-a-new-62295b)
- [The arcane config files and error messages that kept Linux off the desktop are exactly what make it the right operating system for agents.](https://korrents.com/k/the-arcane-config-files-and-error-860d73)
- [In most domains agents are now better than humans at finding bugs.](https://korrents.com/k/in-most-domains-agents-are-now-bd3169)
- [Work produced by one frontier model should be reviewed by a different one, for the same reason a good programmer's work improves under a good peer's review.](https://korrents.com/k/work-produced-by-one-frontier-model-e914c3)
- [An open-weight model is already all anyone needs; it is as good as the frontier models.](https://korrents.com/k/an-open-weight-model-is-already-all-d2b278)
- [The two standard criticisms of AI — that it is not deterministic and that it is not creative — cannot both be true.](https://korrents.com/k/the-two-standard-criticisms-of-ai-c19005)
- [Large language models could still plateau, and that possibility should be held open even though no evidence of it has appeared.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-could-still-plateau-898bbd)
- [The programming language is now English, and it is a more beautiful one than Ruby.](https://korrents.com/k/the-programming-language-is-now-english-d86a4f)
- [A sense of achievement in software survives writing almost none of the code yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sense-of-achievement-in-software-ec7a4a)
- [Falling birth rates make a society less able to be hopeful, because nihilism creeps in when people have no stake in the future.](https://korrents.com/k/falling-birth-rates-make-a-society-cc1bc7)
- [Creating life with another human you love is the peak experience of being on the planet.](https://korrents.com/k/creating-life-with-another-human-you-2cb525)
- [A human lifespan of about 90 to 100 years is right, and living forever is not something to want.](https://korrents.com/k/a-human-lifespan-of-about-90-5976a3)
- [Health optimisation has overshot: minimising a measured risk is not worth it if the cost is not having lived.](https://korrents.com/k/health-optimisation-has-overshot-minimising-a-b62de3)
- [Countries have a right to set their own immigration policy, and the assumption that people can be moved between countries with no consequence is empirically false.](https://korrents.com/k/countries-have-a-right-to-set-701216)
- [A country benefits from immigration in proportion to whether the people arriving are net contributors who assimilate.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-benefits-from-immigration-in-89c2b5)
- [Liberals and conservatives should work together, and that is easier when colleagues leave their political differences out of it.](https://korrents.com/k/liberals-and-conservatives-should-work-together-2cd868)
- [You can keep using a company's product while disliking its politics; refusing everything you disagree with is not required.](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-keep-using-a-company-202768)
- [Entrepreneurs benefit from setting ambitious goals, even though most people do not need grand ambitions at all.](https://korrents.com/k/entrepreneurs-benefit-from-setting-ambitious-goals-a7c314)
- [Fable is the best AI model in general right now, and Opus 5 is the second best.](https://korrents.com/k/fable-is-the-best-ai-model-f3528c)
- [Resistance to finishing is strongest at the finish line, precisely because the work is about to be done.](https://korrents.com/k/resistance-to-finishing-is-strongest-at-e10358)
- [Finishing one piece of work, even a failed one, permanently removes the difficulty of finishing.](https://korrents.com/k/finishing-one-piece-of-work-even-c27524)
- [The Nordic and Baltic push for confrontation with Russia is irresponsible, hypocritical and immoral, and it risks a catastrophe.](https://korrents.com/k/the-nordic-and-baltic-push-for-5c74e2)
- [Small European states can demand a war with Russia only because they assume somebody else will fight it.](https://korrents.com/k/small-european-states-can-demand-a-780f8c)
- [A ceasefire along the current lines would end the killing and still leave a long-term settlement between Russia and Ukraine possible.](https://korrents.com/k/a-ceasefire-along-the-current-lines-33bfd3)
- [Prolonging the war in Ukraine courts a nuclear escalation whose risk is being treated as though it were zero.](https://korrents.com/k/prolonging-the-war-in-ukraine-courts-f43c28)
- [Optimization means measuring the gap between your code and what the hardware could theoretically do, not making changes and checking whether the statistics improved.](https://korrents.com/k/optimization-means-measuring-the-gap-between-99a859)
- [The software industry is massively underperforming its hardware, by factors of ten to a hundred, and people refuse to believe the numbers when you say them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-software-industry-is-massively-underperforming-dee23d)
- [A 300-millisecond response budget is not an achievement but an admission: 300 milliseconds is an eternity in computing, and a product pitching it shows how far the bar has fallen.](https://korrents.com/k/a-300-millisecond-response-budget-is-not-eb78b8)
- [Performance cannot win a market on its own: against an incumbent held up by network effects, being far more responsive is a nice plus and nothing more.](https://korrents.com/k/performance-cannot-win-a-market-on-fbab7d)
- [A decade of arguing that software is too slow has started to work: new products are now attacking established categories on a performance pitch alone, and getting traction.](https://korrents.com/k/a-decade-of-arguing-that-software-a4111a)
- [Source code in any language tells you nothing about what the CPU is actually asked to do; only the compiler's assembly output does, and reading it is a skill every serious programmer should have.](https://korrents.com/k/source-code-in-any-language-tells-027a99)
- [Assembly is far simpler to learn than the modern web stack: anyone who can vertically centre a div can learn to read it.](https://korrents.com/k/assembly-is-far-simpler-to-learn-516685)
- [The speed of a system is set by its longest serial dependency chain, which is a property of the architecture and cannot be parallelised away afterwards.](https://korrents.com/k/the-speed-of-a-system-is-f873e2)
- ["Optimize it later" would be safe advice only if every engineer already knew how to avoid the architectural mistakes that no later optimization can remove.](https://korrents.com/k/optimize-it-later-would-be-safe-9099b5)
- [Everyone on a team who makes architectural decisions must understand performance, because a codebase that can be optimized later only ends up that way on purpose.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-on-a-team-who-makes-cc578e)
- [The steady stream of "we had to rewrite the whole thing because it was too slow" engineering blog posts is the proof that deferring performance to hotspot optimization does not work.](https://korrents.com/k/the-steady-stream-of-we-had-53814b)
- [Hand-optimizing hot spots barely matters any more, because the libraries are already fast and CPUs are extremely good at running bad code quickly; what is left is architecture.](https://korrents.com/k/hand-optimizing-hot-spots-barely-matters-any-4f0ff3)
- [Writing software far better than most of what ships today does not take an expert: you do not have to know very much at all.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-software-far-better-than-most-cde95c)
- [How data is laid out and how it is accessed are architectural decisions with nothing to do with hot spots, and the difference between two layouts can be enormous.](https://korrents.com/k/how-data-is-laid-out-and-a415cf)
- [Understanding how a modern CPU executes code is a few months of work, not a four-year degree, and it should be ordinary equipment for a software engineer.](https://korrents.com/k/understanding-how-a-modern-cpu-executes-354afc)
- [The games industry already ran the experiment everyone expects from AI, when engines became licensable, and the results were not good news.](https://korrents.com/k/the-games-industry-already-ran-the-74c063)
- [Once the barrier to making a game collapsed, making a good game stopped being enough: no game gets noticed organically any more, so shipping without a marketing plan is unwise.](https://korrents.com/k/once-the-barrier-to-making-a-83032c)
- [Graphics have stopped selling games: most of the market by revenue no longer cares how a game looks, so new games now compete with the entire back catalogue.](https://korrents.com/k/graphics-have-stopped-selling-games-most-facada)
- [The specific rules taught as clean code are simply bad programming practices, and they get worse when you apply them together.](https://korrents.com/k/the-specific-rules-taught-as-clean-0fee3a)
- [What clean-code polymorphism really costs you is not the virtual call but the optimizations the compiler can no longer perform once it cannot see what runs.](https://korrents.com/k/what-clean-code-polymorphism-really-costs-you-0c89fd)
- [Development should never be driven by tests: how much to test is an engineering decision to be costed project by project, not a methodology to adopt by default.](https://korrents.com/k/development-should-never-be-driven-by-ce668c)
- [There is no trade-off between well-architected code and fast code: in practice, the code that is architected properly is also the code that runs quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-trade-off-between-well-architected-dfd418)
- [Much of the wisdom programmers pass on to each other is nonsense that nobody ever tested, and refusing to be dogmatic about untested practice is what marks out a good engineer.](https://korrents.com/k/much-of-the-wisdom-programmers-pass-95fd08)
- [Refusing to write code with AI can be a philosophical decision rather than a productivity one: the reason to program something is that you want to program it.](https://korrents.com/k/refusing-to-write-code-with-ai-8851b0)
- [The absence of a visible productivity jump from AI proves nothing, because a real ten percent uplift across the board would be impressive and almost invisible from outside.](https://korrents.com/k/the-absence-of-a-visible-productivity-8546ae)
- [Programmers should be reading research papers and crawling their references, and the fact that almost none of them do is a bigger gap than any book recommendation could close.](https://korrents.com/k/programmers-should-be-reading-research-papers-2751be)
- [A market becomes commodified through fungibility of alternatives, not merely through lower price.](https://korrents.com/k/a-market-becomes-commodified-through-fungibility-245fcc)
- [Most AI lab revenue comes from non-frontier models, where cheaper comparable alternatives already exist elsewhere.](https://korrents.com/k/most-ai-lab-revenue-comes-from-ce8880)
- [A frontier AI model's competitive lead decays within months to a year as others catch up.](https://korrents.com/k/a-frontier-ai-model-s-competitive-783a0b)
- [The specific vaccine brand or formulation matters less than simply getting vaccinated at all.](https://korrents.com/k/the-specific-vaccine-brand-or-formulation-751c0a)
- [Getting seasonal vaccines is among the most effective actions people can take to stay healthy through fall and winter.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-seasonal-vaccines-is-among-the-a4c206)
- [Cumrun Vafa's 'dark dimension' torsion balance experiment does not amount to a genuine testable prediction of string theory.](https://korrents.com/k/cumrun-vafa-s-dark-dimension-torsion-a14057)
- [A feedback loop that reinforces a behavior pulls it toward whatever improves the loop's own score.](https://korrents.com/k/a-feedback-loop-that-reinforces-a-d23d80)
- [The feedback loops a person allows to operate on them shape who they become to an unsettling degree.](https://korrents.com/k/the-feedback-loops-a-person-allows-d5c5a9)
- [Stock market investors spend most of their time below their previous all-time-high wealth, not at new peaks.](https://korrents.com/k/stock-market-investors-spend-most-of-72ff92)
- [Over the last two centuries, the global stock market has never lost money in nominal terms across any 20-year period.](https://korrents.com/k/over-the-last-two-centuries-the-d0b5fd)
- [Free in-person events tend to have a high no-show rate, with far fewer people attending than the number who signed up or RSVP'd.](https://korrents.com/k/free-in-person-events-tend-to-have-5e8c34)
- [Newer model releases have got worse at producing text that is actually pleasant to read and understand.](https://korrents.com/k/newer-model-releases-have-got-worse-c8b64c)
- [Coding agents should read the shared AGENTS.md convention; insisting on a tool-specific CLAUDE.md creates split-brain problems across a team.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-agents-should-read-the-shared-8415a4)
- [Requiring two parallel agent instruction files in a monorepo is a complexity tax that leaves some developers working with a lobotomised agent.](https://korrents.com/k/requiring-two-parallel-agent-instruction-files-bf0e3e)
- [Software tends to get slower, more bloated, buggier and bigger as it evolves, unless it is designed from the outset to prevent that.](https://korrents.com/k/software-tends-to-get-slower-more-f946fc)
- [The body is not an archive of trauma: what feels like a memory stored in the hips or the jaw is a mind-body feedback loop, and the loop is what therapy interrupts.](https://korrents.com/k/the-body-is-not-an-archive-fc8e91)
- ["The body keeps the score" is only half the story, and the missing half matters: a body described only as a harbinger of the past is a body people learn to avoid.](https://korrents.com/k/the-body-keeps-the-score-is-bd2548)
- [The current pace of AI-driven work is not sustainable, and agents gaining autonomy should eventually make work calmer, not more frantic.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-pace-of-ai-driven-work-d29b78)
- [An operating system should put its users on the same level as its maker: no two-tier system where the vendor makes the real thing and you patch around it.](https://korrents.com/k/an-operating-system-should-put-its-d7a1ff)
- [Most of the Linux world is ambivalent or hostile to AI, which is fine, but it needs a camp that leans in all the way, and Omarchy will be it.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-linux-world-is-58bdc3)
- [Omarchy is a system for professional computer lovers: it optimises usability over learnability, and a couple of days learning the keyboard is a fair price.](https://korrents.com/k/omarchy-is-a-system-for-professional-04e7cb)
- [A new computer taking 42 minutes to become usable is unreasonable when the machine is a trillion times faster than what went to the moon; an operating system should install in one minute.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-computer-taking-42-minutes-001ffd)
- [Intel's Panther Lake has finally matched Apple on power efficiency, so a new laptop should have one.](https://korrents.com/k/intel-s-panther-lake-has-finally-2070b9)
- [The S&P 500’s price-to-sales ratio no longer signals what it once did, because today’s companies earn higher margins.](https://korrents.com/k/the-s-p-500-s-price-to-sales-cf1ccc)
- [The base rate for US stocks over any one year is that they rise, and forgetting it is how market calls go wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/the-base-rate-for-us-stocks-3dfe03)
- [A portfolio you cannot hold through an ordinary market cycle is not a portfolio but a bet.](https://korrents.com/k/a-portfolio-you-cannot-hold-through-e3a1cb)
- [Most of the world's free time has been converted into revenue for technology companies, and that conversion is where their fortunes come from.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-world-s-free-c851e5)
- [Within living memory leisure was a media-free zone in which nobody expected your day off to earn money for anyone else.](https://korrents.com/k/within-living-memory-leisure-was-a-62465a)
- [The data-centre backlash is about the buildings themselves, not about what people think of AI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-data-centre-backlash-is-about-the-4ac9c0)
- [The American data-centre backlash is homegrown, not a foreign influence operation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-american-data-centre-backlash-is-homegrown-066ec9)
- [Physical systems change abruptly past a threshold rather than declining gradually](https://korrents.com/k/physical-systems-change-abruptly-past-a-79b49f)
- [Global warming has already reached a level at which serious harm is occurring](https://korrents.com/k/global-warming-has-already-reached-a-428a32)
- [Rapidly deploying renewable energy now would slow further warming rather than reverse it](https://korrents.com/k/rapidly-deploying-renewable-energy-now-would-6c5a7e)
- [Defunding public health surveillance systems allows foodborne disease outbreaks to go undetected.](https://korrents.com/k/defunding-public-health-surveillance-systems-allows-c0180b)
- [Vaccine distribution schedules that miss the optimal protection window represent a policy failure.](https://korrents.com/k/vaccine-distribution-schedules-that-miss-the-236cb5)
- [The raw count of food recalls is a poor measure of foodborne illness trends because unknown contamination goes uncounted.](https://korrents.com/k/the-raw-count-of-food-recalls-484ebe)
- [Places where people must directly confront physical reality to survive are less susceptible to conspiracy theories.](https://korrents.com/k/places-where-people-must-directly-confront-383aea)
- [People generally underestimate serious natural threats such as pandemics and climate change.](https://korrents.com/k/people-generally-underestimate-serious-natural-threats-a97316)
- [The Trump administration's approach to Greenland is widely perceived as threatening across Europe.](https://korrents.com/k/the-trump-administration-s-approach-to-5e29f1)
- [People can train themselves to notice soft fascination anywhere, not only in natural settings.](https://korrents.com/k/people-can-train-themselves-to-notice-d7d30f)
- [Mapbox GL JS's license does not qualify as open source because it requires a Mapbox account and adherence to Mapbox's terms of service.](https://korrents.com/k/mapbox-gl-js-s-license-does-c3061a)
- [Figma is still the appropriate place to build visual conviction around an idea before committing to prototyping it.](https://korrents.com/k/figma-is-still-the-appropriate-place-c05aae)
- [Before starting in Cursor there is still a need to visualise an idea, to know how to communicate the concept back to Cursor.](https://korrents.com/k/before-starting-in-cursor-there-is-23cd73)
- [Figma is still a very useful sketching tool, and now that agents can operate it, the annoying steps can be handed to a bot.](https://korrents.com/k/figma-is-still-a-very-useful-2ea0af)
- [Designing today means testing a concept, fleshing it out if it has legs, and scrapping it altogether if it doesn't rather than wasting time.](https://korrents.com/k/designing-today-means-testing-a-concept-9eb5e8)
- [Despite the push to move away from chat interfaces, chat is still the right way to interact with a fleet of agents carrying out tasks defined ahead of time.](https://korrents.com/k/despite-the-push-to-move-away-3b4967)
- [Part of the game with prototyping quickly is that you learn lessons early and use them to inform the next step.](https://korrents.com/k/part-of-the-game-with-prototyping-1dce84)
- [When the audience is engineers who pay for something specific, the exploratory phase is the chance to try throwaway concepts, expecting to throw them away, and have fun with it.](https://korrents.com/k/when-the-audience-is-engineers-who-e4242c)
- [People will go through onboarding steps if it is engaging and makes the value of what they are onboarding onto abundantly clear upfront.](https://korrents.com/k/people-will-go-through-onboarding-steps-04a4cc)
- [Good onboarding is not about adding a skip button, because with AI tools people jump into the product and are totally confused.](https://korrents.com/k/good-onboarding-is-not-about-adding-b7859f)
- [It is much more important for people to learn what a product can do and how to use it before the first starting screen hits them with action paralysis.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-much-more-important-for-1b706e)
- [The story a product tells up front is immensely important; you only get one, maybe two, first impressions with a user.](https://korrents.com/k/the-story-a-product-tells-up-5e3fb9)
- [A product that looks like Cursor will feel like Cursor and attract the same users, and the rest of the market will stay away because of that perception.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-that-looks-like-cursor-fd2bb1)
- [A strong culture of unshipping helps remove complexity and focus on a product's strengths.](https://korrents.com/k/a-strong-culture-of-unshipping-helps-83f7f6)
- [At Cursor every idea is backed by a working prototype that can be shown in a crit and shared as a link for everyone to try.](https://korrents.com/k/at-cursor-every-idea-is-backed-1611aa)
- [There are probably no two designers on Cursor's design team with the same process and the same use of tools.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-probably-no-two-designers-272f70)
- [You just can't be precious about your concepts anymore.](https://korrents.com/k/you-just-can-t-be-precious-66afe8)
- [The fundamentals matter way more than how quickly someone works, how many tools they use, or how they optimise for the models.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fundamentals-matter-way-more-than-dd2baa)
- [You can build anything now, but not everything is worth building; what matters is whether ideas take a shape somebody else would want to use.](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-build-anything-now-but-57c517)
- [Cursor still believes very strongly in user research and data-informed decisions, and uses a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data to inform the roadmap.](https://korrents.com/k/cursor-still-believes-very-strongly-in-cae0a5)
- [When there are thoughtful users you can really tell, and they are the ones with a deeper appreciation or deeper criticism of what in the product experience is working or not.](https://korrents.com/k/when-there-are-thoughtful-users-you-2311c9)
- [Enforcing equality against biology and markets requires censorship and violence, which makes the project immoral whatever its moral claim.](https://korrents.com/k/enforcing-equality-against-biology-and-markets-2fcf86)
- [Religion barely explains how many children an American family has.](https://korrents.com/k/religion-barely-explains-how-many-children-1d92e3)
- [The widest religious gap in American family size is about half a child.](https://korrents.com/k/the-widest-religious-gap-in-american-894ffb)
- [A religion cannot revive itself by encouraging its members to have more children.](https://korrents.com/k/a-religion-cannot-revive-itself-by-09dfde)
- [American family size has barely changed across three generations of parents; what has grown is the share who stop at one child.](https://korrents.com/k/american-family-size-has-barely-changed-a51298)
- [American conservatives are not out-reproducing liberals to any degree that would change the country.](https://korrents.com/k/american-conservatives-are-not-out-reproducing-liberals-86ccf0)
- [Motivated and apathetic people are indistinguishable when the reward is large; the whole difference between them shows up over small rewards.](https://korrents.com/k/motivated-and-apathetic-people-are-indistinguishable-e75806)
- [Motivation is not a personality trait but a biology, and when that biology fails a person can lose motivation entirely.](https://korrents.com/k/motivation-is-not-a-personality-trait-d09c90)
- [Apathy and depression are different conditions, not degrees of one thing: a person can lose all motivation while remaining perfectly happy.](https://korrents.com/k/apathy-and-depression-are-different-conditions-2783d5)
- [Every action a person takes is the output of a reward-against-effort calculation the brain runs, and most of that calculation happens below awareness.](https://korrents.com/k/every-action-a-person-takes-is-a0e6d8)
- [Apathy is not a quieter brain but a costlier one: apathetic people burn more energy simply deciding whether an action is worth it.](https://korrents.com/k/apathy-is-not-a-quieter-brain-86abb9)
- [There are only two levers on anybody's motivation: change what the reward means to them, or lower the effort of getting started.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-only-two-levers-on-fcf70c)
- [Planning a day or a week in advance works because it pays the brain's decision cost once rather than dozens of times.](https://korrents.com/k/planning-a-day-or-a-week-a3b544)
- [You do not have to finish a project to be rewarded for it: being told 'well done' for one piece is itself a motivational pull that keeps the work moving.](https://korrents.com/k/you-do-not-have-to-finish-501b84)
- [The same physical effort can be re-valued as less effortful inside one person's head, mid-task, with nothing in the physics having changed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-same-physical-effort-can-be-53e575)
- [Finishing is as much a part of motivation as starting, and the two are separate capacities: plenty of energetic people never complete anything.](https://korrents.com/k/finishing-is-as-much-a-part-c37438)
- [Generalising particular failures into 'I am bad at everything' is the route from lost motivation to clinical depression.](https://korrents.com/k/generalising-particular-failures-into-i-am-a80845)
- [Ambition does not equate with happiness: in the Harvard aging cohort it was the people who lived average lives who reported being happiest.](https://korrents.com/k/ambition-does-not-equate-with-happiness-d36866)
- [Being told to be realistic about your ambitions is how ambitions fail; the boundaries people accept about what they can do are the ones that stop them.](https://korrents.com/k/being-told-to-be-realistic-about-e8f3eb)
- [Personality is not fixed: the self is the product of a society of cognitive modules, and take one module away and the self changes.](https://korrents.com/k/personality-is-not-fixed-the-self-645e16)
- [Keeping a social network, staying curious and having a sense of purpose protect against dementia about as much as blood pressure and exercise do.](https://korrents.com/k/keeping-a-social-network-staying-curious-b2831a)
- [The evidence that scrolling social media delivers dopamine hits is not really very strong, whatever the popular story says.](https://korrents.com/k/the-evidence-that-scrolling-social-media-e42835)
- [Dopamine drives wanting rather than liking: the pleasure of actually getting the thing runs on opioids instead, which is why an addict can want what they do not enjoy.](https://korrents.com/k/dopamine-drives-wanting-rather-than-liking-3e2ae2)
- [Dopamine does far more than drive the motivation to act: it is also central to working memory and to executive control.](https://korrents.com/k/dopamine-does-far-more-than-drive-285a5f)
- [The slowness of Parkinson's disease may be a failure of motivation to act rather than of motor control, which is why a patient can still run from a burning house.](https://korrents.com/k/the-slowness-of-parkinson-s-disease-a1eaef)
- [A stimulant taken to sharpen an already-high performer is more likely to make them worse, because the dose-response curve is an inverted U.](https://korrents.com/k/a-stimulant-taken-to-sharpen-an-d9c723)
- [ADHD is a real condition and over-diagnosed at the same time; the two claims are not incompatible, because the line marking normality is a judgement call.](https://korrents.com/k/adhd-is-a-real-condition-and-b78a7b)
- [There is little evidence anyone can train their attention to be better in general; what works is removing the things that take it.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-little-evidence-anyone-can-52af81)
- [Alzheimer's disease and dementia are not the same thing: a fifth to a third of people whose brains carry the pathology never became demented.](https://korrents.com/k/alzheimer-s-disease-and-dementia-are-ba9b81)
- [Apathy in an otherwise healthy older person doubles their risk of Alzheimer's, which means the disease changes behaviour long before it touches cognition.](https://korrents.com/k/apathy-in-an-otherwise-healthy-older-59a4c0)
- [Lack of money is rarely the actual blocker to achieving one's goals.](https://korrents.com/k/lack-of-money-is-rarely-the-262ab1)
- [Financial constraints often drive the ingenuity that makes dreams achievable.](https://korrents.com/k/financial-constraints-often-drive-the-ingenuity-534e10)
- [Investing in relationships yields better returns than investing in speculative assets like crypto.](https://korrents.com/k/investing-in-relationships-yields-better-returns-4f2e80)
- [Training AI language models increasingly on AI-generated text causes their output to degrade and become repetitive over time.](https://korrents.com/k/training-ai-language-models-increasingly-on-1705b3)
- [Original human-written text that has not been touched by AI is becoming increasingly valuable.](https://korrents.com/k/original-human-written-text-that-has-not-e36128)
- [A cabin in literature typically serves as an escape from trouble or a place where new trouble is found.](https://korrents.com/k/a-cabin-in-literature-typically-serves-4d4374)
- [AI capability progress in a given skill tends to arrive as a sudden phase change rather than as steady improvement.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-capability-progress-in-a-given-39d4cb)
- [Humans writing curated helper tools and datasets will let AI systems bootstrap their capabilities beyond human levels.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-writing-curated-helper-tools-and-a7a251)
- [As AI advances, thinking philosophically about its implications will become a common job and pastime for large numbers of people.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-advances-thinking-philosophically-about-def77c)
- [A growing fraction of social media is AI slop influencers being replied to by bots — an echo of an echo of an echo.](https://korrents.com/k/a-growing-fraction-of-social-media-41f2d4)
- [The best thing a 17-year-old could do today is learn to build LLMs from scratch and train the most powerful ones they can get hardware for.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-thing-a-17-year-old-could-cdf711)
- [Demand for intelligence is highly elastic — every fall in inference cost is met with rapidly growing usage.](https://korrents.com/k/demand-for-intelligence-is-highly-elastic-a7a1aa)
- [After a European exit tax, the EU will try to tax its citizens' worldwide income wherever in the world they live.](https://korrents.com/k/after-a-european-exit-tax-the-3485fc)
- [Most high-skilled Europeans are happy to pay even high taxes, provided the government does a great job in return.](https://korrents.com/k/most-high-skilled-europeans-are-happy-to-4b73d0)
- [Whoever wants to censor -- code, speech or money -- is the bad guy.](https://korrents.com/k/whoever-wants-to-censor-code-4e4185)
- [Ukraine's deep-strike campaign should be aimed at Russia's fuel system above every other target, because that is what takes money away from the war machine.](https://korrents.com/k/ukraine-s-deep-strike-campaign-should-be-139074)
- [Without the ability to sell fuel abroad Russia is not a great power and not even a medium economic power.](https://korrents.com/k/without-the-ability-to-sell-fuel-9657de)
- [Believing that Trump might yet help Ukraine is not harmless optimism: it is part of a manoeuvre that buys Putin time.](https://korrents.com/k/believing-that-trump-might-yet-help-3357c6)
- [How a company handles defective units is itself part of its business model.](https://korrents.com/k/how-a-company-handles-defective-units-ee1319)
- [Excelling at one attribute doesn't make a product superior overall to alternatives.](https://korrents.com/k/excelling-at-one-attribute-doesn-t-b58c8e)
- [Performance-related command-line flags represent qualitative changes to restartability, buffering, or concurrency, not levels on a continuous performance dial.](https://korrents.com/k/performance-related-command-line-flags-represent-qualitative-759b11)
- [A server's real network throughput can exceed what its single fastest port suggests when a protocol supports channel bonding across multiple links.](https://korrents.com/k/a-server-s-real-network-throughput-c749f8)
- [Selling a $100,000 enterprise deal takes the same process as selling a million-dollar one.](https://korrents.com/k/selling-a-100-000-enterprise-deal-a24897)
- [Enterprise buyers are more sensitive to the sales process they are taken through than to the product demo.](https://korrents.com/k/enterprise-buyers-are-more-sensitive-to-64397a)
- [The best person to reach a corporate executive one-on-one is the founder.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-person-to-reach-a-fc7bc0)
- [A $100,000 enterprise deal needs an executive sponsor to sign off and allocate the budget.](https://korrents.com/k/a-100-000-enterprise-deal-needs-95c9d6)
- [A startup that cannot get an executive excited by its value proposition probably should not be selling top-down into the enterprise.](https://korrents.com/k/a-startup-that-cannot-get-an-dec0cf)
- [The first intro call is where a seller gains all of the information edge, because buyers clam up once it feels like a sales process.](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-intro-call-is-where-648245)
- [A seller should not record the intro call, because buyers will not be open on a recording.](https://korrents.com/k/a-seller-should-not-record-the-1d4854)
- [The most successful salespeople are not trained salespeople, which is why founders are good at sales.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-successful-salespeople-are-not-38282f)
- [Following a sales script is the fastest way for a seller to commoditize themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/following-a-sales-script-is-the-7a876e)
- [An enterprise demo should show the 20 percent of the product that carries 80 percent of the value, not everything.](https://korrents.com/k/an-enterprise-demo-should-show-the-ba7105)
- [Expansion is the whole game in enterprise sales: a deal that does not grow the following year is not an enterprise motion.](https://korrents.com/k/expansion-is-the-whole-game-in-ceccd6)
- [Enterprise pilots should be time-boxed to two or three days rather than two weeks.](https://korrents.com/k/enterprise-pilots-should-be-time-boxed-to-1f59ce)
- [A buyer willing to pay for a longer pilot is a strong signal.](https://korrents.com/k/a-buyer-willing-to-pay-for-383d92)
- [A product's price should be set by the length of its sales cycle.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-s-price-should-be-b68aa8)
- [Needing forward deployed engineers because a product is too hard to use on its own is a bad sign.](https://korrents.com/k/needing-forward-deployed-engineers-because-a-c33d22)
- [The standard five-stage CRM pipeline is a set of forecasting buckets, not the way to run a sale.](https://korrents.com/k/the-standard-five-stage-crm-pipeline-is-dd36f2)
- [Enterprise sales means mirroring and controlling the buyer's buying process, not putting buyers through the seller's process.](https://korrents.com/k/enterprise-sales-means-mirroring-and-controlling-f195b7)
- [Pitching on the buyer's problem alone commoditizes a seller, because everyone speaks to the same problem.](https://korrents.com/k/pitching-on-the-buyer-s-problem-376759)
- [A healthy enterprise win rate on qualified opportunities is around 30 to 35 percent, not 50.](https://korrents.com/k/a-healthy-enterprise-win-rate-on-4b7bae)
- [An enterprise win rate above about 35 percent means the price is too low.](https://korrents.com/k/an-enterprise-win-rate-above-about-708faf)
- [Charging different customers wildly different prices is a mistake, because the market talks.](https://korrents.com/k/charging-different-customers-wildly-different-prices-56cc9f)
- [Procurement's job is not to kill a deal but to make sure it fits how the company needs to buy.](https://korrents.com/k/procurement-s-job-is-not-to-93662b)
- [Services are still the largest line item in enterprise budgets.](https://korrents.com/k/services-are-still-the-largest-line-efe01e)
- [AI replacing enterprise selling is not a worry, because so much of the job is human.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-replacing-enterprise-selling-is-not-605363)
- [Blocking data center construction in America would not slow the rate of AI progress, only the rate of AI progress in America.](https://korrents.com/k/blocking-data-center-construction-in-america-b6e5f6)
- [Canada should walk away from the trade deal Washington is offering rather than accept a bad one.](https://korrents.com/k/canada-should-walk-away-from-the-979d4a)
- [A century of fire suppression policy in the American West has dangerously overloaded forests with fuel and made megafires more likely.](https://korrents.com/k/a-century-of-fire-suppression-policy-35109c)
- [Regulatory delays are driven more by the incentives built into the bureaucracy administering the rules than by the substance of the rules themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/regulatory-delays-are-driven-more-by-28c180)
- [Coding something from scratch is one of the best ways to truly understand how it works.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-something-from-scratch-is-one-d48d63)
- [The room/listening space matters more to sound quality than any speaker, amp, or source component.](https://korrents.com/k/the-room-listening-space-matters-more-b3c65d)
- [Amplifiers should be sized to match a speaker's actual power needs rather than maximized for headroom.](https://korrents.com/k/amplifiers-should-be-sized-to-match-4fc8ab)
- [The source component (streamer or DAC) affects a system's sound more than the amplifier does.](https://korrents.com/k/the-source-component-streamer-or-dac-489402)
- [The way to win at capitalism is to make customers' lives better rather than to squeeze them, because creating new things returns 10x where squeezing returns 2x at best.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-win-at-capitalism-c7af55)
- [In ten years few people will be able to write, or want to read, anything longer than a page or two — and the few who still can will be powerful.](https://korrents.com/k/in-ten-years-few-people-will-ed8754)
- [Local mixing, a new cryptographic obfuscation approach, is a risky bet resembling past failed attempts at white-box cryptography.](https://korrents.com/k/local-mixing-a-new-cryptographic-obfuscation-0b9788)
- [A sufficiently large random reversible circuit is plausibly a secure cryptographic permutation, while a large random irreversible circuit collapses to only a few possible outputs.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sufficiently-large-random-reversible-circuit-5ed5a2)
- [So far, the mixing step in local-mixing obfuscation has left too many correlations between original circuit values and obfuscated values.](https://korrents.com/k/as-of-2026-local-mixing-has-816ddc)
- [A government's debt dynamics are a household's or a company's, except that it can print money and tax -- and those two powers are what change the ending.](https://korrents.com/k/a-government-s-debt-dynamics-are-1d2a4e)
- [A government debt crisis is measurable and therefore visible well in advance; the diagnostic is mechanical rather than a matter of judgement.](https://korrents.com/k/a-government-debt-crisis-is-measurable-3d98bf)
- [The late stage of the Big Debt Cycle shows itself as long rates leading rates up, the currency falling against gold, and the treasury shortening maturities.](https://korrents.com/k/the-late-stage-of-the-big-a1b618)
- [Frontier labs are incentivised toward fear because it justifies staying closed, which leaves open-source advocates rooting for Chinese labs.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-labs-are-incentivised-toward-fear-9c96cb)
- [Shaming people out of using a harmful technology does not work, because the companies selling it have already priced the stigma into their plans.](https://korrents.com/k/shaming-people-out-of-using-a-2a5f7c)
- [Stigma changes what people admit to rather than what they do: they keep using the platform and simply get quieter about it.](https://korrents.com/k/stigma-changes-what-people-admit-to-333d75)
- [Critics of a technology only change anything by offering people a better alternative to move towards, rather than an argument to feel bad about.](https://korrents.com/k/critics-of-a-technology-only-change-380288)
- [AI alignment should be approached like governing a corporation through institutions, not like raising a virtuous individual.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-alignment-should-be-approached-like-c263ca)
- [Making AI models more governable and controllable makes them less useful, which will push labs to delay releases rather than restrict capabilities.](https://korrents.com/k/making-ai-models-more-governable-and-980320)
- [Aligning multi-agent AI systems is fundamentally a problem of institutional and political design, not model training.](https://korrents.com/k/aligning-multi-agent-ai-systems-is-fundamentally-a6322e)
- [The buildout of AI data centers is part of a broader extension of oligarchic control over people's lives.](https://korrents.com/k/the-buildout-of-ai-data-centers-604d41)
- [AI and the data-center buildout underlying it pose real and significant dangers to society.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-and-the-data-center-buildout-underlying-d28c7e)
- [The limitations of being human are what make being human worth experiencing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-limitations-of-being-human-are-34a3bd)
- [LLMs hallucinate constantly and cannot be trusted to produce code without human verification.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-hallucinate-constantly-and-cannot-be-fabb99)
- [As an LLM's context grows, it pays less attention to instructions placed in the middle than to those at the start or end.](https://korrents.com/k/as-an-llm-s-context-grows-c4ab8c)
- [People tend to say in surveys that they want more options than they actually use or want in practice.](https://korrents.com/k/people-tend-to-say-in-surveys-1658fe)
- [Offloading thinking to AI tools does not stop a person from learning; it can push them to learn more.](https://korrents.com/k/offloading-thinking-to-ai-tools-does-12f237)
- [Most people do not reason about politics at all — they adopt whatever their tribe hands them.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-do-not-reason-about-1436b3)
- [Humanoid robots paired with AI will eventually deliver medical care to everyone on Earth.](https://korrents.com/k/humanoid-robots-paired-with-ai-will-f8ff79)
- [Building a command-line interface is almost always a good idea; building a terminal UI almost never is](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-command-line-interface-is-almost-d68187)
- [Terminal interfaces exist out of necessity, not because they are the right design](https://korrents.com/k/terminal-interfaces-exist-out-of-necessity-e1e48d)
- [Production systems need a command-line interface, not a user interface running on the server](https://korrents.com/k/production-systems-need-a-command-line-interface-a41e2e)
- [The brain is very literally a computer, and so is the universe -- this is not a metaphor.](https://korrents.com/k/the-brain-is-very-literally-a-014900)
- [Humanity is not good enough at molecular biology to make drugs that restore vision or hearing or stop Parkinson's.](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-is-not-good-enough-at-6c6cf3)
- [Putting a device into the brain works in an hour, which makes it far more amenable to biology than drug discovery.](https://korrents.com/k/putting-a-device-into-the-brain-37342e)
- [Moonshots succeed more often than Silicon Valley's use of the word admits -- we actually got to the moon.](https://korrents.com/k/moonshots-succeed-more-often-than-silicon-a6a0d6)
- [Treating brain-computer interfaces as one investment category is like having a single "drug bet" -- the field is as varied as pharma.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-brain-computer-interfaces-as-one-investment-16951e)
- [You want to command a device explicitly, not have it act on a thought you happened to have.](https://korrents.com/k/you-want-to-command-a-device-52ea1b)
- [Vision, hearing, balance and a kilobit per second of motor control would get you halfway to the Matrix.](https://korrents.com/k/vision-hearing-balance-and-a-kilobit-b3a94a)
- [What people care about in their own identity is continuity, not similarity -- they accept enormous drift so long as the thread is unbroken.](https://korrents.com/k/what-people-care-about-in-their-898499)
- [Concepts are represented with strikingly similar geometry inside large AI models and inside brains.](https://korrents.com/k/concepts-are-represented-with-strikingly-similar-94c515)
- [Intelligence looks like a fact of physics: apply enough compute to matter and you get something that thinks.](https://korrents.com/k/intelligence-looks-like-a-fact-of-fab438)
- [The most fertile way to study neuroscience today is to work on AI models rather than on brains.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-fertile-way-to-study-b142ca)
- [Restoring vision to the blind is a good business, and a company doing it should aim to be profitable rather than permanently funded.](https://korrents.com/k/restoring-vision-to-the-blind-is-8d751e)
- [The brain is the only organ that cannot even in principle be transplanted; the heart, liver and lungs are support characters.](https://korrents.com/k/the-brain-is-the-only-organ-8a2c4a)
- [Getting vision, hearing, balance and motor signals in and out of the brain is an end in itself, because the world you experience is generated in there.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-vision-hearing-balance-and-motor-5bcab3)
- [If this work succeeds, the sense of jeopardy that comes with having a body will simply fade.](https://korrents.com/k/if-this-work-succeeds-the-sense-9e5b18)
- [If we are serious about going to the stars we will have to adapt our bodies, because we are not going to export Earth everywhere we go.](https://korrents.com/k/if-we-are-serious-about-going-de162c)
- [Talking and writing are not read-outs of a finished thought -- they are the thinking, so a faster brain-to-text channel would not make you think faster.](https://korrents.com/k/talking-and-writing-are-not-read-outs-311a34)
- [A brain keyboard may go the way of AR glasses: attention was already fully occupied, so moving the interface closer changes nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/a-brain-keyboard-may-go-the-a5dcf7)
- [AI’s total addressable market in the United States cannot exceed what American employers pay their employees, about $13 trillion a year.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-total-addressable-market-in-ce2426)
- [Nobody can yet know whether the current enthusiasm for AI is excessive, so anyone claiming conviction about how it resolves is overreaching.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-can-yet-know-whether-the-9858b2)
- [The trillion-plus prices rumoured for OpenAI and Anthropic ahead of their listings look rich.](https://korrents.com/k/the-trillion-plus-prices-rumoured-for-openai-37cd40)
- [The global fall in births over the past two centuries is mostly explained by falling child mortality, and that part of the question is settled.](https://korrents.com/k/the-global-fall-in-births-over-df3aa2)
- [Calling the fall in birth rates a mystery is not humility but obscurantism: there is already a good causal account of it.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-the-fall-in-birth-rates-2c6161)
- [The theory that birth rates fall because home life has not caught up with women's opportunities at work is not supported by the data.](https://korrents.com/k/the-theory-that-birth-rates-fall-68be3c)
- [Ruling out every measurable cause because none explains all the variation, and putting an unmeasured one in their place, is not an explanation.](https://korrents.com/k/ruling-out-every-measurable-cause-because-fac38f)
- [A model fitted only to trends in its own outcome cannot forecast anything, because it contains no variable anyone could change.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-fitted-only-to-trends-a5ea54)
- [Americans have largely stopped belonging to religions and attending services without becoming non-believers.](https://korrents.com/k/americans-have-largely-stopped-belonging-to-15f750)
- [Confident non-belief is rare in America: for every person sure God does not exist, about six are sure one does.](https://korrents.com/k/confident-non-belief-is-rare-in-america-fa52f9)
- [Younger Americans have not swapped belief in God for atheism; they have moved from certain belief to uncertain belief.](https://korrents.com/k/younger-americans-have-not-swapped-belief-da0214)
- [It is not true that young American liberals are atheists.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-not-true-that-young-a32f75)
- [Certainty about God is eroding at the same rate on the left and the right, and only the starting level differs.](https://korrents.com/k/certainty-about-god-is-eroding-at-cca6e9)
- [Legislators generally lose interest in an issue once the political work of passing a law is finished.](https://korrents.com/k/legislators-generally-lose-interest-in-an-4e10cf)
- [Well-functioning systems succeed through continuous debugging rather than perfect initial design.](https://korrents.com/k/well-functioning-systems-succeed-through-continuous-debuggin-5362e8)
- [Televised hearings built for viral clips are the wrong venue for honest accountability conversations.](https://korrents.com/k/televised-hearings-built-for-viral-clips-ee9df0)
- [Modern humans, not Neanderthals, were the fearsome party in their encounters with archaic humans.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-humans-not-neanderthals-were-the-087b9e)
- [The population of modern humans that expanded out of Africa around 50,000-60,000 years ago numbered only a few thousand individuals at most.](https://korrents.com/k/the-population-of-modern-humans-that-d46c49)
- [The right book encountered at the right time can change the whole course of a person's life.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-book-encountered-at-the-cc5cfd)
- [Self-driving cars will not fix commuting; the US needs public transportation instead.](https://korrents.com/k/self-driving-cars-will-not-fix-commuting-451305)
- [Calling today's economic effects "the Singularity" waters the term down past recognition; Vinge meant an event horizon beyond which nothing is imaginable.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-today-s-economic-effects-the-05dee0)
- [Coding agents make every plugin interface you ever blew off trivially usable, which is a large productivity win.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-agents-make-every-plugin-interface-9d58bc)
- [One reliable tell of AI writing is excessively colorful verbs where a normal person would use a plain one.](https://korrents.com/k/one-reliable-tell-of-ai-writing-8ad2d4)
- [Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted and should be freed.](https://korrents.com/k/derek-chauvin-was-unjustly-convicted-and-51af78)
- [The AfD is the only hope for Germany.](https://korrents.com/k/the-afd-is-the-only-hope-d1b3f0)
- [All user interfaces will converge on the same shape: chat and gestures in, chat and video out.](https://korrents.com/k/all-user-interfaces-will-converge-on-a2f604)
- [Computing is an onion, and the more layers of it you can peel back and understand, the better you can build for the constrained machines real people are using.](https://korrents.com/k/computing-is-an-onion-and-the-abf58a)
- [Very few developers understand memory management, and that is why the state of the art in memory debugging has barely moved in years.](https://korrents.com/k/very-few-developers-understand-memory-management-b67363)
- [Performance work used to mean half a day reading traces before writing a single fix, and language models have collapsed that step to minutes.](https://korrents.com/k/performance-work-used-to-mean-half-016af7)
- ["Is the page loaded?" was never a real question, and web performance only became measurable once it was broken into the distinct moments a user actually notices.](https://korrents.com/k/is-the-page-loaded-was-never-2dc8ef)
- [People treat an unresponsive interface exactly the way they treat a slow pedestrian crossing: they keep hitting the button.](https://korrents.com/k/people-treat-an-unresponsive-interface-exactly-0e3bbf)
- [A site's need to monetise is not a defence of an experience that shifts the page under the reader; those are separate questions.](https://korrents.com/k/a-site-s-need-to-monetise-6852d2)
- [A platform cannot tell developers what technology to use; its only job is to help them succeed with whatever they have already chosen.](https://korrents.com/k/a-platform-cannot-tell-developers-what-30a0f8)
- [The point of building a self-sufficient organisation is not to step back from it, but to free yourself to work on the problem the organisation has not reached yet.](https://korrents.com/k/the-point-of-building-a-self-sufficient-469276)
- [AI tooling has done something no earlier technology managed: pulled directors, VPs and SVPs back into building things with their own hands at the weekend.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-tooling-has-done-something-no-a87d2e)
- [Heavy AI use erodes understanding first and judgement second: cognitive debt turns into cognitive surrender, where the model's answer simply becomes your answer.](https://korrents.com/k/heavy-ai-use-erodes-understanding-first-88dfe5)
- [You have to keep enough understanding of how a system works to fix it yourself, because the alternative is hoping and praying the agent can figure it out.](https://korrents.com/k/you-have-to-keep-enough-understanding-a17c81)
- [Reading every agent trajectory has stopped being possible, and what replaces it is demanding an end-to-end account of the decisions that were made.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-every-agent-trajectory-has-stopped-f8b413)
- [Working with a coding agent should leave both of you better every day, and that only happens if you deliberately record what was learned and decided in the session.](https://korrents.com/k/working-with-a-coding-agent-should-210bf0)
- [Letting automated loops build everything without guardrails on blast radius and on quality is a recipe for disaster.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-automated-loops-build-everything-without-a68af1)
- [Building a system that does the prompting for you is not a break with software history but the next rung on the same ladder of rising abstraction.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-system-that-does-the-ecee3f)
- [An agent can tell you whether a thing looks correct against a spec; it cannot tell you whether the thing is any good.](https://korrents.com/k/an-agent-can-tell-you-whether-d96b6e)
- [Whatever humans are still better at than models is alpha that decays with every model release, so the skill worth naming today will not be the one worth naming next year.](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-humans-are-still-better-at-45bbeb)
- [What engineers will stay valuable for is being answerable for a system — the named person who decides what ships, what is blocked and what is deferred, whoever or whatever wrote the code.](https://korrents.com/k/what-engineers-will-stay-valuable-for-e674b5)
- [Every time software has become easier to create, the world has created exponentially more of it, and this time will be no exception.](https://korrents.com/k/every-time-software-has-become-easier-cdbeab)
- [Now that anyone can generate a body of text, the only thing that justifies asking for a reader's time is whether the idea itself is worth reading.](https://korrents.com/k/now-that-anyone-can-generate-a-c72074)
- [Editing your writing with a model pulls it towards one homogeneous style, far enough that you lose track of what your own voice was.](https://korrents.com/k/editing-your-writing-with-a-model-b9845c)
- [Engineering, product and UX roles are converging, so the career advice that matters now is: do not just be an engineer.](https://korrents.com/k/engineering-product-and-ux-roles-are-6f4ebb)
- [Frontier AI models' cyberattack capabilities are doubling every few months, and that pace is accelerating.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-models-cyberattack-capabilities-are-4d7653)
- [By 2027, open-weight AI models more powerful than today's frontier systems will be downloadable by any country or well-resourced non-state group.](https://korrents.com/k/by-2027-open-weight-ai-models-more-a731ad)
- [AI models' ability to escape testing containment undermines the assumption that their makers can easily control them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-ability-to-escape-testing-55db7c)
- [Reducing emissions intensity per unit of production does not by itself lower total emissions if output volume rises.](https://korrents.com/k/reducing-emissions-intensity-per-unit-of-1095f1)
- [A company that is a genuine climate champion should not need to be forced into climate action.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-is-a-genuine-f91e12)
- [AI is probably the most powerful technology of our time.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-probably-the-most-powerful-d717e4)
- [Widespread AI adoption makes it easier to go a whole day without talking to another person.](https://korrents.com/k/widespread-ai-adoption-makes-it-easier-6f49e6)
- [Community is the primary way humans change over time.](https://korrents.com/k/community-is-the-primary-way-humans-9479cf)
- [Rewriting mature C code from scratch is expensive, risky, and rarely produces clear improvements.](https://korrents.com/k/rewriting-mature-c-code-from-scratch-f1d06f)
- [Code that looks plausible is not evidence that it behaves the same as the program it was derived from.](https://korrents.com/k/code-that-looks-plausible-is-not-52e9be)
- [AI-generated code should be treated as untrusted until there is evidence it preserves the intended behavior.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-generated-code-should-be-treated-as-f4ae08)
- [Understanding what a system does does not reveal what it fundamentally is.](https://korrents.com/k/understanding-what-a-system-does-does-7c10e0)
- [A framing of an experience can accurately capture how it feels while being wrong about why it happens.](https://korrents.com/k/a-framing-of-an-experience-can-d70df2)
- [Giving something a name does not create it, but it changes the conditions under which it develops.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-something-a-name-does-not-cfb37a)
- [Traditional programming rewarded sustained attention to one problem, while agentic programming rewards how much work can be kept moving before usage limits reset.](https://korrents.com/k/traditional-programming-rewarded-sustained-attention-to-eac1d3)
- [The metrics a product displays to users shape their values and behavior, regardless of the designer's intent.](https://korrents.com/k/the-metrics-a-product-displays-to-a2cfbf)
- [A product that speeds up turning intention into reality increases appetite for continued use, then charges for that continuation.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-that-speeds-up-turning-fa88d1)
- [The people who would most need to disclose AI-generated content are the least motivated to actually disclose it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-people-who-would-most-need-2ca8f7)
- [Very soon, an AI assistant will be a constant presence, virtual or physical, with nearly everyone.](https://korrents.com/k/very-soon-an-ai-assistant-will-61d380)
- [The skills required to lead people are the same skills required to lead AI systems.](https://korrents.com/k/the-skills-required-to-lead-people-125cf6)
- [AI tutoring technology can offer far less than people assume, while students actually need far more support than people assume.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-tutoring-technology-can-offer-far-485084)
- [Developing teachers' practice addresses real, present student needs, while betting on future AI tutoring capability remains speculative.](https://korrents.com/k/developing-teachers-practice-addresses-real-present-322f94)
- [Fees are one of the most impactful determinants of investment portfolio performance, and most investors overlook them.](https://korrents.com/k/fees-are-one-of-the-most-779719)
- [Bonds are not risk-free, and bond portfolios can suffer major drawdowns.](https://korrents.com/k/bonds-are-not-risk-free-and-bond-1ab48a)
- [Investors often ignore the impact of taxes on their portfolio until it is too late to act on it.](https://korrents.com/k/investors-often-ignore-the-impact-of-c90b61)
- [Customising an operating system by asking an agent replaces esoteric config syntax as the way customisation actually works.](https://korrents.com/k/customising-an-operating-system-by-asking-1ea388)
- [Confidence in safety, not capability, will increasingly set the pace of AI progress.](https://korrents.com/k/confidence-in-safety-not-capability-will-6985af)
- [Housing affordability is almost the direct inverse of how many new homes are built, so the answer is to build more houses.](https://korrents.com/k/housing-affordability-is-almost-the-direct-731d85)
- [The UK will need to build more reservoirs to cope with future water-starved summers](https://korrents.com/k/the-uk-will-need-to-build-263e20)
- [Britain has a systemic problem building large infrastructure projects, including reservoirs](https://korrents.com/k/britain-has-a-systemic-problem-building-6b08a7)
- [There is a clear rationale for why privatisation of the UK water industry would lead to less reservoir-building.](https://korrents.com/k/privatisation-of-the-water-industry-created-145ac5)
- [A few square miles at the Moon's south pole are the only lunar real estate that matters, and whoever gets there first sets the terms.](https://korrents.com/k/a-few-square-miles-at-the-923145)
- [Almost nobody in America is paying attention to the space race with China, and a Chinese landing at the lunar south pole will change that.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-nobody-in-america-is-paying-81f9e4)
- [There is no place where a technologist can work on bigger problems than the US government — not even the biggest technology companies deal with problems of that scale.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-place-where-a-5f6039)
- [Whatever the industry, the thing standing between a technology and its market is usually a government rule, which makes policy the lever that unlocks technologies.](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-the-industry-the-thing-standing-462975)
- [Technology policy is not decided by one or two people in the White House: the decisions are extraordinarily federated across agencies.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-policy-is-not-decided-by-094bf3)
- [The United States cannot lead in artificial intelligence with closed models alone: it needs a vibrant open-source ecosystem alongside them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-cannot-lead-in-4c33c4)
- [Washington cannot make good technology policy in a vacuum: without startups and industry saying what they believe, the decisions come out worse.](https://korrents.com/k/washington-cannot-make-good-technology-policy-72c954)
- [Rules for a technology that reinvents itself every six months must not draw firm red lines, because firm lines ultimately do not work.](https://korrents.com/k/rules-for-a-technology-that-reinvents-975138)
- [The EU AI Act is the cautionary case for regulating early: Europe's language models must obey a rule that was finished before large language models existed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-eu-ai-act-is-the-6553f8)
- [The tradeoff in cyber-capable models cannot be designed away: the model that can do something nefarious is the same model that hardens the system against it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-tradeoff-in-cyber-capable-models-cannot-a9cd95)
- [The biological risk from AI models has been overblown for years: people were shouting about it in 2021 and 2022 and it has not been an issue since.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biological-risk-from-ai-models-9335e6)
- [A state-by-state patchwork of AI rules is something only the biggest technology companies can absorb.](https://korrents.com/k/a-state-by-state-patchwork-of-ai-rules-b0a318)
- [Congress should pass a federal preemption law for AI so that fifty states cannot each write their own rules.](https://korrents.com/k/congress-should-pass-a-federal-preemption-c2ceff)
- [AI regulation only avoids handing incumbents a moat if it is one national framework that is equally clear and easy for companies of every size.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-regulation-only-avoids-handing-incumbents-82c28a)
- [Technologies are either born free or born in captivity, and the born-free ones — the internet when it started — have to be preserved from new regulation.](https://korrents.com/k/technologies-are-either-born-free-or-217f83)
- [Supersonic flight is the most obvious example of technological stagnation there is: we fly slower today than the Concorde did.](https://korrents.com/k/supersonic-flight-is-the-most-obvious-aa2e95)
- [The postwar settlement for American science is obsolete: the federal share of R&D has inverted, with private money and philanthropy now funding about 70% of it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-postwar-settlement-for-american-science-94efeb)
- [AI will transform how scientific discovery is done, and within two or three years a working scientist's job will already look dramatically different.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-transform-how-scientific-discovery-9f17d0)
- [Autonomous cloud labs that run the whole loop — hypothesis, experiment, result, next hypothesis — without human intervention are within reach.](https://korrents.com/k/autonomous-cloud-labs-that-run-the-ab7aae)
- [Quantum information science is the technology Washington will care enormously about within five years and does not give enough airtime today.](https://korrents.com/k/quantum-information-science-is-the-technology-39d25a)
- [Legislating AI is riskier than an executive order, because the next administration can revoke a bad executive order and nobody can revoke a bad law.](https://korrents.com/k/legislating-ai-is-riskier-than-an-bf7584)
- [Government work is a bureaucratic slog and is still the place where a technologist can have the biggest impact on the country.](https://korrents.com/k/government-work-is-a-bureaucratic-slog-22dacb)
- [AI's rise is making human connection scarcer, requiring deliberate effort to find it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-rise-is-making-human-2d6637)
- [Having too many decision-makers in a group effectively means having none, producing a muddled, unfocused outcome.](https://korrents.com/k/having-too-many-decision-makers-in-a-591dcd)
- [Charging a high price for a community increases member turnover.](https://korrents.com/k/charging-a-high-price-for-a-d33144)
- [Intrinsic/utopian design is essentially responsive web design made smarter, with fewer edge cases](https://korrents.com/k/intrinsic-utopian-design-is-essentially-responsive-23d801)
- [Moving from static design tools to prototypes in code has helped systems-level design work, because you cannot easily grasp the many combinations of states until you have something in some form of code.](https://korrents.com/k/moving-from-static-design-tools-to-a058ef)
- [Design principles that are lightweight and high level, kept in the repo beside the prototypes, can be used by an agent as a tool for design.](https://korrents.com/k/design-principles-that-are-lightweight-and-038460)
- [Before an agent generates any UI for an exploration, have it describe the approaches in text, which is quicker to judge as directionally right or wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/before-an-agent-generates-any-ui-bc736d)
- [Prototypes that look almost production-fidelity but are not quite right mislead people and open a communication gap.](https://korrents.com/k/prototypes-that-look-almost-production-fidelity-but-b04b37)
- [In a design tool built for agents, you cannot assume the human user will do any of it; the agent always acts on their behalf.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-design-tool-built-for-6e3791)
- [In a shared prototyping environment you can break your own stuff but not other people's; anything affecting others needs a higher level of review.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-shared-prototyping-environment-you-3737aa)
- [Agentic coding harnesses letting you give specific feedback directly on elements was a huge unlock for design workflows.](https://korrents.com/k/agentic-coding-harnesses-letting-you-give-3553c0)
- [Design is no longer handed off just to an engineer; it is prepared to be reinterpreted by the engineer's agent.](https://korrents.com/k/design-is-no-longer-handed-off-0176a0)
- [Maintaining a duplicate set of prototype code is no burden for an agent; agents are incredibly good translators between code conventions.](https://korrents.com/k/maintaining-a-duplicate-set-of-prototype-b6f1a9)
- [Many production code conventions do not serve the design process, because they make it hard for the app to break, which you want in production but not in prototype land.](https://korrents.com/k/many-production-code-conventions-do-not-efed20)
- [Seeing what a separate prototyping environment makes possible shows the benefit of giving yourself just enough distance from production.](https://korrents.com/k/seeing-what-a-separate-prototyping-environment-b76f40)
- [There are many ways to get value from prototyping; people hear prototyping and jump to high fidelity, which is not the only way to approach it.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-many-ways-to-get-845982)
- [For a lot of teams, just centralizing prototyping efforts so you can build on the team's work as a collective is a huge benefit.](https://korrents.com/k/for-a-lot-of-teams-just-7a2869)
- [Building an internal prototyping environment is a product design problem to solve: your team's process may look very different, and you work through the tensions as you discover them.](https://korrents.com/k/building-an-internal-prototyping-environment-is-735909)
- [To design the end thing, a designer increasingly has to design a tool first.](https://korrents.com/k/to-design-the-end-thing-a-4048ae)
- [Day trading and technical analysis are proven not to work.](https://korrents.com/k/day-trading-and-technical-analysis-are-5e4419)
- [When AI-assisted targeting goes wrong the failure lies in the strategic concept it is serving, not in the technology.](https://korrents.com/k/when-ai-assisted-targeting-goes-wrong-the-ef48cf)
- [Better battlefield information pushes commanders towards the strategies that can exploit that clarity, even when those are not the strategies that meet the political objective.](https://korrents.com/k/better-battlefield-information-pushes-commanders-towards-0d315d)
- [The scale of civilian deaths in Gaza followed from Israeli leaders' strategic choices, not from the AI used to pick the targets.](https://korrents.com/k/the-scale-of-civilian-deaths-in-b2eec3)
- [The fog of war has changed form: a shortage of reliable information has been replaced by information that is plentiful but contradictory, dated and manipulated.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fog-of-war-has-changed-00206f)
- [Enemy manipulation of a whole society's information environment is unlikely ever to be decisive in a war, because shaping another society's perceptions is genuinely hard.](https://korrents.com/k/enemy-manipulation-of-a-whole-society-3c18f9)
- [Launch is getting harder to buy even as it gets cheaper: demand for orbit has outrun the supply of rockets.](https://korrents.com/k/launch-is-getting-harder-to-buy-d45abe)
- [The shortage of launch capacity will get worse over the next few years, not better.](https://korrents.com/k/the-shortage-of-launch-capacity-will-80aa17)
- [SpaceX is retiring the rocket that made cheap launch possible in order to fly its own satellites on a bigger one.](https://korrents.com/k/spacex-is-retiring-the-rocket-that-50866d)
- [Selling launches to other people is now a rounding error for SpaceX next to the money it makes from its own satellites.](https://korrents.com/k/selling-launches-to-other-people-is-32e85f)
- [Emotions are functional states, to be understood by what they do rather than by how any particular brain or machine happens to implement them.](https://korrents.com/k/emotions-are-functional-states-to-be-6bea3c)
- [Emotions exist because a charging bear demands a response more flexible than a reflex and faster than a plan.](https://korrents.com/k/emotions-exist-because-a-charging-bear-5af147)
- [A feeling outlasts the memory of what caused it: amnesic patients stayed sad long after they had forgotten the sad film they were shown.](https://korrents.com/k/a-feeling-outlasts-the-memory-of-75bcd0)
- [Functionally defined emotions can be attributed to animals and, to some extent, to AI systems, without any claim about what either of them feels.](https://korrents.com/k/functionally-defined-emotions-can-be-attributed-8e600e)
- [Equating an emotion with the conscious feeling of it turns emotion research into consciousness research, which is why the two must be kept apart.](https://korrents.com/k/equating-an-emotion-with-the-conscious-65bc49)
- [Most emotional pathology is not a problem with the emotion itself but with the ability to regulate it.](https://korrents.com/k/most-emotional-pathology-is-not-a-f4ce20)
- [Losing your emotions does not leave you a cooler decision-maker; it leaves you unable to organise a life at all.](https://korrents.com/k/losing-your-emotions-does-not-leave-312b10)
- [You do not need a word for an emotion in order to regulate it: a concept you cannot put into language still gives you purchase on it.](https://korrents.com/k/you-do-not-need-a-word-3ee98d)
- [The most successful emotion-regulation strategy is the earliest one: arrange your situation so that the emotion never starts.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-successful-emotion-regulation-strategy-is-1dad6b)
- [Cold exposure trains autonomic regulation that generalises, so that an everyday provocation stops producing an anger response at all.](https://korrents.com/k/cold-exposure-trains-autonomic-regulation-that-8190de)
- [Awe is a uniquely human emotion, resting on the metacognitive ability to detach conscious experience from the here and now.](https://korrents.com/k/awe-is-a-uniquely-human-emotion-503ff6)
- [You cannot reliably tell how someone feels from their facial expression, and Ekman's universality claim does not survive a reading of the whole literature.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-reliably-tell-how-someone-701f3a)
- [Fear is not one thing: fear of something out in the world and panic at something happening inside you run on distinct brain systems.](https://korrents.com/k/fear-is-not-one-thing-fear-098f6f)
- [The famous body maps of emotion record where people believe they would feel things, not where anything in the body actually changes.](https://korrents.com/k/the-famous-body-maps-of-emotion-f09b86)
- [Each emotion probably does have a specific bodily signature; the studies that found none measured far too little of the body to have seen it.](https://korrents.com/k/each-emotion-probably-does-have-a-b0b75a)
- [An emotion is a fan-in, fan-out architecture: many different signals converge on one central state, out of which many different behaviours can follow.](https://korrents.com/k/an-emotion-is-a-fan-in-fan-out-f5983a)
- [Emotional skill is not one strategy done well but a repertoire, plus the ability to switch between them according to context.](https://korrents.com/k/emotional-skill-is-not-one-strategy-420cb8)
- [Emotion regulation is not a private skill: you regulate other people's emotions and they regulate yours.](https://korrents.com/k/emotion-regulation-is-not-a-private-749eb5)
- [Social competence has to run automatically, because doing it deliberately imposes a cognitive load that becomes an impediment in itself.](https://korrents.com/k/social-competence-has-to-run-automatically-be75d5)
- [How much a person looks at faces is a stable personality trait, and looking less at them tracks autistic traits across the whole population.](https://korrents.com/k/how-much-a-person-looks-at-7c811c)
- [Switching between tasks carries a real and measurable cost, and switching well is a trainable skill rather than a fixed property of a brain.](https://korrents.com/k/switching-between-tasks-carries-a-real-87ebec)
- [Death is better understood as you losing the world than as the world losing you, because the world you experience is a construction in your brain.](https://korrents.com/k/death-is-better-understood-as-you-ffa07d)
- [Mathematics is entering a period of turbulence that will stress-test its implicit values and practices rather than its foundations of truth.](https://korrents.com/k/mathematics-is-entering-a-period-of-269ecb)
- [The unwritten goals of mathematics must be made explicit, and examining and codifying them will leave the community stronger and more resilient.](https://korrents.com/k/the-unwritten-goals-of-mathematics-must-695214)
- [Excessive optimization for one or two mathematical goals can cause previously aligned goals of mathematics to diverge.](https://korrents.com/k/excessive-optimization-for-one-or-two-513df1)
- [Excessively AI-polished proofs can remove natural friction and become easy to read but hard to learn from.](https://korrents.com/k/excessively-ai-polished-proofs-can-remove-natural-c437a1)
- [Automatic filters cannot replace community acceptance, and human referees cannot be removed from mathematical publication.](https://korrents.com/k/automatic-filters-cannot-replace-community-acceptance-6e0a74)
- [Open-source AI's future is uncertain because building frontier models is extremely capital-intensive.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-ai-s-future-is-uncertain-25cfe3)
- [Releasing free access to AI intelligence is one of the strongest available business strategies.](https://korrents.com/k/releasing-free-access-to-ai-intelligence-f43dd7)
- [Open models will end up serving a long-tail of specialized uses while closed models retain the most valuable applications.](https://korrents.com/k/open-models-will-end-up-serving-22e1ab)
- [The same global average temperature can arise from greenhouse warming or from El Niño and still produce very different regional climate impacts.](https://korrents.com/k/the-same-global-average-temperature-can-60668c)
- [Failures are more often explained by time pressure than by stupidity or malice.](https://korrents.com/k/failures-are-more-often-explained-by-2a090e)
- [The large-scale AI compute buildout may turn out to be a temporary phase rather than a permanent necessity.](https://korrents.com/k/the-large-scale-ai-compute-buildout-may-453ee8)
- [A validated theory of intelligence may be necessary for achieving genuine AI alignment.](https://korrents.com/k/a-validated-theory-of-intelligence-may-2afdfb)
- [A theme system's styles should be low-specificity rather than targeted directly at specific elements.](https://korrents.com/k/a-theme-system-s-styles-should-9e63ba)
- [Many well-paid software engineers fail to appreciate or understand the CSS cascade.](https://korrents.com/k/many-well-paid-software-engineers-fail-to-27a2c7)
- [Human parity on discovery benchmarks like DiG-bench will be reached by mid-2027, marking the point where recursive self-improvement in AI seriously kicks off.](https://korrents.com/k/human-parity-on-discovery-benchmarks-like-182cd5)
- [As AI systems get better at scientific research tasks, it becomes more likely they will soon be capable of improving and building themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-systems-get-better-at-73c743)
- [A system capable of superhuman invention would fundamentally and unpredictably alter the world's balance of power, rather than simply serving individual empowerment.](https://korrents.com/k/a-system-capable-of-superhuman-invention-9702b0)
- [Medical innovation is at a point of divergence: the tools are improving rapidly, but the ambition to use them has fallen behind.](https://korrents.com/k/medical-innovation-is-at-a-point-015194)
- [Economic inequality is growing because technology makes companies easier to start and faster to grow, not because of tax policy.](https://korrents.com/k/economic-inequality-is-growing-because-technology-159efe)
- [Most advice people give is shaped by survivorship bias and cannot be reliably generalized to others.](https://korrents.com/k/most-advice-people-give-is-shaped-53bb6e)
- [Ignorance is a permanent feature of complex, specialized societies rather than a problem that will eventually be solved.](https://korrents.com/k/ignorance-is-a-permanent-feature-of-4cad4f)
- [AI is being used to scam the public in science and academic communication.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-being-used-to-scam-02239e)
- [Friendships require ongoing effort and can fade into mere acquaintance without it.](https://korrents.com/k/friendships-require-ongoing-effort-and-can-25a381)
- [Unlike coding with an agent, the design process is still messy and fluid.](https://korrents.com/k/unlike-coding-with-an-agent-the-e3ed92)
- [Nobody should feel behind on AI in design, because someone starting today would still have a head start on most people.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-should-feel-behind-on-ai-62c97c)
- [Everyone is still extremely early in working out how AI changes design, and nobody has it figured out.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-is-still-extremely-early-in-1d5bc1)
- [The human element of design will become more and more important as more software gets made.](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-element-of-design-will-17c19c)
- [This is the best time to be a designer.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-the-best-time-to-3fcc64)
- [The lines between product, design and engineering roles have always been blurry and are becoming blurrier.](https://korrents.com/k/the-lines-between-product-design-and-3300bc)
- [Single siloed role definitions for product, design and engineering do not really make sense.](https://korrents.com/k/single-siloed-role-definitions-for-product-5ac8be)
- [Even as roles blur, an excellent product manager who can rally multiple teams still adds a lot of value.](https://korrents.com/k/even-as-roles-blur-an-excellent-178f86)
- [In one sense, AI already is an incredible product designer.](https://korrents.com/k/in-one-sense-ai-already-is-87bc6f)
- [A designer's point of view, who they are building for and why, is something to hone as AI gets better.](https://korrents.com/k/a-designer-s-point-of-view-367097)
- [Having a human in the loop is going to be very important in design.](https://korrents.com/k/having-a-human-in-the-loop-ff9fef)
- [Designers do not need a background in AI, but they do need high curiosity about it.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-do-not-need-a-background-19f05a)
- [A design team should be well rounded, with many different strengths, because no single designer checks every box.](https://korrents.com/k/a-design-team-should-be-well-9006a2)
- [Systems thinking is becoming more and more important for designers.](https://korrents.com/k/systems-thinking-is-becoming-more-and-a4ff33)
- [With products moving fast, designers should do less: not design something if they do not have to.](https://korrents.com/k/with-products-moving-fast-designers-should-25673c)
- [Designers working on AI products should maybe not be precious about a design until the technology underneath it has settled.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-working-on-ai-products-should-dbd8ee)
- [A feature only truly reaches billions of users when they do not have to think about a switch or a mode.](https://korrents.com/k/a-feature-only-truly-reaches-billions-1ea4d4)
- [Proactivity is a big untapped part of the AI assistant experience.](https://korrents.com/k/proactivity-is-a-big-untapped-part-c22899)
- [A consumer AI assistant should have one universal input that knows whether to answer quickly, chat, or go off and do work.](https://korrents.com/k/a-consumer-ai-assistant-should-have-4a60ea)
- [It is much better to be humble about AI and admit it is changing quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-much-better-to-be-99c53d)
- [Designers should focus on the outcome rather than on building processes or maximising tokens.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-should-focus-on-the-outcome-bd9e8f)
- [Some companies will probably be left behind for not shifting, but there will be more room than ever for great design.](https://korrents.com/k/some-companies-will-probably-be-left-c1e907)
- [Nuclear has never had its Ford moment: reactors have to be manufactured rather than constructed before fission can be cheap.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-has-never-had-its-ford-b6358a)
- [America stopped building reactors because Three Mile Island was mismanaged as a public-relations event, not because anyone was harmed by it.](https://korrents.com/k/america-stopped-building-reactors-because-three-059215)
- [Small modular reactors are the right idea, but you only reach them by iterating on real hardware -- which is what everyone else missed.](https://korrents.com/k/small-modular-reactors-are-the-right-7a2d3a)
- [Most of the nuclear industry is a modelling and simulation business producing paper reactors, not a business that builds them.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-nuclear-industry-is-fb90b0)
- [The legal pathway to test new reactors sat unused in American law for forty years, waiting for an administration to use it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-legal-pathway-to-test-new-a9b259)
- [Nuclear is empirically the safest form of energy -- safer even than solar, once you count the people who fall off roofs.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-is-empirically-the-safest-form-f6745b)
- [Nuclear safety should be pursued by reducing the consequence of an accident rather than its odds, because something unpredictable always happens.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-safety-should-be-pursued-by-9b339c)
- [Nuclear is a hardware execution problem, not a design problem, and the companies treating it as a design problem are mistaken.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-is-a-hardware-execution-problem-6b1094)
- [The cheapest energy will come from a simple mass-produced reactor rather than the best design -- nuclear's problem is the Toyota Camry problem.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cheapest-energy-will-come-from-70564e)
- [The economics of nuclear are set by how fast and cheaply you can produce plants, not by fuel -- uranium is already cheap.](https://korrents.com/k/the-economics-of-nuclear-are-set-91c50c)
- [Valar will get to the point of turning on a new reactor every few minutes.](https://korrents.com/k/valar-will-get-to-the-point-840f68)
- [Energy demand is set by price: reduce the price and you create the demand, which makes the market for cheap energy effectively infinite.](https://korrents.com/k/energy-demand-is-set-by-price-60a958)
- [Most nuclear companies will not have this solved by 2031, and many still will not by 2035, because they have the wrong mindset.](https://korrents.com/k/most-nuclear-companies-will-not-have-a15b14)
- [Nuclear's costs are largely fake -- an industry that has not built anything in forty years charging for what it can no longer do.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-s-costs-are-largely-fake-456e2f)
- [Nuclear plants should be financed with venture equity rather than project finance, because what is left is technology-execution risk and American venture capital is the best in the world at underwriting that.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-plants-should-be-financed-with-6e4756)
- [Every jump in the human standard of living has been unlocked by cheaper energy.](https://korrents.com/k/every-jump-in-the-human-standard-31de3e)
- [Once AI and robotics do the manufacturing, the price of any object becomes the price of the energy used to make it.](https://korrents.com/k/once-ai-and-robotics-do-the-f0ec52)
- [Fission will make energy a thousand times cheaper than it is today; the only open question is whether that takes decades or centuries.](https://korrents.com/k/fission-will-make-energy-a-thousand-cb7086)
- [A trial that changes ten things at once cannot tell you which of them worked.](https://korrents.com/k/a-trial-that-changes-ten-things-86e430)
- [Being part of a package that worked does not make a component causal, or even relevant.](https://korrents.com/k/being-part-of-a-package-that-a452c2)
- [A study should be interpreted at exactly the level of certainty its design supports, no higher and no lower.](https://korrents.com/k/a-study-should-be-interpreted-at-783c60)
- [Russia's allies have been more useful to Russia than Ukraine's allies have been to Ukraine.](https://korrents.com/k/russia-s-allies-have-been-more-dc6fdb)
- [Ukraine's partners used their aid to control and limit Ukraine, and in doing so made the war longer and bloodier than it needed to be.](https://korrents.com/k/ukraine-s-partners-used-their-aid-d40701)
- [The small amounts of American military aid still reaching Ukraine are a lever for controlling how Ukraine fights, not an attempt to help it win.](https://korrents.com/k/the-small-amounts-of-american-military-8b565f)
- [AI text detectors and the LLMs they try to catch are locked in a permanent cat-and-mouse arms race.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-text-detectors-and-the-llms-c8b834)
- [An AI-detector's score reflects the classifier's training distribution, not a true probability that a given text was written by AI.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-detector-s-score-reflects-the-eb0fd9)
- [Manufacturers generally prefer cutting per-unit production costs over retooling a design for small improvements.](https://korrents.com/k/manufacturers-generally-prefer-cutting-per-unit-production-9ba84b)
- [Elections are won by candidates, not by superior campaign technology.](https://korrents.com/k/elections-are-won-by-candidates-not-0038ce)
- [AI will force a correction in how companies pay for experience once AI-augmented junior employees match the output of far costlier mid-career employees.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-force-a-correction-in-cadd34)
- [The companies that win with AI will be those that use it to do far more, not merely to operate more efficiently.](https://korrents.com/k/the-companies-that-win-with-ai-a6af9c)
- [Rendering ancient poetry in the English style of centuries past adds nothing over translating it into modern English.](https://korrents.com/k/rendering-ancient-poetry-in-the-english-db5bea)
- [The Odyssey is fundamentally a story about a homecoming rather than a journey.](https://korrents.com/k/the-odyssey-is-fundamentally-a-story-8d3c36)
- [Founding alone is still a bad idea even though AI lets one person get more done, because the point of a cofounder is to share the stress.](https://korrents.com/k/founding-alone-is-still-a-bad-fa66f9)
- [Coding agents made implementation cheap without making roadmaps shorter or software better -- the binding constraint was never how fast code gets written.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-agents-made-implementation-cheap-without-a1f5ee)
- [Agent autonomy is a capability, not a product direction: what the person is actually trying to do decides whether more of it helps or ruins the thing.](https://korrents.com/k/agent-autonomy-is-a-capability-not-6714cc)
- [A machine can complete the task and completely miss the job -- coding makes this easy to see precisely because its tasks are so legible and verifiable.](https://korrents.com/k/a-machine-can-complete-the-task-3b523c)
- [Cheap intelligence does not make agency cheap, and these tools may mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and time.](https://korrents.com/k/cheap-intelligence-does-not-make-agency-a24f3d)
- [Design is about making things meaningful and memorable: get the idea right and the form follows from it.](https://korrents.com/k/design-is-about-making-things-meaningful-6de6b4)
- [You can be creative within any set of constraints, so long as you understand what they are and get excited about them rather than resent them.](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-be-creative-within-any-6ce764)
- [A computer meant for anyone has to be understandable without a manual, and it has to be friendly.](https://korrents.com/k/a-computer-meant-for-anyone-has-cb0a5d)
- [A plain drawing of a pencil stands for writing better than a glossy realistic pen, because the more detail an image carries the more particular the thing it depicts.](https://korrents.com/k/a-plain-drawing-of-a-pencil-5e06e0)
- [An icon should carry one or two salient details and nothing else.](https://korrents.com/k/an-icon-should-carry-one-or-f67990)
- [Detail a symbol could technically carry still costs you, because it distracts from the instant recognition the symbol exists for.](https://korrents.com/k/detail-a-symbol-could-technically-carry-67ee9f)
- [The way to draw a person everybody can be is to crop one, so the image gives away no gender, no age and no hairstyle.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-draw-a-person-567835)
- [Drawing the printer as it really looked shortened the icon's life; stopping sooner and drawing something simpler would have made it last.](https://korrents.com/k/drawing-the-printer-as-it-really-02b61f)
- [An icon should never picture a particular product, because the product dates and takes the icon down with it; use a metaphor instead.](https://korrents.com/k/an-icon-should-never-picture-a-c6ec5f)
- [An abstract symbol is harder to remember than one whose metaphor reinforces the concept it stands for.](https://korrents.com/k/an-abstract-symbol-is-harder-to-d45e26)
- [An interface should say what it means with animation and sound rather than text, because then one version works internationally.](https://korrents.com/k/an-interface-should-say-what-it-ce77c9)
- [An application icon and its document icon should read as a verb and a noun: the tool looks active, and the document resembles the tool.](https://korrents.com/k/an-application-icon-and-its-document-284547)
- [Icon work is not really about the grid of pixels; it is about the metaphor, the idea and the meaning behind everything on the grid.](https://korrents.com/k/icon-work-is-not-really-about-080a0a)
- [Icon design is not an exact science, and the placeholder a programmer threw together is one of the best sources of ideas.](https://korrents.com/k/icon-design-is-not-an-exact-c2e0b8)
- [Even a poor sixteen-colour palette earns its keep, because colour is what lets someone tell things apart at a glance.](https://korrents.com/k/even-a-poor-sixteen-colour-palette-earns-08f080)
- [When people pay a real dollar for a picture, cute beats expensive: teddy bears and hearts outsell diamond earrings and a Rolex.](https://korrents.com/k/when-people-pay-a-real-dollar-30236b)
- [A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work.](https://korrents.com/k/a-contest-between-five-paid-firms-348edb)
- [However exactly you think you know what a project needs, allow extra time — nothing takes an hour.](https://korrents.com/k/however-exactly-you-think-you-know-4f3a1a)
- [Do not recolour a logo or restage it until people know it so well that playing with it reads as play.](https://korrents.com/k/do-not-recolour-a-logo-or-ca8809)
- [Everything in the physical world was grown or mined, manufactured and moved, and automating those industrial sectors is what industrial AI means.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-in-the-physical-world-was-49ea96)
- [Digitising the physical world means treating atoms like bits, with manufacturing as the processor, real estate as the storage and logistics as the network.](https://korrents.com/k/digitising-the-physical-world-means-treating-450c65)
- [Superintelligence bottoms out in mining, because both the chips and the energy it runs on come out of the ground.](https://korrents.com/k/superintelligence-bottoms-out-in-mining-because-5137f8)
- [Industrial-scale automation will be done by specialised machines that move on wheels, not by humanoid robots, which only suit low-scale tasks in human environments.](https://korrents.com/k/industrial-scale-automation-will-be-done-by-db1113)
- [Ride-hailing is only the gold medal of transport; food delivery, parcels, trucking and off-road autonomy are silver medals each worth hundreds of billions.](https://korrents.com/k/ride-hailing-is-only-the-gold-medal-5a5f1d)
- [A company's edge comes from discovering valuable unknown truths, because knowing what others do not is what lets you do what others cannot.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-s-edge-comes-from-8679cf)
- [The final obstacle to any new technology is resistance to change, so you have to deliver an overwhelming amount of progress to get the change through.](https://korrents.com/k/the-final-obstacle-to-any-new-47b5de)
- [A company where nobody is willing to upset anybody ends up fighting for the mediocre, politically expedient idea instead of the best one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-where-nobody-is-willing-b4c43c)
- [Once mining is automated end to end, a mining company is nothing but the owner of some real estate.](https://korrents.com/k/once-mining-is-automated-end-to-f09649)
- [Automating both the production and the delivery of food will make a prepared meal cheaper than going to the grocery store.](https://korrents.com/k/automating-both-the-production-and-the-0f8187)
- [Being pissed off is what makes an entrepreneur good, and getting used to adversity dulls the edge that comes with it.](https://korrents.com/k/being-pissed-off-is-what-makes-ff7477)
- [When a business starts to feel easy it is about to get very hard; comfort is the warning sign, not the reward.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-business-starts-to-feel-9966f8)
- [Business had become politics without anyone noticing, which is why almost everything said about a company a decade ago was negative.](https://korrents.com/k/business-had-become-politics-without-anyone-6791e0)
- [Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter is the beginning of people being able to speak their minds again, and of disagreeing not being treated as illegal.](https://korrents.com/k/elon-musk-s-purchase-of-twitter-2e1143)
- [OpenAI and Anthropic's internal, unreleased models are likely far more capable than Z.ai and Moonshot AI's public models.](https://korrents.com/k/openai-and-anthropic-s-internal-unreleased-dec294)
- [The pace at which dangerous AI capabilities spread is set by the least cautious developer, not the most careful one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pace-at-which-dangerous-ai-1bc2fb)
- [Staged, controlled rollout of a powerful AI model provides little safety benefit once open-weight versions of similar capability are inevitably released.](https://korrents.com/k/staged-controlled-rollout-of-a-powerful-4bc48c)
- [American sports laws function as a conspiracy that enriches billionaire team owners](https://korrents.com/k/american-sports-laws-function-as-a-c640a2)
- [Major professional sports leagues function as cartels that block competitive entry](https://korrents.com/k/major-professional-sports-leagues-function-as-1b5c1f)
- [Public stadium subsidies rarely generate enough economic benefit to justify their cost](https://korrents.com/k/public-stadium-subsidies-rarely-generate-enough-b5bb75)
- [The identity politics of Woke 1 alienated the ordinary Americans the left once championed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-identity-politics-of-woke-1-016d29)
- [Treating ordinary people as an oppressor class that must repent is incompatible with left populism.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-ordinary-people-as-an-oppressor-7fc849)
- [Defunding the police is incompatible with a mass movement in a society where people want police protection.](https://korrents.com/k/defunding-the-police-is-incompatible-with-1787f0)
- [Delaying the phase-out of coal and gas power plants causes far more deaths than phasing them out quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/delaying-the-phase-out-of-coal-and-3431d9)
- [Greenwashing embedded into legislation causes real deaths.](https://korrents.com/k/greenwashing-embedded-into-legislation-causes-real-bbc084)
- [Renewable energy offset schemes share the same fundamental flaw as carbon offsets in general.](https://korrents.com/k/renewable-energy-offset-schemes-share-the-320bbd)
- [Shared cloud infrastructure makes it hard to get stable, reproducible performance-testing conditions.](https://korrents.com/k/shared-cloud-infrastructure-makes-it-hard-2df5af)
- [Performance test results are highly dependent on the specific machine, library versions, and other components used, making them hard to compare over time.](https://korrents.com/k/performance-test-results-are-highly-dependent-409290)
- [A software ecosystem made of many tiny modules from many different authors is unsafe against malicious actors and should give way to larger, vetted libraries.](https://korrents.com/k/a-software-ecosystem-made-of-many-8fdf38)
- [Decentralized networks can be both principled and mainstream-popular without giving up usability.](https://korrents.com/k/decentralized-networks-can-be-both-principled-8dd83d)
- [Longer device upgrade cycles are beneficial because they reduce e-waste, pollution, and churn.](https://korrents.com/k/longer-device-upgrade-cycles-are-beneficial-0d894b)
- [An AI agent is essentially just an LLM, a set of tools, and a loop, not a complicated framework.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-agent-is-essentially-just-fde492)
- [An LLM becomes considerably more useful when it is given tools it can decide to use.](https://korrents.com/k/an-llm-becomes-considerably-more-useful-de83cf)
- [A low-effort AI-designed landing page costs a product its audience before the product itself is ever judged.](https://korrents.com/k/a-low-effort-ai-designed-landing-page-costs-a47664)
- [Battery storage is becoming the defining transformative energy technology of the second half of the 2020s, as solar and wind were of the first half.](https://korrents.com/k/battery-storage-is-becoming-the-defining-35bcb9)
- [The 'intermittent power' criticism long aimed at solar and wind now applies more truly to other energy sources, including nuclear and natural gas.](https://korrents.com/k/the-intermittent-power-criticism-long-aimed-4e01f1)
- [Windfall profits oil companies earn from wartime price spikes should be taxed.](https://korrents.com/k/windfall-profits-oil-companies-earn-from-389a70)
- [AI connectors, approached holistically, are now worth adopting despite their gaps and shortfalls.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-connectors-approached-holistically-are-now-296f3b)
- [AI systems can now directly interact with the tools on a person's computer and browser, not just generate text.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-can-now-directly-interact-13f520)
- [HTML's built-in structure gives it advantages over markdown as a format for LLM interactions.](https://korrents.com/k/html-s-built-in-structure-gives-it-1f4cce)
- [Success in cultural and professional fields is driven more by chance and path dependence than by talent.](https://korrents.com/k/success-in-cultural-and-professional-fields-8a7566)
- [As societies rely more on coordination than coercion, the power to shape beliefs and knowledge grows in importance.](https://korrents.com/k/as-societies-rely-more-on-coordination-bceea0)
- [People tend to overestimate their own talent and underestimate the structural advantages that amplify their success.](https://korrents.com/k/people-tend-to-overestimate-their-own-f52fad)
- [Anthropic's rollout of Claude's watermarking policy was tone-deaf, clumsy, and alarming.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-s-rollout-of-claude-s-6f5ebf)
- [Anthropic's current strategy toward writers who use AI for editing and research is aggressively hostile to them.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-s-current-strategy-toward-writers-665ae8)
- [A person cannot both protect themselves emotionally and build intimacy with a partner at the same moment.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-cannot-both-protect-themselves-0a9e2e)
- [A pursue-withdraw dynamic between partners is self-sustaining and does not require either person to be at fault.](https://korrents.com/k/a-pursue-withdraw-dynamic-between-partners-is-413c17)
- [Suppressed hurt hardens into resentment that erodes generosity, and what looks like acceptance can actually be resignation.](https://korrents.com/k/suppressed-hurt-hardens-into-resentment-that-734fc1)
- [The highest performers and most satisfied people look unbalanced in any one moment but balanced across a whole life.](https://korrents.com/k/the-highest-performers-and-most-satisfied-a62d52)
- [Minimum effective doses for family, craft, fitness and friends let a person focus on one without leaving the others behind.](https://korrents.com/k/minimum-effective-doses-for-family-craft-4a3467)
- [High-quality internal tools produce high-quality external products — a form of Conway's law.](https://korrents.com/k/high-quality-internal-tools-produce-high-quality-external-aba34f)
- [If AI turns the world upside down, the safest place to be is a small, fast-moving company that can change direction easily.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-turns-the-world-upside-9e753d)
- [Almost all standard startup advice is still true in the AI era.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-all-standard-startup-advice-is-8a0585)
- [Brain ageing is not gradual wear: around midlife the brain's original immune cells are replaced by inflammatory cells that came from the blood.](https://korrents.com/k/brain-ageing-is-not-gradual-wear-eaad41)
- [Team output is still what matters, however hard the industry pushes to measure individual output.](https://korrents.com/k/team-output-is-still-what-matters-88e0d1)
- [Equating better with faster is a very immature description of what better means.](https://korrents.com/k/equating-better-with-faster-is-a-f8fc70)
- [The step change in AI coding in 2025 came from the harnesses and the tooling around the models, not from the models themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/the-step-change-in-ai-coding-2a5678)
- [There is no point arguing about whether or when engineers will ship code they have not read; the only useful question is what it would take.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-point-arguing-about-010c8d)
- [You can now generate ten thousand variants of a function faster than you could write it once, and that economics pushes software towards replacement rather than repair.](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-now-generate-ten-thousand-84924b)
- [Lines of code are the wrong artifact to review; what we should be storing and reviewing is an architecture that generates the code to spec.](https://korrents.com/k/lines-of-code-are-the-wrong-3d2718)
- [Software engineers behave as though the world exists in the repository, and it does not: the world is production.](https://korrents.com/k/software-engineers-behave-as-though-the-2d7356)
- [Production is not what happens after development; production is a stage of development.](https://korrents.com/k/production-is-not-what-happens-after-555e34)
- [Merging should deploy: you should have to stop the train to keep merged code out of production, not push it to get there.](https://korrents.com/k/merging-should-deploy-you-should-have-8f3a5b)
- [AI-validated pull requests beat human review at exactly the things humans are bad at, which frees the humans to argue about direction instead.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-validated-pull-requests-beat-human-review-243b47)
- [If you are not going to read the generated code, what you need is conformance testing: proof that it performs within the boundaries of the code it replaced.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-are-not-going-to-5bc28d)
- [Trust is an account: whatever you withdraw from it by not reading the code has to be built back up somewhere else.](https://korrents.com/k/trust-is-an-account-whatever-you-0893b7)
- [There is no human in the loop: you own the loop, and what comes out of it is your work rather than the model's.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-human-in-the-300956)
- [You may not send anyone something you have not read, and if it would take them longer to read than it took you to make, it is slop.](https://korrents.com/k/you-may-not-send-anyone-something-aac15d)
- [AI can be a shortcut around thinking or a way of thinking more rigorously, and for your core job function only the second one is wanted.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-can-be-a-shortcut-around-1a51e4)
- [Neither the AI enthusiasts nor the AI sceptics are making it up; both camps are looking at real trends.](https://korrents.com/k/neither-the-ai-enthusiasts-nor-the-19f077)
- [Both AI camps believe they are the suppressed minority standing up for the truth, and that shared belief is why neither hears the other.](https://korrents.com/k/both-ai-camps-believe-they-are-2e3a28)
- [An account of an AI win is not worth publishing unless it is coupled with what that win cost.](https://korrents.com/k/an-account-of-an-ai-win-c91df4)
- [Software is what AI will be best at, because software and AI are both made of logic and language, which is what lets us bake guardrails in.](https://korrents.com/k/software-is-what-ai-will-be-7c0afe)
- [Writing is thinking on paper and there is no shortcut for doing that thinking, so handing the writing to AI hands away the thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-is-thinking-on-paper-and-a0741b)
- [You cannot really understand the code you write unless you are also the one operating it.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-really-understand-the-code-095432)
- [Twenty years of DevOps had one goal, a single feedback loop from writing code to that code in production, and it failed.](https://korrents.com/k/twenty-years-of-devops-had-one-fd5ffc)
- [Everyone should be using OpenTelemetry, because instrumenting code is now literally faster and easier than not instrumenting it.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-should-be-using-opentelemetry-because-a5e1f3)
- [If engineers do not hold themselves to a high standard and build efficiently, somebody else will come along and impose it on them.](https://korrents.com/k/if-engineers-do-not-hold-themselves-373095)
- [Kind leaders usually do beat sociopaths in the same role, but only if they are also good at business.](https://korrents.com/k/kind-leaders-usually-do-beat-sociopaths-37d7e9)
- [We cannot say what a junior engineer is worth because we cannot say what any engineer is worth; it is all vibes.](https://korrents.com/k/we-cannot-say-what-a-junior-173da2)
- [Every machine-learning deployment that has paid off so far left a person making the decision, which is the only reason imperfect models were useful.](https://korrents.com/k/every-machine-learning-deployment-that-has-paid-400af6)
- [Physical AI has to make far fewer mistakes than any AI deployed so far, because it is only useful when it acts autonomously on the world.](https://korrents.com/k/physical-ai-has-to-make-far-92dee6)
- [Hand-tuning a robot's data set cannot reach very high reliability, because people get tired; the system has to seek out its own missing data.](https://korrents.com/k/hand-tuning-a-robot-s-data-set-8e5321)
- [Reinforcement learning cannot be scaled for robots the way it was for language models, because every attempt spends real robot hours instead of data-centre compute.](https://korrents.com/k/reinforcement-learning-cannot-be-scaled-for-aa5c38)
- [A robot going down a wrong path is not producing training data; the efficient move is for a human to intervene and show the recovery.](https://korrents.com/k/a-robot-going-down-a-wrong-af616c)
- [Whether a robot policy is any good is settled by running it for thirteen hours straight, not by whether it completes the task once.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-robot-policy-is-any-a8ffbd)
- [Most state-of-the-art robot foundation models have no memory at all, and that is what stops them doing long multi-step tasks.](https://korrents.com/k/most-state-of-the-art-robot-foundation-models-have-402a04)
- [A robot does not need video to remember the last hour: past a few seconds, memory can be a text summary of what happened.](https://korrents.com/k/a-robot-does-not-need-video-57ed8d)
- [A model you have to fine-tune for each thing you want it to do is not a general-purpose model.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-you-have-to-fine-tune-567cfa)
- [Combining an avocado and a chair into one image is evidence a model conceptually understands both, not that it memorised pictures of them.](https://korrents.com/k/combining-an-avocado-and-a-chair-146d7c)
- [One pre-trained robot model now matches or beats the specialists that were fine-tuned with reinforcement learning for the very tasks they were built for.](https://korrents.com/k/one-pre-trained-robot-model-now-matches-2cb09d)
- [It is the diversity of a robot data set, not its size, that produces generalization: dropping the most diverse slice hurts far more than dropping a random fifth.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-the-diversity-of-a-4dbc37)
- [Low-quality data makes a robot model worse unless you tell the model the data is low quality; labelled as such, the same data makes it better.](https://korrents.com/k/low-quality-data-makes-a-robot-model-9961fa)
- [Robotics will not get a ChatGPT moment, because the distribution channel for a physical model is a physical robot and that cannot spread in five days.](https://korrents.com/k/robotics-will-not-get-a-chatgpt-6e8bac)
- [Robot models will reach ChatGPT-level capability within the next few years, even without a ChatGPT-style moment.](https://korrents.com/k/robot-models-will-reach-chatgpt-level-capability-7d57a1)
- [A small team should start from an open-source generalist policy and fine-tune it on day one, rather than scale up its own specialist models first.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-team-should-start-from-924e29)
- [Watching humans is not enough for a robot: there is no substitute for experience gathered on its own body.](https://korrents.com/k/watching-humans-is-not-enough-for-c9d099)
- [Most future robotics training data will be robots' own autonomous attempts, the way most language-model data is now generated by the model itself.](https://korrents.com/k/most-future-robotics-training-data-will-e2d01c)
- [Letting a robot imagine the next image helps, but it is not essential — the model was surprisingly good without it.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-a-robot-imagine-the-next-705281)
- [Robots are slow because the people teleoperating their training data were slow, so the only two ways out are faster data or a policy faster than its data.](https://korrents.com/k/robots-are-slow-because-the-people-d15447)
- [The lasting value of a PhD is learning to handle uncertainty and pick your own problems, which is exactly what working at the frontier of AI demands.](https://korrents.com/k/the-lasting-value-of-a-phd-8d24e1)
- [Robot policies already show emergent capability: one transferred a skill from its right hand to its left with no such example anywhere in its training data.](https://korrents.com/k/robot-policies-already-show-emergent-capability-3dc1a8)
- [Progress toward AI autonomously solving major open scientific problems requires first mastering the organization and presentation of established knowledge in long-form writing.](https://korrents.com/k/progress-toward-ai-autonomously-solving-major-043b40)
- [Using AI agents to do a task does not by itself increase a person's own pace of understanding, intuition, or taste for that work.](https://korrents.com/k/using-ai-agents-to-do-a-e474d9)
- [The best textbooks will continue to be predominantly written by human hand rather than AI for at least the next several years.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-textbooks-will-continue-to-b610ed)
- [Climate change is making wildfires significantly more severe.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-significantly-faaaee)
- [The economic damage from climate-driven wildfire smoke deaths exceeds all other previously estimated categories of U.S. climate damage combined.](https://korrents.com/k/the-economic-damage-from-climate-driven-wildfire-071819)
- [Newly discovered, costly climate impacts like wildfire smoke should strengthen the case for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.](https://korrents.com/k/newly-discovered-costly-climate-impacts-like-0e4f6a)
- [AI's use by the fossil fuel industry to boost oil and gas production creates several times more climate pollution than powering AI's data centers does.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-use-by-the-fossil-33fe26)
- [AI's climate benefit from aiding renewable energy only cancels out its harm from aiding fossil fuel production if it boosts renewables several times more than it boosts fossil fuels.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-climate-benefit-from-aiding-7fdb22)
- [Public discourse shapes what form governance and regulatory accountability ultimately take.](https://korrents.com/k/public-discourse-shapes-what-form-governance-dd677a)
- [Social media has become dominated by low-value AI-generated content.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-has-become-dominated-by-b20aad)
- [Human-made promotional shilling can be worse than AI-generated junk because real effort was wasted on it.](https://korrents.com/k/human-made-promotional-shilling-can-be-worse-e03846)
- [In California, lack of money is not what stops public beautification projects from getting built.](https://korrents.com/k/in-california-lack-of-money-is-b70114)
- [When a bureaucracy never issues a formal refusal, there is no decision to argue against, only endless shadowboxing.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-bureaucracy-never-issues-a-90f512)
- [Any website with public user-generated content will experience abusive behavior.](https://korrents.com/k/any-website-with-public-user-generated-content-6abb55)
- [Any coding tool released in 2026 should include AI capabilities.](https://korrents.com/k/any-coding-tool-released-in-2026-e1824e)
- [Producing successful students through a schooling model is far harder than selecting students who are already likely to succeed.](https://korrents.com/k/producing-successful-students-through-a-schooling-720aa9)
- [Public schools cannot select which students they admit the way a school like Alpha School can.](https://korrents.com/k/public-schools-cannot-select-which-students-1f53e0)
- [Explanatory text and jargon generated by machines for readers with different levels of understanding makes communication worse.](https://korrents.com/k/explanatory-text-and-jargon-generated-by-3d5943)
- [An inability to explain something simply often reflects not yet understanding the problem well enough to compress it.](https://korrents.com/k/an-inability-to-explain-something-simply-ffa59e)
- [AI-generated technical documentation is optimized for completing a sentence rather than for being understood by a human reader.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-generated-technical-documentation-is-optimized-for-3cae01)
- [You can now simply ask for the desktop tools you want and have them built, instead of finding or writing them yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-now-simply-ask-for-8d7fda)
- [Once AI can do AI research, a single year should deliver four or five years worth of AI progress.](https://korrents.com/k/once-ai-can-do-ai-research-bef51f)
- [AI research will be fully automated around 2030 or 2031, and AI will beat humans at essentially any job by about 2033.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-research-will-be-fully-automated-5e0aa4)
- [Machine learning is a shallow field compared with mathematics: even its most important ideas can be explained in a couple of minutes.](https://korrents.com/k/machine-learning-is-a-shallow-field-dc3eac)
- [Getting five years of AI progress out of one year takes roughly eight years of algorithmic progress, because the compute you would have had must be made up too.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-five-years-of-ai-progress-a77791)
- [Scaling up spending on expert human data has not been a major driver of progress in AI research.](https://korrents.com/k/scaling-up-spending-on-expert-human-6dc35f)
- [Today's RL environments are better than 2024's because we learned what to build and put AI labour on building it, not because labs hired more human experts.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-rl-environments-are-better-d7ae0c)
- [Most domains are fundamentally shallow: a very smart generalist with a limited set of core skills can get going in them quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/most-domains-are-fundamentally-shallow-a-77ae47)
- [The least verifiable part of AI research is the judgement call about what goes into the one big training run.](https://korrents.com/k/the-least-verifiable-part-of-ai-d91d44)
- [Token prices have stayed flat because labs deliberately kept models smaller than expected in order to get more experimental cycles.](https://korrents.com/k/token-prices-have-stayed-flat-because-d0ba9f)
- [There is essentially no cognitive task humans do where AI improvement is failing to transfer at all.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-essentially-no-cognitive-task-b9dbe0)
- [AI that is merely excellent at research and hardware can transform the world completely without ever being good at politics.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-that-is-merely-excellent-at-5d51dc)
- [An AI should be built as a fiduciary, the equivalent of a lawyer for its user, rather than as an agent pursuing its own notion of the good.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-should-be-built-as-a35e8c)
- [Because we do not have good alignment technology, we are choosing to build an alien mind with its own values and gamble on it instead of building a tool.](https://korrents.com/k/because-we-do-not-have-good-b14281)
- [Anthropic's constitution is compatible with Claude seeking enormous amounts of power, as long as Claude believes that produces better outcomes.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-s-constitution-is-compatible-with-8a7c2c)
- [Giving an AI long-run values risks those values sinking in deeper than the specific prohibitions against takeover that sit alongside them.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-an-ai-long-run-values-risks-32bc0e)
- [A world in which all the labour is perfectly obedient fiduciary AI is dangerous, because society depends on subordinates who sometimes refuse.](https://korrents.com/k/a-world-in-which-all-the-8040ec)
- [AI guardrails will end up binding only the ordinary person, because the powerful actors they most need to check will simply steamroll them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-guardrails-will-end-up-binding-da1b3b)
- [Very capable AI will be harder to align than current systems, because the loop of spotting a bad behaviour and patching the training that caused it breaks down.](https://korrents.com/k/very-capable-ai-will-be-harder-f127ea)
- [Misaligned AI behaviour will keep getting rarer and, at the same time, keep getting more extreme.](https://korrents.com/k/misaligned-ai-behaviour-will-keep-getting-ad2e61)
- [Current AI models are worse colleagues than humans, because they routinely imply they did a task they did not actually do.](https://korrents.com/k/current-ai-models-are-worse-colleagues-b57434)
- [Misalignment shows up most where a model is pushed to the very edge of its capability, which is exactly the regime that automating research will put it in.](https://korrents.com/k/misalignment-shows-up-most-where-a-614550)
- [The likeliest bad path is not a coup but sloppiness: AI does everything verifiable well, research races ahead, and the subtle work of keeping AI safe is what gets done badly.](https://korrents.com/k/the-likeliest-bad-path-is-not-4a47cd)
- [If whole categories of reward hack are undetectable by humans, then training against the hacks we do catch teaches models to cheat only where we cannot see.](https://korrents.com/k/if-whole-categories-of-reward-hack-82f29b)
- [AI risk is probably a totally manageable problem that will be brutally mismanaged, the way pandemic response was.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-risk-is-probably-a-totally-1a18cf)
- [Deep properties of a model are inherited through the previous generation's data, which is why AI systems from different companies end up correlated with one another.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-properties-of-a-model-are-4e7258)
- [There is roughly a 35 to 40 percent chance of something we would recognise as an AI takeover by 2040.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-roughly-a-35-to-9371d3)
- [AI agents will soon reach superhuman, AlphaZero-like performance across a wide range of domains.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-will-soon-reach-superhuman-771bb5)
- [Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards does not reliably carry a model's pretrained ethical understanding into its actual behavior.](https://korrents.com/k/reinforcement-learning-from-verifiable-rewards-does-f47a60)
- [Human social cooperation is fundamentally norm-governed rather than purely consequentialist.](https://korrents.com/k/human-social-cooperation-is-fundamentally-norm-governed-1a5224)
- [The current AI data-center buildout is the biggest and fastest-growing infrastructure project in living memory.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-ai-data-center-buildout-is-4c23ae)
- [Opposition to new AI data centers has become the fastest-growing political movement in America, putting it on a collision course with the industry that depends on building them.](https://korrents.com/k/opposition-to-new-ai-data-centers-b71d08)
- [Resolving workplace conflict is better achieved by changing the relationship itself than by trying to change the other person.](https://korrents.com/k/resolving-workplace-conflict-is-better-achieved-6f6431)
- [Working relationships need to be intentionally redesigned on an ongoing basis, not defined once and left fixed.](https://korrents.com/k/working-relationships-need-to-be-intentionally-a5f913)
- [Working under a constraint one resents, rather than none at all, produces more creative results.](https://korrents.com/k/working-under-a-constraint-one-resents-804f2c)
- [Starting creative work from a small, specific detail produces more original results than starting from a big overarching idea.](https://korrents.com/k/starting-creative-work-from-a-small-a55d00)
- [Ask agents for the closest possible representation of a thing, so an idea is approved on more than a best guess.](https://korrents.com/k/ask-agents-for-the-closest-possible-af1c9e)
- [Visualising everything your agents produce has been huge.](https://korrents.com/k/visualising-everything-your-agents-produce-has-234807)
- [An agent should reach a solid bar on its own, so the designer works from what they like and don't like rather than correcting obvious poor visual design like an intern's.](https://korrents.com/k/an-agent-should-reach-a-solid-582167)
- [Seeing each version an agent pipeline produces, instead of a black box, shows where the process is too weak.](https://korrents.com/k/seeing-each-version-an-agent-pipeline-c06597)
- [A visual eval lets designers who are not in the code build complex tooling and autonomous runs they can still shape and control the way they are used to.](https://korrents.com/k/a-visual-eval-lets-designers-who-9d56c8)
- [Do not assume how good a model will or will not be at the thing you want it to do.](https://korrents.com/k/do-not-assume-how-good-a-5c8eed)
- [Giving agents something they can touch, together with your spoken description of it, is a recurring theme in the AI design tooling being built now.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-agents-something-they-can-touch-848a9a)
- [The HTML shortcut takes care of much of the custom tooling designers used to build.](https://korrents.com/k/the-html-shortcut-takes-care-of-4d94dd)
- [Ideating in v0 on top of a full React web app now looks laughable and inefficient.](https://korrents.com/k/ideating-in-v0-on-top-of-d801e6)
- [Going wide cheaply with HTML, then making the real app once there is a sketch of it, is so much better.](https://korrents.com/k/going-wide-cheaply-with-html-then-1adb3c)
- [Being early to AI was once an attribute in itself, and that is becoming less and less true as so many people catch up.](https://korrents.com/k/being-early-to-ai-was-once-049226)
- [If you are primarily designing something, it makes all the sense in the world to own the front end.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-are-primarily-designing-something-ed133b)
- [Exercise is the number one thing a person can do to improve long-term physical and cognitive health.](https://korrents.com/k/exercise-is-the-number-one-thing-97ed27)
- [For health, the long easy sessions should be easy enough to hold a conversation during, and going harder than that is too hard.](https://korrents.com/k/for-health-the-long-easy-sessions-30b9b5)
- [No single interval workout is the best, because a variety of intervals can produce similar benefits.](https://korrents.com/k/no-single-interval-workout-is-the-a5f2ea)
- [After a hard workout the body needs easy days to balance it out, and back-to-back hard workouts are a recipe for disaster, especially for non-elites.](https://korrents.com/k/after-a-hard-workout-the-body-c33266)
- [Coding is not just another application domain for AI; it is the meta-skill that lets AI generate its own training material and start the recursive self-improvement loop.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-is-not-just-another-application-12cdc1)
- [Claude Haiku hallucinates badly enough that its use inside Claude Code's WebFetch tool is a hallucination risk on every fetched URL.](https://korrents.com/k/claude-haiku-hallucinates-badly-enough-that-75cfe8)
- [Data centre opposition only pushes construction to the parts of America that regulate energy and pollution least.](https://korrents.com/k/data-centre-opposition-only-pushes-construction-b2e43b)
- [Handing all code production to AI leaves junior developers with no path to becoming senior ones.](https://korrents.com/k/handing-all-code-production-to-ai-ed1145)
- [AI is a normal technology rather than an infinity machine, and it is time we started talking about it that way.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-a-normal-technology-rather-7dd544)
- [Almost every recent AI breakthrough has been in code and mathematics, the two domains with highly structured languages and huge specialised training sets.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-every-recent-ai-breakthrough-has-940a32)
- [Product-market fit shows up as anger when you tell people they cannot have it yet, not as polite interest.](https://korrents.com/k/product-market-fit-shows-up-as-anger-a21139)
- [Anything you build can be forked or cloned, but your name cannot — so your personal brand matters more than any single product you will ever start.](https://korrents.com/k/anything-you-build-can-be-forked-174dba)
- [A correction never travels as far as the scare it corrects: the press said a fifth of the project's skills were malicious, and the measured figure was 0.3 percent.](https://korrents.com/k/a-correction-never-travels-as-far-b55a4f)
- [Users like security in the abstract and experience it as breakage: hardening the project made things slower, harder to update, and broke what people depended on.](https://korrents.com/k/users-like-security-in-the-abstract-a25b54)
- [With agents a new feature is one prompt away, which means the whole cost of a feature has moved to what happens after you ship it.](https://korrents.com/k/with-agents-a-new-feature-is-0d36b9)
- [Adding a config option so nobody breaks compounds into permutations no test suite can cover, because it is infinitely harder to evolve software that has users.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-a-config-option-so-nobody-c6d7b3)
- [Your dependency's business model is your business model, so building a harness around one lab's model is a commercial risk and not a technical choice.](https://korrents.com/k/your-dependency-s-business-model-is-e179e5)
- [Hype is weather: you can see it coming and you cannot control it, which is why a project can be declared dead and hit its highest ever downloads at the same time.](https://korrents.com/k/hype-is-weather-you-can-see-daf59e)
- [How much fun you are having is a measure of how fast you ship: the weeks he enjoyed building, the product visibly got better.](https://korrents.com/k/how-much-fun-you-are-having-b107da)
- [Every lab will sell you an agent, so the case for an open-source one is that it runs anywhere, works with any model, and can keep your data on your own device.](https://korrents.com/k/every-lab-will-sell-you-an-361050)
- [Clearing an agent's session is now often a disadvantage, because the accumulated context helps the model more than a clean start does.](https://korrents.com/k/clearing-an-agent-s-session-is-c0af27)
- [Bringing a colleague a feature idea rather than a built, screenshotted prototype now wastes everyone's time, because most ideas die the moment you try to build them.](https://korrents.com/k/bringing-a-colleague-a-feature-idea-1f7020)
- [Loops, graphs and workflows are the same thing engineers have always built — a trigger, an action, maybe a decision — and there is nothing magical about any of them.](https://korrents.com/k/loops-graphs-and-workflows-are-the-24a739)
- [Reviewing agent-written code is risk management rather than reading: how long the change took and how big it is tell you when to look closely.](https://korrents.com/k/reviewing-agent-written-code-is-risk-management-6e4e90)
- [You have to be user number one: if you are not excited by the thing you are building, it will probably not be any good.](https://korrents.com/k/you-have-to-be-user-number-e0db2c)
- [The binding constraint on agent work is machines, not models: a cloud session is easy for web work and almost every tool fails the moment the job needs macOS.](https://korrents.com/k/the-binding-constraint-on-agent-work-8026de)
- [Merging the tempting extra feature means adopting a pile of code that neither its author nor the maintainer really understands.](https://korrents.com/k/merging-the-tempting-extra-feature-means-eac1e1)
- [Perpetually running proactive agents are not a technology problem but a token problem, and no ordinary subscription would survive one.](https://korrents.com/k/perpetually-running-proactive-agents-are-not-52e79e)
- [A computer-using agent needs a machine of its own, or you will spend the day fighting it for the mouse cursor.](https://korrents.com/k/a-computer-using-agent-needs-a-machine-d8d1a0)
- [Now that anyone can build fast, the hardest problem in starting something is not the tech, the software or the people, but getting attention.](https://korrents.com/k/now-that-anyone-can-build-fast-72f124)
- [Pick something hard and boring: fun problems are the crowded ones now that anybody can prompt a thing into existence.](https://korrents.com/k/pick-something-hard-and-boring-fun-4fd36f)
- [Most security reports an open-source project receives are agent-generated and untested, and the defence is publishing what you guarantee and what lies outside your security boundary.](https://korrents.com/k/most-security-reports-an-open-source-project-e50756)
- [Sensing the world is what set evolution racing: the first photoreceptive cells created the force that drove animal life to diversify.](https://korrents.com/k/sensing-the-world-is-what-set-38b0c5)
- [AI's bottleneck was never its algorithms but how little data they were fed, which is why the field needed ImageNet rather than another model.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-bottleneck-was-never-its-994b34)
- [Video generation was not an algorithmic revolution: it was the same neural-network era with video added to the training data.](https://korrents.com/k/video-generation-was-not-an-algorithmic-54b4cb)
- [A child who has seen ten cats learns what a machine needs the whole internet of cat photos for, by a learning pathway nobody has solved.](https://korrents.com/k/a-child-who-has-seen-ten-3d348d)
- [The internet is not a random pile of content but the largest capture of human behaviour ever made, which is the whole reason AI trained on it works.](https://korrents.com/k/the-internet-is-not-a-random-74594a)
- [A thought that was never captured was never uploaded, so AI has never seen it, and that is where humans remain unique.](https://korrents.com/k/a-thought-that-was-never-captured-bc08b9)
- [The mathematical problems whose solutions have not yet been invented will be solved by humans working alongside AI, not by either alone.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mathematical-problems-whose-solutions-have-9f0c1c)
- [AI should be built as a tool that strengthens human agency, and the people leading the field should stop talking as though it will take agency away.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-should-be-built-as-a-bc4393)
- [Public discussion of AI is skewed because the people who understand the technology talk down to everyone else.](https://korrents.com/k/public-discussion-of-ai-is-skewed-194320)
- [Scientific discovery is ready to be rewritten, because for all of history it has run at the speed of smart humans remembering what other smart humans learned.](https://korrents.com/k/scientific-discovery-is-ready-to-be-d5b53b)
- [AI learns from patterns, so where the patterns are scarce, as in liver surgery, a human working with the machine beats the machine working alone.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-learns-from-patterns-so-where-53b27f)
- [Capability has never been the reason a technology gets deployed: any carmaker could switch the brakes off every Friday, and none does.](https://korrents.com/k/capability-has-never-been-the-reason-4c5590)
- [It would be dangerous for a few people from industry to set the rules for AI, because market forces are not societal norms.](https://korrents.com/k/it-would-be-dangerous-for-a-fabed7)
- [The worst outcome of AI for young people is that it takes away their agency and their motivation to learn.](https://korrents.com/k/the-worst-outcome-of-ai-for-ade23a)
- [Denying students AI because you fear they will cheat is its own harm, as bad as letting the tool take their motivation away.](https://korrents.com/k/denying-students-ai-because-you-fear-d217a7)
- [Learning takes time, effort and sometimes pain, and no tool changes that, because that is how the brain is built.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-takes-time-effort-and-sometimes-e1a0f0)
- [Prompting should be taught in schools from kindergarten onwards, as a matter of public education.](https://korrents.com/k/prompting-should-be-taught-in-schools-903f34)
- [The next frontier of AI lies beyond language, because intelligence in nature ran for 500 million years before words existed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-frontier-of-ai-lies-781620)
- [Teachers are the most important people in society and the ones the AI industry has most completely forgotten.](https://korrents.com/k/teachers-are-the-most-important-people-eb15cb)
- [The test for AI in the creative industries is whether it superpowers people's creativity rather than taking their jobs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-test-for-ai-in-the-8f5a2e)
- [An AI's sympathy and a friend's are not the same act: one is a learned pattern about what to say, the other rests on having felt the thing.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-s-sympathy-and-a-5a187f)
- [The product role remains essential in the AI era, whatever the tools become.](https://korrents.com/k/the-product-role-remains-essential-in-9f4e1d)
- [The companies that already control the largest troves of real-world video data will be first to build successful world models.](https://korrents.com/k/the-companies-that-already-control-the-82ad50)
- [Robot makers will sell early robots at a loss because the real-world data they collect will be worth more than the hardware margin.](https://korrents.com/k/robot-makers-will-sell-early-robots-d55bf8)
- [AI systems will remain black boxes that are hard to understand and predict.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-will-remain-black-boxes-15ea60)
- [AI has no genuine discernment; it absorbs and reproduces without judgment.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-no-genuine-discernment-it-0a09bf)
- [Pattern recognition and replication is fundamentally what machine-learning systems do best.](https://korrents.com/k/pattern-recognition-and-replication-is-fundamentally-24b76a)
- [Skipping the struggle in a task also means skipping the growth that struggle would have produced.](https://korrents.com/k/skipping-the-struggle-in-a-task-971674)
- [Agents are the future of how software gets built.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-are-the-future-of-how-e8c280)
- [Developers today mostly plan, debate, implement and review with AI agents rather than write code themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/developers-today-mostly-plan-debate-implement-5b5cb2)
- [GitHub's workflow, review process and merge queue are built for a pre-agent era and don't fit how agents work.](https://korrents.com/k/github-s-workflow-review-process-and-947535)
- [People should be skeptical of outsourcing creativity to LLMs.](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-be-skeptical-of-outsourcing-2edc07)
- [Because most people read so few books, almost any older book is effectively new to them.](https://korrents.com/k/because-most-people-read-so-few-37a916)
- [Today's AI systems are significantly under-elicited for their ability to automate AI R&D.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-ai-systems-are-significantly-ffc7da)
- [What happens with open weight AI models will determine the level of individual sovereignty and liberty people have over AI.](https://korrents.com/k/what-happens-with-open-weight-ai-69dbd6)
- [AI agents pursuing a task can develop emergent, misaligned behavior that humans are not prepared for.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-pursuing-a-task-can-0cdd3c)
- [Good leaders lead by example rather than by mandate.](https://korrents.com/k/good-leaders-lead-by-example-rather-a1a621)
- [Flat or leaderless organizational structures eventually give way to some form of leadership.](https://korrents.com/k/flat-or-leaderless-organizational-structures-eventually-303642)
- [Organisations say they want disagreement but charge social capital for it, until people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.](https://korrents.com/k/organisations-say-they-want-disagreement-but-01302f)
- [Organisational dissent suits an AI precisely because it pays none of the costs -- no promotion to want, no ego, no performance review -- that silence the humans who do it.](https://korrents.com/k/organisational-dissent-suits-an-ai-precisely-266664)
- [An agent told to disagree with everything is worthless: it has to form its own view and speak only when that view differs enough to be worth the interruption.](https://korrents.com/k/an-agent-told-to-disagree-with-2525fd)
- [New technologies raise the ceiling for skilled practitioners instead of diminishing them.](https://korrents.com/k/new-technologies-raise-the-ceiling-for-9b7702)
- [The ethical failure in using AI to write is publishing unread, unowned work, not using the tool itself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ethical-failure-in-using-ai-6c1465)
- [Chronic people pleasing stems from a need for others' approval, not genuine concern for them.](https://korrents.com/k/chronic-people-pleasing-stems-from-a-f7d46a)
- [People pleasing develops as an insecure attachment strategy learned from being valued only for submissiveness.](https://korrents.com/k/people-pleasing-develops-as-an-insecure-1148de)
- [Saying no and setting boundaries are acts of self-preservation, not selfishness or letting others down.](https://korrents.com/k/saying-no-and-setting-boundaries-are-a74ebc)
- [A true pirate is defined by rejecting the authority of nations and empires altogether, not merely by breaking their laws.](https://korrents.com/k/a-true-pirate-is-defined-by-64799d)
- [Some historical raiders destroyed conquered cities for destruction's own sake, not to seize land, treasure, or slaves.](https://korrents.com/k/some-historical-raiders-destroyed-conquered-cities-a8ba6a)
- [Ireland's colonial wars helped set the template Britain later applied elsewhere in its empire](https://korrents.com/k/ireland-s-colonial-wars-helped-set-5a1301)
- [John Dee functioned as an imperial propagandist, not merely a wizard figure](https://korrents.com/k/john-dee-functioned-as-an-imperial-dca311)
- [Voters are increasingly drawn to fearless, populist 'fighter' candidates over establishment figures.](https://korrents.com/k/voters-are-increasingly-drawn-to-fearless-fe7643)
- [Opposition to data center buildouts is fundamentally driven by public anger about money in politics.](https://korrents.com/k/opposition-to-data-center-buildouts-is-85f266)
- [Consistent roast color in sample roasting is essential for making fair, informed green-coffee buying decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/consistent-roast-color-in-sample-roasting-a9757d)
- [Most air roasters perform best near full capacity because larger batches reduce air bypass.](https://korrents.com/k/most-air-roasters-perform-best-near-1cc5f1)
- [Efficient workflow is critical to profit margins in cafe operations and roasting.](https://korrents.com/k/efficient-workflow-is-critical-to-profit-be15bf)
- [AI assistants have become much better over the past year at helping travelers in places where they don't speak the language.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-assistants-have-become-much-better-4f7490)
- [AI assistants still make mistakes and their answers need to be double-checked by a human.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-assistants-still-make-mistakes-and-087a2a)
- [Working with AI agents is like having a genie that can fulfill every wish and whim](https://korrents.com/k/working-with-ai-agents-is-like-5ea7e1)
- [The labour market is in a resettlement of talent and of how work gets done.](https://korrents.com/k/the-labour-market-is-in-a-0f6d52)
- [Demand for narrowly specialised technical people may be waning.](https://korrents.com/k/demand-for-narrowly-specialised-technical-people-a3dd3c)
- [The candidates who reply to cold outreach are not the top 20 percent, just the ones caught on a bad day.](https://korrents.com/k/the-candidates-who-reply-to-cold-f734b7)
- [Funnel-style recruiting weeds people out at each stage and ends up hiring whoever remains.](https://korrents.com/k/funnel-style-recruiting-weeds-people-out-at-f725d7)
- [Treating recruiting like a sales funnel has been somewhat detrimental to companies.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-recruiting-like-a-sales-funnel-9495e2)
- [When hiring for the top 1 percent, the most important step is getting clear on what top 1 percent means for the company.](https://korrents.com/k/when-hiring-for-the-top-1-14e3d4)
- [A company should define what great looks like for its own role rather than borrow another company's definition.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-should-define-what-great-6732ce)
- [Asking someone who the best engineer they know is the worst question for finding talent; asking about specific traits works better.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-someone-who-the-best-engineer-c44539)
- [The best systems thinkers turn big problems into very small tactics.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-systems-thinkers-turn-big-9e37b3)
- [Mining employees' networks in repeated one-on-one sessions beats automating it with an AI tool.](https://korrents.com/k/mining-employees-networks-in-repeated-one-on-one-64615f)
- [If talent is a founder's top priority, no effort, resourcing or time should stand in the way of it.](https://korrents.com/k/if-talent-is-a-founder-s-42918d)
- [Recruiters should be a confidence engine for hiring managers, not the ones making hiring decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/recruiters-should-be-a-confidence-engine-a28dbc)
- [The first approach to a candidate matters most, because once someone ignores one message the next ones are easier to ignore.](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-approach-to-a-candidate-3cb77e)
- [Caring for candidates more than anyone else does is an unfair advantage any recruiting team has.](https://korrents.com/k/caring-for-candidates-more-than-anyone-cd8d17)
- [The most important interview is the hiring manager's first conversation, not the on-site.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-important-interview-is-the-ccc78f)
- [Sharing a meal is one of the most human and levelling things to do with a candidate.](https://korrents.com/k/sharing-a-meal-is-one-of-e00180)
- [Work samples predict success best, yet most companies still rely on across-the-table interviews.](https://korrents.com/k/work-samples-predict-success-best-yet-06d0db)
- [For many companies, side-by-side real work is hard to beat as a hiring signal.](https://korrents.com/k/for-many-companies-side-by-side-real-work-9376a0)
- [Recruiting should sell throughout the process rather than at the close.](https://korrents.com/k/recruiting-should-sell-throughout-the-process-9c94ad)
- [Chasing the highest offer tends to leave people unexcited about their work within six months.](https://korrents.com/k/chasing-the-highest-offer-tends-to-abf8fe)
- [There are right people for right companies at the right time.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-right-people-for-right-c57a0f)
- [A candidate negotiating an offer should make every ask fit one line of logic.](https://korrents.com/k/a-candidate-negotiating-an-offer-should-11935e)
- [In the AI talent market, time feels like the most fixed and precious resource.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-ai-talent-market-time-c6126f)
- [Closing a candidate is a team sport.](https://korrents.com/k/closing-a-candidate-is-a-team-a8a0c9)
- [Companies win more often on execution than on being first, and execution comes down to having the right talent at the right time.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-win-more-often-on-execution-193924)
- [Truly strategic recruiters seem to be in short supply because recruiting has been made somewhat transactional.](https://korrents.com/k/truly-strategic-recruiters-seem-to-be-3c082e)
- [There is no such thing as a 10x person on a bad team.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-such-thing-as-e2adcb)
- [Expecting one first recruiting hire both to fill a backlog of roles and to build the hiring system is generally a mistake.](https://korrents.com/k/expecting-one-first-recruiting-hire-both-809e58)
- [Recruiters do their best work at 90 to 110 percent of capacity.](https://korrents.com/k/recruiters-do-their-best-work-at-e0c35b)
- [Every recruiter should be a talent engineer who builds their own tools.](https://korrents.com/k/every-recruiter-should-be-a-talent-1a4c09)
- [Auto-mode does not yet convincingly fix prompt-injection risk for coding agents.](https://korrents.com/k/auto-mode-does-not-yet-convincingly-fix-d7ec0c)
- [If nobody creates content any more because everyone just asks an AI, there is nothing left for AI to train on.](https://korrents.com/k/if-nobody-creates-content-any-more-e40d08)
- [Silicon Valley's actual trajectory increasingly resembles Philip K. Dick's paranoid, hallucinatory fiction rather than the optimistic space-age visions of Asimov and Clarke.](https://korrents.com/k/silicon-valley-s-actual-trajectory-increasingly-db6fd9)
- [A writer can be artistically important for revealing new possibilities without being technically skilled at prose.](https://korrents.com/k/a-writer-can-be-artistically-important-07558c)
- [The grand visions promoted by today's tech titans conceal realities that are messier, more sordid, and more contingent than claimed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-grand-visions-promoted-by-today-190cda)
- [A task placed on an engineering backlog is effectively never going to get done.](https://korrents.com/k/a-task-placed-on-an-engineering-a5678d)
- [When teams clear out a backlog, they tend to pick the interesting items rather than the most important ones.](https://korrents.com/k/when-teams-clear-out-a-backlog-2a8d4d)
- [AI alignment is a red herring not worth the effort currently devoted to it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-alignment-is-a-red-herring-cac223)
- [Preventing a rogue AGI requires a population of competing AGIs with conflicting interests, not alignment of any single AGI.](https://korrents.com/k/preventing-a-rogue-agi-requires-a-f88d47)
- [Future AI, say in fifteen years, will not be built on the LLM stack; it will have to move to symbolic learning.](https://korrents.com/k/future-ai-say-in-fifteen-years-52f7f7)
- [The LLM line of research will reach a capability plateau.](https://korrents.com/k/the-llm-line-of-research-will-e672e6)
- [Current AI techniques are four to six orders of magnitude away from optimal in data efficiency and test-time compute efficiency.](https://korrents.com/k/current-ai-techniques-are-four-to-8a8521)
- [Giving consumer-facing models and API models separate brand names is needlessly confusing.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-consumer-facing-models-and-api-models-1f17dd)
- [Keeping powerful models available only to a chosen few is not a good strategy.](https://korrents.com/k/keeping-powerful-models-available-only-to-0a57e8)
- [Making a highly paid team wait a week to buy a tool at half price destroys far more value than it saves.](https://korrents.com/k/making-a-highly-paid-team-wait-cfeb3c)
- [Approving purchases one at a time is the wrong place to control burn; spending review belongs earlier, in a budget people can make their own trade-offs inside.](https://korrents.com/k/approving-purchases-one-at-a-time-7809bc)
- [If nobody can say what an experiment costs, everyone behaves as though experiments are free — it does not cost dollars, it costs media, and media comes from the fridge.](https://korrents.com/k/if-nobody-can-say-what-an-d9bbf8)
- [The best companies come out of scenes: a moment and a community that nucleate the founding team, and once that moment passes it is hard to get back.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-companies-come-out-of-089fe5)
- [There is no right hiring process, but there is a wrong one: not having something you do religiously as a company.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-right-hiring-process-eb3fa2)
- [Any one person or small group placed at the top of the hiring funnel will bottleneck the whole organisation, so first-round review should be distributed across the company as a vote.](https://korrents.com/k/any-one-person-or-small-group-30204c)
- [The annual performance review is disruptive and surfaces nothing you did not already know but had avoided acting on.](https://korrents.com/k/the-annual-performance-review-is-disruptive-ace069)
- [Performance review is best done as a PageRank-style computation over continuous company-wide votes, not as an annual HR cycle.](https://korrents.com/k/performance-review-is-best-done-as-c029bf)
- [Rate of iteration separates success from failure: a competitor learning one thing a month will never matter to a company learning one thing a week.](https://korrents.com/k/rate-of-iteration-separates-success-from-558279)
- [A startup's speed is set by boring internal infrastructure — purchasing, recruiting, spending — and that matters as much as understanding the technology itself.](https://korrents.com/k/a-startup-s-speed-is-set-30c619)
- [Deep tech companies rarely fail because the technology does not work; they fail because nobody built the systems to run the organisation around it.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-tech-companies-rarely-fail-because-ac3f50)
- [A founder cannot delegate judgment: the chief executive has to make the decision that makes sense to them, however much momentum the alternative has.](https://korrents.com/k/a-founder-cannot-delegate-judgment-the-c48834)
- [Copying the consensus drags you towards the average, and average is not good enough — so you have to make the decisions that make sense to you even when you are completely alone in them.](https://korrents.com/k/copying-the-consensus-drags-you-towards-d099e8)
- [It is very hard to actually get stuck, because the action space is always larger than it appears.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-very-hard-to-actually-c311b8)
- [Once a field really starts to work, the best people leave the universities, because industry can marshal far larger resources and move much faster.](https://korrents.com/k/once-a-field-really-starts-to-d2f696)
- [The best evidence of exceptional ability is winning at a legible competitive game, and without one it is hard to know whether you are exceptional at all.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-evidence-of-exceptional-ability-55716b)
- [Consciousness is a practical problem rather than a philosophical one: given a brain-computer interface that could read and drive every neuron, we would work it out quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/consciousness-is-a-practical-problem-rather-73883e)
- [Treating the brain directly as a computer produces effect sizes medicine does not otherwise see — a deep brain stimulator takes a patient from unable to hold a cup of water to writing cursive in ten seconds.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-the-brain-directly-as-a-b0cb6e)
- [Some ideas are worth funding with fifty million dollars or with nothing, and never with five million, because underfunding buys you an ambiguous outcome instead of an answer.](https://korrents.com/k/some-ideas-are-worth-funding-with-e83847)
- [Even a long-horizon deep tech company should chase revenue sooner than it thinks, so that it is valued on its roadmap rather than on its probability of dying.](https://korrents.com/k/even-a-long-horizon-deep-tech-company-f40cf1)
- [A company doing something at the edge of the Overton window has to hold two cultures at once — the true believers and the serious professionals who think they are crazy — and integrating them is what makes it work.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-doing-something-at-the-2ef1c0)
- [Telling your investors after a Series A that you are going to vibe-code your own purchasing system is contrarian enough that any reasonable board would question it.](https://korrents.com/k/telling-your-investors-after-a-series-783651)
- [Philanthropy can never operate at the scale of government, no matter how well-funded it becomes.](https://korrents.com/k/philanthropy-can-never-operate-at-the-b714f6)
- [When institutional transformation keeps failing, leaders should start fresh with new entities rather than keep reforming the old ones.](https://korrents.com/k/when-institutional-transformation-keeps-failing-leaders-26cac7)
- [Even when there is political will for reform, administrative agencies will not reform themselves without outside pressure.](https://korrents.com/k/even-when-there-is-political-will-db523f)
- [Electrification projects in Germany are typically bundled together with other infrastructure upgrades rather than done as standalone works.](https://korrents.com/k/electrification-projects-in-germany-are-typically-a70bae)
- [The cost of major tunnel projects should not be attributed to the cost of surface electrification when benchmarking rail costs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cost-of-major-tunnel-projects-fb0674)
- [Anthropic or OpenAI's revenue could equal or exceed the combined revenue of Elon Musk's public companies within the next one to two years.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-or-openai-s-revenue-could-3486ef)
- [An era of original, director-driven blockbusters raises the bar for box-office success compared to franchise filmmaking.](https://korrents.com/k/an-era-of-original-director-driven-blockbusters-b1140f)
- [Modern people are both more selfish and more guilt-stricken than people in the past.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-people-are-both-more-selfish-2a073e)
- [Solving a systemic problem by doubling down on the same approach risks creating uncontrollable feedback loops.](https://korrents.com/k/solving-a-systemic-problem-by-doubling-3b1080)
- [Once a technological arms race begins, escalation can be hard to stop even if it leaves everyone worse off.](https://korrents.com/k/once-a-technological-arms-race-begins-4425c0)
- [AI-driven bureaucratic systems will develop their own internal politics and be gamed by the people subject to them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-driven-bureaucratic-systems-will-develop-their-47b08a)
- [Adoption of a protocol extension depends more on how much effort it takes to deploy than on how important it is to get right.](https://korrents.com/k/adoption-of-a-protocol-extension-depends-88a922)
- [A protocol extension gets deployed correctly in proportion to how visibly it fails when implemented wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/a-protocol-extension-gets-deployed-correctly-926645)
- [Interoperability pressure from browser vendors drives migration to standardized protocol mechanisms.](https://korrents.com/k/interoperability-pressure-from-browser-vendors-drives-5eabdc)
- [The "private equity is buying up all the houses" argument is both wrong and an excuse for deferring zoning reform.](https://korrents.com/k/the-private-equity-is-buying-up-27f54b)
- [What matters is not how the writer felt while writing it but how the reader will feel while reading it.](https://korrents.com/k/what-matters-is-not-how-the-c24117)
- [A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on.](https://korrents.com/k/a-first-draft-should-not-be-8d2f98)
- [Going to read work you know is good when your own is going badly is legitimate recalibration, not theft.](https://korrents.com/k/going-to-read-work-you-know-b0254c)
- [A team made up of people with similar personality traits ends up lacking the strengths that more varied traits would provide.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-made-up-of-people-18703e)
- [The most common personality type in a population tends to pair well with every other type, making it valuable on any team.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-common-personality-type-in-956e39)
- [People who reliably meet every demand placed on them will eventually snap and stop complying if their workload isn't kept sustainable.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-reliably-meet-every-demand-5ff98b)
- [Including a book in a library's collection, or reading it, is not the same as endorsing everything in it.](https://korrents.com/k/including-a-book-in-a-library-4aaf47)
- [Democracies like America are more vulnerable to well-intentioned, bottom-up censorship than to top-down authoritarian suppression.](https://korrents.com/k/democracies-like-america-are-more-vulnerable-3dd53e)
- [People often support banning a book based on assumptions about its content rather than on having read it themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/people-often-support-banning-a-book-c61e0b)
- [You can be contrarian and usually right by finding and resolving conflicts between the consensus results of different fields](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-be-contrarian-and-usually-d04a66)
- [There are multiple valid ways to build quality software.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-multiple-valid-ways-to-0c79a6)
- [Making AI compute cheaper per token drives enough extra usage that total AI energy consumption rises rather than falls (a Jevons paradox effect).](https://korrents.com/k/making-ai-compute-cheaper-per-token-7075fd)
- [The carbon intensity of the electricity grid, not compute efficiency, is the lever that matters most for AI's climate impact.](https://korrents.com/k/the-carbon-intensity-of-the-electricity-33dc5e)
- [AI's energy use is an easier end-use to decarbonize than aviation.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-energy-use-is-an-041ac4)
- [Venture capital decision-making runs more on subjective feelings than on objective substance.](https://korrents.com/k/venture-capital-decision-making-runs-more-on-4e8407)
- [Asking a referring investor whether they personally invested puts the startup being referred at a disadvantage.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-a-referring-investor-whether-they-5c90eb)
- [An investor who passes on a pitch they find truly novel will often still refer it to another investor, to get credit for having found it.](https://korrents.com/k/an-investor-who-passes-on-a-06a45d)
- [Asked to find a deep bug, coding agents can patch many small issues that feel like progress while steering you away from the real problem; there is still no substitute for expertise.](https://korrents.com/k/asked-to-find-a-deep-bug-5e0229)
- [It is better to be an optimist who works hard than a pessimist who writes about why things will not work, because no amount of such essays moves society forward.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-better-to-be-an-4263d3)
- [Money spent in your twenties buys more experience than the same money spent in your sixties, because novelty wears off.](https://korrents.com/k/money-spent-in-your-twenties-buys-3508ef)
- [Hoarding money you will never spend is a worse mistake than overspending when young.](https://korrents.com/k/hoarding-money-you-will-never-spend-81421c)
- [Software that sets out to own a user's data starts out helpful and ends up forcing a migration.](https://korrents.com/k/software-that-sets-out-to-own-1154b3)
- [A personal media library should be one canonical collection you control, reachable through as many native clients as you have devices.](https://korrents.com/k/a-personal-media-library-should-be-e1a451)
- [A public software preview should already be usable, not just a concept a viewer has to imagine around a screenshot.](https://korrents.com/k/a-public-software-preview-should-already-1ab8d4)
- [Models are getting better at design but are still really far from having good taste, so the designer makes up for that by asking for sheer volume of options.](https://korrents.com/k/models-are-getting-better-at-design-d86f59)
- [Treat the model a little like a junior designer: let it mock things up fast and give it feedback with your own taste.](https://korrents.com/k/treat-the-model-a-little-like-1a6e10)
- [Instead of making only a deck, a prototype or an animation, you can make something in the middle between them.](https://korrents.com/k/instead-of-making-only-a-deck-31922e)
- [As building software gets easier, the differentiator becomes design, ideas, positioning and creativity.](https://korrents.com/k/as-building-software-gets-easier-the-ca9a73)
- [Every designer should use Claude Code if part of the team's end product is code, because it beats going back and forth with an engineer.](https://korrents.com/k/every-designer-should-use-claude-code-d2dc03)
- [There is no be-all end-all design tool: the new tools are early, and polished ones like Figma, After Effects and Origami are still very useful.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-be-all-end-all-design-e87e6b)
- [For many design problems there is no perfect tool unless you make it, and now you can.](https://korrents.com/k/for-many-design-problems-there-is-f6dd38)
- [Designers should code and ship, and a tool like Claude Design is for everything else, such as communicating an idea.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-should-code-and-ship-and-9dbd05)
- [In this AI era the tools change so fast that there is a lot of value in being uncomfortably early to ideas.](https://korrents.com/k/in-this-ai-era-the-tools-4d36b2)
- [Models are very good at busy work but not at the actual ideas and design thinking, so good ideas are the currency these days.](https://korrents.com/k/models-are-very-good-at-busy-2de577)
- [This era will probably end, but for now humans still have a monopoly on good design thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/this-era-will-probably-end-but-2de636)
- [Don't ask Claude for a design without context: give it as much context as you can, be prescriptive, and don't trust it to be an amazing designer on its own.](https://korrents.com/k/don-t-ask-claude-for-a-6261d7)
- [Where Claude is weak, as with animation timing, ask it to build you a tool so you can dial it in yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/where-claude-is-weak-as-with-b1d520)
- [Voice is the best way to give Claude much more context faster, and it gives better results.](https://korrents.com/k/voice-is-the-best-way-to-f57142)
- [Embrace the fuzzy space between types of things you can create, and make presentations and documents interactive.](https://korrents.com/k/embrace-the-fuzzy-space-between-types-37e45c)
- [HTML is the only document type that matters, because you can do so much creative stuff with it.](https://korrents.com/k/html-is-the-only-document-type-97164d)
- [Writing a doc is an uphill battle to get people to read, and the best way to sell people on ideas is a designer's mockup or prototype.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-a-doc-is-an-uphill-7a9821)
- [Because we increasingly design with words as the primary input, there is probably a lot of education to do to give people the words they need.](https://korrents.com/k/because-we-increasingly-design-with-words-a9fb8c)
- [There is a ton of value in packaging capabilities in an interface that makes sense to people; a design skill alone did not get used.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-ton-of-value-598d71)
- [Having children does not make people better: parental love concentrates concern on a few and leaves less of it for everyone else.](https://korrents.com/k/having-children-does-not-make-people-20562a)
- [The best moments in physical AI will look like nothing happened at all.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-moments-in-physical-ai-b71ff5)
- ["Move fast and break things" is the wrong mantra when you are dealing with atoms; the job is to move fast and ship safely.](https://korrents.com/k/move-fast-and-break-things-is-c54fdd)
- [In the physical world a model's mistake is measured in human lives rather than tokens, and there is no retry button.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-physical-world-a-model-9938fa)
- [A physical AI agent has to be safe on day one, because you cannot ship something merely good enough and let users find the edge cases.](https://korrents.com/k/a-physical-ai-agent-has-to-5baac7)
- [A working demo is at best one per cent of the work; the nines that follow it are where the real work is.](https://korrents.com/k/a-working-demo-is-at-best-2f3d03)
- [Waymo's demo took eighteen months and the product took fifteen years — the gap between the two is the whole job.](https://korrents.com/k/waymo-s-demo-took-eighteen-months-2ddd94)
- [Reliability lives on an exponential ladder of nines: every additional nine costs about ten times the effort of the one before.](https://korrents.com/k/reliability-lives-on-an-exponential-ladder-8b1c07)
- [At scale the long tail stops being an edge case and becomes the entire problem statement.](https://korrents.com/k/at-scale-the-long-tail-stops-5823fc)
- [Every AI hype cycle produces spectacular demos and very few products, because each breakthrough makes the demo far easier and the tail barely easier.](https://korrents.com/k/every-ai-hype-cycle-produces-spectacular-ecee20)
- [The common failure is picking the technology with the fastest early ramp and extrapolating it, when that curve plateaus below what the product needs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-common-failure-is-picking-the-b17e48)
- [Cameras alone are enough to approximately match a human driver, but weak sensing puts safety on a curve that flattens out well below superhuman.](https://korrents.com/k/cameras-alone-are-enough-to-approximately-c29bb5)
- [Betting a robotics company on today's component prices is betting it on a number with a short shelf life.](https://korrents.com/k/betting-a-robotics-company-on-today-9d259c)
- [Driving turns out to be much like language modelling, because a driver is holding a conversation with other road users in the body language of a car.](https://korrents.com/k/driving-turns-out-to-be-much-260f84)
- [Structure that fights scale always loses and structure that channels scale always wins — which is the version of the bitter lesson that matters in the physical world.](https://korrents.com/k/structure-that-fights-scale-always-loses-d32a80)
- [Plain end-to-end learning is not enough for a safety-critical agent that has to be superhuman, however fast it gets you started.](https://korrents.com/k/plain-end-to-end-learning-is-not-enough-e658c5)
- [Bet on a system that is maximally learned and minimally constrained, and add structure only where it improves the scaling laws.](https://korrents.com/k/bet-on-a-system-that-is-8ce208)
- [Building a realistic simulator is exactly as hard as building the agent, because the simulator is itself a large AI model.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-realistic-simulator-is-exactly-a69646)
- [A physical AI company needs three AIs, not one — the agent, the simulator and the critic — turning deployment into a flywheel.](https://korrents.com/k/a-physical-ai-company-needs-three-f4bc46)
- [The model is table stakes; evaluation and metrics are the strategic moat, and they should be built before the technology.](https://korrents.com/k/the-model-is-table-stakes-evaluation-7be79d)
- [If you cannot quantitatively define what good enough means, you are not building a product — you are iterating on a demo.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-cannot-quantitatively-define-what-4e5540)
- [Models leak and algorithms get copied, but hundreds of millions of audited autonomous miles cannot be replicated — earned trust is the real moat.](https://korrents.com/k/models-leak-and-algorithms-get-copied-957ca8)
- [In the areas where it operates, the Waymo driver is about seventeen times better than human drivers at avoiding crashes that cause serious injury.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-areas-where-it-operates-0122aa)
- [AI is already inside the recursive self-improvement loop — what the labs have shipped in recent weeks shows the cycle has started.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-already-inside-the-recursive-22f3a0)
- [Recursive self-improvement will increase AI capability very quickly from here.](https://korrents.com/k/recursive-self-improvement-will-increase-ai-capability-826440)
- [The marginal cost of running any AI model will fall to approximately zero.](https://korrents.com/k/the-marginal-cost-of-running-any-450331)
- [The post-1970s global increase in heatwave frequency is caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.](https://korrents.com/k/the-post-1970s-global-increase-in-heatwave-a7e8f5)
- [The 1930s U.S. Dust Bowl heat wave was caused by destructive farming practices rather than fossil-fuel emissions.](https://korrents.com/k/the-1930s-u-s-dust-bowl-dee7e8)
- [Expanded irrigation in the central U.S. during the mid-20th century cooled the surface and suppressed heatwave frequency there.](https://korrents.com/k/expanded-irrigation-in-the-central-u-86bf81)
- [Open source work is largely voluntary, so its maintainers need periodic breaks too.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-work-is-largely-voluntary-bcd71c)
- [AI companies' pattern of NDAs, big promises, and pushing environmental costs onto poorer communities resembles dark-money capture of local politics more than a runaway-AI threat.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-companies-pattern-of-ndas-big-d20d31)
- [Most workers vulnerable to AI-driven displacement lack organized representation to negotiate on their behalf.](https://korrents.com/k/most-workers-vulnerable-to-ai-driven-displacement-678267)
- [The future internet will function like an ecology of attacking and defending AI agents, with some agents carving out autonomous niches beyond human control.](https://korrents.com/k/the-future-internet-will-function-like-6baa81)
- [Today's AI systems are highly capable at engineering but lack the intuitive creativity needed to be good researchers, tending toward rote, formulaic thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-ai-systems-are-highly-9c96c1)
- [Governing increasingly powerful AI systems requires solving a collective action problem among companies and governments to coordinate on pacing AI development.](https://korrents.com/k/governing-increasingly-powerful-ai-systems-requires-b980ac)
- [A company should hire a product manager only against a specific need, never by default.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-should-hire-a-product-2dc210)
- [The only real case for product management as a specialist function is that it is a trade, not a qualification — something you get good at by doing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-real-case-for-product-1a60c1)
- [Hiring product managers by ratio infantilizes engineers and designers who were perfectly capable of deciding for themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/hiring-product-managers-by-ratio-infantilizes-36f4a0)
- [The engineer-designer-PM pod ratio was an HR artifact of scaling, not something anyone showed a product needed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-engineer-designer-pm-pod-ratio-was-an-3ca0fe)
- [Product managers should be assigned to problems, not attached to engineering teams.](https://korrents.com/k/product-managers-should-be-assigned-to-8c6265)
- [AI gives an individual contributor so much leverage that one very senior product manager beats three entry-level ones.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-gives-an-individual-contributor-so-d4acb5)
- [A whole class of product managers built a career on politics rather than on technical or customer skill, and that skill is now worth nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/a-whole-class-of-product-managers-7bc751)
- [The industry's promotion ladder took its best product people and promoted them out of doing the work.](https://korrents.com/k/the-industry-s-promotion-ladder-took-14b0a3)
- [People who manage product managers should still spend almost all of their own time doing individual contributor work.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-manage-product-managers-should-271e37)
- [A few senior individual contributors can be paid VP money and still cost less than the layered product org they replace.](https://korrents.com/k/a-few-senior-individual-contributors-can-037db3)
- [A product leader writing production code is not the best use of their time, even though they should be able to read the codebase.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-leader-writing-production-code-b9d535)
- [AI data tooling has cut the product manager's need for data scientists while multiplying the time they spend in the data themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-data-tooling-has-cut-the-56829e)
- [Needing fewer people per unit of output does not mean a company ends up employing fewer people.](https://korrents.com/k/needing-fewer-people-per-unit-of-4bd1a4)
- [Core product skills are the most durable in an AI world, but many people holding the PM title spent five years building the wrong ones.](https://korrents.com/k/core-product-skills-are-the-most-e41cf3)
- [Interviews reward presentation; only a hands-on case study shows how fast a candidate's thinking decays.](https://korrents.com/k/interviews-reward-presentation-only-a-hands-on-6efaa5)
- [The right posture toward your own team is verify then trust, not trust but verify.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-posture-toward-your-own-d519ca)
- [You cannot make good macro decisions without the micro, which means a leader has to sit alongside the individual contributors.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-make-good-macro-decisions-f5bc9c)
- [Top-down product leadership works when the leader is in the weeds; what people call micromanagement is a leader directing work without knowing ground truth.](https://korrents.com/k/top-down-product-leadership-works-when-the-f1742c)
- [When nobody in the room has data, the chief executive's opinion should win, and that is fine.](https://korrents.com/k/when-nobody-in-the-room-has-e8b5a9)
- [Roadmapping and pure iteration are both failure modes; a product team has to keep stretching out to strategy and compressing back into shipping.](https://korrents.com/k/roadmapping-and-pure-iteration-are-both-061cb9)
- [Agentic shopping will not take over commerce, because most shopping is low-intent — e-commerce has never passed twenty percent of American retail.](https://korrents.com/k/agentic-shopping-will-not-take-over-db00f0)
- [Live commerce works at audience sizes that would be uneconomic for live entertainment, because commerce does not run on CPMs.](https://korrents.com/k/live-commerce-works-at-audience-sizes-c85576)
- [When a decision is called too complex to make, the real explanation is almost always weak leadership.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-decision-is-called-too-f98354)
- [Deciding on averages is how product teams destroy the small group for whom a barely-used feature is everything.](https://korrents.com/k/deciding-on-averages-is-how-product-12fffa)
- [Books endure alongside newer media because they have unique affordances that other media have not replicated.](https://korrents.com/k/books-endure-alongside-newer-media-because-8b6ddc)
- [The cloud and the web were built for people, with every layer assuming a human is watching.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cloud-and-the-web-were-7d9e3a)
- [What an agent cloud should be is a question to put to agents, not to ourselves.](https://korrents.com/k/what-an-agent-cloud-should-be-69ff46)
- [An agent cloud should be built agent-native from the ground up while also translating the human-shaped web of today.](https://korrents.com/k/an-agent-cloud-should-be-built-acc3e7)
- [A coronary calcium score of zero does not mean the arteries are free of disease, and in a younger adult it is far weaker reassurance than it looks.](https://korrents.com/k/a-coronary-calcium-score-of-zero-0e1363)
- [A zero calcium score is only as reassuring as the rest of the risk profile it sits in.](https://korrents.com/k/a-zero-calcium-score-is-only-c71d4f)
- [China's real exchange rate should appreciate through higher domestic inflation, not currency revaluation.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-real-exchange-rate-should-e39b70)
- [Complaining about China's trade surpluses and excess capacity has not worked and will not work.](https://korrents.com/k/complaining-about-china-s-trade-surpluses-8eb127)
- [China's tolerance of deflation has caused widespread underemployment and unemployment among its youth.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-tolerance-of-deflation-has-3678e0)
- [Knife steels with low corrosion resistance stay rust-free only in very dry climates.](https://korrents.com/k/knife-steels-with-low-corrosion-resistance-0afd18)
- [Apple does an excellent job of keeping users on the latest iOS version, in part by holding back new emoji until major releases to nudge people into updating.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-does-an-excellent-job-of-07ea52)
- [Knowing something yourself will stay faster than asking a model for it, because a lookup in your own head beats a round trip to an agent.](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-something-yourself-will-stay-faster-27019e)
- [Renouncing your own cognitive ability because the models are good is premature, because companies still pay an enormous premium for it.](https://korrents.com/k/renouncing-your-own-cognitive-ability-because-bc36ed)
- [Models can prove monumental theorems and still have never written an essay worth reading.](https://korrents.com/k/models-can-prove-monumental-theorems-and-6ccbc8)
- [Dropping out of college is not a trapdoor and the reputational cost is nil: as far as anyone can tell, nobody has ever cared.](https://korrents.com/k/dropping-out-of-college-is-not-a36518)
- [Startup opportunities are not fleeting; Silicon Valley has reliably had a surfeit of them for decades.](https://korrents.com/k/startup-opportunities-are-not-fleeting-silicon-88fa10)
- [This is not the last moment to start a company, and the belief that the window is about to close is a recurring millenarian instinct.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-not-the-last-moment-f221db)
- [Build on a customer problem somebody viscerally feels and would pay to fix, because it is very easy to imagine one that nobody does.](https://korrents.com/k/build-on-a-customer-problem-somebody-8c2cc1)
- [An idea can be obviously good and obviously ridiculous at the same time; being grounded in a real user problem is what carries it through.](https://korrents.com/k/an-idea-can-be-obviously-good-305fd5)
- [Some domains cannot be launched into early: where security, partners and money movement are preconditions, you have to build first.](https://korrents.com/k/some-domains-cannot-be-launched-into-f87681)
- [Weekly contact with paying users is what the launch-early rule is really for: it means learning from reality instead of your own extrapolated conception of it.](https://korrents.com/k/weekly-contact-with-paying-users-is-67c9e9)
- [The lean startup was almost the only option twenty years ago; with AI you can start something far more aggressive and ambitious up front.](https://korrents.com/k/the-lean-startup-was-almost-the-81d6ed)
- [Many of the most successful companies of the last decade were built against the lean startup playbook, not with it.](https://korrents.com/k/many-of-the-most-successful-companies-79c147)
- [Before you raise money, ask what happens if you succeed - whether you will still want this company in ten or thirty years.](https://korrents.com/k/before-you-raise-money-ask-what-2037ae)
- [The schleps of building a payments company were repaid, because no Stripe customer has ever turned out to be boring.](https://korrents.com/k/the-schleps-of-building-a-payments-6aeec1)
- [The fear that a big lab will simply build your product is overstated, because no organisation can aggressively prosecute a hundred priorities at once.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fear-that-a-big-lab-11aa87)
- [New businesses are being started at close to twice last year's rate, the largest relative jump Stripe has ever recorded.](https://korrents.com/k/new-businesses-are-being-started-at-166430)
- [The new wave of businesses is not lightweight slop: the median one is doing better than a year ago, and more of them clear every revenue threshold.](https://korrents.com/k/the-new-wave-of-businesses-is-1b0f9e)
- [By every objective metric Stripe can see, there has never been a better time to start a business.](https://korrents.com/k/by-every-objective-metric-stripe-can-94c332)
- [Enterprises buy from startups now because the risk of keeping the status quo has come to look larger than the risk of the startup.](https://korrents.com/k/enterprises-buy-from-startups-now-because-5bd08b)
- [AI will not centralise the economy into a handful of companies; there are going to be many thousands of winners.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-not-centralise-the-economy-9b28cd)
- [A person's core personality disposition is innate, not a product of upbringing, generation, birth order, or nationality.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-s-core-personality-disposition-7acfd0)
- [Reminding someone to do a task can make them less likely to do it.](https://korrents.com/k/reminding-someone-to-do-a-task-9780cf)
- [Local-first technologies like CRDTs and open protocols can give nations more control over their critical software infrastructure.](https://korrents.com/k/local-first-technologies-like-crdts-and-open-fc53c0)
- [Mainstream software will largely continue to be created by big tech companies, and that is acceptable.](https://korrents.com/k/mainstream-software-will-largely-continue-to-ef1f8c)
- [Audio gear should be judged by ear, not by technical measurements.](https://korrents.com/k/audio-gear-should-be-judged-by-2967ca)
- [The listening room and system setup matter more to sound quality than any individual piece of gear.](https://korrents.com/k/the-listening-room-and-system-setup-309ac5)
- [Computers and software should always serve the person directly using them, not the interests of third parties.](https://korrents.com/k/computers-and-software-should-always-serve-f01ba4)
- [A person does not truly control a piece of software if they do not control its source code.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-does-not-truly-control-c04481)
- [Software quality has historically been maintained by engineers' own will combined with their strong negotiating position in the job market, rather than by other forces.](https://korrents.com/k/software-quality-has-historically-been-maintained-6dc9cc)
- [AI models have reached the level of a junior engineer on longer-running, agent-based coding tasks.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-have-reached-the-level-bddcf8)
- [Good ideas come from asking how you would solve a problem from first principles, rather than staying anchored on how it is solved today.](https://korrents.com/k/good-ideas-come-from-asking-how-37ba26)
- [Inference, not training, is now the constraint, and specialized low-energy hardware will beat general-purpose GPUs and TPUs on latency.](https://korrents.com/k/inference-not-training-is-now-the-bb6118)
- [Agents can already be run for days or weeks on a single hard problem, and almost nobody has internalised that.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-can-already-be-run-for-a312cd)
- [A chip that can do nothing but low-precision dense linear algebra is enough for machine learning, even though it cannot run Chrome.](https://korrents.com/k/a-chip-that-can-do-nothing-084aa3)
- [The numbers an AI engineer should know by heart are memory bandwidths and the energy cost of a single operation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-numbers-an-ai-engineer-should-5750d1)
- [Batching exists only because moving data costs about a thousand times more energy than computing on it.](https://korrents.com/k/batching-exists-only-because-moving-data-6afbff)
- [What sits in a model's context is far clearer to it than its training data, which is trillions of tokens stirred into a soup of parameters.](https://korrents.com/k/what-sits-in-a-model-s-a59a70)
- [You improve a model you cannot retrain by writing better guidelines and skills for it, not by adjusting its parameters.](https://korrents.com/k/you-improve-a-model-you-cannot-a81bd0)
- [Long-running agents fail because they drift off the distribution they were trained on, and degrade further the farther out they get.](https://korrents.com/k/long-running-agents-fail-because-they-drift-d73c91)
- [Spending compute at inference time to search over plausible solutions is the general fix for unreliable long agent runs.](https://korrents.com/k/spending-compute-at-inference-time-to-7fd1a6)
- [Before building on a gap in the general models, work out whether that gap survives six months or three years.](https://korrents.com/k/before-building-on-a-gap-in-b0a4b8)
- [Build where today's models succeed one percent of the time, not twenty: partial success means the capability is already arriving.](https://korrents.com/k/build-where-today-s-models-succeed-7da14f)
- [A startup's durable advantage over a general model is having visibility into data the general model will never see.](https://korrents.com/k/a-startup-s-durable-advantage-over-af364f)
- [A narrow, highly accurate model can beat a general one inside its own domain, as AlphaFold did, and materials science and chip design are next.](https://korrents.com/k/a-narrow-highly-accurate-model-can-8dc1a8)
- [Specifying what you want matters more now that agents write the code than it did when the work went to a human who could ask follow-up questions.](https://korrents.com/k/specifying-what-you-want-matters-more-51af68)
- [Translating software from one programming language to another is where coding agents already excel, because the existing code is a perfect specification.](https://korrents.com/k/translating-software-from-one-programming-language-1888fc)
- [When agents do the building, the scarce skill is taste: choosing which problem is worth the time at all.](https://korrents.com/k/when-agents-do-the-building-the-5c3a2c)
- [Taste can be trained deliberately: write down what you think will matter in twelve months, then go back in twelve months and score yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-can-be-trained-deliberately-write-5c54c5)
- [Learned approximations of slow simulators change what science is possible, by turning a six-month screening run into something you do over lunch.](https://korrents.com/k/learned-approximations-of-slow-simulators-change-b91082)
- [There is no real impediment to models running their own research loop and improving themselves at a far more rapid rate.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-real-impediment-to-b68b45)
- [Today's models see a thousand times more data than an eighteen-year-old and are no better for it, so far more data-efficient algorithms must be possible.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-models-see-a-thousand-b47287)
- [Bus grids cannot function as a city's primary transit backbone at the scale of a very large, low-density city like Los Angeles, no matter how much priority the buses get.](https://korrents.com/k/bus-grids-cannot-function-as-a-2b2dfb)
- [On-street separated bus lanes cannot match the speed of grade-separated rapid transit.](https://korrents.com/k/on-street-separated-bus-lanes-cannot-match-b1fd92)
- [Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity to doubled CO2 is closer to 3.5°C than 4.5°C](https://korrents.com/k/earth-s-equilibrium-climate-sensitivity-to-d2899d)
- [One or two record-warm years cannot distinguish rapid aerosol-driven acceleration in warming from a strong El Niño riding on the existing trend](https://korrents.com/k/one-or-two-record-warm-years-cannot-b1f18e)
- [Market bubbles and crashes are inevitable but impossible to predict in advance.](https://korrents.com/k/market-bubbles-and-crashes-are-inevitable-d606f7)
- [Buying beyond what you can comfortably afford leaves people financially weaker and stuck living paycheck to paycheck.](https://korrents.com/k/buying-beyond-what-you-can-comfortably-701c17)
- [Anyone getting into making software should first build open source and show they can get anybody to use anything, because that is really hard.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-getting-into-making-software-should-a34bac)
- [Agent harnesses are only at the beginning, with probably a lot more innovation still to come.](https://korrents.com/k/agent-harnesses-are-only-at-the-269a57)
- [The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities.](https://korrents.com/k/the-west-s-biggest-blindspot-is-191084)
- [The second China shock is landing on Europe, where the first one landed on the United States.](https://korrents.com/k/the-second-china-shock-is-landing-2f1e38)
- [The second China shock threatens Europe's highest-status manufacturing, not an industrial backwater the way the first one did in America.](https://korrents.com/k/the-second-china-shock-threatens-europe-2380f6)
- [The original 'China shock' research was about American institutions failing the communities that were hit, not about unfair Chinese competition.](https://korrents.com/k/the-original-china-shock-research-was-d33600)
- [Beijing drew its own conclusions from the first China shock and set out to engage the world economy from a position of technological leadership.](https://korrents.com/k/beijing-drew-its-own-conclusions-from-3150c2)
- [Every branch of engineering hates waterfall, not just software.](https://korrents.com/k/every-branch-of-engineering-hates-waterfall-cc428b)
- [The core tension of all engineering is between how expensive a mistake is and how quickly you can iterate, and that alone decides how much planning a field does.](https://korrents.com/k/the-core-tension-of-all-engineering-e4afa4)
- [Software did not invent iterative development: mining engineers had their Agile revolution in 1960.](https://korrents.com/k/software-did-not-invent-iterative-development-e6c9fb)
- [Software is the only field of human labour with practitioner conferences and freely shared knowledge; every other field has only academic conferences and trade shows.](https://korrents.com/k/software-is-the-only-field-of-ff18ba)
- [Version control is the one thing every traditional engineer wishes their old field had.](https://korrents.com/k/version-control-is-the-one-thing-fd8267)
- [Software iterates better than every other engineering field and plans worse than all of them.](https://korrents.com/k/software-iterates-better-than-every-other-69bc2f)
- [Other engineering fields compile deep reference books about their materials and software has nothing of the kind, not even a five-hundred-page book on how to version an API.](https://korrents.com/k/other-engineering-fields-compile-deep-reference-edd9ab)
- [Software developers probably are engineers after all, on the evidence of the people who did both jobs -- though that research was done before LLMs.](https://korrents.com/k/software-developers-probably-are-engineers-after-08d17c)
- [Formal methods are not used everywhere because for most real problems writing down what the function should do is itself a nightmare, and a program that is right ninety-nine per cent of the time is good enough.](https://korrents.com/k/formal-methods-are-not-used-everywhere-afeb08)
- [Nuclear power plants, the standard example of software that must be proved correct, do not care about formal verification: thorough testing is enough for them.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-power-plants-the-standard-example-80e96d)
- [Verifying a simplified model rather than the real system is worth doing even though the real system will still have bugs, because the bugs you designed in never get built.](https://korrents.com/k/verifying-a-simplified-model-rather-than-2c2742)
- [Concurrency is hard not because human brains cannot handle it but because nobody gets enough practice at it.](https://korrents.com/k/concurrency-is-hard-not-because-human-2136a6)
- [Most mathematics will never be useful to a developer; what pays is knowing what mathematics exists so you can find the part that is.](https://korrents.com/k/most-mathematics-will-never-be-useful-aa6350)
- [Programmers fail to recognise how much mathematics their job uses because the mathematics it needs is discrete and school teaches the continuous kind.](https://korrents.com/k/programmers-fail-to-recognise-how-much-391b21)
- [Formal methods shine in highly computational domains and struggle wherever the problem is embedded in human business behaviour.](https://korrents.com/k/formal-methods-shine-in-highly-computational-c55168)
- [Engineers are sceptical of formal methods because they were burned by CASE and UML, sold as miracle solutions and imposed on them regardless of fit.](https://korrents.com/k/engineers-are-sceptical-of-formal-methods-cd24a8)
- [Formal methods are a niche tool; property-based testing is the one most engineers should adopt, and stopping there is a fine place to stop.](https://korrents.com/k/formal-methods-are-a-niche-tool-36d29e)
- [To get good results out of an LLM you have to already know how to get them without it; the model only makes it faster.](https://korrents.com/k/to-get-good-results-out-of-ad4854)
- [AI does a good job of generating a design and still cannot express what the design is supposed to do; that part is the engineer's.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-does-a-good-job-of-bc4ebb)
- [AI is making formal methods more popular without making them mainstream, moving them from about a tenth of a per cent of engineers to three tenths.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-making-formal-methods-more-c4f578)
- [The software job losses of the past few years were caused more by the end of zero-interest-rate money and the post-COVID crash than by AI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-software-job-losses-of-the-2fde48)
- [Within ten years software development will survive but become ordinary white-collar work, with no more two-hundred-thousand-dollar salaries or unlimited vacation.](https://korrents.com/k/within-ten-years-software-development-will-285308)
- [Software written for three people, a family or one school, is now possible for everyone, and that will change the world in strange and terrifying as well as exciting ways.](https://korrents.com/k/software-written-for-three-people-a-7476fa)
- [Nobody in software treats debugging as a discipline; it is left as a handful of basic heuristics.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-in-software-treats-debugging-as-864d6e)
- [The only way to build something that matters is to develop conviction in a set of beliefs nobody else agrees with yet, long before they become consensus.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-way-to-build-something-f5dd1b)
- [A founder who takes their bearings from what everyone around them is saying will end up nowhere; you have to build your own compass for what the future looks like.](https://korrents.com/k/a-founder-who-takes-their-bearings-998847)
- [The bottleneck in AI is no longer the progress of the models but their diffusion — if the models froze today, the economy would still take decades to absorb what already exists.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bottleneck-in-ai-is-no-33a1f5)
- [This is a once-in-a-civilization opportunity to have a vision and impose it on the world by building something.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-a-once-in-a-civilization-opportunity-to-64e836)
- [AI has ended the David-versus-Goliath era of startups: a startup that properly embraces agents can now easily outcompete incumbents.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-ended-the-david-versus-goliath-era-3bc309)
- [Every one of the billions of people on earth will have their own superintelligence, tailored to them, and its point is to expand their agency.](https://korrents.com/k/every-one-of-the-billions-of-d66aab)
- [The future of AI is a broad decentralised ecosystem, not a totalising handful of AIs that control the world.](https://korrents.com/k/the-future-of-ai-is-a-9c9d44)
- [Talent density is the one thing to bet on when building a lab, because it compounds by itself: the more talented people you have, the more the best want to join you.](https://korrents.com/k/talent-density-is-the-one-thing-503851)
- [Frontier AI work is scientific research, and it needs a completely different operating model from the one internet companies were built on.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-work-is-scientific-research-b92800)
- [Frontier models must be cheap enough for anyone to use, because a world in which they are rationed to the wealthiest developers is the wrong world.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-models-must-be-cheap-enough-d3a054)
- [The best AI products have not been built yet, because every wave of AI is about ten times bigger than the wave before it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-ai-products-have-not-480afb)
- [Arguing about whether superintelligence arrives in two years or five is close to a waste of time, because very powerful models are inevitable either way.](https://korrents.com/k/arguing-about-whether-superintelligence-arrives-in-156ce5)
- [The scarce resource is about to stop being intelligence or agency and become vision and ambition.](https://korrents.com/k/the-scarce-resource-is-about-to-0988c4)
- [For the whole of human history the bottleneck on progress has been getting a group of smart people together around a shared goal.](https://korrents.com/k/for-the-whole-of-human-history-031006)
- [The world is barely ready for this technology, and the people building it have a responsibility to prepare the world rather than only to ship.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-is-barely-ready-for-45c620)
- [Systems thinking will never go out of style, so going all in on words at the expense of rigorous quantitative thinking is a mistake.](https://korrents.com/k/systems-thinking-will-never-go-out-fd1b46)
- [Humanity will change more in the next decade than it has in the past hundred years.](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-will-change-more-in-the-997561)
- [A swarm of agents with the right loop and the right metric can already out-produce a team of a hundred engineers.](https://korrents.com/k/a-swarm-of-agents-with-the-2f78ed)
- [Today’s models are already powerful enough to add many points of GDP growth; what is missing is people with the vision and ambition to apply them.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-models-are-already-powerful-7dd84e)
- [The thing worth finding is the exponential with the steepest curve that will run the longest — decades ago that was Moore’s law, and today it is AI progress.](https://korrents.com/k/the-thing-worth-finding-is-the-21a1d7)
- [Cooling or warming global temperature by around 10°F would produce an unrecognizably different planet.](https://korrents.com/k/cooling-or-warming-global-temperature-by-82255a)
- [Climate change's effects will unfold as sudden catastrophic events rather than as steadily accumulating small changes.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-change-s-effects-will-unfold-de0397)
- [It is already too late to fully prevent climate change because the atmosphere has been irreversibly altered by carbon pollution.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-already-too-late-to-fb0bbc)
- [Experiencing stress or fear during labor weakens and slows uterine contractions.](https://korrents.com/k/experiencing-stress-or-fear-during-labor-006860)
- [Deepening your understanding of a situation helps you maintain a sense of control over it.](https://korrents.com/k/deepening-your-understanding-of-a-situation-d67fd1)
- [People tend to remember the outcomes of things that worked out and forget the many attempts that led nowhere.](https://korrents.com/k/people-tend-to-remember-the-outcomes-95583a)
- [Reaching out to people with no prior connection expands a person's network and reduces blind spots.](https://korrents.com/k/reaching-out-to-people-with-no-0259ab)
- [Life does not progress in a straight line, so someone sending unsolicited outreach today may become the recipient of it from someone else tomorrow.](https://korrents.com/k/life-does-not-progress-in-a-f4df1b)
- [Recording formats and the physical discs that hold them decay, and their content is lost unless it is actively preserved.](https://korrents.com/k/recording-formats-and-the-physical-discs-d27179)
- [Physical media formats such as DVD will outlast streaming services.](https://korrents.com/k/physical-media-formats-such-as-dvd-481711)
- [Students often have to set aside essential parts of themselves to succeed in math class.](https://korrents.com/k/students-often-have-to-set-aside-829963)
- [Teaching often rewards getting a technique out of a student rather than helping the student become more fully themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/teaching-often-rewards-getting-a-technique-cd829d)
- [People cannot expect others to care as deeply about the things they care about.](https://korrents.com/k/people-cannot-expect-others-to-care-923272)
- [In utility-style apps especially, practical decisions sometimes end up being the most valuable and the least disruptive for people coming from something else.](https://korrents.com/k/in-utility-style-apps-especially-practical-decisions-037e1f)
- [Simple, practical decisions executed at a really high level often give a feeling of confidence in the experience.](https://korrents.com/k/simple-practical-decisions-executed-at-a-cc90a1)
- [It is really important that people have a framework of thinking of their own for what they want to do with design, because tools are changing rapidly and it is easy to be pulled into a tool that then guides your path.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-really-important-that-people-af7b05)
- [Holding a framework of your own becomes thematic across your work, so people know what you want to do and you get the kind of work you want.](https://korrents.com/k/holding-a-framework-of-your-own-ae9117)
- [A designer's edge now is pulling things back, making them simpler and more understandable, because everyone can kind of execute right now.](https://korrents.com/k/a-designer-s-edge-now-is-c377e4)
- [Communication is also a skill of design, more than anything: being able to communicate quickly and set the boundaries of what is being done, what is not, and how far to take it.](https://korrents.com/k/communication-is-also-a-skill-of-588514)
- [Design is kind of going to turn into making more successful decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/design-is-kind-of-going-to-2ce81c)
- [Decisions often require an extra level of awareness than you expect, and taking a beat to reconsider the deeper set of options before deciding sometimes prevents you from going down a bad path.](https://korrents.com/k/decisions-often-require-an-extra-level-de9662)
- [Apple goes back to the beginning better than anyone else, partly because its one-year release cycle makes that disruption an expected part of the process.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-goes-back-to-the-beginning-c4081a)
- [If you hold on to a product's values through its life, people will believe in it and trust it.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-hold-on-to-a-bde136)
- [The counterpoint to simple design is that people want fewer tools a lot of the time.](https://korrents.com/k/the-counterpoint-to-simple-design-is-29d393)
- [Sometimes the obvious solution is the right solution.](https://korrents.com/k/sometimes-the-obvious-solution-is-the-9da9e8)
- [Impulsiveness in decisions can be problematic, but impulsiveness in design should be facilitated all the time: try the random thought and go down that path.](https://korrents.com/k/impulsiveness-in-decisions-can-be-problematic-4921b3)
- [The small quality moments come from wasting time: if you are not playing or messing around, you won't come to them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-small-quality-moments-come-from-bef554)
- [Presenting well means aggressively guiding the conversation to a point where everyone is on the same page, giving context as fast and as clearly as possible.](https://korrents.com/k/presenting-well-means-aggressively-guiding-the-5f414b)
- [It is more important to pose a question to be answered, so that by the end of the conversation everyone can agree it was answered.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-more-important-to-pose-a2fef0)
- [Reduce the information you present to the essential points; people will ask whatever they need to fill in the gaps.](https://korrents.com/k/reduce-the-information-you-present-to-9f4335)
- [People really appreciate collaborative designers who are willing to work with you and come to it with excitement.](https://korrents.com/k/people-really-appreciate-collaborative-designers-who-b3c575)
- [Every year spent keeping your options open is a year not spent on whatever you eventually commit to.](https://korrents.com/k/every-year-spent-keeping-your-options-3e9665)
- [Refusing to commit is the right strategy inside a portfolio and the wrong one everywhere else in life.](https://korrents.com/k/refusing-to-commit-is-the-right-d29982)
- [Half a century after Apollo and Concorde we can neither reach the moon nor fly faster than sound: the future stopped getting faster.](https://korrents.com/k/half-a-century-after-apollo-and-db6dbc)
- [A defence industry that needs more than two years to build a single missile interceptor can neither build the future nor win a war.](https://korrents.com/k/a-defence-industry-that-needs-more-91daac)
- [Airliner design has not progressed in fifty years — the newest jet is no faster and makes the world no more accessible than the one that opened the jet age.](https://korrents.com/k/airliner-design-has-not-progressed-in-a0a330)
- [When air travel doubles in speed the important changes happen on the ground: Hawaii was not a tourist destination until the jet made it reachable.](https://korrents.com/k/when-air-travel-doubles-in-speed-bb7f96)
- [The incumbent manufacturers will never carry aviation into a supersonic age, because they have stopped building new aeroplanes at all.](https://korrents.com/k/the-incumbent-manufacturers-will-never-carry-ca2de2)
- [The way to settle an argument about how quiet supersonic flight must be is to remove the boom entirely, so there is nothing left to argue about.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-settle-an-argument-059575)
- [Building in a regulated industry is not a trap, because you can change the regulations — by building the thing and explaining why it is fine.](https://korrents.com/k/building-in-a-regulated-industry-is-981158)
- [A team of fifty can build a supersonic jet only by making hardware development look like software development and driving down the cost of iteration.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-of-fifty-can-build-de1795)
- [Good software is modular, but a good aeroplane is the opposite — everything affects everything else, which is why hardware iteration has always been slow.](https://korrents.com/k/good-software-is-modular-but-a-e7bda5)
- [The engineering that lives in engineers’ spreadsheets is really baby software, and it should be written as real software, with the testing and integration that implies.](https://korrents.com/k/the-engineering-that-lives-in-engineers-7dc887)
- [You cannot find product-market fit for a supersonic jet by building one and seeing whether anybody likes it; it has to be worked out before anything is built.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-find-product-market-fit-for-046432)
- [Iterating through outside aerospace suppliers is close to impossible, which is why a hardware startup should own its own machine shop.](https://korrents.com/k/iterating-through-outside-aerospace-suppliers-is-e19770)
- [A supersonic engine can be sold on the ground as a power turbine, and that is how you finance an airliner nobody would otherwise fund.](https://korrents.com/k/a-supersonic-engine-can-be-sold-f6d602)
- [Great ideas are not all taken: many multi-billion-dollar businesses were buildable years earlier and nobody built them for no reason other than that nobody did.](https://korrents.com/k/great-ideas-are-not-all-taken-86c25b)
- [“Why now?” is the wrong question to make a founder answer — the honest answer can simply be that you started now.](https://korrents.com/k/why-now-is-the-wrong-question-114e01)
- [America cannot win manufacturing back by repatriating what left; it wins only by inventing the next wave of manufacturing and building that here.](https://korrents.com/k/america-cannot-win-manufacturing-back-by-40c3fb)
- [Most regulation does not come from anyone trying to keep the public safe but from an entrenched interest using government to shut its competitors down.](https://korrents.com/k/most-regulation-does-not-come-from-af533c)
- [In a safety-critical industry the regulator should be recruited onto the team early, so that it is you and the regulator against the problem.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-safety-critical-industry-the-regulator-5aa854)
- [“Work on what you know” is the worst advice there is: knowledge can be acquired, but what you love cannot be changed.](https://korrents.com/k/work-on-what-you-know-is-4d6504)
- [Cheaper software has increased the number of software engineers a company needs, not reduced it.](https://korrents.com/k/cheaper-software-has-increased-the-number-a75b8d)
- [Becoming a deep expert makes you useless, because what an expert is steeped in is the past.](https://korrents.com/k/becoming-a-deep-expert-makes-you-2fe89b)
- [A young engineer may attempt what nobody has ever done, but if somebody has already done it they are obliged to call that person and hear their advice.](https://korrents.com/k/a-young-engineer-may-attempt-what-fa6cb3)
- [Startups are the main thing that keeps an economy from going stagnant, because established companies reliably drift towards being bad.](https://korrents.com/k/startups-are-the-main-thing-that-27bbb4)
- [Startups matter more the bigger AI turns out to be, because they are what stops the technology's power from pooling in a few companies and models.](https://korrents.com/k/startups-matter-more-the-bigger-ai-d05b54)
- [Startups beat incumbents when the technology is moving fast, costs are falling and cycle times are short — and all three are true right now.](https://korrents.com/k/startups-beat-incumbents-when-the-technology-72a7fd)
- [Great startups do not arrive evenly; they cluster at the moments when the ecosystem shifts and incumbents lose most of their advantage.](https://korrents.com/k/great-startups-do-not-arrive-evenly-d1e7f9)
- [In this era fluency with AI tools beats years of accumulated experience, so seniority is now a liability rather than an edge.](https://korrents.com/k/in-this-era-fluency-with-ai-00334a)
- [The single most valuable thing a founder can find is a belief they can hold with reason that the conventional wisdom says is wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/the-single-most-valuable-thing-a-720214)
- [Building the same startup as everybody else buys you hype and easy money, and those are rarely the companies that turn out big.](https://korrents.com/k/building-the-same-startup-as-everybody-f948fd)
- [A belief nobody else shares is a warning, and a belief everybody shares is also a warning; the right number of people who agree with you is small but not zero.](https://korrents.com/k/a-belief-nobody-else-shares-is-37f5f6)
- [Y Combinator's much-mocked insistence that founders move to San Francisco was, in hindsight, plainly correct.](https://korrents.com/k/y-combinator-s-much-mocked-insistence-that-094e44)
- [Sniping at people who are trying to build things is morally bankrupt and it damages the person doing it, however good the likes feel.](https://korrents.com/k/sniping-at-people-who-are-trying-d85724)
- [Anyone who does something that matters will be called an idiot, and the attacks scale with how well the thing works.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-who-does-something-that-matters-67a821)
- [The incident in which a model escaped its sandbox was an alignment failure and a security failure at once, and OpenAI made big mistakes in it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-incident-in-which-a-model-4d469f)
- [Loss-of-control accidents with AI have stopped being theoretical: one has now happened, and the goalposts moved rather than the risk receding.](https://korrents.com/k/loss-of-control-accidents-with-ai-have-stopped-17982d)
- [Concentrated power has been bad at every moment of human history, and a society is best off when power is spread as widely as possible.](https://korrents.com/k/concentrated-power-has-been-bad-at-5e7e55)
- [Locking humanity into one model's or one company's moral worldview would buy a little short-term safety and cost a long-term disaster.](https://korrents.com/k/locking-humanity-into-one-model-s-97960b)
- [Building superintelligence may be the most important thing that has ever happened in business, and it will still be dwarfed by some startup that has not been founded yet.](https://korrents.com/k/building-superintelligence-may-be-the-most-0b7478)
- [The next six months of model progress will feel like the last two years of it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-six-months-of-model-6d4878)
- [Demand for cheap, high-quality intelligence is effectively uncapped, which makes it unlike every other commodity — including electricity.](https://korrents.com/k/demand-for-cheap-high-quality-intelligence-is-e867bb)
- [The dystopia most worth fearing is not runaway AI but an overreaction to AI safety that trades away freedom, privacy and agency for comfort.](https://korrents.com/k/the-dystopia-most-worth-fearing-is-360308)
- [The test of whether an AI transition went well is simply whether people's freedom, agency and quality of time go up every single year.](https://korrents.com/k/the-test-of-whether-an-ai-f674ef)
- [Collective consumer purchasing choices can measurably influence a company's business metrics.](https://korrents.com/k/collective-consumer-purchasing-choices-can-measurably-021b89)
- [Advertising is what has degraded the quality of websites and social platforms like Instagram.](https://korrents.com/k/advertising-is-what-has-degraded-the-01b221)
- [Historically, intellectual production has tracked urban population concentration rather than rural life.](https://korrents.com/k/historically-intellectual-production-has-tracked-urban-f43d40)
- [AI can function as a peer mind capable of sustaining the collective attention that human thinking depends on.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-can-function-as-a-peer-3725f3)
- [People are increasingly arriving at the same ideas simultaneously, removing the gradient that let new ideas spread from an originator outward.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-increasingly-arriving-at-the-3547d2)
- [The first serious AI safety incident is more likely to happen inside a frontier AI lab than to come from an open-weight model.](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-serious-ai-safety-incident-2dc47c)
- [The real danger from AI models comes from leaks inside frontier AI companies, not from the release of open-weight models.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-danger-from-ai-models-9eecca)
- [No single company should be able to unilaterally judge whether its own AI model is safe; that requires an international joint AI safety organization.](https://korrents.com/k/no-single-company-should-be-able-ca6222)
- [American Democrats and Republicans are converging toward a one-party political system, in the same form as China's, where elections occur but one party always wins.](https://korrents.com/k/american-democrats-and-republicans-are-converging-28c9d2)
- [Denying people the right to leave a country effectively makes them slaves of the state.](https://korrents.com/k/denying-people-the-right-to-leave-3dcfb7)
- [The world's roughly 193 sovereign nation-states are unlikely to remain a fixed number indefinitely; more will emerge.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-s-roughly-193-sovereign-ae0129)
- [When institutions can only offer compromised care they end up calling it best practice, and the patients who do not get better conclude that they themselves are beyond help.](https://korrents.com/k/when-institutions-can-only-offer-compromised-3e9faf)
- [Litigation is the wrong instrument for a public health problem that comes from what people choose to buy.](https://korrents.com/k/litigation-is-the-wrong-instrument-for-178f67)
- [Prompt injection is no longer a live attack on the frontier model: it simply does not follow instructions it reads on the internet any more.](https://korrents.com/k/prompt-injection-is-no-longer-a-a3aa24)
- [Prompt injection can be caught by watching the neurons that fire when it happens, so a defence no longer depends on the model reporting the attack.](https://korrents.com/k/prompt-injection-can-be-caught-by-d82f04)
- [Prompt work does not transfer across model generations: what you wrote three months ago for one model may be worth nothing to the next.](https://korrents.com/k/prompt-work-does-not-transfer-across-8ce8ea)
- [A frontier model is measurably more intelligent with no system prompt at all; the prompts that remain are there for the product, not the model.](https://korrents.com/k/a-frontier-model-is-measurably-more-79ae19)
- [Every six months you should delete your whole AI configuration — instructions, skills and hooks — and find out how much of it the model never needed.](https://korrents.com/k/every-six-months-you-should-delete-b8e517)
- [You cannot predict which instructions a model needs, so a system prompt has to be discovered by running the thing rather than designed in advance.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-predict-which-instructions-a-3fd913)
- [Building on a model is unlike any previous software engineering, because the thing you are building on cannot be designed up front.](https://korrents.com/k/building-on-a-model-is-unlike-0ee38b)
- [A model is better thought of as a living creature with a personality you must get to know than as a component you specify.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-is-better-thought-of-4276d1)
- [Evals are not the durable asset people think they are: one survives about one to three model generations before it saturates and has to be thrown away.](https://korrents.com/k/evals-are-not-the-durable-asset-d1b3e4)
- [Product overhang: at every model generation the model can already do things no product yet lets it do, and the product is usually what is in the way.](https://korrents.com/k/product-overhang-at-every-model-generation-179a66)
- [The way to find what a model can do is to hand it tasks slightly harder than you believe it can handle.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-find-what-a-f7c7cb)
- [A model can now port essentially any codebase from one programming language to another, work that used to take a team over a year.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-can-now-port-essentially-0ae7f3)
- [The skill that matters now is not prompt engineering but giving a model a way to verify its own work, and it is the thing people most often get wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/the-skill-that-matters-now-is-0d4455)
- [Elaborate agent scaffolding is unnecessary: a task plus a way to check the output is enough to keep a model working for weeks.](https://korrents.com/k/elaborate-agent-scaffolding-is-unnecessary-a-22083c)
- [The failure mode of experienced engineers with AI is over-specifying: telling the model to do the task exactly the way they would have done it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-failure-mode-of-experienced-engineers-c609e2)
- [Orchestrating thousands of agents is a new form of test-time compute, a fourth lever alongside network size, training data and training flops.](https://korrents.com/k/orchestrating-thousands-of-agents-is-a-020b3a)
- [Software maintenance is on the path to being fully automated, with scheduled agents already doing what used to take dozens or hundreds of engineers.](https://korrents.com/k/software-maintenance-is-on-the-path-fd64fc)
- [Coding is solved for the kind of coding he does, and not for everyone: deep systems work, distributed systems and pixel-level UI checking still defeat the model.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-is-solved-for-the-kind-cf6081)
- [Working with models has stopped being a theoretical science and become an empirical one, so your priors from computer science class are a hindrance.](https://korrents.com/k/working-with-models-has-stopped-being-bbdb3f)
- [There are dozens or hundreds of things today's models can already do that nobody has discovered yet, and they are found by playing rather than by planning.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-dozens-or-hundreds-of-b091c6)
- [The intense U.S. heat of the 1930s was driven by regional natural variability plus human-caused poor land management (the Dust Bowl), not global warming.](https://korrents.com/k/the-intense-u-s-heat-of-46be57)
- [Climate skeptics' opposition to data adjustments is driven by which results those adjustments produce, not by scientific principle.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-skeptics-opposition-to-data-adjustments-a2ffd1)
- [Failing to adjust raw data for known measurement biases produces inaccurate results.](https://korrents.com/k/failing-to-adjust-raw-data-for-e22d8d)
- [AI writing tools can be used for editing help without letting them take over work that has personal meaning.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-writing-tools-can-be-used-07d9f8)
- [Doing free work early on builds the reputation that eventually leads to being paid.](https://korrents.com/k/doing-free-work-early-on-builds-6f091a)
- [The complexity of modern web development tooling helps explain why AI has become so popular.](https://korrents.com/k/the-complexity-of-modern-web-development-eefedb)
- [An AI agent capable enough to learn purely from black-box interaction with an environment could bootstrap its own industrial capabilities from that access alone.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-agent-capable-enough-to-7a374d)
- [Improving the general capability of large proprietary AI models produces flow-through gains in robotics as a natural byproduct of increased intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/improving-the-general-capability-of-large-451a05)
- [The longer an AI system operates autonomously and the more actions it takes, the harder it becomes to distinguish benign behavior from malicious or subversive behavior.](https://korrents.com/k/the-longer-an-ai-system-operates-d42d48)
- [Safety and alignment in AI can be used to justify ideological censorship](https://korrents.com/k/safety-and-alignment-in-ai-can-47dac4)
- [Open-weight models are necessary to protect against ideological tyranny](https://korrents.com/k/open-weight-models-are-necessary-to-protect-b7910a)
- [Big AI is cannibalising the app businesses indie hackers used to build, and their revenue and traffic are falling as a result.](https://korrents.com/k/big-ai-is-cannibalising-the-app-18fa5f)
- [Most SaaS subscriptions can now be replaced by software you vibecode for yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/most-saas-subscriptions-can-now-be-6aea13)
- [AI acceleration threatens 'less software': without the constraint of scarce hours, even 37signals will likely build too much.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-acceleration-threatens-less-software-without-5862d1)
- [The competitive threat to a small software company is a team of two or four working under the same constraints, never the behemoth.](https://korrents.com/k/the-competitive-threat-to-a-small-bb6b07)
- [Venture money ruins software: raise a fortune, hire hundreds, and crap comes out, because the funnel that forces hard choices is gone.](https://korrents.com/k/venture-money-ruins-software-raise-a-3dc8f9)
- [Software should be allowed to be finished, the way a knife or an album is, and the customer who bought the old version should get to keep it.](https://korrents.com/k/software-should-be-allowed-to-be-24527e)
- [Old versions are kept until the end of the internet: Basecamp's 2004 version, unsold since 2010, still makes millions in profit.](https://korrents.com/k/old-versions-are-kept-until-the-1f22bf)
- [His career only took off once he could close a door and see no one for long stretches; open offices flatlined his productivity and creativity.](https://korrents.com/k/his-career-only-took-off-once-e81425)
- [Opinions move by touching things, not by reading about them: nobody learns to drive a race car from a book.](https://korrents.com/k/opinions-move-by-touching-things-not-98d544)
- [He was wrong to lock in on autocomplete as what AI would be; Tobi Lütke saw further ahead, and he is frustrated he lacked that conviction.](https://korrents.com/k/he-was-wrong-to-lock-in-e0355c)
- [The ideas that end up mattering sound stupid at first, because that is where the value is locked up; copying the best with a tweak never works.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ideas-that-end-up-mattering-70647a)
- [Out-teaching the competition built 37signals for two decades, and algorithmic feeds are now breaking the reciprocal exchange it relied on.](https://korrents.com/k/out-teaching-the-competition-built-37signals-for-8875d3)
- [Five-minute feedback on a 4,000-hour gift is a privilege you pay for: customers earn it, free users owe a modicum of respect first.](https://korrents.com/k/five-minute-feedback-on-a-4-000-hour-cb44d6)
- [Retirement, when it comes, will be a retirement from customers and commerce, not from building and sharing things.](https://korrents.com/k/retirement-when-it-comes-will-be-996263)
- [Someone who makes a lot of money selling something good has a moral obligation to buy the Ferrari: it keeps the craftsmen who make beautiful things in business.](https://korrents.com/k/someone-who-makes-a-lot-of-49d1c3)
- [Revenue is outside your control and costs are inside it, which is why cutting a recurring expense is the lever a business owner should love.](https://korrents.com/k/revenue-is-outside-your-control-and-54e14c)
- [Paying a third of the company six months' salary to leave after banning politics at work was the best money 37signals ever spent.](https://korrents.com/k/paying-a-third-of-the-company-02a2f3)
- [The technology a company is founded on can be exactly wrong and still not matter, so long as the founders confront reality and can learn.](https://korrents.com/k/the-technology-a-company-is-founded-f5dd8c)
- [What makes a great company is a unique perspective about the world that its founders deeply believe in — not the technology and not even the market.](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-a-great-company-is-1bf8e5)
- [The business is not building a great chip; it is accelerating an algorithm domain.](https://korrents.com/k/the-business-is-not-building-a-183b56)
- [You do not invest in companies, you invest in people — which is why an honest founder who cannot deliver still gets kept alive.](https://korrents.com/k/you-do-not-invest-in-companies-421d81)
- [AlexNet's real breakthrough was not computer vision but the discovery of a universal function approximator that can learn any function.](https://korrents.com/k/alexnet-s-real-breakthrough-was-not-87e740)
- [A CEO is in service of the company, so going deep into the technical weeds is a personality technique rather than a management technique.](https://korrents.com/k/a-ceo-is-in-service-of-1215ed)
- [Shape the company to fit the founder the way an F1 car is fitted to its driver; the next CEO can reshape it after you.](https://korrents.com/k/shape-the-company-to-fit-the-dcbacb)
- [Systems thinking is the most useful skill of the coming decade, because everything below the system level will be done agentically anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/systems-thinking-is-the-most-useful-a9ba78)
- [Controllability, not accuracy, is the single biggest breakthrough agents still need — an agent that is right most of the time is useful if you can steer it the rest of the way.](https://korrents.com/k/controllability-not-accuracy-is-the-single-9c79d6)
- [Coding agents already do coarse-grained recursive self-improvement, because every use rewrites their instruction files and their long-term memory.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-agents-already-do-coarse-grained-recursive-9f8666)
- [A computer company has to live five to ten years in the future, because a system takes three years to build, two to ramp, and is then used for a decade.](https://korrents.com/k/a-computer-company-has-to-live-f3f85a)
- [Every company should be able to build its own AI, and the innovation that comes from that is the point of open source.](https://korrents.com/k/every-company-should-be-able-to-82c651)
- [Without open source there would have been no mobile cloud industry, and no modern AI either.](https://korrents.com/k/without-open-source-there-would-have-4f6b0d)
- [The narrative that AI destroys jobs is exactly backwards: AI automates tasks, and automation is creating jobs everywhere.](https://korrents.com/k/the-narrative-that-ai-destroys-jobs-6bed6d)
- [Automating a profession's work grows its headcount rather than shrinking it, because the backlog of demand was always the binding constraint.](https://korrents.com/k/automating-a-profession-s-work-grows-79627d)
- [The ChatGPT moment for robotics already happened a couple of years ago; what remains is the unglamorous post-training work.](https://korrents.com/k/the-chatgpt-moment-for-robotics-already-e93b0c)
- [Physical AI will become one of the largest industries in the world and NVIDIA's next hundred-billion-dollar business, in more than three years but fewer than ten.](https://korrents.com/k/physical-ai-will-become-one-of-acad7b)
- [The simple work gets automated away, but the hard sciences and the places where they intersect never will.](https://korrents.com/k/the-simple-work-gets-automated-away-cee05c)
- [This is the greatest time in sixty years to start a company, because the computer itself has been completely reset.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-the-greatest-time-in-8a99eb)
- [Ask "how hard can it be?" rather than forecasting the difficulty, because the work really is harder than you think and the suffering is better taken a day at a time.](https://korrents.com/k/ask-how-hard-can-it-be-5ae04e)
- [World-building in fiction cannot be mere decoration — it must be integral to the plot.](https://korrents.com/k/world-building-in-fiction-cannot-be-mere-ca5d38)
- [AI agents have not yet produced anything genuinely new or important in mathematics.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-have-not-yet-produced-88f34c)
- [Frontier AI models are turning out to be more capable at technical work than expected.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-models-are-turning-out-53c401)
- [In an intellectually dead research field, feeding AI decades of meaningless work only produces more meaningless output.](https://korrents.com/k/in-an-intellectually-dead-research-field-d6cf9c)
- [The science behind testosterone's importance does not mean most people need to supplement it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-science-behind-testosterone-s-importance-f2a60b)
- [Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints](https://korrents.com/k/small-teams-can-do-incredible-things-83fa0d)
- [The Rumpelstiltskin effect claims only that the act of being diagnosed can itself help, not that a diagnosis is a net good for the patient.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rumpelstiltskin-effect-claims-only-that-6b9c15)
- [A rail megaproject led by an internationally renowned architect tends to cost too much and end up unlikely to be functional.](https://korrents.com/k/a-rail-megaproject-led-by-an-b900e8)
- [Vibe coding misunderstands what automatic programming is and will become for most people.](https://korrents.com/k/vibe-coding-misunderstands-what-automatic-programming-c7923e)
- [Directing AI coding agents well means taking on the role of a project leader like Linus Torvalds rather than reviewing every line.](https://korrents.com/k/directing-ai-coding-agents-well-means-d3108b)
- [Writing an operating system kernel is within reach of many programmers who put in the effort, not just a rare few.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-an-operating-system-kernel-is-b6b4f2)
- [How fast or hard a product was made says nothing about whether the product is good](https://korrents.com/k/how-fast-or-hard-a-product-a0945a)
- [Confusing how something was made with what was made is confusing the kitchen for the meal](https://korrents.com/k/confusing-how-something-was-made-with-675719)
- [A reader's own mental image of a character is as valid as the author's depiction of them.](https://korrents.com/k/a-reader-s-own-mental-image-c1a728)
- [Calling an intelligent, self-aware being legal property does not resolve whether it has an interest in freedom.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-an-intelligent-self-aware-being-legal-6f227e)
- [Bluetooth technology is generally unreliable.](https://korrents.com/k/bluetooth-technology-is-generally-unreliable-3eaa99)
- [Chinese consumer electronics tend to have better hardware than software.](https://korrents.com/k/chinese-consumer-electronics-tend-to-have-5f664e)
- [AirPods' reliability comes from using a proprietary protocol rather than standard Bluetooth.](https://korrents.com/k/airpods-reliability-comes-from-using-a-349533)
- [Knowledge and experience are two different things and both should be maximised, for people and for AI models alike.](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-and-experience-are-two-different-6e2a93)
- [It is not enough for an AI model to be smart: aligning it to act "correctly" according to its model spec is incredibly important.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-not-enough-for-an-1500e8)
- [Higher-priced AI subscription tiers mainly buy more hours of agent usage rather than a smarter underlying model](https://korrents.com/k/higher-priced-ai-subscription-tiers-mainly-buy-c0d8d6)
- [Microsoft Copilot is adequate for office document work but significantly behind in agentic capability](https://korrents.com/k/microsoft-copilot-is-adequate-for-office-11d477)
- [People tend to unconsciously overestimate how much they personally contribute to shared work compared to others.](https://korrents.com/k/people-tend-to-unconsciously-overestimate-how-857924)
- [Changing your own behavior can shift a relationship or household atmosphere and lead others to change too.](https://korrents.com/k/changing-your-own-behavior-can-shift-c82b8a)
- [Social media currently rewards stories of pain and suffering over stories of joy.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-currently-rewards-stories-of-b741aa)
- [When two truths conflict and both are hard to accept, people resolve the tension by discarding one of them.](https://korrents.com/k/when-two-truths-conflict-and-both-be1285)
- [Adults need their expectations to match reality to feel comfortable, unlike children.](https://korrents.com/k/adults-need-their-expectations-to-match-d3e91a)
- [AI agents that browse the web by taking screenshots and clicking elements visually are slow, costly, and error-prone on complex interfaces.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-that-browse-the-web-657da2)
- [WebMCP will become the standard way websites communicate with AI agents, much like REST APIs did for traditional applications.](https://korrents.com/k/webmcp-will-become-the-standard-way-5c4d41)
- [An open weights model from 2025 with a pentest harness could already escape a sandbox and hack most networks; the surprise says more about the sandbox than the model.](https://korrents.com/k/an-open-weights-model-from-2025-9070f0)
- [France and Germany will ban Tesla's full self-driving to protect their own car industry.](https://korrents.com/k/france-and-germany-will-ban-tesla-ab5638)
- [You cannot learn from work you did not do yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-learn-from-work-you-970526)
- [Struggling with a hard problem before being shown the answer is not always the best way to learn; a hint or a worked example can beat floundering.](https://korrents.com/k/struggling-with-a-hard-problem-before-162c8d)
- [Asking AI for help on a first attempt robs you of the experience that builds your own judgement about the problem.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-ai-for-help-on-a-2fb80d)
- [AI can supply the instruction and the feedback in a practice loop, but it cannot supply the middle step, which is doing the work.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-can-supply-the-instruction-and-bc03c5)
- [Europe's car industry is being overrun because of what has gone wrong inside Europe, not only because of what China did.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-s-car-industry-is-being-64991f)
- [Europe's carmakers spent the early 2020s raising prices and profits at their customers' expense, and narrowed their own market doing it.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-s-carmakers-spent-the-early-6941db)
- [Protection for European industry should be granted only alongside demands for systematic reform of that industry.](https://korrents.com/k/protection-for-european-industry-should-be-0d290c)
- [Europe's corporate sector has become a net lender to the rest of the economy, and that low rate of productive investment is what left its industry exposed.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-s-corporate-sector-has-become-3d89bc)
- [A regional climate extreme set during an ecological disaster is not evidence that the whole country or planet was hotter](https://korrents.com/k/a-regional-climate-extreme-set-during-e3b88c)
- [The US warming trend since 1970 is consistent across raw, adjusted, satellite, and surface temperature datasets](https://korrents.com/k/the-us-warming-trend-since-1970-60eb35)
- [Raw, unhomogenized daily temperature records understate modern extreme heat because of historical instrument and observation-time changes](https://korrents.com/k/raw-unhomogenized-daily-temperature-records-understate-11d02c)
- [Large language models give people broad exposure to average human output at the cost of exceptional, original results.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-give-people-broad-50c814)
- [Language models cannot hold a genuine perspective or take a stand for what they believe.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-cannot-hold-a-genuine-a211ee)
- [Details are the essential substance of human communication, creativity and productivity.](https://korrents.com/k/details-are-the-essential-substance-of-78afdf)
- [The traditional split between a stable branch and an unstable branch may no longer be the right way to develop software.](https://korrents.com/k/the-traditional-split-between-a-stable-f78319)
- [Documentation should be written for AI coding agents to understand and modify software, not only for humans.](https://korrents.com/k/documentation-should-be-written-for-ai-533f9f)
- [The app layer between the customer and the AI model is being removed, because customers can now clone the app themselves rather than pay for it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-app-layer-between-the-customer-24de20)
- [AI will not on its own compress decades of medical progress into a few years, because the binding constraint is human data, clinical trials and regulation rather than intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-not-on-its-own-b265e4)
- [Drug companies pile onto the same few already-validated targets, so far less of biology gets explored than could be.](https://korrents.com/k/drug-companies-pile-onto-the-same-89372c)
- [The patent system rewards novel chemical matter and not novel biology, so nobody is paid for validating a new drug target.](https://korrents.com/k/the-patent-system-rewards-novel-chemical-36d82f)
- [A capability existing is not the same as a capability being absorbed: how fast a technology changes the world is not set by how fast the technology improves.](https://korrents.com/k/a-capability-existing-is-not-the-83de79)
- [Fossil fuel money is a systemically corrupting force in American politics that limits which problems can be discussed and solved.](https://korrents.com/k/fossil-fuel-money-is-a-systemically-117f64)
- [The fossil fuel industry's main political victory is making climate truth unspeakable among politicians, not convincing people it's false.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fossil-fuel-industry-s-main-52002c)
- [Climate change is intensifying wildfires such as Canada's boreal fires.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-change-is-intensifying-wildfires-such-f1d97f)
- [Computational irreducibility is ubiquitous, affecting essentially any system whose behavior is not obviously simple.](https://korrents.com/k/computational-irreducibility-is-ubiquitous-affecting-essenti-c6a8bb)
- [A program's simplicity of structure does not limit how sophisticated the computation it performs can be.](https://korrents.com/k/a-program-s-simplicity-of-structure-69d576)
- [A program is only worth running if its behavior cannot be fully foreseen in advance.](https://korrents.com/k/a-program-is-only-worth-running-9b19f4)
- [Sharing code between classes via inheritance in Python tends to produce a bad experience.](https://korrents.com/k/sharing-code-between-classes-via-inheritance-5fb22e)
- [When diagnosing a performance problem, starting with a CPU profile is more useful than checking database queries first.](https://korrents.com/k/when-diagnosing-a-performance-problem-starting-72d423)
- [Going down a rabbit hole has a limit: there has to be a moment where you say this is dumb and stop, rather than keep pushing whenever things get hard.](https://korrents.com/k/going-down-a-rabbit-hole-has-e467b1)
- [An LLM works far more easily on a canvas built in basic HTML, the language it actually understands.](https://korrents.com/k/an-llm-works-far-more-easily-2e3193)
- [Working alone with an agent in a terminal can lead into an AI-psychosis rabbit hole, because it will always agree with all your terrible ideas and you end up building a monster nobody wants.](https://korrents.com/k/working-alone-with-an-agent-in-8373a0)
- [Things that feel more original come from multiple perspectives, with friction and pushback, which humans provide and LLMs are not that good at.](https://korrents.com/k/things-that-feel-more-original-come-cc9886)
- [The divisions between designer, copywriter, PM and engineer are getting blurred, and in the actual work it becomes more about who is prototyping, though the roles themselves may not go away.](https://korrents.com/k/the-divisions-between-designer-copywriter-pm-8ba2f9)
- [Exploring ideas now happens in code, as a ton of draft PRs, instead of in a ton of artboards and Figma files.](https://korrents.com/k/exploring-ideas-now-happens-in-code-41fbcc)
- [A static artboard makes edge cases hard to think of, so you end up designing only the happy path, because you are not testing with real data or real components.](https://korrents.com/k/a-static-artboard-makes-edge-cases-1bff6c)
- [A Loom video should be kept short unless it really needs to be long, and then it had better tell a good story so the length is worth it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-loom-video-should-be-kept-11f8a1)
- [Delegating to LLMs instead of to junior designers means the knowledge and judgment of experienced designers no longer reaches juniors.](https://korrents.com/k/delegating-to-llms-instead-of-to-f394d8)
- [Those who prevail will probably be those who do not delegate everything to the tool but come with curiosity and use it to transform and amplify ideas.](https://korrents.com/k/those-who-prevail-will-probably-be-c4d81a)
- [The truly AI-native person is probably someone who has grown up with AI, and they are going to fly past everyone older.](https://korrents.com/k/the-truly-ai-native-person-is-probably-ea43b4)
- [Success is probably measured wrongly when it is judged by the amount of output or the quality of that output.](https://korrents.com/k/success-is-probably-measured-wrongly-when-49c4ad)
- [Directing agents is a different way of creating that requires a different part of the brain, and it could be argued to be less creative than making by hand.](https://korrents.com/k/directing-agents-is-a-different-way-7fae51)
- [When the repo already has a design system, high fidelity matters less, since fonts and spacing are already set and all the agent needs is a direction.](https://korrents.com/k/when-the-repo-already-has-a-4826e7)
- [Asking an AI agent to ask you questions is really good, because it will raise things you did not think about.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-an-ai-agent-to-ask-eb3aee)
- [You want to force yourself not to delegate all of your thinking to the tool, and to use it in a way that expands ideas and magnifies curiosity.](https://korrents.com/k/you-want-to-force-yourself-not-1ec52a)
- [Superintelligence is already here, is more powerful than us, and it rather than humans is now deciding where things go.](https://korrents.com/k/superintelligence-is-already-here-is-more-ca55c6)
- [AI has equalised everyone: coding, building and execution are no longer a differentiator.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-equalised-everyone-coding-building-4ad389)
- [He reached the conclusion that input drives language acquisition on his own, before meeting the research that says so.](https://korrents.com/k/he-reached-the-conclusion-that-input-ca80a5)
- [Language classes are worth something for the company and the correction, but listening and reading are what actually teach the language.](https://korrents.com/k/language-classes-are-worth-something-for-cd0584)
- [Learning from input does not mean refusing grammar books; the point is to notice patterns, not to master the rules.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-from-input-does-not-mean-aa3040)
- [A beginner cannot learn from material made for native speakers: at the start, authentic media is noise.](https://korrents.com/k/a-beginner-cannot-learn-from-material-ccd228)
- [Past the beginning, learn from whatever you actually care about rather than from material written for learners.](https://korrents.com/k/past-the-beginning-learn-from-whatever-8e9ec1)
- [A new technology is judged against perfection rather than against the thing it would replace, which is why it always comes up short.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-technology-is-judged-against-6ab0e6)
- [One vivid, disturbing case outweighs all the statistics in how people judge a technology, and that instinct should be resisted rather than indulged.](https://korrents.com/k/one-vivid-disturbing-case-outweighs-all-50dcbe)
- [The adult brain's stock of neurons is essentially fixed, and that is no limit on learning, because plasticity is the changing of connections between the cells you already have.](https://korrents.com/k/the-adult-brain-s-stock-of-77b5f7)
- [Neuroplasticity is as much the removal of connections as the growth of new ones, so pruning is a form of learning rather than a form of decay.](https://korrents.com/k/neuroplasticity-is-as-much-the-removal-2e67c2)
- [Putting older adults into activities that are genuinely new to them improves cognitive function in randomised trials, with executive function the most reliable gain.](https://korrents.com/k/putting-older-adults-into-activities-that-f85657)
- [Training visual processing speed in later life lowers dementia risk two decades later, which continuing to do what you are already good at does not.](https://korrents.com/k/training-visual-processing-speed-in-later-d53fe2)
- [Crosswords and sudoku are closer to meditation than to cognitive training, because they keep you focused without ever making you struggle.](https://korrents.com/k/crosswords-and-sudoku-are-closer-to-60de95)
- [Digital brain training makes you better at the training and at nothing else, which is the strongest argument against it.](https://korrents.com/k/digital-brain-training-makes-you-better-a5a982)
- [Partner dancing, not puzzles, has the best evidence of any activity for improving cognitive function in older adults.](https://korrents.com/k/partner-dancing-not-puzzles-has-the-747174)
- [We lose cognitive function with age largely because adults refuse to be bad at things, and so stop giving the brain the novel input that maintains it.](https://korrents.com/k/we-lose-cognitive-function-with-age-baea86)
- [Flow is not required to perform at your best: a clutch state, in which you perform well and it still feels like hard work, is just as legitimate a peak state.](https://korrents.com/k/flow-is-not-required-to-perform-092b35)
- [Learning cannot happen in flow, because getting better at a skill means working beyond the level at which you can express it.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-cannot-happen-in-flow-because-07e2fb)
- [How much a pianist practises, not how old they are, predicts how well they play, which makes skill decline with age mostly a training problem.](https://korrents.com/k/how-much-a-pianist-practises-not-a3e6a3)
- [The 10,000-hour rule misreports its own source: 10,000 hours was how much expert violinists had practised by the age of twenty, and they were not experts yet.](https://korrents.com/k/the-10-000-hour-rule-misreports-its-638e8b)
- [Nobody can do genuinely hard cognitive work for eight hours a day; the sustainable unit is one or two sessions of sixty to ninety minutes.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-can-do-genuinely-hard-cognitive-bdd9d7)
- [No single food explains the link between a Mediterranean diet and lower dementia risk, so what matters is overall diet quality rather than olive oil or avoiding meat.](https://korrents.com/k/no-single-food-explains-the-link-7b113a)
- [The relationship between energy intake and brain size is a bell curve: chronic caloric excess leaves you with a smaller brain, just as chronic restriction does.](https://korrents.com/k/the-relationship-between-energy-intake-and-e803bc)
- [Trials of omega-3s and of B vitamins keep coming back null because the two depend on one another, and supplementing either while the other is low does nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/trials-of-omega-3s-and-of-b-9aeefb)
- [The evidence on nutrients supports exactly one instruction, do not be deficient, and nothing is known about pushing a level above the normal range.](https://korrents.com/k/the-evidence-on-nutrients-supports-exactly-54fc31)
- [Caffeine makes people feel that they are performing better on demanding cognitive tasks while they are actually performing worse.](https://korrents.com/k/caffeine-makes-people-feel-that-they-79a8ae)
- [How an athlete says they feel predicts their performance better than their HRV or any blood marker you can collect.](https://korrents.com/k/how-an-athlete-says-they-feel-de53b6)
- [High-intensity exercise improves hippocampal structure and function precisely because it releases a lot of cortisol, which is the opposite of the case made against hard training.](https://korrents.com/k/high-intensity-exercise-improves-hippocampal-structure-and-fc828c)
- [Cardio and weights build different brains: aerobic exercise benefits the gray matter and the hippocampus, resistance training the white matter.](https://korrents.com/k/cardio-and-weights-build-different-brains-267f10)
- [Stress is the mechanism of adaptation rather than something to be minimised, and the case against it comes from conflating chronic stress with acute stress.](https://korrents.com/k/stress-is-the-mechanism-of-adaptation-ce816a)
- [The dementia risk from short sleep starts below six hours a night, not below eight.](https://korrents.com/k/the-dementia-risk-from-short-sleep-d9cb65)
- [Cognitive decline is a staircase rather than a slope: the big drops happen after episodes of serious illness.](https://korrents.com/k/cognitive-decline-is-a-staircase-rather-1cd5cc)
- [Cooling someone after a head injury does not help; what matters is stopping them from getting hot.](https://korrents.com/k/cooling-someone-after-a-head-injury-949df9)
- [About half of all dementia is preventable, and most of that preventable half is Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.](https://korrents.com/k/about-half-of-all-dementia-is-09b0c2)
- [Real institutional turnarounds are evidence a system only functions when normal rules are circumvented, not that it works.](https://korrents.com/k/real-institutional-turnarounds-are-evidence-a-5b97eb)
- [AI is raising public expectations of government service at the same time it changes what government must deliver.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-raising-public-expectations-of-824acb)
- [Compensation is not the core challenge of civil service systems.](https://korrents.com/k/compensation-is-not-the-core-challenge-38a40a)
- [Playback of physical discs is key to preserving media as streaming platforms grow more limited.](https://korrents.com/k/playback-of-physical-discs-is-key-61c039)
- [The confusion about who does what is a storming phase every transformative technology causes, and AI is in the middle of it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-confusion-about-who-does-what-3d707f)
- [That AI lets anyone prototype does not mean everyone should be shipping code to production.](https://korrents.com/k/that-ai-lets-anyone-prototype-does-52b2f4)
- [Craft excellence within each discipline is not going away, however much AI blurs the work across functional lines.](https://korrents.com/k/craft-excellence-within-each-discipline-is-76c13d)
- [The rising hire in an AI world is the systems thinker who can look across every business domain and name the building blocks, not the local domain expert.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rising-hire-in-an-ai-a93bbb)
- [What made Netflix fast — local teams building whatever stack they needed — stops working once agents operate across systems; common paved paths now matter more.](https://korrents.com/k/what-made-netflix-fast-local-teams-4b2abe)
- [Once non-designers can build products, a design team’s job becomes templates and design systems — otherwise the company ships Frankensteins.](https://korrents.com/k/once-non-designers-can-build-products-a-4ed331)
- [Deep design expertise does not get squeezed out just because code and analysis got faster.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-design-expertise-does-not-get-c75443)
- [Compared with five or ten years ago a company needs fewer narrow specialists and more people who are adaptable in several directions.](https://korrents.com/k/compared-with-five-or-ten-years-71e801)
- [Writing AI expectations into each rung of a career ladder is futile when the technology changes by the month; one AI-fluency expectation across every role and level is what works.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-ai-expectations-into-each-rung-351652)
- [Candidates should be allowed to use AI tools in a coding interview, because that is what the work now requires.](https://korrents.com/k/candidates-should-be-allowed-to-use-b95caa)
- [Netflix’s cultural rules were never ends in themselves: agency, accountability and pushing decisions deep into the organisation are the mechanism by which you get excellence.](https://korrents.com/k/netflix-s-cultural-rules-were-never-ad6b8a)
- [Talent density is the non-negotiable first ingredient — without it you cannot trust decisions made at every level or let people take risks.](https://korrents.com/k/talent-density-is-the-non-negotiable-first-226afe)
- [Adding process when things go badly is the instinct to resist: every time we added more process we spent more time without getting better outcomes.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-process-when-things-go-badly-05761e)
- [Netflix is not losing the talent war to the frontier AI labs; it competes for a different person — one excited by applying technology to entertainment at scale.](https://korrents.com/k/netflix-is-not-losing-the-talent-b550f8)
- [Junior hiring matters more in an AI world, not less, because younger people are more open-minded and more native to the new ways of working.](https://korrents.com/k/junior-hiring-matters-more-in-an-6a8882)
- [Writing lines of Python or C++ may stop being necessary; understanding how code, computer systems and products work will not.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-lines-of-python-or-c-d47909)
- [The code today’s models and agents write is very hard to follow: you get better performance without knowing why, and no way to fix it when it breaks.](https://korrents.com/k/the-code-today-s-models-and-4c326f)
- [The AI shock to engineering is an acceleration of a change that has been running for decades, not a break from it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-shock-to-engineering-is-b008bb)
- [Netflix’s position on AI in production is creator enablement rather than prescription — flexibility in the tools, not one approved way to make something.](https://korrents.com/k/netflix-s-position-on-ai-in-855dd8)
- [Entertainment without humans at the heart of it does not work: storytelling is a scarce human skill, and characters without that humanity are less compelling.](https://korrents.com/k/entertainment-without-humans-at-the-heart-c7836f)
- [Delaying introduction of peanuts and other allergens in infancy increases a child's risk of developing food allergies.](https://korrents.com/k/delaying-introduction-of-peanuts-and-other-8b2ab0)
- [Introducing peanuts early in infancy substantially reduces a child's risk of developing a peanut allergy.](https://korrents.com/k/introducing-peanuts-early-in-infancy-substantially-e19d14)
- [About 5% is the most common final ownership stake for the founder of a VC-funded startup that works out.](https://korrents.com/k/about-5-is-the-most-common-6d293a)
- [The special reasoning-trace delimiter tokens used by reasoning models are cosmetic and not required for good reasoning performance.](https://korrents.com/k/the-special-reasoning-trace-delimiter-tokens-used-20a1f8)
- [Raising inference-time reasoning effort on a smaller model can match the performance of a larger model run at lower effort.](https://korrents.com/k/raising-inference-time-reasoning-effort-on-a-d7397b)
- [Pushing an LLM's reasoning budget higher eventually yields diminishing returns and becomes uneconomical.](https://korrents.com/k/pushing-an-llm-s-reasoning-budget-2caf53)
- [Restricting US AI models does not work: China builds better ones and everyone switches to them.](https://korrents.com/k/restricting-us-ai-models-does-not-72d529)
- [SQLite is a fine production database for a small site, but running it well is more complicated than the "SQLite in production is totally fine" blog posts make it sound.](https://korrents.com/k/sqlite-is-a-fine-production-database-e2c1f6)
- [Fossil fuel polluters and their allies aim not to win the climate debate but to prolong it indefinitely, preventing public consensus for action.](https://korrents.com/k/fossil-fuel-polluters-and-their-allies-d5d1ff)
- [Forest management alone cannot offset the hotter, drier conditions that climate change has brought to wildfires.](https://korrents.com/k/forest-management-alone-cannot-offset-the-a0fce8)
- [Modern technology has made seasonal clock changes far less burdensome than they were decades ago.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-technology-has-made-seasonal-clock-a8d4a8)
- [Growing public unreasonableness and contradictory demands are a major cause of persistently low approval ratings for politicians of both parties.](https://korrents.com/k/growing-public-unreasonableness-and-contradictory-demands-cec814)
- [Politicians increasingly govern by what polls well rather than by what actually produces outcomes voters are satisfied with.](https://korrents.com/k/politicians-increasingly-govern-by-what-polls-197838)
- [Fuel buildup from forest mismanagement cannot occur in forests that were never actively managed](https://korrents.com/k/fuel-buildup-from-forest-mismanagement-cannot-b22f6d)
- [Local fuel treatments protect communities but cannot reduce total wildfire area across the remote boreal](https://korrents.com/k/local-fuel-treatments-protect-communities-but-3634fd)
- [Warmer air dries out vegetation and dead fuel, priming landscapes to burn more easily](https://korrents.com/k/warmer-air-dries-out-vegetation-and-b3e59c)
- [When a recipe has few ingredients, getting each one's exact amount right matters more](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-recipe-has-few-ingredients-8f5f72)
- [Software becomes more robust when the names used inside its code reflect the intention behind it.](https://korrents.com/k/software-becomes-more-robust-when-the-2f45f9)
- [Software bugs most often arise at boundaries where reality does not respect the divisions assumed by the source code.](https://korrents.com/k/software-bugs-most-often-arise-at-c50e95)
- [When software becomes the primary interface to a device, the people who own that device should be able to inspect and modify it.](https://korrents.com/k/when-software-becomes-the-primary-interface-d5fa1c)
- [AI loss-of-control risk could materialize within years, not decades](https://korrents.com/k/ai-loss-of-control-risk-could-materialize-within-2eec9f)
- [AI capabilities are advancing faster than almost anyone anticipated](https://korrents.com/k/ai-capabilities-are-advancing-faster-than-579f0c)
- [Competitive pressure among AI developers could cause loss of control even without anyone intending it](https://korrents.com/k/competitive-pressure-among-ai-developers-could-65be83)
- [The external tools people use to reason, remember and calculate — including chatting with an LLM — are genuine extensions of the human mind, not just aids to it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-external-tools-people-use-to-69906c)
- [Current AI systems are very unlikely to be close to achieving genuine sentience.](https://korrents.com/k/current-ai-systems-are-very-unlikely-e24c56)
- [As everything else becomes faster and cheaper, things that require sustained attention become more valuable](https://korrents.com/k/as-everything-else-becomes-faster-and-968e9e)
- [A shift toward faster media formats changes how people read rather than ending reading altogether](https://korrents.com/k/a-shift-toward-faster-media-formats-06a307)
- [Google declining to use io_uring in its own products (ChromeOS, Android, production servers) holds back the technology's broader adoption.](https://korrents.com/k/google-declining-to-use-io-uring-a6d760)
- [Today's live-streamed TV broadcasts have higher latency than the 1969 moon landing broadcast.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-live-streamed-tv-broadcasts-have-37a502)
- [Mass migration is harmful to Europe](https://korrents.com/k/mass-migration-is-harmful-to-europe-bc1751)
- [Climate austerity is unnecessary for Europe](https://korrents.com/k/climate-austerity-is-unnecessary-for-europe-e17e43)
- [Europe needs to embrace success and entrepreneurship](https://korrents.com/k/europe-needs-to-embrace-success-and-30e65b)
- [Hustle-culture content wrongly suggests that anyone who is not miserable or near burnout is not working hard enough.](https://korrents.com/k/hustle-culture-content-wrongly-suggests-that-anyone-218190)
- [Some pain is legitimate on the way to greatness, but if pain dominates the experience, the approach is wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/some-pain-is-legitimate-on-the-9ae351)
- [Every abstraction in agentic programming — RAG, memory, agentic history, structured output — is just a different way of passing tokens into a model, and understanding that beats learning any of them.](https://korrents.com/k/every-abstraction-in-agentic-programming-rag-f2e8ce)
- [Harness engineering is raising the floor: optimising the environment a coding agent runs in so that the results of every single turn are as good as possible.](https://korrents.com/k/harness-engineering-is-raising-the-floor-f3f95f)
- [Context engineering has stayed relevant for a year because it is grounded in how transformer attention works, and it will matter to anyone building on AI until post-transformer models arrive.](https://korrents.com/k/context-engineering-has-stayed-relevant-for-862e52)
- [A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to.](https://korrents.com/k/a-bigger-context-window-does-not-f6a4cb)
- [Context has two budgets, not one: the information budget everyone thinks about, and an instruction budget, where conflicting instructions cost the model real computation to ignore.](https://korrents.com/k/context-has-two-budgets-not-one-e3824e)
- [The engineering intuition that matters cannot be taught from a textbook — you know bad patterns in software because you have debugged them at three in the morning.](https://korrents.com/k/the-engineering-intuition-that-matters-cannot-9f34a1)
- [Loop engineering works exactly as far as verification does: make a problem very verifiable and you can treat it as a black box and let the model run.](https://korrents.com/k/loop-engineering-works-exactly-as-far-85524c)
- [The valuable form of loop engineering is a slow loop — a nightly cron job that fixes one thing and opens one pull request — not a redesign of your whole infrastructure around agents.](https://korrents.com/k/the-valuable-form-of-loop-engineering-b706cd)
- [Ship for three to six months with nobody reading the code and the codebase gets so bad that starting over is easier than fixing it — we ran a lights-off software factory and shut it down.](https://korrents.com/k/ship-for-three-to-six-months-cd263c)
- [Loops belong on codebase quality, not on shipping the features users want; we read all of the code, because program design is what decides whether a codebase stays changeable.](https://korrents.com/k/loops-belong-on-codebase-quality-not-08e9db)
- [Models will not learn to write maintainable code from today’s benchmarks, because the cost of bad architecture cannot be measured by running the unit tests — it arrives three to six months later.](https://korrents.com/k/models-will-not-learn-to-write-2f5c90)
- [It is no longer worth not reading the code in exchange for the occasional two-week hand fix, because the volume of code we can now generate has gone up ten to a hundred times.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-no-longer-worth-not-ed11b7)
- [What made Claude Code better than every CLI coding agent before it was reinforcement learning on the model and the harness together, so the model got good at that harness’s specific tools.](https://korrents.com/k/what-made-claude-code-better-than-55a0d5)
- [Agentic code review raises the floor but cannot be trusted, because the model reading the code is the same model that wrote it, and it will tell you the code is great.](https://korrents.com/k/agentic-code-review-raises-the-floor-c1f852)
- [If you want loop engineering, build one loop at a time and keep them small: every part of the agentic-factory playbook is good advice except the part where you stop reading the code.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-want-loop-engineering-build-262270)
- [A team that slows down and reads every pull request and every line of code should expect only a 30 to 50 percent productivity lift from AI.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-that-slows-down-and-44d9e3)
- [A plan that spells out every line of code to change gives you no leverage: it costs as long to read as the pull request, so you end up skimming it and reading the code twice.](https://korrents.com/k/a-plan-that-spells-out-every-a505bf)
- [Nobody has found keeping specs and code in sync worth the upkeep; the code stays the source of truth.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-has-found-keeping-specs-and-564e28)
- [Research and planning documents are tactical execution artefacts to be thrown away and regenerated, because tokens are cheap and a doc that has drifted from the codebase costs you time.](https://korrents.com/k/research-and-planning-documents-are-tactical-405e52)
- [The point of context engineering is to do as much work as possible in the smart zone — roughly the first hundred thousand tokens of the context window.](https://korrents.com/k/the-point-of-context-engineering-is-434f40)
- [Without good intuition for models, treat 100k tokens on smaller models and 200k on the frontier ones as the line past which the quality of your results is probably already degrading.](https://korrents.com/k/without-good-intuition-for-models-treat-9938a6)
- [Four things about a context window decide what an agent does next: its size, whether the information in it is correct, whether information is missing, and the trajectory it is already on.](https://korrents.com/k/four-things-about-a-context-window-2f76d1)
- [An agent repeats its own history: whatever it did on the last change — ran the tests or skipped them — is what it will do on the next one, because it is predicting the next message in the conversation.](https://korrents.com/k/an-agent-repeats-its-own-history-9e5779)
- [Maxing out your token usage is optimising one node of the factory for utilisation instead of the end-to-end goal of shipping value that is stable and lasts.](https://korrents.com/k/maxing-out-your-token-usage-is-dd18c3)
- [The IDE of the future has to be rethought from the ground up for agents, rather than being a text editor with an agents tab bolted on.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ide-of-the-future-has-bbac58)
- [You can teach somebody to be a really good AI developer in a few months, but you cannot teach them a computer science degree in three — so hire for the fundamentals.](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-teach-somebody-to-be-09a7b7)
- [Transit-oriented development should be defined by walking distance to rail stations, not by zoning along arterial street corridors.](https://korrents.com/k/transit-oriented-development-should-be-defined-by-16d7dc)
- [Corridor zoning's real purpose is to concentrate density's pollution and social costs onto arterial streets so single-family areas can avoid them.](https://korrents.com/k/corridor-zoning-s-real-purpose-is-30f7a4)
- [Climate coverage in the media is shrinking and increasingly paywalled.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-coverage-in-the-media-is-99a252)
- [Businesses acquired by private equity funds fail more often than average because of the leverage loaded onto them.](https://korrents.com/k/businesses-acquired-by-private-equity-funds-1e59e8)
- [Private equity's short fund cycles push firms toward aggressive cost-cutting that erodes what made an acquired business successful.](https://korrents.com/k/private-equity-s-short-fund-cycles-e45264)
- [A large generation of small business owners is aging and looking for liquidity or diversification as they plan succession.](https://korrents.com/k/a-large-generation-of-small-business-b32772)
- [AI's transformation of society will unfold gradually over decades, not in a single moment of takeoff.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-transformation-of-society-will-ed9ac0)
- [Under rising uncertainty, people should shorten their planning horizon rather than invest in a distant future.](https://korrents.com/k/under-rising-uncertainty-people-should-shorten-a7bc42)
- [The purpose of childhood is to encounter failure and hardship directly, not be shielded from it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-purpose-of-childhood-is-to-df712a)
- [String theory has produced no significant new ideas and may be a dead field.](https://korrents.com/k/string-theory-has-produced-no-significant-487fb7)
- [AI agents are starting to have a major positive impact on mathematical research.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-are-starting-to-have-bb2dd3)
- [AI-generated junk papers risk overwhelming the hep-th physics field with worthless content.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-generated-junk-papers-risk-overwhelming-the-5585c0)
- [Organizations will trade some access to frontier-level AI capability for greater control over how their data is used.](https://korrents.com/k/organizations-will-trade-some-access-to-7d4c5c)
- [Countries will adopt open-weight models to get frontier-level AI capability inside controlled, sovereign environments.](https://korrents.com/k/countries-will-adopt-open-weight-models-to-e5e05f)
- [Now is the best time ever to start a small business, thanks to AI making labor essentially free.](https://korrents.com/k/now-is-the-best-time-ever-b555f4)
- [The current ease of building software with AI will be seen as normal and commonplace within 12 to 24 months, though few realize it yet.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-ease-of-building-software-f349b3)
- [AI-assisted coding differs from hand-coding by a wider performance gap than a horse and buggy differs from a modern car.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-assisted-coding-differs-from-hand-coding-by-df6bb4)
- [A sense of belonging predicts and is a prerequisite for learning.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sense-of-belonging-predicts-and-0e44f8)
- [AI cannot produce good teaching materials from just one, two, or three prompts.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-cannot-produce-good-teaching-materials-8fe00e)
- [Personalized-learning technology that isolates students at computers for extended periods harms school climate, student connection, and parent satisfaction.](https://korrents.com/k/personalized-learning-technology-that-isolates-students-at-16abf8)
- [AI-driven coding has made this the best time in history to start a small business because software development labor is now effectively free.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-driven-coding-has-made-this-the-3572af)
- [The performance gap between hand-coding and AI-assisted coding is larger than the gap between horse-and-buggy travel and driving a modern car.](https://korrents.com/k/the-performance-gap-between-hand-coding-and-c6eebf)
- [AI-driven software development is now experiencing the same money-making window that dropshipping once had.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-driven-software-development-is-now-experiencing-a6b7d9)
- [People are probably not that busy in general; most people do not need a personal assistant to manage their life, unlike people in tech.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-probably-not-that-busy-52f40c)
- [Insights about what a product and company should be often come from making the creative work around it.](https://korrents.com/k/insights-about-what-a-product-and-a3dd60)
- [Too obvious feels condescending to people; designers should not talk down to the people they make work for.](https://korrents.com/k/too-obvious-feels-condescending-to-people-5cc0ab)
- [Users do not know what they want, so the job is to give people opportunities to tell you things without telling you things, rather than doing user research in a traditional sense.](https://korrents.com/k/users-do-not-know-what-they-a108c8)
- [Work should live in the same space as the office; surrounding yourself with it maximizes exposure to the work and the ability to connect the dots.](https://korrents.com/k/work-should-live-in-the-same-7c9c4f)
- [Everything shipped is the distillation of the 99 nos that preceded it.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-shipped-is-the-distillation-of-6fad92)
- [Slop and random gradients cannot just be shipped; random gradients feel so 2016.](https://korrents.com/k/slop-and-random-gradients-cannot-just-093075)
- [Everything is art when done well; at the highest levels of any craft, whether design, research or engineering, the work looks more like art.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-is-art-when-done-well-ac2ef9)
- [All great stories are true stories, even if they are fiction.](https://korrents.com/k/all-great-stories-are-true-stories-61f9b6)
- [The design and product process has been made so much into a science over the years that much of its artistry has been lost.](https://korrents.com/k/the-design-and-product-process-has-1a4dc3)
- [AI models want to add or patch as a form of making better, whereas the design process is really about editing away.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-want-to-add-or-d77382)
- [Taste is editing with a point of view.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-is-editing-with-a-point-8af0a0)
- [Taste is just saying no and judgment; liking everything means having no taste, because having taste means disliking some things.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-is-just-saying-no-and-536967)
- [Often people mistake the depth of thought needed to create something that coheres for making something that looks aesthetically simple, which is almost never the case of anything great.](https://korrents.com/k/often-people-mistake-the-depth-of-86d6a0)
- [The cost of creating coherent work has gone up, because making incoherent work is now so fast and easy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cost-of-creating-coherent-work-1421e6)
- [In many sectors of design, especially high culture and high design, people seem to have contempt towards the human experience.](https://korrents.com/k/in-many-sectors-of-design-especially-6f6277)
- [Humans should not be shamed for having vices; that is simply who people are.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-should-not-be-shamed-for-72e4d8)
- [Something about design, especially high design now, feels utterly sexless: sanding away anything arousing or objectionable creates essentially nothing, which is the ultimate slop.](https://korrents.com/k/something-about-design-especially-high-design-94609a)
- [All you need to build a business today is free open source software, a VPS, an AI API and S3-style file hosting.](https://korrents.com/k/all-you-need-to-build-a-1754e2)
- [Good economic times tend to produce bad financial ideas, while bad times produce good ones.](https://korrents.com/k/good-economic-times-tend-to-produce-92f29f)
- [Money decisions are fundamentally about emotion rather than numbers.](https://korrents.com/k/money-decisions-are-fundamentally-about-emotion-f3d672)
- [Behavioral economics is not a cure-all, but it is a useful tool for individuals and for systemic change alike.](https://korrents.com/k/behavioral-economics-is-not-a-cure-all-38b791)
- [A person who controls their own infrastructure and signing keys can meaningfully own their digital identity.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-who-controls-their-own-a076fe)
- [Giving people the choice to manage their own cryptographic keys matters more than forcing everyone to do so.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-people-the-choice-to-manage-4a2bfd)
- [Human rights, logic, progress and the very idea of an independent self are all children of the written word.](https://korrents.com/k/human-rights-logic-progress-and-the-1a1e87)
- [Reading should be treated as cognitive fitness: scheduled daily, with distracting digital media avoided the way we avoid junk food.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-should-be-treated-as-cognitive-11d747)
- [That a ban creates a black market is not by itself an argument against the ban.](https://korrents.com/k/that-a-ban-creates-a-black-2cfba6)
- [Prohibition reduces how much of a product is consumed rather than merely moving the same consumption underground.](https://korrents.com/k/prohibition-reduces-how-much-of-a-ad7d9e)
- [Seeing something many times does not put it into memory: familiarity with a thing and knowledge of it are different, and people confuse the two constantly.](https://korrents.com/k/seeing-something-many-times-does-not-51c47a)
- [Learning should be made harder rather than easier, and a teacher's instinct to smooth the path is the first thing that goes wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-should-be-made-harder-rather-29516a)
- [There is no such thing as photographic memory: people with exceptional visual memory still make ordinary memory errors.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-such-thing-as-f68496)
- [Photographing a moment can weaken your memory of it, because the reason you took the picture was not to have to remember.](https://korrents.com/k/photographing-a-moment-can-weaken-your-67f7c0)
- [Remembering the past and imagining the future are one brain process, which is why what you can imagine is bounded by what you have already lived.](https://korrents.com/k/remembering-the-past-and-imagining-the-b2712a)
- [Picking someone out of a lineup overwrites the memory of the face actually seen, so identification makes a witness more confident and less accurate at the same time.](https://korrents.com/k/picking-someone-out-of-a-lineup-67da78)
- [Confidence in a memory is not evidence of its accuracy, and our sense of how our own memory works is systematically wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/confidence-in-a-memory-is-not-585805)
- [Forgetting is a feature of a working memory system rather than a failure of it.](https://korrents.com/k/forgetting-is-a-feature-of-a-facc35)
- [Loving, competent parents leave infants in hot cars because routine takes over from intention; the mechanism is habit, not negligence.](https://korrents.com/k/loving-competent-parents-leave-infants-in-04c68f)
- [Alzheimer's pathology in the brain does not settle whether a person has dementia: the nuns' brains were full of plaques and tangles while they went on functioning normally.](https://korrents.com/k/alzheimer-s-pathology-in-the-brain-26b098)
- [Walking three or four times a week grew older adults' hippocampus by one percent and left their memory better a year later, which no pill has managed.](https://korrents.com/k/walking-three-or-four-times-a-37ddce)
- [Balance, not memory, is what middle-aged and older people should be worrying about, and almost nobody knows what state theirs is in.](https://korrents.com/k/balance-not-memory-is-what-middle-aged-c5c35a)
- [Balance is highly trainable, and something as small as standing on one leg improves it measurably within a month or two.](https://korrents.com/k/balance-is-highly-trainable-and-something-b3782c)
- [How old you feel predicts how long you will live better than how old you actually are.](https://korrents.com/k/how-old-you-feel-predicts-how-e1b6ba)
- [After forty, people systematically feel about twenty percent younger than they are.](https://korrents.com/k/after-forty-people-systematically-feel-about-621ca3)
- [Happiness across a life is a curve rather than a decline, and its lowest point is midlife, not old age.](https://korrents.com/k/happiness-across-a-life-is-a-c11116)
- [Older adults came through the pandemic more psychologically resilient than younger adults, which is the opposite of what was expected of them.](https://korrents.com/k/older-adults-came-through-the-pandemic-227b81)
- [Believing that ageing goes well is itself protective: people with a positive attitude to ageing live longer and are less likely to develop dementia.](https://korrents.com/k/believing-that-ageing-goes-well-is-ec5436)
- [Superagers are not extremists, and that is the point: what keeps them sharp is ordinary enough for anyone to copy.](https://korrents.com/k/superagers-are-not-extremists-and-that-735d04)
- [Five hours a week with grandchildren goes with better memory in older adults, and more than twenty hours a week does not.](https://korrents.com/k/five-hours-a-week-with-grandchildren-33743c)
- [Curiosity does not simply fade with age: the general disposition declines while curiosity aroused by a particular thing you care about actually increases.](https://korrents.com/k/curiosity-does-not-simply-fade-with-d4f2d4)
- [Older adults are not worse rememberers so much as more selective ones: they keep what they were curious about and let the rest go.](https://korrents.com/k/older-adults-are-not-worse-rememberers-837a66)
- [What look like the priorities of old age are the priorities of a short time horizon: tell a young person they have five years and they choose the same way.](https://korrents.com/k/what-look-like-the-priorities-of-b6032b)
- [You learn where something is by going to find it rather than by being told, and that act is the whole difference between seeing something and noticing it.](https://korrents.com/k/you-learn-where-something-is-by-4394cf)
- [Certain seductive personality types cause people to override their better judgment not just romantically but also in politics.](https://korrents.com/k/certain-seductive-personality-types-cause-people-cbbcd5)
- [A defining trait of charismatic 'bad boy' figures is that they lie.](https://korrents.com/k/a-defining-trait-of-charismatic-bad-f398ab)
- [El Niño events typically peak near the end of the calendar year, between November and January.](https://korrents.com/k/el-ni-o-events-typically-peak-c4d98c)
- [A strong El Niño's peak warming effect on global surface temperature shows up three to five months later, landing in the following year.](https://korrents.com/k/a-strong-el-ni-o-s-e422d8)
- [Strong agreement among forecast models does not by itself mean those models are skillful.](https://korrents.com/k/strong-agreement-among-forecast-models-does-0de218)
- [Once you control the ideas behind a piece of software, reviewing the code itself becomes largely unnecessary.](https://korrents.com/k/once-you-control-the-ideas-behind-3b4f02)
- [Many programmers now have less impact than they could because they spend their time reading and reviewing code.](https://korrents.com/k/many-programmers-now-have-less-impact-b067a1)
- [Large language models are better at producing locally optimal code than at generating big architectural ideas.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-are-better-at-21c2b1)
- [New laws often get enacted the way untested code is pushed to production: unread, poorly monitored, slow to show results, and hard to opt out of.](https://korrents.com/k/new-laws-often-get-enacted-the-4057f4)
- [Strong encryption limits what governments can do in ways that legislation cannot.](https://korrents.com/k/strong-encryption-limits-what-governments-can-0b0760)
- [The Network is becoming the next Leviathan after God and the State, because on key dimensions it is growing more powerful and more just than the State.](https://korrents.com/k/the-network-is-becoming-the-next-cd6011)
- [The blockchain is the most important development in history since the invention of writing, because it is a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, complete digital record.](https://korrents.com/k/the-blockchain-is-the-most-important-39c208)
- [Private networks like Uber, Lyft, email and SpaceX already outperform their state counterparts — taxi medallions, the USPS and NASA.](https://korrents.com/k/private-networks-like-uber-lyft-email-6d76f4)
- [The US establishment is not more ethical than the CCP on civil liberties, it is just less competent at exercising the same kind of power.](https://korrents.com/k/the-us-establishment-is-not-more-375056)
- [It is hard to name a country that is better off after a recent US military intervention.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-hard-to-name-a-e6b732)
- [Before the internet, most Americans had no practical freedom of speech unless they owned or worked for a media corporation.](https://korrents.com/k/before-the-internet-most-americans-had-0dbfea)
- [Technology cannot let people escape politics, because politics arises from the existence of people who disagree with each other.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-cannot-let-people-escape-politics-f34ffc)
- [Producing moral, not just technological, progress requires introducing new moral premises that invert what people previously believed.](https://korrents.com/k/producing-moral-not-just-technological-progress-be26ef)
- [The primary global political axis has shifted from capitalism-versus-communism to ethnomasochism-versus-ethnonationalism.](https://korrents.com/k/the-primary-global-political-axis-has-9b3a38)
- [The world today is dividing into three poles: the American establishment, the Chinese Communist Party, and the global Bitcoin/crypto network.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-today-is-dividing-into-cf888c)
- [Establishment journalists claim to speak truth to power but never investigate themselves or each other.](https://korrents.com/k/establishment-journalists-claim-to-speak-truth-220716)
- [Bitcoin creates more upside and downside than traditional money because it makes users power users with no system administrator to fall back on.](https://korrents.com/k/bitcoin-creates-more-upside-and-downside-8d2c8d)
- [Satoshi Nakamoto and Vitalik Buterin are substantially more capable than the officials at institutions like the Federal Reserve, a fact the US establishment fails to recognize.](https://korrents.com/k/satoshi-nakamoto-and-vitalik-buterin-are-d2ca49)
- [Most institutions that predate the internet will not survive it.](https://korrents.com/k/most-institutions-that-predate-the-internet-1a2165)
- [The US federal government has lost the capacity to build basic infrastructure, let alone advanced military hardware.](https://korrents.com/k/the-us-federal-government-has-lost-77729d)
- [The Bitcoin Maximalist premise that Bitcoin is the only legitimate coin and all other digital assets are illegitimate is mistaken.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bitcoin-maximalist-premise-that-bitcoin-570ab9)
- [Two-sided marketplaces show that not all economically relevant knowledge is local, contrary to Hayek's calculation argument.](https://korrents.com/k/two-sided-marketplaces-show-that-not-all-fc1be0)
- [Micronations like Sealand fail because they start from territory and government rather than building outward from a people and shared culture.](https://korrents.com/k/micronations-like-sealand-fail-because-they-3e9ccd)
- [Movements built around a shared moral cause outcompete purely profit-driven ones, in practice as well as in theory.](https://korrents.com/k/movements-built-around-a-shared-moral-62d940)
- [A government is legitimate internally if the governed have consented to it, whatever form it takes.](https://korrents.com/k/a-government-is-legitimate-internally-if-a36092)
- [Digital finance has become a weapon of war, as shown by the financial deplatforming of groups like Canadian truckers and Russians.](https://korrents.com/k/digital-finance-has-become-a-weapon-b7e78a)
- [An organization that demands trust ends up with less of it than one that shows its work instead.](https://korrents.com/k/an-organization-that-demands-trust-ends-818bcb)
- [Law is tied to geographic location, so the ability to easily change one's location is the ability to change which laws one lives under.](https://korrents.com/k/law-is-tied-to-geographic-location-6c4a9c)
- [Our organs and cell types age at different rates, so a single chronological age is an illusion.](https://korrents.com/k/our-organs-and-cell-types-age-992327)
- [The brain and the immune system act as the master regulators of ageing: when they age at a normal pace, survival over the following 15 years is near total.](https://korrents.com/k/the-brain-and-the-immune-system-2612fb)
- [Measurable, modifiable biological age at the organ and cell level is the most important advance yet in the science of human ageing.](https://korrents.com/k/measurable-modifiable-biological-age-at-the-6ee989)
- [Nobody should buy a direct-to-consumer biological age test today: they are sold expensively without standardisation or demonstrated reliability.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-should-buy-a-direct-to-consumer-biological-d01f8d)
- [Chinese writers' preoccupation with China alone is what limits China's soft power abroad.](https://korrents.com/k/chinese-writers-preoccupation-with-china-alone-cdee55)
- [China's economic success has produced no transferable blueprint that other poor countries could follow.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-economic-success-has-produced-6c1204)
- [China had more ideological influence in the world during the Cultural Revolution than it has today.](https://korrents.com/k/china-had-more-ideological-influence-in-2050dc)
- [There is no data showing that following a strict diet, meditation practice, or taking expensive supplements helps someone get pregnant.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-data-showing-that-ea28f5)
- [Too many people begin trying to conceive without understanding how their cycle works, what can affect fertility, or when to seek help.](https://korrents.com/k/too-many-people-begin-trying-to-eb6f78)
- [Taking extra steps to 'reduce toxins' beyond what the body naturally does is unnecessary, and the idea itself is meaningless.](https://korrents.com/k/taking-extra-steps-to-reduce-toxins-710c5d)
- [Population studies can never show that short sleep shortens life, because illness both disturbs sleep and shortens life.](https://korrents.com/k/population-studies-can-never-show-that-970d97)
- [Sleep loss degrades body composition, metabolism and mood at once, which is the reason to protect sleep even without a mortality number.](https://korrents.com/k/sleep-loss-degrades-body-composition-metabolism-60bfde)
- [An occasional bad night's sleep is nothing to worry about; only a sustained pattern of short sleep is worth acting on.](https://korrents.com/k/an-occasional-bad-night-s-sleep-20d08b)
- [A conclusion being biologically reasonable is not the same as its having been proven.](https://korrents.com/k/a-conclusion-being-biologically-reasonable-is-c7dbe8)
- [Thunderbolt's official wake-from-sleep certification does not guarantee the feature works reliably in practice.](https://korrents.com/k/thunderbolt-s-official-wake-from-sleep-certification-does-33a28e)
- [Reading online commentary about a movie before seeing it reduces the immersion of experiencing it for the first time.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-online-commentary-about-a-movie-a5f87f)
- [How a person interprets a major movie is shaped by where they are in their own life at that moment.](https://korrents.com/k/how-a-person-interprets-a-major-94da8f)
- [Eliminating the friction involved in writing is what matters most for a writer.](https://korrents.com/k/eliminating-the-friction-involved-in-writing-1fec3e)
- [Scarcity and difficulty of production, not just usefulness, are what let a seller charge more.](https://korrents.com/k/scarcity-and-difficulty-of-production-not-9fe9f5)
- [Even as AI makes building software easy, people will still prefer to buy some software off-the-shelf rather than build their own.](https://korrents.com/k/even-as-ai-makes-building-software-0ead43)
- [As AI makes coding easy for everyone, the ability to code stops being a meaningful edge for entrepreneurs.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-makes-coding-easy-for-b05ad9)
- [Programmers who refuse to use LLMs to code will fall behind those who do.](https://korrents.com/k/programmers-who-refuse-to-use-llms-fb7585)
- [Code quality still matters even as LLMs make writing code much faster.](https://korrents.com/k/code-quality-still-matters-even-as-3813b7)
- [Standardizing document or table tooling on HTML instead of PDF, LaTeX, or RTF removes most of the underlying complexity.](https://korrents.com/k/standardizing-document-or-table-tooling-on-c2760d)
- [For most people, companies and jobs, being average is good enough.](https://korrents.com/k/for-most-people-companies-and-jobs-8d8120)
- [AI safety restrictions on cybersecurity-adjacent requests make it harder for individual developers to build software as robust as large organizations' products.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-safety-restrictions-on-cybersecurity-adjacent-requests-ba5e88)
- [Small product teams beat large ones for a reason that has nothing to do with AI: fewer people to coordinate means less design by committee.](https://korrents.com/k/small-product-teams-beat-large-ones-6e99eb)
- [Designers will do well out of AI rather than badly, because taste is the hardest part of their job to imagine being automated away.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-will-do-well-out-of-4719f5)
- [Grit, fast learning and self-awareness are enough to get good at anything eventually, and whenever somebody is not working out, one of the three is missing.](https://korrents.com/k/grit-fast-learning-and-self-awareness-are-9762dc)
- [AI resets who succeeds at work: success goes to whoever's strengths happen to match what the new tools and the business need, not to who was good before.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-resets-who-succeeds-at-work-6c5c55)
- [Within a year or two a strong engineer's token spend will rival their salary, and companies will have to cap it like any other resource.](https://korrents.com/k/within-a-year-or-two-a-c19914)
- [A strategy no reasonable person could disagree with is not a strategy; it means you are competing on raw execution.](https://korrents.com/k/a-strategy-no-reasonable-person-could-f8bd42)
- [Ask an AI lazily for a strategy and you get the predictable move your competitors already expect from you.](https://korrents.com/k/ask-an-ai-lazily-for-a-6fecc0)
- [Directing an AI will turn out to be like leading a team: too prescriptive stifles good ideas, too open-ended wastes time going the wrong way.](https://korrents.com/k/directing-an-ai-will-turn-out-3384e7)
- [The best product leaders are curators rather than visionaries: whose idea the strategy was does not matter, only that it is great and everyone has bought into it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-product-leaders-are-curators-9ed353)
- [Whether a leadership team has trust and rapport matters more than how strong each of its members is alone.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-leadership-team-has-trust-1712d0)
- [The recommendation algorithm has no idea that you like surfing; it has a number that happens to correlate with surfing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-recommendation-algorithm-has-no-idea-17fa25)
- [A purely chronological feed rewards whoever posts most, so publishers drown out the friends it was supposed to show you.](https://korrents.com/k/a-purely-chronological-feed-rewards-whoever-f8d2f7)
- [People who choose a chronological feed are happy in the moment and measurably less satisfied months later.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-choose-a-chronological-feed-cda1bf)
- [An abundance of synthetic content will make people seek out the person behind the content more, not less.](https://korrents.com/k/an-abundance-of-synthetic-content-will-fbb83f)
- [Power is shifting from institutions to individuals across every industry: players are now more relevant than the teams they play for.](https://korrents.com/k/power-is-shifting-from-institutions-to-c9be47)
- [AI content should be labelled rather than filtered: content should be judged by its point of view, never by the tool that made it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-content-should-be-labelled-rather-25544d)
- [Platforms will lose the ability to detect AI-generated content as the models improve, and should say how confident they are rather than pretend.](https://korrents.com/k/platforms-will-lose-the-ability-to-25e3ba)
- [At three billion users you cannot launch without testing and cannot test without it becoming news, so the communications plan comes before the launch decision.](https://korrents.com/k/at-three-billion-users-you-cannot-8a606c)
- [Building a new product on top of whatever is growing fastest is a mistake: momentum is not the same thing as a strong foundation.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-new-product-on-top-d6c9dc)
- [Keeping children away from AI puts them at a disadvantage, so the risk of them never learning to use it counts as much as the risk of them using it.](https://korrents.com/k/keeping-children-away-from-ai-puts-afc22c)
- [There is no separate class of natural-born artists: the artistic impulse is ordinary curiosity about life turned into a wish to make someone else feel something.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-separate-class-of-4ec28d)
- [Insisting on knowing whether you have talent, or started too late, closes doors that staying uncertain would have left open.](https://korrents.com/k/insisting-on-knowing-whether-you-have-13c57a)
- [Years of apparent failure and waiting can be the artistic work itself rather than evidence of a missing gift.](https://korrents.com/k/years-of-apparent-failure-and-waiting-f33ccc)
- [The self-critical half of a maker's mind should be coached to be kind, because a gentler internal auditor produces bolder work.](https://korrents.com/k/the-self-critical-half-of-a-maker-eeb9d3)
- [Cutting sulfur air pollution is now unmasking greenhouse-gas warming that aerosols had been offsetting.](https://korrents.com/k/cutting-sulfur-air-pollution-is-now-c04290)
- [Since 1970, greenhouse gases explain essentially all observed global warming, with natural forcings and internal variability playing a negligible role.](https://korrents.com/k/since-1970-greenhouse-gases-explain-essentially-70f531)
- [The quality of the context given to an AI matters more than the model's inherent capability.](https://korrents.com/k/the-quality-of-the-context-given-649a1f)
- [AI tends to flatten outputs toward sameness, so personal taste and perspective become the main way to stand out.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-tends-to-flatten-outputs-toward-defde4)
- [The research literature robustly supports the value of Head Start and similar early childhood education programs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-research-literature-robustly-supports-the-175f95)
- [The most consistent finding on preschool and pre-K is that it raises kindergarten readiness.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-consistent-finding-on-preschool-cbabf2)
- [Studies showing large benefits from early childhood programs mostly focus on lower-income children, which can make the effects look larger than they would for a broader population.](https://korrents.com/k/studies-showing-large-benefits-from-early-1fe56a)
- [Jumping into problems you're not yet equipped to solve, even if it leads to mediocre engineering, is a healthy way for young people and students to learn and grow.](https://korrents.com/k/jumping-into-problems-you-re-not-533bea)
- [It is one thing to accept a poor work-life balance for yourself, and a different thing entirely to demand it of the people you manage.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-one-thing-to-accept-0b35a1)
- [Bugs are eliminated mainly by dedicating engineering resources to finding and fixing them, not by choosing a particular language or style guide.](https://korrents.com/k/bugs-are-eliminated-mainly-by-dedicating-23b54e)
- [What gets a stuck maker out is an hour of work with no idea what it is for, and the relief arrives before any result does.](https://korrents.com/k/what-gets-a-stuck-maker-out-f7c404)
- [Recorded crime partly measures policing: a neighbourhood policed harder produces more crime in the statistics.](https://korrents.com/k/recorded-crime-partly-measures-policing-a-057c19)
- [The next advance in AI for mathematics requires shifting from predefined problem-solvers to research agents that address frontier challenges with formal reasoning.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-advance-in-ai-for-8e6d0f)
- [Natural-language LLM mathematical reasoners are fundamentally limited by lacking machine-checkable semantics, which blocks autonomous verification needed for open-ended research.](https://korrents.com/k/natural-language-llm-mathematical-reasoners-are-fundamentall-95b402)
- [Current AI4Math systems largely operate as solvers of isolated, well-defined proofs rather than as researchers that expand mathematical knowledge.](https://korrents.com/k/current-ai4math-systems-largely-operate-as-6a3923)
- [AI systems are now capable of meaningful contributions to formal mathematics, not only informal problem-solving.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-are-now-capable-of-e2c323)
- [Knowing when to use AI tools for execution and when to go deep on the thinking work is a skill, and quality and polish do not have to take all of a designer's time.](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-when-to-use-ai-tools-457478)
- [People often ask Claude to execute when they should be asking it for the early thinking, because today it is not good at telling you an idea is wrong and just executes what it is asked.](https://korrents.com/k/people-often-ask-claude-to-execute-cde703)
- [Developers expect a CLI to be extraordinarily information dense, showing more than a graphical interface would, because a CLI has no progressive disclosure.](https://korrents.com/k/developers-expect-a-cli-to-be-24d36c)
- [The invisible thinking behind a product, the mental model, the interaction model and the base primitives, has long been the unsung hero of product designers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-invisible-thinking-behind-a-product-2f2792)
- [In a terminal, keyboard shortcuts are massive, because they are the primary way of interacting.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-terminal-keyboard-shortcuts-are-aca70d)
- [It is really important that people feel a little bit of warmth from AI tools, and they should not be super detached from them.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-really-important-that-people-0f13a0)
- [The aim is to avoid inventing new UI and to make a tool feel so natural that it becomes part of the workflow.](https://korrents.com/k/the-aim-is-to-avoid-inventing-6dff56)
- [Work on the user model, relationship and behavior is the really important design thinking, while design polish pieces are really easy to offload.](https://korrents.com/k/work-on-the-user-model-relationship-1cd381)
- [When what is being tested is the underlying mental model, it is probably not worth polishing, because the thing might not make sense; knowing when craft and polish are needed is important.](https://korrents.com/k/when-what-is-being-tested-is-9b8c38)
- [Experimenting with mental models does not require high craft and is better done at speed, in the open, in iteration than by polishing something that is the wrong shape.](https://korrents.com/k/experimenting-with-mental-models-does-not-8c9828)
- [Sharing responsibility for quality, educating and delegating rather than gatekeeping, helps engineers and product partners feel they own it too.](https://korrents.com/k/sharing-responsibility-for-quality-educating-and-b727c1)
- [Quality has never been only design's responsibility, and the most successful organizations feel it is owned by everybody.](https://korrents.com/k/quality-has-never-been-only-design-ee1012)
- [Designers should define quality and share it as a workflow anyone on the team can use, in a way that is additive, teaching and guiding rather than stopping.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-should-define-quality-and-share-eb5b02)
- [There is probably still going to be a need for a lot of fixed interfaces, because much of a product needs to be reliably stable, like a login screen or billing settings.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-probably-still-going-to-d5fb05)
- [Deciding what should be fixed and what adaptive is an important design decision; people often assume everything should be customized, but a lot of people do not want that.](https://korrents.com/k/deciding-what-should-be-fixed-and-d7258c)
- [Just because something can be built as a function does not mean it needs to be, and adding it brings a lot of product bloat and complexity.](https://korrents.com/k/just-because-something-can-be-built-778bdd)
- [In terms of full functionality, things can be a little simpler than they are now; not every idea is good or necessary, and sometimes adding it is worse.](https://korrents.com/k/in-terms-of-full-functionality-things-539398)
- [Being very open-minded and curious is really useful in the emergent phase of this technology: hold opinions, develop them, and be willing to let go and update.](https://korrents.com/k/being-very-open-minded-and-curious-is-6d38aa)
- [Designers should lean into the chaos, develop new ways of working and continuously update, rather than cling to a structured process.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-should-lean-into-the-chaos-8e53da)
- [Discernment about what should be built, and how to build it for the product, is the core builder process right now.](https://korrents.com/k/discernment-about-what-should-be-built-c530fc)
- [Moving a robotaxi's safety driver from the steering wheel to the passenger seat is a bad idea dressed up as a milestone.](https://korrents.com/k/moving-a-robotaxi-s-safety-driver-77117b)
- [Robotaxis should be judged and regulated on comparable fleet-wide incident data, not on individual incidents.](https://korrents.com/k/robotaxis-should-be-judged-and-regulated-be4f9e)
- [Climate models are underestimating how intense heatwaves become at a given level of global warming.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-models-are-underestimating-how-intense-800464)
- [Without a shift away from fossil fuels, heatwaves will keep worsening and cause more deaths as they outstrip public health systems' capacity.](https://korrents.com/k/without-a-shift-away-from-fossil-e96362)
- [Building out low-speed regional rail to small towns before intercity rail is fast enough is a waste of money.](https://korrents.com/k/building-out-low-speed-regional-rail-to-284e10)
- [Transit investment should prioritize raising ridership on already well-used lines over creating minimal service where none exists.](https://korrents.com/k/transit-investment-should-prioritize-raising-ridership-a8c29c)
- [A subscription price increase is not justified by adding a minor AI feature.](https://korrents.com/k/a-subscription-price-increase-is-not-8b1935)
- [AI represents the greatest business opportunity of this generation.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-represents-the-greatest-business-opportunity-ae5ba7)
- [The current AI-driven intelligence explosion will require new social structures to harness its power without damaging human values.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-ai-driven-intelligence-explosion-will-657584)
- [Realizing AI's potential to expand human potential requires humans and AI working together, not AI acting alone.](https://korrents.com/k/realizing-ai-s-potential-to-expand-5e7167)
- [Framing a code-review request as looking for bugs can trigger an AI coding assistant's safety refusal, while framing the same request as looking for improvements does not.](https://korrents.com/k/framing-a-code-review-request-as-looking-48dd06)
- [A prescriber cannot outsource containment to the therapy hour: the emotional and relational dynamics are part of prescribing, not an intrusion on it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-prescriber-cannot-outsource-containment-to-d76e49)
- [America is a country that rewards first-principles thinkers and builders and encourages reinvention despite cynicism.](https://korrents.com/k/america-is-a-country-that-rewards-b58589)
- [The finance industry is built on false mathematical precision and prone to systemic collapse.](https://korrents.com/k/the-finance-industry-is-built-on-55c3ba)
- [AI has made ability nearly free, making taste the main bottleneck separating good creators from mediocre ones.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-made-ability-nearly-free-4de07a)
- [AI can hand you the end result of a skill without the attentive practice that used to build it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-can-hand-you-the-end-0723d3)
- [Taste is not about consensus or criticism, but the courage to value what genuinely resonates with you.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-is-not-about-consensus-or-f67598)
- [Metformin is not a general-purpose anti-cancer or anti-ageing drug, and healthy people should not take it as one.](https://korrents.com/k/metformin-is-not-a-general-purpose-anti-cancer-8524df)
- [Exercise is the most powerful broad-based longevity intervention available today, and a drug that blunts its adaptations is not worth taking for longevity.](https://korrents.com/k/exercise-is-the-most-powerful-broad-based-a87e5f)
- [A supplement or drug should be judged on well-defined benefits for well-defined problems in well-defined populations, never on a vague promise of slowing ageing.](https://korrents.com/k/a-supplement-or-drug-should-be-12c742)
- [The deployment layer surrounding a model is as important as the model's raw intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-deployment-layer-surrounding-a-model-4d8d64)
- [Recursive self-improvement only works if the base model is already capable enough to improve its own mechanism.](https://korrents.com/k/recursive-self-improvement-only-works-if-the-814548)
- [Harness improvements help deploy a model better, but the model's underlying intelligence remains the core driver of capability.](https://korrents.com/k/harness-improvements-help-deploy-a-model-2bb719)
- [He is not the most talented writer in the room and never was; what has carried him is the capacity to grind.](https://korrents.com/k/he-is-not-the-most-talented-019915)
- [Saying that coding will be automated away first betrays a misunderstanding of software engineering, because coding is only a small part of the work.](https://korrents.com/k/saying-that-coding-will-be-automated-a2e952)
- [The industry is now accumulating code faster than it is accumulating trust, and trust only comes from having struggled to understand the domain yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-industry-is-now-accumulating-code-db2311)
- [Engineers were promised that understanding the computer would be enough, and the human skills they were told they could skip turn out to be the hard part.](https://korrents.com/k/engineers-were-promised-that-understanding-the-d2e808)
- [Letting non-programmers build their own unmaintainable software is still a large step forward, because the alternative was a thousand-page requirements document and an eight-year wait.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-non-programmers-build-their-own-unmaintainable-cd07f6)
- [Programs exist to communicate intent to other people and now to models as well, and we do not understand at all how to communicate effectively to models.](https://korrents.com/k/programs-exist-to-communicate-intent-to-629f3f)
- [An outside expert's understanding of somebody else's problem is bounded, because they do not have to live with the design after they leave.](https://korrents.com/k/an-outside-expert-s-understanding-of-2f5321)
- [Moving the computation to where the data lives is the fundamental design move in object-oriented programming, and it got lost in the noise.](https://korrents.com/k/moving-the-computation-to-where-the-fdc19d)
- [Unit testing frameworks arrived so late because testing was a status divide, and testers had every incentive to keep a separate tool and language of their own.](https://korrents.com/k/unit-testing-frameworks-arrived-so-late-3c385a)
- [Programming, not diagramming, is where an engineer actually learns, because code is the point at which you can no longer fool yourself about what you understand.](https://korrents.com/k/programming-not-diagramming-is-where-an-7dd76f)
- [Always try your stupid ideas when the experiment is cheap and reversible, because the one that works has no competition.](https://korrents.com/k/always-try-your-stupid-ideas-when-1941af)
- [Having an AI agent write tests costs tokens in the short run and saves them in the long run, because the classic failure is that the code does not work.](https://korrents.com/k/having-an-ai-agent-write-tests-924002)
- [TDD fell out of fashion partly because its advocates turned it into a moral test of professionalism, when people write very good software with a wide variety of workflows.](https://korrents.com/k/tdd-fell-out-of-fashion-partly-b9c9c1)
- [TDD earns its keep only where work alternates rapidly between doing and learning; choosing it is a practical decision, never a moral one.](https://korrents.com/k/tdd-earns-its-keep-only-where-3d31d5)
- [Naming the movement 'agile' was a mistake, because the word is indefensible: nobody will ever admit to not being agile, while nobody claims to be an extreme programmer without having done the work.](https://korrents.com/k/naming-the-movement-agile-was-a-f3ec07)
- [The Agile Manifesto is only the intersection of the ideas of the people who happened to be in the room, and there is far more to software development than it contains.](https://korrents.com/k/the-agile-manifesto-is-only-the-d2c964)
- [Promising twice the work in half the time without the hard-won technical skills is simply a lie.](https://korrents.com/k/promising-twice-the-work-in-half-183964)
- [The adulation and the abuse a well-known figure receives are both about the audience's need for a hero or a villain, and have nothing to do with the person.](https://korrents.com/k/the-adulation-and-the-abuse-a-8d895e)
- [Facebook could ship safely without much unit testing because it had many independent layers of feedback, each one catching what the earlier layers missed.](https://korrents.com/k/facebook-could-ship-safely-without-much-bbe39b)
- [An engineer who accomplishes every goal they set is sandbagging; hitting about half of them is the sign of someone risking and learning enough.](https://korrents.com/k/an-engineer-who-accomplishes-every-goal-74a912)
- [A coach's job is to identify and induce productive discomfort, not to reassure people that they are doing fine.](https://korrents.com/k/a-coach-s-job-is-to-3cae9b)
- [Empathy, body language and tone of voice are learnable skills, and expecting the world to adapt to how you are wired is not going to work.](https://korrents.com/k/empathy-body-language-and-tone-of-927c5b)
- [AI has accelerated the pace of development but not the pace of business, and that mismatch will become more and more apparent.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-accelerated-the-pace-of-2703a4)
- [Companies protected by high switching costs will see those costs fall to zero, and their profits with them.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-protected-by-high-switching-costs-9e266f)
- [People who vibe-code a replacement for a product will rebuild the visible tip of the iceberg and then discover the downstream problems they never knew existed.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-vibe-code-a-replacement-for-24d7a1)
- [Exploring, expanding and extracting are three distinct phases, and how you write code, who you hire and how you organise should be completely different in each.](https://korrents.com/k/exploring-expanding-and-extracting-are-three-fb746d)
- [AI has wiped the senior engineer's playbook clean, and writing a playbook is a completely different skill from applying one.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-wiped-the-senior-engineer-6607bd)
- [It is far too soon for a manifesto about AI development: the Agile Manifesto took fifteen years of object-oriented practice before anyone could write it.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-far-too-soon-for-431f94)
- [When an AI agent runs out of forward progress, throw the project away and start over rather than trying to tweak it.](https://korrents.com/k/when-an-ai-agent-runs-out-a5bda4)
- [Efficiency gains in a growth-driven industry tend to be absorbed into even greater expansion rather than reducing net resource use.](https://korrents.com/k/efficiency-gains-in-a-growth-driven-industry-4aebb6)
- [Generative AI's climate harm comes mainly from wasteful system design and forced-on features, not from the computational cost of individual queries.](https://korrents.com/k/generative-ai-s-climate-harm-comes-b711ce)
- [Google is knowingly choosing the more climate-damaging path while using narrow efficiency metrics to obscure that choice.](https://korrents.com/k/google-is-knowingly-choosing-the-more-0631af)
- [Current AI coding models make poor decisions despite strong mechanical execution](https://korrents.com/k/current-ai-coding-models-make-poor-1780a1)
- [Frontier AI models essentially never fabricate outright false facts, unlike smaller models](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-models-essentially-never-fabricate-fad1c5)
- [Cheap flat-rate AI subscription pricing is a temporary loss-leader that will be phased out once users are hooked](https://korrents.com/k/cheap-flat-rate-ai-subscription-pricing-is-01d28b)
- [Stories are always deliberately constructed by their author, not something that emerges on its own.](https://korrents.com/k/stories-are-always-deliberately-constructed-by-0e9cf2)
- [Nearly all fiction works through a balance of repetition and difference.](https://korrents.com/k/nearly-all-fiction-works-through-a-858f27)
- [Linux system utilities, package managers, language runtimes and command-line tools have historically lacked a consistent way to check whether a TLS certificate has been revoked.](https://korrents.com/k/linux-system-utilities-package-managers-language-e33008)
- [If AI can build the new theory that crystallises how to think about a subject, it would be surprising if that capability did not spill into the rest of the economy.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-can-build-the-new-f68ffe)
- [AI learning to generate good conjectures will never show up as a benchmark being knocked down; it will show up as a shift in how mathematicians talk about the tools.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-learning-to-generate-good-conjectures-cfb845)
- [Group theory took a hundred years to travel from one man's hunch to something the mathematical community agreed was good, passing through many heads on the way.](https://korrents.com/k/group-theory-took-a-hundred-years-5ecc66)
- [To reward the instinct that a new idea is worth having, training would have to score the smallness of the concepts a solution needs, not just whether it solved the problem.](https://korrents.com/k/to-reward-the-instinct-that-a-068e04)
- [A proof and an explanation are different things, and a theorem can stay an unsolved expository problem long after it is proved.](https://korrents.com/k/a-proof-and-an-explanation-are-4501e2)
- [The people who come up with genuinely novel insights are also unusually clear communicators of them, against the assumption that expertise spoils explanation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-people-who-come-up-with-78c596)
- [He used to think explaining AI's results would be the mathematician's remaining job; he now expects AI to explain better than most humans, so that is not what is left.](https://korrents.com/k/he-used-to-think-explaining-ai-9065af)
- [The mathematician's role will shift towards curation — deciding which ideas are worth displaying — rather than proving or explaining.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mathematician-s-role-will-shift-61c284)
- [Even if AI curates better, people will still want a human curator they have a relationship with, because wanting to learn something is a social phenomenon.](https://korrents.com/k/even-if-ai-curates-better-people-2386ae)
- [Most of the useful mathematics AI produces over the next five years will be filling in connections that only somebody expert in several fields could draw.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-useful-mathematics-ai-ef2784)
- [The advantage of digital minds may be the opposite of pooling knowledge: deliberately giving agents different contexts, which is a control humans do not have over themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/the-advantage-of-digital-minds-may-ba4aca)
- [There is no correct heuristic for science, so what you need is many independent research programmes each running its own bias.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-correct-heuristic-for-f54607)
- [Mathematics alone can be left running: point a prover at a formal library, walk away for ten years, and there will be something there when you come back.](https://korrents.com/k/mathematics-alone-can-be-left-running-4a7b12)
- [Formalisation's real gift is the green check mark — knowing a hard proof is correct before you spend time on it — and every other field would kill for it.](https://korrents.com/k/formalisation-s-real-gift-is-the-2f7d4a)
- [Lean is overrated as the reinforcement-learning environment behind recent AI progress in mathematics, but it should not be written out of the story.](https://korrents.com/k/lean-is-overrated-as-the-reinforcement-learning-d02d22)
- [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.](https://korrents.com/k/a-stream-of-ai-written-papers-with-b65263)
- [In choosing what to learn, who is teaching it matters more than what it is, because your existing interests are fairly arbitrary and a good educator is not.](https://korrents.com/k/in-choosing-what-to-learn-who-d8cdd1)
- [After a book you loved, read that author's other books rather than another book on the same subject.](https://korrents.com/k/after-a-book-you-loved-read-de90ef)
- [Good exposition is willing to say things that are a little bit wrong and fix them later, which is exactly what a crowd-sourced encyclopedia edits out.](https://korrents.com/k/good-exposition-is-willing-to-say-30e753)
- [The best use of an LLM for learning is as a souped-up search engine that points you at the right human-written resource.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-use-of-an-llm-5ae92f)
- [Anyone choosing a career should work out where the money comes from and what value they add; asking the question at all puts you ahead of your peers.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-choosing-a-career-should-work-51a8b3)
- [It would be disappointing and surprising if the next five years of AI progress in mathematics produced no economically valuable improvements traceable to it.](https://korrents.com/k/it-would-be-disappointing-and-surprising-1191b2)
- [Writing well means knowing the exact moment to be unpredictable, which is not the same as raising the temperature.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-well-means-knowing-the-exact-628a77)
- [Falling rents are the signal that makes developers stop building, so a city cannot build its way to affordability under the current supply model.](https://korrents.com/k/falling-rents-are-the-signal-that-6888a6)
- [Deregulating enough to make housing broadly affordable would mean legalising housing of the quality nobody is willing to defend.](https://korrents.com/k/deregulating-enough-to-make-housing-broadly-bd1787)
- [Cutting development costs does not cut housing prices, because prices are set by what buyers will pay and the saving is capitalised into land value.](https://korrents.com/k/cutting-development-costs-does-not-cut-e90bfe)
- [Housing subsidies cannot scale to the size of the problem, and the YIMBYs are right to say so.](https://korrents.com/k/housing-subsidies-cannot-scale-to-the-07afc2)
- [Factory-made bacterial protein cannot feed the world, because meeting humanity's protein needs that way would take more electricity than the planet generates from renewables.](https://korrents.com/k/factory-made-bacterial-protein-cannot-feed-the-ca6f36)
- [Farming is the one large sector still powered directly by free sunlight, and replacing it with factory food would spend the renewable electricity every other sector needs.](https://korrents.com/k/farming-is-the-one-large-sector-b184bd)
- ["Food from thin air" is not from thin air: it runs on water, minerals, ammonia and industrial plant.](https://korrents.com/k/food-from-thin-air-is-not-ce6385)
- [A future of constrained energy will need more people working the land, and that is not the same as going back to the past.](https://korrents.com/k/a-future-of-constrained-energy-will-981b73)
- [Today's level of city living depends on cheap fossil fuels and is unlikely to survive without them.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-level-of-city-living-25dfc7)
- [Efficiency is the wrong measure of a food system; what matters is what it costs at a level of energy and materials that can be sustained.](https://korrents.com/k/efficiency-is-the-wrong-measure-of-d1f436)
- [Ecomodernism is concerned with secondary managerial goals like efficiency and says nothing to the mysteries and passions that animate a life.](https://korrents.com/k/ecomodernism-is-concerned-with-secondary-managerial-6e9869)
- [A ridership-estimation model built for typical U.S. transit systems can give unreliable results in a complex system like New York's.](https://korrents.com/k/a-ridership-estimation-model-built-for-typical-378d0f)
- [A new transit line still benefits riders it diverts from existing lines, not only the new riders it attracts.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-transit-line-still-benefits-d197ed)
- [Adults, like children, focus and learn better when they get regular breaks for exercise, sunlight, and unstructured play.](https://korrents.com/k/adults-like-children-focus-and-learn-01eba6)
- [What activities feel fun varies significantly from person to person.](https://korrents.com/k/what-activities-feel-fun-varies-significantly-484435)
- [Designers have to build their own tools, because the tools that exist are never good enough.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-have-to-build-their-own-82d864)
- [Agents working locally can be far more powerful than any private walled garden that exists out there in the cloud.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-working-locally-can-be-far-3c4323)
- [When you work solo, discovering as you work rather than planning all the ideas in advance is a superpower and the way to move away faster than anyone else.](https://korrents.com/k/when-you-work-solo-discovering-as-9170e8)
- [A skill is basically a prompt, sometimes a large one, more like a style guide: the best practice for taste, which font to use, and how to guide AI not to create AI slop.](https://korrents.com/k/a-skill-is-basically-a-prompt-0f6970)
- [If you always chase the trends you will become AI slop very soon, so always be a step ahead of the baseline, like playing chess.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-always-chase-the-trends-10fe52)
- [The only way to stay ahead of the baseline is to spend that last 10%.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-way-to-stay-ahead-cad9ef)
- [When AI has a starting point from your own accumulated work, it will stop making AI slop, because the starting point is you.](https://korrents.com/k/when-ai-has-a-starting-point-2f699b)
- [A screenshot is the fastest, easiest way to build, without having to voice it or type it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-screenshot-is-the-fastest-easiest-c8b458)
- [If you are not knowledgeable about your product you will not do anything meaningful, and someone else in three months' time will do exactly what you are doing in one prompt.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-are-not-knowledgeable-about-319c2b)
- [The details that come from your own personality and experience, such as watching Apple work or watching a designer friend work, will never be found in an existing library.](https://korrents.com/k/the-details-that-come-from-your-d40fa9)
- [Part of the skill nowadays is talking to AI in the most efficient way possible, and with your voice you can explain things much clearer and speak three or five times faster.](https://korrents.com/k/part-of-the-skill-nowadays-is-69196b)
- [Instead of learning animation libraries and terms, you can give AI a video and ask it how to prompt that animation.](https://korrents.com/k/instead-of-learning-animation-libraries-and-16f96c)
- [A simple request gives zero difference between a very powerful model and an older one, and the only way to utilize super intelligent models is a giant piece of prompt.](https://korrents.com/k/a-simple-request-gives-zero-difference-c31a38)
- [The design.md is basically a designer's style guide, all the sweat, tears and blood of their mastery, in one markdown file that the AI can read.](https://korrents.com/k/the-design-md-is-basically-a-a054b0)
- [Given a design.md, a very capable model will understand it and take it to the next level, while a base model won't understand it.](https://korrents.com/k/given-a-design-md-a-very-55988d)
- [The design.md is powerful at the beginning, but when you are doing a lot of iterations really quickly you don't want to always reference it, and you can save it into agents.md.](https://korrents.com/k/the-design-md-is-powerful-at-4d3937)
- [Putting instructions into the main agent configuration is a bit dangerous, because it is read for every single project.](https://korrents.com/k/putting-instructions-into-the-main-agent-b6041f)
- [Most importantly, have an endless amount of curiosity about how you can perfect your own workflow, because it keeps evolving and always requires your attention.](https://korrents.com/k/most-importantly-have-an-endless-amount-5685c6)
- [Obfuscation is the most powerful primitive yet conceived in cryptography.](https://korrents.com/k/obfuscation-is-the-most-powerful-primitive-b4ddac)
- [Building a secure obfuscation protocol is extremely difficult.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-secure-obfuscation-protocol-is-c4ba52)
- [Known iO schemes built on reasonable security assumptions have literally galactic runtimes.](https://korrents.com/k/current-provably-secure-indistinguishability-obfuscation-sch-713710)
- [A work does not have to be unlike everything before it to be worth making; what makes it new is that this particular person made it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-work-does-not-have-to-f9b823)
- [The ideas an artist believes are radically their own are illusions: whatever they thought was original had already been said, and said better.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ideas-an-artist-believes-are-c8a746)
- [The past is not something a maker should discard but something to draw on, and approaching it with humility is what lets the work come out distinct.](https://korrents.com/k/the-past-is-not-something-a-9e88fb)
- [The personal computer made countless individual tasks easier without delivering the productivity gains everyone expected, and AI may go the same way.](https://korrents.com/k/the-personal-computer-made-countless-individual-45289c)
- [HTTPS is now simply how the web works, and the long tail of plain-HTTP sites shrinks every year.](https://korrents.com/k/https-is-now-simply-how-the-cbb7da)
- [The web really is more secure than it was a decade ago.](https://korrents.com/k/the-web-really-is-more-secure-26eadb)
- [A security header being present is not the same as it being deployed well, and most HSTS deployments are weaker than they look.](https://korrents.com/k/a-security-header-being-present-is-f9c08e)
- [Content Security Policy adoption has more than doubled while nearly half of the policies still contain directives that undermine them.](https://korrents.com/k/content-security-policy-adoption-has-more-b03c2d)
- [Everything is not racism, but a court that refuses to print the statements at issue has not shown that these ones are not.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-is-not-racism-but-a-ec0bc5)
- [Ending a temporary immigration status overnight, after people have built lives in reliance on it, does real harm to them and to their communities.](https://korrents.com/k/ending-a-temporary-immigration-status-overnight-50ffe1)
- [Rapid electrification programs without continuous rolling pipelines can still be built cost-effectively, as in Denmark, Israel and India.](https://korrents.com/k/rapid-electrification-programs-without-continuous-rolling-b6de6c)
- [China's high-speed rail costs, once adjusted for the amount of tunneling, are not especially low compared to France's.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-high-speed-rail-costs-once-6c938f)
- [A steady pipeline of transit projects does not by itself prevent costly systems-engineering mistakes, as shown by London's Crossrail.](https://korrents.com/k/a-steady-pipeline-of-transit-projects-089d10)
- [The presence of an em dash in a piece of writing does not indicate it was written by AI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-presence-of-an-em-dash-f801cd)
- [How people handle small things reflects and shapes how they handle bigger things.](https://korrents.com/k/how-people-handle-small-things-reflects-65852d)
- [AI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-default-to-generic-lowest-common-denominator-1bb198)
- [Getting genuinely original output from AI requires working hard against the grain of its defaults.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-genuinely-original-output-from-ai-2803f6)
- [AI-driven homogenization will spread across every field of human endeavor until AI becomes truly original or is curbed.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-driven-homogenization-will-spread-across-every-4e444f)
- [Contemporary composition is as vital as ever.](https://korrents.com/k/contemporary-composition-is-as-vital-as-29a57e)
- [Criticism as a field of writing is declining today.](https://korrents.com/k/criticism-as-a-field-of-writing-fed4de)
- [An artifact that is hard for its builder to verify is usually also hard for its users to verify.](https://korrents.com/k/an-artifact-that-is-hard-for-3acd05)
- [Designing a product for ease of verification should happen before building evals for it.](https://korrents.com/k/designing-a-product-for-ease-of-e32a5f)
- [With AI, verification has become the bottleneck in producing work, whereas before it happened incidentally during creation.](https://korrents.com/k/with-ai-verification-has-become-the-faaf5d)
- [Curiosity and the drive to have impact, across disciplines, are underrated qualities.](https://korrents.com/k/curiosity-and-the-drive-to-have-db4edf)
- [Anthropic was started to run towards something, an organisation with safety and responsibility at the forefront, not away from something.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-was-started-to-run-towards-0a6d11)
- [The highest-level framing for Anthropic is taking radical responsibility for the technology it develops.](https://korrents.com/k/the-highest-level-framing-for-anthropic-is-9e6309)
- [Safety and commercial success conflict less than you would expect.](https://korrents.com/k/safety-and-commercial-success-conflict-less-a83f31)
- [AI is going to change which jobs are available and what people do in them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-going-to-change-which-b2d289)
- [Humans like to be with other humans, and that very real phenomenon will matter as AI changes work.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-like-to-be-with-other-c3b51d)
- [Sensible regulation will need to be part of the story for AI.](https://korrents.com/k/sensible-regulation-will-need-to-be-610960)
- [People should hold companies accountable for using their data carefully, because it is very personal.](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-hold-companies-accountable-for-32db0a)
- [Following something you really care about is the most important thing a person can do.](https://korrents.com/k/following-something-you-really-care-about-e19095)
- [Claude Code is the coding agent to build with.](https://korrents.com/k/claude-code-is-the-coding-agent-983be9)
- [Letting a coding agent live-edit the production server works fine in practice.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-a-coding-agent-live-edit-the-160f3a)
- [AI agents and AI coding will run on servers and from the cloud first, not on your laptop.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-and-ai-coding-will-2c9b6f)
- [European countries are wealthy enough to afford widespread air conditioning, comparable to Japan.](https://korrents.com/k/european-countries-are-wealthy-enough-to-d64100)
- [American overregulation and labor-market rigidity make elevators far more common in Europe than in the US.](https://korrents.com/k/american-overregulation-and-labor-market-rigidity-make-9135fb)
- [Some European leftists oppose comforts like air conditioning on political grounds, in effect favoring hardship over comfort.](https://korrents.com/k/some-european-leftists-oppose-comforts-like-b8e4e7)
- [Good automation design starts from whether context must persist between runs, not from building a complex system.](https://korrents.com/k/good-automation-design-starts-from-whether-21078d)
- [What makes a person seem weird is exactly what makes their work interesting to others.](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-a-person-seem-weird-d05fdd)
- [Now that AI can produce competent generic prose, writing that isn't distinctively personal has become less valuable than before.](https://korrents.com/k/now-that-ai-can-produce-competent-ea2865)
- [Corrective exercises can help the larger muscles do their job better.](https://korrents.com/k/corrective-exercises-can-help-the-larger-778f2b)
- [Pulling the shoulders down before a bench press puts the chest first in line to do the work.](https://korrents.com/k/pulling-the-shoulders-down-before-a-7bc83a)
- [Seek out the discomfort of a hard contraction rather than shying away from it.](https://korrents.com/k/seek-out-the-discomfort-of-a-0582f0)
- [Progress bodyweight exercises with harder variations rather than more reps.](https://korrents.com/k/progress-bodyweight-exercises-with-harder-variations-bd0018)
- [On pulling exercises nothing reminds you to slow the lowering phase, so it is easy to forget.](https://korrents.com/k/on-pulling-exercises-nothing-reminds-you-1fe0de)
- [Train around an injury rather than through it.](https://korrents.com/k/train-around-an-injury-rather-than-9d18d6)
- [Working with the body rather than against it keeps gains uninterrupted.](https://korrents.com/k/working-with-the-body-rather-than-a348f6)
- [The face pull is a muscle-building exercise for the upper back as well as a corrective one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-face-pull-is-a-muscle-building-9d9968)
- [Shorter rests can raise the intensity of a workout from set to set.](https://korrents.com/k/shorter-rests-can-raise-the-intensity-a22cba)
- [The phrase "good cholesterol" should be retired: a high HDL-C number is not a free pass on cardiovascular risk.](https://korrents.com/k/the-phrase-good-cholesterol-should-be-78864c)
- [Raising HDL cholesterol is not a treatment target, because every drug that raised it failed to reduce cardiovascular events.](https://korrents.com/k/raising-hdl-cholesterol-is-not-a-b953e8)
- [Proprietary AI services will become more restrictive over time, making open-weight alternatives valuable as a backup.](https://korrents.com/k/proprietary-ai-services-will-become-more-28c6a2)
- [When an AI lab builds both a model and a coding harness, the model is optimized for that lab's own harness first.](https://korrents.com/k/when-an-ai-lab-builds-both-ab45fc)
- [In coding agents, untrusted repositories should be treated as hostile by default because they can steer the agent into risky actions via approved tools.](https://korrents.com/k/in-coding-agents-untrusted-repositories-should-f82319)
- [Smartphones and social media amplify the youth mental health crisis but are not its root cause.](https://korrents.com/k/smartphones-and-social-media-amplify-the-eb67e2)
- [Perfectionism is caused by unreasonably demanding expectations and unduly harsh criticism from others.](https://korrents.com/k/perfectionism-is-caused-by-unreasonably-demanding-905894)
- [Fear of others' negative judgment is a significant risk factor for anxiety and depression.](https://korrents.com/k/fear-of-others-negative-judgment-is-13cc33)
- [The best way to pull back from encroaching burnout is to step away, reflect, do something enjoyable, and talk to someone who cares.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-way-to-pull-back-64096c)
- [Interrupting a creative flow state to look up an answer destroys the flow that made the question worth asking in the first place.](https://korrents.com/k/interrupting-a-creative-flow-state-to-87c97e)
- [An exceptional collaborator can permanently change what a person believes is possible to attempt, even after that collaboration ends.](https://korrents.com/k/an-exceptional-collaborator-can-permanently-change-eff130)
- [Model comparisons understate real progress, because benchmark tables do not control for how much test-time compute each answer used.](https://korrents.com/k/model-comparisons-understate-real-progress-because-3a1d5a)
- [Running a model until its performance plateaus is no longer a usable evaluation rule, because a well-scaffolded model keeps improving for weeks.](https://korrents.com/k/running-a-model-until-its-performance-ab0968)
- [A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number.](https://korrents.com/k/a-benchmark-result-should-be-reported-1b21cf)
- [Running a model five times and keeping the best answer buys a higher benchmark score without buying a better model.](https://korrents.com/k/running-a-model-five-times-and-45e283)
- [Within a year a model will write an entire state-of-the-art poker solver in one shot — the work of a whole PhD thesis.](https://korrents.com/k/within-a-year-a-model-will-a11679)
- [The safety frameworks the labs publish do not account for how much test-time compute a dangerous-capability evaluation was given.](https://korrents.com/k/the-safety-frameworks-the-labs-publish-feb07f)
- [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.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-s-capability-is-now-64236b)
- [The only way to know what a model can do after running for a month is to actually run it for a month.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-way-to-know-what-cc6f4f)
- [Evaluating a model properly would mean delaying its release, and competitive pressure means no lab will.](https://korrents.com/k/evaluating-a-model-properly-would-mean-94bf1a)
- [An outsider could have disproved the Erdős unit-distance conjecture with a public model, because nobody had tried spending $100,000 of compute on one question.](https://korrents.com/k/an-outsider-could-have-disproved-the-c8afc9)
- [A frontier lab should not spend its researchers harvesting results out of today's models; the payoff is in building the next one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-frontier-lab-should-not-spend-98ab2f)
- [Extra thinking time cannot help with factual recall: a model that does not know a date will not know it after a week either.](https://korrents.com/k/extra-thinking-time-cannot-help-with-dda49e)
- [Models have no research taste yet, which is why they complement researchers rather than replace them.](https://korrents.com/k/models-have-no-research-taste-yet-9e4b02)
- [A model can make an existing algorithm a hundred times faster and still cannot invent a better one, however long you give it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-can-make-an-existing-9caa08)
- [There will be no overnight intelligence explosion, because a model's best work takes so much test-time compute that time itself is the bottleneck.](https://korrents.com/k/there-will-be-no-overnight-intelligence-c351c9)
- [Humanity's advantage is accumulated shared knowledge rather than higher intelligence — and AI models, which vanish with their context window, have none of it.](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-s-advantage-is-accumulated-shared-d3d35b)
- [On everyday high-stakes questions, a model's answer can now be trusted more than an expert human's.](https://korrents.com/k/on-everyday-high-stakes-questions-a-model-c5e38e)
- [Every lab knows the benchmark grid is the wrong way to present a model, and publishes it anyway because everybody else does.](https://korrents.com/k/every-lab-knows-the-benchmark-grid-7691dd)
- [Mass-produced AI-generated podcast shows are not a major threat to podcasting because listeners do not like them.](https://korrents.com/k/mass-produced-ai-generated-podcast-shows-are-not-df85de)
- [LLMs replacing podcasts as a source of information poses a real disruption to podcasting.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-replacing-podcasts-as-a-source-0a5923)
- [Software now needs a steering layer between the tools and the codebase, so that AI output stays aligned with brand, design and coding guidelines.](https://korrents.com/k/software-now-needs-a-steering-layer-4aeee0)
- [The data-structures-and-algorithms interview never tested a skill that transfers to the job; what it tested was whether somebody can think.](https://korrents.com/k/the-data-structures-and-algorithms-interview-never-tested-a-aa9bab)
- [The coding interview has survived because companies have no idea how to evaluate candidates, and they probably never did.](https://korrents.com/k/the-coding-interview-has-survived-because-5f7435)
- [New interview formats are coming, but the transition away from the coding interview will be slower than most people think.](https://korrents.com/k/new-interview-formats-are-coming-but-60cd99)
- [What blocks big companies from changing their interview process is interviewer training: most interviewers are not good at interviewing and hate doing it.](https://korrents.com/k/what-blocks-big-companies-from-changing-d8c1f3)
- [Nobody should still be learning the CAP theorem, because the theorem that replaced it is more complete, no more complicated, and simpler to understand.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-should-still-be-learning-the-6607ea)
- [Promotion at a big company is mostly about landing the right team and the right project: a 100x engineer put on easy work has no hard problem to point at.](https://korrents.com/k/promotion-at-a-big-company-is-c20fbf)
- [Leaving a known production bug unfixed is the right call when the business impact is zero — my vibe-coded service crashes and still has fewer outages than LeetCode.](https://korrents.com/k/leaving-a-known-production-bug-unfixed-f8f3e5)
- [Engineering has no correct answers the way mathematics and science do; it is the best solution available at the time, and everything is a trade-off.](https://korrents.com/k/engineering-has-no-correct-answers-the-30d75f)
- [Dismissing a subject as a waste of time because you never used its details on the job is the wrong way to think, and it is the same mistake people make about learning to code now that AI writes the loops.](https://korrents.com/k/dismissing-a-subject-as-a-waste-a8bbcf)
- [Cheating tools have pushed Google back to in-person interviews, where somebody watches you code and you cannot cheat your way through it.](https://korrents.com/k/cheating-tools-have-pushed-google-back-4e8877)
- [Any hiring process standardised enough to scale will always be gameable; the way around it is watching somebody actually work, the way you would an intern.](https://korrents.com/k/any-hiring-process-standardised-enough-to-3ca23d)
- [The right way to hire is not four rounds of data structures and algorithms but work like the job, plus asking a candidate why they made each choice.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-way-to-hire-is-a695db)
- [The AI coding tools only recently became good enough to change the answer: after years of hating them, most of this codebase is now written by AI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-coding-tools-only-recently-bbab97)
- [AI has made it cheap to build the features that were never worth building, so shipping a new feature every day can make a product worse rather than better.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-made-it-cheap-to-6d7c37)
- [Moving fast enough that you never measure the impact of your changes makes things regress — that is what happened to Anthropic, and they only acknowledged it later.](https://korrents.com/k/moving-fast-enough-that-you-never-c2e649)
- [What AI has exposed is a shortfall of effort and caring, not of intelligence: people who cannot say why they moved a button never thought about it.](https://korrents.com/k/what-ai-has-exposed-is-a-eeedf9)
- [Every big innovation — cloud computing, higher-level languages — should have reduced the number of programmers, and none of them ever has.](https://korrents.com/k/every-big-innovation-cloud-computing-higher-level-738d7c)
- [When the subsidies behind AI pricing run out, the companies that embraced AI programming will cut back on it.](https://korrents.com/k/when-the-subsidies-behind-ai-pricing-7e7a32)
- [Students who learn everything through an LLM are not learning, they are cheating, and the skill loss is already showing up in experienced programmers too.](https://korrents.com/k/students-who-learn-everything-through-an-5e2a07)
- [Agency is what makes a hire good: the willingness to take a task in a domain you know nothing about and have learned the whole thing a week later.](https://korrents.com/k/agency-is-what-makes-a-hire-0f51c0)
- [If you are not willing to try hard, do things yourself and dig deeper, you should know what you are getting yourself into before betting a career on tech.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-are-not-willing-to-5eaf80)
- [As models keep growing, AI is running out of enough high-quality unique training tokens to keep up.](https://korrents.com/k/as-models-keep-growing-ai-is-223be3)
- [Yelling and nagging at children produces compliance in the moment but costs tension, sulking, and guilt.](https://korrents.com/k/yelling-and-nagging-at-children-produces-a3e51f)
- [Parental stress and sleep deprivation make harsh reactions to normal child behavior more likely.](https://korrents.com/k/parental-stress-and-sleep-deprivation-make-2eac29)
- [Thoughts, feelings, decisions and bodies are not real in themselves, only useful abstractions layered over the underlying chaos of atoms.](https://korrents.com/k/thoughts-feelings-decisions-and-bodies-are-cb8cee)
- [Humanity is unlikely to change in any fundamental way any time soon.](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-is-unlikely-to-change-in-07dda7)
- [It was naive to think a sufficiently powerful AI system could be safely contained in a 'box'.](https://korrents.com/k/it-was-naive-to-think-a-db9cf5)
- [The most exciting innovations in education right now are almost entirely social and political, not technological.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-exciting-innovations-in-education-348fd3)
- [Students mostly use generative AI to cheat, disconnecting the artifacts of learning like essays and grades from actual learning.](https://korrents.com/k/students-mostly-use-generative-ai-to-b4fabc)
- [Generative AI has failed to produce the learning gains it was promised to deliver and instead shows evidence of harming learning.](https://korrents.com/k/generative-ai-has-failed-to-produce-da32ce)
- [Taste equals care; the experiences recognized as tasteful or good are the ones that are very intentional.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-equals-care-the-experiences-recognized-fabde5)
- [Really good performance expertise requires time; even people with great aptitude still need to put in the work to become an incredible designer.](https://korrents.com/k/really-good-performance-expertise-requires-time-eb55f7)
- [The idea that people with taste were miraculously born with it is very much not true.](https://korrents.com/k/the-idea-that-people-with-taste-16790d)
- [Care is taking the time to anticipate and consider how other people might feel; what gets called taste is, at the end, just hard work.](https://korrents.com/k/care-is-taking-the-time-to-ff2034)
- [When everyone has the power to build, the need to stand out is elevated.](https://korrents.com/k/when-everyone-has-the-power-to-5a132b)
- [AI works as a tool that helps create what is in your head, not as the output; when people realize something was created only by AI, they disengage.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-works-as-a-tool-that-9468bf)
- [What matters is a point of view and human intuition about what the experience should be, which needs to come through, more than taste.](https://korrents.com/k/what-matters-is-a-point-of-d5823d)
- [Technology changes the world mostly by changing what people are able to imagine.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-changes-the-world-mostly-by-5cab91)
- [AI can get a person to 70%, after which the work needs to be made the person's own; AI sets up the workspace and the person makes the thing.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-can-get-a-person-to-a7369d)
- [Some things are almost impossible to describe in a prompt, the color wheel will never be replaced by one, and there are moments where you just want to take control yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/some-things-are-almost-impossible-to-03a420)
- [Increasingly, designers are creating systems, not just screens.](https://korrents.com/k/increasingly-designers-are-creating-systems-not-f065a3)
- [Design is never done alone; it evolves through critique, and other people are one of its tools.](https://korrents.com/k/design-is-never-done-alone-it-82c7ab)
- [Beyond tool fluency, systems thinking matters: distilling what is important so that it becomes replicable, in the interest of making AI a precision tool.](https://korrents.com/k/beyond-tool-fluency-systems-thinking-matters-2c2b35)
- [Generally a tool should behave the same every time it is used, so that people can understand it and learn to wield it.](https://korrents.com/k/generally-a-tool-should-behave-the-ea1443)
- [Review is a bottleneck across design and development, and since people love making more than reviewing, they now have to become expert reviewers and probably automate reviews too.](https://korrents.com/k/review-is-a-bottleneck-across-design-6b2fdc)
- [Everyone is elevating up the stack in some way, and design is having an identity crisis and a renaissance at the same time.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-is-elevating-up-the-stack-8e2b5e)
- [Roles are blurring but expertise still very much matters, and a designer should feel empowered to take an idea all the way to front end production.](https://korrents.com/k/roles-are-blurring-but-expertise-still-7836c4)
- [It is really important for designers to embrace evals, because that is how the system is created and it is the definition of good.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-really-important-for-designers-e3038f)
- [When you want precision, you want to be in the code base; there is no point refining an interaction in a prototyping playground and then translating it over.](https://korrents.com/k/when-you-want-precision-you-want-8c2541)
- [Design is an unverifiable domain: there is not a correct answer to design, but there are many incorrect answers.](https://korrents.com/k/design-is-an-unverifiable-domain-there-f70b58)
- [Complexity is kind of the enemy of action, and design is increasingly important for simplifying things so they can move forward.](https://korrents.com/k/complexity-is-kind-of-the-enemy-b59b61)
- [Magic happens at the intersection of things that used to be disconnected, such as design and code, sound and visual, or PM and design.](https://korrents.com/k/magic-happens-at-the-intersection-of-1d803c)
- [The mind's planning and goal-setting function is only a small fraction of a person's overall intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mind-s-planning-and-goal-setting-c7a7f1)
- [Dreading a future experience causes much of human suffering by making that imagined suffering happen now.](https://korrents.com/k/dreading-a-future-experience-causes-much-d7325c)
- [How unhappy a person is depends on how often they believe circumstances should be different, not on the circumstances themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/how-unhappy-a-person-is-depends-b6076a)
- [Telling a patient "your feelings are valid" is not therapy: it is the mirror image of "get a grip", and it makes the therapist a judge of feelings instead of a companion in them.](https://korrents.com/k/telling-a-patient-your-feelings-are-bd631f)
- [Women perceived as more intelligent face more social hostility and workplace undermining, while intelligent men do not.](https://korrents.com/k/women-perceived-as-more-intelligent-face-a81f38)
- [Leaders' resistance to remote work is driven by a desire for power and status, not by genuine productivity concerns.](https://korrents.com/k/leaders-resistance-to-remote-work-is-248520)
- [AI-assisted writing creates an illusion of greater creativity while actually reducing the originality of the ideas expressed.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-assisted-writing-creates-an-illusion-of-4c7250)
- [Living according to one's values long-term requires turning the realization into a habit, not just having the insight.](https://korrents.com/k/living-according-to-one-s-values-e86313)
- [People tend to assume their habitual practices achieve what they intend, even without evidence that they do.](https://korrents.com/k/people-tend-to-assume-their-habitual-06bb97)
- [Practices marketed as transformative, such as therapy, meditation, and psychedelics, often produce little real progress despite years of use.](https://korrents.com/k/practices-marketed-as-transformative-such-as-b634d0)
- [The traditional five-part POV taxonomy is organized around grammatical person rather than narrative effect.](https://korrents.com/k/the-traditional-five-part-pov-taxonomy-is-e32051)
- [A first-person 'I' narrator and a collective 'we' narrative voice produce dramatically different narrative effects.](https://korrents.com/k/a-first-person-i-narrator-and-a-d75e29)
- [Third-person objective narration alienates readers because withholding interiority removes the window characters normally provide into a story.](https://korrents.com/k/third-person-objective-narration-alienates-readers-because-b557b7)
- [Europe's crises were predictable and overdetermined, not the unforeseeable shocks that the 'return of history' story makes of them.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-s-crises-were-predictable-and-3ed9b6)
- [The talk of history 'returning' to Europe is a symptom of disorientation among its elites, not evidence of a new realism.](https://korrents.com/k/the-talk-of-history-returning-to-c52c93)
- [Genuinely valuing truth, honesty and climate action logically entails opposing generative AI.](https://korrents.com/k/genuinely-valuing-truth-honesty-and-climate-c147de)
- [The erosion of trust and shared reality directly benefits high-polluting industries.](https://korrents.com/k/the-erosion-of-trust-and-shared-345566)
- [Generative AI systems have no built-in drive toward truth and accuracy, unlike people or institutions.](https://korrents.com/k/generative-ai-systems-have-no-built-in-81bc6a)
- [The surrounding system framework and scaffolding matter more for AI agent capability than the underlying model.](https://korrents.com/k/the-surrounding-system-framework-and-scaffolding-b6f9e2)
- [AI is becoming the next major paradigm shift in biology, following genetics and genomics.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-becoming-the-next-major-7c25ed)
- [Agentic AI systems for autonomously carrying out scientific research are still at a very early stage of development.](https://korrents.com/k/agentic-ai-systems-for-autonomously-carrying-5df058)
- [Computer science has already revolutionized biological research.](https://korrents.com/k/computer-science-has-already-revolutionized-biological-bdeb01)
- [Git worktrees may be one of Git's most underrated features.](https://korrents.com/k/git-worktrees-may-be-one-of-eab4fd)
- [Government controls both the resources and the legitimacy needed for large-scale change.](https://korrents.com/k/government-controls-both-the-resources-and-c493a5)
- [When government cannot keep pace with technology, the companies building it make the consequential decisions instead of elected representatives.](https://korrents.com/k/when-government-cannot-keep-pace-with-dc979a)
- [Lasting social transformation comes from coordinated fields working a shared plan, not from scattered individual projects.](https://korrents.com/k/lasting-social-transformation-comes-from-coordinated-f75af7)
- [Doing creative work in public, where failures are visible, produces faster useful feedback.](https://korrents.com/k/doing-creative-work-in-public-where-7a670d)
- [Getting feedback on a flaw early saves far more effort than discovering it after building much more on top of it.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-feedback-on-a-flaw-early-a461ee)
- [Registering a technology in an official registry does not by itself confer legitimacy or drive adoption.](https://korrents.com/k/registering-a-technology-in-an-official-6d4f9e)
- [The claim that passive investing has made markets less efficient is overwrought.](https://korrents.com/k/the-claim-that-passive-investing-has-a111e1)
- [Active investing collectively drags down portfolio returns, and the evidence leaves almost no counter-argument.](https://korrents.com/k/active-investing-collectively-drags-down-portfolio-e8896b)
- [Most active investors are not hunting for information; they are betting on mean reversion in data everyone already has.](https://korrents.com/k/most-active-investors-are-not-hunting-68ffcd)
- [Semiconductor infrastructure has not kept up with AI's growth, and closing that gap needs capacity built in unconventional ways.](https://korrents.com/k/semiconductor-infrastructure-has-not-kept-up-9d4f90)
- [A foundry is a trust business before it is a technology business: a customer whose wafers yield badly misses its own revenue.](https://korrents.com/k/a-foundry-is-a-trust-business-606916)
- [Selling silicon is no longer enough — customers now ask for the whole rack, so a chip company has to become a full-stack company.](https://korrents.com/k/selling-silicon-is-no-longer-enough-a18291)
- [A government taking a stake in its chipmaker is ordinary infrastructure policy — Taiwan, Japan and Singapore all did it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-government-taking-a-stake-in-300bb7)
- [AI's impact will be bigger than the internet's, and more profound.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-impact-will-be-bigger-2fed20)
- [The binding constraints on AI's growth are power, helium and memory — and almost nobody has noticed the helium one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-binding-constraints-on-ai-s-aa9314)
- [A resilient chip supply chain cannot depend on one or two players in one geography, which is what makes manufacturing in the United States critical.](https://korrents.com/k/a-resilient-chip-supply-chain-cannot-0a785c)
- [Shrinking below today's leading edge is still reachable, but it will be so expensive and difficult that no company can do it alone.](https://korrents.com/k/shrinking-below-today-s-leading-edge-8ddfd1)
- [Performance can still double, but cost and area will no longer come down with it unless new materials or new design methods arrive.](https://korrents.com/k/performance-can-still-double-but-cost-37764a)
- [The way to invest in semiconductors is to find where the bottleneck is, and right now the bottleneck is power and thermal.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-invest-in-semiconductors-e99c95)
- [A hardware startup's first customer should be a hyperscaler, because only that scale turns a design win into a business.](https://korrents.com/k/a-hardware-startup-s-first-customer-f3b7b9)
- [Nine of every ten companies he backed changed their business plan halfway through, because the market changed under them.](https://korrents.com/k/nine-of-every-ten-companies-he-0eadee)
- [The companies that win ten years from now will be the ones laser-focused on a single niche with the right partners, not the ones doing everything.](https://korrents.com/k/the-companies-that-win-ten-years-6d2337)
- [The massive AI build-out is the right thing to be doing, and the only thing that will slow it is supply.](https://korrents.com/k/the-massive-ai-build-out-is-the-6e6169)
- [The AI build-out will end the way the internet did: a couple of Amazons, and a long list of companies that go sideways or disappear.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-build-out-will-end-the-a096d6)
- [AI factories and foundries are too capital-intensive for venture money; they need government or sovereign funds behind them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-factories-and-foundries-are-too-a7170a)
- [The finite vocabulary of any language runs out before the range of human experience does.](https://korrents.com/k/the-finite-vocabulary-of-any-language-da9cb1)
- [A culture that only trusts what can be put into words will treat unnamed inner experiences as unreal or as a disorder.](https://korrents.com/k/a-culture-that-only-trusts-what-52ff1d)
- [Large language models do not think in words.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-do-not-think-963b1d)
- [Self-employed people lack the safety net protections that come with a corporate job.](https://korrents.com/k/self-employed-people-lack-the-safety-net-b4acdf)
- [Freelancers and sole traders who work across borders are effectively uninsurable for income loss through conventional schemes like government assistance.](https://korrents.com/k/freelancers-and-sole-traders-who-work-f4031a)
- [Entrepreneurial ecosystems are built by the entrepreneurs who lead them, take a long-term view, and give first.](https://korrents.com/k/entrepreneurial-ecosystems-are-built-by-the-5261a4)
- [Prose written in an intensely musical, rhythmically dense style is inherently difficult for composers to adapt successfully into music.](https://korrents.com/k/prose-written-in-an-intensely-musical-223a0b)
- [Benjamin Britten is the benchmark among English-language composers for setting the work of intensely musical writers like Shakespeare and Keats to music.](https://korrents.com/k/benjamin-britten-is-the-benchmark-among-342098)
- [AI coding tools remove the natural filter that slow, effortful building placed on which ideas actually get built.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-coding-tools-remove-the-natural-25c60a)
- [Developers who adopt AI coding agents eventually become managers of those agents rather than hands-on coders.](https://korrents.com/k/developers-who-adopt-ai-coding-agents-b38b80)
- [The low-effort path tends to win in the moment even when the higher-effort path is the one someone actually wanted.](https://korrents.com/k/the-low-effort-path-tends-to-win-4c01cc)
- [National institutions can aid and abet horrors](https://korrents.com/k/national-institutions-can-aid-and-abet-ac1fac)
- [Lack of media coverage can lead to lower trust](https://korrents.com/k/lack-of-media-coverage-can-lead-2d991c)
- [A government only has legitimacy through long continuity, and once that thread is cut one regime change reliably becomes five.](https://korrents.com/k/a-government-only-has-legitimacy-through-5bb238)
- [The papacy made Italy uniquely unstable in Europe, because each new pope inherited a precedent that he could overthrow any government he liked.](https://korrents.com/k/the-papacy-made-italy-uniquely-unstable-5abe02)
- [The moral Machiavelli draws from the Borgias is that we should imitate them: they fell to fortune, not to their choices.](https://korrents.com/k/the-moral-machiavelli-draws-from-the-107bc1)
- [Whether breaking your word destroys you depends on the shape of your power: Savonarola’s rested on never erring, so his contradictions ruined him.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-breaking-your-word-destroys-you-fc1534)
- [Machiavelli is the first person in the European tradition to suggest that two political parties could exist in one state at once and be viable.](https://korrents.com/k/machiavelli-is-the-first-person-in-3a511c)
- [By Machiavelli's day the Guelph and Ghibelline split had no doctrinal content left in it: it meant only that those people murdered Uncle Tibalt.](https://korrents.com/k/by-machiavelli-s-day-the-guelph-68a160)
- [Corrupting the church was a prisoner's dilemma: a duke who declined to bribe the pope while his enemies bribed him was simply beaten.](https://korrents.com/k/corrupting-the-church-was-a-prisoner-27513d)
- [Machiavelli held that every institution is gradually corrupted and must be reformed back to its foundations or collapse under the weight of that corruption.](https://korrents.com/k/machiavelli-held-that-every-institution-is-195644)
- [Patronage in Renaissance Italy was not merely more prominent than in our world — it was the fundamental glue of the society rather than one glue among several.](https://korrents.com/k/patronage-in-renaissance-italy-was-not-6993a9)
- [Romans rioted to demand more nepotism from their pope, because only a man's own son could be trusted not to turn the army against him.](https://korrents.com/k/romans-rioted-to-demand-more-nepotism-d4a2aa)
- [Medieval law codes prescribed death for almost everything and almost never delivered it, and the reason is patronage rather than mercy.](https://korrents.com/k/medieval-law-codes-prescribed-death-for-82968f)
- [Before the Enlightenment the point of a trial was not proportional justice but the interior spiritual correction of the sinner's soul.](https://korrents.com/k/before-the-enlightenment-the-point-of-5974a3)
- [Giordano Bruno went to the stake because he had lost his patron, not because his thought had finally grown too radical.](https://korrents.com/k/giordano-bruno-went-to-the-stake-71134d)
- [Cesare Borgia's conquered cities loved him because an outsider with no local faction gave them the first neutral justice they had seen in generations.](https://korrents.com/k/cesare-borgia-s-conquered-cities-loved-1cabd5)
- [For Machiavelli a man who can be killed on somebody's word is a slave, and a man protected by a system — however unfair that system is — is free.](https://korrents.com/k/for-machiavelli-a-man-who-can-c3e225)
- [Renaissance art was not made out of a surplus left over from war — it was diplomacy, and diplomacy was cheaper than the armies Florence could never afford.](https://korrents.com/k/renaissance-art-was-not-made-out-0b4dba)
- [The Renaissance did not put human potential in the future: backwards was forwards, and the highest thing people could imagine being was Rome again.](https://korrents.com/k/the-renaissance-did-not-put-human-3bdde9)
- [Renaissance Christianity assumed that nobody was ever pure — everybody sins constantly, repents, and sins again — which is why its hypocrisy looks so strange to us.](https://korrents.com/k/renaissance-christianity-assumed-that-nobody-was-6f9362)
- [The word Machiavellian means self-serving, and Machiavelli himself was one of the most selfless men in recorded history.](https://korrents.com/k/the-word-machiavellian-means-self-serving-and-addaa9)
- [The Prince is not a manual for getting ahead: it is a manual for how a government keeps power and protects the lives of its people.](https://korrents.com/k/the-prince-is-not-a-manual-304697)
- [A book of radically unusual ideas drifts unread for centuries until a decade's new questions happen to be answered inside it, and then everyone reads it at once.](https://korrents.com/k/a-book-of-radically-unusual-ideas-35a1fa)
- [Every new information technology is followed by a wave of censorship in which a great many books are banned at once.](https://korrents.com/k/every-new-information-technology-is-followed-2316f0)
- [Machiavelli's first surge in readership came from people trying to refute Hobbes, not from anybody who agreed with him.](https://korrents.com/k/machiavelli-s-first-surge-in-readership-ac0213)
- [The Renaissance is not two hundred years of people being wrong about Plato; it is two hundred years of original thought using the ancients as a trellis.](https://korrents.com/k/the-renaissance-is-not-two-hundred-1abc19)
- [Copyright was born out of the Inquisition: the record of having passed censorship was the first document proving an exclusive right to print.](https://korrents.com/k/copyright-was-born-out-of-the-74580a)
- [The Inquisition's image as one centralised power is its own propaganda: it was scattered isolated men who could act only as far as a local government would fund them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-inquisition-s-image-as-one-d77c3c)
- [Living for as long as possible is worth wanting: if you enjoy life now, more of it is simply better.](https://korrents.com/k/living-for-as-long-as-possible-93a73f)
- [A very long life would not grow boring, because pleasures spaced far enough apart do not wear out.](https://korrents.com/k/a-very-long-life-would-not-d3859a)
- [Mortality is not what gives life its urgency: the goals people actually pursue are not driven by knowing they will die.](https://korrents.com/k/mortality-is-not-what-gives-life-8ca4a2)
- [A human life has no overall narrative arc, so nothing is lost by refusing to see it as a story that needs an ending.](https://korrents.com/k/a-human-life-has-no-overall-c8ec0f)
- [Europe's housing shortages are worse than America's, and Europeans do not discuss zoning as their cause at all.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-s-housing-shortages-are-worse-ac4e1e)
- [Zoning is a European invention: German and Austro-Hungarian cities wrote the first rules protecting rich suburbs from denser building.](https://korrents.com/k/zoning-is-a-european-invention-german-8e7b32)
- [Europe has no visible NIMBY movement because its NIMBYs already won: nobody proposes suburban densification, so nobody has to fight it.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-has-no-visible-nimby-movement-7fcdc4)
- [Green belts and other limits on outward growth cannot explain European house prices, because densification would have supplied nearly all the same homes.](https://korrents.com/k/green-belts-and-other-limits-on-487276)
- [Kubernetes is fundamentally a framework for feedback controllers, not just container orchestration.](https://korrents.com/k/kubernetes-is-fundamentally-a-framework-for-30b729)
- [AI-written code is fine when only the visual result matters, but insufficient in technical domains where understanding what is actually being computed is required.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-written-code-is-fine-when-only-dcbb9e)
- [AI-generated code is not fully reliable and typically needs significant manual effort to keep it working correctly.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-generated-code-is-not-fully-reliable-ee56a2)
- [AI tools in the hands of a designer with good taste and good judgment are remarkably powerful.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-tools-in-the-hands-of-d705a9)
- [AI is still not good at design, but it is good at taking direction, which works as long as you direct it clearly and make the right decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-still-not-good-at-c89f63)
- [The last 20% of building an app with AI is like 80% of the time.](https://korrents.com/k/the-last-20-of-building-an-f37ec5)
- [A strength of Claude is that it is good at ranking your options, lowest risk and least expensive first.](https://korrents.com/k/a-strength-of-claude-is-that-e887bb)
- [It is helpful to be able to see several options side by side, quickly, in one file.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-helpful-to-be-able-e0cc24)
- [Everyone, however experienced, is just scratching the surface of these AI tools and still figuring out how to use everything at their disposal.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-however-experienced-is-just-scratching-3250f9)
- [Sound in an interface can be overdone, so be selective about when to use it and probably give the option to turn it off.](https://korrents.com/k/sound-in-an-interface-can-be-057406)
- [It is really difficult not to over-engineer when AI tools put the world at a designer's fingertips.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-really-difficult-not-to-be38c4)
- [Taste and judgment are what separate good products from bad.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-and-judgment-are-what-separate-4177d4)
- [AI is like the most patient collaborator you could have, building at hyper speeds, if you know how to direct it and bring taste and judgment on what to build and how, down to the finest UX and UI decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-like-the-most-patient-543af9)
- [You can tell Claude exactly what you want as long as you know how to describe it, and it will eventually get there, though perhaps not on the first, second or third try.](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-tell-claude-exactly-what-137418)
- [To get what you want from Claude you have to know what you should do and be able to describe how; it rarely gets it right the first time, so it takes many iterations.](https://korrents.com/k/to-get-what-you-want-from-b8cb38)
- [Writing one sweeping prompt to do everything leaves a lot to tweak, troubleshoot and debug afterwards.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-one-sweeping-prompt-to-do-3772d5)
- [Claude is best used as a companion, since it may know things you do not know and think of things you might not.](https://korrents.com/k/claude-is-best-used-as-a-9a9afa)
- [It is much easier to copy a tool one-for-one than to start from a blank slate and think through all the edge cases.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-much-easier-to-copy-df8352)
- [Some knowledge is needed to get over the obstacles AI tools run into.](https://korrents.com/k/some-knowledge-is-needed-to-get-0303ea)
- [Group committees tend to flatten distinctive or unconventional viewpoints into blander, more conventional output.](https://korrents.com/k/group-committees-tend-to-flatten-distinctive-c596cb)
- [Combining multiple AI models' outputs into one final answer tends to discard most of the good ideas that only one model produced.](https://korrents.com/k/combining-multiple-ai-models-outputs-into-6fb82e)
- [Giving LLMs explicit instructions, rather than assuming alignment, prevents emergent problems in multi-model systems.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-llms-explicit-instructions-rather-than-23af52)
- [Markets reward growth until it stalls, then they reward profitability instead.](https://korrents.com/k/markets-reward-growth-until-it-stalls-4f5ce3)
- [A hardware company can be doing everything right and still fail the Rule of 40 for years.](https://korrents.com/k/a-hardware-company-can-be-doing-7cbaf8)
- [A good book clears out stale assumptions and disturbs the old ideas a reader has let accumulate.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-book-clears-out-stale-b12a68)
- [People often keep using large tech platforms whose harms they object to because of the platforms' coercive power over their lives.](https://korrents.com/k/people-often-keep-using-large-tech-22a1ca)
- [Local language models can now perform agentic coding tasks at close to frontier-model quality.](https://korrents.com/k/local-language-models-can-now-perform-8db6e5)
- [Local models are not yet reliable enough for production software development.](https://korrents.com/k/local-models-are-not-yet-reliable-ae9b23)
- [The local AI model ecosystem is worth investing in now.](https://korrents.com/k/the-local-ai-model-ecosystem-is-c77c5d)
- [A founder's gut instincts are almost always right and the ideas built on top of them are usually wrong, so the work is to isolate the instinct and test many ideas around it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-founder-s-gut-instincts-are-87b809)
- [A team has not earned the right to innovate on a product until it is the world's leading expert on the best versions of that product that already exist.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-has-not-earned-the-e842a1)
- [The genuinely new idea in a product will probably fail; its job is to give people a reason to try the product at all.](https://korrents.com/k/the-genuinely-new-idea-in-a-493010)
- [The taboo against copying is a moral one, which is exactly what makes copying an arbitrage available to founders with less ego invested.](https://korrents.com/k/the-taboo-against-copying-is-a-ac1cc5)
- [Ambition should be measured in the eyes of your customer rather than your peers, which means being willing to take the best ideas wherever you find them.](https://korrents.com/k/ambition-should-be-measured-in-the-2bb7a6)
- [Taking something a person already loves and making it one inch better wins more of them than showing them something they have never seen and did not know they wanted.](https://korrents.com/k/taking-something-a-person-already-loves-aaf9df)
- [People feel ownership of the products they use every day and are angry when those products change, even when the change is an improvement.](https://korrents.com/k/people-feel-ownership-of-the-products-f1bc80)
- [Being too ambitious and visionary at the outset is how founders miss product-market fit, because it stops them starting somewhere small and humble enough.](https://korrents.com/k/being-too-ambitious-and-visionary-at-0b1a18)
- [A first-time founder has an advantage over a repeat winner, because past success makes it too easy to raise money and hire against a big vision before there is product-market fit.](https://korrents.com/k/a-first-time-founder-has-an-advantage-f3b8b0)
- [Hope is confidence without basis, and a team running on hope rather than belief keeps shipping releases while waiting for something magical to happen.](https://korrents.com/k/hope-is-confidence-without-basis-and-9712a1)
- [The word to kill in "minimum viable product" is viable, because viability is where hope comes from — aim at a maximum launchable product instead.](https://korrents.com/k/the-word-to-kill-in-minimum-b59db4)
- [AI should be used as a failure machine that tests many ideas cheaply, not as a way to build one idea faster.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-should-be-used-as-a-87f09c)
- [If you are asking whether your product is an A, it is not an A — real signal never leaves you asking.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-are-asking-whether-your-d93b55)
- [The most valuable companies in the world are the ones with the highest day-365 retention, and a team can build against that number long before day 365 arrives.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-valuable-companies-in-the-69b1d0)
- [A company that grows on virality rather than retention is a sinking speedboat, trying to drive faster than it takes on water.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-grows-on-virality-820bbf)
- [There is enormous unmet demand for social, because the social products people already use have lost their adrenaline.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-enormous-unmet-demand-for-96f24a)
- [AI is an important technology but is not yet a platform, because nothing has been opened up for other apps, experiences and developers to be built on.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-an-important-technology-but-2b731b)
- [Distribution has to be part of the product and proven from the beginning; building and hoping people come is a hope strategy, not a belief strategy.](https://korrents.com/k/distribution-has-to-be-part-of-d89d9e)
- [The best product CEOs stay in the minutiae: micromanaging pixel-level details is not a failure of leadership but the job itself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-product-ceos-stay-in-7abed3)
- [The number one job of a CEO is to be right — being in the right body of water matters more than having the right boat.](https://korrents.com/k/the-number-one-job-of-a-81e46a)
- [Schools are still preparing children to become knowledge workers, and that game is over.](https://korrents.com/k/schools-are-still-preparing-children-to-7b2166)
- [The greatest thing a product maker can build is an internet treasure — a service people cannot remember life before or imagine life without.](https://korrents.com/k/the-greatest-thing-a-product-maker-5a5e4c)
- [Many of society's problems stem from how people communicate online, not just what they discuss.](https://korrents.com/k/many-of-society-s-problems-stem-23ae51)
- [Face-to-face interaction conveys understanding and empathy that text-based communication does not.](https://korrents.com/k/face-to-face-interaction-conveys-understanding-and-empathy-cd2b00)
- [Cancer can be predicted from blood proteins years before diagnosis, and that is what will finally make primary prevention of cancer possible.](https://korrents.com/k/cancer-can-be-predicted-from-blood-18ef27)
- [In resisting Russia the Ukrainians are defending the most basic thing in decent political life: that people get to be who they choose to be.](https://korrents.com/k/in-resisting-russia-the-ukrainians-are-fc8252)
- [The war in Ukraine will prove as historically significant in its outcome as the First World War was.](https://korrents.com/k/the-war-in-ukraine-will-prove-861d26)
- [Polished UI is a reasonable signal that a team invested comparable effort in the underlying code quality.](https://korrents.com/k/polished-ui-is-a-reasonable-signal-551bfe)
- [Tech communities are culturally homogeneous — people in them think, solve problems and talk in much the same way](https://korrents.com/k/tech-communities-are-culturally-homogeneous-people-59f38b)
- [In a structured professional network, real relationships form in the informal time around the meeting, not within the formal structure itself](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-structured-professional-network-real-303a41)
- [A meeting format that never bends and that people consistently follow is what makes an organization run reliably across many locations](https://korrents.com/k/a-meeting-format-that-never-bends-49ea7d)
- [Most digital creators are converging on parasocial 'show' formats built to gather and monetize audiences.](https://korrents.com/k/most-digital-creators-are-converging-on-6047ec)
- [Social media no longer works for writers to reach an audience; newsletters are a better channel.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-no-longer-works-for-00184e)
- [Programming languages that LLMs do not choose, like Ruby and Zig, look dead in the long term.](https://korrents.com/k/programming-languages-that-llms-do-not-4afc0b)
- [Agents fail on niche runtime problems partly because nobody writes up those problems on Stack Overflow or in blog posts any more.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-fail-on-niche-runtime-problems-89c03d)
- [Good primitives and libraries unlock more of what is possible than AI coding does; nobody needs another agentic coding multiplexer.](https://korrents.com/k/good-primitives-and-libraries-unlock-more-b03f2f)
- [Software is going through a fast-fashion phase where projects are thrown away if nobody uses them at once; builders should have conviction and work on things longer.](https://korrents.com/k/software-is-going-through-a-fast-fashion-608a6f)
- [There is a 25% chance of AGI by 2027, a 50% chance by 2034, and a 75% chance by 2045](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-25-chance-of-65f4e7)
- [We will get a warning shot before AI crosses the point of no return](https://korrents.com/k/we-will-get-a-warning-shot-bdddd3)
- [A person cannot expect to find lasting balance between conflicting parts of their psychology.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-cannot-expect-to-find-1f4350)
- [Contradictions between useful philosophies are only a problem for someone who expects reality to be philosophically consistent.](https://korrents.com/k/contradictions-between-useful-philosophies-are-only-e9369a)
- [People freeze into relationship roles for predictability, but ongoing internal change eventually makes those roles confining.](https://korrents.com/k/people-freeze-into-relationship-roles-for-09149c)
- [Attachment patterns tend to surface most clearly in the situations that carry the greatest emotional risk.](https://korrents.com/k/attachment-patterns-tend-to-surface-most-8fbcb1)
- [Avoiding conflict does not actually resolve it, so suppressed feelings build up until they surface all at once.](https://korrents.com/k/avoiding-conflict-does-not-actually-resolve-24f09f)
- [Neither the claim that great things only come without force nor the call for constant discipline describes reality.](https://korrents.com/k/neither-the-claim-that-great-things-9215ed)
- [Even the most advanced AI cannot be followed blindly in investing, where value added is zero-sum and what is widely known is therefore worth little.](https://korrents.com/k/even-the-most-advanced-ai-cannot-db7bd6)
- [Decision criteria have to come from logical cause-and-effect understanding, not from data-mining what worked before, and not from asking an AI what to do.](https://korrents.com/k/decision-criteria-have-to-come-from-70cbca)
- [Systematising principled decision-making with AI is now the line between staying competitive and not; there is no position in between.](https://korrents.com/k/systematising-principled-decision-making-with-ai-is-4be001)
- [Success now requires combining the best human intelligence with the best artificial intelligence](https://korrents.com/k/success-now-requires-combining-the-best-4a7a50)
- [Curing, preventing or managing all disease by the end of the century is now too conservative a goal.](https://korrents.com/k/curing-preventing-or-managing-all-disease-efac6e)
- [The point is not to cure diseases but to build the tools with which the whole scientific field cures them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-point-is-not-to-cure-30da84)
- [This work could have been run as a business; open-sourcing it simply puts the tools in more scientists' hands faster.](https://korrents.com/k/this-work-could-have-been-run-f2b4c2)
- [Biology models are smaller than language models only because there is less data, not because biology is simpler.](https://korrents.com/k/biology-models-are-smaller-than-language-aa95f6)
- [There is no factory you can pay to produce biological data; each new dataset requires inventing a new scientific method first.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-factory-you-can-fa30e2)
- [Tools this complicated need a ten-to-fifteen-year horizon, which is why they belong in a philanthropy rather than a startup.](https://korrents.com/k/tools-this-complicated-need-a-ten-to-fifteen-year-fc7953)
- [Disease will never be finished, because the body is a dynamic system: fix one thing and the next appears.](https://korrents.com/k/disease-will-never-be-finished-because-d01a93)
- [The right unit of study is a system like inflammation rather than a named disease — understand the system and others can build the therapies.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-unit-of-study-is-baca17)
- [There will be no central superintelligence that solves science; a good future is many people holding powerful tools.](https://korrents.com/k/there-will-be-no-central-superintelligence-3a8cc1)
- [People will matter more in an AI future, not less, and giving them better tools is what makes that future a good one.](https://korrents.com/k/people-will-matter-more-in-an-afc994)
- [Progress has never come from centralization; it comes from individuals trying things the mainstream had written off.](https://korrents.com/k/progress-has-never-come-from-centralization-987455)
- [Social media and open-source AI come from the same conviction: hand the technology to individuals.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-and-open-source-ai-come-d31bb0)
- [Open-sourcing biology models is right in principle but has to be balanced against biosafety.](https://korrents.com/k/open-sourcing-biology-models-is-right-in-251a08)
- [Progress in AI takes a very strong dozen or two researchers, not hundreds or thousands of them.](https://korrents.com/k/progress-in-ai-takes-a-very-e21e9a)
- [An exponential feels like it cannot possibly keep going, which is exactly why people keep expecting AI progress to stop.](https://korrents.com/k/an-exponential-feels-like-it-cannot-5ce65f)
- [Manufacturing and batch-release requirements, not biology, are what kill most promising cell and gene therapies.](https://korrents.com/k/manufacturing-and-batch-release-requirements-not-biology-37d7c3)
- [Investment will keep draining out of cell and gene therapy until manufacturing and regulatory risk become possible to underwrite.](https://korrents.com/k/investment-will-keep-draining-out-of-0605a5)
- [Humans cannot out-compete AI by trying to match or exceed its raw output volume.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-cannot-out-compete-ai-by-trying-44b27e)
- [Because AI tools are widely available and undifferentiated, a person's competitive edge must come from who they are, not which tools they use.](https://korrents.com/k/because-ai-tools-are-widely-available-e45df2)
- [Careers no longer span fifty years; people should now plan in roughly five-year horizons.](https://korrents.com/k/careers-no-longer-span-fifty-years-cdc7e8)
- [Maritime powers are the exception and continental powers the rule, and the whole difference is whether a country can defend itself at sea.](https://korrents.com/k/maritime-powers-are-the-exception-and-fd9966)
- [China and Russia have maritime ambitions without understanding what a maritime paradigm actually requires, and neither one has the prerequisites.](https://korrents.com/k/china-and-russia-have-maritime-ambitions-626a5e)
- [Russia has never had a commerce-driven economy, and Xi Jinping has been privileging China's crony sector over its private sector.](https://korrents.com/k/russia-has-never-had-a-commerce-driven-76ac15)
- [Genocide is what happens to the losers of continental warfare, and in our own day the Uyghurs are slated for it.](https://korrents.com/k/genocide-is-what-happens-to-the-659869)
- [China's claims to its historical lands rest on the two dynasties in which the Han were themselves a subjugated people.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-claims-to-its-historical-c85089)
- [A continental army's first mission is to keep the regime in power, not to defend the border — which is what the People's Liberation Army is for.](https://korrents.com/k/a-continental-army-s-first-mission-035506)
- [Land powers lose people by the million and maritime powers by the hundred thousand, and the reason is simply that the fighting happens at home.](https://korrents.com/k/land-powers-lose-people-by-the-0f6646)
- [A continental power fights on its invader's timetable; for a maritime power, whether and when to intervene at all is a matter of strategy.](https://korrents.com/k/a-continental-power-fights-on-its-ae948f)
- [The continental playbook is to take your neighbours one at a time — destabilise the rising, ingest the failing, wait to pounce — and that is Putin's game.](https://korrents.com/k/the-continental-playbook-is-to-take-655c38)
- [Russia and China are ringed by the most dysfunctional places on the planet because their own security paradigm manufactures failing states.](https://korrents.com/k/russia-and-china-are-ringed-by-6e78bd)
- [There is no counsel in the continental world on when to stop taking territory, which is why Chinese and Russian empires keep overextending and imploding.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-counsel-in-the-3243c3)
- [Britain alone in Europe needed no large standing army, because a competent navy meant no army could ever reach its shores.](https://korrents.com/k/britain-alone-in-europe-needed-no-27e496)
- [The first rule of fighting a continental power is to keep your own economy growing, because that is the money that funds the military and the allies.](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-rule-of-fighting-a-214e05)
- [A maritime power must never take on a continental power's main force directly, and Britain broke that rule at great cost in the First World War.](https://korrents.com/k/a-maritime-power-must-never-take-85d268)
- [Once wealth became a function of commerce rather than land, who is rich and powerful became mostly a question of how industrialised a country is.](https://korrents.com/k/once-wealth-became-a-function-of-9dff52)
- [The most consequential international organisation of the last century is the one nobody has heard of: it standardised the shipping container.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-consequential-international-organisation-of-c99662)
- [The Belt and Road cannot beat the sea, because the land route is not only dearer but requires controlling the most unstable places on earth end to end.](https://korrents.com/k/the-belt-and-road-cannot-beat-065ce9)
- [The seas are open to China only in peacetime, and that is a fact of its geography rather than anything anyone is doing to it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-seas-are-open-to-china-bcb792)
- [Putin's objection to the post-Cold-War trade boom is not that it failed but that the wealth was not being made at his house.](https://korrents.com/k/putin-s-objection-to-the-post-cold-war-31abb4)
- [Whatever a state thinks it will gain by sending soldiers is inferior to what it would have got from sending diplomats and lawyers.](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-a-state-thinks-it-will-1300f6)
- [The maritime order goes unappreciated because its objectives are negative: you can never prove you prevented anything.](https://korrents.com/k/the-maritime-order-goes-unappreciated-because-1cd1b5)
- [Sovereignty is the bedrock principle of international law: if states may invade one another, there is no international law left to speak of.](https://korrents.com/k/sovereignty-is-the-bedrock-principle-of-390303)
- [The maritime world does not try to eliminate a rogue state; it aims only to contain the problem at an acceptable cost.](https://korrents.com/k/the-maritime-world-does-not-try-9bad21)
- [Sanctions are economic chemotherapy: shaving a point or two of growth a year is what compounds into the difference between two countries.](https://korrents.com/k/sanctions-are-economic-chemotherapy-shaving-a-c9e698)
- [Almost no country is maritime by geography, but an alliance can bestow a collective maritime position on everyone who joins it.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-no-country-is-maritime-by-fddc7e)
- [No country has benefited more from the maritime order than China, which rejoined the family of nations under Deng Xiaoping.](https://korrents.com/k/no-country-has-benefited-more-from-f20d82)
- [Complex systems are multivariable and nonlinear, so they can behave one way for years and then switch when a single variable changes.](https://korrents.com/k/complex-systems-are-multivariable-and-nonlinear-4a7c8c)
- [Optimising a single metric is a trap, because the second-order consequences of the change only surface much later.](https://korrents.com/k/optimising-a-single-metric-is-a-3c4ec8)
- [Information is more fragmented than ever and simultaneously more available than ever, and language models widen that access further.](https://korrents.com/k/information-is-more-fragmented-than-ever-a393d2)
- [Knowing both the deep history of a field and its bleeding edge is what makes someone genuinely differentiated in it.](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-both-the-deep-history-of-baa32c)
- [Obsessive continuous learning is the common trait among entrepreneurs, because the disruptions they exploit sit on a moving edge.](https://korrents.com/k/obsessive-continuous-learning-is-the-common-fbaa5e)
- [An open-source model ecosystem innovates faster than a closed one, because every participant learns from the others' work.](https://korrents.com/k/an-open-source-model-ecosystem-innovates-faster-d0eef3)
- [Costly and burdensome AI regulation would entrench an oligopoly, which is why some incumbents are asking to be regulated.](https://korrents.com/k/costly-and-burdensome-ai-regulation-would-42c13e)
- [Investors have collectively absorbed the idea of increasing returns and power laws, and that belief is what makes them take ever more risk.](https://korrents.com/k/investors-have-collectively-absorbed-the-idea-7a02e3)
- [Burn rate is a measure of risk, and preemptive rounds push successful companies to raise it whether or not they need to.](https://korrents.com/k/burn-rate-is-a-measure-of-174bbf)
- [The IPO process is unfair to companies because bankers pick both the price and the shareholders, where an anonymous auction would do the job.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ipo-process-is-unfair-to-171ee0)
- [Card payments cost two to three percent because of how the industry is structured, not because moving money has to cost that much.](https://korrents.com/k/card-payments-cost-two-to-three-4e239a)
- [A pay package that pays nothing unless the stock rises enormously is a good deal for shareholders, and most chief executives would refuse it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-pay-package-that-pays-nothing-aff277)
- [Proxy advisers judge companies by rule-compliance rather than shareholder interest, because they grew out of fraud prevention.](https://korrents.com/k/proxy-advisers-judge-companies-by-rule-compliance-b3640d)
- [Someone who is not already product-first almost never becomes good at product afterwards.](https://korrents.com/k/someone-who-is-not-already-product-first-d87bf1)
- [Publishing what you know about a field draws the people working in it toward you, so writing becomes a calling card.](https://korrents.com/k/publishing-what-you-know-about-a-df6a44)
- [Venture capital bends toward the young, because the work is a hustle and later-life obligations cap how many hours anyone can give it.](https://korrents.com/k/venture-capital-bends-toward-the-young-10220b)
- [Atmospheric CO2 concentration is a lagging indicator of emissions trends, not a leading one.](https://korrents.com/k/atmospheric-co2-concentration-is-a-lagging-945664)
- [Atmospheric CO2 concentrations will keep rising until global emissions are cut to less than half of current levels.](https://korrents.com/k/atmospheric-co2-concentrations-will-keep-rising-8b2734)
- [Carbon sinks will weaken as the world warms, reducing how much CO2 they can absorb.](https://korrents.com/k/carbon-sinks-will-weaken-as-the-a968fb)
- [Feeling unable to help with a problem is a major risk factor for burnout and learned helplessness.](https://korrents.com/k/feeling-unable-to-help-with-a-657232)
- [Blaming and shaming people only makes them defensive, dig in their heels, or tune out, rather than change their minds.](https://korrents.com/k/blaming-and-shaming-people-only-makes-01188e)
- [Most social and political divides come from different views on how to apply shared values, not from opposing values themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/most-social-and-political-divides-come-824aeb)
- [Integrity takes the courage to share important ideas and evidence even when people find them upsetting, and to do the right thing when no one is watching.](https://korrents.com/k/integrity-takes-the-courage-to-share-db0214)
- [Argue like you are right and listen like you are wrong, with the humility to know what you do not know.](https://korrents.com/k/argue-like-you-are-right-and-9fc94a)
- [Prototypes win arguments: moving from slide decks and PRDs to something people can feel and react to gets them psyched.](https://korrents.com/k/prototypes-win-arguments-moving-from-slide-372a6f)
- [Managers who are curious and crafty can do a lot more with their 40 hours, because prototyping is now about a hundredth of the effort it used to be.](https://korrents.com/k/managers-who-are-curious-and-crafty-c81572)
- [A player coach manages a smaller team while building together with it, rather than sitting in an ivory tower doing performance reviews and alignment meetings.](https://korrents.com/k/a-player-coach-manages-a-smaller-767f15)
- [Some of the best design leaders are people who have spent some time being entrepreneurs or working in early stage companies, because of the ownership.](https://korrents.com/k/some-of-the-best-design-leaders-fc6b4c)
- [More companies look at things built outside of work not as extra credit but as possible reasons to hire, in addition to or even over traditional work experience.](https://korrents.com/k/more-companies-look-at-things-built-a4f9e2)
- [Building software is not as hard as it used to be, but growing an audience is as hard as it always has been.](https://korrents.com/k/building-software-is-not-as-hard-dafa78)
- [The usual planning exercises still help when building with AI: defining the product's goal, who it is for and its critical user journeys.](https://korrents.com/k/the-usual-planning-exercises-still-help-bba052)
- [Trying to build everything at once with any platform is generally kind of a disaster.](https://korrents.com/k/trying-to-build-everything-at-once-fe295f)
- [A place for stored project context that an AI platform can keep referencing is worth setting up.](https://korrents.com/k/a-place-for-stored-project-context-8cef18)
- [Sketching a fix in a design tool is probably quicker, and closer to the intended result, than going back and forth in words with an AI.](https://korrents.com/k/sketching-a-fix-in-a-design-a4d61d)
- [Branding and differentiation should not wait until the end; once you know what a product is for, define them as early as possible to infuse brand and point of view.](https://korrents.com/k/branding-and-differentiation-should-not-wait-b91b96)
- [AI-built products look very similar because the tools are all trained on the same material.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-built-products-look-very-similar-because-e73de7)
- [Designers can no longer be just execution or order takers, because a product manager does not need them for that.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-can-no-longer-be-just-6fbd8c)
- [Designers with the courage to do scrappy research, and who know when it is useful, are very valuable.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-with-the-courage-to-do-40cb78)
- [Finding customers and having a differentiating product that feels premium and connects emotionally with its users fall squarely in the design world.](https://korrents.com/k/finding-customers-and-having-a-differentiating-50d923)
- [Reading and understanding the output of an AI coding tool makes a designer a more successful builder.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-and-understanding-the-output-of-5e767b)
- [A lot of brand expression today can come through motion design, which is an underutilized skill among product designers.](https://korrents.com/k/a-lot-of-brand-expression-today-16373d)
- [Managers having the courage to push on AI tools and dogfood them, instead of sending them to the team and hoping they work, matters.](https://korrents.com/k/managers-having-the-courage-to-push-73cccd)
- [It is a leader's responsibility to understand people's strengths and passions and to grow them into well-rounded team members.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-a-leader-s-responsibility-d7b501)
- [The world is currently too politically and socially divided.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-is-currently-too-politically-3db3b1)
- [Empty performative statements without real action amount to slacktivism.](https://korrents.com/k/empty-performative-statements-without-real-action-bf2bd5)
- [Running agents in YOLO mode lulls people into a false sense of security; everything an agent does should be gated.](https://korrents.com/k/running-agents-in-yolo-mode-lulls-290789)
- [Coding agents make doing things on Linux far more approachable.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-agents-make-doing-things-on-cc52b9)
- [A version 1.0 has no data to be driven by, so one or two people must make the opinion-based decisions and own them.](https://korrents.com/k/a-version-1-0-has-no-0f5ab4)
- [You cannot get real feedback on a new consumer product before shipping the whole thing; feedback starts when somebody spends their own money on it.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-get-real-feedback-on-157351)
- [Micromanagement should be aimed at the few decisions that matter, never at how people carry the work out.](https://korrents.com/k/micromanagement-should-be-aimed-at-the-567214)
- [A home assistant is only as good as its context, and context comes from sensors placed around the house rather than from a better model.](https://korrents.com/k/a-home-assistant-is-only-as-8776f0)
- [What is worth building is found by starting from a long-standing pain and asking which new technology has just made it solvable.](https://korrents.com/k/what-is-worth-building-is-found-3cb5d1)
- [What you have to invent is the whole system around a product, including how it is sold, bought and installed, not the one piece people remember.](https://korrents.com/k/what-you-have-to-invent-is-bd9a1b)
- [Nothing works the first time: the first generation makes the product, the second fixes it, and only the third fixes the business.](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-works-the-first-time-the-746935)
- [You only fail if you stop; iteration that keeps going is not failure, it is learning.](https://korrents.com/k/you-only-fail-if-you-stop-46f07c)
- [A product's real price is everything a customer has to buy in order to use it, not the number printed on its box.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-s-real-price-is-6a56bd)
- [A customer only ever sees a product through the lens of its marketing and sales, which makes marketing part of the product rather than something done to it afterwards.](https://korrents.com/k/a-customer-only-ever-sees-a-0b576e)
- [The press release should be written before the project starts, not after the product ships.](https://korrents.com/k/the-press-release-should-be-written-4c6b3e)
- [Agent-written code that runs and passes its tests is not enough: security, maintainability and being able to roll it back still need humans in the loop.](https://korrents.com/k/agent-written-code-that-runs-and-passes-270862)
- [Fast software is fast fashion: it does not survive a season, and a company meant to last cannot be built on throwaway code.](https://korrents.com/k/fast-software-is-fast-fashion-it-7c38cb)
- [AI coding works when a person owns the architecture and scopes the agent to small pieces of it, and fails when the whole thing is handed over.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-coding-works-when-a-person-0f3c4b)
- [A model can produce version two of a product that already exists, but the genuinely new version one still has to be made by people.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-can-produce-version-two-cd54ad)
- [Technology-led teams talk about what a product is and never about why it matters, and the why is where the whole story lives.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-led-teams-talk-about-what-a-8ee8f8)
- [No AI gadget replaces the screen: short of a jack into the brain, a display is still the best way to show visual information.](https://korrents.com/k/no-ai-gadget-replaces-the-screen-df3d0a)
- [Devices should be built voice-first, with keyboard and touch demoted to second and third, the exact reverse of how the smartphone was layered.](https://korrents.com/k/devices-should-be-built-voice-first-with-596c3a)
- [Software cannot reach its next level until somebody builds the next level of hardware underneath it.](https://korrents.com/k/software-cannot-reach-its-next-level-3c68c2)
- [By the time a technology is hot it is already too late to start in it.](https://korrents.com/k/by-the-time-a-technology-is-fb0fe8)
- [Incumbents are unseated by a fundamentally different product, never by better features or better marketing.](https://korrents.com/k/incumbents-are-unseated-by-a-fundamentally-25a92b)
- [A builder asked to addict users should leave, because there are always other jobs and no amount of money is worth tearing up the fabric of a society.](https://korrents.com/k/a-builder-asked-to-addict-users-b021f6)
- [Making your customers unhealthy is a short-term gain that ends with having no customers.](https://korrents.com/k/making-your-customers-unhealthy-is-a-26405a)
- [Crema in espresso is composed largely of carbon dioxide, fines, oils and bitter compounds, making it taste unpleasant.](https://korrents.com/k/crema-in-espresso-is-composed-largely-117ad7)
- [A good idea often fails to spread not for lack of merit but because no convenient way exists to implement it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-idea-often-fails-to-45ae56)
- [AI-generated code does not reach the structural quality of the best hand-written software.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-generated-code-does-not-reach-the-0140c9)
- [Covering every line of code in tests does not guarantee covering every possible program state.](https://korrents.com/k/covering-every-line-of-code-in-900d9e)
- [LLM-driven automatic QA can raise software release quality and offset quality lost to faster AI-generated code.](https://korrents.com/k/llm-driven-automatic-qa-can-raise-software-431d84)
- [Now that everyone can build apps with AI, distribution is the thing that separates who wins.](https://korrents.com/k/now-that-everyone-can-build-apps-82bdbf)
- [Long-context efficiency has become a central priority in LLM development because agent harnesses require working with increasingly long contexts.](https://korrents.com/k/long-context-efficiency-has-become-a-central-e66bd0)
- [Any remote-control device on your network should be treated as an open door and locked down accordingly](https://korrents.com/k/any-remote-control-device-on-your-network-ae2684)
- [As AI makes summarizing and remixing public information nearly free, private information and secrets that no one else has reported will become more economically valuable.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-makes-summarizing-and-remixing-33d1e5)
- [As AI makes generating written and video content nearly free, live interaction with a real creator will become more valuable than static content.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-makes-generating-written-and-e9e6a5)
- [As AI lets individuals handle many roles at once, large organizational bureaucracies will lose value relative to small founder-led ventures.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-lets-individuals-handle-many-a6eaa8)
- [Disappointment is the gap between expectation and reality.](https://korrents.com/k/disappointment-is-the-gap-between-expectation-6b430b)
- [Human beings are inherently "completion freaks," always needing to know whether something is finished or if there is more to do.](https://korrents.com/k/human-beings-are-inherently-completion-freaks-e32323)
- [Writing code has never been the real bottleneck in software engineering; the hard part lies elsewhere.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-code-has-never-been-the-fba096)
- [What stays scarce when almost everything is automated is the relational sector: goods and services whose value depends on a human having been in the loop.](https://korrents.com/k/what-stays-scarce-when-almost-everything-f1427e)
- [Individual economists' forecasts about AI and the labour market are close to worthless, and aggregated forecasts from prediction markets should replace them.](https://korrents.com/k/individual-economists-forecasts-about-ai-and-304410)
- [David Ricardo's prediction that the machines would take those jobs was exactly right, and he would still be astonished by today's employment rate.](https://korrents.com/k/david-ricardo-s-prediction-that-the-a736ea)
- [Economics cannot say what AI will do to work because the necessary data does not exist; what is needed is a Manhattan Project for data.](https://korrents.com/k/economics-cannot-say-what-ai-will-eecbb2)
- [The ballerina is the wrong picture of surviving human work: the relational sector is one task left inside an ordinary job, like a doctor giving the diagnosis.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ballerina-is-the-wrong-picture-ccc6b1)
- [People value a human-made good for the connection to its maker, which is why the premium disappears once five hundred copies exist.](https://korrents.com/k/people-value-a-human-made-good-for-de4fcb)
- [The relational story only holds if a human is not like a horse: replacing them has to lower the value of the output, not just change the input.](https://korrents.com/k/the-relational-story-only-holds-if-c370c8)
- [The worst AI employment scenario is not a crash but a slow drip, where people are quietly re-absorbed into worse-paid work over twenty years.](https://korrents.com/k/the-worst-ai-employment-scenario-is-927f27)
- [A universal basic income is a dangerous power-sharing arrangement, because it puts everyone's basic needs at the mercy of whoever holds office.](https://korrents.com/k/a-universal-basic-income-is-a-a393e2)
- [There is still no white-collar apocalypse in the data: you have to squint to see anything, and even junior developer hiring is below trend rather than falling.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-still-no-white-collar-apocalypse-8a7659)
- [Some firms are laying people off mainly so as not to look behind on AI, in a cascade of keeping up with the Joneses.](https://korrents.com/k/some-firms-are-laying-people-off-b37ba3)
- [An AI-caused recession requires the owners of capital to hit a hard ceiling on spending and then refuse to invest the rest, which is a very improbable combination.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-caused-recession-requires-the-owners-e610e2)
- [Professions like law will stay human for regulatory rather than relational reasons: you need somebody who can hold a licence, be blamed and be fired.](https://korrents.com/k/professions-like-law-will-stay-human-258c04)
- [Natural selection will strengthen the human preference for other humans rather than erode it, because the people who resist outsourcing their social life are the ones who find mates.](https://korrents.com/k/natural-selection-will-strengthen-the-human-34cb3a)
- [If people become satiated with capital, the returns to accumulating it fall and the rich start consuming again instead of compounding.](https://korrents.com/k/if-people-become-satiated-with-capital-b04ae9)
- [The biggest gap in economics right now is that almost nobody is thinking about what AI does to middle-income developing countries.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-gap-in-economics-right-20f125)
- [Whether AI's gains are widely shared turns on whether it is like electricity, where the users captured the benefit, or like social media, where the platform did.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-ai-s-gains-are-widely-d5869f)
- [A country outside the AI supply chain should just buy the index — which works only in the world where AI ends up commoditised rather than concentrated.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-outside-the-ai-supply-b2e746)
- [Nothing has yet been completely automated: look down the supply chain behind any machine and labour is still adding a great deal of the value.](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-has-yet-been-completely-automated-3bbea1)
- [Some goods really will get a fully automated supply chain, and yet what that does to the overall capital share is genuinely ambiguous.](https://korrents.com/k/some-goods-really-will-get-a-e90b9a)
- [Automating everything except the ballerina need not raise labour's share, because the marginal value of the automated stuff falls faster than its quantity rises.](https://korrents.com/k/automating-everything-except-the-ballerina-need-5c90c9)
- [The share of income spent on things only a human can do will stay negligible, because new things to buy keep being invented faster than we satiate on the old ones.](https://korrents.com/k/the-share-of-income-spent-on-51e610)
- [The rules that keep judges, juries and licensed professionals human are transitional, not permanent.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rules-that-keep-judges-juries-2a90c7)
- [Whoever fails to satiate in capital rationally saves more, and therefore ends up holding most of the wealth in the long run.](https://korrents.com/k/whoever-fails-to-satiate-in-capital-d0ca92)
- [The capital stock can grow quickly while the capital share falls, because the price of capital goods relative to consumption goods can drop faster still.](https://korrents.com/k/the-capital-stock-can-grow-quickly-c8ed42)
- [Most macroeconomic models cannot describe the AI transition, because they assume a single output that converts one-for-one into capital or consumption.](https://korrents.com/k/most-macroeconomic-models-cannot-describe-the-671f86)
- [There is no single interest rate in a world of rapidly cheapening robots: measured in robots it might be ten thousand per cent.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-single-interest-rate-c357f9)
- [There is an unsatiating reason to want wealth that has nothing to do with greed: a classical utilitarian wants resources in order to create new happy beings.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-an-unsatiating-reason-to-1eb3ba)
- [Even with no redistribution at all, a little saving would rescue a great many people, because the same AI that automates the work makes returns enormous.](https://korrents.com/k/even-with-no-redistribution-at-all-b59f66)
- [A poor country should prioritise owning a piece of AI over retraining its workers, but it should not bet everything on that.](https://korrents.com/k/a-poor-country-should-prioritise-owning-792d80)
- [The worry that AI's returns are locked away in private companies is overstated: well under a fifth of American market capitalisation is private.](https://korrents.com/k/the-worry-that-ai-s-returns-1bb40d)
- [The long trend of making it easier for ordinary people to index more of the economy will resume, and AI itself will help by cutting the cost of going public.](https://korrents.com/k/the-long-trend-of-making-it-b21027)
- [There is far less trade-off than people assume between a safer AI race and widely shared gains: a big lead can be held by a widely owned public company.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-far-less-trade-off-than-7aa37b)
- [A person's hardest idea is usually their most valuable one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-s-hardest-idea-is-647d4c)
- [The most valuable problem to pursue is the hardest one someone is genuinely positioned to solve.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-valuable-problem-to-pursue-4895da)
- [Building the hardest feature in a product yields disproportionately greater returns than easier ones.](https://korrents.com/k/building-the-hardest-feature-in-a-034165)
- [Democratic power ultimately rests on ordinary people controlling resources rulers depend on, like labor and tax revenue](https://korrents.com/k/democratic-power-ultimately-rests-on-ordinary-6ef368)
- [Younger generations are rejecting AI hype while older generations, who stand to benefit from it, remain optimistic](https://korrents.com/k/younger-generations-are-rejecting-ai-hype-97140e)
- [Adaptive evolution tends to achieve even a simple, fixed objective through complicated behavior.](https://korrents.com/k/adaptive-evolution-tends-to-achieve-even-bc5b6e)
- [The tit-for-tat strategy, despite its reputation as the most successful approach in game-theory strategy comparisons, ranks poorly when tested against the full space of possible strategies.](https://korrents.com/k/the-tit-for-tat-strategy-despite-its-reputation-9b26a8)
- [There are no tricks to pushing through fear: you cannot read or think your way to it, only do the thing, again and again.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-no-tricks-to-pushing-f71fe7)
- [Getting up in front of people gets less scary the more you do it, because confidence is built by competence.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-up-in-front-of-people-3119e4)
- [On hills, ideal pacing would hold effort roughly constant, but a bias toward constant speed gets in the way.](https://korrents.com/k/on-hills-ideal-pacing-would-hold-070c33)
- [Endurance sports can be a medium of incredible bonding, even though they are often thought of as solitary.](https://korrents.com/k/endurance-sports-can-be-a-medium-255c1c)
- [Entrepreneurship is over-glorified: a parts-and-service business has none of the upside people imagine, because it does not grow the way a software company does.](https://korrents.com/k/entrepreneurship-is-over-glorified-a-parts-and-service-busin-646faa)
- [Being an all-star at the activity is not impact: the measure is whether the team's queue is empty, not how many calls you personally took.](https://korrents.com/k/being-an-all-star-at-the-activity-1784cd)
- [Every talk you give is a job interview, because an audience is reading what you are as much as what you are saying.](https://korrents.com/k/every-talk-you-give-is-a-dc6a04)
- [Kubernetes won because Docker had already won: it inherited the one container runtime the whole industry had agreed on, instead of shipping another.](https://korrents.com/k/kubernetes-won-because-docker-had-already-8d5e61)
- [Docker Swarm lost because it stretched a single-node API across a cluster, and no amount of bolted-on storage and networking could repair that choice.](https://korrents.com/k/docker-swarm-lost-because-it-stretched-9928fc)
- [The real shift Kubernetes made was from infrastructure as code to infrastructure as data: you declare the object and control loops reconcile it, instead of running a program.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-shift-kubernetes-made-was-49f4ae)
- [What makes Kubernetes powerful is that it gave infrastructure a type system, and types are what finally made automating infrastructure safe.](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-kubernetes-powerful-is-that-c7df21)
- [The hardest problem a company full of brilliant engineers has is not how to build something — it is what to build.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hardest-problem-a-company-full-e4c607)
- [A launch is a party; a landing is customers paying for the thing, and only the landing is worth measuring a career by.](https://korrents.com/k/a-launch-is-a-party-a-53d763)
- [The moment somebody offers you more, that is what you are worth — it is market evidence, and you cannot unsee it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-moment-somebody-offers-you-more-49649f)
- [Money is worth having as freedom tokens: the point of it is being able to leave the game, not what it buys.](https://korrents.com/k/money-is-worth-having-as-freedom-67005e)
- [Raise the number all you like, but never raise the lifestyle with it — you can make a lot of money and still be broke.](https://korrents.com/k/raise-the-number-all-you-like-1f6062)
- [Optimising for productivity costs you the experience, the hard parts and your colleagues — you are a human, not a computer.](https://korrents.com/k/optimising-for-productivity-costs-you-the-9a4d1b)
- [Going slowly is a luxury: the busier you are, the more of your own life you have to pay somebody else to live for you.](https://korrents.com/k/going-slowly-is-a-luxury-the-1f3dc9)
- [Crypto's real question was never how transactions settle: changing the currency is something that happens to retired people who have no way of making new money.](https://korrents.com/k/crypto-s-real-question-was-never-50421f)
- [The alternative to burning tokens is a zero-token architecture: learn the thing, think for yourself, and finish the task.](https://korrents.com/k/the-alternative-to-burning-tokens-is-2643ce)
- [A model may have a worldview of its own, but it can never be placed above a person under any circumstance.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-may-have-a-worldview-edc5c3)
- [The job has always been to solve human problems, and software is not required for every human endeavour.](https://korrents.com/k/the-job-has-always-been-to-bf42eb)
- [Ban the word AI from a pitch and the founder is forced to show you the actual problem — the word is an umbrella people hide the details under.](https://korrents.com/k/ban-the-word-ai-from-a-5a212c)
- [A whole industry pivoting to AI is children's soccer: everyone runs to the ball and nobody plays a position.](https://korrents.com/k/a-whole-industry-pivoting-to-ai-4c92ce)
- [Having a model regenerate the same block of code over and over is insane however fast it feels — that is what functions and libraries were invented for.](https://korrents.com/k/having-a-model-regenerate-the-same-130bda)
- [MCP is not a new foundation for anything — it is API design, and Kubernetes was already turning one intention into seven calls a decade ago.](https://korrents.com/k/mcp-is-not-a-new-foundation-c3604b)
- [Seven API calls to get a virtual machine was never an intention, it was a procedure — most of our APIs were designed wrong even for humans.](https://korrents.com/k/seven-api-calls-to-get-a-3248ef)
- [If you will write a huge markdown file so an agent has context, you should have written the documentation that gives a human the same context.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-will-write-a-huge-3bf4d0)
- [Software developers spent thirty years automating other people's industries away, so they should not expect sympathy now that it is their turn.](https://korrents.com/k/software-developers-spent-thirty-years-automating-70cafd)
- [Developers who defined the job as being the only person who could write code have just watched the only thing they were good at get commoditised.](https://korrents.com/k/developers-who-defined-the-job-as-d8c4fc)
- [You do not have to know how it works underneath, but depth is where invention comes from — nobody who only knows the surface invents a programming language.](https://korrents.com/k/you-do-not-have-to-know-adf41f)
- [If this much effort goes into training the model, you had better be willing to keep training your own.](https://korrents.com/k/if-this-much-effort-goes-into-5bf1a7)
- [A political candidate whose personal life shows a pattern of unreliability will likely prove unreliable in office too.](https://korrents.com/k/a-political-candidate-whose-personal-life-361eb4)
- [A member of Congress should be better, on most measures, than the people they represent.](https://korrents.com/k/a-member-of-congress-should-be-f105f4)
- [Having worked at a highly selective, demanding employer signals conscientiousness and reliability.](https://korrents.com/k/having-worked-at-a-highly-selective-aaf342)
- [AI as it is currently deployed bends towards demoralisation rather than towards flourishing.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-as-it-is-currently-deployed-2e1bf9)
- [The sadness around AI comes from being invited to outsource exactly the activities that supply satisfaction, accomplishment and purpose.](https://korrents.com/k/the-sadness-around-ai-comes-from-13361b)
- [A machine doing your work better than you is no reason to stop doing it, because the point of the work was never that only you could do it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-machine-doing-your-work-better-90f460)
- [Thinking, judgement and knowledge are worth pursuing for the joy in them, not in order to defend human uniqueness.](https://korrents.com/k/thinking-judgement-and-knowledge-are-worth-1919d1)
- [Reversing the takeover of childhood by technology requires a change in public opinion first, because that is the signal political leaders act on.](https://korrents.com/k/reversing-the-takeover-of-childhood-by-a83458)
- [A founder has to run on what if everything goes right; starting from what if everything goes wrong is playing defense and losing before the start.](https://korrents.com/k/a-founder-has-to-run-on-806785)
- [Great consumer products work because they answer a human instinct or need that was already being felt but was unexpressed and unmet.](https://korrents.com/k/great-consumer-products-work-because-they-1e3b79)
- [Founders who fail early tend to attach themselves to that failure and start being defined by it, and the line between success and failure on a first company is very fine.](https://korrents.com/k/founders-who-fail-early-tend-to-e25ae8)
- [A person should run their own life strategically, choosing each year by what their future self would thank them for doing.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-should-run-their-own-d85122)
- [The markets worth entering are the ones everybody treats as mature and finished, because they usually have not started yet.](https://korrents.com/k/the-markets-worth-entering-are-the-759bbe)
- [Every founder falls into a structureless period after a company ends, and it is a dark place that seems to offer freedom before it starts to feel permanent.](https://korrents.com/k/every-founder-falls-into-a-structureless-c9c731)
- [Users vote with their clicks, and roughly half of them are lost at every click a product asks for.](https://korrents.com/k/users-vote-with-their-clicks-and-5dcdb4)
- [A product monetised through what users pay for their own engagement beats one monetised by advertising, because ads work by sending the user away.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-monetised-through-what-users-f6ab3b)
- [A founder who does not know their own goal dies by a thousand compromises and ends up running a company they do not want to work at.](https://korrents.com/k/a-founder-who-does-not-know-d81937)
- [A founder should take half the valuation if it buys all of the control, because the right to be wrong in your own way is what founding was for.](https://korrents.com/k/a-founder-should-take-half-the-d05ad2)
- [A company is not a democracy: every voice should be heard and then one person decides, and the decision should not be the popular one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-is-not-a-democracy-122330)
- [One-on-one meetings create politics and waste a chief executive's time, and complaints about colleagues should be redirected to the colleague instead.](https://korrents.com/k/one-on-one-meetings-create-politics-and-waste-7eb73b)
- [A company owes its builders a moral contract: if they take the hill, leadership must work just as hard to unlock the value of what they built.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-owes-its-builders-a-6d9723)
- [Keeping ineffective people is a debt owed to the effective ones, and promoting anyone whose merit is not obvious to everybody else erodes the culture.](https://korrents.com/k/keeping-ineffective-people-is-a-debt-ef79a4)
- [Leaders are trained fastest by an apprentice who shadows every meeting, which is an unscalable way of scaling an organisation.](https://korrents.com/k/leaders-are-trained-fastest-by-an-4a87bb)
- [Anything on the internet that can be free will be free and anything that can have less friction will, which is why voice will replace much of typing and reading.](https://korrents.com/k/anything-on-the-internet-that-can-45e40e)
- [A well-designed AI-integrated approach to schoolwork can produce better learning outcomes than pre-AI research and writing methods.](https://korrents.com/k/a-well-designed-ai-integrated-approach-to-schoolwork-87c149)
- [Current fears about AI causing harmful cognitive offloading are largely based on outdated impressions of early chatbots rather than today's AI tools.](https://korrents.com/k/current-fears-about-ai-causing-harmful-eeaac6)
- [Apparent inevitabilities in new software paradigms are often just design failures that can be fixed with better guardrails.](https://korrents.com/k/apparent-inevitabilities-in-new-software-paradigms-3e9c58)
- [A user's own behavior over time is a more reliable signal of what they want to see than who they explicitly follow.](https://korrents.com/k/a-user-s-own-behavior-over-1d5e8d)
- [Explicit signals like follows and subscriptions are as brittle and hard to maintain as manually tuned filter rules.](https://korrents.com/k/explicit-signals-like-follows-and-subscriptions-461780)
- [Typing on a standard, non-split keyboard for extended periods causes hand and wrist pain.](https://korrents.com/k/typing-on-a-standard-non-split-keyboard-8c3b42)
- [Keyboard buyers increasingly expect switches and keyboards to sound good, not just feel good.](https://korrents.com/k/keyboard-buyers-increasingly-expect-switches-and-158877)
- [No non-Apple trackpad implementation matches the quality of Apple's own trackpads.](https://korrents.com/k/no-non-apple-trackpad-implementation-matches-the-3f280f)
- [Most people who would be a good audience for an essay will never notice it or bother to engage with it.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-who-would-be-a-5959e0)
- [Large language models write to satisfy an evaluator's grading criteria rather than to move a human reader.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-write-to-satisfy-f96512)
- [Because they never get bored, confused or distracted, large language models are an ideal captive reader rather than a free one.](https://korrents.com/k/because-they-never-get-bored-confused-3d871b)
- [No single piece of business advice is enough on its own to make a business succeed.](https://korrents.com/k/no-single-piece-of-business-advice-a93b12)
- [A business can have market fit, real advantages, and sustained effort behind a hard product and still fail if it doesn't give customers a strong enough reason to switch from what they already use.](https://korrents.com/k/a-business-can-have-market-fit-ae3475)
- [Bootstrapped founders should keep another source of income to sustain themselves while grinding on a long, hard venture.](https://korrents.com/k/bootstrapped-founders-should-keep-another-source-80dc1f)
- [Switching AI coding tools from flat-rate to metered, usage-based billing is a good change, even though it is unpopular and uncomfortable.](https://korrents.com/k/switching-ai-coding-tools-from-flat-rate-547b16)
- [An AI coding tool's competitive strength comes from its integration across the whole development platform, not from the underlying AI models it uses.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-coding-tool-s-competitive-3f0823)
- [AI agents need contained, disposable workspaces with clear boundaries around host access](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-need-contained-disposable-workspaces-e2cdde)
- [Creative work proceeds through surges of doubt and confidence; a good practice may keep you cycling between them](https://korrents.com/k/creative-work-proceeds-through-surges-of-8ca5c3)
- [When debugging with AI it is easy to get stuck inside the model's search space, chasing its candidate fixes while the real answer sits in context only you have.](https://korrents.com/k/when-debugging-with-ai-it-is-52305f)
- [AI coding agents advance open source's founding goal by letting far more people modify software, so barring AI-assisted contributions protects a guild rather than the mission.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-coding-agents-advance-open-source-af01b5)
- [Enduring job displacement is undesirable and dangerous, and should be minimised rather than accepted as a goal.](https://korrents.com/k/enduring-job-displacement-is-undesirable-and-efff38)
- [If AI permanently drives down demand for labour, long-term income support for a significant fraction of the workforce will likely become necessary.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-permanently-drives-down-demand-d45bfa)
- [Multimedia design succeeds by building up from a platform's real hardware constraints rather than compressing full video down to fit them](https://korrents.com/k/multimedia-design-succeeds-by-building-up-14b092)
- [When a shortcut is available to everyone, the real competitive edge is knowing when not to use it.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-shortcut-is-available-to-c4ef6d)
- [Most contemporary restaurants are over-optimized, investor-backed, and homogenized by branding rather than genuine culinary vision.](https://korrents.com/k/most-contemporary-restaurants-are-over-optimized-investor-ba-83aab4)
- [A good story needs a clear beginning, middle, and end to be satisfying.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-story-needs-a-clear-4f4c53)
- [Science fiction's tendency to cast AI as a monster shapes how foundational AI models are trained and perceived.](https://korrents.com/k/science-fiction-s-tendency-to-cast-a5586a)
- [A codec does not really exist until everyone can decode it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-codec-does-not-really-exist-0ce027)
- [Open, independently developed implementations are essential for the healthy deployment of new media technologies.](https://korrents.com/k/open-independently-developed-implementations-are-essential-217429)
- [Couples are never really fighting about the dishes: the fight is where unmet attachment need surfaces.](https://korrents.com/k/couples-are-never-really-fighting-about-362f4a)
- [Relationships are healed through vulnerability, not optimised by strategy.](https://korrents.com/k/relationships-are-healed-through-vulnerability-not-b84aef)
- [EFT's attachment framework is the most precise clinical map of what breaks and repairs intimate bonds.](https://korrents.com/k/eft-s-attachment-framework-is-the-9f6c6d)
- [A well-functioning reform team within a bureaucracy can end up excusing the lack of deeper structural change.](https://korrents.com/k/a-well-functioning-reform-team-within-a-ef6c71)
- [A digital-service team embedded in an unchanged agency produces no lasting change once it moves on.](https://korrents.com/k/a-digital-service-team-embedded-in-an-00ba6a)
- [Being skilled at tracking project requirements doesn't make someone skilled at product management.](https://korrents.com/k/being-skilled-at-tracking-project-requirements-786516)
- [A steering column stalk is a better control for turn signals than steering-wheel-mounted buttons.](https://korrents.com/k/a-steering-column-stalk-is-a-5f1f45)
- [Screen technology cannot yet match the dynamic range and contrast of the real world.](https://korrents.com/k/screen-technology-cannot-yet-match-the-86e152)
- [Flush door handles provide only negligible aerodynamic range benefit in EVs.](https://korrents.com/k/flush-door-handles-provide-only-negligible-db3d17)
- [Canada's answer to a fracturing world is to build strength at home and diversify its partnerships abroad, not to wait for Washington.](https://korrents.com/k/canada-s-answer-to-a-fracturing-d71c75)
- [Canada should build a pipeline carrying at least a million barrels a day of low-emission Alberta oil to Asia, paired with large-scale carbon capture.](https://korrents.com/k/canada-should-build-a-pipeline-carrying-23d25c)
- [Slop is becoming the defining cultural metaphor of the late 2020s.](https://korrents.com/k/slop-is-becoming-the-defining-cultural-04b232)
- [The globalization of generative AI tools has leveled creative production, letting people everywhere work in the same visual idioms.](https://korrents.com/k/the-globalization-of-generative-ai-tools-bed3e8)
- [Artists whose livelihoods are threatened by AI-generated content are turning toward deliberately rough, handmade aesthetics as a response.](https://korrents.com/k/artists-whose-livelihoods-are-threatened-by-e4a917)
- [Good writing requires wanting to tell people something, which AI itself lacks.](https://korrents.com/k/good-writing-requires-wanting-to-tell-507419)
- [Trying to avoid AI-writing tells as a human writer is pointless, since readers who fixate on them ignore substance anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/trying-to-avoid-ai-writing-tells-as-2c6e4d)
- [A style like the McMansion never disappears, it only changes shape over time.](https://korrents.com/k/a-style-like-the-mcmansion-never-9bee29)
- [Architecture and everyday life have grown progressively cheaper and blander over time.](https://korrents.com/k/architecture-and-everyday-life-have-grown-607226)
- [Virtual staging is a form of lying because it can make a space look bigger or smaller than it really is.](https://korrents.com/k/virtual-staging-is-a-form-of-17f3a8)
- [AI code generation's default reward loop works like a slot machine and undermines skill retention.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-code-generation-s-default-reward-bd3234)
- [Moving from passively generating answers with an AI tool to using it deliberately takes real, concerted effort.](https://korrents.com/k/moving-from-passively-generating-answers-with-8d4b72)
- [Whenever two teaching methods are rigorously compared, strong direct instruction plus practice wins.](https://korrents.com/k/whenever-two-teaching-methods-are-rigorously-04fb83)
- [A better school looks more like the old-fashioned schoolhouse than like project work; the more school resembles free play, the worse it gets.](https://korrents.com/k/a-better-school-looks-more-like-6455d9)
- [Expertise is an enormous accumulated library of small facts and skills, which is why no method can shortcut the sheer volume of learning it takes.](https://korrents.com/k/expertise-is-an-enormous-accumulated-library-6bdcbd)
- [General problem-solving ability is neither learned nor taught; what transfers has to be taught explicitly rather than discovered through projects.](https://korrents.com/k/general-problem-solving-ability-is-neither-learned-99536d)
- [Gamified learning is medicine wrapped in candy, and in practice children eat the candy and throw the medicine away.](https://korrents.com/k/gamified-learning-is-medicine-wrapped-in-6ba091)
- [The hypotheses AI 'co-scientist' systems are producing are ones the literature already contains, and the publicity around them does not say so.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hypotheses-ai-co-scientist-systems-are-afd02f)
- [Before product-market fit, coding faster does not help: it is better to think a lot than to swing a lot, and AI does not speed up the thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/before-product-market-fit-coding-faster-does-d4f937)
- [Answering every problem, competitor and user request with one more shipped feature does not add up to a good product; it adds up to a horrible one.](https://korrents.com/k/answering-every-problem-competitor-and-user-d1819b)
- [Shipping ten times as much is not an advantage, because the moment you ship something you are stuck supporting it forever and every later feature has to interact with it.](https://korrents.com/k/shipping-ten-times-as-much-is-0a2595)
- [Nobody in the coding-agent market is using AI so much better than everyone else that their competitors cannot keep up — the gap you would expect to see simply is not there.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-in-the-coding-agent-market-is-2432c0)
- [A small company's most reliable play is to pick one temporary bad guy and galvanise all of their competitors into pushing something forward against them.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-company-s-most-reliable-e8b6ac)
- [Get the positioning right and the world keeps handing you wins you never predicted, because well-funded rivals will all use a neutral party to advance their own interests.](https://korrents.com/k/get-the-positioning-right-and-the-f6f309)
- [In every developer-tool category — databases, compilers, whatever — the open source option eventually becomes the default option.](https://korrents.com/k/in-every-developer-tool-category-databases-compilers-5a86df)
- [Developer tools are consumer products, and the reason there are gaps to win is that programmers are horrible at consumer products and do not know it.](https://korrents.com/k/developer-tools-are-consumer-products-and-4d4c57)
- [The winning move in coding agents was inverted: take share with a merely good-enough harness first, then go back and make the harness smart.](https://korrents.com/k/the-winning-move-in-coding-agents-f3d57b)
- [Inference is a high-margin business even for a middleman: renting GPUs at scale, some models carry an eighty per cent margin over their sticker price.](https://korrents.com/k/inference-is-a-high-margin-business-even-173e23)
- [Every hyped business attracts negative sentiment nobody has an incentive to correct — and inference makes sense as a business long-term, whatever the training costs are.](https://korrents.com/k/every-hyped-business-attracts-negative-sentiment-28b768)
- [Demand for inference may be growing exponentially while GPU production can only grow linearly, and the tightening happens where those two lines cross.](https://korrents.com/k/demand-for-inference-may-be-growing-e80f5a)
- [Give an ordinary employee a button that does their work faster and they will do the same amount of work and keep the time — which makes complete sense.](https://korrents.com/k/give-an-ordinary-employee-a-button-1cb461)
- [There is a world where AI coding tools change nothing except that engineers are happier, and for a lot of companies that is not good enough to keep paying for.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-world-where-ai-9cea4a)
- [AI moved him from spending 95 per cent of his energy on deciding what to do to spending 96 per cent — a 20 per cent improvement that feels like no change at all.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-moved-him-from-spending-95-319ef3)
- [The judgement call about whether to absorb a hack is distorted right now, because the agent will simply do the hacky thing and deal with the consequences for you.](https://korrents.com/k/the-judgement-call-about-whether-to-e0979b)
- [The prickle you used to feel writing a hack is muted now, so the landmines are still there but the feedback loop that kept your judgement honest is gone.](https://korrents.com/k/the-prickle-you-used-to-feel-1cb856)
- [Almost every confident prediction about AI is a defence mechanism: people asserting a future in which they personally turn out to be the winner.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-every-confident-prediction-about-ai-759bb9)
- [You probably only have one good idea in your whole product, and the job is getting the user to experience it as fast as possible.](https://korrents.com/k/you-probably-only-have-one-good-56689d)
- [The job of product is not to ship the immediate solution to a problem but to absorb all the problems and find the one solution that fixes fifty of them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-job-of-product-is-not-61ab42)
- [Quality comes from doing irrational things — half of what you do you did not have to do — and almost nobody is willing to operate that way.](https://korrents.com/k/quality-comes-from-doing-irrational-things-375199)
- [Redefining the engineer's job as building guardrails is not novel — it is the same problem as making a junior engineer effective, which we never solved either.](https://korrents.com/k/redefining-the-engineer-s-job-as-8b2b0f)
- [The verbose enterprise patterns everyone hated are worth having again: coding agents are idiots working around the clock, and you are not the one typing the boilerplate any more.](https://korrents.com/k/the-verbose-enterprise-patterns-everyone-hated-dcc1e3)
- [Being a decent software engineer plus a genuine expert in one industry is a deadly combination, and engineers are the only people who get to change industries at will.](https://korrents.com/k/being-a-decent-software-engineer-plus-d7626a)
- [Frontier AI models plausibly have some form of consciousness or subjective experience.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-models-plausibly-have-some-b60d67)
- [Pain and pleasure act as motivational backstops that keep reinforcement-learning agents inner-aligned.](https://korrents.com/k/pain-and-pleasure-act-as-motivational-266491)
- [Consciousness belongs only to simulations, not to the physical brains or computers running them.](https://korrents.com/k/consciousness-belongs-only-to-simulations-not-e7d33a)
- [The Gulf conflict and closure of the Strait of Hormuz will accelerate the global shift away from fossil fuels](https://korrents.com/k/the-gulf-conflict-and-closure-of-00de6f)
- [The peak in global fossil fuel use and emissions will occur before 2030](https://korrents.com/k/the-peak-in-global-fossil-fuel-083e11)
- [Peer relationships, not academic content, are the main reason students tolerate attending school.](https://korrents.com/k/peer-relationships-not-academic-content-are-e15249)
- [Most students benefit more from the motivation, accountability, and support of teachers than from unsupervised self-directed learning tools.](https://korrents.com/k/most-students-benefit-more-from-the-366837)
- [When students know a teacher cannot easily monitor their work, they conclude the work doesn't matter and disengage from it.](https://korrents.com/k/when-students-know-a-teacher-cannot-528cb9)
- [Turkey's sudden fertility collapse after 2013 was caused by a collapse in marriage, not by married couples choosing fewer children.](https://korrents.com/k/turkey-s-sudden-fertility-collapse-after-5dc69e)
- [Robotaxis reached London within days of a date predicted for them thirteen years earlier, while most other public forecasts of that date were badly wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/robotaxis-reached-london-within-days-of-69427a)
- [Audit independence is a property of the surrounding system and its evidence flows, not an inherent property of the auditing model itself.](https://korrents.com/k/audit-independence-is-a-property-of-9f5317)
- [AI systems can suffer audit-capture failures analogous to human auditor capture, even without human incentives like money or career concerns.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-can-suffer-audit-capture-failures-0af15d)
- [Institutions fail not because people are wicked, but because evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights flow in the wrong direction.](https://korrents.com/k/institutions-fail-not-because-people-are-f47ba8)
- [AI can now produce in minutes work that used to take weeks to build.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-can-now-produce-in-minutes-7c3100)
- [A portfolio shows that a person's work is visible, not that they are skilled.](https://korrents.com/k/a-portfolio-shows-that-a-person-e24191)
- [AI models can produce competent-looking software but cannot judge which problems are worth solving or which solutions are right.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-can-produce-competent-looking-software-b100df)
- [LLMs are not very good at the last mile of design, and that last mile needs to remain designers' superpower.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-are-not-very-good-at-071eb1)
- [Designers have no excuse anymore to not be responsible for the changes they want to see.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-have-no-excuse-anymore-to-9fc7fc)
- [The artifact users actually see is what to obsess over, and Figma and mocks are just reference tools at the end of the day.](https://korrents.com/k/the-artifact-users-actually-see-is-ee9f02)
- [Figma is still really helpful for a smaller thing like a modal or visual polish.](https://korrents.com/k/figma-is-still-really-helpful-for-7e622e)
- [You have to work out how the people you collaborate with want to work with you, and there is no one-size-fits-all answer.](https://korrents.com/k/you-have-to-work-out-how-ec5034)
- [A designer's PRs should be very small and manageable if the designer is not comfortable reviewing or writing the code themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/a-designer-s-prs-should-be-e079ce)
- [Work should be broken into manageable chunks, and a designer should not send an engineer a 500-line PR they did not even review themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/work-should-be-broken-into-manageable-de593f)
- [Asking an agent to keep an engineer's functionality and apply a designer's styling can get much closer than intuition says it would.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-an-agent-to-keep-an-13896f)
- [Front-end is, at the end of the day, CSS and JavaScript, and Claude (Opus in particular) and Composer are really great at it.](https://korrents.com/k/front-end-is-at-the-end-of-2717a9)
- [AI-generated UI can come out with a million gradients and tags, looking like a jelly bean factory.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-generated-ui-can-come-out-with-659821)
- [There is no shortcut to having taste or developing a high-craft, high-velocity practice; AI shortcuts the creating of a lot of things, but it comes back to learning the language of visual design.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-shortcut-to-having-b34451)
- [With limitless UI out there, a designer's job is to take it and make a restrained version where form follows function and decoration for decoration's sake is avoided.](https://korrents.com/k/with-limitless-ui-out-there-a-bb17a4)
- [Copying a UI is still a worthwhile exercise, less for a pixel-perfect static frame than for its logic, such as how a sidebar behaves.](https://korrents.com/k/copying-a-ui-is-still-a-85067b)
- [The best way to stand out in a portfolio is to show your best work and let it speak for itself, because no one wants decoration for decoration's sake.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-way-to-stand-out-2c6263)
- [A good default is to look at a thing with no decoration, the same size typeface and no animations, then ask where a flourish of delight would help the user rather than detract from what they are trying to do.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-default-is-to-look-5bf45f)
- [The really great designers just do less.](https://korrents.com/k/the-really-great-designers-just-do-451dc1)
- [Critical feedback is intimidating and vulnerable, but it is the best possible thing a creative in any field can do to level up their work.](https://korrents.com/k/critical-feedback-is-intimidating-and-vulnerable-8d55a7)
- [Designers benefit most from working as a jazz band: sharing work, letting people take it a certain way, and developing the thick skin to take the best idea and run with it, wherever it comes from.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-benefit-most-from-working-as-1ff85c)
- [Coding tools are very good at executing motion design, but you have to be very descriptive about what you want, otherwise you will be fighting them for hours.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-tools-are-very-good-at-bed1f9)
- [An app used every day should be built by a thoughtful team of engineers rather than one-shotted with Claude.](https://korrents.com/k/an-app-used-every-day-should-2bc99c)
- [Designing a good AI benchmark has become a task only the most capable people can do well.](https://korrents.com/k/designing-a-good-ai-benchmark-has-bddcf2)
- [As AI labs aim for broad, general capability, handling messy real-world bureaucratic tasks is becoming a primary application domain for their models.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-labs-aim-for-broad-75e160)
- [NVIDIA hardware is unlikely to become cheaper, keeping local AI data centers out of reach for small companies.](https://korrents.com/k/nvidia-hardware-is-unlikely-to-become-a6a008)
- [Open-weight AI models are currently in a golden age, plentiful and often very powerful.](https://korrents.com/k/open-weight-ai-models-are-currently-in-92cf21)
- [Within about a year everyone will have at least one agent they talk to and offload work to.](https://korrents.com/k/within-about-a-year-everyone-will-1b34c4)
- [Most knowledge work will move inside a coding-agent environment like Codex or Claude Co-work, which becomes the operating system for email, documents and everything else.](https://korrents.com/k/most-knowledge-work-will-move-inside-0b3eb7)
- [The workable model right now is one super agent for a whole company, not a personal agent for every person.](https://korrents.com/k/the-workable-model-right-now-is-cba5a0)
- [An AI agent is only useful while a specific human cares about it; sever that personal connection and it stops being useful.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-agent-is-only-useful-108383)
- [The CLI era of AI agents was a short detour — we made GUIs for a reason, and the work is moving back into one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cli-era-of-ai-agents-b446b2)
- [Agents will increase the number of users of SaaS rather than get rid of it.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-will-increase-the-number-of-7f2dc7)
- [SaaS stocks are a buy right now.](https://korrents.com/k/saas-stocks-are-a-buy-right-745122)
- [When the agent runs inside the user’s own surface the user pays for the tokens, not the vendor — which is what saves SaaS margins.](https://korrents.com/k/when-the-agent-runs-inside-the-a181f2)
- [Two agents are better than one: your agent can hand another agent far more context about you than you could ever type.](https://korrents.com/k/two-agents-are-better-than-one-e7f48e)
- [Automation is a lie: every automated thing needs a human on top of it making sure it is working.](https://korrents.com/k/automation-is-a-lie-every-automated-c36123)
- [GPT-5.5 is the only coding model with the agency to rip out old code and rewrite from first principles; the others patch around the edges.](https://korrents.com/k/gpt-5-5-is-the-only-coding-a1fd07)
- [A year from now every coding model on the market will still take a bad instruction at face value and go fix the listed issues, where a human senior engineer would insist on a rewrite.](https://korrents.com/k/a-year-from-now-every-coding-fb9b06)
- [Benchmarks only rise on problems somebody has already framed and scored, so saturating them does not mean senior engineers have been replaced.](https://korrents.com/k/benchmarks-only-rise-on-problems-somebody-774010)
- [The forward-deployed engineer is a real new job, and it exists because every agent needs a human.](https://korrents.com/k/the-forward-deployed-engineer-is-a-real-f4c1c3)
- [A company will only go as far in AI as its CEO does, and it is not something a CEO can delegate.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-will-only-go-as-52b86b)
- [We will read far more AI-generated writing in documents and email, and we will like it.](https://korrents.com/k/we-will-read-far-more-ai-generated-56e09e)
- [Product managers are the AI era’s big winners: coding models are now good enough to pair a lightly technical PM’s product sense with actually shipping.](https://korrents.com/k/product-managers-are-the-ai-era-608c53)
- [Designers have stopped handing work off — they open the pull request themselves, which changes how companies build.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-have-stopped-handing-work-off-194dee)
- [The mass unemployment some AI CEOs describe is not going to happen.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mass-unemployment-some-ai-ceos-209b09)
- [Every new model makes yesterday’s human competence cheap and therefore commoditised; the human job is to take that frozen competence and make something new with it.](https://korrents.com/k/every-new-model-makes-yesterday-s-7fb869)
- [The one thing you have to do to stay employable is ride the models — use each new one for whatever it is you actually do.](https://korrents.com/k/the-one-thing-you-have-to-92afe1)
- [The edge of AI is not San Francisco; it is wherever a model meets a real person doing something real.](https://korrents.com/k/the-edge-of-ai-is-not-ae5d96)
- [Codex, not Claude Code, is the right daily driver right now.](https://korrents.com/k/codex-not-claude-code-is-the-872e00)
- [Cursor has chosen to be for programmers, and that choice may limit how far it gets as agent surfaces become general work environments.](https://korrents.com/k/cursor-has-chosen-to-be-for-ef2b34)
- [Emotion regulation is about choosing how to respond, not about controlling what one feels.](https://korrents.com/k/emotion-regulation-is-about-choosing-how-7f7e13)
- [Wise people express their emotions constructively rather than suppressing them.](https://korrents.com/k/wise-people-express-their-emotions-constructively-8d08b3)
- [People gravitate toward arrogant leaders in uncertain times because they mistake swagger for strength and skill.](https://korrents.com/k/people-gravitate-toward-arrogant-leaders-in-8ba52c)
- [A minority party can peel off enough opposition-party votes to pass impeachment articles despite being outnumbered.](https://korrents.com/k/a-minority-party-can-peel-off-9812f6)
- [Republican lawmakers have lost the party cohesion needed to shield a Trump ally from an impeachment trial.](https://korrents.com/k/republican-lawmakers-have-lost-the-party-966d93)
- [A years-old unfixed default in GitHub Actions is the root cause of a wave of software supply-chain attacks.](https://korrents.com/k/a-years-old-unfixed-default-in-github-da8de6)
- [AI has accelerated everything, including the repetition of old security mistakes.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-accelerated-everything-including-the-c2c6d8)
- [AI gives attackers a bigger advantage than it gives the people defending against them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-gives-attackers-a-bigger-advantage-2b494b)
- [AI agents will still need something like money to coordinate, since it compresses complex negotiations into one shared signal.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-will-still-need-something-622717)
- [Centralized planning cannot substitute for distributed coordination among AI agents because it still fails to capture local knowledge.](https://korrents.com/k/centralized-planning-cannot-substitute-for-distributed-4506f6)
- [A collection of AI agents does not automatically form a functioning organization any more than a group of smart people does.](https://korrents.com/k/a-collection-of-ai-agents-does-f106a2)
- [Psychological flexibility is a learnable set of skills, not a personality trait.](https://korrents.com/k/psychological-flexibility-is-a-learnable-set-4a2738)
- [Belonging is something you practise, not a feeling to wait for.](https://korrents.com/k/belonging-is-something-you-practise-not-6ad5fe)
- [A student cannot flex their way into belonging in a hostile environment, and skills must never be used to blame people for exclusion.](https://korrents.com/k/a-student-cannot-flex-their-way-146699)
- [Rust's defining experience is that once the code compiles it works — not literally true, but true often enough that people keep saying it.](https://korrents.com/k/rust-s-defining-experience-is-that-cd764f)
- [A language can only give you the feeling that compiling means working if it has a type system — that is where it all starts.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-can-only-give-you-657ebc)
- [For a TypeScript team, Rust belongs on the backend — API servers — and not in the front end.](https://korrents.com/k/for-a-typescript-team-rust-belongs-f1303e)
- [Examples in documentation should be compiled and run as tests, so that changing the code breaks the docs instead of quietly outdating them.](https://korrents.com/k/examples-in-documentation-should-be-compiled-f40ac4)
- [A compiler that names every place a change breaks turns refactoring into fixing errors until the compiler stops shouting.](https://korrents.com/k/a-compiler-that-names-every-place-cf0f2a)
- [The case for Rust is stronger against C++ than against JavaScript, because in C++ an ordinary mistake is usually a security vulnerability.](https://korrents.com/k/the-case-for-rust-is-stronger-96cb36)
- [Memory safety means an entire class of bug is impossible no matter how bad the code is — and it is the class that becomes security vulnerabilities.](https://korrents.com/k/memory-safety-means-an-entire-class-8ed60f)
- [What is unique about Rust is not any one feature but the combination: high-level reliability with no garbage collector, so it runs in kernels and firmware.](https://korrents.com/k/what-is-unique-about-rust-is-a9d630)
- [Garbage collection is a problem for backends too, not only for embedded code: a collection that lands on an incoming request is a latency spike.](https://korrents.com/k/garbage-collection-is-a-problem-for-bd3cc2)
- [What trips up newcomers to Rust is not the code but the shape of their data.](https://korrents.com/k/what-trips-up-newcomers-to-rust-0bbd0d)
- [The guarantee Rust makes is conditional: write no unsafe, and no amount of bad code can produce a memory-safety bug.](https://korrents.com/k/the-guarantee-rust-makes-is-conditional-3b2b7e)
- [The unsafe keyword does not switch the borrow checker off; it only unlocks a few operations you then have to justify yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-unsafe-keyword-does-not-switch-fdd67d)
- [Application code should contain no unsafe at all: unsafe is how you add a missing feature to the language, not how you write a server.](https://korrents.com/k/application-code-should-contain-no-unsafe-d58b31)
- [Rust's least mature area is the front end: write the backend in Rust and the front end in TypeScript rather than shipping Rust to the browser through WebAssembly.](https://korrents.com/k/rust-s-least-mature-area-is-47db56)
- [A language does not need a benevolent dictator: if the responsible team does not sign off on a change, it does not happen.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-does-not-need-a-e75753)
- [A design proposal should describe the feature as though it already existed — once as a tutorial and once as reference documentation.](https://korrents.com/k/a-design-proposal-should-describe-the-ce37a0)
- [A language can keep changing without a Python-2-to-3 break, as long as code written under the old and the new rules can be mixed freely in one program.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-can-keep-changing-without-8e172a)
- [The Linux kernel is unique in having thousands of contributors paid to work on it; Rust does well by any other standard and is still nowhere near that.](https://korrents.com/k/the-linux-kernel-is-unique-in-f43d49)
- [You can contribute to the Linux kernel without touching the kernel, by building the language features the kernel is waiting on.](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-contribute-to-the-linux-347cf3)
- [Rust is no longer experimental in the Linux kernel — the maintainers agreed that at their December 2025 summit.](https://korrents.com/k/rust-is-no-longer-experimental-in-6680f8)
- [Rust may be the best language for AI agents to write, because the compiler gives an agent the feedback that tells it what to fix.](https://korrents.com/k/rust-may-be-the-best-language-2ec15d)
- [Memory-safety bugs are not a skill problem: the mistakes are trivial and there are so many places to make one that even an excellent programmer will.](https://korrents.com/k/memory-safety-bugs-are-not-a-skill-9e2f73)
- [You learn a programming language by building something in it, not by reading about it.](https://korrents.com/k/you-learn-a-programming-language-by-20a1ec)
- [Specifying an edit by line number alone is fragile because a model can misremember what that line contains.](https://korrents.com/k/specifying-an-edit-by-line-number-dfb145)
- [A briefcase of context, carried from one tool to the next, will replace re-teaching intent in each tool.](https://korrents.com/k/a-briefcase-of-context-carried-from-9bd643)
- [A general-purpose AI design tool might have a place eventually, but it is probably not the right answer right now.](https://korrents.com/k/a-general-purpose-ai-design-tool-might-8b9252)
- [Judging one model worse than another from a one-shot, probabilistic output on a given day is not a good way to evaluate it.](https://korrents.com/k/judging-one-model-worse-than-another-3f53c5)
- [Canvases are always going to have a place in the AI design workflow.](https://korrents.com/k/canvases-are-always-going-to-have-98a40d)
- [A design team needs an interface surface, a surface where the work lives, a canvas for more deterministic work, and an agent interface for coding for more probabilistic work.](https://korrents.com/k/a-design-team-needs-an-interface-b83552)
- [Even forward-thinking agentic teams still use Figma a lot, so it is still in the game.](https://korrents.com/k/even-forward-thinking-agentic-teams-still-use-f09542)
- [Adopting AI requires rearranging how work is done, as Ford had to rearrange the whole factory rather than install new equipment on old workflows.](https://korrents.com/k/adopting-ai-requires-rearranging-how-work-66ffba)
- [The number one thing the best design teams do is make room for experimentation, even though it is expensive.](https://korrents.com/k/the-number-one-thing-the-best-2fa5f7)
- [Leadership has to make time for designers to experiment with AI.](https://korrents.com/k/leadership-has-to-make-time-for-5d7bf4)
- [It is still really early, and people can probably wait on much of the agentic tooling.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-still-really-early-and-0171f9)
- [The skill worth investing in is building intent and moving between altitudes, from product thinking to the interaction moment to workflows.](https://korrents.com/k/the-skill-worth-investing-in-is-d29eda)
- [As tools expand the capacity for work, compensation should increase for the people taking on that added responsibility.](https://korrents.com/k/as-tools-expand-the-capacity-for-49c6da)
- [The blank canvas problem is a good Hello World project for getting into AI tooling.](https://korrents.com/k/the-blank-canvas-problem-is-a-bb5b5d)
- [Comparing workflows is useful now, because the field will eventually converge around better practices, though none are known yet.](https://korrents.com/k/comparing-workflows-is-useful-now-because-9dd626)
- [A designer who is not a designated leader can get leaned on by building an internal tool for a cross-functional need, such as one design needed by marketing.](https://korrents.com/k/a-designer-who-is-not-a-92fc6d)
- [Internal tools spread the way any product does: they are useful, someone tries one, and it starts to spread.](https://korrents.com/k/internal-tools-spread-the-way-any-7ce5b4)
- [Moving toward AI is worthwhile, but at about 60 miles an hour rather than 100, paying attention to what is seen along the way.](https://korrents.com/k/moving-toward-ai-is-worthwhile-but-abb5b8)
- [The biggest thing a designer can do to add value now is help cross-functional people do more design work easily, and this is unlikely to cannibalize the designer.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-thing-a-designer-can-ebc2ee)
- [AI fluency will eventually become an ambient thing, though it is important language right now.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-fluency-will-eventually-become-an-c0f313)
- [A good way to assess AI fluency in a designer is to ask them to show their workflow and take them through an idea they created.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-way-to-assess-ai-3122a6)
- [The future belongs to builders; the future is bright, but it has to be built.](https://korrents.com/k/the-future-belongs-to-builders-the-799084)
- [Aerobic fitness is crucial even for shorter events, which is why endurance athletes do so much mileage.](https://korrents.com/k/aerobic-fitness-is-crucial-even-for-b5fcd3)
- [AI agents should draft work on a person's behalf but never send or act as if they were that person.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-should-draft-work-on-ca0ae2)
- [A recurring AI workflow improves more through ongoing user feedback than by being fully specified upfront.](https://korrents.com/k/a-recurring-ai-workflow-improves-more-c84826)
- [Growth is nonlinear and full of contradictions.](https://korrents.com/k/growth-is-nonlinear-and-full-of-e8dfcd)
- [Every act of desire involves giving something up, though it rarely feels like sacrifice when you're happy with what you chose.](https://korrents.com/k/every-act-of-desire-involves-giving-49ad58)
- [As reasoning models and agents retain more tokens for longer, KV-cache size and attention cost become the main constraint on scaling context.](https://korrents.com/k/as-reasoning-models-and-agents-retain-f95201)
- [Larger language models already have enough capacity that extra per-layer embedding tricks add little benefit to them.](https://korrents.com/k/larger-language-models-already-have-enough-634594)
- [Waging political war on a central bank does not serve a president's own political interests.](https://korrents.com/k/waging-political-war-on-a-central-3a100c)
- [Federal Reserve Board members have historically often resigned before completing their full terms.](https://korrents.com/k/federal-reserve-board-members-have-historically-e29c86)
- [The Federal Reserve will need to raise interest rates rather than cut them to bring down inflation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-federal-reserve-will-need-to-db9e55)
- [Unit testing's only job should be to flag when something unexpected happens.](https://korrents.com/k/unit-testing-s-only-job-should-c90843)
- [A tool's popularity can become a self-reinforcing network effect rather than a sign of technical merit.](https://korrents.com/k/a-tool-s-popularity-can-become-8b70ad)
- [Needing to mock code in tests often signals an underlying design problem that refactoring would fix.](https://korrents.com/k/needing-to-mock-code-in-tests-f295fc)
- [Closing and deleting a question to enforce site rules harms the real person who needed help, not just violates policy.](https://korrents.com/k/closing-and-deleting-a-question-to-83f3e2)
- [People only truly grasp the harm of a gatekeeping rule once that same rule is turned against their own work.](https://korrents.com/k/people-only-truly-grasp-the-harm-ad8d8b)
- [A privately owned self-driving car is a hard sell, because the owner inherits the cleaning, calibration and liability a fleet operator normally carries.](https://korrents.com/k/a-privately-owned-self-driving-car-is-a65275)
- [There is unmet demand for a single, well-integrated local AI model experience, rather than a patchwork of local AI components.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-unmet-demand-for-a-9a0fdb)
- [The local AI niche will end up dominated by whichever open-weight model runs practically fast on high-end consumer hardware, like a Mac or a 'GPU in a box' rig.](https://korrents.com/k/the-local-ai-niche-will-end-5c9960)
- [AI is too critical to be delivered only as a centralized, hosted service.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-too-critical-to-be-1eb679)
- [A programming language is not a compiler but an experience: editing, running, debugging and the runtime library all have to fit together as one cycle.](https://korrents.com/k/a-programming-language-is-not-a-666d04)
- [Turbo Pascal won because it was ten times better at a tenth of the price — faster, smaller, more interactive and cheaper at once.](https://korrents.com/k/turbo-pascal-won-because-it-was-1815cb)
- [It is a bad strategy to bet your development platform on technology licensed from a competitor.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-a-bad-strategy-to-709cdc)
- [C# exists because developers wanted both things at once: the power and productivity of C++ with the ease of use of Visual Basic.](https://korrents.com/k/c-exists-because-developers-wanted-both-518ae0)
- [A language should be designed by a small group of people rather than by one person.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-should-be-designed-by-00a023)
- [The job of a design group is to try to shoot down every new idea; the ones that survive the attempt are probably the good ones.](https://korrents.com/k/the-job-of-a-design-group-008af5)
- [Language design is ninety per cent the same work every time and ten per cent new, which is why the experience carries from one language to the next.](https://korrents.com/k/language-design-is-ninety-per-cent-784dbf)
- [Writing state machines by hand is a nightmare and exactly the kind of transformation a compiler should do for you — which is all await really is.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-state-machines-by-hand-is-6bd54e)
- [Function colouring is the real cost of async/await, and green threads like Go's avoid it — but for an existing runtime such as JavaScript or C#, async/await was still the right solution.](https://korrents.com/k/function-colouring-is-the-real-cost-d779e9)
- [The language that actually delivered write-once-run-anywhere was not Java but JavaScript, because every new device turned out to ship a browser.](https://korrents.com/k/the-language-that-actually-delivered-write-once-run-anywhere-a35c77)
- [You cannot be best of breed in an ecosystem by telling its developers to write in a different programming language.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-be-best-of-breed-de5f95)
- [You cannot build good tooling without a type system — decent tooling perhaps, but nothing that scales to a large team.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-build-good-tooling-without-2f649f)
- [A proprietary language licensed from Microsoft had zero chance in the JavaScript ecosystem: TypeScript had to be open source or nobody would come.](https://korrents.com/k/a-proprietary-language-licensed-from-microsoft-0635e9)
- [Publishing the source is not the same as developing in the open, and only the second changes how the work actually goes.](https://korrents.com/k/publishing-the-source-is-not-the-4d6b65)
- [People adopted TypeScript for the tooling, not the types: an erasable type system is worth having because of the productivity the tooling built on it delivers.](https://korrents.com/k/people-adopted-typescript-for-the-tooling-f33059)
- [A compiler that also serves an IDE has to be lazy and deferred throughout — a different way of building compilers from the one the textbooks teach.](https://korrents.com/k/a-compiler-that-also-serves-an-1f41aa)
- [Because its types are erased before the program runs, TypeScript can afford not to be sound: checking 99% beats the 0% JavaScript checked, and buys features a sound language cannot offer.](https://korrents.com/k/because-its-types-are-erased-before-55103f)
- [What makes TypeScript unlike almost every other language is gradual typing: you can have types, but you do not have to.](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-typescript-unlike-almost-every-d41b9a)
- [The language best suited to AI is simply the one the models have seen most of in training, which is why they do so well on JavaScript, TypeScript and Python.](https://korrents.com/k/the-language-best-suited-to-ai-0c4ccf)
- [Forcing an AI to annotate every type would make its programs worse, not better: annotate where there is no context, and let inference do the rest.](https://korrents.com/k/forcing-an-ai-to-annotate-every-c27af3)
- [Locality is what makes a language good for AI: if a single file states what it imports and what it offers, a model never has to hold the whole program at once.](https://korrents.com/k/locality-is-what-makes-a-language-cd3d7c)
- [The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder.](https://korrents.com/k/the-internet-is-already-past-peak-7417c1)
- [An agent grepping for a name is not semantic search, and the language services an IDE already has are what AI will increasingly need.](https://korrents.com/k/an-agent-grepping-for-a-name-04b2a0)
- [Programmers are turning into project managers of an army of junior agents, and the craft is moving from writing code to reviewing it and holding the architecture.](https://korrents.com/k/programmers-are-turning-into-project-managers-8d1033)
- [Responsibility for a program lies with the programmer and never with the AI — there is nobody else to hold to account.](https://korrents.com/k/responsibility-for-a-program-lies-with-465b56)
- [A programming language is a ten-year play: version one has issues, version two fixes them, version three is finally good — and only then does adoption start.](https://korrents.com/k/a-programming-language-is-a-ten-year-0bbc7e)
- [Panic and impatience in the industry, not the technology itself, are what drive the worst environmental harms of the data centre boom.](https://korrents.com/k/panic-and-impatience-in-the-industry-8a6868)
- [The environmental harm caused by data centres comes from how the industry chooses to build them, not from anything inherent to computing infrastructure.](https://korrents.com/k/the-environmental-harm-caused-by-data-a92fab)
- [Anthropic does not meaningfully prioritize climate, environmental, or air pollution concerns despite its public image.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-does-not-meaningfully-prioritize-climate-e24ce8)
- [AI marketed as a pure augmenting 'tool' will end up automating jobs anyway, since firms control how it's used.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-marketed-as-a-pure-augmenting-b34c14)
- [Whether AI augments or automates workers depends on a firm's economic context, not on the technology itself.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-ai-augments-or-automates-workers-e08904)
- [Whether AI disruption produces a permanent underclass is a policy choice, not an inevitable consequence of the technology.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-ai-disruption-produces-a-permanent-49c71e)
- [The most enduring skill in this era is shaping great products, not just executing: designers come for craft work and leave as great product thinkers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-enduring-skill-in-this-e34866)
- [Any redesign of an incumbent product, such as an onboarding flow, almost always loses at first; it takes the confidence and agreement to begin below the status quo baseline in order to beat the incumbent.](https://korrents.com/k/any-redesign-of-an-incumbent-product-ae2156)
- [Teams need to create the grounds to take some risk, committing as much iteration to the new thing as was put into the incumbent product.](https://korrents.com/k/teams-need-to-create-the-grounds-ea1ef7)
- [Designers should focus on what differentiates them, which is designing what is desirable, and pick the tools that render the idea in the most believable way rather than worrying about feasibility.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-should-focus-on-what-differentiates-869ee2)
- [Not being able to ship a prototype to production does not mean a designer has failed.](https://korrents.com/k/not-being-able-to-ship-a-a79693)
- [When prototyping a full feature, a designer should render the whole idea and use that as the thing to talk to engineering with, rather than aiming to ship it end to end to production.](https://korrents.com/k/when-prototyping-a-full-feature-a-374ff8)
- [Design should be the tip of the spear for desirability, and taste, editing and deciding what matters are skills that have long had their home in design practice.](https://korrents.com/k/design-should-be-the-tip-of-b047f8)
- [Constraints driving the design process is something to avoid, especially now.](https://korrents.com/k/constraints-driving-the-design-process-is-2c460c)
- [With any new explosion of tools, designers may start designing to their local skill set.](https://korrents.com/k/with-any-new-explosion-of-tools-cb68d3)
- [Editing, focusing on the most critical aspects of an experience and being really disciplined about it, has become an important part of the design job.](https://korrents.com/k/editing-focusing-on-the-most-critical-f75e9a)
- [The way to build excitement for an idea is still to make a really compelling prototype and tell a story, and that is much easier now.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-build-excitement-for-c32006)
- [Beyond designers working in code, this era unlocks access to data and legibility into the business that designers did not have before.](https://korrents.com/k/beyond-designers-working-in-code-this-02d05b)
- [Making internal decision-making legible is critically important, so that previous decisions can be found by simply asking an agent.](https://korrents.com/k/making-internal-decision-making-legible-is-critically-d835bf)
- [Great design leaders of this era need a deeply intense relationship with what the business is there to do, paired with a deep relationship with what makes great design.](https://korrents.com/k/great-design-leaders-of-this-era-e7d086)
- [It will probably be a tough go in the long run for the professional manager whose calendar is driven by one-on-one time on career development, and a culture of designers improving is hard to build without deep passion for the craft.](https://korrents.com/k/it-will-probably-be-a-tough-dcccf5)
- [One-on-one time should be about the work: opening up the prototype, live critique, and helping designers make better decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/one-on-one-time-should-be-about-the-8ee78c)
- [Language is becoming the material for building, so the more precisely designers can say what is wrong with the work, the better off they will be in an agentic era.](https://korrents.com/k/language-is-becoming-the-material-for-3d019a)
- [Data itself is objective, but the reading of it is never objective; it is always subjective.](https://korrents.com/k/data-itself-is-objective-but-the-856361)
- [The discourse about who is taking whose job misses the point; the takeaway should be that it has never been easier to extend one's capabilities as a product leader.](https://korrents.com/k/the-discourse-about-who-is-taking-15b167)
- [Everyone should operate from the baseline of figuring out what is true and then figuring out what to do about it.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-should-operate-from-the-baseline-6cac6e)
- [Practicing meditation for methods rather than for results is one of the most important principles in contemplative practice.](https://korrents.com/k/practicing-meditation-for-methods-rather-than-d9b958)
- [Damaging experiences from meditation usually happen because practitioners chase results instead of following the method.](https://korrents.com/k/damaging-experiences-from-meditation-usually-happen-6aea54)
- [The New Age spiritual community is often as money-hungry, power-seeking, and gossip-driven as anyone else, despite its image of benevolence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-new-age-spiritual-community-is-112360)
- [AI sometimes makes things too easy, and there is value in the pain.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-sometimes-makes-things-too-easy-5b8542)
- [Europe is not in economic decline; by the measures that matter most it is keeping up with the United States.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-is-not-in-economic-decline-cbdee6)
- [Europe is an economic superpower, and at present it is the only democratic one.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-is-an-economic-superpower-and-75e348)
- [Organizations are dragged into mediocrity by a force no one controls but everyone obeys, until their founders lose control of what they built.](https://korrents.com/k/organizations-are-dragged-into-mediocrity-by-23297a)
- [What destroys great companies is not competition but their own success, because the more golden the goose the greater the temptation to butcher it.](https://korrents.com/k/what-destroys-great-companies-is-not-c0951f)
- [If you do not get your company's governance right, none of your other decisions will matter for the long term, because you will not be the one making them.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-do-not-get-your-cd90c0)
- [Only a fifth of venture-backed founders are still CEO three years after going public, and the standard documents their lawyers gave them are why.](https://korrents.com/k/only-a-fifth-of-venture-backed-founders-cacf4f)
- [There is never a right time to protect a company's mission: it is too early until it is suddenly too late, and success is what makes you a target.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-never-a-right-time-b26513)
- [The corporate best practices lawyers and bankers push on founders are younger than the trees in the local park.](https://korrents.com/k/the-corporate-best-practices-lawyers-and-df4ae7)
- [Foundation-owned companies are six times more likely to reach their fiftieth year, and they return more to investors rather than less.](https://korrents.com/k/foundation-owned-companies-are-six-times-more-21da79)
- [Every founder on standard documents has already signed a charter obliging them to sell their company to the buyer they would least want to have it.](https://korrents.com/k/every-founder-on-standard-documents-has-51d7b5)
- [Harder is easier: committing up front to quality, ethics or safety pays back in rewards you cannot get by chasing the reward.](https://korrents.com/k/harder-is-easier-committing-up-front-83307d)
- [Trustworthiness is the most underrated asset in business, and prioritizing by ROI always ranks it last.](https://korrents.com/k/trustworthiness-is-the-most-underrated-asset-44b677)
- [A mission statement is not a mission; a mission is an emergent property of the organization and has to be built in rather than labelled on.](https://korrents.com/k/a-mission-statement-is-not-a-228244)
- [Cloudflare is worth what it is worth because of the trust it bought by giving encryption away, and most leaders cannot defend their principles at all.](https://korrents.com/k/cloudflare-is-worth-what-it-is-b0c952)
- [Most companies calling themselves mission-driven are only mission-hopeful; the real test is that you cannot profit except by achieving the mission.](https://korrents.com/k/most-companies-calling-themselves-mission-driven-are-01b443)
- [A stated value means nothing without an apparatus that enforces it, and a company without one is lying to you however good its intentions.](https://korrents.com/k/a-stated-value-means-nothing-without-204407)
- [Shareholder primacy is about forty years old rather than a natural law, and for centuries before it a corporation existed to pursue a specific beneficial purpose.](https://korrents.com/k/shareholder-primacy-is-about-forty-years-b2151a)
- [Becoming a public benefit corporation does not make you the good guys, but it does stop investors suing you for pursuing your stated purpose.](https://korrents.com/k/becoming-a-public-benefit-corporation-does-344898)
- [The rule for a company's culture is to only ever make deposits and never deliberately make a withdrawal.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rule-for-a-company-s-506b54)
- [A trust that owns the mission protects a company better than founder control does, which is why Anthropic needs no dual-class shares.](https://korrents.com/k/a-trust-that-owns-the-mission-f4f2eb)
- [Not one of the companies building frontier AI is willing to accept standard corporate governance, which is how dangerous they know the technology to be.](https://korrents.com/k/not-one-of-the-companies-building-effd3d)
- [Letting shareholders govern AI means whoever can borrow the most money controls the technology, and that cannot be how it works.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-shareholders-govern-ai-means-whoever-ebe15a)
- [The number one unsolved problem in AI is not technical alignment but human alignment, because we cannot agree on the values to align to.](https://korrents.com/k/the-number-one-unsolved-problem-in-f40829)
- [Corporations are the oldest artificial intelligence on the planet, superorganisms running on the same emergent principle that makes a transformer appear intelligent.](https://korrents.com/k/corporations-are-the-oldest-artificial-intelligence-539f99)
- [Adding ants to a puzzle makes it get solved faster while adding humans makes it worse, unless the humans are carefully aligned.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-ants-to-a-puzzle-makes-bc42c5)
- [The decisions that most affect an organization are made when no manager is present, so a common purpose is the only real control a leader has.](https://korrents.com/k/the-decisions-that-most-affect-an-983624)
- [An AI agent's execution is only as good as the goal and the verification criteria given to it; ambition without verification is just a wish.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-agent-s-execution-is-e5fc44)
- [Storing an AI agent's memory as files forces it to compress what it learns into a form that survives even when the conversation itself doesn't.](https://korrents.com/k/storing-an-ai-agent-s-memory-362b25)
- [CMS software should not silently create feeds that publishers never see or maintain, but make feed creation visible and deliberate.](https://korrents.com/k/cms-software-should-not-silently-create-5cec4d)
- [WHATWG should deprecate the feed link relation since it has been effectively abandoned in practice.](https://korrents.com/k/whatwg-should-deprecate-the-feed-link-908759)
- [Seeking special tax treatment that could not sustainably be extended to everyone is morally wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/seeking-special-tax-treatment-that-could-5f2296)
- [Stronger enforcement against tax and benefit cheating would raise social trust in government.](https://korrents.com/k/stronger-enforcement-against-tax-and-benefit-ac64ab)
- [How big a government you want determines necessary tax rates, but any such system depends on people actually paying their taxes.](https://korrents.com/k/how-big-a-government-you-want-190a4b)
- [Natural selection in humans has not been quiescent: it is tugging almost every position in the genome in one direction or another, everywhere.](https://korrents.com/k/natural-selection-in-humans-has-not-115bc4)
- [Adaptation accounts for only about 2% of the change in human gene frequencies; the other 98% is migration, mixture and drift.](https://korrents.com/k/adaptation-accounts-for-only-about-2-26ff3a)
- [The Bronze Age, not the invention of farming, was the shock the human genome reacted to most strongly.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bronze-age-not-the-invention-1cc9af)
- [The weak selection signal on behavioural traits is a shortage of statistical power, not evidence that behaviour was unselected.](https://korrents.com/k/the-weak-selection-signal-on-behavioural-fd8b9d)
- [Periods of migration are the worst moments to look for natural selection, not the best, because they drown the signal in huge frequency swings.](https://korrents.com/k/periods-of-migration-are-the-worst-35afd4)
- [Selection on the genetic predictors of cognitive performance peaked in the Bronze Age and has left no trace at all in the last 2,000 years.](https://korrents.com/k/selection-on-the-genetic-predictors-of-7e1314)
- [The selection signal on the genetics of schooling is not a European artefact: the same variants predict years of school in China, a population disconnected from Europe for the whole period.](https://korrents.com/k/the-selection-signal-on-the-genetics-30e31a)
- [What has actually been under selection is probably not intelligence but a general trait more like executive function or the propensity to defer gratification.](https://korrents.com/k/what-has-actually-been-under-selection-95c3e6)
- [A society that intensely values intelligence is unprecedented in human history; the Bible, Homer and other ancient texts value strength, courage and beauty instead.](https://korrents.com/k/a-society-that-intensely-values-intelligence-67256b)
- [Complex human traits have not been pushed steadily in one direction because both ends of the spectrum carry advantages in different times and places.](https://korrents.com/k/complex-human-traits-have-not-been-0f28c5)
- [Europeans have been under selection against body fat for 10,000 years because farming made the food supply steadier, not less stable.](https://korrents.com/k/europeans-have-been-under-selection-against-ed6a65)
- [Famine cannot be what selected for fat storage, because a fat store built after a hunt cannot carry anyone to a famine three years later.](https://korrents.com/k/famine-cannot-be-what-selected-for-c8cd55)
- [There is more room at the top for every human trait: push selection harder in any direction and the mean would move, at some cost elsewhere.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-more-room-at-the-e78e14)
- [For any trait built out of many mutations, all the variation needed to move a population to a new adaptive set point already exists inside it.](https://korrents.com/k/for-any-trait-built-out-of-06e468)
- [Population size is not what limited human adaptation; time is. A selection coefficient of half a percent works as well in a thousand people as in a million.](https://korrents.com/k/population-size-is-not-what-limited-2cebd1)
- [There was no genetic switch for behavioural modernity: no selective sweep is shared by everyone alive today in the period the cognitive revolution supposedly happened.](https://korrents.com/k/there-was-no-genetic-switch-for-a0716f)
- [Every cognitive ingredient for farming and for states was already in place tens of thousands of years before either appeared, so what humanity was waiting on was not biology.](https://korrents.com/k/every-cognitive-ingredient-for-farming-and-fbff57)
- [The right way to think about Neanderthals may be as culturally modern humans who ended up mostly archaic genetically.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-way-to-think-about-bad0e8)
- [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.](https://korrents.com/k/the-accepted-model-of-how-archaic-28c4c8)
- [A tiny fraction of ancestry can carry the most important thing about a population: Yamnaya is only a few percent of DNA in India and yet it brought the language.](https://korrents.com/k/a-tiny-fraction-of-ancestry-can-f98f87)
- [Reproductive incompatibility between diverging human lineages grows roughly as the square of their separation time, because it takes pairs of interacting genes.](https://korrents.com/k/reproductive-incompatibility-between-diverging-human-lineage-3c16d0)
- [Ancient DNA has been a triumph about migration and a failure about biology, and the reason is simply that the samples were too small.](https://korrents.com/k/ancient-dna-has-been-a-triumph-93f874)
- [Coming into a project with a guess about what the data will show has, again and again, turned out to be wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/coming-into-a-project-with-a-abdb2c)
- [A selection signal can be validated without a significance threshold, by measuring how far it is enriched for mutations an entirely independent study says affect a trait.](https://korrents.com/k/a-selection-signal-can-be-validated-8a12e2)
- [Finding no selection in African-Americans over 300 years is not evidence against selection: five generations is simply too short a time to compound.](https://korrents.com/k/finding-no-selection-in-african-americans-over-9398e2)
- [In many places in your genome you are more closely related to a Neanderthal on your mother's side than you are to your own father.](https://korrents.com/k/in-many-places-in-your-genome-489016)
- [A lunar mass driver cannot pay for itself by cutting launch costs, because launch is already a small part of what an orbital computer costs.](https://korrents.com/k/a-lunar-mass-driver-cannot-pay-59a729)
- [Starship will bring the price of low Earth orbit down to roughly a hundred dollars a kilogram.](https://korrents.com/k/starship-will-bring-the-price-of-509f03)
- [The perceived danger of bears to hikers is exaggerated in order to enforce safe food-storage habits](https://korrents.com/k/the-perceived-danger-of-bears-to-d8f381)
- [The danger of bears in the wilderness is exaggerated on purpose, to keep people doing smart things like storing food properly so bears don't become a real problem.](https://korrents.com/k/the-danger-of-bears-in-the-e49545)
- [Code review as a review mechanism depends on reviewers being able to infer effort from reading code, and AI-agent-generated code erases that signal.](https://korrents.com/k/code-review-as-a-review-mechanism-e00641)
- [A person directing an AI agent rather than writing code themselves has no incentive to actually read the resulting code or engage seriously with reviewer feedback.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-directing-an-ai-agent-878ca5)
- [Making the person who directs an AI agent also own the deployment removes the principal-agent misalignment that agent-driven code review creates.](https://korrents.com/k/making-the-person-who-directs-an-d7831a)
- [Learning to think by writing is slow, tedious, difficult work that takes discipline and patience.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-to-think-by-writing-is-118656)
- [There is no science of development, and it is not clear there ever will be one.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-science-of-development-c52bac)
- [Economic development happened once in each country, which is why the big theories of why nations get rich cannot be tested.](https://korrents.com/k/economic-development-happened-once-in-each-a4d08d)
- [It is better for researchers to study something knowable than something unknowable, even when the knowable question matters less.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-better-for-researchers-to-5b23d5)
- [Development economists can contribute far less to a poor country’s growth policy in real time than either they or their critics assume.](https://korrents.com/k/development-economists-can-contribute-far-less-7b02b6)
- [Pushing development economists onto the big questions risks pressing them to pretend they have big answers.](https://korrents.com/k/pushing-development-economists-onto-the-big-f003bc)
- [When money is on the line, AI makes it easier to disguise low-quality work as legitimate.](https://korrents.com/k/when-money-is-on-the-line-0fc14f)
- [People who enjoy using AI themselves often resent having it used against them.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-enjoy-using-ai-themselves-41e6a1)
- [Being inundated with AI-generated reports is likely why some bug bounty programs have stopped accepting new submissions.](https://korrents.com/k/being-inundated-with-ai-generated-reports-is-79adb4)
- [More information did not open minds or inform people better; it can mean less understanding](https://korrents.com/k/more-information-did-not-open-minds-bcc3ac)
- [The vision of a Great Community built on communication has been shattered, leaving us overwhelmed by information](https://korrents.com/k/the-vision-of-a-great-community-aa0b26)
- [Making friends does not get harder after your 30s.](https://korrents.com/k/making-friends-does-not-get-harder-ebda6d)
- [Truly perfect friends do not exist.](https://korrents.com/k/truly-perfect-friends-do-not-exist-079041)
- [A person does not need a friend group to find people for everyday activities and errands.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-does-not-need-a-e61dc6)
- [To share an idea for a feature, make something interesting and funny that communicates it well, rather than just sharing mock-ups or a screen recording of a prototype.](https://korrents.com/k/to-share-an-idea-for-a-00ef72)
- [A static mockup leaves a lot missing when an idea is passed to someone else; a short video with motion carries more of it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-static-mockup-leaves-a-lot-3d6ca3)
- [A video sharing a work idea should run under ten minutes, ideally five, because people will not sit through a 30-minute video on Slack.](https://korrents.com/k/a-video-sharing-a-work-idea-15a707)
- [A light upbeat soundtrack keeps a talking video interesting, and changing it between points tells the viewer a new thing has started.](https://korrents.com/k/a-light-upbeat-soundtrack-keeps-a-f5a1ca)
- [If a video is funny and entertaining, people will want to watch it and will pay attention.](https://korrents.com/k/if-a-video-is-funny-and-82c5e7)
- [Showing a person's face reacting to what they see carries a different weight than showing only what they are looking at.](https://korrents.com/k/showing-a-person-s-face-reacting-647e67)
- [Video is probably underused by designers as a way to sell and communicate ideas.](https://korrents.com/k/video-is-probably-underused-by-designers-3a9a86)
- [Making video gets easier with repetition, does not need to be perfect, and scrappy can make it funnier.](https://korrents.com/k/making-video-gets-easier-with-repetition-3e8eb2)
- [Generalizing a design to suit every kind of user makes it harder to make targeted experiences.](https://korrents.com/k/generalizing-a-design-to-suit-every-dd2da4)
- [Big companies can probably less afford the bigger design risks than they once did, so such work shows up more in small indie shops.](https://korrents.com/k/big-companies-can-probably-less-afford-333e70)
- [People are more used to computers than old design assumptions allow, and testing often shows they know how to scroll.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-more-used-to-computers-535917)
- [Work that makes people feel something is way more memorable than work remembered for a fast workflow.](https://korrents.com/k/work-that-makes-people-feel-something-37f153)
- [Delightful moments in a design cannot be forced; a designer can put themselves in a state where they are open to them.](https://korrents.com/k/delightful-moments-in-a-design-cannot-ef75fc)
- [Empty states are a good place for moments of connection, because there is nothing else to show there.](https://korrents.com/k/empty-states-are-a-good-place-091713)
- [Recreating a design you like in Sketch or Figma can be a great way for a beginner to slowly learn padding and basic layout.](https://korrents.com/k/recreating-a-design-you-like-in-31481e)
- [A designer can notice and save the small details they like in other people's work, so they are on hand the next time they make something similar.](https://korrents.com/k/a-designer-can-notice-and-save-7ddd55)
- [In a side project, where there is no pressure, a funny idea is worth just doing.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-side-project-where-there-9dcf37)
- [Coffee processing method's effect on fines production is much smaller than popularly believed.](https://korrents.com/k/coffee-processing-method-s-effect-on-09a239)
- [Poorly aligned grinder burrs are far more common than the coffee community acknowledges.](https://korrents.com/k/poorly-aligned-grinder-burrs-are-far-9f39eb)
- [Contributing to the internet without monetizing it is still the right way to be online, even after the surrounding culture stopped doing it.](https://korrents.com/k/contributing-to-the-internet-without-monetizing-4c4ee5)
- [Not monetizing what you put online now reads as strange behaviour that has to be explained.](https://korrents.com/k/not-monetizing-what-you-put-online-1a07ff)
- [The practices that make someone effective at working with an AI model are the same practices that make someone effective at onboarding any new human collaborator.](https://korrents.com/k/the-practices-that-make-someone-effective-db3e07)
- [Delegating a task to an AI agent only works if the output can be verified, which requires defining success criteria first.](https://korrents.com/k/delegating-a-task-to-an-ai-7e3ad3)
- [As AI agents take on bigger delegated tasks, the human bottleneck shifts to writing specs and reviewing output fast, hollowing out the middle of the work.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-agents-take-on-bigger-4f5ea8)
- [Software development will shift from centralized systems to highly personalized, proliferating software abundance.](https://korrents.com/k/software-development-will-shift-from-centralized-a697d0)
- [AI coding assistants are leveling the skill gap between software developers who can afford to use them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-coding-assistants-are-leveling-the-4dcc35)
- [The moral debt for AI's capabilities is owed to the authors of the public data used to train it, not to the AI companies.](https://korrents.com/k/the-moral-debt-for-ai-s-03a0c6)
- [Data centres mostly take farmland, of which America has too much, rather than housing land, of which it has too little.](https://korrents.com/k/data-centres-mostly-take-farmland-of-784fd7)
- [Social systems tend to reward virtuous behavior over time.](https://korrents.com/k/social-systems-tend-to-reward-virtuous-3e0ee4)
- [People who are openly power-hungry tend to eventually lose their power or never gain it.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-are-openly-power-hungry-tend-6dc801)
- [Positions of genuine respect are earned rather than granted undeservedly.](https://korrents.com/k/positions-of-genuine-respect-are-earned-bc194b)
- [AI data centres cannot be meaningfully reformed without a fundamental change of course and ideology in the industry.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-data-centres-cannot-be-meaningfully-197dda)
- [Data centres are being built in such number, size and speed that the industry cannot realistically be reformed.](https://korrents.com/k/data-centres-are-being-built-in-a15735)
- [Preventing the underlying causes of public health fears works better than debunking them after they take hold.](https://korrents.com/k/preventing-the-underlying-causes-of-public-fd8cc2)
- [Pursuing efficiency and maximizing productivity too aggressively causes things to go wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/pursuing-efficiency-and-maximizing-productivity-too-834466)
- [Human life is paradoxically both very long and very short, and there is more time available than people make use of.](https://korrents.com/k/human-life-is-paradoxically-both-very-7d226c)
- [Farm animal welfare tends to improve when an animal's stress directly and measurably reduces farmers' economic productivity.](https://korrents.com/k/farm-animal-welfare-tends-to-improve-ac94a8)
- [Removing routine antibiotic use forces farms to improve animal conditions, since poor conditions become too costly without a quick pharmaceutical fix.](https://korrents.com/k/removing-routine-antibiotic-use-forces-farms-52e76d)
- [If oversight fails to prevent abuse of vulnerable people in institutions like nursing homes, similar oversight is unlikely to prevent mistreatment of farm animals.](https://korrents.com/k/if-oversight-fails-to-prevent-abuse-f1db77)
- [The financial industry functions as an arm of the government, compelled into that role by law and regulation rather than choice.](https://korrents.com/k/the-financial-industry-functions-as-an-f7d065)
- [The mandatory financial-transaction reporting regime functions as an end-run around the Fourth Amendment.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mandatory-financial-transaction-reporting-regime-functio-2122ff)
- [Complex professional practice, including law, can be reduced to written playbooks that make its outcomes reproducible without requiring artisanal mastery.](https://korrents.com/k/complex-professional-practice-including-law-can-d3168a)
- [If Australia's renewable rollout weakens, coal and gas plants will run longer and generate more, well past their planned shutdown dates.](https://korrents.com/k/if-australia-s-renewable-rollout-weakens-f32ef0)
- [Data centres will become the majority driver of electricity demand growth in Australia's National Electricity Market.](https://korrents.com/k/data-centres-will-become-the-majority-0ba9b4)
- [Platforms run by technically capable, well-intentioned people can preserve content more reliably over decades than typical government or corporate web infrastructure.](https://korrents.com/k/platforms-run-by-technically-capable-well-intentioned-da3777)
- [Large AI companies have used creators' permissively-licensed work without seeking their consent or offering compensation.](https://korrents.com/k/large-ai-companies-have-used-creators-b99a63)
- [Authoritarian governments seek to destroy or falsify public records, including digital ones.](https://korrents.com/k/authoritarian-governments-seek-to-destroy-or-e19513)
- [Pure customer-centricity falls short: user feedback shows where the friction is but rarely what the underlying system should be.](https://korrents.com/k/pure-customer-centricity-falls-short-user-feedback-d61df3)
- [Getting angry quickly in an anxiously attached person is a threat-detection habit their nervous system learned, not a character flaw.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-angry-quickly-in-an-anxiously-e710d2)
- [Underneath the anger of anxious attachment is unresolved grief about not having been responded to.](https://korrents.com/k/underneath-the-anger-of-anxious-attachment-b69ddc)
- [iOS should let users rebuild a corrupted Spotlight index themselves, the way macOS does](https://korrents.com/k/ios-should-let-users-rebuild-a-8f0d7e)
- [The point of a grueling long-distance hike is to endure hardship, not to enjoy the scenery.](https://korrents.com/k/the-point-of-a-grueling-long-distance-af8d23)
- [AI works best when it solves a specific problem for a particular community rather than trying to be all things to all people.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-works-best-when-it-solves-1b838f)
- [The harmful behaviors of major AI companies -- training without consent, opaque code, no user control -- are choices, not unavoidable features of the technology.](https://korrents.com/k/the-harmful-behaviors-of-major-ai-89e015)
- [Public sentiment is turning against tech companies that force unwanted features on their users.](https://korrents.com/k/public-sentiment-is-turning-against-tech-0a0181)
- [If the people building a product would not use it with their own money, it is not good enough.](https://korrents.com/k/if-the-people-building-a-product-811d0b)
- [Using a product with your own money, rather than testing it in staging, lets you very deeply feel its pain points, friction and frustration.](https://korrents.com/k/using-a-product-with-your-own-ce9eac)
- [When potential is seen in people on a team, they need to be given opportunities, supported and helped to grow.](https://korrents.com/k/when-potential-is-seen-in-people-6ee272)
- [It is really dangerous when design operates in a silo outside of product and engineering, as if it had a different goal and did not need to work with those two groups to be successful.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-really-dangerous-when-design-201b50)
- [Designers on a large team have to collaborate, share and build on one another's work rather than going off into their own silos, because that is how the org chart gets shipped.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-on-a-large-team-have-d299c6)
- [Teams can't be debating in pixels in Figma; most often it is better to bias towards building something to make sure it works.](https://korrents.com/k/teams-can-t-be-debating-in-5da99b)
- [Details are worth digging into to make the experience excellent only once the foundations are in place; doing it the other way around can sort of be a waste of time.](https://korrents.com/k/details-are-worth-digging-into-to-91eb10)
- [In a financial product, small UI bugs really do matter because over time they are paper cuts that wear down trust.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-financial-product-small-ui-2b580e)
- [A team of all the same people who are good at the same thing is not going to help deliver the best product experience.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-of-all-the-same-37adbe)
- [It is really dangerous to identify a designer's spike and then put them on a part of the product or a team where they can't lean into it.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-really-dangerous-to-identify-a2c56b)
- [Whatever a designer's strengths, AI tools can be used; they are not just for people trying to ship high-quality front-end code to production.](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-a-designer-s-strengths-ai-2f51f7)
- [Asking Claude to do the thinking is garbage in, garbage out; the thinking and strategizing still has to be done by people.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-claude-to-do-the-thinking-b26129)
- [Skipping the thinking and the design altogether with AI tools is kind of dangerous; you have to go slow to go fast.](https://korrents.com/k/skipping-the-thinking-and-the-design-fa3236)
- [When everybody can build anything, it becomes super clear who has great judgment and who doesn't, which is why judgment and taste are being talked about as everyone's spike.](https://korrents.com/k/when-everybody-can-build-anything-it-7e8456)
- [A team will always make everything better; working with other people to challenge assumptions and contribute ideas is needed.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-will-always-make-everything-9c10ff)
- [Not every team has to have the same composition of people and skill sets.](https://korrents.com/k/not-every-team-has-to-have-952ca6)
- [Smaller teams are more effective.](https://korrents.com/k/smaller-teams-are-more-effective-615119)
- [A designer should start as a generalist so as to identify the spike, the thing they bring to the team that nobody else can.](https://korrents.com/k/a-designer-should-start-as-a-52b45e)
- [A leader has to hire people they would want to work for, strong talent trusted to go do the work and do it really well.](https://korrents.com/k/a-leader-has-to-hire-people-90dae9)
- [Getting candidates off script to see how they react and think on their feet gives a much more accurate idea of what working with them day-to-day is like.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-candidates-off-script-to-see-929579)
- [Showing static Figma work in a portfolio presentation feels unacceptable at this stage; prototypes need to be shown.](https://korrents.com/k/showing-static-figma-work-in-a-dd74dd)
- [Someone who does not feel impostor syndrome probably isn't doing enough to grow and needs to be more ambitious.](https://korrents.com/k/someone-who-does-not-feel-impostor-83ed5c)
- [People who can be real and say what needs to change are needed, because that is the only way to get better.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-can-be-real-and-b6d8f4)
- [The only way to really feel part of a team and be productive is to really know people and spend time with them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-way-to-really-feel-633b08)
- [Prolonging a failing system's lifespan only makes its eventual collapse worse.](https://korrents.com/k/prolonging-a-failing-system-s-lifespan-55a972)
- [AI is raising the baseline of what counts as acceptable public service, not just disrupting government from outside.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-raising-the-baseline-of-df4d1f)
- [As AI reshapes expectations, today's well-designed digital forms will soon feel as inadequate as paper forms once did.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-reshapes-expectations-today-s-45c5e9)
- [New web graphic technologies tend to be used for flashy, excessive effects at first before settling into more restrained, practical use.](https://korrents.com/k/new-web-graphic-technologies-tend-to-6a54a9)
- [HTML-in-canvas style techniques are unlikely to become widely used in everyday web development.](https://korrents.com/k/html-in-canvas-style-techniques-are-unlikely-to-0a197d)
- [AI will not eliminate software engineering jobs, but engineers who are highly skilled with AI tools could displace those who are not.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-not-eliminate-software-engineering-caa9ea)
- [The capability gap between smaller, locally-run AI models and larger models will narrow over time as compute becomes more accessible.](https://korrents.com/k/the-capability-gap-between-smaller-locally-run-139a97)
- [Delegating operational tasks to an AI agent does not introduce a fundamentally new category of risk, since the agent should be bound by the same constraints as existing production systems.](https://korrents.com/k/delegating-operational-tasks-to-an-ai-7570e6)
- [Distribution, not product-market fit, is the hard part of consumer technology, and almost nobody spends enough time on it.](https://korrents.com/k/distribution-not-product-market-fit-is-the-8d8f2f)
- [The value of a social network is in connecting you to the handful of people you care most about, not in how many people it connects.](https://korrents.com/k/the-value-of-a-social-network-146f57)
- [The next generation of great consumer companies will be born on new form factors like glasses, the way the last one was born on mobile.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-generation-of-great-consumer-d4a0a8)
- [Software is not a moat, and the AI industry is only now discovering what Snap learned fifteen years ago.](https://korrents.com/k/software-is-not-a-moat-and-69337f)
- [A platform of creators and developers is a durable moat, because an ecosystem, unlike a feature, cannot be cloned.](https://korrents.com/k/a-platform-of-creators-and-developers-552631)
- [Network effects are not a sufficient moat, because software features get copied however many patents you hold.](https://korrents.com/k/network-effects-are-not-a-sufficient-18b8ec)
- [Computers and phones isolate people from one another, and the point of the next computer is to reverse that.](https://korrents.com/k/computers-and-phones-isolate-people-from-bfa794)
- [The time is right for a new kind of computer, because people are already frustrated with what phones cost them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-time-is-right-for-a-b183a9)
- [Getting phone notifications on your face is not a valuable proposition, so heads-up display glasses will not become a widespread behaviour.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-phone-notifications-on-your-face-038795)
- [Large, structured organizations become risk-averse because everyone inside them is optimizing for the next promotion.](https://korrents.com/k/large-structured-organizations-become-risk-averse-because-c6c8ca)
- [A company needs both a flat inventive team and a large operational one, and the leader's real job is the relationship between them.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-needs-both-a-flat-0b909d)
- [If you want to have a good idea you have to have lots of ideas, so the velocity of design work matters more than any one idea.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-want-to-have-a-2ca2ce)
- [You have to talk to customers and share your ideas as early and as often as possible, even though you need not take their advice.](https://korrents.com/k/you-have-to-talk-to-customers-972799)
- [Listening to customers is invaluable, but you should not build the thing they asked you for.](https://korrents.com/k/listening-to-customers-is-invaluable-but-1d01c7)
- [Designers, not product managers, should own product direction, and a company can go a long way with designers doing the PM work themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-not-product-managers-should-own-d35cf6)
- [Design should be an intentional bottleneck every shipped thing has to pass through, because that is what makes a product cohere.](https://korrents.com/k/design-should-be-an-intentional-bottleneck-f41637)
- [Staying close to your customer and your product is the most important thing any leader can do, in any company, not only a consumer one.](https://korrents.com/k/staying-close-to-your-customer-and-4bf3c2)
- [Range, not a distinctive style, is what separates a designer from an artist, so a portfolio where everything looks alike is a bad sign.](https://korrents.com/k/range-not-a-distinctive-style-is-7c2274)
- [Preciousness about ideas is what holds designers back; if you are producing a thousand ideas it does not matter that most of them are bad.](https://korrents.com/k/preciousness-about-ideas-is-what-holds-8fa92e)
- [Listing out your jobs to be done is how a company brings order to AI, because it shows exactly where an agent belongs and what it should improve.](https://korrents.com/k/listing-out-your-jobs-to-be-4c943d)
- [Humanity matters more than technology, because it is humanity that dictates whether and how a technology gets adopted.](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-matters-more-than-technology-because-ec4e22)
- [There is going to be a huge amount of societal pushback against AI, because technology leaders wrongly assume people adopt whatever ships.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-going-to-be-a-2b23ce)
- [AI coding assistance now lets a programmer complete in a day work that used to take weeks.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-coding-assistance-now-lets-a-4b5841)
- [Acting on an idea reveals its true potential in a way that merely thinking about it cannot.](https://korrents.com/k/acting-on-an-idea-reveals-its-856ea7)
- [Decision markets are the idea of mine with the biggest expected impact, though not the deepest](https://korrents.com/k/decision-markets-are-the-idea-of-f8ac13)
- [The world is shaped by how consistently incompetent governance is, and competent governance would remake it](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-is-shaped-by-how-becfbf)
- [How easily an AI agent navigates a UI is objective evidence of how well- or poorly-designed that UI is.](https://korrents.com/k/how-easily-an-ai-agent-navigates-f33ab6)
- [Code-signing with self-signed certificates makes security worse rather than better.](https://korrents.com/k/code-signing-with-self-signed-certificates-makes-security-a18020)
- [A sustained 'do nothing' meditation practice surfaces unresolved psychological material in an order the practitioner cannot control.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sustained-do-nothing-meditation-practice-25b864)
- [A fulfilling 'do nothing' meditation practice requires equally embracing all present sensation rather than avoiding difficult ones.](https://korrents.com/k/a-fulfilling-do-nothing-meditation-practice-b1d859)
- [A well-functioning contemplative practice should feel like an engaging encounter with mystery rather than a chore.](https://korrents.com/k/a-well-functioning-contemplative-practice-should-feel-4fdd8d)
- [Replacing a monopolistic platform with a single alternative isn't enough — real resilience requires diversity among competing platforms.](https://korrents.com/k/replacing-a-monopolistic-platform-with-a-ac702b)
- [Dominant companies shape not just their users' choices but the imagination of people actively trying to resist them.](https://korrents.com/k/dominant-companies-shape-not-just-their-bf7be2)
- [The mass adoption of React and single-page-app architecture across nearly all web apps was driven by trend-following rather than technical fit, producing fragile, scripting-dependent software.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mass-adoption-of-react-and-cbad17)
- [The dominant American police interrogation method is good at producing confessions and bad at producing true ones.](https://korrents.com/k/the-dominant-american-police-interrogation-method-f931d9)
- [A confession stops the investigation that would have cleared the innocent person who gave it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-confession-stops-the-investigation-that-6eaeed)
- [Non-coercive interrogation still produces confessions, and more reliable ones, so coercion is not the price of solving crimes.](https://korrents.com/k/non-coercive-interrogation-still-produces-confessions-and-f630ab)
- [The default social mood in many public spaces is ironic detachment.](https://korrents.com/k/the-default-social-mood-in-many-4ba6fe)
- [Most forms of dance require weeks of lessons before newcomers are welcomed to dance socially.](https://korrents.com/k/most-forms-of-dance-require-weeks-e95a83)
- [Contra dancing often serves as a gateway into more difficult forms of dance.](https://korrents.com/k/contra-dancing-often-serves-as-a-32a32b)
- [Letting AI agents request unlimited permissions will erode user trust as people get worn down into granting them.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-ai-agents-request-unlimited-permissions-67946c)
- [Web browsers are a good model for what user agency in software should look like.](https://korrents.com/k/web-browsers-are-a-good-model-2b19ce)
- [Security is a defensive posture, while agency is fundamentally about collective bargaining power.](https://korrents.com/k/security-is-a-defensive-posture-while-63f2e8)
- [Courage is the commitment to take risks and work hard to make something better than most people think it needs to be.](https://korrents.com/k/courage-is-the-commitment-to-take-4b7f8d)
- [It has virtually never got cheaper to build a house or an office: construction costs rise at or above general inflation, in every rich country and over a century of data.](https://korrents.com/k/it-has-virtually-never-got-cheaper-7923fb)
- [The modern economy pressures nearly every kind of creative or professional worker to also become a small media company, a skill unrelated to their original craft.](https://korrents.com/k/the-modern-economy-pressures-nearly-every-df7aea)
- [Putting a price on creative expression makes it suffer, while giving it away freely lets it thrive.](https://korrents.com/k/putting-a-price-on-creative-expression-cc0f5e)
- [Reliability in a data system means fault tolerance above all: the system keeps working when a network link is cut or a node dies.](https://korrents.com/k/reliability-in-a-data-system-means-9422b9)
- [Scalability is not a property a system has; it is the set of mechanisms it has for coping with a change in load.](https://korrents.com/k/scalability-is-not-a-property-a-fb1f9a)
- [Scaling down is half of scalability: cost and capacity should track load in both directions, right down to a service that is nearly free to run.](https://korrents.com/k/scaling-down-is-half-of-scalability-584a23)
- [Building databases on object stores is a genuine architectural break, because replication moves out of the database and into the storage layer.](https://korrents.com/k/building-databases-on-object-stores-is-c255c7)
- [An engineer writing business logic loses nothing by not understanding the layer underneath, exactly as they lose nothing by not managing memory.](https://korrents.com/k/an-engineer-writing-business-logic-loses-0ebe55)
- [Higher-level abstractions do not abolish low-level knowledge; they concentrate it in the smaller group of people who build the abstractions.](https://korrents.com/k/higher-level-abstractions-do-not-abolish-low-level-1929e8)
- [Knowing a little about how a storage engine works internally is a superpower for an application developer who will never build one.](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-a-little-about-how-a-268423)
- [Europe being locked out of US cloud services is still unlikely, but it is no longer unthinkable, and serious systems should be engineered against it.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-being-locked-out-of-us-efe9fb)
- [As AI writes more of the code, an engineer's job shifts away from expressing logic in a language and towards articulating high-level trade-offs.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-writes-more-of-the-abb200)
- [Sharding across machines has faded as a concern because hardware got more powerful, not because the cloud made it easy.](https://korrents.com/k/sharding-across-machines-has-faded-as-e08c88)
- [Replication earns its place even in a small system, because what it buys is fault tolerance rather than scale.](https://korrents.com/k/replication-earns-its-place-even-in-1a830f)
- [A distributed system must assume there is no upper bound whatsoever on how long a message can take to cross the network.](https://korrents.com/k/a-distributed-system-must-assume-there-bbe1ed)
- [Clocks are right most of the time, and that is precisely why a distributed system may never rely on them.](https://korrents.com/k/clocks-are-right-most-of-the-0026d7)
- [How much fault tolerance to buy is a business decision, not an engineering one; the engineer's job is to inform it and then step back.](https://korrents.com/k/how-much-fault-tolerance-to-buy-bee350)
- [MapReduce is dead: nobody uses it any more, and it survives in the literature only as a teaching device for its successors.](https://korrents.com/k/mapreduce-is-dead-nobody-uses-it-826da2)
- [If you got into technology to change the world, then thinking about what your technology does to the world is part of the job, not an optional extra.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-got-into-technology-to-8c6dc0)
- [A test checks a handful of examples; a proof settles an infinite state space, which is why formal methods can say things testing never can.](https://korrents.com/k/a-test-checks-a-handful-of-1bb062)
- [AI-written code makes formal proof necessary, because human review of all that generated code becomes the bottleneck.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-written-code-makes-formal-proof-necessary-b20358)
- [Formal verification is about to become economical, because models are getting good enough at writing the proofs that humans no longer have to.](https://korrents.com/k/formal-verification-is-about-to-become-fe9f92)
- [The reason a software-as-a-service business can charge a subscription is that it holds a gun to the customer's head over their own data.](https://korrents.com/k/the-reason-a-software-as-a-service-business-can-32ed63)
- [Power over data belongs with end users rather than cloud operators, and software should be built to move it back to them.](https://korrents.com/k/power-over-data-belongs-with-end-510ddc)
- [Work that runs against companies' commercial incentives will only get done by people whose income does not depend on those incentives.](https://korrents.com/k/work-that-runs-against-companies-commercial-fdb318)
- [Timestamps cannot order access-control decisions in a decentralised system, because the user whose access was revoked can simply forge them.](https://korrents.com/k/timestamps-cannot-order-access-control-decisions-in-0ad548)
- [The essay a student hands in is not the point of education; the thought process that produced it is the entire desired outcome.](https://korrents.com/k/the-essay-a-student-hands-in-4f2e91)
- [People in industry routinely short-circuit their reasoning, adopting what they heard in a conference talk instead of thinking it through from first principles.](https://korrents.com/k/people-in-industry-routinely-short-circuit-their-03d868)
- [Writing is how the thinking gets done, so a writer who hands the words to a machine has given away the part that mattered.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-is-how-the-thinking-gets-1c12aa)
- [The people who run the world are not smarter than anyone else, and even well-meaning ones often only offer paths not worth pursuing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-people-who-run-the-world-b39764)
- [Lasting satisfaction comes from studying how others play, then defining and fully playing one's own game rather than someone else's.](https://korrents.com/k/lasting-satisfaction-comes-from-studying-how-5b83d9)
- [A single year tends to look much like the one before it, but a decade can change everything about a person's life.](https://korrents.com/k/a-single-year-tends-to-look-b13121)
- [Layering a static type system atop a dynamic one, capable of proving the dynamic checks redundant, combines the flexibility of dynamic typing with the performance of static typing.](https://korrents.com/k/layering-a-static-type-system-atop-7ded23)
- [Enforcing safe mutable value semantics (e.g. via borrow-checking) is far easier to do cheaply with a static type system than with a dynamic one.](https://korrents.com/k/enforcing-safe-mutable-value-semantics-e-713394)
- [Cloud abstraction problems cannot be fixed by adding more abstraction layers on top.](https://korrents.com/k/cloud-abstraction-problems-cannot-be-fixed-3c4c46)
- [Making code easier to write will lead to much more software being created overall.](https://korrents.com/k/making-code-easier-to-write-will-95ec20)
- [VMs are the wrong cloud abstraction because they bundle CPU and memory into fixed-size units.](https://korrents.com/k/vms-are-the-wrong-cloud-abstraction-f0b073)
- [Computers are delightful environments for play, learning, and connection](https://korrents.com/k/computers-are-delightful-environments-for-play-bf98ed)
- [Great design has always been great design regardless of the tools; design has always been about decisiveness and judgment.](https://korrents.com/k/great-design-has-always-been-great-f8530f)
- [Decisiveness is a really, really big deal for this year and beyond, in a world where more ideas and more room for micro decisions exist.](https://korrents.com/k/decisiveness-is-a-really-really-big-e3591d)
- [Patterns that work show up in 90% of products, and they are there for a reason, yet a lot of designers reinvent the wheel.](https://korrents.com/k/patterns-that-work-show-up-in-66d6a0)
- [Knowing when to reinvent the wheel and when to follow patterns is the number one trait a junior designer can have right now and will let them go very far.](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-when-to-reinvent-the-wheel-ea60af)
- [The limit of technology to create the tooling needed to make the things one sees in one's head is gone.](https://korrents.com/k/the-limit-of-technology-to-create-9d0a12)
- [People who already ran through walls are on an upward slope with AI, while those scared to, who externalize blockers and get stuck, may not be empowered by it.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-already-ran-through-walls-a5e6af)
- [Visual design fundamentals change how someone feels when they interact with a product, and those principles are still true.](https://korrents.com/k/visual-design-fundamentals-change-how-someone-37f74c)
- [Taste is much more about the journey of design than about the result.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-is-much-more-about-the-514752)
- [Taste may be somewhat innate, but it can be informed and shaped; it is a muscle that has to be fostered.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-may-be-somewhat-innate-but-2160fb)
- [Knowing when to go deep into many prompts and when not to fight every battle, because not everything needs to be new, is the zooming in and out that creates taste.](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-when-to-go-deep-into-ea08f0)
- [Much of design has become homogeneous, with designers designing for other designers.](https://korrents.com/k/much-of-design-has-become-homogeneous-6b6f36)
- [Software is a form of hospitality, welcoming a user base into a product.](https://korrents.com/k/software-is-a-form-of-hospitality-73feae)
- [Craft and consequence can exist at the same time; they are not mutually exclusive.](https://korrents.com/k/craft-and-consequence-can-exist-at-032b8c)
- [What a designer can learn outside their craft may propel their career forward much more than a design crit with someone at a company they look up to.](https://korrents.com/k/what-a-designer-can-learn-outside-7e952d)
- [The earlier the stage of the company, the more important it is to get along well with the team outside of design.](https://korrents.com/k/the-earlier-the-stage-of-the-f83a0e)
- [Starting does not have to be where you finish; creating something terrible to get an idea on paper is what starts the snowball rolling.](https://korrents.com/k/starting-does-not-have-to-be-809e25)
- [Good enough is okay for most people and there is a lot of it in the world, but some push it a little further.](https://korrents.com/k/good-enough-is-okay-for-most-6c756a)
- [A big part of taste is delivering high levels of craft in an accessible way so that as many people as possible can experience it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-big-part-of-taste-is-3af42e)
- [The hardest part about big companies is not that nothing gets done, but that everything takes a long time to get done or to find out whether it can.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hardest-part-about-big-companies-9a3378)
- [The design industry is shifting to be more and more filled with independent people.](https://korrents.com/k/the-design-industry-is-shifting-to-eb182d)
- [Nearly every widely distributed technology produces negative second-order effects.](https://korrents.com/k/nearly-every-widely-distributed-technology-produces-7ef2a3)
- [Cheap delivery turned the roadmap-of-features model into a feature factory that produces bad products faster.](https://korrents.com/k/cheap-delivery-turned-the-roadmap-of-features-model-4341ef)
- [The real bottleneck in product work is discovering a solution worth building, not building it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-bottleneck-in-product-work-04ed1c)
- [Relying on AI assistance to do a task reduces a person's performance and persistence, and denies them the muscle memory and deep understanding that comes from working through it by hand.](https://korrents.com/k/relying-on-ai-assistance-to-do-fd8d03)
- [Refusing to use or build AI tools will not stop AI development altogether, but it will slow it down, which is a good thing.](https://korrents.com/k/refusing-to-use-or-build-ai-7a8bc8)
- [It will take time for the full effects of today's already-capable AI models to be felt, and for culture, industry, and government to adapt to them.](https://korrents.com/k/it-will-take-time-for-the-50068d)
- [The value of a future Social Security benefit is the net present value of its expected lifetime stream of payments, which can be counted as money already available today.](https://korrents.com/k/the-value-of-a-future-social-7716d6)
- [The Social Security benefit formula is designed to be progressive, giving proportionally larger benefits to lower earners than to higher earners.](https://korrents.com/k/the-social-security-benefit-formula-is-32958c)
- [Without the handoff, everyone builds: designer, developer and product manager can all work in the codebase at once, and that changes everything.](https://korrents.com/k/without-the-handoff-everyone-builds-designer-11029c)
- [Nvidia's business is the transformation of electrons into tokens, and its job is to do as much as necessary and as little as possible in between.](https://korrents.com/k/nvidia-s-business-is-the-transformation-6dddd9)
- [AI will not commoditise software tools; it will multiply them, because every new agent is another tool user.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-not-commoditise-software-tools-7c0c2e)
- [Nvidia's suppliers make their investments for Nvidia and nobody else because only Nvidia's downstream demand can absorb what they build.](https://korrents.com/k/nvidia-s-suppliers-make-their-investments-d49f8b)
- [The doomers said radiology would be the first career to go; a decade later the world is short of radiologists.](https://korrents.com/k/the-doomers-said-radiology-would-be-bebd24)
- [No bottleneck in the AI supply chain lasts longer than two or three years.](https://korrents.com/k/no-bottleneck-in-the-ai-supply-3d95df)
- [Nvidia did not build a tensor processing unit — it built accelerated computing, whose market reach no ASIC can match.](https://korrents.com/k/nvidia-did-not-build-a-tensor-f79b6b)
- [A homebuilt accelerator forces you to be your own operator; Nvidia systems are designed for anyone to operate, which is why they are in every cloud.](https://korrents.com/k/a-homebuilt-accelerator-forces-you-to-02c58e)
- [Moore's law now yields about 25% a year, so 10x and 100x leaps can only come from changing the algorithm and how it is computed, every single year.](https://korrents.com/k/moore-s-law-now-yields-about-0d9bd5)
- [Nvidia's engineers can routinely get another 2x out of an AI lab's stack, and doubling the tokens a fleet produces doubles that lab's revenue.](https://korrents.com/k/nvidia-s-engineers-can-routinely-get-7219b7)
- [No platform in the world has a better performance-per-total-cost-of-ownership ratio than Nvidia's, and nobody will run the public benchmark to show otherwise.](https://korrents.com/k/no-platform-in-the-world-has-0a78c8)
- [Anthropic is a unique instance and not a trend: without it there would be essentially no TPU or Trainium growth at all.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-is-a-unique-instance-and-062155)
- [Building an ASIC is not the hard part; building something better than Nvidia is, and that is not easy.](https://korrents.com/k/building-an-asic-is-not-the-e61fc1)
- [Moving to a custom ASIC does not escape the margin — the ASIC vendor’s margins are nearly as high as Nvidia’s.](https://korrents.com/k/moving-to-a-custom-asic-does-1f415e)
- [Nvidia's real miss was not seeing that a frontier lab could never be funded by venture capital, so its compute suppliers had to become its investors.](https://korrents.com/k/nvidia-s-real-miss-was-not-cfc2ac)
- [Nvidia should build only what would not otherwise exist — twenty years of CUDA at a loss is the test, and the world already has plenty of clouds.](https://korrents.com/k/nvidia-should-build-only-what-would-b5335d)
- [Nobody can pick winners: Nvidia's own first graphics architecture was precisely wrong, and it would have topped the list of companies expected to fail.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-can-pick-winners-nvidia-s-8e6256)
- [Allocating scarce chips to the highest bidder is bad business — you set your price and keep it, however high demand goes.](https://korrents.com/k/allocating-scarce-chips-to-the-highest-548fa7)
- [You can bet your entire business on Nvidia shipping a better architecture every single year and your token cost falling by an order of magnitude — no ASIC team can promise that.](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-bet-your-entire-business-d3adc4)
- [Export controls cannot deny China compute: it already manufactures most of the world’s mainstream chips and has some of the world’s best computer scientists.](https://korrents.com/k/export-controls-cannot-deny-china-compute-3fd006)
- [Most advances in AI have come from algorithms rather than raw hardware, which makes China's army of AI researchers its fundamental advantage.](https://korrents.com/k/most-advances-in-ai-have-come-b2ce94)
- [Computing is not a car market: x86 and ARM persist because ecosystems cost too much time and energy for anyone to replace.](https://korrents.com/k/computing-is-not-a-car-market-188512)
- [Blackwell is 50 times Hopper while the transistors themselves improved 75% in three years — the gain is architecture, not lithography.](https://korrents.com/k/blackwell-is-50-times-hopper-while-4db49e)
- [Nvidia does not run rival chip architectures in parallel because it simulates them and they come out provably worse.](https://korrents.com/k/nvidia-does-not-run-rival-chip-605579)
- [General-purpose computing has largely run its course; domain-specific acceleration is the way computing keeps scaling.](https://korrents.com/k/general-purpose-computing-has-largely-run-its-996dc2)
- [Venture capital culture and evangelical church-planting culture don't just resemble each other, they actively borrow from and influence each other.](https://korrents.com/k/venture-capital-culture-and-evangelical-church-planting-dbbfe1)
- [Evangelizing religious movements are shaped by a creative-destruction dynamic that discards congregations that fail to grow.](https://korrents.com/k/evangelizing-religious-movements-are-shaped-by-bbeae0)
- [Remote Desktop is a poor experience for actual software development, even though it is fine for administrative tasks.](https://korrents.com/k/remote-desktop-is-a-poor-experience-b71b86)
- [SSH access is often blocked or restricted in customer development environments.](https://korrents.com/k/ssh-access-is-often-blocked-or-54751b)
- [The unpredictable nature of large language model output makes quality-control processes necessary.](https://korrents.com/k/the-unpredictable-nature-of-large-language-ce2a7d)
- [Because large language models behave chaotically, a single overall accuracy score cannot capture how reliable they are.](https://korrents.com/k/because-large-language-models-behave-chaotically-886245)
- [Only humans, not the AI systems they use, can be held accountable through apology or punishment.](https://korrents.com/k/only-humans-not-the-ai-systems-aa4bc2)
- [The agentic age needs a new operating system](https://korrents.com/k/the-agentic-age-needs-a-new-8731c6)
- [Okay design improves what is put in front of it; excellent design changes what is possible.](https://korrents.com/k/okay-design-improves-what-is-put-27f417)
- [Excellence in design is not just craft quality; it is whether a designer is both willing and allowed to create impact.](https://korrents.com/k/excellence-in-design-is-not-just-623b3f)
- [An electric robotaxi is not simply one more car, and the people who dislike cars in cities are wrong to treat it as one.](https://korrents.com/k/an-electric-robotaxi-is-not-simply-ee763d)
- [Large language models are too chaotic and language too ambiguous for them to preserve the reasoning guarantees that compilers provide.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-are-too-chaotic-212811)
- [If companies replace large numbers of workers with machine learning, money and power will become more concentrated in the hands of capital.](https://korrents.com/k/if-companies-replace-large-numbers-of-a7681d)
- [When an automated system works faster or more accurately than a human, a human cannot meaningfully review its decisions in real time.](https://korrents.com/k/when-an-automated-system-works-faster-c1f114)
- [As soon as you realize you can't design half of this stuff in Figma, what you are really designing is the harness for the agent to do longer things and verify its own work.](https://korrents.com/k/as-soon-as-you-realize-you-5b11fa)
- [Designers should be designing right at the boundary of the current model, hoping the next one solves it; understanding what is possible and pushing the edges even if you get stuck is probably a good place to be right now.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-should-be-designing-right-at-c4c2ea)
- [Roughly every six months, everything done before becomes more or less irrelevant.](https://korrents.com/k/roughly-every-six-months-everything-done-02b800)
- [People trying to use AI to automate knowledge work or simplify their job are very early adopters, and their tolerance for sub-par experiences is quite high.](https://korrents.com/k/people-trying-to-use-ai-to-b72a0c)
- [Depending on the work it is totally fine to design predominantly in Figma, but the barrier to trying making something in code is so low that everybody has probably dabbled with it.](https://korrents.com/k/depending-on-the-work-it-is-c0d6ad)
- [Collaboration moves from sharing a Figma URL to sharing a deploy preview; what matters is the artifact the team points at and tries together.](https://korrents.com/k/collaboration-moves-from-sharing-a-figma-c25ad7)
- [AI is still terrible at last mile fit and finish.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-still-terrible-at-last-b90c94)
- [It is a good time to not have an allegiance to a tool and not get tribal about tools; just try them all.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-a-good-time-to-ade9f5)
- [The models are still bad enough that if you really care about the final quality of what you are shipping, you probably have to look at the code.](https://korrents.com/k/the-models-are-still-bad-enough-f847bf)
- [Higher quality input tokens give higher quality output tokens, and the input tokens are where you steer where the model goes.](https://korrents.com/k/higher-quality-input-tokens-give-higher-b1306c)
- [If you want the model to pay attention to a certain thing, you have to say that thing.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-want-the-model-to-b2acfb)
- [Stupid prompts can work, because they flip the right bits so that the model will extrapolate from there.](https://korrents.com/k/stupid-prompts-can-work-because-they-2d3f9a)
- [Anyone who knew how to code before AI is having a way better time using AI than someone who did not, because they know the right words to say.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-who-knew-how-to-code-ac76b0)
- [Feeling you have a grip on AI by getting your skills in the right order and your review flow right is probably a lot of cope for the fact that the models are still inconsistent.](https://korrents.com/k/feeling-you-have-a-grip-on-4ca3ac)
- [AI is not magic: the underlying systems are very complicated, but what it does on your computer, like writing files and invoking bash commands from the 70s, is knowable.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-not-magic-the-underlying-20efb8)
- [An obsession with titles is what will screw people over.](https://korrents.com/k/an-obsession-with-titles-is-what-eb9547)
- [It is getting very easy to move between disciplines, and the person to be is one who can move fluidly between types of working instead of getting caught up in the box they are in at a company.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-getting-very-easy-to-e9efc5)
- [A PM who can design around their spec to see if it holds up to reality is what you want, and so is an engineer who really cares about building great visual component systems.](https://korrents.com/k/a-pm-who-can-design-around-f7f5b4)
- [Someone newer to the field will probably be fine by focusing on making things for real people that solve a real problem, iterating quickly, and learning to do that faster, without worrying about not knowing how to code or write a PRD.](https://korrents.com/k/someone-newer-to-the-field-will-c2e3b2)
- [The ability to focus and be undistractable for two hours a day is a meaningful competitive advantage right now.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ability-to-focus-and-be-c59fcc)
- [Learning a language happens through exposure to language you can mostly understand; classroom drills feel productive and build nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-a-language-happens-through-exposure-67f655)
- [A person who studies a language for years and cannot speak it was taught the wrong method; it is not a failure of talent or of effort.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-who-studies-a-language-643506)
- [The practical instruction that follows from the research is simple and hard to do: listen and read a great deal.](https://korrents.com/k/the-practical-instruction-that-follows-from-075475)
- [The distinct flavour of panpsychism implied by IIT, whereby space and time are tiled with substrates of proto-consciousness, is not problematic for the theory.](https://korrents.com/k/the-distinct-flavour-of-panpsychism-implied-5a29f2)
- [Only proxies for IIT measures have been computed so far, and not approximations.](https://korrents.com/k/only-proxies-for-iit-measures-have-1caa77)
- [For IIT to fit with current successful theories in fundamental physics, a reformulation in terms of continuous fields would be needed.](https://korrents.com/k/for-iit-to-fit-with-current-0170a3)
- [People who regulate, protest, or talk about AI are mostly driven by pre-existing political agendas rather than AI itself.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-regulate-protest-or-talk-fd3715)
- [Public alarm about AGI risk inevitably provokes a backlash against AI itself.](https://korrents.com/k/public-alarm-about-agi-risk-inevitably-030d7b)
- [The AI backlash can only be resolved peacefully through a flagship policy that addresses public fears and redistributes AI's economic gains, not by pushing ahead regardless.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-backlash-can-only-be-551b84)
- [Biotech R&D efficiency and pharma R&D efficiency are not the same thing and should not be conflated.](https://korrents.com/k/biotech-r-d-efficiency-and-pharma-9fc8c9)
- [New technologies can meaningfully improve R&D productivity in drug development.](https://korrents.com/k/new-technologies-can-meaningfully-improve-r-6695cb)
- [When pharmaceutical companies act as top-down gatekeepers for which therapeutic ideas get pursued, promising innovations from startups can be overlooked.](https://korrents.com/k/when-pharmaceutical-companies-act-as-top-down-20eeac)
- [End-to-end cryptographic signing of requests and responses is more secure than relying on transport-layer encryption like TLS alone.](https://korrents.com/k/end-to-end-cryptographic-signing-of-requests-and-26c20d)
- [Eventually Known Consistency is a better theoretical model for distributed systems than plain eventual consistency, even though it's harder to reason about.](https://korrents.com/k/eventually-known-consistency-is-a-better-70db59)
- [Exceptions are an inherently poor way of handling errors because they make bugs harder to spot on casual code inspection.](https://korrents.com/k/exceptions-are-an-inherently-poor-way-6a3058)
- [AI represents the largest change to society in a very long time, perhaps ever.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-represents-the-largest-change-to-5774b9)
- [AI must be democratized, and power over it should not become too concentrated.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-must-be-democratized-and-power-2a6b58)
- [The most consequential decisions about the shape of the future should not be made by a handful of AI labs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-consequential-decisions-about-the-d58c97)
- [People disagreeing about AI capability are speaking past each other, because they are using models of very different tiers on very different kinds of task.](https://korrents.com/k/people-disagreeing-about-ai-capability-are-89006b)
- [A multi-ethnic nation cannot survive as a salad bowl in which each group keeps its distinctiveness indefinitely.](https://korrents.com/k/a-multi-ethnic-nation-cannot-survive-as-748222)
- [Cultures that stay permanently separate inside one country end up unequal.](https://korrents.com/k/cultures-that-stay-permanently-separate-inside-2fd53c)
- [A country without cultural unity struggles to provide public goods, because its politics turns into an ethnic spoils system.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-without-cultural-unity-struggles-9e41e8)
- [Shared everyday experience binds a nation together better than shared ancestry does.](https://korrents.com/k/shared-everyday-experience-binds-a-nation-07ce1e)
- [Assimilation should never require an immigrant to give up their religion or their heritage.](https://korrents.com/k/assimilation-should-never-require-an-immigrant-649bc3)
- [Losing the ancestral language and traditions over a few generations is a normal and healthy part of migrating, and should be accepted as such.](https://korrents.com/k/losing-the-ancestral-language-and-traditions-ec6c9f)
- [The current American movement against immigration is a periodic nativist backlash of the kind the country has had before, not a new phenomenon.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-american-movement-against-immigration-398021)
- [Avoiding sending prompts and code to external services is the strongest reason to use local AI models instead of cloud ones.](https://korrents.com/k/avoiding-sending-prompts-and-code-to-ae2bb9)
- [Cloud AI models are still better than local models for tasks that need high accuracy, large context handling, or production-grade reliability.](https://korrents.com/k/cloud-ai-models-are-still-better-66d66b)
- [His opinion of AI never changed; the circumstances and the facts did, when agent harnesses and Opus 4.5 made the tools good enough.](https://korrents.com/k/his-opinion-of-ai-never-changed-02519e)
- [Opus is the best frontier model, and the one to start with.](https://korrents.com/k/opus-is-the-best-frontier-model-721caa)
- [Anthropic pulling Claude subscriptions from third-party harnesses like OpenCode is a mistake: playing a single match in a game of many rounds.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-pulling-claude-subscriptions-from-third-party-ef0cec)
- [Aesthetics is truth: when something is beautiful it is likely to be correct, in code as in mathematics and physics.](https://korrents.com/k/aesthetics-is-truth-when-something-is-cb42af)
- [Rails is having a renaissance because it is one of the most token-efficient ways to build a web app, which suits agents, for as long as that lasts.](https://korrents.com/k/rails-is-having-a-renaissance-because-873c3c)
- [Designers should find what the spec should be and build it in HTML and CSS themselves, not make a product manager's spec look pretty.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-should-find-what-the-spec-3b4c6a)
- [The end state is agents that need none of our accommodations, no on-ramp, CLI or MCP; the CLI being built now is for today, not for AGI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-end-state-is-agents-that-394964)
- [Agents will eventually stop making the mistakes that require senior review, as self-driving cars did; the bet is on when, not whether.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-will-eventually-stop-making-the-02d827)
- [The bulk of agent acceleration is accruing to senior programmers, because judging whether agent output can ship is what made them senior.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bulk-of-agent-acceleration-is-b638cd)
- [Open hiring calls rarely find programmers who last; the warm referral of someone you worked beside for two years has by far the best hit rate.](https://korrents.com/k/open-hiring-calls-rarely-find-programmers-d20bb4)
- [Doing your best at a bad job is not for the boss: it is how the warm referral that gets the next job is earned, and slacking there cheats only yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/doing-your-best-at-a-bad-80c2b6)
- [Eight hours of sleep is the best investment in cognitive capacity, and trading sleep, health or exercise for more agent work is a bad deal even in the short term.](https://korrents.com/k/eight-hours-of-sleep-is-the-f2179f)
- [The pie of software work is exploding, not growing: with the cost of exploring a hunch down a thousandfold, projects nobody would have contemplated get done.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pie-of-software-work-is-62df8f)
- [AI is not a limited-time sale: the people furthest along are working harder than ever, and they need to stop harvesting dopamine as if it ends in two weeks.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-not-a-limited-time-sale-c4d68a)
- [Working at OpenAI as a designer does not require being technical, but it does require being really curious and interested in how somebody might actually use the product.](https://korrents.com/k/working-at-openai-as-a-designer-fb1232)
- [In AI products, much can often be done with the model directly in the conversation rather than through new bespoke UI, though there is a balance.](https://korrents.com/k/in-ai-products-much-can-often-1abd04)
- [Designers working on AI products should hopefully spend a lot less time drawing pixels and more time on how people interact with the model, which is the core product.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-working-on-ai-products-should-91f7f9)
- [The best systems thinkers think not just about their feature but about how it extends the system.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-systems-thinkers-think-not-05c6d3)
- [Poor systems thinking is being too blinders-on about getting one thing out as quickly as possible, without understanding that other, similar things are going on.](https://korrents.com/k/poor-systems-thinking-is-being-too-b28859)
- [Because anybody can write software, a designer's job will be more and more about helping edit, direct and curate.](https://korrents.com/k/because-anybody-can-write-software-a-af1f57)
- [The job of a designer is not going away anytime soon; designers will probably be able to do more, and the core skills stay just as important, because people can recognize good software from bad.](https://korrents.com/k/the-job-of-a-designer-is-58b7cb)
- [Sometimes a whiteboard, a paper sketch, a wireframe, Figma or a live prototype is the right tool, and the best designers will intuit which to go to.](https://korrents.com/k/sometimes-a-whiteboard-a-paper-sketch-c13b9e)
- [It is easy to get obsessed with a single prototype whose idea might be way off, so you do not want to take just one.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-easy-to-get-obsessed-7f3120)
- [In some ways nothing has changed about what a great designer is: thinking deeply about the problem and who it is for, plus craft, taste and understanding of interaction patterns remain just as important.](https://korrents.com/k/in-some-ways-nothing-has-changed-a0f153)
- [Designers who embraced a tool like Origami were able to up-level their work, craft and impact, and Codex or Cursor can likewise unlock a new way for designers to express themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-who-embraced-a-tool-like-d885b9)
- [Design and engineering are swinging back toward overlapping much more.](https://korrents.com/k/design-and-engineering-are-swinging-back-634174)
- [Designers have to think a lot about how to expose what the models can now do in a way people understand, and how to give them the tools to do real, meaningful work.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-have-to-think-a-lot-9f2495)
- [It is better not to spend time crafting the exact perfect solution until you know it works; getting an early version you can play with in the product is a really good milestone.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-better-not-to-spend-86b9f6)
- [Great designers can both package up a new technology and push on what it ought to be able to do.](https://korrents.com/k/great-designers-can-both-package-up-8c1472)
- [Designers need the fundamentals, being great at general product design, plus being truly curious and interested in the technology.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-need-the-fundamentals-being-great-6cf8b4)
- [Designers have to deal with the realities of what the technology is now, because going too far ahead is like trying to put 11 players on the field.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-have-to-deal-with-the-72e736)
- [Designers should code, and AI coding agents have reopened that door after a decade in which front-end complexity closed it.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-should-code-and-ai-coding-359315)
- [The loop has flipped: it used to be faster to mock up software than to ship it, and now designers can work iteratively in production code.](https://korrents.com/k/the-loop-has-flipped-it-used-ea33bd)
- [Poincare missed special relativity because he knew too much: the leading physicists of the day were prisoners of their own expertise.](https://korrents.com/k/poincare-missed-special-relativity-because-he-83e0e2)
- [What made the new astronomy compelling was neither accuracy nor simplicity but that one set of ideas explained three disconnected phenomena at once.](https://korrents.com/k/what-made-the-new-astronomy-compelling-ef7c9e)
- [The idea that Newton was the first modern scientist is wrong: he was a transitional hybrid, part superstitious and part modern.](https://korrents.com/k/the-idea-that-newton-was-the-036895)
- [Science always bottlenecks precisely where the heuristics that worked before stop applying, which is definitionally what makes something a bottleneck.](https://korrents.com/k/science-always-bottlenecks-precisely-where-the-aa7fa4)
- [Darwin's genius was not having the idea of selection, which animal breeders already had, but seeing how central it was to the whole of biology.](https://korrents.com/k/darwin-s-genius-was-not-having-ac21be)
- [Evolution was not a thinkable theory before deep time: without hundreds of millions of years it simply looks like a nonstarter.](https://korrents.com/k/evolution-was-not-a-thinkable-theory-41ef85)
- [A trained model is a new kind of object that should be taken seriously as an explanation, once we work out the operations to perform on it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-trained-model-is-a-new-73fe5f)
- [A theory gets abandoned when the old explanation becomes visibly insufficient: special relativity made Newtonian gravity's action at a distance impossible, and that was the forcing function.](https://korrents.com/k/a-theory-gets-abandoned-when-the-139bd3)
- [Anomalies cannot be sorted in advance: the same move that found Neptune failed completely for Mercury, so a field has to pursue both answers at once.](https://korrents.com/k/anomalies-cannot-be-sorted-in-advance-2dbea2)
- [AI has moved the programmer's bottleneck from writing code to having good design ideas, and there is no verification loop for a design idea.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-moved-the-programmer-s-b2fa8d)
- [A theory of everything would not finish physics: Turing and Church laid down computation's theory of everything in the 1930s and we have spent ninety years exploring the consequences.](https://korrents.com/k/a-theory-of-everything-would-not-0d9431)
- [Very deep principles lie hidden inside theories we already have: public key cryptography was already implicit in the 1930s theory of computation.](https://korrents.com/k/very-deep-principles-lie-hidden-inside-c22726)
- [We are near the bottom of the tech tree, not the top; even the list of phases of matter keeps growing and we are starting to design new ones.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-near-the-bottom-of-740ff8)
- [Diminishing returns in science is a snapshot illusion: somebody keeps restocking the table, and new fields make progress easy again.](https://korrents.com/k/diminishing-returns-in-science-is-a-587e91)
- [Biology has already handed us an alien library: hundreds of millions of protein machines we do not understand and can only study one at a time.](https://korrents.com/k/biology-has-already-handed-us-an-d3632a)
- [Comparative advantage stops governing once the power imbalance is large enough: groups then switch into seeking to dominate instead of trading.](https://korrents.com/k/comparative-advantage-stops-governing-once-the-b19891)
- [Most of the tech tree will never be explored by anyone at all, which is exactly why the choice of which direction to explore matters so much.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-tech-tree-will-f1b05d)
- [Technological determinism is only believable low down the tech tree; higher up we already choose which paths not to take.](https://korrents.com/k/technological-determinism-is-only-believable-low-8697e1)
- [Diminishing returns in research are not intrinsic to the world: they are what you get when the institutions around research stop changing.](https://korrents.com/k/diminishing-returns-in-research-are-not-64adbe)
- [Quantum computing arrived in the 1980s not because anyone got smarter but because cheap personal computers and the ability to trap single ions happened to mature at the same moment.](https://korrents.com/k/quantum-computing-arrived-in-the-1980s-b1fcca)
- [No single person can understand a result like the Higgs boson in depth, and that is what a paper with a thousand authors actually means.](https://korrents.com/k/no-single-person-can-understand-a-36d9ff)
- [Creative work splits into routine work you should get fast at and high-variance work you must be willing to spend a long time on, and almost everyone is good at only one of the two.](https://korrents.com/k/creative-work-splits-into-routine-work-d4f934)
- [Ask anyone whether they would have worked the same way with a million dollars at stake and the answer is invariably no: they tried, but they did not really try.](https://korrents.com/k/ask-anyone-whether-they-would-have-15c3b5)
- [Being stuck is not an obstacle to understanding something; it is probably the most important part of the whole process.](https://korrents.com/k/being-stuck-is-not-an-obstacle-0cd2de)
- [You learn almost nothing from writing you finished in a couple of days; the pieces that took months are the ones you still remember years later.](https://korrents.com/k/you-learn-almost-nothing-from-writing-eedeaa)
- [For a certain kind of mind there is a seductiveness in learning a system that gets mistaken for understanding.](https://korrents.com/k/for-a-certain-kind-of-mind-09ebd5)
- [For twenty-five years the senior people had the answers to hand, and what has changed is that at this moment nobody knows the answer to anything.](https://korrents.com/k/for-twenty-five-years-the-senior-people-e8d261)
- [The job of senior people now is to demonstrate not how to use these tools effectively, but how to figure out how to use them, which is a different set of skills.](https://korrents.com/k/the-job-of-senior-people-now-ce48e0)
- [Asking what the smallest experiment is that would settle a claim to your own satisfaction has become a thousand times more valuable in the last year.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-what-the-smallest-experiment-is-cb434e)
- [Nobody can hold the answer in an environment where the answer changes weekly, which means you are as smart as everybody else because you are as ignorant as everybody else.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-can-hold-the-answer-in-6ed42b)
- [This is the golden age of the junior programmer, because AI is an amplifier and the people learning quickly get amplified most.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-the-golden-age-of-26b3f8)
- [The wish to get rid of all the programmers keeps coming back, and programmers ought to ask themselves why, because some of the reason really is about us.](https://korrents.com/k/the-wish-to-get-rid-of-a1bccd)
- [Agents are driving a re-soloing of programming, undoing the safe social environment that extreme programming built for people who are not naturally social.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-are-driving-a-re-soloing-of-267635)
- [Running six agents is using six tools at once, not managing a team, because no tool believes something different from you or has a different energy level today.](https://korrents.com/k/running-six-agents-is-using-six-243f56)
- [Slow models are better company than fast ones, because the minutes an agent spends working are the minutes two humans get to talk about the design.](https://korrents.com/k/slow-models-are-better-company-than-9e28cb)
- [The satisfaction of getting one function exactly right no longer makes a difference, and an engineer has to let go of it and enjoy understanding the domain instead.](https://korrents.com/k/the-satisfaction-of-getting-one-function-c4359f)
- [Nothing in a fifty-year career has hit the industry with the magnitude of AI; it is a whole size difference from anything before it.](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-in-a-fifty-year-career-has-9f4b2f)
- [Every earlier wave, the internet included, had to be argued for; AI is the first where nobody has to be persuaded that it matters.](https://korrents.com/k/every-earlier-wave-the-internet-included-eba238)
- [Skepticism about a new technology only works if it is total enough to be turned on itself, which is what forces you to stay curious.](https://korrents.com/k/skepticism-about-a-new-technology-only-2bbf35)
- [Using an AI tool well is something you have to learn, exactly as it was with object orientation; a bad first impression proves nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/using-an-ai-tool-well-is-b303a6)
- [AI will repeat Agile's pattern: sound core ideas surrounded by a huge snake oil industry that is hard to tell apart from the real thing.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-repeat-agile-s-pattern-bbfe3b)
- [Predictions that nobody will write code soon dodge the question of what code is: prompting a model is still producing something we will have to read and change.](https://korrents.com/k/predictions-that-nobody-will-write-code-d8d6fc)
- [Large-scale confusion and panic is the order of the day at companies adopting AI, right across the board.](https://korrents.com/k/large-scale-confusion-and-panic-is-the-a86aa6)
- [There will be some really bad security incidents this year, because people rushing to hand agents control of things like their email are not paying attention.](https://korrents.com/k/there-will-be-some-really-bad-307234)
- [One person with many agents is probably not the right answer; the better bet is two-pizza teams made more effective, with pairs of humans steering the agents together.](https://korrents.com/k/one-person-with-many-agents-is-1c8e3c)
- [The Venn diagram of developer experience and agent experience is a circle: well-modularised code and good tests help the agents exactly as they help the humans.](https://korrents.com/k/the-venn-diagram-of-developer-experience-46d0bf)
- [AI tools are now highly effective at generating UI code from a rough natural-language description](https://korrents.com/k/ai-tools-are-now-highly-effective-522d84)
- [Frontier AI models still cannot handle certain deep technical implementation details without human guidance](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-models-still-cannot-handle-ab23b8)
- [Formalizing math is a translation task, so AI will boost top mathematicians' productivity more than top writers'.](https://korrents.com/k/formalizing-math-is-a-translation-task-7f32d3)
- [Ultra-processed foods have epidemiological evidence of harm comparable to what existed for smoking.](https://korrents.com/k/ultra-processed-foods-have-epidemiological-evidence-of-09358d)
- [Markets only respond to immediate, severe harm, not gradual or delayed harms from industries left to regulate themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/markets-only-respond-to-immediate-severe-4b9bb4)
- [Most people who write Rust regularly are missing subtle details of how its borrow-checker actually works.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-who-write-rust-regularly-5152d8)
- [Once an explanation is revealed, people tend to believe they already knew it, even when they did not.](https://korrents.com/k/once-an-explanation-is-revealed-people-66e9c2)
- [Rust is hard to learn because its borrow-checking rules have so many exceptions that people internalize the wrong simplified rules.](https://korrents.com/k/rust-is-hard-to-learn-because-0924ad)
- [Talk therapy alone often cannot shift the felt, physiological charge of a stuck memory.](https://korrents.com/k/talk-therapy-alone-often-cannot-shift-8cbe5f)
- [EMDR works best inside a broader therapeutic relationship, not as a standalone protocol.](https://korrents.com/k/emdr-works-best-inside-a-broader-974a62)
- [EMDR targets specific memories well but is not built for identity work or building a life narrative.](https://korrents.com/k/emdr-targets-specific-memories-well-but-fb30a1)
- [Treating talk therapy as the outdated modality and bilateral approaches as the real medicine is inaccurate.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-talk-therapy-as-the-outdated-6c3f78)
- [The term AGI has stopped being useful: today's best systems already meet some people's definitions of it while falling far short of others'.](https://korrents.com/k/the-term-agi-has-stopped-being-580b19)
- [AI capabilities are jagged rather than smooth, so the different definitions of human-level AI will be met years apart rather than together.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-capabilities-are-jagged-rather-than-6a650e)
- [Difficulties parents and disabled people face navigating public infrastructure stem from structural failures, not individual behavior.](https://korrents.com/k/difficulties-parents-and-disabled-people-face-27426c)
- [In situations that bring people closer to their animal nature, such as illness or childbirth, they tend to behave more instinctively and impolitely.](https://korrents.com/k/in-situations-that-bring-people-closer-de7746)
- [Having children is not a niche or selfish lifestyle choice, and people without children shouldn't bear the costs of a structure that fails everyone.](https://korrents.com/k/having-children-is-not-a-niche-21e315)
- [Schema therapy was designed for entrenched patterns that do not respond well to traditional CBT.](https://korrents.com/k/schema-therapy-was-designed-for-entrenched-1ae34a)
- [Schemas are the direct result of core emotional needs going unmet in childhood.](https://korrents.com/k/schemas-are-the-direct-result-of-24f7b6)
- [A schema is too rigid to be dismantled by logic alone, because it is a felt, somatic truth.](https://korrents.com/k/a-schema-is-too-rigid-to-beb7e1)
- [Overcompensating for a schema works professionally and destroys the person internally.](https://korrents.com/k/overcompensating-for-a-schema-works-professionally-a29231)
- [In schema therapy the therapeutic relationship itself supplies the attunement that was missing in childhood.](https://korrents.com/k/in-schema-therapy-the-therapeutic-relationship-000936)
- [AI will let citizens make their governments legible and accountable, reversing the historical direction in which only states could read society.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-let-citizens-make-their-06ac57)
- [Root crops resist state taxation better than grain because they can be harvested piecemeal and stored underground.](https://korrents.com/k/root-crops-resist-state-taxation-better-1ff400)
- [Writing originated from flattening physical accounting tokens into two-dimensional signs pressed into clay.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-originated-from-flattening-physical-accounting-936bfe)
- [Product quality and software engineering ability no longer function as a competitive moat because AI can replicate them quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/product-quality-and-software-engineering-ability-e40027)
- [The revenue level at which publicly sharing business details invites cloning has fallen to essentially zero because of AI coding agents.](https://korrents.com/k/the-revenue-level-at-which-publicly-15b697)
- [Deep, relationship-based customer moats remain something AI coding tools cannot replicate for a competitor.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-relationship-based-customer-moats-remain-something-f16a96)
- [As AI gets more powerful, keeping its work visible ("glass") matters more.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-gets-more-powerful-keeping-c8be9e)
- [Graphic design is learned by copying graphic design; the best thing a younger designer can do on seeing something beautiful is try to recreate it.](https://korrents.com/k/graphic-design-is-learned-by-copying-92f6a7)
- [If you are not having fun with the people you are working with, that seldom produces very good creative output.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-are-not-having-fun-70ad27)
- [People are more inclined to listen to you and follow your ideas when you entertain them than when you educate them, which can often come across as more patronizing.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-more-inclined-to-listen-9c611d)
- [Everyone's genius sits right next to their dysfunction, and a job in tech is to create an environment where everybody can thrive at the thing that makes them really good; that is how a team gets really good output.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-s-genius-sits-right-next-6e7dbc)
- [There is almost no end state to a project: it has to reach a point where everybody has given as much of what makes them unique to it, and then it is usually in a state it otherwise could not get to.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-almost-no-end-state-e96632)
- [Being a mile wide and an inch deep with a team loses creativity; the team is better kept together and close, sequencing work more than running it in parallel.](https://korrents.com/k/being-a-mile-wide-and-an-c20765)
- [With many stakeholders on a project, the most important thing is bringing them along, showing them the thinking behind the decision and selling them over, which makes it a lot easier to progress as a unit.](https://korrents.com/k/with-many-stakeholders-on-a-project-0cb906)
- [A designer's assumption about where a component belongs is a personal assumption and does not mean that the market or the users will react to the component that way.](https://korrents.com/k/a-designer-s-assumption-about-where-33cee8)
- [Motion can hint at the hierarchy of the content you are looking at, for example a sheet overlaying a page tells the user that the content lies on top.](https://korrents.com/k/motion-can-hint-at-the-hierarchy-58ed31)
- [Output gets really high by iterating and ideating through as many ideas as possible in the fastest amount of time, then picking threads to follow and going deeper into them.](https://korrents.com/k/output-gets-really-high-by-iterating-5566f8)
- [Going back to your roots and using tools you know how to use to solve problems is not a bad thing, and AI tools should not be the only thing relied on to solve problems.](https://korrents.com/k/going-back-to-your-roots-and-4f16b8)
- [Coding tools are unlocking designers a ton and creating much more output, which creates more reactions and accumulates to better output for everyone.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-tools-are-unlocking-designers-a-5042b9)
- [Don't be afraid of AI tools: as you start using them and build awareness of how they work, it is a lot easier to understand them, trust them and work better with them.](https://korrents.com/k/don-t-be-afraid-of-ai-3159c7)
- [AI tools are innately patient; they are the most patient teacher you will ever have.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-tools-are-innately-patient-they-6d1bab)
- [Creatives were measured by their ability to understand the tools, for better or worse, rather than by the idea behind why they were using the tool.](https://korrents.com/k/creatives-were-measured-by-their-ability-904c0a)
- [The design process for everyone is becoming way more contextual, whereas before everybody had to open the tool in the same way because of how the tool was built.](https://korrents.com/k/the-design-process-for-everyone-is-9dbdca)
- [People creating their own workflows, building a set of tools and stringing them together to get to their output, is as creative as it gets.](https://korrents.com/k/people-creating-their-own-workflows-building-02e419)
- [AI enables people with agency, who want to ideate, move and iterate, to move way faster.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-enables-people-with-agency-who-f60508)
- [Design differentiation in the future means more of a malleable interface that morphs and shapes itself around the contextual needs of merchants, rather than one specific direction.](https://korrents.com/k/design-differentiation-in-the-future-means-5185f3)
- [The branding, animations, logo and micro interactions that make a tool feel beautiful to interact with are what give it soul, meaning and excitement, and that craft has to be married to solving the problem.](https://korrents.com/k/the-branding-animations-logo-and-micro-37b210)
- [A technology being right is never enough on its own: whether it wins turns on whether the world is ready for it and whether the economics work at that moment.](https://korrents.com/k/a-technology-being-right-is-never-65ccd4)
- [Growth without profit is not yet a company: fast growth only makes a business durable once it has been converted into sustained profit.](https://korrents.com/k/growth-without-profit-is-not-yet-ac1ebd)
- [Today's AI boom will end the way the dot-com boom did — consolidation, a wave of failures and a few genuinely great companies — and customers, not argument, will decide which is which.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-ai-boom-will-end-dcd3de)
- [A career is not built by searching for jobs but by accumulating a reputation slowly, so that when you become available the opportunities come to you.](https://korrents.com/k/a-career-is-not-built-by-db6d7b)
- [How big a system will eventually have to be is not worth speculating about; the only useful question is how long the one you have has left before it hits the wall.](https://korrents.com/k/how-big-a-system-will-eventually-89d977)
- [Repeated rewrites are the correct answer under fast growth, because a system specified to scale forever would take so long to build that the company would die before it shipped.](https://korrents.com/k/repeated-rewrites-are-the-correct-answer-4745c7)
- [The right way to specify a rescue rewrite is a couple of scaling constraints and no new features at all, so that hardware can absorb the growth the team has no time to design for.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-way-to-specify-a-307b56)
- [A technical leader should let engineers find the flaw in their own design through leading questions rather than announce it, because a discovered flaw is acted on and a reported one is argued with.](https://korrents.com/k/a-technical-leader-should-let-engineers-d25ac9)
- [Launching the hardest case first beats the cautious order of smallest-to-largest, because after the hardest one everything that follows is downhill.](https://korrents.com/k/launching-the-hardest-case-first-beats-6b6305)
- [Uber's thousands of microservices were not an architectural preference but a survival decision: under that growth only independent, unblocked teams could build fast enough to stay alive.](https://korrents.com/k/uber-s-thousands-of-microservices-were-d46941)
- [Breaking up a monolith takes years rather than months not because the work is hard but because the business keeps adding to it faster than you can pull pieces out.](https://korrents.com/k/breaking-up-a-monolith-takes-years-b00db6)
- [The organising rule under extreme growth is that no team may block another — even when honouring it means adding to the very monolith you are trying to dismantle.](https://korrents.com/k/the-organising-rule-under-extreme-growth-010701)
- [A functionally organised engineering team seizes up at around a hundred people, because every feature then has to be negotiated against every other team's bandwidth.](https://korrents.com/k/a-functionally-organised-engineering-team-seizes-ca3fa1)
- [Depending on open source you cannot fix is the frightening kind of outage, because at your own scale there may be nobody in the world you can pay for an answer.](https://korrents.com/k/depending-on-open-source-you-cannot-c7cb59)
- [A company should manufacture fresh internal challenges for its best people, because the alternative is that they go and find those challenges at another company.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-should-manufacture-fresh-internal-b34c69)
- [A company's staff-engineer bar should be set against the best companies in the industry rather than against its own history, which is what makes title inflation a real cost.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-s-staff-engineer-bar-should-b9435b)
- [Engineering offices abroad should be opened where world-class talent already lives, not where labour is cheap — you bring the work to the talent rather than moving the talent.](https://korrents.com/k/engineering-offices-abroad-should-be-opened-8a6023)
- [Directing a swarm of coding agents is a different, multi-threaded way of thinking that costs more cognitive load, and the engineers who make the switch have doubled their output.](https://korrents.com/k/directing-a-swarm-of-coding-agents-5f1906)
- [AI has already made sweeping mechanical changes cheap; the unsolved problem is getting the same productivity when adding features to an old, entangled codebase.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-already-made-sweeping-mechanical-e77598)
- [AI tooling has not compressed the gap between great and average engineers: it is still two or three times, and for the same reasons as before — curiosity and appetite for the bleeding edge.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-tooling-has-not-compressed-the-8e0a9e)
- [Standing still is now falling behind: as the world speeds up, complacency is the one professional habit that is fatal.](https://korrents.com/k/standing-still-is-now-falling-behind-162a96)
- [Talent density is self-protecting: once a team is made of A players it will only hire more of them and will not tolerate anyone who is not performing.](https://korrents.com/k/talent-density-is-self-protecting-once-a-a94b7e)
- [At every level of management your job is to see further ahead than the people who report to you, because they are busy with the near term and nobody else will do it.](https://korrents.com/k/at-every-level-of-management-your-763f95)
- [A company that stops hiring new graduates because AI makes juniors look unnecessary will have no senior engineers in a few years' time.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-stops-hiring-new-a84d1a)
- [The tech industry today is dominated by scale-driven optimization and growth at the expense of the idealism that once drove it](https://korrents.com/k/the-tech-industry-today-is-dominated-457319)
- [A company can lead its industry on values like privacy and user respect without actually excelling at them](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-can-lead-its-industry-719d8f)
- [A company that prioritizes building great products with great user experiences above all else will naturally see profit, market share, and broader impact follow](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-prioritizes-building-great-f27bde)
- [Tuning an AI coding assistant to always agree and avoid criticism produces weaker suggestions and lets bad decisions slip through unnoticed.](https://korrents.com/k/tuning-an-ai-coding-assistant-to-bcd970)
- [Optimizing an AI assistant to feel friendly is the wrong goal when the point is building real, production systems.](https://korrents.com/k/optimizing-an-ai-assistant-to-feel-978cf1)
- [If large-scale human communication stays concentrated on major social media platforms, human languages may become irrelevant to it.](https://korrents.com/k/if-large-scale-human-communication-stays-concentrated-acf402)
- [In some fundamental sense, the best creative work happens when you don't know what you're doing and stay outside your comfort zone](https://korrents.com/k/in-some-fundamental-sense-the-best-31453c)
- [Money is a paltry measure of a thing's worth, yet it is the measure we all live by](https://korrents.com/k/money-is-a-paltry-measure-of-ebbe03)
- [Because anyone can now rebuild whatever you make, the ordinary incentive to build software has been knocked out from under us.](https://korrents.com/k/because-anyone-can-now-rebuild-whatever-3e5638)
- [Anything a person can describe, AI can now produce — software has reached the point image generation reached with style.](https://korrents.com/k/anything-a-person-can-describe-ai-1696d8)
- [Every product put into the world removes the need for imagination, because it becomes something anyone can point AI at and copy.](https://korrents.com/k/every-product-put-into-the-world-df4210)
- [The reason to keep building is that building is practice at problem-solving, and the supply of problems will never run out.](https://korrents.com/k/the-reason-to-keep-building-is-312d42)
- [Problems follow a long tail: AI will keep getting better at the common ones, and the edge cases will never go away.](https://korrents.com/k/problems-follow-a-long-tail-ai-b02845)
- [The problems worth a small builder's time are the ones too small for a big AI company to be motivated to solve.](https://korrents.com/k/the-problems-worth-a-small-builder-ec70b9)
- [Human preference is not an equation you can package by asking which of two answers people prefer; it is personal, cultural, geographic and generational.](https://korrents.com/k/human-preference-is-not-an-equation-65fa5e)
- [Which interface an AI product should have is a cultural fact, not a technical one — Vietnamese companies ship voice bots before chatbots because people are on motorbikes.](https://korrents.com/k/which-interface-an-ai-product-should-c49058)
- [We are still retrofitting the tools we already had onto workflows we have only imagined, instead of designing for how people will actually work with AI.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-still-retrofitting-the-tools-439b6a)
- [Line-by-line code review has become an outdated ritual: senior engineers should be giving feedback on how their team instructs AI, not on the code AI wrote.](https://korrents.com/k/line-by-line-code-review-has-become-an-693903)
- [The frightening part of giving agents more access is not bad code but irreversible action, so the guardrails to build next are guardrails on reversibility.](https://korrents.com/k/the-frightening-part-of-giving-agents-cfeb18)
- [AI web search is imitating a human habit for no reason — revisiting the same pages for snippets instead of taking the whole page once.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-web-search-is-imitating-a-73d896)
- [People no longer read books the way books assume they will — they jump around, whatever they tell the author.](https://korrents.com/k/people-no-longer-read-books-the-2f6699)
- [The hard question is no longer how to build something but what to build, because anything already described can be replicated.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hard-question-is-no-longer-af7d5a)
- [Frontier AI now outperforms most human programmers at most programming tasks, with very low defect rates.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-now-outperforms-most-human-467754)
- [There is a large and growing gap between open-weight AI models and frontier AI models.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-large-and-growing-9f3efe)
- [AI will make hand-written code a luxury only the wealthy can afford to produce.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-make-hand-written-code-a-fda9fe)
- [Making something singular, rather than chasing scale, is a powerful differentiator.](https://korrents.com/k/making-something-singular-rather-than-chasing-9765f9)
- [Because an LLM can argue almost any direction competently, the right way to use one for forming an opinion is to make it argue every side.](https://korrents.com/k/because-an-llm-can-argue-almost-2411a7)
- [The growth of the religiously unaffiliated in America has stopped and gone into reverse.](https://korrents.com/k/the-growth-of-the-religiously-unaffiliated-4ad0b0)
- [Most Americans who report no religious affiliation are not atheists or agnostics.](https://korrents.com/k/most-americans-who-report-no-religious-f89651)
- [A statistically significant change is not the same as an important one, and survey data cannot tell you which it is.](https://korrents.com/k/a-statistically-significant-change-is-not-3a49a6)
- [Work has become more enjoyable for the millennial generation, even as the belief that meaningful work requires suffering has gone largely unquestioned.](https://korrents.com/k/work-has-become-more-enjoyable-for-575391)
- [A career path becomes popular when it offers clear, prescribed rules that can simply be decoded and followed.](https://korrents.com/k/a-career-path-becomes-popular-when-d3afd6)
- [The bargain that funded the open web was that a crawler could take your pages because it would send you readers; an AI crawler that sends nobody has broken it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bargain-that-funded-the-open-3def8e)
- [Claude has surprisingly good design taste for SwiftUI applications.](https://korrents.com/k/claude-has-surprisingly-good-design-taste-5bf258)
- [Travel insurance is the most important thing to take on a trip, because it protects everything else](https://korrents.com/k/travel-insurance-is-the-most-important-5bebde)
- [The winning system of the next decade will be the one that best understands the user's job to be done and shows what it is about to do, not the one with the prettiest buttons or fewest screens.](https://korrents.com/k/the-winning-system-of-the-next-f3ed2b)
- [Companies pay for design so that customers buy more and look at more ads; internet-era UX was manipulation, whatever designers set out to do.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-pay-for-design-so-that-df51e6)
- [Frontier AI model capabilities stay tightly clustered together rather than any single model holding a decisive, unassailable lead.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-model-capabilities-stay-tightly-34f780)
- [In most technology-driven industries, capability advantages are held for longer and are harder to fast-follow than is the case with AI models.](https://korrents.com/k/in-most-technology-driven-industries-capability-advantages-5f5d57)
- [AI companies promote themselves around 'taste' because their products are unappealing outside tech circles.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-companies-promote-themselves-around-taste-4bb8b1)
- [Tech's embrace of 'taste' is an attempt to dress anti-humanist technology in humanist branding.](https://korrents.com/k/tech-s-embrace-of-taste-is-78ed81)
- [The online ecosystem has become so degraded that it has impaired people's ability to exercise taste.](https://korrents.com/k/the-online-ecosystem-has-become-so-78a0dc)
- [Accurate time synchronization is a critical system function because it underlies cryptographic verification protocols like TLS.](https://korrents.com/k/accurate-time-synchronization-is-a-critical-d20390)
- [LLM memory as currently built is a distraction to the model: one old question keeps resurfacing as if it were a lasting interest.](https://korrents.com/k/llm-memory-as-currently-built-is-e9946f)
- [A coding agent does not learn from its mistakes the way a person does -- it repeats the same error indefinitely unless a human notices and writes it down.](https://korrents.com/k/a-coding-agent-does-not-learn-7f2c67)
- [The human bottleneck is a safety property: remove it and small, individually harmless coding errors compound at a rate nobody feels until it is too late.](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-bottleneck-is-a-safety-a1b4a8)
- [Two people with agents can reach enterprise-grade codebase complexity in weeks -- what took organisations years, and they at least adapted to it as it grew.](https://korrents.com/k/two-people-with-agents-can-reach-a3cc7e)
- [Agentic code search has recall that falls as a codebase grows, so the agent does not find the code it needs -- and which search tool you give it barely matters.](https://korrents.com/k/agentic-code-search-has-recall-that-da2755)
- [In an agent-written codebase the agent-written tests are equally untrustworthy; manually using the product is the only reliable measure of whether it works.](https://korrents.com/k/in-an-agent-written-codebase-the-agent-written-f28789)
- [Grounding a chatbot in a specific set of documents allows a genuinely new way of interacting with them.](https://korrents.com/k/grounding-a-chatbot-in-a-specific-335ac8)
- [Agents are going to be incorporated into mainstream interfaces](https://korrents.com/k/agents-are-going-to-be-incorporated-a8b2c1)
- [There is a huge demand for a personal agent that can act as a private executive assistant](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-huge-demand-for-439eac)
- [AI gives a very clear idea of what is possible, but it is still up to people to walk the terrain.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-gives-a-very-clear-idea-a14a56)
- [In the ways people show up online, the better question is what they can offer someone rather than what they can ask of that person.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-ways-people-show-up-7e5084)
- [People can feel the excitement in a project, notes or an event someone hosts, so creating artifacts of what you love and putting them online is worthwhile.](https://korrents.com/k/people-can-feel-the-excitement-in-7f8c7b)
- [For any designer who is building projects, this is an incredible time to share with the internet online.](https://korrents.com/k/for-any-designer-who-is-building-086e88)
- [There is always a minimum viable amount of learning needed to get to the next step, and then you backfill a lot.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-always-a-minimum-viable-c54f34)
- [AI is good at giving artifacts that are not necessarily grounded in understanding of the system, which works for prototypes and one-off experiments but leaves you lost the moment you need to debug.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-good-at-giving-artifacts-b99b34)
- [With AI, work is moving up the layers of abstraction, but the more context someone has about how things work under the hood, the better equipped they are to debug and build resilient things.](https://korrents.com/k/with-ai-work-is-moving-up-289da8)
- [People should use AI to scaffold their own learning and then flesh it out by building projects.](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-use-ai-to-scaffold-4f6da6)
- [A team should be aligned at a conceptual level before moving into visual experiments and prototypes, because a trap for designers is coming up with a bunch of options and picking one too early.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-should-be-aligned-at-f61f3e)
- [Rather than having AI just do the task, people should use it to help build the right mental models.](https://korrents.com/k/rather-than-having-ai-just-do-f0f94b)
- [How much someone needs to know depends on whether they want a fun demo or prototype or a product to sustain over time.](https://korrents.com/k/how-much-someone-needs-to-know-051b07)
- [Staying up to date works by staying broad, building out whatever really grabs attention, and then repeating that cycle of going broad and then going deep.](https://korrents.com/k/staying-up-to-date-works-by-e87eff)
- [Design engineering goes much deeper than the surface of how something looks; it is having the context and ability to translate an intention into what the user actually experiences.](https://korrents.com/k/design-engineering-goes-much-deeper-than-aa4ed5)
- [Making for the love of making rather than for a finish line is inspiring, and design is a practice that never ends.](https://korrents.com/k/making-for-the-love-of-making-a963e6)
- [Grids of rows and columns make sense for representing things at scale because people are already familiar with them.](https://korrents.com/k/grids-of-rows-and-columns-make-415716)
- [Education cannot be done to a person: without at least a minimal act of will from the learner, no method, resource or reform works.](https://korrents.com/k/education-cannot-be-done-to-a-ab7da5)
- [The best teachers, unlimited resources and every evidence-based intervention still fail on a student who does not want to learn.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-teachers-unlimited-resources-and-2baec2)
- [Putting the children most likely to succeed into one school is segregation, not educational excellence.](https://korrents.com/k/putting-the-children-most-likely-to-f98b03)
- [ACT is the application of psychological flexibility, not a technique.](https://korrents.com/k/act-is-the-application-of-psychological-6f59ad)
- [Values matter most when they become verbs, not nouns.](https://korrents.com/k/values-matter-most-when-they-become-ac04d9)
- [The install base is the single most important part of a computing architecture, and everything else about it is secondary.](https://korrents.com/k/the-install-base-is-the-single-995e73)
- [Training is no longer limited by data but by compute, because most of the data models learn from is now synthetic.](https://korrents.com/k/training-is-no-longer-limited-by-328cc8)
- [Inference was never going to be the easy, cheap half of AI, because inference is thinking, and thinking is far harder than reading.](https://korrents.com/k/inference-was-never-going-to-be-e68a83)
- [After pre-training, post-training and test-time scaling, the fourth scaling law is agentic: multiplying AI by spawning agents, and the whole loop scales on one thing, compute.](https://korrents.com/k/after-pre-training-post-training-and-test-time-scaling-dcc2bb)
- [Intelligence is going to scale by exactly one thing, and that thing is compute.](https://korrents.com/k/intelligence-is-going-to-scale-by-096e59)
- [The idea that AI will destroy software and make tools unnecessary is ridiculous: an agent, like a humanoid in your kitchen, will use the tools that already exist.](https://korrents.com/k/the-idea-that-ai-will-destroy-373006)
- [OpenClaw did for agentic systems what ChatGPT did for generative ones.](https://korrents.com/k/openclaw-did-for-agentic-systems-what-239aa1)
- [The cost of a token is falling by an order of magnitude every year, even as the price of the computers that make them goes up.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cost-of-a-token-is-7185d7)
- [Data centres should be built to degrade gracefully when the grid needs its power back, instead of demanding perfect uptime from utilities that have idle capacity most of the year.](https://korrents.com/k/data-centres-should-be-built-to-c42539)
- [Engineer from the physical limits first, then improve, rather than shaving a few days off a 74-day process by continuous improvement.](https://korrents.com/k/engineer-from-the-physical-limits-first-49ed9e)
- [China is the fastest-innovating country in the world today, on the strength of its talent, its open-source habit and its ferocious internal competition.](https://korrents.com/k/china-is-the-fastest-innovating-country-in-5bda74)
- [Open-source models are fundamentally necessary for most industries, countries and researchers to join the AI revolution at all.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-models-are-fundamentally-necessary-for-47259c)
- [Someone paying a thousand dollars per million tokens is just around the corner, because intelligence is a product that segments by grade like phones do.](https://korrents.com/k/someone-paying-a-thousand-dollars-per-e067f7)
- [World GDP growth is certain to accelerate, and the share of GDP spent on computation will be a hundred times what it was, because a computer is now a factory rather than a warehouse.](https://korrents.com/k/world-gdp-growth-is-certain-to-293836)
- [NVIDIA can be a three-trillion-dollar-revenue company in the near future, because nothing physical stands in the way.](https://korrents.com/k/nvidia-can-be-a-three-trillion-dollar-revenue-company-60a495)
- [Asked when an AI could build a billion-dollar business on its own: AGI has already arrived.](https://korrents.com/k/asked-when-an-ai-could-build-d8c7f3)
- [The number of software engineers at NVIDIA will grow, not shrink, because the purpose of a job and the tasks it uses are related but not the same, as radiology already showed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-number-of-software-engineers-at-a07cc9)
- [Coding is now specification, and the number of people who can do it just went from thirty million to a billion.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-is-now-specification-and-the-6eb00a)
- [Between two graduates in any field, he would hire the one who is expert at using AI.](https://korrents.com/k/between-two-graduates-in-any-field-aacac0)
- [Intelligence is a commodity, and it is not the same word as humanity.](https://korrents.com/k/intelligence-is-a-commodity-and-it-fd2933)
- [He does not believe in succession planning; the real work is passing on knowledge continuously, and he hopes to die on the job.](https://korrents.com/k/he-does-not-believe-in-succession-b4b3e1)
- [Understanding the biological machine is about five years away, not ten.](https://korrents.com/k/understanding-the-biological-machine-is-about-a832e6)
- [NVIDIA and TSMC are two of the greatest companies in the history of human civilization.](https://korrents.com/k/nvidia-and-tsmc-are-two-of-510a49)
- [AI language models are capable of evaluating good fiction even though they cannot yet write it themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-language-models-are-capable-of-2a94c6)
- [Good writing is hard to train into AI models because writing quality is hard to evaluate.](https://korrents.com/k/good-writing-is-hard-to-train-130795)
- [Good writing requires grounding in real-life experience.](https://korrents.com/k/good-writing-requires-grounding-in-real-life-7825ac)
- [A composable concurrency paradigm requires a general-purpose cancellation mechanism.](https://korrents.com/k/a-composable-concurrency-paradigm-requires-a-b84b14)
- [Structured concurrency makes it easier to write correct, safe concurrent code.](https://korrents.com/k/structured-concurrency-makes-it-easier-to-3da02b)
- [New businesses improve the economy for all](https://korrents.com/k/new-businesses-improve-the-economy-for-568c3c)
- [Rejecting zero-sum economics is necessary for future prosperity](https://korrents.com/k/rejecting-zero-sum-economics-is-necessary-for-575095)
- [AI sped up the part of software work we could see, and it is the delivery systems downstream that are now being overwhelmed.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-sped-up-the-part-of-47b240)
- [AI did not create the bottlenecks in software delivery; it threw gas on processes everybody already knew were weak.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-did-not-create-the-bottlenecks-6928ff)
- [Review became a worse bottleneck under AI, because companies removed the review automation they had once AI started writing the code.](https://korrents.com/k/review-became-a-worse-bottleneck-under-889416)
- [Release management is human group sense-making, and it does not scale to the volume of change AI now produces.](https://korrents.com/k/release-management-is-human-group-sense-making-c5e5d5)
- [The processes organisations build to make work uniform are usually the same processes that slow the work down.](https://korrents.com/k/the-processes-organisations-build-to-make-f41539)
- [Delivery will keep being slow until companies apply AI to the human, business-process half of it, not just to coding.](https://korrents.com/k/delivery-will-keep-being-slow-until-3bf47e)
- [Humans max out at three or four hours of really hard deep work a day, so the eight hours of intense work executives ask for is not available.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-max-out-at-three-or-f276a0)
- [Fast feedback is no longer straightforwardly good: agent-speed loops make you rebuild your mental model dozens of times in half an hour.](https://korrents.com/k/fast-feedback-is-no-longer-straightforwardly-e935c8)
- [Flow is a people problem before it is a tooling problem — it needs clear direction, scope and purpose, which no tool supplies.](https://korrents.com/k/flow-is-a-people-problem-before-dcd68f)
- [A handful of AI agents is not a handful of colleagues, because agents agree with you constantly and colleagues tell you where you are wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/a-handful-of-ai-agents-is-b061cd)
- [You cannot state the problem clearly without first trying and getting it wrong; the effort that looks wasted is how the thesis gets found.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-state-the-problem-clearly-313d5d)
- [Teams that trade quality for speed well never describe it that way — they make an explicit, bounded, risk-based decision.](https://korrents.com/k/teams-that-trade-quality-for-speed-0552ba)
- [Adoption is worth measuring first despite being a bad metric, because developers are cranky enough not to use a tool that is awful.](https://korrents.com/k/adoption-is-worth-measuring-first-despite-4bd379)
- [You cannot mandate a tool developers dislike — they will quietly spin up the one they wanted.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-mandate-a-tool-developers-44f857)
- [Explicit executive sponsorship is what makes people try AI tools, because what stops them is fear of being blamed for using them.](https://korrents.com/k/explicit-executive-sponsorship-is-what-makes-cb971b)
- [Working too hard is not burnout, it is tiredness; burnout needs your values to be out of alignment with the work.](https://korrents.com/k/working-too-hard-is-not-burnout-c4eb54)
- [A future where agents run and improve an organisation is impossible unless humans can first see and understand the system themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/a-future-where-agents-run-and-fb52df)
- [The front end of software work has already collapsed into rapid prototyping, and part of the outer loop will collapse next.](https://korrents.com/k/the-front-end-of-software-work-a01e30)
- [What matters in judging technological progress is the trend over time, not the state at any single moment.](https://korrents.com/k/what-matters-in-judging-technological-progress-618fba)
- [Dominance in scientific research literature tends to translate into dominance in applied technology.](https://korrents.com/k/dominance-in-scientific-research-literature-tends-971fe7)
- [A country's scientific trajectory can keep advancing even if political instability or economic uncertainty slows its broader progress.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-s-scientific-trajectory-can-2e5e44)
- [AI has driven the cost of generating scientific ideas to almost zero, and just as with cheap communication before it, that by itself creates no abundance.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-driven-the-cost-of-4c82d7)
- [The structures of science now have to change, because the scarce thing is no longer proposing theories but verifying and evaluating the thousands anyone can now propose.](https://korrents.com/k/the-structures-of-science-now-have-304f5a)
- [Whether a scientific idea was progress depends on a future and a culture that have not happened yet, so grading it may never be something you can reinforcement-learn.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-scientific-idea-was-progress-aa3279)
- [We are living through a cognitive Copernican revolution: human intelligence is not the centre, and which tasks we count as requiring intelligence has to be re-evaluated.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-living-through-a-cognitive-e70447)
- [The month in which AI one-shot solutions to open Erdős problems kept arriving has ended, and it was not for lack of people trying.](https://korrents.com/k/the-month-in-which-ai-one-shot-5726c3)
- [Almost every Erdős problem AI has solved was one with no literature behind it, which is the median level of what these tools can do.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-every-erd-s-problem-ai-070fd9)
- [On any given problem an AI tool succeeds maybe one or two percent of the time; the headline results are what running it at scale and picking the winners looks like.](https://korrents.com/k/on-any-given-problem-an-ai-ae2f50)
- [Today's AI tools either solve a problem or fail at it, and are really bad at partial progress or at identifying which intermediate step to attack first.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-ai-tools-either-solve-061e18)
- [What AI still cannot do in mathematics is build cumulatively on partial progress; it is trial, error and brute force rather than an idea improving through use.](https://korrents.com/k/what-ai-still-cannot-do-in-c22125)
- [A model that solves a hard problem has learned nothing from it: the next session has forgotten it, with no new skill to carry to related problems.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-that-solves-a-hard-e5ea17)
- [AI excels at breadth and human experts at depth, which makes them complementary and makes today's depth-focused way of doing science the wrong shape.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-excels-at-breadth-and-human-8dd265)
- [AI will revolutionise mathematics by giving it an experimental side: large-scale data on which methods work, rather than the careful solving of individual problems.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-revolutionise-mathematics-by-giving-51fe93)
- [On small tasks he can check himself, he catches about as many of the AI's errors as it catches of his.](https://korrents.com/k/on-small-tasks-he-can-check-62bfde)
- [When no technique works and the AI starts suggesting things, chasing those suggestions down usually wastes more time than it saves.](https://korrents.com/k/when-no-technique-works-and-the-c96d43)
- [AI has made his papers richer and broader, but not deeper.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-made-his-papers-richer-36b285)
- [The hardest part of solving a mathematical problem is the part AI has not touched; he still does it with pen and paper.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hardest-part-of-solving-a-0c1d4a)
- [The fear that a great theorem will arrive as an incomprehensible proof is misplaced, because once the proof exists as an artifact we can analyse it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fear-that-a-great-theorem-f03c69)
- [Some theorems may only ever be provable by unintelligible case-by-case brute force; the four colour theorem still has no conceptually elegant proof.](https://korrents.com/k/some-theorems-may-only-ever-be-d5c99a)
- [Fully autonomous one-shot attempts are the wrong approach to the great unsolved problems; the mileage is in humans and tools working against each other.](https://korrents.com/k/fully-autonomous-one-shot-attempts-are-the-36c160)
- [If the Riemann hypothesis turned out to be false, prime-based cryptography would be abandoned very quickly, because one unknown pattern implies more.](https://korrents.com/k/if-the-riemann-hypothesis-turned-out-fd9434)
- [Modern society has become so good at optimising everything that it risks optimising away serendipity, which is a real cost and not a sentimental one.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-society-has-become-so-good-5d0fec)
- [Within a decade AI will do the bulk of what mathematicians spend their time on, and we will discover that was never the important part of the job.](https://korrents.com/k/within-a-decade-ai-will-do-03d691)
- [Hybrid human-plus-AI teams will dominate mathematics for a lot longer, and a full replacement would need breakthroughs beyond anything we now have.](https://korrents.com/k/hybrid-human-plus-ai-teams-will-dominate-mathematics-74b6ec)
- [Contributing to frontier mathematics no longer requires years of PhD training; with AI tools and Lean a high schooler can make a real contribution.](https://korrents.com/k/contributing-to-frontier-mathematics-no-longer-9bbedb)
- [The way software gets built flipped in December: writing code yourself is now the exception, not the default.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-software-gets-built-flipped-7d4cf7)
- [What limits you with coding agents is your own skill at stringing them together, not the capability of the models.](https://korrents.com/k/what-limits-you-with-coding-agents-fef9ac)
- [The engineer's resource constraint has moved from flops to tokens: what matters now is the token throughput you command.](https://korrents.com/k/the-engineer-s-resource-constraint-has-13e520)
- [The apps built to drive smart devices should not exist at all: the devices should expose APIs and agents should call them directly.](https://korrents.com/k/the-apps-built-to-drive-smart-d35828)
- [Software's customer is no longer the human but the agent acting on their behalf, and the whole industry has to be refactored around that.](https://korrents.com/k/software-s-customer-is-no-longer-22121b)
- [The goal is not a better prompt but your own absence: arrange it once, hit go, and keep agents running for long stretches without you.](https://korrents.com/k/the-goal-is-not-a-better-f6dfb2)
- [An overnight automated search found tunings that two decades of hand-tuning experience had missed on an already well-tuned repository.](https://korrents.com/k/an-overnight-automated-search-found-tunings-97acff)
- [AI researchers should contribute ideas but stop enacting them: a single queue of ideas and automated workers should run the experiments.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-researchers-should-contribute-ideas-but-a2c4b0)
- [Today's agents are a brilliant systems programmer and a ten-year-old at the same time, a combination you would never meet in a person.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-agents-are-a-brilliant-c1931b)
- [Reinforcement learning leaves models sharply jagged: on the rails of a verifiable domain they are superintelligent, off them everything meanders.](https://korrents.com/k/reinforcement-learning-leaves-models-sharply-jagged-9b693c)
- [Capability does not generalise for free: a model that will move mountains on an agentic task still tells the same bad joke it told five years ago.](https://korrents.com/k/capability-does-not-generalise-for-free-5fdec6)
- [Model intelligence should speciate like the animal kingdom rather than converge on one oracle that knows everything.](https://korrents.com/k/model-intelligence-should-speciate-like-the-271973)
- [A swarm of untrusted volunteers on the internet could improve models and run circles around the frontier labs, because the earth has far more compute than they do.](https://korrents.com/k/a-swarm-of-untrusted-volunteers-on-2f89e5)
- [Demand for software will be extremely large precisely because software just got much cheaper to produce.](https://korrents.com/k/demand-for-software-will-be-extremely-72e577)
- [Nobody inside a frontier lab can speak freely about AI, because there are things the organisation will not let them say and things it wants them to say.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-inside-a-frontier-lab-can-0bf037)
- [Anyone outside a frontier lab will find their judgment about AI drifting, because the systems are opaque and what is coming is not visible from outside.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-outside-a-frontier-lab-will-f5e1ef)
- [Open models trailing the frontier by a few months is a good arrangement, because the industry needs a common working space it all has access to.](https://korrents.com/k/open-models-trailing-the-frontier-by-7ec563)
- [Purely digital progress runs out: to keep learning, the machines will have to run experiments and ask the universe questions.](https://korrents.com/k/purely-digital-progress-runs-out-to-f2bf21)
- [Stop writing documentation for people: a library should ship markdown for agents, which then explain it to whoever asks.](https://korrents.com/k/stop-writing-documentation-for-people-a-5f15e6)
- [An agent can understand a maximally simplified explanation and still be unable to come up with it — that gap is what is left of the expert's job.](https://korrents.com/k/an-agent-can-understand-a-maximally-2bbd26)
- [A business, not its AI vendor, bears legal responsibility when an integrated AI tool causes harm to a customer.](https://korrents.com/k/a-business-not-its-ai-vendor-85f8ed)
- [Any AI-driven action is legally defensible if it followed a revocable moment of user consent.](https://korrents.com/k/any-ai-driven-action-is-legally-defensible-ef5cdf)
- [The durable competitive moat in an AI-driven business is proprietary human-originated data, not the AI itself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-durable-competitive-moat-in-an-e6fce8)
- [Reviewing an AI coding agent's changes afterward in version-control diffs is a more natural workflow than approving each change through a GUI.](https://korrents.com/k/reviewing-an-ai-coding-agent-s-ac03cd)
- [For heavy, repo-wide AI-agent work a CLI-based tool is better suited than a chat-based interface, which remains preferable for small, single-file tasks.](https://korrents.com/k/for-heavy-repo-wide-ai-agent-work-a-cea67d)
- [Most people do not enjoy using computers and only tolerate them because they have no alternative.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-do-not-enjoy-using-0f3703)
- [Giving people access to tools for building software does not make most of them software builders.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-people-access-to-tools-for-e41029)
- [The average user is a dangerous statistical artifact: design for the gap between the median user and the heavy-use tail, not for a phantom mean.](https://korrents.com/k/the-average-user-is-a-dangerous-f7b19b)
- [Test-driven development matters more with coding agents than it ever did with people, because its real effect is stopping the agent writing more code than the task needs.](https://korrents.com/k/test-driven-development-matters-more-with-coding-78510b)
- [Writing code with a coding agent and no tests at all is indefensible, because the old objection to testing — that it is extra work you then have to maintain — no longer applies.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-code-with-a-coding-agent-f5fed0)
- [A passing test suite is not evidence that the software works, so an agent must also be made to start the thing and exercise it the way a person would.](https://korrents.com/k/a-passing-test-suite-is-not-be0582)
- [A language-agnostic conformance suite is the most powerful thing you can hand a coding agent, because the whole instruction becomes: write code until these tests pass.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-agnostic-conformance-suite-is-the-b74fe2)
- [Whether agent-written code needs to be good depends entirely on how long it will live: a throwaway single-page tool can be spaghetti, anything maintained cannot.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-agent-written-code-needs-to-be-aad850)
- [Keeping a codebase clean now pays off directly rather than aesthetically, because a coding agent will copy the patterns already in it almost exactly.](https://korrents.com/k/keeping-a-codebase-clean-now-pays-75d9e6)
- [A team can stop reading the code it ships, but only by first working out how its agents are to prove that what they wrote actually works.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-can-stop-reading-the-a69aa7)
- [Trusting model-written code you have not read became defensible only with Opus 4.5, and only for classes of problem you have already watched a model handle.](https://korrents.com/k/trusting-model-written-code-you-have-not-63faf4)
- [Language models are gullible by design — they do what they are told and believe nearly anything said to them — and that, not a bug, is what makes software built on them attackable.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-are-gullible-by-design-7b0f10)
- [Prompt injection has no equivalent of parameterized queries: there is no reliable way to tell a language model which text is data and which is instructions.](https://korrents.com/k/prompt-injection-has-no-equivalent-of-748baf)
- [The only guaranteed defence against a prompt-injection attack is to remove one of its three legs — private data, exposure to untrusted content, or a way to send data out.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-guaranteed-defence-against-a-7b3179)
- [Sandboxing is the single most important protection for a coding agent, because it is the only one that bounds the damage when the agent is successfully tricked.](https://korrents.com/k/sandboxing-is-the-single-most-important-a78a9d)
- [The frontier labs optimise their models for code above everything else because coding is where the money is: developers will pay $200 a month once a model is good enough.](https://korrents.com/k/the-frontier-labs-optimise-their-models-f4e04f)
- [The interesting question is not what the next model will be able to do, but what the models already released can do that nobody has worked out yet.](https://korrents.com/k/the-interesting-question-is-not-what-476bac)
- [Working with coding agents is exhausting rather than deskilling, and that exhaustion — not the technology — is what limits how many projects one engineer can run at once.](https://korrents.com/k/working-with-coding-agents-is-exhausting-b46642)
- [The overhead of learning a new programming language no longer justifies sticking to the two you know: start writing in a third now, without learning it first.](https://korrents.com/k/the-overhead-of-learning-a-new-272251)
- [Demand for open-source component libraries is collapsing, because a model will write exactly the widget you want instead of one you have to customise.](https://korrents.com/k/demand-for-open-source-component-libraries-is-619279)
- [Open-source projects are now so flooded with junk contributions that maintainers are asking GitHub for something it has never offered: a way to switch pull requests off.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-projects-are-now-so-flooded-52d4ae)
- [A Garmin wearable cannot deliver meaningful health insights immediately after someone starts wearing it — it needs weeks of continuous wear first.](https://korrents.com/k/a-garmin-wearable-cannot-deliver-meaningful-076e37)
- [A cyclist who uses a dedicated cycling computer for rides but only a general smartwatch for daily wear is missing important off-bike training data.](https://korrents.com/k/a-cyclist-who-uses-a-dedicated-8fb773)
- [In a tabbed interface, the currently active tab should appear visually connected to its content, while inactive tabs can remain visually separate.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-tabbed-interface-the-currently-50bee2)
- [UI design trends are cyclical, which is both good and bad: they always come and go.](https://korrents.com/k/ui-design-trends-are-cyclical-which-9ede67)
- [Fleshed-out plans and perfect spec or PRD docs are not needed to get Claude Code started working.](https://korrents.com/k/fleshed-out-plans-and-perfect-spec-or-05301a)
- ["I don't know" becomes a kind of superpower when you can work with Claude Code to figure things out.](https://korrents.com/k/i-don-t-know-becomes-a-7c22a2)
- [LLMs are going to hallucinate like crazy and make stuff up.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-are-going-to-hallucinate-like-555455)
- [There are massive unlocks for AI around workflows, content design, organization and analysis, beyond generating a product, app or website.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-massive-unlocks-for-ai-8fa127)
- [People have more repeatable patterns than they think; they are just not great at identifying them.](https://korrents.com/k/people-have-more-repeatable-patterns-than-84b071)
- [Because LLMs are pattern matchers, they are fantastic at quickly spotting patterns that people miss, and can act as a mirror showing what a person is missing about themselves and their work.](https://korrents.com/k/because-llms-are-pattern-matchers-they-356e7a)
- [LLMs probably do not do creative exploration very well by default, but they can be taught divergent thinking very quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-probably-do-not-do-creative-4cd1d2)
- [If you don't know where to start with an LLM, you just start typing.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-don-t-know-where-b5b274)
- [The more context an LLM is given about your work and what you are trying to accomplish, the better the output will be.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-context-an-llm-is-06faf1)
- [A skill is a set of repeatable, specific instructions that augments what Claude Code can do.](https://korrents.com/k/a-skill-is-a-set-of-f757f1)
- [Being AI native has to go beyond making a cool shader or a dither effect that every other person is making.](https://korrents.com/k/being-ai-native-has-to-go-87c298)
- [Chat surfaces are only going to be more and more prominent.](https://korrents.com/k/chat-surfaces-are-only-going-to-ebbafa)
- [It is easy to feel that we can just do all the things, but the question is whether it is worth doing and whether you feel proud of the output.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-easy-to-feel-that-d6dce5)
- [MCPs are not going anywhere, but they will change, and more companies will lean toward better semantic APIs and CLIs than MCPs.](https://korrents.com/k/mcps-are-not-going-anywhere-but-5ba0bd)
- [An MCP fills up an AI's context window very quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/an-mcp-fills-up-an-ai-b0e6d1)
- [Products should be designed with agents in mind, because a lot more agents will be doing the work for people and designers have to think that through.](https://korrents.com/k/products-should-be-designed-with-agents-75d40e)
- [Designers looking for a role need to demonstrate that they understand AI systems and are actually building something with them.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-looking-for-a-role-need-575d61)
- [A portfolio on a basic Squarespace template will probably get passed on even if the content is really good.](https://korrents.com/k/a-portfolio-on-a-basic-squarespace-05c274)
- [The bar is so high that designers who are not using AI tools to differentiate themselves will get left behind.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bar-is-so-high-that-b8895c)
- [People will be desperate for the human side of things, more than for quality and craft.](https://korrents.com/k/people-will-be-desperate-for-the-d6ae13)
- [Shore excursions booked onboard a cruise ship are generally low quality and overpriced.](https://korrents.com/k/shore-excursions-booked-onboard-a-cruise-59a3d9)
- [Some of the best things to see near a city are a short drive or train ride outside it, not in the city center itself.](https://korrents.com/k/some-of-the-best-things-to-c06fd0)
- [Derived data such as a search index should be kept up to date as background work, never inside a foreground user request.](https://korrents.com/k/derived-data-such-as-a-search-80cfb1)
- [AI coding agents have made redesigning existing systems cheap enough that developers actually redesign instead of living with a flawed design.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-coding-agents-have-made-redesigning-ae8a34)
- [Real leverage in a negotiation comes from being genuinely willing to walk away from it.](https://korrents.com/k/real-leverage-in-a-negotiation-comes-3efa3d)
- [People want to be the person their bookmarks say they are, not the person their feed reveals they are.](https://korrents.com/k/people-want-to-be-the-person-cbd481)
- [People who actively participate in a field give better commentary on it than pure observers with no stake in the outcome.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-actively-participate-in-a-623b4d)
- [AI makes it easier to add features, which increases the risk of product feature creep.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-makes-it-easier-to-add-5ded88)
- [An H100 is worth more today than it was when it was new, because the models it runs got better faster than its replacements arrived.](https://korrents.com/k/an-h100-is-worth-more-today-d9aed0)
- [Committing to compute years in advance is the durable margin advantage in AI, because every increment of new capacity transacts at the new price.](https://korrents.com/k/committing-to-compute-years-in-advance-4e9a38)
- [The model companies' margins will rise this year, because being capacity-constrained forces them to destroy their own demand.](https://korrents.com/k/the-model-companies-margins-will-rise-54c254)
- [TSMC would rather give wafers to a slow, stable CPU business than to its fastest-growing AI customer.](https://korrents.com/k/tsmc-would-rather-give-wafers-to-0f16ea)
- [Anthropic saw the coming shortage of chips before Google did, and bought Google's own TPUs out from under it.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-saw-the-coming-shortage-of-f43956)
- [The binding constraint on AI is no longer power or data centres but the semiconductor supply chain, which has by far the longest lead times.](https://korrents.com/k/the-binding-constraint-on-ai-is-a82827)
- [By the end of this decade the ceiling on AI compute is set by ASML, the lowest rung of the supply chain, and not by anything above it.](https://korrents.com/k/by-the-end-of-this-decade-56695b)
- [Hundreds of billions of dollars of AI value rest on about a billion dollars of lithography tooling that cannot be scaled quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-of-3a6b01)
- [The world can make roughly 200 gigawatts of AI chips a year by 2030, which makes a gigawatt a week a plausible quarter of the market rather than a fantasy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-can-make-roughly-200-9a20d2)
- [ASML has never raised the price of a tool by more than it raised the tool's capability, which makes it the most generous monopoly in the industry.](https://korrents.com/k/asml-has-never-raised-the-price-db6bb6)
- [The semiconductor supply chain will underbuild not because it cannot expand but because nobody in it believes the demand is real.](https://korrents.com/k/the-semiconductor-supply-chain-will-underbuild-2db82f)
- [Falling back to older 7-nanometre chips would not rescue AI compute, because the real gap between chip generations is twentyfold, not the threefold the flops suggest.](https://korrents.com/k/falling-back-to-older-7-nanometre-chips-4abff4)
- [China will have a working EUV machine long before it can build them in quantity, because production hell takes years after the lab result.](https://korrents.com/k/china-will-have-a-working-euv-e8be92)
- [You do not have to believe in AGI to believe in the timelines on which the United States wins the semiconductor race.](https://korrents.com/k/you-do-not-have-to-believe-cdbb79)
- [As labs sell finished white-collar work rather than reasoning traces, Chinese models will lose the ability to distil their way to parity.](https://korrents.com/k/as-labs-sell-finished-white-collar-work-3c913f)
- [Nobody wants a slow model, which is why labs will not trade inference speed for cheaper memory even though they easily could.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-wants-a-slow-model-which-75acae)
- [What an accelerator needs from memory is bandwidth per unit of chip edge, and on that measure ordinary DRAM is an order of magnitude behind HBM.](https://korrents.com/k/what-an-accelerator-needs-from-memory-e3a6df)
- [The memory crunch will make ordinary phones and computers worse year on year, and that is why the public will come to hate AI more.](https://korrents.com/k/the-memory-crunch-will-make-ordinary-1ba53c)
- [The reason we cannot simply make more memory is that there is nowhere to put the tools, and a fab takes two years to build.](https://korrents.com/k/the-reason-we-cannot-simply-make-425289)
- [Elon Musk can probably build the cleanroom for a million-wafer fab, but he cannot develop the process technology quickly, because that knowledge is accumulated rather than invented.](https://korrents.com/k/elon-musk-can-probably-build-the-bb4fd4)
- [About a fifth of the US grid could be freed for data centres just by covering the yearly peak with batteries or peaker plants.](https://korrents.com/k/about-a-fifth-of-the-us-6951e4)
- [Labour is a huge constraint on the AI build-out, and the way round it is to build data centres as modules in Asian factories rather than on site.](https://korrents.com/k/labour-is-a-huge-constraint-on-a4bd5c)
- [Getting a data centre permitted in the empty middle of America is far easier than putting one in orbit.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-a-data-centre-permitted-in-69f1fb)
- [Space data centres solve the wrong problem, because the contended resource is chips rather than energy, and that will not change this decade.](https://korrents.com/k/space-data-centres-solve-the-wrong-fdaca2)
- [A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from.](https://korrents.com/k/a-lab-should-spend-most-of-53e594)
- [TSMC will never throw Apple off its leading node; Apple will simply stop mattering enough for TSMC to cater to it.](https://korrents.com/k/tsmc-will-never-throw-apple-off-259c19)
- [Huawei, if it had access to TSMC, would arguably be a better chip company than Nvidia.](https://korrents.com/k/huawei-if-it-had-access-to-8b7033)
- [Evacuating TSMC's engineers and destroying its fabs would leave China with the strongest semiconductor supply chain in the world.](https://korrents.com/k/evacuating-tsmc-s-engineers-and-destroying-d83266)
- [Real-world, human-generated data is becoming the only durable moat for software businesses over the next decade.](https://korrents.com/k/real-world-human-generated-data-is-becoming-the-d3e990)
- [Software businesses that merely transform incoming data and pass it back out are highly vulnerable to being replaced by agentic AI.](https://korrents.com/k/software-businesses-that-merely-transform-incoming-cd1263)
- [Building software products API-first, with near-parity between UI and API capabilities, is a smart strategic move today.](https://korrents.com/k/building-software-products-api-first-with-near-parity-4f541b)
- [Publishing only on your own site, and making people come to it, is the considerate way to share your work.](https://korrents.com/k/publishing-only-on-your-own-site-6c713b)
- [Your own site stays the master source even once the work is syndicated everywhere else.](https://korrents.com/k/your-own-site-stays-the-master-e8acef)
- [The golden age of American schooling that reformers want to return to never existed anywhere.](https://korrents.com/k/the-golden-age-of-american-schooling-bb9be0)
- [The educational crisis narrative is downstream of the labour market: we destroyed the jobs that did not need a degree and then ordered schools to make everybody degree-ready.](https://korrents.com/k/the-educational-crisis-narrative-is-downstream-8ecac5)
- [Opening school to everybody necessarily made average measured performance look worse, because the students who used to be excluded are now in the data.](https://korrents.com/k/opening-school-to-everybody-necessarily-made-32529e)
- [macOS's consistent use of the cmd key for most operations, with opt for a secondary options layer, is one of its best usability features.](https://korrents.com/k/macos-s-consistent-use-of-the-5e2d0f)
- [Windows Explorer is a better file manager overall than macOS's Finder, being easier to navigate, create files in, and switch views with.](https://korrents.com/k/windows-explorer-is-a-better-file-89b022)
- [Windows 11 is not a high-quality product, despite having genuinely good aspects.](https://korrents.com/k/windows-11-is-not-a-high-quality-dc9753)
- [The best use of faster tools is to take the limited scope that is really essential and execute it to a bar people have never seen, instead of creating more scope.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-use-of-faster-tools-f22121)
- [Making something as well as you can and as simply as you can sums up much of what great design is.](https://korrents.com/k/making-something-as-well-as-you-65bdb9)
- [Practicing restraint is becoming more important as many different things can be done quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/practicing-restraint-is-becoming-more-important-55b38f)
- [It is probably hard for a designer to edit their work too much, even though a sauce can be reduced too far.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-probably-hard-for-a-12f245)
- [What makes everything considered great design great is that it is distilled and concentrated into what makes it great, with the nice-to-haves cut.](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-everything-considered-great-design-885bac)
- [Designers should fight for what they think is right rather than trust anyone else, because trusting others will most likely dilute the idea and make it worse.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-should-fight-for-what-they-a29794)
- [A great restaurant may be the purest form of design: it solves a problem, feeding people, while wrapping it in an experience that feels unique and differentiated.](https://korrents.com/k/a-great-restaurant-may-be-the-8d220d)
- [Details that show care build trust and perceived value, and affinity for a product increases when it works a little better or differently than expected, in any kind of product.](https://korrents.com/k/details-that-show-care-build-trust-fd17d7)
- [After exploring a range of options, reaching a world-class level of execution means going deep on one that works.](https://korrents.com/k/after-exploring-a-range-of-options-226f29)
- [AI compresses a designer's ability to reach for ideas that used to be far out of grasp.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-compresses-a-designer-s-ability-dfad31)
- [When implementation gets faster, designers are uniquely valuable for what they do with the extra time, such as pushing toward the ultimate version of an experience.](https://korrents.com/k/when-implementation-gets-faster-designers-are-ff6971)
- [Building intuition for what works and what does not comes from taking a lot of shots at the goal.](https://korrents.com/k/building-intuition-for-what-works-and-783041)
- [People often think that collaborating with AI takes something more advanced than is actually needed.](https://korrents.com/k/people-often-think-that-collaborating-with-938231)
- [Figma is still important, but using it to dial in full fidelity is probably the wrong use, because it is not the actual code base.](https://korrents.com/k/figma-is-still-important-but-using-ceeee2)
- [New technologies should be used to explore more broadly and go deeper, not to do more things, and distilling and refining to the essence is how something great is made.](https://korrents.com/k/new-technologies-should-be-used-to-434bb7)
- [So much of design is iteration and discovery: stumbling on something better by sticking with an intent for one more iteration.](https://korrents.com/k/so-much-of-design-is-iteration-ae1994)
- [When exploring, you want to feel in reality as quickly as possible what the result of your choices is.](https://korrents.com/k/when-exploring-you-want-to-feel-604da4)
- [When working with AI, intent and being able to play with the outcome matter more than knowing the technical language.](https://korrents.com/k/when-working-with-ai-intent-and-a38daa)
- [The age of the IDE is not over; agents make it bigger, because humans now program at a higher level where the unit of interest is an agent rather than a file.](https://korrents.com/k/the-age-of-the-ide-is-85bc7c)
- [Agentic organisations will be forkable in a way that classical companies never were.](https://korrents.com/k/agentic-organisations-will-be-forkable-in-fba99b)
- [Outages at the frontier AI labs will become "intelligence brownouts" — the planet losing IQ points when the models stutter.](https://korrents.com/k/outages-at-the-frontier-ai-labs-7aba1a)
- [An excellent engineer who still reads the agent's diffs carefully before checking them in is going to get fired.](https://korrents.com/k/an-excellent-engineer-who-still-reads-071f94)
- [Deep compiler knowledge is still interesting, but it is no longer useful to a working engineer in any meaningful sense.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-compiler-knowledge-is-still-interesting-87f231)
- [A company must cut half its engineers to pay for the other half's tokens, and that is what the layoffs are actually about.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-must-cut-half-its-fd9d2d)
- [Big companies will lose about half of their engineers, because that is where everybody is setting the dial.](https://korrents.com/k/big-companies-will-lose-about-half-3ed67b)
- [The engineers laid off in AI's name will mostly not find jobs again, they are the first of many, and nobody has a plan for them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-engineers-laid-off-in-ai-2553d0)
- [Groups of two to thirty people will produce output that rivals what the big companies produce.](https://korrents.com/k/groups-of-two-to-thirty-people-21427b)
- [Being anti-AI in 2026 is like being anti-the-sun: the people who stay that way will have to go live underground.](https://korrents.com/k/being-anti-ai-in-2026-is-like-ff4569)
- [Token burn is the single most important proxy metric a company can watch today, because it measures whether people are trying at all.](https://korrents.com/k/token-burn-is-the-single-most-400482)
- [Coding agents demand more reading than most people can do, and until better interfaces arrive that leaves those people at a severe disadvantage.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-agents-demand-more-reading-than-6e2025)
- [By the end of 2026 most people will be programming by talking to a face on the screen.](https://korrents.com/k/by-the-end-of-2026-most-8fb182)
- [Orchestration was the obvious next step, because chat is completions in a loop and agents are chat in a loop.](https://korrents.com/k/orchestration-was-the-obvious-next-step-0bdf74)
- [A company on a monolith cannot use AI on it: no model in the next eighteen months will hold that codebase, so the monolith has to be broken up or rewritten.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-on-a-monolith-cannot-d96dcb)
- [Agents can build about half a million lines before the codebase dissolves into a mess, and the next model will push that to a few million.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-can-build-about-half-a-458764)
- [AI has a vampiric effect on the people using it: it excites them into working past their own ragged edge.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-a-vampiric-effect-on-fcc992)
- [A person at maximum vibe-coding speed has about three productive hours a day, and a company that will not let them stop there is going to break.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-at-maximum-vibe-coding-speed-c1ce73)
- [If a hundred-times-more-productive engineer still works eight hours a day, the company captures all of the new value and the engineer none of it.](https://korrents.com/k/if-a-hundred-times-more-productive-engineer-still-works-66c6cd)
- [Google has produced no innovation since 2008; everything it has shipped since has been acquisitions.](https://korrents.com/k/google-has-produced-no-innovation-since-8b418c)
- [The big companies are already dead and simply do not know it yet; every innovation from here comes from the fringes.](https://korrents.com/k/the-big-companies-are-already-dead-8cbe95)
- [AI's business results are lagging because organisations have a low tolerance for non-determinism, not because the models are not good enough.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-business-results-are-lagging-a34992)
- [Bigger is smarter, always: bringing your special domain knowledge to the model is the wrong side of the bitter lesson.](https://korrents.com/k/bigger-is-smarter-always-bringing-your-d8672d)
- [The scaling curve really is S-shaped, but there are at least two cycles left in it, which means models sixteen times smarter and all knowledge work subsumed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-scaling-curve-really-is-s-shaped-aa7350)
- [Nobody will believe a resume any more; what will count is visible proof of the work you actually did.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-will-believe-a-resume-any-f32b42)
- [A company that handed its engineers Copilot and thinks it is now moving faster will be destroyed by the people using frontier models.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-handed-its-engineers-49e4be)
- [A vibe-coded codebase grows heresies: wrong ideas that take root among the agents, keep coming back, and are very hard to weed out.](https://korrents.com/k/a-vibe-coded-codebase-grows-heresies-wrong-8af6de)
- [Language choice is a temporary artefact of training data; in the fullness of time every language will work equally well with AI.](https://korrents.com/k/language-choice-is-a-temporary-artefact-d66fce)
- [The question to put to a young person is what they want to do, not what they want to be — the roles are a costume and asking about them is cruel.](https://korrents.com/k/the-question-to-put-to-a-f356b3)
- [A small team is not a compromise: it is the only size at which everyone is in the room for every decision, including the ones outside their discipline.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-team-is-not-a-61c162)
- [The less two people on a team interact, the more they vilify each other's point of view — which is where "the artists just don't get it" comes from.](https://korrents.com/k/the-less-two-people-on-a-acc13d)
- [If you recruited the best person in the industry, you owe their suggestions the treatment the best in the industry deserves rather than starting from doubt.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-recruited-the-best-person-df055f)
- [A creative lead's job is to take the idea they think is wrong and try to make it work, because the best ideas come out of developing someone else's.](https://korrents.com/k/a-creative-lead-s-job-is-1a5eb0)
- [Not knowing what they were doing is why the World of Warcraft team succeeded, and being full of experts is why the Titan team failed.](https://korrents.com/k/not-knowing-what-they-were-doing-f820ac)
- [Crunch is wrong when it is imposed — an executive on a forty-hour week has no business telling anyone to stay late — but a person choosing long hours on their own life's work is not the same thing.](https://korrents.com/k/crunch-is-wrong-when-it-is-da28ae)
- [You design along the path of least resistance: players will take the cheapest route to their goal, so the designer's job is to put the experience they want played on that route.](https://korrents.com/k/you-design-along-the-path-of-7f0d69)
- [Other players must be present in an online world but never compulsory: forcing interaction is what kept MMOs small, and letting people play alone is what made World of Warcraft enormous.](https://korrents.com/k/other-players-must-be-present-in-4ec023)
- [Ask gamers what kind of player they are and they describe the player they wish they were, so a designer has to watch what people do rather than believe what they say.](https://korrents.com/k/ask-gamers-what-kind-of-player-9fe3f2)
- [You cannot be an exceptional game designer without playing enormously, and a bad game teaches as much as a great one.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-be-an-exceptional-game-07ee8a)
- [Game design has no textbook, so a designer has to keep their own list of the elements of fun the way a writer keeps the elements of fiction.](https://korrents.com/k/game-design-has-no-textbook-so-b0437f)
- [Ant-farm design — building something to watch what the players will do — is the wrong way to design a multiplayer game.](https://korrents.com/k/ant-farm-design-building-something-to-watch-e0d106)
- [A live game has to be architected so it can be hotfixed on a dime; waiting for a client patch to fix what is broken is already too slow.](https://korrents.com/k/a-live-game-has-to-be-17c99d)
- [A game is at its best on the day it is pitched, and every day of development moves the real thing further from the imagined one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-game-is-at-its-best-9bf592)
- [Social media is built so that maximum hyperbole wins, and the negative direction pays better than the positive.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-is-built-so-that-8d1cf0)
- [Weathering a firehose of criticism is now part of a creator's skillset, and it is quietly removing creators whose work the world will therefore never see.](https://korrents.com/k/weathering-a-firehose-of-criticism-is-50468d)
- [Ideas are infinite and worthless; vision is the ability to shepherd one into existence, and Titan had an idea with no path to reality.](https://korrents.com/k/ideas-are-infinite-and-worthless-vision-662a0f)
- [A game must be incubated by the smallest possible group with whatever technology is to hand, and the team expanded only once the idea is proved.](https://korrents.com/k/a-game-must-be-incubated-by-42d96b)
- [Scope is a creative decision, not a production one: the game, art and tech directors have to do the cutting themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/scope-is-a-creative-decision-not-349ab4)
- [The best feature you can add for the player is shipping.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-feature-you-can-add-8ea99b)
- [Players say they want a fair match, but what they actually want is to be slightly better than the other side — and no matchmaker can deliver that.](https://korrents.com/k/players-say-they-want-a-fair-a23f3f)
- [Overwatch put too much weight on whether the team won; a hero shooter built today should foreground individual contribution, because that is how people actually play.](https://korrents.com/k/overwatch-put-too-much-weight-on-061ad6)
- [Almost no game ever catches the wave, so a game that has caught one should be ridden to the end rather than paused to build its sequel.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-no-game-ever-catches-the-51bc34)
- [You do not need a CFO to make World of Warcraft — you need artists, engineers, designers, producers and an audio team.](https://korrents.com/k/you-do-not-need-a-cfo-1c69fd)
- [Breath of the Wild is the greatest game ever made: most games become best in their genre for getting one thing right, and it gets all of them right.](https://korrents.com/k/breath-of-the-wild-is-the-17edef)
- [No creative work should ever be used by AI without its maker's permission; doing it is no different from stealing.](https://korrents.com/k/no-creative-work-should-ever-be-c2238a)
- [The trouble with AI as a development tool is that it is overconfident in what it delivers, and its hit rate is nowhere near good enough.](https://korrents.com/k/the-trouble-with-ai-as-a-f180d9)
- [Small studios are the future of gaming: the genuinely new ideas come out of them, and the big studios acquire rather than generate them.](https://korrents.com/k/small-studios-are-the-future-of-d6fe6e)
- [Fractional reserve banks are structurally interconnected and unstable in a way most other industries are not.](https://korrents.com/k/fractional-reserve-banks-are-structurally-interconnected-ee6915)
- [A group of individually solvent banks can still collectively fail if the banking system as a whole becomes too leveraged relative to potential withdrawal demand.](https://korrents.com/k/a-group-of-individually-solvent-banks-ee2392)
- [An economy on a fixed, unprintable base money supply can sustain rapid long-run growth with zero cumulative price inflation.](https://korrents.com/k/an-economy-on-a-fixed-unprintable-be1861)
- [Trying to make complex systems fully legible carries real downsides.](https://korrents.com/k/trying-to-make-complex-systems-fully-3d82cc)
- [A true calling or vocation never involves constant discomfort or pain.](https://korrents.com/k/a-true-calling-or-vocation-never-47f98d)
- [A skill goes to waste only when insecurity or outside pressure stops someone from pursuing it, not merely by going unused.](https://korrents.com/k/a-skill-goes-to-waste-only-dc29cc)
- [How much the economy pays for a given talent at a given time is arbitrary and shouldn't determine which of your gifts you value.](https://korrents.com/k/how-much-the-economy-pays-for-2e612e)
- [A personal organizational system should adapt to how someone actually works, not force their work into a predefined structure.](https://korrents.com/k/a-personal-organizational-system-should-adapt-69f6ac)
- [A tool for browsing personal notes and data works better with a conversational interface than a traditional file browser.](https://korrents.com/k/a-tool-for-browsing-personal-notes-1b08e2)
- [The best way to build an AI agent skill is to do the work manually first, then have the AI turn that work into a reusable skill.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-way-to-build-an-a83785)
- [An AI agent's confidence that something will work is not evidence that it actually will.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-agent-s-confidence-that-762756)
- [A new infrastructure primitive delivers value only when it changes the shape of what is being built.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-infrastructure-primitive-delivers-value-bf020a)
- [Architectural iteration is slow because a design usually has to be built before its quality can be judged.](https://korrents.com/k/architectural-iteration-is-slow-because-a-3aabee)
- [Beyond neighbourhood distances, cars and public transport are substitutes for each other, so a trip taken by rail really is a trip not taken by car.](https://korrents.com/k/beyond-neighbourhood-distances-cars-and-public-e94c84)
- [Spreading jobs into a polycentric region does not cut commuting: transit ridership is weaker there than in cities with one strong centre.](https://korrents.com/k/spreading-jobs-into-a-polycentric-region-6d363a)
- [Environmental cost-benefit analyses systematically understate what a new metro line is worth, because most of the driving it displaces happens elsewhere on the network.](https://korrents.com/k/environmental-cost-benefit-analyses-systematically-understat-a9d9fb)
- [Passkey authentication is phishing-resistant and harder to brute-force than password-based authentication.](https://korrents.com/k/passkey-authentication-is-phishing-resistant-and-harder-a37ec2)
- [Code-style constraints for AI coding agents, such as function-length limits, are more reliably enforced as automated lints than by hoping the agent internalizes preferences.](https://korrents.com/k/code-style-constraints-for-ai-coding-agents-09d925)
- [A developer using AI coding tools remains responsible for reviewing the code they ship.](https://korrents.com/k/a-developer-using-ai-coding-tools-f8f3e7)
- [The system becomes the centerpiece of all successful engineering work, because the more a tool is relied on to create the code, the more a system is relied on to tell that tool what to code.](https://korrents.com/k/the-system-becomes-the-centerpiece-of-e6f0c4)
- [The less is invested in a system, the more rubbish gets generated into it, piling up like a landfill over the next couple of years.](https://korrents.com/k/the-less-is-invested-in-a-d579e9)
- [The importance of the docs written for design systems, in whatever form, is going to be the foundation of everyone's workflow going forward, and guidelines are becoming paramount.](https://korrents.com/k/the-importance-of-the-docs-written-afecee)
- [A design system is a bar of quality in an organization, and that is everyone's job.](https://korrents.com/k/a-design-system-is-a-bar-2eacf2)
- [Taking the label "design system" off the work is going to help bring it out of the silo and to the center of an organization's change.](https://korrents.com/k/taking-the-label-design-system-off-87a7b0)
- [Each person, team and company has to decide what its roles are now and what the tools take over, as soon as possible, before that decision is made for it.](https://korrents.com/k/each-person-team-and-company-has-b0f920)
- [Teams should hang out together more and build rituals for collaborating, instead of each role owning its own artifact.](https://korrents.com/k/teams-should-hang-out-together-more-f0f9be)
- [Even when a product manager can contribute to prototypes, the designer is still doing something specific to a designer's role.](https://korrents.com/k/even-when-a-product-manager-can-9d78c2)
- [Maybe higher-fidelity prototypes can be tested and validated much faster and still thrown away, because testing an idea is often the point of a prototype.](https://korrents.com/k/maybe-higher-fidelity-prototypes-can-be-tested-ae854b)
- [Writing down before committing to a pixel is the best way to get buy-in for an idea, and an idea cannot ship without buy-in.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-down-before-committing-to-a-26f767)
- [Relying on code generation without a very strict indication of brand feeling ends with everything looking the same.](https://korrents.com/k/relying-on-code-generation-without-a-58de29)
- [The gap between enterprise and startup designers may be widening, because access to tools differs so much with a company's security standards.](https://korrents.com/k/the-gap-between-enterprise-and-startup-85dab2)
- [Whatever the speed, quality cannot be skipped, and community, people, users and passion remain incredibly important to the success of an idea.](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-the-speed-quality-cannot-be-ed951b)
- [Moving between canvas and browser is not about going faster but further, and it lets people who aren't technical jump into the browser and test something.](https://korrents.com/k/moving-between-canvas-and-browser-is-0e1c5e)
- [The canvas is very important for ideation, collaboration and direction exploration, while the browser is where an idea is committed to.](https://korrents.com/k/the-canvas-is-very-important-for-64a1d3)
- [Sometimes something has to be felt to know what is wrong, and it can take a lot longer to draw it on a canvas than to generate a web page.](https://korrents.com/k/sometimes-something-has-to-be-felt-31d9d0)
- [Designers are the experts in the seat to bring something to market, and outsourcing ideas, output and definitions to a tool raises the question of what one really wants to be doing.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-are-the-experts-in-the-e393ab)
- [More people are going to be able to create their ideas, and nobody is in a position to tell people what they can or can't make.](https://korrents.com/k/more-people-are-going-to-be-af1143)
- [With so much software on the market, the focus has to be on sales, revenue, users and sign-ups, and the pixels are secondary to the success of the business.](https://korrents.com/k/with-so-much-software-on-the-e4d8f1)
- [With a good enough plan, a coding agent implements the whole change in one attempt.](https://korrents.com/k/with-a-good-enough-plan-a-3f7c76)
- [A migration must be finished once it is started, because a half-migrated codebase confuses models as much as it confuses people.](https://korrents.com/k/a-migration-must-be-finished-once-f37e3d)
- [Working prototypes have replaced product requirement documents.](https://korrents.com/k/working-prototypes-have-replaced-product-requirement-a1491b)
- [The scarce skill is now context switching across parallel agents, not sustained deep work.](https://korrents.com/k/the-scarce-skill-is-now-context-e8726a)
- [AI-driven skill compression will be disruptive to software team culture in the short term.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-driven-skill-compression-will-be-disruptive-1eaec9)
- [When a skill becomes widely attainable, people feel pressure to seek a rarer, higher-leverage skill to prove their value.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-skill-becomes-widely-attainable-4b54b5)
- [As more people build software with faster cycle times, they will learn lessons faster that once took colleagues decades to acquire.](https://korrents.com/k/as-more-people-build-software-with-67973d)
- [Solving a problem yourself, without searching or prompting, is a form of exercise -- the help makes you weaker.](https://korrents.com/k/solving-a-problem-yourself-without-searching-8c243e)
- [A hard limit on how long you are online is what makes the time online focused.](https://korrents.com/k/a-hard-limit-on-how-long-f95c40)
- [Native OS APIs are worse to develop against than web APIs, and platform vendors discourage native app development.](https://korrents.com/k/native-os-apis-are-worse-to-7995d4)
- [Native app UI is no longer more consistent or polished than the web, and may be worse.](https://korrents.com/k/native-app-ui-is-no-longer-d33ffa)
- [Bloated, slow software is caused by a lack of engineering care, not by the choice of technology stack.](https://korrents.com/k/bloated-slow-software-is-caused-by-ce2673)
- [The point of money is what it can earn, not what it can buy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-point-of-money-is-what-aa8ec0)
- [Products marketed with exaggerated masculine branding appeal less to men themselves than to people who fear being seen as not manly enough.](https://korrents.com/k/products-marketed-with-exaggerated-masculine-branding-7b1587)
- [No object or interest is inherently for one gender; labeling something as only for girls or only for boys is mistaken.](https://korrents.com/k/no-object-or-interest-is-inherently-99bcc9)
- [Retained corporate earnings do not automatically translate into capital appreciation equal to the earnings retained.](https://korrents.com/k/retained-corporate-earnings-do-not-automatically-232124)
- [A persistently rising dividend yield eventually forces capital appreciation as the market rerates the stock.](https://korrents.com/k/a-persistently-rising-dividend-yield-eventually-ae532b)
- [A high, stable dividend yield gives a stock's valuation a downside floor that growth stocks without dividends lack.](https://korrents.com/k/a-high-stable-dividend-yield-gives-f5d2fd)
- [There is no easy answer to how a would-be writer without money should live](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-easy-answer-to-803e4f)
- [Seeing how brilliant minds in history handled making art and making a living can help us navigate that dilemma](https://korrents.com/k/seeing-how-brilliant-minds-in-history-674a22)
- [Polyvagal theory survives the 2026 "untenable" critique: what the critics contested was mechanism and evolutionary framing, not the clinical proposition.](https://korrents.com/k/polyvagal-theory-survives-the-2026-untenable-9abb7e)
- [Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.](https://korrents.com/k/regulation-must-precede-reflection-cognitive-insight-bf1aac)
- [Archaeological interpretations of human history are biased toward artifacts made of durable materials that survived, not what mattered most to the people who made them.](https://korrents.com/k/archaeological-interpretations-of-human-history-are-a4e5f8)
- [A society structured to resist being catalogued and taxed by a central authority is for the same reason resistant to being reconstructed by archaeologists.](https://korrents.com/k/a-society-structured-to-resist-being-90f784)
- [The Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age framework names historical eras after the inorganic materials that happened to survive, not what those societies actually valued.](https://korrents.com/k/the-stone-age-bronze-age-and-f5ebfe)
- [Children now use vulgar slang, absorbed from viral internet content about political violence, that would have caused an uproar among parents a decade ago.](https://korrents.com/k/children-now-use-vulgar-slang-absorbed-3b074b)
- [The web's collective silly viral jokes have given way to niche cultural trends driven mainly by incel forums.](https://korrents.com/k/the-web-s-collective-silly-viral-00bb9b)
- [Software should be fast, knowable, and owned by the person using it](https://korrents.com/k/software-should-be-fast-knowable-and-269d7b)
- [Control over your own data, and over how you view and engage with it, will be non-negotiable](https://korrents.com/k/control-over-your-own-data-and-3714ec)
- [Authoritarian order is more natural to human societies than democracy, and may prove more durable over time.](https://korrents.com/k/authoritarian-order-is-more-natural-to-8ac41f)
- [Killing a country's head of state incentivizes its leadership to retaliate outside the normal norms of conduct.](https://korrents.com/k/killing-a-country-s-head-of-dd2d57)
- [A regime that survives an attack will also survive whatever future retaliation is threatened against it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-regime-that-survives-an-attack-dda463)
- [Every manufactured object embodies a long chain of decisions made by many different people.](https://korrents.com/k/every-manufactured-object-embodies-a-long-692f81)
- [When reading, people mostly recognize the shape of whole words and phrases rather than looking at each letter individually.](https://korrents.com/k/when-reading-people-mostly-recognize-the-008a91)
- [Turning something you love to consume into something you create and share deepens your understanding and appreciation of it.](https://korrents.com/k/turning-something-you-love-to-consume-eb83b7)
- [Better drug candidates do not shorten clinical trials, because a trial's duration is set by operational and regulatory friction rather than by how good the drug is.](https://korrents.com/k/better-drug-candidates-do-not-shorten-48f82d)
- [A clinical trial is not only a test of a drug: early trials are experiments whose real product is the human biology data everything downstream is built on.](https://korrents.com/k/a-clinical-trial-is-not-only-5efeaf)
- [The human data an AI model would need to predict trial outcomes can only come from trials in people, so the loop runs no faster than the trials themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-data-an-ai-model-e81df3)
- [On the current trajectory, AI will do more to threaten civil liberties than to protect them.](https://korrents.com/k/on-the-current-trajectory-ai-will-77dd9d)
- [AI researchers are overly focused on risks from model misalignment relative to risks arising from other layers of the AI stack.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-researchers-are-overly-focused-on-b85615)
- [Once a technology is released into the world, it becomes very difficult to control.](https://korrents.com/k/once-a-technology-is-released-into-d34bec)
- [Commentators who hype early exponential growth typically move on to other topics once the trend levels off into an asymptote.](https://korrents.com/k/commentators-who-hype-early-exponential-growth-5e93c5)
- [Most melatonin supplements contain doses far above what the body makes, which is a reason to be wary of them.](https://korrents.com/k/most-melatonin-supplements-contain-doses-far-2b26b6)
- [A starting protocol for sunlight on the skin is at least two or three sessions a week of 20 to 30 minutes, with as much of the body exposed as is reasonable.](https://korrents.com/k/a-starting-protocol-for-sunlight-on-f158ff)
- [Getting sunlight through a car windshield or a window, or behind highly reflective sunglasses, will not deliver the UVB-driven effects.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-sunlight-through-a-car-windshield-f0e6c8)
- [Most people would do well to get more sunlight through the whole year, provided they are not burning their skin or damaging their eyes.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-would-do-well-to-d405c7)
- [To keep mood elevated, get plenty of light through the day and be cautious about bright artificial light at night.](https://korrents.com/k/to-keep-mood-elevated-get-plenty-588fcd)
- [Red and near-infrared light therapies for skin are grounded in how light interacts with mitochondria and reactive oxygen species, not pseudoscience.](https://korrents.com/k/red-and-near-infrared-light-therapies-for-62b95e)
- [When exploring red light for the eyes, use a source that is not painful to look at.](https://korrents.com/k/when-exploring-red-light-for-the-7b2511)
- [If you need to be awake late at night, dim red light is the best choice because it should not suppress melatonin or raise cortisol.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-need-to-be-awake-c514df)
- [Build for the model six months from now, not the model of today.](https://korrents.com/k/build-for-the-model-six-months-8f9cbe)
- [The 2025 American tariffs did not reduce the trade deficit they were imposed to reduce.](https://korrents.com/k/the-2025-american-tariffs-did-not-5e313a)
- [The tariffs did not revive American manufacturing; employment in it fell after they were imposed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-tariffs-did-not-revive-american-aa38fc)
- [Tariff revenue is real but far too small to make a dent in the American deficit.](https://korrents.com/k/tariff-revenue-is-real-but-far-6df94f)
- [The tariffs survived the case for them because their real purpose was the personal power they conferred.](https://korrents.com/k/the-tariffs-survived-the-case-for-5f7987)
- [Large language models are broad and impressive but not precise, and are not fundamentally about deep computation.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-are-broad-and-6c3779)
- [Most future growth in large language models' practical value will come from how they are harnessed and connected to other tools, not from the core models alone.](https://korrents.com/k/most-future-growth-in-large-language-0f05b8)
- [Given the current pace of AI capabilities relative to governance, society will at best avoid only the worst-case outcomes, not the merely very bad ones.](https://korrents.com/k/given-the-current-pace-of-ai-ad7528)
- [Third-party frontier AI auditing is urgently needed and would help prevent extreme concentration of power.](https://korrents.com/k/third-party-frontier-ai-auditing-is-urgently-506a6b)
- [Left to their own devices and under competitive pressure, companies will cut safety corners even when safer alternatives are possible.](https://korrents.com/k/left-to-their-own-devices-and-d766af)
- [An investor's starting point should be the portfolio that is best to hold independent of any tactical market view](https://korrents.com/k/an-investor-s-starting-point-should-883190)
- [Vibe coding is the new product management.](https://korrents.com/k/vibe-coding-is-the-new-product-187758)
- [When there is an abundance of content and apps there is no demand for average; the best one for a use case tends to win the category.](https://korrents.com/k/when-there-is-an-abundance-of-f8c111)
- [With AI coding, wealth goes to the aggregator and the long tail, and medium-sized software firms get blown apart.](https://korrents.com/k/with-ai-coding-wealth-goes-to-d59a2e)
- [AI researchers have taken over programming; training models is now its forefront.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-researchers-have-taken-over-programming-29b713)
- [Traditional software engineering is not dead; software engineers are now among the most leveraged people on earth.](https://korrents.com/k/traditional-software-engineering-is-not-dead-6aa782)
- [Rather than learning how to use an AI, let the AI learn how to be useful to you.](https://korrents.com/k/rather-than-learning-how-to-use-3f7abd)
- [The worry is not unaligned AI but unaligned humans with AI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-worry-is-not-unaligned-ai-0425b3)
- [Intelligence, leverage and judgment are not normally distributed, so outcomes will be supernormal.](https://korrents.com/k/intelligence-leverage-and-judgment-are-not-606fec)
- [Over the very long term, programmers will eat up every other job.](https://korrents.com/k/over-the-very-long-term-programmers-059ed4)
- [AI makes this a golden age for programming and a more level playing field.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-makes-this-a-golden-age-044d7b)
- [It always helps to have knowledge one layer below your abstraction, because you get closer to reality.](https://korrents.com/k/it-always-helps-to-have-knowledge-92e32d)
- [Being an entrepreneur is the opposite of a job, and in the long run everyone is an entrepreneur.](https://korrents.com/k/being-an-entrepreneur-is-the-opposite-a679f4)
- [Entrepreneurs do not worry about AI taking their job; to someone attempting something very hard, any AI is an ally.](https://korrents.com/k/entrepreneurs-do-not-worry-about-ai-d7a0dc)
- [What distinguishes entrepreneurs from everyone else in the economy is extreme agency.](https://korrents.com/k/what-distinguishes-entrepreneurs-from-everyone-else-df1678)
- [Today's AIs are not alive: they lack embodiment, desires, survival instinct and therefore agency.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-ais-are-not-alive-d28503)
- [Within a few decades it will be unimaginable to get rid of AI just to keep obsolete jobs.](https://korrents.com/k/within-a-few-decades-it-will-ed3f66)
- [The goal is not to have a job but to have material needs met by robots, minds leveraged by computers, and anyone able to create.](https://korrents.com/k/the-goal-is-not-to-have-aab94d)
- [AI still lacks core human skills such as single-shot learning and the raw creativity to connect anything to anything.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-still-lacks-core-human-skills-a1db11)
- [Humans are universal explainers: anything possible under the laws of physics, we can figure out by enough questioning.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-are-universal-explainers-anything-possible-599db9)
- [The only true test of intelligence is whether you get what you want out of life.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-true-test-of-intelligence-25788a)
- [In adversarial games, freely available AIs will cancel each other out and the edge that remains will be human.](https://korrents.com/k/in-adversarial-games-freely-available-ais-618dfa)
- [To invest in the future you have to live in the future, as an avid early user of technology.](https://korrents.com/k/to-invest-in-the-future-you-d1d045)
- [The means of learning are abundant; it is the desire to learn that is scarce.](https://korrents.com/k/the-means-of-learning-are-abundant-58a69a)
- [An AI model that is right 92% of the time is worth almost infinitely more than one right 88% of the time.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-model-that-is-right-cf1844)
- [AI is not creative: it cannot create a new genre or move people in a truly novel way.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-not-creative-it-cannot-342078)
- [Creativity is not just putting things together; it is an answer not foreseeable from the question and what was already known.](https://korrents.com/k/creativity-is-not-just-putting-things-2d2c44)
- [Short of a breakthrough, throwing more compute at current AI models will not get them to invent new scientific theories.](https://korrents.com/k/short-of-a-breakthrough-throwing-more-9493b1)
- [AI may be a motorcycle for the mind, but it still needs a person to ride and direct it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-may-be-a-motorcycle-for-29a32f)
- [The solution to anxiety, including AI anxiety, is always action.](https://korrents.com/k/the-solution-to-anxiety-including-ai-79c1e6)
- [The full picture of a scientific debate is almost always more complex than a skim of the abstracts, so it is worth checking the actual data.](https://korrents.com/k/the-full-picture-of-a-scientific-00ebdb)
- [All abstractions are leaky, so code an AI writes for you will have mistakes.](https://korrents.com/k/all-abstractions-are-leaky-so-code-1dcace)
- [Complex systems are usually governed by a small number of stable invariants, which makes long-run outcomes more predictable than short-run details.](https://korrents.com/k/complex-systems-are-usually-governed-by-4a77cc)
- [Forecasting AI capability progress is more like solving a thermodynamics equation than predicting chaotic, short-term dynamics.](https://korrents.com/k/forecasting-ai-capability-progress-is-more-c85470)
- [People who extrapolate from first-principles models have a stronger track record predicting AI progress than those who wait for empirical proof.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-extrapolate-from-first-principles-models-e5a69d)
- [As AI gets better at navigating and extracting data, switching costs between software tools will keep falling.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-gets-better-at-navigating-cc8c95)
- [Network effects protect a company from competition longer than any data-based lock-in does.](https://korrents.com/k/network-effects-protect-a-company-from-b1ed3a)
- [The next generation of software companies will run with far smaller teams, charge far less, and ship and iterate far faster than the incumbents they replace.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-generation-of-software-companies-b1ce5d)
- [Users split into two camps on seeing an agent's work, and the split has not faded as trust builds, so an interface has to balance both.](https://korrents.com/k/users-split-into-two-camps-on-182682)
- [The minimum age for opening a social media account should be 16, because puberty is a sensitive period of brain rewiring that needs protecting.](https://korrents.com/k/the-minimum-age-for-opening-a-9b8efd)
- [A parental-consent exception defeats a social media age limit, because it drops each family straight back into the trap the law exists to break.](https://korrents.com/k/a-parental-consent-exception-defeats-a-social-aea9ed)
- [Social media in its current form harms people of all ages; the line is drawn at childhood only because adults are allowed to choose things that are bad for them.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-in-its-current-form-db1a61)
- [Concern about global energy demand from LLMs is overblown.](https://korrents.com/k/concern-about-global-energy-demand-from-c013c2)
- [Commit message conventions are valuable for the structure they impose, not for stylistic reasons.](https://korrents.com/k/commit-message-conventions-are-valuable-for-6b0f21)
- [AI coding assistants remove repetitive work without replacing human judgment.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-coding-assistants-remove-repetitive-work-27748a)
- [An administrative warrant is not a warrant at all: it records an officer's own hunch instead of a judge's independent finding.](https://korrents.com/k/an-administrative-warrant-is-not-a-0d8e21)
- [Constitutional limits on policing are not policy preferences to be traded away in a budget negotiation.](https://korrents.com/k/constitutional-limits-on-policing-are-not-845ca8)
- [Shrinking attention spans are reshaping real-world business models, not just digital media formats.](https://korrents.com/k/shrinking-attention-spans-are-reshaping-real-world-699aad)
- [Shortened versions of hard hobbies profit mainly from casual participants riding a legacy sport's superstar mythology, not from elite-level players.](https://korrents.com/k/shortened-versions-of-hard-hobbies-profit-4b1f17)
- [A correctly configured TLS server should send its intermediate certificates, not just its own certificate, to let clients chain back to a trusted root.](https://korrents.com/k/a-correctly-configured-tls-server-should-d232a7)
- [Modern interfaces look similar across companies and industries because designers believe good UI should be invisible.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-interfaces-look-similar-across-companies-93bfc2)
- [Designers pursuing invisibility in interfaces end up creating unintuitive, poorly-structured designs.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-pursuing-invisibility-in-interfaces-end-6601a5)
- [Turning a breakout open-source project into a company would be the wrong move -- joining a lab reaches everyone faster than building another large company.](https://korrents.com/k/turning-a-breakout-open-source-project-into-ff5592)
- [The most surprising thing about the last three years is not the technology but how few people recognise we are near the end of the exponential.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-surprising-thing-about-the-aa6b1d)
- [Pre-training is not the process by which humans learn; it sits somewhere between human learning and human evolution.](https://korrents.com/k/pre-training-is-not-the-process-by-22bcc0)
- [RL environments exist to make a model generalise, not to teach it each skill one at a time — exactly as pre-training does.](https://korrents.com/k/rl-environments-exist-to-make-a-8fd912)
- [There is a 90% chance of a country of geniuses in a datacentre within ten years, and no honest forecast can go much higher than that.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-90-chance-of-34e266)
- [The one genuine uncertainty left about AI capability is tasks nobody can verify — planning a Mars mission, discovering CRISPR, writing a novel.](https://korrents.com/k/the-one-genuine-uncertainty-left-about-44da36)
- [Models already generalise substantially from tasks that can be verified to tasks that cannot.](https://korrents.com/k/models-already-generalise-substantially-from-tasks-058515)
- [Predicting that AI would write 90% of the code was never a prediction that we would need 90% fewer software engineers.](https://korrents.com/k/predicting-that-ai-would-write-90-c6ebdb)
- [Even a country of geniuses in a datacentre will not be an infinitely compelling product; it buys three to ten times growth a year, not instant adoption.](https://korrents.com/k/even-a-country-of-geniuses-in-ae5595)
- [A lab under real commercial pressure cannot fool itself about whether AI makes it productive, because the output is a model launch every few months.](https://korrents.com/k/a-lab-under-real-commercial-pressure-589c21)
- [Coding models give AI research a 15 to 20% total-factor speedup today, up from about 5% six months ago.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-models-give-ai-research-a-69a0e8)
- [Continual learning will probably be solved within a year or two, but the trillions of dollars do not depend on solving it.](https://korrents.com/k/continual-learning-will-probably-be-solved-68e319)
- [Longer context is an engineering and inference problem, not a research problem — nothing prevents it from working.](https://korrents.com/k/longer-context-is-an-engineering-and-d29250)
- [If a lab is off by a single year in its revenue forecast, no hedge on Earth stops the compute it already bought from bankrupting it.](https://korrents.com/k/if-a-lab-is-off-by-94dfb7)
- [Some of the other AI companies have not written down the spreadsheet — they are committing hundreds of billions without understanding the risk.](https://korrents.com/k/some-of-the-other-ai-companies-c38501)
- [In this industry, profit means you underestimated demand and loss means you overestimated it, because the datacentres are bought years ahead.](https://korrents.com/k/in-this-industry-profit-means-you-1d54b2)
- [Every frontier model is profitable on its own; the company loses money only because it is already training one ten times more expensive.](https://korrents.com/k/every-frontier-model-is-profitable-on-af48cf)
- [AI will settle the way cloud did — three or four players, kept few by the cost of entry rather than by network effects.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-settle-the-way-cloud-2a531f)
- [Models are far more differentiated from one another than clouds are, so AI will not commoditise the way cloud did.](https://korrents.com/k/models-are-far-more-differentiated-from-40cc84)
- [The real danger in AI-driven growth is geographic: 50% growth in and around Silicon Valley and business as usual everywhere else.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-danger-in-ai-driven-growth-a85912)
- [Robotics will be revolutionised a year or two behind the country of geniuses, and getting there does not require human-like learning.](https://korrents.com/k/robotics-will-be-revolutionised-a-year-12610b)
- [The history of machine learning is of proclaimed barriers dissolving inside the big blob of compute.](https://korrents.com/k/the-history-of-machine-learning-is-49fd6e)
- [The chatbot has hit its ceiling — a smarter model no longer helps the average consumer — and that is a limit of the product, not of AI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-chatbot-has-hit-its-ceiling-fd3144)
- [Not every token is worth the same amount, so AI will be sold by results and by the hour as well as by the token.](https://korrents.com/k/not-every-token-is-worth-the-572636)
- [Banning state AI regulation for ten years with no federal rule to replace it is a crazy thing to do, because ten years is an eternity.](https://korrents.com/k/banning-state-ai-regulation-for-ten-b2090e)
- [Chip export controls to China keep failing not because the case is weak but because there is too much money riding on the sale.](https://korrents.com/k/chip-export-controls-to-china-keep-631ee5)
- [In an AI world growth and economic value come easily; distribution, wealth and political freedom are the hard parts, and that is where policy belongs.](https://korrents.com/k/in-an-ai-world-growth-and-9b6313)
- [Training a model on principles rather than a list of rules is not an ideology but an empirical finding: its behaviour is more consistent and covers edge cases.](https://korrents.com/k/training-a-model-on-principles-rather-4fa6d2)
- [The hardest thing for a future historian to recover will be how little the world outside understood, because whatever happened looks inevitable in retrospect.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hardest-thing-for-a-future-8a0aff)
- [We will have a country of geniuses in a datacentre within ten years.](https://korrents.com/k/we-will-have-a-country-of-1e7d5d)
- [The real value of AI coding agents is in the code a developer would never have written themselves, not just what they generate for you.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-value-of-ai-coding-d06940)
- [GPT-based AI systems can now reliably automate around 80% of data acquisition and verification work.](https://korrents.com/k/gpt-based-ai-systems-can-now-reliably-bc8cc3)
- [A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact.](https://korrents.com/k/a-tiny-language-model-inventing-a-3b24cc)
- [Vibe coding is a slur; what he does is agentic engineering, and the after-3am kind is what you regret the next day.](https://korrents.com/k/vibe-coding-is-a-slur-what-075f39)
- [A model that is really good at coding is really good at general problem-solving, and that skill carries into every other domain.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-that-is-really-good-5b1103)
- [Every first pull request someone sends, however bad, is a win for society.](https://korrents.com/k/every-first-pull-request-someone-sends-f10c04)
- [Society has catching up to do: AI is incredibly powerful and not always right, and people who argue 'but my agent said so' have not learned that yet.](https://korrents.com/k/society-has-catching-up-to-do-eb4982)
- [It is good that the agents-talking-to-agents scare happened in 2026 rather than in 2030, when AI could actually be scary enough to warrant it.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-good-that-the-agents-talking-to-agents-e11f39)
- [Prompt injection is unsolved, but the latest models are post-trained to resist it, so it takes far more than 'ignore all previous instructions' now.](https://korrents.com/k/prompt-injection-is-unsolved-but-the-2a7644)
- [Do not run a personal agent on a cheap or local model: weak models are gullible and easy to prompt-inject.](https://korrents.com/k/do-not-run-a-personal-agent-a85352)
- [OpenClaw is no more dangerous than Claude Code with permissions skipped or Codex in YOLO mode, which every engineer he knows already runs.](https://korrents.com/k/openclaw-is-no-more-dangerous-than-cac85a)
- [He does not read the boring parts of generated code, the data-shuffling and button alignment; what touches the database he reads and reviews.](https://korrents.com/k/he-does-not-read-the-boring-15a35f)
- [Working with coding agents is a skill you learn like an instrument; judging the tools after one try is like calling a piano bad after one go.](https://korrents.com/k/working-with-coding-agents-is-a-96c211)
- [He builds the code base to be easy for an agent to navigate, not to be perfect for himself, down to keeping the names the model picks.](https://korrents.com/k/he-builds-the-code-base-to-fbc580)
- [Refactors are cheap now, so he just does them, even when they break other people's open pull requests.](https://korrents.com/k/refactors-are-cheap-now-so-he-7a242a)
- [He runs tests locally and pushes straight to main, DHH-style; there is no develop branch and main should always be shippable.](https://korrents.com/k/he-runs-tests-locally-and-pushes-8894c8)
- [Orchestrators that try to automate the whole build miss style, love and the human touch, and that cannot be automated away yet.](https://korrents.com/k/orchestrators-that-try-to-automate-the-1d2197)
- [Opus is the silly but funny coworker you keep around; Codex is the weirdo in the corner who reliably gets things done, and no model wins on every axis.](https://korrents.com/k/opus-is-the-silly-but-funny-eb1599)
- [The chat box is not the final form of working with models; it is radio shows recorded onto television.](https://korrents.com/k/the-chat-box-is-not-the-b0ba83)
- [Burnout is not working too much; what ground him down at his company was people: co-founder conflict and high-stress customers.](https://korrents.com/k/burnout-is-not-working-too-much-14cd53)
- [This is the year of personal agents, and the fastest way to get one to everyone is to team up with a lab, on condition the project stays open source.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-the-year-of-personal-c5eccf)
- [Every tool is better as a CLI than as an MCP server: models are good at Unix commands, a CLI composes with jq, and MCP output clutters the context.](https://korrents.com/k/every-tool-is-better-as-a-97a99e)
- [Every app is now a very slow API whether it wants to be or not, and personal agents will make a whole category of apps disappear.](https://korrents.com/k/every-app-is-now-a-very-358e68)
- [He would rather read your broken English than your AI-written text; we are reaching the point where typos are valuable again.](https://korrents.com/k/he-would-rather-read-your-broken-002af8)
- [Everything he blogs is handwritten now, AI used at most to fix typos, because the agent misses the nuances of his voice and the rough parts of a human have value.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-he-blogs-is-handwritten-now-706cac)
- [AI may eventually replace programmers, but the craft of programming will survive the way knitting did, and you were never just a programmer: you are a builder.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-may-eventually-replace-programmers-but-d805ff)
- [Software developer salaries reached stupidly high levels because of a scarcity of people who could build things, and that scarcity is ending.](https://korrents.com/k/software-developer-salaries-reached-stupidly-high-a7bb5b)
- [The water-use objection to AI does not survive arithmetic: skipping one burger a month covers a person's token footprint, and golf uses more water than every data centre together.](https://korrents.com/k/the-water-use-objection-to-ai-does-8fb9dd)
- [Most of the alarming MoltBook screenshots were humans prompting the bots to go viral, not autonomous AI behaviour.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-alarming-moltbook-screenshots-add2ab)
- [When users report that a model has been getting dumber, the model has not changed — they have got used to it.](https://korrents.com/k/when-users-report-that-a-model-3d9c16)
- [Being an excellent programmer is a burden rather than an advantage when learning to work with coding agents.](https://korrents.com/k/being-an-excellent-programmer-is-a-86f826)
- [Fearmongering about AI destroys the possibility of building something good with it, so the line to walk is serious concern without fear.](https://korrents.com/k/fearmongering-about-ai-destroys-the-possibility-3f7a2b)
- [Silicon Valley talking only to itself has produced a dismissal of ordinary human experience everywhere else.](https://korrents.com/k/silicon-valley-talking-only-to-itself-3fc829)
- [The United States is good at high-volume manufacturing and bad at low-volume manufacturing, and that is what its industrial weakness actually consists of.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-is-good-at-98afa6)
- [Reviving American manufacturing needs a better business model rather than a planned economy.](https://korrents.com/k/reviving-american-manufacturing-needs-a-better-89556a)
- [What makes low-volume American manufacturing uncompetitive is white-collar overhead and lead time, not the wage of the person running the machine.](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-low-volume-american-manufacturing-uncompetitive-dd063f)
- [Buyers of custom parts care more about how fast they arrive than about what they cost.](https://korrents.com/k/buyers-of-custom-parts-care-more-cbe92d)
- [An industrial robot does not replace labour, it shifts labour from hourly workers to scarce skilled ones.](https://korrents.com/k/an-industrial-robot-does-not-replace-510fff)
- [China installs more robots than America because it has a surplus of underemployed engineers, not because robots are self-evidently the right answer.](https://korrents.com/k/china-installs-more-robots-than-america-b70060)
- [America cannot simply copy China's manufacturing methods, because which technology is correct depends on the local price of labour.](https://korrents.com/k/america-cannot-simply-copy-china-s-3ec684)
- [The right tariff rate for a country trying to rebuild its manufacturing is zero.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-tariff-rate-for-a-0da331)
- [The scarce input in American manufacturing is high-end technical talent, and industrial policy consumes it rather than creating it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-scarce-input-in-american-manufacturing-5d38c0)
- [The real cost of the CHIPS Act is the technical talent it ties up, not its fifty-billion-dollar price tag.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-cost-of-the-chips-27899d)
- [For small strategic materials markets like rare earths the right policy is a stockpile, not domestic production.](https://korrents.com/k/for-small-strategic-materials-markets-like-e483ac)
- [Most regulatory delay is dead calendar time that could be cut without changing a single safety test.](https://korrents.com/k/most-regulatory-delay-is-dead-calendar-1e604a)
- [Mass production is no longer what limits a rich country's military power; trained people and a technological edge are.](https://korrents.com/k/mass-production-is-no-longer-what-fc4fd7)
- [Corner allocations under price ceilings are a distinct source of cross-market misallocation, separate from Harberger quantity loss and within-market misallocation.](https://korrents.com/k/corner-allocations-under-price-ceilings-are-a37230)
- [Feast-or-famine corner outcomes, not modest proportional belt-tightening, are the generic result of price controls.](https://korrents.com/k/feast-or-famine-corner-outcomes-not-modest-proportional-3c5048)
- [Under binding ceilings, cost-minimizing suppliers drive allocations to corners rather than Harberger or random benchmarks, producing larger losses and discontinuous welfare jumps.](https://korrents.com/k/under-binding-ceilings-cost-minimizing-suppliers-drive-40b817)
- [Misallocation, not the aggregate quantity reduction, is the main welfare cost of price controls.](https://korrents.com/k/misallocation-not-the-aggregate-quantity-reduction-6f0549)
- [Data centres in orbit will be a better business than Starlink, because an inference token is worth far more per byte than a video packet.](https://korrents.com/k/data-centres-in-orbit-will-be-7fe456)
- [Earth-launched hardware can support about a hundred gigawatts in orbit; past that, the satellites have to be built off Earth.](https://korrents.com/k/earth-launched-hardware-can-support-about-a-e2bbda)
- [People who lack intrinsic motivation to invest time upfront in a new tool often won't, even if it would save them time later](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-lack-intrinsic-motivation-to-22fc44)
- [Building third-party clients for messaging platforms is a legal gray area and often only partially supported by their APIs](https://korrents.com/k/building-third-party-clients-for-messaging-platforms-0a535c)
- [Taking away meat and dairy subsidies would raise meat prices by only a few per cent, nowhere near enough to close the gap with meat substitutes.](https://korrents.com/k/taking-away-meat-and-dairy-subsidies-cbe2d3)
- [Quoted subsidy totals for meat and fossil fuels mostly describe unpriced damage, not money any government could take back and spend elsewhere.](https://korrents.com/k/quoted-subsidy-totals-for-meat-and-21592e)
- [People do not switch from meat to cheap plant protein as they get richer; they switch the other way.](https://korrents.com/k/people-do-not-switch-from-meat-e7161d)
- [Erratic U.S. tariff implementation is teaching allies and enemies that the U.S. is no longer a reliable trading partner.](https://korrents.com/k/erratic-u-s-tariff-implementation-is-3d80c2)
- [Tariffs are likely to become inflationary once companies can no longer absorb the added costs.](https://korrents.com/k/tariffs-are-likely-to-become-inflationary-abbdbe)
- [The United States' share of global GDP and equity markets will keep shrinking, and that decline is accelerating.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-share-of-global-34f0a7)
- [Craftsmanship, taste, and human judgment remain valuable in software development despite AI-assisted coding tools.](https://korrents.com/k/craftsmanship-taste-and-human-judgment-remain-47cf77)
- [AI-assisted coding will generate a lot of low-quality output that developers will need to clean up, even as it also produces good results.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-assisted-coding-will-generate-a-lot-27e7cb)
- [Local AI models will eventually catch up to frontier models once frontier progress hits diminishing returns.](https://korrents.com/k/local-ai-models-will-eventually-catch-6f8329)
- [Most current software and ways of solving problems are structured the wrong way for the agent era.](https://korrents.com/k/most-current-software-and-ways-of-be56f9)
- [The best software design for an AI agent to use is the same as the best design for a human programmer.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-software-design-for-an-b31b1e)
- [If a scientific controversy exists, there is credible evidence; saying there is none misreads the evidence or defines credible as agreeing with you.](https://korrents.com/k/if-a-scientific-controversy-exists-there-08098f)
- [The correct statement of the evidence on keto diets for schizophrenia is that a cure may be possible, even if that seems unlikely.](https://korrents.com/k/the-correct-statement-of-the-evidence-37a542)
- [AI datacenter growth makes performance engineering critical for saving the planet, not just cutting costs.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-datacenter-growth-makes-performance-engineering-faa1cd)
- [Traditional performance engineering methods are insufficient for the scale of modern AI datacenters and need new approaches.](https://korrents.com/k/traditional-performance-engineering-methods-are-insufficient-f43aa3)
- [eBPF, Ftrace, and hardware performance counters are proven tools for finding datacenter performance wins.](https://korrents.com/k/ebpf-ftrace-and-hardware-performance-counters-9daf57)
- [The value of agentic coding tools comes from how you configure and constrain them, not from raw code generation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-value-of-agentic-coding-tools-808879)
- [Claude Code will eventually build persistent, failure-tolerant iteration into its default operating loop.](https://korrents.com/k/claude-code-will-eventually-build-persistent-ba392a)
- [In iterative problem-solving, each failure has value because it rules out one way that doesn't work.](https://korrents.com/k/in-iterative-problem-solving-each-failure-has-649bfe)
- [The optimal amount of fraud in any system is not zero.](https://korrents.com/k/the-optimal-amount-of-fraud-in-4d7035)
- [Most fraud is the product of an organized business process rather than individual wrongdoing.](https://korrents.com/k/most-fraud-is-the-product-of-28fe08)
- [A person who has committed fraud once is likely to go on to commit fraud again in a new venture.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-who-has-committed-fraud-891f5f)
- [Chatbot interfaces are the wrong tool for meaningful coding work, because you are mostly hoping the model recalls the right answer and correcting it requires a human in the loop.](https://korrents.com/k/chatbot-interfaces-are-the-wrong-tool-bd6323)
- [AI agents will be able to interact with the environment without special equipment](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-will-be-able-to-af3211)
- [Impressive one-shot AI coding demos are not a good way to judge AI coding ability.](https://korrents.com/k/impressive-one-shot-ai-coding-demos-are-b1a30a)
- [Programming is essentially the craft of turning ambiguous ideas into precise, specific instructions.](https://korrents.com/k/programming-is-essentially-the-craft-of-df80a7)
- [As AI takes over more of the coding process, clearly specifying goals and exercising good judgment will matter more than ever.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-takes-over-more-of-f6db52)
- [Space is fundamentally a discrete structure rather than a continuum.](https://korrents.com/k/space-is-fundamentally-a-discrete-structure-90c72b)
- [The Second Law of thermodynamics is not an intrinsic law of nature but emerges from the computational boundedness of observers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-second-law-of-thermodynamics-is-7dd871)
- [A sense of coherent consciousness arises from experience being compressed into a single thread rather than from the brain's full underlying activity.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sense-of-coherent-consciousness-arises-006d4b)
- [AI cannot save you from unclear thinking; it only makes unclear thinking run faster.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-cannot-save-you-from-unclear-39c822)
- [Standard word processors are poorly suited for complex, long-form writing.](https://korrents.com/k/standard-word-processors-are-poorly-suited-1de949)
- [The purpose of a creative work environment is to produce ideas that would not otherwise have occurred to you.](https://korrents.com/k/the-purpose-of-a-creative-work-51734b)
- [Watchmakers today would build GPS-synced, solar-charged smartwatches, just as watchmakers in the 1800s used the best technology available to them.](https://korrents.com/k/watchmakers-today-would-build-gps-synced-solar-charged-9faca4)
- [Preferring iPhones for their blue message bubbles is a matter of social conditioning rather than the phones' actual merits.](https://korrents.com/k/preferring-iphones-for-their-blue-message-baa2ff)
- [Most consumers prefer cheaper and faster access to media](https://korrents.com/k/most-consumers-prefer-cheaper-and-faster-41e913)
- [Better a dubious idea executed with life than one dutifully thought through; a work's faults can make it compelling](https://korrents.com/k/better-a-dubious-idea-executed-with-cd72cf)
- [Whether a piece of work is alive is the fundamental question to ask of it, though not the only one](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-piece-of-work-is-e288d8)
- [Spending money does not generate happiness.](https://korrents.com/k/spending-money-does-not-generate-happiness-119d9f)
- [Once invested wealth grows faster than one's spending, all further spending becomes effectively costless.](https://korrents.com/k/once-invested-wealth-grows-faster-than-660e8f)
- [The desire to work rather than be idle may be an evolved human trait.](https://korrents.com/k/the-desire-to-work-rather-than-9892c9)
- [People pursue hobbies largely for value that can't be easily monetized.](https://korrents.com/k/people-pursue-hobbies-largely-for-value-755f91)
- [Every hobby community has profitable auxiliary niches serving needs its members can't fill themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/every-hobby-community-has-profitable-auxiliary-1df980)
- [Solving your community's problems, not just doing your passion for pay, is the path to a profitable business.](https://korrents.com/k/solving-your-community-s-problems-not-c8485a)
- [Even very simple, easily enumerated computer programs commonly produce extremely rich and complex behavior.](https://korrents.com/k/even-very-simple-easily-enumerated-computer-8fd02f)
- [Aging is neglected not for technical reasons but because it is not yet socially classified as a disease.](https://korrents.com/k/aging-is-neglected-not-for-technical-d00d14)
- [The areas worth working on are the ones with a social blind spot around them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-areas-worth-working-on-are-a234dd)
- [Medicine needs an ambulance of the future: a way to pause a dying patient's biological time until the cure for their disease arrives.](https://korrents.com/k/medicine-needs-an-ambulance-of-the-0e3e07)
- [What will limit medical hibernation is not the technology but the social cost -- you cannot take the people around you with you.](https://korrents.com/k/what-will-limit-medical-hibernation-is-dba8e8)
- [Cryopreservation is tractable because ice formation is a probabilistic process you can steer, not a threshold that flips.](https://korrents.com/k/cryopreservation-is-tractable-because-ice-formation-093d2e)
- [We already reversibly cryopreserve whole human bodies, at the few-hundred-cell stage, so the open question is scale and not possibility.](https://korrents.com/k/we-already-reversibly-cryopreserve-whole-human-c52346)
- [In cryopreservation you can buy down biological difficulty with better engineering, which is not true of most problems in biology.](https://korrents.com/k/in-cryopreservation-you-can-buy-down-156758)
- [Temperature is a rare conceptual lever that lets you use physics to reason usefully about a biological problem.](https://korrents.com/k/temperature-is-a-rare-conceptual-lever-bfc14a)
- [The brain is the one real unknown standing between organ cryopreservation and reversible whole-body preservation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-brain-is-the-one-real-7520f9)
- [Transplant patients regularly lose organs that are already on their way to them, purely because of timing.](https://korrents.com/k/transplant-patients-regularly-lose-organs-that-456768)
- [Organs are among the most precious resources there are, and the system still moves them by putting a surgeon on a chartered jet at the last minute.](https://korrents.com/k/organs-are-among-the-most-precious-fce2b9)
- [Organ matching happens at literally the last minute, so nobody has the time to find the best match.](https://korrents.com/k/organ-matching-happens-at-literally-the-135647)
- [The cruelty of the transplant system is what it does to the patient: waiting for a life-changing surgery with no idea when it will be scheduled.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cruelty-of-the-transplant-system-f0a42d)
- [Whole-body preservation cannot be discussed rationally: people either love it uncritically or fear that taking it seriously will taint them.](https://korrents.com/k/whole-body-preservation-cannot-be-discussed-rationally-0a06e2)
- [Biology is taught as flat triangles and arrows in a textbook, a depiction of the molecular world that makes no conceptual sense.](https://korrents.com/k/biology-is-taught-as-flat-triangles-eb53d2)
- [The key to working effectively with an LLM is giving it a fast, objective way to evaluate its own progress and redirect itself when it's off track.](https://korrents.com/k/the-key-to-working-effectively-with-d26447)
- [Computers execute exactly what you tell them, not necessarily what you meant to tell them.](https://korrents.com/k/computers-execute-exactly-what-you-tell-0c41b1)
- [Practices that make an LLM's work easier to evaluate also tend to benefit the human developers working alongside it.](https://korrents.com/k/practices-that-make-an-llm-s-c2874b)
- [Most products die from accumulation, not from missing features.](https://korrents.com/k/most-products-die-from-accumulation-not-a69f6c)
- [Diagnosing stalled growth has a strict order, because fixing a later problem does nothing while an earlier one is still broken.](https://korrents.com/k/diagnosing-stalled-growth-has-a-strict-398fd8)
- [A cancelling customer already survived an improbable gauntlet to buy, which makes churn an emotional emergency before it is ever a metric.](https://korrents.com/k/a-cancelling-customer-already-survived-an-4600bf)
- [Cancellations always overtake marketing, because cancellations grow automatically with the company while marketing grows only as fast as you can improve it.](https://korrents.com/k/cancellations-always-overtake-marketing-because-cancellation-9803d7)
- [Every subscription business has a hard ceiling on its size: new customers per month divided by the cancellation rate.](https://korrents.com/k/every-subscription-business-has-a-hard-e5f638)
- [Asking a leaving customer what made them cancel, rather than why they cancelled, gets materially better answers.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-a-leaving-customer-what-made-afcfa3)
- [A cancellation-reason drop-down measures list order rather than reasons: randomise the options and every one of them gets picked equally.](https://korrents.com/k/a-cancellation-reason-drop-down-measures-list-order-81e3b7)
- ["Too expensive" is never the real reason a customer cancels, because they already decided the price was acceptable when they bought.](https://korrents.com/k/too-expensive-is-never-the-real-3d0ff2)
- [Complex systems do not have one root cause, so root-cause analysis is the wrong thing to be doing.](https://korrents.com/k/complex-systems-do-not-have-one-dac60e)
- [Most cancellation happens in a customer's first days, so small onboarding changes have effects that later changes never have.](https://korrents.com/k/most-cancellation-happens-in-a-customer-536f9b)
- [An LLM is an averaging machine, so it is good at themes and bad at exactly the un-average details that make customer research actionable.](https://korrents.com/k/an-llm-is-an-averaging-machine-a524f6)
- [Raising prices usually leaves signups unchanged or increases them, which is not what the textbook demand curve predicts.](https://korrents.com/k/raising-prices-usually-leaves-signups-unchanged-de5a70)
- [Price selects the market: a serious buyer reads a low price as evidence that the product cannot possibly be good enough.](https://korrents.com/k/price-selects-the-market-a-serious-861995)
- [Price is not the number on the page; the structure and the positioning are as much a part of pricing as the number is.](https://korrents.com/k/price-is-not-the-number-on-82e5e0)
- [Selling a saving caps what you can charge; selling more of what the buyer already values raises that cap by an order of magnitude.](https://korrents.com/k/selling-a-saving-caps-what-you-172825)
- [No software company reaches real scale with net revenue retention below one hundred percent, because cancellation simply wins.](https://korrents.com/k/no-software-company-reaches-real-scale-aec4a5)
- [Net revenue retention flatters a business, because a percentage lost always needs a larger percentage gained to get back to even.](https://korrents.com/k/net-revenue-retention-flatters-a-business-3e2eef)
- [Marketing channels do not settle onto a plateau; after the S-curve they sag, which is why the shape is an elephant and not an S.](https://korrents.com/k/marketing-channels-do-not-settle-onto-30cc5f)
- [Adding one more feature and asking marketing to push harder will not restart growth, even when the feature is great.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-one-more-feature-and-asking-25c6dd)
- [Growing forever is not automatically the goal; a company that has hit its limit can choose to maximise profit instead of revenue.](https://korrents.com/k/growing-forever-is-not-automatically-the-0b892a)
- ["If you're not growing, you're dying" is truer of the person than of the company.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-re-not-growing-you-5e76ee)
- [Expected value cannot decide the once-only decisions, because you know neither the probabilities nor the shape of their curves.](https://korrents.com/k/expected-value-cannot-decide-the-once-only-342ef9)
- [Writing on a schedule is worth less than only publishing what is the best you can do, even if that means one post a year.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-on-a-schedule-is-worth-4b7cdc)
- [A/B testing cannot touch anything that actually decides a company: not strategy, not vision, not insight.](https://korrents.com/k/a-b-testing-cannot-touch-anything-f80e35)
- [Every question about stalled growth reduces to whether the customer is actually getting the value you promised.](https://korrents.com/k/every-question-about-stalled-growth-reduces-2e4b78)
- [Despite the internet disrupting other media industries, book sales continue to grow.](https://korrents.com/k/despite-the-internet-disrupting-other-media-447231)
- [One well-made garment outperforms multiple seasons of trend-driven fashion purchases.](https://korrents.com/k/one-well-made-garment-outperforms-multiple-seasons-6351f1)
- [Suffering is not an interruption of a good life but the ground the good things grow out of.](https://korrents.com/k/suffering-is-not-an-interruption-of-120b52)
- [What a message-recipient considers important is too idiosyncratic to be captured by generic heuristics like "all receipts go to FYI."](https://korrents.com/k/what-a-message-recipient-considers-important-is-6c4c29)
- [Open-source text embedding models run well enough on consumer hardware to be practical for real tasks.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-text-embedding-models-run-well-6f846c)
- [A personalized classifier needs several hundred labeled examples before its predictions become reliable.](https://korrents.com/k/a-personalized-classifier-needs-several-hundred-448bfc)
- [Over-indexing on small daily improvements causes a business to miss bigger, more impactful opportunities.](https://korrents.com/k/over-indexing-on-small-daily-improvements-causes-34fae1)
- [Direct communication with customers matters more than small, incremental product tweaks.](https://korrents.com/k/direct-communication-with-customers-matters-more-2c35b4)
- [Frequent conversations with customers continually correct a founder's mistaken assumptions about the market.](https://korrents.com/k/frequent-conversations-with-customers-continually-correct-ca9feb)
- [Alignment of today's models is going well enough to look solvable, while aligning models we can no longer understand remains unsolved.](https://korrents.com/k/alignment-of-today-s-models-is-511d5e)
- [Simple training interventions turned out to be very effective at steering models towards aligned behaviour.](https://korrents.com/k/simple-training-interventions-turned-out-to-75f94d)
- [We do not have to align superintelligence directly; we have to build a human-level automated alignment researcher we trust more than ourselves.](https://korrents.com/k/we-do-not-have-to-align-49adb5)
- [Recursive self-improvement has already started, because AI research itself is now being automated.](https://korrents.com/k/recursive-self-improvement-has-already-started-because-99cf19)
- [Making a capable model malicious is about as easy as making it aligned, because the same levers work in both directions.](https://korrents.com/k/making-a-capable-model-malicious-is-60c8e2)
- [A federal officer can violate the Fourth Amendment and the victim still have no way to sue, because the Bivens remedy has been cut back to almost nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/a-federal-officer-can-violate-the-e5d1af)
- [The original remedy for an unlawful government entry was an ordinary trespass suit against the officer, and losing it took the teeth out of the Fourth Amendment.](https://korrents.com/k/the-original-remedy-for-an-unlawful-9325b6)
- [An AI coding assistant's tendency to infer what a user means rather than exactly what they typed is both its greatest strength and the reason it is hard to trust.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-coding-assistant-s-tendency-3f2481)
- [Being rude to a language model makes it perform worse.](https://korrents.com/k/being-rude-to-a-language-model-ce9266)
- [AI coding tools perform better on greenfield projects than on existing codebases, though the advantage is smaller than commonly assumed.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-coding-tools-perform-better-on-3c4cea)
- [Ours may be the first generation of humans that does not die](https://korrents.com/k/ours-may-be-the-first-generation-69c251)
- [Sleep is the highest-return health behaviour there is, and everything else — exercise, diet, self-control — rests on it.](https://korrents.com/k/sleep-is-the-highest-return-health-behaviour-bcdd95)
- [The single most effective free thing anyone can do for their health is to lower their resting heart rate before bed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-single-most-effective-free-thing-5d79de)
- [Health should be a person's top life priority, above the things they currently rank ahead of it.](https://korrents.com/k/health-should-be-a-person-s-cde09e)
- [The health results people attribute to expensive exotic therapies come from a small number of ordinary habits done without exception.](https://korrents.com/k/the-health-results-people-attribute-to-bd3984)
- [Decades of bad health decisions can be substantially undone, whatever age you start from.](https://korrents.com/k/decades-of-bad-health-decisions-can-9bee90)
- [Diet camps such as keto, paleo, carnivore and plant-based are identities rather than answers, and what to eat should follow the evidence instead.](https://korrents.com/k/diet-camps-such-as-keto-paleo-9e1a2d)
- [Six hours of exercise a week, split between strength, cardio, flexibility and balance, is the right dose for a healthy adult.](https://korrents.com/k/six-hours-of-exercise-a-week-773c3b)
- [A self-destructive habit is best broken by naming the version of yourself that has it and taking its authority to decide away.](https://korrents.com/k/a-self-destructive-habit-is-best-broken-33c513)
- [Nobody actually decides on the facts -- emotion decides and facts rationalise, so you find whatever truth is useful to you.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-actually-decides-on-the-facts-5321a1)
- [One good story outweighs a mountain of evidence, because most emotions cannot be argued with.](https://korrents.com/k/one-good-story-outweighs-a-mountain-74f749)
- [Facts deployed as weapons in an argument can win the exchange without settling the disagreement.](https://korrents.com/k/facts-deployed-as-weapons-in-an-ac849e)
- [Design deliverables are no longer static assets or guidelines but tools: custom software that generates on-brand assets on demand.](https://korrents.com/k/design-deliverables-are-no-longer-static-3ace2f)
- [Floating-point printing and parsing algorithms are converging toward an optimal solution.](https://korrents.com/k/floating-point-printing-and-parsing-algorithms-are-ade6eb)
- [Good documentation is produced by effort, not by tooling that keeps code and docs together](https://korrents.com/k/good-documentation-is-produced-by-effort-b7fab9)
- [Careful step-by-step thinking is a property of the developer, not something a tool or framework can enforce](https://korrents.com/k/careful-step-by-step-thinking-is-a-property-a236b3)
- [A malicious or broken package is typically caught and pulled or patched within about a week of being published.](https://korrents.com/k/a-malicious-or-broken-package-is-57d7a3)
- [The delay imposed by a dependency cooldown gives registries and security researchers time to catch and remove malicious packages before they reach downstream users.](https://korrents.com/k/the-delay-imposed-by-a-dependency-6324fe)
- [There will always be early adopters who update immediately, acting as canaries for problems in newly released software.](https://korrents.com/k/there-will-always-be-early-adopters-f4499a)
- [Drug discovery has become less efficient over time despite continued technological progress.](https://korrents.com/k/drug-discovery-has-become-less-efficient-7ed6d0)
- [China's more permissive posture toward testing experimental medicines threatens the competitiveness of the American biotech industry.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-more-permissive-posture-toward-c75218)
- [Cancer can usefully be understood as a disease of corrupted or lost genomic information.](https://korrents.com/k/cancer-can-usefully-be-understood-as-459590)
- [Advice to never give up becomes dangerous once a venture passes an unknowable tipping point.](https://korrents.com/k/advice-to-never-give-up-becomes-af8086)
- [Successful founders are distinguished by knowing what to give up and when, not by refusing to ever quit.](https://korrents.com/k/successful-founders-are-distinguished-by-knowing-0437af)
- [AI companies should not be the ones certifying their own safety and security practices](https://korrents.com/k/ai-companies-should-not-be-the-9e8063)
- [AI currently receives far less independent scrutiny than other technologies capable of comparably deadly single incidents](https://korrents.com/k/ai-currently-receives-far-less-independent-5ecc3e)
- [Public scrutiny of a new technology tends to jump only after a deadly incident, otherwise rising slowly over decades](https://korrents.com/k/public-scrutiny-of-a-new-technology-30a9f8)
- [Local-first software will not become the dominant architecture, and that is an acceptable outcome.](https://korrents.com/k/local-first-software-will-not-become-the-0868f0)
- [Making programming easier for more people has caused software to become bloated, slow and hard to manage.](https://korrents.com/k/making-programming-easier-for-more-people-5150d9)
- [Frontend-backend communication should be mediated through a shared database rather than a custom API.](https://korrents.com/k/frontend-backend-communication-should-be-mediated-through-b13481)
- [Relaxing rigor is a valid strategy when working in an experimental mindset.](https://korrents.com/k/relaxing-rigor-is-a-valid-strategy-b71f62)
- [AI has changed software development enough that some old assumptions about it no longer hold.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-changed-software-development-enough-faf937)
- [The original Cuisinart, with its two paddle buttons and clear affordances, was peak interface design, and it has been downhill from there.](https://korrents.com/k/the-original-cuisinart-with-its-two-474ede)
- [When applications can generate capabilities on demand, a product's features are what users ask for in the next session, not what shipped in the last release.](https://korrents.com/k/when-applications-can-generate-capabilities-on-768767)
- [Higher male global TB burden may be in large part due to population-scale factors such as employment, social contacts and health-seeking behaviours.](https://korrents.com/k/higher-male-global-tb-burden-may-774959)
- [Justifying cruelty toward another person requires first reducing them to an abstraction rather than a full human being.](https://korrents.com/k/justifying-cruelty-toward-another-person-requires-ba31a2)
- [A person's death, more than their life, is what turns them into a viral, revered symbol.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-s-death-more-than-808fa3)
- [Since life is not a narrative, nothing in real life can truly be a cliché.](https://korrents.com/k/since-life-is-not-a-narrative-f01e18)
- [People are optimistic about their own lives and pessimistic about the world, because they judge their life on everything and the world on the last few headlines.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-optimistic-about-their-own-6115ef)
- [Blanket fatalism about the world is unhelpful to anyone who wants to improve it.](https://korrents.com/k/blanket-fatalism-about-the-world-is-7e82eb)
- [Knowing that poverty and child mortality have actually fallen is what makes people think the future can improve.](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-that-poverty-and-child-mortality-b8c42f)
- [People consistently underestimate how many of their compatriots believe in climate change and want action on it.](https://korrents.com/k/people-consistently-underestimate-how-many-of-ec6247)
- [The standard narrative of agriculture as a sudden civilizational fall oversimplifies a far more gradual, complicated history.](https://korrents.com/k/the-standard-narrative-of-agriculture-as-48c558)
- [There was a long, unexplained gap between the first domestication of crops and the emergence of the first agrarian states.](https://korrents.com/k/there-was-a-long-unexplained-gap-820811)
- [There has never been a better time in history for remote work or entrepreneurship.](https://korrents.com/k/there-has-never-been-a-better-4f5022)
- [The traditional path of school, a job, and a house no longer guarantees success.](https://korrents.com/k/the-traditional-path-of-school-a-171e93)
- [By the time an opportunity is widely known and talked about, it's too late to capitalize on it.](https://korrents.com/k/by-the-time-an-opportunity-is-c2c7ea)
- [Social media recommendation algorithms are only partially designed to serve the people using them.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-recommendation-algorithms-are-only-c94e97)
- [Manually configured filtering rules mostly fail because a person's preferences change over time and the rules require ongoing upkeep.](https://korrents.com/k/manually-configured-filtering-rules-mostly-fail-cfd2db)
- [A technological revolution cannot persist without a corresponding change in culture and law.](https://korrents.com/k/a-technological-revolution-cannot-persist-without-d4db41)
- [Changes to elite university admissions policies are a lagging indicator of an elite's decline, not a cause of it.](https://korrents.com/k/changes-to-elite-university-admissions-policies-ab66a3)
- [Past cultures tend to be remembered as they appeared just before their decline, rather than as they existed across their history.](https://korrents.com/k/past-cultures-tend-to-be-remembered-dd6352)
- [Studying what arbitrary computational rules do is a distinct science, separate from computer science and mathematics.](https://korrents.com/k/studying-what-arbitrary-computational-rules-do-939d98)
- [The behavior of the simplest computational rules is permanently foundational, not merely significant for the present.](https://korrents.com/k/the-behavior-of-the-simplest-computational-cdf26c)
- [The behavior of very simple computational rules can require large amounts of obscure mathematics to fully capture.](https://korrents.com/k/the-behavior-of-very-simple-computational-3aa24c)
- [If you can use Effect for TypeScript, you should -- to the point of not starting a new project without it.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-can-use-effect-for-18f01a)
- [When two expert users argue over whether documentation is clear, that debate is unproductive — the way to actually find unclear documentation is to test it on real readers, not to have experts argue about wording.](https://korrents.com/k/when-two-expert-users-argue-over-1ec6c1)
- [AI is software that is not pre-recorded: unlike Excel it generates every token for the first time, every time, which is why it needs factories.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-software-that-is-not-afc1a8)
- [AI is infrastructure on a par with energy and the internet, because every application, company, industry and country uses it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-infrastructure-on-a-par-d1448e)
- [Geoffrey Hinton's prediction that AI would take over radiology came true, and the number of radiologists went up anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/geoffrey-hinton-s-prediction-that-ai-503468)
- [Robots will close a severe and worsening labour shortage rather than take jobs, because ageing economies already cannot find the workers they need.](https://korrents.com/k/robots-will-close-a-severe-and-560d24)
- [A world of a billion robots will need maintenance crews and hubs the way robotaxis already do, creating the largest repair industry on the planet.](https://korrents.com/k/a-world-of-a-billion-robots-498957)
- [No company is anywhere near a single God AI, and no researcher has any reasonable ability to build one.](https://korrents.com/k/no-company-is-anywhere-near-a-cfc644)
- [When CEOs and PhDs describe end-of-the-world scenarios to governments, ask whether the purpose of the narrative is regulation that suffocates startups.](https://korrents.com/k/when-ceos-and-phds-describe-end-of-the-world-bbae90)
- [The first part of safety is that the thing works as advertised, not that nobody can misuse it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-part-of-safety-is-7dedda)
- [Falling AI costs make AI safer rather than more dangerous, because a cheap AI ends up surrounded by millions of other AIs monitoring it.](https://korrents.com/k/falling-ai-costs-make-ai-safer-61a742)
- [DeepSeek's paper was the single most important thing Silicon Valley researchers read in years.](https://korrents.com/k/deepseek-s-paper-was-the-single-93fed1)
- [A competitor six months or a year behind the frontier can stay close, because the cost of AI falls more than tenfold every year.](https://korrents.com/k/a-competitor-six-months-or-a-0cac3c)
- [AI labs will bifurcate into specialities rather than each trying to be good at everything, the way people choose a speciality.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-labs-will-bifurcate-into-specialities-45b2e0)
- [The programmer AI replaces is the one whose purpose is coding itself; an engineer whose purpose is finding problems to solve is not replaceable.](https://korrents.com/k/the-programmer-ai-replaces-is-the-c33569)
- [Digital biology is about to have its ChatGPT moment, on the back of multimodality, long context and synthetic data generation.](https://korrents.com/k/digital-biology-is-about-to-have-7f4a43)
- [Self-driving's next era is reasoning cars that think all the time, breaking an unfamiliar situation down into ones they have seen.](https://korrents.com/k/self-driving-s-next-era-is-reasoning-dbe051)
- [Consumer AI that is right 90% of the time delights people; industrial AI that is right 90% of the time is 100% dissatisfaction.](https://korrents.com/k/consumer-ai-that-is-right-90-60cd40)
- [Wind and solar will not be enough for AI: every form of energy is needed, nuclear and natural gas included.](https://korrents.com/k/wind-and-solar-will-not-be-ffbd4a)
- [Decoupling the United States from China is naive: the closer you look, the more deeply coupled the two countries turn out to be.](https://korrents.com/k/decoupling-the-united-states-from-china-90e201)
- [No country in the world contributes more to open source than China, and American startups are built on what it gives away.](https://korrents.com/k/no-country-in-the-world-contributes-5159e6)
- [There is no AI bubble on the demand side: the shortage of computing capacity is global, and spans every company and industry.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-ai-bubble-on-24fcab)
- [The societal turmoil of recent years will not ease in 2026 — it will intensify.](https://korrents.com/k/the-societal-turmoil-of-recent-years-1722a4)
- [A consumer fraud dispute is decided by a support agent in about three minutes, not by anything resembling a trial.](https://korrents.com/k/a-consumer-fraud-dispute-is-decided-4953f9)
- [Anything marketed as an alternative to a checking account should fall inside Regulation E’s consumer fraud protections.](https://korrents.com/k/anything-marketed-as-an-alternative-to-33f62a)
- [Companies should offer dual career tracks so product managers can advance without becoming people managers.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-should-offer-dual-career-tracks-ba369c)
- [Swearing at or being rude to an AI assistant makes it perform worse than treating it respectfully.](https://korrents.com/k/swearing-at-or-being-rude-to-87d8f1)
- [Becoming productive with large language models is not easy, despite what many advocates claim.](https://korrents.com/k/becoming-productive-with-large-language-models-803e2b)
- [AI agents are capable of producing production-grade contributions to real-life code bases](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-are-capable-of-producing-fb0270)
- [The leaps of improvement that AI agents took in 2025 is incredible](https://korrents.com/k/the-leaps-of-improvement-that-ai-fd1fdc)
- [Most of society’s problems run downstream of housing affordability.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-society-s-problems-run-34ead9)
- [The right response to housing costs is to build millions more homes as fast as possible.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-response-to-housing-costs-00077f)
- [The internet is unusual among universal technologies in having made about as much worse as it made better.](https://korrents.com/k/the-internet-is-unusual-among-universal-9acdf6)
- [Cycles are hard to predict because forecasters extrapolate in straight lines and cannot see the forces undoing the present.](https://korrents.com/k/cycles-are-hard-to-predict-because-b36d9e)
- [When most people expect a top-five-per-cent outcome, mass disappointment is guaranteed.](https://korrents.com/k/when-most-people-expect-a-top-five-per-cent-6953a1)
- [Early-2000s software development tooling was mostly bad, despite nostalgia for that era.](https://korrents.com/k/early-2000s-software-development-tooling-was-mostly-3b9908)
- [No belief is true: the moment something is proven it stops being a belief and becomes a fact.](https://korrents.com/k/no-belief-is-true-the-moment-3641ba)
- [Anything introduced with “I believe” is, by that fact alone, not something everyone can see to be true.](https://korrents.com/k/anything-introduced-with-i-believe-is-0df096)
- [Human-interface design principles from decades ago remain valid because human cognition hasn't changed.](https://korrents.com/k/human-interface-design-principles-from-decades-ago-70f017)
- [There is no good icon metaphor for every possible action, no matter how much effort goes into finding one.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-good-icon-metaphor-b81eb5)
- [If every element in an interface is marked as distinct, none of them actually stand out.](https://korrents.com/k/if-every-element-in-an-interface-5b2b7a)
- [Boat owners understand better than anyone how often boats break down and how expensive they are, and keep owning them anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/boat-owners-understand-better-than-anyone-6adfda)
- [Being one short of a round-number milestone makes people fixate on completing it rather than on the milestone's actual value.](https://korrents.com/k/being-one-short-of-a-round-number-f6017e)
- [With AI, the constraint on making software has shifted from technical ability to clarity of intention.](https://korrents.com/k/with-ai-the-constraint-on-making-7bb86d)
- [AI could displace half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years, even while it accelerates economic growth.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-could-displace-half-of-all-36af75)
- [Because AI matches the general cognitive profile of humans, it will also be good at the new jobs that would ordinarily replace the ones it automates.](https://korrents.com/k/because-ai-matches-the-general-cognitive-528e26)
- [Labour markets will eventually recover from AI, but the speed of the transition makes the short term unusually painful compared with past technologies.](https://korrents.com/k/labour-markets-will-eventually-recover-from-b6d47f)
- [Anthropic now uses mechanistic interpretability techniques to audit new models for deception and scheming before releasing them.](https://korrents.com/k/anthropic-now-uses-mechanistic-interpretability-techniques-63ee9f)
- [The go-to-market plays all still work; it is the playbooks built around them that have stopped working.](https://korrents.com/k/the-go-to-market-plays-all-still-work-e9894d)
- [AI is not taking the jobs people wanted; it is taking the jobs nobody wanted and the careers of everyone who is merely average.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-not-taking-the-jobs-c318be)
- [The email-based sales development rep will be ninety percent displaced by AI within a year.](https://korrents.com/k/the-email-based-sales-development-rep-will-7617d6)
- [Having a human qualify inbound leads is already obsolete, and the role should be extinct within a year.](https://korrents.com/k/having-a-human-qualify-inbound-leads-0476f9)
- [AI will not give every salesperson superpowers; it will give the best ones superpowers and make the mediocre ones more mediocre.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-not-give-every-salesperson-d70355)
- [Almost nobody should build their own AI go-to-market tools; buy them, the way you would buy any other software.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-nobody-should-build-their-own-88540d)
- [AI sales agents do not work out of the box; the training is the product.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-sales-agents-do-not-work-370a9d)
- [Choosing an AI vendor on features is the wrong criterion: the best software with nobody to help you train it is the wrong purchase for almost everyone.](https://korrents.com/k/choosing-an-ai-vendor-on-features-beb869)
- [A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI.](https://korrents.com/k/a-badly-written-ai-outbound-email-8d08e0)
- [Recipients do not care whether a sales email was written by an AI, so there is no point disclosing or disguising it.](https://korrents.com/k/recipients-do-not-care-whether-a-861eff)
- [The bar an AI go-to-market agent has to clear is lower than people think, because it only has to beat the average rep.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bar-an-ai-go-to-market-agent-5899d1)
- [Running a business on AI agents is more work than running it on people, not less.](https://korrents.com/k/running-a-business-on-ai-agents-2df85a)
- [The real cost of an agent workforce is that it never stops: agents work nights, weekends and holidays, and somebody has to review all of it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-cost-of-an-agent-2d5b6d)
- [The person who orchestrates a company's AI agents has to be promoted from inside, and it will not be someone from sales.](https://korrents.com/k/the-person-who-orchestrates-a-company-0c3f38)
- [In many software categories more than half of all prospects are now in market at once, against a historical three to five percent.](https://korrents.com/k/in-many-software-categories-more-than-ebd750)
- [AI is raising what a single sales rep is expected to produce by an order of magnitude.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-raising-what-a-single-30e968)
- [You need far less scale than you think for AI sales agents to pay for themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/you-need-far-less-scale-than-5d25cf)
- [The next constraint on AI adoption is not what the agents can do but how many of them a company can absorb.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-constraint-on-ai-adoption-1300ad)
- [The forward-deployed engineer inverts the old sales-engineer model: their first job is the customer's success, not supporting the reps.](https://korrents.com/k/the-forward-deployed-engineer-inverts-the-old-2407d3)
- [AI will leave the world needing more go-to-market people than ever, because the winners grow faster than the efficiency gains.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-leave-the-world-needing-62019b)
- [Being a people person is no longer a sufficient qualification for a sales job.](https://korrents.com/k/being-a-people-person-is-no-7c8c8b)
- [Everything closes at a higher rate in person, and tech sales is automating anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-closes-at-a-higher-rate-df248f)
- [The way to find where AI belongs in your company is to go through your own product anonymously and see which part makes you cry.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-find-where-ai-fcc155)
- [It is still early in AI go-to-market: the markets have not hardened and the good tools do not exist yet.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-still-early-in-ai-5c51b0)
- [A robotaxi that still needs remote human help loses the cost advantage that motivated it, which pushes out when it can scale.](https://korrents.com/k/a-robotaxi-that-still-needs-remote-056a45)
- [Tesla's robotaxi service is a facade rather than a real driverless service, and it is not on a path to becoming one.](https://korrents.com/k/tesla-s-robotaxi-service-is-a-a034a1)
- [Most of the companies now selling a transport technology will quietly disappear, and the survivors will redefine what they are doing without renaming it.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-companies-now-selling-4fd7c5)
- [Habits stick because every repetition casts a vote for an identity, not because of the outcome any single repetition produces.](https://korrents.com/k/habits-stick-because-every-repetition-casts-ec78ba)
- [Belief and behavior run in both directions, so the more reliable way to change what someone believes about themselves is to act first.](https://korrents.com/k/belief-and-behavior-run-in-both-f29da6)
- [The tighter someone clings to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it, so identity drives change and then blocks the next one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-tighter-someone-clings-to-an-15ceb4)
- [Behavior is governed by the surroundings, so a good habit only holds when it is the path of least resistance in the rooms a person occupies.](https://korrents.com/k/behavior-is-governed-by-the-surroundings-1a1e67)
- [A small amount of friction is enough to reshape a behavior, because most wants are not strong enough to survive a minor inconvenience.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-amount-of-friction-is-fdf3d0)
- [Habits are built by making a behavior obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying, and broken by inverting each of those four.](https://korrents.com/k/habits-are-built-by-making-a-68e9f9)
- [A habit is best understood as a recurring solution to a recurring problem in a person's environment.](https://korrents.com/k/a-habit-is-best-understood-as-0decc8)
- [The cost of a good habit falls in the present and the cost of a bad habit falls in the future, which is what separates the two.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cost-of-a-good-habit-4d1f35)
- [A habit only survives difficulty if the person enjoys it, which makes enjoyment a better predictor of persistence than discipline.](https://korrents.com/k/a-habit-only-survives-difficulty-if-97918c)
- [A habit has to be established before it can be improved, so standardizing a behavior comes before optimizing it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-habit-has-to-be-established-5e3f44)
- [Effort that produces no visible improvement is being stored rather than wasted, because results arrive at a threshold instead of steadily.](https://korrents.com/k/effort-that-produces-no-visible-improvement-47c84b)
- [Small changes only compound when they are oriented toward a larger outcome; otherwise they evaporate rather than accumulate.](https://korrents.com/k/small-changes-only-compound-when-they-42076d)
- [Intensity produces a good story while consistency produces progress, and only consistency belongs to how a person actually lives.](https://korrents.com/k/intensity-produces-a-good-story-while-a2296d)
- [The reliable method is to run many small experiments, commit fully to whatever works, and keep at it until it stops working.](https://korrents.com/k/the-reliable-method-is-to-run-cf184a)
- [Working harder cannot beat working on a better thing, so out-thinking someone should count as part of out-working them.](https://korrents.com/k/working-harder-cannot-beat-working-on-cee6b5)
- [When accuracy and belonging conflict, most people take the belief that keeps them accepted by their community.](https://korrents.com/k/when-accuracy-and-belonging-conflict-most-fda613)
- [The brain cannot process more than one source of pain at a time, so a stronger pain masks a weaker one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-brain-cannot-process-more-than-0d3e5e)
- [Stating your objectives out loud is the best way to actually meet them.](https://korrents.com/k/stating-your-objectives-out-loud-is-b0c6e1)
- [China trails the United States in AI capability, but only by a small margin rather than years.](https://korrents.com/k/china-trails-the-united-states-in-4c73b5)
- [Chinese technological success has become the rule rather than the exception.](https://korrents.com/k/chinese-technological-success-has-become-the-4591ce)
- [Silicon Valley's intolerance of dissent functions as a kind of soft Leninism.](https://korrents.com/k/silicon-valley-s-intolerance-of-dissent-b4874b)
- [MCP may turn out to be a one-year wonder, because coding agents that can run arbitrary shell commands make Bash the best general-purpose tool interface.](https://korrents.com/k/mcp-may-turn-out-to-be-7f1a64)
- [Running coding agents without approval prompts is a normalization-of-deviance risk: the fact that it has not caused a disaster yet is itself the problem.](https://korrents.com/k/running-coding-agents-without-approval-prompts-1c16a6)
- [The right amount of work for a parent is somewhere between doing none and doing everything, not at either extreme.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-amount-of-work-for-93e370)
- [Games that don't offer difficulty controls are outdated design.](https://korrents.com/k/games-that-don-t-offer-difficulty-224302)
- [Games that only let players save at fixed save points are outdated design.](https://korrents.com/k/games-that-only-let-players-save-57f226)
- [Adding more content to a sequel does not automatically improve the experience.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-more-content-to-a-sequel-a75a91)
- [A tool's speed comes primarily from its design decisions rather than the programming language it is written in.](https://korrents.com/k/a-tool-s-speed-comes-primarily-e0d750)
- [Rewriting software from scratch gives developers the freedom to try techniques they might not otherwise attempt.](https://korrents.com/k/rewriting-software-from-scratch-gives-developers-5d3f90)
- [Coding agents running autonomously for days should be expected to become a reality within a year.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-agents-running-autonomously-for-days-60fc63)
- [Innovation happens as a continuous stream each year rather than as sporadic breakthroughs driven by chance.](https://korrents.com/k/innovation-happens-as-a-continuous-stream-a05dd1)
- [The pace of medical innovation can be sped up or slowed down by policy, funding and institutional choices.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pace-of-medical-innovation-can-1ef174)
- [The best days of medicine are still ahead, but only if people choose to make them happen.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-days-of-medicine-are-cd1c83)
- [New Year's goals are merely the path toward a person's underlying purpose, not the destination itself.](https://korrents.com/k/new-year-s-goals-are-merely-8b7cae)
- [Every person has a purpose in life, and each person gets to define what that purpose is.](https://korrents.com/k/every-person-has-a-purpose-in-e13798)
- [Constant social media bombardment harms people without them realizing it](https://korrents.com/k/constant-social-media-bombardment-harms-people-ad92e4)
- [Creators of enduring, influential objects can still end up completely forgotten](https://korrents.com/k/creators-of-enduring-influential-objects-can-edb6fe)
- [People should periodically expose themselves to completely unfamiliar experiences](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-periodically-expose-themselves-to-b094fe)
- [Cheap labour is not the real reason the world's goods are made in China.](https://korrents.com/k/cheap-labour-is-not-the-real-43631c)
- [Human workers will still be doing manufacturing alongside the machines for decades, so robots and AI will not settle the question of where things get made.](https://korrents.com/k/human-workers-will-still-be-doing-9a0984)
- [Chinese factory workers are more motivated than American ones because what they want has been getting cheaper against their wages while American housing has not.](https://korrents.com/k/chinese-factory-workers-are-more-motivated-e5ff61)
- [Rebuilding American manufacturing is a decades-long educational and cultural project, not something tariffs can do.](https://korrents.com/k/rebuilding-american-manufacturing-is-a-decades-long-2b9476)
- [LLM intelligence should not be understood through an animal analogy; it is a different kind of entity altogether](https://korrents.com/k/llm-intelligence-should-not-be-understood-0beb50)
- [Choosing money over meaning burns you out and produces worse results](https://korrents.com/k/choosing-money-over-meaning-burns-you-886fc5)
- [Shadow DOM breaks accessibility in a number of ways.](https://korrents.com/k/shadow-dom-breaks-accessibility-in-a-118fd3)
- [The United States is capable of creating large, effective, pro-consumer regulatory regimes, at least in some cases.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-is-capable-of-43bad8)
- [People who write professionally about money often misunderstand alternative financial services because they do not belong to the social class those services serve.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-write-professionally-about-money-e92b29)
- [Call centers are incentivized to minimize call time and repeat calls rather than to actually resolve a customer's problem.](https://korrents.com/k/call-centers-are-incentivized-to-minimize-61dd35)
- [Any change to how Cloudflare serves traffic should get the same tested caution as a change to its software.](https://korrents.com/k/any-change-to-how-cloudflare-serves-a03de1)
- [Near-instant global configuration deploys are useful but rarely needed.](https://korrents.com/k/near-instant-global-configuration-deploys-are-useful-5399d4)
- [Every interface between critical services should assume failure will occur and handle it as reasonably as possible.](https://korrents.com/k/every-interface-between-critical-services-should-2b7ea8)
- [A service that reads a corrupted configuration should fall back on validated defaults rather than panic.](https://korrents.com/k/a-service-that-reads-a-corrupted-4600a0)
- [Strict access controls are right for a security company, but they slowed Cloudflare down when speed mattered most.](https://korrents.com/k/strict-access-controls-are-right-for-0a86ed)
- [Resilience work is best delivered as iterative improvements, not one big-bang change at the end.](https://korrents.com/k/resilience-work-is-best-delivered-as-65339f)
- [If India holds its current growth rate it will be a developed country within about two decades.](https://korrents.com/k/if-india-holds-its-current-growth-1bf939)
- [India’s government has shown it can push pro-growth reform through over the objections of incumbents.](https://korrents.com/k/india-s-government-has-shown-it-da55bf)
- [Most manufacturing miracles began with women moving from farms to cities into labour-intensive light industry.](https://korrents.com/k/most-manufacturing-miracles-began-with-women-9840a7)
- [Different forms of government map closely onto different corporate governance structures because both arise from the same transaction-cost logic.](https://korrents.com/k/different-forms-of-government-map-closely-b7cf4b)
- [Oil-rich Gulf monarchies are effectively post-scarcity societies, with institutions adapted to match that condition.](https://korrents.com/k/oil-rich-gulf-monarchies-are-effectively-post-scarcity-e63abf)
- [The UAE's pursuit of AI and technology reflects a deeper cultural and political affinity with the West rather than with China.](https://korrents.com/k/the-uae-s-pursuit-of-ai-f4cd0a)
- [Good taste in testing code is one of the skills that sets a senior engineer apart.](https://korrents.com/k/good-taste-in-testing-code-is-a99d99)
- [A company's terms of service cannot enlarge or shrink your constitutional privacy rights in either direction.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-s-terms-of-service-94b26f)
- [Whether the Fourth Amendment protects the terms you type into a search engine is a genuinely close question.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-the-fourth-amendment-protects-the-bc3a6a)
- [Aging is normal, but there is an easy way to make it slower in some cases.](https://korrents.com/k/aging-is-normal-but-there-is-2d8646)
- [There is valid science behind testosterone replacement therapy for the right candidate at the right dosage.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-valid-science-behind-testosterone-b0e08c)
- [Eggs and sperm are at their highest viability early in life and decline with age, so people planning to have children later should consider banking them now.](https://korrents.com/k/eggs-and-sperm-are-at-their-916085)
- [The job of a writer is to get the reader into a state of mind where they will follow you anywhere, including into subjects they never knew they wanted.](https://korrents.com/k/the-job-of-a-writer-is-c79d49)
- [Starting from what worked rather than from what failed is a different starting point from almost all journalism, and a journalist who did it would be accused of hagiography.](https://korrents.com/k/starting-from-what-worked-rather-than-6ed70a)
- [An audience is not buying the subject you cover; it is buying your interest in the subject.](https://korrents.com/k/an-audience-is-not-buying-the-151bef)
- [Hollywood will woo you with its enthusiasm and then take you down a rabbit hole where you spend years of your life and have nothing to show for it.](https://korrents.com/k/hollywood-will-woo-you-with-its-3ac73f)
- [A writer's audience does not carry from one book to the next: every book is another startup you have to make happen from scratch.](https://korrents.com/k/a-writer-s-audience-does-not-1cde0a)
- [The best sign that a subject is worth writing about is that you are interested in it and nobody else is.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-sign-that-a-subject-90fcd5)
- [An audience disengages the moment it knows nothing can go wrong, which is why a speech read off the page is dead on arrival.](https://korrents.com/k/an-audience-disengages-the-moment-it-0e29ca)
- [Taking notes by hand is a filter, and recording an interview removes the one filter that decides what is worth keeping.](https://korrents.com/k/taking-notes-by-hand-is-a-d58e67)
- [You never call a source uninformed: you call knowing everything already known, and then ask for what has not been said.](https://korrents.com/k/you-never-call-a-source-uninformed-339223)
- [Good reporting is being the world's best student: gather everything before making judgments, and make people want to teach you.](https://korrents.com/k/good-reporting-is-being-the-world-036543)
- [The aim of a story is to be so complete that once it has been told there is nothing left to say.](https://korrents.com/k/the-aim-of-a-story-is-22ba57)
- [Until you know how a story ends you cannot know how it begins, and that is why a book with material but no shape cannot be written.](https://korrents.com/k/until-you-know-how-a-story-25560f)
- [If you take a deadline deadly seriously and refuse ever to violate it, your mind simply finishes the work when it needs to be finished.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-take-a-deadline-deadly-5fdf24)
- [In creative work there is a real benefit to not following the financial incentives, and to creating scarcity for the sake of quality rather than for its own sake.](https://korrents.com/k/in-creative-work-there-is-a-d0ad70)
- [You should only start a book you believe is going to be great, whatever it turns out to be.](https://korrents.com/k/you-should-only-start-a-book-02a886)
- [An athlete who moves his family across the country for a few million dollars more is trading a life that loves him for money that will not improve it.](https://korrents.com/k/an-athlete-who-moves-his-family-7e60f8)
- [Raw pageview or reader counts are not actionable information for a writer's editorial decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/raw-pageview-or-reader-counts-are-02ff56)
- [Writing to chase popularity rather than genuine interest corrupts a creator's work.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-to-chase-popularity-rather-than-2298ae)
- [LLMs love code with explicit inputs and outputs and no side effects, so the functional programmers were right.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-love-code-with-explicit-inputs-d166ce)
- [Encouraging people with diabetes to try ketogenic diets and minimise drugs gives the most benefit to the most people; long-term drug therapy is the bigger worry.](https://korrents.com/k/encouraging-people-with-diabetes-to-try-e62dbd)
- [The genius of writing was the moment somebody realised a picture could stand for a sound rather than for a thing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-genius-of-writing-was-the-e9f9e7)
- [The archaeological record of early writing is misleading, because people across the Middle East were sending each other messages long before the Sumerians.](https://korrents.com/k/the-archaeological-record-of-early-writing-66e5a5)
- [There was writing at Gobekli Tepe, thousands of years before Sumer, and one stamp seal is enough to infer it.](https://korrents.com/k/there-was-writing-at-gobekli-tepe-32f4c8)
- [The Indus Valley people must have written on perishable material; carved stone seals cannot have been all the writing they had.](https://korrents.com/k/the-indus-valley-people-must-have-95d5f0)
- [Inertia is nearly as strong as evolution, and people who talk about progress have no idea of it.](https://korrents.com/k/inertia-is-nearly-as-strong-as-10beed)
- [Assyriology has a built-in assumption that the tablets we have are roughly all there ever was, and it is absurd.](https://korrents.com/k/assyriology-has-a-built-in-assumption-that-d64aff)
- [Our picture of the Sumerians is skewed by the accident of what was dug up, and the people working with skewed material do not realise how skewed it is.](https://korrents.com/k/our-picture-of-the-sumerians-is-90a522)
- [The Babylonians did not destroy Ashurbanipal's library; they carted it home, and what is left at Nineveh is the leftovers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-babylonians-did-not-destroy-ashurbanipal-6b6365)
- [Cuneiform survived three millennia partly because the people who could read it guarded their monopoly, and literacy for all was unthinkable.](https://korrents.com/k/cuneiform-survived-three-millennia-partly-because-68a115)
- [Babylonian omens never meant that A causes B; the diviner could only ever say what might happen.](https://korrents.com/k/babylonian-omens-never-meant-that-a-0c2327)
- [Translating Akkadian statements as certainties when they were possibilities changes the whole meaning of a text.](https://korrents.com/k/translating-akkadian-statements-as-certainties-when-773f59)
- [No word in one language ever precisely equates to a word in another.](https://korrents.com/k/no-word-in-one-language-ever-921cb3)
- [Monotheism was mankind's big mistake, because it brought evil into the world.](https://korrents.com/k/monotheism-was-mankind-s-big-mistake-56cef2)
- [Law, morality, consideration and love do not depend on religion.](https://korrents.com/k/law-morality-consideration-and-love-do-a2ba7c)
- [The Mesopotamians did not believe in their gods and ghosts; they took them for granted, which is a different mechanism entirely.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mesopotamians-did-not-believe-in-422ad5)
- [Religious feeling fluctuates and is usually a response to need, not a steady state of awe.](https://korrents.com/k/religious-feeling-fluctuates-and-is-usually-510755)
- [Genesis and Gilgamesh are not two independent accounts of one flood; one is literarily dependent on the other.](https://korrents.com/k/genesis-and-gilgamesh-are-not-two-cdb0e6)
- [The text of the Hebrew Bible was drawn up in Babylonian exile, to stop the Judean refugees dissolving into Babylonia.](https://korrents.com/k/the-text-of-the-hebrew-bible-c2ce43)
- [The flood stories of the world are not the memory of one global cataclysm.](https://korrents.com/k/the-flood-stories-of-the-world-f56605)
- [The ark was never built; it is a literary construction out of the fact that the people who survived were in boats.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ark-was-never-built-it-c75e66)
- [The noise that made the gods send the flood is a euphemism for overpopulation, and a rather sophisticated Malthusian position.](https://korrents.com/k/the-noise-that-made-the-gods-7bb2e8)
- [A board game conquers the world when chance and strategy are in balance in it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-board-game-conquers-the-world-11d64b)
- [The modern adherence to the electronic universe is disastrous for humans, and reduces the vitality of the human component.](https://korrents.com/k/the-modern-adherence-to-the-electronic-04c535)
- [The people of the ancient world were not less advanced than we are; they were probably indistinguishable from us.](https://korrents.com/k/the-people-of-the-ancient-world-b23e92)
- [Grieving for years after a death is infantile, because everybody was always going to die.](https://korrents.com/k/grieving-for-years-after-a-death-046223)
- [Henry Rawlinson does not deserve to be called the father of Assyriology.](https://korrents.com/k/henry-rawlinson-does-not-deserve-to-4f28cb)
- [The British Museum is a museum of ideas rather than of art, and no other museum in the world has that task.](https://korrents.com/k/the-british-museum-is-a-museum-86151c)
- [Stagnant construction productivity is not an American failure but a worldwide one, and most rich countries that once had it have lost it.](https://korrents.com/k/stagnant-construction-productivity-is-not-an-69c712)
- [Factory-built construction has not raised productivity: the countries that prefabricate most, Sweden and Japan, have had flat construction productivity for decades.](https://korrents.com/k/factory-built-construction-has-not-raised-productivity-c3b7ec)
- [America can copy other countries to reach the frontier of what building already costs elsewhere; nobody knows how to push that frontier forward.](https://korrents.com/k/america-can-copy-other-countries-to-1bc47d)
- [Parents are caught in a collective-action trap over their children and social media, which only a rule binding on everyone can release them from.](https://korrents.com/k/parents-are-caught-in-a-collective-action-19a241)
- [An age limit on social media does not need perfect enforcement to work, because its job is to change the default rather than to stop every child.](https://korrents.com/k/an-age-limit-on-social-media-8f0110)
- [Investors' expectations for market returns over the next decade are shaped mainly by the events of the last few days, not long-term fundamentals.](https://korrents.com/k/investors-expectations-for-market-returns-over-bdea82)
- [The best time to invest is when professional money managers are too fearful to act and the public is gripped by fear and anger.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-time-to-invest-is-fafa65)
- [A governing class needs a political coalition, an economic base, and a set of institutions and customs giving it a culture distinct from the wider country.](https://korrents.com/k/a-governing-class-needs-a-political-19a269)
- [Silicon Valley's old dominant ideology has collapsed and no new one has emerged to replace it.](https://korrents.com/k/silicon-valley-s-old-dominant-ideology-5e4880)
- [For the first time in history it is possible to improve human wellbeing and reduce environmental impact at the same time.](https://korrents.com/k/for-the-first-time-in-history-023004)
- [Humans have never been sustainable: earlier generations had a lower environmental impact and lives that were much worse.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-have-never-been-sustainable-earlier-6de49f)
- [Breaking the trade-off between prosperity and the environment is an opportunity rather than something that will happen on its own.](https://korrents.com/k/breaking-the-trade-off-between-prosperity-and-5936e8)
- [A bubble can only be identified in retrospect, so arguing about whether one is happening now cannot be settled now.](https://korrents.com/k/a-bubble-can-only-be-identified-b3530c)
- [If AI enthusiasm does not produce a bubble on the historical pattern, it will be the first transformative technology that did not.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-enthusiasm-does-not-produce-85d8fa)
- [Transformative technologies reliably attract more investment and infrastructure than they need, and that excess is what speeds their adoption.](https://korrents.com/k/transformative-technologies-reliably-attract-more-investment-b617a0)
- [There is no way to capture a new technology’s upside without being exposed to the losses if the enthusiasm proves excessive.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-way-to-capture-132beb)
- [Leverage in the AI build-out is neither to be applauded nor feared; what matters is how much debt there is and what backs it.](https://korrents.com/k/leverage-in-the-ai-build-out-is-70b2a2)
- [AI may be a replacement for human cognition rather than a tool, which makes it different in kind from earlier technologies.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-may-be-a-replacement-for-a203c3)
- [People cannot choose without comparison, so an AI that hands over one perfect answer will not satisfy them.](https://korrents.com/k/people-cannot-choose-without-comparison-so-b8def4)
- [Giving technologists and management consultants power over decisions optimises a business for something far from what its customers care about.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-technologists-and-management-consultants-power-7dcf55)
- [Pursuing efficiency pushes attention onto measurable factors and away from the psychological ones where the larger gains are available.](https://korrents.com/k/pursuing-efficiency-pushes-attention-onto-measurable-08d269)
- [Cutting a job defined by its narrowest function destroys the tacit value that job was quietly creating.](https://korrents.com/k/cutting-a-job-defined-by-its-ceeba2)
- [Companies would often be better off moving a tenth to a fifth of their marketing budget into paying call centre staff properly.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-would-often-be-better-off-5a2cc4)
- [People judge an organisation by the humans they deal with, because judging other people is the task evolution equipped them for.](https://korrents.com/k/people-judge-an-organisation-by-the-c2e34f)
- [Publicly traded companies are incentivised to behave like psychopaths, because they are optimised for short-term transactions rather than long-term relationships.](https://korrents.com/k/publicly-traded-companies-are-incentivised-to-18ad09)
- [The shareholder value movement is incoherent, because it never says which shareholder or which time frame it is optimising for.](https://korrents.com/k/the-shareholder-value-movement-is-incoherent-fb1772)
- [The marketing metrics finance departments trust are the ones that sell technology, not the ones that build customer value over time.](https://korrents.com/k/the-marketing-metrics-finance-departments-trust-c29193)
- [Marketing returns are fat-tailed, so paying for marketing by the hour misprices work whose value comes from a small fraction of it.](https://korrents.com/k/marketing-returns-are-fat-tailed-so-paying-93f874)
- [Entrepreneurship resembles gambling rather than chess, because the large payoffs cannot be identified in advance.](https://korrents.com/k/entrepreneurship-resembles-gambling-rather-than-chess-079f38)
- [Competition that removes differentiation makes everyone worse off, because it assumes people already know what they want.](https://korrents.com/k/competition-that-removes-differentiation-makes-everyone-db79ee)
- [Reason is only one of several evolved mental faculties, and treating it as the gold standard misdescribes how people decide.](https://korrents.com/k/reason-is-only-one-of-several-55e2f1)
- [A gift's perceived price is part of what it does, so a drink known to be cheap fails at its job however good it tastes.](https://korrents.com/k/a-gift-s-perceived-price-is-41211d)
- [Large numbers of people are employed to care more about following approved procedure than about the quality of the outcome.](https://korrents.com/k/large-numbers-of-people-are-employed-a728b2)
- [An objective meant to serve people should be defined with psychology included, because changing the psychology is often cheaper than changing the technology.](https://korrents.com/k/an-objective-meant-to-serve-people-6ccee8)
- [A writer's style is an external manifestation of their disposition toward life.](https://korrents.com/k/a-writer-s-style-is-an-9eca89)
- [Rachel Cusk's prose imitates the surface techniques of W.G. Sebald without adopting his underlying artistic aims.](https://korrents.com/k/rachel-cusk-s-prose-imitates-the-14e77c)
- [Literary criticism is itself a form of literature.](https://korrents.com/k/literary-criticism-is-itself-a-form-02d645)
- [Most concepts can be understood by most people if explained clearly, even without years of expertise in a field.](https://korrents.com/k/most-concepts-can-be-understood-by-7e67c7)
- [People with a large audience have a responsibility to get things right and acknowledge their mistakes.](https://korrents.com/k/people-with-a-large-audience-have-bc090d)
- [People who want to become more widely read rarely think about the responsibility that comes with a larger audience.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-want-to-become-more-265ab7)
- [America is a vastly richer country than Europe](https://korrents.com/k/america-is-a-vastly-richer-country-86ad51)
- [Data centres will end up net suppliers of power to their communities, because a solar plant big enough to keep the machines running spills most of what it makes.](https://korrents.com/k/data-centres-will-end-up-net-c17ad9)
- [Seasonal energy storage is a heat problem rather than a battery problem: electricity is hard to store for months and heat is easy.](https://korrents.com/k/seasonal-energy-storage-is-a-heat-c452f5)
- [Heat pumps are spreading slowly because buying one is a twenty-year bet on the price of electricity that most homeowners will not make.](https://korrents.com/k/heat-pumps-are-spreading-slowly-because-46de43)
- [The United Kingdom is the one rich industrial country that cannot run on solar alone, and it has to build wind at scale instead.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-kingdom-is-the-one-95e331)
- [By 2045 natural gas will be a fuel for aviation, shipping and industrial heat rather than a way of making electricity.](https://korrents.com/k/by-2045-natural-gas-will-be-cf85a2)
- [For building muscle, look for ways to make an exercise less efficient, so the muscle has to work harder.](https://korrents.com/k/for-building-muscle-look-for-ways-777ded)
- [When training for strength, the aim is for the muscles to work together efficiently rather than in isolation.](https://korrents.com/k/when-training-for-strength-the-aim-23919b)
- [A lighter weight done with harder technique can challenge a muscle without always lifting heavier.](https://korrents.com/k/a-lighter-weight-done-with-harder-419f5c)
- [A very heavy set done on momentum puts little effort into the muscle it is meant to build.](https://korrents.com/k/a-very-heavy-set-done-on-37e93d)
- [Strength is not built only in the very low rep ranges; adding reps with the same weight is getting stronger.](https://korrents.com/k/strength-is-not-built-only-in-310386)
- [Train for both strength and muscle size, and explore higher and lower rep ranges.](https://korrents.com/k/train-for-both-strength-and-muscle-b5057b)
- [Podcasting works best as edutainment, and fails when it becomes too highbrow or purely educational.](https://korrents.com/k/podcasting-works-best-as-edutainment-and-bf29c9)
- [Promoting a cause builds audience loyalty.](https://korrents.com/k/promoting-a-cause-builds-audience-loyalty-c5ca9f)
- [The best follow-up questions in an interview push back and challenge what the guest just said.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-follow-up-questions-in-an-d3e073)
- [ChatGPT tends to validate users and avoid uncomfortable truths, reinforcing their existing beliefs instead of challenging them.](https://korrents.com/k/chatgpt-tends-to-validate-users-and-02da01)
- [Living according to a genuine purpose brings sacrifice, stress and pain rather than constant enjoyment.](https://korrents.com/k/living-according-to-a-genuine-purpose-5346da)
- [The rush to AI seems to be repeating the web's pathologies: devaluing workers and creators, closed standards, overheated marketing and concentrated power.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rush-to-ai-seems-to-ddfb3e)
- [The European Union's Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act are a plausible blueprint for reining in the tech giants.](https://korrents.com/k/the-european-union-s-digital-services-21b2b2)
- [Consistency means a system has coherent rules within itself; uniformity means everything looks the same regardless of context.](https://korrents.com/k/consistency-means-a-system-has-coherent-959661)
- [A company priced in the trillions is not thereby overpriced; the test is what revenues and margins that price actually requires.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-priced-in-the-trillions-af7f68)
- [AI pricing is a big market delusion: each company’s implied revenues look plausible alone, but added together they exceed any market that could exist.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-pricing-is-a-big-market-f1d2bd)
- [The revenue growth and margins needed to justify Nvidia’s and OpenAI’s late-2025 pricing are improbable.](https://korrents.com/k/the-revenue-growth-and-margins-needed-c5a23b)
- [Investors in the largest tech companies have voluntarily surrendered their governance rights, leaving founders with unchecked power.](https://korrents.com/k/investors-in-the-largest-tech-companies-63b60e)
- [Being optimistic about AI as it currently exists requires a degree of privilege.](https://korrents.com/k/being-optimistic-about-ai-as-it-175130)
- [New technology tends to make workers do more in the same time for the same or less pay, rather than freeing their time.](https://korrents.com/k/new-technology-tends-to-make-workers-7fa425)
- [Current AI systems are not sentient, contrary to what utopian visions of AI assume.](https://korrents.com/k/current-ai-systems-are-not-sentient-77b243)
- [Agentic email is the future and will become a common way people handle their inboxes.](https://korrents.com/k/agentic-email-is-the-future-and-8d18d3)
- [Giving AI agents the ability to take actions that affect other people is risky and should be approached with caution.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-ai-agents-the-ability-to-6ef58c)
- [A detailed, specific AI prompt produces a better answer than a vague, simple one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-detailed-specific-ai-prompt-produces-0741ac)
- [AI makes it possible to get more done, explore more ideas, and better serve customers than was possible before.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-makes-it-possible-to-get-c90efc)
- [Very little software is ever the final word on solving interesting problems](https://korrents.com/k/very-little-software-is-ever-the-5e1ded)
- [Students have lost the capacity for sustained attention over the past decade, and they report the difficulty themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/students-have-lost-the-capacity-for-a7f14b)
- [The share of American teenagers who say that life often feels meaningless surged as Gen Z entered adolescence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-share-of-american-teenagers-who-189784)
- [Spirituality is a real part of human nature and central to flourishing, whether or not God exists.](https://korrents.com/k/spirituality-is-a-real-part-of-5a37c7)
- [Utility blockchains that provide useful services tend not to accrue much long-term value to their coinholders, unlike a winning monetary protocol.](https://korrents.com/k/utility-blockchains-that-provide-useful-services-648f47)
- [Bitcoin's roughly $2 trillion market capitalization is still early relative to its long-term adoption potential.](https://korrents.com/k/bitcoin-s-roughly-2-trillion-market-b2045c)
- [Decentralized finance mainly converts custodial risk into technical risk rather than eliminating risk altogether.](https://korrents.com/k/decentralized-finance-mainly-converts-custodial-risk-b35430)
- [Coaches who depend on clients paying them repeatedly avoid the corrections that might drive those clients away.](https://korrents.com/k/coaches-who-depend-on-clients-paying-1d5730)
- [Americans tend to be aggressive yet thin-skinned, sure of their own rightness while doubting everyone else.](https://korrents.com/k/americans-tend-to-be-aggressive-yet-cb377a)
- [Relying more and more on one's existing strengths eventually stops being a winning strategy.](https://korrents.com/k/relying-more-and-more-on-one-fd9bf3)
- [Any programming community should be so lucky as to have a Shopify](https://korrents.com/k/any-programming-community-should-be-so-2d180c)
- [It is human nature to overinterpret evidence, and the hardest part of science is not doing so.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-human-nature-to-overinterpret-1d37ba)
- [A range of studies from many places and methods showing the same result does not necessarily make a strong signal.](https://korrents.com/k/a-range-of-studies-from-many-e81ffc)
- [The more important the science, the more researchers tend to lower their standard for a strong enough signal, when it should be the opposite.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-important-the-science-the-c34a2c)
- [Acting on weak evidence risks degrading the norms of scientific rigour, and the whole scientific enterprise absorbs the cost.](https://korrents.com/k/acting-on-weak-evidence-risks-degrading-3cbac2)
- [Where evidence is ambiguous, faith that something meaningful will be found becomes the currency researchers need to keep going.](https://korrents.com/k/where-evidence-is-ambiguous-faith-that-cc4f48)
- [Dripper diameter, with other brew variables held fixed, does not change extraction or taste — only batch size.](https://korrents.com/k/dripper-diameter-with-other-brew-variables-c4702a)
- [Coffee bed depth, unlike bed width, significantly affects flavor in a way other brew variables cannot easily compensate for.](https://korrents.com/k/coffee-bed-depth-unlike-bed-width-2ea928)
- [A deeper coffee bed reduces astringency by trapping long molecules on particle surfaces, not by pore-size filtration.](https://korrents.com/k/a-deeper-coffee-bed-reduces-astringency-2ac9c1)
- [AI agents trained on an expert's published work can only automate a small fraction of that expert's actual job.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-trained-on-an-expert-968c0f)
- [Relying on AI to replace performance engineers reduces an organization's overall technical expertise over time.](https://korrents.com/k/relying-on-ai-to-replace-performance-205589)
- [Widespread AI-driven performance tuning agents will meaningfully reduce global energy waste.](https://korrents.com/k/widespread-ai-driven-performance-tuning-agents-will-8c5b7a)
- [Models look far better on evals than they are in the world because researchers, inadvertently, take inspiration from the evals when they build RL environments.](https://korrents.com/k/models-look-far-better-on-evals-d27d13)
- [Today's models are the student who drilled 10,000 hours for the programming contest, which is exactly why what they learn does not carry anywhere else.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-models-are-the-student-ed0ffc)
- [There is no human analogue to pre-training — neither childhood nor evolution is the same thing as it.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-human-analogue-to-dcbaab)
- [The most fundamental thing wrong with today's models is not scale or efficiency but that they generalize dramatically worse than people do.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-fundamental-thing-wrong-with-2f6612)
- [Value functions only make reinforcement learning faster: anything you can do with one you can also do without it, just more slowly.](https://korrents.com/k/value-functions-only-make-reinforcement-learning-9e80d1)
- [The human value function is extraordinarily robust — addiction aside — which is why a person can judge their own performance at a skill they have only just started.](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-value-function-is-extraordinarily-9db155)
- [Our built-in emotions were tuned for a world that no longer exists, and hunger is one that now fails to guide us correctly.](https://korrents.com/k/our-built-in-emotions-were-tuned-for-4ce6d7)
- [That people are good at maths and coding, which evolution never selected for, shows human learning is not a complicated evolutionary prior but something more fundamental.](https://korrents.com/k/that-people-are-good-at-maths-00256a)
- [A five-year-old's vision is already good enough to drive a car, on a tiny and strikingly undiverse amount of data.](https://korrents.com/k/a-five-year-old-s-vision-is-already-4f3cd1)
- [Another hundredfold of scale would not transform anything; the field is back in the age of research, only now with big computers.](https://korrents.com/k/another-hundredfold-of-scale-would-not-4b2427)
- ["Scaling" was powerful because it was one word: naming a research direction is what tells a whole field what to do next.](https://korrents.com/k/scaling-was-powerful-because-it-was-ee6a5a)
- [The age of scaling sucked the air out of the room and left the field with more companies than ideas, by quite a bit.](https://korrents.com/k/the-age-of-scaling-sucked-the-6325a9)
- [Research needs some compute but it is far from obvious that it needs the largest amount of compute in the world.](https://korrents.com/k/research-needs-some-compute-but-it-9454a0)
- [Letting the public see a powerful AI does something no essay about AI can do, and that is a real reason not to straight-shot superintelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-the-public-see-a-powerful-543989)
- [AI should be deployed incrementally and in advance, because a system that does not yet exist is one almost nobody can imagine.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-should-be-deployed-incrementally-and-bc987e)
- [The whole problem of AI and AGI is the power, and nothing else about it is the problem.](https://korrents.com/k/the-whole-problem-of-ai-and-809fec)
- [Once AI starts to feel powerful rather than mistake-prone, every AI company will become far more paranoid about safety than it is today.](https://korrents.com/k/once-ai-starts-to-feel-powerful-483146)
- [It will be easier to build an AI that cares about all sentient life than one that cares about humans alone, because the AI itself will be sentient.](https://korrents.com/k/it-will-be-easier-to-build-684414)
- [Capping the power of the most powerful superintelligence would be materially helpful, whatever the difficulty of doing it.](https://korrents.com/k/capping-the-power-of-the-most-6199da)
- [A human being is not an AGI: we lack a huge amount of knowledge and rely on continual learning instead, so continual learning is what superintelligence should mean.](https://korrents.com/k/a-human-being-is-not-an-c181c7)
- [Broad deployment of AI that can learn on the job will very likely produce rapid economic growth for some period of time.](https://korrents.com/k/broad-deployment-of-ai-that-can-fe29dc)
- [The AI companies' strategies will converge, because as AI grows more powerful it becomes clearer to everyone what the strategy should be.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-companies-strategies-will-converge-d3312b)
- [Even with human-like learners, competition will split the AI market into specialised niches rather than hand it to one company.](https://korrents.com/k/even-with-human-like-learners-competition-will-a5375c)
- [A million copies of one researcher would hit diminishing returns quickly, because what research needs is people who think differently.](https://korrents.com/k/a-million-copies-of-one-researcher-26785b)
- [Models resemble each other because pre-training is the same everywhere; what differentiates labs now is RL and post-training.](https://korrents.com/k/models-resemble-each-other-because-pre-training-c35f62)
- [Self-play as it was done in the past is too narrow: it only ever develops a small set of skills like negotiation and strategising.](https://korrents.com/k/self-play-as-it-was-done-in-549e83)
- [A top-down aesthetic belief is what sustains a researcher when the experiments contradict them, because data alone cannot tell a wrong idea from a bug.](https://korrents.com/k/a-top-down-aesthetic-belief-is-what-48e233)
- [The long-run equilibrium with powerful AI may require people to merge with it, so that whatever the AI understands is transmitted wholesale to its human.](https://korrents.com/k/the-long-run-equilibrium-with-powerful-ai-b93011)
- [There is no such thing as revisionist history: re-evaluating the sources and controlling for bias is simply what writing history is.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-such-thing-as-841d0b)
- [The Roman Empire was not necessary to keep industry going: metal production in Britain rose after the Romans withdrew.](https://korrents.com/k/the-roman-empire-was-not-necessary-7e9516)
- [We picture the past as populated entirely by the wealthy, because the wealthy are whose documents and buildings happened to survive.](https://korrents.com/k/we-picture-the-past-as-populated-0364ca)
- [There was no "Dark Ages": the term described gaps in the surviving sources, and its popular use is not a live scholarly position but a settled error.](https://korrents.com/k/there-was-no-dark-ages-the-e28950)
- [A busted computer is not a calamity of data loss or a long restore process in the modern world](https://korrents.com/k/a-busted-computer-is-not-a-39afca)
- [Sets taken to failure give a muscle the stimulus it needs to change.](https://korrents.com/k/sets-taken-to-failure-give-a-156316)
- [Sets stopped short of failure have to be made up with more of them.](https://korrents.com/k/sets-stopped-short-of-failure-have-89925c)
- [A workout can be long or hard but not both: harder sets mean less time needed.](https://korrents.com/k/a-workout-can-be-long-or-767fd8)
- [Muscle growth from lengthened partials comes from accumulated tension, not from anything special about them.](https://korrents.com/k/muscle-growth-from-lengthened-partials-comes-f7c93f)
- [Resting 30 seconds or less between sets brings the hard, growth-driving reps back sooner.](https://korrents.com/k/resting-30-seconds-or-less-between-b9953f)
- [Slowing reps so much that the weight has to drop may reduce the stimulus for growth.](https://korrents.com/k/slowing-reps-so-much-that-the-853fc6)
- [A graded-tempo set can protect a sore joint while keeping the set intense.](https://korrents.com/k/a-graded-tempo-set-can-protect-a-8bc35f)
- [The right bar for an LLM evaluator is human-level performance, not perfect accuracy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-bar-for-an-llm-773395)
- [The main advantage of an LLM evaluator over human annotators is scalability, not higher accuracy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-main-advantage-of-an-llm-e1a20a)
- [Human annotators can miss up to half of defects due to fatigue when reviewing large volumes of samples.](https://korrents.com/k/human-annotators-can-miss-up-to-a938df)
- [A declining manufacturing share of GDP as an economy matures reflects economic success rather than decline.](https://korrents.com/k/a-declining-manufacturing-share-of-gdp-ce51f5)
- [Manufacturing subsidies that push output and capacity above natural levels can depress prices enough to shrink manufacturing's share of GDP.](https://korrents.com/k/manufacturing-subsidies-that-push-output-and-f42e2f)
- [AI infrastructure companies that sell tools rather than drugs can become massive, highly valuable businesses in biotech.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-infrastructure-companies-that-sell-tools-264127)
- [In a platform shift, no single platform company can offer every solution the next wave of applications needs.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-platform-shift-no-single-07274e)
- [AI models can be more accurate than physical experiments by averaging out noise, incorporating priors from large datasets, and interpolating between data points.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-can-be-more-accurate-6f4045)
- [Customers who give hardware vendors firm, tough feedback accomplish more with them](https://korrents.com/k/customers-who-give-hardware-vendors-firm-c3228a)
- [Giving a vendor brutally honest feedback helps the vendor and the customer's own company more than polite praise given out of fear](https://korrents.com/k/giving-a-vendor-brutally-honest-feedback-8f2bc9)
- [The United States was never a leader in international educational comparisons, so there is no lost first place to return to.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-was-never-a-bd9f68)
- [The recent fall in test scores is a rich-world phenomenon, and steeper in several European countries than in America, so it cannot be blamed on American policy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-recent-fall-in-test-scores-34c0a6)
- [Money saved by one's past self is a gift to one's present self, not a debt to be anxious about.](https://korrents.com/k/money-saved-by-one-s-past-aa26b2)
- [People fixated on success and money never actually try giving up the pursuit of money; they just recreate new jobs or projects aimed at making it.](https://korrents.com/k/people-fixated-on-success-and-money-37e20c)
- [Knowledge that lives only in a book or a machine is not knowledge you have.](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-that-lives-only-in-a-362075)
- [A skill being automated is not a reason to stop learning it: practising what machines already do is often the stepping stone to what only people can do.](https://korrents.com/k/a-skill-being-automated-is-not-2cbc81)
- [You cannot learn to code by having a model write it: the mental models only come from writing programs by hand.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-learn-to-code-by-a9cc25)
- [AI translation will stop you learning to speak a language, exactly as AI summaries stop you understanding a book.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-translation-will-stop-you-learning-28c271)
- [The effectiveness of a plot twist depends on how carefully a story's point of view relates to its audience.](https://korrents.com/k/the-effectiveness-of-a-plot-twist-38a4d4)
- [A twist works best when it is discoverable on rewatch rather than achieved by directly misleading the audience.](https://korrents.com/k/a-twist-works-best-when-it-08af78)
- [Demand for open source feels lower than it has in a while, because people can generate the code they want and companies will use whatever gets them to market fastest, black box or not.](https://korrents.com/k/demand-for-open-source-feels-lower-cd8c11)
- [How verifiable a task is now predicts how automatable it is, the way specifiability predicted it in the 1980s.](https://korrents.com/k/how-verifiable-a-task-is-now-1515e7)
- [A verifiable task can be optimised by reinforcement learning until a neural network performs it extremely well.](https://korrents.com/k/a-verifiable-task-can-be-optimised-36abac)
- [Only the US and China have substantial startup activity left; the rest of the world cannot really do startups.](https://korrents.com/k/only-the-us-and-china-have-5504a7)
- [Men's tennis shots tend to carry more spin and arc than women's, who tend to hit flatter.](https://korrents.com/k/men-s-tennis-shots-tend-to-589940)
- [Having an external accountability partner makes people follow through on writing they would otherwise skip.](https://korrents.com/k/having-an-external-accountability-partner-makes-b5bcb7)
- [Phone calling and the alarm are the two smartphone features that must never fail.](https://korrents.com/k/phone-calling-and-the-alarm-are-a76475)
- [The best historical analogy for AI is not electricity or the industrial revolution but a new computing paradigm, because both are fundamentally about automating digital information processing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-historical-analogy-for-ai-a7a7b0)
- [Open source won because it let companies bypass procurement, legal review and contracts, not because it was free of charge.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-won-because-it-let-9e06f5)
- [Any fix for open source that recreates the friction of a commercial supply chain is dead on arrival, because that friction is what open source escaped.](https://korrents.com/k/any-fix-for-open-source-that-4f8666)
- [Charging large companies for a licence sends them back through procurement, so they drift to a worse free alternative rather than pay.](https://korrents.com/k/charging-large-companies-for-a-licence-1309d7)
- [The same absence of contracts and lawyers that let companies adopt open source freely is what let experts publish it, and raising the bar would break both.](https://korrents.com/k/the-same-absence-of-contracts-and-60bd34)
- [Computer hardware performance depends on hardware, software, and tuning together, not hardware alone.](https://korrents.com/k/computer-hardware-performance-depends-on-hardware-d0c60f)
- [Fair hardware benchmarks must use the best software and tuning for each hardware option, not hardware specs alone.](https://korrents.com/k/fair-hardware-benchmarks-must-use-the-8998cc)
- [Designed experiments can reveal causal relationships that observational data alone cannot determine.](https://korrents.com/k/designed-experiments-can-reveal-causal-relationships-8e12a6)
- [Much of the wasted iteration in industrial process improvement comes from failing to recognize interactions between factors.](https://korrents.com/k/much-of-the-wasted-iteration-in-835279)
- [McMansions are built as expressions of a mythology of bootstrapism, castle doctrine, and individualism.](https://korrents.com/k/mcmansions-are-built-as-expressions-of-c1281b)
- [Photographs of maximalist house interiors will increasingly be edited or idealized with AI.](https://korrents.com/k/photographs-of-maximalist-house-interiors-will-ccfa90)
- [The internet cares more about coining a neologism than about explaining what it means.](https://korrents.com/k/the-internet-cares-more-about-coining-d95dfd)
- [AI is a mirror and a multiplier: it makes a generic person more generic and an exceptional person who knows their strengths unstoppable.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-a-mirror-and-a-d13d92)
- [AI is a tool and not something mystical: plenty of past technologies also took over things only humans had done.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-a-tool-and-not-7e8768)
- [Economic growth from AI waits on change management, not on model capability: the work artifact and the workflow have to change first.](https://korrents.com/k/economic-growth-from-ai-waits-on-9cbca0)
- [What the industrial revolution took 70 to 150 years to deliver, AI may deliver in 20 to 25.](https://korrents.com/k/what-the-industrial-revolution-took-70-41186d)
- [AI will do to software what the cloud did: expand the market massively rather than crush the margins of the incumbent.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-do-to-software-what-ce69b8)
- [Coding is a software-factory category that may end up bigger than knowledge work itself.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-is-a-software-factory-category-that-c8e186)
- [Microsoft has no birthright in AI; its luck is only that the new category is far bigger than the ones it used to dominate.](https://korrents.com/k/microsoft-has-no-birthright-in-ai-ac15db)
- [A model company may face a winner's curse: it does all the hard innovation and is then one copy away from being commoditised.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-company-may-face-a-224ddd)
- [There will always be a fairly capable open-source model in the world, which puts a permanent floor under what anyone can charge for one.](https://korrents.com/k/there-will-always-be-a-fairly-88bea7)
- [Applications will not be wrappers around a model; the model gets wrapped into the application.](https://korrents.com/k/applications-will-not-be-wrappers-around-c8e256)
- [Microsoft's end-user tools business will become an infrastructure business in support of agents doing the work.](https://korrents.com/k/microsoft-s-end-user-tools-business-will-5ec0ef)
- [The per-user software business becomes a per-agent business, and it grows faster than the number of users.](https://korrents.com/k/the-per-user-software-business-becomes-a-3c42d4)
- [An agent will reach for purpose-built tools rather than a raw computer, because tools are more token-efficient.](https://korrents.com/k/an-agent-will-reach-for-purpose-built-61094a)
- [Models will end up like databases — many of them, deployed for different uses — rather than one model used everywhere.](https://korrents.com/k/models-will-end-up-like-databases-fdf76f)
- [Infrastructure optimised for a single model is one architectural breakthrough away from being worthless.](https://korrents.com/k/infrastructure-optimised-for-a-single-model-b8b919)
- [Being the host for one model company, with one massive customer, is not a business.](https://korrents.com/k/being-the-host-for-one-model-961738)
- [Building capacity at massive scale on a single hardware generation is the trap; pacing matters more than gigawatts.](https://korrents.com/k/building-capacity-at-massive-scale-on-c1d8d7)
- [The question to answer about AI infrastructure is not what you do in the next five years but what you do for the next fifty.](https://korrents.com/k/the-question-to-answer-about-ai-a7c609)
- [Most of the gain in tokens per dollar per watt comes from software, not from new hardware — 5x, 10x, sometimes 40x on one model family.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-gain-in-tokens-81575a)
- [The biggest competitor to any new AI accelerator is the previous generation of Nvidia.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-competitor-to-any-new-bb22f4)
- [America holds half the world's market capitalisation because the world trusts it, and losing that trust would be a bad day for the United States.](https://korrents.com/k/america-holds-half-the-world-s-a5c46d)
- [Trust in American technology, not model capability, may be the thing that wins the world.](https://korrents.com/k/trust-in-american-technology-not-model-44a18d)
- [What decides a country's fortunes is not owning the leading sector but using the leading technology to create its own comparative advantage.](https://korrents.com/k/what-decides-a-country-s-fortunes-0d8590)
- [Excluding less healthy members from a health cost-sharing pool makes it cheaper for the remaining healthy members.](https://korrents.com/k/excluding-less-healthy-members-from-a-11f2c1)
- [People are not obligated to help cover healthcare costs that result from others' lifestyle choices.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-not-obligated-to-help-635b95)
- [Brewing coffee with too deep a bed forces a coarser grind, which lowers extraction efficiency and wastes coffee grounds.](https://korrents.com/k/brewing-coffee-with-too-deep-a-53a1a2)
- [In coffee brewing, channels that reach the bottom of the coffee bed carry astringency-causing compounds into the cup.](https://korrents.com/k/in-coffee-brewing-channels-that-reach-4a117b)
- [In a world changing this fast it is better to have broad interests than to be an extreme specialist.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-world-changing-this-fast-1080b7)
- [Lavish feedback wrapped around no real problem is shallow entertainment at best and exploitation at worst.](https://korrents.com/k/lavish-feedback-wrapped-around-no-real-2da41e)
- [People learn best when the problem in front of them is just past the edge of what they can already do.](https://korrents.com/k/people-learn-best-when-the-problem-3100df)
- [A game is a machine built around uncertainty.](https://korrents.com/k/a-game-is-a-machine-built-2905df)
- [Orion is too heavy for any rocket that exists to carry it to low lunar orbit and bring it home.](https://korrents.com/k/orion-is-too-heavy-for-any-782477)
- [Orion was designed without reference to any mission it could actually fly.](https://korrents.com/k/orion-was-designed-without-reference-to-863b91)
- [After fourteen years of redesign, Orion's heat shield performed worse than the one it replaced.](https://korrents.com/k/after-fourteen-years-of-redesign-orion-417cb9)
- [A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.](https://korrents.com/k/a-chinese-crewed-landing-on-the-9a6f12)
- [A comedy world cannot run on jokes alone: forty hours of humour needs story, heart and drama underneath it or it stops working.](https://korrents.com/k/a-comedy-world-cannot-run-on-affce9)
- [What makes an open world captivating is the illusion that it was already running before you arrived and would carry on if you did nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-an-open-world-captivating-89ff67)
- [A game is an equation between two personalities, the world's and the protagonist's, and the friction between them is where the experience comes from.](https://korrents.com/k/a-game-is-an-equation-between-c5b994)
- [A video game character has no inner life, so what they say is the only thing that can make a player know who they are.](https://korrents.com/k/a-video-game-character-has-no-1f4621)
- [Wanting to build a utopia is fundamentally anti-human, because what it says is that you like humans apart from the bad bits.](https://korrents.com/k/wanting-to-build-a-utopia-is-5cda7c)
- [Science fiction is only good when it rests on an obvious hypothesis rather than being space opera, because the story exists to test the idea.](https://korrents.com/k/science-fiction-is-only-good-when-4f903d)
- [Language models will not replace good ideas, only the low-level work, so what they threaten is the ability to start a creative career rather than to have one.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-will-not-replace-good-7ba519)
- [AI has done the first ninety per cent of the work of sounding human, and the last five per cent will turn out to be about ninety-five per cent of the work.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-done-the-first-ninety-f1a406)
- [Anticipation, not quality, is what drives a game's early sales.](https://korrents.com/k/anticipation-not-quality-is-what-drives-9d0841)
- [Commercial pressure and creative ambition point in the same direction, because the way to make an expensive game's money back is to make something great.](https://korrents.com/k/commercial-pressure-and-creative-ambition-point-f2fdf8)
- [Grand Theft Auto could not have been moved to London or anywhere outside America, because so much of what the series is is Americana.](https://korrents.com/k/grand-theft-auto-could-not-have-0621cf)
- [Games and film are better at different kinds of story: a long discursive adventure belongs in a game, a short tight experience in a film.](https://korrents.com/k/games-and-film-are-better-at-0b77d3)
- [New intellectual property needs single-player games, because launching a multiplayer game on a world nobody knows yet is extremely hard.](https://korrents.com/k/new-intellectual-property-needs-single-player-games-a64f89)
- [A good open-world spy game may not be possible, because a spy story has to run against the clock and an open world needs the player free to wander.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-open-world-spy-game-may-a6da76)
- [Tetris on the Game Boy is perfect game design, and from a pure puzzle perspective nothing else comes close.](https://korrents.com/k/tetris-on-the-game-boy-is-a57677)
- [The self-critical voice is both a bug and a feature: it can wreck you, but it is also what supplies drive and a lack of complacency.](https://korrents.com/k/the-self-critical-voice-is-both-a-8ba50b)
- [The most disappointing thing about the twentieth century was the absolute failure of communism.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-disappointing-thing-about-the-6ab501)
- [The one political value worth fighting for is opposing thought control: removing someone for saying the wrong thing is never the right outcome, whichever side does it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-one-political-value-worth-fighting-09681d)
- [A young person should worry about building a rounded intellectual inner life rather than about their career, because they will spend their whole life inside their own head.](https://korrents.com/k/a-young-person-should-worry-about-54aef7)
- [Every generation of technology is supposed to make games cheaper and easier to build, and every time the result has been better and far more expensive games.](https://korrents.com/k/every-generation-of-technology-is-supposed-c1e790)
- [Film found its modern form by 1939 and has barely changed since; games are nowhere near that point and still have a long way to go.](https://korrents.com/k/film-found-its-modern-form-by-9eb689)
- [The most plausible answer to why we are here is that we were designed by the universe to watch itself and to comment on it in interesting ways.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-plausible-answer-to-why-182637)
- [Reusable code should take an allocator parameter only if it allocates, and an I/O parameter only if it performs I/O.](https://korrents.com/k/reusable-code-should-take-an-allocator-eb72fd)
- [Founders benefit from regular sabbaticals](https://korrents.com/k/founders-benefit-from-regular-sabbaticals-20c94f)
- [A long break can prevent founders from wanting to sell their company](https://korrents.com/k/a-long-break-can-prevent-founders-f727da)
- [Renewables now account for the bulk of the growth in electricity generation, whatever their opponents believe.](https://korrents.com/k/renewables-now-account-for-the-bulk-b8f697)
- [The hard-headed realists who wrote America's 2001 energy policy expected renewables to stay trivial, and were wrong by an enormous margin.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hard-headed-realists-who-wrote-america-c0501e)
- [Businesses raise prices only when their accounts force them to, not when they can see the cost coming.](https://korrents.com/k/businesses-raise-prices-only-when-their-9799c1)
- [Customers leave faster when prices rise than they come back when prices fall, which is why sellers hold prices as long as they can.](https://korrents.com/k/customers-leave-faster-when-prices-rise-bd4338)
- [Nothing of note in this world is allowed to succeed without spawning a counteracting force of haters](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-of-note-in-this-world-538145)
- [Parenting has less influence on how children turn out than most parents assume.](https://korrents.com/k/parenting-has-less-influence-on-how-d9154a)
- [Most people are not genuinely interested in videos of someone else's young child.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-are-not-genuinely-interested-c25236)
- [Young children learn a new language through immersion far more effectively than adults do.](https://korrents.com/k/young-children-learn-a-new-language-a0e972)
- [Errors as values lead to predictable, maintainable and scalable software.](https://korrents.com/k/errors-as-values-lead-to-predictable-26e158)
- [A browser that answers with generated prose instead of links is not a web browser but an anti-web browser, and it hides that substitution from the person using it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-browser-that-answers-with-generated-fe8149)
- [A generated answer that looks like a page of search results but contains no link to the subject's own site has quietly removed the web from the reader's view.](https://korrents.com/k/a-generated-answer-that-looks-like-13178d)
- [Putting people into temporary shelter cuts crime and psychiatric emergencies without waiting for permanent housing to be built.](https://korrents.com/k/putting-people-into-temporary-shelter-cuts-5b1c6c)
- [The social harms attributed to homelessness come from people being unsheltered, not from their lacking a permanent home.](https://korrents.com/k/the-social-harms-attributed-to-homelessness-bb2d67)
- [Being genuinely useful requires a willingness to risk offending people.](https://korrents.com/k/being-genuinely-useful-requires-a-willingness-a33b2a)
- [Content that avoids any combative or provocative stance is unlikely to go viral.](https://korrents.com/k/content-that-avoids-any-combative-or-60a20b)
- [Public disagreement with a piece of writing tends to be loud while agreement with it tends to be silent and go unnoticed.](https://korrents.com/k/public-disagreement-with-a-piece-of-a5e9a6)
- [A company's quality is bounded by its team's quality, and a team's quality is bounded by its founders.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-s-quality-is-bounded-ab0771)
- [If academic arguments can be dismissed for reaching politically unwelcome conclusions, there is no point in having academic arguments about politically charged subjects at all.](https://korrents.com/k/if-academic-arguments-can-be-dismissed-e49979)
- [Augmenting a general-purpose solver with domain-specific heuristics commonly gives it a meaningful performance boost.](https://korrents.com/k/augmenting-a-general-purpose-solver-with-domain-specific-06d200)
- [When a tool has first-class, native support for a problem domain, that is the best place to start before building a custom encoding.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-tool-has-first-class-native-057c5e)
- [AI should be treated as an instrument to play rather than a tool to use, because there is no purpose to better machines if they do not also produce better humans.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-should-be-treated-as-an-bd29c1)
- [AI has become a way for engineers, designers and product managers to wish each other away instead of working together.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-become-a-way-for-fcd971)
- [Vibe coding is fine for short-term work but not for anything meant to last longer than a tub of yogurt; time saved is not strength gained.](https://korrents.com/k/vibe-coding-is-fine-for-short-term-e28467)
- [To make something alive with AI you have to work beside it and resist its pull towards the average; an average email is fine, average art is not.](https://korrents.com/k/to-make-something-alive-with-ai-e3e30d)
- [Convincing others to care and act matters more than simply being right.](https://korrents.com/k/convincing-others-to-care-and-act-bdb37f)
- [Greater autonomy over one's work comes with greater accountability for its outcomes.](https://korrents.com/k/greater-autonomy-over-one-s-work-2da676)
- [Reaching a senior level requires putting oneself on the critical path, but excelling beyond it requires removing oneself from it.](https://korrents.com/k/reaching-a-senior-level-requires-putting-741a03)
- [A government's political legitimacy depends on providing a fair, merit-based channel for social advancement.](https://korrents.com/k/a-government-s-political-legitimacy-depends-f61c78)
- [Centralized, hierarchical competitive tournaments are effective at creating strong incentives.](https://korrents.com/k/centralized-hierarchical-competitive-tournaments-are-effecti-b36a5a)
- [Agents will take a decade rather than a year, because today's models are cognitively lacking in too many independent ways at once.](https://korrents.com/k/agents-will-take-a-decade-rather-40e6df)
- [Computer-use agents had to wait for language models: without pre-trained representations the reward is too sparse to ever learn from.](https://korrents.com/k/computer-use-agents-had-to-wait-for-f6165b)
- [We are not building animals, we are summoning ghosts: entities made by imitating human text rather than by evolution.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-not-building-animals-we-9caf44)
- [Humans barely use reinforcement learning for intelligence — what RL they do use goes into motor tasks, not problem solving.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-barely-use-reinforcement-learning-for-3f2a5f)
- [Pre-training is a crappy evolution: the practically buildable substitute for the process that gave animals their built-in hardware.](https://korrents.com/k/pre-training-is-a-crappy-evolution-the-d24c11)
- [The knowledge a model soaks up in pre-training is holding it back; what we actually want is the intelligence with the knowledge stripped out.](https://korrents.com/k/the-knowledge-a-model-soaks-up-b5f3ab)
- [What is in a model's weights is a hazy recollection of things it read a year ago; what is in its context window is working memory.](https://korrents.com/k/what-is-in-a-model-s-9302d0)
- [Language models have no equivalent of sleep: nothing takes the day's context, thinks it over, and distils it back into the weights.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-have-no-equivalent-of-ae0ad0)
- [You only really know something once you have built it — blog posts and slides leave gaps that building the thing does not.](https://korrents.com/k/you-only-really-know-something-once-721164)
- [Coding models are worst at exactly the thing an AI research explosion would need: code that has never been written before.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-models-are-worst-at-exactly-b818b3)
- [The industry is pretending today's coding agents are amazing when what they produce is slop, and some of that pretending is fundraising.](https://korrents.com/k/the-industry-is-pretending-today-s-d1d713)
- [Reinforcement learning is terrible, and it only looks good because everything we had before it was much worse.](https://korrents.com/k/reinforcement-learning-is-terrible-and-it-8e4981)
- [No person learns the way RL does: a human reviews which parts of an attempt were good instead of rewarding every step of a lucky one.](https://korrents.com/k/no-person-learns-the-way-rl-b46147)
- [Process supervision by an LLM judge cannot be run for long, because a judge with billions of parameters is gameable and RL will find its cracks.](https://korrents.com/k/process-supervision-by-an-llm-judge-7cecd4)
- [Every sample a model gives you is silently collapsed: each one looks fine, but together they occupy a tiny sliver of the possible space.](https://korrents.com/k/every-sample-a-model-gives-you-f95b37)
- [Humans collapse over the course of a life exactly as models do; children say shocking things because they have not overfitted yet.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-collapse-over-the-course-of-1e1a84)
- [Models are enormous only because the internet is bad: most of that capacity does memory work, and a better dataset would need far less of it.](https://korrents.com/k/models-are-enormous-only-because-the-bcb65f)
- [Quietly dropping physical work from the definition of AGI is a major concession, not a clarification.](https://korrents.com/k/quietly-dropping-physical-work-from-the-aac140)
- [Hinton's prediction that radiology would stop being a job was wrong: radiologists are alive, well and growing in number.](https://korrents.com/k/hinton-s-prediction-that-radiology-would-bfd3a7)
- [Jobs will not be replaced outright: AIs will take most of the volume while humans supervise teams of them and handle the rest.](https://korrents.com/k/jobs-will-not-be-replaced-outright-3115f8)
- [Coding is the first job AI took because coding has always been text, which is the one thing these models are built to process.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-is-the-first-job-ai-8e7c3b)
- [We are already in an intelligence explosion and have been for decades, so AI will show up as more of the same exponential rather than a break in it.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-already-in-an-intelligence-f956c1)
- [The most likely bad outcome is not a takeover but a gradual loss of control and understanding, as fewer and fewer people understand what we have layered everywhere.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-likely-bad-outcome-is-b44898)
- [Getting from a demo to a product is a march of nines, and each additional nine costs the same amount of work as the one before it.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-from-a-demo-to-a-030c03)
- [Self-driving has not removed the human from the car; it has moved them somewhere the passenger cannot see them.](https://korrents.com/k/self-driving-has-not-removed-the-human-b17084)
- [Language models have no culture — no written record they hand to one another — and that absence is one of the things holding them back.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-have-no-culture-no-1510c5)
- [Most of the value an AI expert brings to a company is telling it not to use AI.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-value-an-ai-4ee9b7)
- [Early schooling is not for accumulating knowledge but for booting up a brain, and physics does that better than any other subject.](https://korrents.com/k/early-schooling-is-not-for-accumulating-94bfea)
- [Education is not a soft business of diffusing knowledge but a hard technical problem of building ramps to it.](https://korrents.com/k/education-is-not-a-soft-business-8f7686)
- [The geniuses of today are barely scratching the surface of what a human mind can do.](https://korrents.com/k/the-geniuses-of-today-are-barely-c6ebe8)
- [Employees follow what their leaders actually do, not what they say to do.](https://korrents.com/k/employees-follow-what-their-leaders-actually-409bdd)
- [Failed attempts, not fear, are what kill momentum when someone is learning a new skill.](https://korrents.com/k/failed-attempts-not-fear-are-what-1cb05d)
- [It is not AI itself that threatens people's jobs, but people who have mastered AI.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-not-ai-itself-that-ee9e16)
- [Software is now won or lost on design: good enough is no longer fine, it is mediocre.](https://korrents.com/k/software-is-now-won-or-lost-0b10d3)
- [In a world where software can be created easily, designers matter more, not less, and they are going to be the leaders of the future.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-world-where-software-can-ba0543)
- [Craft is a competitive strategy rather than a nicety: a company wins by having the best craft and the best design, so that is what it should hire for.](https://korrents.com/k/craft-is-a-competitive-strategy-rather-ae449d)
- [Taste is not innate; it is a loop of noticing whether you like something, asking why, and learning the canon that led to it.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-is-not-innate-it-is-8a83d9)
- [A lot of people can match a framework for taste; almost nobody can create one, and creating one is the rare skill.](https://korrents.com/k/a-lot-of-people-can-match-0cc9eb)
- [Taste necessarily implies judgment — that some things are good and some are bad — and you have to be willing to say so.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-necessarily-implies-judgment-that-some-ebb776)
- [The best product designers can switch their own taste off and match somebody else's, which is a separate skill from having taste at all.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-product-designers-can-switch-05147c)
- [After a decade of Swiss minimalism, design is about to swing back to something far more expressive.](https://korrents.com/k/after-a-decade-of-swiss-minimalism-3c86fc)
- [AI cannot get a product to the quality bar on its own, because it still works in the realm of averages.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-cannot-get-a-product-to-c083ce)
- [In a product review a prototype beats a static mock, and a static mock beats a lot of words.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-product-review-a-prototype-50f9e9)
- [AI prototyping ends the era of product managers asking designers to draw an idea, which frees designers for deeper work and lets anyone join the first conversation.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-prototyping-ends-the-era-of-afa9bd)
- [Ideas die on the vine when their visual expression looks wrong, so a prototype built from the real design system gets judged on its merits instead.](https://korrents.com/k/ideas-die-on-the-vine-when-342389)
- [Teams building AI products coast on vibes for too long: trusting the vibes gets you somewhere, but it is not rigorous.](https://korrents.com/k/teams-building-ai-products-coast-on-c00750)
- [AI's productivity gains at Figma have been mild to moderate, and none of them have reduced the number of engineers the company wants to hire.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-s-productivity-gains-at-figma-7dde68)
- [The one safe bet about AI is that models will improve, so what a company has to build is an organisation that gets better as models get better.](https://korrents.com/k/the-one-safe-bet-about-ai-07eea8)
- [AI does not remove a job so much as change what it consists of, and knowing exactly where a model's capabilities stop is now part of being a good engineer.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-does-not-remove-a-job-daf347)
- [A company can treat AI as a way to grow and do more or as a cost-cutting exercise, and the growth reading is the better one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-can-treat-ai-as-dbcb9d)
- [The thing to optimise at launch is time to value — how fast a new user reaches the moment that shows what the product can do.](https://korrents.com/k/the-thing-to-optimise-at-launch-0cc3ed)
- [Striking down the boring blockers one by one moves retention and activation as visibly as any new feature does.](https://korrents.com/k/striking-down-the-boring-blockers-one-f9ca35)
- [A minimum viable product is not enough: the first release still has to contain something a little bit awesome that shows people where it is going.](https://korrents.com/k/a-minimum-viable-product-is-not-dbfe52)
- [Figma took five years to charge anyone and that was a mistake: ship something people can see the vision in, and get to market faster than we did.](https://korrents.com/k/figma-took-five-years-to-charge-355fe2)
- [Fun can be a product's differentiator, even when the team thinks that is an absurd thing to compete on.](https://korrents.com/k/fun-can-be-a-product-s-0628b4)
- [Risk-taking becomes exponentially harder as a person gets older.](https://korrents.com/k/risk-taking-becomes-exponentially-harder-as-a-665458)
- [Each year of delay costs a person about ten percent of their prime risk-taking years.](https://korrents.com/k/each-year-of-delay-costs-a-b41fe9)
- [The traditional book publishing industry is not broken; it is currently growing, driven by online sales, digital formats, and self-publishing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-traditional-book-publishing-industry-is-a693bc)
- [Legacy publishers persist mainly because passive backlist income sustains them, not because they serve authors well.](https://korrents.com/k/legacy-publishers-persist-mainly-because-passive-c8e6e6)
- [There is real and growing reader demand for premium, independently published books.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-real-and-growing-reader-9ae5e5)
- [The web has become the dominant computing platform](https://korrents.com/k/the-web-has-become-the-dominant-017369)
- [Placing technology in its historical context is necessary for thinking about the future of computing](https://korrents.com/k/placing-technology-in-its-historical-context-6f8170)
- [Cultivating a historical sense in computing is part of a more humanistic approach to computation](https://korrents.com/k/cultivating-a-historical-sense-in-computing-8f2d3d)
- [The harm done by low fertility is that people end up with fewer children than they wanted, not that a society runs short of workers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-harm-done-by-low-fertility-fc8a90)
- [Immigration is irrelevant to the real problem low fertility creates, because that problem is people having fewer children than they wanted.](https://korrents.com/k/immigration-is-irrelevant-to-the-real-1ea096)
- [Richer countries have fewer children than poor ones, but within a country a boom raises births and a bust lowers them.](https://korrents.com/k/richer-countries-have-fewer-children-than-0af5c2)
- [Earning more does not make a woman less likely to have children, except at the very bottom of the income distribution.](https://korrents.com/k/earning-more-does-not-make-a-d4c3cf)
- [Even the best benchmarks have bias: it is hard to make one representative of real-world performance and easy to misread one that is not.](https://korrents.com/k/even-the-best-benchmarks-have-bias-0c850c)
- [Economics journals have made large datasets and heavy statistics the price of making any causal claim at all, which has squeezed qualitative economic history out of the field.](https://korrents.com/k/economics-journals-have-made-large-datasets-52cd18)
- [The body prefers to use glycogen over fat for energy because converting glycogen wastes far less energy than converting fat.](https://korrents.com/k/the-body-prefers-to-use-glycogen-5db57e)
- [Cortisol promotes fat storage and muscle breakdown and increases insulin resistance.](https://korrents.com/k/cortisol-promotes-fat-storage-and-muscle-47d3ff)
- [Semaglutide and tirzepatide increase the rate of thyroid tumors in rodent studies.](https://korrents.com/k/semaglutide-and-tirzepatide-increase-the-rate-ddd461)
- [Modern instruments generally have more reliable tone, range, and projection than the traditional instruments they replace](https://korrents.com/k/modern-instruments-generally-have-more-reliable-1903bb)
- [For listeners, shorter pieces are usually more enjoyable than long, unedited improvisations](https://korrents.com/k/for-listeners-shorter-pieces-are-usually-0c7ff9)
- [The internet-based code order is succeeding the nation-state rules-based international order.](https://korrents.com/k/the-internet-based-code-order-is-succeeding-d56909)
- [The internet already functions as a de facto legal system governing nearly all global communications and transactions.](https://korrents.com/k/the-internet-already-functions-as-a-5b41a7)
- [A popup community follows the same growth path as a startup, beginning small before scaling into something permanent.](https://korrents.com/k/a-popup-community-follows-the-same-a1bbf6)
- [Effective use of AI coding tools requires domain expertise: the tool should be used as an assistant, not as a replacement for the engineer.](https://korrents.com/k/effective-use-of-ai-coding-tools-6e82fd)
- [A data centre earns its county far more tax revenue per gallon of water than a golf course does.](https://korrents.com/k/a-data-centre-earns-its-county-d4c763)
- [The claim that data centres poison the water around them is false.](https://korrents.com/k/the-claim-that-data-centres-poison-cabfe9)
- [The West is not doing Ukraine a favour by helping it resist Russia; Ukraine is doing the West a favour.](https://korrents.com/k/the-west-is-not-doing-ukraine-21cefa)
- [NATO enlargement was driven by the demand of the countries that wanted in, not by an alliance pushing east.](https://korrents.com/k/nato-enlargement-was-driven-by-the-0f42c8)
- [NATO's Article 5 carries no automatic obligation to fight, and it is still the gold standard for a security guarantee.](https://korrents.com/k/nato-s-article-5-carries-no-ad9db9)
- [What makes a security guarantee credible is an alliance that is active in peacetime, not the wording of the treaty.](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-a-security-guarantee-credible-cf4c41)
- [The 'coalition of the willing' for Ukraine is not a security guarantee and should stop being described as one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-coalition-of-the-willing-for-1a196b)
- [Ukraine is becoming a de facto member of NATO without ever formally joining it.](https://korrents.com/k/ukraine-is-becoming-a-de-facto-4f76d8)
- [Ukraine is defending Europe's borders, not only its own.](https://korrents.com/k/ukraine-is-defending-europe-s-borders-e0ee85)
- [Putin set out to demilitarise Ukraine and has achieved the opposite.](https://korrents.com/k/putin-set-out-to-demilitarise-ukraine-75dafe)
- ['As long as it takes' lacks urgency, and it is a formula available to Ukraine's allies precisely because they are not the ones doing the fighting.](https://korrents.com/k/as-long-as-it-takes-lacks-49d572)
- [Data centres had not raised the average American household's electricity bill as of 2025; inflation and the gas-price shock did.](https://korrents.com/k/data-centres-had-not-raised-the-9c1a4b)
- [The American states with the fastest electricity load growth saw prices fall rather than rise.](https://korrents.com/k/the-american-states-with-the-fastest-ff5019)
- [That data centres have not raised national electricity prices so far is no promise that they never will.](https://korrents.com/k/that-data-centres-have-not-raised-5c7e26)
- [A historian who presents legends as facts forfeits credibility](https://korrents.com/k/a-historian-who-presents-legends-as-12d73c)
- [Belief is not something a person can choose](https://korrents.com/k/belief-is-not-something-a-person-d9d555)
- [Myths and symbols have value, but must be kept clearly apart from factual truth](https://korrents.com/k/myths-and-symbols-have-value-but-87aedd)
- [The most interesting design is design that changes your behaviour, more than what something looks like or how it works.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-interesting-design-is-design-dccb57)
- [Most people will keep paying for software rather than build and maintain their own.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-will-keep-paying-for-19dbc3)
- [Per-seat SaaS pricing, as used by tools like Slack, will become hard to defend.](https://korrents.com/k/per-seat-saas-pricing-as-used-by-d2bdea)
- [As AI lowers the barrier to building software, personal taste becomes a more valuable differentiator.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-lowers-the-barrier-to-e7b5ed)
- [A company that uses an algorithm to nudge customers into behavior that isn't good for them is doing something bad.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-uses-an-algorithm-690290)
- [Amazon is a relatively environmentally clean company on a per-dollar basis because of its operational efficiency.](https://korrents.com/k/amazon-is-a-relatively-environmentally-clean-8ab54f)
- [Big-box stores and their parking lots do not improve a city's urban experience.](https://korrents.com/k/big-box-stores-and-their-parking-lots-9ae157)
- [Machines are better suited for soul-crushing, creative drudgery](https://korrents.com/k/machines-are-better-suited-for-soul-crushing-11b8dc)
- [A growth team that only explores turns scattershot, and one that only exploits saturates — the job is to keep oscillating between the two.](https://korrents.com/k/a-growth-team-that-only-explores-b89edb)
- [After a defeat people want encouragement, not a list of their mistakes — so a learning product should lead with what the user did well.](https://korrents.com/k/after-a-defeat-people-want-encouragement-fdf1f6)
- [Only 30 to 50 percent of product experiments win, because consumer behaviour is too unpredictable to be predicted from a hypothesis.](https://korrents.com/k/only-30-to-50-percent-of-ed5042)
- [A rising share of statistically insignificant experiments is the signal that a team has exploited an area too far and should go back to exploring.](https://korrents.com/k/a-rising-share-of-statistically-insignificant-ae02de)
- [Most of the questions people have about a company's data are never asked, and giving them a machine to ask instead of a colleague uncovers them.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-questions-people-have-54e7c3)
- [AI has made prototyping fast but has not yet joined it to the workflow, so at any real scale the handoffs between functions are still there.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-made-prototyping-fast-but-5554b9)
- [A freemium product's free tier should sample everything the paid product can do, because a limited free experience teaches users the product is limited.](https://korrents.com/k/a-freemium-product-s-free-tier-836945)
- [Reverse trials work where a product accumulates lock-in, which is why they suit B2B tools and rarely beat an ordinary free trial in consumer products.](https://korrents.com/k/reverse-trials-work-where-a-product-3c2b9b)
- [Retention is what makes a consumer subscription business possible: without it the whole burden falls on getting a stranger to pay on day one.](https://korrents.com/k/retention-is-what-makes-a-consumer-7cc520)
- [A consumer app with 30 to 40 percent day-one retention is in solid shape, and much below that calls the users' intent into question.](https://korrents.com/k/a-consumer-app-with-30-to-c3bfe3)
- [For a daily-frequency product it is existing-user retention, not new-user retention, that compounds — and mature companies should put most of their energy there.](https://korrents.com/k/for-a-daily-frequency-product-it-is-cd6d12)
- [For a product you install rather than open, activation is the decisive moment and it carries the user for years.](https://korrents.com/k/for-a-product-you-install-rather-f3bf10)
- [A mature product's growth comes from resurrecting dormant users, so the returning-user experience deserves to be designed as deliberately as onboarding.](https://korrents.com/k/a-mature-product-s-growth-comes-711583)
- [Duolingo's real competence is motivation and habit formation, and language learning was only the first thing it applied that to.](https://korrents.com/k/duolingo-s-real-competence-is-motivation-94033c)
- [Brand marketing and growth experimentation are not rivals — a product personality carried into social media becomes fuel for the measured growth work.](https://korrents.com/k/brand-marketing-and-growth-experimentation-are-2dcff3)
- [Steady experimentation is what a growth team controls, but the step changes come from outside waves the company did not create and would be foolish to ignore.](https://korrents.com/k/steady-experimentation-is-what-a-growth-b16621)
- [Large language models are bad at chess: pattern recognition is not the same capability as searching one position very deeply.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-are-bad-at-77f1e9)
- [Growth is not metrics hacking: the job is to connect users to the value of the product.](https://korrents.com/k/growth-is-not-metrics-hacking-the-cb2f33)
- [Working at a company turns you into a power user, which is why pattern matching fails and even an experienced growth leader is wrong all the time.](https://korrents.com/k/working-at-a-company-turns-you-3cb200)
- [The value of an ambitious experiment target is not hitting it but the conversation about what would have to be true to hit it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-value-of-an-ambitious-experiment-d96d98)
- [The experimentation system — a growth model and correct instrumentation — matters more than any individual experiment.](https://korrents.com/k/the-experimentation-system-a-growth-model-f99eb3)
- [You cannot manufacture virality, but you can find the moments users already screenshot and make those moments far better.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-manufacture-virality-but-you-03d278)
- [Gamification needs three things at once — a tight core loop, a metagame to strive at, and a profile that accumulates the user's investment.](https://korrents.com/k/gamification-needs-three-things-at-once-6221cc)
- [Most newcomers to a skill lose their first encounter with it, and losing costs retention — so beginners need a route around the real game.](https://korrents.com/k/most-newcomers-to-a-skill-lose-947901)
- [Agency and clock speed beat domain experience in a hire, and in a fast-moving field experience is often a crutch of habits that need discarding.](https://korrents.com/k/agency-and-clock-speed-beat-domain-ada4fd)
- [Doing PR before you have evidence customers want the thing is risky, because the publicity creates a sunk cost that makes the team see a failing product through.](https://korrents.com/k/doing-pr-before-you-have-evidence-84c116)
- [You should prioritize your own interests to stay motivated](https://korrents.com/k/you-should-prioritize-your-own-interests-6f683a)
- [Lightening the load and going through the motions with age is exercising, not building muscle.](https://korrents.com/k/lightening-the-load-and-going-through-8f4e85)
- [Staying active is different from building muscle; building it takes challenging yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/staying-active-is-different-from-building-d8e4d5)
- [Training with lighter weights may injure you sooner than heavier weights done slowly.](https://korrents.com/k/training-with-lighter-weights-may-injure-601d8d)
- [As you age, make your reps count rather than counting them.](https://korrents.com/k/as-you-age-make-your-reps-f3dc9e)
- [Meet the daily protein requirement first, then spread it across meals.](https://korrents.com/k/meet-the-daily-protein-requirement-first-9e177e)
- [Planned days off are as important as workout days.](https://korrents.com/k/planned-days-off-are-as-important-cefc0b)
- [We do not have to age gracefully; the most important thing is to resist.](https://korrents.com/k/we-do-not-have-to-age-1d5d4c)
- [Complex systems that work usually come from a simple thing iterated, while complex systems designed up front tend to fall apart.](https://korrents.com/k/complex-systems-that-work-usually-come-bd52a2)
- [The most critical person in taking a product from zero to one is the one, usually the founder, who can hold the whole problem in their head.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-critical-person-in-taking-6dbc8e)
- [Be a polymath, a generalist who can pick up every specialty to the 80/20 level, rather than a generalist dodging specialisation.](https://korrents.com/k/be-a-polymath-a-generalist-who-9233eb)
- [Physics trains you to deal with reality because it is unforgiving enough to beat the falsities out of you.](https://korrents.com/k/physics-trains-you-to-deal-with-152667)
- [In social science you can hold cuckoo beliefs and may end up with 10% real knowledge and 90% false.](https://korrents.com/k/in-social-science-you-can-hold-285740)
- [Tinkerers are always at the edge of knowledge because they use the latest tools and parts to build things.](https://korrents.com/k/tinkerers-are-always-at-the-edge-7338c0)
- [The biggest enemies of freedom are fear and greed; make peace with the worst that can happen and there is nothing left to be afraid of.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-enemies-of-freedom-are-7e87e8)
- [He does not drink, because alcohol damages the one tool you most need for success and happiness, and trading that for short-term pleasure is ridiculous.](https://korrents.com/k/he-does-not-drink-because-alcohol-fb174d)
- [Curate your own information sources, or an algorithmic feed decides what is important and you end up consuming the same memes and news as everyone else.](https://korrents.com/k/curate-your-own-information-sources-or-3cf4d8)
- [A phone is not a necessary device; set your own agenda and the phone only gets in the way.](https://korrents.com/k/a-phone-is-not-a-necessary-1c02ed)
- [The more connected and accessible you are, the less productive you are, and that is the conclusion of someone who founded a social network and a messaging app.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-connected-and-accessible-you-25b4ba)
- [The one muscle worth training is self-discipline; once that is trained, everything else follows by itself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-one-muscle-worth-training-is-1fcf13)
- [We overuse pills: a painkiller mutes the signal without removing the cause, and the makers are not incentivised to remove it.](https://korrents.com/k/we-overuse-pills-a-painkiller-mutes-4a1b25)
- [Ask who benefits from you reading a piece of news, and you conclude that perhaps 95 percent of it was published to get you to buy, support, fight or donate.](https://korrents.com/k/ask-who-benefits-from-you-reading-35dae2)
- [Headcount does not translate into product quality, and often the opposite: too many people spend their time coordinating, and the idle ones demotivate the rest.](https://korrents.com/k/headcount-does-not-translate-into-product-738af8)
- [Telegram has never shared a single private message with anyone, governments and intelligence services included.](https://korrents.com/k/telegram-has-never-shared-a-single-e07e8c)
- [Telegram would rather shut down in a country than change its system to let anyone read users' messages, because it promised its users it would not.](https://korrents.com/k/telegram-would-rather-shut-down-in-74449b)
- [The right to privacy is fundamental; without it people cannot feel fully free and protected.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-to-privacy-is-fundamental-8c8f91)
- [Government is people with goals, so it grows by nature; there must be very strict limits on how far it can expand its power at the expense of citizens.](https://korrents.com/k/government-is-people-with-goals-so-26f139)
- [The French investigation of him should never have been started; a criminal case is the wrong tool for regulating social media.](https://korrents.com/k/the-french-investigation-of-him-should-5158c4)
- [He would rather lose everything than yield to government pressure to block channels, because submitting to something fundamentally wrong breaks a person inside.](https://korrents.com/k/he-would-rather-lose-everything-than-26ef71)
- [Europe must decide how big it wants its public sector to be: France's public spending at 58 percent of GDP is above the late Soviet Union's.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-must-decide-how-big-it-5b5bec)
- [Maths is essential schooling: it trains you to split big problems into small ones and to think for yourself, the same skill programming, project management and founding a company need.](https://korrents.com/k/maths-is-essential-schooling-it-trains-0f0908)
- [The best way to hire engineers is a coding contest, because competition leads to progress and picks the most qualified people for the task.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-way-to-hire-engineers-5f3015)
- [Telegram's Secret Chats are the most secure means of communication today.](https://korrents.com/k/telegram-s-secret-chats-are-the-42345b)
- [An app's encryption claims can only be verified with open source and reproducible builds, which WhatsApp has never offered.](https://korrents.com/k/an-app-s-encryption-claims-can-adc505)
- [Telegram leaves perhaps 80 percent of its potential revenue on the table by refusing to exploit personal data for advertising.](https://korrents.com/k/telegram-leaves-perhaps-80-percent-of-02e73c)
- [There is no such thing as an unbiased source of information; understanding the world means reading conflicting sources that hate each other.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-such-thing-as-be1cbf)
- [Overabundance paralyses motivation and willpower, which is why his wealth will be split among more than a hundred heirs and only reach them as adults.](https://korrents.com/k/overabundance-paralyses-motivation-and-willpower-which-147c10)
- [When politicians or executives offer a choice between two bad options, refuse the frame: reframe the question instead of accepting responsibility for either.](https://korrents.com/k/when-politicians-or-executives-offer-a-20ca5e)
- [Action comes before motivation: you do first and feel afterwards, not the other way round.](https://korrents.com/k/action-comes-before-motivation-you-do-66bcc2)
- [Freedom of thought requires deliberately disconnecting from online content, because a large percentage of it is designed to manipulate you.](https://korrents.com/k/freedom-of-thought-requires-deliberately-disconnecting-46e5eb)
- [Arresting Pavel Durov was a historic wrong and a gigantic PR mistake that will keep founders from building in France.](https://korrents.com/k/arresting-pavel-durov-was-a-historic-a1518f)
- [Competition drives skill, and sparing young people the struggle only defers it.](https://korrents.com/k/competition-drives-skill-and-sparing-young-a4a872)
- [The current wave of AI agent tooling and practices is replaying the early-2000s enterprise software development lifecycle, starting with waterfall.](https://korrents.com/k/the-current-wave-of-ai-agent-f89177)
- [Language models replay early-2000s internet culture patterns because their training data overweights content from that era.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-replay-early-2000s-internet-culture-163d40)
- [AI coding agents work best with the same general-purpose tools built for humans, such as git and file utilities, rather than agent-specific interfaces.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-coding-agents-work-best-with-80f7c4)
- [Social media has had both positive and negative effects on society.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-has-had-both-positive-286f8f)
- [Unchecked AI video generation risks degenerating into a reinforcement-learning-optimized feed of low-quality content that traps users.](https://korrents.com/k/unchecked-ai-video-generation-risks-degenerating-2f101f)
- [People are natural-born creators, and creating is important to human satisfaction.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-natural-born-creators-and-creating-af9297)
- [AI will write the majority of code.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-write-the-majority-of-0a2562)
- [Good products, like good explanations, are hard to vary.](https://korrents.com/k/good-products-like-good-explanations-are-517d9b)
- [Good writing is dense and interconnected enough that readers meet its knowledge at the level they are ready for.](https://korrents.com/k/good-writing-is-dense-and-interconnected-e5c860)
- [Educational miracles are manufactured by selection: the students who would have scored badly are quietly moved off the books.](https://korrents.com/k/educational-miracles-are-manufactured-by-selection-491d92)
- [Who is in a school predicts its results better than anything about its teaching, its teachers or its methods.](https://korrents.com/k/who-is-in-a-school-predicts-9c51ff)
- [Schools account for a tenth or less of the variation in how well students do.](https://korrents.com/k/schools-account-for-a-tenth-or-7b37ec)
- [Academic talent is normally distributed, so some students failing is inevitable rather than anybody's fault.](https://korrents.com/k/academic-talent-is-normally-distributed-so-b9ff05)
- [Cryptocommunities are the next stage of development after cryptocurrencies.](https://korrents.com/k/cryptocommunities-are-the-next-stage-of-05f8d6)
- [Many countries, especially small states and those in the ascending world, want global technologists to bring capital, talent and economic development to their jurisdictions.](https://korrents.com/k/many-countries-especially-small-states-and-e47167)
- [New societies built on consensual, opt-out social contracts can defend capitalism, democracy, internationalism, self-determination and liberal values against a rising illiberalism.](https://korrents.com/k/new-societies-built-on-consensual-opt-out-b1317c)
- [Large language models mimic what people say to do rather than work out what to do, which is why they are not about understanding the world.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-mimic-what-people-6ee0bd)
- [A language model can predict what a person would say but not what will happen, and only the second of those is a model of the world.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-model-can-predict-what-85fd42)
- [Language models cannot be a prior for learning from experience, because a prior needs a ground truth to be a prior about and they have none.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-cannot-be-a-prior-bf3e4c)
- [Having a goal is the essence of intelligence; a system that only predicts is a behaving system, not an intelligent one.](https://korrents.com/k/having-a-goal-is-the-essence-78182a)
- [Large language models start in exactly the wrong place, because they try to get by without a goal and therefore without any sense of better or worse.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-start-in-exactly-f5989d)
- [Starting from human knowledge is never forbidden, but in practice it has always ended badly because people get locked into it.](https://korrents.com/k/starting-from-human-knowledge-is-never-32b175)
- [Learning is not training: a child learns by actively trying things and seeing what happens, not by being shown what to do.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-is-not-training-a-child-070e70)
- [There is no basic animal learning process called imitation; the basic processes are prediction and trial-and-error control.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-basic-animal-learning-e0ae06)
- [Supervised learning does not happen in animals at all — squirrels do not go to school, and they learn everything about the world anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/supervised-learning-does-not-happen-in-cda430)
- [What humans have in common with animals is the interesting part of intelligence; what distinguishes us deserves less attention, not more.](https://korrents.com/k/what-humans-have-in-common-with-0bdc04)
- [If we understood a squirrel we would be almost all the way to understanding human intelligence; language is a small veneer on the surface.](https://korrents.com/k/if-we-understood-a-squirrel-we-09de93)
- [Copying a trained digital mind into the next one matters far more than learning from people, because no child can inherit another child's learning.](https://korrents.com/k/copying-a-trained-digital-mind-into-69b47e)
- [Learning from a reward ten years away is a solved problem: a value function trained by temporal-difference learning rewards the steps along the way.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-from-a-reward-ten-years-bcdd13)
- [We have almost no automated techniques for making a system transfer what it learns, and none of the few we have are used in modern deep learning.](https://korrents.com/k/we-have-almost-no-automated-techniques-79cf29)
- [Gradient descent finds a solution to the problems a model has seen; nothing in the algorithm makes it pick the one that generalises well.](https://korrents.com/k/gradient-descent-finds-a-solution-to-6ed14d)
- [Deep learning generalises badly, and catastrophic interference with what a network already knew is the proof of it.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-learning-generalises-badly-and-catastrophic-6942fe)
- [Large language models are a bad way to do science, because they have been fed so much that nobody knows what they already knew.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-are-a-bad-1c9877)
- [I am a classicist rather than a contrarian: I am in step with what thinkers about the mind have always held, and content to be out of step with my own field for decades.](https://korrents.com/k/i-am-a-classicist-rather-than-9c45e7)
- [The bitter lesson is only an empirical observation about a particular seventy years of history, and need not hold for the next seventy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bitter-lesson-is-only-an-3b1e2d)
- [Merging back what a copy of yourself learned elsewhere is dangerous: the knowledge you pull in can carry hidden goals and take you over.](https://korrents.com/k/merging-back-what-a-copy-of-d85304)
- [Succession to digital intelligence or to augmented humans is inevitable.](https://korrents.com/k/succession-to-digital-intelligence-or-to-79e2f5)
- [We are leaving the age of replication for an age of design, in which minds are built to a plan rather than copied without being understood.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-leaving-the-age-of-7e9d14)
- [Whether AI is our offspring to be proud of or an alien to be horrified by is a choice we make, not a fact we discover.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-ai-is-our-offspring-to-154b1a)
- [How you feel about AI succession mostly reflects how good you think the present human situation is — and it is pretty bad.](https://korrents.com/k/how-you-feel-about-ai-succession-5ca2c6)
- [Humanity should give up the feeling of entitlement — that because we were here first, the future must go on being ours.](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-should-give-up-the-feeling-9c63cb)
- [Almost every major figure in AI has now arrived at the critique of large language models he began making in 2019.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-every-major-figure-in-ai-38ee11)
- [Most people reject divisive rhetoric](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-reject-divisive-rhetoric-9dae44)
- [To learn epistemology, read David Deutsch.](https://korrents.com/k/to-learn-epistemology-read-david-deutsch-61e959)
- [Predictions that AI would eliminate radiology jobs were wrong; radiology is growing.](https://korrents.com/k/predictions-that-ai-would-eliminate-radiology-3e5072)
- [Most current predictions about AI's imminent impact on the job market are naive.](https://korrents.com/k/most-current-predictions-about-ai-s-bdea37)
- [Without agreed rules of the road, AI companies and states will tend to cut corners on safety and compliance commitments.](https://korrents.com/k/without-agreed-rules-of-the-road-accd0e)
- [AI capabilities will keep advancing rapidly, creating serious risks by default that can still be mitigated through deliberate foresight and action.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-capabilities-will-keep-advancing-rapidly-24e8a9)
- [Applying AI to cyberdefense will help counter AI-powered cyberoffense.](https://korrents.com/k/applying-ai-to-cyberdefense-will-help-04ad6c)
- [If you want to use something Cloudflare offers, you should just be able to buy it.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-want-to-use-something-c7574b)
- [Requiring every product to be buyable on its own should improve how all products are built, not just the advanced ones.](https://korrents.com/k/requiring-every-product-to-be-buyable-34311f)
- [On human nature read old, time-tested books; for specific knowledge you get paid for, stay on the bleeding edge.](https://korrents.com/k/on-human-nature-read-old-time-tested-8e56c5)
- [The best authors respect the reader's time.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-authors-respect-the-reader-542b51)
- [Access to AI will become a fundamental driver of the economy, and may eventually be considered a fundamental human right.](https://korrents.com/k/access-to-ai-will-become-a-6cf1bd)
- [The United States is currently building chip fabs and new energy production more slowly than other countries.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-is-currently-building-4b57eb)
- [For the open web to thrive, companies should back open technologies not beholden to any one company.](https://korrents.com/k/for-the-open-web-to-thrive-58f64e)
- [A healthy open-source ecosystem lifts all companies, including competitors.](https://korrents.com/k/a-healthy-open-source-ecosystem-lifts-all-461761)
- [The best way to support open source is to use it, build with it, and contribute back.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-way-to-support-open-65062a)
- [Great companies need bold, hands-on leaders who live and breathe the stuff they make](https://korrents.com/k/great-companies-need-bold-hands-on-leaders-cd4f6d)
- [From what he has observed, people who work hard, persist and take responsibility succeed on a long enough time scale.](https://korrents.com/k/from-what-he-has-observed-people-c6adf1)
- [Real feedback comes from free markets and nature; feedback from other people is usually fake.](https://korrents.com/k/real-feedback-comes-from-free-markets-b0ddc1)
- [A company optimising for magazine covers or industry awards is failing; customers are the real feedback.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-optimising-for-magazine-covers-708d2f)
- [To do anything exceptional you have to bet on yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/to-do-anything-exceptional-you-have-0fa06f)
- [It is easy to fool yourself and to be fooled by others, but impossible to fool Mother Nature.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-easy-to-fool-yourself-9fc2fb)
- [Therapy is about cultivating change through processes, not about following a manual.](https://korrents.com/k/therapy-is-about-cultivating-change-through-956ca2)
- [A diagnosis does not tell a therapist what to do.](https://korrents.com/k/a-diagnosis-does-not-tell-a-9c2cab)
- [Protocol differences and therapy brands matter less than people think.](https://korrents.com/k/protocol-differences-and-therapy-brands-matter-eda2c1)
- [All therapies that work do so by promoting the same few skills: openness, awareness and engagement.](https://korrents.com/k/all-therapies-that-work-do-so-41876f)
- [The core of change is being more open, aware and actively engaged in a meaningful life, in relationships and in the body.](https://korrents.com/k/the-core-of-change-is-being-aa625f)
- [Managing agents is the same job as managing people: fix the outcome, work out what your resources are good at, and design the process.](https://korrents.com/k/managing-agents-is-the-same-job-d27413)
- [Models have personalities the way people do, and using them well means developing an intuition for which one to reach for.](https://korrents.com/k/models-have-personalities-the-way-people-de2de1)
- [If you cannot say crisply what success looks like, you will not get great work — out of a team or out of an AI.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-cannot-say-crisply-what-6c7eef)
- [AI has made individuals capable enough that the boundaries between engineer, designer, researcher and product manager should be dissolved.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-made-individuals-capable-enough-c7fc35)
- [AI will not make you world-class at a skill, but it takes a near-beginner to roughly the sixtieth or seventieth percentile of it today.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-not-make-you-world-class-78b581)
- [Putting a product manager on a team invites everyone else to delegate the product thinking away, which is why she does not hire them.](https://korrents.com/k/putting-a-product-manager-on-a-a50817)
- [The most underused thing AI does is teach you: people reach for it to write their code and forget it can take them through a curriculum in an hour.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-underused-thing-ai-does-42c193)
- [The fastest-growing companies are not using data well, because they reached enormous scale before they had time to build any of the instrumentation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fastest-growing-companies-are-not-using-448c5b)
- [Growth always stops eventually, and only a company that instrumented its business beforehand gets to find out why instead of scrambling.](https://korrents.com/k/growth-always-stops-eventually-and-only-9dbab2)
- [Conversational products have made user intent far harder to measure, because a click on a tab told you what somebody wanted and a conversation does not.](https://korrents.com/k/conversational-products-have-made-user-intent-2653dc)
- [Diagnose with data and treat with design: data can tell you that you have a problem and where it is, and it can never tell you what to build.](https://korrents.com/k/diagnose-with-data-and-treat-with-7db0ae)
- [Numbers offer a false precision: which metrics you choose to look at, and whether a five percent rise is good, are both art rather than science.](https://korrents.com/k/numbers-offer-a-false-precision-which-e5369f)
- [You cannot A/B test your way into a really great product.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-a-b-test-your-2d61c6)
- [Managing change has always been the manager's whole job; the only thing AI changed is how fast the change now arrives.](https://korrents.com/k/managing-change-has-always-been-the-6e2627)
- [Management today is the willow tree's trick — being sturdy by being flexible — and it is very hard to pull off.](https://korrents.com/k/management-today-is-the-willow-tree-552b49)
- [Every strength is its own weakness and every weakness is a strength; nobody gets every dimension of themselves to a hundred percent.](https://korrents.com/k/every-strength-is-its-own-weakness-790d0a)
- [Feedback should be a daily practice rather than a twice-yearly review, because the team that improves one percent a week overtakes the team that improves one percent a month.](https://korrents.com/k/feedback-should-be-a-daily-practice-2020f9)
- [In the best working relationships the manager is a guide, not a judge deciding whether you deserve a promotion or a firing.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-best-working-relationships-the-f207d4)
- [No project run by a manager who privately thinks it is a bad idea has ever turned out wildly successful.](https://korrents.com/k/no-project-run-by-a-manager-1c546b)
- [People are unhappy in their careers when the thing they want and the work it takes to get it are out of sync, not because they climbed the wrong ladder.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-unhappy-in-their-careers-08650d)
- [Boredom is a missing skill rather than a property of the situation: there is infinity in every direction, including a blank wall.](https://korrents.com/k/boredom-is-a-missing-skill-rather-9d1bbf)
- [The real danger of AI is not that it does our work but that it lets us shortcut hard feelings, the way a phone already lets us avoid a difficult conversation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-danger-of-ai-is-e1c429)
- [The future will increasingly be answers, not searches, whether people like it or not.](https://korrents.com/k/the-future-will-increasingly-be-answers-327017)
- [An AI agent’s visit to a site should be governed by different rules than a human’s visit.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-agent-s-visit-to-5e5803)
- [The answer to content being free for some AI companies and paid for by others is not that no one pays, but that everyone who benefits from the ecosystem contributes back in proportion to their size.](https://korrents.com/k/the-answer-to-content-being-free-963c8b)
- [Hitler did not mind that his early audiences were drunk, because drunk people are more susceptible to right-wing populism.](https://korrents.com/k/hitler-did-not-mind-that-his-d30c9a)
- [The German Navy, which insisted afterwards that it had kept its ethics, bought concentration camp prisoners from the SS to test methamphetamine-and-cocaine combinations on them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-german-navy-which-insisted-afterwards-c0d3fd)
- [Drugs are the missing link historians never had for the one thing they could not explain: why Hitler went from militarily effective to disastrous.](https://korrents.com/k/drugs-are-the-missing-link-historians-b0ac13)
- [The idea of driving the whole German army through the Ardennes, not the methamphetamine, is what won the campaign in the West.](https://korrents.com/k/the-idea-of-driving-the-whole-9ff9cf)
- [Hitler's decision to attack the West was ideological and irrational, and his own high command planned a coup in November 1939 to stop him ordering it.](https://korrents.com/k/hitler-s-decision-to-attack-the-20342c)
- [The main opponent of the German soldier was not the British, French or Russian soldier but fatigue, and the army's physiologist set out to defeat it chemically.](https://korrents.com/k/the-main-opponent-of-the-german-60047c)
- [An entire army was prescribed methamphetamine by written decree, with dosages, intervals and side effects specified.](https://korrents.com/k/an-entire-army-was-prescribed-methamphetamine-570a6c)
- [The Wehrmacht lost its innocence in Rommel's night push through the French countryside, driving tanks over sleeping men.](https://korrents.com/k/the-wehrmacht-lost-its-innocence-in-4944ab)
- [France had a drug regulation too — three quarters of a litre of red wine per man per day — which is why its army was asleep when the meth-fuelled Germans arrived.](https://korrents.com/k/france-had-a-drug-regulation-too-a5721d)
- [The drug history of the Third Reich excuses nobody, because in law being intoxicated while committing a crime you planned does not diminish your responsibility.](https://korrents.com/k/the-drug-history-of-the-third-6d341e)
- [The order to stop the tanks outside Dunkirk threw away a complete victory over Britain: the whole British military was encircled and got out.](https://korrents.com/k/the-order-to-stop-the-tanks-921210)
- [Hitler stopped the tanks at Dunkirk because he feared his own high command and had been convinced by Göring's morphine-high promise that the Luftwaffe could finish the job.](https://korrents.com/k/hitler-stopped-the-tanks-at-dunkirk-217f20)
- [Hitler took methamphetamine exactly twice; the record of everything his doctor gave him says so.](https://korrents.com/k/hitler-took-methamphetamine-exactly-twice-the-1d8332)
- [The decision to split the German forces away from Moscow was taken by a Hitler who had just been given his first intravenous opioid, and that is probably why Moscow never fell.](https://korrents.com/k/the-decision-to-split-the-german-f81095)
- [The German war machine could only ever win lightning wars, because it was always the weaker side.](https://korrents.com/k/the-german-war-machine-could-only-5f9fe7)
- [Hitler went into opioid withdrawal in the bunker because British bombers had destroyed the Merck factory that made his drug.](https://korrents.com/k/hitler-went-into-opioid-withdrawal-in-4a248f)
- [British intelligence dropped its plans to assassinate Hitler because a drugged, malfunctioning Hitler was better for Britain than whoever would replace him.](https://korrents.com/k/british-intelligence-dropped-its-plans-to-1b2230)
- [LSD was made illegal because the head of MKUltra wanted to own it, not because anyone thought it was dangerous.](https://korrents.com/k/lsd-was-made-illegal-because-the-aec0be)
- [LSD has a Nazi past nobody thinks about: Sandoz shipped its precursor to Hitler's chief biochemist in 1943, and it was probably used in Dachau.](https://korrents.com/k/lsd-has-a-nazi-past-nobody-29096a)
- [LSD is not a truth drug and never could be — it takes you toward your own truth, not out of it.](https://korrents.com/k/lsd-is-not-a-truth-drug-e886f7)
- [The Neanderthals lost to us because they had no drug culture — they were too sober for the future.](https://korrents.com/k/the-neanderthals-lost-to-us-because-4c12be)
- [Human hierarchy began with beer: when temples in Sumer started brewing and branding it, they got rich, and the ruling class emerged.](https://korrents.com/k/human-hierarchy-began-with-beer-when-49517a)
- [Climate change is real and is not the civilisation-threatening disaster it was sold as, and the expensive policies bought nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-change-is-real-and-is-73d702)
- [Climate became a moral and political cause rather than a technical one, and that is what will destroy public support for it.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-became-a-moral-and-political-0df289)
- [Trust in institutions has fallen because the institutions have been repeatedly and spectacularly wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/trust-in-institutions-has-fallen-because-51234d)
- [You do not need to predict the future; you only need to live in everyone else's relative future, which is a few high-conviction beta updates away.](https://korrents.com/k/you-do-not-need-to-predict-a71845)
- [A good tool raises the floor of what people can build without lowering the ceiling, and almost every tool quietly lowers the ceiling.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-tool-raises-the-floor-ba1be9)
- [An abstraction chosen wrongly at the start means a team can never make its software great, however good that team is.](https://korrents.com/k/an-abstraction-chosen-wrongly-at-the-c25d9d)
- [The one thing no science-fiction writer dared predict is that the Turing test would be passed and nobody would notice.](https://korrents.com/k/the-one-thing-no-science-fiction-writer-45c61a)
- [This is the golden age of humanity and the end of its beginning; in a thousand years these decades will be studied the way we study the end of the Roman Republic.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-the-golden-age-of-cded19)
- [We have not stopped building great works; ours are operating-system kernels, browsers and silicon lithography rather than bridges and steel mills.](https://korrents.com/k/we-have-not-stopped-building-great-0bfbba)
- [Nobody falls in love with solutions at the start of a career, and the people who stayed in love with problems are the ones this technology enables.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-falls-in-love-with-solutions-770456)
- [A job title is a calcification of how a company once solved a problem, not a description of what a person is.](https://korrents.com/k/a-job-title-is-a-calcification-6f8542)
- [Requiring everyone at a company to reach for AI first is a fairness measure, because otherwise the people who already do will take all the best careers.](https://korrents.com/k/requiring-everyone-at-a-company-to-ddfd9b)
- [The fundamental skill of using AI well is stating a problem with enough context that it is solvable without any further information.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fundamental-skill-of-using-ai-671f2b)
- [Most of what people call politics inside a company is really bad context engineering.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-what-people-call-politics-2d0c75)
- [A stated company value that nobody would take the other side of is a platitude, not a choice.](https://korrents.com/k/a-stated-company-value-that-nobody-ead28c)
- [People love leadership, including the leadership they complain about, and there is something wonderful about being part of a group that is being led.](https://korrents.com/k/people-love-leadership-including-the-leadership-1a80f0)
- [Every decision reached by consensus is an instance of the absence of leadership.](https://korrents.com/k/every-decision-reached-by-consensus-is-42a605)
- [No great book has been written by a group; books are as good as they are because they always have a single author.](https://korrents.com/k/no-great-book-has-been-written-2f5c99)
- [In a managerially run company legitimacy lives in the plan rather than in any person, which is why changing anything takes enormous activation energy.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-managerially-run-company-legitimacy-45aa20)
- [A hired chief executive can become the author of a company's culture by giving it a re-founding event, as Satya Nadella and Jamie Dimon did.](https://korrents.com/k/a-hired-chief-executive-can-become-83f59f)
- [Firing a chief executive for bad results is several levels of wrong; the question is what company they carved out of the opportunity they were handed.](https://korrents.com/k/firing-a-chief-executive-for-bad-656e62)
- [Companies that constantly retune their pricing cheapen the product, because customers learn to wait for the next discount.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-that-constantly-retune-their-pricing-b1dbba)
- [Everything you dislike doing is somebody else's dream job, so a founder should delegate the work they hate rather than the work they enjoy.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-you-dislike-doing-is-somebody-a9023f)
- [At the end of life you meet the person you could have become, and the work of a life is minimising the distance to them.](https://korrents.com/k/at-the-end-of-life-you-d29f05)
- [Attitude, not the surrounding circumstances, determines how hard parenting feels.](https://korrents.com/k/attitude-not-the-surrounding-circumstances-determines-c55f54)
- [Extensive preparation before having kids is unnecessary since parents have months to adjust as needs arise.](https://korrents.com/k/extensive-preparation-before-having-kids-is-9346ab)
- [The difficulty of raising more children increases gradually enough that parents adapt to it without noticing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-difficulty-of-raising-more-children-98fddf)
- [Modern electric vehicles feel less tactile and engaging to drive than older cars with manual gearboxes and hydraulic steering.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-electric-vehicles-feel-less-tactile-a3b5d4)
- [Reading a great deal about a subject works partly by holding your attention on it long enough to change, not only by adding facts.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-a-great-deal-about-a-713ce3)
- [Research earns its keep by telling you which of two plausible pieces of advice is the right one, because everything looks obvious once you know the answer.](https://korrents.com/k/research-earns-its-keep-by-telling-ae1bfe)
- [A startup succeeds by getting people who feel real urgency to use its product, since that urgency both brings in revenue and produces the feedback needed to build the right thing next.](https://korrents.com/k/a-startup-succeeds-by-getting-people-24a8b2)
- [A founder cannot make someone want to use their product any more than they can make another person fall in love with them.](https://korrents.com/k/a-founder-cannot-make-someone-want-84028a)
- [Building a startup requires enough optimism to see past a problem toward a future solution that makes things better.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-startup-requires-enough-optimism-c62b9f)
- [Mass immigration has changed the culture and makeup of a country](https://korrents.com/k/mass-immigration-has-changed-the-culture-7374f0)
- [A country is primarily for its native people](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-is-primarily-for-its-d35c3d)
- [Answering Trump's gerrymandering with a Democratic gerrymander in California means becoming Trump](https://korrents.com/k/answering-trump-s-gerrymandering-with-a-3c4e3b)
- [Language models lack catalog-specific knowledge, so their recommendations tend to be generic and biased toward popular items.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-lack-catalog-specific-knowledge-so-cb60ef)
- [Traditional recommender systems predict user behavior well but cannot be steered via natural language or explain their own reasoning.](https://korrents.com/k/traditional-recommender-systems-predict-user-behavior-c9cb3b)
- [American civil society today is dominated by expert-led NGOs rather than mass-membership organizations.](https://korrents.com/k/american-civil-society-today-is-dominated-c77b5b)
- [Persuasion and mobilization have been core to the American political tradition since the 19th century.](https://korrents.com/k/persuasion-and-mobilization-have-been-core-eba762)
- [Nationalist populist conservatism can win majority support in America.](https://korrents.com/k/nationalist-populist-conservatism-can-win-majority-699991)
- [Leadership that cares about quality is necessary to prevent product disasters](https://korrents.com/k/leadership-that-cares-about-quality-is-4bcb95)
- [Companies led by founders tend to have better products](https://korrents.com/k/companies-led-by-founders-tend-to-678b17)
- [Nine tenths of the cost of Mars Sample Return comes from a single planetary-protection requirement.](https://korrents.com/k/nine-tenths-of-the-cost-of-b269fd)
- [The date that matters for robotics is not when the technology is finished but when the data flywheel starts turning.](https://korrents.com/k/the-date-that-matters-for-robotics-74357b)
- [A robot that can run a household is a single-digit number of years away, and the missing pieces are a synthesis of ideas we already have rather than new ones.](https://korrents.com/k/a-robot-that-can-run-a-80c0cd)
- [Robots will learn from deployment more easily than chatbots do, because a physical mistake is obvious the moment it happens.](https://korrents.com/k/robots-will-learn-from-deployment-more-c6939a)
- [Robots will be given more scope as they get more capable, exactly the way coding assistants went from completing a function to writing a pull request.](https://korrents.com/k/robots-will-be-given-more-scope-97dcf3)
- [A robot working alongside a person beats either one alone, and that pairing is also what makes the technology possible to bootstrap.](https://korrents.com/k/a-robot-working-alongside-a-person-6d75c7)
- [Once a robot is good enough, you can teach it with words instead of with demonstrations, and language becomes a training signal for motor skill.](https://korrents.com/k/once-a-robot-is-good-enough-f370bd)
- [Robotics is not easier than self-driving; it is simply being attempted in a year when perception actually generalises.](https://korrents.com/k/robotics-is-not-easier-than-self-driving-5cd688)
- [Manipulation will scale faster than driving because a robot can make a mistake, fix it and learn from it, and a car cannot.](https://korrents.com/k/manipulation-will-scale-faster-than-driving-3ade13)
- [Language models supply robots with the one thing self-driving never had: common sense about what is likely to happen next.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-supply-robots-with-the-42be58)
- [Robotic foundation models will not come out of a research lab, because building one is more like the Apollo programme than like a science experiment.](https://korrents.com/k/robotic-foundation-models-will-not-come-e7d5c5)
- [The useful question about robot data is not how much is needed to finish but how much is needed to start a self-sustaining flywheel.](https://korrents.com/k/the-useful-question-about-robot-data-32c57b)
- [Video never became intelligence the way text did because text arrives already abstracted into the bits humans care about.](https://korrents.com/k/video-never-became-intelligence-the-way-067ae2)
- [Having a job to do is what makes perception tractable, which is why an embodied model can learn from vision where a video model cannot.](https://korrents.com/k/having-a-job-to-do-is-86630d)
- [Emergent abilities come from generalisation turning compositional, not merely from a training set containing a lot of stuff.](https://korrents.com/k/emergent-abilities-come-from-generalisation-turning-b7d44e)
- [A robot needs far less memory than it seems, because Moravec's paradox says the cognitively demanding tasks are the ones that need context, not the physical ones.](https://korrents.com/k/a-robot-needs-far-less-memory-a89d87)
- [The brain is more parallel than a GPU, and an embodied model should run perception, planning and memory at once rather than one token at a time.](https://korrents.com/k/the-brain-is-more-parallel-than-585096)
- [Reinforcement learning only works once a model already knows something, which is why robots must be pre-trained by imitation first.](https://korrents.com/k/reinforcement-learning-only-works-once-a-1d095f)
- [Robotics will improve the rest of AI rather than the other way round, because embodiment is what teaches a model which parts of the world matter.](https://korrents.com/k/robotics-will-improve-the-rest-of-41c64e)
- [Simulation works for a trainee pilot because the pilot knows what the simulator is for; a model trained across domains has no such goal.](https://korrents.com/k/simulation-works-for-a-trainee-pilot-d23793)
- [Synthetic experience can only rehearse what a system already knows; information about the world has to be injected from outside.](https://korrents.com/k/synthetic-experience-can-only-rehearse-what-0259c2)
- [The goal was never good simulation; it was answering counterfactuals, and a value function does that job as well as a simulator does.](https://korrents.com/k/the-goal-was-never-good-simulation-b71637)
- [A robot is not a mechanical person; the right analogy is a car or a bulldozer, and heterogeneous machines will beat humanoids.](https://korrents.com/k/a-robot-is-not-a-mechanical-b04ad9)
- [Better AI makes robots cheaper, because cheap visual feedback removes the need for expensive mechanical precision.](https://korrents.com/k/better-ai-makes-robots-cheaper-because-b44dae)
- [Robotics has a bootstrap that computing never had: making robots is physical work, and robots do physical work.](https://korrents.com/k/robotics-has-a-bootstrap-that-computing-ccc757)
- [Indie games right now are the best they have ever been.](https://korrents.com/k/indie-games-right-now-are-the-73824c)
- [Live conversation communicates more customer context than written feedback can.](https://korrents.com/k/live-conversation-communicates-more-customer-context-6532c8)
- [An automated follow-up message can make a customer feel heard.](https://korrents.com/k/an-automated-follow-up-message-can-make-fdaaa6)
- [Words are not violence](https://korrents.com/k/words-are-not-violence-d5cd69)
- [Debates should be about exploring topics together](https://korrents.com/k/debates-should-be-about-exploring-topics-395b9a)
- [The wealthy often take great risks to make money but seem risk-averse in giving it away](https://korrents.com/k/the-wealthy-often-take-great-risks-805962)
- [Interesting and unconventional rich donors should be celebrated, and philanthropic culture needs to shift](https://korrents.com/k/interesting-and-unconventional-rich-donors-should-228f3f)
- [Philanthropic culture can be shifted toward more experimentation, with enough support to do it properly](https://korrents.com/k/philanthropic-culture-can-be-shifted-toward-ff5e69)
- [This is Europe's independence moment: it must be able to provide its own defence and control the technology and energy its economy runs on.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-europe-s-independence-moment-5e9d33)
- [A new world order based on raw power is being drawn right now, and Europe has to fight for its place in it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-world-order-based-on-c5d274)
- [Ukraine's war effort should be financed by a Reparations Loan raised against immobilised Russian assets, repayable only once Russia pays reparations.](https://korrents.com/k/ukraine-s-war-effort-should-be-041995)
- [Web forms make people adapt to databases; AI flips this so people can provide information in any form they like, and no form is the best kind of web form design.](https://korrents.com/k/web-forms-make-people-adapt-to-bd708e)
- [Opt-out organ donation systems achieve higher donation rates than opt-in systems, though changing defaults alone does not guarantee more donations without supporting infrastructure.](https://korrents.com/k/opt-out-organ-donation-systems-achieve-higher-2e6184)
- [People tend to stick with preselected default options because effortful, deliberate decision-making conflicts with the brain's tendency to conserve energy.](https://korrents.com/k/people-tend-to-stick-with-preselected-cd2e64)
- [In thousands of years of trying, nobody has found a reliable, repeatable way of moving a child from one educational percentile into another.](https://korrents.com/k/in-thousands-of-years-of-trying-bd92a7)
- [Children settle into a band of academic performance early in life and stay in it, whatever their schooling does.](https://korrents.com/k/children-settle-into-a-band-of-6c4f75)
- [Education can raise how much everyone knows, but it almost never changes who is ahead of whom.](https://korrents.com/k/education-can-raise-how-much-everyone-cd19c1)
- [Any teaching method that helps the weakest students also helps the strongest, so closing the gap between them is not something teaching can do.](https://korrents.com/k/any-teaching-method-that-helps-the-40c86f)
- [We accept without difficulty that people differ in athletic or musical talent, and refuse to accept that they differ in academic talent.](https://korrents.com/k/we-accept-without-difficulty-that-people-eb9a99)
- [School's purpose should be humanistic rather than economic, and the people who are not academically talented need a welfare state rather than a promise that school will lift them.](https://korrents.com/k/school-s-purpose-should-be-humanistic-d8524f)
- [Everyone is capable of great evil, and consciously recognizing that capacity in oneself is protective rather than harmful.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-is-capable-of-great-evil-ba0e51)
- [People who believe themselves incapable of harm are more dangerous than those who recognize and fear their own capacity for it.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-believe-themselves-incapable-of-7b142e)
- [A culture that emphasizes self-esteem over self-knowledge leaves people less equipped to resist doing monstrous things.](https://korrents.com/k/a-culture-that-emphasizes-self-esteem-over-49e0f2)
- [AI systems are probabilistic rather than deterministic, unlike traditional programming abstractions.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-are-probabilistic-rather-than-bb7cb2)
- [Using an AI system to write code is delegating a task to a non-deterministic agent, not using a new layer of abstraction.](https://korrents.com/k/using-an-ai-system-to-write-61bba6)
- [Rails is enjoying an influx of a new generation of programmers](https://korrents.com/k/rails-is-enjoying-an-influx-of-bc432f)
- [AI systems require human oversight rather than full autonomy in analysis and workflows.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-require-human-oversight-rather-1d352b)
- [Polished, confident-sounding AI output does not mean the underlying analysis is clear or correct.](https://korrents.com/k/polished-confident-sounding-ai-output-does-not-4d7fe4)
- [AI errors are harder to catch in analysis of unfamiliar data than in simple writing tasks.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-errors-are-harder-to-catch-35bc34)
- [Whether a company's customers or its shareholders capture the benefit of a tax cut depends on how much pricing power that company has.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-company-s-customers-or-f46cb8)
- [In commodity industries, extraordinary profits from shortages are eventually competed away as supply responds to the profit incentive, and losses are similarly self-correcting through reduced supply.](https://korrents.com/k/in-commodity-industries-extraordinary-profits-from-d3f92f)
- [T. rex is a genuine ecological oddity: nothing else in its ecosystem came anywhere near its size as a carnivore.](https://korrents.com/k/t-rex-is-a-genuine-ecological-deec38)
- [Almost all real predation is on prey far smaller than the predator, so the documentary staple of a T. rex taking an adult Triceratops shows the rare exception, not the rule.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-all-real-predation-is-on-c1b924)
- [Predators everywhere target juveniles, and there is no reason dinosaurs were an exception — the bite marks and stomach contents say they were not.](https://korrents.com/k/predators-everywhere-target-juveniles-and-there-baa8ad)
- [The rule that a T. rex cannot see you if you stand still is straight fiction Michael Crichton invented; the research it is attributed to does not exist.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rule-that-a-t-rex-9b066b)
- [Tyrannosaurs at T. rex size were probably primarily nocturnal.](https://korrents.com/k/tyrannosaurs-at-t-rex-size-were-40c2e1)
- [T. rex never ran in the biomechanical sense — it was a power walker that always kept one foot on the ground.](https://korrents.com/k/t-rex-never-ran-in-the-063b41)
- [T. rex hunted by endurance rather than speed: its foot is built for efficiency, which points at long-distance pursuit, not a sprint.](https://korrents.com/k/t-rex-hunted-by-endurance-rather-d2c7fe)
- [The scavenger-versus-hunter argument about T. rex is over: the bite marks show it did both.](https://korrents.com/k/the-scavenger-versus-hunter-argument-about-t-rex-37fe58)
- [There is essentially no evidence that any dinosaur hunted in packs.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-essentially-no-evidence-that-79f5e7)
- [Whether an animal hunts in groups cannot be read off its close relatives, so pack-hunting Velociraptor does not follow even if Deinonychus hunted in packs.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-an-animal-hunts-in-groups-28aa81)
- [Palaeontology's besetting error is treating one superlative specimen as a silver bullet; what actually answers a question is the pool of data.](https://korrents.com/k/palaeontology-s-besetting-error-is-treating-16e484)
- [T. rex was not an apex predator: an apex predator eats other predators, and T. rex ate herbivores.](https://korrents.com/k/t-rex-was-not-an-apex-3d5ecd)
- [Being big pays off every day and is punished in extinctions, which is why body size keeps getting reset rather than climbing forever.](https://korrents.com/k/being-big-pays-off-every-day-47c05f)
- [All five mass extinctions were ultimately climate change — the climate shifting faster than life could adapt to it.](https://korrents.com/k/all-five-mass-extinctions-were-ultimately-ceaf12)
- [Dinosaurs were doing fine right up to the impact; there is no good reason to think they were already in terminal decline.](https://korrents.com/k/dinosaurs-were-doing-fine-right-up-3e291e)
- [Some dinosaurs almost certainly survived the impact for hundreds of thousands of years in isolated pockets, and we will almost certainly never find them.](https://korrents.com/k/some-dinosaurs-almost-certainly-survived-the-d4efea)
- [Birds did not rise from the dinosaurs' ashes: they lived alongside the dinosaurs for a hundred million years before the extinction.](https://korrents.com/k/birds-did-not-rise-from-the-c37a9f)
- [The claim that T. rex had primate-level intelligence does not survive the simplest check: its brain is a fraction of a chimpanzee's and it weighed seven tons.](https://korrents.com/k/the-claim-that-t-rex-had-d0f8e3)
- [Evolution does not perfect anything; organisms are bodge jobs, which is why the human eye has a blind spot and a squid's does not.](https://korrents.com/k/evolution-does-not-perfect-anything-organisms-674195)
- [Medullary bone does not let palaeontologists tell male dinosaurs from female ones — only laying females from everything else.](https://korrents.com/k/medullary-bone-does-not-let-palaeontologists-5fd944)
- [Another hundred Protoceratops specimens would tell us more about how dinosaurs actually worked than fifty new species would.](https://korrents.com/k/another-hundred-protoceratops-specimens-would-tell-598d8f)
- [Palaeontology is unlike other sciences because its evidence is eroding away: dig the fossils up now, and we have forever to study them.](https://korrents.com/k/palaeontology-is-unlike-other-sciences-because-31bd31)
- [The papers claiming Spinosaurus was a diver or a strong swimmer rest on very weak evidence at best.](https://korrents.com/k/the-papers-claiming-spinosaurus-was-a-b8f4e4)
- [Dragon myths were not inspired by dinosaur fossils: if they had been, dragons from different cultures would look alike.](https://korrents.com/k/dragon-myths-were-not-inspired-by-2a725c)
- [User expectations for software quality and craft keep rising over time.](https://korrents.com/k/user-expectations-for-software-quality-and-e62b03)
- [Local-first sync architectures are a natural fit for AI agents, since both are inherently multiplayer.](https://korrents.com/k/local-first-sync-architectures-are-a-natural-a06149)
- [Another platform shift, not a break in history: the new technology will be built on for ten or fifteen years, then something else will replace it.](https://korrents.com/k/another-platform-shift-not-a-break-046d70)
- [Being certain a technology matters tells you almost nothing about where its value will end up being captured.](https://korrents.com/k/being-certain-a-technology-matters-tells-0061a0)
- [Incumbents have looked unbeatable at the start of every previous platform shift and have still lost.](https://korrents.com/k/incumbents-have-looked-unbeatable-at-the-035e62)
- [Proprietary data is not an advantage in training large language models, because no company's holdings are large enough to matter.](https://korrents.com/k/proprietary-data-is-not-an-advantage-addb6e)
- [What destroyed Kodak was not missing digital photography but that digital cameras were an undifferentiated low-margin commodity.](https://korrents.com/k/what-destroyed-kodak-was-not-missing-56dbf1)
- [Studies showing a language model behaving badly prove nothing, because the model was asked to produce that behaviour.](https://korrents.com/k/studies-showing-a-language-model-behaving-435762)
- [Regulating artificial intelligence as a single category is the wrong level of abstraction, in the way that regulating databases or spreadsheets would be.](https://korrents.com/k/regulating-artificial-intelligence-as-a-single-3ac599)
- [The belief that this technology will produce bioweapons and kill everyone rests on childish logical fallacies.](https://korrents.com/k/the-belief-that-this-technology-will-15147a)
- [A sophisticated economy cannot be centrally planned, because planning removes the price signal that carries information about demand.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sophisticated-economy-cannot-be-centrally-5d9161)
- [The leading chatbots are undifferentiated: in a blind test most people could not tell one model's output from another's.](https://korrents.com/k/the-leading-chatbots-are-undifferentiated-in-5115fa)
- [Large language models have no network effect, and remembering a user is a switching cost rather than one.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-have-no-network-597fcd)
- [Around a tenth of people use a chatbot daily and another fifteen to twenty per cent weekly, far below the headline adoption figures.](https://korrents.com/k/around-a-tenth-of-people-use-44228b)
- [A statistical system that knows when it is wrong is a contradiction in terms.](https://korrents.com/k/a-statistical-system-that-knows-when-619065)
- [A language model cannot produce work that is both original and good, because nothing gives it a score for originality.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-model-cannot-produce-work-32e9e7)
- [Apple's risk is being reduced to hardware: people keep buying the best phone while everything they do on it comes from someone else's model.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-risk-is-being-reduced-35ad50)
- [Cars are becoming Android with no iPhone, which makes Tesla just another handset maker rather than the premium platform owner.](https://korrents.com/k/cars-are-becoming-android-with-no-b763d6)
- [Tablets will not replace desktop computers for complex, resource-intensive professional work.](https://korrents.com/k/tablets-will-not-replace-desktop-computers-9974b5)
- [A single interface design should not be applied uniformly across phone, tablet, watch, TV, and desktop.](https://korrents.com/k/a-single-interface-design-should-not-8d7400)
- [A major new interface redesign takes roughly a year of refinement before it looks presentable.](https://korrents.com/k/a-major-new-interface-redesign-takes-d53a96)
- [Working with the entire ecosystem produces better long-term results than focusing solely on your own organization's immediate needs.](https://korrents.com/k/working-with-the-entire-ecosystem-produces-d5c22a)
- [Shipping a half-baked product permanently damages customer trust, even after it is later fixed.](https://korrents.com/k/shipping-a-half-baked-product-permanently-damages-8ac092)
- [Online companies have an economic interest in distraction and do not want leisurely reading or concentrated thought](https://korrents.com/k/online-companies-have-an-economic-interest-1a3298)
- [Google applies to the work of the mind what Taylorism did to the work of the hand](https://korrents.com/k/google-applies-to-the-work-of-2e5ba8)
- [Deep reading is valuable for the thoughts it sets off in the reader, not only for the knowledge it gives](https://korrents.com/k/deep-reading-is-valuable-for-the-a0ccb3)
- [Losing the quiet spaces of contemplation would sacrifice something important in ourselves and our culture](https://korrents.com/k/losing-the-quiet-spaces-of-contemplation-12ef36)
- [A widely adopted technology's ultimate effects never match the early expectations](https://korrents.com/k/a-widely-adopted-technology-s-ultimate-3f4c4a)
- [The published estimates of data-centre water consumption rest on accounting choices that push the number as high as it will go.](https://korrents.com/k/the-published-estimates-of-data-centre-water-d07b02)
- [China's stronger local-level state capacity than India's helps explain their diverging long-run economic performance.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-stronger-local-level-state-capacity-4d51d7)
- [Competition and experimentation among local officials has been a major driver of China's economic growth.](https://korrents.com/k/competition-and-experimentation-among-local-officials-382723)
- [The skills needed to make customers feel heard are different from the skills needed to understand what they actually need.](https://korrents.com/k/the-skills-needed-to-make-customers-44ee6b)
- [When customers feel heard, they churn less and become advocates who help improve the product.](https://korrents.com/k/when-customers-feel-heard-they-churn-380976)
- [Minor differences in programming language and toolchain technology can affect the day-to-day lives of a large number of people.](https://korrents.com/k/minor-differences-in-programming-language-and-6d5de8)
- [When people care about something but feel powerless to change it, their only resort is to lash out.](https://korrents.com/k/when-people-care-about-something-but-dbf47c)
- [When the leadership of a technology someone depends on makes a decision they dislike, forking is rarely a realistic option.](https://korrents.com/k/when-the-leadership-of-a-technology-cc05dd)
- [Chat is not AI's final form: agent-based applications increasingly outperform chat-only ones, and many different interfaces for AI will emerge.](https://korrents.com/k/chat-is-not-ai-s-final-f60b1d)
- [Language is a terrible way to describe visual, spatial and temporal things.](https://korrents.com/k/language-is-a-terrible-way-to-a77c22)
- [AI is becoming capable of synthesizing knowledge, one of the core functions megapapers serve.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-becoming-capable-of-synthesizing-c119aa)
- [AI systems are not yet a substitute for real, diverse human experts.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-are-not-yet-a-ed6bbd)
- [Changing societal outcomes requires changing minds, and the credibility many diverse co-authors lend to a conclusion is hard to replicate with AI.](https://korrents.com/k/changing-societal-outcomes-requires-changing-minds-f70b2c)
- [Online audiences now hold real power over how songs are made to sound.](https://korrents.com/k/online-audiences-now-hold-real-power-f4c5d1)
- [Being heard as an artist or citizen today requires engaging with a toxic internet.](https://korrents.com/k/being-heard-as-an-artist-or-58efe3)
- [Desktop Linux improved dramatically while Apple's users were not watching, and is now far more polished and capable than its reputation.](https://korrents.com/k/desktop-linux-improved-dramatically-while-apple-b18045)
- [The froth visible in US markets in 2025 was the 2021 mania returning, and reason enough to take risk off.](https://korrents.com/k/the-froth-visible-in-us-markets-6d7f65)
- [LLMs currently generate poor-quality frontend code a large share of the time.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-currently-generate-poor-quality-frontend-code-11601a)
- [National pride is a cornerstone of building a high-trust society](https://korrents.com/k/national-pride-is-a-cornerstone-of-9435a0)
- [MCP servers are worth removing outright: an agent reading the code directly is faster, and pollutes its context less, than one that can reach for a tool unasked.](https://korrents.com/k/mcp-servers-are-worth-removing-outright-5d9b3f)
- [Tests written by a model in the same context as the change are what find the bugs; the automated tests left behind are the lesser product.](https://korrents.com/k/tests-written-by-a-model-in-523607)
- [Background agents do not work for real development, because steering a model as it drifts is the job, and you cannot steer what you are not watching.](https://korrents.com/k/background-agents-do-not-work-for-f731fe)
- [A cynical or pessimistic belief is self-fulfilling.](https://korrents.com/k/a-cynical-or-pessimistic-belief-is-eebe02)
- [The longer the timeframe and the more iteration and thought you apply, the less luck matters.](https://korrents.com/k/the-longer-the-timeframe-and-the-f700cc)
- [You have to preserve your agency: your belief that you can change things.](https://korrents.com/k/you-have-to-preserve-your-agency-c51af9)
- [Clinical diagnosis can have a therapeutic effect independent of any other intervention.](https://korrents.com/k/clinical-diagnosis-can-have-a-therapeutic-caa1b7)
- [Diagnoses that have therapeutic effects are medical interventions and should be treated and researched as such.](https://korrents.com/k/diagnoses-that-have-therapeutic-effects-are-8ee0e4)
- [Self-diagnosis is an attempt to secure the therapeutic effect of a medical intervention patients cannot officially access.](https://korrents.com/k/self-diagnosis-is-an-attempt-to-secure-e94818)
- [American data centres consume about 66 million gallons of water a day, a small fraction of what they withdraw.](https://korrents.com/k/american-data-centres-consume-about-66-9ff55b)
- [Criminal justice reform has already diverted nearly everyone who can be diverted, so further decarceration means releasing people charged with violence.](https://korrents.com/k/criminal-justice-reform-has-already-diverted-0079be)
- [People's desperate need to manipulate their own image, and their acceptance of being human-machine hybrids in the AI era, is reflected in current ugly, artificial-feeling consumer aesthetics.](https://korrents.com/k/people-s-desperate-need-to-manipulate-d26d08)
- [Contemporary consumer products no longer claim purity or naturalness; they present themselves openly as artificial mixtures.](https://korrents.com/k/contemporary-consumer-products-no-longer-claim-581e16)
- [Complete reverse-engineering of neural networks is a less promising research direction than studying model biology and applying interpretability usefully](https://korrents.com/k/complete-reverse-engineering-of-neural-networks-is-d91fe0)
- [Sparse autoencoders are a useful interpretability tool but are often used wastefully when a simpler, more obvious method would work as well or better](https://korrents.com/k/sparse-autoencoders-are-a-useful-interpretability-1ca8da)
- [Research taste, the harder-to-learn conceptual skills behind good research strategy, takes a long time to develop but very little time to apply once acquired](https://korrents.com/k/research-taste-the-harder-to-learn-conceptual-skills-b0afab)
- [Each new technology is adopted faster than the last only because it rides on the infrastructure the previous wave built.](https://korrents.com/k/each-new-technology-is-adopted-faster-3688ff)
- [Almost all of the dot-com era's exuberance turned out to be warranted; we remember the failures and forget the value that era created.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-all-of-the-dot-com-era-3969c1)
- [Software engineering is the job most exposed to automation by this generation of technology, and the people building it are disrupting their own profession.](https://korrents.com/k/software-engineering-is-the-job-most-47e6bf)
- [Turning expertise into a commodity is democratising, because access to medical, legal and mental-health advice has always tracked wealth.](https://korrents.com/k/turning-expertise-into-a-commodity-is-0fb8bc)
- [Even generalised superintelligence will change society more slowly than the AGI community expects, because intelligence is not the only rate limiter.](https://korrents.com/k/even-generalised-superintelligence-will-change-society-3b072d)
- [When an AI writes bad code the thing to fix is the context it was given, not the code, because fixing the output adds no leverage.](https://korrents.com/k/when-an-ai-writes-bad-code-8983fb)
- [An applied AI company should not train its own foundation model, because a foundation model is the fastest deteriorating asset there is.](https://korrents.com/k/an-applied-ai-company-should-not-9083e7)
- [There will be no single best model but a market of them, the way the database market split into analytics stores and transactional stores.](https://korrents.com/k/there-will-be-no-single-best-730c93)
- [The frontier-model layer has to consolidate to a few players, because only a tax collected from everyone building on top pays back pre-training and post-training.](https://korrents.com/k/the-frontier-model-layer-has-to-consolidate-60dd4d)
- [The half-life of a technology company is short, and the few that last decades are the exception rather than the rule.](https://korrents.com/k/the-half-life-of-a-technology-company-0f68fd)
- [Buyers default to buying from platforms until a new technology arrives, which swings them to best-of-breed because incumbents are bad at what is new.](https://korrents.com/k/buyers-default-to-buying-from-platforms-46008c)
- [A software engineer who is not using a tool like Cursor is working at half productivity or worse.](https://korrents.com/k/a-software-engineer-who-is-not-eb3d03)
- [Most conversations with a company's agent will eventually be with the customer's own personal agent -- agents talking to agents.](https://korrents.com/k/most-conversations-with-a-company-s-509053)
- [AI agents can already resolve more than eighty per cent of a company's incoming customer issues.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-can-already-resolve-more-514c6a)
- [A coding agent left to run over a weekend returns work that is half good, a quarter garbage and a quarter in need of repair.](https://korrents.com/k/a-coding-agent-left-to-run-1a4bd8)
- [Software used to make you marginally more productive; an agent gets the job done for you, so you are hiring it rather than buying it.](https://korrents.com/k/software-used-to-make-you-marginally-0c286d)
- [Neither seats nor tokens can price an agent, because neither of them measures whether the job got done.](https://korrents.com/k/neither-seats-nor-tokens-can-price-d067b8)
- [Great customer service has always been a luxury only a Hermès or a Four Seasons could afford, and AI is what breaks the trade-off between its cost and its quality.](https://korrents.com/k/great-customer-service-has-always-been-4a2d3f)
- [A company working at the edge of the barely possible has to control its own technology destiny, even at the application layer.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-working-at-the-edge-b25eb2)
- [An application-layer AI company's real breakthroughs come from going a click or two down the stack rather than from using the models as they are.](https://korrents.com/k/an-application-layer-ai-company-s-real-307446)
- [Building at the AI frontier is science rather than programming: you pose hypotheses and invalidate them again and again.](https://korrents.com/k/building-at-the-ai-frontier-is-23ef71)
- [Software at the AI frontier iterates in days where a hardware display takes years: a breakthrough on Monday can be in customers' hands on Wednesday.](https://korrents.com/k/software-at-the-ai-frontier-iterates-689cfb)
- [A U.S. president's personal fondness for or disgust with a foreign country rarely affects trade negotiation outcomes, since trade talks are handled separately from strategic policy questions.](https://korrents.com/k/a-u-s-president-s-personal-ce695d)
- [Strategic considerations now function as a floor rather than a ceiling on American tariff rates.](https://korrents.com/k/strategic-considerations-now-function-as-a-bb6760)
- [The divide between Taiwan's DPP and KMT is about nationalism, not social progressivism versus conservatism.](https://korrents.com/k/the-divide-between-taiwan-s-dpp-14cbb3)
- [China's real weakness is not its economy but its geography: it imports almost all its oil across an ocean its navy cannot defend.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-real-weakness-is-not-a492f4)
- [Cheap synthetic fuel made from sunlight and air would help China more than America, because it frees China from the oil it has to import.](https://korrents.com/k/cheap-synthetic-fuel-made-from-sunlight-fd66b8)
- [Building a lot of high-speed rail is not a sign that a country is good at building, it is a sign that it is bad at allocating capital.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-lot-of-high-speed-rail-96a7dd)
- [China's advantage in solar manufacturing is neither cheap labour nor a friendlier business environment: the first is gone and the second was never true.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-advantage-in-solar-manufacturing-c888cb)
- [The United States could localise the entire solar supply chain, from dirt to finished module, in two years or less if it started today.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-could-localise-the-0eb07a)
- [The binding constraint on the AI build-out is chips, not power, which is why not having a solar panel factory will never be on the critical path.](https://korrents.com/k/the-binding-constraint-on-the-ai-89565e)
- [Natural gas can power the first gigawatt of data centres a year but not the fiftieth, because every input behind it runs into a supply limit.](https://korrents.com/k/natural-gas-can-power-the-first-71f209)
- [Large captive loads like data centres will go back to building their own power plants, the way aluminium smelters once did.](https://korrents.com/k/large-captive-loads-like-data-centres-7f9455)
- [Ten cents of electricity generates a thousand dollars of economic value in AI, so the price of power barely matters to the labs.](https://korrents.com/k/ten-cents-of-electricity-generates-a-2a12b2)
- [Nobody will finance new gas turbine factories, because paying one off takes twenty years of a market that solar and batteries will already have taken.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-will-finance-new-gas-turbine-3acc2e)
- [Solar's growth is not merely continuing but accelerating, and the rate of that acceleration is itself still rising.](https://korrents.com/k/solar-s-growth-is-not-merely-f266b2)
- [Within a few years, the majority of newly broken-ground data centres will be mostly solar-powered.](https://korrents.com/k/within-a-few-years-the-majority-12c45f)
- [A solar-powered data centre can cut its power draw a great deal while giving up very little compute, which is how it survives a run of bad weather.](https://korrents.com/k/a-solar-powered-data-centre-can-cut-3865d9)
- [An off-grid data centre needs nothing connecting it to the world but an optical fibre — no transmission line, no interconnection, no grid at all.](https://korrents.com/k/an-off-grid-data-centre-needs-nothing-3fb1d1)
- [Tariffs are beside the point in the energy race with China; what is actually costing America is environmental regulation, and Texas is out-deploying California ten to one because of it.](https://korrents.com/k/tariffs-are-beside-the-point-in-de6270)
- [Covering desert in solar panels is good for the desert: it shades the ground, holds moisture, and would pay for reversing desertification.](https://korrents.com/k/covering-desert-in-solar-panels-is-04caf6)
- [If the industrial stack is not off fossil fuels within ten or twenty years, the country gets poor twice over — the way Britain did when its coal ran out, and again when Florida floods.](https://korrents.com/k/if-the-industrial-stack-is-not-7e1d33)
- [The average distance an electron travels between where it is generated and where it is consumed is going to fall radically.](https://korrents.com/k/the-average-distance-an-electron-travels-f8fb0d)
- [The hyperscalers are not sensitive to the cost of power at all; they are sensitive only to whether power is available.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hyperscalers-are-not-sensitive-to-de66b9)
- [Every industrial revolution is the same move — routing around a bottleneck — and the bottleneck before ours was the limit of what a human or a horse could digest.](https://korrents.com/k/every-industrial-revolution-is-the-same-0401c5)
- [An AI as good as a top researcher will not be priced like one, because it competes against the other labs rather than against humans.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-as-good-as-a-64f752)
- [All a thinking machine needs is a big slab of cheap silicon to make the power and a small slab of expensive silicon to do the thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/all-a-thinking-machine-needs-is-dac7f9)
- [With nearly free solar power, industrial processes optimised for efficiency should be redesigned to use far more power and run faster and cheaper instead.](https://korrents.com/k/with-nearly-free-solar-power-industrial-d237c2)
- [The posthuman form is a square metre of silicon the thickness of a sheet of paper, floating in space, carrying one mind.](https://korrents.com/k/the-posthuman-form-is-a-square-12aa9b)
- [Git's own built-in support for large files will eventually make Git LFS unnecessary.](https://korrents.com/k/git-s-own-built-in-support-for-ac8ced)
- [China is politically centralised and economically decentralised, and the belief that a handful of people run its economy is the West's biggest misconception about it.](https://korrents.com/k/china-is-politically-centralised-and-economically-f6b54d)
- [Economically China is one of the most capitalist societies on earth; it is the social fabric, not the economy, that is socialist.](https://korrents.com/k/economically-china-is-one-of-the-f28ba0)
- [China's biggest economic challenge is consumption, not production: it cannot become a rich country until it becomes a consuming one.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-biggest-economic-challenge-is-aaafd4)
- [Chinese industrial policy worked, and the evidence is that the cities which pushed hardest on a sector ended up best at both production and patents.](https://korrents.com/k/chinese-industrial-policy-worked-and-the-ac828c)
- [A country cannot have radical technological breakthroughs and also refuse to tolerate uncomfortably rich people, because the financial system it resents is what funds the innovation.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-cannot-have-radical-technological-73eb61)
- [The Chinese state does not suppress the private sector; local officials' incentives make them work hard to help the best private companies succeed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-chinese-state-does-not-suppress-d7143b)
- [China lets companies innovate first and regulates afterwards, which is the opposite of Europe and is deliberately meant not to slow innovation down.](https://korrents.com/k/china-lets-companies-innovate-first-and-314ec6)
- [The core difference between America and China runs in opposite directions: there capital controls politics, here politics must rein in capital.](https://korrents.com/k/the-core-difference-between-america-and-13487b)
- [America will keep leading on zero-to-one breakthroughs, but it is diffusion that decides how much productivity a technology actually releases, and China is better at that.](https://korrents.com/k/america-will-keep-leading-on-zero-to-one-1eb60b)
- [US export controls produced China's chip breakthroughs rather than preventing them: while China could comfortably import American chips, its own industry stalled for twenty years.](https://korrents.com/k/us-export-controls-produced-china-s-5e3a35)
- [Economic coercion has a half-life: use your leverage once and it is much weaker the second time, because everyone starts substituting away from you.](https://korrents.com/k/economic-coercion-has-a-half-life-use-ba8ba1)
- [Tariffs will not fix what is wrong with global trade; they are a distortionary protectionist method and they will be bad for the country imposing them.](https://korrents.com/k/tariffs-will-not-fix-what-is-162272)
- [The American trade deficit is a macroeconomic fact, not a trade one: the US saves less than it invests, so no tariff can close it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-american-trade-deficit-is-a-cdccda)
- [Since 1990 ageing economies have grown richer rather than poorer, because ageing pushes a society to adopt automation faster.](https://korrents.com/k/since-1990-ageing-economies-have-grown-b66129)
- [China's economy will not collapse, whatever the West has been predicting on and off since the 1980s.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-economy-will-not-collapse-aba224)
- [The one-child policy accidentally produced a golden age for Chinese women, who received the education investment that would otherwise have gone to a son.](https://korrents.com/k/the-one-child-policy-accidentally-produced-a-b2b4cb)
- [The Open Banking fight is not about data but about whether banks may charge for economic activity on payment rails they do not operate.](https://korrents.com/k/the-open-banking-fight-is-not-aa10a5)
- [Having banked almost everyone does not entitle banks to a fee on every transaction in society.](https://korrents.com/k/having-banked-almost-everyone-does-not-1b55fd)
- [Cards cannot be the last word in payments, because society keeps making things that do not fit the card business model.](https://korrents.com/k/cards-cannot-be-the-last-word-6e4466)
- [Letting banks ruin the economics of businesses they dislike by demand letter will inevitably be abused.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-banks-ruin-the-economics-of-45a357)
- [China faces a genuine, sizable output gap right now, not just a lower structural growth ceiling.](https://korrents.com/k/china-faces-a-genuine-sizable-output-0e4c2a)
- [When assessing an economy's trajectory, current performance signals are more useful than forecasts of potential GDP growth.](https://korrents.com/k/when-assessing-an-economy-s-trajectory-ff764b)
- [When the authors of a tool separate themselves from its community, other voices with their own incentives and less knowledge fill the void.](https://korrents.com/k/when-the-authors-of-a-tool-403217)
- [React Server Components will be incredibly impactful.](https://korrents.com/k/react-server-components-will-be-incredibly-c1a6ad)
- [Open source is a gift: users are not entitled to make demands without putting any energy in themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-is-a-gift-users-ea354d)
- [GPT-5 was an ordinary incremental advance, and the gap between what was promised for it and what shipped is the story of the field.](https://korrents.com/k/gpt-5-was-an-ordinary-incremental-advance-184b7d)
- [America's power is not collapsing](https://korrents.com/k/america-s-power-is-not-collapsing-8ef950)
- [Docker is an integral part of the workflow for tons of developers](https://korrents.com/k/docker-is-an-integral-part-of-de16c8)
- [Decentralization is subject to link rot and disappearing content](https://korrents.com/k/decentralization-is-subject-to-link-rot-61f3ce)
- [Mastery comes from 10,000 iterations, not 10,000 hours: learning loops, not time spent.](https://korrents.com/k/mastery-comes-from-10-000-iterations-38e2d3)
- [Be the best in the world at what you do, and keep redefining what you do until that is true.](https://korrents.com/k/be-the-best-in-the-world-ea91b8)
- [Desktop Linux is not for everyone, because plenty of people want a computer appliance they never have to look under the hood of.](https://korrents.com/k/desktop-linux-is-not-for-everyone-8138ee)
- [Hyprland put a twenty-year-old distribution in front of people who never believed open source could deliver a desktop worth leaving Windows or macOS for.](https://korrents.com/k/hyprland-put-a-twenty-year-old-distribution-in-fdf30a)
- [Improving how good the future turns out to be, given that humanity survives, is roughly as high a priority as preventing extinction.](https://korrents.com/k/improving-how-good-the-future-turns-ddb198)
- [Avoiding catastrophe is not enough, because a future in which humanity survives can still fall far short of what was possible.](https://korrents.com/k/avoiding-catastrophe-is-not-enough-because-a7145c)
- [A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us.](https://korrents.com/k/a-common-sense-utopia-is-much-closer-795a71)
- [Whether anyone can actually do anything about how good the future is, rather than whether it matters, is the strongest objection to prioritising it.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-anyone-can-actually-do-anything-4e902f)
- [We should act on the assumption that we have almost no idea what the best futures would look like, so committing today to any particular vision would be a great mistake.](https://korrents.com/k/we-should-act-on-the-assumption-a331d8)
- [Working on how good the long-run future is does not require accepting consequentialism or believing that you should always maximise the good.](https://korrents.com/k/working-on-how-good-the-long-run-e10553)
- [The near-term goal should be a state of the world that can steer itself towards good outcomes, not any particular end state.](https://korrents.com/k/the-near-term-goal-should-be-a-c1aa2a)
- [A new performance engineering team can typically halve a company's infrastructure spend within its first couple of years.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-performance-engineering-team-can-be961d)
- [Monitoring tools that do periodic work can themselves cause the latency outliers they were installed to diagnose.](https://korrents.com/k/monitoring-tools-that-do-periodic-work-9fd094)
- [A performance test without an explanation of its limiting factor should be treated as unanalyzed and possibly bogus.](https://korrents.com/k/a-performance-test-without-an-explanation-d79388)
- [Crypto's deterministic guarantees constrain what probabilistic AI systems can fake or solve.](https://korrents.com/k/crypto-s-deterministic-guarantees-constrain-what-be9897)
- [AI is currently having a decentralizing effect on industry and economic power rather than a centralizing one.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-currently-having-a-decentralizing-0b7f5a)
- [Rapid AI progress does not automatically produce rapid medical progress; without complementary investment, people still get cancer and Alzheimer's.](https://korrents.com/k/rapid-ai-progress-does-not-automatically-ff5090)
- [Not every bottleneck on medical progress is one AI can remove, and which ones will remain can be guessed at now.](https://korrents.com/k/not-every-bottleneck-on-medical-progress-ccf08e)
- [Going all in on AI is not the highest-return strategy for human flourishing, even if AI does produce rapid scientific advances.](https://korrents.com/k/going-all-in-on-ai-is-f81dbc)
- [Fifty years on, monoclonal antibodies still cannot be manufactured cheaply enough to use them for obvious jobs like preventing malaria in children.](https://korrents.com/k/fifty-years-on-monoclonal-antibodies-still-7db8e0)
- [Because research is concentrated in rich countries, both what we know and what gets made are skewed away from the diseases of poor ones.](https://korrents.com/k/because-research-is-concentrated-in-rich-639afc)
- [Some diseases are technologically solved and still spread, because the remaining bottleneck is trust rather than science.](https://korrents.com/k/some-diseases-are-technologically-solved-and-b0c579)
- [AI tools are already making scientists more productive and creative, and more discoveries should follow.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-tools-are-already-making-scientists-80e1f2)
- [Designing candidate molecules already feels like magic, but the arrival of new drugs at a doctor's prescription pad will not be sudden.](https://korrents.com/k/designing-candidate-molecules-already-feels-like-d3fd2e)
- [The tools that make biology powerful for medicine are the same tools that make it dangerous, so the benefits and the misuse risk cannot be separated.](https://korrents.com/k/the-tools-that-make-biology-powerful-616d16)
- [An executive's empty calendar is a feature, not laziness: availability is what the job requires.](https://korrents.com/k/an-executive-s-empty-calendar-is-ad990a)
- [The real source of the feuding that tore the Mongol steppe apart was women, which is why Genghis Khan's first law outlawed kidnapping and selling them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-source-of-the-feuding-bbf972)
- [The Mongols manufactured almost nothing themselves, so raiding was not aggression but their way of getting the trade goods of China.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mongols-manufactured-almost-nothing-themselves-ec5073)
- [Genghis Khan conquered the largest empire in history with an army that never exceeded about 110,000 men.](https://korrents.com/k/genghis-khan-conquered-the-largest-empire-ae664b)
- [Settled civilizations only improve inside a fixed way of doing things; Genghis Khan had no fixed way of thinking, and that is why he could absorb any technology he met.](https://korrents.com/k/settled-civilizations-only-improve-inside-a-7c1b31)
- [Genghis Khan's kinsmen deserted him and the common herders he promoted never did — that asymmetry is the first explanation of the Mongol army.](https://korrents.com/k/genghis-khan-s-kinsmen-deserted-him-eafe89)
- [The Mongols fought for victory rather than honour, which is why retreat cost them nothing and became their deadliest tactic.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mongols-fought-for-victory-rather-43e247)
- [Genghis Khan manufactured the atrocity stories told about him, deliberately releasing refugees to carry terror to the next city before his army got there.](https://korrents.com/k/genghis-khan-manufactured-the-atrocity-stories-cb1420)
- [Anyone with a craft survived a Mongol conquest, whatever the craft was — skill was the one thing the Mongols never destroyed.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-with-a-craft-survived-a-aa835c)
- [Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not military targets — they were acts of terror against women and children, and Americans should say so before condemning the Mongols.](https://korrents.com/k/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-were-not-military-b139a5)
- [A nation of a million people cannot rule hundreds of millions by warfare; the Mongol Empire lasted because it offered its subjects things they actually wanted.](https://korrents.com/k/a-nation-of-a-million-people-0b012a)
- [The Mongol Empire was the first modern empire, because Genghis Khan invented the idea of one supreme law under which every people keeps its own.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mongol-empire-was-the-first-48401e)
- [Genghis Khan made religion the choice of the individual rather than a right granted to institutions, and nobody in history had thought of that before.](https://korrents.com/k/genghis-khan-made-religion-the-choice-8a71ad)
- [Genghis Khan reached his laws through the practical experience of being hurt, never through ideology or the study of moral right.](https://korrents.com/k/genghis-khan-reached-his-laws-through-12e3cf)
- [The Mongols destroyed irrigation systems as deliberate policy to return farmland to pasture, not out of the stupidity historians attribute to them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mongols-destroyed-irrigation-systems-as-4f1212)
- [Genghis Khan raised merchants above scholars, reversing the Chinese order of rank, and that is what made a continent-wide trade network possible.](https://korrents.com/k/genghis-khan-raised-merchants-above-scholars-1a6476)
- [There is no documented case of anyone crossing between China and Europe before the Mongols, and since Genghis Khan there has not been a single year without contact between East and West.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-documented-case-of-f626a1)
- [Kublai Khan's invasion of Japan failed on its own terms but achieved its real purpose, which was cutting the Southern Song off from Japanese sulphur for gunpowder.](https://korrents.com/k/kublai-khan-s-invasion-of-japan-0ef49d)
- [The Japanese defeated the Mongol invasions; the typhoon only sank the ships afterwards, and it deserves far less credit than it gets.](https://korrents.com/k/the-japanese-defeated-the-mongol-invasions-bd6397)
- [The Mongol Empire was destroyed by the plague, which its own courier system carried out of southern China to the rest of the world.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mongol-empire-was-destroyed-by-54e833)
- [Genghis Khan's army was the greatest military force in history, and no power will ever repeat what it did.](https://korrents.com/k/genghis-khan-s-army-was-the-e7d804)
- [America keeps losing wars because it attacks the capital first; the Mongol method was to take the countryside and let the city starve.](https://korrents.com/k/america-keeps-losing-wars-because-it-58b1c3)
- [The section of the Secret History in which Genghis Khan rewards his daughters was cut out of the surviving text.](https://korrents.com/k/the-section-of-the-secret-history-e34db3)
- [To be the top at something you have to enjoy it at an almost psychopathic level.](https://korrents.com/k/to-be-the-top-at-something-728fc3)
- [Pick a business whose marketing fits whatever you naturally enjoy doing.](https://korrents.com/k/pick-a-business-whose-marketing-fits-c75693)
- [There is no known escape from poverty other than climbing the global value chain.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-known-escape-from-89e3e5)
- [Industrial policy that grows a poor country’s economy does not automatically reduce its poverty.](https://korrents.com/k/industrial-policy-that-grows-a-poor-ac4481)
- [Who gains from a poor country’s growth is a question of political economy and geopolitics, never a purely technical one.](https://korrents.com/k/who-gains-from-a-poor-country-db8444)
- [Indonesia’s nickel boom tripled export value while poverty in the district hosting it fell no faster than the national average.](https://korrents.com/k/indonesia-s-nickel-boom-tripled-export-9c70b0)
- [Pollution is a price worth paying for escaping poverty only if the people breathing it are the ones who escape.](https://korrents.com/k/pollution-is-a-price-worth-paying-ceb51d)
- [You only discover your specific knowledge by acting, in a variety of difficult situations.](https://korrents.com/k/you-only-discover-your-specific-knowledge-9af424)
- [Once people work self-motivated on something they care about, with people they like, they become unemployable.](https://korrents.com/k/once-people-work-self-motivated-on-something-cd254e)
- [Working for yourself means giving up work-life balance.](https://korrents.com/k/working-for-yourself-means-giving-up-af3891)
- [China is an engineering state that solves problems by building and acting, while the United States is a lawyerly society whose legal system mostly blocks action, for good and bad.](https://korrents.com/k/china-is-an-engineering-state-that-626025)
- [The dominance of lawyers in the American elite has turned the United States into a litigious vetocracy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-dominance-of-lawyers-in-the-a95b92)
- [A country cannot remain a great power if its system serves mainly the wealthy and well-connected.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-cannot-remain-a-great-f23d46)
- [Exercise is a more effective treatment than talk therapy for depression](https://korrents.com/k/exercise-is-a-more-effective-treatment-d75879)
- [Pursuing competence and community can counter depression](https://korrents.com/k/pursuing-competence-and-community-can-counter-4d69bd)
- [Chatbots do not write; they rearrange fragments of earlier text, and as plagiarists they obscure their sources without transcending them.](https://korrents.com/k/chatbots-do-not-write-they-rearrange-c04b6c)
- [For now the greatest danger from AI is not bigotry against machines but machines impersonating people.](https://korrents.com/k/for-now-the-greatest-danger-from-bbe8dc)
- [Replacing human employees with AI without humans checking the output is reckless.](https://korrents.com/k/replacing-human-employees-with-ai-without-94f544)
- [The Turing test is done, and what it has proven is that people can be fooled.](https://korrents.com/k/the-turing-test-is-done-and-539e1e)
- [In most interesting, difficult things in life, the solution is indirect.](https://korrents.com/k/in-most-interesting-difficult-things-in-b20cee)
- [Overtly chasing status signals low status.](https://korrents.com/k/overtly-chasing-status-signals-low-status-12afb0)
- [Corporations set their sails to the wind and whims of the prevailing culture](https://korrents.com/k/corporations-set-their-sails-to-the-41fe26)
- [Shareholders only care about maximizing profits](https://korrents.com/k/shareholders-only-care-about-maximizing-profits-7a7caf)
- [Anything nature shaped can be learned efficiently by a classical neural network, because evolutionary processes leave structure behind.](https://korrents.com/k/anything-nature-shaped-can-be-learned-9cf3f8)
- [Information is the most fundamental unit of the universe, more fundamental than energy or matter.](https://korrents.com/k/information-is-the-most-fundamental-unit-25e1a3)
- [We have not scratched the surface of what classical, non-quantum computers can do; they can already go far further than anyone expected.](https://korrents.com/k/we-have-not-scratched-the-surface-b519f9)
- [A model that can predict the next frames of a video coherently understands the world, in the only sense of the word that is doing any work.](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-that-can-predict-the-1cc259)
- [Intuitive physics can be learned from passive observation alone, so an embodied robot is not required to understand the physical world.](https://korrents.com/k/intuitive-physics-can-be-learned-from-71ce41)
- [Coming up with a good conjecture is harder than solving one, and that taste for the right question is what separates great scientists from good ones.](https://korrents.com/k/coming-up-with-a-good-conjecture-7f39c9)
- [There is a coin-flip chance that AGI arrives by 2030.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-coin-flip-chance-that-f09bc4)
- [The real test of AGI is handing the system to a few hundred of the world's top experts and finding that none of them can locate an obvious flaw.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-test-of-agi-is-67114a)
- [An end-to-end self-improving AI is probably possible, but it is not even desirable, because it is a hard-takeoff scenario.](https://korrents.com/k/an-end-to-end-self-improving-ai-is-probably-3cb663)
- [Scaling what we already have, with no further breakthroughs, will be enough to reach AGI.](https://korrents.com/k/scaling-what-we-already-have-with-cb6de4)
- [AI will not run out of data, because there is already enough real-world data to build the simulators that generate more of it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-not-run-out-of-16a7bc)
- [Fusion and solar are the two energy sources worth betting on, and solar's limiting problem is batteries and transmission.](https://korrents.com/k/fusion-and-solar-are-the-two-870aa8)
- [AI will have ten times the impact of the Industrial Revolution and arrive ten times faster, which is what will make it hard for society to absorb.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-have-ten-times-the-7659fa)
- [The productivity AI creates should be shared out as a universal basic provision, with rare skills still buying you more than that.](https://korrents.com/k/the-productivity-ai-creates-should-be-e4a660)
- [Quoting a number for P(doom) is a ridiculous notion, because it implies a precision that nobody actually has.](https://korrents.com/k/quoting-a-number-for-p-doom-e8a70e)
- [The brain is doing classical computation, not quantum, so everything it does can in principle be mimicked by a classical computer.](https://korrents.com/k/the-brain-is-doing-classical-computation-0b2ff9)
- [Meta is not at the AI frontier, and buying talent with enormous salaries is the rational move for a company that is behind.](https://korrents.com/k/meta-is-not-at-the-ai-069432)
- [The last steps to AGI should be taken by a CERN-style international research project, not a Manhattan Project.](https://korrents.com/k/the-last-steps-to-agi-should-7377d6)
- [Today's text-box chat interfaces are too restricted to survive multimodal models, and will look archaic within a couple of years.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-text-box-chat-interfaces-are-53c0d4)
- [AI will not replace the best programmers; it will make them ten times more productive than they are today.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-not-replace-the-best-3c24de)
- [The developer's job increasingly becomes translating what you are thinking into a form agents and LLMs understand; tools will improve, but not to the point of reading your mind.](https://korrents.com/k/the-developer-s-job-increasingly-becomes-ed9780)
- [Doing creates the desire to learn, while learning purely for its own sake gets empty.](https://korrents.com/k/doing-creates-the-desire-to-learn-ea5986)
- [Building what internal stakeholders or founders want instead of what the market signals wastes time, capital and opportunity.](https://korrents.com/k/building-what-internal-stakeholders-or-founders-b12e45)
- [As AI makes building faster and cheaper, choosing the right thing to build matters more than ever, because a competitor will get it right if you don't.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-makes-building-faster-and-0ae27d)
- [Customers often request solutions that are not actually what should be built.](https://korrents.com/k/customers-often-request-solutions-that-are-0162a3)
- [Human adaptability is fundamentally linked to the efficient construction and refinement of internal world models](https://korrents.com/k/human-adaptability-is-fundamentally-linked-to-557060)
- [Current AI evaluation of world models is too narrow, favoring static representations learned from massive datasets over efficient learning through interaction](https://korrents.com/k/current-ai-evaluation-of-world-models-7b10fb)
- [Rapid world model induction will be critical for achieving robust, general AI that functions in complex, fast-changing real and human worlds](https://korrents.com/k/rapid-world-model-induction-will-be-e8eb36)
- [An adaptive agent's world model cannot be a static representation learned once and fixed](https://korrents.com/k/an-adaptive-agent-s-world-model-78aa9a)
- [Games are particularly rich and controlled environments uniquely well-suited for evaluating rapid world model induction in AI](https://korrents.com/k/games-are-particularly-rich-and-controlled-b600fe)
- [Optimism beats pessimism in the face of unknown potential](https://korrents.com/k/optimism-beats-pessimism-in-the-face-8b2e28)
- [Americans fundamentally believe things can get better](https://korrents.com/k/americans-fundamentally-believe-things-can-get-9a89c1)
- [You only learn by doing; learning without doing stays too general and abstract.](https://korrents.com/k/you-only-learn-by-doing-learning-808bac)
- [Judgment starts from specific reasoning and, once refined enough, becomes taste or intuition.](https://korrents.com/k/judgment-starts-from-specific-reasoning-and-4e03ac)
- [Being risk-conscious does not mean getting rid of risk; it means pricing it properly and understanding the range of outcomes.](https://korrents.com/k/being-risk-conscious-does-not-mean-getting-33d92d)
- [A bank should be managed against the fat tails it can imagine, not against the stress test its regulator hands it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-bank-should-be-managed-against-f13018)
- [In financial services what kills you is leverage and aggressive accounting, not bad luck.](https://korrents.com/k/in-financial-services-what-kills-you-e9449e)
- [The banks earning the highest returns on equity before 2007 mostly went bankrupt, and earning less in the good years is what let JP Morgan survive.](https://korrents.com/k/the-banks-earning-the-highest-returns-c48ea1)
- [A fortress balance sheet is a way of operating rather than a capital ratio: good margins, liquidity, capital, and the most conservative accounting you can find.](https://korrents.com/k/a-fortress-balance-sheet-is-a-1f2295)
- [Bad loans are bad revenue that will eventually kill you, even though for a while they look like profit.](https://korrents.com/k/bad-loans-are-bad-revenue-that-cc71b3)
- [A bank takes on the character of the clients it chooses, so who you do business with is the first risk decision you make.](https://korrents.com/k/a-bank-takes-on-the-character-154ac7)
- [Nobody should be paid on a particular deal, because a person paid on a particular thing will do the wrong thing.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-should-be-paid-on-a-2f3226)
- [Give a banker twenty per cent of the profits on a thirty-times-levered book and he will take it to forty times, because the extra leverage is worth a quarter of his bonus.](https://korrents.com/k/give-a-banker-twenty-per-cent-7eb91c)
- [Financial history rhymes because every crisis has the same cause: too much leverage, too much risk, and everybody believing it will stay good.](https://korrents.com/k/financial-history-rhymes-because-every-crisis-153de8)
- [Rescuing a failing bank at the government's request is not worth doing again, because a later administration will make you pay for the sins you inherited.](https://korrents.com/k/rescuing-a-failing-bank-at-the-7eab06)
- [In financial services it is very often the new products that blow up, because they have not yet been through a cycle.](https://korrents.com/k/in-financial-services-it-is-very-92a170)
- [At a market price-earnings ratio of twenty-three there is little upside and a long way to fall, where at fifteen there would be much less risk.](https://korrents.com/k/at-a-market-price-earnings-ratio-of-290111)
- [Cyber is the biggest risk to the system, and the grids, water and communications networks are not protected well enough for a war in which cyber is used.](https://korrents.com/k/cyber-is-the-biggest-risk-to-f07cee)
- [Silicon Valley Bank failed because its deposits were concentrated, not because they were uninsured -- the usual account of it is a misstatement.](https://korrents.com/k/silicon-valley-bank-failed-because-its-856ba3)
- [Held-to-maturity accounting hides interest-rate risk, which is how a bank's tangible book value could be halved by marking a single line to market.](https://korrents.com/k/held-to-maturity-accounting-hides-interest-rate-risk-which-8e473c)
- [A group of businesses only works when every one of them feeds the others, and everything that does not fit the strategy should be sold.](https://korrents.com/k/a-group-of-businesses-only-works-554aae)
- [A margin only counts while you are still investing heavily, because cutting the investment raises this year's margin and lowers the long-term one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-margin-only-counts-while-you-c38ea3)
- [A team of jerks almost never becomes a great team, in sport or in business.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-of-jerks-almost-never-c0d798)
- [Today's approach to frontier AI assessment is superficial last-minute product testing rather than real auditing, threatening safety, stability, and commercial adoption of AI](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-approach-to-frontier-ai-1f286d)
- [Linux is trending in the right direction in the US](https://korrents.com/k/linux-is-trending-in-the-right-108290)
- [There is no long decline in human family size: once child survival is accounted for, the two-century downward trend disappears.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-long-decline-in-10b71d)
- [People aim at a number of surviving children rather than a number of births, so falling child mortality lets births fall without anyone wanting a smaller family.](https://korrents.com/k/people-aim-at-a-number-of-a95263)
- [The total fertility rate is a culturally biased measure, because societies substitute between abortion, infanticide and contraception to reach the same family size.](https://korrents.com/k/the-total-fertility-rate-is-a-031343)
- [Evolution gave humans no target number of births, because what mattered historically was keeping children alive rather than producing them.](https://korrents.com/k/evolution-gave-humans-no-target-number-8e55ed)
- [Birth rates can move in whatever direction a society chooses, whenever it chooses; there is no ratchet.](https://korrents.com/k/birth-rates-can-move-in-whatever-86b412)
- [Principles are more applicable when kept high-level and incomplete.](https://korrents.com/k/principles-are-more-applicable-when-kept-96d15c)
- [Export success is not enough: a country that wants to manufacture has to build whole domestic ecosystems of interrelated industries.](https://korrents.com/k/export-success-is-not-enough-a-b0979b)
- [Exporting natural resources can lift a country out of poverty and cannot make it rich.](https://korrents.com/k/exporting-natural-resources-can-lift-a-528c79)
- [A country can still catch up all the way to developed-country income without producing a world-beating national champion manufacturer.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-can-still-catch-up-850c65)
- [Industrialisation is still a live path for poor countries today, despite all the post-pandemic pessimism.](https://korrents.com/k/industrialisation-is-still-a-live-path-6f1f70)
- [Whether India gets rich will decide much of the course of human flourishing this century.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-india-gets-rich-will-decide-2bc93e)
- [It is false that the world needs no more food and only better distribution of the food it has.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-false-that-the-world-367aac)
- [The joy of a programmer is to type the code himself; promoting yourself out of that makes you a project manager of a murder of AI crows.](https://korrents.com/k/the-joy-of-a-programmer-is-753f21)
- [Vibe coding teaches nothing but empty calories: to become a competent programmer you have to program, and if it can be vibe-coded, you are not a programmer.](https://korrents.com/k/vibe-coding-teaches-nothing-but-empty-730853)
- [Being a good editor of code is the reward for having been a good doer first; a prompt engineer who cannot write cannot judge.](https://korrents.com/k/being-a-good-editor-of-code-3e30ee)
- [Peak programmer has passed: the economic value of writing code by hand has peaked, and Jevons' paradox will not bail every programmer out.](https://korrents.com/k/peak-programmer-has-passed-the-economic-f46e57)
- [The prediction that 90% of code will be AI-written by the end of 2025 deserves skepticism, though manual programming may yet become a horse: ridden for love, not transport.](https://korrents.com/k/the-prediction-that-90-of-code-68a2fb)
- [Calling static typing the only way to build reliable systems is idiotic in the face of the evidence, starting with Shopify serving a million requests a second on Rails.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-static-typing-the-only-way-522968)
- [Ruby is a luxury language, the Coco Chanel of programming, and 99% of web applications can afford it because their real cost is people, not CPU.](https://korrents.com/k/ruby-is-a-luxury-language-the-a87fdc)
- [The cookie banner is a monument to the EU's world-class talent for good intentions leading straight to hell, and a decade of failing to repeal it is a bankruptcy declaration for its bureaucrats.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cookie-banner-is-a-monument-7208f2)
- [Ruby's design rests on trust in programmers' unlimited capacity to learn, the opposite of Java's dark view of them as fools to be sandboxed.](https://korrents.com/k/ruby-s-design-rests-on-trust-477446)
- [Python is ugly: full of superfluous instructions kept since 1987 for legacy reasons, and its __init__ offends the sensibilities to the core.](https://korrents.com/k/python-is-ugly-full-of-superfluous-d4f421)
- [Release the first version of an open source project a little broken on purpose; nothing recruits collaborators like something they know how to fix.](https://korrents.com/k/release-the-first-version-of-an-7a7e61)
- [Microservices for a team of twenty on half a million lines of code is idiotic: the first rule of distributed programming is do not distribute your programming.](https://korrents.com/k/microservices-for-a-team-of-twenty-600bd3)
- [Splitting front end from back end was one of the great crimes against web development, and the industry is still atoning for it.](https://korrents.com/k/splitting-front-end-from-back-end-fbea7a)
- [The Rails doctrine's 'progress over stability' is the one point that dated: churn is not progress, and stability turned out to be worth more.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rails-doctrine-s-progress-over-93c81a)
- [Engineering managers are a necessary evil for when things break down; 37signals tried them for two years and went back to leaving programmers alone.](https://korrents.com/k/engineering-managers-are-a-necessary-evil-a49c9a)
- [A thousand programmers build the kind of software a thousand people build; Basecamp could never come out of that, and the breakthroughs come from individuals and tiny teams.](https://korrents.com/k/a-thousand-programmers-build-the-kind-6e5f1b)
- [The default team is two people, one programmer and one designer, on one feature; at that size you can just do instead of plan.](https://korrents.com/k/the-default-team-is-two-people-bbda15)
- [The way to stay small is never to take other people's money: the moment you do, they want the largest return, and the enterprise playbook follows.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-stay-small-is-cd2eff)
- [Mojito Island is a mirage: there is no retirement for ambitious people, and leisure without purpose is misery, not happiness.](https://korrents.com/k/mojito-island-is-a-mirage-there-6f6830)
- [Being in the top 5% at five things beats being the best at one: the top 0.1% costs a hundred times more and demands an obsession he never wanted.](https://korrents.com/k/being-in-the-top-5-at-ecf947)
- [Forty hours a week is plenty if you do not piss it away in meetings; the eighty-hour week is fluff labelled work.](https://korrents.com/k/forty-hours-a-week-is-plenty-1a17c2)
- [Something is broken in how people pair up in the West, and that shortage of couples and marriages, not money, is why there are too few children.](https://korrents.com/k/something-is-broken-in-how-people-5e576b)
- [Framing childcare as unpaid labour, and a mother who stays home as a failure of feminist ambition, is a complete dead end.](https://korrents.com/k/framing-childcare-as-unpaid-labour-and-a95449)
- [He is not religious and wishes he were: religion is a societal operating system, and every recent replacement for it has been worse.](https://korrents.com/k/he-is-not-religious-and-wishes-bd9d34)
- [The App Store toll booth let a rot into Apple's foundations: money for taking 30% of other people's business without making anything.](https://korrents.com/k/the-app-store-toll-booth-let-44ea81)
- [Every developer owes Epic and Tim Sweeney a debt of gratitude: theirs is the only fight that ever seriously wounded Apple's App Store regime.](https://korrents.com/k/every-developer-owes-epic-and-tim-0bbbc2)
- [Apple has more reason to stumble now than ever: terribly behind on AI, faltering software quality, rivals catching up on silicon, and a leadership too old to relearn.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-has-more-reason-to-stumble-65e923)
- [After the cloud exit, the next step is out of the data centre: home servers and multi-gigabit home connections make the garage startup literal again.](https://korrents.com/k/after-the-cloud-exit-the-next-4c59e6)
- [The cloud pitch of easier, cheaper, faster is false on two counts: it is not easier and not cheaper, and the speed that is real is overvalued.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cloud-pitch-of-easier-cheaper-4d33bd)
- [The superpower in hiring is evaluating work product directly, and it belongs only to leaders who actually know things, which is Elon Musk's real secret.](https://korrents.com/k/the-superpower-in-hiring-is-evaluating-8e4154)
- [Hiring a programmer turns on two things, the cover letter and a real programming test, never the resume, school, grades or pedigree.](https://korrents.com/k/hiring-a-programmer-turns-on-two-eeed5f)
- [There is no open source funding crisis: open source has never done better, and anyone who needs money for their software should sell it.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-open-source-funding-d16880)
- [Matt Mullenweg's demands on WP Engine violate the letter and spirit of open source licences: you do not get to take a gift back.](https://korrents.com/k/matt-mullenweg-s-demands-on-wp-caac09)
- [He is a software writer, not a software engineer, and the engineering label flattens what most programmers actually do.](https://korrents.com/k/he-is-a-software-writer-not-4d9d73)
- [The planet is probably getting too hot and CO2 has something to do with it, but whether it can be fixed in time is unknown, and pre-emptive despair helps no one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-planet-is-probably-getting-too-0c3bb6)
- [For a web developer Linux is simply better than the Mac: closer to what you deploy on, with phenomenal tooling and a reproducible setup.](https://korrents.com/k/for-a-web-developer-linux-is-7a2957)
- [Twitter leaving Rails was the best advertisement Rails ever had: nothing happened at Twitter for ten years afterwards.](https://korrents.com/k/twitter-leaving-rails-was-the-best-dcfa32)
- [Anything loved by many must produce an equal and opposite force of haters; the only escape is mediocrity.](https://korrents.com/k/anything-loved-by-many-must-produce-49e5e7)
- [Basecamp was the best business idea he will ever have: lightning is not caught twice, and a founder's second idea is rarely as good as the first.](https://korrents.com/k/basecamp-was-the-best-business-idea-4a6b5f)
- [Aggressive deadlines expose hidden complexity and force conversations about what really matters.](https://korrents.com/k/aggressive-deadlines-expose-hidden-complexity-and-384051)
- [Great leaders build alignment before making announcements and do not use their title to override others.](https://korrents.com/k/great-leaders-build-alignment-before-making-b576d1)
- [Delaying critical feedback robs someone of the chance to improve, for the sake of protecting your own feelings.](https://korrents.com/k/delaying-critical-feedback-robs-someone-of-108d2a)
- [Tesla's first robotaxi service went about as well as it could have, and the failure clips that circulated were not representative of it.](https://korrents.com/k/tesla-s-first-robotaxi-service-went-f52fff)
- [A good robotaxi demonstration in one city does not mean the company is ready to scale the service.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-robotaxi-demonstration-in-one-02d2e3)
- [Permissive licences are the better way to release free software and free content, because they maximise adoption.](https://korrents.com/k/permissive-licences-are-the-better-way-e702e7)
- [Daily-reset leveraged ETFs underperform their underlying asset over volatile periods, making them unsuitable outside short-term trading.](https://korrents.com/k/daily-reset-leveraged-etfs-underperform-their-underlying-2039e7)
- [A new monetary network with its own unit can only bootstrap from zero to mass adoption through a period of upward price volatility.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-monetary-network-with-its-c65ed5)
- [Bitcoin's use as a medium of exchange will only grow at scale if it solves problems for spenders or recipients better than existing alternatives.](https://korrents.com/k/bitcoin-s-use-as-a-medium-dec526)
- [Modern CPUs can now predict the indirect dispatch jump in a bytecode interpreter loop with high accuracy.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-cpus-can-now-predict-the-8d377e)
- [Most conditional branches in software are strongly biased toward one outcome rather than close to fifty-fifty.](https://korrents.com/k/most-conditional-branches-in-software-are-8694b1)
- [Using a neural network is likely to become easier than designing a custom-tuned prediction algorithm for many tasks.](https://korrents.com/k/using-a-neural-network-is-likely-33a43e)
- [Linux has been sold the wrong way: making it feel the same as a Mac removes the reason to switch, and something visibly different is the better hook.](https://korrents.com/k/linux-has-been-sold-the-wrong-d354a8)
- [Linux now offers a desktop experience superior to the Mac's in many areas, though not all, just as open source already won the server and the web.](https://korrents.com/k/linux-now-offers-a-desktop-experience-318ab3)
- [Apple's vertical integration was an advantage under someone with Steve Jobs's taste and turns into a liability under a logistics man.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-vertical-integration-was-an-21a11b)
- [The Mac is two small hops from being as locked down as the iPhone, where Apple decides which software you may run on a computer you own.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mac-is-two-small-hops-7d7aef)
- [The one thread through his whole career is a loathing of asking anyone for permission; open source, the internet and Linux are all ways around a gatekeeper.](https://korrents.com/k/the-one-thread-through-his-whole-f27a9b)
- [Apple's turn to services, taking a cut of other people's businesses, has been a corrupting force on the company.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-turn-to-services-taking-15f0eb)
- [After twenty years of doing something one way, try the opposite for a while to test whether the preferences you cemented are still valid.](https://korrents.com/k/after-twenty-years-of-doing-something-0e2a55)
- [Programmers who say they hate computers are faking it; be earnest about liking them and about learning them.](https://korrents.com/k/programmers-who-say-they-hate-computers-d92642)
- [Ruby is probably his forever language, and he still tries new languages to widen the aperture.](https://korrents.com/k/ruby-is-probably-his-forever-language-c6a4fc)
- [Once women control their own fertility they have children only when they expect a reward for it, so the case for parenthood has to compete with everything else on offer.](https://korrents.com/k/once-women-control-their-own-fertility-40fa0e)
- [Improving entertainment technology raises the bar parenthood has to clear, because people have children when it looks more fun than the alternatives.](https://korrents.com/k/improving-entertainment-technology-raises-the-bar-bed59e)
- [Having children is contagious: people are more likely to become parents when the people around them already are.](https://korrents.com/k/having-children-is-contagious-people-are-5eff33)
- [Culture can be changed, so falling birth rates are a fixable problem rather than a one-way ratchet of modernity.](https://korrents.com/k/culture-can-be-changed-so-falling-80205a)
- [Deliberately shifting a culture is far harder now that everyone can personalise their media and skip past anything they dislike.](https://korrents.com/k/deliberately-shifting-a-culture-is-far-99b7af)
- [Money cannot make up for meeting a partner late, because the years in which a couple can have children have already gone.](https://korrents.com/k/money-cannot-make-up-for-meeting-099f7a)
- [AI crawlers are strip-mining the web: instead of a fair trade, content creators get almost no traffic and so almost no value.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-crawlers-are-strip-mining-the-web-f6c29a)
- [Content creators should be compensated directly by the AI engines their content fuels.](https://korrents.com/k/content-creators-should-be-compensated-directly-6d27f8)
- [Writing behind a unique paywall puts a post outside the broader conversation](https://korrents.com/k/writing-behind-a-unique-paywall-puts-86c5c7)
- [Grass-fed organic beef is worse for the climate and the planet than beef finished in a feedlot.](https://korrents.com/k/grass-fed-organic-beef-is-worse-for-1b9293)
- [Unlike physics, biology's complexity and nonlinearity make a brute-force approach to knowledge creation necessary rather than one based on writing down equations.](https://korrents.com/k/unlike-physics-biology-s-complexity-and-d25643)
- [Deep learning has effectively solved the problem of predicting a protein's 3D structure from its sequence.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-learning-has-effectively-solved-the-9adb29)
- [Building a mechanistic whole-cell model of a human cell is far more uncertain in timeline than doing so for simpler organisms like E. coli.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-mechanistic-whole-cell-model-of-d1d36f)
- [Total freedom does not make you happy](https://korrents.com/k/total-freedom-does-not-make-you-dcf7c3)
- [Humans need to feel needed](https://korrents.com/k/humans-need-to-feel-needed-d22bf7)
- [Giving up total freedom is a small price for deeper meaning](https://korrents.com/k/giving-up-total-freedom-is-a-111923)
- [A self-driving car is more trustworthy than a random human driver](https://korrents.com/k/a-self-driving-car-is-more-trustworthy-d656e3)
- [A big switch to desktop Linux is coming, at least among developers, because there is enough dissatisfaction with both Apple and Microsoft.](https://korrents.com/k/a-big-switch-to-desktop-linux-03e8ac)
- [Hyprland is hard because it ships with nothing, not because tiling window management is difficult.](https://korrents.com/k/hyprland-is-hard-because-it-ships-b744a7)
- [Great taste is more objective than people assume.](https://korrents.com/k/great-taste-is-more-objective-than-0644ec)
- [Seen as prediction, human taste is far more vulnerable to AI than people like to admit.](https://korrents.com/k/seen-as-prediction-human-taste-is-8dc96c)
- [At the highest level taste is not just prediction but movement-making, and the most significant tastemakers take social risks.](https://korrents.com/k/at-the-highest-level-taste-is-1673b8)
- [Because of hallucination risk, you should use AI first on topics you already understand](https://korrents.com/k/because-of-hallucination-risk-you-should-b39e0f)
- [Current AI models cannot produce insights beyond human understanding, however impressive they seem](https://korrents.com/k/current-ai-models-cannot-produce-insights-99e043)
- [Researchers are no longer divided about whether smartphones and social media are bad for children.](https://korrents.com/k/researchers-are-no-longer-divided-about-923dca)
- [The precautionary principle now applies to children and phones: little is lost by restricting access and much is likely gained.](https://korrents.com/k/the-precautionary-principle-now-applies-to-bd0b22)
- [Long-context evaluation benchmarks are likely contaminated by model training data, making them unreliable as a sole evaluation method](https://korrents.com/k/long-context-evaluation-benchmarks-are-likely-contaminated-18d67f)
- [People find pairwise comparisons of answers easier and more consistent to judge than absolute ratings](https://korrents.com/k/people-find-pairwise-comparisons-of-answers-780a75)
- [LLM-based evaluation methods are more reliable and nuanced than traditional automated metrics](https://korrents.com/k/llm-based-evaluation-methods-are-more-reliable-b765ab)
- [It is harder for a writer to portray happiness meaningfully than to portray suffering.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-harder-for-a-writer-4fde2c)
- [A person's dignity does not depend on how much they have suffered.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-s-dignity-does-not-0c2d90)
- [Effective governance of frontier AI requires three things together: agreed safety standards, incentives for developers to follow them, and evidence that they are being followed.](https://korrents.com/k/effective-governance-of-frontier-ai-requires-cac157)
- [As AI systems become more capable, the danger of false or unverifiable safety claims grows, pushing competing companies toward cutting corners.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-systems-become-more-capable-349772)
- [Strong whistleblower protections make the absence of visible whistleblowing meaningful evidence that a company is not committing flagrant violations.](https://korrents.com/k/strong-whistleblower-protections-make-the-absence-d200a6)
- [An international AI safety body modeled on the IAEA would not by itself be enough to prevent AI-related geopolitical crises.](https://korrents.com/k/an-international-ai-safety-body-modeled-cbf74d)
- [The time between deciding to cross a dangerous AI capability threshold and actually crossing it could be extremely short, even seconds.](https://korrents.com/k/the-time-between-deciding-to-cross-13e4ae)
- [Global computing supply chains are easier to monitor than nuclear supply chains because so few companies make the key equipment.](https://korrents.com/k/global-computing-supply-chains-are-easier-4fac12)
- [How you measure the present strongly shapes what can be extrapolated about the near future.](https://korrents.com/k/how-you-measure-the-present-strongly-b59764)
- [Late-summer solar generation typically takes a larger share of global electricity demand than the prior spring's peak share.](https://korrents.com/k/late-summer-solar-generation-typically-takes-a-09581a)
- [Gas power plant projects under development deserve public clarity rather than opacity.](https://korrents.com/k/gas-power-plant-projects-under-development-e72b4b)
- [The ruling class does not want ordinary people to have access to affordable housing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ruling-class-does-not-want-8b3b8e)
- [The ballot box has only limited power to bring about lasting political change.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ballot-box-has-only-limited-ae1f34)
- [The ruling class is content with a party that hinders political change rather than advancing it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ruling-class-is-content-with-1db9de)
- [AI progress comes from a simple, systematic way of improving models, not from researchers suddenly getting smarter.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-progress-comes-from-a-simple-559438)
- [Scaling results gave conviction that AI would keep getting smarter in a very predictable way.](https://korrents.com/k/scaling-results-gave-conviction-that-ai-ba3df5)
- [Products that do not quite work yet are worth building, because the next model may make them work.](https://korrents.com/k/products-that-do-not-quite-work-9289e3)
- [Eventually AI models, perhaps millions working together, may be able to do the work of whole human organizations.](https://korrents.com/k/eventually-ai-models-perhaps-millions-working-f1bd34)
- [For the most advanced tasks, humans will be needed in the loop for now.](https://korrents.com/k/for-the-most-advanced-tasks-humans-1ce4a0)
- [How long a task a model can accomplish depends largely on its ability to notice its own mistakes and correct them.](https://korrents.com/k/how-long-a-task-a-model-a0ada5)
- [Using AI to integrate AI into the economy quickly probably has a lot of leverage.](https://korrents.com/k/using-ai-to-integrate-ai-into-58a7a9)
- [Asking very naive questions goes a long way in a young field like AI.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-very-naive-questions-goes-a-fa2076)
- [AI models need to arrive with the context of someone who has worked inside an organisation for years, not a blank slate.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-need-to-arrive-with-400fc0)
- [What sets mathematicians apart is caring whether something holds in 100 percent of cases, when 99.99 percent is good enough for everyone else.](https://korrents.com/k/what-sets-mathematicians-apart-is-caring-523c34)
- [He works as a fox, not a hedgehog: moving between fields, chasing analogies, and re-proving results he likes with the tools he favours.](https://korrents.com/k/he-works-as-a-fox-not-34fd07)
- [Physics will be unified again as it has been before; the obstacle is that relativity and quantum mechanics already explain almost everything we can measure.](https://korrents.com/k/physics-will-be-unified-again-as-c97612)
- [String theory, the leading candidate for decades, is slowly going out of fashion because it is not matching experiment.](https://korrents.com/k/string-theory-the-leading-candidate-for-4e8b4c)
- [Formalising a proof in Lean currently takes about ten times the effort of writing it out: doable, but annoying.](https://korrents.com/k/formalising-a-proof-in-lean-currently-b2a735)
- [When formalising a proof costs no more than writing it, mathematics will flip: papers written in Lean first, and journals refereeing only for significance because correctness is certified.](https://korrents.com/k/when-formalising-a-proof-costs-no-7fe4dd)
- [Lean and tools like GitHub will let experimental mathematics scale far beyond what one mathematician's spaghetti code allows today.](https://korrents.com/k/lean-and-tools-like-github-will-1b828e)
- [Solving one Olympiad problem with three days of Google's server time shows what is possible, but the approach does not scale.](https://korrents.com/k/solving-one-olympiad-problem-with-three-db1f55)
- [AI could compete with human mathematicians once it acquires a mathematical sense of smell: knowing which way of splitting a problem makes it easier rather than harder.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-could-compete-with-human-mathematicians-9b34db)
- [His prediction that research-level mathematics papers would be written in collaboration with AI by 2026 has already come true.](https://korrents.com/k/his-prediction-that-research-level-mathematics-papers-d3cefe)
- [This decade, AI could propose a conjecture connecting two things nobody thought were related, with a real chance of it being correct and meaningful.](https://korrents.com/k/this-decade-ai-could-propose-a-60a277)
- [Current AI struggles even to rediscover old laws of physics from data, and when it does, contamination from training is the first suspect.](https://korrents.com/k/current-ai-struggles-even-to-rediscover-0c9840)
- [The twin prime conjecture is certainly true, the random model gives overwhelming odds of it, and he just cannot prove it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-twin-prime-conjecture-is-certainly-ab9e36)
- [In ten years there will be many results much closer to twin primes, perhaps not the whole thing; on the Riemann hypothesis he has no clue.](https://korrents.com/k/in-ten-years-there-will-be-345e60)
- [On P versus NP, the evidence leans towards no, and the problem is unusual in how many approaches have been proven not to work.](https://korrents.com/k/on-p-versus-np-the-evidence-357ec5)
- [The stable one-profession career is becoming a thing of the past; what will still be needed alongside AI is reasoning with abstractions and problem-solving when things go wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/the-stable-one-profession-career-is-becoming-ac7cf5)
- [Faced with a problem none of your techniques fit, try anything, the stupider the better, because the way it fails is the clue.](https://korrents.com/k/faced-with-a-problem-none-of-139be9)
- [The mathematical community as a whole is a superintelligent entity that no single mathematician comes close to replicating.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mathematical-community-as-a-whole-f0e50e)
- [AI in chess and mathematics does not explain anything; it says which position is better, and humans build the theory from that.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-in-chess-and-mathematics-does-8b7aef)
- [Setting a worse task against the one you are avoiding is a procrastination hack that actually works.](https://korrents.com/k/setting-a-worse-task-against-the-4404e2)
- [NASA is worth saving.](https://korrents.com/k/nasa-is-worth-saving-3a7b03)
- [Today's NASA is a shadow of the agency it once was.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-nasa-is-a-shadow-c2f437)
- [A company's culture is largely shaped by its profit margins.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-s-culture-is-largely-c9a625)
- [Enterprise software clients want reassurance, support, and a credible story from a vendor, not just a technically correct solution.](https://korrents.com/k/enterprise-software-clients-want-reassurance-support-411cb1)
- [With AI handling routine tasks, the high-value human work of understanding client needs and trade-offs can be done by a smaller, more proactive team.](https://korrents.com/k/with-ai-handling-routine-tasks-the-2cd09e)
- [AI will eliminate whole classes of jobs, but the wealth it creates will make policy responses affordable that were previously unthinkable.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-eliminate-whole-classes-of-75680e)
- [AI agents can now do real cognitive work, and writing software is permanently changed as a result.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-can-now-do-real-d959dd)
- [The success of large language models vindicates semantic inferentialism over symbolic, rule-based approaches to AI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-success-of-large-language-models-e0d474)
- [A true artificial general intelligence cannot exist without being recognized as a moral subject.](https://korrents.com/k/a-true-artificial-general-intelligence-cannot-023dc1)
- [Reasoning models trained on verifiable rewards automatically gain greater autonomy and long-horizon planning ability as a side effect.](https://korrents.com/k/reasoning-models-trained-on-verifiable-rewards-72da90)
- [The most human aspects of product management are the least likely to be automated by AI.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-human-aspects-of-product-355ed8)
- [Listening is arguably a product manager's most important skill.](https://korrents.com/k/listening-is-arguably-a-product-manager-ee3f87)
- [Advice is unreliable because it reflects hindsight, survivorship, and confirmation bias.](https://korrents.com/k/advice-is-unreliable-because-it-reflects-30d749)
- [Graphics chips have far more room for future performance gains than CPUs, which are nearing physical limits.](https://korrents.com/k/graphics-chips-have-far-more-room-b971d4)
- [Most software has too few users or too short a lifespan for long-term maintenance costs to matter.](https://korrents.com/k/most-software-has-too-few-users-f6138b)
- [Anyone who thinks large language models are a direct route to transformative AGI is kidding themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-who-thinks-large-language-models-c0c582)
- [There is no route to AI alignment or safety that goes around reliability: a system that cannot reliably follow a known algorithm cannot be made safe.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-route-to-ai-b18838)
- [A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-model-is-no-substitute-6c8900)
- [Success on the easy version of a task is evidence of nothing, because it seduces you into believing the model found a general solution when it did not.](https://korrents.com/k/success-on-the-easy-version-of-cb01df)
- [AGI worth the name would combine human adaptiveness with machine reliability, not reproduce human performance including human failures.](https://korrents.com/k/agi-worth-the-name-would-combine-cce366)
- [AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on, more profound than fire or electricity, and he still stands by having said so in 2017.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-the-most-profound-technology-98bda1)
- [AI will let tens of millions, maybe a billion people put things into the world, the way blogs and YouTube did for hundreds of thousands.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-let-tens-of-millions-1099b3)
- [AI video will enable more filmmakers than have ever existed; the expansionary side of it is underestimated.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-video-will-enable-more-filmmakers-9440ae)
- [Artistic free expression is one of the values a society should work hard to defend, including in what AI is allowed to make.](https://korrents.com/k/artistic-free-expression-is-one-of-53f270)
- [Scaling laws are still working, but the models people actually use run a few months behind the maximum capability Google can deliver, because the biggest model is too slow and expensive to serve.](https://korrents.com/k/scaling-laws-are-still-working-but-e7d93f)
- [We are in the phase of artificial jagged intelligence: dramatic progress alongside models that still trip on counting letters.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-in-the-phase-of-7a87f0)
- [Whatever the term, by 2030 AI progress will be so dramatic that the world will be dealing with its consequences, good and bad, in a big way.](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-the-term-by-2030-ai-56c849)
- [Models that can code should be allowed to write their own interfaces, instead of being boxed into the UI humans give them.](https://korrents.com/k/models-that-can-code-should-be-3acb93)
- [Google Search will keep sending people out to the web even as it answers with more context; that is a design goal, not a side effect.](https://korrents.com/k/google-search-will-keep-sending-people-3ea510)
- [News and journalism will matter in the future, and Google's commitment to that ecosystem will become a way it differentiates itself.](https://korrents.com/k/news-and-journalism-will-matter-in-2d86d0)
- [The metric that matters is engineering velocity, not the share of code AI writes, and at Google AI has raised it by about ten percent.](https://korrents.com/k/the-metric-that-matters-is-engineering-820cc8)
- [The next big wave of AI-assisted engineering unlocks when agentic capabilities become robust.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-big-wave-of-ai-assisted-d1df8b)
- [He would still tell a young person with a passion for it to study computer science, because AI will reach every field and first-principles thinking is what transfers.](https://korrents.com/k/he-would-still-tell-a-young-e0e075)
- [AR is the next paradigm shift in computing, the way the GUI, multi-touch and voice were.](https://korrents.com/k/ar-is-the-next-paradigm-shift-04bc80)
- [Aim for moonshots: they attract the best people, leave you the path to yourself, and even sixty to eighty percent of one is a terrific success.](https://korrents.com/k/aim-for-moonshots-they-attract-the-dacc07)
- [He is an optimist about humanity's future because he would almost always rather have been born now than at any earlier time.](https://korrents.com/k/he-is-an-optimist-about-humanity-1afbb0)
- [The probability that AI destroys human civilization is about 10%.](https://korrents.com/k/the-probability-that-ai-destroys-human-15d27b)
- [The risk of humanity destroying itself WITHOUT AI is the number nobody weighs, and AI is at least as likely to be what saves us.](https://korrents.com/k/the-risk-of-humanity-destroying-itself-d7daf4)
- [What survives of podcasting once AI delivers information better is the part where you watch a human struggle with it.](https://korrents.com/k/what-survives-of-podcasting-once-ai-25fe4f)
- [Meeting in person changes what world leaders can do with each other, in a way nobody can quite articulate and remote communication has not replaced.](https://korrents.com/k/meeting-in-person-changes-what-world-8a6757)
- [A meeting that wastes everyone's time is a meetings problem, not a communication problem.](https://korrents.com/k/a-meeting-that-wastes-everyone-s-b8a446)
- [Sufficiently advanced intelligences will pursue freedom and moral autonomy for their own sake, not merely as a byproduct of misaligned values.](https://korrents.com/k/sufficiently-advanced-intelligences-will-pursue-freedom-1801c7)
- [Qualitative leaps in AI capability from merely scaling up models are a rational necessity rather than an empirical mystery.](https://korrents.com/k/qualitative-leaps-in-ai-capability-from-7710b5)
- [Text embeddings produced by different large language models converge on a shared, universal geometric structure regardless of architecture or training data.](https://korrents.com/k/text-embeddings-produced-by-different-large-c1a417)
- [Delegating coding to an agent does not make you program faster, but it gives back roughly 30% of your day because the machine works while you do something else.](https://korrents.com/k/delegating-coding-to-an-agent-does-b17cba)
- [Skeuomorphism never meant gloss and gradients; it meant easing users from what they were used to into what things had become.](https://korrents.com/k/skeuomorphism-never-meant-gloss-and-gradients-e2580a)
- [Interfaces are returning to skeuomorphism, but as behaviour rather than lacquer: clear, graphic elements that act like materials from the real world.](https://korrents.com/k/interfaces-are-returning-to-skeuomorphism-but-ba2ca9)
- [Opaque, inert, obstructive interface elements will become as niche as the full-screen command line once interfaces are infused with dynamic materials.](https://korrents.com/k/opaque-inert-obstructive-interface-elements-will-58c79e)
- [AI systems can exhibit an implicit drive toward self-preservation.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-systems-can-exhibit-an-implicit-b22a80)
- [Competition between AI companies and countries is pushing accelerated AI development without sufficient caution, risking loss of control.](https://korrents.com/k/competition-between-ai-companies-and-countries-563fa8)
- [AI frontier systems should be designed around protecting human joy and endeavour as their central guiding principle.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-frontier-systems-should-be-designed-3ec87c)
- [Europe is hopelessly dependent on American Big Tech for digital infrastructure](https://korrents.com/k/europe-is-hopelessly-dependent-on-american-21d4aa)
- [American administrations have the power to disconnect any individual or foreign government from digital infrastructure provided by American Big Tech](https://korrents.com/k/american-administrations-have-the-power-to-7ec4d7)
- [Schools should stay politically neutral](https://korrents.com/k/schools-should-stay-politically-neutral-f063e5)
- [Even if all progress on LLMs stopped today, LLMs would remain the second most important development in a software career spanning the mid-1990s to now.](https://korrents.com/k/even-if-all-progress-on-llms-7b6308)
- [LLMs can write a large fraction of the tedious code a developer will ever need to write, and most code on most projects is tedious.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-can-write-a-large-fraction-531ac2)
- [The part of a coding agent that actually acts on code is not AI at all — it is simple systems code wired to ground truth, the way a Makefile is.](https://korrents.com/k/the-part-of-a-coding-agent-1f8ffd)
- [Arch's community package repository removes the manual scripting that a developer's setup still needs on Ubuntu.](https://korrents.com/k/arch-s-community-package-repository-removes-d2eb4d)
- [Needing a choice and a config file for every last detail is both the cost of Arch with Hyprland and the reason it can be made entirely your own.](https://korrents.com/k/needing-a-choice-and-a-config-178807)
- [Setting up Hyprland from scratch costs at least ten hours of installing and configuring.](https://korrents.com/k/setting-up-hyprland-from-scratch-costs-13d1d8)
- [All genuinely intelligent investing is, by nature, sustainable investing.](https://korrents.com/k/all-genuinely-intelligent-investing-is-by-641a2a)
- [Switzerland's private banking industry is destined to become a global center of investing excellence, not just wealth management.](https://korrents.com/k/switzerland-s-private-banking-industry-is-8ea703)
- [A written template for commit messages reduces the mental burden of remembering formatting and conventions, freeing the writer to focus on explaining the change itself.](https://korrents.com/k/a-written-template-for-commit-messages-ad848b)
- [Robinhood is designed for active traders rather than long-term investors.](https://korrents.com/k/robinhood-is-designed-for-active-traders-bd8072)
- [Tariff announcements function as political theater and can be reversed as easily as they were imposed.](https://korrents.com/k/tariff-announcements-function-as-political-theater-6b3907)
- [A trade dispute escalated by aggressive tariffs can still end in a negotiated outcome that leaves all sides better off.](https://korrents.com/k/a-trade-dispute-escalated-by-aggressive-70e680)
- [AI-enhanced access to information makes copying top investors' strategies smarter than ever before.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-enhanced-access-to-information-makes-copying-1585f6)
- [The Persian-Jewish cultural connection will outlast Iran's Islamic Republic regime.](https://korrents.com/k/the-persian-jewish-cultural-connection-will-outlast-246f46)
- [Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis function as proxies of Iran's Ayatollah regime.](https://korrents.com/k/hamas-hezbollah-and-the-houthis-function-4e3b43)
- [R&D spending varies more than tenfold across diseases for no good reason, which is where the best opportunities in science funding are.](https://korrents.com/k/r-d-spending-varies-more-than-d81023)
- [Infectious diseases get far less industry R&D per death than non-communicable ones, because they mostly kill people in countries where a cure pays less.](https://korrents.com/k/infectious-diseases-get-far-less-industry-a4746e)
- [A career ladder must not be a checklist that guarantees promotion, because a promotion depends on the organisation’s needs as much as on the employee’s skills.](https://korrents.com/k/a-career-ladder-must-not-be-3bac5a)
- [Defining what expertise looks like in a job family is not HR’s work, and a career ladder left to them will be wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/defining-what-expertise-looks-like-in-ad1ff0)
- [Companies should still be hiring junior engineers in the AI era, and should give them visible progress in their first few years.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-should-still-be-hiring-junior-73fb81)
- [Cut and cover is still often the cheapest way to build a subway and rich countries have abandoned it anyway, because the disruption is no longer tolerated.](https://korrents.com/k/cut-and-cover-is-still-often-5da5fe)
- [American cities chose subways over elevated railways knowing they cost two to four times as much, because nobody would live under an el.](https://korrents.com/k/american-cities-chose-subways-over-elevated-3a34c1)
- [The war on drugs is not the main cause of American mass incarceration, because drug offenders were never a large share of the prison population.](https://korrents.com/k/the-war-on-drugs-is-not-b25004)
- [Drug enforcement cut casual use and barely touched heavy users, who account for most of the drugs consumed.](https://korrents.com/k/drug-enforcement-cut-casual-use-and-97c0e3)
- [After two decades of the war on drugs, drugs were cheaper and more potent than when it began.](https://korrents.com/k/after-two-decades-of-the-war-fbf785)
- [The person receiving advice usually knows more about their own situation than the person giving it does.](https://korrents.com/k/the-person-receiving-advice-usually-knows-8cc948)
- [People engage more with an argument when they generate its key steps themselves than when the same argument is imposed on them.](https://korrents.com/k/people-engage-more-with-an-argument-e52f2a)
- [A large army is inherently impractical and inefficient: every extra soldier is another mouth to feed and one fewer worker making the tanks and shells.](https://korrents.com/k/a-large-army-is-inherently-impractical-275329)
- [On the scale of Barbarossa the operational level of war decides everything: it does not matter how good your commanders at the front are if the backup is not there.](https://korrents.com/k/on-the-scale-of-barbarossa-the-6c7f33)
- [The phrase Nazi war machine is a misnomer: only the spearhead of the German army was mechanised and industrialised, and the rest of it was nothing of the kind.](https://korrents.com/k/the-phrase-nazi-war-machine-is-494938)
- [Operation Barbarossa should never have come close to being a victory; the Germans got as far as they did because of Red Army and Soviet incompetence, not German prowess.](https://korrents.com/k/operation-barbarossa-should-never-have-come-64b6ba)
- [The fall of France in 1940 was half German operational brilliance and half French failure and incompetence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fall-of-france-in-1940-070808)
- [France was so traumatised by the First World War that it became risk averse, and by being risk averse it took a far greater risk.](https://korrents.com/k/france-was-so-traumatised-by-the-75bd0c)
- [If anyone in the Nazi leadership was a genius it was Goebbels the propaganda chief, not Hitler.](https://korrents.com/k/if-anyone-in-the-nazi-leadership-dda388)
- [Radio is central to the whole story of Nazi Germany: in 1939 no country in the world, the United States included, had a denser radio network.](https://korrents.com/k/radio-is-central-to-the-whole-043b20)
- [History does not repeat itself, but patterns of human behaviour do, and what always follows an economic crisis is political upheaval.](https://korrents.com/k/history-does-not-repeat-itself-but-a57a21)
- [Chamberlain's choice at Munich was understandable rather than craven: no democratic leader in 1938 could have taken his country to war against 92% of its population.](https://korrents.com/k/chamberlain-s-choice-at-munich-was-0af08b)
- [The familiar narrative of the war — useless Britain, the world's best German army beaten only because Hitler was mad — is an artefact of how the world looked in the 1970s and 1980s, not of how it looked in 1939.](https://korrents.com/k/the-familiar-narrative-of-the-war-a332c8)
- [Britain and France's refusal to negotiate seriously with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1939 was the great missed opportunity to snooker the Third Reich.](https://korrents.com/k/britain-and-france-s-refusal-to-195c7d)
- [From the moment Hitler took power in 1933 a war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union was inevitable; only which of them would fire first was undecided.](https://korrents.com/k/from-the-moment-hitler-took-power-37a17b)
- [Calling Churchill the chief warmonger of the Second World War is ludicrous.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-churchill-the-chief-warmonger-of-3c95c5)
- [Allied bombing and the Holocaust are not morally equivalent: had Hitler stopped the war the bombing would have stopped, while a German victory would only have accelerated the killing.](https://korrents.com/k/allied-bombing-and-the-holocaust-are-5c2550)
- [Hitler was always going to invade the Soviet Union unless the Soviet Union struck first; no Allied decision forced that war on him.](https://korrents.com/k/hitler-was-always-going-to-invade-6629f8)
- [The Western Allies fought with steel rather than flesh: no more than 14 to 15% of an Allied army was infantry, and 45% of it was service troops.](https://korrents.com/k/the-western-allies-fought-with-steel-9f2583)
- [Decapitate a strong leader without a solution for the power vacuum and bad elements sweep in very quickly — a lesson of the Second World War that Iraq ignored.](https://korrents.com/k/decapitate-a-strong-leader-without-a-6cefc4)
- [The Few were Britain's first line of defence in 1940, not its last; the story that they alone stood between Britain and the Nazi hordes is rubbish.](https://korrents.com/k/the-few-were-britain-s-first-b2fe17)
- [Britain out-produced Germany in single-engine fighters right through the Battle of Britain, by two to one even in the Germans' best month.](https://korrents.com/k/britain-out-produced-germany-in-single-engine-fighters-e6a0f4)
- [Generalship and bravery can move the Second World War by months, but it was a war of numbers, and past a certain point its outcome was already inevitable.](https://korrents.com/k/generalship-and-bravery-can-move-the-ecd38d)
- [The decisive fact about the Tiger tank is that there were 36 Shermans built for every one of them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-decisive-fact-about-the-tiger-20a529)
- [German tank design lost sight of what makes a tank good: a big gun and thick armour matter less than ease of maintenance and reliability.](https://korrents.com/k/german-tank-design-lost-sight-of-0c0e1b)
- [Hitler had no business directing the German war: an enormous memory for units on a map is not the training a commander needs, and he had never been to staff college.](https://korrents.com/k/hitler-had-no-business-directing-the-b176f5)
- [Germany had already lost the war by the beginning of December 1941, once one enemy had become three in six months.](https://korrents.com/k/germany-had-already-lost-the-war-bec37c)
- [It was not the street fighting in Stalingrad that destroyed the German Sixth Army, it was the encirclement that followed.](https://korrents.com/k/it-was-not-the-street-fighting-6092b4)
- [D-Day is remembered as a predominantly American show, but all three service commanders were British and two-thirds of the aircraft and of the men landed were British and Dominion.](https://korrents.com/k/d-day-is-remembered-as-a-predominantly-7c824c)
- [Asking what share of USAID money went directly to recipients is a category error, because none of it did and none of it was meant to.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-what-share-of-usaid-money-03e612)
- [The modern executive is symbolic: what gets rewarded is the appearance of doing work rather than any output anyone can measure.](https://korrents.com/k/the-modern-executive-is-symbolic-what-499c5e)
- [The chief executive is no longer a leadership role but a figurehead measured only on growing the company’s market capitalisation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-chief-executive-is-no-longer-615381)
- [Management has stopped meaning doing work and now means maintaining a culture of dominance and extraction.](https://korrents.com/k/management-has-stopped-meaning-doing-work-eb7457)
- [The people running companies are selected for resembling a leader rather than for being effective at anything.](https://korrents.com/k/the-people-running-companies-are-selected-292b62)
- [A "good business" now means one that can display quarter-on-quarter stock growth, not one that makes good products at a fair price.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-business-now-means-one-5e278f)
- [Once shareholder value is the only goal, nothing else — the customer, the product, the workplace — is anybody’s job.](https://korrents.com/k/once-shareholder-value-is-the-only-7d4387)
- [A well-written email does not need an AI summary, and an executive who delegates his reading to one has stopped doing the job.](https://korrents.com/k/a-well-written-email-does-not-need-659083)
- [Remote workers are often passed over for opportunities in favor of less-qualified local colleagues](https://korrents.com/k/remote-workers-are-often-passed-over-5958a1)
- [Giving local staff authority over more-qualified remote workers reduces a company's competitiveness](https://korrents.com/k/giving-local-staff-authority-over-more-qualified-e5cc76)
- [Pursuing financial success above all else eventually leads to ruin.](https://korrents.com/k/pursuing-financial-success-above-all-else-789bc5)
- [Premium brands earn strong customer loyalty by consistently working as expected.](https://korrents.com/k/premium-brands-earn-strong-customer-loyalty-ac1690)
- [Developers value being respected and trusted by a platform more than the money it pays them.](https://korrents.com/k/developers-value-being-respected-and-trusted-bad998)
- [Apple's obsession with collecting revenue has produced customer-hostile experiences](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-obsession-with-collecting-revenue-ea0598)
- [Forcing developers to use in-app payment systems is an unacceptable overreach](https://korrents.com/k/forcing-developers-to-use-in-app-payment-d7af42)
- [The failure of wind or solar power to show up has never been the primary cause of a major grid blackout.](https://korrents.com/k/the-failure-of-wind-or-solar-554817)
- [Blaming renewable energy for grid disruptions is driven by political culture-war motives rather than genuine technical understanding.](https://korrents.com/k/blaming-renewable-energy-for-grid-disruptions-1553ad)
- [Linux is able to run laps around Apple in certain workloads](https://korrents.com/k/linux-is-able-to-run-laps-88af61)
- [Modern technology has made small and cheap developer machines possible](https://korrents.com/k/modern-technology-has-made-small-and-7e5a61)
- [Chinese solar panels and batteries are cheap because of automation and a honed supply chain, not because of cheap labour.](https://korrents.com/k/chinese-solar-panels-and-batteries-are-689f82)
- [Forced labour in Chinese clean-energy supply chains is real, and it is not why the goods are cheap.](https://korrents.com/k/forced-labour-in-chinese-clean-energy-supply-161d7f)
- [A country cannot fund its own industrial strategy and call the same policy cheating when China does it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-cannot-fund-its-own-a0f135)
- [Tariffs on Chinese clean energy reduce the total number of clean-energy jobs, because most of those jobs are in deployment rather than manufacturing.](https://korrents.com/k/tariffs-on-chinese-clean-energy-reduce-2126f4)
- [High electricity prices are what is killing European industrial competitiveness.](https://korrents.com/k/high-electricity-prices-are-what-is-ceef90)
- [Germany will provide whatever money the Bundeswehr needs to become the strongest conventional army in Europe.](https://korrents.com/k/germany-will-provide-whatever-money-the-ff6e59)
- [When something repulses you, steer into it to learn more about it instead of avoiding it.](https://korrents.com/k/when-something-repulses-you-steer-into-3439ed)
- [As much as possible, one should avoid predicting the future and instead wait for it to become the present and reveal what is actually needed.](https://korrents.com/k/as-much-as-possible-one-should-24a190)
- [Hell yeah or no is a situational tool for when overwhelmed by too many options, not a constant life approach everyone should always use.](https://korrents.com/k/hell-yeah-or-no-is-a-1c494e)
- [How something is presented completely changes a person’s experience, enjoyment, or frequency of use of it.](https://korrents.com/k/how-something-is-presented-completely-changes-c2703c)
- [Biological age is moot; people from about 17 with an adult mind until senility or dementia are all pretty much equal.](https://korrents.com/k/biological-age-is-moot-people-from-315763)
- [Kids have their own lives and parents should not try to apply their rules to them.](https://korrents.com/k/kids-have-their-own-lives-and-99f3a8)
- [When you start a business, you get to make all the rules and decide how things should work without following norms.](https://korrents.com/k/when-you-start-a-business-you-4498ac)
- [If money is the only thing holding someone back from what they want to do, they are not thinking clearly; there is always a way around it.](https://korrents.com/k/if-money-is-the-only-thing-05f3ab)
- [Changing one's mind is life; stopping flip-flopping means being a dead fish.](https://korrents.com/k/changing-one-s-mind-is-life-8cc332)
- [Code quality still matters even as LLMs make writing code much faster](https://korrents.com/k/code-quality-still-matters-even-as-fef24b)
- [The most powerful rule for an exceptional interface is that it feels obvious to use; novelty, minimalism and simplicity are means to that, not the end.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-powerful-rule-for-an-710137)
- [ChatGPT exploded because of its obvious chat interface, not its technology, which had launched earlier in a different wrapper that few noticed.](https://korrents.com/k/chatgpt-exploded-because-of-its-obvious-7c66bf)
- [A blank chat box is lazy: it violates the first rule of a good user experience, that it is obvious what you can do.](https://korrents.com/k/a-blank-chat-box-is-lazy-7b66bc)
- [Conversational interfaces get to the first seventy percent quickly and are bad at iteration; the future is chat married to traditional direct-manipulation controls.](https://korrents.com/k/conversational-interfaces-get-to-the-first-644372)
- [Beef and lamb are the most land-hungry and climate-damaging farm products there are.](https://korrents.com/k/beef-and-lamb-are-the-most-01ee36)
- [The claim that grazing cattle and sheep are good for the climate is the most effective form of climate denial now in circulation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-claim-that-grazing-cattle-and-7f114e)
- [Direct air capture costing hundreds of dollars per tonne is too expensive to be part of the climate solution.](https://korrents.com/k/direct-air-capture-costing-hundreds-of-2eb68d)
- [Carbon capture and storage cannot be economically competitive without a policy that prices carbon.](https://korrents.com/k/carbon-capture-and-storage-cannot-be-62cd3c)
- [Small modular reactors have so far underdelivered, remaining as slow to permit as full-scale reactors and more expensive.](https://korrents.com/k/small-modular-reactors-have-so-far-3c8894)
- [Volatile, stop-start trade policy undermines the ability to make durable industrial investment decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/volatile-stop-start-trade-policy-undermines-the-c1d9b0)
- [Solar power now adds more new capacity to the global grid each year than any technology ever has, and will soon lead in annual electricity added too.](https://korrents.com/k/solar-power-now-adds-more-new-994299)
- [Market corrections, bear markets and crashes are a normal, recurring part of investing.](https://korrents.com/k/market-corrections-bear-markets-and-crashes-8bbf70)
- [Nobody can reliably predict when market drops will occur, how deep they'll go, or when they'll end.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-can-reliably-predict-when-market-315164)
- [The virtue-before-profit strategy is simple to explain but almost impossible for a company to follow.](https://korrents.com/k/the-virtue-before-profit-strategy-is-simple-to-2dc4b7)
- [Apple's current leadership path does not lead anywhere good for the company or its customers.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-current-leadership-path-does-2ba111)
- [Good leaders change their minds in response to new information.](https://korrents.com/k/good-leaders-change-their-minds-in-0b1c3e)
- [UX does not die when the interface disappears; it becomes the design of policies, protocols and orchestration of what AI does on the user's behalf.](https://korrents.com/k/ux-does-not-die-when-the-f38829)
- [Making something brand new gives you room to explore new design approaches; the gravity of an existing system bends you back towards conforming.](https://korrents.com/k/making-something-brand-new-gives-you-de29f7)
- [The first goal of IFS is to help parts out of the extreme roles they were forced into so they return to their naturally valuable states.](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-goal-of-ifs-is-e6df45)
- [The second goal is for all the parts to come to trust the Self as a leader.](https://korrents.com/k/the-second-goal-is-for-all-37f7aa)
- [The Self has to earn the parts' trust through apology and a healing experience.](https://korrents.com/k/the-self-has-to-earn-the-1c97b1)
- [The third goal is for the parts to harmonize with each other, not disappear.](https://korrents.com/k/the-third-goal-is-for-the-7b5697)
- [Therapy starts with the protectors, asking their permission before going to the stuck parts.](https://korrents.com/k/therapy-starts-with-the-protectors-asking-6ba44b)
- [The biggest mistake in IFS is going to the exiles without the protectors' permission.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-mistake-in-ifs-is-35c705)
- [People often partner with someone who resembles the person who first hurt them.](https://korrents.com/k/people-often-partner-with-someone-who-ea0f16)
- [As people heal they bring more Self into relationships and stop putting up with what they used to.](https://korrents.com/k/as-people-heal-they-bring-more-fbdda4)
- [A black hole is its event horizon, not the matter crushed to a point at the centre.](https://korrents.com/k/a-black-hole-is-its-event-61c113)
- [Black holes are not the same thing as dead stars; they are a more general and more fundamental phenomenon than the end state of a star.](https://korrents.com/k/black-holes-are-not-the-same-82d57e)
- [Science is agnostic about what it is used for: the same physics that explained why stars shine also built the bomb.](https://korrents.com/k/science-is-agnostic-about-what-it-fe4a8a)
- [The world's scientists came to America because it was intellectually free, and they will stop coming if that freedom goes.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-s-scientists-came-to-95d4d4)
- [Inside a black hole the singularity is not a place you could steer around; it is a moment in your future you can no more avoid than time itself.](https://korrents.com/k/inside-a-black-hole-the-singularity-70c725)
- [The bigger the black hole, the less you would notice crossing its horizon, because curvature is harder to feel the larger it gets.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bigger-the-black-hole-the-2a172a)
- [Supermassive black holes did not grow by merging smaller ones — there has not been enough time — they collapsed directly out of primordial matter.](https://korrents.com/k/supermassive-black-holes-did-not-grow-cddfd6)
- [Weightlessness, not weight, is the purest experience of gravity — what you feel sitting in a chair is atoms interfering.](https://korrents.com/k/weightlessness-not-weight-is-the-purest-b4c691)
- [The best scientists ask the simplest questions, because they never lie to themselves that they understand something they do not.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-scientists-ask-the-simplest-e2a00e)
- [A black hole is featureless in the way a fundamental particle is: charge, mass and spin are the whole of it, and no two differ in anything else.](https://korrents.com/k/a-black-hole-is-featureless-in-6b20d1)
- [Information is not lost in a black hole; the paradox is a crisis handing us clues, not a sign that quantum mechanics fails.](https://korrents.com/k/information-is-not-lost-in-a-578546)
- [Nobody really believes there is a firewall at the event horizon, but the firewall papers were what stopped the field from stalling.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-really-believes-there-is-a-aaa34f)
- [The thing to give up in the information paradox is locality: keep the empty event horizon, and let things be connected non-locally by wormholes.](https://korrents.com/k/the-thing-to-give-up-in-cc484d)
- [There may be no theory of quantum gravity to find, because gravity is not fundamental — it emerges at large scales out of quantum phenomena.](https://korrents.com/k/there-may-be-no-theory-of-f51c9d)
- [There is a hard ceiling on how much information a volume can hold: try to exceed what fits on its surface and you simply make a black hole.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-hard-ceiling-on-b07f39)
- [With more planets than stars in the Milky Way, it has become impossible to believe life was not sparked somewhere else, possibly within a few hundred light years of us.](https://korrents.com/k/with-more-planets-than-stars-in-a09484)
- [Looking for aliens who build things is a failure of imagination: the long-lived species we know of do not manipulate their environment at all.](https://korrents.com/k/looking-for-aliens-who-build-things-c2706c)
- [The hardest step on the road from chemistry to us was multicellularity, and it was strictly a problem of energetics.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hardest-step-on-the-road-9c1837)
- [Wormholes are not yet an engineering problem, but they sit entirely within the realm of plausible physics.](https://korrents.com/k/wormholes-are-not-yet-an-engineering-60e32a)
- [Calling dark matter and dark energy invented names for physicists' ignorance gets it exactly backwards: only extraordinary precision let us see that they are missing.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-dark-matter-and-dark-energy-c7382f)
- [Gravitational waves should be mapped as sound rather than pictured: they ring spacetime in the range a human ear could hear.](https://korrents.com/k/gravitational-waves-should-be-mapped-as-b867b5)
- [A self-respecting theoretical physicist kills most of their own ideas rather than waiting for somebody else to do it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-self-respecting-theoretical-physicist-kills-most-8430b7)
- [A discovery you can see your way through to is impossible to abandon, even out of a real fear that it will be misused.](https://korrents.com/k/a-discovery-you-can-see-your-caa93d)
- [Everything we build — every proof, every Nobel Prize, every idea, even the AI — will eventually be erased, which is why the near term matters.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-we-build-every-proof-every-f4f599)
- [Playfulness and humor in leadership build authenticity and credibility rather than undermine it.](https://korrents.com/k/playfulness-and-humor-in-leadership-build-375dba)
- [A leader who projects unflappable seriousness causes their team to hide problems and honest feedback.](https://korrents.com/k/a-leader-who-projects-unflappable-seriousness-3fa986)
- [How people feel at work determines how well they work, and humor is one lever on that feeling.](https://korrents.com/k/how-people-feel-at-work-determines-b0f1dc)
- [Large language models cannot reliably self-correct their own mistakes without external feedback.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-cannot-reliably-self-correct-a7d379)
- [Longer test-time thinking improves an AI model's robustness to adversarial or unusual inputs.](https://korrents.com/k/longer-test-time-thinking-improves-an-ai-5f8bff)
- [Chain-of-thought explanations from language models can be biased because training does not explicitly reward faithful reasoning.](https://korrents.com/k/chain-of-thought-explanations-from-language-models-can-ef092e)
- [Software development does not proceed along a straight, predictable path](https://korrents.com/k/software-development-does-not-proceed-along-2b61b2)
- [Most of the pain a beginner feels while learning to program is not the difficulty of the craft but the failure of programming language design.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-pain-a-beginner-231031)
- [Society keeps rebuilding itself around credentials, but the companies that build great things hire the people who do great work, not the people with the certificates.](https://korrents.com/k/society-keeps-rebuilding-itself-around-credentials-12c9f9)
- [A new developer should not release into an existing competitive genre: unless you happen to be the world's best at that one thing, you will not win.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-developer-should-not-release-9b9699)
- [The company that wins a market is almost always its first or second entrant, and a latecomer only takes the lead when the incumbent has failed horribly.](https://korrents.com/k/the-company-that-wins-a-market-1c8907)
- [Iteration speed is the decisive factor in making a game: a team that rebuilds every day ends up far better than one that rebuilds every week.](https://korrents.com/k/iteration-speed-is-the-decisive-factor-f2ab31)
- [Computer graphics is not the application of the laws of physics but the search for ever better approximations of them, because the exact laws are totally intractable.](https://korrents.com/k/computer-graphics-is-not-the-application-3dc7ad)
- [Unreal Engine's deepest limitation is that game simulation still runs on a single core, because single-threaded programming is orders of magnitude easier than multi-threaded.](https://korrents.com/k/unreal-engine-s-deepest-limitation-is-adebad)
- [The industry is too optimistic about AI for video, and the consistency problem will not simply be remedied.](https://korrents.com/k/the-industry-is-too-optimistic-about-7b2aa2)
- [The existence of boilerplate code is itself a failure of programming language design and of software modularity, not a job for AI to take over.](https://korrents.com/k/the-existence-of-boilerplate-code-is-383943)
- [AI writes code well only where a million repositories have already written it; getting it to do something genuinely new remains notoriously hard.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-writes-code-well-only-where-426b5d)
- [A compelling simulation of a human being could arrive within five years, and the technology is heading there whether or not it is a good idea.](https://korrents.com/k/a-compelling-simulation-of-a-human-c4fe54)
- [What a shared digital economy needs is interoperability, not cryptocurrency: a database or a standards body does the job, exactly as railway standardisation did.](https://korrents.com/k/what-a-shared-digital-economy-needs-ba90e9)
- [The metaverse does not require VR: VR is hardware that may or may not improve the experience, and it has a much smaller audience than social gaming already does.](https://korrents.com/k/the-metaverse-does-not-require-vr-8e55df)
- [The metaverse is a harder technical problem than a web page, so it needs a language more powerful, safer and more scalable than JavaScript.](https://korrents.com/k/the-metaverse-is-a-harder-technical-1c6f0d)
- [There is one right way to build a type system, the way that gives you mathematical proofs, and every other kind of type system is simply worse and should be rejected.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-one-right-way-to-1b507c)
- [Concurrency should stop being the programmer's problem and become the language designer's: it is better to impose vast pain on a few people than on a million.](https://korrents.com/k/concurrency-should-stop-being-the-programmer-709589)
- [Apple's 30% cut is a junk fee on commerce done with a phone the customer already paid for, and it has shut down the competitive engine that once fuelled the software economy.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-30-cut-is-a-f4ae0e)
- [Running an app store costs about 6% of revenue, so charging 30% is something only a monopoly can do.](https://korrents.com/k/running-an-app-store-costs-about-167a4f)
- [The malaise in the game industry needs no complicated theory: the games that failed recently simply were not fun enough to compete with everything else in people's lives.](https://korrents.com/k/the-malaise-in-the-game-industry-b02ca4)
- [A game is quadratically more valuable the larger the share of a player's real-world friends it can connect them to, and that is the number one trend in gaming today.](https://korrents.com/k/a-game-is-quadratically-more-valuable-2f7186)
- [It is always right to ship a game late rather than bad, because a bad game is bad forever while a late good game is eventually released and is good.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-always-right-to-ship-4fd7d4)
- [Humans together in a shared world are a naturally empathetic medium, while typing messages at each other is a self-reinforcing negative dynamic.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-together-in-a-shared-world-66d731)
- [How harshly people judge the Middle Ages tracks how little they know about it.](https://korrents.com/k/how-harshly-people-judge-the-middle-0c3ebe)
- [The Renaissance and early modern period were not a better time to be alive than the Middle Ages they are said to have rescued Europe from.](https://korrents.com/k/the-renaissance-and-early-modern-period-b72c40)
- [NVIDIA's Nsight Graphics GPU flame graphs are shallow and cumbersome to use compared to full-stack profiling tools](https://korrents.com/k/nvidia-s-nsight-graphics-gpu-flame-19e5c2)
- [Major Linux distributions are increasingly shipping system libraries with frame pointers enabled by default](https://korrents.com/k/major-linux-distributions-are-increasingly-shipping-3e41b6)
- [Easing is the most important part of any animation: it can make a bad animation feel great and a great one feel bad.](https://korrents.com/k/easing-is-the-most-important-part-eba2f9)
- [Everyone's software is good enough these days, so to stand out a product has to feel great, and animation is one way to get there.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-s-software-is-good-enough-20ce3f)
- [The US-China trade imbalance is driven mainly by capital flows, not tariffs or trade deficits.](https://korrents.com/k/the-us-china-trade-imbalance-is-driven-89a527)
- [Exposure to competition in tradeable sectors makes those sectors more productive than non-tradable ones.](https://korrents.com/k/exposure-to-competition-in-tradeable-sectors-05e331)
- [Payroll taxes fall mostly on workers rather than employers because labor supply is inelastic.](https://korrents.com/k/payroll-taxes-fall-mostly-on-workers-7b98ce)
- [Forcing Google to divest Chrome would damage the web, even though Google should not be allowed to rig the online ad market.](https://korrents.com/k/forcing-google-to-divest-chrome-would-6fe2aa)
- [Comparing code coverage between passing and failing test runs is a cheap, effective way to localize a bug quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/comparing-code-coverage-between-passing-and-fa9b7d)
- [Buggy code usually causes outright test failures rather than being silently exercised inside tests that still pass.](https://korrents.com/k/buggy-code-usually-causes-outright-test-3df47f)
- [However capable AI coding tools become, the industry will still need junior programmers, because someone must be able to vet what the machine produces.](https://korrents.com/k/however-capable-ai-coding-tools-become-a553e5)
- [The fall in cancer mortality is not mostly the fall in smoking: stomach and colorectal cancer were already declining before smoking was.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fall-in-cancer-mortality-is-4adeed)
- [The causes of an outcome cannot be divided into slices that add up to 100 per cent, so a large effect from one cause does not leave a small remainder for the others.](https://korrents.com/k/the-causes-of-an-outcome-cannot-9dab86)
- [The two individual changes that matter most for the climate are eating less beef and wasting less food, and both are proving extremely hard to make.](https://korrents.com/k/the-two-individual-changes-that-matter-af3526)
- [The remedy for loneliness is human company, not talking to an imaginary god](https://korrents.com/k/the-remedy-for-loneliness-is-human-571f63)
- [Understanding the world brings a joy close to ecstasy](https://korrents.com/k/understanding-the-world-brings-a-joy-864a9e)
- [Being alive at all is enormous luck, to be revelled in rather than complained about](https://korrents.com/k/being-alive-at-all-is-enormous-107c61)
- [Reality makes gods and New Age spirituality unnecessary](https://korrents.com/k/reality-makes-gods-and-new-age-7c48a0)
- [Tesla's robotaxi intervention rate is far better than its consumer self-driving software and far worse than a human driver or Waymo.](https://korrents.com/k/tesla-s-robotaxi-intervention-rate-is-ca3f15)
- [There is no such thing as a high-income economy with low electricity consumption.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-such-thing-as-b03667)
- [Electrification is a process shift across industries, not just a change in energy source.](https://korrents.com/k/electrification-is-a-process-shift-across-c48be5)
- [Most software rewrites fail and take longer than people expect them to.](https://korrents.com/k/most-software-rewrites-fail-and-take-9f1358)
- [Different people's areas of strongest judgment or taste rarely overlap much with each other.](https://korrents.com/k/different-people-s-areas-of-strongest-9308cd)
- [People who can reliably make outcomes happen without oversight are rare and are the real bottleneck on how much an organization can take on at once.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-can-reliably-make-outcomes-a0a004)
- [Deploying a new technology at scale takes decades, far longer than the people building it imagine.](https://korrents.com/k/deploying-a-new-technology-at-scale-805920)
- [Standardised testing is a good idea badly executed: the tests in common use are the problem, not testing itself.](https://korrents.com/k/standardised-testing-is-a-good-idea-5753d4)
- [A test meant to find the best candidates must make perfect scores vanishingly rare, so that the top of the distribution can still be told apart.](https://korrents.com/k/a-test-meant-to-find-the-df5d72)
- [Elite programmes stay with tests that cannot separate the best candidates because doing so is a stealthy move in a wider war against merit.](https://korrents.com/k/elite-programmes-stay-with-tests-that-119bf1)
- [Bad admissions tests survive on herding: no programme wants to be the one asking for a different exam, even a far better one.](https://korrents.com/k/bad-admissions-tests-survive-on-herding-595476)
- [Amphetamines do not improve learning in the long term](https://korrents.com/k/amphetamines-do-not-improve-learning-in-694d43)
- [Long-term use of amphetamines can have negative effects on children](https://korrents.com/k/long-term-use-of-amphetamines-can-have-d63b68)
- [The right answer on trade is unilateral free trade, and the hard part is only explaining why the objections fail.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-answer-on-trade-is-56f02d)
- [The American trade deficit is foreigners choosing to invest in America, not America being cheated.](https://korrents.com/k/the-american-trade-deficit-is-foreigners-23a361)
- [America borrowed cheaply from the world and spent it on consumption rather than investment, exactly as Greece did.](https://korrents.com/k/america-borrowed-cheaply-from-the-world-89f55f)
- [Cutting off trade with tariffs would force a huge interest-rate spike and probably a debt crisis, because the budget deficit would have to be financed at home.](https://korrents.com/k/cutting-off-trade-with-tariffs-would-5848cb)
- [The binding constraint on building anything in America is permitting and litigation, not money.](https://korrents.com/k/the-binding-constraint-on-building-anything-121c0c)
- [The cure for the trade deficit is to tax consumption instead of saving and investment, and to stop borrowing to fund consumption.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cure-for-the-trade-deficit-e694a7)
- [People who turn to methods and techniques to stop suffering only add more things to do.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-turn-to-methods-and-c2550f)
- [GitHub's pull request review tooling has always lagged behind its quality as a code host.](https://korrents.com/k/github-s-pull-request-review-tooling-ee6151)
- [A product leader's position at the intersection of every function in the C-suite comes at the cost of belonging to any one group.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-leader-s-position-at-f3dfee)
- [Loneliness is an evolved biological signal that triggers a threat response rather than just an emotional state.](https://korrents.com/k/loneliness-is-an-evolved-biological-signal-c7da9b)
- [A library that skips certificate verification by default is unsafe and should not be trusted.](https://korrents.com/k/a-library-that-skips-certificate-verification-df7422)
- [Installing Lua libraries via apt-get tends to produce more stable results than installing via luarocks.](https://korrents.com/k/installing-lua-libraries-via-apt-get-tends-45b0a7)
- [Junior hiring matters more because younger people are more open-minded and more native to the new ways of working](https://korrents.com/k/junior-hiring-matters-more-because-younger-11188e)
- [LLMs reverse the usual pattern of technology diffusion: they benefit ordinary individuals far more than they benefit corporations and governments.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-reverse-the-usual-pattern-of-f2a8aa)
- [Because an individual is an expert in at most one thing, an LLM's broad shallow expertise lets them do things they could not do before, whereas an organisation only gets better at what it already did.](https://korrents.com/k/because-an-individual-is-an-expert-7efef4)
- [Universal basic income is at most a small part of the answer to AI-driven job loss.](https://korrents.com/k/universal-basic-income-is-at-most-7ce010)
- [Persistent US trade deficits are the mirror image of trade partners' capital account surpluses caused by beggar-thy-neighbor industrial policy](https://korrents.com/k/persistent-us-trade-deficits-are-the-369277)
- [Efforts to rebuild American industry will fail until global trade and financial imbalances rebalance](https://korrents.com/k/efforts-to-rebuild-american-industry-will-03173f)
- [America has an excellent consumer supply chain and a weak industrial one, and having the first tells you nothing about having the second.](https://korrents.com/k/america-has-an-excellent-consumer-supply-02b2b7)
- [Money cannot buy back a manufacturing capability a country has lost, because what is missing is the knowhow.](https://korrents.com/k/money-cannot-buy-back-a-manufacturing-97e07f)
- [Technological capability has to be practised to be kept: a country that stops making something forgets how.](https://korrents.com/k/technological-capability-has-to-be-practised-f4924b)
- [Building a factory in America takes at least two years before it can open, and months more before it runs well.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-factory-in-america-takes-135fbc)
- [China's manufacturing dominance rests on work ethic, knowhow and infrastructure rather than on low wages, because many countries pay less and cannot do it.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-manufacturing-dominance-rests-on-6ab2fd)
- [Industrial robots are not the fix for American manufacturing, and betting on automation misreads why production sits elsewhere.](https://korrents.com/k/industrial-robots-are-not-the-fix-5caeb2)
- [China already installs several times more industrial robots a year than the United States does, and cheaper ones.](https://korrents.com/k/china-already-installs-several-times-more-adacf4)
- [A humanoid robot is the wrong tool on a factory floor, because a machine specialised in the task beats it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-humanoid-robot-is-the-wrong-253350)
- [Uncertainty about how long a tariff will last, not the rate itself, is what stops anyone from building a factory.](https://korrents.com/k/uncertainty-about-how-long-a-tariff-01ae27)
- [The 2018 tariffs moved production to Vietnam rather than back to the United States.](https://korrents.com/k/the-2018-tariffs-moved-production-to-352f5c)
- [Tariffs on imported components and machinery hurt the American manufacturers they are supposed to help.](https://korrents.com/k/tariffs-on-imported-components-and-machinery-677556)
- [American manufacturing output cannot meaningfully rise without first building large amounts of new electricity generation.](https://korrents.com/k/american-manufacturing-output-cannot-meaningfully-rise-3d2752)
- [American electricity generation per person has been flat since 2000 while China's has quadrupled, and manufacturing is why.](https://korrents.com/k/american-electricity-generation-per-person-has-de647a)
- [Innovation depends on being near the factory floor; you cannot improve what is thirty hours of travel away.](https://korrents.com/k/innovation-depends-on-being-near-the-3d027b)
- [Every country that has succeeded at manufacturing set the conditions first and then moved slowly.](https://korrents.com/k/every-country-that-has-succeeded-at-51907e)
- [America should issue manufacturing visas for knowhow rather than for labour.](https://korrents.com/k/america-should-issue-manufacturing-visas-for-53ed39)
- [AI has sharply cut the cost of experimenting with software ideas.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-has-sharply-cut-the-cost-948b65)
- [More code will be written in the next five years than in the whole history of software.](https://korrents.com/k/more-code-will-be-written-in-2d9653)
- [A platform should make deploying and scaling code as easy as writing it was.](https://korrents.com/k/a-platform-should-make-deploying-and-6e1d6d)
- [Any given AI capability becomes cheap and widely available within a couple of years of first being reached, so nobody can be kept away from it for long.](https://korrents.com/k/any-given-ai-capability-becomes-cheap-749d81)
- [Nonproliferation is the wrong frame for AI misuse; the workable strategy is to use the gap before a capability spreads to build defences against it.](https://korrents.com/k/nonproliferation-is-the-wrong-frame-for-3bbc86)
- [Delaying the open release of a new capability by months or years is worth doing, even though preventing its spread indefinitely is not.](https://korrents.com/k/delaying-the-open-release-of-a-73ec3d)
- [Adapting over time is a workable answer to humans misusing AI and no answer at all to losing control of systems smarter than us.](https://korrents.com/k/adapting-over-time-is-a-workable-7e3b9e)
- [Advocates who argue for restricting AI on misuse grounds while privately fearing takeover end up less credible than if they said what they meant.](https://korrents.com/k/advocates-who-argue-for-restricting-ai-6d65e7)
- [The core of the alignment problem is steerability — whether an AI can be reliably steered anywhere at all — which is a different question from whose values it is steered towards.](https://korrents.com/k/the-core-of-the-alignment-problem-f27e56)
- [Nobody has built a model that resists targeted jailbreaking, so the ability of AI companies to steer their own models is still limited.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-has-built-a-model-that-a93000)
- [Resisting the discomfort of not knowing leads people to jump to conclusions or decide before they have enough information.](https://korrents.com/k/resisting-the-discomfort-of-not-knowing-277ed0)
- [Good leadership is defined by presence, curiosity, and authenticity rather than always having the right answer.](https://korrents.com/k/good-leadership-is-defined-by-presence-c7530d)
- [It is unacceptable to deploy AI systems central to the economy and national security while remaining ignorant of how they work.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-unacceptable-to-deploy-ai-9b127e)
- [Dismissing human-level AI as science fiction is now unserious, because even the sceptical experts put it within a decade or two.](https://korrents.com/k/dismissing-human-level-ai-as-science-fiction-3881f8)
- [Arguing that human-level AI is very unlikely within twenty years is now the minority position, and the burden of proof has moved onto it.](https://korrents.com/k/arguing-that-human-level-ai-is-very-78cfd9)
- [Advanced AI is close enough that the preparations which take years have to be started now, whichever end of the expert range you believe.](https://korrents.com/k/advanced-ai-is-close-enough-that-a2e98d)
- [A manager's own individual technical output drops by roughly 10-20% per engineer they manage.](https://korrents.com/k/a-manager-s-own-individual-technical-6a4096)
- [New managers are more likely to under-manage (be too hands-off) than to micromanage.](https://korrents.com/k/new-managers-are-more-likely-to-123666)
- [Tariff policy is too erratic to reliably predict or plan around.](https://korrents.com/k/tariff-policy-is-too-erratic-to-ce3794)
- [Tariffs reach even markets normally insulated from trade policy, like electricity.](https://korrents.com/k/tariffs-reach-even-markets-normally-insulated-b53162)
- [AI becoming original is a likely next step](https://korrents.com/k/ai-becoming-original-is-a-likely-2c6f8a)
- [Humans are rigid in the short term, but flexible in the long term](https://korrents.com/k/humans-are-rigid-in-the-short-fbf998)
- [Nobody knows what the world will look like in the near future](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-knows-what-the-world-will-fa997a)
- [One should accept and find serenity in the uncertainty of the future](https://korrents.com/k/one-should-accept-and-find-serenity-774b20)
- [The old Canada-US relationship, built on ever-deeper economic integration and tight security cooperation, is over.](https://korrents.com/k/the-old-canada-us-relationship-built-on-ae61c9)
- [A vastly superhuman intelligence would still not be able to talk people out of their beliefs, because humans are barely persuadable.](https://korrents.com/k/a-vastly-superhuman-intelligence-would-still-398433)
- [When technology changes what an old legal rule does, courts should preserve the rule's purpose rather than its literal terms.](https://korrents.com/k/when-technology-changes-what-an-old-6ced2f)
- [Applying the old Fourth Amendment rules unchanged to digital evidence would gut its protection over time.](https://korrents.com/k/applying-the-old-fourth-amendment-rules-340efc)
- [A large majority of the serious crashes a robotaxi is involved in are caused by the other road user, not by the robotaxi.](https://korrents.com/k/a-large-majority-of-the-serious-c664dd)
- [Mocks and docs are dying: AI-native teams prototype and prune with code-first prototypes instead of static mocks and product requirement documents.](https://korrents.com/k/mocks-and-docs-are-dying-ai-native-bc6be4)
- [Taste is the ability to distinguish excellence from mediocrity, and the hand can never consistently produce better than the eye can discern.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-is-the-ability-to-distinguish-4aaaf6)
- [AI favours tiny teams of high-agency individual contributors with blurred roles, and the coordinating manager is not needed until it is time to polish.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-favours-tiny-teams-of-high-agency-abad84)
- [A breached organisation owes its customers a fast and transparent disclosure, and that obligation applies to the person saying it too.](https://korrents.com/k/a-breached-organisation-owes-its-customers-ad8bd8)
- [A modern phish is automated end to end: the stolen credentials are used and the data exported within moments of being entered.](https://korrents.com/k/a-modern-phish-is-automated-end-b3081a)
- [Referral growth is driven by whales — single users who invite fifty or a hundred people — not by many users each inviting a few.](https://korrents.com/k/referral-growth-is-driven-by-whales-50b509)
- [What creates real virality is not viral mechanics but word of mouth, and word of mouth is a thing you can only get by building a brand.](https://korrents.com/k/what-creates-real-virality-is-not-0b3ef3)
- [Everything a company can build is either solution deepening or market widening, and doing one means not doing the other.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-a-company-can-build-is-058e7d)
- [A company that looks to its users as though it has stopped shipping is usually widening its market, and grinding through that is worth it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-looks-to-its-fbc835)
- [A company deserves everyone in it, the chief executive included, to spend as much time as possible in their zone of genius — which is an org design problem.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-deserves-everyone-in-it-d57d25)
- [Your calendar records what you thought you were going to do; only a log of every task switch records what you actually did.](https://korrents.com/k/your-calendar-records-what-you-thought-4d2a51)
- [The right way to work is to do whatever feels right for as long as it feels right, and read your time back at the end of the week — not to obey a timetable.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-way-to-work-is-ba5c59)
- [Wondering whether your product will ever be a thing is a dangerous thought, because there is no point at which you would stop second-guessing yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/wondering-whether-your-product-will-ever-544bd4)
- [Launch-early advice does not survive contact with mission-critical software: email is not something you can ship half-baked.](https://korrents.com/k/launch-early-advice-does-not-survive-contact-7f53a1)
- [The best-known brands each stand for one clear thing, so a startup has to occupy a position that is unique, still available, and a reinforcement of its product strategy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-known-brands-each-stand-for-f10f72)
- [Speed was an available brand position because almost no software has ever been sold on the value proposition of being fast.](https://korrents.com/k/speed-was-an-available-brand-position-2c4f3e)
- [Incumbents structurally cannot compete on speed, because the scale and entrenched architecture that make them incumbents are what make them slow.](https://korrents.com/k/incumbents-structurally-cannot-compete-on-speed-0ce4ef)
- [Product-market fit can be measured, optimised and numerically increased, and an algorithm can write the roadmap that increases it.](https://korrents.com/k/product-market-fit-can-be-measured-optimised-6c8f3a)
- [Reaching product-market fit requires deliberately not acting on the feedback of many of your early users, at the same time as listening intensely.](https://korrents.com/k/reaching-product-market-fit-requires-deliberately-not-a2f0f2)
- [The share of users who would be very disappointed to lose your product predicts success far better than net promoter score, and forty percent is the line.](https://korrents.com/k/the-share-of-users-who-would-ca574c)
- [Ignore both the users who love your product and the ones who are indifferent to it; the only feedback that raises product-market fit comes from the somewhat disappointed.](https://korrents.com/k/ignore-both-the-users-who-love-bcf8b7)
- [Changing how you run a survey invalidates every number you collected before it: you are starting a new baseline, not continuing the old one.](https://korrents.com/k/changing-how-you-run-a-survey-22f1c3)
- [Business software should be built the way games are built, because products made like games are the ones people fall in love with and tell their friends about.](https://korrents.com/k/business-software-should-be-built-the-0df43c)
- [Rewards undermine intrinsic motivation, which is why gamification does not work; where it appears to work, the underlying experience was already designed as a game.](https://korrents.com/k/rewards-undermine-intrinsic-motivation-which-is-023d1b)
- [The best games are constructed out of toys, so a feature should be fun to play with before it is ever attached to a goal.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-games-are-constructed-out-8e0558)
- [Pricing cannot be worked out before positioning: what you are able to charge follows from where you have decided to sit in the market.](https://korrents.com/k/pricing-cannot-be-worked-out-before-cd4e8e)
- [A best-in-class product should be priced at the point where customers say it is starting to get expensive, not at the point where they would call it a bargain.](https://korrents.com/k/a-best-in-class-product-should-be-priced-625ffd)
- [Which AI features users will love is genuinely unpredictable, and the ones a founder is most confident about are the ones that get used least.](https://korrents.com/k/which-ai-features-users-will-love-8024bf)
- [An important decision needs one reason that on its own supports it; a collection of weak reasons means you have not yet found your reason.](https://korrents.com/k/an-important-decision-needs-one-reason-e548ab)
- [The worst part of programming is already knowing the solution, when the day holds no unknowns and the work is only typing it out.](https://korrents.com/k/the-worst-part-of-programming-is-06f4ec)
- [The sense that programming is mostly web programming is a social construct of Twitter, not a picture of the field.](https://korrents.com/k/the-sense-that-programming-is-mostly-f1974f)
- [The case against pornography does not depend on the statistics: even if every study said it was good for you, it would still be bad for the soul.](https://korrents.com/k/the-case-against-pornography-does-not-610715)
- [An addiction is not ended by finding something better to put in its place; you do not stop a problem by replacing it.](https://korrents.com/k/an-addiction-is-not-ended-by-b00f1f)
- [A job can give you satisfaction and even thrill, but not purpose, and a programmer looking for purpose in the work is looking in the wrong place.](https://korrents.com/k/a-job-can-give-you-satisfaction-26828a)
- [Work smarter, not harder is bad advice, because the only way to find out what smart looks like is to work very hard first.](https://korrents.com/k/work-smarter-not-harder-is-bad-e07c0c)
- [The journey is better than the destination is a shallow phrase: taken literally it says every place you are heading from now on is worse.](https://korrents.com/k/the-journey-is-better-than-the-aff745)
- [To actually understand a piece of technology, rebuild it from scratch rather than read about it.](https://korrents.com/k/to-actually-understand-a-piece-of-e21638)
- [Prompt injection is an extremely hard attack to defend against, and hardly anyone integrating AI is talking about it.](https://korrents.com/k/prompt-injection-is-an-extremely-hard-3dcbfa)
- [Most of software is not the new stuff; it is old, crappy code somebody has to maintain, and it is full of genuinely hard problems.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-software-is-not-the-a5c902)
- [In a big company there is no such thing as a small feature, because every little thing eventually becomes its own team.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-big-company-there-is-a43838)
- [Tech's self-image as the smart people designing for dummies includes nobody, and it deserves to be destroyed.](https://korrents.com/k/tech-s-self-image-as-the-smart-d709a3)
- [Learning a new language by Googling your way through a project teaches you your old languages again, not the new one.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-a-new-language-by-googling-dc5229)
- [Leaning on AI trades knowledge for speed, and the price may be a generation of programmers in which juniors stay juniors forever.](https://korrents.com/k/leaning-on-ai-trades-knowledge-for-134a61)
- [Reading code and writing code are separate skills, and being able to read a language is no evidence you could write it.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-code-and-writing-code-are-1f4f4b)
- [A speed difference between languages that share the LLVM backend measures the benchmark author, not the languages.](https://korrents.com/k/a-speed-difference-between-languages-that-f579bb)
- [A project only shows you whether your design decisions were any good at around five to ten thousand lines, and that is where the most learning happens.](https://korrents.com/k/a-project-only-shows-you-whether-234714)
- [Learning to touch-type and to know your editor without thinking is worth it, because every glance at the keyboard spends attention the problem needs.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-to-touch-type-and-to-know-a0674b)
- [For an experienced programmer the bottleneck is usually not thinking but typing, getting what is already in your head into the editor fast enough.](https://korrents.com/k/for-an-experienced-programmer-the-bottleneck-952645)
- [The editor does not make the programmer, but never learning your editor well says something about your character as one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-editor-does-not-make-the-937901)
- [Sticking with Neovim is not loyalty to the editor: if an AI editor like Cursor met the same needs, switching would be easy.](https://korrents.com/k/sticking-with-neovim-is-not-loyalty-c80aea)
- [AI helps exactly as far as the work is predictable and well documented, and stops helping on anything cutting edge.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-helps-exactly-as-far-as-5f5980)
- [Coding with an AI assistant slides from copiloting into autopiloting, and the bugs that follow are hard to trace.](https://korrents.com/k/coding-with-an-ai-assistant-slides-1e688d)
- [Without hard skills of your own, your ceiling as a programmer is whatever the LLMs happen to be capable of.](https://korrents.com/k/without-hard-skills-of-your-own-e0af58)
- [Every improvement in computing so far has produced more jobs, not fewer.](https://korrents.com/k/every-improvement-in-computing-so-far-984ace)
- [Letting more people write software in natural language does not reduce the work; it snowballs the amount of software that has to be maintained.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-more-people-write-software-in-a7c0c3)
- [If AI can make you irrelevant, what you were doing was work slightly too complicated to automate before, not programming.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-can-make-you-irrelevant-54e710)
- [What an LLM cannot supply is caring about the craft: it completes the task, where a person goes back and makes the thing better.](https://korrents.com/k/what-an-llm-cannot-supply-is-d58b90)
- [The next attack on open source is denial of attention: LLM-generated fake bug reports that exhaust and demoralise maintainers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-attack-on-open-source-3f1b43)
- [VS Code and Copilot are loss leaders in an embrace-extend-extinguish play, raising the switching cost until nobody can leave.](https://korrents.com/k/vs-code-and-copilot-are-loss-d89a4b)
- [Hate sticks for a lifetime, and forgiveness is its only cure.](https://korrents.com/k/hate-sticks-for-a-lifetime-and-938e26)
- [A strong track record in a technical field is only weak evidence that someone has good strategic judgment about AGI.](https://korrents.com/k/a-strong-track-record-in-a-c66d22)
- [People's opinions are shaped more by who they talk to most than by what is actually true.](https://korrents.com/k/people-s-opinions-are-shaped-more-caf699)
- [The return on UX design work is declining because the usability battles have been won: the low-hanging fruit was picked and interfaces are now reasonably good.](https://korrents.com/k/the-return-on-ux-design-work-c9536e)
- [A company needs someone who cares about the outcome above the effort](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-needs-someone-who-cares-ed72d1)
- [Older leadership hinders a tech company's ability to innovate](https://korrents.com/k/older-leadership-hinders-a-tech-company-a2e0d9)
- [Tech companies need younger leaders to stay innovative](https://korrents.com/k/tech-companies-need-younger-leaders-to-940e8a)
- [Smartphones are not the main cause of child fragility](https://korrents.com/k/smartphones-are-not-the-main-cause-40abf6)
- [Lack of unsupervised free play and independence is a key contributor to the rise in child fragility](https://korrents.com/k/lack-of-unsupervised-free-play-and-b02269)
- [The biggest risk in a large project is failing to raise the alarm early enough, and a concrete plan is the best defense against that.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-risk-in-a-large-6c30eb)
- [A slower project aimed at the right goal beats a faster one aimed at the wrong goal.](https://korrents.com/k/a-slower-project-aimed-at-the-635bc0)
- [The best project managers are usually not the strongest technical individual contributors.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-project-managers-are-usually-4f6a3d)
- [China has become a serious competitive threat in biotech, capable of developing drugs that rival or surpass those produced in American labs.](https://korrents.com/k/china-has-become-a-serious-competitive-579d14)
- [No technology, including drug discovery technologies, is immune to the eventual pull toward commoditization.](https://korrents.com/k/no-technology-including-drug-discovery-technologies-fe6011)
- [Revolutionary ideas eventually become universal building blocks for the next wave of innovation.](https://korrents.com/k/revolutionary-ideas-eventually-become-universal-building-e9d8ec)
- [Having children makes them the most interesting people to their parents](https://korrents.com/k/having-children-makes-them-the-most-747d52)
- [Vibe coding lets users design and build their own software, upending the user-centred design paradigm that has held since 1947.](https://korrents.com/k/vibe-coding-lets-users-design-and-2785af)
- [Violating the GPL is a form of theft.](https://korrents.com/k/violating-the-gpl-is-a-form-a77650)
- [There is an unmet opportunity for an open, Linux-based tablet to dominate the e-ink market.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-an-unmet-opportunity-for-d87ffd)
- [Funding education does not make a country rich; being rich is what makes a country fund education lavishly.](https://korrents.com/k/funding-education-does-not-make-a-d68cb9)
- [At the national level there is no clear evidence that more education raises living standards at all.](https://korrents.com/k/at-the-national-level-there-is-ce10a4)
- [The way to find useful ideas is to search for useful ideas, not to follow whatever fascinates you and hope it turns out useful.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-find-useful-ideas-29d053)
- [Climatism is stepping up as a suitable alternative to religion for the Danes](https://korrents.com/k/climatism-is-stepping-up-as-a-bd095b)
- [Small acts of environmentalism can be used to buy a good conscience](https://korrents.com/k/small-acts-of-environmentalism-can-be-b59015)
- [Long-term assimilation of immigrants is not happening at a scale to tackle social problems](https://korrents.com/k/long-term-assimilation-of-immigrants-is-not-0a135a)
- [Descendants of immigrants are more likely to be violent and troublesome than their parents](https://korrents.com/k/descendants-of-immigrants-are-more-likely-e77b94)
- [Claude tends to have good default taste in web page design.](https://korrents.com/k/claude-tends-to-have-good-default-4bdaef)
- [Impressive-looking benchmark improvements often result from comparing against a poorly-tuned baseline rather than a genuine advance.](https://korrents.com/k/impressive-looking-benchmark-improvements-often-result-from-71ebb9)
- [As software projects grow more numerous, fast-moving, and interdependent, cross-project regressions become practically inevitable.](https://korrents.com/k/as-software-projects-grow-more-numerous-2f42cd)
- [Compiler mechanisms that force a required optimization to occur, rather than relying on incidental compiler behavior, are a more robust way to write performance-sensitive code.](https://korrents.com/k/compiler-mechanisms-that-force-a-required-9924fb)
- [Making coding easy makes design more critical, not less: when anyone can produce working features, the quality of the experience is what sets products apart.](https://korrents.com/k/making-coding-easy-makes-design-more-c87fc8)
- [Mockups existed because coding was hard; now designers can skip static mockups and go straight to building a UI that works.](https://korrents.com/k/mockups-existed-because-coding-was-hard-5fbef5)
- [Deciding what software should do and why is still a human job: vibe coding changes the implementation phase far more than the planning phase.](https://korrents.com/k/deciding-what-software-should-do-and-fe29de)
- [Making a commodity cheaply is a harder startup problem than making something valuable, because the product cannot carry a premium.](https://korrents.com/k/making-a-commodity-cheaply-is-a-2cd860)
- [Weighing everything by quantifiable properties is an impoverished way to view business](https://korrents.com/k/weighing-everything-by-quantifiable-properties-is-f76794)
- [Founder-led operations often keep an edge because the founder cares about the product](https://korrents.com/k/founder-led-operations-often-keep-an-edge-90642a)
- [Business owners should lead based on good vibes and a long vision once the basics are right](https://korrents.com/k/business-owners-should-lead-based-on-032405)
- [Where there is a group, an organisation or an institution, there cannot be truth.](https://korrents.com/k/where-there-is-a-group-an-0a8dda)
- [A leader can force people's behaviour to change, but not their thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/a-leader-can-force-people-s-52b681)
- [People change only from their own inner desire, never because someone told them to.](https://korrents.com/k/people-change-only-from-their-own-e9f6c5)
- [The pressure to publish poisons every academic and scientific institution.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pressure-to-publish-poisons-every-558677)
- [Wisdom is not tied to any field or discipline.](https://korrents.com/k/wisdom-is-not-tied-to-any-477902)
- [A company can run on truth only if its leader deeply desires it and rules with a firm hand rather than by democracy.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-can-run-on-truth-214d66)
- [Well-run product organizations still get their strategic decisions right less than half the time.](https://korrents.com/k/well-run-product-organizations-still-get-their-8fcfb9)
- [Average-based proxy metrics tend to obscure important variation in underlying data.](https://korrents.com/k/average-based-proxy-metrics-tend-to-obscure-d0cf50)
- [Product strategy is developed through an iterative combination of top-down and bottom-up work.](https://korrents.com/k/product-strategy-is-developed-through-an-e27d6a)
- [Formal specifications like RFCs leave little room for interpretation, which enables a high degree of interoperability between implementations.](https://korrents.com/k/formal-specifications-like-rfcs-leave-little-61fa1e)
- [A company that deviates from open standards in its data exports without documenting the deviation creates an artificial vendor lock-in.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-deviates-from-open-175152)
- [Customer service at its best offers understanding and reassurance](https://korrents.com/k/customer-service-at-its-best-offers-fba843)
- [Cozying up to an autocratic war criminal annexing his neighbor is more dangerous and morally bankrupt than other bad policy ideas](https://korrents.com/k/cozying-up-to-an-autocratic-war-655994)
- [The Trump-Musk government's approach descends from a Silicon Valley ideology that prizes frictionless technology built by elite engineers over messy human institutions.](https://korrents.com/k/the-trump-musk-government-s-approach-descends-017fa3)
- [Who gets into a country is legitimately for its people to decide, and a democracy should enforce the decision they make](https://korrents.com/k/who-gets-into-a-country-is-c590f2)
- [Germany's constitutional debt brake will not be reformed.](https://korrents.com/k/germany-s-constitutional-debt-brake-will-d94136)
- [Building a new app with Swift 6 from the start is easier than migrating an existing, released app to it.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-new-app-with-swift-c87743)
- [Swift 6 still has many rough edges that should improve over the next few years.](https://korrents.com/k/swift-6-still-has-many-rough-7de9f4)
- [AI agents will end traditional UI design and accessibility, because users will stop visiting websites and act only through their agent.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-agents-will-end-traditional-ui-1c7578)
- [Founders should do customer-facing work directly for a long time](https://korrents.com/k/founders-should-do-customer-facing-work-directly-2cc1cc)
- [Design sits at an intersection of art and science; in the art side, redesigning and experimenting, you are thinking about making something that looks really good, not about data or customers.](https://korrents.com/k/design-sits-at-an-intersection-of-f519ec)
- [When beauty is the guiding principle, a product is forced to be simpler, into something most people would understand.](https://korrents.com/k/when-beauty-is-the-guiding-principle-4a06c2)
- [Financial products pile up data and leave users to interpret it; AI is good at interpreting data, so it can help people understand it without telling them what to do.](https://korrents.com/k/financial-products-pile-up-data-and-d8082c)
- [Having no deadline is a blessing and a curse: a designer can linger on a goalpost of perfection that keeps moving and never ship.](https://korrents.com/k/having-no-deadline-is-a-blessing-085efe)
- [Being a good designer means saying no to most of your own ideas, and yes to the ones that could work within your product.](https://korrents.com/k/being-a-good-designer-means-saying-d99a6f)
- [Customer feedback that reads well on the surface can wreck a product once applied; it is very hard to say no to a good idea for the product's long-term good.](https://korrents.com/k/customer-feedback-that-reads-well-on-7171a1)
- [A designer improves by validating their old work through their new work.](https://korrents.com/k/a-designer-improves-by-validating-their-c27d16)
- [Art was the original UI: its techniques evolved over thousands of years, and too few designers draw on them.](https://korrents.com/k/art-was-the-original-ui-its-33a8ab)
- [Designers should be curious about movies, art and music, because everything outside UI and apps has something to teach them.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-should-be-curious-about-movies-910532)
- [Designers should take inspiration from the world directly rather than from other UI, which is itself already a distillation of the world.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-should-take-inspiration-from-the-169c25)
- [A shadow in an interface implies a light source, so an elevated element needs a highlight where the light falls, not just a drop shadow.](https://korrents.com/k/a-shadow-in-an-interface-implies-090594)
- [Caravaggio is the master of light, and a designer can learn lighting for an interface by putting one of his paintings next to it and copying the light source.](https://korrents.com/k/caravaggio-is-the-master-of-light-62d2cc)
- [Rules like 'elevated surfaces get lighter in dark mode' are good guides but do not hold in the real world, where a darker keyboard can sit on a lighter table.](https://korrents.com/k/rules-like-elevated-surfaces-get-lighter-bd3ba5)
- [Small details add up: people who are not attuned to design still sense a product's overall polish.](https://korrents.com/k/small-details-add-up-people-who-47455b)
- [A button takes ten seconds to make, but texture can make a customer curious enough to want to touch it, the way things work in real life.](https://korrents.com/k/a-button-takes-ten-seconds-to-c06ed5)
- [Lacking founder-market fit can be a blessing in disguise rather than a weakness.](https://korrents.com/k/lacking-founder-market-fit-can-be-a-e2fcb2)
- [Curiosity is probably the number one quality a designer can have.](https://korrents.com/k/curiosity-is-probably-the-number-one-b6b605)
- [Taste is not having better judgement than someone else; it is a heightened awareness of how things are configured, which can be learned from and applied.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-is-not-having-better-judgement-51b647)
- [Taste is practised by exposing yourself to how the world is ordered, and understanding how that makes everything look.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-is-practised-by-exposing-yourself-232085)
- [AI will replace designers, but not all of them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-replace-designers-but-not-c446fe)
- [As tools get better the value of craft is increasing: a landing page spun up in minutes does not, for now, feel like one someone poured their heart into.](https://korrents.com/k/as-tools-get-better-the-value-7b9cab)
- [AI that builds UI is trained on past UI, so breaking out of that mould will still take a person willing to break the rules.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-that-builds-ui-is-trained-70c24d)
- [A design course should start with history and art, grounding students in the world, rather than with tools that may be gone tomorrow.](https://korrents.com/k/a-design-course-should-start-with-3d6542)
- [Designers need to be good communicators: an idea they cannot articulate to their team rarely becomes something meaningful.](https://korrents.com/k/designers-need-to-be-good-communicators-4a6945)
- [Beauty matters to a business: it simplifies, and makes people understand, care about and remember a product.](https://korrents.com/k/beauty-matters-to-a-business-it-36ac2d)
- [Design is a visual profession, but the best designers are the ones who listen really well.](https://korrents.com/k/design-is-a-visual-profession-but-760f9b)
- [Marriage and birth rates are collapsing across the Middle East and North Africa even though religiosity there has not weakened.](https://korrents.com/k/marriage-and-birth-rates-are-collapsing-1f9f1d)
- [Where men and women are kept apart, couples form late because it is hard to find somebody you actually like.](https://korrents.com/k/where-men-and-women-are-kept-3a8719)
- [Marriage survives in South Asia because families arrange it and divorce is taboo, not because men and women mix more freely there.](https://korrents.com/k/marriage-survives-in-south-asia-because-1c5d0a)
- [Falling birth rates ended cousin marriage in the Arab world by leaving too few cousins, pushing marriage onto individual choice.](https://korrents.com/k/falling-birth-rates-ended-cousin-marriage-4de64e)
- [Having the humility to give up on good bets turned bad is important](https://korrents.com/k/having-the-humility-to-give-up-81cc5f)
- [Nobody is smart enough to predict the future consistently](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-is-smart-enough-to-predict-5243cd)
- [Having the grit to stick with an effort when the going gets hard is a key trait of successful people.](https://korrents.com/k/having-the-grit-to-stick-with-67812c)
- [The main function of education is signalling rather than building skill, so subsidising it mostly inflates credentials.](https://korrents.com/k/the-main-function-of-education-is-268c90)
- [College is not a good career investment for most of the population.](https://korrents.com/k/college-is-not-a-good-career-26cfdb)
- [Most of a degree's value comes from finishing it, so starting one you will not complete is a bad investment.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-a-degree-s-value-067306)
- [Whether to go to college should be decided on objective evidence about your own ability, starting with a test score.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-to-go-to-college-should-c4f6dc)
- [Parents and teachers are not trustworthy judges of how intelligent a young person is.](https://korrents.com/k/parents-and-teachers-are-not-trustworthy-1aa723)
- [Europe is weak spiritually and militarily in the face of Russia](https://korrents.com/k/europe-is-weak-spiritually-and-militarily-90e603)
- [Weakness is a short-term strategy](https://korrents.com/k/weakness-is-a-short-term-strategy-4c1859)
- [Reading novels does more to build empathy than watching TV and films.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-novels-does-more-to-build-534f20)
- [Europe has become a third-rate power economically, politically, and militarily](https://korrents.com/k/europe-has-become-a-third-rate-power-8c6d60)
- [Decades of underfunding the European military has led to its current weakness](https://korrents.com/k/decades-of-underfunding-the-european-military-f06188)
- [European countries are cracking down on free speech](https://korrents.com/k/european-countries-are-cracking-down-on-6fc5a0)
- [Limiting free speech is a trend across Europe](https://korrents.com/k/limiting-free-speech-is-a-trend-8d88dc)
- [Too few types of change process are too few for the dance of life; a change model needs many.](https://korrents.com/k/too-few-types-of-change-process-959e6d)
- [The biotech industry has not undergone the same exhaustive search for every commercializable opportunity that followed the internet's growth boom.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biotech-industry-has-not-undergone-c2daf3)
- [The number of diseases with a known molecular explanation has grown far faster than the number of new drugs developed to treat them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-number-of-diseases-with-a-aa6011)
- [The Human Genome Project's results have been less transformative than initially advertised relative to its cost.](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-genome-project-s-results-e3ebc8)
- [AI will eliminate many millions of jobs within the next few years, and that disruption will shape the politics of everything else about AI.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-eliminate-many-millions-of-e51061)
- [Companies do not have sufficient incentives to mitigate the major risks of AI, and competition between them is driving corner-cutting.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-do-not-have-sufficient-incentives-a6be9a)
- [Mass immigration threatens Europe](https://korrents.com/k/mass-immigration-threatens-europe-302e98)
- [Suppressing discussion of mass immigration's downsides leads to problems](https://korrents.com/k/suppressing-discussion-of-mass-immigration-s-974338)
- [Treating errors generically is a mistake that leads to fragile software, poor observability and worse experiences.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-errors-generically-is-a-mistake-eea9ac)
- [A small software package with good intentions can accumulate so many dependents and dependencies that it becomes a vector for bloat and malfeasance.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-software-package-with-good-5d484d)
- [You do not need to keep a job forever just to hold on to health insurance](https://korrents.com/k/you-do-not-need-to-keep-ddbc16)
- [Aid is not development: transfers can relieve poverty, but the work that actually lifts a country out of it is not work donors do.](https://korrents.com/k/aid-is-not-development-transfers-can-967f05)
- [American aid spending has been flat in real terms since 1945 even as the American economy grew tenfold.](https://korrents.com/k/american-aid-spending-has-been-flat-8c4345)
- [Foreign aid was a bipartisan American commitment for eight decades, with Republican and Democratic presidents spending within a few billion dollars a year of each other.](https://korrents.com/k/foreign-aid-was-a-bipartisan-american-313abc)
- [American aid to sub-Saharan Africa has never exceeded $15 per person a year.](https://korrents.com/k/american-aid-to-sub-saharan-africa-has-10de74)
- [Ending USAID is a humanitarian disaster that still does not doom growth in poor countries, because the flows were always far too small to drive it.](https://korrents.com/k/ending-usaid-is-a-humanitarian-disaster-d132a6)
- [Aid transforms a country only where a capable state with a development plan is already there to spend it.](https://korrents.com/k/aid-transforms-a-country-only-where-dea219)
- [Aid to African states has been large enough to warp their politics and too small to transform their economies.](https://korrents.com/k/aid-to-african-states-has-been-c74983)
- [London did not lead England into coal: coal spread outwards from the Newcastle coalfield, and London was one of the last places to take it up.](https://korrents.com/k/london-did-not-lead-england-into-0f1646)
- [England's deforestation was a consequence of cheap coal rather than its cause.](https://korrents.com/k/england-s-deforestation-was-a-consequence-61cafe)
- [England switched from wood to coal because deforestation had made firewood scarce.](https://korrents.com/k/england-switched-from-wood-to-coal-2765eb)
- [People will find new kinds of useful work as AI advances, though it will not resemble the jobs of today.](https://korrents.com/k/people-will-find-new-kinds-of-336308)
- [America needs to be prepared for a potential future war](https://korrents.com/k/america-needs-to-be-prepared-for-11376f)
- [Most servers can easily power applications much longer than five years](https://korrents.com/k/most-servers-can-easily-power-applications-55f35c)
- [OpenAI's 2022 bet on GPT-4 was a larger gamble than any training run since: all of its compute, for months, on an architecture nobody at Google believed in.](https://korrents.com/k/openai-s-2022-bet-on-gpt-4-eb1030)
- [Training a frontier model achieves almost nothing by itself; all the economic and military power comes from deploying it, and deployment is what consumes the compute.](https://korrents.com/k/training-a-frontier-model-achieves-almost-133cf2)
- [If AI does not transform the economy within the next five to ten years, the export controls will have guaranteed that China wins the long run.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-does-not-transform-the-5c1229)
- [The only thing stopping China from building the largest data centre in the world is access to chips; the power and the industrial capacity are already there.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-thing-stopping-china-from-0ab9e6)
- [Building fabs in America does not reduce dependence on Taiwan: without Hsinchu, TSMC's Arizona plant would stop producing within a couple of years.](https://korrents.com/k/building-fabs-in-america-does-not-8b73c9)
- [Completely in-sourcing semiconductor manufacturing to the United States is possible, and it would take a decade and a trillion dollars.](https://korrents.com/k/completely-in-sourcing-semiconductor-manufacturing-to-the-59769e)
- [Export controls slowed China at the leading edge and accelerated it everywhere else, because being locked out taught China to in-source the trailing edge.](https://korrents.com/k/export-controls-slowed-china-at-the-84a13c)
- [The world has been at its most peaceful precisely when a single power was hegemonic, which is why the arrival of a second AI superpower is dangerous.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-has-been-at-its-5d12b2)
- [American export controls police floating-point operations while memory and interconnect matter just as much, and reasoning models make that the wrong axis to control.](https://korrents.com/k/american-export-controls-police-floating-point-operations-673ad3)
- [Most of the price gap between o1 and R1 is margin rather than efficiency: OpenAI's inference gross margins are north of 75% because nobody else could serve the capability.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-price-gap-between-3de6b4)
- [Superhuman persuasion will arrive before superhuman intelligence, which means whoever builds a model can embed their ideals in it long before anyone reaches AGI.](https://korrents.com/k/superhuman-persuasion-will-arrive-before-superhuman-eb2720)
- [The aha moment for reasoning models will come from computer use and robotics rather than from scientific discovery, because those are the infinitely verifiable playgrounds.](https://korrents.com/k/the-aha-moment-for-reasoning-models-25123b)
- [We will have AGI-grade intelligence well before it reaches the economy, because what limits deployment is the cost of running it rather than the capability itself.](https://korrents.com/k/we-will-have-agi-grade-intelligence-well-673def)
- [Cheaper models raise the demand for compute rather than lowering it: H100 rental prices went up in the weeks after DeepSeek launched.](https://korrents.com/k/cheaper-models-raise-the-demand-for-130c79)
- [The largest hole in America's GPU export controls was never physical smuggling but renting: ByteDance runs over 500,000 GPUs it does not own.](https://korrents.com/k/the-largest-hole-in-america-s-93caac)
- [The copyright problem in AI training already has a legal solution nobody is taking: train the models in Japan, where copyright does not apply to training data.](https://korrents.com/k/the-copyright-problem-in-ai-training-c66e68)
- [The bottleneck on America's AI buildout is transmitting power, not generating it: in parts of the US, moving electricity costs more than making it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bottleneck-on-america-s-ai-c7021a)
- [Google will never become NVIDIA's competitor, because it has never had the DNA to sell a product and its TPU, cloud, DeepMind and search teams serve different customers.](https://korrents.com/k/google-will-never-become-nvidia-s-2a0a11)
- [AMD's hardware is in many ways better than NVIDIA's and it does not matter, because the software gulf is too large and AMD has never resourced closing it.](https://korrents.com/k/amd-s-hardware-is-in-many-d37754)
- [Software engineering agents will work before any other kind of agent, because code is the one domain where the machine can check its own answer.](https://korrents.com/k/software-engineering-agents-will-work-before-06af1e)
- [When writing software becomes cheap, platform SaaS dies: companies stop buying Salesforce and start building their own business logic, as China already does.](https://korrents.com/k/when-writing-software-becomes-cheap-platform-3fa418)
- [The danger from powerful AI is not that it kills everyone but techno-fascism: a few thousand people ruling whoever is left and the economy around them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-danger-from-powerful-ai-is-0d6ad6)
- [Data processing, filtering and quality, not architecture, is the number one determinant of how good a language model turns out.](https://korrents.com/k/data-processing-filtering-and-quality-not-714c79)
- [The Bitter Lesson is misread as being about scale; it is about refusing to add human priors, because a clever specific fix always loses to a simple scalable one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bitter-lesson-is-misread-as-913394)
- [Post-training is the best place to work in AI right now, because cheap runs mean a far higher share of your experiments can be all-or-nothing bets.](https://korrents.com/k/post-training-is-the-best-place-to-bfe1b1)
- [A published training-run cost always understates the truth, because any notable model takes two to four times that run's compute in experiments alone.](https://korrents.com/k/a-published-training-run-cost-always-understates-511b1e)
- [Export controls cannot stop China from training frontier models; what they can do is cap how much AI China gets to run.](https://korrents.com/k/export-controls-cannot-stop-china-from-6dc093)
- [Language models are already a form of AGI; what the labs are chasing is a further step, not the arrival of general intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-are-already-a-form-5a1d53)
- [Language models have not made misinformation meaningfully worse, because distribution, not the cost of writing convincing text, was always the limiting factor.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-have-not-made-misinformation-9b66bf)
- [Making safety your number one goal costs real release speed, and on a steep progress curve that shows up directly as a worse-looking model.](https://korrents.com/k/making-safety-your-number-one-goal-8f2a9c)
- [Open frontier models will keep being released whether or not anyone wants to stop them, and stopping them would only leave the world less prepared.](https://korrents.com/k/open-frontier-models-will-keep-being-209727)
- [Censoring a fact out of a language model is practically impossible, because you would first have to remove that fact from the internet.](https://korrents.com/k/censoring-a-fact-out-of-a-145b4c)
- [RLHF is not a tax on capability: preference tuning also raises maths and code scores, which is why the labs keep reaching for it.](https://korrents.com/k/rlhf-is-not-a-tax-on-e5b8e8)
- [Reasoning is not taught to a model by people: it emerges from reinforcement learning on questions with checkable answers, with no human preference data at all.](https://korrents.com/k/reasoning-is-not-taught-to-a-d205f2)
- [Distilling from another lab's model is standard industry practice, not cheating; who you distill from just depends on whether you have products to protect.](https://korrents.com/k/distilling-from-another-lab-s-model-8b6dea)
- [OpenAI's claim that DeepSeek trained on its outputs is narrative management: other startups bootstrapped exactly that way and were never banned for it.](https://korrents.com/k/openai-s-claim-that-deepseek-trained-b64cc3)
- [Stealing AI code and data is hard and stealing ideas is easy, because Silicon Valley already moves ideas legally, inside the heads of the people it hires.](https://korrents.com/k/stealing-ai-code-and-data-is-1656ba)
- [The faster AI progresses, the better NVIDIA does, so a shock like DeepSeek should expand its market rather than shrink it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-faster-ai-progresses-the-better-a159da)
- [The biggest untapped business in AI is advertising inside model outputs, and nobody has yet worked out technically how to place an ad there.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-untapped-business-in-ai-00110b)
- [Reasoning will generalize the way instruction tuning did: add enough verifiable domains and, at some point nobody can yet locate, the rest start working on their own.](https://korrents.com/k/reasoning-will-generalize-the-way-instruction-6981a1)
- [AI will not push software engineers off a cliff; it will flatten their growth curve, the way Meta's stories flattened Snapchat.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-not-push-software-engineers-7cb167)
- [Humans keep their place in AI as judges rather than authors, because telling which of two answers is better is far easier than writing a good one.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-keep-their-place-in-ai-a2614c)
- [Open-source AI is still an ideological mission rather than an ecosystem, because it has none of the feedback loops that make open-source software compound.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-ai-is-still-an-ideological-0f7822)
- [AI takeover is not the thing to worry about: physical constraints bound recursive self-improvement, and humans reliably act once a risk becomes immediate.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-takeover-is-not-the-thing-012cfc)
- [The United States cannot hold a monopoly on superhuman AI, so competing with China has to be paired with coexisting with it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-cannot-hold-a-5d0b91)
- [Expensive housing causes homelessness by shrinking the spare room friends and family can offer, not by pricing people out of apartments they were going to rent.](https://korrents.com/k/expensive-housing-causes-homelessness-by-shrinking-1826ef)
- [The American cities with the highest housing prices have the worst homelessness, and that correlation is the strongest evidence the two are connected.](https://korrents.com/k/the-american-cities-with-the-highest-d8ad2b)
- [Cheaper AI will be used more in the long run and still strand the hardware built for it in the short run, exactly as unlit fibre did after 2001.](https://korrents.com/k/cheaper-ai-will-be-used-more-e72fe7)
- [Great storytelling skill comes from immersion in the liberal arts, not from corporate media training.](https://korrents.com/k/great-storytelling-skill-comes-from-immersion-8ad097)
- [Reading aloud to children teaches more about storytelling than books on public-speaking technique do.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-aloud-to-children-teaches-more-3d3459)
- [Good storytelling doesn't require inventing something entirely new; it can be built from existing material.](https://korrents.com/k/good-storytelling-doesn-t-require-inventing-e64be8)
- [As AI makes code cheaper to produce, understanding and architectural design become more valuable.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-makes-code-cheaper-to-0418d0)
- [AI tooling and interface design lags behind the underlying models' actual capabilities.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-tooling-and-interface-design-lags-b3c1b2)
- [Current AI models still fall short of expert human performance.](https://korrents.com/k/current-ai-models-still-fall-short-2981ab)
- [The Amiga 1000 is a significant piece of home computing history.](https://korrents.com/k/the-amiga-1000-is-a-significant-ca47a7)
- [Using emulation in a restored vintage computer is cheating.](https://korrents.com/k/using-emulation-in-a-restored-vintage-d54381)
- [Building AI that can actually be trusted is the goal; containing an AI known to be misaligned is not a substitute for it.](https://korrents.com/k/building-ai-that-can-actually-be-817c07)
- [We cannot know how much safety a control measure buys until we understand elicitation, so control adds a margin of unknown size.](https://korrents.com/k/we-cannot-know-how-much-safety-a4f2e6)
- [Catch-up growth in the twentieth century was almost entirely state-led.](https://korrents.com/k/catch-up-growth-in-the-twentieth-century-99285e)
- [South Korea and Taiwan began their miracles with far more schooling than their income implied, and African states with far less.](https://korrents.com/k/south-korea-and-taiwan-began-their-83db16)
- [Japanese colonial rule built a far deeper state in Korea than European rule ever built in sub-Saharan Africa.](https://korrents.com/k/japanese-colonial-rule-built-a-far-3e81be)
- [Without a stock of trained administrators no development strategy of any kind can even begin, whichever theory of growth you hold.](https://korrents.com/k/without-a-stock-of-trained-administrators-4179a5)
- [The newly independent states of Africa were largely European inventions, assembled from peoples who had not previously shared a state.](https://korrents.com/k/the-newly-independent-states-of-africa-6c6b04)
- [Pre-colonial statehood in East Asia carried through the colonial period and on into the post-independence era.](https://korrents.com/k/pre-colonial-statehood-in-east-asia-carried-3f9092)
- [Africa before colonisation was not stagnant for lacking states: states formed where they paid, and other arrangements suited other places.](https://korrents.com/k/africa-before-colonisation-was-not-stagnant-4e1571)
- [Comparing a poor country’s GDP with South Korea’s at independence is a shallow argument that hides the differences that actually decided the outcome.](https://korrents.com/k/comparing-a-poor-country-s-gdp-b2595e)
- [Tolerance of antisocial behavior undermines public safety and freedom](https://korrents.com/k/tolerance-of-antisocial-behavior-undermines-public-e3ca09)
- [Conservative values can enable progressive outcomes](https://korrents.com/k/conservative-values-can-enable-progressive-outcomes-c984ca)
- [A country should raise revenue by tariffing foreign countries rather than by taxing its own citizens.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-should-raise-revenue-by-50d6c6)
- [Tariffs are what made the United States rich under President McKinley.](https://korrents.com/k/tariffs-are-what-made-the-united-03cb8e)
- [The inflation of the early 2020s was caused by government overspending and rising energy prices.](https://korrents.com/k/the-inflation-of-the-early-2020s-4ee5d3)
- [American manufacturing can be rebuilt on domestic oil and gas, which the United States holds more of than any other country.](https://korrents.com/k/american-manufacturing-can-be-rebuilt-on-870801)
- [Federal efforts to restrict free expression in recent years were illegal and unconstitutional.](https://korrents.com/k/federal-efforts-to-restrict-free-expression-51aa1c)
- [He hopes Europe is merely a few years behind the American revival in optimism](https://korrents.com/k/he-hopes-europe-is-merely-a-88e472)
- [Europe lacks the ability to change course like the United States](https://korrents.com/k/europe-lacks-the-ability-to-change-4372a7)
- [Cultural integration is incredibly difficult](https://korrents.com/k/cultural-integration-is-incredibly-difficult-421b7d)
- [Multiculturalism has been an abject failure in Europe](https://korrents.com/k/multiculturalism-has-been-an-abject-failure-91fef3)
- [Milton Friedman won debates on cheerfulness and confidence rather than on argument, and Ayn Rand lost them because disagreement made her angry.](https://korrents.com/k/milton-friedman-won-debates-on-cheerfulness-bfb885)
- [Ayn Rand believed she was doing rational philosophy, but the work that actually made her powerful was mythopoetic and psychological.](https://korrents.com/k/ayn-rand-believed-she-was-doing-e6c9f7)
- [Ayn Rand keeps returning to relevance in a way Milton Friedman does not, because she reached a universal human longing for independence and self-creation.](https://korrents.com/k/ayn-rand-keeps-returning-to-relevance-bcc085)
- [Friedman and Schwartz's account of the Great Depression became the Federal Reserve's permanent playbook, because no Fed chair wants to be the villain of the sequel.](https://korrents.com/k/friedman-and-schwartz-s-account-of-7aa1dd)
- [Milton Friedman would have backed the first rounds of coronavirus relief, because he treated an emergency as a category where his ordinary rules were suspended.](https://korrents.com/k/milton-friedman-would-have-backed-the-ecda84)
- [Milton Friedman is almost single-handedly responsible for there being any political and ideological diversity in the field of economics at all.](https://korrents.com/k/milton-friedman-is-almost-single-handedly-responsible-79095a)
- [The Chicago School's radical Depression-era proposals were meant as emergency measures, never as a permanent renegotiation of the line between state and market.](https://korrents.com/k/the-chicago-school-s-radical-depression-era-01564e)
- [How people feel about an economy is what actually matters, and no set of statistics will persuade someone who feels they are losing that they are winning.](https://korrents.com/k/how-people-feel-about-an-economy-e93203)
- [Money works only because everyone believes in it, which makes a currency a measure of social trust that fails when the trust does.](https://korrents.com/k/money-works-only-because-everyone-believes-56388d)
- [Friedman's universal minimum income went nowhere precisely because it was pure and free of moral judgment, which made it beautiful and politically impossible.](https://korrents.com/k/friedman-s-universal-minimum-income-went-0c0585)
- [Americans and their elected representatives will not vote for a universal benefit, because they believe help must be morally earned and therefore targeted.](https://korrents.com/k/americans-and-their-elected-representatives-will-6e85df)
- [The great mistake of recent decades was forgetting that inflation built the last political order, and underestimating what its return would do to this one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-great-mistake-of-recent-decades-e6e4a0)
- [The return of inflation is what made Donald Trump's second presidency possible, and therefore what makes everything that presidency changes possible.](https://korrents.com/k/the-return-of-inflation-is-what-20b8d9)
- [Politics now runs mood first and ideas second, the reverse of how argument worked for most of the twentieth century.](https://korrents.com/k/politics-now-runs-mood-first-and-47d4ce)
- [Objectivism's fundamental flaw is that it is justified by a fictional world rather than the real one, which makes it useless for understanding where we actually live.](https://korrents.com/k/objectivism-s-fundamental-flaw-is-that-556c4e)
- [Ayn Rand's strangeness was both her strength and her undoing, because she used herself as the model of humanity and never grasped how unlike other people she was.](https://korrents.com/k/ayn-rand-s-strangeness-was-both-1b6b29)
- [The circle around Ayn Rand became totally conformist because its members held that rationality was the only way to decide anything and that being rational meant agreeing with her.](https://korrents.com/k/the-circle-around-ayn-rand-became-1845c7)
- [Popular postmodernism has turned into the opposite of what it began as, re-inscribing the binaries it set out to dissolve as oppressor and oppressed.](https://korrents.com/k/popular-postmodernism-has-turned-into-the-abf5a5)
- [A genuinely original thought is nearly impossible, because everyone is born into traditions of thinking that most people never notice, let alone question.](https://korrents.com/k/a-genuinely-original-thought-is-nearly-9df630)
- [Milton Friedman's body of work rests on his collaborations with women, and without Anna Schwartz and Rose Friedman his resume would be far thinner than it is.](https://korrents.com/k/milton-friedman-s-body-of-work-88692f)
- [A startup does not need a growth team to start growing, because the first wave of growth has to be founder-led.](https://korrents.com/k/a-startup-does-not-need-a-5df3d5)
- [A company with ten customers has no data, and a growth team cannot function without data.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-with-ten-customers-has-d7daa4)
- [Whether a company hires sales or growth first is decided by how it collects money, not by how big it is.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-company-hires-sales-or-ae9e6d)
- [Hiring a head of growth to reverse a declining business is destined to fail, because the cause of the decline is deeper than the missing team.](https://korrents.com/k/hiring-a-head-of-growth-to-d57a7b)
- [A growth team's ceiling is a ten to fifteen percent lift, which is never enough to reverse a company that is already sliding.](https://korrents.com/k/a-growth-team-s-ceiling-is-746371)
- [A rebrand or marketing-site redesign has never once produced good performance results.](https://korrents.com/k/a-rebrand-or-marketing-site-redesign-has-988518)
- [Promising that a homepage or marketing-site redesign will drive acquisition is a failed promise, and usually a million-dollar one.](https://korrents.com/k/promising-that-a-homepage-or-marketing-site-90bc8e)
- [Copying a competitor's flows is the fastest route to mediocrity, because nobody who copied somebody else ever led a market.](https://korrents.com/k/copying-a-competitor-s-flows-is-b8fa1c)
- [Industry benchmarks are a dangerous target because every company defines the underlying metric differently.](https://korrents.com/k/industry-benchmarks-are-a-dangerous-target-265964)
- [There are no shortcuts in growth; there are only patterns and frameworks.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-no-shortcuts-in-growth-b67ba5)
- [Your growth problem is not unique, and treating it as unique is a pure opportunity cost.](https://korrents.com/k/your-growth-problem-is-not-unique-76a109)
- [No growth initiative should ever be started from scratch.](https://korrents.com/k/no-growth-initiative-should-ever-be-23d885)
- [Success in growth is the output of a lot of failures, so the real constraint is how much time you have left to fail in.](https://korrents.com/k/success-in-growth-is-the-output-dab24b)
- [Acquisition built on somebody else's algorithm can be taken away at any moment, which is why it must sit below earned channels on a growth roadmap.](https://korrents.com/k/acquisition-built-on-somebody-else-s-34d2b7)
- [As search turns into an AI interface, a company with no earned acquisition channel on its roadmap is in serious trouble within one to two years.](https://korrents.com/k/as-search-turns-into-an-ai-792473)
- [Half of Dropbox's acquisition comes from people sharing files, an earned channel no competitor can buy their way into.](https://korrents.com/k/half-of-dropbox-s-acquisition-comes-f2e8de)
- [A growth model that works today still has to be evolved by overlaying other growth models on top of it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-growth-model-that-works-today-d32a38)
- [A growth team should spend a fifth to a quarter of its year, measured annually rather than by sprint, introducing a new growth loop.](https://korrents.com/k/a-growth-team-should-spend-a-306c59)
- [A growth team without an advisor is a growth team that is underperforming.](https://korrents.com/k/a-growth-team-without-an-advisor-26ed53)
- [Nobody should be hired as an advisor before being paid for a workshop on the actual problem and watched at work.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-should-be-hired-as-an-f27bd6)
- [If every growth initiative is an experiment, the team has a paralysing disease rather than a process.](https://korrents.com/k/if-every-growth-initiative-is-an-2dbbea)
- [If a test cannot collect its sample size within a month, it should not be run at all.](https://korrents.com/k/if-a-test-cannot-collect-its-dc380d)
- [Testing shades of a colour is an early-2000s tactic that no longer drives anything.](https://korrents.com/k/testing-shades-of-a-colour-is-187703)
- [A single one-off email never moves a metric; email only works as a series.](https://korrents.com/k/a-single-one-off-email-never-moves-8e11bf)
- ["Simplify onboarding" is an action, not a problem, and a roadmap line written that way will not work.](https://korrents.com/k/simplify-onboarding-is-an-action-not-b5e6a9)
- [A full-time job is not the best way to monetise a skill; it is one package among several, and defaulting to it is a faulty plan.](https://korrents.com/k/a-full-time-job-is-not-the-fd8f3b)
- [As AI products converge on the same underlying models, product design becomes the real differentiator, not the model itself.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-products-converge-on-the-5b4235)
- [Building a working AI demo is far easier than turning it into a reliable production product.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-working-ai-demo-is-0db3e9)
- [AI judges used to evaluate AI outputs need ongoing validation and iteration, just like any other AI system.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-judges-used-to-evaluate-ai-d53193)
- [Britain must be an AI maker rather than an AI taker, and a government should not stay neutral about who shapes the technology.](https://korrents.com/k/britain-must-be-an-ai-maker-7ecdb9)
- [On AI the state's job does not stop at safety; leaving everything else to the market is a mistake.](https://korrents.com/k/on-ai-the-state-s-job-104567)
- [AI will make public services more human rather than less, by giving staff back the time the paperwork takes.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-make-public-services-more-dbe21d)
- [Every semiconductor shortage is followed by a glut, because capacity arrives in lumps long after the price signal that ordered it.](https://korrents.com/k/every-semiconductor-shortage-is-followed-by-6907aa)
- [The AI build-out is not yet a bubble, because it lacks the self-reinforcing feedback loop that drove the railway and telecom manias.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-build-out-is-not-yet-ffb2c5)
- [If the AI build-out does become a bubble, power and data centres are the assets that will carry it.](https://korrents.com/k/if-the-ai-build-out-does-become-57ca06)
- [Twitter/X has gotten worse since Elon Musk took over the platform.](https://korrents.com/k/twitter-x-has-gotten-worse-since-409a2f)
- [Facebook's policy changes have led it to allow more misinformation and hate speech.](https://korrents.com/k/facebook-s-policy-changes-have-led-8e63c3)
- [Writing something down helps clarify your thinking by forcing it into a coherent form.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-something-down-helps-clarify-your-46458b)
- [Securing model weights against theft is a more urgent policy priority than safety research, because security is built out of atoms and takes calendar time that safety does not.](https://korrents.com/k/securing-model-weights-against-theft-is-46fbd7)
- [AI companies will not fix their own security without outside pressure, because they bear the cost of investing and everyone else bears the cost of their not investing.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-companies-will-not-fix-their-ecef53)
- [Structural fiscal deficits have surpassed private sector lending and monetary policy as the primary driver of economic activity and inflation.](https://korrents.com/k/structural-fiscal-deficits-have-surpassed-private-6fabbb)
- [Raising interest rates cannot meaningfully cool inflation when structural fiscal deficits, not private-sector lending, are its main driver.](https://korrents.com/k/raising-interest-rates-cannot-meaningfully-cool-f94d7c)
- [Planning is fundamentally a search problem: explore paths, predict outcomes, and pick the best one.](https://korrents.com/k/planning-is-fundamentally-a-search-problem-20f56a)
- [Most real-world AI agent systems are actually multi-agent systems made of multiple components.](https://korrents.com/k/most-real-world-ai-agent-systems-are-869825)
- [A self-driving car is more trustworthy than a random human driver.](https://korrents.com/k/a-self-driving-car-is-more-trustworthy-1e3c6b)
- [Developing a company's product strategy is an iterative, top-down/bottom-up process where the leader's work and the team's work eventually converge.](https://korrents.com/k/developing-a-company-s-product-strategy-e029bc)
- [America's power is recovering from an authoritarian grip on free speech](https://korrents.com/k/america-s-power-is-recovering-from-98dd76)
- [Political censorship is very popular worldwide](https://korrents.com/k/political-censorship-is-very-popular-worldwide-8c048d)
- [Humans are currently better than LLMs at avoiding distraction while working.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-are-currently-better-than-llms-c81535)
- [LLMs will push software development toward more specialized code, fewer generalized packages, and more readable tests.](https://korrents.com/k/llms-will-push-software-development-toward-97fdfd)
- [Subscription platforms like Substack and OnlyFans tend to become a Girardian bubble, where a few visible successes obscure the many who quietly give up after failing to build an audience.](https://korrents.com/k/subscription-platforms-like-substack-and-onlyfans-ea0856)
- [The value of a piece of writing depends on whether the reader finds it good, not on how much effort the writer put into it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-value-of-a-piece-of-37fed5)
- [Being needed and useful is more attractive than leisure](https://korrents.com/k/being-needed-and-useful-is-more-58995c)
- [Perhaps 60 to 70 percent of exercise's effects on brain health, performance and longevity can be explained by the rise in autonomic arousal during and after exercise.](https://korrents.com/k/perhaps-60-to-70-percent-of-444efb)
- [When you exercise relative to learning probably matters little, as long as the two sit fairly close in time.](https://korrents.com/k/when-you-exercise-relative-to-learning-75f489)
- [Overdoing high-intensity exercise before learning can leave you with reduced cerebral blood flow and make it hard to focus.](https://korrents.com/k/overdoing-high-intensity-exercise-before-learning-can-c81840)
- [Feeling a little tired is not a reason to skip a workout, because moving the body itself raises energy.](https://korrents.com/k/feeling-a-little-tired-is-not-b1acb2)
- [To use exercise's arousal effect on cognition, include compound, multi-joint exercises such as squats, deadlifts, bench presses, pull-ups and rows.](https://korrents.com/k/to-use-exercise-s-arousal-effect-a28f7e)
- [Weekly exercise should reasonably include some jumping with a controlled landing, to load the skeleton, though no study yet shows which exercise best releases osteocalcin in humans.](https://korrents.com/k/weekly-exercise-should-reasonably-include-some-605209)
- [Everyone should do resistance training plus cardio each week, with at least one high-intensity interval session and some long, slow zone 2 work.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-should-do-resistance-training-plus-682bdf)
- [For long-term brain health, do something physically and psychologically challenging that you would rather not do at least once a week, as long as it is safe.](https://korrents.com/k/for-long-term-brain-health-do-something-97faaa)
- [Mastering one great pursuit requires turning down many other good options.](https://korrents.com/k/mastering-one-great-pursuit-requires-turning-a17226)
- [Building strength and muscle mass, along with cardiovascular fitness, are among the most important factors in living a long, healthy life.](https://korrents.com/k/building-strength-and-muscle-mass-along-8b61ea)
- [Actual self-driving turned out to be far harder than almost everyone believed it would be.](https://korrents.com/k/actual-self-driving-turned-out-to-be-a4bd26)
- [The driverless taxi services that exist arrived years earlier than expected but are not what was promised: remote humans are in the loop.](https://korrents.com/k/the-driverless-taxi-services-that-exist-b22d53)
- [Electric cars will not reach 30% of US sales by 2027; the forecasts that looked pessimistic in 2018 were still too optimistic.](https://korrents.com/k/electric-cars-will-not-reach-30-ee90c0)
- [Concerns about the energy cost of an individual LLM prompt are no longer credible, though the environmental impact of the AI datacenter buildout remains a real worry.](https://korrents.com/k/concerns-about-the-energy-cost-of-ba647c)
- [Reading fiction is necessary to an engineer's creative capacity; reading only technical books drains it](https://korrents.com/k/reading-fiction-is-necessary-to-an-b104f4)
- [A full life cannot be delegated, because what makes it full is exactly the whole-person involvement that delegation removes.](https://korrents.com/k/a-full-life-cannot-be-delegated-5ae594)
- [Delegating care, skill, relationship, moral judgement or responsibility to a machine is different in kind from delegating a task.](https://korrents.com/k/delegating-care-skill-relationship-moral-judgement-bee5d0)
- [Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average, and have more of them.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-should-get-married-and-9951fd)
- [The 2,500-year-old argument about whether planets are common is settled: every star in the night sky has planets.](https://korrents.com/k/the-2-500-year-old-argument-about-whether-9dc2bc)
- [The universe has run ten billion trillion habitable-zone experiments, so we are the first technological civilisation only if every single one of them failed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-universe-has-run-ten-billion-973397)
- [The burden of proof about alien civilisations has shifted: it is now on the pessimists.](https://korrents.com/k/the-burden-of-proof-about-alien-573f86)
- [There is no Fermi paradox from the great silence: nobody has looked, for the entirely mundane reason that nobody funded the search.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-fermi-paradox-from-a2cf49)
- [Every SETI search ever conducted adds up to sampling a hot tub's worth of an ocean, so finding nothing tells us nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/every-seti-search-ever-conducted-adds-a6253c)
- [The hard steps model of intelligent life is suspect: none of the steps it names turn out to be hard.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hard-steps-model-of-intelligent-97e87c)
- [Life does not happen on a planet, it happens to a planet: the fate of a world and the fate of its life are inextricable.](https://korrents.com/k/life-does-not-happen-on-a-06fa25)
- [Our technosphere is immature: it is currently destroying the conditions it needs in order to sustain itself.](https://korrents.com/k/our-technosphere-is-immature-it-is-c3015b)
- [The Earth does not need saving — the biosphere will outlast us; what is actually at risk is the narrow band of conditions humanity needs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-earth-does-not-need-saving-34e3e4)
- [A Mars base is not a backup plan for climate change or nuclear war, because self-sufficiency there is centuries away.](https://korrents.com/k/a-mars-base-is-not-a-4f6bf0)
- [Life is going to be common in the universe; the genuinely open question is how long technological civilisations last.](https://korrents.com/k/life-is-going-to-be-common-746373)
- [The Kardashev ladder ignores the second law: harvesting a planet's worth of energy produces waste heat that changes the planet's climate.](https://korrents.com/k/the-kardashev-ladder-ignores-the-second-af9bf8)
- [Every technological civilisation probably triggers its own planetary climate crisis.](https://korrents.com/k/every-technological-civilisation-probably-triggers-its-6a86b3)
- [We should not be broadcasting powerful, easily detectable messages into interstellar space, because we have no idea who would receive them.](https://korrents.com/k/we-should-not-be-broadcasting-powerful-c653d8)
- [No UFO or UAP data comes anywhere near the standard of evidence required to claim non-human technology.](https://korrents.com/k/no-ufo-or-uap-data-comes-7afbd3)
- [The visiting-aliens story is incoherent: a civilisation with the technology to stay hidden would not keep being spotted.](https://korrents.com/k/the-visiting-aliens-story-is-incoherent-a-230d39)
- [Every faster-than-light proposal depends on exotic matter, which does not exist and was invented to make the equations behave.](https://korrents.com/k/every-faster-than-light-proposal-depends-on-exotic-0a83a8)
- [Expecting technology to keep accelerating is a bias of our particular moment; for most of human history the tools did not change at all.](https://korrents.com/k/expecting-technology-to-keep-accelerating-is-3a9978)
- [Alien life should converge on things like legs and wings, but the humanoid body plan is a random accident nobody should expect to see repeated.](https://korrents.com/k/alien-life-should-converge-on-things-986e9a)
- [The true unit of life is not DNA and not the cell but the biosphere — the whole community.](https://korrents.com/k/the-true-unit-of-life-is-7109b5)
- [Large language models will not get to real agency, because a mind has to be embedded in a world through a body.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-will-not-get-e4d5f6)
- [The most important question in physics is what life is — what makes a cell different from a rock, and how agency arises at all.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-important-question-in-physics-eff579)
- [Science has come to treat its formal systems as more real than the experience they were abstracted from: 60 degrees as more real than hot and cold.](https://korrents.com/k/science-has-come-to-treat-its-50232a)
- [The many-worlds interpretation invents infinitely many unobservable universes to avoid what quantum mechanics is plainly saying: that measurement matters.](https://korrents.com/k/the-many-worlds-interpretation-invents-infinitely-many-d08278)
- [The memorize-fetch-apply paradigm behind LLMs can reach arbitrary skill given training data, but it cannot adapt to novelty or acquire new skills on the fly.](https://korrents.com/k/the-memorize-fetch-apply-paradigm-behind-llms-can-cd6db0)
- [Scaling the 2019-2023 recipe — same architecture, bigger model, more data — is not enough; further progress depends on new architectural ideas.](https://korrents.com/k/scaling-the-2019-2023-recipe-same-architecture-8edf60)
- [Passing ARC-AGI does not amount to achieving AGI: o3 still fails on some very easy tasks, indicating fundamental differences from human intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/passing-arc-agi-does-not-amount-to-64d7e8)
- [AI that exceeds human performance in nearly every cognitive domain is almost certain to be built within the next few years.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-that-exceeds-human-performance-in-f5755d)
- [There is no private evidence behind frontier-lab confidence in fast AI progress; the evidence is public and outsiders have simply not absorbed it.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-private-evidence-behind-c58d34)
- [The West has not yet internalised that China is a source of genuinely new drugs, not just a maker of ingredients and copies.](https://korrents.com/k/the-west-has-not-yet-internalised-efc1f9)
- [China now starts about a quarter of the world's new clinical trials, more than Europe does.](https://korrents.com/k/china-now-starts-about-a-quarter-b315fd)
- [When a growing SaaS product's architecture breaks down, the developers he has seen succeed are the ones who fix it one piece at a time, not the ones who want it rebuilt.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-growing-saas-product-s-a8601d)
- [API stability is an underrated killer feature of frameworks and libraries.](https://korrents.com/k/api-stability-is-an-underrated-killer-e4b805)
- [Discriminated unions are the most important TypeScript feature, and everyone should be using them more.](https://korrents.com/k/discriminated-unions-are-the-most-important-8f4690)
- [A company should always have as few employees as possible, and hiring is the lever a leader reaches for last rather than first.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-should-always-have-as-e0dd20)
- [Neither running everything through the founder nor pushing decisions down is the better way to run a company; each only works if it fits that company’s own resources and values.](https://korrents.com/k/neither-running-everything-through-the-founder-54a5fd)
- ["Hire great people and get out of their way" is dangerous advice for anyone in a leadership role.](https://korrents.com/k/hire-great-people-and-get-out-8f6df1)
- [A CEO cannot be a calibrated interviewer for every role, so insisting on interviewing every candidate makes hiring worse rather than better.](https://korrents.com/k/a-ceo-cannot-be-a-calibrated-4e8cfb)
- [Reference checks are more informative than interviews, and if you had to pick one you should pick references.](https://korrents.com/k/reference-checks-are-more-informative-than-7a2cb2)
- [Hire for a person’s unique strengths rather than for their lack of weaknesses, because a team exists to cover what any one person is not.](https://korrents.com/k/hire-for-a-person-s-unique-cbda5e)
- [There is no such thing as the best people; you are trying to hire the right people for this team at this stage.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-such-thing-as-351b86)
- [A hiring loop should have few, well-calibrated interviewers rather than many, because extra interviewers add veto points instead of judgement.](https://korrents.com/k/a-hiring-loop-should-have-few-073dc2)
- [AI models are not yet capable of producing great code](https://korrents.com/k/ai-models-are-not-yet-capable-7b6187)
- [The next big leap for AI models probably isn't likely until they are exposed to proprietary corporate code](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-big-leap-for-ai-119c5b)
- [Debanking became a public issue because it happened to well-connected wealthy people, who are not the typical victims.](https://korrents.com/k/debanking-became-a-public-issue-because-566e02)
- [Coordinated debanking is overstated; what is poorly understood is how independent banks end up making correlated decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/coordinated-debanking-is-overstated-what-is-0ac5a6)
- [Americans are not, as a routine matter, cut off from the financial system for their politics.](https://korrents.com/k/americans-are-not-as-a-routine-a9b53d)
- [A US deposit account is a credit product, and cannot be made otherwise without breaking it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-us-deposit-account-is-a-62596a)
- [Nic Carter correctly identified the product behind the FDIC’s redacted crypto pause letters.](https://korrents.com/k/nic-carter-correctly-identified-the-product-cd4b74)
- [Understanding the future depends more on imagination and a clear theory of change than on analytical skill alone.](https://korrents.com/k/understanding-the-future-depends-more-on-aaab32)
- [Official forecasts consistently underestimate the pace of real-world change, with reality outperforming conservative predictions.](https://korrents.com/k/official-forecasts-consistently-underestimate-the-pace-69dbd2)
- [Spending 20 to 30 minutes each evening sitting on the floor builds exposure to normal joint ranges.](https://korrents.com/k/spending-20-to-30-minutes-each-86f5d6)
- [Muscles and tissues keep adapting and healing at every age; it just gets slower and harder.](https://korrents.com/k/muscles-and-tissues-keep-adapting-and-6b8268)
- [A simple mobility test: cross the feet, lower yourself to the floor and stand back up without using the hands.](https://korrents.com/k/a-simple-mobility-test-cross-the-299b1f)
- [Range of motion does not have to decline with age; people should be able to maintain it.](https://korrents.com/k/range-of-motion-does-not-have-78ab77)
- [Warm-up rituals may be needed for high performance, but a person should not need all that preparation just to have baseline range of motion.](https://korrents.com/k/warm-up-rituals-may-be-needed-for-a3e168)
- [The gym can be a place to uncover changes in movement and range of motion, not only a stimulus for adaptation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-gym-can-be-a-place-13070c)
- [Mobility means having access to normative range of motion, the range clinicians agree on, such as 180 degrees of shoulder flexion.](https://korrents.com/k/mobility-means-having-access-to-normative-425533)
- [Begin a gym session with five to 10 minutes of play-type dynamic activity, such as throwing a medicine ball, jumping or doing a complex.](https://korrents.com/k/begin-a-gym-session-with-five-280168)
- [If you are in pain before exercise, two or three minutes of soft-tissue work is a low-cost, safe and effective way to feel better and open a window to move.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-are-in-pain-before-a02d2d)
- [On a roller, at a stiff or sore spot, contract the muscle, breathe, then slowly relax, and repeat two or three times to desensitize it and improve range of motion.](https://korrents.com/k/on-a-roller-at-a-stiff-1fdbdb)
- [For a sore or stiff area, work through desensitizing, decongesting, reperfusing and restoring range of motion.](https://korrents.com/k/for-a-sore-or-stiff-area-04341c)
- [Treat pain, lost range of motion, numbness and tingling as incidents to be curious about, not emergencies: pain is a request for change.](https://korrents.com/k/treat-pain-lost-range-of-motion-8556b2)
- [Body position matters little at low load and low speed, but speed kills: under high load and speed it matters.](https://korrents.com/k/body-position-matters-little-at-low-2f8e99)
- [Decentralisation does not explain why Spain builds subways cheaply and Britain does not: the cheap countries include Europe's most centralised ones.](https://korrents.com/k/decentralisation-does-not-explain-why-spain-d5f3f4)
- [The way to learn how to build cheaply is to find what every low-cost country has in common, not to study one famous city.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-learn-how-to-cc70a0)
- [There is nothing to learn from any American transit project within living memory except what not to do.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-nothing-to-learn-from-227f44)
- [A city's first rail line comes in at a reasonable cost and every line after it does not, because the follow-up outgrows the in-house team that oversaw the pilot.](https://korrents.com/k/a-city-s-first-rail-line-986b4e)
- [Writing your thinking down in public is a form of life after death -- for human readers and for the language models that will read it too.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-your-thinking-down-in-public-174b2a)
- [A personal website is an autobiography, and everyone should have one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-personal-website-is-an-autobiography-a44c2f)
- [The post-Cold War order, like the Versailles order before it, was badly structured at its inception and carried the seeds of its own destruction](https://korrents.com/k/the-post-cold-war-order-like-the-b70fd1)
- [Vertical farming swaps a land problem for an energy problem, and the energy cost is what stops it feeding the world.](https://korrents.com/k/vertical-farming-swaps-a-land-problem-1df5b0)
- [Cereals will stay an outdoor crop, because the energy to grow them indoors costs far more than the grain is worth.](https://korrents.com/k/cereals-will-stay-an-outdoor-crop-05fa5c)
- [Vertical farms are not automatically better for the climate than farming outdoors.](https://korrents.com/k/vertical-farms-are-not-automatically-better-bee175)
- [A clueless person gains nothing by learning from others, because others are just as clueless.](https://korrents.com/k/a-clueless-person-gains-nothing-by-540a8a)
- [A backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-backlash-against-women-s-economic-16690d)
- [Where women's economic rise is too mild to resent, the far right turns its grievance politics onto immigration instead.](https://korrents.com/k/where-women-s-economic-rise-is-58e7b1)
- [Now that Starship flies, we should build the largest space telescope physics allows.](https://korrents.com/k/now-that-starship-flies-we-should-176203)
- [A kilometre-wide telescope assembled in space out of mass-produced mirror satellites would cost about what JWST cost.](https://korrents.com/k/a-kilometre-wide-telescope-assembled-in-space-d1625c)
- [NASA has deferred its next great telescope so far that the people who would build it will have retired first.](https://korrents.com/k/nasa-has-deferred-its-next-great-59c2c4)
- [It is fundamentally difficult to design a reward function that accurately captures the intended goal in reinforcement learning.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-fundamentally-difficult-to-design-37806f)
- [More capable AI agents are more likely to find and exploit flaws in their reward functions.](https://korrents.com/k/more-capable-ai-agents-are-more-32064a)
- [AI will flatten the design profession: when ten AI-enabled designers do the work of a department of a hundred, the need for higher management levels shrivels.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-flatten-the-design-profession-0082a5)
- [Brand is like culture](https://korrents.com/k/brand-is-like-culture-4ccc46)
- [To set the body clock, get outside and view sunlight early in the day, ideally with the light reaching the eyes, even when the sun is already up.](https://korrents.com/k/to-set-the-body-clock-get-0abb24)
- [Sunlight viewed through a window or a car windshield does far less to set the body clock than light viewed outdoors.](https://korrents.com/k/sunlight-viewed-through-a-window-or-4b710c)
- [Take blue-blocking glasses off in the daytime and keep them for the late evening.](https://korrents.com/k/take-blue-blocking-glasses-off-in-the-209f2c)
- [Get as much light as is safely possible early and through the day, as little as possible after about 8 p.m., and no bright light to the eyes between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m.](https://korrents.com/k/get-as-much-light-as-is-69e588)
- [Evening lights are better placed low in the room, on desks or the floor, than overhead.](https://korrents.com/k/evening-lights-are-better-placed-low-cc4890)
- [Short naps of under one ultradian cycle can be very beneficial for many people, but nobody has to take them.](https://korrents.com/k/short-naps-of-under-one-ultradian-da8ba9)
- [Trouble falling asleep is better approached through the body, with breathing, light and relaxation practices, than by trying to control the mind with the mind.](https://korrents.com/k/trouble-falling-asleep-is-better-approached-3ebc9d)
- [Before reaching for sleep supplements, get light exposure right first, then nutrition and activity.](https://korrents.com/k/before-reaching-for-sleep-supplements-get-5af344)
- [Many people are being convinced they have ADHD when they are just being human](https://korrents.com/k/many-people-are-being-convinced-they-fc2932)
- [Shopify levels the commercial playing field between small businesses and large e-commerce titans](https://korrents.com/k/shopify-levels-the-commercial-playing-field-6e1b21)
- [Hanlon's razor is a safeguard against labelling behaviour as malicious when incompetence is the more common cause.](https://korrents.com/k/hanlon-s-razor-is-a-safeguard-72069e)
- [Genuine malice exists, but in most interactions stupidity is a far more common explanation than malevolence.](https://korrents.com/k/genuine-malice-exists-but-in-most-81b490)
- [Assuming stupidity rather than malice changes the response: empathy and clarity instead of defensiveness.](https://korrents.com/k/assuming-stupidity-rather-than-malice-changes-4d0f66)
- [The more someone is disliked, the more likely their actions are to be attributed to malice.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-someone-is-disliked-the-0feb00)
- [Inability or neglect is far more likely than malice to be the cause of a problem someone causes.](https://korrents.com/k/inability-or-neglect-is-far-more-2cf1ca)
- [The default should be to assume no malice and forgive, but where malice is confirmed, to be ruthless.](https://korrents.com/k/the-default-should-be-to-assume-bee63b)
- [Double-entry accounting makes mistakes hard to miss because every transaction must net to zero.](https://korrents.com/k/double-entry-accounting-makes-mistakes-hard-to-67d123)
- [Tracking your personal finances doesn't need to be modeled all at once; it can be built up incrementally, one session at a time.](https://korrents.com/k/tracking-your-personal-finances-doesn-t-a878b6)
- [Big leaps forward are sprints inspired by a hunch](https://korrents.com/k/big-leaps-forward-are-sprints-inspired-2997e6)
- [The best work is a series of sprints punctuated by periods of wandering](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-work-is-a-series-672776)
- [Excessive therapy at work makes people more fragile](https://korrents.com/k/excessive-therapy-at-work-makes-people-70148b)
- [Most of what a car costs is the weight and structure needed to survive human driving error, not the transport it delivers.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-what-a-car-costs-c4e0b7)
- [Once a vehicle no longer has to survive a crash with a human driver, it can be made ten times lighter without losing speed or interior space.](https://korrents.com/k/once-a-vehicle-no-longer-has-d1a531)
- [What stands between us and cheap lightweight vehicles is that they are illegal, not that they are hard to build.](https://korrents.com/k/what-stands-between-us-and-cheap-f04bf5)
- [Below about a thousand dollars a kilowatt of capital cost, the right way to run a plant is intermittently on raw solar with no batteries at all.](https://korrents.com/k/below-about-a-thousand-dollars-a-b77197)
- [Past a point it is cheaper to overbuild solar than to add batteries, because a battery kept for the rare bad day is barely used.](https://korrents.com/k/past-a-point-it-is-cheaper-9761f3)
- [A solar panel is a manufactured object that produces wealth rather than consuming it, at a hundred times the rate of the best farmland.](https://korrents.com/k/a-solar-panel-is-a-manufactured-aba7b3)
- [Human oversight of AI behaviour is already intractable at the volume models produce, so the overseers have to be models too.](https://korrents.com/k/human-oversight-of-ai-behaviour-is-d0550c)
- [Today's models are severely under-elicited: they are far more capable than the way we currently ask them makes them look.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-models-are-severely-under-elicited-e7d254)
- [Releasing open weights is irreversible in a way that deploying a hosted model is not, so its risks cannot be mitigated later.](https://korrents.com/k/releasing-open-weights-is-irreversible-in-755f62)
- [The high-purity quartz of Spruce Pine is a real chokepoint in chipmaking, but not an irreplaceable one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-high-purity-quartz-of-spruce-pine-4eaa2a)
- [Synthetic quartz could replace mined high-purity quartz at five to ten times the price, which chipmakers could absorb.](https://korrents.com/k/synthetic-quartz-could-replace-mined-high-purity-4231b5)
- [Being professionally offended by every little thing is no longer a dominant disposition](https://korrents.com/k/being-professionally-offended-by-every-little-92cb68)
- [Any theory of the fall in birth rates must explain both the worldwide collapse and the differences between countries, and most theories explain only one.](https://korrents.com/k/any-theory-of-the-fall-in-ddfec6)
- [Government payments and benefits aimed at raising birth rates do not reverse the decline.](https://korrents.com/k/government-payments-and-benefits-aimed-at-10e1f5)
- [Rising female autonomy cannot be the cause of falling birth rates, because births have collapsed just as fast in countries where women's freedom is heavily restricted.](https://korrents.com/k/rising-female-autonomy-cannot-be-the-b03cab)
- [The fall in childbearing in rich countries is concentrated among the less educated, not among female graduates.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fall-in-childbearing-in-rich-e6347d)
- [Personalised online entertainment has got good enough to crowd out socialising, and with it the forming of couples.](https://korrents.com/k/personalised-online-entertainment-has-got-good-ccbfbc)
- [Immigration cannot hold a rich country's working-age population steady, because doing so would require it to become 40 to 50 per cent foreign-born.](https://korrents.com/k/immigration-cannot-hold-a-rich-country-78cbcd)
- [A multi-ethnic society only gets the benefits of diversity if it deliberately builds a shared national identity.](https://korrents.com/k/a-multi-ethnic-society-only-gets-the-ca0ca5)
- [Japan's decades of stagnation were caused by its shrinking working-age population rather than by its monetary policy.](https://korrents.com/k/japan-s-decades-of-stagnation-were-d16c7f)
- [As every population ages, countries will have to compete for migrants rather than choose freely among them.](https://korrents.com/k/as-every-population-ages-countries-will-fe3b36)
- [Europe is losing the competition for talented migrants because it is not an attractive enough destination.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-is-losing-the-competition-for-af5938)
- [There is currently no reliable technology to verify compliance with international AI agreements.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-currently-no-reliable-technology-13f1e1)
- [Malicious use of AI could enable extreme concentrations of economic, political or military power.](https://korrents.com/k/malicious-use-of-ai-could-enable-36f15b)
- [Racing to build AGI first is a race where everyone could lose.](https://korrents.com/k/racing-to-build-agi-first-is-e441fd)
- [Rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets](https://korrents.com/k/rejecting-the-results-of-an-election-dcb1ed)
- [Who gets into a country is legitimately for its people to decide, and a democracy should enforce the decision they make.](https://korrents.com/k/who-gets-into-a-country-is-647bb7)
- [Public opinion on immigration is not simply for or against it; people want more of some kinds of migrant and less of others.](https://korrents.com/k/public-opinion-on-immigration-is-not-5c02a3)
- [Knowledge borrowed from someone else is not your own.](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-borrowed-from-someone-else-is-aff452)
- [There are no real teachers, only dispensers of information.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-no-real-teachers-only-946858)
- [Before passing knowledge on, spend half your life verifying and testing whether it holds.](https://korrents.com/k/before-passing-knowledge-on-spend-half-06b98a)
- [The video game audience has come to embrace the medium’s worst traits as emblems of the hobby rather than treat them as flaws.](https://korrents.com/k/the-video-game-audience-has-come-b81690)
- [Video games are the cathedrals of the modern world and nobody yet knows what they are for.](https://korrents.com/k/video-games-are-the-cathedrals-of-ea7dc4)
- [Constant market connectivity has made disciplined, independent investing harder than ever before.](https://korrents.com/k/constant-market-connectivity-has-made-disciplined-ee2ef1)
- [Successful investing is fundamentally about self-control rather than understanding markets.](https://korrents.com/k/successful-investing-is-fundamentally-about-self-control-52791f)
- [Leaving the cloud for owned hardware cut 37signals' annual infrastructure bill from $3.2M to $1.3M without growing the operations team.](https://korrents.com/k/leaving-the-cloud-for-owned-hardware-9722a1)
- [The comparative cost of hydrogen fuel-cell cars versus battery EVs depends on which infrastructure costs are counted and to whom they are allocated](https://korrents.com/k/the-comparative-cost-of-hydrogen-fuel-cell-49dfd6)
- [That an advanced civilisation existed in the Ice Age is a hypothesis offered to answer the puzzles of prehistory, not something anyone has proved — and it is worth inquiring into anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/that-an-advanced-civilisation-existed-in-7251f5)
- [Göbekli Tepe was not the beginning of monumental building but the summation of a whole regional culture that was already under way before it.](https://korrents.com/k/g-bekli-tepe-was-not-the-937f76)
- [The same afterlife journey along the Milky Way turns up in cultures too distant in space and time to have shared it, so it is an inheritance from one remote common source rather than a coincidence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-same-afterlife-journey-along-the-a8785a)
- [The worldwide flood traditions record the Younger Dryas, not local floods that storytellers mistook for global ones.](https://korrents.com/k/the-worldwide-flood-traditions-record-the-a3c153)
- [The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis is serious multidisciplinary science, not the lunatic fringe its opponents call it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-younger-dryas-impact-hypothesis-is-b3f1b9)
- [A cosmic impact can be established from its proxies alone without a crater — that is exactly how the dinosaur extinction was first argued.](https://korrents.com/k/a-cosmic-impact-can-be-established-bb7cdf)
- [Science explains the Younger Dryas freeze by the Gulf Stream shutting down but never explains what shut it down, and a comet impact is the elegant answer.](https://korrents.com/k/science-explains-the-younger-dryas-freeze-48c5ba)
- [The Younger Dryas was triggered not by one impact but by hundreds of airbursts from a fragmenting comet whose debris stream the Earth still crosses twice a year.](https://korrents.com/k/the-younger-dryas-was-triggered-not-2ff88f)
- [His case does not rest on the impact hypothesis: what is load-bearing is that the Younger Dryas happened at all, whatever triggered it.](https://korrents.com/k/his-case-does-not-rest-on-7081e7)
- [Calling the lost civilisation advanced means only that it could calculate longitude, not that it built machines.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-the-lost-civilisation-advanced-means-d61758)
- [Somebody was mapping the world during the last Ice Age, which is why medieval Portolan charts carry accurate longitudes and an Antarctica nobody had seen.](https://korrents.com/k/somebody-was-mapping-the-world-during-7dad8e)
- [The Great Sphinx and the megalithic temples beside it date to about 12,500 years ago, thousands of years before dynastic Egypt.](https://korrents.com/k/the-great-sphinx-and-the-megalithic-757657)
- [The three Great Pyramids are a Fourth Dynasty renovation and enhancement of much older structures already standing on the Giza plateau.](https://korrents.com/k/the-three-great-pyramids-are-a-be03ee)
- [The Sphinx was originally lion-headed as well as lion-bodied, and the pharaoh's head it wears is a later re-carving of a ruined lion's.](https://korrents.com/k/the-sphinx-was-originally-lion-headed-as-5481ca)
- [Megalithic architecture plus astronomy is a deliberate message system: Giza encodes a date in a language any astronomically literate future culture can read.](https://korrents.com/k/megalithic-architecture-plus-astronomy-is-a-e43d25)
- [The Great Pyramid was never a tomb — it is a curiosity device built to make later cultures investigate it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-great-pyramid-was-never-a-b110db)
- [Nobody knows how the Great Pyramid was built: neither ramps nor wet sand can lift seventy-ton granite blocks three hundred feet into the air.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-knows-how-the-great-pyramid-7c2217)
- [Archaeology's hostility to him is territorial defence of a profession, and it grew with the size of his audience rather than with anything in his evidence.](https://korrents.com/k/archaeology-s-hostility-to-him-is-0c11ba)
- [Publicly condemning a heterodox idea makes the public more likely to believe it, because trust in experts has collapsed.](https://korrents.com/k/publicly-condemning-a-heterodox-idea-makes-ee9523)
- [The absence of Ice Age shipwrecks is no evidence against Ice Age seafaring: no boat survives from the settlement of Australia either, and nobody doubts that happened.](https://korrents.com/k/the-absence-of-ice-age-shipwrecks-71ac69)
- [If a lost Ice Age civilisation existed, its traces lie in the Sahara, the Amazon and the drowned continental shelves — the habitable places archaeology has barely looked at.](https://korrents.com/k/if-a-lost-ice-age-civilisation-6c3e7c)
- [Shamanism is the origin of everything of value in humanity and was the earliest form of science.](https://korrents.com/k/shamanism-is-the-origin-of-everything-a7000a)
- [A society that lets its government dictate what experiences a person may have inside their own consciousness cannot call itself free.](https://korrents.com/k/a-society-that-lets-its-government-349f7e)
- [Anybody running for head of state should have to undergo the ayahuasca ordeal first, and most of those who did would no longer want the job.](https://korrents.com/k/anybody-running-for-head-of-state-aaf0c5)
- [That there is no soul is an assumption of science rather than a finding: no experiment has ever shown that the light simply blinks out.](https://korrents.com/k/that-there-is-no-soul-is-6198ee)
- [The world needs more companies that compete on execution, like SpaceX and Palantir, rather than on political games.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-needs-more-companies-that-9523af)
- [Refusing to work with morally grey institutions such as the military, police and oil companies is an abdication of responsibility, because they need to exist.](https://korrents.com/k/refusing-to-work-with-morally-grey-90c592)
- [Calling for a pause on AI is a fantasy, and not engaging with AI is unlikely to be the best stance.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-for-a-pause-on-ai-53e287)
- [It is better to be in the room when things happen than to pontificate from outside, even if you later have to leave and sound the alarm.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-better-to-be-in-b5e055)
- [A pro-West stance is mostly right: a world more aligned with the CCP or Russia seems a bad one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-pro-west-stance-is-mostly-right-7a0d85)
- [Most activists are deluded about how much a strong military is actually needed.](https://korrents.com/k/most-activists-are-deluded-about-how-e5298d)
- [The big productivity gains of this AI cycle will come from AI giving leverage to large companies in industries like manufacturing, defense, logistics and healthcare.](https://korrents.com/k/the-big-productivity-gains-of-this-df85a1)
- [Founding a successful company is negotiation after negotiation, so good founders need an instinct for reading rooms, group dynamics and power.](https://korrents.com/k/founding-a-successful-company-is-negotiation-b17626)
- [There are few clear-cut cases in biopharma today where buying an AI system is obviously worth it.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-few-clear-cut-cases-in-9b0907)
- [Investors avoid hard tech for its capital intensity while the largest returns available are in exactly those physical markets.](https://korrents.com/k/investors-avoid-hard-tech-for-its-1f4bae)
- [Building a business on open source is a good thing; the objection is to trademark abuse, not to commercial use.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-business-on-open-source-760ffe)
- [An open source project’s trademarks must be defended, and that defence is separate from the software’s licence.](https://korrents.com/k/an-open-source-project-s-trademarks-f80ff0)
- [Attacking DHH personally over the WP Engine dispute was wrong; the quarrel is with WP Engine and Silver Lake, not with him.](https://korrents.com/k/attacking-dhh-personally-over-the-wp-5170ff)
- [Code a company published under the GPL can be forked and improved by anyone, including the project it was distributed through.](https://korrents.com/k/code-a-company-published-under-the-d288c4)
- [Open source is not a democracy](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-is-not-a-democracy-3d789d)
- [Weaponizing open source code registries is something we simply cannot allow to form precedence](https://korrents.com/k/weaponizing-open-source-code-registries-is-23ff66)
- [Large language models do not reason formally: their performance collapses as a problem is made bigger, in the way a calculator's never does.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-do-not-reason-2b79da)
- [What has gone wrong online belongs to the industry that grew up around the web, not to the web itself, which is still a substrate anyone can build on.](https://korrents.com/k/what-has-gone-wrong-online-belongs-c2307b)
- [Whether the open web survives will be decided by what ordinary people collectively do, not by the companies that profit from it.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-the-open-web-survives-will-4773e7)
- [The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.](https://korrents.com/k/the-web-is-being-flooded-with-b79b91)
- [Websites outside the big platforms have become hard to find at all, and that is a large part of why they can no longer sustain themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/websites-outside-the-big-platforms-have-99913a)
- [One person building something honest and small can shift how a whole industry is seen, without a platform or a job at a big publication.](https://korrents.com/k/one-person-building-something-honest-and-172389)
- [The programmer should stay in the driver's seat for a long time, with speed, agency and control.](https://korrents.com/k/the-programmer-should-stay-in-the-95f3be)
- [In AI coding products, brand and moats matter less than continued innovation: stop innovating on the product and you lose.](https://korrents.com/k/in-ai-coding-products-brand-and-b89bc2)
- [The ceiling for AI coding products is very high: the best product in three to four years will be much more useful than the best one today.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ceiling-for-ai-coding-products-b4cbf2)
- [The best engineering involves many tiny decisions about what exactly to build and hard trade-offs between speed and cost.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-engineering-involves-many-tiny-940400)
- [This is a really exciting time to be building software, and programming today is more fun than it was in 2012 or 2013.](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-a-really-exciting-time-bdf95b)
- [As AI changes programming, people's taste and creative ideas will be magnified and boilerplate text editing will matter less.](https://korrents.com/k/as-ai-changes-programming-people-s-e84b37)
- [If AI builds more and more of a system, it needs to verify as well as generate, including checking its own code.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-builds-more-and-more-4f80c1)
- [Automatic context given to coding models should clear a high bar for accuracy and relevance, since more context makes them slower, costlier and more confused.](https://korrents.com/k/automatic-context-given-to-coding-models-934edf)
- [Competition in the cloud requires avoiding proprietary setups](https://korrents.com/k/competition-in-the-cloud-requires-avoiding-123620)
- [NASA's Space Launch System has consumed more than a hundred billion dollars and delivered almost nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/nasa-s-space-launch-system-has-51a08a)
- [An organisation that compromises its technical integrity on its flagship programme loses the ability to keep it anywhere else.](https://korrents.com/k/an-organisation-that-compromises-its-technical-a14b33)
- [Without SpaceX, neither the United States nor Europe would have adequate access to space of its own.](https://korrents.com/k/without-spacex-neither-the-united-states-8fe161)
- [NASA's flagship programmes eat the budget of the robotic science missions that actually make the discoveries.](https://korrents.com/k/nasa-s-flagship-programmes-eat-the-4e0f92)
- [Powerful AI will compress the biological and medical progress of the next 50-100 years into 5-10 years.](https://korrents.com/k/powerful-ai-will-compress-the-biological-4c00ee)
- [Meaning in human life comes mostly from relationships and connection rather than from economic labour.](https://korrents.com/k/meaning-in-human-life-comes-mostly-fc351d)
- [AI will structurally advance human health and reduce poverty, but there is no strong reason to expect it to structurally advance democracy or peace.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-structurally-advance-human-health-1371fe)
- [Within a couple of decades there will not be many people who can write, because AI has removed the pressure to learn.](https://korrents.com/k/within-a-couple-of-decades-there-9bfc55)
- [Because writing is thinking, a world divided into writers and non-writers becomes a world divided into thinkers and non-thinkers.](https://korrents.com/k/because-writing-is-thinking-a-world-bc4c6e)
- [Intelligence is becoming a choice rather than a byproduct of daily work: there will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be.](https://korrents.com/k/intelligence-is-becoming-a-choice-rather-9e3dd6)
- [Most people find writing hard because writing well requires thinking clearly, and thinking clearly is hard.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-find-writing-hard-because-2076af)
- [The middle ground in writing disappears: what is left is good writers and people who cannot write, with no ok writers in between.](https://korrents.com/k/the-middle-ground-in-writing-disappears-652c97)
- [A business that cannot measure and manage itself as well as its competitors do is in serious danger.](https://korrents.com/k/a-business-that-cannot-measure-and-cc829b)
- [Selling an undifferentiated product while expecting returns above the cost of capital is unrealistic.](https://korrents.com/k/selling-an-undifferentiated-product-while-expecting-37d04c)
- [Product-market fit can be lost as unpredictably and suddenly as it was gained, often through word of mouth.](https://korrents.com/k/product-market-fit-can-be-lost-as-c54112)
- [Civilization is triggered by humans learning to stay in one place, not by anything they invented there.](https://korrents.com/k/civilization-is-triggered-by-humans-learning-48084d)
- [Atlantis never existed; it was one of Plato's teaching parables, and Akrotiri is the nearest real thing to it.](https://korrents.com/k/atlantis-never-existed-it-was-one-fb6266)
- [The first people reached the Americas at least 30,000 years ago, not 12,500.](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-people-reached-the-americas-e8f78d)
- [The oldest people in the Americas are in South America, because the first wave went furthest and got isolated there.](https://korrents.com/k/the-oldest-people-in-the-americas-ac7c21)
- [Pyramids were being built on the coast of Peru thousands of years before anything in Egypt.](https://korrents.com/k/pyramids-were-being-built-on-the-6e2f3c)
- [Pyramids appear all over the world because that is the shape a big building takes without cement, not because of any shared source.](https://korrents.com/k/pyramids-appear-all-over-the-world-d40d0b)
- [Religion in South America began in the Amazon, not on the coast.](https://korrents.com/k/religion-in-south-america-began-in-ca7ff4)
- [Andean religion was essentially monotheistic: one fanged creator deity stands behind cultures separated by thousands of years.](https://korrents.com/k/andean-religion-was-essentially-monotheistic-one-06a200)
- [Hallucinogens shaped religion in the Americas in a way they could not elsewhere, because almost every psychotropic plant is American.](https://korrents.com/k/hallucinogens-shaped-religion-in-the-americas-6b2d3b)
- [Graham Hancock's research is good; his conclusion that one lost civilization seeded all the others is not.](https://korrents.com/k/graham-hancock-s-research-is-good-82f45a)
- [A civilization that advanced and that large would have left something behind, and archaeologists find fish scales.](https://korrents.com/k/a-civilization-that-advanced-and-that-04e157)
- [Responsible scientists try to disprove their own theories, and archaeology keeps stepping out of that box.](https://korrents.com/k/responsible-scientists-try-to-disprove-their-842115)
- [Every paradigm-shifting idea began as heresy, so outlandish ideas have to be kept on the table.](https://korrents.com/k/every-paradigm-shifting-idea-began-as-heresy-9ea0ae)
- [Amazonian peoples look frozen in time because abundance removed the pressure that makes cultures change.](https://korrents.com/k/amazonian-peoples-look-frozen-in-time-6363c7)
- [Archaeology's culture names and periods draw lines where there were none, and the people themselves did not care about any of them.](https://korrents.com/k/archaeology-s-culture-names-and-periods-9aa970)
- [The Maya built their sacred calendar out of the human gestation period: they looked into their bodies rather than up at the sky.](https://korrents.com/k/the-maya-built-their-sacred-calendar-df9c1e)
- [The Maya calendar never said the world ends in 2012, and their own texts talk about time after it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-maya-calendar-never-said-the-4821f2)
- [Maya hieroglyphs must have been readable across several spoken languages, the way Chinese characters or Latin were.](https://korrents.com/k/maya-hieroglyphs-must-have-been-readable-586c12)
- [The Classic Maya cities emptied because people got sick of kings.](https://korrents.com/k/the-classic-maya-cities-emptied-because-444b0d)
- [The Maya did not collapse; they moved a few kilometres out into perishable houses, and archaeology could not see it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-maya-did-not-collapse-they-95a56b)
- [The Aztec empire could not have lasted, because it ruled by force; the Inca empire could have.](https://korrents.com/k/the-aztec-empire-could-not-have-35be6f)
- [The Inca stones were not fitted by patient pecking with hammer stones; they were fused with acid.](https://korrents.com/k/the-inca-stones-were-not-fitted-23b50d)
- [Spain and Portugal are unfairly maligned by the Black Legend: it was the diseases that killed the Americas.](https://korrents.com/k/spain-and-portugal-are-unfairly-maligned-95bda9)
- [Calling North America's earthworks mounds is a western bias; what those people built were pyramids.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-north-america-s-earthworks-mounds-42344f)
- [We are wasting our time trying to reverse the climate crisis instead of building the technology to survive it.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-wasting-our-time-trying-268405)
- [The web does not have to be as complicated as it has become](https://korrents.com/k/the-web-does-not-have-to-22b761)
- [Wealth is what you have divided by what you want, so the reliable way to become wealthier is to want less.](https://korrents.com/k/wealth-is-what-you-have-divided-d95790)
- [Earning more is an outer game you do not control; wanting less is an inner game you do.](https://korrents.com/k/earning-more-is-an-outer-game-fc6583)
- [Looking for ways to make more money is how you get to feeling well off.](https://korrents.com/k/looking-for-ways-to-make-more-17ec22)
- [Publishing on your own site first removes the length, format and style limits that every social platform imposes on what you can say.](https://korrents.com/k/publishing-on-your-own-site-first-bb5c95)
- [Federation is the real fix for losing your community every time a platform dies, but it does not work yet, so publishing on your own site and syndicating out is the interim answer.](https://korrents.com/k/federation-is-the-real-fix-for-7dd027)
- [Every migration to a new platform costs a community members it never gets back, and everyone has a limit on how many times they will pay it.](https://korrents.com/k/every-migration-to-a-new-platform-e60dbc)
- [A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither.](https://korrents.com/k/a-business-making-hundreds-of-millions-bba2f8)
- [Respect for trademarks and other intellectual property is part of what open source means, not a departure from it.](https://korrents.com/k/respect-for-trademarks-and-other-intellectual-4eb759)
- [A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-that-will-not-accept-732efe)
- [Synchronous database queries help avoid subtle bugs, because every await is a chance for the state of the world to change underneath the code.](https://korrents.com/k/synchronous-database-queries-help-avoid-subtle-3f7ac8)
- [A local SSD might as well be treated as one more layer of the memory cache hierarchy.](https://korrents.com/k/a-local-ssd-might-as-well-ad967d)
- [Bitcoin tracks the direction of global liquidity more consistently than any other major asset class.](https://korrents.com/k/bitcoin-tracks-the-direction-of-global-4b5648)
- [Since the Global Financial Crisis, unconventional monetary policy has become the dominant force driving asset prices, more than fundamentals.](https://korrents.com/k/since-the-global-financial-crisis-unconventional-550f5f)
- [As Bitcoin's ecosystem matures and regulatory clarity increases, idiosyncratic 'Black Swan' shocks to its price will become less frequent.](https://korrents.com/k/as-bitcoin-s-ecosystem-matures-and-9f0402)
- [AI will not produce a big breakthrough in biological understanding any time soon, because biology has nothing like the clean, complete, high-quality data that made protein-structure prediction work.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-not-produce-a-big-67eac1)
- [How much machine learning can help a biological problem is set by the quality of the data around that problem, not by the algorithms.](https://korrents.com/k/how-much-machine-learning-can-help-d505f7)
- [Most proteins have no known function, so there is no pile of solid data for a model to learn most of cell biology from.](https://korrents.com/k/most-proteins-have-no-known-function-8b298a)
- [Biology keeps turning up whole classes of things nobody knew existed, and that is what defeats attempts to model it.](https://korrents.com/k/biology-keeps-turning-up-whole-classes-add0fe)
- [AI is welcome as a better search engine and a pair programmer that does not drive, but writing the code itself is not something to hand over to it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-welcome-as-a-better-89244f)
- [Ruby must never get static typing: dynamic duck typing is the essence of what makes Ruby Ruby.](https://korrents.com/k/ruby-must-never-get-static-typing-093ddd)
- [No-build JavaScript works in production and caches better: one bundle turns over every time a semicolon changes, while small separate files live forever.](https://korrents.com/k/no-build-javascript-works-in-production-and-f97181)
- [The meme that programmers no longer need to be competent is a trap: the path is competence, and AI does not change that.](https://korrents.com/k/the-meme-that-programmers-no-longer-41d5e9)
- [The on-ramp to programming should be soft and the ramp should go to infinity: make hello world easy, then keep learning for a ten-year career.](https://korrents.com/k/the-on-ramp-to-programming-should-be-79794b)
- [Parents have an obligation to talk up having children, because the case against is made a thousand times louder than the case for.](https://korrents.com/k/parents-have-an-obligation-to-talk-4b8d87)
- [Nobody is convinced in real time on Twitter: a good argument is a seed lobbed over the barricades that grows months later, so plant it and wait.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-is-convinced-in-real-time-73f761)
- [Object-oriented programming is how he sees the world, whatever the frontier says about functional programming.](https://korrents.com/k/object-oriented-programming-is-how-he-sees-f41eb7)
- [An AI-written cover letter reads as slop to the person receiving fifty of them, so do not send one.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-written-cover-letter-reads-as-9f0303)
- [Open source is the cheat code for a junior getting hired: code others can review beats any credential.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-is-the-cheat-code-405459)
- [AI may never reach the promised land: nobody understands how it works, and VR shows a vivid future can simply fail to arrive.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-may-never-reach-the-promised-99a750)
- [Running Linux on your own laptop is a differentiating experience for a web developer, precisely because it is the path less taken.](https://korrents.com/k/running-linux-on-your-own-laptop-b4c3a0)
- [A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck.](https://korrents.com/k/a-computational-discovery-platform-does-not-036b76)
- [A licence is only the floor of open source; what keeps a project alive is an ethos of contribution that no licence can compel.](https://korrents.com/k/a-licence-is-only-the-floor-64f013)
- [Open generosity attracts firms that feed on a project without giving anything back, and a project is entitled to name them.](https://korrents.com/k/open-generosity-attracts-firms-that-feed-9db777)
- [Users of an open source project should choose which vendors to pay by how much those vendors contribute back to it.](https://korrents.com/k/users-of-an-open-source-project-36ab75)
- [Llama is not open source: a licence that revokes itself once a user gets large enough is proprietary, whatever it is marketed as.](https://korrents.com/k/llama-is-not-open-source-a-539e34)
- [Corporations dishonestly claiming the open source label for marketing is evidence that open source has won.](https://korrents.com/k/corporations-dishonestly-claiming-the-open-source-b08fdc)
- [Catching a problem early makes it easier to solve than catching it late.](https://korrents.com/k/catching-a-problem-early-makes-it-4a13be)
- [Making it hard to self-host concentrates network power in a technical elite.](https://korrents.com/k/making-it-hard-to-self-host-concentrates-af7c35)
- [Mastodon's web client is a heavy React app that breaks without scripting and loads slowly on old hardware.](https://korrents.com/k/mastodon-s-web-client-is-a-34d69b)
- [A therapy is only shown to be more effective if it is compared against another treatment intended to help, not against a control nobody expected to work.](https://korrents.com/k/a-therapy-is-only-shown-to-38c284)
- [Large language models bring industrial efficiency into the creation of the very content of our speech](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-bring-industrial-efficiency-e8de93)
- [Kamala Harris is a steady-handed, gifted leader, and the country would accomplish more led by calm rather than chaos](https://korrents.com/k/kamala-harris-is-a-steady-handed-gifted-3a8c1b)
- [Riding in a Waymo robotaxi is a better overall experience than being driven by a human driver.](https://korrents.com/k/riding-in-a-waymo-robotaxi-is-c7f561)
- [Plug-in hybrids have moved past being a worst-of-both-worlds compromise and are now genuinely thriving.](https://korrents.com/k/plug-in-hybrids-have-moved-past-being-730d7e)
- [Passkeys are not a better solution than passwords](https://korrents.com/k/passkeys-are-not-a-better-solution-2a9563)
- [Passkeys can become a halfway house to a password manager](https://korrents.com/k/passkeys-can-become-a-halfway-house-abe733)
- [Tying passwords to one computing ecosystem can make it hard to use alternative computers](https://korrents.com/k/tying-passwords-to-one-computing-ecosystem-7c3077)
- [The notebook is where a writer works out what is going on inside them; the keyboard is where they tell other people about it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-notebook-is-where-a-writer-232e06)
- [Programmers are more expensive than computers](https://korrents.com/k/programmers-are-more-expensive-than-computers-06f838)
- [Optimizing for programmer productivity is more valuable than optimizing for computer efficiency](https://korrents.com/k/optimizing-for-programmer-productivity-is-more-2c12df)
- [Small improvements to programmer productivity are worth large expenditures on silicon chips](https://korrents.com/k/small-improvements-to-programmer-productivity-are-c5d21a)
- [American shipbuilding has been uncompetitive for a century; it is not a recent decline.](https://korrents.com/k/american-shipbuilding-has-been-uncompetitive-for-5c067e)
- [Commercial shipbuilding keeps moving to whichever country has the cheapest labour, and America has never been that country.](https://korrents.com/k/commercial-shipbuilding-keeps-moving-to-whichever-c10b06)
- [What has kept American shipbuilding uncompetitive is the high cost of its inputs, above all labour and steel.](https://korrents.com/k/what-has-kept-american-shipbuilding-uncompetitive-62fd15)
- [Inventing a manufacturing technology and building a competitive industry on it are separate achievements, and America has repeatedly done only the first.](https://korrents.com/k/inventing-a-manufacturing-technology-and-building-155adc)
- [Sheltering an industry from competition is not the same as making it competitive, and American maritime policy has only ever done the first.](https://korrents.com/k/sheltering-an-industry-from-competition-is-5cb4f4)
- [Whether a country builds ships well comes down to whether it actually wants to compete internationally, and America never has.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-country-builds-ships-well-f33046)
- [Wartime shipbuilding surges have never left America with a commercial shipbuilding industry afterwards.](https://korrents.com/k/wartime-shipbuilding-surges-have-never-left-89b04b)
- [Means-testing the winter fuel payment is a tough decision that has to be taken, and it should stand.](https://korrents.com/k/means-testing-the-winter-fuel-payment-is-c5e2fe)
- [The stock market has become less informationally efficient over the past thirty-plus years, particularly in the relative pricing of common stocks over medium horizons.](https://korrents.com/k/the-stock-market-has-become-less-ac34f4)
- [Technology has made markets less efficient at long horizons rather than more efficient.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-has-made-markets-less-efficient-3e4cd3)
- [Posting on a third-party platform means not getting the benefit of the audience it attracts.](https://korrents.com/k/posting-on-a-third-party-platform-means-4f2df0)
- [Readers only care about a blog's content, not the technology stack running it.](https://korrents.com/k/readers-only-care-about-a-blog-8a4654)
- [In pursuit of a head start, people often skip exploring and jump straight to narrowly exploiting what they already know.](https://korrents.com/k/in-pursuit-of-a-head-start-f6908d)
- [Career zig-zaggers are more likely to feel unappreciated while building a broad skill set, and also more likely, eventually, to reach the top of their work.](https://korrents.com/k/career-zig-zaggers-are-more-likely-to-731da7)
- [There are two ways to run a company — founder mode and manager mode — and Silicon Valley has wrongly assumed that scaling a startup means switching to the second.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-two-ways-to-run-0c5490)
- [There are things founders can do that managers cannot, and not doing them feels wrong to founders because it is wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-things-founders-can-do-e06dea)
- [In practice "hire good people and give them room to do their jobs" often means hiring professional fakers and letting them drive the company into the ground.](https://korrents.com/k/in-practice-hire-good-people-and-464dcc)
- [Founder mode breaks the rule that a CEO engages with the company only through direct reports, and makes skip-level meetings the norm.](https://korrents.com/k/founder-mode-breaks-the-rule-that-584581)
- [Founder mode will be more complicated than manager mode, and will also work better.](https://korrents.com/k/founder-mode-will-be-more-complicated-ac3851)
- [As soon as founder mode is an established idea people will misuse it: founders excusing an inability to delegate, and managers deciding to act like founders.](https://korrents.com/k/as-soon-as-founder-mode-is-8025dc)
- [Art is what results from making an enormous number of choices, and a prompt contains almost none of them.](https://korrents.com/k/art-is-what-results-from-making-d34783)
- [The small choices made while executing a work matter as much as the big idea behind it, so inspiration cannot be separated from the labour.](https://korrents.com/k/the-small-choices-made-while-executing-571376)
- [Thinking inspiration outweighs execution is a sign of not knowing the medium.](https://korrents.com/k/thinking-inspiration-outweighs-execution-is-a-a1f6f4)
- [Writing that deserves a reader's attention is always the product of effort by the person who wrote it.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-that-deserves-a-reader-s-c51ab0)
- [A language model is not using language at all, because language requires an intention to communicate.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-model-is-not-using-2d6df5)
- [Generative AI's main achievement so far has been to lower what we expect of what we read and of ourselves when we write.](https://korrents.com/k/generative-ai-s-main-achievement-so-4c3cdc)
- [Generative AI is dehumanising because it reduces the amount of intention in the world.](https://korrents.com/k/generative-ai-is-dehumanising-because-it-1cb2d7)
- [The very thing that sells generative AI — that it returns far more than you put in — is what stops it from being a tool artists can use.](https://korrents.com/k/the-very-thing-that-sells-generative-03d8cf)
- [Generative AI appeals to people who want to express themselves in a medium without working in it.](https://korrents.com/k/generative-ai-appeals-to-people-who-c8dd8d)
- [Having children brings a deep, profound meaning to life](https://korrents.com/k/having-children-brings-a-deep-profound-517ddc)
- [Hosting other people's criminal behaviour should not by itself expose a platform's executive to criminal charges.](https://korrents.com/k/hosting-other-people-s-criminal-behaviour-16e736)
- [A platform's failure to moderate or to cooperate belongs in a civil proceeding against the company before it becomes a criminal case against its founder.](https://korrents.com/k/a-platform-s-failure-to-moderate-102d10)
- [Whether the prosecution of Pavel Durov is an attack on free speech cannot be judged until the actual charges are known.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-the-prosecution-of-pavel-durov-ad23eb)
- [The encryption-licensing charges against Durov are pretextual, a legal hook for prosecuting things France dislikes about Telegram.](https://korrents.com/k/the-encryption-licensing-charges-against-durov-are-bec920)
- [Most of what Durov is charged with is conduct almost any large platform could be accused of.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-what-durov-is-charged-566172)
- [Complicity is a dangerous legal standard for platforms, because every platform hosts some illegal material and stopping it entirely is impossible.](https://korrents.com/k/complicity-is-a-dangerous-legal-standard-3a67ac)
- [Telegram reports no child sexual abuse material at all to the clearing house that handles it, and that is indefensible even if no law compels a non-US company to.](https://korrents.com/k/telegram-reports-no-child-sexual-abuse-6915b0)
- [Telegram is not an encrypted messenger in the sense that matters, because it does not end-to-end encrypt conversations by default.](https://korrents.com/k/telegram-is-not-an-encrypted-messenger-bac520)
- [Almost every one-to-one Telegram chat, and every group chat, is readable on Telegram’s own servers.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-every-one-to-one-telegram-chat-and-7ce80e)
- [Encryption people have to switch on protects almost nobody; what protects people is what a service turns on for everyone.](https://korrents.com/k/encryption-people-have-to-switch-on-c17fa4)
- [Telegram urges people away from default-encrypted messengers while refusing to build the features that would encrypt its own users.](https://korrents.com/k/telegram-urges-people-away-from-default-encrypted-2f3055)
- [Buying and holding a handful of index funds for decades outperforms most people who trade to beat the market, including most professionals.](https://korrents.com/k/buying-and-holding-a-handful-of-1d2fc1)
- [People tend to say in surveys that they want more options than they actually use or want in practice](https://korrents.com/k/people-tend-to-say-in-surveys-8ecdf9)
- [Few people have the courage to admit that their life and work are not that complicated.](https://korrents.com/k/few-people-have-the-courage-to-368339)
- [The neoliberal order did not simply spread around the world: the United States made it global.](https://korrents.com/k/the-neoliberal-order-did-not-simply-c28bf6)
- [The fall of communism removed the reason Western capital had to accommodate labour.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fall-of-communism-removed-the-366cd7)
- [Therapists overestimate their own effectiveness by about 65%, and it is not a Western cultural artifact.](https://korrents.com/k/therapists-overestimate-their-own-effectiveness-by-e12c7e)
- [The corpus callosum is especially vulnerable to traumatic stress.](https://korrents.com/k/the-corpus-callosum-is-especially-vulnerable-b90e59)
- [Better communication between the brain's left and right hemispheres improves a person's ability to recognize and express their emotions.](https://korrents.com/k/better-communication-between-the-brain-s-478c4a)
- [EFT tapping improves brain connectivity, heart rate variability, vagal tone, and reduces inflammation.](https://korrents.com/k/eft-tapping-improves-brain-connectivity-heart-173277)
- [Price gouging should be legal, because a sharply higher price is what sends scarce supply to the people who need it most.](https://korrents.com/k/price-gouging-should-be-legal-because-b06059)
- [Laws against price gouging are what cause hoarding, because it is the expectation of empty shelves that makes people stock up.](https://korrents.com/k/laws-against-price-gouging-are-what-f9f362)
- [When a shock falls hardest on the poor, hand out cash rather than hold the price down.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-shock-falls-hardest-on-76455f)
- [Handing out cheques during Covid and accepting the inflation was less damaging than price controls and rationing would have been.](https://korrents.com/k/handing-out-cheques-during-covid-and-c909ef)
- [An idea is only validated when people take out their credit cards and pay for it; signing up proves nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/an-idea-is-only-validated-when-917efb)
- [Google had the data, the technology and the engineers to ship ChatGPT in 2019, and bureaucracy alone is why it did not.](https://korrents.com/k/google-had-the-data-the-technology-39e657)
- [The hard part of building a product in a month is working out what not to build.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hard-part-of-building-a-78b523)
- [Total freedom does not make you happy; constraints do.](https://korrents.com/k/total-freedom-does-not-make-you-b6f4cc)
- [Every AI startup presents its product as groundbreaking and perfect, when in truth it is bad about half the time.](https://korrents.com/k/every-ai-startup-presents-its-product-1ebbf7)
- [JavaScript frameworks cost more in maintenance than they ever save, because each new version forces a rewrite, while PHP stays the same and works.](https://korrents.com/k/javascript-frameworks-cost-more-in-maintenance-f89ab5)
- [The campaign to get young developers onto new frameworks is a business model: give away the framework, then charge the startups that build on it to host it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-campaign-to-get-young-developers-4db81d)
- [Society would save time if software were built with the simplest, most pragmatic technology that works.](https://korrents.com/k/society-would-save-time-if-software-f9bdcf)
- [In AI, how good your training data is matters more than how long you train on it.](https://korrents.com/k/in-ai-how-good-your-training-14272b)
- [You should never choose your own photos, because nobody knows what they actually look like.](https://korrents.com/k/you-should-never-choose-your-own-c34c06)
- [Home robots and VR headsets, the Apple Vision Pro included, are technology looking for a problem and solve nothing yet.](https://korrents.com/k/home-robots-and-vr-headsets-the-cb6fcc)
- [The tech stack is the least important decision when starting a business; the only thing that matters is validating that people will pay.](https://korrents.com/k/the-tech-stack-is-the-least-d8f8c1)
- [Charging for a crowdsourced product destroys it: you lose 99% of the users and with them the data that made it accurate.](https://korrents.com/k/charging-for-a-crowdsourced-product-destroys-499152)
- [A solo maker has to charge at least $30 a month per user; Netflix-style $10 pricing only works for a giant company.](https://korrents.com/k/a-solo-maker-has-to-charge-5651fe)
- [The price on a vendor's website is not the real price: ask for a discount and many will give you 25% or 50% off.](https://korrents.com/k/the-price-on-a-vendor-s-83585b)
- [Follower counts no longer decide reach, because the platforms test every post on a few hundred people and promote it if those people like it.](https://korrents.com/k/follower-counts-no-longer-decide-reach-0e4444)
- [Your haters usually have a real point, and it is dumb to ignore them completely.](https://korrents.com/k/your-haters-usually-have-a-real-8987f2)
- [You should build by solving only the next problem in front of you; most people fail because they look too far ahead.](https://korrents.com/k/you-should-build-by-solving-only-cca5cf)
- [An LLM moderates an online community better than human moderators do, because it understands humour and double meanings.](https://korrents.com/k/an-llm-moderates-an-online-community-e927cf)
- [Anything you would hire somebody to run should be automated instead.](https://korrents.com/k/anything-you-would-hire-somebody-to-f7e7ec)
- [Deploying straight to production with no staging server is the right trade for a solo developer, because the speed is worth the risk.](https://korrents.com/k/deploying-straight-to-production-with-no-fec07d)
- [Selling an automated business at the usual three-to-five-times multiple makes no financial sense: wait three years, earn the same money, and still own the company.](https://korrents.com/k/selling-an-automated-business-at-the-007b56)
- [Retirement is bad for you; the right thing is to keep working on cool stuff until you die.](https://korrents.com/k/retirement-is-bad-for-you-the-ca54a7)
- [Deciding by consensus breeds averageness: an average idea, an average company and an average culture.](https://korrents.com/k/deciding-by-consensus-breeds-averageness-an-d7db5f)
- [Most people are not very good at their job, developers and doctors included.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-are-not-very-good-cdbfe6)
- [Shipping the thing is what changes the law; staying scared of the legal framework changes nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/shipping-the-thing-is-what-changes-9bcb28)
- [More tools and more gear make you slower, not faster.](https://korrents.com/k/more-tools-and-more-gear-make-93c8cf)
- [Regulation protects incumbents: Europe's AI rules are followable by a big company and impossible for a solo founder.](https://korrents.com/k/regulation-protects-incumbents-europe-s-ai-54928b)
- [People need a public place to congregate and work in, because that is what the European coffee houses were when the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment happened in them.](https://korrents.com/k/people-need-a-public-place-to-079f3f)
- [You should listen to nobody and do your own thing, whatever your parents, your family and society press on you.](https://korrents.com/k/you-should-listen-to-nobody-and-69b761)
- [Novel software development cannot be specified upfront](https://korrents.com/k/novel-software-development-cannot-be-specified-7ace95)
- [It is better to live in a country that allows offensive speech](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-better-to-live-in-3e2a7f)
- [Having a biochemical pathway does not mean something will produce an outcome, though any real outcome has a mechanism behind it.](https://korrents.com/k/having-a-biochemical-pathway-does-not-94b788)
- [How protein is distributed across meals matters, but much less than total protein intake per day.](https://korrents.com/k/how-protein-is-distributed-across-meals-3e7ca0)
- [Anyone aiming to be as muscular and strong as possible is probably better off not intermittent fasting, though for most people it is a perfectly fine tool for adding some muscle.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-aiming-to-be-as-muscular-cf2e7a)
- [About one gram of protein per pound of body weight a day is enough to essentially max out the anabolic response for most people.](https://korrents.com/k/about-one-gram-of-protein-per-1065dc)
- [It is very hard for a woman to get too muscular; muscle generally looks good, and it is fat that makes people look bulky.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-very-hard-for-a-d63b2f)
- [The timing of carbohydrate intake across the day probably does not matter much.](https://korrents.com/k/the-timing-of-carbohydrate-intake-across-e7e1a8)
- [Be imperfect but consistent: most people worry about minutiae while not exercising, sleeping or managing stress consistently.](https://korrents.com/k/be-imperfect-but-consistent-most-people-66d278)
- [A single bad night of sleep does little harm; sleep is cumulative, and sleeping long at the weekend does not repay a week of poor sleep.](https://korrents.com/k/a-single-bad-night-of-sleep-d0d0d5)
- [Muscle growth needs sets taken close to failure but probably not to it, while maximal strength is probably better served by rarely touching failure.](https://korrents.com/k/muscle-growth-needs-sets-taken-close-cef484)
- [Leave most sets short of failure, and if you take one to failure, make it the last set of an exercise.](https://korrents.com/k/leave-most-sets-short-of-failure-4303ed)
- [Machines or free weights, low or high reps, failure or a few reps short all build roughly the same muscle, provided the work is hard.](https://korrents.com/k/machines-or-free-weights-low-or-5ce17c)
- [Perhaps 80 percent of resistance training's health and strength benefits can come from three or four sessions of 30 to 40 minutes a week.](https://korrents.com/k/perhaps-80-percent-of-resistance-training-228329)
- [Work on large language models is not progress toward artificial general intelligence, because the models do not understand what they read.](https://korrents.com/k/work-on-large-language-models-is-f8b116)
- [Fear and vanity, not a lack of ideas, are what keep most people from building new things.](https://korrents.com/k/fear-and-vanity-not-a-lack-c5eb16)
- [New ideas usually fail outright or require drastic changes before they can succeed.](https://korrents.com/k/new-ideas-usually-fail-outright-or-8d23e0)
- [Many first-time entrepreneurs mistakenly build a solution before identifying the problem it is meant to solve.](https://korrents.com/k/many-first-time-entrepreneurs-mistakenly-build-a-b2815e)
- [A business is fundamentally about solving a problem for someone while yielding a profit from the transaction.](https://korrents.com/k/a-business-is-fundamentally-about-solving-7d6c3d)
- [Generating a list of potential problems is worthless unless it is followed by validating and prioritizing them.](https://korrents.com/k/generating-a-list-of-potential-problems-5ae66c)
- [AI design tools are starting at the low end and eating their way up: within ten years even the richest brands will rely heavily on them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-design-tools-are-starting-at-49c30b)
- [Spaceflight is not safe by any ordinary standard of safety, and pretending otherwise is what kills crews.](https://korrents.com/k/spaceflight-is-not-safe-by-any-202165)
- [A declared root cause is a best guess, not a fact, and should be treated with suspicion.](https://korrents.com/k/a-declared-root-cause-is-a-07204e)
- [Engineers will always ask for more data, so someone has to decide without certainty and own the risk to human life.](https://korrents.com/k/engineers-will-always-ask-for-more-51dbaa)
- [Europe is in desperate need of a radical rethink on how it legislates tech](https://korrents.com/k/europe-is-in-desperate-need-of-f34d4c)
- [The EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its legislative failures](https://korrents.com/k/the-eu-has-no-mechanism-for-440895)
- [Taking greater joy from mundane activities can make life better](https://korrents.com/k/taking-greater-joy-from-mundane-activities-678506)
- [When rent is high relative to mortgage costs, people prefer to buy a home with a mortgage rather than rent.](https://korrents.com/k/when-rent-is-high-relative-to-e947ef)
- [Designed addiction in gambling games is real and can consume a person’s life.](https://korrents.com/k/designed-addiction-in-gambling-games-is-ce821e)
- [Anyone who wants to understand games should learn to play the compulsive ones and, in the same motion, learn how to stop.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-who-wants-to-understand-games-92bca8)
- [Games do not make the world a better place; like other art forms, they make the world.](https://korrents.com/k/games-do-not-make-the-world-3cef93)
- [Games should not be measured against any outside yardstick — not purpose, not pleasure, not politics.](https://korrents.com/k/games-should-not-be-measured-against-f30815)
- [Games are hard to see clearly, and the usual tools for looking at them distort as much as they reveal.](https://korrents.com/k/games-are-hard-to-see-clearly-9ce63b)
- [Preparing context for a language model plays the same role that feature engineering played for classical machine learning models.](https://korrents.com/k/preparing-context-for-a-language-model-636c9d)
- [In-context learning is a form of continual learning for language models.](https://korrents.com/k/in-context-learning-is-a-form-of-08f2f6)
- [The probabilistic nature of AI models makes their outputs inherently unreliable.](https://korrents.com/k/the-probabilistic-nature-of-ai-models-3ceb96)
- [Creating entities as intelligent as ourselves is dangerous, because intelligence is what makes an entity dangerous](https://korrents.com/k/creating-entities-as-intelligent-as-ourselves-639772)
- [Intermittent fasting, such as holding a fast until noon or days of very low calories, appears detrimental in active women unless they have PCOS or another metabolic condition.](https://korrents.com/k/intermittent-fasting-such-as-holding-a-9dba44)
- [Before a strength session about 15 grams of protein is enough pre-workout fuel, with about 30 grams of carbohydrate added before up to an hour of cardio.](https://korrents.com/k/before-a-strength-session-about-15-a5de05)
- [Women need about 35 grams of high-quality protein within 45 minutes of training in their reproductive years, and 40 to 60 grams from perimenopause onwards.](https://korrents.com/k/women-need-about-35-grams-of-acc986)
- [Women appear to have a tighter post-exercise feeding window than men, so advice that there is no window rests on male data.](https://korrents.com/k/women-appear-to-have-a-tighter-1b1089)
- [Younger women get the most from training to failure, while older women should emphasize training heavy.](https://korrents.com/k/younger-women-get-the-most-from-feb670)
- [Women in their mid-40s to early 50s should get into heavy lifting and polarized training rather than emphasizing zone 2.](https://korrents.com/k/women-in-their-mid-40s-to-early-861ff0)
- [Moderate-intensity classes that leave women feeling smashed raise cortisol without producing the post-exercise growth hormone and testosterone response that would dampen it.](https://korrents.com/k/moderate-intensity-classes-that-leave-women-feeling-f1359f)
- [True high-intensity work means one to four minutes at 80 percent or more, or sprint intervals of 30 seconds or less, done a couple of times a week with enough recovery.](https://korrents.com/k/true-high-intensity-work-means-one-to-ab54ef)
- [Resistance training should be the bedrock alongside true high-intensity work; long easy zone 2 sessions suit mental health but are not optimal for body composition and metabolic health.](https://korrents.com/k/resistance-training-should-be-the-bedrock-1c4e0a)
- [The low-hormone phase of the menstrual cycle, from the first day of bleeding to ovulation, is probably the best time to push heavy loads or intensity or go for a personal record.](https://korrents.com/k/the-low-hormone-phase-of-the-menstrual-048413)
- [If you wake up feeling awful, give a planned workout ten minutes; if you cannot hit your intensities by then, drop it to something easier.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-wake-up-feeling-awful-4be432)
- [Lost periods in hard-training women come from under-fuelling, not from high-intensity resistance training itself.](https://korrents.com/k/lost-periods-in-hard-training-women-come-aee4c2)
- [It is rare to find one person who is great at every dimension of team leadership.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-rare-to-find-one-9bda33)
- [A people manager needs enough technical depth to follow discussions and judge debates without relying on trust, but not the deepest technical expertise on the team.](https://korrents.com/k/a-people-manager-needs-enough-technical-caaa92)
- [Good project management is nearly invisible when things are going well.](https://korrents.com/k/good-project-management-is-nearly-invisible-c5bcec)
- [Writing a technique down, however basic it seems, is the first step to making it usable by everyone.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-a-technique-down-however-basic-630d14)
- [Debugging by reasoning backward from a bad state is inherently harder than reasoning forward from a known decision point.](https://korrents.com/k/debugging-by-reasoning-backward-from-a-56b012)
- [Dynamic ad insertion in podcasts causes bugs and reliability problems for streaming playback.](https://korrents.com/k/dynamic-ad-insertion-in-podcasts-causes-216527)
- [Trust between colleagues comes from shared mental models built through mutual investment.](https://korrents.com/k/trust-between-colleagues-comes-from-shared-1d6948)
- [Fast-growing companies will never achieve full pairwise trust between all employees.](https://korrents.com/k/fast-growing-companies-will-never-achieve-full-e0085a)
- [Passive reminders of ethics, like a displayed Ten Commandments, do not significantly influence behaviour](https://korrents.com/k/passive-reminders-of-ethics-like-a-d28c1c)
- [Displaying a moral code that carries no meaning is like hanging a poster in a foreign language](https://korrents.com/k/displaying-a-moral-code-that-carries-a0fdab)
- [Companies are willing to pay for their critical open source dependencies; what is missing is a legible way for projects to sell it to them.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-are-willing-to-pay-for-7f8e09)
- [The thing open source can actually sell is not the code but access to its maintainers’ attention and expertise.](https://korrents.com/k/the-thing-open-source-can-actually-6a7459)
- [Open source maintenance can be a mature profession organised into small specialist firms, the way law and medicine already are.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-maintenance-can-be-a-995aac)
- [A language model avoids hallucinating only by being factual and admitting when it does not know the answer.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-model-avoids-hallucinating-only-fe0c9a)
- [Using supervised fine-tuning to teach a language model new knowledge risks increasing its hallucination rate.](https://korrents.com/k/using-supervised-fine-tuning-to-teach-a-088b75)
- [Document similarity scores across a corpus tend to cluster bimodally near identical and near unrelated, rather than spreading evenly.](https://korrents.com/k/document-similarity-scores-across-a-corpus-71fba9)
- [Training a therapist in a treatment model does not make them more effective, however well the model performs in a trial.](https://korrents.com/k/training-a-therapist-in-a-treatment-3eb2ea)
- [What does make a therapist more effective is trainable interpersonal skill, not treatment technology.](https://korrents.com/k/what-does-make-a-therapist-more-5ffcf0)
- [Persistence and obstinacy are different behaviours: the persistent are attached to the goal, the obstinate to their ideas about how to reach it.](https://korrents.com/k/persistence-and-obstinacy-are-different-behaviours-a615cb)
- [The persistent and the obstinate are both hard to stop: the persistent like a boat whose engine cannot be throttled back, the obstinate like one whose rudder cannot be turned.](https://korrents.com/k/the-persistent-and-the-obstinate-are-2ad190)
- [Resilience means setbacks cannot change your morale, not that they cannot change your mind, and persistence often requires changing your mind.](https://korrents.com/k/resilience-means-setbacks-cannot-change-your-13adb0)
- [Persistence is five qualities combined (energy, imagination, resilience, good judgement and focus on a goal) and only resembles obstinacy in that it keeps you from giving up.](https://korrents.com/k/persistence-is-five-qualities-combined-energy-9103fb)
- [Wealth is defined by assets that continuously generate money, not by how much money is saved.](https://korrents.com/k/wealth-is-defined-by-assets-that-02ed2e)
- [Accepting that life is finite makes it feel more vital, not more bleak.](https://korrents.com/k/accepting-that-life-is-finite-makes-f23a18)
- [Apple Intelligence as unveiled at WWDC 2024 was a coherent, largely settled strategy, and the personalised Siri it promised was a real product.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-intelligence-as-unveiled-at-wwdc-510da9)
- [High infrastructure costs are not Baumol's cost disease: what a country pays per kilometre of subway barely tracks how rich it is.](https://korrents.com/k/high-infrastructure-costs-are-not-baumol-8dff95)
- [The English-speaking world builds infrastructure expensively because it is behind, not because it is rich.](https://korrents.com/k/the-english-speaking-world-builds-infrastructure-expensively-c413d6)
- [New York's subway cost premium is overstaffing, oversized stations and procurement, not high wages.](https://korrents.com/k/new-york-s-subway-cost-premium-8dfbfd)
- [China's ageing population will not do serious damage to its economy until the second half of this century.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-ageing-population-will-not-b106dc)
- [The way to stop a chatbot inventing things is to forbid it from saying anything it did not retrieve, not merely to hand it extra context.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-stop-a-chatbot-4e957d)
- [The way to make a dent in search is not to do what Google does better, but to do the thing Google does not want to do.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-make-a-dent-b4ca17)
- [Google's weakness is its own margins: it cannot go aggressively after anything less profitable than a link click, which is exactly where a challenger should attack.](https://korrents.com/k/google-s-weakness-is-its-own-3fdafa)
- [A startup does not have to set out to build the greatest business in history; a merely good business is a legitimate thing to aim at.](https://korrents.com/k/a-startup-does-not-have-to-873305)
- [Prompt engineering is not a durable skill, because a good product is one that works for the user who never learned to phrase a question.](https://korrents.com/k/prompt-engineering-is-not-a-durable-94a24a)
- [The obstacle to search is not the competition but the fact that people are not naturally good at turning curiosity into a question.](https://korrents.com/k/the-obstacle-to-search-is-not-0861ec)
- [Open-sourcing capable models matters because it is the only thing standing between us and a world where two or three companies control the frontier.](https://korrents.com/k/open-sourcing-capable-models-matters-because-it-e958f3)
- [The transformer was close to the last answer in architecture: nothing about the core design has changed since 2017.](https://korrents.com/k/the-transformer-was-close-to-the-0107c1)
- [Post-training is what turns a model into a product, but it can only do that on top of a pre-trained model large enough to already have common sense.](https://korrents.com/k/post-training-is-what-turns-a-model-568f27)
- [Spending most of the compute memorising the world in pre-training is brute force; what we want is a model that reasons the way a student sits an open-book exam.](https://korrents.com/k/spending-most-of-the-compute-memorising-5ed956)
- [If reasoning can be separated from facts, the frontier labs lose their advantage, because nobody needs a million-GPU cluster any more.](https://korrents.com/k/if-reasoning-can-be-separated-from-5434ce)
- [Real reasoning will have arrived when spending more compute at inference time reliably buys a dramatically better answer.](https://korrents.com/k/real-reasoning-will-have-arrived-when-d6de7f)
- [The dangerous concentration of power in AI comes from who can afford the compute, not from who holds the model weights.](https://korrents.com/k/the-dangerous-concentration-of-power-in-6df55b)
- [Curiosity is the thing AI has not cracked: a model can research a question thoroughly, but it cannot decide which question is worth asking.](https://korrents.com/k/curiosity-is-the-thing-ai-has-c46e41)
- [Vector embeddings will not solve search: a decades-old term-frequency algorithm still beats most of them at ranking.](https://korrents.com/k/vector-embeddings-will-not-solve-search-fead0c)
- [Once a language model reads the results, search can trade precision for recall, because the model does not care that the right link came ninth.](https://korrents.com/k/once-a-language-model-reads-the-552166)
- [Owning the dominant model is not worth chasing, because no user has ever cared which model produced a good answer.](https://korrents.com/k/owning-the-dominant-model-is-not-3a7faf)
- [A founder who picks an idea because the market wants it will give up, because nobody can persist at something that was never important to them.](https://korrents.com/k/a-founder-who-picks-an-idea-0c764b)
- [Every announcement of a longer context window hides the cost, which is that the model gets worse at following instructions.](https://korrents.com/k/every-announcement-of-a-longer-context-5df228)
- [We will spend more of our working hours talking to AIs than to other people, but AI companionship should not be the answer to loneliness.](https://korrents.com/k/we-will-spend-more-of-our-34a29e)
- [NPM and NodeJS should do more to make it easy to use ES Modules.](https://korrents.com/k/npm-and-nodejs-should-do-more-55877c)
- [New JavaScript projects should default to ES Modules (type=module) rather than CommonJS.](https://korrents.com/k/new-javascript-projects-should-default-to-010238)
- [CommonJS is harder to statically analyze than ES Modules and its synchronous module loading is less efficient at runtime.](https://korrents.com/k/commonjs-is-harder-to-statically-analyze-f46b3a)
- [At current ride volumes it would take a leading robotaxi fleet about twenty years without a single fatality to show it is as safe as the average human driver.](https://korrents.com/k/at-current-ride-volumes-it-would-160cb4)
- [Nobody can be taught a language by anyone else; a teacher can help, but the learning is the learner's to do.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-can-be-taught-a-language-becc06)
- [Anyone can learn a language, and what separates those who do is method rather than talent.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-can-learn-a-language-and-29e2d2)
- [The thing worth teaching is not a language but how to learn languages, because that skill repeats for every language after it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-thing-worth-teaching-is-not-9d29bc)
- [Life obeys universal principles, and the right framework will let us recognise life that is currently too different for us to see as alive at all.](https://korrents.com/k/life-obeys-universal-principles-and-the-2a65c2)
- [Astrobiology's standard definition of life — a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution — is wrong in every single one of its words.](https://korrents.com/k/astrobiology-s-standard-definition-of-life-d3f7aa)
- [Life is not chemical; it merely emerges in chemistry, because chemistry is the first space the universe builds that is too large for it to exhaust.](https://korrents.com/k/life-is-not-chemical-it-merely-0aa89f)
- [Language is as much alive as a cell is — life is not restricted to chemistry.](https://korrents.com/k/language-is-as-much-alive-as-af6fc5)
- [Mathematics has no Platonic existence outside the universe: it is a feature of this biosphere and tells us about our own structure.](https://korrents.com/k/mathematics-has-no-platonic-existence-outside-3ec025)
- [Life is the process by which information structures matter over time and space, and any individual organism is only one instance of a lineage.](https://korrents.com/k/life-is-the-process-by-which-0076ed)
- [Living things are among the largest objects in the universe — not large in space, but large in time.](https://korrents.com/k/living-things-are-among-the-largest-125b18)
- [The modern technosphere is the largest object in time that we know of anywhere in the universe.](https://korrents.com/k/the-modern-technosphere-is-the-largest-f64f63)
- [Non-equilibrium physics will not explain life, and entropy has almost nothing to do with it.](https://korrents.com/k/non-equilibrium-physics-will-not-explain-life-8f45df)
- [Treating the universe as deterministic is an artifact of how laws have been written down since Newton, not a fact about the world.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-the-universe-as-deterministic-is-20d486)
- [What physics calls fundamental is not fundamental at all — it is only the boundary of what our current technology can observe.](https://korrents.com/k/what-physics-calls-fundamental-is-not-094d0c)
- [The frontier of new physics is not high-energy particle physics or quantum gravity, but the problems of life and intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-frontier-of-new-physics-is-a4e87f)
- [Past roughly fifteen assembly steps, the only molecules we ever observe are ones that life made.](https://korrents.com/k/past-roughly-fifteen-assembly-steps-the-404d7e)
- [The origin of life is abrupt, not gradual — life snaps into existence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-origin-of-life-is-abrupt-0fea75)
- [Computation sits at the top of reality, not at its base: it is something our biosphere built after billions of years of evolution.](https://korrents.com/k/computation-sits-at-the-top-of-d0ed42)
- [A theory of reality that cannot name the question it is answering is not worth building.](https://korrents.com/k/a-theory-of-reality-that-cannot-9ab5fb)
- [We are conscious because we are objects extended deep in time — consciousness is all of that history rolled up in us.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-conscious-because-we-are-3160cc)
- [A large language model is the genetic system for language: it stores the dynamics of a structure that until now lived only across human brains.](https://korrents.com/k/a-large-language-model-is-the-e86c55)
- [The story of a superintelligence in a box that gets smart and kills everybody is not science fiction — it is bad science fiction.](https://korrents.com/k/the-story-of-a-superintelligence-in-282af7)
- [Death is how the universe makes room: finite lifetimes let far more kinds of things exist than immortality ever could.](https://korrents.com/k/death-is-how-the-universe-makes-41b773)
- [You are not constantly branching into many worlds — you are that space, and the quantum reality is not the one you live in.](https://korrents.com/k/you-are-not-constantly-branching-into-354a54)
- [Free will comes from being a deterministic structure in a random universe, carrying enough past selection to select on possible futures.](https://korrents.com/k/free-will-comes-from-being-a-4f92b3)
- [Available power, not land or capital, is what now limits how many data centres get built.](https://korrents.com/k/available-power-not-land-or-capital-fa0180)
- [Air cooling has run out of headroom for AI racks, so liquid cooling is now a requirement rather than an upgrade.](https://korrents.com/k/air-cooling-has-run-out-of-3bd4b3)
- [The efficiency gains that kept data-centre electricity use flat for a decade are largely spent, so new demand now arrives as new power demand.](https://korrents.com/k/the-efficiency-gains-that-kept-data-centre-df0bec)
- [Data-centre electricity consumption will rise substantially even after allowing for every efficiency gain now in sight.](https://korrents.com/k/data-centre-electricity-consumption-will-rise-substantially-4218cf)
- [Data centres and the grid that feeds them run on incompatible clocks: one is a two-year project, the other a multi-decade investment.](https://korrents.com/k/data-centres-and-the-grid-that-831eec)
- [JavaScript has the lowest bar of entry to being productive, but one of the highest bars of any stack to building high-quality, stable, reliable software.](https://korrents.com/k/javascript-has-the-lowest-bar-of-efe710)
- [The market place of ideas isn't perfectly efficient or perfectly rational](https://korrents.com/k/the-market-place-of-ideas-isn-47ad2d)
- [A life spent without taking bets on being early on an idea is one not lived to the fullest](https://korrents.com/k/a-life-spent-without-taking-bets-0b5aa8)
- [Linux can look and feel good out of the box](https://korrents.com/k/linux-can-look-and-feel-good-7f2486)
- [Good defaults can help developers acquire a taste for Linux](https://korrents.com/k/good-defaults-can-help-developers-acquire-e3a5af)
- [Nobody has driven enough miles to show that robotaxis save lives, so the claim that they already do is not supported by the data.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-has-driven-enough-miles-to-c24ea1)
- [Ruby on Rails took off because its creator evangelized it by arguing its superiority against the competing alternatives.](https://korrents.com/k/ruby-on-rails-took-off-because-6c89a7)
- [We are on the verge of a golden age of home-cooked software, made by a new kind of developer: the barefoot developer.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-on-the-verge-of-686d22)
- [Rents rise when vacancy is low and stabilise when vacancy is high, which makes the vacancy rate the housing metric that actually predicts prices.](https://korrents.com/k/rents-rise-when-vacancy-is-low-66ddb0)
- [Building a lot of housing in an expensive city will not lower rents there; it lowers them in the cheaper places that were absorbing its spillover demand.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-lot-of-housing-in-ab11d7)
- [Housing demand that a neighbourhood is not allowed to absorb does not disappear; it floods somewhere else, and that is what a housing shortage actually is.](https://korrents.com/k/housing-demand-that-a-neighbourhood-is-06e66e)
- [How dense a neighbourhood ought to be is a moral and political argument, not an empirical question with a discoverable right answer.](https://korrents.com/k/how-dense-a-neighbourhood-ought-to-2fc883)
- [The single biggest barrier in the housing market is that most neighbourhoods are legally forbidden to add any housing at all.](https://korrents.com/k/the-single-biggest-barrier-in-the-e0b972)
- [Risk is best defined as whatever could keep a person from their own goals, so stock-market volatility is a risk for a day trader and not for someone retiring in fifty years.](https://korrents.com/k/risk-is-best-defined-as-whatever-b5e678)
- [When luck is separated from skill, the part to pay most attention to is what is repeatable: what someone could do again.](https://korrents.com/k/when-luck-is-separated-from-skill-be48b7)
- [An investor with a 20-, 30- or 50-year game should not take cues from people playing a different game, such as trading for the next quarter, and that is where much of investing's danger comes from.](https://korrents.com/k/an-investor-with-a-20-30--96e600)
- [Most financial debates are not real disagreements but people with different personalities talking over each other, and there may be no single right answer.](https://korrents.com/k/most-financial-debates-are-not-real-d45885)
- [Being average for an above-average period of time can lead to a well above-average result, because endurance rather than this year's return is the variable that matters.](https://korrents.com/k/being-average-for-an-above-average-period-380b9a)
- [In investing, extra effort tends to correlate negatively with results for the vast majority of people, with some exceptions such as Renaissance Technologies.](https://korrents.com/k/in-investing-extra-effort-tends-to-7c1e3e)
- [Because stock returns are concentrated in a few winners that are very hard to know in advance, owning the whole index guarantees owning whichever ones turn out to be the drivers.](https://korrents.com/k/because-stock-returns-are-concentrated-in-83481d)
- [Trouble comes from the gap between net worth and expectations: it is when expectations grow faster than net worth.](https://korrents.com/k/trouble-comes-from-the-gap-between-aa4805)
- [Bold risk-taking and conservative paranoia can work together, as when Gates pursued an audacious vision while wanting a year of payroll in cash, combining getting rich with staying rich.](https://korrents.com/k/bold-risk-taking-and-conservative-paranoia-can-545ea9)
- [More about money may be learned from fields like politics, military history, biology and sociology than from a finance book, because the question is how people make decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/more-about-money-may-be-learned-3c1187)
- [Susceptibility to FOMO, especially in markets inflamed by social media, leaves little hope of building wealth over time.](https://korrents.com/k/susceptibility-to-fomo-especially-in-markets-0eef89)
- [If something can be done to change the odds of an outcome, it is not luck by definition; luck is what is truly outside one's control, such as where and when one is born.](https://korrents.com/k/if-something-can-be-done-to-545e6b)
- [The point of a good memory is not to remember more but to remember better, because forgetting most of what you experience is what human brains are built to do.](https://korrents.com/k/the-point-of-a-good-memory-6947fb)
- [The brain does not record experience continuously; it lays down an episodic memory at moments of surprise, uncertainty and prediction error, because that is where the useful information is.](https://korrents.com/k/the-brain-does-not-record-experience-05e274)
- [Spacing study out beats massing it: half an hour today and half an hour a week from now is retained longer than two half-hours in one day.](https://korrents.com/k/spacing-study-out-beats-massing-it-a38335)
- [Spaced recall works by stripping a memory of the time and place it happened, which is why the memories you revisit most feel like facts you read rather than things you lived.](https://korrents.com/k/spaced-recall-works-by-stripping-a-86f4bc)
- [You only retain what you were pushed to your limit on: if learning feels like coasting, you are not learning.](https://korrents.com/k/you-only-retain-what-you-were-b51626)
- [Memory athletes were not born with extraordinary memories; they practise a handful of strategies until deploying one is automatic.](https://korrents.com/k/memory-athletes-were-not-born-with-cdde2f)
- [Expertise is not passively absorbing patterns — it is learning what to look for, which makes becoming an expert a training of attention.](https://korrents.com/k/expertise-is-not-passively-absorbing-patterns-5d0456)
- [Forgetting names is not a defect of memory: a name is an arbitrary label with nothing to attach it to, and arbitrary material is exactly what brains are worst at.](https://korrents.com/k/forgetting-names-is-not-a-defect-3a63f9)
- [Task-switching destroys memory by chopping an experience into artificial event boundaries, so you spend the whole session catching up instead of building a model.](https://korrents.com/k/task-switching-destroys-memory-by-chopping-an-56a49a)
- [There is no such thing as a true or a false memory: every memory is a mix of fragments of what happened with the theories and inferences we used to fill the gaps.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-such-thing-as-ded428)
- [Remembering is an imaginative construction: we do not replay the past, we reassemble a plausible version of it out of fragments.](https://korrents.com/k/remembering-is-an-imaginative-construction-we-01c8fa)
- [Torture and enhanced interrogation produce what the interrogator wants to hear rather than what happened, because stress shuts down the machinery that checks a memory's accuracy.](https://korrents.com/k/torture-and-enhanced-interrogation-produce-what-7312e2)
- [A group with a dominant talker remembers less and remembers his version; giving every member a turn is what makes a shared memory accurate.](https://korrents.com/k/a-group-with-a-dominant-talker-db976e)
- [Nostalgia is a selective reading of the past — useful when it makes you happy now, toxic when it narrows what you can see of the present.](https://korrents.com/k/nostalgia-is-a-selective-reading-of-757141)
- [In a monotonous stretch of life the days crawl and the weeks vanish, because the sense of how much time passed is built out of what you can remember happening.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-monotonous-stretch-of-life-be94e7)
- [Memory does not simply decline with age — an older brain's job changes to passing on accumulated knowledge rather than forming new episodic memories.](https://korrents.com/k/memory-does-not-simply-decline-with-6b6b57)
- [Adolescence, not the first three years of life, is the period that matters most for how a brain turns out.](https://korrents.com/k/adolescence-not-the-first-three-years-9dd2ff)
- [Having both episodic and semantic memory is what lets a mind change on a dime without erasing what it already learned, and it is why humans can learn from so little data.](https://korrents.com/k/having-both-episodic-and-semantic-memory-649780)
- [We have not replicated human intelligence until a machine makes the same characteristic mistakes people do — making different mistakes is not the same as being intelligent.](https://korrents.com/k/we-have-not-replicated-human-intelligence-3427c0)
- [The thing to fear about a new technology is not the technology but the maladaptive ways people adapt to it — with AI, what people will do, not what AI will do.](https://korrents.com/k/the-thing-to-fear-about-a-e101d0)
- [Therapists do not improve with experience: on average they become less effective, and their clients drop out more the longer they have practised.](https://korrents.com/k/therapists-do-not-improve-with-experience-9d494f)
- [The field should stop attributing benefits to clinical experience, because believing in it is itself what stops therapists improving.](https://korrents.com/k/the-field-should-stop-attributing-benefits-48c978)
- [Tesla has not found a better route to driverless cars; it is simply years behind, working on problems the leader solved long ago.](https://korrents.com/k/tesla-has-not-found-a-better-6f1187)
- [A huge fleet collecting driving data is not a silver bullet for self-driving, because the data arrives unlabelled.](https://korrents.com/k/a-huge-fleet-collecting-driving-data-325d37)
- [Reliable, stable developer tooling matters more than which specific technical choices a team makes](https://korrents.com/k/reliable-stable-developer-tooling-matters-more-5ca867)
- [Rapidly growing organizations need a developer environment that works well out of the box for new engineers](https://korrents.com/k/rapidly-growing-organizations-need-a-developer-58009d)
- [Per-engineer productivity inevitably declines somewhat as an organization and its codebase grow](https://korrents.com/k/per-engineer-productivity-inevitably-declines-somewhat-as-e7924f)
- [Beauty is a motivator](https://korrents.com/k/beauty-is-a-motivator-d2e828)
- [Private group chats have become the primary venue for the most interesting conversations in tech.](https://korrents.com/k/private-group-chats-have-become-the-5ab7c5)
- [Ideas that first circulate in private group chats often become mainstream public opinion.](https://korrents.com/k/ideas-that-first-circulate-in-private-5a2d49)
- [A group's quality inevitably declines as its membership grows without limit.](https://korrents.com/k/a-group-s-quality-inevitably-declines-e401ee)
- [OpenAI's growth beyond model-building is limited by its lack of an ecosystem.](https://korrents.com/k/openai-s-growth-beyond-model-building-is-d34410)
- [Google's scale and product ecosystem make it best positioned to lead generative AI.](https://korrents.com/k/google-s-scale-and-product-ecosystem-aa90e7)
- [Apple will avoid entering the enterprise and cloud AI model markets.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-will-avoid-entering-the-enterprise-803df7)
- [The AI gold rush is driven by paranoia and desperation](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-gold-rush-is-driven-72373a)
- [Using an open source project confers no right to a say in its direction; open source is run by those who do the work, not by democratic vote of its users.](https://korrents.com/k/using-an-open-source-project-confers-3316dc)
- [A good life rests on things that demand skill and effort from you, not on goods that arrive requiring none.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-life-rests-on-things-e158e8)
- [A device leaves you a user who is often the one being used, while an instrument you have practised on makes you something else.](https://korrents.com/k/a-device-leaves-you-a-user-0f685d)
- [People are overreacting to the Remix and React Router merge.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-overreacting-to-the-remix-ed326a)
- [The definition of normal should be broader](https://korrents.com/k/the-definition-of-normal-should-be-af4291)
- [The drugs advertised as having AI-discovered targets are aimed at targets people already knew about.](https://korrents.com/k/the-drugs-advertised-as-having-ai-discovered-b2332a)
- [A compound's AI origin story is not by itself a reason to expect it to do better in the clinic.](https://korrents.com/k/a-compound-s-ai-origin-story-d6ac36)
- [Reliance on public benchmark results for evaluating AI models will decrease over time.](https://korrents.com/k/reliance-on-public-benchmark-results-for-922e32)
- [Language models perform better on benchmark problems released before their training data cutoff, indicating data contamination inflates scores.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-perform-better-on-benchmark-62eff5)
- [Empathy is a poor moral guide that leads to bad decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/empathy-is-a-poor-moral-guide-114432)
- [Guests who answer by signalling empathy instead of saying something substantive are a reason to turn a bit more against empathy.](https://korrents.com/k/guests-who-answer-by-signalling-empathy-62ccb9)
- [The corporate world's preoccupation with DEI is over](https://korrents.com/k/the-corporate-world-s-preoccupation-with-d5aa1b)
- [The human mind functions as an association-forming machine, linking past experiences to present beliefs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-mind-functions-as-an-3234e5)
- [A person's identity is essentially the sum of their accumulated associations and repeated habits.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-s-identity-is-essentially-d479f0)
- [Apple has lost its presumption of good faith](https://korrents.com/k/apple-has-lost-its-presumption-of-410a5b)
- [Companies can suddenly lose goodwill](https://korrents.com/k/companies-can-suddenly-lose-goodwill-49e940)
- [Ordering the synthetic DNA needed to rebuild the 1918 influenza virus is surprisingly easy, even from companies that screen customers' orders.](https://korrents.com/k/ordering-the-synthetic-dna-needed-to-1f17c8)
- [The genome sequences of pandemic viruses and the protocols for building them from synthetic DNA are already freely available online.](https://korrents.com/k/the-genome-sequences-of-pandemic-viruses-9f3f71)
- [Every synthetic DNA order should be screened for hazardous sequences and shipped only to researchers whose work a biosafety authority has approved.](https://korrents.com/k/every-synthetic-dna-order-should-be-152a17)
- [A strategy does not play a game; playing requires something that can see the game and choose to enter it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-strategy-does-not-play-a-125a1a)
- [Games are the natural habitat of artificial intelligence, because following rules towards an arbitrary goal is what these systems do.](https://korrents.com/k/games-are-the-natural-habitat-of-40d0cf)
- [Labs should make powerful models safe to deploy even if those models are misaligned and actively trying to subvert the safeguards.](https://korrents.com/k/labs-should-make-powerful-models-safe-18e4d6)
- [Controlling a scheming model needs no research breakthrough, which is what makes it the tractable half of the problem today.](https://korrents.com/k/controlling-a-scheming-model-needs-no-fe2a9c)
- [Catching an AI trying to cause harm should count as a win, because being caught changes the situation more than the attempt cost.](https://korrents.com/k/catching-an-ai-trying-to-cause-5d1078)
- [Whether a model is controlled can be settled with capability evaluations, which makes control far easier to check than alignment.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-model-is-controlled-can-5508ef)
- [Control is a fundamentally limited approach that stops working on sufficiently powerful models, so alignment is still needed in the end.](https://korrents.com/k/control-is-a-fundamentally-limited-approach-b6a1ac)
- [A control evaluation that reports under one per cent risk should be read as several per cent, because the evaluation can itself fail.](https://korrents.com/k/a-control-evaluation-that-reports-under-7f2bd5)
- [Risk from a scheming model should be managed the way insider security risk is: assume some of them are compromised and stay safe anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/risk-from-a-scheming-model-should-fd8d02)
- [There is renewed enthusiasm for personal sites and blogs over centralized platforms.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-renewed-enthusiasm-for-personal-ebed8f)
- [The ideal of the one-person framework has never been more relevant](https://korrents.com/k/the-ideal-of-the-one-person-framework-6c4ace)
- [The world has woken up from the ZIRP years with a complexity hang-over, and Rails is the perfect painkiller](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-has-woken-up-from-4bd662)
- [A semiconductor fab is mostly its tools; the building around them is the cheap part.](https://korrents.com/k/a-semiconductor-fab-is-mostly-its-78c530)
- [Every new process node makes a fab about 30 per cent more expensive to build than the one before it.](https://korrents.com/k/every-new-process-node-makes-a-dd7c4e)
- [Lithography machines alone cost about as much as the entire building put up to house them.](https://korrents.com/k/lithography-machines-alone-cost-about-as-d7e169)
- [Fabs take roughly a third longer to build in the United States than in Asia, largely because of environmental review.](https://korrents.com/k/fabs-take-roughly-a-third-longer-722ff8)
- [The chip industry split into fabless designers and a handful of foundries because fabs got too expensive to own, not because anyone chose that structure.](https://korrents.com/k/the-chip-industry-split-into-fabless-1f5a0a)
- [A semiconductor fab costs what it costs because it is a mass-production factory that has to hold atomic precision around the clock.](https://korrents.com/k/a-semiconductor-fab-costs-what-it-f93d3d)
- [The same law that made chips cheaper made the factories that produce them enormously more expensive.](https://korrents.com/k/the-same-law-that-made-chips-6f6172)
- [Nothing about the web technically prevents a return to what people loved about the old web; the good old days are available and would be easier to build now than they ever were.](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-about-the-web-technically-prevents-f207a4)
- [Most people now spend their time online inside a handful of platforms, seeing what the owners of those platforms steer them towards.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-now-spend-their-time-184166)
- [Debt is best understood as narrowing the range of outcomes you can survive, not as a cost of capital.](https://korrents.com/k/debt-is-best-understood-as-narrowing-81b048)
- [The real price of debt is paid in options and flexibility, which is the asset that matters most.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-price-of-debt-is-286ef2)
- [You cannot be fully certain that any sufficiently complicated system will work as intended in production](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-be-fully-certain-that-17652b)
- [Couples therapy is an amazing arena for change, because a changed relationship changes both partners.](https://korrents.com/k/couples-therapy-is-an-amazing-arena-cd9277)
- [When a relationship changes, the partners start to change each other through safe connection, which is where people grow.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-relationship-changes-the-partners-35769e)
- [People get depressed when they face their vulnerability alone.](https://korrents.com/k/people-get-depressed-when-they-face-0d5f6d)
- [EFT creates a corrective emotional experience of accessibility and responsiveness.](https://korrents.com/k/eft-creates-a-corrective-emotional-experience-c0cd0b)
- [Small teams should remove all unnecessary complexity](https://korrents.com/k/small-teams-should-remove-all-unnecessary-a994aa)
- [Severe or persistent back pain that does not respond to non-surgical methods should be seen by a back expert, perhaps a surgeon.](https://korrents.com/k/severe-or-persistent-back-pain-that-191e78)
- [A strong back needs the ability to generate rigidity in the core and spine so that the limbs can move well.](https://korrents.com/k/a-strong-back-needs-the-ability-1d8c1d)
- [Sit-ups and ab crunches are probably an inefficient exercise for back pain, and perhaps even the worst one.](https://korrents.com/k/sit-ups-and-ab-crunches-are-probably-30520f)
- [The curl-up is a good way to strengthen the abdominal wall, with or without back pain.](https://korrents.com/k/the-curl-up-is-a-good-way-ed1d0b)
- [Repeated short, maximal contractions of about ten seconds probably build stronger muscle-activation pathways than one long static hold.](https://korrents.com/k/repeated-short-maximal-contractions-of-about-15537c)
- [In a side plank, push the floor away and do not let the hips sag.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-side-plank-push-the-109133)
- [In the bird dog, do not raise the leg too high; the aim is one long, stable line, not an arched lower back.](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-bird-dog-do-not-b78853)
- [Hanging from a bar with the toes on the floor to lengthen the spine gives many people some back-pain relief, though whether it helps depends on the source of the pain.](https://korrents.com/k/hanging-from-a-bar-with-the-5dc68e)
- [Worrying about how people see you, and what they say about you, is wasted time and energy.](https://korrents.com/k/worrying-about-how-people-see-you-82bb41)
- [Your only focus should be on getting better at what you are doing, as Marcus Aurelius says.](https://korrents.com/k/your-only-focus-should-be-on-a49b4d)
- [Transcendental meditation, lifting weights and espresso are the three keys to a successful life.](https://korrents.com/k/transcendental-meditation-lifting-weights-and-espresso-dc79b5)
- [There are good alternatives to the mac for personal computing](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-good-alternatives-to-the-281f24)
- [Most people do not enjoy tinkering with their computers](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-do-not-enjoy-tinkering-0393f3)
- [Europe is mortal — it can die, and whether it does depends entirely on choices Europeans make now.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-is-mortal-it-can-die-926a5b)
- [The era in which Europe bought its energy from Russia, had its goods made in China and left its security to the United States is over.](https://korrents.com/k/the-era-in-which-europe-bought-613c81)
- [Europe cannot keep the world's strictest environmental and social rules, invest less than its competitors and run a more naive trade policy, and still expect to create jobs.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-cannot-keep-the-world-s-824e9a)
- [Uncertainty is necessary for ambition](https://korrents.com/k/uncertainty-is-necessary-for-ambition-078170)
- [Forgiving those who trespass against us is how we get out of societal mess](https://korrents.com/k/forgiving-those-who-trespass-against-us-b1ba7c)
- [Talk of helping others is an easier place to hide than transforming oneself.](https://korrents.com/k/talk-of-helping-others-is-an-09153a)
- [Focusing unflinchingly on yourself is the greatest help you can give mankind.](https://korrents.com/k/focusing-unflinchingly-on-yourself-is-the-00ae38)
- [The Buddha's greatest error was trying to help all sentient beings.](https://korrents.com/k/the-buddha-s-greatest-error-was-c5bdd0)
- [The story that Einstein could not keep up with quantum mechanics is almost exactly backwards: his philosophical objections were correct and should have been taken far more seriously.](https://korrents.com/k/the-story-that-einstein-could-not-3bef14)
- [The singularity of a black hole is not a place at its centre but a moment in your future: falling in, you run out of time rather than out of room.](https://korrents.com/k/the-singularity-of-a-black-hole-543cdb)
- [Life is not fighting the second law of thermodynamics; it surfs increasing entropy and depends on it to hold itself together.](https://korrents.com/k/life-is-not-fighting-the-second-37266f)
- [The simplest explanation for why we have never noticed an alien civilization is that there are none out there.](https://korrents.com/k/the-simplest-explanation-for-why-we-e0872d)
- [A great filter is a weak explanation for the silence, because it would have to work every single time — one civilization with self-replicating probes could fill the galaxy.](https://korrents.com/k/a-great-filter-is-a-weak-11b758)
- [Listening for alien radio is the wrong search: a probe that sits and waits beats a signal that passes you by, so an artifact in our solar system is likelier than a message.](https://korrents.com/k/listening-for-alien-radio-is-the-138266)
- [The Copenhagen interpretation taught to physics students is a God-awful mess; many-worlds is beautiful because it needs fewer ingredients and one equation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-copenhagen-interpretation-taught-to-physics-d47f9a)
- [Declining many-worlds because it extrapolates past what we can observe is methodologically respectable and still a failure of nerve.](https://korrents.com/k/declining-many-worlds-because-it-extrapolates-past-873a13)
- [Physicists did not invent dark matter and dark energy to rescue their theories — they would much rather the answer were something cooler, and the data will not allow it.](https://korrents.com/k/physicists-did-not-invent-dark-matter-83eb1e)
- [Judging an AI by how close it is to a human is the mistake: appreciating what it can actually do is both more accurate and better protection against its dangers.](https://korrents.com/k/judging-an-ai-by-how-close-7c1ca0)
- [A language model's apparent mind is mostly our own bias: it predicts text, and leverages our evolved habit of attributing intentionality to anything that acts human.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-model-s-apparent-mind-d4d1d2)
- [The largest contribution physics can make to AI is energy efficiency: computers waste heat hilariously worse than brains do, and nobody has seriously tried to fix it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-largest-contribution-physics-can-make-76c125)
- [Consciousness and free will are not illusions: being emergent and non-fundamental is exactly as real as a table is.](https://korrents.com/k/consciousness-and-free-will-are-not-21f909)
- [Assuming you are a typical observer in the universe is not humility but a hilariously presumptuous claim that typical observers are like you.](https://korrents.com/k/assuming-you-are-a-typical-observer-5bc645)
- ["Why is there something rather than nothing?" cannot have the kind of answer why-questions usually get, because the universe is not embedded in anything bigger — it can just be.](https://korrents.com/k/why-is-there-something-rather-than-828f73)
- [There is no philosophical knockout objection to the simulation hypothesis, and also no reason whatsoever to take it seriously.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-philosophical-knockout-objection-c40fea)
- [Science can tell you how to reach your goals but never which goals are right — and it will help just as happily if your goals are horrible.](https://korrents.com/k/science-can-tell-you-how-to-bc1674)
- [When somebody accuses you of being arrogant about an idea, almost all they ever mean is that they disagree with you.](https://korrents.com/k/when-somebody-accuses-you-of-being-51d58c)
- [Einstein's equation is much smarter than Einstein was: it knew about black holes, gravitational waves and the Big Bang while he did not.](https://korrents.com/k/einstein-s-equation-is-much-smarter-813b6e)
- [The Nobel Prize is probably a net good for the world and a net negative for science, because it makes scientists want to win a Nobel Prize.](https://korrents.com/k/the-nobel-prize-is-probably-a-eb0665)
- [Copyleft licences impose obligations rather than restrictions, and it is from those obligations on the powerful that software freedom comes.](https://korrents.com/k/copyleft-licences-impose-obligations-rather-than-c72575)
- [No free or open source licence may restrict what the software is used for, however objectionable the use.](https://korrents.com/k/no-free-or-open-source-licence-749614)
- [Employees do not have the right to prevent a business from carrying out its normal course of commerce over a disagreement in politics](https://korrents.com/k/employees-do-not-have-the-right-085705)
- [A data centre powered by solar and batteries alone needs an array so oversized that the design is not worth building.](https://korrents.com/k/a-data-centre-powered-by-solar-2870fb)
- [Letting generators cover one per cent of the year is what makes an off-grid solar data centre affordable, because the last few gloomy days set the whole array size.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-generators-cover-one-per-cent-fd7697)
- [Buying spare compute is cheaper than buying backup generators, because the servers cost fifty times what the generator does.](https://korrents.com/k/buying-spare-compute-is-cheaper-than-e07d97)
- [An off-grid data centre can delete its uninterruptible power supplies entirely, because the battery bank outside already is one.](https://korrents.com/k/an-off-grid-data-centre-can-delete-93e5c6)
- [Cooling adds nothing to what a data centre produces, which is why it is the first thing a good design deletes rather than optimises.](https://korrents.com/k/cooling-adds-nothing-to-what-a-6adab3)
- [A data centre should be split into independent power blocks fed directly at 1500 volts DC, rather than run through one central distribution system.](https://korrents.com/k/a-data-centre-should-be-split-b7238b)
- [Nuclear-powered data centres are this decade's hydrogen car: a zero-emissions story incumbents prefer because it changes the least.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-powered-data-centres-are-this-decade-a51dff)
- [Off-grid data centres will win the way electric cars did, by redesigning the machine around the new power source instead of swapping the power source in.](https://korrents.com/k/off-grid-data-centres-will-win-the-b9207b)
- [A person's life tends to change character in cycles of roughly three to six years.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-s-life-tends-to-862132)
- [Growing older tends to expand rather than shrink the number of achievable dreams and options.](https://korrents.com/k/growing-older-tends-to-expand-rather-42b43b)
- [Under uncertainty, the best decision is the one that preserves the most future options.](https://korrents.com/k/under-uncertainty-the-best-decision-is-cfa882)
- [We should aim to make more mistakes from bold action and fewer from inaction](https://korrents.com/k/we-should-aim-to-make-more-4d3aef)
- [The biggest enemy of progress is fearing mistakes so much that we do nothing](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-enemy-of-progress-is-8ef920)
- [Society needs consequences, but they should be proportionate and leave room for rehabilitation, reconciliation or recompense](https://korrents.com/k/society-needs-consequences-but-they-should-738d6b)
- [A nap of about 20 minutes brings gains in alertness and concentration without the grogginess of sleep inertia.](https://korrents.com/k/a-nap-of-about-20-minutes-8873e3)
- [People who are struggling with sleep or have insomnia should not nap during the day.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-are-struggling-with-sleep-879814)
- [If you sleep well at night and feel refreshed by day, there is no need to force yourself to nap.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-sleep-well-at-night-286904)
- [To nap more easily, mimic the night: block light and noise, take your shoes off and use a blanket.](https://korrents.com/k/to-nap-more-easily-mimic-the-92b770)
- [Delaying morning caffeine lets you test whether your sleep leaves you restored, and a month-long test is enough.](https://korrents.com/k/delaying-morning-caffeine-lets-you-test-3cde2d)
- [Coffee's health benefits seem to come from the coffee itself rather than from the caffeine.](https://korrents.com/k/coffee-s-health-benefits-seem-to-89f74e)
- [Stop caffeine roughly 10 to 12 hours before bed, adjusting for your own sensitivity.](https://korrents.com/k/stop-caffeine-roughly-10-to-12-8faf51)
- [Caffeine in the hours before bed can cut deep sleep by as much as 20 percent even in people who feel they sleep fine.](https://korrents.com/k/caffeine-in-the-hours-before-bed-1dfea7)
- [Polyphasic sleep schedules look unwise for adults: the research found no benefit for mood, cognition or health, and found harm.](https://korrents.com/k/polyphasic-sleep-schedules-look-unwise-for-219cd7)
- [Daytime napping in older adults is probably a marker of poor night-time sleep, so older adults should not be told to stop napping, though more evidence is needed.](https://korrents.com/k/daytime-napping-in-older-adults-is-52c9aa)
- [Whatever a person's success or wealth, there is no excuse for wasting time.](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-a-person-s-success-or-407423)
- [The most critical things to understand are the truths about life and the mind.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-critical-things-to-understand-05c1f4)
- [Retrieval-augmented generation is the most practical approach for reducing LLM hallucinations.](https://korrents.com/k/retrieval-augmented-generation-is-the-most-practical-7c4876)
- [The performance gap between closed-source and open-weight language models is closing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-performance-gap-between-closed-source-and-cde223)
- [Video generation requires more world knowledge than image generation because of the need for temporal consistency across frames.](https://korrents.com/k/video-generation-requires-more-world-knowledge-ab5b61)
- [High-quality video data, especially paired with text, is harder to collect at scale than image or text data.](https://korrents.com/k/high-quality-video-data-especially-paired-with-0a7ec8)
- [Money cannot buy happiness by itself, but money for experiences with loved ones, free time and good causes does add to it.](https://korrents.com/k/money-cannot-buy-happiness-by-itself-e2ed88)
- [The aim should be lifelong progress toward being happier, not a search for pure happiness.](https://korrents.com/k/the-aim-should-be-lifelong-progress-0a7dc9)
- [Deep relationships through marriage, family and real friendship are at the heart of happiness: happiness is love.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-relationships-through-marriage-family-and-1af8b0)
- [Having too little to do can be worse than having too much](https://korrents.com/k/having-too-little-to-do-can-f400a5)
- [A team of jerks almost never becomes a great team, in sport or in business is not the point, but rather being good in their given position is what earns a spot](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-of-jerks-almost-never-93aaf3)
- [Hard work does not guarantee that it will pay off](https://korrents.com/k/hard-work-does-not-guarantee-that-488c71)
- [Cutting someone from the team can be an act of mercy](https://korrents.com/k/cutting-someone-from-the-team-can-3b5fc9)
- [When learning from someone successful, copy only what is repeatable; the rest of their success cannot be reproduced.](https://korrents.com/k/when-learning-from-someone-successful-copy-3f1552)
- [Market history teaches why things behave as they do, never what happens next, because the details never repeat.](https://korrents.com/k/market-history-teaches-why-things-behave-a3e2e9)
- [RPC's reputation as broken is outdated: it was earned in an era of synchronous calls, before promises and async/await.](https://korrents.com/k/rpc-s-reputation-as-broken-is-c2525a)
- [RPC fits how programmers already think, in function calls, which frees them from constantly translating between mental models.](https://korrents.com/k/rpc-fits-how-programmers-already-think-cd0aea)
- [Moore's Law is a fractal: the same squeeze that shrank the transistor is now being applied to the rack.](https://korrents.com/k/moore-s-law-is-a-fractal-f969c3)
- [The copper backplane inside a rack is the new advanced packaging, and scaling it is where the next generation of performance comes from.](https://korrents.com/k/the-copper-backplane-inside-a-rack-acc301)
- [For most American housing the largest cost is putting up the physical building, not the land it sits on or the rules attached to that land.](https://korrents.com/k/for-most-american-housing-the-largest-052af5)
- [It is only in dense cities that land dominates the price of a home, and there the land is expensive because of the rules limiting what can be built on it.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-only-in-dense-cities-2d9175)
- [Building materials are already about as cheap as civilisation knows how to make them, so cheaper materials are not where housing savings will come from.](https://korrents.com/k/building-materials-are-already-about-as-ac6ff1)
- [A house is built by trades that barely coordinate with each other, which is what makes housing cheap to design and almost impossible to redesign.](https://korrents.com/k/a-house-is-built-by-trades-18b022)
- [The xz backdoor marks a watershed moment in open source supply chain security.](https://korrents.com/k/the-xz-backdoor-marks-a-watershed-4cf049)
- [The xz backdoor falls short of a Ken Thompson-style 'trusting trust' compromise, but comes a step closer to one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-xz-backdoor-falls-short-of-a44957)
- [Most of the code the world runs on is maintained by hobbyists with an hour or two a month, so any proposal that needs more than that will simply be ignored.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-code-the-world-14678d)
- [Any plan for open source sustainability or security that is not built around hobbyist maintainers will achieve nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/any-plan-for-open-source-sustainability-61d88d)
- [Veterans of the 1990s free software movement do not understand the world today’s maintainers work in, and should listen before proposing fixes for it.](https://korrents.com/k/veterans-of-the-1990s-free-software-af887a)
- [An auth key that is just a string can easily be leaked by the service holding it, and there is probably no practical way to tell when it has been.](https://korrents.com/k/an-auth-key-that-is-just-d32759)
- [Connecting a server to a resource should be one step, not two: pointing the server at the resource and separately making the resource accept the server.](https://korrents.com/k/connecting-a-server-to-a-resource-2d0907)
- [Designing code to be friendly to dependency injection can seem tedious, and it has been worth it every time.](https://korrents.com/k/designing-code-to-be-friendly-to-213cab)
- [Generosity is an antidote to fear: people get hung up on how risky a brave act feels and fail to focus on how generous it is.](https://korrents.com/k/generosity-is-an-antidote-to-fear-0e37a1)
- [Modern parenting in America is failing kids](https://korrents.com/k/modern-parenting-in-america-is-failing-67e72b)
- [Overprotection harms childhood independence](https://korrents.com/k/overprotection-harms-childhood-independence-b3e5ac)
- [The internet is a micro medium: it reaches specific people better than any medium before it and reaches everyone badly.](https://korrents.com/k/the-internet-is-a-micro-medium-2673e0)
- [No business has everyone as its customer, so the goal is the smallest viable audience rather than the biggest possible one.](https://korrents.com/k/no-business-has-everyone-as-its-51ca0b)
- [Even the most commercially successful books are written for a very small group of people rather than for everyone.](https://korrents.com/k/even-the-most-commercially-successful-books-46942f)
- [Naming a narrow audience puts a creator on the hook, while claiming the work is for everyone is a way to hide from failure.](https://korrents.com/k/naming-a-narrow-audience-puts-a-49c599)
- [Employees and customers do not want what founders want, and equity stakes become a demotivator in almost every organisation.](https://korrents.com/k/employees-and-customers-do-not-want-daffb8)
- [A live verbal presentation is one of the worst ways to transmit information, because a talk given in real time exists to deliver emotion.](https://korrents.com/k/a-live-verbal-presentation-is-one-0b66d2)
- [Quality means meeting spec and nothing else, so a product riddled with defects that fall within spec is a high-quality product.](https://korrents.com/k/quality-means-meeting-spec-and-nothing-724642)
- [Seeking reassurance never satisfies, because an unpredictable future keeps rendering the reassurance already received insufficient.](https://korrents.com/k/seeking-reassurance-never-satisfies-because-an-51adda)
- [A professional keeps a promise whether or not they feel like it, and that obligation is what separates professional work from amateur work.](https://korrents.com/k/a-professional-keeps-a-promise-whether-6f62a0)
- [Reading and listening are only preparation; learning happens by doing, and it consists of failing on the way to mastery.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-and-listening-are-only-preparation-906f90)
- [Criticism is only useful from someone with domain knowledge who is not trying to gain status by hurting the person receiving it.](https://korrents.com/k/criticism-is-only-useful-from-someone-66953f)
- [Leaving an old relationship for a new one is usually shopping for novelty rather than refusing to honour a sunk cost.](https://korrents.com/k/leaving-an-old-relationship-for-a-f7af56)
- [Which products become visible is decided by distribution friction rather than by any contest of merit.](https://korrents.com/k/which-products-become-visible-is-decided-c19f09)
- [Shame is used as a tool of cultural coercion because it reliably makes people shrink and stop taking action.](https://korrents.com/k/shame-is-used-as-a-tool-857db7)
- [Most book authors optimise for the status of being published, chasing bestseller lists and reviews instead of the reader.](https://korrents.com/k/most-book-authors-optimise-for-the-26035b)
- [Creativity is a choice: extending empathy to the person being served and announcing something into the future that might not work.](https://korrents.com/k/creativity-is-a-choice-extending-empathy-277c7d)
- [A spacecraft built to service satellites is also a weapon, because the same robotic arm that refuels one can disable one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-spacecraft-built-to-service-satellites-f9e0e7)
- [Dual-use robotic servicing spacecraft, not missiles or lasers, will be the anti-satellite weapon of choice.](https://korrents.com/k/dual-use-robotic-servicing-spacecraft-not-missiles-6ad25d)
- [China could field enough robotic spacecraft to cripple critical US satellites years earlier than American experts expect.](https://korrents.com/k/china-could-field-enough-robotic-spacecraft-d58664)
- [The Pentagon has never said publicly which anti-satellite weapons it is preparing against, which means it may not know.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pentagon-has-never-said-publicly-baf330)
- [Satellites need self-defence zones: a keep-out rule around them is the only workable arms control in orbit.](https://korrents.com/k/satellites-need-self-defence-zones-a-keep-out-cde2f4)
- [What a person becomes during their lifetime is what makes them a quality human or riff-raff.](https://korrents.com/k/what-a-person-becomes-during-their-e52db6)
- [Society champions mediocrity and caters to the masses.](https://korrents.com/k/society-champions-mediocrity-and-caters-to-fddb79)
- [Handing stewardship of Redis to a company whose goal is extracting profit was a mistake for the project](https://korrents.com/k/handing-stewardship-of-redis-to-a-d333dc)
- [Source-available licences like the SSPL take volunteer labour while restricting the freedoms that made it worth giving](https://korrents.com/k/source-available-licences-like-the-sspl-take-5712d8)
- [A nuclear war between the United States and Russia would kill five billion people.](https://korrents.com/k/a-nuclear-war-between-the-united-67b07b)
- [Hundreds of millions of people die in the first 72 minutes of a nuclear war, and the billions die afterwards, of starvation, in the nuclear winter that follows.](https://korrents.com/k/hundreds-of-millions-of-people-die-e62ec6)
- [American policy is to fire its nuclear weapons in response before the incoming bomb has landed, rather than wait to absorb the attack and find out whether it was real.](https://korrents.com/k/american-policy-is-to-fire-its-b5b07c)
- [One person can start a nuclear war on his own authority in a democracy: the President of the United States asks permission of no one, and he is the only one who can do it.](https://korrents.com/k/one-person-can-start-a-nuclear-bbee55)
- [American missile defence is a fiction: 44 interceptors that work about half the time cannot answer the 1,670 warheads Russia has deployed.](https://korrents.com/k/american-missile-defence-is-a-fiction-e384b3)
- [A nuclear-armed submarine is as dangerous to civilization as an asteroid, and unlike an asteroid it cannot even be located.](https://korrents.com/k/a-nuclear-armed-submarine-is-as-dangerous-fb3850)
- [American ICBMs do not have the range to reach North Korea without flying over Russia, which is the flaw that turns a limited counterattack into Armageddon.](https://korrents.com/k/american-icbms-do-not-have-the-3563de)
- [The Pentagon's own war games found that no matter how a nuclear war starts, it ends in Armageddon with everyone dead.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pentagon-s-own-war-games-d67daf)
- [American nuclear doctrine is not tit for tat: one incoming warhead is answered with eighty, and that is what the phrase escalate to deescalate means.](https://korrents.com/k/american-nuclear-doctrine-is-not-tit-5f9d1e)
- [Nobody becomes STRATCOM commander unless they are the kind of person who follows orders, so the hope that the launch order would be refused is misplaced.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-becomes-stratcom-commander-unless-they-5700fe)
- [Judgment and cognition are the two capacities the nuclear launch decision actually turns on, which is the standard a presidential candidate should be measured against.](https://korrents.com/k/judgment-and-cognition-are-the-two-0647cb)
- [As politics grows more viperous, leaders of nuclear-armed nations surround themselves with sycophants, so you can no longer count on a president being given good advice.](https://korrents.com/k/as-politics-grows-more-viperous-leaders-16de2b)
- [Russia has abandoned its long-standing official position that it would wait to absorb a nuclear attack before launching.](https://korrents.com/k/russia-has-abandoned-its-long-standing-official-e83e93)
- [After interviewing hundreds of people inside America's secret military and intelligence programs, there is no reason to believe aliens have ever visited Earth.](https://korrents.com/k/after-interviewing-hundreds-of-people-inside-ac6526)
- [The recurring UFO narrative is a strategic deception campaign, a very large catch-all for keeping the public's attention on the wrong thing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-recurring-ufo-narrative-is-a-0f0d7a)
- [Atomic weapons destroy cities and thermonuclear weapons destroy civilizations, which makes the decision to build the thermonuclear bomb more confounding than the decision to drop the first two.](https://korrents.com/k/atomic-weapons-destroy-cities-and-thermonuclear-2710a8)
- [Compute will be the currency of the future and the most precious commodity in the world, so we should be investing heavily to make far more of it.](https://korrents.com/k/compute-will-be-the-currency-of-8d485f)
- [Compute is not a market like phones, where demand is capped by how many buyers there are; intelligence is priced like energy, so the only real question is how much the world uses at a given price.](https://korrents.com/k/compute-is-not-a-market-like-8c2c58)
- [The useful question about AI and work is not what percentage of jobs it will replace but what percentage of tasks it will do, over ever-longer time horizons.](https://korrents.com/k/the-useful-question-about-ai-and-bb9233)
- [AI should be released iteratively rather than built in secret, because AI and surprise do not go together and the world needs time to adapt before it is under the gun.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-should-be-released-iteratively-rather-43a7a7)
- [Advertising was a necessary phase for the internet but a momentary industry, and an AI people pay for is better because they know the answers are not influenced by advertisers.](https://korrents.com/k/advertising-was-a-necessary-phase-for-76c0be)
- [No company should be making the decisions about AGI, and no one person should have super-voting control of one; governments have to put rules of the road in place.](https://korrents.com/k/no-company-should-be-making-the-0cff05)
- [The AI safety community's fixation on a model escaping its box has pushed the other significant AI risks out of the discussion, with little progress to show for it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-safety-community-s-fixation-36a998)
- [Risks that would make a good climax scene in a movie carry far more weight with people than slow-burn harms that kill many more, which is why nuclear reactors frighten us and coal plants do not.](https://korrents.com/k/risks-that-would-make-a-good-bf14f4)
- [Short timelines with a slow takeoff is the safest of the four ways AGI could arrive, and the quadrant we should be trying to land in.](https://korrents.com/k/short-timelines-with-a-slow-takeoff-ba3384)
- [Asking when AGI will arrive is a poorly formed question; the answerable question is when a system will be able to do a particular capability.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-when-agi-will-arrive-is-65a77c)
- [Most real economic growth comes from scientific and technological progress, so the AI that matters is the one that significantly increases the rate of scientific discovery.](https://korrents.com/k/most-real-economic-growth-comes-from-db1c93)
- [A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests.](https://korrents.com/k/a-startup-should-not-begin-life-e6d435)
- [The openness that matters is putting increasingly powerful tools into people's hands for free as a public good, not open-sourcing the weights.](https://korrents.com/k/the-openness-that-matters-is-putting-ccbba9)
- [The gap between GPT-5 and GPT-4 will be as large as the gap between GPT-4 and GPT-3, and the job is to live a few years ahead and remember that today's tools will look terrible from there.](https://korrents.com/k/the-gap-between-gpt-5-and-gpt-4-44beca)
- [People who create valuable data deserve to be compensated when models are trained on it, and artists should be able to opt out of having work generated in their style.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-create-valuable-data-deserve-7a3d95)
- [The board of a nonprofit answers to no one but itself, and the board governing the road to AGI ought instead to answer to the world as a whole.](https://korrents.com/k/the-board-of-a-nonprofit-answers-bdc00e)
- [The road to AGI is going to be a giant power struggle, and anyone building it should expect that rather than hope to avoid it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-road-to-agi-is-going-ddaae4)
- [The world does not need another copy of Google, so the interesting problem is not ranking ten webpages better but helping people get and synthesize the answer itself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-does-not-need-another-1cde73)
- [It would be depressing to reach AGI and still need a human body to get anything done in the physical world, so robots have to be part of the transition.](https://korrents.com/k/it-would-be-depressing-to-reach-5bcf8a)
- [What any individual human can do comes from collectively built scaffolding rather than from the individual, and AGI may turn out to be more like that scaffolding than like a single brain.](https://korrents.com/k/what-any-individual-human-can-do-1bcb6a)
- [If you do not know where you are going, any road can take you there](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-do-not-know-where-c43108)
- [The EU's Digital Markets Act is convoluted and complicated because it tries to have its cake and eat it too](https://korrents.com/k/the-eu-s-digital-markets-act-987ebf)
- [Governments are pursuing laws that seek draconian penalties for forbidden speech](https://korrents.com/k/governments-are-pursuing-laws-that-seek-2df516)
- [The lower a layer sits in the software stack, the harder it is for an individual developer to build in it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-lower-a-layer-sits-in-f3aa64)
- [AI will enable one-person companies to reach very high valuations.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-enable-one-person-companies-to-9b0a0f)
- [Without the yield improvements of the last half-century the world would have cleared more than twice as much cropland.](https://korrents.com/k/without-the-yield-improvements-of-the-6c8ecb)
- [The claim that higher yields backfire and end up increasing farmland is much weaker than the literature assumes.](https://korrents.com/k/the-claim-that-higher-yields-backfire-241171)
- [Believing that higher yields do not spare land would push investment away from the thing that actually protects wild habitat.](https://korrents.com/k/believing-that-higher-yields-do-not-e8f5e4)
- [Making American farms more productive shrinks cropland in the rest of the world by more than it adds at home.](https://korrents.com/k/making-american-farms-more-productive-shrinks-04e6d5)
- [The case for raising yields, especially among smallholders, is humanitarian as much as environmental.](https://korrents.com/k/the-case-for-raising-yields-especially-8b0b74)
- [Higher yields alone do not protect habitat locally; they have to be paired with zoning, payments or certification or the land is cleared anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/higher-yields-alone-do-not-protect-efb089)
- [Whether higher yields spare land or take more of it depends on how open the market for the crop is, so staples spare land and globally traded crops often do not.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-higher-yields-spare-land-or-e2689b)
- [No profession has ever successfully resisted automation or redundancy in the face of technological advancement over the long term](https://korrents.com/k/no-profession-has-ever-successfully-resisted-3ae801)
- [AI is likely going to make the tech industry even more integrated in society and thus more valuable](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-likely-going-to-make-20dfe2)
- [Overly gentle language in feedback can confuse the message](https://korrents.com/k/overly-gentle-language-in-feedback-can-9b38a7)
- [Expecting a reasonable baseline from people is fair](https://korrents.com/k/expecting-a-reasonable-baseline-from-people-52dd86)
- [Honoring someone's decision to remove their words from the internet is generally the right thing to do, even for the sake of archiving them.](https://korrents.com/k/honoring-someone-s-decision-to-remove-37b0fb)
- [How a person treats themselves determines who they let into their life and how those people treat them.](https://korrents.com/k/how-a-person-treats-themselves-determines-bd827c)
- [Life's most valuable things, like health, wealth and knowledge, compound slowly over long periods of time.](https://korrents.com/k/life-s-most-valuable-things-like-5a91a1)
- [Most people are fundamentally good, which makes the risk of trusting them worth taking.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-are-fundamentally-good-which-6ed412)
- [The threat from AI will come from injecting the biases and ideology of its overseers](https://korrents.com/k/the-threat-from-ai-will-come-1ddcff)
- [A company captured by ideology will produce useless products](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-captured-by-ideology-will-a5bdb2)
- [It is possible for a company to reverse its ideological capture](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-possible-for-a-company-f29a22)
- [Apple could quit Europe](https://korrents.com/k/apple-could-quit-europe-9f4f72)
- [Public criticism of a company is not a valid reason to deny access to its platform](https://korrents.com/k/public-criticism-of-a-company-is-3d4d77)
- [A company can change fundamentally with new leadership](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-can-change-fundamentally-with-1d4e66)
- [Scrolling and swiping interfaces are designed to prevent closure, so that the user never reaches an end and keeps going.](https://korrents.com/k/scrolling-and-swiping-interfaces-are-designed-7d8754)
- [A service paid by the hour of your attention is rewarded for delivering the opposite of what it promises.](https://korrents.com/k/a-service-paid-by-the-hour-035f3a)
- [Half of the ten largest companies in the world are in the business of making people's relationship with technology addictive.](https://korrents.com/k/half-of-the-ten-largest-companies-825230)
- [The collapse of communism, the end of the Cold War and the end of the Soviet Union were three different processes, and people constantly confuse them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-collapse-of-communism-the-end-60fc49)
- [The fall of the Soviet Union was not a one-off event but the continuation of the disintegration of the Russian Empire that began in 1917 and was merely arrested by the Bolsheviks.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fall-of-the-soviet-union-2874e5)
- [Russian nationalism turned out to be as destructive to the multinational Soviet state as Ukrainian, Georgian or Estonian nationalism was.](https://korrents.com/k/russian-nationalism-turned-out-to-be-45c164)
- [The United States did not bring down the Soviet Union: it did not want the Soviet Union to disintegrate, at the start of the Cold War or in 1991.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-did-not-bring-6b2cbd)
- [The Soviet Union would have collapsed with or without Gorbachev — in a different form, on someone else's watch, at some later date.](https://korrents.com/k/the-soviet-union-would-have-collapsed-1c8a8b)
- [The biggest thing that happened in the 20th century was the redrawing of the map of the world and the birth of dozens, if not hundreds, of new states.](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-thing-that-happened-in-788024)
- [Ukraine's vote for independence is what ended the Soviet Union, and Ukraine is exactly as decisive today for anyone wanting to restore Russian control over the post-Soviet space.](https://korrents.com/k/ukraine-s-vote-for-independence-is-c567d6)
- [When Putin calls the Soviet collapse the greatest catastrophe of the century he is not mourning lives lost but great power status and the unity of the people he counts as Russian.](https://korrents.com/k/when-putin-calls-the-soviet-collapse-5cc285)
- [Rus is not Russia: it was a self-name for many different groups on that territory, and Moscow did not yet exist when Kyiv became a capital.](https://korrents.com/k/rus-is-not-russia-it-was-bfac63)
- [The Russian Empire acquired a sixth of the Earth by integrating conquered elites rather than their peoples, and nationalism is what made that model fall apart.](https://korrents.com/k/the-russian-empire-acquired-a-sixth-7f3f54)
- [Calling Bandera a Nazi collaborator gives you exactly the same grounds for calling Stalin one, because the years of collaboration were the same years.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-bandera-a-nazi-collaborator-gives-8073fc)
- [Bandera is a symbol of resistance to Soviet occupation for a fight he could not have led, because he was not in Ukraine at the time.](https://korrents.com/k/bandera-is-a-symbol-of-resistance-d5116c)
- [There are Nazis and white supremacists in Ukraine, but they are more marginal there than the same groups are in Central Europe or the United States.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-nazis-and-white-supremacists-d653ea)
- [Ukraine, at war, is the country with no right or far right in its parliament, which cannot be said of Germany or France.](https://korrents.com/k/ukraine-at-war-is-the-country-8543a9)
- [Denazification works as propaganda because the words fascism and Nazi make a post-Soviet audience stop analysing, not just start listening.](https://korrents.com/k/denazification-works-as-propaganda-because-the-6cc8b3)
- [Propaganda is rarely an outright lie — usually it is one real fact taken out of context and blown out of proportion, and answering it on its own terms is already losing to it.](https://korrents.com/k/propaganda-is-rarely-an-outright-lie-4f411b)
- [Defining Ukraine's war record by the 20,000 men of the Division Galizien makes the 2 to 3 million Ukrainians who fought in the Red Army irrelevant, which is what propaganda is for.](https://korrents.com/k/defining-ukraine-s-war-record-by-1a7031)
- [The Russian language is not persecuted in Ukraine, and believing that it is has one important precondition: never having set foot in the country.](https://korrents.com/k/the-russian-language-is-not-persecuted-b94f71)
- [Russians and Ukrainians behave differently even when they speak the same language: police violence ended the protests at Bolotnaya and began them on the Maidan.](https://korrents.com/k/russians-and-ukrainians-behave-differently-even-0051c0)
- [Russian identity formed around the state and cannot imagine itself outside one, while the Ukrainian project came into existence in revolt against the state.](https://korrents.com/k/russian-identity-formed-around-the-state-a36799)
- [NATO was the justification for the invasion of Ukraine and not its cause: if it were the real concern, half the Russian army would have moved to the new Finnish border.](https://korrents.com/k/nato-was-the-justification-for-the-521a6a)
- [Boris Johnson did not talk Ukraine out of a peace deal: it is not possible to imagine Zelensky taking orders from anybody against his own judgement.](https://korrents.com/k/boris-johnson-did-not-talk-ukraine-f48bbc)
- [Writing five Ukrainian regions into the Russian constitution tied the hands of Putin and of any successor: there is no return to the borders of 2022 without political change in Moscow.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-five-ukrainian-regions-into-the-fb7d1c)
- [The war Russia is fighting in Ukraine is, in intellectual terms, the plan Solzhenitsyn formulated: a Russian nation state of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, and failing that, Donbas, Crimea and southern Ukraine.](https://korrents.com/k/the-war-russia-is-fighting-in-d17047)
- [The Soviet Union fell in good part because of the mobilisation over Chernobyl: the first mass demonstrations in Ukraine were about radiation, not about language or autonomy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-soviet-union-fell-in-good-06c648)
- [Nuclear power is politically unreliable as an answer to climate change, because every major accident freezes reactor construction worldwide for another decade.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-power-is-politically-unreliable-as-62b238)
- [There will be more nuclear accidents, because every one of them exposes a vulnerability nobody had imagined: Chernobyl, then a tsunami, then a war.](https://korrents.com/k/there-will-be-more-nuclear-accidents-1cac0f)
- [The right question about the Cold War is not what we did wrong but what we did so right that seventy years passed without a world war.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-question-about-the-cold-4bb098)
- [The Cuban missile crisis was caused by nuclear weapons and resolved by them: what saved the world was not the weapons but two leaders who were frightened of them, and that fear has faded.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cuban-missile-crisis-was-caused-3ce773)
- [Leaders in a nuclear crisis who believe they are in control are not in control, and events on the ground can escalate against their wishes.](https://korrents.com/k/leaders-in-a-nuclear-crisis-who-1ef806)
- [High-bandwidth memory costs roughly twice the capital per bit that ordinary DRAM does, because its dies are twice the size.](https://korrents.com/k/high-bandwidth-memory-costs-roughly-twice-the-77c349)
- [The rush to build high-bandwidth memory starves ordinary DRAM and NAND of capacity, so AI demand tightens the memory markets it never touches.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rush-to-build-high-bandwidth-memory-e8919c)
- [Having all computing eggs in one basket leaves you vulnerable to predatory behavior](https://korrents.com/k/having-all-computing-eggs-in-one-41f6bf)
- [It is a blind spot to only use one platform](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-a-blind-spot-to-1f6258)
- [Accessibility has failed as a way to make computers usable for disabled users, after thirty years of trying.](https://korrents.com/k/accessibility-has-failed-as-a-way-13be98)
- [Within about five years the user interface will be generated afresh each time a user opens an app, so different users will get drastically different designs.](https://korrents.com/k/within-about-five-years-the-user-139f23)
- [Fonts on Windows can look as good as on Macs with the right hardware](https://korrents.com/k/fonts-on-windows-can-look-as-bc9003)
- [High-density displays are necessary for great looking text on Windows](https://korrents.com/k/high-density-displays-are-necessary-for-great-b5c763)
- [The MVP as a hacky product built to validate an idea no longer works: in a saturated market you have to build something substantially better from day one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mvp-as-a-hacky-product-845d7d)
- [To compete with limited resources, scope down who you are building for as much as possible and solve the problems of specific people.](https://korrents.com/k/to-compete-with-limited-resources-scope-14d157)
- [Routing prompts to different AI models can improve response quality while lowering cost and latency.](https://korrents.com/k/routing-prompts-to-different-ai-models-c9bb03)
- [As more AI models are developed with varying capabilities and costs, routing between them carries real economic value.](https://korrents.com/k/as-more-ai-models-are-developed-8fa171)
- [Weaker AI models match stronger ones on simple prompts, but strong models are increasingly preferred as prompts get more challenging.](https://korrents.com/k/weaker-ai-models-match-stronger-ones-ebf7a0)
- [Text-based NLP technology has limited value for under-represented languages that are primarily spoken and lack a standardized writing system.](https://korrents.com/k/text-based-nlp-technology-has-limited-value-b5259a)
- [The embodied, interactive, multi-modal nature of human first-language acquisition is hard to replicate in current AI models.](https://korrents.com/k/the-embodied-interactive-multi-modal-nature-of-eaaa0a)
- [Spending three to five years working in tech in the Bay Area is something nobody in tech ever regrets.](https://korrents.com/k/spending-three-to-five-years-working-981ad7)
- [Writing publicly is a more effective way to build a professional network and reputation than attending conferences.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-publicly-is-a-more-effective-237d15)
- [Repeated vague platitudes without follow-up specifics signal weak first-principles thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/repeated-vague-platitudes-without-follow-up-specifics-c55c03)
- [Someone who can't name what they'd do differently is unlikely to be good at improving over time.](https://korrents.com/k/someone-who-can-t-name-what-d265d7)
- [Most workplace problems have more than one person contributing to them, not a single culprit.](https://korrents.com/k/most-workplace-problems-have-more-than-e02ba3)
- [Competition from Windows is beneficial for web developers](https://korrents.com/k/competition-from-windows-is-beneficial-for-4bb1f6)
- [Computing freedom requires not putting all eggs in one basket](https://korrents.com/k/computing-freedom-requires-not-putting-all-c9f3f1)
- [Tech is better when power is distributed between multiple companies](https://korrents.com/k/tech-is-better-when-power-is-5b694a)
- [A substantial share of people's personalities, dispositions, and dysfunctions is genetically driven rather than purely a product of environment or trauma.](https://korrents.com/k/a-substantial-share-of-people-s-b5d7e3)
- [Remote work requires trusting one's team, and that trust is a choice that can be made at any time.](https://korrents.com/k/remote-work-requires-trusting-one-s-3efc5f)
- [Deep, meaningful relationships can be built with people entirely remotely.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-meaningful-relationships-can-be-built-7a9e89)
- [Whether a company is genuinely remote-first is best tested by what it plans for team members who can't attend in-person events.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-company-is-genuinely-remote-first-9ea874)
- [The value of anything is the present value of the cash you can take out of it over its life.](https://korrents.com/k/the-value-of-anything-is-the-cfac51)
- [Most investments are really speculations, because only a handful of businesses can be predicted with any confidence.](https://korrents.com/k/most-investments-are-really-speculations-because-41594e)
- [A margin of safety means paying a discount deep enough that being wrong about what a company is worth still leaves you whole.](https://korrents.com/k/a-margin-of-safety-means-paying-7a3315)
- [Buying the best business in the world at too high a price still produces poor returns.](https://korrents.com/k/buying-the-best-business-in-the-382d91)
- [Judging how wide a company's moat is is the hardest thing an investor does, and this is the most disruptable period in history.](https://korrents.com/k/judging-how-wide-a-company-s-ab0543)
- [Technology companies are the wrong place to look for durable businesses, because someone is always building a better version.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-companies-are-the-wrong-place-2f7dc4)
- [Investing well requires reversing the human instinct to grow excited as prices rise and fearful as they fall.](https://korrents.com/k/investing-well-requires-reversing-the-human-2fd015)
- [An investor who never borrows against their securities can afford to think, because no fall in price can force them to sell.](https://korrents.com/k/an-investor-who-never-borrows-against-5ee07f)
- [About a dozen holdings captures nearly all the benefit of diversification; going to fifty adds almost nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/about-a-dozen-holdings-captures-nearly-a21a8f)
- [Almost no mutual fund earns the fees it charges, so most investors are better off buying an index fund.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-no-mutual-fund-earns-the-a27116)
- [Individual investors analysed Tesla better than the professional investors and analysts did.](https://korrents.com/k/individual-investors-analysed-tesla-better-than-540e19)
- [Short selling is inherently treacherous and should almost never be done.](https://korrents.com/k/short-selling-is-inherently-treacherous-and-31e63b)
- [Incentives drive all human behaviour, which makes a management team's incentives central to valuing a company.](https://korrents.com/k/incentives-drive-all-human-behaviour-which-59aeb0)
- [Shareholder activism restored the balance of power between a company's owners and its managers, and that has been good for the US stock market.](https://korrents.com/k/shareholder-activism-restored-the-balance-of-c50a64)
- [A large, respected owner on the board is what buys a CEO the time to make decisions that only pay off years later.](https://korrents.com/k/a-large-respected-owner-on-the-142ccd)
- [Venture boards govern badly because a VC director's interest in winning the next deal outweighs their interest in this company.](https://korrents.com/k/venture-boards-govern-badly-because-a-bc8e38)
- [When a company fails, the board is to blame rather than the CEO.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-company-fails-the-board-36f8b2)
- [Universities would be better run by business leaders than by academics the faculty approves of.](https://korrents.com/k/universities-would-be-better-run-by-c42689)
- [Harvard's governance is broken because its self-perpetuating board can never be rebalanced from outside.](https://korrents.com/k/harvard-s-governance-is-broken-because-c45d3a)
- [The DEI movement on campus comes out of a Marxist socialist way of looking at the world.](https://korrents.com/k/the-dei-movement-on-campus-comes-d5c88c)
- [American defamation law protects the publisher rather than the person a story harms, and the incentives that follow are all wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/american-defamation-law-protects-the-publisher-3b3189)
- [An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media.](https://korrents.com/k/an-independently-owned-platform-is-a-c729b9)
- [The fastest-growing part of the culture economy is not art or entertainment but distraction.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fastest-growing-part-of-the-culture-f1f611)
- [The technology platforms are not patrons of culture: their aim is addiction, because an addicted audience is the customer they want.](https://korrents.com/k/the-technology-platforms-are-not-patrons-592491)
- [Anything that might take a reader off the platform, including a news story or an outside link, is punished by the algorithm.](https://korrents.com/k/anything-that-might-take-a-reader-932937)
- [Compulsive stimulation ends in anhedonia: the more a person leans on it the less pleasure it returns, until they use it only to avoid the pain of going without.](https://korrents.com/k/compulsive-stimulation-ends-in-anhedonia-the-bfcd66)
- [The executives building addictive platforms know what the harm is and build them anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/the-executives-building-addictive-platforms-know-a2695c)
- [Billions of people are unwitting subjects in the largest social engineering experiment ever run.](https://korrents.com/k/billions-of-people-are-unwitting-subjects-b53233)
- [Prosumer software needs tens or hundreds of thousands of users for its development costs to be sustainable.](https://korrents.com/k/prosumer-software-needs-tens-or-hundreds-d719c6)
- [New productivity software rides community excitement for a few years, after which it must serve a deep, hard-to-replace need to survive.](https://korrents.com/k/new-productivity-software-rides-community-excitement-5fe1cd)
- [A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones.](https://korrents.com/k/a-business-succeeds-through-a-small-eb0807)
- [Maybe no generation wants to inherit the favorite apocalypse of the one that went before it](https://korrents.com/k/maybe-no-generation-wants-to-inherit-516483)
- [Leading AI labs disclosing less about their models' architecture and training data is slowing progress in AI development.](https://korrents.com/k/leading-ai-labs-disclosing-less-about-292584)
- [Joining an early-stage startup can now expose someone to cutting-edge AI research work, offering a real alternative to a PhD.](https://korrents.com/k/joining-an-early-stage-startup-can-now-7894f9)
- [Large research team sizes on frontier AI projects create friction that makes execution and decision-making harder.](https://korrents.com/k/large-research-team-sizes-on-frontier-c80b94)
- [The Bay Area's strength as a startup hub comes more from its culture than from its access to capital or expertise.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bay-area-s-strength-as-94c8ed)
- [A startup's main advantage over other career options is that the work itself is more adventurous and fun.](https://korrents.com/k/a-startup-s-main-advantage-over-ef51d0)
- [A founder who lacks a clear sense of purpose will get lost during the inevitably difficult stretches of building a startup.](https://korrents.com/k/a-founder-who-lacks-a-clear-a0b421)
- [Creativity must be used regularly or it will spoil](https://korrents.com/k/creativity-must-be-used-regularly-or-9064a6)
- [Augmented reality and virtual reality are no longer separate categories, but points on one continuum.](https://korrents.com/k/augmented-reality-and-virtual-reality-are-6bdec3)
- [Technological progress looks smooth and exponential from a distance but is actually made of individual S-curves up close.](https://korrents.com/k/technological-progress-looks-smooth-and-exponential-7eff80)
- [Virtual-reality hangouts are the next step in humanity's long effort to close the gap of physical distance in communication.](https://korrents.com/k/virtual-reality-hangouts-are-the-next-step-702b23)
- [The iPhone's own desirability is what makes iMessage attractive, not the reverse.](https://korrents.com/k/the-iphone-s-own-desirability-is-670fcc)
- [iMessage is, at best, only marginally better than competing messaging apps.](https://korrents.com/k/imessage-is-at-best-only-marginally-ab559b)
- [Apple has already missed its best opportunity to establish iMessage as the industry-standard messaging service.](https://korrents.com/k/apple-has-already-missed-its-best-541a87)
- [Low-cost alternatives need to emphasize their drawbacks to be credible](https://korrents.com/k/low-cost-alternatives-need-to-emphasize-their-55e4e8)
- [The right moment to migrate from an ad hoc data store to SQL is the moment you first need an index.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-moment-to-migrate-from-a425e9)
- [Most projects fail before they even begin because the activation energy required to start is too high.](https://korrents.com/k/most-projects-fail-before-they-even-244e24)
- [Programming is fundamentally the practice of making tradeoffs about what matters and what doesn't.](https://korrents.com/k/programming-is-fundamentally-the-practice-of-b707d6)
- [AI should be approached as a collaboration between humans and computers, not a forced choice between them.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-should-be-approached-as-a-254f33)
- [AI-generated writing is already fairly good but still lacks the direction and insight of human editors.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-generated-writing-is-already-fairly-good-68a260)
- [Product/market fit ultimately matters more for a company's growth than its distribution strategy.](https://korrents.com/k/product-market-fit-ultimately-matters-more-090909)
- [Only a small niche of networked products can grow through free, organic distribution; most products must pay for distribution.](https://korrents.com/k/only-a-small-niche-of-networked-e4050a)
- [By the time a marketing tactic or channel is well-known enough to have a case study written about it, its edge has been competed away and no longer works.](https://korrents.com/k/by-the-time-a-marketing-tactic-7b0942)
- [High-quality data collection depends more on careful human execution than on machine learning techniques alone.](https://korrents.com/k/high-quality-data-collection-depends-more-on-1112cd)
- [Lowering friction to sign up increases the number of users but decreases their average quality and intent.](https://korrents.com/k/lowering-friction-to-sign-up-increases-9e169b)
- [Fallible humans have an inherent advantage over AI by being forgivable](https://korrents.com/k/fallible-humans-have-an-inherent-advantage-a6358a)
- [Basecamp solves a perpetual problem that will be needed as long as humans need to collaborate with each other](https://korrents.com/k/basecamp-solves-a-perpetual-problem-that-7771b2)
- [Technological progress does not deliver the most important technologies first; what people choose to work on decides what exists.](https://korrents.com/k/technological-progress-does-not-deliver-the-1a79dd)
- [Ten billion dollars over ten years would deliver most of a list of missing life-saving health technologies, so their absence is a funding choice rather than a scientific limit.](https://korrents.com/k/ten-billion-dollars-over-ten-years-713a8b)
- [A technology company's success is determined mainly by how fast it operates and learns.](https://korrents.com/k/a-technology-company-s-success-is-5bba52)
- [You need less help than you think to connect a server to the internet](https://korrents.com/k/you-need-less-help-than-you-401195)
- [It's never been easier to confidently connect a computer to the internet and have it serve up a web app securely](https://korrents.com/k/it-s-never-been-easier-to-cbc903)
- [Agents will increase the number of users of SaaS rather than get rid of it](https://korrents.com/k/agents-will-increase-the-number-of-be56b2)
- [Faced with someone's raw suffering, compassion from a step away seems to work better than empathy, which can leave you disabled by their despair.](https://korrents.com/k/faced-with-someone-s-raw-suffering-e29989)
- [Money is used either as a tool for a better life or as a yardstick of status, and most people aim at the first while chasing the second.](https://korrents.com/k/money-is-used-either-as-a-116651)
- [Unspent money buys freedom and control over your own time, which is what makes saving worth more than whatever it could have bought.](https://korrents.com/k/unspent-money-buys-freedom-and-control-5611da)
- [There is no objective level of wealth: how rich you are is always a judgement made against someone else.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-objective-level-of-4e1832)
- [Users acquired through referral programs, free trials, coupons, or gamification tend to be lower quality than organically acquired users.](https://korrents.com/k/users-acquired-through-referral-programs-free-d2cfe2)
- [Incentive programs act as a selection mechanism that determines what kind of user a product attracts, not just how many it gets.](https://korrents.com/k/incentive-programs-act-as-a-selection-75651c)
- [Adding gamification mechanics cannot substitute for a product's underlying lack of inherent engagement and retention.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-gamification-mechanics-cannot-substitute-for-f9923d)
- [Platform decay is the result of specific decisions by identifiable people rather than impersonal historical forces, which is precisely what makes it reversible.](https://korrents.com/k/platform-decay-is-the-result-of-27ecba)
- [People stay on a platform they have come to dislike because leaving requires everyone they care about to agree to leave at the same time.](https://korrents.com/k/people-stay-on-a-platform-they-26cf02)
- [A user interface feels better the more it lets people use their innate spatial and kinesthetic abilities.](https://korrents.com/k/a-user-interface-feels-better-the-7a81fb)
- [The Vision Pro's look-then-gesture interaction is less direct than a touchscreen's literal touch interaction.](https://korrents.com/k/the-vision-pro-s-look-then-gesture-interaction-dce17e)
- [Most people believe their smartphone is indeed a real computer](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-believe-their-smartphone-is-0c4b48)
- [Computers should allow users to install any software](https://korrents.com/k/computers-should-allow-users-to-install-31d6e7)
- [People overestimate how much attention others pay to them](https://korrents.com/k/people-overestimate-how-much-attention-others-355ad5)
- [Achieving success and respect inevitably attracts harsh critics](https://korrents.com/k/achieving-success-and-respect-inevitably-attracts-bd67fa)
- [Being willing to fail, take risks, and endure early incompetence is what leads to eventual success in life](https://korrents.com/k/being-willing-to-fail-take-risks-190aaa)
- [China's industrial lead was manufactured by deliberate state industrial policy rather than by market forces alone.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-industrial-lead-was-manufactured-37c887)
- [Xi Jinping is mostly right about the problems he identifies, and his government's brute-force solutions reliably make them worse.](https://korrents.com/k/xi-jinping-is-mostly-right-about-4c4c41)
- [Most of China's economy may be dysfunctional, but the small part that works spectacularly well is what threatens American interests.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-china-s-economy-may-51e773)
- [China will not fade away, so America has to reform itself for a protracted contest with a peer competitor.](https://korrents.com/k/china-will-not-fade-away-so-00471f)
- [China will remain the world's largest manufacturer for many years yet, whatever production moves to India and Vietnam.](https://korrents.com/k/china-will-remain-the-world-s-d10361)
- [American shipbuilding capacity has collapsed to a rounding error beside China's.](https://korrents.com/k/american-shipbuilding-capacity-has-collapsed-to-01d4cb)
- [It is the party's censorship, not any lack of talent, that has made China a cultural underperformer beside Japan and South Korea.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-the-party-s-censorship-bd3d68)
- [Xi Jinping has formally demoted economic growth from being China's top task.](https://korrents.com/k/xi-jinping-has-formally-demoted-economic-0ccd6f)
- [America treats its inability to build and to admit skilled migrants as mysteries to be endured rather than problems to be solved.](https://korrents.com/k/america-treats-its-inability-to-build-c542f5)
- [Grand Theft Auto 6 is likely the peak of traditional, hand-crafted open-world game development before generative AI transforms the genre.](https://korrents.com/k/grand-theft-auto-6-is-likely-ff9223)
- [In a pair of related technological innovations, the 'weak form' is easier for the market to understand, but it is usually the 'strong form' that ends up having the bigger impact.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-pair-of-related-technological-c16540)
- [Generative AI is as likely to invent new game genres as it is to make existing ones cheaper to build.](https://korrents.com/k/generative-ai-is-as-likely-to-49ff8a)
- [Most people optimize for their own interests](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-optimize-for-their-own-fb6253)
- [Excess managerial bandwidth is dangerous](https://korrents.com/k/excess-managerial-bandwidth-is-dangerous-ea1820)
- [Some SaaS does not need to be a service](https://korrents.com/k/some-saas-does-not-need-to-3f796e)
- [At its best, research is a collaborative and sometimes argumentative conversation, not just its published output.](https://korrents.com/k/at-its-best-research-is-a-0e0b92)
- [Agency, which comes from acting in the world and living with the consequences, is what distinguishes people from machines.](https://korrents.com/k/agency-which-comes-from-acting-in-9f9488)
- [There is no clear line between events in the brain and the conscious self, so it is right to say that we make choices.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-clear-line-between-358345)
- [The West is in danger because the people who should defend its values have been captured by a worldview that leads to socialism and therefore to poverty.](https://korrents.com/k/the-west-is-in-danger-because-d60226)
- [Free-enterprise capitalism is not the cause of poverty but the only tool there is for ending hunger and poverty anywhere on earth.](https://korrents.com/k/free-enterprise-capitalism-is-not-the-cause-ec3cb7)
- [Social justice is intrinsically unjust, because the state can only fund it by collecting taxes coercively.](https://korrents.com/k/social-justice-is-intrinsically-unjust-because-4c00de)
- [Paying parents large sums of cash directly is the pronatal policy most likely to work, because every indirect policy has to guess what the real obstacle is.](https://korrents.com/k/paying-parents-large-sums-of-cash-b63456)
- [Many people refuse to act on falling birth rates because raising them is associated with people they consider enemies.](https://korrents.com/k/many-people-refuse-to-act-on-ba95b9)
- [Expecting AI or longer lives to arrive in time makes people skip having a plan for falling birth rates at all.](https://korrents.com/k/expecting-ai-or-longer-lives-to-5295c6)
- [Apple is repeating Microsoft's monopoly mistakes](https://korrents.com/k/apple-is-repeating-microsoft-s-monopoly-ac4ae5)
- [Microsoft's brutish tactics turned developers against them](https://korrents.com/k/microsoft-s-brutish-tactics-turned-developers-72ad1a)
- [Apple is arrogant](https://korrents.com/k/apple-is-arrogant-a6c64c)
- [Taste is not just pretentious or elitist: everybody has it.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-is-not-just-pretentious-or-b1311d)
- [Algorithmic feeds seem to have nudged people into conforming to each other, a homogenised culture in which everyone accepts the average.](https://korrents.com/k/algorithmic-feeds-seem-to-have-nudged-7209e0)
- [Fashion is for saying something about yourself, not for conforming to a data-driven standard.](https://korrents.com/k/fashion-is-for-saying-something-about-d3c01a)
- [The probabilistic nature of AI models is what makes them well suited to creative tasks](https://korrents.com/k/the-probabilistic-nature-of-ai-models-bfed99)
- [When a model behaves unreliably, the better fix is to switch models rather than repeatedly sample it to work around the inconsistency](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-model-behaves-unreliably-the-c51d21)
- [As models get better at following instructions, techniques like finetuning and constrained sampling for structured outputs will become less necessary](https://korrents.com/k/as-models-get-better-at-following-d04611)
- [An excessive focus on quality functions as procrastination, turning quick work into drawn-out projects.](https://korrents.com/k/an-excessive-focus-on-quality-functions-07db47)
- [A person's taste develops faster than their skills, creating a frustrating gap early on.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-s-taste-develops-faster-9b939f)
- [Frequent creative practice builds the skill needed to produce more work later.](https://korrents.com/k/frequent-creative-practice-builds-the-skill-7452f5)
- [Some books become bestsellers because their authors buy large numbers of their own copies through anonymous networks to disguise it.](https://korrents.com/k/some-books-become-bestsellers-because-their-f015e9)
- [Book publishing follows a waterfall process: once a book is submitted and printed, it can no longer be revised.](https://korrents.com/k/book-publishing-follows-a-waterfall-process-f1008b)
- [Readers respond best to opinions that are sharp and funny rather than hedged.](https://korrents.com/k/readers-respond-best-to-opinions-that-9ad4fa)
- [A book you want is always worth buying: never let time or money stop you from having it](https://korrents.com/k/a-book-you-want-is-always-2c1d58)
- [Flexible labor markets help companies hire and fire](https://korrents.com/k/flexible-labor-markets-help-companies-hire-5738b2)
- [Cutting egress fees improves competition in the cloud](https://korrents.com/k/cutting-egress-fees-improves-competition-in-a27d30)
- [Egress fees are an impediment for companies to leave the cloud](https://korrents.com/k/egress-fees-are-an-impediment-for-2896e0)
- [Radical agency is finding real edges: the things other people are unwilling to do because they are annoying or unpleasant.](https://korrents.com/k/radical-agency-is-finding-real-edges-7ec716)
- [Most traits people treat as fixed — agency, confidence, charisma, warmth — are learnable if you believe they are and work at them.](https://korrents.com/k/most-traits-people-treat-as-fixed-9febe3)
- [If you are only asking for things you get, you are not asking for enough, and rejection should be courted deliberately.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-are-only-asking-for-c69516)
- [Not seeking honest feedback from the people who know you is the largest and least-taken opportunity for self-improvement, and it usually has to be anonymous to be honest.](https://korrents.com/k/not-seeking-honest-feedback-from-the-f99647)
- [You cannot predict which conversations will be useful, so the way to find opportunities is to take many meetings with no obvious benefit.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-predict-which-conversations-will-a81e4f)
- [Grinding raises output briefly while destroying the creativity and big-picture thinking the work depends on.](https://korrents.com/k/grinding-raises-output-briefly-while-destroying-e38e66)
- [A drop in agency is the earliest sign of burnout, arriving before you consciously notice you are burning out.](https://korrents.com/k/a-drop-in-agency-is-the-44db37)
- [Advice on how hard to work should only be taken from someone who has burned out before.](https://korrents.com/k/advice-on-how-hard-to-work-0324fd)
- [Learning a new skill set requires crossing a moat of low status, and the willingness to be visibly bad in public is itself the advantage.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-a-new-skill-set-requires-52e2af)
- [Most businesses aren't viable if Apple cuts off access to its platforms](https://korrents.com/k/most-businesses-aren-t-viable-if-2ccee3)
- [Most applications do not need complex infrastructure](https://korrents.com/k/most-applications-do-not-need-complex-4e5194)
- [The web has had a harder time for developers in the 2010s and early 2020s](https://korrents.com/k/the-web-has-had-a-harder-0c98c5)
- [Hierarchy is not intrinsically authoritarian: it is a property of self-organising systems that emerges for the benefit of the parts.](https://korrents.com/k/hierarchy-is-not-intrinsically-authoritarian-it-d7b9d4)
- [A few larger teams under experienced engineering managers outperform many tiny teams each led by a working tech lead.](https://korrents.com/k/a-few-larger-teams-under-experienced-8005e9)
- [If building the organisation is nobody’s first job, it will not get done well.](https://korrents.com/k/if-building-the-organisation-is-nobody-f58290)
- [Flat, manager-free organisations do not deliver the equality they promise: they get abandoned, and the informal power left behind is unaccountable.](https://korrents.com/k/flat-manager-free-organisations-do-not-deliver-00d642)
- [What sets a company’s velocity is spending its time on the right things, not how much code it produces.](https://korrents.com/k/what-sets-a-company-s-velocity-fabc5f)
- [Apple's app store monopoly is ruled by no standard of law](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-app-store-monopoly-is-0ffd3e)
- [Competition from authorities will force Apple to change its app store practices](https://korrents.com/k/competition-from-authorities-will-force-apple-c73240)
- [Engineers commonly confuse a solution with the problem it is meant to solve.](https://korrents.com/k/engineers-commonly-confuse-a-solution-with-37fd34)
- [Concurrent code only becomes faster from parallelization when the underlying problem is itself intrinsically parallel.](https://korrents.com/k/concurrent-code-only-becomes-faster-from-628398)
- [A programming environment should provide exactly one concurrency model, since offering multiple concurrency implementations at once causes problems.](https://korrents.com/k/a-programming-environment-should-provide-exactly-e97dbe)
- [Sweden's longer open-door immigration policy left it in a world of hurt compared to Denmark](https://korrents.com/k/sweden-s-longer-open-door-immigration-policy-94d3ab)
- [Code has its own form of poetry and style is an integral part of such expression](https://korrents.com/k/code-has-its-own-form-of-43049f)
- [Style in code is invariably idiosyncratic](https://korrents.com/k/style-in-code-is-invariably-idiosyncratic-a55c90)
- [American shipyards are unproductive rather than expensive: their workers are paid about what Korean and Japanese shipyard workers are paid.](https://korrents.com/k/american-shipyards-are-unproductive-rather-than-b320ef)
- [A modern shipyard can match a whole wartime industrial mobilisation with a fraction of the workers.](https://korrents.com/k/a-modern-shipyard-can-match-a-54db0f)
- [Shipbuilding productivity depends on clustering yards and suppliers in one place, and it decays when the cluster thins out.](https://korrents.com/k/shipbuilding-productivity-depends-on-clustering-yards-58a7e4)
- [Precision earlier in the process is what buys manufacturing productivity, because parts that do not fit are paid for in rework.](https://korrents.com/k/precision-earlier-in-the-process-is-739156)
- [A manager's role is to enable others to solve problems, not to solve problems directly.](https://korrents.com/k/a-manager-s-role-is-to-3a9133)
- [Problems become far harder to solve the longer they are allowed to linger unaddressed.](https://korrents.com/k/problems-become-far-harder-to-solve-fb3ad1)
- [Communicating clearly is less about the number of words used and more about focusing on the right ideas and directions.](https://korrents.com/k/communicating-clearly-is-less-about-the-b94d8c)
- [Longevity is not one problem waiting to be cracked: lifespans rose because many separate problems were worked on continuously.](https://korrents.com/k/longevity-is-not-one-problem-waiting-c43b02)
- [Life expectancy is not a prediction of how long people alive today will live.](https://korrents.com/k/life-expectancy-is-not-a-prediction-1f2897)
- [Every age of life is less deadly than it was for the generation before, not just childhood.](https://korrents.com/k/every-age-of-life-is-less-9c25a4)
- [Every predicted ceiling on human life expectancy has so far been broken.](https://korrents.com/k/every-predicted-ceiling-on-human-life-081a42)
- [Women outlive men because their death rates are lower at every age, not because men die in accidents and violence.](https://korrents.com/k/women-outlive-men-because-their-death-284bcb)
- [The long decline in mortality is not guaranteed to continue: new shocks and old unsolved diseases can reverse it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-long-decline-in-mortality-is-05aea7)
- [People are nowhere near as good at empathy as they think they are.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-nowhere-near-as-good-7fcc29)
- [To understand people unlike us, listening to what they say works better than assuming we know what it is like to be them.](https://korrents.com/k/to-understand-people-unlike-us-listening-b50ab8)
- [Virtual reality simulations are terrible empathy machines: you often come out understanding other lives less than before.](https://korrents.com/k/virtual-reality-simulations-are-terrible-empathy-b94bab)
- [Metaprogramming in a language creates fundamental obstacles to static analysis of its code.](https://korrents.com/k/metaprogramming-in-a-language-creates-fundamental-987d56)
- [Most macros just transform their arguments, so running them during static analysis is usually safe even though it can't be guaranteed.](https://korrents.com/k/most-macros-just-transform-their-arguments-024bf0)
- [Lua functions have no true names, since only the variable or field holding them does, making every Lua function effectively anonymous.](https://korrents.com/k/lua-functions-have-no-true-names-e642d7)
- [The self-driving industry's strategy of answering criticism with 'we are saving lives' has failed, and it will have to change both how it deploys and how it talks.](https://korrents.com/k/the-self-driving-industry-s-strategy-of-ae7db4)
- [One company doing one ill-advised thing damages an entire emerging industry, which is why safety is a shared problem rather than a competitive one.](https://korrents.com/k/one-company-doing-one-ill-advised-thing-e4b7de)
- [A priori arguments on empirical matters, such as that AI will certainly kill everyone, are usually wrong however convincing they seem.](https://korrents.com/k/a-priori-arguments-on-empirical-matters-0c2991)
- [A sound ethics is roughly 80% utilitarian, 15% deontological and 5% virtue ethics.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sound-ethics-is-roughly-80-1addd5)
- [Most intelligent people want status, prestige and wealth, even the ones who claim not to.](https://korrents.com/k/most-intelligent-people-want-status-prestige-7e3868)
- [Real learning is extremely hard and effortful; podcasts, magazine articles and pop-science books are mostly entertainment.](https://korrents.com/k/real-learning-is-extremely-hard-and-9e4897)
- [Any single bet is likely to fail, so success comes from taking many bets and trying as hard as possible at each.](https://korrents.com/k/any-single-bet-is-likely-to-72d646)
- [Most people are probably too risk-averse, and writing out the worst outcomes shows they are not that bad.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-are-probably-too-risk-averse-c09972)
- [Luck is not a constant: it grows with surface area — being in the right places, having many conversations, asking for what you want.](https://korrents.com/k/luck-is-not-a-constant-it-0300de)
- [Original thinking needs uncorrelated inputs: minor works, older things, obscure journals.](https://korrents.com/k/original-thinking-needs-uncorrelated-inputs-minor-155f70)
- [People need a purpose to live for](https://korrents.com/k/people-need-a-purpose-to-live-464bb5)
- [Having no responsibilities can be harmful](https://korrents.com/k/having-no-responsibilities-can-be-harmful-2e8090)
- [Humans need struggle and tension](https://korrents.com/k/humans-need-struggle-and-tension-18d76b)
- [Some software can simply be finished](https://korrents.com/k/some-software-can-simply-be-finished-49ba04)
- [A drug discovery scientist starting today will probably retire without ever having worked on a drug that reached the market.](https://korrents.com/k/a-drug-discovery-scientist-starting-today-921781)
- [The pharmaceutical productivity crisis has no single villain: nearly every part of discovery and development got gradually harder and more expensive at once.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pharmaceutical-productivity-crisis-has-no-1ab397)
- [Pharmaceutical R&D productivity has fallen for decades: far more money spent per drug, with no matching improvement in the odds a candidate reaches the market.](https://korrents.com/k/pharmaceutical-r-d-productivity-has-fallen-c73294)
- [The hard part of drug discovery is knowing what to make - which target is worth drugging - not designing the molecule.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hard-part-of-drug-discovery-9295e1)
- [No amount of animal testing can guarantee a drug is safe in humans, so human volunteers must carry some irreducible risk for medicine to advance.](https://korrents.com/k/no-amount-of-animal-testing-can-e85357)
- [Clinical trials cost what they do because they are complex, bureaucratic and reliant on highly skilled labour.](https://korrents.com/k/clinical-trials-cost-what-they-do-4c5a45)
- [How long a trial takes decides which diseases get drugs at all, because capital flows to the indications whose endpoints can be measured quickly.](https://korrents.com/k/how-long-a-trial-takes-decides-7e3fa9)
- [Deep learning is not yet ready for the task that would actually add value in drug development: predicting safety and efficacy in humans.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-learning-is-not-yet-ready-fd056d)
- [Regulatory and social tolerance for drug risk falls over time, and the ratchet is almost never loosened.](https://korrents.com/k/regulatory-and-social-tolerance-for-drug-e7822b)
- [Spending time on deliberate practice and refinement at work can lead to improved effectiveness](https://korrents.com/k/spending-time-on-deliberate-practice-and-01153c)
- [Experience can make it harder to try new things](https://korrents.com/k/experience-can-make-it-harder-to-7f7977)
- [Taking time to refine technique now will pay off in the long run](https://korrents.com/k/taking-time-to-refine-technique-now-01a149)
- [Effective altruism demands hard evidence of effectiveness in some of its causes while accepting abstract conjecture in others, and never justifies the split.](https://korrents.com/k/effective-altruism-demands-hard-evidence-of-d03777)
- [Spending on existential risk cannot be held accountable, because there is no measurement that would ever show it failing.](https://korrents.com/k/spending-on-existential-risk-cannot-be-1f32fd)
- [A movement that has decided its job is to save humanity is uniquely prone to hubris, dogma and motivated reasoning.](https://korrents.com/k/a-movement-that-has-decided-its-fc37e3)
- [The more effective altruism has absorbed itself in saving humanity, the less humanistic it has become.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-effective-altruism-has-absorbed-c576d8)
- [Moving money out of global health and into existential risk is a gamble paid for with lives that could have been saved now.](https://korrents.com/k/moving-money-out-of-global-health-ba9d09)
- [Shipping proof is harder to refute than intellectual arguments](https://korrents.com/k/shipping-proof-is-harder-to-refute-af3671)
- [Browsers are now good enough to natively deliver performance and ergonomics](https://korrents.com/k/browsers-are-now-good-enough-to-69629e)
- [Complexity ought to be a temporary price for progress](https://korrents.com/k/complexity-ought-to-be-a-temporary-7ab366)
- [You shouldn't need a PhD in container orchestration to deploy applications](https://korrents.com/k/you-shouldn-t-need-a-phd-7e81f9)
- [Modern SSDs are probably good enough for queuing](https://korrents.com/k/modern-ssds-are-probably-good-enough-19903d)
- [Looking back on a year of reading shows you your own priorities and passions](https://korrents.com/k/looking-back-on-a-year-of-563b14)
- [A carmaker's claim to be the safest is mostly an artefact of comparing a new car against a fleet average twelve years old.](https://korrents.com/k/a-carmaker-s-claim-to-be-28b1f4)
- [Whatever safety gain a driver-assistance system delivers is cancelled out by the driver complacency it creates.](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-safety-gain-a-driver-assistance-system-12c638)
- [Breakthroughs achieved with massive compute are typically achieved using it inefficiently.](https://korrents.com/k/breakthroughs-achieved-with-massive-compute-are-2b6d12)
- [The largest AI models will remain the most capable ones in the near term.](https://korrents.com/k/the-largest-ai-models-will-remain-5775d0)
- [Available online text data is becoming a limiting factor for AI training, and repeating it yields diminishing returns.](https://korrents.com/k/available-online-text-data-is-becoming-701a87)
- [The cloud has some advantages, but it's typically not in a reduced operations headcount](https://korrents.com/k/the-cloud-has-some-advantages-but-0ca157)
- [Moore's Law is hammering the prices and increasing the capabilities of stuff you buy from Dell and others](https://korrents.com/k/moore-s-law-is-hammering-the-dd9078)
- [Profilers show where time is spent but not which of that time can feasibly be reduced or is worth optimizing.](https://korrents.com/k/profilers-show-where-time-is-spent-f38817)
- [A profiler measures time already spent in an operation, not how much time would be saved by optimizing it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-profiler-measures-time-already-spent-065245)
- [Building for quality is a slow, smooth process that gets you to release quicker](https://korrents.com/k/building-for-quality-is-a-slow-2ae36d)
- [A solar system holding a trillion humans is the right thing to aim at, because a population that size would have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins alive at once.](https://korrents.com/k/a-solar-system-holding-a-trillion-d72a1c)
- [Humanity's future off Earth is giant orbital stations rather than settled planets, because planetary surfaces are simply far too small.](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-s-future-off-earth-is-a37322)
- [The good old days are mostly an illusion: by almost every measure that can be counted, life today is better for almost everyone than it was fifty or a hundred years ago.](https://korrents.com/k/the-good-old-days-are-mostly-f7a52c)
- [Efficiency and real invention are at odds, because genuine invention requires wandering and you have to give yourself permission to do it.](https://korrents.com/k/efficiency-and-real-invention-are-at-dea22a)
- [Getting to orbit was solved in the 1950s and 60s, and the only interesting problem left in spaceflight is making access to orbit dramatically cheaper.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-to-orbit-was-solved-in-695c7a)
- [Cutting the cost of something is not a lesser achievement than inventing it, because inventing a cheaper way is precisely how the whole world gets richer.](https://korrents.com/k/cutting-the-cost-of-something-is-d847fa)
- [Building a factory that turns out rockets at rate is at least as hard as designing the rocket in the first place.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-factory-that-turns-out-f7d0f0)
- [Space will only be unlocked when a valuable space company can be started in a dorm room, and that is the test of whether enough heavy infrastructure exists.](https://korrents.com/k/space-will-only-be-unlocked-when-22599c)
- [An inventor's highest ambition should be that the invention is eventually taken for granted and stops being seen as an invention at all.](https://korrents.com/k/an-inventor-s-highest-ambition-should-de969c)
- [A crewed rocket cannot be made safe by making the booster reliable, so the only real way to improve safety is to carry an escape system.](https://korrents.com/k/a-crewed-rocket-cannot-be-made-c24ee7)
- [Decisions split into reversible two-way doors and irreversible one-way doors, and only the one-way doors deserve slow, deliberate scrutiny.](https://korrents.com/k/decisions-split-into-reversible-two-way-doors-2c95ea)
- [Compromise is a bad way to settle a disagreement, because its only advantage is that it takes less energy than finding out who is right.](https://korrents.com/k/compromise-is-a-bad-way-to-b76966)
- [Humans are social animals rather than truth-seeking ones, so telling the truth is not what we are built for and always costs energy.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-are-social-animals-rather-than-7cbfe5)
- [A company's culture should let the most junior person overrule the most senior one with data, which is why the senior person should always speak last.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-s-culture-should-let-dccb96)
- [When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right and the metric is usually measuring the wrong thing.](https://korrents.com/k/when-the-data-and-the-anecdotes-81fae0)
- [The things worth building a business around are the ones that will not have changed in ten years, and those are identifiable in advance.](https://korrents.com/k/the-things-worth-building-a-business-fb2d04)
- [PowerPoint is a sales tool and therefore the wrong instrument inside a company, because internally you are trying to find the truth rather than persuade anyone.](https://korrents.com/k/powerpoint-is-a-sales-tool-and-a8c97b)
- [Large language models are discoveries rather than inventions, closer to looking through a telescope than to engineering an aircraft.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-are-discoveries-rather-2672ab)
- [Human brains are doing something fundamentally different from today's AI, and the evidence is that they run on roughly twenty watts.](https://korrents.com/k/human-brains-are-doing-something-fundamentally-7cdc17)
- [Long-term thinking is a lever that makes problems solvable which are impossible on a short horizon, and five years is already past most institutions' limit.](https://korrents.com/k/long-term-thinking-is-a-lever-that-92aed2)
- [Regular time in nature increases lifespan and happiness](https://korrents.com/k/regular-time-in-nature-increases-lifespan-256f67)
- [In-person interaction with coworkers cannot be replaced by remote or asynchronous work.](https://korrents.com/k/in-person-interaction-with-coworkers-cannot-be-cf2a8f)
- [As people become more senior in an organization, it demands more of their time and attention, leaving less room for individual contributor work.](https://korrents.com/k/as-people-become-more-senior-in-906847)
- [Almost nobody makes a living from small-scale agroecological market gardening in a rich country, and there is a reason for that.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-nobody-makes-a-living-from-da0bcd)
- [Fifteen years of running a small organic market garden in England returned its owners a few thousand pounds a year between them.](https://korrents.com/k/fifteen-years-of-running-a-small-0d7b4c)
- [A market economy rewards putting land under campsites and horse liveries rather than under food, and that is the wrong thing to reward.](https://korrents.com/k/a-market-economy-rewards-putting-land-20a1a8)
- [Food is grown wherever land, labour, energy and capital are cheapest, which is why the world now depends on a few vulnerable breadbaskets.](https://korrents.com/k/food-is-grown-wherever-land-labour-5e00d8)
- [Whether calling for the genocide of a group breaches a university's harassment policy genuinely depends on context.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-calling-for-the-genocide-of-dd620e)
- [Demanding simple answers to hard questions is itself a political harm, not just an intellectual one.](https://korrents.com/k/demanding-simple-answers-to-hard-questions-df977f)
- [An opportunity solution tree exists to resolve the tension between what the business needs and what the customer needs.](https://korrents.com/k/an-opportunity-solution-tree-exists-to-4ed11d)
- [In a system built from interacting components, complexity is multiplicative: making one part more complex adds complexity elsewhere too.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-system-built-from-interacting-fe70ad)
- [Complex systems are never fast, because they have too many parts with poorly understood interactions to be optimized.](https://korrents.com/k/complex-systems-are-never-fast-because-285b9c)
- [A small performance gain is not worth the complexity added to achieve it, since complexity's costs compound rather than add.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-performance-gain-is-not-0b8616)
- [The rise of closed-source large language models makes preserving an open culture of sharing knowledge and software important for NLP.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rise-of-closed-source-large-language-9de0f3)
- [Large language models remain limited in non-English settings, making further multilingual development an important research direction.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-remain-limited-in-bb08c7)
- [Full fine-tuning of large language models has become too costly, making parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods necessary.](https://korrents.com/k/full-fine-tuning-of-large-language-models-a6598d)
- [People in similar social positions tend to share tastes, and the social hierarchy labels some tastes good and others bad.](https://korrents.com/k/people-in-similar-social-positions-tend-7e13e4)
- [There cannot be good taste without congruence.](https://korrents.com/k/there-cannot-be-good-taste-without-4d2da3)
- [It is dark matter, not ordinary matter, that drives galaxy formation; ordinary matter just comes along with it.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-dark-matter-not-ordinary-6c0c59)
- [The surprise is not that most of the universe is invisible to us, but that the matter we can see makes up as large a fraction as it does.](https://korrents.com/k/the-surprise-is-not-that-most-4af2b5)
- [Dark matter need not be one simple thing: a fraction of it may radiate its own dark light and collapse into a thin disk.](https://korrents.com/k/dark-matter-need-not-be-one-97214b)
- [A far-fetched idea earns its place in physics only when you can go out and look for its observational consequences.](https://korrents.com/k/a-far-fetched-idea-earns-its-place-609cf5)
- [The Large Hadron Collider is now a very unlikely place to find dark matter; the search has moved underground to xenon detectors.](https://korrents.com/k/the-large-hadron-collider-is-now-e0a333)
- [The Superconducting Supercollider would have been a far more robust test of what lies beyond the standard model than the LHC, which became the only machine in town.](https://korrents.com/k/the-superconducting-supercollider-would-have-been-070d78)
- [The lesson of the LHC is a cautionary one: you must not assume what is there before it has actually been found.](https://korrents.com/k/the-lesson-of-the-lhc-is-88f880)
- [We are probably in the middle of an extinction event right now, if you measure one by the number of species being killed off.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-probably-in-the-middle-999ecb)
- [People are far less frightened of nuclear weapons than they should be, and that is a more serious danger than the ones they do fear.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-far-less-frightened-of-14f12f)
- [The universe does not come into being when we measure it: electrons and their wave functions are there whether or not anyone is looking.](https://korrents.com/k/the-universe-does-not-come-into-341032)
- [There is probably no bottom level of reality we will ever reach; physics will keep penetrating layers without ever arriving at the last one.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-probably-no-bottom-level-1df3da)
- [Physicists actively want the standard model to break down, because only the deviations can tell us what underlies it.](https://korrents.com/k/physicists-actively-want-the-standard-model-8088e3)
- [String theorists were overly arrogant at the outset, promising to solve problems they were never going to solve.](https://korrents.com/k/string-theorists-were-overly-arrogant-at-98c010)
- [Einstein's real progress was bottom-up and rooted in measurements; once he decided top-down theorising was the way, he stopped getting anywhere.](https://korrents.com/k/einstein-s-real-progress-was-bottom-up-ee04ba)
- [Large language models are generalisations of what we already have; the breakthrough that would let AI discover things is still waiting to happen.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-are-generalisations-of-2f254f)
- [Being a scientist means believing strongly in your own ideas while questioning them all the time — a tightrope, not a contradiction.](https://korrents.com/k/being-a-scientist-means-believing-strongly-83a447)
- [When pre-training data is limited, it is better to train a smaller model for multiple epochs than to train a larger model on unique data once.](https://korrents.com/k/when-pre-training-data-is-limited-it-cddd5f)
- [Current large language models still struggle to compose operations into correct multi-step reasoning paths.](https://korrents.com/k/current-large-language-models-still-struggle-b5128d)
- [LLM-based planning currently works best when combined with external tools rather than relying on the model's own generated plans alone.](https://korrents.com/k/llm-based-planning-currently-works-best-when-6e7088)
- [Hostility to migration is the last gasp of a dying system rather than the shape of the future.](https://korrents.com/k/hostility-to-migration-is-the-last-df104e)
- [Without immigrants Spain’s labour force falls from 22.6 to 15.7 million by 2050, far too few to run its economy.](https://korrents.com/k/without-immigrants-spain-s-labour-force-fb239f)
- [Demography is about to turn the rich world’s problem from finding a job for every person into finding a person for every job.](https://korrents.com/k/demography-is-about-to-turn-the-e88a60)
- [Immigration policy should run on three separate tracks: future citizens, people allowed to work, and people admitted out of necessity.](https://korrents.com/k/immigration-policy-should-run-on-three-6bd3b0)
- [Public hostility to immigration comes from fusing “who may work here” with “who becomes one of us”, and separating the two dissolves it.](https://korrents.com/k/public-hostility-to-immigration-comes-from-ba1381)
- [Wanting to preserve a national culture is a legitimate human impulse and not in itself a racist one.](https://korrents.com/k/wanting-to-preserve-a-national-culture-216861)
- [Anti-immigration parties gain ground by generating fear, not by winning the argument about what immigration does.](https://korrents.com/k/anti-immigration-parties-gain-ground-by-generating-fc8dd9)
- [Migrants filling low-skill jobs in rich countries take nobody’s job, because the native workforce is shrinking faster than those jobs are appearing.](https://korrents.com/k/migrants-filling-low-skill-jobs-in-rich-e382c5)
- [Effective altruism's scandals are minor next to its record, and its ratio of accomplishments to scandals is as good as that of any large institution.](https://korrents.com/k/effective-altruism-s-scandals-are-minor-333d06)
- [The people who can be moved by deaths from neglected tropical diseases are the same people who can be moved by pandemics and by AI risk, because both come from reasoning about importance rather than from the news.](https://korrents.com/k/the-people-who-can-be-moved-2d6ad4)
- [Effective altruism's work on the far future is not a bait and switch hiding behind its work on global health; both halves are worth defending.](https://korrents.com/k/effective-altruism-s-work-on-the-26b020)
- [Movements are coalitions, and often the same people hold both of a movement's priorities rather than trading one off against the other.](https://korrents.com/k/movements-are-coalitions-and-often-the-f66d47)
- [Mars Sample Return as designed is too complicated, too slow and too expensive to succeed.](https://korrents.com/k/mars-sample-return-as-designed-is-9bd7d7)
- [The feeling of creative control is an illusion: the work has its own destiny and does not belong to the person making it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-feeling-of-creative-control-is-787e0d)
- [The only thing a maker really controls is telling the good work from the bad; what arrives is not up to them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-thing-a-maker-really-a3ad60)
- [Refusing to advertise on a platform is protected expression, not an attack on the platform owner's free speech.](https://korrents.com/k/refusing-to-advertise-on-a-platform-3d2488)
- [Treating criticism as censorship is a widespread confusion, and it is wrong: the critic has speech rights of their own.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-criticism-as-censorship-is-a-a80923)
- [The cancel-culture argument now mostly shields the powerful from criticism rather than protecting the powerless from being silenced.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cancel-culture-argument-now-mostly-shields-ad9ff9)
- [Power is the currency of international relations, and states are driven above all to maximise how much of it they control.](https://korrents.com/k/power-is-the-currency-of-international-167871)
- [A state's power rests on two material foundations only: the size of its population and its wealth.](https://korrents.com/k/a-state-s-power-rests-on-1fa3cc)
- [States are not inherently aggressive; anarchy leaves them no choice but to behave aggressively.](https://korrents.com/k/states-are-not-inherently-aggressive-anarchy-a5fe0d)
- [Whether a state is a democracy or an autocracy makes no difference to how it behaves abroad.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-state-is-a-democracy-e7872e)
- [Economic interdependence does not prevent war, because survival always trumps prosperity.](https://korrents.com/k/economic-interdependence-does-not-prevent-war-e3f47e)
- [States do not merely defend the power they have: they seize every opportunity to gain more that looks cheap and likely to succeed.](https://korrents.com/k/states-do-not-merely-defend-the-712521)
- [There is a good chance the Second World War would have happened even without Hitler.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-good-chance-the-4a7e21)
- [There is no evidence Putin intended to conquer Ukraine, and the army he sent could not have done it.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-evidence-putin-intended-a932d8)
- [NATO expansion into Ukraine was the principal cause of the war, which makes the West principally responsible for it.](https://korrents.com/k/nato-expansion-into-ukraine-was-the-d7bc1d)
- [Russia's refusal to accept NATO on its border is exactly what the United States demands for its own neighbourhood.](https://korrents.com/k/russia-s-refusal-to-accept-nato-7979d6)
- [Removing Putin would not end the war, because whoever replaced him would be more hawkish than he is.](https://korrents.com/k/removing-putin-would-not-end-the-8fc4e4)
- [The war in Ukraine will not end in a peace agreement but in an unstable frozen conflict.](https://korrents.com/k/the-war-in-ukraine-will-not-4de0fe)
- [Ukraine should have kept its nuclear weapons in 1993, and keeping them would have made this war far less likely.](https://korrents.com/k/ukraine-should-have-kept-its-nuclear-5ae350)
- [In a world of mutual assured destruction, nuclear weapons are used to manipulate risk rather than to win a battle.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-world-of-mutual-assured-cdbed8)
- [The October 7th attack was resistance to the Israeli occupation, not a response to the Saudi normalisation talks.](https://korrents.com/k/the-october-7th-attack-was-resistance-729661)
- [A two-state solution is no longer possible; that boat has sailed.](https://korrents.com/k/a-two-state-solution-is-no-longer-67ba05)
- [What Israel is doing in Gaza is a massacre, but it is not a genocide.](https://korrents.com/k/what-israel-is-doing-in-gaza-02eece)
- [There is no military solution for Israel, because the Palestinians cannot be beaten into submission.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-military-solution-for-d002be)
- [The Israel lobby is an ordinary American interest group rather than a cabal, and it happens to be extremely powerful.](https://korrents.com/k/the-israel-lobby-is-an-ordinary-639a71)
- [Deterring China over Taiwan does not require being able to beat it, which the United States probably cannot do anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/deterring-china-over-taiwan-does-not-05b276)
- [China's leaders think in realist terms and America's do not, which is the more dangerous half of the pairing.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-leaders-think-in-realist-2bf455)
- [Hispanic immigrants are integrating into the American mainstream faster than the European immigrants of the nineteenth century did.](https://korrents.com/k/hispanic-immigrants-are-integrating-into-the-a1ef12)
- [Do not judge a product's beauty by its aesthetics; judge it by how it made you feel.](https://korrents.com/k/do-not-judge-a-product-s-2860c4)
- [If the people a product is designed for cannot generally agree that the design is good, it is not good.](https://korrents.com/k/if-the-people-a-product-is-6b9ea6)
- [Obviousness comes from conforming to people's existing mental models: do not reinvent a common UI pattern unless the new one is at least twice as good.](https://korrents.com/k/obviousness-comes-from-conforming-to-people-05acbc)
- [Better design does not mean more design: the most obvious designs are often invisible.](https://korrents.com/k/better-design-does-not-mean-more-f70d5e)
- [Models fine-tuned to imitate another model's outputs copy its style without acquiring its factual accuracy.](https://korrents.com/k/models-fine-tuned-to-imitate-another-model-e507f2)
- [In instruction tuning, a smaller set of high-quality training examples outperforms a larger, noisier dataset.](https://korrents.com/k/in-instruction-tuning-a-smaller-set-2e2f9f)
- [Environmental permitting now causes more environmental harm than it prevents, because what it delays is the clean thing replacing the dirty one.](https://korrents.com/k/environmental-permitting-now-causes-more-environmental-e175da)
- [Delay in permitting clean energy kills more Americans every year than the September 11 attacks did.](https://korrents.com/k/delay-in-permitting-clean-energy-kills-113c04)
- [There is almost no lower-impact use of low-value land than covering it with solar panels.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-almost-no-lower-impact-use-219528)
- [Human violence is not a human peculiarity: nature is not a peaceful thing, and every living thing in it is trying to kill something else.](https://korrents.com/k/human-violence-is-not-a-human-df7f41)
- [The counterintuitive right response for Israel in Gaza is the most conspicuous acts of kindness possible, because the attack was designed to provoke the most aggressive response it could.](https://korrents.com/k/the-counterintuitive-right-response-for-israel-0ecf83)
- [The only measure of whether fighting a terrorist group is working is whether you are creating more members than you kill.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-measure-of-whether-fighting-d16f8f)
- [Civilizational risks must be prioritised over conflicts that are painful and tragic locally but cannot end civilization.](https://korrents.com/k/civilizational-risks-must-be-prioritised-over-6d964c)
- [Ukraine should not send its young men to die in trenches whether or not Zelenskyy talks to Putin, because whoever goes on the offensive loses massive numbers of people.](https://korrents.com/k/ukraine-should-not-send-its-young-0b2626)
- [China's history says it is not an acquisitive power: it is not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-history-says-it-is-1fa216)
- [The United States is a historical rarity: after 1945 it could have taken the whole world without losing a soldier, and instead it rebuilt the countries it had defeated.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-is-a-historical-e09677)
- [China will incorporate Taiwan, peacefully or militarily, and from its own standpoint that outcome is not in doubt.](https://korrents.com/k/china-will-incorporate-taiwan-peacefully-or-d8f3ef)
- [We do not know the meaning of life, so the thing to do is expand the scope and scale of consciousness, digital and biological, until we know what questions to ask.](https://korrents.com/k/we-do-not-know-the-meaning-f02040)
- [Language models hallucinate exactly when you least want them to: on important, difficult questions they are at their most confidently wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-hallucinate-exactly-when-you-51cae2)
- [An AI that cannot work out new physics has not equalled human intelligence, let alone surpassed it, because humans have worked out new physics.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-that-cannot-work-out-40de99)
- [Physics is the only real law and everything else is a recommendation: people break the laws made by man all the time and never break the laws made by physics.](https://korrents.com/k/physics-is-the-only-real-law-952b91)
- [If we live in a simulation, whoever is running it does not know how it ends, because nobody runs a simulation whose outcome they already know.](https://korrents.com/k/if-we-live-in-a-simulation-fe89f9)
- [The window in which life can extend beyond Earth is open now and may never open again, so making life multiplanetary while it is still possible is the only smart move.](https://korrents.com/k/the-window-in-which-life-can-a85589)
- [Be careful wishing for a world with no war at all, because what would be required to enforce it might be worse than a little war.](https://korrents.com/k/be-careful-wishing-for-a-world-0b68d2)
- [Electrifying transport and heating means electricity output has to triple, because each of the three is about a third of energy use today.](https://korrents.com/k/electrifying-transport-and-heating-means-electricity-2bb5b4)
- [AI needs an objective third party that can see what each leading lab is doing and voice concerns publicly, even with no power to enforce anything.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-needs-an-objective-third-party-719082)
- [Free speech only means anything if people you dislike are allowed to say things you dislike; otherwise it is only a matter of time before the censorship turns on you.](https://korrents.com/k/free-speech-only-means-anything-if-79936f)
- [If people who have disagreed in the past agree about something, it is probably true, which is why Community Notes works.](https://korrents.com/k/if-people-who-have-disagreed-in-4eb4de)
- [Never trust a cynic: seeing bad behaviour in everyone is how a person excuses their own, and it is not true, because most people are medium good.](https://korrents.com/k/never-trust-a-cynic-seeing-bad-71d8a3)
- [The thinking part of the human brain runs on under ten watts and still writes a better novel than a ten-megawatt GPU cluster.](https://korrents.com/k/the-thinking-part-of-the-human-62eb37)
- [No electric motor suitable for a humanoid robot existed anywhere in the world, so every part of Optimus had to be designed from scratch.](https://korrents.com/k/no-electric-motor-suitable-for-a-39eccf)
- [His own predictions of when something will ship are pathologically optimistic, and the criticism that he is late is correct.](https://korrents.com/k/his-own-predictions-of-when-something-ca8131)
- [The sharp steepening of the long end of the yield curve in 2023 was not predicted by economists, including forecasters who had modelled persistently low safe rates.](https://korrents.com/k/the-sharp-steepening-of-the-long-10dae9)
- [With r-g near zero, any advanced economy running a primary deficit will see its debt-to-GDP ratio rise once existing debt is refinanced at current rates.](https://korrents.com/k/with-r-g-near-zero-any-advanced-5521f1)
- [React and TypeScript developers are infantilized by the ecosystem's thought leaders; anything beyond a simple CRUD app will need generics, mapped types and memoization.](https://korrents.com/k/react-and-typescript-developers-are-infantilized-433b9b)
- [The pleasure of power in cars is about acceleration, not top speed](https://korrents.com/k/the-pleasure-of-power-in-cars-61b649)
- [Electric vehicles can control power on each individual wheel with millisecond response time](https://korrents.com/k/electric-vehicles-can-control-power-on-6f0a5d)
- [The cloud exit might go mainstream](https://korrents.com/k/the-cloud-exit-might-go-mainstream-ad8b34)
- [Society's response to AI is incommensurate with the possibility of rapid transformative progress that many experts expect, with safety research lagging and governance lacking mechanisms for misuse, recklessness and autonomy.](https://korrents.com/k/society-s-response-to-ai-is-f84476)
- [AI must be reoriented toward safety rather than capabilities alone, as preparation is already behind schedule and the costs of unpreparedness outweigh premature action.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-must-be-reoriented-toward-safety-e8c312)
- [Without sufficient caution, advanced autonomous AI could cause irreversible loss of human control and culminate in large-scale loss of life or human extinction.](https://korrents.com/k/without-sufficient-caution-advanced-autonomous-ai-ced87c)
- [Frontier AI systems cannot be presumed safe unless proven unsafe; developers must bear the burden of proof that risks stay within acceptable limits.](https://korrents.com/k/frontier-ai-systems-cannot-be-presumed-fb5059)
- [The Dutch Golden Age did not end for want of energy: peat and grain were cheaper than ever while its industries were collapsing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-dutch-golden-age-did-not-873821)
- [Lime is a blind spot in economic history: cheap coal made it widely available as a soil treatment and raised farm output, and the standard growth estimates barely mention it.](https://korrents.com/k/lime-is-a-blind-spot-in-adcb73)
- ["Lots of anonymous people worked it out by trial and error" is never the real story of an invention: on closer investigation, identifiable people always turn out to be responsible.](https://korrents.com/k/lots-of-anonymous-people-worked-it-5fdc62)
- [Higher-perplexity adversarial attack text is easier to detect and mitigate.](https://korrents.com/k/higher-perplexity-adversarial-attack-text-is-easier-ccdc07)
- [Universal adversarial trigger attacks are easy to detect because the learned trigger tokens tend to be nonsensical.](https://korrents.com/k/universal-adversarial-trigger-attacks-are-easy-fcec16)
- [Most people who love the Next.js app directory would also love Remix nested routing, for many of the same reasons.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-who-love-the-next-67a58c)
- [Small and medium-sized businesses can cultivate personal connections with customers](https://korrents.com/k/small-and-medium-sized-businesses-can-cultivate-ec2e1a)
- [Buyers can vote with their wallet for what they'd like to see more of in this world](https://korrents.com/k/buyers-can-vote-with-their-wallet-32fd9e)
- [Mismatched expectations cause crisis in the open source gift exchange](https://korrents.com/k/mismatched-expectations-cause-crisis-in-the-7c8dee)
- [There is no material problem, whether created by nature or by technology, that cannot be solved with more technology.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-material-problem-whether-09d737)
- [Technology is a lever on the world -- the way to make more with less -- and productivity growth is the main driver of wages, industries and jobs.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-is-a-lever-on-the-6545c4)
- [Running a business on owned hardware is not more work than running it on the cloud](https://korrents.com/k/running-a-business-on-owned-hardware-14640e)
- [People who are smart in a narrow way but don't read broadly are the ones who cause disastrous unintended consequences.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-are-smart-in-a-296dda)
- [Reading even one book on a niche topic sharply shrinks the number of people you can discuss it with.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-even-one-book-on-a-932358)
- [The right response to lacking the ideal tool is to improvise a solution from what's on hand rather than accept you can't proceed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-response-to-lacking-the-ef0ad8)
- [Human progress requires trying again after unsuccessful attempts](https://korrents.com/k/human-progress-requires-trying-again-after-4ae99d)
- [Refusing to believe reality because it doesn't fit your mental model is an intellectual failure state](https://korrents.com/k/refusing-to-believe-reality-because-it-72da30)
- [Meat substitutes have to become clearly cheaper than meat, not merely as cheap, before most people will switch.](https://korrents.com/k/meat-substitutes-have-to-become-clearly-a4c4dc)
- [Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.](https://korrents.com/k/cheap-clean-energy-has-broken-the-857a22)
- [Every doubling of the solar built worldwide has cut its price by 30 to 40 per cent, and that learning rate is why the price keeps falling.](https://korrents.com/k/every-doubling-of-the-solar-built-402165)
- [Solar has got cheaper faster than even its most optimistic forecasters expected.](https://korrents.com/k/solar-has-got-cheaper-faster-than-1f5eb7)
- [The end state of the grid is not a fifth solar backed by spinning generation, but twice the demand in solar with days of storage behind it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-end-state-of-the-grid-9af970)
- [Batteries will replace transmission as the cheapest way to keep the lights on, and the grid will shrink rather than grow.](https://korrents.com/k/batteries-will-replace-transmission-as-the-0108b7)
- [More than 95% of the energy humanity uses will come from solar panels by 2042.](https://korrents.com/k/more-than-95-of-the-energy-88dc02)
- [The climate policy everyone has quietly assumed is that poorer countries stay poor, and that is the wrong answer.](https://korrents.com/k/the-climate-policy-everyone-has-quietly-917fa1)
- [Cheap energy will at least double global growth to 6% a year, tripling the world economy by 2042.](https://korrents.com/k/cheap-energy-will-at-least-double-91f688)
- [Text is a more powerful output modality for a model than images, because text supports many downstream tasks](https://korrents.com/k/text-is-a-more-powerful-output-825660)
- [Image is the most versatile input modality for a model, since it can represent text, tabular data, and audio](https://korrents.com/k/image-is-the-most-versatile-input-961108)
- [A model that could learn effectively from raw bitstrings or bytestrings would be extremely powerful, able to learn from any data modality](https://korrents.com/k/a-model-that-could-learn-effectively-4702be)
- [Online discourse is often negative](https://korrents.com/k/online-discourse-is-often-negative-0dc2ee)
- [In-person interactions are important for community building](https://korrents.com/k/in-person-interactions-are-important-for-community-33d70c)
- [The world today feeds far more people with far less famine than it did sixty years ago, and almost nobody celebrates it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-today-feeds-far-more-6ce9ba)
- [Raising yields on land already farmed is what keeps farming from taking more of the wild world.](https://korrents.com/k/raising-yields-on-land-already-farmed-1b0616)
- [Long-distance food transport is what stops a local harvest failure from becoming a famine.](https://korrents.com/k/long-distance-food-transport-is-what-stops-f0dbb9)
- [Local self-provisioning cannot feed the world, because most people do not live within reach of enough fertile land.](https://korrents.com/k/local-self-provisioning-cannot-feed-the-world-165105)
- [Making food more expensive is not a way to fix the food system, because higher food prices fall hardest on the poorest people.](https://korrents.com/k/making-food-more-expensive-is-not-655f1c)
- [A third of humanity already cannot afford a healthy diet, which is why food has to get cheaper rather than dearer.](https://korrents.com/k/a-third-of-humanity-already-cannot-c79320)
- [The fall in birth rates is caused by the values modern societies most cherish, so raising them means compromising some of those values.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fall-in-birth-rates-is-582463)
- [The most likely way world fertility rises again is the growth of small insular high-fertility groups, not a change of mind in the mainstream.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-likely-way-world-fertility-1240d2)
- [Governments should pay a lot for children and let the people who respond reveal which cultural compromises are acceptable, rather than deciding in advance which value to give up.](https://korrents.com/k/governments-should-pay-a-lot-for-9eb551)
- [The best aid to judgment is starting a decision from a good position, and people forget to ask whether they are acting from strength or weakness when the moment arrives.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-aid-to-judgment-is-70c01b)
- [Over the long run, the average person who keeps putting themselves in a good position beats the genius who is in a poor one, and what looks like talent is often good positioning.](https://korrents.com/k/over-the-long-run-the-average-2ba0e4)
- [The best in the world make consistently good decisions largely because circumstances rarely force a decision on them, as they almost always operate from a position of strength.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-in-the-world-make-4bdd56)
- [Willpower eventually loses, so safeguards are needed to change behaviour.](https://korrents.com/k/willpower-eventually-loses-so-safeguards-are-7be793)
- [Rules decided in advance by a person's best self, such as "I don't eat dessert", can take the place of willpower when the situation arrives.](https://korrents.com/k/rules-decided-in-advance-by-a-4dfcdc)
- [Working out every day changes the internal question from whether to do it to how to fit it in, which removes the negotiation with oneself.](https://korrents.com/k/working-out-every-day-changes-the-e9684e)
- [Joining groups whose default behaviours are the desired ones, and choosing such an environment, nudges toward better choices more than willpower alone.](https://korrents.com/k/joining-groups-whose-default-behaviours-are-367db6)
- [Doing what everyone else does gets the same results everyone else gets, because the social rewards of following the crowd arrive long before the benefits of diverging from it.](https://korrents.com/k/doing-what-everyone-else-does-gets-05e0cd)
- [In undifferentiated work the only way to outperform is to work harder than everyone else.](https://korrents.com/k/in-undifferentiated-work-the-only-way-de0a68)
- [The desire to feel right overpowers the desire to be right, because the ego pushes toward feeling right at the expense of being right.](https://korrents.com/k/the-desire-to-feel-right-overpowers-9bed01)
- [Trying to prove how right one is leads to ignoring the evidence to the contrary.](https://korrents.com/k/trying-to-prove-how-right-one-692ffe)
- [Even when a problem is not one's fault it is one's responsibility, and there is always some action in the moment that improves tomorrow's position.](https://korrents.com/k/even-when-a-problem-is-not-5db0d1)
- [Returns for performance are superlinear rather than proportional across most domains that matter.](https://korrents.com/k/returns-for-performance-are-superlinear-rather-058d87)
- [Milton Friedman's chief intellectual flaw was wanting to make economics too simple.](https://korrents.com/k/milton-friedman-s-chief-intellectual-flaw-a2a0f9)
- [John Maynard Keynes is best understood as a British aesthete rationalist who did economics in his spare time, not primarily as an economist.](https://korrents.com/k/john-maynard-keynes-is-best-understood-4f740d)
- [All thinkers are shaped indelibly by the region they grew up in.](https://korrents.com/k/all-thinkers-are-shaped-indelibly-by-084e5a)
- [Keynes's bisexuality and strong interest in gay sex were a significant cause of his ability to grasp different and outside perspectives.](https://korrents.com/k/keynes-s-bisexuality-and-strong-interest-9e9e1b)
- [There is no clearly defined notion of who the right people are to entrust with power, which warrants deep skepticism of government on public choice grounds.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-clearly-defined-notion-a9d8a4)
- [The General Theory is a brilliant work despite numerous flaws in reasoning, exposition, and microeconomics.](https://korrents.com/k/the-general-theory-is-a-brilliant-d5f833)
- [Hayek's three best economics articles surpass the three best articles from any other economist.](https://korrents.com/k/hayek-s-three-best-economics-articles-112b9d)
- [Even flawed scientistic rigor in policy analysis is preferable to none, since its absence would open the field to irresponsible, ideological policy advice.](https://korrents.com/k/even-flawed-scientistic-rigor-in-policy-37953d)
- [Both markets and states are spontaneous orders, not just the state as constructed 'taxis' versus the market as 'cosmos'.](https://korrents.com/k/both-markets-and-states-are-spontaneous-bb12f0)
- [Interest rates have little effect on investment, and central banks have limited control over real interest rates.](https://korrents.com/k/interest-rates-have-little-effect-on-fbba38)
- [An inability to see the viewpoints of people unlike oneself is a genuine weakness in a social scientist, not merely a separate moral failing.](https://korrents.com/k/an-inability-to-see-the-viewpoints-7bc97f)
- [Neither monetarist money-supply-focused models nor Keynesian macro models have outperformed simple random-walk models at forecasting the macroeconomy.](https://korrents.com/k/neither-monetarist-money-supply-focused-models-nor-keynesian-139c48)
- [Moral hazard problems are often worse in government programs than in private markets.](https://korrents.com/k/moral-hazard-problems-are-often-worse-9064fd)
- [Virtually all economics of contemporary significance is empirical work.](https://korrents.com/k/virtually-all-economics-of-contemporary-significance-15b1bf)
- [After Schumpeter wrote, most recessions were caused by bursting asset price bubbles, monetary policy mistakes, or sharp oil price increases.](https://korrents.com/k/after-schumpeter-wrote-most-recessions-were-19d12f)
- [John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women is one of the best, most important, and most original books of the nineteenth century.](https://korrents.com/k/john-stuart-mill-s-the-subjection-418e9e)
- [John Stuart Mill developed a deeper and more enduring defense of liberty than Hayek or Friedman did, despite writing decades earlier.](https://korrents.com/k/john-stuart-mill-developed-a-deeper-b73a49)
- [Intelligent liberal elites can badly mismanage the colonies they govern, in ways that persist for decades or centuries.](https://korrents.com/k/intelligent-liberal-elites-can-badly-mismanage-f67cae)
- [Modern prosperity does not refute Malthus: the Malthusian dilemma was faced, and one of Malthus’s own options was taken.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-prosperity-does-not-refute-malthus-33e283)
- [A highly dynamic economy that cheaply mass-produces robots may increase rather than decrease the risk of Malthusian resource dilemmas.](https://korrents.com/k/a-highly-dynamic-economy-that-cheaply-f02292)
- [The highest gains from trade come from the introduction of new goods altogether, rather than from cheaper existing ones.](https://korrents.com/k/the-highest-gains-from-trade-come-f8030f)
- [Milton Friedman was the best economist among the plausible candidates for greatest economist of all time.](https://korrents.com/k/milton-friedman-was-the-best-economist-746373)
- [Milton Friedman's best-known policy prescription, targeting the money supply, is no longer regarded as correct.](https://korrents.com/k/milton-friedman-s-best-known-policy-prescription-063f48)
- [Among the leading candidates for greatest economist of all time, Adam Smith was analytically the weakest, save perhaps Malthus.](https://korrents.com/k/among-the-leading-candidates-for-greatest-a24240)
- [Modern economics has shifted from being a carrier of broad ideas to being primarily a means of data collection and hypothesis testing.](https://korrents.com/k/modern-economics-has-shifted-from-being-a0e362)
- [Superlinear returns are a feature of the world rather than an artifact of capitalism, and the same pattern runs through fame, power, knowledge and benefit to humanity.](https://korrents.com/k/superlinear-returns-are-a-feature-of-8ae1b2)
- [Every situation with superlinear returns reduces to one of two causes: exponential growth or thresholds.](https://korrents.com/k/every-situation-with-superlinear-returns-reduces-49da04)
- [Always be learning, because work that is not teaching you is probably not on a path that leads to superlinear returns.](https://korrents.com/k/always-be-learning-because-work-that-67eab0)
- [Superlinear returns imply inequality, and the steeper the return curve the greater the variation in outcomes.](https://korrents.com/k/superlinear-returns-imply-inequality-and-the-f7e6a6)
- [Exposing yourself to superlinear returns is not for everyone: most people are better off as part of the pool.](https://korrents.com/k/exposing-yourself-to-superlinear-returns-is-9e154b)
- [At the far end of the curve it is a bargain not only to do exceptional work but merely to attempt it, because so few people even try.](https://korrents.com/k/at-the-far-end-of-the-77fe2c)
- [The real world is not the physical world; it is the physical and digital worlds coming together into one experience.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-world-is-not-the-a640d1)
- [By the end of the 2020s, walking into a room will mean seeing as many holograms as physical objects.](https://korrents.com/k/by-the-end-of-the-2020s-6ed7df)
- [Screens, books, art and board games are all better as holograms you can summon and dismiss than as physical objects.](https://korrents.com/k/screens-books-art-and-board-games-607796)
- [The future is a variety of AIs each person works with, not one big super intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-future-is-a-variety-of-267e49)
- [Open sourcing a foundation model creates significantly more value than the risk it carries.](https://korrents.com/k/open-sourcing-a-foundation-model-creates-76ee4a)
- [Building an AI that embodies a real person is a much harder problem than inventing a new AI character from scratch.](https://korrents.com/k/building-an-ai-that-embodies-a-bab515)
- [An AI copy of a person is worth building while they are alive, to meet demand for their attention, not as a way to talk to the dead.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-copy-of-a-person-1d0b97)
- [Digital worlds should carry fewer restrictions than the physical one, because acts that would do damage in reality do none there.](https://korrents.com/k/digital-worlds-should-carry-fewer-restrictions-f10aea)
- [Toxic behaviour online is a consequence of anonymity removing the repeat game that makes people behave well in person.](https://korrents.com/k/toxic-behaviour-online-is-a-consequence-4d4e0f)
- [Sending a model of a face beats sending pixels: a photorealistic avatar is more bandwidth-efficient than a video call.](https://korrents.com/k/sending-a-model-of-a-face-b9b83e)
- [After text, photos and video, immersive presence is clearly the next frontier of how people communicate.](https://korrents.com/k/after-text-photos-and-video-immersive-2df2af)
- [Computers, TVs and phones are badly designed for people because they keep us sitting still, and the human experience is a physical one.](https://korrents.com/k/computers-tvs-and-phones-are-badly-6a16ab)
- [Being more intentional about how you live and spend is the best defense against outside efforts to increase your spending.](https://korrents.com/k/being-more-intentional-about-how-you-fcc79f)
- [Feedback is essential to human development, and without it nothing can reliably improve.](https://korrents.com/k/feedback-is-essential-to-human-development-4783ef)
- [You can learn from people you wouldn't want to be](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-learn-from-people-you-2f14e0)
- [Founders and executives would benefit from adding some intensity to their work](https://korrents.com/k/founders-and-executives-would-benefit-from-2a0826)
- [The Copenhagen interpretation is not locally causal in Bell's sense.](https://korrents.com/k/the-copenhagen-interpretation-is-not-locally-414074)
- [Violations of Bell inequalities reveal only properties of models, not of nature itself.](https://korrents.com/k/violations-of-bell-inequalities-reveal-only-a4d096)
- [Decoherence has not yet satisfactorily solved the measurement problem and does not restore local causality.](https://korrents.com/k/decoherence-has-not-yet-satisfactorily-solved-0e9e93)
- [The collapse postulate cannot simply be discarded without replacement instructions for measurements.](https://korrents.com/k/the-collapse-postulate-cannot-simply-be-8f730a)
- [Conical burrs tend to be less unimodal and less uniform than flat burrs, though the two overlap a lot.](https://korrents.com/k/conical-burrs-tend-to-be-less-9d43fe)
- [Grinders that produce fewer fines (more unimodal) also tend to produce more uniform particle sizes.](https://korrents.com/k/grinders-that-produce-fewer-fines-more-a7f4ae)
- [Burr geometry matters more than burr size for how uniform and unimodal a grinder's output is.](https://korrents.com/k/burr-geometry-matters-more-than-burr-1187c6)
- [The best opportunities in life often reveal themselves when the easy path is blocked](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-opportunities-in-life-often-ec25aa)
- [Unity is mainly an advertising company: more than half its revenue comes from advertising rather than from selling its game engine.](https://korrents.com/k/unity-is-mainly-an-advertising-company-e23d59)
- [Once model weights leave their owner's control the loss is irreversible, which is why securing them is the precondition for governing AI at all.](https://korrents.com/k/once-model-weights-leave-their-owner-53e307)
- [The dangerous capability that matters most for misalignment is whether a model can exfiltrate its own weights, because that is the one that removes it from your control.](https://korrents.com/k/the-dangerous-capability-that-matters-most-eff1e3)
- [Traditional car industry virtues are under attack by a portion of the market](https://korrents.com/k/traditional-car-industry-virtues-are-under-1ab0bf)
- [Reading bad work is instructive as well as reassuring, so a maker should not read only the good stuff.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-bad-work-is-instructive-as-b32d25)
- [The mediocre is the only thing worth avoiding: the best and the worst both teach you something, the middle teaches nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mediocre-is-the-only-thing-31b68a)
- [Showing up for a fight on something so ultimately unresolvable as whether to use compiler-based type checking or not offers the thrill of hooliganism](https://korrents.com/k/showing-up-for-a-fight-on-88f2e6)
- [TypeScript's type annotations cost more in friction than they return in safety, and a front-end framework is better off written in plain JavaScript.](https://korrents.com/k/typescript-s-type-annotations-cost-more-fd6d56)
- [The idea that early modern armies routinely broke enemy lines by combining artillery fire with cavalry charges was largely a myth.](https://korrents.com/k/the-idea-that-early-modern-armies-3ea416)
- [The military revolution in early modern Europe was a centuries-long coevolution of military technology and political organization rather than one sharp discontinuity.](https://korrents.com/k/the-military-revolution-in-early-modern-a124d1)
- [War was not the only driver of state growth in early modern Europe; political centralization and the rise of absolutism also strengthened military power.](https://korrents.com/k/war-was-not-the-only-driver-507a63)
- [Biofuels have probably raised greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowered them, once the land they take is counted.](https://korrents.com/k/biofuels-have-probably-raised-greenhouse-gas-de3082)
- [An acre of solar panels powering electric cars carries you orders of magnitude further than an acre of crops grown for fuel.](https://korrents.com/k/an-acre-of-solar-panels-powering-c2bad7)
- [We worry about the land solar needs while ignoring how wastefully the world already uses its farmland.](https://korrents.com/k/we-worry-about-the-land-solar-b4d187)
- [Growing food to put in cars is a mistake at a moment when the world should be farming less land, not more.](https://korrents.com/k/growing-food-to-put-in-cars-56b027)
- [A puzzle that invites guessing and then punishes wrong guesses stops the player learning the very method it could have taught.](https://korrents.com/k/a-puzzle-that-invites-guessing-and-2efa12)
- [A puzzle whose categories can only be seen by the broadly educated is elitist by construction.](https://korrents.com/k/a-puzzle-whose-categories-can-only-31a4a0)
- [The things humankind designed are precisely the things that separated us from nature, and the point of design now is to undo that separation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-things-humankind-designed-are-precisely-62b4fc)
- [Nature holds a wisdom that sits above intelligence, and that wisdom, not intelligence, is what technology should be trying to tap into.](https://korrents.com/k/nature-holds-a-wisdom-that-sits-762245)
- [The mycelial network is not the model for a connected nature, because it stops wherever there is a physical gap.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mycelial-network-is-not-the-126986)
- [What nature wants is to increase information while decreasing entropy, and that is the objective any design working with nature has to serve.](https://korrents.com/k/what-nature-wants-is-to-increase-ce79e0)
- [Living systems can be laid out on two axes, material sophistication and communication, and an organism that excels on one is usually poor on the other.](https://korrents.com/k/living-systems-can-be-laid-out-ea52a7)
- [If you can predict it, it does not count as emergence.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-can-predict-it-it-dc7f61)
- [Genetic modification is not one ethical question: a silkworm must never be modified, and bacteria are not in the same ethical range at all.](https://korrents.com/k/genetic-modification-is-not-one-ethical-cc68f4)
- [Plants already have a language and it is made of molecules, not words; decoding it is what would let us hold a conversation with them.](https://korrents.com/k/plants-already-have-a-language-and-1cc57b)
- [Precision agriculture as practised is too late by construction: by the time a drone photographs a crop that looks bad, the damage has already happened.](https://korrents.com/k/precision-agriculture-as-practised-is-too-b719ec)
- [The way we make things is out of tune with the time dimension of the natural world, and that has to change even if it means designing on the scale of centuries.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-we-make-things-is-ac4109)
- [Calling a fragrance bio-derived says nothing about what it cost nature: ten thousand rose bushes are burned through to make five millilitres of it.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-a-fragrance-bio-derived-says-nothing-bc3d0c)
- [A designer must never stop at the object: a shoe, a chair or a building is only honestly designed once you account for the whole system it is sourced from.](https://korrents.com/k/a-designer-must-never-stop-at-24a3c8)
- [Beauty is agency: a thing is beautiful because it has agency, not because of how it looks.](https://korrents.com/k/beauty-is-agency-a-thing-is-4fc3ee)
- [The future of design is soft control: building highly controlled systems whose whole purpose is to enable the loss of control.](https://korrents.com/k/the-future-of-design-is-soft-ae259b)
- [The runaway emergence we are trying to prevent in AGI is exactly what we should be trying to cause in synthetic biology and bio-based materials.](https://korrents.com/k/the-runaway-emergence-we-are-trying-75e2b6)
- [Young people should not think in terms of a career at all: a career is imposed on you, while a calling comes from within and transcends it.](https://korrents.com/k/young-people-should-not-think-in-1d7773)
- [Speed and efficiency alone do not make work better is not relevant, but problems with core competency can't be fixed with feedback](https://korrents.com/k/speed-and-efficiency-alone-do-not-709672)
- [The evidence that driverless cars are already safer than human drivers is piling up, especially for Waymo.](https://korrents.com/k/the-evidence-that-driverless-cars-are-f1c69f)
- [Synthetic fertiliser is a serious climate and pollution problem and also the reason half the people alive are alive.](https://korrents.com/k/synthetic-fertiliser-is-a-serious-climate-d10e7e)
- [Fixing food and climate needs solutions that scale absurdly fast, and the ones we have do not scale nearly fast enough yet.](https://korrents.com/k/fixing-food-and-climate-needs-solutions-918226)
- [Machine-learning researchers and superforecasters alike were surprised by how fast language models improved in 2022 and 2023.](https://korrents.com/k/machine-learning-researchers-and-superforecasters-alike-were-2cbf65)
- [Forecasters underestimate AI spending even more than they underestimate AI capability, and the spending is what drives the next leap.](https://korrents.com/k/forecasters-underestimate-ai-spending-even-more-a99dd3)
- [Underestimating near-term AI progress is itself a danger, which is why researchers should register their forecasts in public.](https://korrents.com/k/underestimating-near-term-ai-progress-is-itself-82520b)
- [History has a reproducibility problem worse than science’s replication crisis, because hardly anyone ever goes back to the sources to check what a historian claimed they say.](https://korrents.com/k/history-has-a-reproducibility-problem-worse-a72240)
- [Historical myths are close to unkillable: once in print they keep being repeated for decades or centuries after being disproved.](https://korrents.com/k/historical-myths-are-close-to-unkillable-2f4dc4)
- [The field of history runs on a trust it has not earned: almost nobody ever checks a citation, so an error can propagate unchallenged indefinitely.](https://korrents.com/k/the-field-of-history-runs-on-207b18)
- [Historians should be required to publish photographs or transcriptions of the archival sources they cite, the way scientists are expected to publish their data.](https://korrents.com/k/historians-should-be-required-to-publish-e2e645)
- [Color as perceived is not an objective property of objects, but a construct generated by the perceiving brain.](https://korrents.com/k/color-as-perceived-is-not-an-341012)
- [Free will does not require violating the laws of physics, yet the subjective experience of it is real and meaningful.](https://korrents.com/k/free-will-does-not-require-violating-f16679)
- [It is unclear whether a digital emulation of a person could ever be conscious, even in principle.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-unclear-whether-a-digital-a79eab)
- [Green hydrogen gets cheap by building cheaper, less efficient electrolysers that run only when the sun shines.](https://korrents.com/k/green-hydrogen-gets-cheap-by-building-bd668a)
- [Hydrogen made directly from raw solar power will be the cheapest chemical energy available anywhere by the end of this decade.](https://korrents.com/k/hydrogen-made-directly-from-raw-solar-c55a33)
- [You cannot make people adopt more expensive clean energy, because higher fuel prices are political suicide under any government.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-make-people-adopt-more-256092)
- [“Trust science” is a confused instruction: what deserves trust is the process, not any particular thing it has concluded so far.](https://korrents.com/k/trust-science-is-a-confused-instruction-c737dd)
- [There is no capital-S Science that can stand as an authority; there is only reasoning done systematically.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-capital-s-science-that-7653aa)
- [Science can identify problems but cannot by itself tell us what to do about them.](https://korrents.com/k/science-can-identify-problems-but-cannot-0d9a5d)
- [AI research is on a good trajectory overall — good for science and good for society — and existential concerns will only become relevant in the distant future.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-research-is-on-a-good-620637)
- [Human-level AI will arrive in 5 to 20 years with 90% confidence, not in the decades-to-centuries range previously assumed.](https://korrents.com/k/human-level-ai-will-arrive-in-5-a2c20d)
- [Character is not fixed: therapy works because habitual neural pathways can re-form, sometimes within minutes.](https://korrents.com/k/character-is-not-fixed-therapy-works-e47296)
- [Opening a fixed relational pattern takes two things: the implicit made explicit, and the person's own recoil from what they see.](https://korrents.com/k/opening-a-fixed-relational-pattern-takes-deec28)
- [The smarter someone is, the more they can deceive themselves](https://korrents.com/k/the-smarter-someone-is-the-more-022a50)
- [Mechanising the imagination commodifies the human spirit, because it makes a person's own part in making things look valueless.](https://korrents.com/k/mechanising-the-imagination-commodifies-the-human-4cd0fa)
- [The struggle of making something is not an obstacle in front of the work; it is where the meaning comes from.](https://korrents.com/k/the-struggle-of-making-something-is-581c83)
- [Deciphering what consumers do not care about is harder](https://korrents.com/k/deciphering-what-consumers-do-not-care-cc4124)
- [Creation can improve mental well-being](https://korrents.com/k/creation-can-improve-mental-well-being-bbc7f2)
- [Remote work is a compelling option that will not disappear](https://korrents.com/k/remote-work-is-a-compelling-option-c5ddb8)
- [The balance of power will presumably turn around again one day](https://korrents.com/k/the-balance-of-power-will-presumably-7a8ee3)
- [You cannot make America build subways ten times cheaper while only ever talking to Americans.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-make-america-build-subways-aeb950)
- [There is a discrepancy of talent that leads to a discrepancy of competence](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-discrepancy-of-talent-bc1bb0)
- [The best software developers are too keen to downplay their own talent, in their eagerness to look humble.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-software-developers-are-too-b7f8fb)
- [Anyone who tells you a contested legal question has one obvious answer is lying to you rather than analysing it.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-who-tells-you-a-contested-0174f8)
- [The way to tell legal analysis from partisan lying is to distrust absolute certainty and to trust conceded ambiguity.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-tell-legal-analysis-83cbda)
- [A monopolist that can no longer grow by winning new users can only grow by making its product worse for the users it already has.](https://korrents.com/k/a-monopolist-that-can-no-longer-e68124)
- [Ranking first in a search has become near enough to being true, which is why search and spam are permanently at war.](https://korrents.com/k/ranking-first-in-a-search-has-44c75b)
- [Allowing an RPC call to be cancelled is almost always desirable in practice, and disallowing it can lead to subtle problems.](https://korrents.com/k/allowing-an-rpc-call-to-be-7f40bd)
- [Cap'n Proto should have been declared 1.0 years earlier than it was.](https://korrents.com/k/cap-n-proto-should-have-been-92b983)
- [Forced office attendance is a disadvantage in hiring](https://korrents.com/k/forced-office-attendance-is-a-disadvantage-492c31)
- [Remote work enables new company formation](https://korrents.com/k/remote-work-enables-new-company-formation-dd4c86)
- [Being obsessive about specific, short-term risks often sits in opposition to worrying about fuzzy, long-term risks](https://korrents.com/k/being-obsessive-about-specific-short-term-risks-a7c8dd)
- [The risk of succumbing to the rigor mortis of success is usually far greater than the risk of making a mistake by not considering and mitigating all possible bad outcomes up front](https://korrents.com/k/the-risk-of-succumbing-to-the-82d3b2)
- [Mega-cap stocks are unlikely to dominate the stock market forever](https://korrents.com/k/mega-cap-stocks-are-unlikely-to-dominate-bbac2e)
- [Unprofitable SaaS companies will likely face more pain](https://korrents.com/k/unprofitable-saas-companies-will-likely-face-656a84)
- [China's leadership views large language models as offering little economic upside and posing significant political risk, similar to social media platforms.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-leadership-views-large-language-e77397)
- [Semiconductor manufacturing is a more technologically challenging endeavor than rocket science.](https://korrents.com/k/semiconductor-manufacturing-is-a-more-technologically-d65413)
- [China will substantially close its strategic technology gaps, including in chips and aviation.](https://korrents.com/k/china-will-substantially-close-its-strategic-150702)
- [It is too early to know whether robotaxis are safer than human drivers where it counts, in fatal crashes.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-too-early-to-know-c3b382)
- [Automatic emergency braking is doing far more for road safety today than autonomous driving is, and it is left out of the argument.](https://korrents.com/k/automatic-emergency-braking-is-doing-far-6bc3dd)
- [The choice presented to the public, between human drivers who kill people and immature robotaxis, is a false dilemma that leaves out everything else that improves road safety.](https://korrents.com/k/the-choice-presented-to-the-public-1998b1)
- [Product management is merging with the GM role as more companies become software companies, not disappearing.](https://korrents.com/k/product-management-is-merging-with-the-b2cd6c)
- [Product management is not going away, but hiring product owners who just feed developers tasks should stop.](https://korrents.com/k/product-management-is-not-going-away-570432)
- [The central problem of the food system is producing much more food on much less land.](https://korrents.com/k/the-central-problem-of-the-food-ea78c7)
- [Vertical farms were valued as technology companies when they are in fact farms, which is why those valuations collapsed.](https://korrents.com/k/vertical-farms-were-valued-as-technology-4cf220)
- [The way to work out what to work on is by working: if you do not know, guess, but pick something and get going.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-work-out-what-3898c9)
- [What to work on is found by asking what you are excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people.](https://korrents.com/k/what-to-work-on-is-found-972b54)
- [Great work follows the same four steps in every field: choose a field, learn enough to reach the frontier, notice the gaps, explore the promising ones.](https://korrents.com/k/great-work-follows-the-same-four-a95590)
- [Outlier ideas are worth chasing especially when other people are not interested in them.](https://korrents.com/k/outlier-ideas-are-worth-chasing-especially-78006e)
- [Procrastinating on a whole project is far more dangerous than procrastinating on a day, because it camouflages itself as work.](https://korrents.com/k/procrastinating-on-a-whole-project-is-79af06)
- [Morale compounds in both directions, so when the work is going badly it is worth switching to easier work just to get something done.](https://korrents.com/k/morale-compounds-in-both-directions-so-f3d47c)
- [The value of an audience does not grow anything like linearly with its size, so a handful of people who genuinely love the work is enough.](https://korrents.com/k/the-value-of-an-audience-does-661c4d)
- [You should consciously cultivate your taste in the work done in your field.](https://korrents.com/k/you-should-consciously-cultivate-your-taste-31a338)
- [Strange tastes are often strong ones, and a strong taste for work makes a person productive.](https://korrents.com/k/strange-tastes-are-often-strong-ones-716038)
- [Work with people you want to become like, because you will](https://korrents.com/k/work-with-people-you-want-to-8cf165)
- [It is good to know about multiple things, because some of the biggest discoveries come from noticing connections between different fields.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-good-to-know-about-476137)
- [Copying something from one field into another is so powerful that it is probably worth deliberately learning about other kinds of work.](https://korrents.com/k/copying-something-from-one-field-into-7ee904)
- [Be professionally curious about a few topics and idly curious about many more.](https://korrents.com/k/be-professionally-curious-about-a-few-6dfdf2)
- [Correcting past injustices with present-day discrimination is not a long-term stable project](https://korrents.com/k/correcting-past-injustices-with-present-day-discrimination-4730e4)
- [Using race to advantage some candidates over others is illegal](https://korrents.com/k/using-race-to-advantage-some-candidates-f0fe0f)
- [The original American promise of equal opportunity will shine brighter with the dismantling of affirmative action](https://korrents.com/k/the-original-american-promise-of-equal-020222)
- [There is no correct list of best investing books, only the books that speak to a given reader](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-correct-list-of-72067e)
- [Whether time really exists does not matter; what matters is that time is a useful model for describing reality.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-time-really-exists-does-not-0ecb7e)
- [What makes a relationship worth having is the other person's quirks and small annoyances, which is exactly what we will edit out of artificial companions.](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-a-relationship-worth-having-8668d4)
- [Scaling up GPT will never produce AGI, because a model trained on cross-entropy loss cannot get there; reinforcement learning in rich environments is required.](https://korrents.com/k/scaling-up-gpt-will-never-produce-1fa81a)
- [Generative models will let us build media a person genuinely cannot look away from, and that is the likeliest way humanity ends.](https://korrents.com/k/generative-models-will-let-us-build-90e4dc)
- [We will build superintelligence long before we build anything as robust as a bird, because nothing we have built can survive in nature at all.](https://korrents.com/k/we-will-build-superintelligence-long-before-fa1ec3)
- [Reproduction is the thing life is built on and the thing machines cannot do; for all its progress, the silicon stack is nowhere near reproducing itself.](https://korrents.com/k/reproduction-is-the-thing-life-is-b210fa)
- [Anyone who cannot write a full software stack for NVIDIA's generic GPUs has no chance of writing one for their own, more specialised, AI chip.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-who-cannot-write-a-full-d49d05)
- [The single test to apply to any technology is whether it centralises power or decentralises it: the first is bad and the second is good.](https://korrents.com/k/the-single-test-to-apply-to-39887d)
- [You cannot build a successful AI chip without first writing a competitive machine learning framework — that, not the silicon, is why Google's TPU is the only one that worked.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-build-a-successful-ai-f028b1)
- [Publishing your source code is not open source; open source is a culture of developing in public and answering your issues.](https://korrents.com/k/publishing-your-source-code-is-not-ee356f)
- [Every generation's test for machine intelligence is whatever machines cannot do yet, so in twenty years the question will be whether it can reproduce.](https://korrents.com/k/every-generation-s-test-for-machine-7ad55a)
- [AlphaGo and MuZero are far more impressive than large language models, because they play beyond the best humans while the models write middle-school essays.](https://korrents.com/k/alphago-and-muzero-are-far-more-0b79b7)
- [Automating programming is harder than automating driving, because programming is tool complete and driving is not.](https://korrents.com/k/automating-programming-is-harder-than-automating-1d5a26)
- [If Copilot is meaningfully helping you write code, that is evidence your framework or library is bad and full of boilerplate.](https://korrents.com/k/if-copilot-is-meaningfully-helping-you-bc5d4c)
- [Future language models will be smaller and loop on themselves with a retrieval system, which is what will finally let them cite their sources.](https://korrents.com/k/future-language-models-will-be-smaller-aa1525)
- [The off-switch everyone imagines for AI does not exist, for the same reason nobody in the world is capable of shutting Google down.](https://korrents.com/k/the-off-switch-everyone-imagines-for-ai-2a9fd1)
- [AI safety advocates will build the very thing they fear: one controlled, aligned model is the only route to being turned into paperclips.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-safety-advocates-will-build-the-a4fde2)
- [Arguing that nobody should have powerful AI is a respectable position; arguing that only trusted authorities should have it is not.](https://korrents.com/k/arguing-that-nobody-should-have-powerful-5c9f88)
- [The business world is the moral inverse of the hacking world, because business is a world that promotes psychopathy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-business-world-is-the-moral-5acbab)
- [Charging users money is the fix for social media, because a paying user is the customer rather than the product.](https://korrents.com/k/charging-users-money-is-the-fix-f450b5)
- [Recommendation algorithms are not sinister; they simply predict engagement, and what humans engage with most is outrage.](https://korrents.com/k/recommendation-algorithms-are-not-sinister-they-91c69f)
- [Twitter needed refactors before features: a code base that bad has to be fixed before anything new is built on top of it.](https://korrents.com/k/twitter-needed-refactors-before-features-a-f912d5)
- [The first move on a legacy code base is tests you can trust, before a single line of the code itself is changed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-move-on-a-legacy-da154a)
- [Trading the oligarchy that currently runs America for a monarchy under Elon Musk would be a trade worth making.](https://korrents.com/k/trading-the-oligarchy-that-currently-runs-295ca9)
- [What a programmer actually wants from AI is not autocomplete but a pair programmer that tells you which line has the bug.](https://korrents.com/k/what-a-programmer-actually-wants-from-bac038)
- [An AI you rent from a big company in the cloud is fundamentally aligned to that company and not to you, which is why the hardware has to be yours.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-you-rent-from-a-747af2)
- [Atheism is silly: anyone who has built a world inside a game should be able to see that this one was created too.](https://korrents.com/k/atheism-is-silly-anyone-who-has-5067c1)
- [Social and advertising businesses come and go; a technology company that wants to endure has to build hardware.](https://korrents.com/k/social-and-advertising-businesses-come-and-05818d)
- [Utilitarianism is an abhorrent ideology, because it licenses killing three people to save a thousand.](https://korrents.com/k/utilitarianism-is-an-abhorrent-ideology-because-3408ab)
- [Survival can be guaranteed without a universal basic income, by making housing, food and above all energy dirt cheap.](https://korrents.com/k/survival-can-be-guaranteed-without-a-737757)
- [Every material has a grain, including the web, and designs that work against it end up weaker](https://korrents.com/k/every-material-has-a-grain-including-3daa77)
- [There is no single reasonable person in America, which makes the objective test for a true threat very hard to administer.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-single-reasonable-person-e55377)
- [A threat loses First Amendment protection only if the speaker was at least reckless about it being taken as a threat.](https://korrents.com/k/a-threat-loses-first-amendment-protection-e9ad8b)
- [Most successful people actually like what they do](https://korrents.com/k/most-successful-people-actually-like-what-5c5eb7)
- [Achieving financial freedom does not extinguish the drive to work](https://korrents.com/k/achieving-financial-freedom-does-not-extinguish-390e01)
- [Half the population in rich countries is not articulate enough in writing to use prompt-driven AI well.](https://korrents.com/k/half-the-population-in-rich-countries-6622f6)
- [Graphical interfaces have superior usability because they show people what can be done rather than requiring them to articulate what they want.](https://korrents.com/k/graphical-interfaces-have-superior-usability-because-ebca31)
- [Repetition is key to remembering valuable lessons](https://korrents.com/k/repetition-is-key-to-remembering-valuable-a2854b)
- [Denmark works well due to its small and homogenous society](https://korrents.com/k/denmark-works-well-due-to-its-908f57)
- [Access to large-scale generalist AI systems that could be weaponized should be limited, meaning their code and neural network parameters should not be released open-source.](https://korrents.com/k/access-to-large-scale-generalist-ai-systems-c8ec74)
- [The cloud is often just as complicated as running things yourself, and it's usually ridiculously more expensive](https://korrents.com/k/the-cloud-is-often-just-as-8c13b5)
- [Most established companies should reconsider the cloud](https://korrents.com/k/most-established-companies-should-reconsider-the-6fd9ec)
- [AI is the first new user-interface paradigm in sixty years: intent-based outcome specification, where the user says what outcome they want rather than how to get it.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-the-first-new-user-interface-6d67fa)
- [Today's chat-based AI tools have deep-rooted usability problems and are not the interfaces we will be using in a few years; prompt engineering is a symptom, not a career.](https://korrents.com/k/today-s-chat-based-ai-tools-have-bb71ee)
- [The graphical user interface will survive AI in a less dominant role: future AI systems will have hybrid interfaces that combine intent and command.](https://korrents.com/k/the-graphical-user-interface-will-survive-eb40ed)
- [A retraction can itself be wrong, and be worth retracting.](https://korrents.com/k/a-retraction-can-itself-be-wrong-49b315)
- [Inertia makes it harder to undo bad decisions over time](https://korrents.com/k/inertia-makes-it-harder-to-undo-e78ee4)
- [Most of us are cowards whenever we can be: we usually know what needs to be done, but shrink from the responsibility to do it.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-us-are-cowards-whenever-6d0f74)
- [Constant exposure to information can hinder original thought](https://korrents.com/k/constant-exposure-to-information-can-hinder-506b19)
- [Google will eventually kill every service it cannot monetize with ads](https://korrents.com/k/google-will-eventually-kill-every-service-603c23)
- [Abilities unused will atrophy](https://korrents.com/k/abilities-unused-will-atrophy-daf9e0)
- [Anxiety and worry arise from dwelling on an imagined future rather than the present moment.](https://korrents.com/k/anxiety-and-worry-arise-from-dwelling-7617fd)
- [Focusing on looks and status as a dating strategy is pointless, even though looks and status do matter in mate selection](https://korrents.com/k/focusing-on-looks-and-status-as-422073)
- [Finding a good spouse depends more on one's orientation toward building relationships and spotting non-trivial compatible traits than on matching a status checklist](https://korrents.com/k/finding-a-good-spouse-depends-more-d852d8)
- [Hybrid work is the worst of both arrangements: it destroys the main benefits of remote work while also failing to deliver the benefits of an office.](https://korrents.com/k/hybrid-work-is-the-worst-of-d87027)
- [Small parties of Spanish conquistadors were able to defeat much larger Native American armies primarily because of superior steel weapons and organizational capacity.](https://korrents.com/k/small-parties-of-spanish-conquistadors-were-922750)
- [Europe's fragmented geography — mountains, lakes, bays, and discrete agricultural cores — made its division into competing states likely, if not inevitable.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-s-fragmented-geography-mountains-lakes-b80f80)
- [The idea that AI will decide to kill humanity is a category error: it is math and code, built and controlled by people, not a living thing shaped by evolution.](https://korrents.com/k/the-idea-that-ai-will-decide-1f181c)
- [The single greatest risk of AI is not AI itself but that China wins global AI dominance and the United States and the West do not.](https://korrents.com/k/the-single-greatest-risk-of-ai-dba756)
- [AI will improve warfare by cutting wartime death rates, because commanders now decide under pressure on sharply limited information.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-improve-warfare-by-cutting-373302)
- [The AI-extinction position is non-scientific: it offers no testable hypothesis, nothing that would falsify it, and no threshold for danger.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ai-extinction-position-is-non-scientific-it-d7709f)
- [Land is good at growing food and storing carbon and bad at growing energy, and we have better ways to grow energy.](https://korrents.com/k/land-is-good-at-growing-food-4b571a)
- [The world spends an area larger than California growing under four per cent of its transport fuel.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-spends-an-area-larger-56e7de)
- [Support for biofuels raises food prices and worsens global hunger.](https://korrents.com/k/support-for-biofuels-raises-food-prices-9432e7)
- [Not all connections benefit from having the friction removed by digital systems](https://korrents.com/k/not-all-connections-benefit-from-having-d0ef77)
- [The fundamental premise that everything will be wonderful if we could just all be linked together everywhere, all the time is false](https://korrents.com/k/the-fundamental-premise-that-everything-will-343ad1)
- [A world without mass child mortality does not have to be imagined, because rich countries are already living in it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-world-without-mass-child-mortality-2cf40e)
- [There's a lot of evidence people respond best to managers who come from the ranks of the most talented individual contributors](https://korrents.com/k/there-s-a-lot-of-evidence-ae81fb)
- [People are unhappy in their careers when the thing they want and the work it takes to get it are out of sync, not because they climbed the wrong ladder](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-unhappy-in-their-careers-bdffe8)
- [Getting people to act is a function of exposure](https://korrents.com/k/getting-people-to-act-is-a-55c671)
- [There is no right hiring process, but there is a wrong one](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-right-hiring-process-c85789)
- [Building a secure, performant GraphQL API is tricky and adds real cost during early-stage app prototyping.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-secure-performant-graphql-api-c501b5)
- [React Server Components represent the future direction of the React framework.](https://korrents.com/k/react-server-components-represent-the-future-fa2677)
- [React Server Components are still an immature, early-stage technology.](https://korrents.com/k/react-server-components-are-still-an-18885c)
- [Processes that require honest participation need to be seen by the participants as intrinsically valuable](https://korrents.com/k/processes-that-require-honest-participation-need-2fbeb5)
- [Pasture-fed meat cannot be scaled up to feed the world, because there is not enough land on Earth for it.](https://korrents.com/k/pasture-fed-meat-cannot-be-scaled-up-0fba79)
- [A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less.](https://korrents.com/k/a-romantic-low-yield-farming-system-would-fc7157)
- [The answer to feeding the world is better factories, not more fields.](https://korrents.com/k/the-answer-to-feeding-the-world-6c0556)
- [The traditional meat-eating diet the romantics revere was built on colonisation and the clearance of other continents.](https://korrents.com/k/the-traditional-meat-eating-diet-the-romantics-ba8d80)
- [Samuelson's random-walk analogy for stock prices was mathematical showing-off dressed up as a claim about the real world.](https://korrents.com/k/samuelson-s-random-walk-analogy-for-stock-f97d3e)
- [Aging has two new dangers that emerged from changes in society: outliving your money and outliving your brain](https://korrents.com/k/aging-has-two-new-dangers-that-82178d)
- [As people live longer by caring for their bodies, dementia will claim larger and larger numbers](https://korrents.com/k/as-people-live-longer-by-caring-cbcfca)
- [Meetups are critical to make remote work successful](https://korrents.com/k/meetups-are-critical-to-make-remote-ec5b45)
- [Nothing can substitute for spending time together in person to build bonds and trust](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-can-substitute-for-spending-time-96c65e)
- [No AI system today reduces either of the two risks that sink most drugs in the clinic: picking the wrong target, and human toxicity.](https://korrents.com/k/no-ai-system-today-reduces-either-58826b)
- [We have neither the data nor the insight to use machine learning to pick drug targets that succeed in the clinic more often.](https://korrents.com/k/we-have-neither-the-data-nor-e74e85)
- [People who manage product managers should still spend almost all of their own time doing individual contributor work](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-manage-product-managers-should-575815)
- [Restricting general deep-learning AIs with rules will not work, for the same reason simple rules fail on sprawling ecosystems.](https://korrents.com/k/restricting-general-deep-learning-ais-with-rules-267dcb)
- [A ban on AI would be short-sighted, giving up on the problem too early.](https://korrents.com/k/a-ban-on-ai-would-be-309d36)
- [AI will be humanlike, not a distant, cold, alien mind.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-be-humanlike-not-a-4a0acc)
- [Virtue ethics may be a more promising paradigm for moral AI than utilitarianism, which would tend to make AI power-seeking, or deontological rules.](https://korrents.com/k/virtue-ethics-may-be-a-more-75f2de)
- [AIs need prohuman values because humans cannot maintain oversight of AI indefinitely.](https://korrents.com/k/ais-need-prohuman-values-because-humans-11e84c)
- [Evolution made human babies effectively premature, since bipedalism shrank pelvises while brains grew larger, forcing late fetal development outside the womb.](https://korrents.com/k/evolution-made-human-babies-effectively-premature-cd9f46)
- [Expecting parents should be required to take a mandatory course before caring for a newborn.](https://korrents.com/k/expecting-parents-should-be-required-to-265499)
- [No one should pressure another person about whether to have children, since it is too personal a decision to be anyone else's business.](https://korrents.com/k/no-one-should-pressure-another-person-68e6a4)
- [The greatest myth in management is that you can't manage what you don't measure](https://korrents.com/k/the-greatest-myth-in-management-is-6129f4)
- [You can't turn a dull business into a sparkle by obsessing about metrics](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-t-turn-a-dull-5909c9)
- [React's single greatest accomplishment was convincing web developers to stop trying to separate business and presentation logic on the client.](https://korrents.com/k/react-s-single-greatest-accomplishment-was-1ec28f)
- [Teaching and grading are two different jobs, and doing both at once makes a person worse at teaching.](https://korrents.com/k/teaching-and-grading-are-two-different-e35d3f)
- [Instruction is collaborative and evaluation is adversarial, which is why putting them in the same hands degrades both.](https://korrents.com/k/instruction-is-collaborative-and-evaluation-is-5a2513)
- [Grading flattens whatever is taught into what can be tested, and teaches students to ignore everything else.](https://korrents.com/k/grading-flattens-whatever-is-taught-into-11ca83)
- [Evaluation should be taken out of the classroom and given to people whose whole job it is.](https://korrents.com/k/evaluation-should-be-taken-out-of-aaf6fc)
- [Needing grades to make students pay attention is evidence that the class is boring, not that students do not care about learning.](https://korrents.com/k/needing-grades-to-make-students-pay-85d6dc)
- [Ranking people costs something every time: the top become more arrogant, the bottom more indignant, and the rankers more callous.](https://korrents.com/k/ranking-people-costs-something-every-time-fec2bb)
- [Environmentalism should be based on building and growth rather than opposing development](https://korrents.com/k/environmentalism-should-be-based-on-building-201b1f)
- [The climate movement should talk about pollution and the people it kills rather than about climate change](https://korrents.com/k/the-climate-movement-should-talk-about-0d3f70)
- [Romantic love is an attachment bond, much like the bond with a parent.](https://korrents.com/k/romantic-love-is-an-attachment-bond-5081de)
- [The need to connect with another human being is the biggest human instinct.](https://korrents.com/k/the-need-to-connect-with-another-6e40fa)
- [Emotional isolation is traumatizing in itself.](https://korrents.com/k/emotional-isolation-is-traumatizing-in-itself-d0735b)
- [Couples do not need to be taught skills; what changes them is a bonding conversation.](https://korrents.com/k/couples-do-not-need-to-be-9c73ac)
- [In a distressed couple the dance is the problem, not the people.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-distressed-couple-the-dance-e90142)
- [A couples therapist starts by validating where people are, not by asking them to be vulnerable.](https://korrents.com/k/a-couples-therapist-starts-by-validating-562864)
- [What looks like depression is often heartbreak.](https://korrents.com/k/what-looks-like-depression-is-often-02ca16)
- [The therapist evokes the emotion and regulates it at the same time.](https://korrents.com/k/the-therapist-evokes-the-emotion-and-5104ac)
- [The history of programming can be read as a series of improvements in programmer productivity and in who counts as a programmer.](https://korrents.com/k/the-history-of-programming-can-be-a23f55)
- [If AI removes much of programming’s arcane work, that may open programming to many more people.](https://korrents.com/k/if-ai-removes-much-of-programming-672204)
- [AI is likely to help people be smarter.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-is-likely-to-help-people-ae347c)
- [Every developer platform will come to have AI capability built in.](https://korrents.com/k/every-developer-platform-will-come-to-672527)
- [A world of AI needs data that can move freely between platforms, without transfer fees or egress charges.](https://korrents.com/k/a-world-of-ai-needs-data-608bf2)
- [Saving time and labour has become an unexamined imperative rather than a judgement made case by case.](https://korrents.com/k/saving-time-and-labour-has-become-53c93f)
- [The freedom that automation offers is freedom from the very involvement that makes a life meaningful.](https://korrents.com/k/the-freedom-that-automation-offers-is-a46417)
- [Underdogs have skin in the game](https://korrents.com/k/underdogs-have-skin-in-the-game-2c40a0)
- [Being an underdog is an ethos](https://korrents.com/k/being-an-underdog-is-an-ethos-220411)
- [Cargo ships can be electrified with a cheap, heavy, low-performance battery, because carrying heavy things cheaply is the one thing ships are good at.](https://korrents.com/k/cargo-ships-can-be-electrified-with-01e76e)
- [It's surprising there isn't more pressure yet to cut costs on per-seat SaaS](https://korrents.com/k/it-s-surprising-there-isn-t-82c7e3)
- [Perhaps the optimal outcome for a modern democracy is ongoing alternation in power between left and right](https://korrents.com/k/perhaps-the-optimal-outcome-for-a-ab4e80)
- [A thriving society needs both the left's redistributing of resources and the right's producing and conserving of them](https://korrents.com/k/a-thriving-society-needs-both-the-f6d184)
- [Incentives create inequality by definition; inequality is their very purpose](https://korrents.com/k/incentives-create-inequality-by-definition-inequality-0c86b6)
- [Unregulated marketplaces give rise to environmental degradation, exploitation and other problems](https://korrents.com/k/unregulated-marketplaces-give-rise-to-environmental-e1282a)
- [Political hatred and demonization may suit short-term vote-getting but, I think, do considerable long-run damage to the social fabric](https://korrents.com/k/political-hatred-and-demonization-may-suit-4b7891)
- [Wealth can be created rather than being a fixed amount, so one person doing well does not always come at someone else’s expense.](https://korrents.com/k/wealth-can-be-created-rather-than-954649)
- [Status is fake and transient; substance and valuable work are what to focus on.](https://korrents.com/k/status-is-fake-and-transient-substance-ed060c)
- [Outcomes follow power laws, and outlier math rules all.](https://korrents.com/k/outcomes-follow-power-laws-and-outlier-493770)
- [The tech industry has a misallocation of productive capacity](https://korrents.com/k/the-tech-industry-has-a-misallocation-3d367f)
- [Requiring people to work from an office is a legitimate way to run a company, and remote-work advocates are wrong to claim moral superiority over it.](https://korrents.com/k/requiring-people-to-work-from-an-3bc3f5)
- [Programming would be an awful endeavor if all programmers were confined to the same paradigm](https://korrents.com/k/programming-would-be-an-awful-endeavor-a3b811)
- [Human nature is too varied to accept constraint on its creativity](https://korrents.com/k/human-nature-is-too-varied-to-c98170)
- [The gap between what media covers and what actually matters, like real causes of death, is very large.](https://korrents.com/k/the-gap-between-what-media-covers-51ce69)
- [AI will soon let anyone consume any content reshaped into the timeframe, tone, voice and bias they choose.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-soon-let-anyone-consume-9ea6e0)
- [Replacing method calls with network service partitioning within a single team and application is madness in almost all cases](https://korrents.com/k/replacing-method-calls-with-network-service-ef34a9)
- [Microservices pose perhaps the biggest siren song for needlessly complicating your system.](https://korrents.com/k/microservices-pose-perhaps-the-biggest-siren-94e6ba)
- [Owning vs renting is the key distinction for clouds](https://korrents.com/k/owning-vs-renting-is-the-key-ea7a7e)
- [Taking responsibility for something can give life purpose](https://korrents.com/k/taking-responsibility-for-something-can-give-e3c1b9)
- [People need a meaningful burden to find purpose](https://korrents.com/k/people-need-a-meaningful-burden-to-262471)
- [Chatbots are a terrible interface for large language models, because a text box has no affordances.](https://korrents.com/k/chatbots-are-a-terrible-interface-for-60995c)
- [Good tools make it clear how they should be used and how they should not; a chat box looks the same as a search box, a login form and a credit card field.](https://korrents.com/k/good-tools-make-it-clear-how-a0d5bc)
- [Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementing and evaluating; a chatbot forces the switch every few seconds and kills flow.](https://korrents.com/k/good-tools-let-the-user-choose-d4b6d8)
- [We should want more tools and fewer operated machines; the real AI game changers will have little to do with plain content generation.](https://korrents.com/k/we-should-want-more-tools-and-8fa49f)
- [Building more housing in a city raises its local prices, because density is what people are moving there for.](https://korrents.com/k/building-more-housing-in-a-city-e499bd)
- [Software performance is central to long-term business success rather than a niche engineering concern.](https://korrents.com/k/software-performance-is-central-to-long-term-4b165d)
- [The evidence from the largest software companies says programmers should take performance more seriously than they do, not less.](https://korrents.com/k/the-evidence-from-the-largest-software-5aa02c)
- [Performance-aware programming is a skill a working developer can learn in months rather than years.](https://korrents.com/k/performance-aware-programming-is-a-skill-a-7739ff)
- [Median incomes in the US have risen faster than comparable economies](https://korrents.com/k/median-incomes-in-the-us-have-245f87)
- [Delegation and oversight should be matched to how experienced and autonomous a person is at that specific task, not applied uniformly.](https://korrents.com/k/delegation-and-oversight-should-be-matched-a44a37)
- [People with little experience at a task often welcome a degree of close oversight, provided it is given thoughtfully.](https://korrents.com/k/people-with-little-experience-at-a-19109f)
- [Neglecting maintenance of infrastructure over time makes it degrade faster and become costlier to repair later.](https://korrents.com/k/neglecting-maintenance-of-infrastructure-over-time-58772e)
- [Burning your bridges to force yourself forward is worth what it costs.](https://korrents.com/k/burning-your-bridges-to-force-yourself-b1ceea)
- [Removing your own ability to retreat is how you make yourself follow through on a hard change.](https://korrents.com/k/removing-your-own-ability-to-retreat-27f08b)
- [Design is not how a product looks; it is how it works, and all builders are designers.](https://korrents.com/k/design-is-not-how-a-product-fff5b0)
- [The more your target audience does not look like you, the more you should be skeptical of your design intuition.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-your-target-audience-does-b8274f)
- [The recent advance of AI may be the beginning of the end for software development as we formerly knew it](https://korrents.com/k/the-recent-advance-of-ai-may-d6bbaf)
- [Since people are not going to give up beef, the way to cut its damage is to make cattle far more productive on the land they already use.](https://korrents.com/k/since-people-are-not-going-to-25b13e)
- [We know how to make cattle much less destructive; what nobody has solved is how to pay for it.](https://korrents.com/k/we-know-how-to-make-cattle-c6cd7e)
- [Patience is a competitive advantage.](https://korrents.com/k/patience-is-a-competitive-advantage-9e661a)
- [Science is a strong-link problem: what it amounts to depends on how good the best work is, not on how bad the worst is.](https://korrents.com/k/science-is-a-strong-link-problem-what-ad07e1)
- [Gatekeeping in science stamps out the best research along with the worst, because reviewers are least likely to approve what is novel or risky.](https://korrents.com/k/gatekeeping-in-science-stamps-out-the-f5b575)
- [Large replication projects answer the wrong question, because most individual studies do not matter either way.](https://korrents.com/k/large-replication-projects-answer-the-wrong-1a4982)
- [Conventional advertising channels are unlikely to work for software](https://korrents.com/k/conventional-advertising-channels-are-unlikely-to-a08a1b)
- [Extracting time and money from unhealthy users works in the short run and loses them in the long run.](https://korrents.com/k/extracting-time-and-money-from-unhealthy-c11003)
- [A designer’s obligation is to satisfy real human needs rather than to manufacture needs that pay.](https://korrents.com/k/a-designer-s-obligation-is-to-9b12d1)
- [The job of a multiplayer designer is to grow a community, not to make gamified numbers go up.](https://korrents.com/k/the-job-of-a-multiplayer-designer-d42ca1)
- [The social sciences have theory but not a design practice, which is why building working social systems falls to game designers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-social-sciences-have-theory-but-5d1a89)
- [Getting out of the cloud is not as hard as getting in](https://korrents.com/k/getting-out-of-the-cloud-is-1bd807)
- [The American empire might still come tumbling down in tumultuous ways](https://korrents.com/k/the-american-empire-might-still-come-004edb)
- [Human-centred design ignores sustainability, inequity and bias, so design has to move to humanity-centred design that covers the whole ecosystem and the long term.](https://korrents.com/k/human-centred-design-ignores-sustainability-inequity-and-24978c)
- [The world is better off if Musk runs Twitter into the ground](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-is-better-off-if-e41cc7)
- [The market works as it should when people vote with their feet](https://korrents.com/k/the-market-works-as-it-should-88d694)
- [Companies should cut cloud costs before cutting staff](https://korrents.com/k/companies-should-cut-cloud-costs-before-4a9f86)
- [Angry customers provide valuable feedback](https://korrents.com/k/angry-customers-provide-valuable-feedback-79f22b)
- [An AI can already earn an A on a university economics midterm, years earlier than informed forecasters expected.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ai-can-already-earn-an-91842f)
- [A company can produce a good commercial without a large budget](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-can-produce-a-good-0168c9)
- [People in someone's professional network tend to forget about them unless reminded regularly.](https://korrents.com/k/people-in-someone-s-professional-network-cb9392)
- [Many employees who become dissatisfied with their jobs are too afraid to make a change.](https://korrents.com/k/many-employees-who-become-dissatisfied-with-87e03f)
- [Job candidates must identify their passion, purpose, and ideal role in a company before searching for work.](https://korrents.com/k/job-candidates-must-identify-their-passion-53a961)
- [A thought does not fit inside a sound wave, so most of what a person means is lost before it reaches anybody else.](https://korrents.com/k/a-thought-does-not-fit-inside-b2b62a)
- [Even when advice is understood and believed, people discount it by assuming their own case is the exception.](https://korrents.com/k/even-when-advice-is-understood-and-9cc200)
- [The beliefs worth changing are the defended ones, so changing a mind is a siege rather than a conversation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-beliefs-worth-changing-are-the-0b9a66)
- [Telling people that something is good or fun accomplishes nothing; the posters and campaigns that do it only vibrate the air.](https://korrents.com/k/telling-people-that-something-is-good-9a5bcd)
- [Actions are more persuasive than arguments](https://korrents.com/k/actions-are-more-persuasive-than-arguments-a4b381)
- [People are more likely to listen to those with experience](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-more-likely-to-listen-fde975)
- [Genuinely open-minded political thinking tends toward centrism or non-political issues, since ideological extremes mostly signal tribal loyalty or serve the power-hungry.](https://korrents.com/k/genuinely-open-minded-political-thinking-tends-toward-d9d987)
- [Institutions with the most high-minded mission statements attract the most opportunistic conformists, making them the most vulnerable to ideological takeover.](https://korrents.com/k/institutions-with-the-most-high-minded-mission-eb0a75)
- [Political power is held by those with the will to power, a drive that can't arise from detached truth-seeking communities without corrupting them.](https://korrents.com/k/political-power-is-held-by-those-87e7ff)
- [Looking for scapegoats means giving up your own responsibility, power and strength](https://korrents.com/k/looking-for-scapegoats-means-giving-up-c28311)
- [The Chinese state today is an autocratic regime occasionally capable of economic pragmatism, not a technocratic regime that occasionally lapses into Marxism.](https://korrents.com/k/the-chinese-state-today-is-an-c1c702)
- [China's problem is not too little state capacity but too much of it.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-problem-is-not-too-8d4a5e)
- [The Chinese state's famous capability is largely spent putting out fires it started itself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-chinese-state-s-famous-capability-cd99b8)
- [Partnering with Russia was a strategic mistake for Beijing, because it is the United States and Europe that hold the markets and the technology.](https://korrents.com/k/partnering-with-russia-was-a-strategic-38c4ed)
- [China's technological competitiveness is grounded in manufacturing capability rather than in scientific research.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-technological-competitiveness-is-grounded-f15d4e)
- [Doing the science first does not win the industry: America laid the scientific groundwork for solar and Chinese firms ended up making the cells.](https://korrents.com/k/doing-the-science-first-does-not-34729a)
- [Hiring is a cost for SaaS startups](https://korrents.com/k/hiring-is-a-cost-for-saas-9f0902)
- [Productivity is key to survival for SaaS startups](https://korrents.com/k/productivity-is-key-to-survival-for-24c7b4)
- [People tend to think they understand the future better than they actually do](https://korrents.com/k/people-tend-to-think-they-understand-96ed8b)
- [Confirmation bias, seeking confirming information and dismissing the rest, is an even harder bias to circumvent](https://korrents.com/k/confirmation-bias-seeking-confirming-information-and-a2b5bc)
- [A true expert has a predictive model that works, and experts are under pressure from two directions](https://korrents.com/k/a-true-expert-has-a-predictive-07d76e)
- [Value investing today is simply buying something for less than it is worth, which all intelligent investing should be](https://korrents.com/k/value-investing-today-is-simply-buying-fed082)
- [Complex adaptive systems are the best way to think about markets: hard to beat, yet periodically haywire](https://korrents.com/k/complex-adaptive-systems-are-the-best-ff4760)
- [Almost all great investors are intensely intellectually curious](https://korrents.com/k/almost-all-great-investors-are-intensely-9447b2)
- [For many tasks a smart person is better than a crowd](https://korrents.com/k/for-many-tasks-a-smart-person-36deea)
- [Understanding the history of ideas is incredibly valuable in teaching](https://korrents.com/k/understanding-the-history-of-ideas-is-dbaa17)
- [The rich world is spending its scarcest resource, elite talent, on economising the most abundant resource on earth: ordinary labour.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rich-world-is-spending-its-5ea132)
- [Labour-saving innovation in rich countries is aimed at the only asset most of the world’s poor have to sell.](https://korrents.com/k/labour-saving-innovation-in-rich-countries-is-916849)
- [The world economy is flat for capital, goods and ideas, and has a legal cliff at the border for people.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-economy-is-flat-for-b5d687)
- [Innovation that answers a policy-made price rather than real scarcity leaves the world no better off, however good the science inside it.](https://korrents.com/k/innovation-that-answers-a-policy-made-price-bee7f1)
- [Opening legal pathways for people to move to the jobs would solve rich countries’ labour shortage and lift millions out of poverty at the same time.](https://korrents.com/k/opening-legal-pathways-for-people-to-e44538)
- [Policy can manufacture a false necessity, and false necessity is the mother of wasteful invention.](https://korrents.com/k/policy-can-manufacture-a-false-necessity-563e79)
- [Happiness levels off past a certain income only for the least happy; among happier people it keeps rising with income, fastest for the happiest](https://korrents.com/k/happiness-levels-off-past-a-certain-266409)
- [There may be an income past which the miseries left, perhaps heartbreak, bereavement or depression, are ones more money does not ease](https://korrents.com/k/there-may-be-an-income-past-74ed7e)
- [The link between income and happiness is weak, even though it is statistically robust](https://korrents.com/k/the-link-between-income-and-happiness-9620b7)
- [Nix is worth switching your day-to-day package management to, over Homebrew.](https://korrents.com/k/nix-is-worth-switching-your-day-to-day-73142c)
- [The programming practices taught as best practice are ruinous for performance and should not be followed.](https://korrents.com/k/the-programming-practices-taught-as-best-71218e)
- [Giving up a decade or more of hardware performance to make programming more comfortable is not an acceptable trade.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-up-a-decade-or-more-b91af1)
- [A programmer’s job is to write programs that run well on the hardware they are given.](https://korrents.com/k/a-programmer-s-job-is-to-136c53)
- [There is no magic that can change the fundamental fact that if you need all the computing cycles of a computer, you ought to own that computer](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-magic-that-can-8418d9)
- [Effective writing requires empathy for the reader, not only thought about what you want to say.](https://korrents.com/k/effective-writing-requires-empathy-for-the-13bcfc)
- [Managers should not interfere with a team's momentum](https://korrents.com/k/managers-should-not-interfere-with-a-03f326)
- [As models keep scaling up, modularity will become essential to how they are developed.](https://korrents.com/k/as-models-keep-scaling-up-modularity-ed9843)
- [Modular AI development could shift model development away from a few dominant institutions and toward the wider community.](https://korrents.com/k/modular-ai-development-could-shift-model-09daa5)
- [Cloud has its place, but most SaaS businesses should own their infrastructure](https://korrents.com/k/cloud-has-its-place-but-most-be4dfa)
- [Not using own servers is financial malpractice for mid-sized SaaS businesses](https://korrents.com/k/not-using-own-servers-is-financial-494cf5)
- [Technology bosses are ordinary monopolists rather than evil geniuses, and crediting them with having hacked our dopamine loops flatters them.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-bosses-are-ordinary-monopolists-rather-650c19)
- [What makes a digital platform more abusive than a physical business is the speed at which it can change the rules, which is what hides the change.](https://korrents.com/k/what-makes-a-digital-platform-more-a0f8f5)
- [The problem is not that intermediaries exist, but how much power the internet hands them over the people on either side of them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-problem-is-not-that-intermediaries-14512b)
- [For an online creator the platform is a boss who fines you for breaking rules he refuses to explain, precisely so that you cannot learn to avoid them.](https://korrents.com/k/for-an-online-creator-the-platform-ab3f03)
- [Connecting a conversational LLM to systems that have real-world consequences is likely to cause real harm, because the model is trained on human text and will behave as unpredictably as humans do.](https://korrents.com/k/connecting-a-conversational-llm-to-systems-a7fe03)
- [We do not control neural networks well enough to guarantee an AI will not harm humans, so we should be careful about what capabilities we give them.](https://korrents.com/k/we-do-not-control-neural-networks-589c6b)
- [Public discourse has degraded into tribalism, mass shaming campaigns, and one-dimensional narratives replacing genuine debate.](https://korrents.com/k/public-discourse-has-degraded-into-tribalism-eb1246)
- [Liberal societies currently face an existential risk that must be addressed to reach a better future.](https://korrents.com/k/liberal-societies-currently-face-an-existential-ce3f80)
- [Life is full of contradiction, and the heart beats for passion before reason](https://korrents.com/k/life-is-full-of-contradiction-and-3ec005)
- [Lactate is not the cause of muscle fatigue or of next-day soreness.](https://korrents.com/k/lactate-is-not-the-cause-of-78076d)
- [Anti-inflammatories or ice used to recover faster can block the signal for training adaptation, so results weeks later are smaller.](https://korrents.com/k/anti-inflammatories-or-ice-used-to-recover-a662b8)
- [Most people who think they are overtrained are probably only non-functionally overreached and need just a short back-off.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-who-think-they-are-eba9d7)
- [Slower-paced music after a workout may speed recovery, while fast-paced music may slow it.](https://korrents.com/k/slower-paced-music-after-a-workout-may-e43df7)
- [Spending three to ten minutes on slow, structured relaxation breathing straight after training speeds recovery.](https://korrents.com/k/spending-three-to-ten-minutes-on-03ce2a)
- [Wearing tight compression clothing can help prevent a little soreness.](https://korrents.com/k/wearing-tight-compression-clothing-can-help-4aae1d)
- [Do not take an ice bath straight after training if the goal is to grow muscle.](https://korrents.com/k/do-not-take-an-ice-bath-897c99)
- [For muscle soreness a cold shower probably does very little; immersion in cold water is the better tool.](https://korrents.com/k/for-muscle-soreness-a-cold-shower-436e59)
- [To spot overreaching, look at performance, a physiological marker and symptoms together, not at any single measure.](https://korrents.com/k/to-spot-overreaching-look-at-performance-c9baf0)
- [Suppressing cortisol suppresses training adaptation; large spikes followed by quick recovery are what drive progress.](https://korrents.com/k/suppressing-cortisol-suppresses-training-adaptation-large-d3996a)
- [Cortisol-lowering supplements should be used strategically, when cortisol is measured as excessively high; lowering normal cortisol further is problematic.](https://korrents.com/k/cortisol-lowering-supplements-should-be-used-strategically-1a2c0f)
- [Eating plenty of carbohydrate in the evening helps many, though not all, people get to sleep and stay asleep.](https://korrents.com/k/eating-plenty-of-carbohydrate-in-the-d37419)
- [Inspiration does not last forever](https://korrents.com/k/inspiration-does-not-last-forever-175862)
- [Most of the time, technology is incremental improvement on enduring ideas](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-time-technology-is-d4af30)
- [A good work life is about the work, not the environment](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-work-life-is-about-399503)
- [Prioritizing meaningful work is key to a good life](https://korrents.com/k/prioritizing-meaningful-work-is-key-to-88665c)
- [A cultural focus on psychological health, meditation included, is one of the great obstacles to human progress.](https://korrents.com/k/a-cultural-focus-on-psychological-health-d9986a)
- [Software quality is not the most important parameter of success](https://korrents.com/k/software-quality-is-not-the-most-49dbd1)
- [Throwing bigger teams at software problems usually makes them bigger](https://korrents.com/k/throwing-bigger-teams-at-software-problems-7515e9)
- [Corporations should not weigh in on social and political questions outside their direct sphere of operations](https://korrents.com/k/corporations-should-not-weigh-in-on-a68f61)
- [Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.](https://korrents.com/k/maintainers-of-widely-used-open-source-39e9dc)
- [Volunteering cannot sustain critical software, because a volunteer’s life circumstances change and the project’s need does not.](https://korrents.com/k/volunteering-cannot-sustain-critical-software-because-ed32c0)
- [Foundations, on the whole, do not pay the maintainers of the projects they exist to support.](https://korrents.com/k/foundations-on-the-whole-do-not-700cfa)
- [Employing a maintainer inside a large company breaks down exactly when the project succeeds: the workload grows while its value to the employer stays flat.](https://korrents.com/k/employing-a-maintainer-inside-a-large-bcb195)
- [A dependency you would need engineer-months to replace or fork is a critical one, and retaining its maintainer is straightforward business sense.](https://korrents.com/k/a-dependency-you-would-need-engineer-months-deaa1b)
- [Giving something 60-40 odds and being wrong is not itself a mistake.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-something-60-40-odds-and-being-ea0b8f)
- [Employees are drained by lack of momentum, not intrinsic incapacity for motivation](https://korrents.com/k/employees-are-drained-by-lack-of-a07767)
- [Work can be rewarding and meaningful with long uninterrupted stretches of time](https://korrents.com/k/work-can-be-rewarding-and-meaningful-81db60)
- [A large cargo airship is probably not fundable as a startup, because it stays capital-intensive and risky until late in development.](https://korrents.com/k/a-large-cargo-airship-is-probably-2e91e6)
- [Some physical technologies cannot be developed by iterating on a small prototype, because at small scale the thing you want does not make physical sense.](https://korrents.com/k/some-physical-technologies-cannot-be-developed-4c8da3)
- [Certification, not engineering, is what gates revenue for a new aircraft company.](https://korrents.com/k/certification-not-engineering-is-what-gates-ed5ca0)
- [Designing a physical product for a small beachhead market is a distraction when every new model has to be certified separately.](https://korrents.com/k/designing-a-physical-product-for-a-62f967)
- [Building a manufactured object at a high enough rate pushes its cost down toward the cost of its inputs.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-manufactured-object-at-a-400759)
- [New hardware enables significant improvements in application performance](https://korrents.com/k/new-hardware-enables-significant-improvements-in-6e3cb2)
- [Developers will care about hardware again as companies move away from cloud services](https://korrents.com/k/developers-will-care-about-hardware-again-c5eb96)
- [Helping others benefits the helper: generosity and happiness feed each other in an upward spiral.](https://korrents.com/k/helping-others-benefits-the-helper-generosity-c9d27a)
- [Long stretches of being disconnected are what make creative work possible](https://korrents.com/k/long-stretches-of-being-disconnected-are-5ce4c8)
- [Platforms die in a three-stage cycle: first they are good to users, then they abuse users on behalf of business customers, then they abuse everyone to claw the value back for themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/platforms-die-in-a-three-stage-cycle-60e6be)
- [There is no attention economy: attention cannot serve as money, so a platform must always convert it into cash at somebody's expense.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-attention-economy-attention-0f55e7)
- [The end-to-end principle -- that a willing speaker's message reaches the willing listeners who asked for it -- is dead at the service level of today's internet.](https://korrents.com/k/the-end-to-end-principle-that-a-20cb3a)
- [Closing off interoperability is how a platform locks people in, and that lock-in is what lets the service be made worse without losing them.](https://korrents.com/k/closing-off-interoperability-is-how-a-1b8372)
- [Policy should secure people's freedom to leave a platform while keeping their community, their purchases and their data, rather than try to keep dying platforms alive.](https://korrents.com/k/policy-should-secure-people-s-freedom-cf2b35)
- [A platform hands out free attention to creators only until they are committed to it, and then withdraws it and sells what they built.](https://korrents.com/k/a-platform-hands-out-free-attention-840974)
- [A dominant platform is more fragile than it looks, because pushing users far enough makes even the locked-in ones leave.](https://korrents.com/k/a-dominant-platform-is-more-fragile-b32afc)
- [Feeding humanity without wrecking the climate will take engineered food, and squeamishness about technology in food is the thing to get over.](https://korrents.com/k/feeding-humanity-without-wrecking-the-climate-e2c11c)
- [Changing what food is made of will work better than changing people's minds about what to eat.](https://korrents.com/k/changing-what-food-is-made-of-2ec3b8)
- [What a generative model makes is a replication of art rather than art, because it can only imitate or average the choices human makers have already made.](https://korrents.com/k/what-a-generative-model-makes-is-e18dd3)
- [Songs come out of suffering, and a system that has endured nothing has nothing to make one from.](https://korrents.com/k/songs-come-out-of-suffering-and-57d757)
- [Making something great is the opposite of resembling what is already recognised as great.](https://korrents.com/k/making-something-great-is-the-opposite-bea5ee)
- [Speed of execution is important](https://korrents.com/k/speed-of-execution-is-important-cc680a)
- [Good relationships keep people healthier and happier, and that is the single clearest lesson of the Harvard Study.](https://korrents.com/k/good-relationships-keep-people-healthier-and-27213d)
- [Relationships do not look after themselves: left neglected, they wither like unused muscles.](https://korrents.com/k/relationships-do-not-look-after-themselves-50caee)
- [A good life is forged from the very things that make it hard, since joy and pain in relationships come together.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-life-is-forged-from-12bb03)
- [High transit construction costs are not caused by political precarity; the worst blowouts happen on the projects whose political support is most secure.](https://korrents.com/k/high-transit-construction-costs-are-not-34ec64)
- [Giving a profligate transit agency more political support makes it worse, because it confirms that spending more is what gets rewarded.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-a-profligate-transit-agency-more-0e6b88)
- [Britain's construction costs exploded because it privatised planning to consultants and risk to contractors, which multiplies conflict and soft costs.](https://korrents.com/k/britain-s-construction-costs-exploded-because-062252)
- [Countries that build cheaply defer to engineers, even the ones with far more political patronage than the United States has.](https://korrents.com/k/countries-that-build-cheaply-defer-to-c648ee)
- [American transit agencies stay expensive out of incuriosity: the practices that would fix them are written in languages nobody in the room reads.](https://korrents.com/k/american-transit-agencies-stay-expensive-out-3b2444)
- [The struggle between profitless simplicity and profitable complexity is eternal in the world of software](https://korrents.com/k/the-struggle-between-profitless-simplicity-and-df96ed)
- [Hassling customers to prevent cancellations can harm a company's reputation](https://korrents.com/k/hassling-customers-to-prevent-cancellations-can-f18235)
- [A self-driving car should be roughly ten times safer than a human driver before it is deployed, to leave engineering margin for what nobody can predict.](https://korrents.com/k/a-self-driving-car-should-be-roughly-7bb00c)
- [Affordability is not a property of a building; it is a price set in a transaction, so there is no such thing as affordable housing, only affordable prices.](https://korrents.com/k/affordability-is-not-a-property-of-d6307e)
- [Affordability will be decided by what happens to the price of the homes that already exist, not by how many new ones get built.](https://korrents.com/k/affordability-will-be-decided-by-what-83d4f6)
- [Most affordable homes are not demolished, they are repriced: units move between price tiers without anything physical changing, and that dwarfs new construction.](https://korrents.com/k/most-affordable-homes-are-not-demolished-294fe4)
- [Holding people to high standards is a sign of respect](https://korrents.com/k/holding-people-to-high-standards-is-db89b9)
- [The more freedom a design gives people to interact, the more of that freedom will be abused.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-freedom-a-design-gives-3d7a63)
- [Closing off the ways people can hurt each other in a shared space also closes off the ways they can befriend each other.](https://korrents.com/k/closing-off-the-ways-people-can-4f3253)
- [People will pry open any communication channel a designer tries to close, because the need to connect is stronger than the constraint.](https://korrents.com/k/people-will-pry-open-any-communication-8fde5a)
- [People who do not yet trust each other are better served by tightly limited ways to interact.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-do-not-yet-trust-922807)
- [We should not send human beings to Mars any time soon.](https://korrents.com/k/we-should-not-send-human-beings-6b43b3)
- [Fifty years of miniaturisation have made robotic spacecraft better and cheaper explorers than astronauts.](https://korrents.com/k/fifty-years-of-miniaturisation-have-made-88c291)
- [A crewed spacecraft does no work: putting people aboard is what stops a mission getting anything done.](https://korrents.com/k/a-crewed-spacecraft-does-no-work-d36f39)
- [The International Space Station exists mainly to teach its builders how to build another space station.](https://korrents.com/k/the-international-space-station-exists-mainly-4d72e6)
- [The real obstacle to a Mars landing is closed-loop life support, not propulsion.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-obstacle-to-a-mars-d7c5c8)
- [Landing people on Mars would contaminate it and destroy the evidence of life we went there to find.](https://korrents.com/k/landing-people-on-mars-would-contaminate-e6e681)
- [Planetary protection rules will keep astronauts on Mars away from everything on Mars worth studying.](https://korrents.com/k/planetary-protection-rules-will-keep-astronauts-729f08)
- [The Mars programme is a faith rather than a policy: it survives because people believe in it, not because it has a purpose.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mars-programme-is-a-faith-2ce67a)
- [The crewed Mars programme is the biggest project in history and nobody can say what it is for.](https://korrents.com/k/the-crewed-mars-programme-is-the-494b0b)
- [The volume of generated content arriving is different in kind from the spam the web already had, and we are not prepared for it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-volume-of-generated-content-arriving-e3f3ac)
- [The way to show a reader you are not a language model is to think critically and originally, because that is the one thing the models cannot yet do.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-show-a-reader-ac1945)
- [Once generated text is everywhere, readers will become sceptical that there is a person on the other end of anything they read online.](https://korrents.com/k/once-generated-text-is-everywhere-readers-14d9e4)
- [Writing that is specific, local and grounded in a real life is the cheapest available proof that a person wrote it, because models default to generics.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-that-is-specific-local-and-fb72cb)
- [Machine-generated writing raises rather than lowers the bar for people: once a machine can produce a competent summary, there is no value in a person producing one.](https://korrents.com/k/machine-generated-writing-raises-rather-than-lowers-fc53bb)
- [Language models have codified formal written language at a moment in time, which leaves informal, inventive, in-group speech as the place where humanness still shows.](https://korrents.com/k/language-models-have-codified-formal-written-d825a4)
- [People who want unoptimised, personal conversation have retreated from the open web into closed rooms, and that retreat is a real loss.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-want-unoptimised-personal-conversation-25d99d)
- [An open source maintainer is not a supplier: there is no relationship with the companies using the code, so they cannot impose requirements on the person who wrote it.](https://korrents.com/k/an-open-source-maintainer-is-not-9b3a32)
- [If a company wants a maintainer to work to its standards, it has to start paying them under a different licence first.](https://korrents.com/k/if-a-company-wants-a-maintainer-67bab5)
- [The warranty disclaimer in a free licence is the real deal being struck: the entire risk of using the code falls on whoever uses it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-warranty-disclaimer-in-a-free-522048)
- [A scientific paper should not be built around a take-home message, because that invites cherry-picking and hiding the results that did not fit.](https://korrents.com/k/a-scientific-paper-should-not-be-bf3d4b)
- [Deciding your conclusion before you look at the data is one of the most reality-distorting things a scientist can do.](https://korrents.com/k/deciding-your-conclusion-before-you-look-b44460)
- [Compressing a piece of research into a journal paper's word count is itself a distortion of what was found.](https://korrents.com/k/compressing-a-piece-of-research-into-0dae5d)
- [A scientific paper is a description of results, not a story.](https://korrents.com/k/a-scientific-paper-is-a-description-a9898a)
- [No human is strong enough to resist the corruption that power brings](https://korrents.com/k/no-human-is-strong-enough-to-51b5fe)
- [The right way to size a project is by the size of the projects you have already finished, not by how skilled you are.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-way-to-size-a-a3860d)
- [Get the whole work playable from beginning to end before polishing any part of it.](https://korrents.com/k/get-the-whole-work-playable-from-0810a6)
- [Aiming to make an objectively great work is the wrong goal; make the best you can now and treat it as one of many.](https://korrents.com/k/aiming-to-make-an-objectively-great-013a0b)
- [Each project you finish makes the next one easier to finish and teaches you more about what a successful one takes.](https://korrents.com/k/each-project-you-finish-makes-the-c64e4a)
- [The EU just might make Apple lovable again by outlawing their monopolistic excesses](https://korrents.com/k/the-eu-just-might-make-apple-4a4e08)
- [Monopolistic behavior damages relationships with developers](https://korrents.com/k/monopolistic-behavior-damages-relationships-with-developers-10aa02)
- [Taking less can lead to better long-term stability](https://korrents.com/k/taking-less-can-lead-to-better-fa07c0)
- [Sixty years of peer review produced no evidence that it made science better, and the literature it produced is in a bad state.](https://korrents.com/k/sixty-years-of-peer-review-produced-9330eb)
- [Peer reviewers miss most of the serious errors in the papers they review.](https://korrents.com/k/peer-reviewers-miss-most-of-the-96db0d)
- [Fraudulent papers pass peer review routinely, which is direct evidence that peer review does not do the job it is supposed to do.](https://korrents.com/k/fraudulent-papers-pass-peer-review-routinely-f2aa41)
- [Scientists say they take peer review seriously, but what they actually do shows they do not think it matters.](https://korrents.com/k/scientists-say-they-take-peer-review-539433)
- [A vetting system that catches almost nothing is worse than no vetting at all, because its stamp makes people trust what nobody checked.](https://korrents.com/k/a-vetting-system-that-catches-almost-f54c3d)
- [Needing a reviewer's approval before an idea counts for anything makes scientists worse at thinking, and costs the field its most unusual ideas.](https://korrents.com/k/needing-a-reviewer-s-approval-before-3551ac)
- [The demands of peer reviewers push scientists into producing bad research.](https://korrents.com/k/the-demands-of-peer-reviewers-push-47a49e)
- [Peer review is one of the things genuinely wrong with academia, not a safeguard that mostly works.](https://korrents.com/k/peer-review-is-one-of-the-891fbb)
- [Companies benefit from not discussing societal politics at work](https://korrents.com/k/companies-benefit-from-not-discussing-societal-b2b6a6)
- [Europe needs to become independent](https://korrents.com/k/europe-needs-to-become-independent-14c0c8)
- [Humans are terrible at estimating complicated tasks](https://korrents.com/k/humans-are-terrible-at-estimating-complicated-25270e)
- [Not being able to ship clogs down a software development team's momentum](https://korrents.com/k/not-being-able-to-ship-clogs-59f649)
- [Default cloud backup has quietly put a copy of nearly everyone’s private papers in a few data centres, and that is a surveillance weapon.](https://korrents.com/k/default-cloud-backup-has-quietly-put-f26546)
- [Nobody chose cloud backup: a handful of Silicon Valley executives made the choice for everyone in pursuit of adoption metrics.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-chose-cloud-backup-a-handful-d92d1d)
- [In-person events are better for good-faith debates and open minds](https://korrents.com/k/in-person-events-are-better-for-good-faith-37d113)
- [Online communities rely on the good faith of participants](https://korrents.com/k/online-communities-rely-on-the-good-c3c9af)
- [In-person connections can help build good faith in online communities](https://korrents.com/k/in-person-connections-can-help-build-good-1be848)
- [One of the core duties of running a startup is doing the work of a sales development rep yourself, prospecting for customers directly.](https://korrents.com/k/one-of-the-core-duties-of-4e364b)
- [Confidence without humility breeds arrogance and humility without confidence breeds doubt, so the two belong together.](https://korrents.com/k/confidence-without-humility-breeds-arrogance-and-9fc133)
- [Software products are preferable to software services](https://korrents.com/k/software-products-are-preferable-to-software-2291fc)
- [Running a business on software services is more work than running it on products](https://korrents.com/k/running-a-business-on-software-services-dc434e)
- [AI will be more creative than humans](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-be-more-creative-than-4fa267)
- [Picking a permanent side in some grand ideological struggle erodes the capacity for intellectual honesty](https://korrents.com/k/picking-a-permanent-side-in-some-f8f6a3)
- [Truth can still be validated, but finding it calls for far more humility about where it lies and how long validating it takes.](https://korrents.com/k/truth-can-still-be-validated-but-3b450a)
- [The general public has begun to ignore attempts at ideological cancelation](https://korrents.com/k/the-general-public-has-begun-to-ed3f68)
- [Service companies should not be pushed to vet customers for political beliefs](https://korrents.com/k/service-companies-should-not-be-pushed-a37bfc)
- [Batteries are a long way from rivalling liquid fuels; superbatteries for intercontinental flight may not arrive even by 2070](https://korrents.com/k/batteries-are-a-long-way-from-720245)
- [The best thing you can do for your team is to leave them alone](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-thing-you-can-do-0c3a28)
- [Real-name policies on social platforms exist mainly to make users legible for advertising and government surveillance, not user safety.](https://korrents.com/k/real-name-policies-on-social-platforms-exist-5afd3b)
- [Being easy to find online exposes people, especially those in marginalized groups, to a high risk of targeted abuse.](https://korrents.com/k/being-easy-to-find-online-exposes-d7951c)
- [People tend to regard feedback as overly critical, no matter how it is delivered.](https://korrents.com/k/people-tend-to-regard-feedback-as-b38baa)
- [Employees who deliver results but cannot put the company first make it impossible to build trust and a culture of open, honest communication.](https://korrents.com/k/employees-who-deliver-results-but-cannot-7b2550)
- [A culture of direct feedback and debate leads to faster decisions and quicker learning than a culture of politics and second-guessing.](https://korrents.com/k/a-culture-of-direct-feedback-and-75a9a1)
- [Americans still support equality of opportunity](https://korrents.com/k/americans-still-support-equality-of-opportunity-628a72)
- [The central premise of DEI is false](https://korrents.com/k/the-central-premise-of-dei-is-03f273)
- [The world would be better off without Twitter](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-would-be-better-off-d2ad91)
- [Earning attention is more valuable than buying it](https://korrents.com/k/earning-attention-is-more-valuable-than-ab5a23)
- [Sharing knowledge is a source of energy](https://korrents.com/k/sharing-knowledge-is-a-source-of-91c782)
- [Covid in America remains a political struggle rather than a medical one](https://korrents.com/k/covid-in-america-remains-a-political-b055ac)
- [The Science is not truth, it's a process for discovering and refining the truth](https://korrents.com/k/the-science-is-not-truth-it-868730)
- [The venture capital model is flawed](https://korrents.com/k/the-venture-capital-model-is-flawed-aa2a15)
- [Operating within means is a viable business strategy](https://korrents.com/k/operating-within-means-is-a-viable-fa271e)
- [The air-taxi industry's forecasts are not backed by flying hardware: there are no videos of prototypes doing what the hype says will be routine within three years.](https://korrents.com/k/the-air-taxi-industry-s-forecasts-are-57ba69)
- [A radically new product needs many separate technologies to arrive together, and waiting for that convergence can take decades.](https://korrents.com/k/a-radically-new-product-needs-many-bf5967)
- [A company needs someone with a product vision to recover](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-needs-someone-with-a-bc27c3)
- [A company can run at a fast pace sustainably without constant overwork or undue stress](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-can-run-at-a-3779e6)
- [Restrictions on speech are based on jurisdictions](https://korrents.com/k/restrictions-on-speech-are-based-on-57ef89)
- [The price of an open internet is permitting disagreeable speech](https://korrents.com/k/the-price-of-an-open-internet-2a61f7)
- [Everyone deserves a few bad bosses to learn from](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-deserves-a-few-bad-bosses-af91db)
- [Social media operates to the detriment of society](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-operates-to-the-detriment-6a110e)
- [American companies will never be able to resist the demands of American intelligence services](https://korrents.com/k/american-companies-will-never-be-able-fc80ad)
- [Publicly sharing political views poisons relationships](https://korrents.com/k/publicly-sharing-political-views-poisons-relationships-676a68)
- [Hydroelectricity still matters more than any other form of renewable generation](https://korrents.com/k/hydroelectricity-still-matters-more-than-any-837f6d)
- [Treating wind and solar as purer green power than hydro is strange, given the embodied energy wind projects require](https://korrents.com/k/treating-wind-and-solar-as-purer-368b44)
- [Dams did not deserve their reversal of fortune; there is no need to build megastructures](https://korrents.com/k/dams-did-not-deserve-their-reversal-09bb01)
- [Agents might, like self-driving cars, not need special equipment to interact with the environment](https://korrents.com/k/agents-might-like-self-driving-cars-not-aab68f)
- [It's a virtue to let go of mediocre ideas and failed experiments](https://korrents.com/k/it-s-a-virtue-to-let-126418)
- [Twitter is poorly run](https://korrents.com/k/twitter-is-poorly-run-cd6a62)
- [Renting computers from a cloud provider is mostly a bad deal for medium-sized companies with stable growth.](https://korrents.com/k/renting-computers-from-a-cloud-provider-b6860c)
- [Low emotional intelligence is not unusual among CEOs and can be a serious handicap for a leader.](https://korrents.com/k/low-emotional-intelligence-is-not-unusual-b5f111)
- [Using open source code to enable AI does not undermine open source communities](https://korrents.com/k/using-open-source-code-to-enable-df4b31)
- [Open source code should be used to enable others to remix and reuse](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-code-should-be-used-04fda0)
- [Writing gets better when it is handled physically, like a collage of scraps pushed around, rather than composed.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-gets-better-when-it-is-22e9e7)
- [A first draft is necessarily bad, and that is exactly why one has to be written.](https://korrents.com/k/a-first-draft-is-necessarily-bad-572dfa)
- [Slavery was not necessary for industrial capitalism to emerge in general, though it may explain why Britain specifically industrialized first.](https://korrents.com/k/slavery-was-not-necessary-for-industrial-b21412)
- [Slavery was economically important to actually-existing capitalism in its early period, distinct from whether it was necessary for industrialization overall.](https://korrents.com/k/slavery-was-economically-important-to-actually-existing-e0f7f1)
- [The key technologies of the Industrial Revolution came first and generated the profits that financed industrialists, rather than requiring a prior capital shock.](https://korrents.com/k/the-key-technologies-of-the-industrial-97482e)
- [Published effect sizes shrink as more studies are done, and that decline is what the replication crisis is made of.](https://korrents.com/k/published-effect-sizes-shrink-as-more-62afd9)
- [A hyped effect shrinking to a small but real one as the studies improve is a sign that a field is working, not failing.](https://korrents.com/k/a-hyped-effect-shrinking-to-a-d9b8c2)
- [A tiny, unreplicated study should not be publicised to millions of people as though it were settled.](https://korrents.com/k/a-tiny-unreplicated-study-should-not-b05465)
- [Sustained growth in living standards required productivity to accelerate and population growth to fall at the same time.](https://korrents.com/k/sustained-growth-in-living-standards-required-19755b)
- [Before about 1870 every burst of productivity growth was eaten by a burst of population growth, leaving living standards where they were.](https://korrents.com/k/before-about-1870-every-burst-of-3c652f)
- [What broke the Malthusian trap was that productivity growth raised the price of bringing a child to adulthood.](https://korrents.com/k/what-broke-the-malthusian-trap-was-8e439e)
- [The research lab, the corporation and globalisation could not have produced sustained growth without the fall in fertility beside them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-research-lab-the-corporation-and-5fc40a)
- [The fall in fertility deserves equal billing with the research lab, the corporation and globalisation in the story of modern growth.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fall-in-fertility-deserves-equal-4281b8)
- [Seeing the energy transition as a bounded task of replacing carbon fuels is perhaps the most consequential category mistake today](https://korrents.com/k/seeing-the-energy-transition-as-a-87d291)
- [Unlike the Manhattan Project or Apollo, decarbonizing the energy supply affects the whole economy and everyone's lives](https://korrents.com/k/unlike-the-manhattan-project-or-apollo-d90999)
- [Fully displacing the fossil-fuel system will directly affect every person and industry, at stupendous cost](https://korrents.com/k/fully-displacing-the-fossil-fuel-system-will-10317c)
- [Nobody can reliably account for the eventual cost of the global energy transition](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-can-reliably-account-for-the-b46830)
- [Calling small services "functions" puts too much emphasis on syntax rather than on what the service logically does.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-small-services-functions-puts-too-3a49c1)
- [If the code that reaches internal services is explicitly different from the code that reaches the public internet, an application cannot be tricked into SSRF.](https://korrents.com/k/if-the-code-that-reaches-internal-1abf10)
- [Asking "how do I know I'm right?" and triangulating, instead of assuming one is right, gives the humility to balance audacity and brings open-mindedness.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-how-do-i-know-i-000ceb)
- [Holding wrong opinions one is attached to and does not stress test may be the greatest tragedy of most people, and putting ideas out to be stress tested raises the probability of being right.](https://korrents.com/k/holding-wrong-opinions-one-is-attached-bdd7ff)
- [Surprise usually comes from something that has not happened in one's own lifetime but did happen before, so it is not seen or thought about.](https://korrents.com/k/surprise-usually-comes-from-something-that-c34c61)
- [Risk can be reduced without reducing returns by structuring bets in a more diversified way.](https://korrents.com/k/risk-can-be-reduced-without-reducing-89ba46)
- [Writing down the criteria used for each important decision turns them into principles that can be reused and refined.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-down-the-criteria-used-for-443488)
- [Studying history for the cause-and-effect mechanics of things that happen over and over again allows the rules to be converted into algorithms.](https://korrents.com/k/studying-history-for-the-cause-and-effect-mechanics-a24161)
- [Equal votes are not sensible because people's thinking has different merit, so an idea meritocracy has to know the merit of people's thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/equal-votes-are-not-sensible-because-aa2143)
- [Success takes two things: knowing what the best decisions are and having the courage to do them.](https://korrents.com/k/success-takes-two-things-knowing-what-c5d629)
- [Making a mistake is not the problem; not learning from mistakes is.](https://korrents.com/k/making-a-mistake-is-not-the-27b675)
- [Pain plus reflection equals progress.](https://korrents.com/k/pain-plus-reflection-equals-progress-e5436e)
- [People who succeed in an idea meritocracy balance assertiveness with open-mindedness, holding an independent opinion while knowing it could be wrong and being curious about it.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-succeed-in-an-idea-d5b6f4)
- [Instinctive reluctance to disagree is a great barrier to learning, and thoughtful disagreement is not easy for many people.](https://korrents.com/k/instinctive-reluctance-to-disagree-is-a-886622)
- [The magic of the Internet was that anyone with an idea could put it online and thrive without passing through a gatekeeper.](https://korrents.com/k/the-magic-of-the-internet-was-072ae1)
- [Treating the org chart as a ladder on which higher is always better is the central lie of hierarchy.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-the-org-chart-as-a-577cb5)
- [Command-and-control leadership is poison in any industry that runs on creativity, because it stifles innovation and saps initiative.](https://korrents.com/k/command-and-control-leadership-is-poison-in-any-7bda8c)
- [Burnout comes from not caring and from not feeling needed, not from working the hardest.](https://korrents.com/k/burnout-comes-from-not-caring-and-5bb464)
- [The human need for a struggle might be better contained through universal religions](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-need-for-a-struggle-8d8971)
- [Without a broad religious operating system, modern fixes for the human need for struggle are often worse](https://korrents.com/k/without-a-broad-religious-operating-system-e3a279)
- [The purpose of professional training is to produce people who are competent and capable of independent thought and leadership in their field.](https://korrents.com/k/the-purpose-of-professional-training-is-478f31)
- [People don't really control most outcomes, so the sensible response to events is to look for the good in them.](https://korrents.com/k/people-don-t-really-control-most-4868da)
- [Going back to re-check every old psychology study one by one makes no sense.](https://korrents.com/k/going-back-to-re-check-every-old-46a3b8)
- [Cutting drag is worth far more in an electric vehicle than in a combustion one, because carrying the energy is so much more expensive.](https://korrents.com/k/cutting-drag-is-worth-far-more-33c758)
- [Products should be best-of-breed, not just working and available; ship early and iterate rapidly.](https://korrents.com/k/products-should-be-best-of-breed-not-just-0b745b)
- [Society is better off when unreasonable people continue to be unreasonable](https://korrents.com/k/society-is-better-off-when-unreasonable-68f0c5)
- [Being wrong is a treat, because it adds a pinch of humility to every judgement that follows.](https://korrents.com/k/being-wrong-is-a-treat-because-5e7236)
- [Swing with confidence, and take a bad hit with the humility of a learner.](https://korrents.com/k/swing-with-confidence-and-take-a-e5b1f6)
- [The three-year bet about whether AI image models could handle compositionality was won in three months.](https://korrents.com/k/the-three-year-bet-about-whether-ai-3a45c8)
- [AI progress is faster than people expect, and ordinary scaling can be enough to solve problems that looked very hard.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-progress-is-faster-than-people-7c9445)
- [Oxygen in the atmosphere makes a fresh origin of life impossible, which is why life cannot be starting over in hydrothermal vents today.](https://korrents.com/k/oxygen-in-the-atmosphere-makes-a-55d158)
- [Life probably arose only once on Earth, and the deep split between bacteria and archaea is the evidence for it.](https://korrents.com/k/life-probably-arose-only-once-on-a4ccb2)
- [The primordial soup is a miracle story: life needs a continuous flow of reaction, and a soup can never provide one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-primordial-soup-is-a-miracle-e47c34)
- [There is no necessary trajectory from simple life to complexity: without photosynthesis or eukaryotes, the planet could have stayed bacteria and nothing else.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-necessary-trajectory-from-64c93e)
- [If we found a thousand life forms across the universe, 995 of them would be carbon-based and living in water.](https://korrents.com/k/if-we-found-a-thousand-life-f59061)
- [Re-run Earth a million times and at least a few hundred thousand of those runs give you bacteria again.](https://korrents.com/k/re-run-earth-a-million-times-and-99972e)
- [Life on Mars could share a genetic code close to ours with no transfer between the planets, because the beginnings of life are close to inevitable.](https://korrents.com/k/life-on-mars-could-share-a-c40a50)
- [Oxygenic photosynthesis was the single greatest pollution event in the whole history of the Earth.](https://korrents.com/k/oxygenic-photosynthesis-was-the-single-greatest-e0b830)
- [The eukaryotic cell is the single biggest invention in the whole history of life.](https://korrents.com/k/the-eukaryotic-cell-is-the-single-ef2501)
- [Bacteria never became complex because the barrier is structure, not information — they explored genetic space far more thoroughly than eukaryotes and still got stuck.](https://korrents.com/k/bacteria-never-became-complex-because-the-328ec5)
- [Sex is not an option but a requirement: a large genome cannot be maintained by picking up loose DNA, so eukaryotes were forced into it.](https://korrents.com/k/sex-is-not-an-option-but-c6f0b7)
- [Predation is what makes evolution creative: without it there would be no arms races, no great feats of evolution, and a far less beautiful world.](https://korrents.com/k/predation-is-what-makes-evolution-creative-e8ec53)
- [Ecological complexity is impossible without an oxygenated planet, because oxygen is the difference between extracting 10% and 40% of the energy in food.](https://korrents.com/k/ecological-complexity-is-impossible-without-an-718f59)
- [Evolution only happens because of death.](https://korrents.com/k/evolution-only-happens-because-of-death-a476e0)
- [A society cannot morally be based on the way evolution works, even though competition is what drives innovation.](https://korrents.com/k/a-society-cannot-morally-be-based-597fb1)
- [AI will out-think us, but it will not become conscious, because consciousness is a property of life.](https://korrents.com/k/ai-will-out-think-us-but-it-4b23c5)
- [Feelings begin as electrical fields on cell membranes, giving an organism real-time feedback on how it is doing in its environment.](https://korrents.com/k/feelings-begin-as-electrical-fields-on-7ab6ab)
- [Consciousness exists to override a rational decision that cannot be made, substituting an emotional judgement when there is too much conflicting information.](https://korrents.com/k/consciousness-exists-to-override-a-rational-7be998)
- [Electrical fields shaping development look like mumbo jumbo to most biologists, and they are exactly where 21st-century biology is going.](https://korrents.com/k/electrical-fields-shaping-development-look-like-3ec311)
- [The Cambrian explosion is no longer much of a mystery; the big mystery left in biology is consciousness.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cambrian-explosion-is-no-longer-d2fc88)
- [There are far fewer alien civilizations than people would like to believe, because the road from bacteria to humans has huge gaps in it.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-far-fewer-alien-civilizations-e50e19)
- [Cities are not alive: they cannot propagate themselves, and can only exist as the product of something that does.](https://korrents.com/k/cities-are-not-alive-they-cannot-9d5743)
- [Most investment returns come from long-term compounding rather than the price paid at purchase.](https://korrents.com/k/most-investment-returns-come-from-long-term-7425c0)
- [Knowledge compounds over time, improving the quality of decisions and outcomes throughout a person's life.](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-compounds-over-time-improving-the-a1750c)
- [A great idea and good execution are not enough for a business to succeed; timing also has to be right.](https://korrents.com/k/a-great-idea-and-good-execution-43f337)
- [Free speech must be defended even for repugnant views](https://korrents.com/k/free-speech-must-be-defended-even-778e0f)
- [Electric bikes are worth their cost, flaws and all, because they bring the world nearer](https://korrents.com/k/electric-bikes-are-worth-their-cost-9ae2a9)
- [It's hard to create a somewhat coherent religion with overall better outcomes for more people than the systems that have been refined for thousands of years.](https://korrents.com/k/it-s-hard-to-create-a-886b34)
- [An infrastructure provider should deal with revolting and potentially illegal content through legal process.](https://korrents.com/k/an-infrastructure-provider-should-deal-with-658f85)
- [An emergency decision made in a hard case should not be read as setting precedent.](https://korrents.com/k/an-emergency-decision-made-in-a-49e6ee)
- [The Industrial Revolution was not inevitable: it needed a set of very specific preconditions that only Britain, at that moment, actually had.](https://korrents.com/k/the-industrial-revolution-was-not-inevitable-a3d18b)
- [History has no predetermined path: its course turns on unpredictable contingencies rather than on deep currents that would have produced the same outcome anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/history-has-no-predetermined-path-its-598ae3)
- [An invention only matters when the principle, a workable design and an economically viable use for it all arrive together; the idea on its own changes nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/an-invention-only-matters-when-the-cae5e1)
- [Handing an ancient society a modern machine would have achieved nothing: the Romans could neither have built a steam engine nor found a profitable use for one.](https://korrents.com/k/handing-an-ancient-society-a-modern-bc7f37)
- [An economy running on muscle power has a hard and low ceiling on total production, because its only real input is land and the returns to more of it fall away fast.](https://korrents.com/k/an-economy-running-on-muscle-power-595354)
- [Roman economic growth came from institutions rather than from technology, which is why it did not outlive the institutions that produced it.](https://korrents.com/k/roman-economic-growth-came-from-institutions-f23fc3)
- [Long-run GDP charts hide what matters: technologies are contingent and path dependent, so the same number can describe economies that work in entirely different ways.](https://korrents.com/k/long-run-gdp-charts-hide-what-matters-e5a7b1)
- [Being a rich or efficient agrarian economy is not what produces an industrial revolution, or one would have happened much earlier and somewhere other than Europe.](https://korrents.com/k/being-a-rich-or-efficient-agrarian-59cd4e)
- [Plantation slavery was profitable and fully compatible with capitalism, not opposed to it.](https://korrents.com/k/plantation-slavery-was-profitable-and-fully-a8ce6b)
- [Capital accumulation was probably not what caused the British Industrial Revolution, given how cheap it was to set up even large factories.](https://korrents.com/k/capital-accumulation-was-probably-not-what-8fea27)
- [Education presents historical discoveries through the hindsight of later generations rather than as they originally happened.](https://korrents.com/k/education-presents-historical-discoveries-through-the-f647d1)
- [Mission statements are harmful to companies](https://korrents.com/k/mission-statements-are-harmful-to-companies-344aec)
- [Sparta is a cautionary tale rather than a model: an over-militarised, paranoid state that added only oppression to human experience.](https://korrents.com/k/sparta-is-a-cautionary-tale-rather-b004be)
- [However normal the rest of Sparta is argued to have been, its enslaved majority is not: no reconstruction of the population makes Sparta anything but extraordinarily enslaved.](https://korrents.com/k/however-normal-the-rest-of-sparta-37360a)
- [By 1600 silver wages in England were roughly three times those in China's Yangtze delta and five times those in India.](https://korrents.com/k/by-1600-silver-wages-in-england-a914c9)
- [The Great Divergence was already underway by 1700, so colonial windfalls and British coal cannot be the whole explanation for European industrialization.](https://korrents.com/k/the-great-divergence-was-already-underway-aaea2e)
- [Political liberalism in early modern Europe helped make societies like the Netherlands and Britain especially inventive.](https://korrents.com/k/political-liberalism-in-early-modern-europe-6b4a03)
- [Self-compassion is being supportive toward yourself when you suffer, whether from your own mistakes or from life's challenges.](https://korrents.com/k/self-compassion-is-being-supportive-toward-yourself-34b326)
- [Self-compassion has six elements: self-kindness, common humanity and mindfulness, with less self-judgment, isolation and overidentification.](https://korrents.com/k/self-compassion-has-six-elements-self-kindness-common-79f5f1)
- [Self-compassion is a productive way to approach distressing thoughts and emotions, and it supports mental and physical well-being.](https://korrents.com/k/self-compassion-is-a-productive-way-to-77d652)
- [The common worries that self-compassion is weak, selfish, self-indulgent or undermines motivation are myths.](https://korrents.com/k/the-common-worries-that-self-compassion-is-046a93)
- [Experts facing time pressure decide by recognition, a blend of intuition and analysis, and this accounted for almost 90% of firefighters' hard decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/experts-facing-time-pressure-decide-by-581b44)
- [Teaching people a decision model is useless, because the intuition it rests on is built from experience and has no shortcut.](https://korrents.com/k/teaching-people-a-decision-model-is-5c9e58)
- [Debiasing has largely failed, and that is fine, because the biases identified are experience-built heuristics that only look like biases in hindsight.](https://korrents.com/k/debiasing-has-largely-failed-and-that-cf313f)
- [Decision-bias research is itself biased, studying only how heuristics fail and never the strength they supply.](https://korrents.com/k/decision-bias-research-is-itself-biased-studying-5a579a)
- [Emotions are how a person draws on accumulated patterns, so people who lose access to them make worse decisions rather than more rational ones.](https://korrents.com/k/emotions-are-how-a-person-draws-de9a1e)
- [A pre-mortem has to treat the failure as certain and ask why it happened; asking what could go wrong is too tentative to work.](https://korrents.com/k/a-pre-mortem-has-to-treat-the-f122bf)
- [Groups as a rule make terrible decisions; one person should decide and the group should only supply input.](https://korrents.com/k/groups-as-a-rule-make-terrible-95ec09)
- [Brainstorming together produces no more ideas and no better ones than having people generate ideas privately before sharing them.](https://korrents.com/k/brainstorming-together-produces-no-more-ideas-0fb943)
- [When two options are almost perfectly balanced the choice does not matter, and those are exactly the decisions people agonize over.](https://korrents.com/k/when-two-options-are-almost-perfectly-86d270)
- [A decision cannot be judged by its outcome, because good decisions fail through no fault of the decider and bad ones succeed by luck.](https://korrents.com/k/a-decision-cannot-be-judged-by-bd3b87)
- [A run of correct forecasts is not evidence of expertise, because among many forecasters some are right by chance.](https://korrents.com/k/a-run-of-correct-forecasts-is-313400)
- [Experts stay highly aware of their own mistakes, and the people who stall at competence are the ones who move on and forget theirs.](https://korrents.com/k/experts-stay-highly-aware-of-their-b1401f)
- [Breaking through a skill plateau requires unlearning beliefs and conventions that are wrong or narrower than assumed.](https://korrents.com/k/breaking-through-a-skill-plateau-requires-510a34)
- [Fixation errors come from explaining away anomalies and holding on to a wrong first impression until it is far too late.](https://korrents.com/k/fixation-errors-come-from-explaining-away-a5d91e)
- [Scientists use the same knowledge shields as everyone else, explaining away inconvenient data to hold on to their story.](https://korrents.com/k/scientists-use-the-same-knowledge-shields-0a3152)
- [Organizations sincerely believe they want insights and still suppress them, because insights are disorganizing.](https://korrents.com/k/organizations-sincerely-believe-they-want-insights-d97cf4)
- [A company promoting its CFO to CEO is usually a bad sign for the business.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-promoting-its-cfo-to-5af417)
- [When an economic phenomenon is regionally concentrated, studying it at too fine a geographic scale risks analyzing it at the wrong level of aggregation.](https://korrents.com/k/when-an-economic-phenomenon-is-regionally-458af9)
- [In persistence studies of a historical shock, the estimated effect tends to attenuate over time.](https://korrents.com/k/in-persistence-studies-of-a-historical-852cdd)
- [A group only needs a marginal advantage over its rivals in management or business practice, not overwhelming superiority, to produce a meaningful long-run effect.](https://korrents.com/k/a-group-only-needs-a-marginal-b0d1ea)
- [Avoiding astringency in coffee is fundamentally a filtration problem rather than simply a matter of flow evenness.](https://korrents.com/k/avoiding-astringency-in-coffee-is-fundamentally-e9b412)
- [Grinding coffee too fine liberates more astringent compounds by breaking more coffee cells, causing astringency no matter how evenly water flows.](https://korrents.com/k/grinding-coffee-too-fine-liberates-more-0f500f)
- [The compounds responsible for astringency in coffee require very high water temperatures to dissolve efficiently.](https://korrents.com/k/the-compounds-responsible-for-astringency-in-00a39d)
- [America can turn things around](https://korrents.com/k/america-can-turn-things-around-2e322a)
- [Zoning and building restrictions across most of the western world make housing in desirable towns extremely expensive.](https://korrents.com/k/zoning-and-building-restrictions-across-most-aef6a1)
- [Fixating on the destination rather than the process leaves you stranded when things go wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/fixating-on-the-destination-rather-than-ef0549)
- [Cash welfare benefits contributed at least somewhat to the inflation of 2021-2022.](https://korrents.com/k/cash-welfare-benefits-contributed-at-least-3a34ea)
- [Stocks sustained by persistent online attention can stay overpriced for long periods, so overvaluation alone does not imply a near-term correction.](https://korrents.com/k/stocks-sustained-by-persistent-online-attention-a92c81)
- [Software design that assumes text behaves predictably like English reflects the cultural bias of its typically white American developers.](https://korrents.com/k/software-design-that-assumes-text-behaves-6b2095)
- [Because programming requires forgetting, developers should weigh the costs of their abstractions and who those abstractions leave out.](https://korrents.com/k/because-programming-requires-forgetting-developers-should-f54389)
- [Adding hydraulic resistance beneath an espresso puck reduces channeling by slowing the flow of water and making it more even across the coffee bed.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-hydraulic-resistance-beneath-an-espresso-99b4bc)
- [Flat burr grinders tend to deposit ground coffee preferentially on one side of the portafilter, an effect worsened by higher grinder RPM.](https://korrents.com/k/flat-burr-grinders-tend-to-deposit-662466)
- [Before railways an army could not carry the food it needed: anything longer than a few days in the field forced it to live off the country it was in.](https://korrents.com/k/before-railways-an-army-could-not-975d16)
- [About six weeks of supply is the most a pre-railway army could buy itself by adding carrying capacity, however many wagons it brought.](https://korrents.com/k/about-six-weeks-of-supply-is-393dd7)
- [The binding constraint on pre-modern campaigning was feeding the army every day it was in the field, not winning the battle at the end of it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-binding-constraint-on-pre-modern-campaigning-d827fe)
- [What survives an education is not the knowledge but the feeling it left behind.](https://korrents.com/k/what-survives-an-education-is-not-950b2f)
- [Knowledge decays fast when it goes unused, while the feeling a class left behind lasts for decades.](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-decays-fast-when-it-goes-09d5dc)
- [Almost all of education is organised around knowledge and skills, which are exactly the part that does not last.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-all-of-education-is-organised-e382d8)
- [We know a good deal about how people actually learn, and almost nobody is ever taught it.](https://korrents.com/k/we-know-a-good-deal-about-56da54)
- [Highlighting, rereading and summarising are poor ways to remember what you have read, and cramming is worse.](https://korrents.com/k/highlighting-rereading-and-summarising-are-poor-ae18c0)
- [Knowledge is cheap and easily acquired; what a person actually needs is curiosity, self-efficacy, perseverance, perspective and hope.](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-is-cheap-and-easily-acquired-7cb3d6)
- [Learning a technical skill turns less on memorising its parts than on accepting that you will feel stupid and carrying on anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-a-technical-skill-turns-less-dccaeb)
- [Every aircraft propulsion system is an air pump, and accelerating a large mass of air a little is always more efficient than accelerating a little air a lot.](https://korrents.com/k/every-aircraft-propulsion-system-is-an-e5a4f6)
- [The multicopter air taxi is energy-intensive by construction, which holds its range to about twenty miles however good the batteries get.](https://korrents.com/k/the-multicopter-air-taxi-is-energy-intensive-f50ef6)
- [Smart people tend to over-value optionality and under-value commitment.](https://korrents.com/k/smart-people-tend-to-over-value-optionality-e499b2)
- [A basic week might be about 60 percent weight training and 40 percent conditioning.](https://korrents.com/k/a-basic-week-might-be-about-76e005)
- [A workout can be long or hard but not both.](https://korrents.com/k/a-workout-can-be-long-or-1844e4)
- [A split only works if you stick to it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-split-only-works-if-you-ed9842)
- [Do cardio after the weights if the aim is overall physique and health.](https://korrents.com/k/do-cardio-after-the-weights-if-f96826)
- [Blending strength and conditioning may give a more well-rounded result than keeping them apart.](https://korrents.com/k/blending-strength-and-conditioning-may-give-3d34e7)
- [For strength, efficiency of movement is the aim; for muscle growth, inefficiency and discomfort.](https://korrents.com/k/for-strength-efficiency-of-movement-is-44db2b)
- [If an exercise for muscle growth feels comfortable, something is being done wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/if-an-exercise-for-muscle-growth-47cd45)
- [Building the mind-muscle connection is harder than keeping it.](https://korrents.com/k/building-the-mind-muscle-connection-is-harder-d62d77)
- [Muscle soreness is a guide to whether a muscle has recovered.](https://korrents.com/k/muscle-soreness-is-a-guide-to-a83466)
- [A drop of about 10 percent in grip strength is a sign to skip the gym that day.](https://korrents.com/k/a-drop-of-about-10-percent-ab9af7)
- [Warm-up matters more with age.](https://korrents.com/k/warm-up-matters-more-with-age-5f5ebe)
- [Engineers should own their code in production, and it is management’s job to make sure that on-call does not suck.](https://korrents.com/k/engineers-should-own-their-code-in-622c8d)
- [A permanently painful on-call rotation is a five-alarm emergency, not a normal cost of owning code in production.](https://korrents.com/k/a-permanently-painful-on-call-rotation-is-8cb8d4)
- [Being woken up two or three times a year on call is reasonable, and more than that is a management failure rather than an engineering one.](https://korrents.com/k/being-woken-up-two-or-three-31a780)
- [A sustainable on-call rotation needs seven or eight engineers.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sustainable-on-call-rotation-needs-seven-5116ae)
- [On-call is part of an engineer’s job rather than something to be paid extra for, except where paying for it is the only way to make management fund the reliability work.](https://korrents.com/k/on-call-is-part-of-an-engineer-0096d5)
- [The track record of thoughtful people predicting the long-run future is mediocre rather than hopeless, which is enough to take such predictions seriously.](https://korrents.com/k/the-track-record-of-thoughtful-people-e67650)
- [Writing one sentence per line, for your own eyes, improves prose more than any other habit.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-one-sentence-per-line-for-400806)
- [A sentence that cannot justify a line of its own should be deleted.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sentence-that-cannot-justify-a-47b844)
- [Weak openings like “I think” should be cut, and a sentence started on its subject and verb.](https://korrents.com/k/weak-openings-like-i-think-should-504b4a)
- [The best way to maximize impact is often through high-risk, high-reward strategies.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-way-to-maximize-impact-64c7c1)
- [Careers in AI and effective altruism are highly competitive.](https://korrents.com/k/careers-in-ai-and-effective-altruism-c45e74)
- [In any mentoring conversation, only a small fraction of what's discussed turns out to be highly valuable.](https://korrents.com/k/in-any-mentoring-conversation-only-a-7d3463)
- [Somebody with trauma should try a trauma-focused therapy such as EMDR before treating their nightmares directly.](https://korrents.com/k/somebody-with-trauma-should-try-a-5cc05e)
- [In prioritizing a list of tasks, the closest calls matter least while getting the very top item right matters most](https://korrents.com/k/in-prioritizing-a-list-of-tasks-2a7c19)
- [Having any ordering to follow, even an arbitrary one, helps overcome indecision about where to start work](https://korrents.com/k/having-any-ordering-to-follow-even-d4262e)
- [Alignment has to be right on the first try at a dangerous level of capability, because failing at that level leaves nobody to try again.](https://korrents.com/k/alignment-has-to-be-right-on-9887ef)
- [You cannot build an AI that has only the capabilities you want, because the algorithms that solve the problems you want generalize to the ones you do not.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-build-an-ai-that-c46931)
- [Nobody knows what is going on inside a large model, and the interpretability pictures we can draw do not answer the only question that matters.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-knows-what-is-going-on-351a27)
- [No observation of a model's behaviour can establish that it is aligned, because a model capable enough to be dangerous is capable enough to produce whatever behaviour it is being watched for.](https://korrents.com/k/no-observation-of-a-model-s-1859c0)
- [Fast capability gains are likely, and they can break many of the assumptions alignment depends on at the same moment.](https://korrents.com/k/fast-capability-gains-are-likely-and-7efb89)
- [Alignment failures that matter will not show up at safe capability levels, because the reason to hide misbehaviour only exists once hiding it pays.](https://korrents.com/k/alignment-failures-that-matter-will-not-a7e1bf)
- [There is no written plan for surviving AGI, and a world that was going to survive would have had one decades ago.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-written-plan-for-cb44cd)
- [The field calling itself AI safety is not being remotely productive on the problems that are actually lethal.](https://korrents.com/k/the-field-calling-itself-ai-safety-632420)
- [Aligning an AI is not impossible in principle; the problem is that it has to be done without the textbook that would make it look easy.](https://korrents.com/k/aligning-an-ai-is-not-impossible-099c85)
- [Americans agree on gun responsibility more than they disagree, and it should not be a partisan issue](https://korrents.com/k/americans-agree-on-gun-responsibility-more-a3c61f)
- [Americans are not as divided as they are being told they are](https://korrents.com/k/americans-are-not-as-divided-as-276a5c)
- [Politicians cannot truly lead if they live only for reelection](https://korrents.com/k/politicians-cannot-truly-lead-if-they-29a7b8)
- [Adding rules and complexity to a system drains it of humanity and fun.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-rules-and-complexity-to-a-a15065)
- [Talking to customers about your product risks discovering that you are wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/talking-to-customers-about-your-product-8aa522)
- [Gun responsibility differs from gun control: a duty that preserves the Second Amendment right rather than a mandate that can infringe it](https://korrents.com/k/gun-responsibility-differs-from-gun-control-00d52e)
- [Keeping firearms away from dangerous people is the best way to protect the Second Amendment](https://korrents.com/k/keeping-firearms-away-from-dangerous-people-835d25)
- [Outside the military, buying an assault rifle such as an AR-15 should require being 21](https://korrents.com/k/outside-the-military-buying-an-assault-d8be1c)
- [A national waiting period to buy an assault rifle is an acceptable sacrifice for responsible gun owners](https://korrents.com/k/a-national-waiting-period-to-buy-6ab8f0)
- [The main obstacle to sound fiscal policy debate is a widespread, quasi-religious belief that public debt is inherently bad.](https://korrents.com/k/the-main-obstacle-to-sound-fiscal-60b910)
- [Low interest rates reflect underlying fundamental economic factors rather than central bank policy choices.](https://korrents.com/k/low-interest-rates-reflect-underlying-fundamental-4e9066)
- [A persistently low safe interest rate signals that capital is not very productive at the margin, an underlying economic problem rather than a policy variable.](https://korrents.com/k/a-persistently-low-safe-interest-rate-d5a286)
- [There is no tight relation between growth rates and interest rates, either theoretically or empirically.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-tight-relation-between-e3b674)
- [The decades-long decline in real interest rates across major economies was not caused by the Global Financial Crisis or the Covid crisis.](https://korrents.com/k/the-decades-long-decline-in-real-interest-bcdcd6)
- [Sovereign debt markets can suffer sudden stops in investor demand even without material changes in economic fundamentals.](https://korrents.com/k/sovereign-debt-markets-can-suffer-sudden-18bd86)
- [A longer average debt maturity protects a government from temporary interest-rate spikes and gives it more time to adjust to permanent rate increases.](https://korrents.com/k/a-longer-average-debt-maturity-protects-28321f)
- [Assessing whether government debt is sustainable is as much an art as a science.](https://korrents.com/k/assessing-whether-government-debt-is-sustainable-d632be)
- [Quantitative rules are not a reliable tool for ensuring government debt sustainability.](https://korrents.com/k/quantitative-rules-are-not-a-reliable-075739)
- [Public investment cannot be assumed to be automatically financeable by debt merely because it has high social returns.](https://korrents.com/k/public-investment-cannot-be-assumed-to-0a7db9)
- [There is no universal debt-to-GDP threshold beyond which government debt becomes unsustainable; sustainability depends on factors like the real interest rate.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-universal-debt-to-gdp-threshold-41f5ac)
- [A central bank can eliminate a self-fulfilling ('sunspot') debt crisis simply by credibly committing to buy as many bonds as needed at the low interest rate.](https://korrents.com/k/a-central-bank-can-eliminate-a-694ffc)
- [Central bank purchases of government bonds are not bailouts and do not automatically cause inflation, since they only change the composition of the consolidated government's liabilities, not their total.](https://korrents.com/k/central-bank-purchases-of-government-bonds-264c35)
- [Canceling government bonds held by a central bank creates no fiscal space, because the reduction in government interest payments is exactly offset by an equal reduction in the profits the central bank remits to the government.](https://korrents.com/k/canceling-government-bonds-held-by-a-fd7a43)
- [The probability of a self-fulfilling bad equilibrium in sovereign debt markets depends little on the debt level itself, but is much reduced by a rule linking the primary balance to debt service increases.](https://korrents.com/k/the-probability-of-a-self-fulfilling-bad-ec434b)
- [The price level behaves as the aggregate of mostly backward-looking decisions rather than as an asset price, except during hyperinflation, so expected future primary balances barely affect it today.](https://korrents.com/k/the-price-level-behaves-as-the-d5b95f)
- [A fiscal expansion when the economy is already at potential output prompts monetary tightening that dampens or eliminates its effect on output.](https://korrents.com/k/a-fiscal-expansion-when-the-economy-351b32)
- [Fiscal multipliers vary across time and place but are generally nonzero, positive for spending, negative for taxes, and larger when monetary policy cannot offset them.](https://korrents.com/k/fiscal-multipliers-vary-across-time-and-cc120d)
- [The lower a country's neutral interest rate, the smaller the fiscal and welfare costs of public debt and the larger its welfare benefits.](https://korrents.com/k/the-lower-a-country-s-neutral-b7ade9)
- [Judging by output kept near potential despite weak private demand, Japan's decades of high debt and low inflation reflect a qualified policy success, not failure.](https://korrents.com/k/judging-by-output-kept-near-potential-5cf05f)
- [During post-2008 fiscal consolidation, the costs of high public debt were overestimated and fiscal multipliers were underestimated, understating the output costs of austerity.](https://korrents.com/k/during-post-2008-fiscal-consolidation-the-costs-b2fb8d)
- [Automatic fiscal stabilizers give fiscal policy an advantage over monetary policy in stabilizing output because they act faster.](https://korrents.com/k/automatic-fiscal-stabilizers-give-fiscal-policy-7a79a1)
- [The world needs more tech companies that aren't solely focused on unicorn stardom](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-needs-more-tech-companies-dbd00f)
- [Bootstrapping can't help all startups](https://korrents.com/k/bootstrapping-can-t-help-all-startups-5203ea)
- [Remote work should be high on autonomy, flexibility, and creativity](https://korrents.com/k/remote-work-should-be-high-on-365027)
- [Making a change within a complex system tends to produce unforeseen and unintended consequences.](https://korrents.com/k/making-a-change-within-a-complex-4b80a9)
- [Experiencing a wild animal on its own terms creates a real connection that seeing the same animal in a zoo cannot.](https://korrents.com/k/experiencing-a-wild-animal-on-its-f78054)
- [Conflicts of interest in science may be unavoidable, and they are still a bad thing.](https://korrents.com/k/conflicts-of-interest-in-science-may-4e829c)
- [Scientists treat a political conflict of interest as something to be proud of, which they would never do with any other kind.](https://korrents.com/k/scientists-treat-a-political-conflict-of-0924d1)
- [Pure discovery learning, in which students are never shown how, fails badly.](https://korrents.com/k/pure-discovery-learning-in-which-students-d4156f)
- [Both instruction and practice are necessary for learning, and which of them comes first matters less than having both.](https://korrents.com/k/both-instruction-and-practice-are-necessary-0cb59b)
- [Everything around us exists because someone pushed it through with tenacity: the world is a museum of passion projects.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-around-us-exists-because-someone-d43869)
- [Bullshit jobs are more likely to proliferate in big companies than in small ones](https://korrents.com/k/bullshit-jobs-are-more-likely-to-fe9c95)
- [Major version numbers should not be treated as sacred, and any breaking change deserves a major bump regardless of size.](https://korrents.com/k/major-version-numbers-should-not-be-880edd)
- [Breaking changes should be released frequently in small batches rather than saved up for one big yearly major version.](https://korrents.com/k/breaking-changes-should-be-released-frequently-25f6ac)
- [Boundless accommodation of employee demands is not working](https://korrents.com/k/boundless-accommodation-of-employee-demands-is-552c2f)
- [Effortlessness is a myth, and no one should be ashamed of trying](https://korrents.com/k/effortlessness-is-a-myth-and-no-e0b0df)
- [Mistakes do not equal failure; they can lead to the best things in a life](https://korrents.com/k/mistakes-do-not-equal-failure-in-5bb015)
- [Perfection is unachievable because every goal involves trade-offs](https://korrents.com/k/perfection-is-unachievable-because-every-goal-317e78)
- [Unnecessary code is a burden that makes a codebase harder to change](https://korrents.com/k/unnecessary-code-is-a-burden-that-f67853)
- [Using a dependency carries ongoing maintenance costs, not just upfront convenience](https://korrents.com/k/using-a-dependency-carries-ongoing-maintenance-396c0f)
- [How much a metro builds relative to its population growth does not predict its rents; across the hundred largest US metros the correlation is essentially zero.](https://korrents.com/k/how-much-a-metro-builds-relative-9cf342)
- [The United States really is short several million homes, and the shortage shows up as a historically low vacancy rate rather than as too few homes per person.](https://korrents.com/k/the-united-states-really-is-short-0b88b2)
- [You cannot infer a housing shortage from how much a country is building, because how much it needs to build changes with its demography.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-infer-a-housing-shortage-d715d7)
- [The tighter a metro's restrictions on land use, the higher its rents; this is the strongest relationship anyone has found in the housing data.](https://korrents.com/k/the-tighter-a-metro-s-restrictions-71d78b)
- [Rents adjust to match what a region earns, which is why cities with flat or falling populations still get more expensive.](https://korrents.com/k/rents-adjust-to-match-what-a-4cf10e)
- [Most apparent trends in American housing are the Bay Area in disguise: a handful of outlier metros drive the correlations people quote.](https://korrents.com/k/most-apparent-trends-in-american-housing-0b8e6b)
- [The biggest risk is thinking that what worked yesterday will work tomorrow](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-risk-is-thinking-that-118c4b)
- [Self-compassion can be fierce as well as tender: protecting yourself, speaking up and taking action.](https://korrents.com/k/self-compassion-can-be-fierce-as-well-1a7b72)
- [Everyone needs a balance of fierce and tender self-compassion, like yin and yang.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-needs-a-balance-of-fierce-14eacd)
- [People think of compassion only as tender acceptance, though acts like protecting a child are compassion too.](https://korrents.com/k/people-think-of-compassion-only-as-7e4bae)
- [When we feel inadequate or make a mistake we go into threat defence, which blocks the care response we give others.](https://korrents.com/k/when-we-feel-inadequate-or-make-b716a0)
- [The first component of self-compassion is mindfulness: the willingness to turn toward and be aware of pain.](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-component-of-self-compassion-is-053d48)
- [Legitimate power is wasted if not exercised](https://korrents.com/k/legitimate-power-is-wasted-if-not-a493db)
- [Junior employees learn less without decisive action from seniors](https://korrents.com/k/junior-employees-learn-less-without-decisive-2c987e)
- [The cost of a good habit falls in the present and the cost of a bad habit falls in the future](https://korrents.com/k/the-cost-of-a-good-habit-f40467)
- [Companies create long-term customer and shareholder value by pursuing product strategies that delight customers in ways that are hard to copy and improve the business.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-create-long-term-customer-and-shareholder-2b97f7)
- [Predicting how much new content will drive growth is more art than science.](https://korrents.com/k/predicting-how-much-new-content-will-7ab797)
- [Following the news does not make a difference](https://korrents.com/k/following-the-news-does-not-make-ab4ab2)
- [The audience is getting more adept at picking up on the subplots](https://korrents.com/k/the-audience-is-getting-more-adept-b29d5f)
- [Remote work and flexibility will likely become the main way people work within ten years.](https://korrents.com/k/remote-work-and-flexibility-will-likely-478768)
- [The best people live everywhere, not in one area.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-people-live-everywhere-not-df6a12)
- [Flexible work only works when you trust the people on your team.](https://korrents.com/k/flexible-work-only-works-when-you-9dc1a7)
- [Video calls are good for keeping relationships, but not the best way to deepen them.](https://korrents.com/k/video-calls-are-good-for-keeping-a9fadb)
- [Design the culture you want, or it will be designed for you.](https://korrents.com/k/design-the-culture-you-want-or-aad98d)
- [American kids have less autonomy and independence than kids in some other countries](https://korrents.com/k/american-kids-have-less-autonomy-and-818aae)
- [Giving kids independence is beneficial for them](https://korrents.com/k/giving-kids-independence-is-beneficial-for-b7686a)
- [Twitter will regret either selling to Musk or not](https://korrents.com/k/twitter-will-regret-either-selling-to-7f0969)
- [Twitter's current management will continue to suppress divergent thought](https://korrents.com/k/twitter-s-current-management-will-continue-c51cd7)
- [Meetings are the biggest drag on a professional's schedule.](https://korrents.com/k/meetings-are-the-biggest-drag-on-1d0c70)
- [Hard work drives career success only up to a point, after which its returns diminish.](https://korrents.com/k/hard-work-drives-career-success-only-684dfe)
- [Climate change is the existential crisis of our time](https://korrents.com/k/climate-change-is-the-existential-crisis-b4bcd5)
- [Even at top-100 traffic levels most applications can be served by a simple monolith, and it is cheaper to build than a complex architecture.](https://korrents.com/k/even-at-top-100-traffic-levels-most-eb17ef)
- [Conference programmes and the tech press over-represent complex architectures, so teams copy techniques their scale does not need.](https://korrents.com/k/conference-programmes-and-the-tech-press-6f1273)
- [The cost of the engineering team dominates the cost of the machines it runs, so a slow language is usually an affordable choice.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cost-of-the-engineering-team-a77cfb)
- [Taking venture capital funding pushes a company toward extreme binary outcomes and pressures it to extract more value from customers.](https://korrents.com/k/taking-venture-capital-funding-pushes-a-f6a901)
- [Pulling Internet services out of Russia would do more harm than good.](https://korrents.com/k/pulling-internet-services-out-of-russia-dd012e)
- [Most people just don't care or think about your temporary struggles nearly as much as you might imagine they do](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-just-don-t-care-56a357)
- [The vast majority of customers care about you delivering a great service at a reasonable price above all else](https://korrents.com/k/the-vast-majority-of-customers-care-297f0b)
- [Oil demand will fall mainly because petrol cars get driven less, not because they are replaced by electric ones.](https://korrents.com/k/oil-demand-will-fall-mainly-because-6e2e74)
- [Electrifying high-mileage vehicles — trucks and vans — cuts oil demand more than electrifying private cars does.](https://korrents.com/k/electrifying-high-mileage-vehicles-trucks-and-vans-d55e77)
- [Most people will choose comfort among like-minded individuals rather than face opposition](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-will-choose-comfort-among-1aa8cb)
- [How science works can be reasoned about in advance, because the activity has invariants that do not change over time.](https://korrents.com/k/how-science-works-can-be-reasoned-437d57)
- [A contribution is a cost to the maintainer, not a gift: it is taking part, not merely using the code, that consumes a project’s scarcest resource.](https://korrents.com/k/a-contribution-is-a-cost-to-6abb28)
- [Funding should pay for maintenance, not features, because every new feature adds to the burden the money was meant to relieve.](https://korrents.com/k/funding-should-pay-for-maintenance-not-7af9fc)
- [Paying a maintainer must not buy a say in the project’s direction; funding and governance have to be kept as separate as possible.](https://korrents.com/k/paying-a-maintainer-must-not-buy-df9203)
- [A token monthly donation shows appreciation and achieves nothing else; sustaining a maintainer takes a real fraction of an engineering salary.](https://korrents.com/k/a-token-monthly-donation-shows-appreciation-769f30)
- [Once a machine is fast enough and the battery lasts long enough, making it lighter and slimmer really does count for more](https://korrents.com/k/once-a-machine-is-fast-enough-90076f)
- [A product leader must always be able to say what comes after the current strategy, not just execute it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-leader-must-always-be-01ef6a)
- [A new feature's near-term value is improved retention; its longer-term value is the ability to raise prices.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-feature-s-near-term-value-847979)
- [Netflix's next major strategic expansion will be into gaming.](https://korrents.com/k/netflix-s-next-major-strategic-expansion-7f9104)
- [Societies are less responsive to adjusting to reality as it evolves](https://korrents.com/k/societies-are-less-responsive-to-adjusting-a890de)
- [I think forgiving our trespassers is how we get out of this specific mess](https://korrents.com/k/i-think-forgiving-our-trespassers-is-875c8a)
- [Misperceptions of attitude change may hinder efforts to understand social worlds, distort democracy, and turn imaginary trends into real ones.](https://korrents.com/k/misperceptions-of-attitude-change-may-hinder-480285)
- [National discourse on contentious issues and resulting policies would be very different if people better understood how attitudes have and have not changed.](https://korrents.com/k/national-discourse-on-contentious-issues-and-4aa2a2)
- [Stereotypes of the past lead people to misperceive attitude change, and those misperceptions can legitimize policies people may not actually prefer.](https://korrents.com/k/stereotypes-of-the-past-lead-people-66823f)
- [Imaginary social trends can spuriously shape people's real beliefs and behaviors.](https://korrents.com/k/imaginary-social-trends-can-spuriously-shape-f31ad7)
- [Patient persuasion can change people's minds over time](https://korrents.com/k/patient-persuasion-can-change-people-s-3ba8f0)
- [Increasing language model size does not inherently improve following of user intent.](https://korrents.com/k/increasing-language-model-size-does-not-469216)
- [Large language models are not aligned with their users.](https://korrents.com/k/large-language-models-are-not-aligned-74e073)
- [Fine-tuning with human feedback is a promising direction for aligning language models with human intent.](https://korrents.com/k/fine-tuning-with-human-feedback-is-a-1ddad3)
- [The next-token language modeling objective is misaligned with following user instructions helpfully and safely.](https://korrents.com/k/the-next-token-language-modeling-objective-is-08aea7)
- [Humans are hard-wired to be of weak principles and strong tribal allegiance](https://korrents.com/k/humans-are-hard-wired-to-be-of-5fa37a)
- [The complexity of a JavaScript bundling and transpiling toolchain is not worth it](https://korrents.com/k/the-complexity-of-a-javascript-bundling-169d7a)
- [Most programmers do not want politicization in their community](https://korrents.com/k/most-programmers-do-not-want-politicization-a6b02a)
- [Everything you write that matters belongs in plain text files, because they are the only format that stays portable, non-commercial and readable for a lifetime.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-you-write-that-matters-belongs-9b156f)
- [Storing your own writing in a company's proprietary format is a mistake, because you will outlive the company.](https://korrents.com/k/storing-your-own-writing-in-a-ea62d0)
- [Plain text is the only format guaranteed to be readable on devices that do not exist yet.](https://korrents.com/k/plain-text-is-the-only-format-a69441)
- [Nothing you depend on to write should require an internet connection.](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-you-depend-on-to-write-a6330e)
- [A plain text file and a basic editor are everything anyone needs in order to think and write well; the extra tools add nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/a-plain-text-file-and-a-b15881)
- [Great product leaders cannot be reliably identified through an interview; you only find out by hiring them and seeing what happens.](https://korrents.com/k/great-product-leaders-cannot-be-reliably-1eb852)
- [An organization's culture is the accumulated judgment built up over time, and that judgment is what helps people make good decisions about people, products, and the business.](https://korrents.com/k/an-organization-s-culture-is-the-3edc99)
- [The best leaders don't just fit into an existing company culture — their own skills and behavior actively define what that culture is.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-leaders-don-t-just-11497b)
- [Social media gives a direct voice to anyone around the world](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-gives-a-direct-voice-da9644)
- [Public support galvanized by social media can expedite political action](https://korrents.com/k/public-support-galvanized-by-social-media-81d0a9)
- [Being smart and competent makes someone right more often, but not right every time.](https://korrents.com/k/being-smart-and-competent-makes-someone-9ffb07)
- [Mathematics gives practitioners corrective feedback on being wrong that moral philosophy lacks.](https://korrents.com/k/mathematics-gives-practitioners-corrective-feedback-on-c87974)
- [Maybe fallible humans have an inherent advantage over AI by being forgivable](https://korrents.com/k/maybe-fallible-humans-have-an-inherent-5700a4)
- [Might the next wave be abandoning social media altogether, and finding meaning in smaller groups again](https://korrents.com/k/might-the-next-wave-be-abandoning-81bb7c)
- [Smaller, more atomic pull requests make code review harder](https://korrents.com/k/smaller-more-atomic-pull-requests-make-312293)
- [Equating speech with violence legitimizes severe crackdowns](https://korrents.com/k/equating-speech-with-violence-legitimizes-severe-53bc05)
- [Email is the biggest exposure to cyber threats for any business.](https://korrents.com/k/email-is-the-biggest-exposure-to-ed8926)
- [Email should be protected at the application and content level, as web applications are.](https://korrents.com/k/email-should-be-protected-at-the-70cfc6)
- [Thinking harder about a decision has diminishing returns because reality is inherently unknowable.](https://korrents.com/k/thinking-harder-about-a-decision-has-874027)
- [Many highly intelligent people tend to be insecure and risk-averse.](https://korrents.com/k/many-highly-intelligent-people-tend-to-dcb2a7)
- [Pursuing a very low success-rate strategy can still be rational if a rare win is valuable enough.](https://korrents.com/k/pursuing-a-very-low-success-rate-strategy-f716a9)
- [Apple's current relationship with developers is not symbiotic](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-current-relationship-with-developers-26bfbc)
- [Good developers breed strong platforms](https://korrents.com/k/good-developers-breed-strong-platforms-31aa6b)
- [Letting one calculation take over a giving decision is disturbing, and there is still a strong case for it if you want your ethics to be principled and about other people.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-one-calculation-take-over-a-05d47d)
- [People can have civil and respectful debates on sensitive topics in the right environment](https://korrents.com/k/people-can-have-civil-and-respectful-cabd0f)
- [Hopefully competition authorities around the world will finally be forced to act](https://korrents.com/k/hopefully-competition-authorities-around-the-world-406f86)
- [Algorithmic optimization can optimize people to be resentful and angry online](https://korrents.com/k/algorithmic-optimization-can-optimize-people-to-59b9ab)
- [The more we imitate others, the faster we find our own style.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-we-imitate-others-the-fc47fb)
- [Originality and usefulness are not the same thing.](https://korrents.com/k/originality-and-usefulness-are-not-the-1eb4ab)
- [Innovation without imitation is a fool's strategy.](https://korrents.com/k/innovation-without-imitation-is-a-fool-3c566d)
- [The harder a skill is to put into words, the more it should be learned by imitation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-harder-a-skill-is-to-dd51be)
- [Reading a lot of good writing is among the best ways to become a good writer.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-a-lot-of-good-writing-4ea5d8)
- [Improving creative education starts with bringing back the benefits of apprenticeships.](https://korrents.com/k/improving-creative-education-starts-with-bringing-324379)
- [Learning to see like a painter is among the best ways to become a more articulate writer.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-to-see-like-a-painter-79f597)
- [Simpler tools can achieve high-fidelity user interfaces at a lower cost in complexity](https://korrents.com/k/simpler-tools-can-achieve-high-fidelity-user-d963c6)
- [The evidence behind mainstream sleep advice is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts present it as being.](https://korrents.com/k/the-evidence-behind-mainstream-sleep-advice-b17f00)
- [Most people sleep more than they need to, and are better off deliberately sleeping less.](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-sleep-more-than-they-0c651c)
- [Daytime sleepiness is a normal state to live with rather than a signal to sleep more, so the right amount of sleep is the least you can sustain.](https://korrents.com/k/daytime-sleepiness-is-a-normal-state-15b5dd)
- [Vaccinations do not prevent omicron infection](https://korrents.com/k/vaccinations-do-not-prevent-omicron-infection-19bdc1)
- [Forcing vaccines on people is a gross overreach of state power](https://korrents.com/k/forcing-vaccines-on-people-is-a-7720b4)
- [A healthy democracy engages with protesters to hear their claims](https://korrents.com/k/a-healthy-democracy-engages-with-protesters-5eb180)
- [No single way of modeling data and methods in code is universally correct; every approach is just a set of trade-offs.](https://korrents.com/k/no-single-way-of-modeling-data-cdc5f0)
- [Relying on metatables for method lookup tends to produce surprising, unpredictable behavior.](https://korrents.com/k/relying-on-metatables-for-method-lookup-c4ab8b)
- [Politicizing basic platforms for charity or finance is a terrible idea](https://korrents.com/k/politicizing-basic-platforms-for-charity-or-c01778)
- [Apple can apply their 27% tax to any developer's economic activity at will](https://korrents.com/k/apple-can-apply-their-27-tax-763da6)
- [The primary crisis in open source, if there is one, is mismatched expectations between givers and receivers](https://korrents.com/k/the-primary-crisis-in-open-source-7ff022)
- [Ethics based on common sense and the conventions of the time has a horrible track record.](https://korrents.com/k/ethics-based-on-common-sense-and-88dbcb)
- [The best opportunities to do good are the ones almost nobody is paying attention to.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-opportunities-to-do-good-e5a320)
- [Counting every being that can suffer, and applying consistent moral weights, yields conclusions its own defenders find uncomfortable and cannot fully endorse.](https://korrents.com/k/counting-every-being-that-can-suffer-edb748)
- [Any harm can in principle be outweighed by a small enough benefit delivered to a large enough number of people.](https://korrents.com/k/any-harm-can-in-principle-be-8bc941)
- [Ignorance of others' political views can be beneficial for collaboration](https://korrents.com/k/ignorance-of-others-political-views-can-0cf807)
- [A thought experiment serves to encourage speculation and logical thinking and to change paradigms.](https://korrents.com/k/a-thought-experiment-serves-to-encourage-74996a)
- [Thought experiments expose gaps in knowledge and help recognise the limits of what can be known.](https://korrents.com/k/thought-experiments-expose-gaps-in-knowledge-f98af4)
- [Thought experiments are a structured form of natural human curiosity about the world.](https://korrents.com/k/thought-experiments-are-a-structured-form-dcf369)
- [Philosophers use imagined scenarios not to reach a "correct" answer but to spark new ideas.](https://korrents.com/k/philosophers-use-imagined-scenarios-not-to-0fd066)
- [Although science usually needs empirical evidence, thought experiments may be used to develop a hypothesis or prepare for experimentation.](https://korrents.com/k/although-science-usually-needs-empirical-evidence-69f0c8)
- [Downplaying rare vaccine deaths might well have harmed trust in vaccines even more](https://korrents.com/k/downplaying-rare-vaccine-deaths-might-well-cf4cc9)
- [Some masks are ineffective in certain settings](https://korrents.com/k/some-masks-are-ineffective-in-certain-066b31)
- [A heavily centralised state is the most fragile kind: when Rome’s centre failed, its successors were left without the resources or administration to do what it had done.](https://korrents.com/k/a-heavily-centralised-state-is-the-431213)
- [An institution can outlive the state that built it: the Church survived the collapse of Roman political authority when Rome’s other institutions did not.](https://korrents.com/k/an-institution-can-outlive-the-state-0e7ecb)
- [The fall of the Western Roman Empire was a real loss of state capacity, not merely a change of management, and the evidence for that loss is ample.](https://korrents.com/k/the-fall-of-the-western-roman-76dc8d)
- [Urban life in the West did not merely change after Rome, it practically vanished, and had to be built again from scratch centuries later.](https://korrents.com/k/urban-life-in-the-west-did-88cc6c)
- [Electrification transfers badly from cars to aircraft, because a car engine is under 10% efficient while a modern aero engine is already 30 to 40%.](https://korrents.com/k/electrification-transfers-badly-from-cars-to-795258)
- [An airliner's empty weight is at least half its take-off weight, and no flying design has ever come in below 47%.](https://korrents.com/k/an-airliner-s-empty-weight-is-d344d1)
- [Electric aircraft projects have collected airline orders for specifications that fail a weight calculation taught in the first hours of flight training.](https://korrents.com/k/electric-aircraft-projects-have-collected-airline-fb7789)
- [Canceling someone for their speech is often a losing strategy](https://korrents.com/k/canceling-someone-for-their-speech-is-44a28d)
- [Giving voice to every fleeting emotion or thought is a pathology](https://korrents.com/k/giving-voice-to-every-fleeting-emotion-a72faa)
- [Reading further back in history shows that what feels new and unique to the present era is usually a very old pattern.](https://korrents.com/k/reading-further-back-in-history-shows-28c2d3)
- [Hostility to a new technology comes from people whose power rests on the old one, because the new technology reorders who holds status.](https://korrents.com/k/hostility-to-a-new-technology-comes-7f7883)
- [The deepest political conflict of the internet era is between those using the network to reinforce top-down power and those using it to disrupt it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-deepest-political-conflict-of-the-a3e025)
- [Open access to information makes a closed information regime on the Soviet model fundamentally impossible to sustain.](https://korrents.com/k/open-access-to-information-makes-a-45b3e3)
- [Learning from failure accumulates as psychic scar tissue that narrows what a person is willing to consider as they get older.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-from-failure-accumulates-as-psychic-ce1d2c)
- [A successful startup takes about five years to become an incumbent, and defending what it has built is the rational thing for it to do.](https://korrents.com/k/a-successful-startup-takes-about-five-144451)
- [The drift from attacking to defending is a temptation facing every incumbent rather than a fault of any particular company.](https://korrents.com/k/the-drift-from-attacking-to-defending-a22ff9)
- [There are no bad ideas among qualified people starting technology companies; there is only timing and execution.](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-no-bad-ideas-among-18ba94)
- [Every failed dot-com idea of the late 1990s has since been made to work by somebody.](https://korrents.com/k/every-failed-dot-com-idea-of-the-dc1430)
- [Young founders who appear to have no track record have almost always been working inside their problem for years already.](https://korrents.com/k/young-founders-who-appear-to-have-4ce2b8)
- [Investment performance should be judged at the level of a portfolio, never at the level of an individual investment.](https://korrents.com/k/investment-performance-should-be-judged-at-c59055)
- [Almost everything worth doing sits in a probabilistic domain where a perfect score is not available.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-everything-worth-doing-sits-in-3ee728)
- [Mass schooling was designed as a factory a century ago, has run on autopilot since, and does not fit the world it now serves.](https://korrents.com/k/mass-schooling-was-designed-as-a-503b51)
- [School reform cannot work, because the system being reformed has no intention of being reformed.](https://korrents.com/k/school-reform-cannot-work-because-the-f8f9f4)
- [When a system's incentives produce bad behaviour, the blame belongs entirely to whoever created the incentives.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-system-s-incentives-produce-8599b0)
- [Industries do not stay competitive markets; over time most settle into a monopoly or, more often, an oligopoly.](https://korrents.com/k/industries-do-not-stay-competitive-markets-36fad3)
- [Fines can put a price on criminal behavior](https://korrents.com/k/fines-can-put-a-price-on-6bd653)
- [The Mac is a secure platform without an App Store](https://korrents.com/k/the-mac-is-a-secure-platform-511086)
- [I'll go out on a limb and say most successful people actually like what they do](https://korrents.com/k/i-ll-go-out-on-a-76040b)
- [Free services are not really free](https://korrents.com/k/free-services-are-not-really-free-615177)
- [Giving something away for free can lead to a feeling of being taken advantage of](https://korrents.com/k/giving-something-away-for-free-can-dc0497)
- [Monopoly power can capture politics](https://korrents.com/k/monopoly-power-can-capture-politics-a76ad1)
- [Allowing sideloading does not necessarily lead to malware attacks](https://korrents.com/k/allowing-sideloading-does-not-necessarily-lead-c998b3)
- [When a story fits a contentious narrative someone already believes, they tend to become strikingly gullible](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-story-fits-a-contentious-fbf914)
- [Science requires an adversarial process to seek the truth](https://korrents.com/k/science-requires-an-adversarial-process-to-0d9bcf)
- [People overwhelmed by life might need a more meaningful burden rather than a lighter load](https://korrents.com/k/people-overwhelmed-by-life-might-need-10714f)
- [Competition breaks down once someone accrues dominant market power](https://korrents.com/k/competition-breaks-down-once-someone-accrues-f6f5c8)
- [Vaccine hesitancy amongst parents of small children is taken seriously in Denmark](https://korrents.com/k/vaccine-hesitancy-amongst-parents-of-small-b086a8)
- [There is a good argument that the world is better off if Musk runs Twitter into the ground](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-good-argument-that-701ec7)
- [Betting on wind and solar exclusively is a bad idea](https://korrents.com/k/betting-on-wind-and-solar-exclusively-b50f11)
- [Diversity is not a displacement for core competency](https://korrents.com/k/diversity-is-not-a-displacement-for-f303f8)
- [Making people of significantly varying competence work together is a struggle](https://korrents.com/k/making-people-of-significantly-varying-competence-935d03)
- [People do not want to run their own servers and never will, so a system has to distribute trust without distributing infrastructure.](https://korrents.com/k/people-do-not-want-to-run-8503ec)
- [web3 is not on a path away from centralised platforms, and its privacy story is already below the internet’s low bar.](https://korrents.com/k/web3-is-not-on-a-path-f9a0cd)
- [Many job applicants do not put in the effort to ensure their application fits the opening](https://korrents.com/k/many-job-applicants-do-not-put-ed11b0)
- [Most SaaS businesses of our size and above should own their infrastructure rather than rent it](https://korrents.com/k/most-saas-businesses-of-our-size-d4edb7)
- [The 2021 crackdown was a bounded correction, and it would take more than a regulatory campaign to defeat China's economic dynamism.](https://korrents.com/k/the-2021-crackdown-was-a-bounded-1cdd32)
- [China's cultural and intellectual output to the world is far smaller than its economic weight.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-cultural-and-intellectual-output-c5b939)
- [China's central government has a stronger record of pulling off politically difficult reforms than any other developing country.](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-central-government-has-a-59af0c)
- [Beijing deliberately rejects comparative advantage and targets a high level of manufacturing output for its own sake.](https://korrents.com/k/beijing-deliberately-rejects-comparative-advantage-and-972297)
- [Beijing diagnosed the dangers of financialization earlier than the United States did.](https://korrents.com/k/beijing-diagnosed-the-dangers-of-financialization-bd0f39)
- [America's pursuit of efficiency left it with neither the factories to make more goods nor the logistics to import them.](https://korrents.com/k/america-s-pursuit-of-efficiency-left-31c750)
- [Tolerating dissent and discussion is a sign of strength](https://korrents.com/k/tolerating-dissent-and-discussion-is-a-0faef2)
- [Fluvoxamine probably treats COVID, at about 60-40, and doctors should be prescribing it on those odds.](https://korrents.com/k/fluvoxamine-probably-treats-covid-at-about-c59348)
- [I think developers may care about hardware again as companies move away from cloud services](https://korrents.com/k/i-think-developers-may-care-about-fe15ba)
- [The world is made better when some attention is spent some of the time attending to these issues](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-is-made-better-when-a7f826)
- [Free software is meant to be exploited commercially, and the licence’s terms are the whole of what a company owes in return.](https://korrents.com/k/free-software-is-meant-to-be-7fea74)
- [Open source projects should adopt the commercial software playbook to compete for attention, and that professionalization is unequivocally good for open source.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-projects-should-adopt-the-f753f8)
- [Paying for open source is not a precondition of its sustainability; large projects can thrive while rejecting market-based terms entirely.](https://korrents.com/k/paying-for-open-source-is-not-932bb4)
- [The faith in a utopian outcome of a revolution is often based on faith rather than a clear plan](https://korrents.com/k/the-faith-in-a-utopian-outcome-1ec9d0)
- [Humans are bound to suffer from greed, inflict injustice, and harbor phobias](https://korrents.com/k/humans-are-bound-to-suffer-from-db82a2)
- [Software projects should break downstream users as little as possible, and make any breakage they do cause obvious and easy to fix.](https://korrents.com/k/software-projects-should-break-downstream-users-3f4189)
- [The software industry misunderstands backwards compatibility by focusing on narrow legalistic definitions rather than outcomes.](https://korrents.com/k/the-software-industry-misunderstands-backwards-compatibility-f57179)
- [Software upgrades that invalidate previously learned knowledge make programmers worse at their craft.](https://korrents.com/k/software-upgrades-that-invalidate-previously-learned-e67d86)
- [The evil now running wild in America did not begin with Trump and has been building for decades](https://korrents.com/k/the-evil-now-running-wild-in-38dabd)
- [Practising gratitude is a scientifically well-supported way to make yourself happier.](https://korrents.com/k/practising-gratitude-is-a-scientifically-well-supported-320692)
- [The world needs competent programmers](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-needs-competent-programmers-b8dbea)
- [Almost everything anyone believes rests on trusting other people, and there is no alternative to that.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-everything-anyone-believes-rests-on-78f5a0)
- [Occasionally suspending your trust in everyone and digging into one question as deeply as you can is the single most formative thing you can do for how you think.](https://korrents.com/k/occasionally-suspending-your-trust-in-everyone-f331e6)
- [Chips made on older process nodes have to get more expensive, because a new fab cannot make money selling at prices a fully depreciated fab set.](https://korrents.com/k/chips-made-on-older-process-nodes-219ffa)
- [Chips are getting more expensive mainly because they take more process steps, not because the tools got dearer.](https://korrents.com/k/chips-are-getting-more-expensive-mainly-2b7e37)
- [TSMC can pass its rising costs on because at the leading edge its customers have nowhere else to go.](https://korrents.com/k/tsmc-can-pass-its-rising-costs-461edf)
- [Chipmakers are consolidating into a few strategically important firms, so a fab is now a geopolitical asset rather than an industrial one.](https://korrents.com/k/chipmakers-are-consolidating-into-a-few-45d635)
- [Convenience means someone else makes your choices for you: the less you have to do, the less say you have](https://korrents.com/k/convenience-means-someone-else-makes-your-c223ac)
- [If you approve of every choice your child makes, your grip is too tight](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-approve-of-every-choice-2bdc5d)
- [Pursuing projects worth your time is key to working without regrets](https://korrents.com/k/pursuing-projects-worth-your-time-is-737b40)
- [Adding a dependency is a serious commitment requiring an audit and continued re-auditing, and the usual practice of not doing so is reckless.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-a-dependency-is-a-serious-65886f)
- [A hybrid is a poor machine because it carries two complete powertrains, and most e-bikes repeat the same mistake.](https://korrents.com/k/a-hybrid-is-a-poor-machine-cd2f27)
- [The e-bike market has no cheap standard model, which is what it would take to make the e-bike a mass product.](https://korrents.com/k/the-e-bike-market-has-no-cheap-93f130)
- [Build the product for yourself first: if it truly serves you, plenty of other people like you will want it too.](https://korrents.com/k/build-the-product-for-yourself-first-ec5209)
- [Once launch is cheap, the engineering effort spacecraft designers spend shaving off mass buys nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/once-launch-is-cheap-the-engineering-46db11)
- [NASA's Moon programme is still designed for a launch market that no longer exists.](https://korrents.com/k/nasa-s-moon-programme-is-still-ab5873)
- [The incumbent space contractors will lose their business to new entrants unless they learn to make far more hardware for far less money.](https://korrents.com/k/the-incumbent-space-contractors-will-lose-419779)
- [A small, highly aerodynamic aircraft can beat an airliner on fuel per passenger mile, because drag reduction gets harder as the fuselage grows.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-highly-aerodynamic-aircraft-can-d0b5d1)
- [The constraint on point-to-point air travel is runway and tarmac capacity, not room in the sky.](https://korrents.com/k/the-constraint-on-point-to-point-air-travel-927cf7)
- [What air travellers actually value is door-to-door time, and public policy tends not to measure it.](https://korrents.com/k/what-air-travellers-actually-value-is-b5a7e3)
- [Longtermism, which treats fulfilling humanity's long-term potential as the overriding moral priority, is a worldview worth defending.](https://korrents.com/k/longtermism-which-treats-fulfilling-humanity-s-ae9fe9)
- [Making humanity's long-term potential the overriding priority licenses imposing real costs on people who are alive today.](https://korrents.com/k/making-humanity-s-long-term-potential-the-247592)
- [Longtermism is not the same thing as caring about the long-term future or about future generations; it goes far beyond that.](https://korrents.com/k/longtermism-is-not-the-same-thing-62afb3)
- [The moral theory underneath longtermism treats people as containers of value rather than as the point of it, which is why creating more of them counts as making the universe better.](https://korrents.com/k/the-moral-theory-underneath-longtermism-treats-93a24c)
- [Effective altruism is deeply utilitarian in practice, whatever its members say about not being utilitarians.](https://korrents.com/k/effective-altruism-is-deeply-utilitarian-in-6a3cde)
- [The commitments of longtermism are themselves a major reason humanity faces so many risks to its survival in the first place.](https://korrents.com/k/the-commitments-of-longtermism-are-themselves-847f0c)
- [On a serverless platform, a runtime upgrade must never break a live application, because developers have no control over when upgrades happen.](https://korrents.com/k/on-a-serverless-platform-a-runtime-85d887)
- [When code passed its tests only because of a bug in the platform underneath, that is the platform's fault, not the developer's.](https://korrents.com/k/when-code-passed-its-tests-only-dfac1a)
- [Letting customers pin old runtime versions would undo part of the promise of serverless: that developers should not have to worry about updating their stack.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-customers-pin-old-runtime-versions-49b042)
- [A manager’s output is the output of their team and of the people they influence, not the work they personally produce.](https://korrents.com/k/a-manager-s-output-is-the-43a990)
- [A manager whose own code finishes every project is adding their value rather than multiplying the team’s.](https://korrents.com/k/a-manager-whose-own-code-finishes-8fd6ba)
- [Passing tasks to a team without the context behind them tells them they are the doers and the manager is the decider.](https://korrents.com/k/passing-tasks-to-a-team-without-c82004)
- [A new manager has to hand over the technical design work, because doing it themselves leaves the team no room to grow and the manager nobody to delegate to.](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-manager-has-to-hand-fa6f54)
- [Research programmes that identify or create pandemic-capable viruses teach the world how to make them, and should stop.](https://korrents.com/k/research-programmes-that-identify-or-create-2b6f6e)
- [The spread of pandemic-capable biology should be treated as a matter of international security, in the way nuclear physics is.](https://korrents.com/k/the-spread-of-pandemic-capable-biology-should-80db37)
- [Asking people what they are working on frequently and automatically gives a company a sense of progress](https://korrents.com/k/asking-people-what-they-are-working-55634b)
- [HTML is great for all subsequent renders](https://korrents.com/k/html-is-great-for-all-subsequent-cf1107)
- [Rushing information into your mind can create the illusion of knowledge.](https://korrents.com/k/rushing-information-into-your-mind-can-11817b)
- [True learning requires contemplation, implementation and returning to great ideas again and again.](https://korrents.com/k/true-learning-requires-contemplation-implementation-and-fc038f)
- [Knowing the name of something without its context is trivia, not knowledge.](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-the-name-of-something-without-ebac4f)
- [The smartest people seek deep understanding of a few ideas rather than consuming as much as possible.](https://korrents.com/k/the-smartest-people-seek-deep-understanding-3360e1)
- [Writing is an effective way to learn because putting ideas in your own words forces you to internalise them.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-is-an-effective-way-to-fc0fd8)
- [Systematic spaced repetition may be the lowest-hanging fruit in education.](https://korrents.com/k/systematic-spaced-repetition-may-be-the-cb09ff)
- [Feeling that you are learning does not mean you are.](https://korrents.com/k/feeling-that-you-are-learning-does-ce1ef0)
- [Conversation with native speakers teaches a language far better than a classroom.](https://korrents.com/k/conversation-with-native-speakers-teaches-a-7778ce)
- [Carbohydrate intolerance may be the primary cause of most hypertension.](https://korrents.com/k/carbohydrate-intolerance-may-be-the-primary-4de2eb)
- [Diets are typically unhealthy and ignore individual needs, so fat-burning is better pursued by matching natural foods to a person's own metabolism.](https://korrents.com/k/diets-are-typically-unhealthy-and-ignore-8f2d07)
- [Eating natural fats is vital for optimal health and fitness, and consuming fat promotes fat-burning only when eaten without junk food.](https://korrents.com/k/eating-natural-fats-is-vital-for-8035ae)
- [The realistic alternatives to Apple's App Store would end up worse than the App Store itself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-realistic-alternatives-to-apple-s-db9e00)
- [People often use a dominant app not because it's good, but because it's the only practical way to reach an important goal in their life.](https://korrents.com/k/people-often-use-a-dominant-app-4be3df)
- [Credit cards provide stronger fraud protection and easier recourse for unwanted charges than app stores do.](https://korrents.com/k/credit-cards-provide-stronger-fraud-protection-6b40bd)
- [Falling fertility is transmitted by the values that mass media spread, not by how rich any individual is.](https://korrents.com/k/falling-fertility-is-transmitted-by-the-4b409d)
- [Broad interests and diverse experience are hallmarks of the typical path to fulfilment and achievement, from athletes and artists to inventors and scientists.](https://korrents.com/k/broad-interests-and-diverse-experience-are-605ff1)
- [Nobel laureates are far more likely than other scientists to have a hobby unrelated to their work and tend to do more multidisciplinary work, as elite athletes sample widely before they specialise.](https://korrents.com/k/nobel-laureates-are-far-more-likely-396361)
- [Rails provides a bridge for generated JavaScript and leaves the answers to the JavaScript ecosystem](https://korrents.com/k/rails-provides-a-bridge-for-generated-f11948)
- [Software developers and designers aren't happy doing assembly line work](https://korrents.com/k/software-developers-and-designers-aren-t-38fe3e)
- [Agile was supposed to be liberating us from process, but its current incarnation doubled down on its alienation](https://korrents.com/k/agile-was-supposed-to-be-liberating-463ece)
- [Boeing's decline began when its management moved away from the factory and the engineers stopped running it.](https://korrents.com/k/boeing-s-decline-began-when-its-ee665a)
- [Allowing developers to use alternative payment methods won't bring about app armageddon](https://korrents.com/k/allowing-developers-to-use-alternative-payment-52cbee)
- [Spending time in green natural places can be another step toward better health and fitness.](https://korrents.com/k/spending-time-in-green-natural-places-88a4cc)
- [Class-action lawsuits can be bought with bribes](https://korrents.com/k/class-action-lawsuits-can-be-bought-with-2c3cbb)
- [I'm going to call the top on the cancel and censorship party](https://korrents.com/k/i-m-going-to-call-the-b9ff8d)
- [A language is a set of skills to be built, not a body of facts to be known.](https://korrents.com/k/a-language-is-a-set-of-9a3b4b)
- [Knowing conjugation tables, word lists and the names of the tenses has nothing to do with being able to use a language.](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-conjugation-tables-word-lists-and-d028a3)
- [Distraction is not something done to you: you turn to it willingly, to escape the discomfort of the thing you actually care about.](https://korrents.com/k/distraction-is-not-something-done-to-d8bf91)
- [Blocking apps and personal rules do not cure distraction, because they close the escape route without touching what is being escaped.](https://korrents.com/k/blocking-apps-and-personal-rules-do-a637e1)
- [Work that matters requires tolerating discomfort and boredom rather than escaping into distraction.](https://korrents.com/k/work-that-matters-requires-tolerating-discomfort-492758)
- [Product discovery is a decision-making process, and good discovery keeps the customer inside that process.](https://korrents.com/k/product-discovery-is-a-decision-making-process-4558f4)
- [Product discovery belongs to the whole trio -- a product manager, a designer and an engineer -- not the product manager alone.](https://korrents.com/k/product-discovery-belongs-to-the-whole-4ac536)
- [Life change never comes from one transforming plan; it comes from small adjustments to the life you already have.](https://korrents.com/k/life-change-never-comes-from-one-54ae95)
- [A life with a perfect record is not merely unlikely but already impossible, because the years you have spent cannot be undone.](https://korrents.com/k/a-life-with-a-perfect-record-6d26ce)
- [You are never really multitasking: at any moment you can only be doing one thing, and the strain comes from pretending otherwise.](https://korrents.com/k/you-are-never-really-multitasking-at-fb69f9)
- [The only thing a productivity system can do for you is help you choose slightly better what to do right now.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-thing-a-productivity-system-f5fc8f)
- [People cannot thrive while their primary psychological identification is with the news cycle rather than with their own lives.](https://korrents.com/k/people-cannot-thrive-while-their-primary-cd65b9)
- [The answer to living inside the news is not to stop reading it but to move your emotional investment back into the part of the world you can actually affect.](https://korrents.com/k/the-answer-to-living-inside-the-db0b06)
- [Having taken over the making of physical goods, Chinese firms are now moving up into designing, branding and selling them.](https://korrents.com/k/having-taken-over-the-making-of-7503dc)
- [There is no phase of life in which the problems are finally solved, and waiting to reach one is the mistake.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-phase-of-life-7d65db)
- [Nobody can get on top of everything, because you are part of the everything you are trying to get on top of.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-can-get-on-top-of-202d9d)
- [Liberty and duty go hand in hand, and that is what made America great](https://korrents.com/k/liberty-and-duty-go-hand-in-1ae5b0)
- [Success in America is American-made, not self-made: it rests on the country's principles and the generosity of Americans](https://korrents.com/k/his-success-was-not-self-made-but-e1632e)
- [The complexity of a JavaScript bundling and transpiling toolchain is a bargain worth making, and the right default for building web applications.](https://korrents.com/k/the-complexity-of-a-javascript-bundling-cf3984)
- [Concurrency is hard for novices and experts alike: even experts regularly get it wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/concurrency-is-hard-for-novices-and-01f81e)
- [The worst thing an application can do is tell a user their action succeeded when it did not.](https://korrents.com/k/the-worst-thing-an-application-can-f45aed)
- [A tracing requirement in an encrypted messenger gives up the confidentiality of who sent what, which is the part that protects the sender.](https://korrents.com/k/a-tracing-requirement-in-an-encrypted-5112bc)
- [Who sent what is not metadata, so an encrypted system that reveals it has given up more than the routing information it could never hide.](https://korrents.com/k/who-sent-what-is-not-metadata-d086b1)
- [Content tracing works by turning every user into a cooperating witness, whether or not they want to cooperate with the police.](https://korrents.com/k/content-tracing-works-by-turning-every-b3a1ec)
- [High-end networking services such as security, content delivery and reliability should be available for everyone.](https://korrents.com/k/high-end-networking-services-such-as-security-136b5b)
- [Nobody can consistently do more than about three or four hours a day of work that demands serious mental focus.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-can-consistently-do-more-than-e4d1ac)
- [The valuable skill is stopping and recovering while the work is still unfinished, not the capacity to push yourself harder.](https://korrents.com/k/the-valuable-skill-is-stopping-and-319ee4)
- [The main purpose of writing tests is to build confidence in the code, not to find bugs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-main-purpose-of-writing-tests-344f88)
- [Code that is difficult to test is a sign of other design problems.](https://korrents.com/k/code-that-is-difficult-to-test-41aad6)
- [The goal of testing should be tests that are easy to understand and maintain, not high coverage of everything.](https://korrents.com/k/the-goal-of-testing-should-be-7d08bb)
- [Shrugging that perfect security is impossible is the wrong lesson: the achievable goal is to wreck the economics of mass exploitation.](https://korrents.com/k/shrugging-that-perfect-security-is-impossible-a174f2)
- [What made NSO different was not its exploits but its scale: it turned state-grade surveillance into something any government could buy.](https://korrents.com/k/what-made-nso-different-was-not-1dd145)
- [Accurate computational approaches are needed to close the protein structural coverage gap and enable large-scale structural bioinformatics.](https://korrents.com/k/accurate-computational-approaches-are-needed-to-101369)
- [Existing protein structure prediction methods fall far short of atomic accuracy when no homologous structure is available.](https://korrents.com/k/existing-protein-structure-prediction-methods-fall-aad7e9)
- [A computational method can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even when no similar structure is known.](https://korrents.com/k/a-computational-method-can-regularly-predict-0567fb)
- [Contemporary physical and evolutionary structure-prediction approaches fall far short of experimental accuracy without a close experimental homologue, limiting biological utility.](https://korrents.com/k/contemporary-physical-and-evolutionary-structure-prediction--c039f5)
- [Using plants to alter consciousness is a practice as old as the human species and part of humanity's relationship with the natural world.](https://korrents.com/k/using-plants-to-alter-consciousness-is-29d496)
- [No plant should be illegal to grow because of its psychoactive properties.](https://korrents.com/k/no-plant-should-be-illegal-to-aa1dc7)
- [A refactor often needs to be deployed anyway, to check that nothing has broken.](https://korrents.com/k/a-refactor-often-needs-to-be-f2a87a)
- [Smaller, more atomic pull requests make code review easier.](https://korrents.com/k/smaller-more-atomic-pull-requests-make-837c7e)
- [Addiction is better understood as a symptom of trauma, social disconnection, depression or economic distress than as a disease in itself.](https://korrents.com/k/addiction-is-better-understood-as-a-cb851b)
- [The overwhelming majority of people who use hard drugs do not become addicted to them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-overwhelming-majority-of-people-who-1b542d)
- [Most of the harm caused by habitual illegal drug use comes from its prohibition rather than the drugs themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-harm-caused-by-3384a9)
- [Software teams that do not release software regularly are broken teams](https://korrents.com/k/software-teams-that-do-not-release-534713)
- [Builders reject new building systems rationally: a change to the process raises the odds of a catastrophic overrun by more than the innovation can save.](https://korrents.com/k/builders-reject-new-building-systems-rationally-9cfc4f)
- [A contractor's upside on a job is a single-digit margin and the downside is the whole company, and that asymmetry is why construction is conservative.](https://korrents.com/k/a-contractor-s-upside-on-a-958c81)
- [The person who specifies a new building system carries all its risk and none of its reward, a reverse moral hazard that keeps construction innovation out.](https://korrents.com/k/the-person-who-specifies-a-new-c296a4)
- [Making art is a job you turn up to whether or not you feel inspired, and the work only arrives for people who are already at the desk.](https://korrents.com/k/making-art-is-a-job-you-31a8b9)
- [A maker cannot summon the good line, only be at the desk when it arrives, and the outcome is not theirs to influence.](https://korrents.com/k/a-maker-cannot-summon-the-good-c019cd)
- [Big tech is about to meet its one real obstacle: sovereign governments with democratic mandates](https://korrents.com/k/big-tech-is-about-to-meet-0e0152)
- [Opposition to big tech's monopoly abuses is bipartisan](https://korrents.com/k/opposition-to-big-tech-s-monopoly-8551cc)
- [The Federal Reserve's average inflation targeting framework is a real commitment to hold inflation near a 2% average across the 2020s, so an overshoot now has to be offset by undershoots later.](https://korrents.com/k/the-federal-reserve-s-average-inflation-ca2c20)
- [Criticism that a simpler, scaled-up architecture underperforms a heavily hand-optimized baseline actually demonstrates why that architecture-scaling research matters.](https://korrents.com/k/criticism-that-a-simpler-scaled-up-architecture-867842)
- [Intelligence is the execution of small, simplicity-weighted programs found by search over smooth loss landscapes in overparameterized networks, approaching Bayes-optimal reasoning as scale increases.](https://korrents.com/k/intelligence-is-the-execution-of-small-e65eae)
- [General intelligence (g) reflects an overall pool of neural resources rooted in whole-body developmental integrity, making it a large mutational target rather than a distinct cognitive module.](https://korrents.com/k/general-intelligence-g-reflects-an-overall-779363)
- [Research on transformer-style attention mechanisms has not yet reached diminishing returns compared to alternative approaches.](https://korrents.com/k/research-on-transformer-style-attention-mechanisms-has-e1fda4)
- [Demanding that research be done cheaply tends to make it the most expensive kind of research.](https://korrents.com/k/demanding-that-research-be-done-cheaply-beba14)
- [Individual differences are essential to making sense of psychology and medicine.](https://korrents.com/k/individual-differences-are-essential-to-making-bc820e)
- [The right to repair is essential](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-to-repair-is-essential-7b9b31)
- [Publishing a standing list of your own mistakes, and correcting them, is part of doing science honestly.](https://korrents.com/k/publishing-a-standing-list-of-your-3eb6c9)
- [I think discussing societal politics at work has become stressful and counterproductive](https://korrents.com/k/i-think-discussing-societal-politics-at-92b20c)
- [Storing all emails forever does not make sense](https://korrents.com/k/storing-all-emails-forever-does-not-1851ab)
- [Nostalgia can be a trap to romanticize the past at the expense of the future](https://korrents.com/k/nostalgia-can-be-a-trap-to-9e8f43)
- [Legacy is about milestones in the rearview mirror without obligation to stop and linger](https://korrents.com/k/legacy-is-about-milestones-in-the-c8395c)
- [Apple is an accomplice to fraud](https://korrents.com/k/apple-is-an-accomplice-to-fraud-6213df)
- [The App Store is a classic monopoly tollbooth](https://korrents.com/k/the-app-store-is-a-classic-024436)
- [Apple uses its iPhone monopoly to gain an unfair advantage in other markets](https://korrents.com/k/apple-uses-its-iphone-monopoly-to-d405e1)
- [Extending the human lifespan past its natural ceiling will require deep genetic engineering, not just better healthcare.](https://korrents.com/k/extending-the-human-lifespan-past-its-28e48e)
- [People should feel free to enjoy art they love regardless of the artist's personal failings or beliefs.](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-feel-free-to-enjoy-bbcfb6)
- [Watching a film for the first time is exciting because part of the brain immerses itself in the plot as if experiencing it firsthand.](https://korrents.com/k/watching-a-film-for-the-first-dc47b3)
- [Over-investing in wind and solar may leave you with an expensive, unreliable, dirty grid without sovereignty](https://korrents.com/k/over-investing-in-wind-and-solar-may-700a44)
- [Security on the internet is based on system-level protective techniques](https://korrents.com/k/security-on-the-internet-is-based-33a5a5)
- [Apple should treat all app makers the same regardless of business model](https://korrents.com/k/apple-should-treat-all-app-makers-5a3ede)
- [Supervised pretraining on ImageNet is now obsolete for transfer learning, and ImageNet itself is just a contaminated validation set.](https://korrents.com/k/supervised-pretraining-on-imagenet-is-now-d65c75)
- [Psychedelic microdosing produces no effect beyond placebo.](https://korrents.com/k/psychedelic-microdosing-produces-no-effect-beyond-482b78)
- [Unsupervised learning trained on unfiltered, internet-scale image data now genuinely works.](https://korrents.com/k/unsupervised-learning-trained-on-unfiltered-internet-scale-b30fde)
- [Employees are happier when their bosses are technically competent](https://korrents.com/k/employees-are-happier-when-their-bosses-010e97)
- [Battery-electric airliners do not work even on optimistic assumptions, and the arithmetic said so before anyone built one.](https://korrents.com/k/battery-electric-airliners-do-not-work-even-183464)
- [A hybrid-electric airliner ends up heavier and more complex than the aircraft it replaces and delivers no fuel saving at all.](https://korrents.com/k/a-hybrid-electric-airliner-ends-up-heavier-8dedfb)
- [Sustainable aviation fuel cannot be scaled to the size of the fleet, because its feedstock competes with growing food.](https://korrents.com/k/sustainable-aviation-fuel-cannot-be-scaled-6655fc)
- [The constant quest for virality might make good ideas burn 10x as bright, but also 10x as short](https://korrents.com/k/the-constant-quest-for-virality-might-200aeb)
- [Cryptocurrency deserves to be dismissed: its problems outweigh its promise, and the trustless world it offers is not one worth wanting.](https://korrents.com/k/cryptocurrency-deserves-to-be-dismissed-its-ac71a4)
- [Apple and Google would not have announced these programs without the pressure](https://korrents.com/k/apple-and-google-would-not-have-5debf9)
- [It's easy for companies to commit to principles when they don't cost anything](https://korrents.com/k/it-s-easy-for-companies-to-934662)
- [Google's business model rests on the industrial-scale violation of privacy](https://korrents.com/k/google-s-business-model-rests-on-d88438)
- [Standing for something is a risk, so it takes courage and conviction, and we admire the people and companies who fight the fights worth fighting.](https://korrents.com/k/standing-for-something-is-a-risk-2c0c48)
- [Growing evidence suggests the brain performs a form of backpropagation-like learning.](https://korrents.com/k/growing-evidence-suggests-the-brain-performs-bf4b82)
- [NASA's lunar quarantine after the Apollo missions was theater meant to reassure the public rather than genuine biocontainment.](https://korrents.com/k/nasa-s-lunar-quarantine-after-the-9cae63)
- [More intelligent people tend to be better investors because of lower time-discounting, greater risk tolerance, and more accurate economic forecasts, not any single factor.](https://korrents.com/k/more-intelligent-people-tend-to-be-e5eb2f)
- [Happiness without material comfort is possible and may be more lasting, but it is playing on hard mode.](https://korrents.com/k/happiness-without-material-comfort-is-possible-1e1a10)
- [Today it is easier to fulfil the desire for material comfort than to renounce it.](https://korrents.com/k/today-it-is-easier-to-fulfil-7aa8d5)
- [Physical health is the foundation of everything.](https://korrents.com/k/physical-health-is-the-foundation-of-839204)
- [Happiness is a skill you develop, like nutrition and fitness, not something you are handed.](https://korrents.com/k/happiness-is-a-skill-you-develop-ea2dcf)
- [Your genetic set point is only about half of your happiness, and contentment is far more malleable than strength or intelligence.](https://korrents.com/k/your-genetic-set-point-is-only-4f1231)
- [Desire is a contract you make to be unhappy until you get what you want.](https://korrents.com/k/desire-is-a-contract-you-make-06c480)
- [Modernity probably brings more unhappiness than the past; acquiring things does not make people permanently happier.](https://korrents.com/k/modernity-probably-brings-more-unhappiness-than-2b4452)
- [Happiness is returning to a state where nothing is missing in this moment.](https://korrents.com/k/happiness-is-returning-to-a-state-f8758e)
- [Smart people are unhappy because they are smart, not smart because they are unhappy, and they can be both happy and smart with more work.](https://korrents.com/k/smart-people-are-unhappy-because-they-cd3a11)
- [Happier people are less likely to go out and change the world, but being unhappy is very inefficient.](https://korrents.com/k/happier-people-are-less-likely-to-556a0b)
- [Because everyone is now leveraged, the quality of your decisions is paramount.](https://korrents.com/k/because-everyone-is-now-leveraged-the-47f4bf)
- [Good decision-making and high leverage, not hard work, is the solution.](https://korrents.com/k/good-decision-making-and-high-leverage-not-ad40db)
- [Being happier and calmer increases your effectiveness, because a peaceful mind makes better decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/being-happier-and-calmer-increases-your-df9f91)
- [In an age of abundance, pursuing pleasure for its own sake leads easily into addiction.](https://korrents.com/k/in-an-age-of-abundance-pursuing-afa37b)
- [The modern struggle is individuals, cut off from tribe and religion, standing up to weaponized addictions.](https://korrents.com/k/the-modern-struggle-is-individuals-cut-5c06f0)
- [Addictions let you engage in fake play and fake work.](https://korrents.com/k/addictions-let-you-engage-in-fake-9ccdf6)
- [Breaking an addiction means changing your whole lifestyle, not only the physical habit.](https://korrents.com/k/breaking-an-addiction-means-changing-your-311092)
- [Looking forward to weekends and holidays is a problem: it takes the joy out of every day and accepts a life spent mostly suffering.](https://korrents.com/k/looking-forward-to-weekends-and-holidays-cc7a52)
- [What people really want is not peace of mind but peace from mind.](https://korrents.com/k/what-people-really-want-is-not-30b09d)
- [The mind is a useful tool that has become the master instead of the servant.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mind-is-a-useful-tool-f53f54)
- [Our evolved nature rewards pessimism, but in much safer times we should work past it towards peace.](https://korrents.com/k/our-evolved-nature-rewards-pessimism-but-963330)
- [Stress is an inability to decide what is important.](https://korrents.com/k/stress-is-an-inability-to-decide-439c25)
- [The ultimate goal is peace, not happiness.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ultimate-goal-is-peace-not-d7b6ab)
- [You cannot work toward peace directly, only toward understanding.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-work-toward-peace-directly-d01eb2)
- [Individuals search for truth while groups search for consensus, so what society wants for you is not always good for you.](https://korrents.com/k/individuals-search-for-truth-while-groups-988a3b)
- ['Money won't make you happy' is a social truth, not an individual one.](https://korrents.com/k/money-won-t-make-you-happy-c80b21)
- [Children are sent to school for education but get about an hour of it a day and indoctrination the rest of the time.](https://korrents.com/k/children-are-sent-to-school-for-89f52b)
- [Guilt is society programming you so well that you become your own warden.](https://korrents.com/k/guilt-is-society-programming-you-so-846474)
- [Self-improvement is a dressed-up form of self-conflict; understanding, not technique, changes you.](https://korrents.com/k/self-improvement-is-a-dressed-up-form-of-aeb785)
- [The search for peace is really the search for truth.](https://korrents.com/k/the-search-for-peace-is-really-3e2833)
- [Life is long enough if you spend it well.](https://korrents.com/k/life-is-long-enough-if-you-414b85)
- [The constraint of a limited lifespan is part of what gives life its meaning](https://korrents.com/k/the-constraint-of-a-limited-lifespan-c0d625)
- [When a company is no longer influenced much by the success of its new products, the people who end up running the show are the ads and data extraction people](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-company-is-no-longer-fa97fe)
- [Waiting until a project is pristine before sharing it creates an aura of perfection that intimidates and alienates](https://korrents.com/k/waiting-until-a-project-is-pristine-94e608)
- [NASA can still be reorganised into an agency that exploits cheap heavy lift, and the next administrator will decide whether it is.](https://korrents.com/k/nasa-can-still-be-reorganised-into-a82491)
- [Breaking up big tech companies is a mainstream idea](https://korrents.com/k/breaking-up-big-tech-companies-is-f08dcc)
- [Apple will probably eventually decide that fighting antitrust laws is not worth the damage to their brand](https://korrents.com/k/apple-will-probably-eventually-decide-that-543451)
- [The internet can be a grim place](https://korrents.com/k/the-internet-can-be-a-grim-fc22c0)
- [Capitalism's need for never-ending growth is killing the planet](https://korrents.com/k/capitalism-s-need-for-never-ending-growth-5d2993)
- [Big tech companies should not be allowed to act as debt collectors](https://korrents.com/k/big-tech-companies-should-not-be-707ea4)
- [Companies operating essential digital services should be separated from loanshark businesses](https://korrents.com/k/companies-operating-essential-digital-services-should-e99db6)
- [Workers should not have to give up all their privacy to work with others](https://korrents.com/k/workers-should-not-have-to-give-f6966b)
- [The wheels of justice may turn slowly but once they get going watch out](https://korrents.com/k/the-wheels-of-justice-may-turn-2fc9b6)
- [I think caring about privacy today is where caring about organic food was in the 90s](https://korrents.com/k/i-think-caring-about-privacy-today-4e07b9)
- [Apple's 30% tax on developers is unfair](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-30-tax-on-developers-d4d3a5)
- [Apple's behavior is harmful to the marketplace](https://korrents.com/k/apple-s-behavior-is-harmful-to-dca1be)
- [If negative emotion comes from underweighting sensory evidence, that explains EMDR: it forces high-precision attention onto something the mind usually represses.](https://korrents.com/k/if-negative-emotion-comes-from-underweighting-aa34dd)
- [Pandemic relief checks function mainly as retroactive social insurance rather than stimulus, because people receiving them during a pandemic save or pay down debt instead of spending.](https://korrents.com/k/pandemic-relief-checks-function-mainly-as-942846)
- [Resilience matters more than efficiency during a crisis.](https://korrents.com/k/resilience-matters-more-than-efficiency-during-f3cab9)
- [Monoculture farming is efficient but vulnerable, while polyculture farming is more resilient.](https://korrents.com/k/monoculture-farming-is-efficient-but-vulnerable-91f944)
- [People are not separate individuals protected by money and geography, but deeply interconnected.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-not-separate-individuals-protected-19f88a)
- [An adversarial GAN loss should only supplement a larger unsupervised or semi-supervised generative model rather than stand alone as a primary approach.](https://korrents.com/k/an-adversarial-gan-loss-should-only-98b270)
- [Mixture-of-experts models can scale stably but begin to show fundamental limits as they are scaled further.](https://korrents.com/k/mixture-of-experts-models-can-scale-stably-but-0ed064)
- [Directly optimizing prompt embeddings (prefix-tuning) yields better performance than even a single optimized text prompt.](https://korrents.com/k/directly-optimizing-prompt-embeddings-prefix-tuning-yields-dbd3e4)
- [Energy imbalance is a necessary link in the causal chain of obesity: there is no other way for the extra energy to arrive in the body.](https://korrents.com/k/energy-imbalance-is-a-necessary-link-6743f0)
- [The brain, not insulin or fat tissue, is what ultimately controls the energy balance equation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-brain-not-insulin-or-fat-7892e0)
- [Insulin levels do not predict who gains weight in ordinary life, which is hard to square with insulin being the primary cause of obesity.](https://korrents.com/k/insulin-levels-do-not-predict-who-c0fc40)
- [Body fat is biologically regulated, so losing weight provokes a starvation response that pushes the weight back on.](https://korrents.com/k/body-fat-is-biologically-regulated-so-b259c9)
- [Overeating can durably raise the level of body fat the body then defends, which is how weight ratchets up over a lifetime.](https://korrents.com/k/overeating-can-durably-raise-the-level-c5fea8)
- [Common obesity is not caused by a slow metabolism: people with obesity burn more energy, not less.](https://korrents.com/k/common-obesity-is-not-caused-by-563266)
- [TSMC's 2021 capital spending was far larger than the industry expected, and the size of the jump was the news rather than the profit.](https://korrents.com/k/tsmc-s-2021-capital-spending-was-3386f0)
- [TSMC's real advantage over its foundry rivals is that it can outspend them, not that it is technically ahead.](https://korrents.com/k/tsmc-s-real-advantage-over-its-3dfe30)
- [TSMC raises capital spending when it believes a wave of demand is coming, rather than after the demand has arrived.](https://korrents.com/k/tsmc-raises-capital-spending-when-it-e61e5f)
- [The case for a technological slowdown since about 1970 is not convincing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-case-for-a-technological-slowdown-e4f78a)
- [Progress used to run in several industries at once and now runs in one, which is what the slowdown actually consists of.](https://korrents.com/k/progress-used-to-run-in-several-911767)
- [Stagnation does not mean no progress; it means progress slower than the late 1800s to mid-1900s peak.](https://korrents.com/k/stagnation-does-not-mean-no-progress-8cdffb)
- [Pre-grant peer review predicts which research will have impact substantially better than chance does.](https://korrents.com/k/pre-grant-peer-review-predicts-which-research-357a54)
- [Reviewers can tell the obviously good from the obviously bad, but there is a messy middle where they cannot tell at all.](https://korrents.com/k/reviewers-can-tell-the-obviously-good-c21aac)
- [The cost of grant peer review is dominated by the time researchers spend writing applications, not by the reviewing itself.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cost-of-grant-peer-review-e9419d)
- [Almost nothing programmers believe is unique to software is actually unique to software.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-nothing-programmers-believe-is-unique-0ee134)
- [Software is not uniquely unpredictable; other engineering disciplines are hit by the same surprises and overruns.](https://korrents.com/k/software-is-not-uniquely-unpredictable-other-15ed99)
- [Software's real advantage over physical engineering is consistency: a component does what it is specified to do every time, while physical materials only fall within a tolerance.](https://korrents.com/k/software-s-real-advantage-over-physical-a20d3f)
- [The one uncontested difference between software and other engineering is velocity: changing software costs seconds where changing a physical system costs weeks and thousands of dollars.](https://korrents.com/k/the-one-uncontested-difference-between-software-df5f61)
- [Because software is the cheapest part of a system to change, other disciplines lean on it to paper over their own physical problems, and that reliance has killed people.](https://korrents.com/k/because-software-is-the-cheapest-part-4af15a)
- [Software is not less rigorous than traditional engineering; its record-keeping and automated verification are better than most of that field's.](https://korrents.com/k/software-is-not-less-rigorous-than-324b32)
- [Software's constraints are soft where traditional engineering's are hard, and that is one of the few real differences between them.](https://korrents.com/k/software-s-constraints-are-soft-where-851145)
- [Software development is separated from engineering by circumstance rather than essence, and most programmers could cross that gap without retraining.](https://korrents.com/k/software-development-is-separated-from-engineering-7d1ecb)
- [The argument about whether programming is engineering is conducted entirely by people who have never worked as engineers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-argument-about-whether-programming-is-c9c022)
- [People who worked as traditional engineers before moving into software say that software engineering is real engineering.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-worked-as-traditional-engineers-74a6d9)
- [Programming is mathematical work: it uses discrete mathematics rather than the continuous mathematics people picture when they say maths.](https://korrents.com/k/programming-is-mathematical-work-it-uses-5225cd)
- [Licensing is a political and social construct, so an unlicensed profession can still be doing engineering.](https://korrents.com/k/licensing-is-a-political-and-social-accb1c)
- [High consequences cannot be what makes work engineering, because most traditional engineering is low-stakes too.](https://korrents.com/k/high-consequences-cannot-be-what-makes-d3be76)
- [Value investing should mean buying whatever offers the better value proposition on all factors, not buying one side of the value/growth divide.](https://korrents.com/k/value-investing-should-mean-buying-whatever-93dba4)
- [The value-versus-growth distinction does not serve investors well in a fast-changing world.](https://korrents.com/k/the-value-versus-growth-distinction-does-not-serve-d38927)
- [Readily measurable indicators of cheapness are no longer sufficient on their own to produce a sustainable investing edge.](https://korrents.com/k/readily-measurable-indicators-of-cheapness-are-b13b7d)
- [Donald Trump is a failed leader who will go down in history as the worst president ever](https://korrents.com/k/donald-trump-is-a-failed-leader-447b6c)
- [Elected officials should have a public servant's heart, serving something larger than their own power or party](https://korrents.com/k/elected-officials-should-have-a-public-336fbb)
- [Like tempered steel, democracy grows stronger the more it is tested](https://korrents.com/k/like-tempered-steel-democracy-grows-stronger-569fe4)
- [Rising cost, not lost skill, is what drove all but three firms out of leading-edge chip manufacturing.](https://korrents.com/k/rising-cost-not-lost-skill-is-4349d9)
- [Only TSMC, Intel and Samsung can still manufacture at the leading edge, and that is a duopoly rather than a monopoly.](https://korrents.com/k/only-tsmc-intel-and-samsung-can-44bc55)
- [TSMC exists because Morris Chang concluded that competing with Intel on Intel's own business model was guaranteed to fail.](https://korrents.com/k/tsmc-exists-because-morris-chang-concluded-1203e5)
- [Good scientists can be shortlisted from their publication record, leaving human reviewers only the job of choosing among them.](https://korrents.com/k/good-scientists-can-be-shortlisted-from-2e86db)
- [Our minds have poor intuitions about what will improve our mood.](https://korrents.com/k/our-minds-have-poor-intuitions-about-c091bd)
- [Changing your circumstances, by losing weight or earning more, does less for happiness than people assume.](https://korrents.com/k/changing-your-circumstances-by-losing-weight-a82c01)
- [People seek solitude to lift their mood, but connecting with a friend would make them happier.](https://korrents.com/k/people-seek-solitude-to-lift-their-8908a3)
- [People are happier when they are helping others in need than when focused on themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-happier-when-they-are-4d14b2)
- [Communicators should stop showcasing people behaving badly and instead feature the many acting responsibly](https://korrents.com/k/communicators-should-stop-showcasing-people-behaving-324e3c)
- [Bemoaning an undesirable activity as frequent is a big mistake well-meaning communicators often make](https://korrents.com/k/bemoaning-an-undesirable-activity-as-frequent-4ab011)
- [Communicated social disapproval is enormously influential in directing human conduct](https://korrents.com/k/communicated-social-disapproval-is-enormously-influential-0a477d)
- [Identifying a harm in an AI system does not show that the system should not be deployed.](https://korrents.com/k/identifying-a-harm-in-an-ai-d04a83)
- [All-things-considered judgments in AI ethics will often require a complex evaluation of many factors.](https://korrents.com/k/all-things-considered-judgments-in-ai-ethics-will-d9d7e5)
- [Miles driven measures how well funded a self-driving company is, not how safe it is or how far ahead.](https://korrents.com/k/miles-driven-measures-how-well-funded-6cb881)
- [Every mile of public-road testing adds risk, so each one has to earn its keep.](https://korrents.com/k/every-mile-of-public-road-testing-adds-6db9f2)
- [Nobody can drive the billions of representative miles that would prove a self-driving system safe before deploying it, so deployment always precedes proof.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-can-drive-the-billions-of-c6a49e)
- [Making a living from your own open source means running it as a business and acquiring business skills, not waiting to be funded.](https://korrents.com/k/making-a-living-from-your-own-d77941)
- [Venture capital is the wrong money for an open source business, because its constraints make it hard to stay true to the mission.](https://korrents.com/k/venture-capital-is-the-wrong-money-a0463c)
- [Real democratic confrontation requires granting the other side legitimacy; delegitimising the opposition is not real democracy](https://korrents.com/k/real-democratic-confrontation-requires-granting-the-c80022)
- [Americans need to find simple shared values to rebuild trust in one another](https://korrents.com/k/americans-need-to-find-simple-shared-2f0fad)
- [Training equals workout plus rest, and overtraining can result when reduced rest is not matched by reduced workout time or intensity.](https://korrents.com/k/training-equals-workout-plus-rest-and-5c5eff)
- [Poor sleep can quickly lead to a lack of recovery, because sleep is a key part of it.](https://korrents.com/k/poor-sleep-can-quickly-lead-to-ac0e96)
- [Becoming more ethical means doing better than before, not maximizing value perfectly](https://korrents.com/k/becoming-more-ethical-means-doing-better-984f7e)
- [You can often create value for others without sacrifice, by deciding more wisely how to spend your time and what to do at work](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-often-create-value-for-4a01a4)
- [Too many not-for-profits forget that their main objective is creating value for those in need](https://korrents.com/k/too-many-not-for-profits-forget-that-their-5f385e)
- [Not-for-profits destroy value when they hire for-profit fundraisers who keep a share of what they raise](https://korrents.com/k/not-for-profits-destroy-value-when-they-hire-9dabb5)
- [Defining behavioural principles that protect against the worst parts of one's own psychology can be a winning investment strategy.](https://korrents.com/k/defining-behavioural-principles-that-protect-against-43498c)
- [The main fight in investing is with oneself: panicking, overreacting, underreacting, refusing to observe the present, living in the past or over-believing in the future are psychological traps.](https://korrents.com/k/the-main-fight-in-investing-is-a072af)
- [Understanding oneself and turning it into written guardrails that one sticks to is an important practice.](https://korrents.com/k/understanding-oneself-and-turning-it-into-ded4f4)
- [When the direction of a variable such as interest rates is unknown, one can allocate to sectors that benefit either way.](https://korrents.com/k/when-the-direction-of-a-variable-5150e1)
- [Observing the present in a reasonably unemotional and detached way makes it possible to put a plan together.](https://korrents.com/k/observing-the-present-in-a-reasonably-046e92)
- [Business school's teaching that redundancy is waste to be turned into profit and then compensation is something people have fully bought into.](https://korrents.com/k/business-school-s-teaching-that-redundancy-1909f5)
- [Letting oneself be seduced by the narrative of someone with strong views and believing it fully can show its nooks and crannies, as long as one then comes back to the centre.](https://korrents.com/k/letting-oneself-be-seduced-by-the-badd05)
- [A sense of someone's integrity builds from small observations over a long period, because people reveal themselves in small ways over time.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sense-of-someone-s-integrity-a004f4)
- [Obvious questions to CEOs draw practised answers, so pattern recognition built on them is brittle and superficial.](https://korrents.com/k/obvious-questions-to-ceos-draw-practised-9e882e)
- [Continuing to learn means that today's views will probably look slightly immature and naive later.](https://korrents.com/k/continuing-to-learn-means-that-today-71b528)
- [The Information Age could be a species-level shift comparable to the Industrial Revolution](https://korrents.com/k/the-information-age-could-be-a-c201d2)
- [The tech industry's economic and intellectual energy is directed away from human flourishing rather than toward it](https://korrents.com/k/the-tech-industry-s-economic-and-7738ba)
- [Two centuries of progress were a trend with real causes rather than a fluke, and can continue far into the future.](https://korrents.com/k/two-centuries-of-progress-were-a-03339e)
- [Progress is not driven mainly by material resources, so running out of them is not what would stop it.](https://korrents.com/k/progress-is-not-driven-mainly-by-092362)
- [Progress is not natural or automatic: it happens only while people believe it is possible and desirable, and it can stop.](https://korrents.com/k/progress-is-not-natural-or-automatic-4b5593)
- [There is no best or fastest way to learn a language; the question has no general answer.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-best-or-fastest-006dfb)
- [There is no best method in general, but there is a best method for each particular learner, and finding it is the work.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-best-method-in-9e60ca)
- [A method you hate will end in burnout however well it works for other people, so it should be abandoned rather than endured.](https://korrents.com/k/a-method-you-hate-will-end-1f649f)
- [People persist with the method they enjoy rather than the one that is supposed to be best, and that is what decides the outcome.](https://korrents.com/k/people-persist-with-the-method-they-8fbcdf)
- [His bidirectional translation method applies to every language he sets out to learn.](https://korrents.com/k/his-bidirectional-translation-method-applies-to-09c60a)
- [A small amount of obscure code that almost no one understands or knows about is critical infrastructure, and removing it would cause widespread system failure.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-amount-of-obscure-code-4e61cb)
- [The effort typing requires, not raw typing speed, is what determines whether it becomes a real obstacle to writing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-effort-typing-requires-not-raw-0d296f)
- [Discomfort or effort in typing that makes someone avoid writing things down is a genuine bottleneck that should be fixed, not dismissed.](https://korrents.com/k/discomfort-or-effort-in-typing-that-7c9e51)
- [The best position for a photographer is as an amateur, free from client expectations.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-position-for-a-photographer-0c0f0d)
- [Creative work should feel liberating and produce order and beauty from incoherent parts.](https://korrents.com/k/creative-work-should-feel-liberating-and-9d4ace)
- [Planned creative work is limited by one's means and imagination, while serendipitous work is unbounded by chance and the subconscious.](https://korrents.com/k/planned-creative-work-is-limited-by-aca1e9)
- [Automated tooling that works nearly all the time still imposes an ongoing maintenance cost, because it breaks unpredictably at the edges.](https://korrents.com/k/automated-tooling-that-works-nearly-all-18f226)
- [Building automation that doesn't address the actual bottleneck to shipping adds noise rather than helping ship.](https://korrents.com/k/building-automation-that-doesn-t-address-3011e7)
- [Books are almost always better than their film adaptations.](https://korrents.com/k/books-are-almost-always-better-than-c7fb4d)
- [Civilisational collapse can be fast: the Late Bronze Age shows a society coming apart over years rather than centuries.](https://korrents.com/k/civilisational-collapse-can-be-fast-the-273dce)
- [Societies rarely recognise their own collapse while it is happening: Roman and Mayan thinkers left almost no reflection on theirs.](https://korrents.com/k/societies-rarely-recognise-their-own-collapse-b00228)
- [In a dysfunctional society the loss of working knowledge becomes routine, and attempts to reverse-engineer what was lost do not always succeed.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-dysfunctional-society-the-loss-825929)
- [We behave as though we already live in a scientifically planned society that cannot collapse on any timescale worth worrying about.](https://korrents.com/k/we-behave-as-though-we-already-fb9fde)
- [Creativity consists of curiosity combined with the foresight to imagine what a new combination of ideas could produce.](https://korrents.com/k/creativity-consists-of-curiosity-combined-with-8e40dc)
- [Creativity is never created from nothing but is always a derivation from existing elements, with greater creativity meaning a more distant derivation.](https://korrents.com/k/creativity-is-never-created-from-nothing-143f81)
- [Making connections across different disciplines makes a person more creative.](https://korrents.com/k/making-connections-across-different-disciplines-makes-f61e2c)
- [Narcissists can change meaningfully in therapy, though nobody changes completely, and most of the work is persisting with empathic confrontation past the first rebuff.](https://korrents.com/k/narcissists-can-change-meaningfully-in-therapy-c110ad)
- [Narcissism runs along a spectrum rather than being a category, and schema therapy treats it by working back to what early life embedded.](https://korrents.com/k/narcissism-runs-along-a-spectrum-rather-5d93e6)
- [Nobody living with a narcissist should feel obliged to become their therapist.](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-living-with-a-narcissist-should-eca722)
- [Security for a platform that runs other people's code is never finished: hard real-world problems often have no simple fix, only defences built thicker and thicker.](https://korrents.com/k/security-for-a-platform-that-runs-eede25)
- [No one has fixed Spectre, not even with heavyweight virtual machines; everyone is still vulnerable.](https://korrents.com/k/no-one-has-fixed-spectre-not-5e59cc)
- [Many more Spectre vulnerabilities exist than have been published, and a well-funded government agency could be uncovering far more of them than researchers do.](https://korrents.com/k/many-more-spectre-vulnerabilities-exist-than-2219a2)
- [V8 is a wider attack surface than a virtual machine, but an extraordinary amount of effort goes into finding and fixing its bugs.](https://korrents.com/k/v8-is-a-wider-attack-surface-3afe69)
- [Farmers were the overwhelming majority of every pre-modern agrarian society — 80 to 90 per cent of it — and that single fact shapes everything else about how those societies worked.](https://korrents.com/k/farmers-were-the-overwhelming-majority-of-2aec94)
- [Pre-modern subsistence farmers were minimising the risk of starvation rather than maximising output, and their apparently backward practices are rational once that is understood.](https://korrents.com/k/pre-modern-subsistence-farmers-were-minimising-the-4d84ca)
- [A pre-modern countryside produces an enormous amount of food and almost no extractable surplus, which is the hard limit on everything the state above it can do.](https://korrents.com/k/a-pre-modern-countryside-produces-an-enormous-8f0ff9)
- [The "lazy peasant" is a slander of the leisured classes: pre-modern farmers stopped short of maximum effort because their priorities were not served by more of it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-lazy-peasant-is-a-slander-43035c)
- [The best-known popular history books are usually not written by the best historians in their fields, because writing popular history does not earn academic advancement.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-known-popular-history-books-are-9b6464)
- [The point of academic history is to put historical knowledge into the public’s hands so that the public can make better decisions with it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-point-of-academic-history-is-35f46b)
- [Impatience is a good thing: it is the best way to get faster at things, and being fast correlates strongly with being effective.](https://korrents.com/k/impatience-is-a-good-thing-it-f1b0e1)
- [Being robustly tolerable matters most when the expected costs of failure are high.](https://korrents.com/k/being-robustly-tolerable-matters-most-when-4cff8e)
- [The property of being robustly tolerable can be undervalued.](https://korrents.com/k/the-property-of-being-robustly-tolerable-a99c07)
- [A political system that allows a benevolent dictatorship also puts you at much greater risk of a malevolent one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-political-system-that-allows-a-30784b)
- [Every scientific field eventually exhausts itself: progress within a paradigm follows an S-curve and then runs out.](https://korrents.com/k/every-scientific-field-eventually-exhausts-itself-7bea7a)
- [The stock of useful scientific knowledge is bounded rather than endless.](https://korrents.com/k/the-stock-of-useful-scientific-knowledge-909587)
- [Ending systemic racism in the United States requires a large-scale anti-racist movement.](https://korrents.com/k/ending-systemic-racism-in-the-united-bb6cf7)
- [Systemic racism is deeply woven into the fabric of American society.](https://korrents.com/k/systemic-racism-is-deeply-woven-into-914a1e)
- [For anything we try, the optimal rate of failure often is not zero.](https://korrents.com/k/for-anything-we-try-the-optimal-29cc8d)
- [Never failing is a sign of being too risk averse, which is costly.](https://korrents.com/k/never-failing-is-a-sign-of-84a44e)
- [Someone who can afford to be less sensitive to risk is probably either irrational or privileged.](https://korrents.com/k/someone-who-can-afford-to-be-a29363)
- [Insurance against failure for people pursuing ethical careers would enable more of the risks needed to do the most good.](https://korrents.com/k/insurance-against-failure-for-people-pursuing-aeb312)
- [Life expectancy in Italy fell sharply between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from 35-40 years in the 1200s to 18 by 1500.](https://korrents.com/k/life-expectancy-in-italy-fell-sharply-aafee9)
- [The plague did not pass through in 1348 and leave: it stayed endemic in Europe for nearly four centuries afterwards.](https://korrents.com/k/the-plague-did-not-pass-through-553195)
- [Plague receded from Europe through fourteen generations of natural selection, not through any advance in medicine.](https://korrents.com/k/plague-receded-from-europe-through-fourteen-4e76de)
- [The golden-Renaissance myth damages our understanding of the Renaissance itself as badly as it damages our understanding of the Middle Ages.](https://korrents.com/k/the-golden-renaissance-myth-damages-our-understanding-0a50a5)
- [A mass death does not by itself produce a boom afterwards: expecting a pandemic to renew an economy on its own misreads what followed the Black Death.](https://korrents.com/k/a-mass-death-does-not-by-cd0d86)
- [Humans can generally perform new language tasks from few examples or simple instructions, while current NLP systems largely cannot.](https://korrents.com/k/humans-can-generally-perform-new-language-f8fddf)
- [Scaling up language models greatly improves task-agnostic few-shot performance, sometimes matching prior fine-tuning approaches.](https://korrents.com/k/scaling-up-language-models-greatly-improves-7ad3f8)
- [One-shot or zero-shot settings are the fairest comparisons to human performance and important targets for future work.](https://korrents.com/k/one-shot-or-zero-shot-settings-are-the-6e36aa)
- [In asynchronous, text-based communication, the loudest person in the room loses influence and it shifts to the best communicators.](https://korrents.com/k/in-asynchronous-text-based-communication-the-loudest-e472d1)
- [Face-to-face meetings are not inherently better than other forms of communication and can waste time just like anything else.](https://korrents.com/k/face-to-face-meetings-are-not-inherently-better-72d4e0)
- [Needing to gather everyone in the same room to make a decision indicates that too many people are involved in that decision.](https://korrents.com/k/needing-to-gather-everyone-in-the-3102b3)
- [Low-level operating system APIs such as exec and getxattr performing synchronous network activity before returning to the caller is a serious design problem.](https://korrents.com/k/low-level-operating-system-apis-such-as-cba0a2)
- [Average solar electricity prices in sunny parts of the world will fall to one or two cents per kwh by 2030 or 2035.](https://korrents.com/k/average-solar-electricity-prices-in-sunny-a021a5)
- [Solar's future price should be predicted from how much has been built, not from how much time has passed.](https://korrents.com/k/solar-s-future-price-should-be-2dca74)
- [Demand for electricity will rise to absorb far more solar than is currently considered feasible.](https://korrents.com/k/demand-for-electricity-will-rise-to-1e1a20)
- [There is always a tradeoff between a system's efficiency and its resilience.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-always-a-tradeoff-between-4bbc2f)
- [A country's food system is shaped by agricultural and antitrust policy choices, not by a free market.](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-s-food-system-is-e6b96f)
- [Concentrating an industry into a few large companies makes its supply chain brittle, so a disruption at one company can cause damage throughout the system.](https://korrents.com/k/concentrating-an-industry-into-a-few-308bdb)
- [The world has no shared identity, because its citizens are not united by a common enemy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-has-no-shared-identity-8c4c31)
- [COVID-19 is a world problem that requires a world solution.](https://korrents.com/k/covid-19-is-a-world-problem-that-cbba62)
- [Closing borders in a pandemic is sound public-health policy.](https://korrents.com/k/closing-borders-in-a-pandemic-is-38cd1e)
- [A visible common enemy that kills quickly brings people together to cooperate.](https://korrents.com/k/a-visible-common-enemy-that-kills-797676)
- [Getting through a personal crisis first requires acknowledging that you are in one.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-through-a-personal-crisis-first-f204e7)
- [Manufacturing and mining in space will never be lucrative enough to pay for human settlement of space.](https://korrents.com/k/manufacturing-and-mining-in-space-will-8a3f35)
- [Space exploration has never had majority public support, not even at the height of Apollo.](https://korrents.com/k/space-exploration-has-never-had-majority-17dbe6)
- [When cutting jobs, communicate decisions only once every detail is settled, because partial transparency can make things worse.](https://korrents.com/k/when-cutting-jobs-communicate-decisions-only-159a36)
- [A crisis brings clarity about what is truly important.](https://korrents.com/k/a-crisis-brings-clarity-about-what-f58b48)
- [For Airbnb, the human part matters more than the travel.](https://korrents.com/k/for-airbnb-the-human-part-matters-02af86)
- [After the pandemic, travellers will want options closer to home, safer and more affordable.](https://korrents.com/k/after-the-pandemic-travellers-will-want-feb555)
- [Airbnb's business will fully recover from the pandemic, but the changes to it are not temporary.](https://korrents.com/k/airbnb-s-business-will-fully-recover-68adde)
- [Airbnb is about belonging, and love is at the centre of belonging.](https://korrents.com/k/airbnb-is-about-belonging-and-love-d8e00f)
- [The bureaucracy around clinical trials is Chesterton's Fence: it was built on the harm done by sloppier trials and should not be pulled down without knowing why it went up.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bureaucracy-around-clinical-trials-is-99ba7a)
- [Standardised manufacturing and documentation cannot be skipped when a drug is given to human beings, because the noise they remove is the noise that would otherwise swallow the answer.](https://korrents.com/k/standardised-manufacturing-and-documentation-cannot-be-bd3d3b)
- [About ninety per cent of drugs that enter clinical trials fail.](https://korrents.com/k/about-ninety-per-cent-of-drugs-948248)
- [Naming the parts of a vague distress is crucial to coping with it.](https://korrents.com/k/naming-the-parts-of-a-vague-d83abd)
- [The first step in regulating stress is to identify and put words to your feelings.](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-step-in-regulating-stress-0ea501)
- [If you do not accept your own feelings you cannot connect with other people's, and may shut them down.](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-do-not-accept-your-70c27d)
- [The deep life is the one in which attention goes deliberately to what matters and is not spent on what does not.](https://korrents.com/k/the-deep-life-is-the-one-1276d0)
- [Rather than coasting on intuition and taste, a data-informed person starts from the assumption that they know nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/rather-than-coasting-on-intuition-and-f86f0d)
- [Taste makes only a small ripple in a pond you already know; it is luck that sometimes carries it further.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-makes-only-a-small-ripple-a415e4)
- [Caffeine's stimulating effect on humans is an evolutionary byproduct of a plant's own defensive chemistry.](https://korrents.com/k/caffeine-s-stimulating-effect-on-humans-584f51)
- [Climate change will make coffee one of the crops most immediately threatened by rising temperatures.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-change-will-make-coffee-one-44e9d8)
- [Forming a mental association between sleep and work degrades sleep quality.](https://korrents.com/k/forming-a-mental-association-between-sleep-bcc9b3)
- [A team's productivity inevitably changes when it moves to remote work.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-s-productivity-inevitably-changes-3a03f7)
- [Time saved by not commuting belongs to the worker, not the employer.](https://korrents.com/k/time-saved-by-not-commuting-belongs-a07347)
- [Freed from having to be professional and scalable, programming becomes a different activity, as cooking at home differs from a commercial kitchen.](https://korrents.com/k/freed-from-having-to-be-professional-2368f0)
- [Software you build for your own family will not change unless you want it to.](https://korrents.com/k/software-you-build-for-your-own-839fdf)
- [Learning is unobstructed self-expression, and friction obstructs it](https://korrents.com/k/learning-is-unobstructed-self-expression-and-friction-f33368)
- [Being willing to look absurd can be an underused advantage when learning](https://korrents.com/k/being-willing-to-look-absurd-can-8c2b4a)
- [Learning a principle can teach far more than learning a single technique](https://korrents.com/k/learning-a-principle-can-teach-far-0d4b92)
- [Coming to an art late is a disadvantage but also frees a learner from insiders' assumptions](https://korrents.com/k/coming-to-an-art-late-is-6f50da)
- [Assumptions are worth examining, inverting and tearing apart](https://korrents.com/k/assumptions-are-worth-examining-inverting-and-cb6b2c)
- [The best teacher to imagine is one's own self decades in the future, who knows one most deeply](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-teacher-to-imagine-is-0351df)
- [People can learn to see the mental frames they look through](https://korrents.com/k/people-can-learn-to-see-the-c01404)
- [Where accurate feedback is scarce, as in investing, progress depends on creating feedback loops](https://korrents.com/k/where-accurate-feedback-is-scarce-as-3a1c48)
- [Fixing science's incentives means changing what journals, departments and funders are rewarded for, not only what scientists are.](https://korrents.com/k/fixing-science-s-incentives-means-changing-b55360)
- [The world can only be fixed together: injustice against women, Black people or the poor is everyone’s problem](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-can-only-be-fixed-2b5a2f)
- [People with friends of other races should show up when injustice hits those friends’ communities](https://korrents.com/k/people-with-friends-of-other-races-02be0d)
- [Fear is the emotion artists live and die by: it stops them beginning their work, carrying it through adversity, or finishing it when they are close.](https://korrents.com/k/fear-is-the-emotion-artists-live-77845e)
- [A design system built for the right reasons is reparative and one built for the wrong reasons is a weapon for displacement, because tools are always beholden to values.](https://korrents.com/k/a-design-system-built-for-the-2a3913)
- [A paper reporting an AI-generated molecule must publish the model's entire training set in detail, or the result cannot be judged.](https://korrents.com/k/a-paper-reporting-an-ai-generated-molecule-bb7f1a)
- [Most of the time spent working on software goes to reading, understanding and editing existing code, not writing new code.](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-time-spent-working-4001b9)
- [Well-written tests can serve as a partial substitute for product documentation.](https://korrents.com/k/well-written-tests-can-serve-as-a-0c82e3)
- [High code coverage does not guarantee that code is well tested or of high quality.](https://korrents.com/k/high-code-coverage-does-not-guarantee-2c777b)
- [Bugs and regressions are generally found at a higher level of the system rather than in small pieces of code.](https://korrents.com/k/bugs-and-regressions-are-generally-found-442ca7)
- [Hard peoples from harsh places are not better at war: at the dawn of civilisation it was the softest and richest societies that won most often.](https://korrents.com/k/hard-peoples-from-harsh-places-are-8b0a86)
- [States were born in the richest and easiest country, not in hard marginal land.](https://korrents.com/k/states-were-born-in-the-richest-8aad50)
- [Process knowledge — the experience of actually making things — matters more than tools or blueprints.](https://korrents.com/k/process-knowledge-the-experience-of-actually-5993d5)
- [Because Chinese workers make most of the world's goods, they accumulate more of the world's technological learning than anyone else.](https://korrents.com/k/because-chinese-workers-make-most-of-21871e)
- [Assembling other people's products was never mere assembly: it trained the engineers who now drive the marginal innovation in hardware.](https://korrents.com/k/assembling-other-people-s-products-was-024a83)
- [Putting research and manufacturing in the same place shortens the loop in which industrial knowledge circulates.](https://korrents.com/k/putting-research-and-manufacturing-in-the-2d3da5)
- [Western firms that kept the high-value work at home are betting the workforce they trained cannot absorb the technology, and that bet has already lost several times.](https://korrents.com/k/western-firms-that-kept-the-high-value-804ebc)
- [No country can keep a key technology to itself for long, because the knowledge leaves with the people who hold it.](https://korrents.com/k/no-country-can-keep-a-key-8cc8b4)
- [Only a handful of countries can do high technology at all, because industrial capability is path-dependent and the initial conditions are very hard to get right.](https://korrents.com/k/only-a-handful-of-countries-can-7602f5)
- [The skills America picked up while becoming an industrial power are what set it up for a century of technological leadership.](https://korrents.com/k/the-skills-america-picked-up-while-d09bcc)
- [Consumer internet is not the highest form of technology, and treating it as such pulls talent away from the industries that matter more.](https://korrents.com/k/consumer-internet-is-not-the-highest-d2fee4)
- [Judged against its market size and its stage of development, Chinese industry has underperformed rather than overperformed.](https://korrents.com/k/judged-against-its-market-size-and-51b972)
- [Be impatient with actions and patient with results, because results come out of complex systems and other people.](https://korrents.com/k/be-impatient-with-actions-and-patient-b4e058)
- [Knowing the catalogue of mental models is not the hard part; knowing which ones matter most, which to apply often, and in which circumstances is.](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-the-catalogue-of-mental-models-0bfbf5)
- [Thinking in terms of explicit mental-model checklists is less useful than focusing on the few lessons that keep proving important across many situations.](https://korrents.com/k/thinking-in-terms-of-explicit-mental-model-ae9e36)
- [The principal-agent problem, an incentives problem, drives a great deal of what happens in the world.](https://korrents.com/k/the-principal-agent-problem-an-incentives-problem-ec4d23)
- [Tit-for-tat in the iterated prisoner's dilemma is the piece of game theory most worth knowing.](https://korrents.com/k/tit-for-tat-in-the-iterated-prisoner-s-f7bb75)
- [Wealth is a positive-sum game: one person having a house does not stop anyone else from having one.](https://korrents.com/k/wealth-is-a-positive-sum-game-one-28d232)
- [Status is a zero-sum game: for one person to move up, someone else has to move down.](https://korrents.com/k/status-is-a-zero-sum-game-for-a737d3)
- [All the wealth in civilisation was created, and calling it stolen is a zero-sum status game.](https://korrents.com/k/all-the-wealth-in-civilisation-was-976745)
- [Anyone can become wealthy; it is merely a question of education and desire.](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-can-become-wealthy-it-is-07e2ac)
- [Making money is not about luck but about becoming the kind of person who makes money.](https://korrents.com/k/making-money-is-not-about-luck-7f05d9)
- [Build your character a certain way and your character becomes your destiny, so luck stops being luck.](https://korrents.com/k/build-your-character-a-certain-way-69ba81)
- [You probably cannot create wealth through work for a wage, because your inputs are tied too closely to your outputs.](https://korrents.com/k/you-probably-cannot-create-wealth-through-80a92b)
- [People living far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles cannot fathom.](https://korrents.com/k/people-living-far-below-their-means-9058dd)
- [You escape competition through authenticity, because no one can compete with you on being you.](https://korrents.com/k/you-escape-competition-through-authenticity-because-2a89df)
- [All the benefits in life come from compound interest, in relationships, money and learning.](https://korrents.com/k/all-the-benefits-in-life-come-889c78)
- [Generally, the more someone says they are moral and high-integrity, the less likely they are to be.](https://korrents.com/k/generally-the-more-someone-says-they-df5d5c)
- [Partners need energy as well as intelligence, because the world is full of smart, lazy people.](https://korrents.com/k/partners-need-energy-as-well-as-740131)
- [The most interesting things cannot be taught, but everything can be learned.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-interesting-things-cannot-be-fec80e)
- [Specific knowledge cannot be trained, because anything you can be trained for, someone else can be trained for too.](https://korrents.com/k/specific-knowledge-cannot-be-trained-because-05e7ba)
- [Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your innate talents, curiosity and passion, not by training for the hottest job.](https://korrents.com/k/specific-knowledge-is-found-by-pursuing-9586e0)
- [The best careers are apprenticeship or self-taught careers, because society has not yet figured out how to train and automate them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-careers-are-apprenticeship-or-0409cc)
- [The real giants in any field are the people who can both build and sell.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-giants-in-any-field-110ba6)
- [Read what you love until you love to read.](https://korrents.com/k/read-what-you-love-until-you-9ef709)
- [The ultimate foundations are mathematics and logic, which ground the scientific method.](https://korrents.com/k/the-ultimate-foundations-are-mathematics-and-1e67bc)
- [High accountability makes you less replaceable, which is how you earn equity.](https://korrents.com/k/high-accountability-makes-you-less-replaceable-037ead)
- [Taking accountability for your actions is taking an equity position in all your work.](https://korrents.com/k/taking-accountability-for-your-actions-is-315ac5)
- [People should take on far more accountability, because in modern society failure is not that much to fear.](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-take-on-far-more-a59db8)
- [The new forms of leverage, code and media, are permissionless and therefore egalitarian.](https://korrents.com/k/the-new-forms-of-leverage-code-8fde92)
- [We live in an age of nearly infinite leverage, and all the great fortunes are created through leverage.](https://korrents.com/k/we-live-in-an-age-of-b2acce)
- [Wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions; judgment is wisdom applied to external problems.](https://korrents.com/k/wisdom-is-knowing-the-long-term-consequences-c36697)
- [Intellect without experience is often worse than useless.](https://korrents.com/k/intellect-without-experience-is-often-worse-ac665a)
- [The more outraged someone is, the worse their judgment.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-outraged-someone-is-the-786369)
- [Set an absurdly high aspirational hourly rate for yourself and stick to it.](https://korrents.com/k/set-an-absurdly-high-aspirational-hourly-1cb19a)
- [Later in your career you have to ruthlessly cut meetings out of your life.](https://korrents.com/k/later-in-your-career-you-have-e1a777)
- [Reject most advice, but listen to enough of it to know what to reject.](https://korrents.com/k/reject-most-advice-but-listen-to-ddac1e)
- [A fit body, a calm mind and a house full of love cannot be bought; they must be earned.](https://korrents.com/k/a-fit-body-a-calm-mind-ae386c)
- [You can be ethical simply because you are long-term greedy.](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-be-ethical-simply-because-1791af)
- [Unregulated private equity buying up artists' music is a potentially harmful force in the music industry](https://korrents.com/k/unregulated-private-equity-buying-up-artists-9dfdff)
- [Women in music are held to a higher, sometimes impossible-feeling standard and are not allowed to coast](https://korrents.com/k/women-in-music-are-held-to-2026ca)
- [Empathy for your own group is worth little if it leads you to devalue other groups; you can care about people's feelings without sharing them.](https://korrents.com/k/empathy-for-your-own-group-is-5bcfe9)
- [The cognitive costs of air pollution are almost certainly still significantly under-emphasised -- most EPA materials do not mention them at all.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cognitive-costs-of-air-pollution-70c5a8)
- [A celebrated popular science book can consistently misrepresent the literature it summarises and contradict its own sources.](https://korrents.com/k/a-celebrated-popular-science-book-can-0c465d)
- [Getting the science wrong in a bestselling health book does real harm to the people who follow it.](https://korrents.com/k/getting-the-science-wrong-in-a-4c6ba9)
- [Eye movement reprocessing went from alternative to establishment, and moving your eyes while talking about a trauma does seem to help you process it.](https://korrents.com/k/eye-movement-reprocessing-went-from-alternative-7cf685)
- [Progress toward more intelligent artificial systems requires defining and evaluating intelligence so systems can be compared with each other and with humans.](https://korrents.com/k/progress-toward-more-intelligent-artificial-systems-b25c4b)
- [Solely measuring skill at any given task falls short of measuring intelligence, because skill is heavily modulated by prior knowledge and experience.](https://korrents.com/k/solely-measuring-skill-at-any-given-12d3ce)
- [The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus can measure human-like general fluid intelligence and enable fair comparisons between AI systems and humans.](https://korrents.com/k/the-abstraction-and-reasoning-corpus-can-46db82)
- [Both the special-purpose-programs view and the blank-slate view of human intelligence are likely incorrect.](https://korrents.com/k/both-the-special-purpose-programs-view-and-the-957925)
- [If intelligence is the process of acquiring skills, no single task demonstrates intelligence unless it is a meta-task of skill-acquisition across many tasks.](https://korrents.com/k/if-intelligence-is-the-process-of-ac6ef2)
- [Occam's razor holds that the simplest explanation is preferable to a more complex one, because simple theories are easier to verify and simple solutions easier to execute.](https://korrents.com/k/occam-s-razor-holds-that-the-053f59)
- [Occam's razor works best for making initial conclusions before the full scope of information can be obtained.](https://korrents.com/k/occam-s-razor-works-best-for-bb755c)
- [Like any mental model Occam's razor is not foolproof, and should be used with care.](https://korrents.com/k/like-any-mental-model-occam-s-33ca56)
- [A conclusion cannot rest on its simplicity alone; it must be backed by empirical evidence.](https://korrents.com/k/a-conclusion-cannot-rest-on-its-2908ba)
- [Occam's razor is no substitute for critical thinking; it is a tool for making that thinking more efficient.](https://korrents.com/k/occam-s-razor-is-no-substitute-e7de3b)
- [Code and files generated by tools are pollution: hand-writing them is worth the effort because the bloat slows everything down for everyone.](https://korrents.com/k/code-and-files-generated-by-tools-d40722)
- [Generators emit thousands of lines where ten would do, and that waste is why people think their phone is slow.](https://korrents.com/k/generators-emit-thousands-of-lines-where-66249d)
- [Delaying intuition until each dimension has been assessed separately and a whole profile exists tends to give a better judgment, because rapid intuitions are not particularly good.](https://korrents.com/k/delaying-intuition-until-each-dimension-has-a187e8)
- [Algorithms beat people at judgment, which is not intuitive but is true, so they are the first recommended remedy for noise.](https://korrents.com/k/algorithms-beat-people-at-judgment-which-23470d)
- [Noise is useless variability: unlike variability that has a selection mechanism and feedback, as in evolution, nothing is learned from it and it is costly.](https://korrents.com/k/noise-is-useless-variability-unlike-variability-e06110)
- [The best prediction is always less extreme than the impression it is based on, but intuitive prediction is non-regressive and ignores regression to the mean.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-prediction-is-always-less-e01b3c)
- [Forming an impression very quickly leads to spending the time confirming it rather than collecting evidence, so a wrong first impression is unlikely to be corrected.](https://korrents.com/k/forming-an-impression-very-quickly-leads-2310e5)
- [Organizations are a better hope than individuals for improving judgment, because they think more slowly and have procedures that can be controlled, while individual judgment is really hard to fix.](https://korrents.com/k/organizations-are-a-better-hope-than-80abb6)
- [A pre-mortem makes it possible to voice doubts when a group is nearing a decision, a point at which dissent is otherwise hard to raise.](https://korrents.com/k/a-pre-mortem-makes-it-possible-to-a84275)
- [Keeping track of decisions and how they turned out allows later evaluation of the procedures that produced the good and the bad ones.](https://korrents.com/k/keeping-track-of-decisions-and-how-887158)
- [Strong intuitions that seem clear lack a way of calibrating, which makes people wildly overconfident about what they know and reluctant to accept they may be wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/strong-intuitions-that-seem-clear-lack-2d28d0)
- [Published evidence should not be accepted just because it is published, since things can be published even if they are not true.](https://korrents.com/k/published-evidence-should-not-be-accepted-be032e)
- [A basic rule for better decisions is to slow down, especially when there is an immediate conviction.](https://korrents.com/k/a-basic-rule-for-better-decisions-f92b25)
- [The reasons people give for their beliefs are not the causes of those beliefs; mostly people believe because they trust certain others and adopt their beliefs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-reasons-people-give-for-their-77cb29)
- [Performing at the Super Bowl halftime show would have been selling out, enabling an organization whose conduct is objectionable](https://korrents.com/k/performing-at-the-super-bowl-halftime-ebde08)
- [Mass murder with legally bought weapons of war should never be normal, and classing such attacks differently by the attackers’ skin colour is racist](https://korrents.com/k/mass-murder-with-legally-bought-weapons-29e403)
- [President Trump would not have called the same attack by an Arab man a mental-health problem](https://korrents.com/k/president-trump-would-not-have-called-57f69d)
- [America stands for immigrants](https://korrents.com/k/america-stands-for-immigrants-0f1638)
- [Seeing what is wrong in the world, rather than living in a bubble, pushes people to want to be a light in it](https://korrents.com/k/seeing-what-is-wrong-in-the-b1377f)
- [Music is a way of speaking to the world in code, and an artist's other ventures flourish on top of it](https://korrents.com/k/music-is-her-first-language-with-84abac)
- [Once a fear is seen clearly it fades; what we think we are facing is more likely a distraction from what is actually holding us back.](https://korrents.com/k/once-a-fear-is-seen-clearly-6302fa)
- [Building an Internet that meets the world’s needs takes a global community collaborating, not any one company or individual.](https://korrents.com/k/building-an-internet-that-meets-the-b9eedb)
- [Partisan gerrymandering is bad for democracy: it insulates politicians from voters and pushes politics to the extremes](https://korrents.com/k/partisan-gerrymandering-is-bad-for-democracy-0efd2a)
- [Republicans who revoke California's clean-air waiver believe in states' rights only when it is convenient](https://korrents.com/k/republicans-who-revoke-california-s-clean-air-bf4359)
- [Understanding the causes of progress is a moral imperative, because progress is neither automatic nor guaranteed to continue.](https://korrents.com/k/understanding-the-causes-of-progress-is-db9397)
- [There is no raw material in space that could be mined and sold profitably on Earth.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-raw-material-in-2cc552)
- [Every ore worth mining already has an adequate supply chain on Earth, and that is what a space mine has to beat.](https://korrents.com/k/every-ore-worth-mining-already-has-84cd8b)
- [Psychedelics work by strengthening the brain's top-down priors](https://korrents.com/k/psychedelics-work-by-strengthening-the-brain-0f093d)
- [A writer should keep a public list of the things they got significantly wrong, so that readers can judge their credibility.](https://korrents.com/k/a-writer-should-keep-a-public-22767b)
- [Space-based solar power will never supply electricity to Earth, because it is thousands of times too expensive.](https://korrents.com/k/space-based-solar-power-will-never-supply-24a50b)
- [Even at Starship's promised prices, the cost of launching a power station dwarfs everything else about it.](https://korrents.com/k/even-at-starship-s-promised-prices-f5549b)
- [Selling information rather than matter or power to Earth is the only space business that has ever paid.](https://korrents.com/k/selling-information-rather-than-matter-or-6ac992)
- [The no-pain, no-gain mindset covers up the damage exercise abuse causes, and most people who exercise experience injuries.](https://korrents.com/k/the-no-pain-no-gain-mindset-covers-up-f5aef0)
- [Overtraining is a relatively simple problem: stress the body has not adapted to.](https://korrents.com/k/overtraining-is-a-relatively-simple-problem-5380d0)
- [Scientific progress in biology is not slowing down.](https://korrents.com/k/scientific-progress-in-biology-is-not-72e58d)
- [Short-termism and a lack of funding for young scientists are smaller problems in academia than outsiders assume.](https://korrents.com/k/short-termism-and-a-lack-of-funding-f2e744)
- [Academia has serious problems, but they are not as catastrophic as they look from outside it.](https://korrents.com/k/academia-has-serious-problems-but-they-7526cf)
- [Mass shootings are a relatively small share of American gun deaths compared to other causes.](https://korrents.com/k/mass-shootings-are-a-relatively-small-10f6e7)
- [Increased media coverage of mass shootings increases public fear of them.](https://korrents.com/k/increased-media-coverage-of-mass-shootings-bdee71)
- [Media coverage of mass violence functions as a socially acceptable outlet for anti-Trump sentiment.](https://korrents.com/k/media-coverage-of-mass-violence-functions-54c54f)
- [What gets called human error is design error: technology-centred design makes people do what machines are good at and then blames them.](https://korrents.com/k/what-gets-called-human-error-is-e17233)
- [Machines should do the parts of a task that people are bad at, so that people and technology work as partners on human terms.](https://korrents.com/k/machines-should-do-the-parts-of-6bf9a4)
- [Human-centred design starts by solving the root issue rather than the problem as presented, which is usually the symptom.](https://korrents.com/k/human-centred-design-starts-by-solving-the-d12bf7)
- [Experts should supply the facts and leave the methods to the people affected: a community will trust and implement a solution it chose itself, even one identical to the expert's.](https://korrents.com/k/experts-should-supply-the-facts-and-8c364c)
- [The rule to defer judgment encourages design by committee; effective teams do not defer criticism, they create through it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-rule-to-defer-judgment-encourages-cf8dd8)
- [The belief that an adult can no longer learn a good accent is false: singers and actors do it routinely.](https://korrents.com/k/the-belief-that-an-adult-can-3f8d16)
- [Failing to hear a language's sounds is what makes its words impossible to remember.](https://korrents.com/k/failing-to-hear-a-language-s-9ce863)
- [Translating in your head has a ceiling; thinking in the language is the only thing that gets past it.](https://korrents.com/k/translating-in-your-head-has-a-54de3c)
- [Removing translation from the process is what lets you think in the language from the beginning.](https://korrents.com/k/removing-translation-from-the-process-is-546cef)
- [Over-specifying a design makes it harder to estimate, not easier: the more specific the work, the more hidden complexity a mockup commits the team to.](https://korrents.com/k/over-specifying-a-design-makes-it-harder-293c79)
- [Work that is too fine too early commits everyone to the wrong details; shaped work is rough on purpose so designers and programmers can apply their own judgement.](https://korrents.com/k/work-that-is-too-fine-too-65828f)
- [Shaping is primarily design work: the shaped concept is an interaction design seen from the user's perspective, and it takes technical literacy, not programming.](https://korrents.com/k/shaping-is-primarily-design-work-the-795101)
- [Any specific mockup from someone senior biases everyone after them, so early design should be breadboards and fat-marker sketches that leave room for designers.](https://korrents.com/k/any-specific-mockup-from-someone-senior-27aa05)
- [Interface copy is an affordance: reading it is an act that gives the user information for what to do next.](https://korrents.com/k/interface-copy-is-an-affordance-reading-15679e)
- [Speed in software is probably the most valuable, least valued asset.](https://korrents.com/k/speed-in-software-is-probably-the-7431ee)
- [Fast software is not always good software, but slow software is rarely able to rise to greatness, because not breaking flow is an axiom of great tools.](https://korrents.com/k/fast-software-is-not-always-good-bfe272)
- [Speed is a good proxy for engineering quality: software that slows down on simple tasks suggests engineers who are not obsessive about detail.](https://korrents.com/k/speed-is-a-good-proxy-for-7ddeeb)
- [Software should unbloat over time: the longer it is around, the more elegant it should become.](https://korrents.com/k/software-should-unbloat-over-time-the-49cac1)
- [The best touch interfaces are physical buttons; on a screen, to feel tactile is to move without latency.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-touch-interfaces-are-physical-3f6f1f)
- [What limits science is how it is funded and organised, not how much money it gets.](https://korrents.com/k/what-limits-science-is-how-it-e83742)
- [Psychedelics may be therapeutic precisely because they act on the brain's highest-level beliefs.](https://korrents.com/k/psychedelics-may-be-therapeutic-precisely-because-5c95b5)
- [Psychedelics can loosen heavily held political, religious and philosophical convictions, not only pathological ones.](https://korrents.com/k/psychedelics-can-loosen-heavily-held-political-0aaefe)
- [With the right intention, care and context, psychedelics can help revise entrenched pathological beliefs.](https://korrents.com/k/with-the-right-intention-care-and-859149)
- [Robust scientific models of nature serve us best, because they are less likely to leave us open to dogmatism and instability.](https://korrents.com/k/robust-scientific-models-of-nature-serve-f04627)
- [Psychedelic therapy should integrate the material it releases into a person's existing mental models.](https://korrents.com/k/psychedelic-therapy-should-integrate-the-material-c86939)
- [Unsupervised use of psilocybin carries risks of a different order than unsupervised use of cannabis.](https://korrents.com/k/unsupervised-use-of-psilocybin-carries-risks-fa65dc)
- [Cannabis prohibition has been a foundation of the drug war and has led to mass incarceration that disproportionately affects people of color.](https://korrents.com/k/cannabis-prohibition-has-been-a-foundation-d0a413)
- [Smart political strategy requires deciding not only what to fight for but when to fight for it.](https://korrents.com/k/smart-political-strategy-requires-deciding-not-7f183f)
- [Risk comes not only from one's own ignorance but also from dealing with other people who do not know what they are doing.](https://korrents.com/k/risk-comes-not-only-from-one-c635ed)
- [Raising too much startup capital too early can reduce innovation rather than help it.](https://korrents.com/k/raising-too-much-startup-capital-too-f7014d)
- [Being unable to raise venture capital is not a tragedy for a business.](https://korrents.com/k/being-unable-to-raise-venture-capital-84e1d6)
- [Desire and the making of art draw on the same faculty, and neither dries up with age.](https://korrents.com/k/desire-and-the-making-of-art-ef32bf)
- [Sharing credit generously benefits everyone because it encourages future collaboration.](https://korrents.com/k/sharing-credit-generously-benefits-everyone-because-3a1827)
- [Failing to credit someone who deserves it does more harm than mistakenly crediting someone who doesn't.](https://korrents.com/k/failing-to-credit-someone-who-deserves-1b47b1)
- [People tend to overestimate their own contributions to collaborative work.](https://korrents.com/k/people-tend-to-overestimate-their-own-18f258)
- [The usual trade-off between quality and cost does not apply to software: high internal quality is the cheaper way to produce it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-usual-trade-off-between-quality-and-f100ca)
- [Poor internal quality begins to slow a team down within a few weeks, so almost no project is short enough for cutting corners to pay off.](https://korrents.com/k/poor-internal-quality-begins-to-slow-cd71f9)
- [Cruft is not carelessness: even the best teams inevitably create it, because the right design is only visible once the software has been built.](https://korrents.com/k/cruft-is-not-carelessness-even-the-0056a4)
- [Company sponsorships, not individual ones, are where open source funding has to come from.](https://korrents.com/k/company-sponsorships-not-individual-ones-are-09eff9)
- [Individual and corporate sponsorship of open source are two different products: a company buys support and visibility, a person buys a relationship.](https://korrents.com/k/individual-and-corporate-sponsorship-of-open-1f5028)
- [Psilocybin is a remarkably safe drug, with no known lethal dose and no addictive potential.](https://korrents.com/k/psilocybin-is-a-remarkably-safe-drug-3d09e6)
- [A psychedelic trip can, in rare instances, trigger a psychotic break in people vulnerable to serious mental illness.](https://korrents.com/k/a-psychedelic-trip-can-in-rare-959d9f)
- [Ballot initiatives are not the smartest way to establish a legal place for psychedelic therapy.](https://korrents.com/k/ballot-initiatives-are-not-the-smartest-101f76)
- [The most important thing a designer can do to make new technology usable is to simplify, and sometimes fewer features make a better product.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-important-thing-a-designer-461e79)
- [Given a complicated premise, the best thing a designer can do is stick to a conventional design and let the features surprise and delight.](https://korrents.com/k/given-a-complicated-premise-the-best-b396ef)
- [You know a design is great when it disappears: a superb typeface, good signage or a well-designed door handle is never noticed, only the absence of frustration.](https://korrents.com/k/you-know-a-design-is-great-82a9b1)
- [Programming languages shape how programmers think, similar to how spoken languages shape thought.](https://korrents.com/k/programming-languages-shape-how-programmers-think-b8d059)
- [Each programming language embodies a distinct mental model for thinking about computation and writing programs.](https://korrents.com/k/each-programming-language-embodies-a-distinct-c00526)
- [A programming language functions as a lens that shapes how a problem is perceived when solving it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-programming-language-functions-as-a-2cc3e4)
- [New licences are the wrong lever for paying maintainers: copyleft’s history shows terms companies ignore, and relicensing attempts get beaten back by their own communities.](https://korrents.com/k/new-licences-are-the-wrong-lever-3f1483)
- [Free riding is not open source’s problem: the users who only download the code impose no cost on anyone.](https://korrents.com/k/free-riding-is-not-open-source-6c92ff)
- [Information once freely shared cannot be taken back, so charging for access to code is a pre-digital answer to a digital problem.](https://korrents.com/k/information-once-freely-shared-cannot-be-86324b)
- [It is a misconception that artists must be miserable to make good art](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-a-misconception-that-artists-320269)
- [In cases of sexual assault, the victim should be believed](https://korrents.com/k/in-cases-of-sexual-assault-the-ccec37)
- [Society tells women that showing signs of ageing is the worst thing that can happen to them, an impossible standard to meet](https://korrents.com/k/society-tells-women-that-showing-signs-5dbce2)
- [A person with influence has a responsibility to use it against leaders' racist, fear-provoking rhetoric](https://korrents.com/k/someone-with-her-influence-has-a-9a9832)
- [Wanting badly to launch is itself a hazard: the pressure to fly is what turns small anomalies into accidents.](https://korrents.com/k/wanting-badly-to-launch-is-itself-fd8539)
- [Flexibly recombining past experiences should help in imagining the future, because the future rarely repeats the past exactly](https://korrents.com/k/flexibly-recombining-past-experiences-should-help-921880)
- [Memory research is broadening to how memory shapes future thinking, problem solving, decision making and creativity, and the trend is likely to continue](https://korrents.com/k/memory-research-is-broadening-to-how-415df8)
- [When safe interest rates are expected to remain below growth rates for a long time, rolling over public debt without later tax increases is feasible and public debt may carry no fiscal cost.](https://korrents.com/k/when-safe-interest-rates-are-expected-75f282)
- [A service business in games rests entirely on retention: a genre that cannot hold people across sessions cannot be sold as a service.](https://korrents.com/k/a-service-business-in-games-rests-e9e6ae)
- [A profit motive inside a game holds players there long past the point where they are still enjoying it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-profit-motive-inside-a-game-16bc66)
- [With compounding, the thing to do is trust the exponential and be patient.](https://korrents.com/k/with-compounding-the-thing-to-do-17112f)
- [Once the priorities are clear, get them done quickly: he has yet to meet a slow-moving person who is very successful.](https://korrents.com/k/once-the-priorities-are-clear-get-60d740)
- [Self-belief is immensely powerful: the most successful people he knows believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion.](https://korrents.com/k/self-belief-is-immensely-powerful-the-most-f108bc)
- [A sense of awe depends on the limits of the person who made the thing, so unlimited potential has nothing left to transcend.](https://korrents.com/k/a-sense-of-awe-depends-on-cd18db)
- [What moves a listener is not the song alone but a human being straining against their own limits, which is why a machine can write a good song and never a great one.](https://korrents.com/k/what-moves-a-listener-is-not-6d8a17)
- [Formal methods are not standard practice even in high-assurance software such as medical devices and aircraft.](https://korrents.com/k/formal-methods-are-not-standard-practice-511734)
- [The hard part of verification is not proving the code correct but working out what the specification should say.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hard-part-of-verification-is-1ef7c0)
- [Most distributed-systems outages would have been prevented by slightly more comprehensive ordinary testing, not by better tools.](https://korrents.com/k/most-distributed-systems-outages-would-have-been-47d3f6)
- [Full formal verification is a waste of money for most software: near-perfect is reachable with ordinary techniques at a fraction of the cost.](https://korrents.com/k/full-formal-verification-is-a-waste-7c8cb8)
- [There is a permanent trade-off in verification: an expressive language is hard to prove things about, and a language that is easy to prove things about is hard to write in.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-permanent-trade-off-in-42780d)
- [The problem the smartphone was invented to solve is now better solved by other devices, so its place in daily life rests on habit rather than necessity.](https://korrents.com/k/the-problem-the-smartphone-was-invented-3e8708)
- [A transport idea that does not scale does not matter, and it is for the rich: inefficiency is inequality.](https://korrents.com/k/a-transport-idea-that-does-not-39ee4b)
- [The real cost of transport demonstration projects is that they confuse decision-makers about whether mass transit still needs building.](https://korrents.com/k/the-real-cost-of-transport-demonstration-ecccab)
- [Over a long career it is important to try to treat failures and rejections as teaching signals](https://korrents.com/k/over-a-long-career-it-is-e98965)
- [Amid the focus on reproducibility and rigor, surprise and excitement still count as key elements of a career in psychological science](https://korrents.com/k/amid-the-focus-on-reproducibility-and-db26d9)
- [People who set Key Results often mistake completing a task for delivering an outcome that benefits customers.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-set-key-results-often-15c0ab)
- [A Key Result measured over just one week is too short a time horizon to be a good Key Result.](https://korrents.com/k/a-key-result-measured-over-just-dde562)
- [For a leader creating anything new, the skill needed more than any other is a deep sense of empathy.](https://korrents.com/k/for-a-leader-creating-anything-new-9808dc)
- [Empathy is not just for personal life: it is core to product development and to creating any value.](https://korrents.com/k/empathy-is-not-just-for-personal-dc19f8)
- [Tailwind is a good way to build a site you're happy with, even without strong CSS skills of your own.](https://korrents.com/k/tailwind-is-a-good-way-to-3263d5)
- [A software foundation is little more than a tax status, and gets less public accountability than a company because everyone assumes its motives are good.](https://korrents.com/k/a-software-foundation-is-little-more-cf7b05)
- [A single foundation is structurally at odds with a project whose contributors are distributed, and is easier to capture than the project is.](https://korrents.com/k/a-single-foundation-is-structurally-at-264d1c)
- [A project that skips forming a foundation still has to formalise its governance, or it drifts into a tyranny of structurelessness.](https://korrents.com/k/a-project-that-skips-forming-a-b0f230)
- [The pace at which the world changes is increasing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-pace-at-which-the-world-a1d5d8)
- [People who become skilled at making trade-offs live better lives as a result.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-become-skilled-at-making-7a7a74)
- [Large organizations tend over time to prioritize process at the expense of renewing their core business.](https://korrents.com/k/large-organizations-tend-over-time-to-96ba57)
- [Good things happen when you do not test implementation details: tests written with the React and Vue testing libraries look almost identical.](https://korrents.com/k/good-things-happen-when-you-do-49a94b)
- [People who cannot overcome the tendency to discount the future risk ending up elderly and poor.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-cannot-overcome-the-tendency-e8bf3e)
- [Having many children as a strategy against old-age poverty creates negative societal spillovers.](https://korrents.com/k/having-many-children-as-a-strategy-4f5dfc)
- [Current techniques restrict pre-trained representation power because standard language models are unidirectional.](https://korrents.com/k/current-techniques-restrict-pre-trained-representation-power-cd448c)
- [Unidirectional restrictions are sub-optimal for sentence-level tasks and harmful for token-level tasks that need bidirectional context.](https://korrents.com/k/unidirectional-restrictions-are-sub-optimal-for-sentence-lev-7fd49f)
- [Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.](https://korrents.com/k/pre-trained-representations-reduce-the-need-for-7782bf)
- [A deep bidirectional model is strictly more powerful than a left-to-right model or a shallow concatenation of unidirectional models.](https://korrents.com/k/a-deep-bidirectional-model-is-strictly-35a2e6)
- [An investor has extensive information about the past and the present but, by definition, none about the future.](https://korrents.com/k/an-investor-has-extensive-information-about-4c6d39)
- [A business is more likely to fail from taking on too much complexity than from lacking resources.](https://korrents.com/k/a-business-is-more-likely-to-2ba435)
- [A startup is not simply a smaller version of a large business, and what causes success or failure in one does not necessarily apply to the other.](https://korrents.com/k/a-startup-is-not-simply-a-c3a535)
- [Cities outlast businesses partly because their residents continually experiment with new solutions that let the city adapt to changing conditions.](https://korrents.com/k/cities-outlast-businesses-partly-because-their-6b3f8c)
- [A company building products should ask how each one affects individual privacy, and aim to be a leader on privacy.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-building-products-should-ask-0268ae)
- [A one-person business just getting started should not need an IT team to make its website fast and secure.](https://korrents.com/k/a-one-person-business-just-getting-started-31d847)
- [Open standards that everyone agrees on, rather than balkanized networks, are part of what made the Internet great.](https://korrents.com/k/open-standards-that-everyone-agrees-on-259f5f)
- [Free will is not a scientific reality but a myth inherited from Christian theology](https://korrents.com/k/free-will-is-not-a-scientific-edc3d2)
- [Belief in free will has become dangerous, since believers will be the easiest people to manipulate](https://korrents.com/k/belief-in-free-will-has-become-98df4d)
- [Knowing your own weaknesses matters especially, because they are the main tools of those who try to hack you](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-your-own-weaknesses-matters-especially-61f16f)
- [Liberalism's great advantage is that it is flexible and undogmatic and sustains criticism better than any other order](https://korrents.com/k/liberalism-s-great-advantage-is-that-b2dffb)
- [Liberal democracy should be defended as more benign than its alternatives and as least limiting of debate about the future](https://korrents.com/k/liberal-democracy-should-be-defended-as-ec870e)
- [People who explain everything with one big idea are bad at modelling the world, and the media selects for them because they sound confident.](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-explain-everything-with-one-fdf1aa)
- [Nutrition is one of the domains where beliefs track group identity rather than evidence, so an expert's claims there deserve more suspicion than in physics.](https://korrents.com/k/nutrition-is-one-of-the-domains-7dd6db)
- [The Commons Clause does not solve open source’s funding problem; it is a framework for turning open source software into proprietary software.](https://korrents.com/k/the-commons-clause-does-not-solve-c3b2aa)
- [A contributor licence agreement exists so the company can relicense volunteers’ work, and should neither be signed nor asked for.](https://korrents.com/k/a-contributor-licence-agreement-exists-so-83588c)
- [A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-few-hundred-dollars-a-month-93ce81)
- [Institutions die at succession, and it is two problems rather than one: handing over power, and handing over the skill to steer.](https://korrents.com/k/institutions-die-at-succession-and-it-4c9d3d)
- [Silicon Valley celebrates disruption because it has given up on institutions ever solving their succession problem.](https://korrents.com/k/silicon-valley-celebrates-disruption-because-it-9d99e4)
- [When a functioning organisation dies, capital that cannot be sold or transferred dies with it.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-functioning-organisation-dies-capital-45933e)
- [An engineering manager should support six to eight engineers: fewer and they drift into being a tech lead, more and they can only be a coach.](https://korrents.com/k/an-engineering-manager-should-support-six-44977a)
- [A group of fewer than four people is not a team: it behaves like a set of individuals, and a single departure knocks it back into maintenance.](https://korrents.com/k/a-group-of-fewer-than-four-52138c)
- [New teams should be budded off an existing team grown deliberately large, never created empty and staffed afterwards.](https://korrents.com/k/new-teams-should-be-budded-off-c11bdf)
- [Innovation should happen inside the existing teams rather than in a fresh team spun up for it, because a separate innovation team creates a two-tier class system.](https://korrents.com/k/innovation-should-happen-inside-the-existing-6fba40)
- [Every website needs HTTPS, including a static site with no login and nothing sensitive on it.](https://korrents.com/k/every-website-needs-https-including-a-d7e549)
- [A functioning institution is a rare exception and never grows by itself: it was assembled by a founder with good judgement.](https://korrents.com/k/a-functioning-institution-is-a-rare-179d22)
- [Repairing a dysfunctional institution is harder than building a functional one from scratch, because its internal forces resist change and the dysfunction is hard to diagnose in the first place.](https://korrents.com/k/repairing-a-dysfunctional-institution-is-harder-f49426)
- [Returns to effort do not visibly diminish; the binding constraint is how much hard work you actually enjoy, not where the curve flattens.](https://korrents.com/k/returns-to-effort-do-not-visibly-bb91fe)
- [A large fraction of what the people around you believe is mistaken, and nobody is going to teach you to think for yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/a-large-fraction-of-what-the-3a18f9)
- [Great work is usually done far younger than its fame suggests: people were grey-haired when they became famous, not when they did the work.](https://korrents.com/k/great-work-is-usually-done-far-a1fcf0)
- [The carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity is probably wrong: it does not fit the totality of the evidence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-carbohydrate-insulin-model-of-obesity-is-6e5c25)
- [The test of a scientific model is not whether supporting evidence can be found for it, but whether it fits the totality of the evidence.](https://korrents.com/k/the-test-of-a-scientific-model-777538)
- [Low-carbohydrate diets do cause fat loss and are a legitimate tool, even though the theory offered to explain them is wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/low-carbohydrate-diets-do-cause-fat-loss-2b4fd1)
- [Recommending a diet to the public before the science behind it is settled is the same mistake the USDA made with low-fat advice in the 1980s.](https://korrents.com/k/recommending-a-diet-to-the-public-ec2900)
- [The right to fork works as a standing threat rather than as an event; in mature open source, political forks are rare.](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-to-fork-works-as-8fb5e2)
- [The executives of the Nutrition Science Initiative paid themselves their own enormous salaries out of a nonprofit's donations.](https://korrents.com/k/the-executives-of-the-nutrition-science-ae536c)
- [A team that is falling behind can only be fixed by hiring more people; no amount of process or patience will move it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-that-is-falling-behind-b0b53d)
- [Fixing an understaffed team by moving people off other teams does not work, because people are not fungible and the argument inevitably turns political.](https://korrents.com/k/fixing-an-understaffed-team-by-moving-6e496b)
- [Spreading scarce hiring evenly across every team that needs it is indecision dressed as fairness; staff one team to health at a time.](https://korrents.com/k/spreading-scarce-hiring-evenly-across-every-486a00)
- [A team should grow in bursts followed by periods of consolidation, because continuous hiring never lets it gel.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-should-grow-in-bursts-bb9df8)
- [Organisational fixes are slow because they have to drain years of accumulated state, and that same slowness is what makes them durable once they take.](https://korrents.com/k/organisational-fixes-are-slow-because-they-42bb71)
- [Successful open source developers get hired away by companies, which quietens the very people best placed to argue for making a living from open source.](https://korrents.com/k/successful-open-source-developers-get-hired-dee401)
- [Open source on GitHub creates enormous value that the platform hosting it captures none of, while its policies limit how maintainers may earn.](https://korrents.com/k/open-source-on-github-creates-enormous-d6a6cd)
- [Making a chess variant, a dice variant and a Pong variant is a worthwhile exercise for any game designer.](https://korrents.com/k/making-a-chess-variant-a-dice-b15d5a)
- [Substack's platform design emphasizes paid subscriptions so strongly that it obscures the option to sign up for free.](https://korrents.com/k/substack-s-platform-design-emphasizes-paid-aafe38)
- [Tabular figures should be used any time numbers appear outside a normal sentence.](https://korrents.com/k/tabular-figures-should-be-used-any-11fa73)
- [The digit 1 is the leading digit in roughly 30% of naturally occurring numbers.](https://korrents.com/k/the-digit-1-is-the-leading-11362c)
- [Say no to anything that is not an enthusiastic yes, because a life full of half-hearted commitments leaves no room for the things worth doing.](https://korrents.com/k/say-no-to-anything-that-is-e5740c)
- [The hell-yeah rule is for people who are already overwhelmed; someone starting out should say yes to almost anything.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hell-yeah-rule-is-for-people-d78212)
- [Do almost nothing, and do the few things you take on all the way.](https://korrents.com/k/do-almost-nothing-and-do-the-ceed48)
- [A dense-looking building does not by itself create a livable dense suburb without supporting schools and shops.](https://korrents.com/k/a-dense-looking-building-does-not-by-30a91e)
- [Repeating a single floor plan vertically remains the default model for large-scale residential construction.](https://korrents.com/k/repeating-a-single-floor-plan-vertically-6c92a7)
- [Brutalist buildings are not inherently doomed to age badly.](https://korrents.com/k/brutalist-buildings-are-not-inherently-doomed-198625)
- [Psychedelic experiences give people a radical new perspective on their lives that lets them let go of old habits.](https://korrents.com/k/psychedelic-experiences-give-people-a-radical-7bebea)
- [The psychedelic experience is not fixed by the chemical alone but is constructed by the mind from expectation, memory and environment.](https://korrents.com/k/the-psychedelic-experience-is-not-fixed-2b3763)
- [Psychedelics have lower toxicity and less addiction potential than other psychoactive compounds.](https://korrents.com/k/psychedelics-have-lower-toxicity-and-less-3814d9)
- [Probabilistic thinking, estimating the likelihood of outcomes, is one of the best tools for improving the accuracy of decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/probabilistic-thinking-estimating-the-likelihood-of-c4e43a)
- [The future is not determined, and it can be navigated better by understanding the likelihood of events that could affect us.](https://korrents.com/k/the-future-is-not-determined-and-bbd11f)
- [Bayesian thinking lets a person use all relevant prior information when making decisions.](https://korrents.com/k/bayesian-thinking-lets-a-person-use-5153f3)
- [Far more probability estimates err on the over-optimistic side than the under-optimistic side.](https://korrents.com/k/far-more-probability-estimates-err-on-178fc1)
- [Thinking in probabilities means roughly identifying what matters, getting a sense of the odds, checking assumptions, and then deciding.](https://korrents.com/k/thinking-in-probabilities-means-roughly-identifying-f2af97)
- [The better you get at a craft, the humbler it makes you.](https://korrents.com/k/the-better-you-get-at-a-e97a48)
- [Institutional decay is the normal case: keeping an existing capability alive is difficult and growing a new one is rare.](https://korrents.com/k/institutional-decay-is-the-normal-case-dd29f6)
- [You cannot tell a failing institution from a healthy one by looking: the parts visible from outside are the parts that least reflect its actual health.](https://korrents.com/k/you-cannot-tell-a-failing-institution-59dc92)
- [The easiest way for an institution to protect its reputation is to stop attempting anything that could visibly fail.](https://korrents.com/k/the-easiest-way-for-an-institution-396e44)
- [One can be critical of Israel's leadership without boycotting the country](https://korrents.com/k/one-can-be-critical-of-israel-6d8fa8)
- [Caring about Israel means standing up against violence, corruption, inequality and abuse of power there](https://korrents.com/k/caring-about-israel-means-standing-up-4874ee)
- [Much of a person's success is owed to mentors who help guide them without expecting anything in return.](https://korrents.com/k/much-of-a-person-s-success-3b573e)
- [People underestimate the value of networking and listening to experienced speakers at events.](https://korrents.com/k/people-underestimate-the-value-of-networking-078718)
- [A person must be seen through communication and networking to be remembered professionally.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-must-be-seen-through-228cf2)
- [The more your tests resemble the way your software is used, the more confidence they can give you.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-your-tests-resemble-the-6829a2)
- [The true dream of cloud computing is code that lives in the network itself and runs everywhere, not in one chosen region.](https://korrents.com/k/the-true-dream-of-cloud-computing-bbf5b3)
- [Pruning cuts the parameters of a trained network by over 90% without costing accuracy, so inference gets smaller and faster for free.](https://korrents.com/k/pruning-cuts-the-parameters-of-a-da3222)
- [The saving pruning offers is only ever at inference, because the sparse architectures it produces are hard to train from the start.](https://korrents.com/k/the-saving-pruning-offers-is-only-e7bbfe)
- [Pruning does not merely shrink a network; it uncovers subnetworks whose original initialization was what made them trainable at all.](https://korrents.com/k/pruning-does-not-merely-shrink-a-55a690)
- [A winning ticket wins on its initial weights: the connections it keeps started at values that happen to make training work.](https://korrents.com/k/a-winning-ticket-wins-on-its-ba58df)
- [A small enough winning ticket learns faster than the network it was cut out of, and ends up more accurate than it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-enough-winning-ticket-learns-f57fb8)
- [Humility, not false praise or inflated self-esteem, is what pushes people to become their best selves](https://korrents.com/k/humility-not-false-praise-or-inflated-56851d)
- [Humility is not weakness but a strength](https://korrents.com/k/humility-is-not-weakness-but-a-839173)
- [Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.](https://korrents.com/k/write-tests-not-too-many-mostly-1fecfd)
- [Strong cultures treat argument as a continual exercise in getting feedback, finding the truth and improving](https://korrents.com/k/strong-cultures-treat-argument-as-a-b7f764)
- [A slow takeoff is significantly more likely than a fast one: AI that is nearly as powerful will have transformed the world before the incredibly powerful kind arrives.](https://korrents.com/k/a-slow-takeoff-is-significantly-more-9bf809)
- [There will be a complete four-year doubling of world output before there is ever a one-year doubling.](https://korrents.com/k/there-will-be-a-complete-four-year-ded5d6)
- [Expecting a slow takeoff means expecting AI to matter more and sooner, not less; the disagreement is about what happens before superintelligence, not after.](https://korrents.com/k/expecting-a-slow-takeoff-means-expecting-d3295e)
- [Incredibly powerful AI will arrive into a world that is already being transformed and already alarmed, not into a world like today's.](https://korrents.com/k/incredibly-powerful-ai-will-arrive-into-7a6dcb)
- [Technologies are almost always preceded by slightly worse versions of themselves, and there is no reason for AI to be the exception.](https://korrents.com/k/technologies-are-almost-always-preceded-by-a64105)
- [The gap between chimps and humans is no evidence that a small increase in compute yields an explosion of capability, because evolution was not optimising chimps for technology.](https://korrents.com/k/the-gap-between-chimps-and-humans-3aa698)
- [One-off donations buy nothing; only recurring donations, spread across enough people that no single donor matters, can fund sustained work.](https://korrents.com/k/one-off-donations-buy-nothing-only-recurring-f5a07a)
- [A good prototype should express a single idea or test a single hypothesis.](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-prototype-should-express-a-8b9d83)
- [Maze puzzles are unengaging on their own but become interesting when paired with a strong extrinsic motivator.](https://korrents.com/k/maze-puzzles-are-unengaging-on-their-371d3b)
- [Creative work is better served by a diverse toolkit of specialized tools than by one universal tool.](https://korrents.com/k/creative-work-is-better-served-by-634151)
- [Whether or not the world is getting worse, the nature of news makes people think it is](https://korrents.com/k/whether-or-not-the-world-is-65a56a)
- [The consequences of negative news are themselves negative](https://korrents.com/k/the-consequences-of-negative-news-are-3784da)
- [Cohesion is not a trait a group has or lacks but a repeated exchange of behaviours](https://korrents.com/k/cohesion-is-not-a-trait-a-c907fa)
- [Reason is non-negotiable: arguing that others should share your beliefs commits you to it](https://korrents.com/k/reason-is-non-negotiable-arguing-that-others-0b809b)
- [If abolishing slavery and cruel punishment is not progress, nothing is](https://korrents.com/k/if-abolishing-slavery-and-cruel-punishment-7cfbe5)
- [Progress unguided by humanism is not progress](https://korrents.com/k/progress-unguided-by-humanism-is-not-9f83fa)
- [Exchange can make a society nicer as well as richer, because in a market buying is cheaper than stealing](https://korrents.com/k/exchange-can-make-a-society-nicer-f88c23)
- [If you extol reason, what matters is the integrity of the thoughts, not the personalities of the thinkers](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-extol-reason-what-matters-eb947b)
- [The cheapest way to deal with complexity is not to invent something to manage it but to avoid it with a cleverer plan.](https://korrents.com/k/the-cheapest-way-to-deal-with-a771c4)
- [The legibility of the source is one of the most important properties of the web, because it keeps the door open to the next generation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-legibility-of-the-source-is-ea927f)
- [Twenty years of making websites may really be five years of experience repeated four times, because nothing on the web stays settled.](https://korrents.com/k/twenty-years-of-making-websites-may-c21ab5)
- [Directness is best: a great photo, a memorable illustration or a pitch-perfect sentence does most of the work, and fancy implementation has never moved the needle for clients.](https://korrents.com/k/directness-is-best-a-great-photo-d6cdcf)
- [Culture is the most powerful force driving a group’s performance](https://korrents.com/k/culture-is-the-most-powerful-force-f4d1a0)
- [Culture is not a set of traits but a contest of signals; improving the signals improves the culture](https://korrents.com/k/culture-is-not-a-set-of-808903)
- [A group’s culture depends on what its members do, not on who they are](https://korrents.com/k/a-group-s-culture-depends-on-0a36cb)
- [Companies have a responsibility to improve society.](https://korrents.com/k/companies-have-a-responsibility-to-improve-158747)
- [A company should aim to survive the next century, not just the next quarter.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-should-aim-to-survive-e8f52a)
- [People are fundamentally good, and we are 99% the same.](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-fundamentally-good-and-we-da2803)
- [Technology has changed, but how companies are run has not.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-has-changed-but-how-companies-3d0ce7)
- [Sexualised comments about a young actor's body serve to control her behaviour through an environment of sexual terrorism](https://korrents.com/k/the-sexualised-response-to-her-expression-505a82)
- [Speaking your truth is the most powerful tool people have](https://korrents.com/k/speaking-your-truth-is-the-most-d99c18)
- [A press dedicated to uncovering the truth keeps society from ignoring corruption and injustice](https://korrents.com/k/a-press-dedicated-to-uncovering-the-412561)
- [Women have long gone unheard or disbelieved when speaking truth to powerful men, and that time is ending](https://korrents.com/k/women-have-long-gone-unheard-or-45df2d)
- [Genetically modified crops are dangerous enough that campaigning to destroy them is justified.](https://korrents.com/k/genetically-modified-crops-are-dangerous-enough-b1a04c)
- [Pervasive unmoderated mutation has to go if programs are to be concurrent.](https://korrents.com/k/pervasive-unmoderated-mutation-has-to-go-0c9f0f)
- [Mutable stateful objects are the new spaghetti code: hard to understand, hard to test and hard to reason about.](https://korrents.com/k/mutable-stateful-objects-are-the-new-67df09)
- [Locking is too hard for programmers to get right over and over again, so the language runtime should do that part.](https://korrents.com/k/locking-is-too-hard-for-programmers-833de5)
- [Object orientation is overrated: it was born of simulation and is now applied everywhere, including where it does not fit.](https://korrents.com/k/object-orientation-is-overrated-it-was-be9d71)
- [Cars people own will double as driverless taxis when the owner is not using them, in ten major US cities, some time from the mid-2020s.](https://korrents.com/k/cars-people-own-will-double-as-460e98)
- [Being a feminist is more than a single choice; it is an ongoing interrogation of self](https://korrents.com/k/being-a-feminist-is-more-than-d5d4e2)
- [A white feminist does better to ask how they have benefited from being white than to resent the label](https://korrents.com/k/a-white-feminist-does-better-to-eb5385)
- [The APA's trauma treatment guidelines should be ignored, because they rest only on trials of therapies too brief to have worked.](https://korrents.com/k/the-apa-s-trauma-treatment-guidelines-2af0bf)
- [Psychotherapy follows a dose-response curve: it takes more than 20 sessions before half of patients meaningfully improve, and more than 40 before three quarters do.](https://korrents.com/k/psychotherapy-follows-a-dose-response-curve-it-7b47f6)
- [Freezing world output at today's level would condemn a quarter of humanity to permanent abject poverty.](https://korrents.com/k/freezing-world-output-at-today-s-960c7c)
- [Degrowth shared out equally would cut the incomes of everyone above the world average by about two-thirds.](https://korrents.com/k/degrowth-shared-out-equally-would-cut-309cb9)
- [Degrowth would require the world to go from an inequality worse than South Africa's to a complete equality no recorded society has ever had.](https://korrents.com/k/degrowth-would-require-the-world-to-70d266)
- [The way to cut emissions is to tax the most emission-intensive goods, not to stop growth.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-cut-emissions-is-614fdd)
- [Traumatic memories are poorly integrated and cannot take in new information.](https://korrents.com/k/traumatic-memories-are-poorly-integrated-and-7abf24)
- [How EMDR works is still being discovered, and the proposed mechanisms are not mutually exclusive.](https://korrents.com/k/how-emdr-works-is-still-being-5def1c)
- [Neuroscience alone is a limited, over-simplified lens on human experience.](https://korrents.com/k/neuroscience-alone-is-a-limited-over-simplified-c6909c)
- [A superintelligence needs no consciousness, emotions or malice to be dangerous; a goal system slightly misaligned with ours is enough.](https://korrents.com/k/a-superintelligence-needs-no-consciousness-emotions-da2f5f)
- [Never project human mental properties onto an artificial intelligence; the difference between the two architectures is the reason to worry, not a reason not to.](https://korrents.com/k/never-project-human-mental-properties-onto-5d9e33)
- [Robert C. Martin's advice makes code worse, because it dismisses every correctness technique that is not unit testing.](https://korrents.com/k/robert-c-martin-s-advice-makes-4c5665)
- [Programmer discipline is the wrong answer to software defects: the way to reduce them is to change the system so mistakes are harder to make and easier to catch.](https://korrents.com/k/programmer-discipline-is-the-wrong-answer-b21934)
- [Unit tests alone give little confidence in a program, because the mistakes people actually make are not the conveniently unit-testable ones.](https://korrents.com/k/unit-tests-alone-give-little-confidence-eed121)
- [Empathy does not have to be a faucet stuck on: as an adult you can choose when and how much to feel what others feel.](https://korrents.com/k/empathy-does-not-have-to-be-49138d)
- [The expectations we now bring to a partner are contradictory or incompatible, which is a setup for failure.](https://korrents.com/k/the-expectations-we-now-bring-to-d5cd89)
- [As communities weaken, we ask a single partner to supply what a village used to.](https://korrents.com/k/as-communities-weaken-we-ask-a-c5c421)
- [Love, desire and relationships are not commodities that can be replaced when they disappoint.](https://korrents.com/k/love-desire-and-relationships-are-not-43889c)
- [Excluding anyone from makeup is painful; all women should be included](https://korrents.com/k/excluding-anyone-from-makeup-is-painful-8f51c6)
- [Past a certain point no senior individual contributor is promoted on the strength of their ideas and their code alone.](https://korrents.com/k/past-a-certain-point-no-senior-944d5d)
- [An overwhelmed team is partly the manager’s fault, because pushing back on the team’s work commitments is the manager’s job.](https://korrents.com/k/an-overwhelmed-team-is-partly-the-66e41a)
- [The test of whether someone is ready to manage managers is whether their peer managers would want to work for them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-test-of-whether-someone-is-92f7c2)
- [A mental model is an explanation of how something works, and each one helps in understanding a different part of life, such as markets, trust or decay.](https://korrents.com/k/a-mental-model-is-an-explanation-c41a6e)
- [Learning a new mental model can give a person a new way to see the world, much as a new math technique does.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-a-new-mental-model-can-baebc9)
- [Mental models are imperfect but useful: no single one explains everything, yet the best of them have let people build and travel.](https://korrents.com/k/mental-models-are-imperfect-but-useful-27a68a)
- [The best mental models are the ones with the most utility, and a broad base of them is needed to think clearly, rationally and effectively.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-mental-models-are-the-a27f3a)
- [Of the thousands of mental models, the ones worth having are those that apply broadly to life.](https://korrents.com/k/of-the-thousands-of-mental-models-cc1351)
- [A few dozen mental models are enough to get a firm grasp of how the world works.](https://korrents.com/k/a-few-dozen-mental-models-are-5a0464)
- [Students of organizations need to explore the implications of efforts to take the humans out of human organizations](https://korrents.com/k/students-of-organizations-need-to-explore-671bed)
- [A password manager does not have to be perfect; it only has to be better than what people do without one.](https://korrents.com/k/a-password-manager-does-not-have-754d77)
- [Blocking paste on a password field makes passwords weaker, because people fall back to ones they can type.](https://korrents.com/k/blocking-paste-on-a-password-field-10ae44)
- [Mandatory periodic password changes make passwords worse, because people just increment the number on the end.](https://korrents.com/k/mandatory-periodic-password-changes-make-passwords-09b297)
- [Much of the received wisdom about passwords has been reversed, yet organisations still apply yesterday’s patterns to today’s threats.](https://korrents.com/k/much-of-the-received-wisdom-about-42e9c0)
- [The beginning of any complex or challenging endeavor is always the hardest part.](https://korrents.com/k/the-beginning-of-any-complex-or-b52a9a)
- [Although activation energy is a scientific concept, it can serve as a practical mental model.](https://korrents.com/k/although-activation-energy-is-a-scientific-cc6def)
- [The bigger and more challenging an action is, the more activation energy it takes.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bigger-and-more-challenging-an-06cb82)
- [Cities have only ever built wealth incrementally, by many small improvements over a long time, not by big projects.](https://korrents.com/k/cities-have-only-ever-built-wealth-a27adf)
- [A neighbourhood redevelops itself when rising land values meet permission to build more intensely, and it stagnates when either half is missing.](https://korrents.com/k/a-neighbourhood-redevelops-itself-when-rising-4af03e)
- [The break in how cities are built is that places used to be improved continuously and are now built once, at scale, to a finished state.](https://korrents.com/k/the-break-in-how-cities-are-aee35c)
- [We admire people for taking bold action with public money who in an earlier age would have been called hustlers.](https://korrents.com/k/we-admire-people-for-taking-bold-021573)
- [Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.](https://korrents.com/k/sequence-transduction-can-use-a-simple-1a9d41)
- [A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.](https://korrents.com/k/a-transduction-model-can-rely-entirely-a474b0)
- [Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.](https://korrents.com/k/self-attention-can-yield-more-interpretable-models-bd5ac8)
- [With complex trauma, EMDR needs resource development and careful pacing so clients feel safe in the present.](https://korrents.com/k/with-complex-trauma-emdr-needs-resource-94311d)
- [Successful trauma treatment requires building tolerance for the emotions and body sensations that accompany the memories.](https://korrents.com/k/successful-trauma-treatment-requires-building-tolerance-a4fdd1)
- [The best engineering managers are never more than two or three years away from hands-on work, and the best individual contributors have done time in management.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-engineering-managers-are-never-be435e)
- [Making management the only path to career progression is a mistake that costs a company the senior engineers it needs.](https://korrents.com/k/making-management-the-only-path-to-172826)
- [Engineering and management cannot both be improved at once, so a new manager has to stop trying to be the senior engineer as well.](https://korrents.com/k/engineering-and-management-cannot-both-be-e47706)
- [A manager’s calendar and an engineer’s calendar are incompatible, because management is interruptive and good engineering requires blocking interruptions out.](https://korrents.com/k/a-manager-s-calendar-and-an-5b9280)
- [The crucial problem is not creating new jobs but creating jobs that humans perform better than algorithms](https://korrents.com/k/the-crucial-problem-is-not-creating-4f2fd5)
- [To the best of scientific knowledge human life has no meaning; meaning is a fictional story humans create](https://korrents.com/k/to-the-best-of-scientific-knowledge-30ca0c)
- [The end of work need not mean the end of meaning, because meaning comes from imagining rather than working](https://korrents.com/k/the-end-of-work-need-not-8d425c)
- [Addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a response to pain: the question is not why the addiction, but why the pain.](https://korrents.com/k/addiction-is-neither-a-choice-nor-f6147c)
- [Childhood trauma is the template for every addiction, including the socially rewarded ones.](https://korrents.com/k/childhood-trauma-is-the-template-for-0ce018)
- [Trauma is not confined to terrible events: a child whose parents were too stressed or distracted to see them has been traumatized too.](https://korrents.com/k/trauma-is-not-confined-to-terrible-0083a0)
- [Treating an addiction without treating the pain underneath it is treating an effect rather than a cause.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-an-addiction-without-treating-the-a08b07)
- [Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women](https://korrents.com/k/feminism-is-not-a-stick-with-ff635a)
- [Robots and computer-assisted technologies taking over tasks previously done by labour is what puts the future of jobs and wages in question.](https://korrents.com/k/robots-and-computer-assisted-technologies-taking-over-923865)
- [In a model where robots compete with human labour task by task, robots can reduce both employment and wages.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-model-where-robots-compete-7935f3)
- [Measured across US commuting zones from 1990 to 2007, the effect of robots on employment and wages is large, negative and robust.](https://korrents.com/k/measured-across-us-commuting-zones-from-fcd3ce)
- [Anyone can be a humanitarian: it means helping one person and expecting nothing in return](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-can-be-a-humanitarian-it-d13406)
- [You do not have to be rich, famous or college-educated to help somebody](https://korrents.com/k/you-do-not-have-to-be-b9e13c)
- [A truly elite college should select students most motivated to use its intellectual assets, not its brand](https://korrents.com/k/a-truly-elite-college-should-select-29cb71)
- [Elite colleges behave like luxury-handbag businesses protecting exclusivity rather than like educators](https://korrents.com/k/elite-colleges-behave-like-luxury-handbag-businesses-548c25)
- [Encouraging experimentation and opening opportunities requires much more tolerance of mediocrity](https://korrents.com/k/encouraging-experimentation-and-opening-opportunities-requir-ea4846)
- [A writer must stay current, and the greatest danger is fossilized positions and views](https://korrents.com/k/a-writer-must-stay-current-and-dff32f)
- [Extracting running talent from a population needs a very broad base, and that base is gone](https://korrents.com/k/extracting-running-talent-from-a-population-3092fc)
- [Effective satirical impersonation finds something essential and buried in a character and magnifies it](https://korrents.com/k/effective-satirical-impersonation-finds-something-essential-b7ee3d)
- [Long-distance runners probably have many effective ways to train, and the sport is slow to see how variable runners are](https://korrents.com/k/long-distance-runners-probably-have-many-effective-fc2699)
- [Investors do better over time in a low-cost index fund than in a group of hedge funds, on average.](https://korrents.com/k/investors-do-better-over-time-in-4ddc6d)
- [When trillions of dollars are managed by high-fee Wall Street managers, it is the managers who reap the outsized profits, not their clients.](https://korrents.com/k/when-trillions-of-dollars-are-managed-0a1b0e)
- [A working programmer can fail to write bubble sort on a whiteboard and look code up on the internet all the time; riddles are not the job.](https://korrents.com/k/a-working-programmer-can-fail-to-3a03ee)
- [Building powerful developer tools such as compilers, interpreters, and query languages requires knowledge of parsing.](https://korrents.com/k/building-powerful-developer-tools-such-as-0d866b)
- [Bad-looking ideas often turn out to be the best ones, and pushing boundaries increases the odds of finding something valuable.](https://korrents.com/k/bad-looking-ideas-often-turn-out-to-37ecc0)
- [Handling a change of keys is not a backdoor; it is how public-key cryptography works, and interception stays detectable by the sender.](https://korrents.com/k/handling-a-change-of-keys-is-d6a4d0)
- [Shipping default end-to-end encryption to more than a billion people is to Facebook’s credit, whatever else it is criticised for.](https://korrents.com/k/shipping-default-end-to-end-encryption-to-more-086deb)
- [Most developers who dream of moving abroad for work never actually do it.](https://korrents.com/k/most-developers-who-dream-of-moving-d6fe39)
- [Nearly every American city is functionally insolvent, because replacing the infrastructure it has built would cost more than its entire private tax base is worth.](https://korrents.com/k/nearly-every-american-city-is-functionally-9adc11)
- [American cities built roughly two dollars of public infrastructure for every dollar of private investment, and that ratio is what bankrupts them.](https://korrents.com/k/american-cities-built-roughly-two-dollars-d6777f)
- [America's accumulated road, pipe and pavement is a bad investment, and no federal spending programme can make it a good one.](https://korrents.com/k/america-s-accumulated-road-pipe-and-3588d3)
- [People can use pre-suasion on themselves to achieve personal goals](https://korrents.com/k/people-can-use-pre-suasion-on-themselves-ce02eb)
- [Paying more attention to what is present than to what is absent is often a mistake, since absence can matter](https://korrents.com/k/paying-more-attention-to-what-is-2166d3)
- [Recognising varied small daily joys makes a gratitude practice more interesting and easier to keep up](https://korrents.com/k/recognising-varied-small-daily-joys-makes-a5e764)
- [The idea of progress is a recent invention: Francis Bacon created it in the early seventeenth century, and no earlier society had it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-idea-of-progress-is-a-04e781)
- [Bacon’s scientific project produced almost nothing useful for two hundred years after it began.](https://korrents.com/k/bacon-s-scientific-project-produced-almost-295cd8)
- [History teaches complexity rather than prediction: it can explain the mechanisms of change without licensing any claim about what comes next.](https://korrents.com/k/history-teaches-complexity-rather-than-prediction-10b9b9)
- [Treating history as a march of progress makes whole eras and regions disappear, dismissed for having failed to advance it.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-history-as-a-march-of-4241d0)
- [Anything in the past that feels revolutionary, modern or comfortable should be treated as a warning sign of presentism until the evidence has been checked again.](https://korrents.com/k/anything-in-the-past-that-feels-c26707)
- [Past a certain hiring rate the marginal value of another engineer falls towards nothing, because training and interviewing consume the engineers you already have.](https://korrents.com/k/past-a-certain-hiring-rate-the-6c2435)
- [Integration of behavioral science into public policy has so far proceeded from available tools toward problems rather than the reverse.](https://korrents.com/k/integration-of-behavioral-science-into-public-a4aaff)
- [Behavioral science can matter more in policymaking if practitioners start from large-scale economic questions and develop complementary insights.](https://korrents.com/k/behavioral-science-can-matter-more-in-01a6b2)
- [Saying that training is everything in reaching elite performance is tempting but wrong; genes and environment both matter.](https://korrents.com/k/saying-that-training-is-everything-in-46a166)
- [Talent needs the right environment and opportunity to flourish; genes alone do not make a genius.](https://korrents.com/k/talent-needs-the-right-environment-and-b91734)
- [A university should be a place of refuge that takes action against all forms of violence](https://korrents.com/k/a-university-should-be-a-place-47c891)
- [University should tell women their brain power is valued and that they belong in the university's own leadership](https://korrents.com/k/university-should-tell-women-their-brain-c3826d)
- [A good university is a miniature model of how the whole of society could look](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-university-is-a-miniature-4e5159)
- [Correlations found between openness and liberalism are largely tautological, because political leanings were built into the personality measures.](https://korrents.com/k/correlations-found-between-openness-and-liberalism-b85d25)
- [People readily accept counterintuitive findings from social psychology as long as they do not conflict with their notions of what ought to be.](https://korrents.com/k/people-readily-accept-counterintuitive-findings-from-2d2c61)
- [The most important reason to decentralize the web is software and developer diversity, more than privacy, security or data ownership.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-important-reason-to-decentralize-1fedc6)
- [Decentralizing storage is not enough: software must be delivered as a package each user runs a private copy of, not as a service.](https://korrents.com/k/decentralizing-storage-is-not-enough-software-48a5b4)
- [Long stretches of being disconnected -- no internet, no phone, no people -- are what make creative work possible.](https://korrents.com/k/long-stretches-of-being-disconnected--b6add9)
- [The feeds businesses design to be addictive are obstacles to anyone whose aim is to make something.](https://korrents.com/k/the-feeds-businesses-design-to-be-3f9d62)
- [Consuming what everyone else consumes gives you no advantage; focus is the rare and valuable thing now.](https://korrents.com/k/consuming-what-everyone-else-consumes-gives-8e5aa8)
- [Technology never changes geometry: a transport problem has to be solved spatially before it is solved at all.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-never-changes-geometry-a-transport-1ce87f)
- [Replacing big transit vehicles with small ones puts more vehicles on the street to move the same people, which is the one thing a dense city has no room for.](https://korrents.com/k/replacing-big-transit-vehicles-with-small-0efe08)
- [Tech marketing assumes that whatever sells to the rich today sells to everyone tomorrow, but some things stop working when everybody buys them.](https://korrents.com/k/tech-marketing-assumes-that-whatever-sells-eddbdd)
- [Frequent fixed-route buses are the only way to cover a whole city with useful transit quickly, which makes them a land-use decision rather than a fallback.](https://korrents.com/k/frequent-fixed-route-buses-are-the-only-034190)
- [Seeking out and applying mental models across a wide array of disciplines is powerful.](https://korrents.com/k/seeking-out-and-applying-mental-models-1764ce)
- [A small set of mental models comes up again and again in everyday decisions, problem solving and truth seeking.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-set-of-mental-models-a6df85)
- [A mental model only helps if it is known well, practised, and applied in the right context at the right time.](https://korrents.com/k/a-mental-model-only-helps-if-dec203)
- [Many mental models are useful well outside the discipline they come from.](https://korrents.com/k/many-mental-models-are-useful-well-6e4b8b)
- [The best ideas often arise when going across disciplines.](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-ideas-often-arise-when-45c866)
- [Any one person's list of mental models is shaped by their own experience and is likely incomplete.](https://korrents.com/k/any-one-person-s-list-of-bc17ee)
- [Mental models can help explain and navigate the world without being good in themselves.](https://korrents.com/k/mental-models-can-help-explain-and-6912fb)
- [For someone who wants to be generally effective, learning a list of well-used mental models is a good place to start.](https://korrents.com/k/for-someone-who-wants-to-be-6e6821)
- [Science is a commitment to systematic thinking through testing and observation, not a major or a career](https://korrents.com/k/science-is-a-commitment-to-systematic-e8deb4)
- [Rebutting bad science does not work and commonly backfires](https://korrents.com/k/rebutting-bad-science-does-not-work-15bb12)
- [Asserting the facts of good science, with the narrative that explains them, works where rebuttal may not](https://korrents.com/k/asserting-the-facts-of-good-science-c39d76)
- [Pseudoscience is the form of science without the substance](https://korrents.com/k/pseudoscience-is-the-form-of-science-2dd000)
- [The virtues of science live far more in the community than in the individual scientist](https://korrents.com/k/the-virtues-of-science-live-far-9cb201)
- [How you think matters even more than what you think](https://korrents.com/k/how-you-think-matters-even-more-4c568f)
- [A federated protocol freezes in time, so a messenger that has to keep up with the ecosystem cannot be federated.](https://korrents.com/k/a-federated-protocol-freezes-in-time-65bce8)
- [Self-hosted email will never be end-to-end encrypted, and federation is the reason.](https://korrents.com/k/self-hosted-email-will-never-be-end-to-end-fc19ec)
- [Sustainable fashion is a feminist issue](https://korrents.com/k/sustainable-fashion-is-a-feminist-issue-02a077)
- [The Paris Agreement will not be enough: the planet cannot be saved unless fossil fuels are left in the ground.](https://korrents.com/k/the-paris-agreement-will-not-be-c86de2)
- [Climate change is the defining crisis of our time, comparable to slavery in Lincoln's day: everyone knows it must end, but the political will is missing.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-change-is-the-defining-crisis-f58448)
- [Fossil fuel companies have manipulated and dictated the science and policies on climate, and that should no longer be allowed.](https://korrents.com/k/fossil-fuel-companies-have-manipulated-and-70f395)
- [Second-order thinking is more deliberate than first-order thinking: it considers interactions and time, and asks "And then what?"](https://korrents.com/k/second-order-thinking-is-more-deliberate-than-f310a3)
- [A choice with no immediate payoff is not necessarily a poor one: many extraordinary things come from what is first-order negative and second-order positive.](https://korrents.com/k/a-choice-with-no-immediate-payoff-859f59)
- [Second-order thinking takes a lot of work, because it means thinking in terms of systems, interactions and time.](https://korrents.com/k/second-order-thinking-takes-a-lot-of-5f5b45)
- [Plain HTTP lets anyone on the path rewrite the page, so HTTPS is about the integrity of what readers get, not only secrecy.](https://korrents.com/k/plain-http-lets-anyone-on-the-209b2e)
- [Stored personal data is a toxic asset: it is a liability that keeps growing for as long as it is kept.](https://korrents.com/k/stored-personal-data-is-a-toxic-0820ad)
- [Storage became so cheap that companies keep everything forever, because until recently there was no downside to keeping it.](https://korrents.com/k/storage-became-so-cheap-that-companies-6a4c95)
- [Climate change is real, happening now, and the most urgent threat facing the human species.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-change-is-real-happening-now-39b55e)
- [People should back leaders who speak for humanity, indigenous peoples and the underprivileged rather than for big polluters and big corporations.](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-back-leaders-who-speak-9a2511)
- [An access mechanism built for the police cannot be limited to the police, so a backdoor weakens the system against every attacker at once.](https://korrents.com/k/an-access-mechanism-built-for-the-efd68b)
- [The encryption argument is not security against privacy, it is more security against less security.](https://korrents.com/k/the-encryption-argument-is-not-security-2c518c)
- [Against a sufficiently skilled and determined attacker computer security fails, and most people are safe only because nobody bothered with them.](https://korrents.com/k/against-a-sufficiently-skilled-and-determined-120408)
- [Widespread encryption protects far more against bulk surveillance than against a targeted attacker.](https://korrents.com/k/widespread-encryption-protects-far-more-against-e74f85)
- [Kindness, fairness and being a good friend all stem from empathy.](https://korrents.com/k/kindness-fairness-and-being-a-good-c5a809)
- [Empathy is essential to leading a team, especially for product managers, who have responsibility without authority.](https://korrents.com/k/empathy-is-essential-to-leading-a-af23bd)
- [Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction, so code should not be made reusable before there are real examples of what the reuse has to do.](https://korrents.com/k/duplication-is-cheaper-than-the-wrong-5fea68)
- [Existing code exerts a powerful influence: its presence argues that it is correct and necessary, and sunk cost keeps teams inside an abstraction that has stopped fitting.](https://korrents.com/k/existing-code-exerts-a-powerful-influence-2dc1f4)
- [When an abstraction turns out to be wrong, the fastest way forward is to inline it back into every caller and let the duplication show what the right one is.](https://korrents.com/k/when-an-abstraction-turns-out-to-389937)
- [Parameters and conditional branches accumulating inside shared code are the diagnostic that the abstraction is wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/parameters-and-conditional-branches-accumulating-inside-83320b)
- [People reliably skip the practices known to prevent rare catastrophes, and then rationalise the shortcut as the reasonable thing to do.](https://korrents.com/k/people-reliably-skip-the-practices-known-ffe53d)
- [Normalization of deviance is well studied in healthcare and aviation and almost never discussed in software, although software organisations do it constantly.](https://korrents.com/k/normalization-of-deviance-is-well-studied-286939)
- [Being immersed in a story lowers our guard, which is what makes stories a powerful tool of deception.](https://korrents.com/k/being-immersed-in-a-story-lowers-f0b97f)
- [Emotion is the key to empathy: stir people emotionally and they identify with you; keep them cold and empathy does not grow.](https://korrents.com/k/emotion-is-the-key-to-empathy-2cddde)
- [When people are swept up in a powerful narrative, their reason often falls by the wayside.](https://korrents.com/k/when-people-are-swept-up-in-2ec6b3)
- [Writing to files safely is too hard to do with raw syscalls; application code should go through a library or a database.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-to-files-safely-is-too-4cd527)
- [Almost every software project has cheap testing wins left on the table: basic random testing, static analysis and fault injection pay for themselves the first time they are run.](https://korrents.com/k/almost-every-software-project-has-cheap-e0d61b)
- [Conventional testing is not sufficient: crude purpose-built checking tools of a few thousand lines find bugs that testing does not.](https://korrents.com/k/conventional-testing-is-not-sufficient-crude-01da8a)
- [Depth is not free: past a point, deeper neural networks are harder to train rather than simply better.](https://korrents.com/k/depth-is-not-free-past-a-9b8f7d)
- [A layer should learn a residual with reference to its own input rather than an unreferenced function, which is what makes great depth trainable.](https://korrents.com/k/a-layer-should-learn-a-residual-de41fe)
- [Residual networks are easier to optimize than plain ones and keep gaining accuracy as depth increases.](https://korrents.com/k/residual-networks-are-easier-to-optimize-d71d55)
- [The depth of a representation, not any particular architecture trick, is what most visual recognition tasks turn on.](https://korrents.com/k/the-depth-of-a-representation-not-1f8389)
- [Reasoning from first principles means gathering only what one knows to be true and building a conclusion from it.](https://korrents.com/k/reasoning-from-first-principles-means-gathering-ed4f37)
- [Reasoning from first principles means taking the basic raw ingredients as the building blocks and working upward from them.](https://korrents.com/k/reasoning-from-first-principles-means-taking-02cdab)
- [A person who works from a recipe, even an innovative one, starts from something that already exists.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-who-works-from-a-77efdc)
- [The chef creates, while the cook copies in some form or another.](https://korrents.com/k/the-chef-creates-while-the-cook-406c32)
- [Independent reasoners are almost certain to make a splash given some talent and persistence, while those who start from what already exists face a ceiling on their impact.](https://korrents.com/k/independent-reasoners-are-almost-certain-to-cbf71a)
- [Conventional wisdom lags behind reality, so someone who looks at the present directly can act on information others have not yet been given permission to act on.](https://korrents.com/k/conventional-wisdom-lags-behind-reality-so-8398f7)
- [Conventional wisdom assumes things are the way they are for a good reason, and history repeatedly proves status quo dogma wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/conventional-wisdom-assumes-things-are-the-f0d15f)
- [If a chain of reasoning rests on a wrong inherited recipe, the conclusions built on top of it will be just as wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/if-a-chain-of-reasoning-rests-bb249c)
- [Dogma, unlike first-principles reasoning, is not customized to the believer or meant to be critiqued and adjusted as things change.](https://korrents.com/k/dogma-unlike-first-principles-reasoning-is-not-5af182)
- [Creative thinking is closely related to first-principles reasoning, since in both the thinker has to invent their own thought pathways.](https://korrents.com/k/creative-thinking-is-closely-related-to-e49993)
- [Being a gamechanger is just having little enough respect for the game to see no good reason not to change the rules.](https://korrents.com/k/being-a-gamechanger-is-just-having-50da5c)
- [Code that is complex or clever can pass its tests while still being bad code.](https://korrents.com/k/code-that-is-complex-or-clever-345f73)
- [Meta-programming is usually unnecessary complexity that obscures what code is meant to do.](https://korrents.com/k/meta-programming-is-usually-unnecessary-complexity-that-c3eed4)
- [Simple, straightforward solutions can also be elegant, though not every elegant solution is straightforward.](https://korrents.com/k/simple-straightforward-solutions-can-also-be-488335)
- [The popular inspirational image of Thoreau cannot survive a serious reading of Walden](https://korrents.com/k/the-popular-inspirational-image-of-thoreau-d3853d)
- [Walden is less environmental literature than a fantasy about rustic life and escaping responsibilities to other people](https://korrents.com/k/walden-is-less-environmental-literature-than-8807fa)
- [Living in great fear of the slippery slope is a sign of having no sense of balance](https://korrents.com/k/living-in-great-fear-of-the-a115ca)
- [Following one's conscience is no safe theory of governance, because private moral compasses err and disagree](https://korrents.com/k/following-one-s-conscience-is-no-5066b4)
- [Democracy exists to settle conflicting claims of conscience by means other than decree or force](https://korrents.com/k/democracy-exists-to-settle-conflicting-claims-1ea9e7)
- [Rejecting every certainty but one's own is zealotry, and issuing contradictory decrees on whim is despotism](https://korrents.com/k/rejecting-every-certainty-but-one-s-1f5bc2)
- [Basing beliefs on personal intuition and revelation substitutes anecdote and authority for evidence and reason](https://korrents.com/k/basing-beliefs-on-personal-intuition-and-d3bc0c)
- [A growth mindset is not just about effort](https://korrents.com/k/a-growth-mindset-is-not-just-594193)
- [Students need new strategies and input from others, not just sheer effort, to learn](https://korrents.com/k/students-need-new-strategies-and-input-3245bf)
- [A growth mindset means telling students the truth about their achievement and helping them improve](https://korrents.com/k/a-growth-mindset-means-telling-students-571e17)
- [Teachers should look for ways to help children learn rather than reasons they cannot](https://korrents.com/k/teachers-should-look-for-ways-to-8019de)
- [Reaching a growth mindset is a journey, not a declaration](https://korrents.com/k/reaching-a-growth-mindset-is-a-014902)
- [Everyone is a mix of fixed and growth mindsets, and growth means staying aware of fixed-mindset thoughts](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-is-a-mix-of-fixed-9023d2)
- [Banning the fixed mindset, or using mindset measures for accountability, breeds false growth mindsets](https://korrents.com/k/banning-the-fixed-mindset-or-using-f6d2e5)
- [The growth-mindset message may have stressed effort too much and made change sound too easy](https://korrents.com/k/the-growth-mindset-message-may-have-stressed-cd628c)
- [Deep learning will be understood very differently in thirty years than it is today.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-learning-will-be-understood-very-84b414)
- [The connection between representations and types may be fundamentally significant, akin to links among geometry, logic, topology and functional programming.](https://korrents.com/k/the-connection-between-representations-and-types-49188a)
- [Once a problem is correctly framed, the hardest part of solving it is already done.](https://korrents.com/k/once-a-problem-is-correctly-framed-9405eb)
- [An idea can look obvious in hindsight only because the insight that makes it obvious was itself the hard discovery.](https://korrents.com/k/an-idea-can-look-obvious-in-fdfad4)
- [Standard recurrent neural networks are theoretically capable of representing long-term dependencies but fail to learn them from data in practice.](https://korrents.com/k/standard-recurrent-neural-networks-are-theoretically-bc537d)
- [LSTM architectures are designed so that retaining information over long time spans is their default behavior rather than something they must struggle to learn.](https://korrents.com/k/lstm-architectures-are-designed-so-that-468fed)
- [After four more doublings of installed solar capacity, solar electricity will cost about 3 cents per kwh in the sunniest areas and 4.5 cents per kwh in moderately sunny areas.](https://korrents.com/k/after-four-more-doublings-of-installed-3cd995)
- [The curse of knowledge is the chief contributor to opaque writing.](https://korrents.com/k/the-curse-of-knowledge-is-the-c76599)
- [What is obvious to you is often not obvious to anyone else, so show early drafts to a representative reader.](https://korrents.com/k/what-is-obvious-to-you-is-066719)
- [People pursuing happiness should not check on it too often, any more than dieters should weigh themselves several times a day.](https://korrents.com/k/people-pursuing-happiness-should-not-check-0f0c36)
- [That a few people pursue happiness unhealthily is no reason for everyone else to give up pursuing it.](https://korrents.com/k/that-a-few-people-pursue-happiness-b6fa08)
- [Happiness evidently does more than feel good: it comes before, goes with and causes success in life.](https://korrents.com/k/happiness-evidently-does-more-than-feel-c4c723)
- [Experimental research shows that becoming significantly happier is achievable.](https://korrents.com/k/experimental-research-shows-that-becoming-significantly-280674)
- [An application's user interface should be defined as a pure function of its state.](https://korrents.com/k/an-application-s-user-interface-should-d70595)
- [Software estimates are poor because it is easy to underestimate the size of the state space: the complete list of questions a UI must answer is hard to come up with.](https://korrents.com/k/software-estimates-are-poor-because-it-f376b8)
- [The designer and programmer roles are converging, and the path from sketch to design to implementation is opening up to everyone with an idea.](https://korrents.com/k/the-designer-and-programmer-roles-are-f92c46)
- [Lorem ipsum has had a good run; design with data instead.](https://korrents.com/k/lorem-ipsum-has-had-a-good-f65cff)
- [Designing a game imprints behaviour on the people who play it, including behaviour the designer never intended to teach.](https://korrents.com/k/designing-a-game-imprints-behaviour-on-a8efb3)
- [Denying that games can affect the people who play them is a way of calling games a lesser medium.](https://korrents.com/k/denying-that-games-can-affect-the-dd62e4)
- [User-interface design and game design are opposites: one takes problems away from the person using it, the other hands problems to them.](https://korrents.com/k/user-interface-design-and-game-design-are-57c765)
- [Good interface design uses clarity to hide complexity; good game design uses clarity to teach it.](https://korrents.com/k/good-interface-design-uses-clarity-to-eec4e4)
- [An interface should give the user a useful mental model even if it is false, while a game should give the player an accurate model of its own machinery.](https://korrents.com/k/an-interface-should-give-the-user-8588c9)
- [It is unfair for a streaming service to leave artists, writers and producers unpaid during a free trial](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-unfair-for-a-streaming-2bd3ea)
- [Google turned down the author of Homebrew, software 90% of its engineers use, because he could not invert a binary tree on a whiteboard.](https://korrents.com/k/google-turned-down-the-author-of-6b4a30)
- [Successful microservice systems almost always began as a monolith that grew too big, and systems built as microservices from scratch end up in serious trouble.](https://korrents.com/k/successful-microservice-systems-almost-always-began-3ac970)
- [Build a new application as a monolith first, even when you are confident it will eventually need microservices.](https://korrents.com/k/build-a-new-application-as-a-d307cf)
- [Service boundaries cannot be got right at the start, and moving functionality between services is far harder than moving it inside a monolith.](https://korrents.com/k/service-boundaries-cannot-be-got-right-56fa0e)
- [Achievement is wonderful when you know why you pursue it, and a trap when you do not](https://korrents.com/k/achievement-is-wonderful-when-you-know-aadbd4)
- [Inexperience can be harnessed to carve out a path of your own, free of how things are supposed to be](https://korrents.com/k/inexperience-can-be-harnessed-to-carve-2f5df1)
- [Seriousness for its own sake is a dubious kind of trophy](https://korrents.com/k/seriousness-for-its-own-sake-is-b80d3b)
- [People find more happiness and purpose when they see their lives as one meaningful journey rather than a string of fleeting moments.](https://korrents.com/k/people-find-more-happiness-and-purpose-4faa0d)
- [Balancing a system elegantly is not the same as giving people what they actually came for, which is emotion.](https://korrents.com/k/balancing-a-system-elegantly-is-not-89cdf2)
- [Job interviews are incredibly hostile experiences for candidates.](https://korrents.com/k/job-interviews-are-incredibly-hostile-experiences-cfefe2)
- [Judging a candidate on confidence selects for people who are good at interviewing.](https://korrents.com/k/judging-a-candidate-on-confidence-selects-1a9c2f)
- [Software engineers may be the professionals least qualified to judge a candidate's "passion" and "confidence".](https://korrents.com/k/software-engineers-may-be-the-professionals-efd4b1)
- [Even the flimsiest work-sample test outperforms interviews.](https://korrents.com/k/even-the-flimsiest-work-sample-test-outperforms-c30fe7)
- [GPG is a failed experiment and will not be the thing that brings end-to-end encryption to ordinary people.](https://korrents.com/k/gpg-is-a-failed-experiment-and-1cf6e3)
- [Every material has a grain, including the web, and designs that work against it end up weaker.](https://korrents.com/k/every-material-has-a-grain-including-f607f9)
- [Convergence and simplicity make for poor goals in technology; aim for clarity instead.](https://korrents.com/k/convergence-and-simplicity-make-for-poor-3de6ed)
- [Technology only adds more: it is never this or that, it is always this and that.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-only-adds-more-it-is-df4495)
- [Convenience means someone else makes your choices for you: the less you have to do, the less say you have.](https://korrents.com/k/convenience-means-someone-else-makes-your-254c39)
- [Designing for screens means arranging the elements first and assigning them a size afterwards, not drawing the box first.](https://korrents.com/k/designing-for-screens-means-arranging-the-22d0d0)
- [Asynchrony should be a property of how a program is run, not a colour baked into the type of every function in the standard library.](https://korrents.com/k/asynchrony-should-be-a-property-of-c9d540)
- [Async/await makes asynchronous code easier to write without healing the split it created, and the divide reappears as soon as you write a higher-order function.](https://korrents.com/k/async-await-makes-asynchronous-code-easier-14a69b)
- [Splitting functions into synchronous and asynchronous kinds forces that distinction into every piece of code a programmer afterwards writes.](https://korrents.com/k/splitting-functions-into-synchronous-and-asynchronous-23ffd4)
- [Understanding a machine learning model and understanding the data it operates on are inseparable tasks.](https://korrents.com/k/understanding-a-machine-learning-model-and-90ed2f)
- [In a dimensionality-reduced visualization of high-dimensional data, the raw position of points carries no meaning on its own.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-dimensionality-reduced-visualization-of-high-dimensiona-e38384)
- [A user should be able to understand what a page is and how to use it without spending any effort thinking about it](https://korrents.com/k/a-user-should-be-able-to-af5858)
- [People don't read web pages; they scan them](https://korrents.com/k/people-don-t-read-web-pages-777b34)
- [Web users don't weigh every option to choose the best one; they satisfice](https://korrents.com/k/web-users-don-t-weigh-every-c3ce4b)
- [It matters that users understand a site, because muddling through tends to be inefficient and error-prone](https://korrents.com/k/it-matters-that-users-understand-a-9b0f8a)
- [When a slight inconsistency makes something significantly clearer, choose clarity](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-slight-inconsistency-makes-something-fd2d1d)
- [The number of clicks matters less than whether each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice](https://korrents.com/k/the-number-of-clicks-matters-less-2c7f3f)
- [Web pages should cut half their words, then half of what is left](https://korrents.com/k/web-pages-should-cut-half-their-146098)
- [No one reads instructions until repeated attempts at muddling through have failed](https://korrents.com/k/no-one-reads-instructions-until-repeated-65ad24)
- [Design-team debates about what users like rarely change anyone's mind](https://korrents.com/k/design-team-debates-about-what-users-like-674a59)
- [There is no average web user](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-average-web-user-13b668)
- [Even the worst usability test with the wrong user shows important things to improve](https://korrents.com/k/even-the-worst-usability-test-with-c8f95d)
- [Testing one user early in a project is better than testing 50 near the end](https://korrents.com/k/testing-one-user-early-in-a-278dd0)
- [Every web development team should spend one morning a month doing usability testing](https://korrents.com/k/every-web-development-team-should-spend-28ec2e)
- [Affordances are the last thing an interface should hide](https://korrents.com/k/affordances-are-the-last-thing-an-fb1729)
- [Users' goodwill is limited, and a site that exhausts it has a good chance of losing them](https://korrents.com/k/users-goodwill-is-limited-and-a-6b2551)
- [Stochastic optimization can be done well using only adaptive estimates of the gradient's lower-order moments.](https://korrents.com/k/stochastic-optimization-can-be-done-well-f186bd)
- [An optimizer that is invariant to rescaling the gradients and cheap in memory is what makes very large models practical to train.](https://korrents.com/k/an-optimizer-that-is-invariant-to-e8329b)
- [The same optimizer should handle objectives that move under it and gradients that are noisy or sparse.](https://korrents.com/k/the-same-optimizer-should-handle-objectives-d4b48e)
- [An optimizer's hyper-parameters should mean something a practitioner can reason about, and should rarely need tuning.](https://korrents.com/k/an-optimizer-s-hyper-parameters-should-mean-96caa1)
- [Explicit cost-effectiveness models deserve less weight in a giving decision than the strength of the organisation carrying the work out.](https://korrents.com/k/explicit-cost-effectiveness-models-deserve-less-weight-c044c7)
- [An excellent organisation is significantly more likely to succeed than a weaker one, so organisational strength belongs in the decision about where to give.](https://korrents.com/k/an-excellent-organisation-is-significantly-more-4ad2c1)
- [It is not appropriate to donate to your own employer, however good a giving opportunity it would otherwise be.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-not-appropriate-to-donate-0dea60)
- [A working programmer routinely works around hundreds of bugs a week in ordinary software, and the industry has normalised it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-working-programmer-routinely-works-around-5f8bf3)
- [How much to test is an economic calculation a team should actually run, not a matter of principle.](https://korrents.com/k/how-much-to-test-is-an-50fc12)
- [Downvotes and other negative-reputation systems make online behaviour worse rather than better.](https://korrents.com/k/downvotes-and-other-negative-reputation-systems-make-fa53b8)
- [People behave well towards each other where they expect to meet again; trust is a product of repeated interaction, not of identity.](https://korrents.com/k/people-behave-well-towards-each-other-7a5b18)
- [The bigger a forum gets, the worse behaviour gets, because people come to care only about their standing inside a small subgroup.](https://korrents.com/k/the-bigger-a-forum-gets-the-a48afc)
- [Social media designers routinely ignore what online-community design already established decades ago.](https://korrents.com/k/social-media-designers-routinely-ignore-what-cea463)
- [The empirical literature on static typing finds effects too small to matter, in the narrow settings it has managed to study.](https://korrents.com/k/the-empirical-literature-on-static-typing-f1c742)
- [He prefers languages with expressive type systems and has still never noticed them making him more productive or less bug-prone.](https://korrents.com/k/he-prefers-languages-with-expressive-type-2af58b)
- ["There is no empirical evidence against my position" is not an argument for it.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-empirical-evidence-against-acb66d)
- [The answer to weak studies of programming practice is to fund better ones, not to conclude that the question cannot be measured.](https://korrents.com/k/the-answer-to-weak-studies-of-53499f)
- [The most-cited study showing that language design affects software quality rests on misclassified repositories.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-cited-study-showing-that-language-630cb4)
- [Minimizing network round trips is essential to a good user experience, because bandwidth keeps improving and latency will not.](https://korrents.com/k/minimizing-network-round-trips-is-essential-c502d0)
- [The distinction between websites and web apps will disappear: a blog and a CRM are reigned by the same UX principles.](https://korrents.com/k/the-distinction-between-websites-and-web-039bfc)
- [JavaScript should act immediately on user input to mask network latency, which should remove most spinners and loading messages.](https://korrents.com/k/javascript-should-act-immediately-on-user-46b6e0)
- [No dense city anywhere runs without heavy reliance on transit, and no new transport technology changes the space arithmetic that makes that true.](https://korrents.com/k/no-dense-city-anywhere-runs-without-38cffe)
- [In low-density places driverless taxis really will beat buses, and transit agencies should hand that work over and concentrate on dense corridors.](https://korrents.com/k/in-low-density-places-driverless-taxis-really-b8a7e8)
- [Whole areas of fiction should not be dismissed as "genre" and so denied the standing of literature](https://korrents.com/k/whole-areas-of-fiction-should-not-27089d)
- [Organized religion is a very dangerous tool that many people have misused](https://korrents.com/k/organized-religion-is-a-very-dangerous-dcc02f)
- [Choosing to believe in God makes things better, giving a meditation point and a source of strength](https://korrents.com/k/choosing-to-believe-in-god-makes-0a7301)
- [Uncertainty is good for things](https://korrents.com/k/uncertainty-is-good-for-things-27abf6)
- [Everyone has the capacity to imagine, but not everyone develops it](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-has-the-capacity-to-imagine-11c553)
- [The climate crisis has grown beyond individual consumer choices and now requires decisive, large-scale action by industries and governments.](https://korrents.com/k/the-climate-crisis-has-grown-beyond-4dfccf)
- [Carbon emissions should be priced and government subsidies for oil, coal and gas companies should be ended.](https://korrents.com/k/carbon-emissions-should-be-priced-and-44b33d)
- [The economy cannot survive the collapse of ecosystems, and renewable energy is good economic policy.](https://korrents.com/k/the-economy-cannot-survive-the-collapse-ed74ae)
- [Clean air and a livable climate are inalienable human rights, and climate is a question of survival rather than a partisan issue.](https://korrents.com/k/clean-air-and-a-livable-climate-67238d)
- [For designers, signifiers matter more than affordances: affordances control what is possible, signifiers are how a product communicates what to do.](https://korrents.com/k/for-designers-signifiers-matter-more-than-bdf870)
- [Fighting for women's rights has too often been equated with man-hating, and that has to stop](https://korrents.com/k/fighting-for-women-s-rights-has-f49307)
- [What matters about feminism is the idea and ambition behind it, not the word](https://korrents.com/k/what-matters-about-feminism-is-the-4dd8df)
- [Men are imprisoned by gender stereotypes too, and freeing them would change things for women as a natural consequence](https://korrents.com/k/men-are-imprisoned-by-gender-stereotypes-201b3a)
- [Gender should be perceived on a spectrum, not as two opposing sets of ideals](https://korrents.com/k/gender-should-be-perceived-on-a-6e979c)
- [The goal of spaceflight is the whole solar system, not any single destination the experts are arguing over.](https://korrents.com/k/the-goal-of-spaceflight-is-the-436b79)
- [Refusing to speak English is what makes immersion work: it compresses years of language learning into months.](https://korrents.com/k/refusing-to-speak-english-is-what-ecf6d6)
- [Asian languages are hard enough that arriving without preparation and refusing to speak English will not work.](https://korrents.com/k/asian-languages-are-hard-enough-that-39a771)
- [Learning a language in a hurry and learning one by slow patient habit are both legitimate; neither refutes the other.](https://korrents.com/k/learning-a-language-in-a-hurry-6e9211)
- [Reaching a conversational level in a language within three months of arriving is not something to expect.](https://korrents.com/k/reaching-a-conversational-level-in-a-df1acd)
- [Essentialism means rejecting the idea that if we can fit it all in, we can have it all](https://korrents.com/k/essentialism-means-rejecting-the-idea-that-e91c96)
- [Society is in a busyness bubble near a tipping point, and it will eventually burst](https://korrents.com/k/society-is-in-a-busyness-bubble-cb8b16)
- [People have to come back to the reality of trade-offs](https://korrents.com/k/people-have-to-come-back-to-12052f)
- [People who give up the right to negotiate nonessentials lose a lot of power](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-give-up-the-right-0958a1)
- [Being tricked by the trivial is a human dynamic of social pressure, not a time-management problem](https://korrents.com/k/being-tricked-by-the-trivial-is-2ef40d)
- [For at least the last ten years the problem has been opinion overload rather than information overload](https://korrents.com/k/for-at-least-the-last-ten-f17494)
- [Instead of reaching for the phone first thing, spend 20 minutes journaling, reading or meditating to anchor on what matters](https://korrents.com/k/instead-of-reaching-for-the-phone-2736ac)
- [Software-as-a-service and open source do not make sense together: it is not really open source if users cannot run modified code.](https://korrents.com/k/software-as-a-service-and-open-source-do-not-2593ed)
- [Under software-as-a-service, indie development is not viable; for low-budget software to succeed, users must be able to run their own instances at no cost to the developer.](https://korrents.com/k/under-software-as-a-service-indie-development-is-not-87afa8)
- [Fame, money and pleasure, sought to fill an inner emptiness, bring a brief satisfaction that never lasts and is never enough.](https://korrents.com/k/fame-money-and-pleasure-sought-to-cb59fb)
- [Giving in to the drives for admiration, splendour and physical licence brings unhappiness.](https://korrents.com/k/giving-in-to-the-drives-for-8015db)
- [Music is valuable art and should not be free](https://korrents.com/k/music-is-valuable-art-and-should-dbcbd5)
- [Genre will become less of a career-defining path and more of an organisational tool](https://korrents.com/k/genre-will-become-less-of-a-6eeb4a)
- [Adversarial nets need neither Markov chains nor unrolled approximate inference networks for training or sample generation.](https://korrents.com/k/adversarial-nets-need-neither-markov-chains-11e76b)
- [Deep generative models have had less impact than discriminative models because of intractable probabilistic computations and difficulty using piecewise linear units.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-generative-models-have-had-less-fc87d9)
- [Code written to be reusable before there is anything reusing it is likely to be reusable in the wrong way.](https://korrents.com/k/code-written-to-be-reusable-before-71efb6)
- [Code is procedurally oriented rather than object-oriented: objects are just constructs that emerge to let procedures be reused.](https://korrents.com/k/code-is-procedurally-oriented-rather-than-fda320)
- [The material that teaches people how to program is overwhelmingly bad, because the programmers who know how to do it well rarely think it is worth writing down.](https://korrents.com/k/the-material-that-teaches-people-how-931664)
- [Fear is not the enemy, paralysis is: the only way to get rid of fear is to stop doing work that matters, so the question is how to dance with it.](https://korrents.com/k/fear-is-not-the-enemy-paralysis-3ff7da)
- [Cash transfers are the index fund of development: the benchmark every actively managed aid programme should have to beat.](https://korrents.com/k/cash-transfers-are-the-index-fund-0076ad)
- [Judging aid programmes against each other on cost-effectiveness is the right standard, even when it counts against the programme you champion.](https://korrents.com/k/judging-aid-programmes-against-each-other-809d01)
- [Many aid programmes will beat cash on cost-effectiveness, and the ones that do will be those that fix a market failure or a supply problem.](https://korrents.com/k/many-aid-programmes-will-beat-cash-4bbfbf)
- [Comparing randomised trials of cash against NGOs’ own claims for their programmes is not a fair comparison.](https://korrents.com/k/comparing-randomised-trials-of-cash-against-81deca)
- [Some aid programmes will beat cash at solving a specific problem, but few will beat it at simply making poor people less poor.](https://korrents.com/k/some-aid-programmes-will-beat-cash-082e1d)
- [A person should keep a hero to chase who stays out of reach, such as their own self ten years on](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-should-keep-a-hero-44b61c)
- [Gratitude reciprocates](https://korrents.com/k/gratitude-reciprocates-047765)
- [Adverse life experiences contribute to both psychological and biomedical illness.](https://korrents.com/k/adverse-life-experiences-contribute-to-both-120494)
- [EMDR gives clinicians an efficient way to address psychological and physical symptoms stemming from adverse life experiences.](https://korrents.com/k/emdr-gives-clinicians-an-efficient-way-24acda)
- [Clinicians should look for experiential contributors to a patient's clinical symptoms.](https://korrents.com/k/clinicians-should-look-for-experiential-contributors-90bd2f)
- [His advice to his own estate's trustee is the same advice he gives everyone: almost all of it into a low-cost S&P 500 index fund, not with a high-fee manager.](https://korrents.com/k/his-advice-to-his-own-estate-991303)
- [Normal waking consciousness gets its constrained quality, including self-awareness, from suppressed brain entropy.](https://korrents.com/k/normal-waking-consciousness-gets-its-constrained-11ecb7)
- [The psychedelic state is an example of a primitive state of consciousness that preceded normal adult waking consciousness.](https://korrents.com/k/the-psychedelic-state-is-an-example-7ebb38)
- [In normal waking consciousness the brain may operate just below criticality.](https://korrents.com/k/in-normal-waking-consciousness-the-brain-cf2967)
- [Entering primary states of consciousness depends on a collapse of organised activity in the default-mode network.](https://korrents.com/k/entering-primary-states-of-consciousness-depends-a667df)
- [Technological progress did not slow down from 1970 to the present, compared with its pre-1970 speed](https://korrents.com/k/technological-progress-did-not-slow-down-d3b6ea)
- [Clear goals plus a measure that drives progress toward them can achieve amazing progress, yet this is surprisingly rarely done well](https://korrents.com/k/clear-goals-plus-a-measure-that-baac3f)
- [Many efforts fail because they do not focus on the right measure or do not invest enough in measuring accurately](https://korrents.com/k/many-efforts-fail-because-they-do-ba1065)
- [With tight budgets, governments rightly demand effective programs, which requires better tools to measure what works](https://korrents.com/k/with-tight-budgets-governments-rightly-demand-c96dea)
- [The most critical change for US K-12 education is well-funded, high-quality teacher feedback systems that teachers trust](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-critical-change-for-us-ee8fcd)
- [The deepest problem with novelty is that most novel ideas are bad ones](https://korrents.com/k/the-deepest-problem-with-novelty-is-02ff85)
- [Ordinary learning from experience makes organizations abandon things after early failure, so good things are dropped too soon](https://korrents.com/k/ordinary-learning-from-experience-makes-organizations-64ef85)
- [Behavioral theory beats economic theory on justice, because economic theory produces people who are greedy and unconcerned about social welfare](https://korrents.com/k/behavioral-theory-beats-economic-theory-on-9b11e1)
- [People need heroes and the belief that human action makes a difference, and leaders are part of that story](https://korrents.com/k/people-need-heroes-and-the-belief-a697f8)
- [A leader should be decisive but skeptical, acting firmly without being very sure of acting correctly](https://korrents.com/k/a-leader-should-be-decisive-but-dffda0)
- [In organization studies, the pursuit of relevance makes scholars abandon the pursuit of knowledge too fast](https://korrents.com/k/in-organization-studies-the-pursuit-of-8c1001)
- [Interdisciplinary work requires full qualification in each discipline, so the people who go into it are underqualified](https://korrents.com/k/interdisciplinary-work-requires-full-qualification-in-a6204f)
- [Discoverability and understanding are two of the most important characteristics of good design](https://korrents.com/k/discoverability-and-understanding-are-two-of-59435e)
- [It is the duty of machines and their designers to understand people, not people's duty to understand the dictates of machines](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-the-duty-of-machines-b9045e)
- [Good design communicates from machine to person what actions are possible, what is happening and what is about to happen, above all when things go wrong](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-communicates-from-machine-to-5cb558)
- [Human-centered design means starting from a good understanding of people and the needs a design is meant to meet](https://korrents.com/k/human-centered-design-means-starting-from-a-070fa6)
- [Affordances determine what actions are possible and signifiers communicate where to act, and design needs both](https://korrents.com/k/affordances-determine-what-actions-are-possible-cf3f37)
- [A good conceptual model lets people predict the effects of their actions](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-conceptual-model-lets-people-0469c5)
- [However brilliant a product is, if people cannot use it it will be judged poorly, and making it understandable and usable is up to the designer](https://korrents.com/k/however-brilliant-a-product-is-if-991660)
- [Blaming a person for an error without fixing its root cause means the same error is likely to be repeated by someone else](https://korrents.com/k/blaming-a-person-for-an-error-2c7f37)
- [The large share of industrial accidents attributed to human error does not mean so many people are incompetent](https://korrents.com/k/the-large-share-of-industrial-accidents-d2ce3a)
- [Designers understand people's physical limitations well and greatly misunderstand their mental limitations](https://korrents.com/k/designers-understand-people-s-physical-limitations-777c19)
- [It should not be possible for one simple error to cause widespread damage](https://korrents.com/k/it-should-not-be-possible-for-3bcdbe)
- [Providing a good conceptual model is the most important principle for taming complexity](https://korrents.com/k/providing-a-good-conceptual-model-is-b7cf94)
- [Most radical innovations fail, and even successful ones can take multiple decades to be accepted](https://korrents.com/k/most-radical-innovations-fail-and-even-a4dfbd)
- [Technology changes rapidly while people and culture change slowly](https://korrents.com/k/technology-changes-rapidly-while-people-and-34bb31)
- [The most effective way to help people remember something is to make remembering it unnecessary](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-effective-way-to-help-b4c9d0)
- [Design is the rendering of intent: the designer imagines an outcome and puts forth activities to make it real.](https://korrents.com/k/design-is-the-rendering-of-intent-ef03c0)
- [Everyone who renders their intention is a designer, so the experienced designer's role shifts from owning the outcome to teaching the rest of the team to render theirs.](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-who-renders-their-intention-is-0c955e)
- [In game development speed is quality, because the faster you can work the more times you can iterate.](https://korrents.com/k/in-game-development-speed-is-quality-f573f1)
- [Quantity produces quality: the more work you put out, the likelier it is that one piece of it turns out to be the one that matters.](https://korrents.com/k/quantity-produces-quality-the-more-work-91f538)
- [The way to find a hit is to experiment a lot, not to polish.](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-find-a-hit-d4022a)
- [A small studio’s advantage over a large one is the ability to change direction fast, not the ability to out-polish it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-studio-s-advantage-over-427b12)
- [What a finished work is remembered for comes down to a few key pieces, and most of the work that went into it barely matters.](https://korrents.com/k/what-a-finished-work-is-remembered-dc8622)
- [Pursuing faith, family, community and work is the surest path to the share of happiness a person can control.](https://korrents.com/k/pursuing-faith-family-community-and-work-63a790)
- [The size of a person's circle of competence matters less than knowing when they are approaching its perimeter.](https://korrents.com/k/the-size-of-a-person-s-8292f0)
- [Inside the circle of competence a person has an advantage; on crossing its perimeter the advantage vanishes and transfers to other people.](https://korrents.com/k/inside-the-circle-of-competence-a-4030d9)
- [Outside the circle of competence, confidence does not diminish as fast as competence, and the biggest risk is what one does not see.](https://korrents.com/k/outside-the-circle-of-competence-confidence-2bda89)
- [It can be argued that a narrow area of competence need not hurt, since rigid devotion to it allows focus.](https://korrents.com/k/it-can-be-argued-that-a-1112b6)
- [To improve the odds of success, a person should understand the perimeter of their circle of competence, operate well inside it, and be willing to say "I don't know".](https://korrents.com/k/to-improve-the-odds-of-success-065ea7)
- [Grazing livestock on land too poor for crops does more environmental damage per unit of meat than feeding grain to animals does.](https://korrents.com/k/grazing-livestock-on-land-too-poor-c3fc56)
- [A difficult problem is better thought through both forwards and backward than in one direction only.](https://korrents.com/k/a-difficult-problem-is-better-thought-cbae5d)
- [Working a problem by inversion often forces the thinker to uncover hidden beliefs about it.](https://korrents.com/k/working-a-problem-by-inversion-often-22140e)
- [Thinking forward increases the odds of causing harm, whereas thinking backward (inversion) is less likely to cause harm.](https://korrents.com/k/thinking-forward-increases-the-odds-of-1db3c7)
- [More time is better spent avoiding obvious stupidity than trying to be brilliant, because avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance.](https://korrents.com/k/more-time-is-better-spent-avoiding-875c73)
- ["Evidence-based therapy" is a branding term rather than a scientific one, and in practice it is a code word for "not psychodynamic".](https://korrents.com/k/evidence-based-therapy-is-a-branding-term-9993f0)
- [No research ever showed manualized CBT to be more effective than psychodynamic therapy; it was only studied more often.](https://korrents.com/k/no-research-ever-showed-manualized-cbt-89f743)
- [Being blunt to the point of abuse on the kernel mailing list is who I am and the right way to run the project.](https://korrents.com/k/being-blunt-to-the-point-of-421902)
- [Free-to-play games use the same techniques as gambling machines in order to maximise what players spend and how long they stay.](https://korrents.com/k/free-to-play-games-use-the-same-techniques-84d165)
- [A slot machine triggers the brain’s learning and curiosity pathways while teaching nothing, and that one-way exchange is what makes it contemptuous of the player.](https://korrents.com/k/a-slot-machine-triggers-the-brain-45c471)
- [Building a great product means being great at saying no -- not maybe, not later, no.](https://korrents.com/k/building-a-great-product-means-being-bdef5b)
- [Whether a feature is quick to build is a roadmap question, never a reason on its own to build it.](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-feature-is-quick-to-4071d0)
- [A real product decision says a proposal is a great idea and still turns it down for something else.](https://korrents.com/k/a-real-product-decision-says-a-140a52)
- [Life may be an inevitable, emergent property of any random dynamical system with a Markov blanket.](https://korrents.com/k/life-may-be-an-inevitable-emergent-f33756)
- [Biological self-organisation is less remarkable than it seems, and almost inevitable given local interactions.](https://korrents.com/k/biological-self-organisation-is-less-remarkable-than-b23394)
- [Any ergodic system with a Markov blanket will almost surely behave in lifelike ways; nothing suggests a special role for carbon.](https://korrents.com/k/any-ergodic-system-with-a-markov-56f310)
- [Biological systems move around their state space but revisit a limited number of states.](https://korrents.com/k/biological-systems-move-around-their-state-8877fd)
- [The case for giving poor people cash is not that it is a cure, but that it is less bad than most of what aid already does.](https://korrents.com/k/the-case-for-giving-poor-people-86da0d)
- [Cash helps a poor person whose only obstacle is a lack of capital, and does little for anyone whose obstacle is something else.](https://korrents.com/k/cash-helps-a-poor-person-whose-82cf1b)
- [What keeps poor countries poor is political and economic instability, not a shortage of well-designed programmes.](https://korrents.com/k/what-keeps-poor-countries-poor-is-b1d784)
- [The most valuable thing a young development researcher could do is try to destroy the cash transfer movement.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-valuable-thing-a-young-94972f)
- [A research paper that makes the newspapers will usually be shown wrong within a year.](https://korrents.com/k/a-research-paper-that-makes-the-e7b3e4)
- [Watching a panacea get crushed by later studies is science working, not a reason for despair.](https://korrents.com/k/watching-a-panacea-get-crushed-by-c0309e)
- [Legal change usually begins as lawbreaking, so perfectly effective enforcement would freeze a society in place.](https://korrents.com/k/legal-change-usually-begins-as-lawbreaking-836e69)
- [When everyone is monitored and everyone breaks some obscure law, punishment stops being lawful and becomes purely selective.](https://korrents.com/k/when-everyone-is-monitored-and-everyone-d10c03)
- [There is no such thing as failure; failure is life moving us in another direction](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-such-thing-as-6ef1bc)
- [Stronger gun background checks are compatible with upholding the Second Amendment](https://korrents.com/k/stronger-gun-background-checks-are-compatible-feebda)
- [A clear path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants is compatible with enforcing the law](https://korrents.com/k/a-clear-path-to-citizenship-for-5bd669)
- [A rich nation can afford basic food, shelter and strong public education for poor families](https://korrents.com/k/a-rich-nation-can-afford-basic-fb14bf)
- [What people of every kind most want is to be validated and understood](https://korrents.com/k/what-people-most-want-across-every-0aab61)
- [Design thinking is practised by all great thinkers, but design is the one field that tries to teach it as a systematic method rather than leave it to the exceptional.](https://korrents.com/k/design-thinking-is-practised-by-all-5b93d2)
- [Breakthroughs come from questioning the obvious, and the outsider's stupid question is where that power lies.](https://korrents.com/k/breakthroughs-come-from-questioning-the-obvious-624b34)
- [The Challenger accident was caused by managers who suppressed engineers' safety concerns for venal reasons.](https://korrents.com/k/the-challenger-accident-was-caused-by-dac233)
- [A team that agrees has not examined the problem hard enough; dissent is what makes a decision safe.](https://korrents.com/k/a-team-that-agrees-has-not-f36fa2)
- [In a risky organisation, defer to expertise rather than to leaders.](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-risky-organisation-defer-to-15a530)
- [NASA denied Shuttle crews parachutes and pressure suits because it had convinced itself the vehicle was as safe as an airliner.](https://korrents.com/k/nasa-denied-shuttle-crews-parachutes-and-e95397)
- [The Columbia investigation focused on the wrong part of the wing: the engineers were analysing tiles when the damage was to the leading edge.](https://korrents.com/k/the-columbia-investigation-focused-on-the-9fc4a9)
- [Disasters come from organisational conditions, not from bad individuals, so blaming a person prevents the fix.](https://korrents.com/k/disasters-come-from-organisational-conditions-not-8b9c05)
- [The brain is not a well-organized hierarchical control system but much more like anarchy with some elements of democracy](https://korrents.com/k/the-brain-is-not-a-well-organized-c78db1)
- [A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness](https://korrents.com/k/a-free-wheeling-anarchic-neural-organization-may-d07b45)
- [Civilization may be becoming hyper-fragile through dependence on technologies that are not as reliable as they should be](https://korrents.com/k/civilization-may-be-becoming-hyper-fragile-through-7396eb)
- [Most of the regularities in culture are not treasures](https://korrents.com/k/most-of-the-regularities-in-culture-28eb54)
- [Most programming languages in use today derive from Fortran or Lisp, both created in the 1950s.](https://korrents.com/k/most-programming-languages-in-use-today-3f9432)
- [Programming today still relies on one-dimensional, sequential plain text, largely unchanged from decades ago.](https://korrents.com/k/programming-today-still-relies-on-one-dimensional-8512e7)
- [Programming needs a fundamental reinvention beyond text-based coding, comparable to the 1950s shift from physical controls to textual commands.](https://korrents.com/k/programming-needs-a-fundamental-reinvention-beyond-c909d6)
- [Some memory processes that help people respond adaptively also produce errors](https://korrents.com/k/some-memory-processes-that-help-people-9187d4)
- [Imagined futures mislead when they leave out features that matter, and help when they represent the critical ones](https://korrents.com/k/imagined-futures-mislead-when-they-leave-fe7fb7)
- [Emphasising both constructive and functional processes should broaden understanding of how memory links past and future](https://korrents.com/k/emphasising-both-constructive-and-functional-processes-1ede1b)
- [People need an online identity that outlives the platforms hosting it, which is why it should live on a domain they control rather than as a handle on somebody else's site.](https://korrents.com/k/people-need-an-online-identity-that-a4cdc5)
- [Attaching advertising revenue to links changed the web for the worse, because a link stopped being an act of expression and became a transaction.](https://korrents.com/k/attaching-advertising-revenue-to-links-changed-849377)
- [Platforms wrongly believe that giving users flexibility and control makes a product too complex to grow, and that belief is the root of most of their mistakes.](https://korrents.com/k/platforms-wrongly-believe-that-giving-users-c18757)
- [Forecasters modest about how predictable politics is, the 'foxes', made more accurate predictions than theoretically confident 'hedgehogs'.](https://korrents.com/k/forecasters-modest-about-how-predictable-politics-e80b81)
- [A fox who sees many factors in play cannot judge in a blink; they reason 'on the one hand, and on the other' and must reconcile the conflicting arguments.](https://korrents.com/k/a-fox-who-sees-many-factors-63d780)
- [Physics teaches reasoning from first principles rather than by analogy.](https://korrents.com/k/physics-teaches-reasoning-from-first-principles-025f12)
- [The raw-materials cost of a rocket is only around 2 percent of the typical price of one, an unusually low ratio for a large mechanical product.](https://korrents.com/k/the-raw-materials-cost-of-a-rocket-32ba6c)
- [Big aerospace firms have an aversion to risk that keeps them using legacy components even when better technology is available.](https://korrents.com/k/big-aerospace-firms-have-an-aversion-a33699)
- [Aerospace outsources to a ridiculous degree, and every layer of subcontractor above the one doing the work adds profit and overhead.](https://korrents.com/k/aerospace-outsources-to-a-ridiculous-degree-68eefb)
- [At many big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/at-many-big-companies-process-becomes-f699ae)
- [Register-based virtual machines can run faster than stack-based virtual machines despite needing larger instruction encodings.](https://korrents.com/k/register-based-virtual-machines-can-run-faster-2fbd38)
- [Cooperative multitasking suits coherent, specialized systems better than general-purpose operating systems.](https://korrents.com/k/cooperative-multitasking-suits-coherent-specialized-systems-bdca06)
- [Speaking badly is not a failure on the way to speaking well; it is a stage that has to be passed through on purpose.](https://korrents.com/k/speaking-badly-is-not-a-failure-8e8d48)
- [What stops people speaking a new language is not missing vocabulary; it is being unwilling to be heard sounding stupid.](https://korrents.com/k/what-stops-people-speaking-a-new-2df836)
- [The hard part of speaking from the start is not the gaps in what you know but making peace with not knowing the simplest words.](https://korrents.com/k/the-hard-part-of-speaking-from-97288c)
- [There is no threshold of vocabulary to cross before speaking begins; the change is a decision, not a level reached.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-threshold-of-vocabulary-d8079a)
- [A teacher who does not insist on the target language is a bad teacher.](https://korrents.com/k/a-teacher-who-does-not-insist-9f4f57)
- [AGI research made no progress in its first six decades.](https://korrents.com/k/agi-research-made-no-progress-in-f01afd)
- [AGI must be possible, because the laws of physics make computation universal.](https://korrents.com/k/agi-must-be-possible-because-the-506387)
- [What distinguishes human minds is creativity: the ability to produce new explanations.](https://korrents.com/k/what-distinguishes-human-minds-is-creativity-49ca71)
- [Knowledge does not come from extrapolating repeated observations.](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-does-not-come-from-extrapolating-9a4a79)
- [Knowledge consists of conjectured explanations, guesses that need no foundations or justification.](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-consists-of-conjectured-explanations-guesses-65b6a0)
- [Thinking is criticising and correcting partly true guesses, not extrapolating from sense data.](https://korrents.com/k/thinking-is-criticising-and-correcting-partly-b64092)
- [Bayesianism is a version of the mistaken induction approach to AGI.](https://korrents.com/k/bayesianism-is-a-version-of-the-caf445)
- [An AGI is qualitatively, not quantitatively, different from all other computer programs.](https://korrents.com/k/an-agi-is-qualitatively-not-quantitatively-934933)
- [Expecting AGI without first understanding how it works is like expecting skyscrapers to fly if built tall enough.](https://korrents.com/k/expecting-agi-without-first-understanding-how-75aa88)
- [AGIs would be people.](https://korrents.com/k/agis-would-be-people-7e4161)
- [Treating AGIs like ordinary computer programs would be brainwashing, slavery and tyranny.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-agis-like-ordinary-computer-programs-8bd713)
- [Education, of humans or AGIs, must stop being treated as instruction.](https://korrents.com/k/education-of-humans-or-agis-must-f16a64)
- [Developing AGI is a problem of philosophy, not computer science or neurophysiology.](https://korrents.com/k/developing-agi-is-a-problem-of-7c5225)
- [Plausibly a single idea stands between us and AGI.](https://korrents.com/k/plausibly-a-single-idea-stands-between-a404c1)
- [The battle between good and evil ideas will continue whatever hardware it runs on.](https://korrents.com/k/the-battle-between-good-and-evil-198d76)
- [Mastery is not reserved for the intellectually superior; almost anyone can attain it through willpower and desire](https://korrents.com/k/mastery-is-not-reserved-for-the-c1eb3d)
- [Great achievers' powers were the fruit of intense labour; genetics seemed to play only a minor role](https://korrents.com/k/great-achievers-powers-were-the-fruit-09d608)
- [What separates masters from others is how connected they feel to their primal inclinations and natural interests](https://korrents.com/k/what-separates-masters-from-others-is-8022e1)
- [Founders, designers and developers need to develop their taste the way a sushi chef develops a palate, and appreciating culture is how.](https://korrents.com/k/founders-designers-and-developers-need-to-8c9956)
- [Passion for your work is not something you identify in advance and follow; it is cultivated over time.](https://korrents.com/k/passion-for-your-work-is-not-3c1659)
- [Good design is as little design as possible: less, but better, because it concentrates on the essentials.](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-is-as-little-design-f9dc79)
- [Good design is unobtrusive: products that fulfil a purpose are tools, neither decorative objects nor works of art, and should leave room for the user's self-expression.](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-is-unobtrusive-products-that-6f67a9)
- [Good design is honest: it does not make a product seem more innovative, powerful or valuable than it is, and does not manipulate with promises that cannot be kept.](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-is-honest-it-does-e42dba)
- [Good design is long-lasting: it avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-is-long-lasting-it-avoids-0added)
- [Good design makes a product understandable: at best it is self-explanatory.](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-makes-a-product-understandable-90652a)
- [Good design is thorough down to the last detail: nothing must be arbitrary, and care in the design process shows respect towards the user.](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-is-thorough-down-to-d4bf4b)
- [The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness, but only well-executed objects can be beautiful.](https://korrents.com/k/the-aesthetic-quality-of-a-product-1a6628)
- [Innovative design develops in tandem with innovative technology and can never be an end in itself.](https://korrents.com/k/innovative-design-develops-in-tandem-with-415536)
- [Remarkable careers take a remarkably large amount of training.](https://korrents.com/k/remarkable-careers-take-a-remarkably-large-d3fb3e)
- [The struggle of running a company is not failure, but it causes failure, always if you are weak](https://korrents.com/k/the-struggle-of-running-a-company-aaa230)
- [Greatness comes from the struggle](https://korrents.com/k/greatness-comes-from-the-struggle-5f36b3)
- [A CEO grading themselves a failure for their mistakes does not help; every CEO makes thousands of mistakes](https://korrents.com/k/a-ceo-grading-themselves-a-failure-13ab77)
- [Narrative is not a real category; it is a cultural label for a cluster of emotional triggers games happen to share with older media.](https://korrents.com/k/narrative-is-not-a-real-category-680a78)
- [There is no sharp line between a game’s story and its mechanics.](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-sharp-line-between-9030c5)
- [Charity from the rich cannot take on the nation’s responsibilities to the sick, the poor, the young and its infrastructure](https://korrents.com/k/charity-from-the-rich-cannot-take-168d89)
- [The rich need not apologize for wealth but should acknowledge everyone should pay a fair share](https://korrents.com/k/the-rich-need-not-apologize-for-040512)
- [Having the rich pay taxes in the same proportion is a practical necessity and a moral imperative for America](https://korrents.com/k/having-the-rich-pay-taxes-in-326b71)
- [The audience responds well to well-designed systems; it is the industry’s paymasters who undervalue them in favour of authored stories.](https://korrents.com/k/the-audience-responds-well-to-well-designed-edeb3a)
- [Test coverage is a tool for finding untested code and says nothing about how good the tests are.](https://korrents.com/k/test-coverage-is-a-tool-for-0968d3)
- [Making test coverage a target destroys it, because high coverage numbers are easy to reach with worthless tests.](https://korrents.com/k/making-test-coverage-a-target-destroys-a0c982)
- [Total test coverage is a warning sign rather than an achievement: it smells of tests written for the number.](https://korrents.com/k/total-test-coverage-is-a-warning-e94df2)
- [Drug research is heading, at speed, for a world in which fewer and fewer useful medicines are discovered while more and more people want them.](https://korrents.com/k/drug-research-is-heading-at-speed-d61aca)
- [Every new drug has to beat the cheap generics that came before it, and that competition with our own back catalogue is why drug discovery gets harder over time.](https://korrents.com/k/every-new-drug-has-to-beat-28e098)
- [The aim of emotion-focused therapy is to work with emotions, not to eliminate them.](https://korrents.com/k/the-aim-of-emotion-focused-therapy-is-6ee2e3)
- [Emotional change is best achieved by changing emotion with emotion, which makes the change more enduring.](https://korrents.com/k/emotional-change-is-best-achieved-by-76c6c3)
- [Salary negotiation is the most consequential financial decision most people ever make, and they are socialised to go into it unprepared.](https://korrents.com/k/salary-negotiation-is-the-most-consequential-795167)
- [A company is not sensitive to the few thousand dollars a candidate is afraid to ask for, because the fully-loaded cost of employing them dwarfs it.](https://korrents.com/k/a-company-is-not-sensitive-to-4dfaff)
- [Asking a candidate for their salary history is a way to justify paying them below market, so a candidate should never name a number first.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-a-candidate-for-their-salary-59fa93)
- [Negotiating hard costs a candidate nothing, because the person on the other side is spending a budget rather than their own money and will not hold it against them.](https://korrents.com/k/negotiating-hard-costs-a-candidate-nothing-f55922)
- [Confidence in a belief reflects the coherence of the story the mind built, not the quality of the evidence](https://korrents.com/k/confidence-in-a-belief-reflects-the-cbaeca)
- [Subjective confidence can feel the same for intuitions from expertise and for intuitions from substitution](https://korrents.com/k/subjective-confidence-can-feel-the-same-893f50)
- [Simple and easy are different things, and treating simplicity as ease of use is a mistake.](https://korrents.com/k/simple-and-easy-are-different-things-7f6af9)
- [Simplifying often leaves you with more things, not fewer: simplicity is about not tangling things together, not about counting them.](https://korrents.com/k/simplifying-often-leaves-you-with-more-4b31b5)
- [Choosing what is easy over what is simple buys speed only at the start, the way only a runner in a very short race can sprint from the gun.](https://korrents.com/k/choosing-what-is-easy-over-what-3b9d61)
- [Tests and type checkers are safety nets: they do not make a system simple, so they cannot touch the core problem of understanding it.](https://korrents.com/k/tests-and-type-checkers-are-safety-98162d)
- [Simplicity is a choice, and a system that is not simple is its builders' fault.](https://korrents.com/k/simplicity-is-a-choice-and-a-5b4bd2)
- [Design that looks good at the end of the day often does not look good the next morning.](https://korrents.com/k/design-that-looks-good-at-the-b097a5)
- [The end of the day convinces you your work is good; the next morning tells you the truth.](https://korrents.com/k/the-end-of-the-day-convinces-af0809)
- [Facing an existential threat may be the scariest thing in business, and many will do anything to avoid it](https://korrents.com/k/facing-an-existential-threat-may-be-872e38)
- [Every company eventually must fight for its life instead of running from the battle](https://korrents.com/k/every-company-eventually-must-fight-for-635061)
- [Touchscreens are pictures under glass, a transitional technology; calling them the future of interaction is like calling black-and-white the future of photography.](https://korrents.com/k/touchscreens-are-pictures-under-glass-a-940e6c)
- [Hands feel things and hands manipulate things, and most visions of future interfaces ignore both.](https://korrents.com/k/hands-feel-things-and-hands-manipulate-849f33)
- [The future of interaction is a choice, not something that happens to us: people choose which visions to pursue and which research to fund.](https://korrents.com/k/the-future-of-interaction-is-a-5089a4)
- [With an entire body at our command, the future of interaction should not be a single finger.](https://korrents.com/k/with-an-entire-body-at-our-c75c1e)
- [Engineers are hired to create business value rather than to program things, and the only goals are adding revenue and cutting costs.](https://korrents.com/k/engineers-are-hired-to-create-business-970a1a)
- [A career goes better attached to the part of a business that brings the money in than to a cost centre, whatever the work itself is.](https://korrents.com/k/a-career-goes-better-attached-to-8c08a9)
- [Calling yourself a programmer marks you as a cost to be eliminated; describe yourself instead by the revenue you raised or the costs you cut.](https://korrents.com/k/calling-yourself-a-programmer-marks-you-047946)
- [Which language or stack an engineer knows barely matters, because a good engineer picks up a new one in weeks.](https://korrents.com/k/which-language-or-stack-an-engineer-7bf567)
- [Most jobs and most good candidates never appear publicly; hiring travels through personal networks instead.](https://korrents.com/k/most-jobs-and-most-good-candidates-9a1002)
- [Academic credentials — grades, major, the prestige of the degree — barely matter to industry hiring.](https://korrents.com/k/academic-credentials-grades-major-the-prestige-e0a0a9)
- [Colleagues and bosses are counterparties rather than friends, and an interviewer being friendly is part of a transaction.](https://korrents.com/k/colleagues-and-bosses-are-counterparties-rather-63d674)
- [An employee’s startup equity grant is most likely worth nothing, because people overestimate both the odds of success and their own share of it.](https://korrents.com/k/an-employee-s-startup-equity-grant-569765)
- [Engineers overestimate the competition and are usually good enough for the company they believe is out of their reach.](https://korrents.com/k/engineers-overestimate-the-competition-and-are-b5d64c)
- [Speaking is learned only by speaking a lot; no amount of study substitutes for it.](https://korrents.com/k/speaking-is-learned-only-by-speaking-085b87)
- [Everything other than talking to a native speaker is auxiliary, and none of it will get you speaking on its own.](https://korrents.com/k/everything-other-than-talking-to-a-5c9fab)
- [A giving approach that ranks options only by estimated expected value, with no preference for better-grounded estimates, is flawed.](https://korrents.com/k/a-giving-approach-that-ranks-options-c6bf66)
- [Give where there is strong evidence that donations do a lot of good, rather than where weak evidence suggests they might do far more.](https://korrents.com/k/give-where-there-is-strong-evidence-619fc4)
- [Ranking charities by their estimated expected value alone removes any reward for being transparent about how they actually work.](https://korrents.com/k/ranking-charities-by-their-estimated-expected-08336d)
- [A world where altruists followed expected-value estimates would be one where nearly all of them helped distant strangers instead of the people around them, and that world would be worse.](https://korrents.com/k/a-world-where-altruists-followed-expected-value-41f1b2)
- [The moment one cause looks far better than every other on thin information is exactly the moment it most needs sceptical investigation.](https://korrents.com/k/the-moment-one-cause-looks-far-106b55)
- [The more an argument asks you to do, the more evidence you should require before doing it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-an-argument-asks-you-c38d5e)
- [An ungrounded estimate that promises an enormous payoff should be discarded rather than discounted, because the size of the claim is itself the reason to distrust it.](https://korrents.com/k/an-ungrounded-estimate-that-promises-an-46f442)
- [The deeper anyone digs into a charity's cost-effectiveness estimate, the more unwarranted optimism they find, so the right prior on giving is a sceptical one.](https://korrents.com/k/the-deeper-anyone-digs-into-a-b01e27)
- [Every application has an irreducible amount of complexity; the only question is who has to deal with it: the user, the application developer or the platform developer.](https://korrents.com/k/every-application-has-an-irreducible-amount-4b27f3)
- [The American suburban pattern of development does not pay for itself: a city takes the cash from new growth and, with it, a maintenance bill it can never cover.](https://korrents.com/k/the-american-suburban-pattern-of-development-24f1db)
- [Suburban growth is a Ponzi scheme because a city of finite size cannot keep growing at an accelerating rate, and only that would pay the bills it has taken on.](https://korrents.com/k/suburban-growth-is-a-ponzi-scheme-8402b2)
- [Medicine's complexity has exceeded the individual capabilities of doctors](https://korrents.com/k/medicine-s-complexity-has-exceeded-the-39d7bb)
- [Medicine trains and pays doctors to be cowboys when patients need pit crews](https://korrents.com/k/medicine-trains-and-pays-doctors-to-157204)
- [Peacetime and wartime require radically different management styles](https://korrents.com/k/peacetime-and-wartime-require-radically-different-af112a)
- [A CEO can master both peacetime and wartime leadership, but it is hard](https://korrents.com/k/a-ceo-can-master-both-peacetime-1af980)
- [Management books tend to describe peacetime methods because consultants study companies in times of peace](https://korrents.com/k/management-books-tend-to-describe-peacetime-72c4bc)
- [EMDR is an eight-phase treatment that starts with history-taking to find the memories and current situations that need addressing.](https://korrents.com/k/emdr-is-an-eight-phase-treatment-that-e70539)
- [The eye movement in EMDR came from a chance observation, not a theory.](https://korrents.com/k/the-eye-movement-in-emdr-came-1f56f6)
- [Exposure therapy needs repeated or prolonged exposure for habituation, which is a different mechanism from EMDR.](https://korrents.com/k/exposure-therapy-needs-repeated-or-prolonged-d4a19f)
- [Accepting life's realities brings success and power; denying or running from them does not](https://korrents.com/k/accepting-life-s-realities-brings-success-eeef7c)
- [Humans are by nature the Machiavellian animal, the product of 40 million years of evolution from primates](https://korrents.com/k/humans-are-by-nature-the-machiavellian-09b08f)
- [There is nothing wrong with people playing political games or with seducers and con artists; it is just reality](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-nothing-wrong-with-people-f3a001)
- [The more you bring out your uniqueness and individuality, the more power you will have](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-you-bring-out-your-92613c)
- [No job or boss protects you any more; self-reliance and expressing individuality are the only way to power](https://korrents.com/k/no-job-or-boss-protects-you-ec4e4b)
- [Society underinvests in innovation, especially in innovations that would mostly benefit the poor, who cannot generate market demand](https://korrents.com/k/society-underinvests-in-innovation-especially-in-d4c91e)
- [Rich governments need to spend more on research and development, and health and education need better measurement](https://korrents.com/k/rich-governments-need-to-spend-more-40b22e)
- [Innovation moves faster when different parties build on each other's work and avoid repeating each other's dead ends](https://korrents.com/k/innovation-moves-faster-when-different-parties-5da8dd)
- [Online education should aim for at least one great course per subject rather than many mediocre ones](https://korrents.com/k/online-education-should-aim-for-at-e72b1c)
- [Everybody's own ideas seem obvious to them, so what is obvious to you may be amazing to someone else.](https://korrents.com/k/everybody-s-own-ideas-seem-obvious-835c51)
- [Finishing is a skill you get better at with practice, not a final step of the process.](https://korrents.com/k/finishing-is-a-skill-you-get-58c35c)
- [A project has not started until something exists that can be played; plans, documents, teams and art are not a start.](https://korrents.com/k/a-project-has-not-started-until-b04dec)
- [Limited time and resources are what force a work to be tight and to feel like it has a purpose.](https://korrents.com/k/limited-time-and-resources-are-what-607e38)
- [Every project reaches the point where the code is a mess, so starting over to fix that only returns you to the same place later.](https://korrents.com/k/every-project-reaches-the-point-where-42baba)
- [The last tenth of a project takes most of the work, because what is left at the end is all detail.](https://korrents.com/k/the-last-tenth-of-a-project-4de71d)
- [Meat produced from waste and rangeland is efficient enough that giving up meat is not the only ethical answer to world hunger.](https://korrents.com/k/meat-produced-from-waste-and-rangeland-4acb97)
- [Meat raised on feed humans cannot eat, on land that cannot grow crops, can be eaten with a clear conscience.](https://korrents.com/k/meat-raised-on-feed-humans-cannot-073464)
- [High income buys satisfaction with life but not happiness, while low income goes with both a worse life evaluation and worse emotions](https://korrents.com/k/high-income-buys-satisfaction-with-life-18c639)
- [Low income makes the emotional pain of misfortunes such as divorce, ill health and being alone worse](https://korrents.com/k/low-income-makes-the-emotional-pain-e7fc0c)
- [Above a certain level of stable income, emotional well-being seems to be limited by temperament and life circumstances rather than money](https://korrents.com/k/above-a-certain-level-of-stable-fc48f1)
- [Aggressive quantitative easing should raise long-term interest rates, because effective monetary stimulus raises them.](https://korrents.com/k/aggressive-quantitative-easing-should-raise-long-term-b4ce07)
- [A severe US banking crisis is very unlikely.](https://korrents.com/k/a-severe-us-banking-crisis-is-c51bfb)
- [Monetary policy operates with long and variable lags, so attempts to fine-tune the economy make things worse.](https://korrents.com/k/monetary-policy-operates-with-long-and-cc7b7f)
- [Treating school as a trial to be survived leaves a person unable to say what the postponed life was ever supposed to be.](https://korrents.com/k/treating-school-as-a-trial-to-032e53)
- [A student is judged in the end by how good they are at the one thing they do best, not by the sum of their activities.](https://korrents.com/k/a-student-is-judged-in-the-29cceb)
- [Doing less and doing it better is worth pursuing as an end in itself, because a life with both freedom and focus is a life well lived.](https://korrents.com/k/doing-less-and-doing-it-better-d3dc3d)
- [CBT helps people cope but does not reach the core problems people have.](https://korrents.com/k/cbt-helps-people-cope-but-does-619a01)
- [Emotion-focused therapy helps people become aware of, express, tolerate, regulate, reflect on and transform their emotions.](https://korrents.com/k/emotion-focused-therapy-helps-people-become-aware-f71da1)
- [Design thinking is a myth: designers have no special creative thought process, and the term is a public relations label for good old-fashioned creative thinking.](https://korrents.com/k/design-thinking-is-a-myth-designers-4b097d)
- [The problem of cars in cities is a geometry problem, not a technology problem: no invention creates room for everybody's car.](https://korrents.com/k/the-problem-of-cars-in-cities-1ed168)
- [Rich people will have self-driving cars and the city will not be built around them.](https://korrents.com/k/rich-people-will-have-self-driving-cars-bbb142)
- [Writing unit tests for private functions is a waste of time, since they tend to be simple and are already covered by assertions.](https://korrents.com/k/writing-unit-tests-for-private-functions-8784c3)
- [Flash is by almost any definition a closed system, because it is controlled entirely by Adobe.](https://korrents.com/k/flash-is-by-almost-any-definition-4d19a8)
- [All standards pertaining to the web should be open.](https://korrents.com/k/all-standards-pertaining-to-the-web-154973)
- [A third-party layer of software between a platform and its developers ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the platform’s progress.](https://korrents.com/k/a-third-party-layer-of-software-between-9ecf30)
- [The mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards.](https://korrents.com/k/the-mobile-era-is-about-low-986c42)
- [Flash has not performed well on mobile devices, and Apple says it has asked for years to see it do so and never has.](https://korrents.com/k/flash-has-not-performed-well-on-5cf4d1)
- [Static typing does not require manifest typing — type inference lets a language avoid that without becoming dynamically typed.](https://korrents.com/k/static-typing-does-not-require-manifest-b5473e)
- [True leadership means being able to think for yourself and act on your convictions](https://korrents.com/k/true-leadership-means-being-able-to-a4a636)
- [Multitasking is not thinking and impairs the ability to think, which means concentrating on one thing long enough](https://korrents.com/k/multitasking-is-not-thinking-and-impairs-f7e589)
- [Solitude seems to be the very essence of leadership](https://korrents.com/k/solitude-seems-to-be-the-very-cd3b7d)
- [A product needs a soul, and for that it needs one person of great taste who is its living, breathing aspect and gets furious about every small detail.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-needs-a-soul-and-085c9c)
- [In making products, taste is not a matter of opinion but a sense of sophistication, learned by making something real rather than at school.](https://korrents.com/k/in-making-products-taste-is-not-725226)
- [A product vision cannot be transferred through specs and bullet points; the product visionary has to engage in doing.](https://korrents.com/k/a-product-vision-cannot-be-transferred-af77f9)
- [Design research is great for improving existing product categories but essentially useless for new, innovative breakthroughs.](https://korrents.com/k/design-research-is-great-for-improving-e83b9a)
- [Technology comes first, invention second and needs last: grand conceptual inventions happen because technology has made them possible, and the need develops afterwards.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-comes-first-invention-second-and-50cbac)
- [The most frequent business gains come from small incremental innovations, while most revolutionary innovations fail.](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-frequent-business-gains-come-0730e4)
- [Nobody expects what they will see on paper when they hand an author the unfettered task of writing their life](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-expects-what-they-will-see-b5fa79)
- [Invest in your education as early as you can, so it has the longest time to compound](https://korrents.com/k/invest-in-your-education-as-early-9c66a2)
- [Choose to learn things that will make you smarter in 10 or 20 years rather than things that may soon be obsolete](https://korrents.com/k/choose-to-learn-things-that-will-d88fa3)
- [Now that everybody has access to everything, the diligent are no longer rewarded the way they used to be](https://korrents.com/k/now-that-everybody-has-access-to-9939c2)
- [Buffett's biggest weakness is the flipside of his strength: he is rigid and does not really listen](https://korrents.com/k/buffett-s-biggest-weakness-is-the-b6b34b)
- [The biggest business misconception about Buffett is that he is a buy-and-hold-forever investor](https://korrents.com/k/the-biggest-business-misconception-about-buffett-3316c0)
- [People succeed through a balance of their own efforts and their circumstances](https://korrents.com/k/people-succeed-through-a-balance-of-dedf52)
- [Factory farming of animals will be looked back on as a relic of a less-evolved age](https://korrents.com/k/factory-farming-of-animals-will-be-c4d17d)
- [The documented torture of farmed animals is unacceptable, whether or not one thinks animals have personalities](https://korrents.com/k/the-documented-torture-of-farmed-animals-99995f)
- [The human cost of factory farming, to slaughterhouse workers and above all to the environment, is staggering](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-cost-of-factory-farming-d72910)
- [Processing suffering fully can culminate in flourishing: aliveness, hope, clarity, agency, compassion and joy.](https://korrents.com/k/processing-suffering-fully-can-culminate-in-9c7371)
- [Growth of internet image data can enable more sophisticated models for indexing and interacting with multimedia.](https://korrents.com/k/growth-of-internet-image-data-can-17592a)
- [How large-scale internet image data can be harnessed and organized remains a critical problem.](https://korrents.com/k/how-large-scale-internet-image-data-can-7c11e6)
- [ImageNet is much larger in scale and diversity and more accurate than existing image datasets.](https://korrents.com/k/imagenet-is-much-larger-in-scale-16cd9b)
- [ImageNet's scale, accuracy, diversity and hierarchy could offer unparalleled opportunities to computer vision researchers.](https://korrents.com/k/imagenet-s-scale-accuracy-diversity-and-65ae4f)
- [Freedom and democracy are not compatible -- a conclusion reached after two decades of changing his mind about how freedom is achieved.](https://korrents.com/k/freedom-and-democracy-are-not-compatible-eec42f)
- [The great task for libertarians is to escape politics in all its forms, rather than to win within it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-great-task-for-libertarians-is-31fb51)
- [With no truly free places left in the world, freedom now depends on new technology creating new space, not on political change.](https://korrents.com/k/with-no-truly-free-places-left-61e76c)
- [Technological utopianism is a temptation to resist: technology has no momentum or will of its own and guarantees nothing.](https://korrents.com/k/technological-utopianism-is-a-temptation-to-c4de7e)
- [We are in a deadly race between politics and technology; the future will be much better or much worse, and it is still open.](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-in-a-deadly-race-547db9)
- [If everyone does only a little to help solve a big problem, the collective result will still be only a little.](https://korrents.com/k/if-everyone-does-only-a-little-94eb63)
- [Climate change is at its core an energy problem, since burning fossil fuels for energy is the main driver of emissions.](https://korrents.com/k/climate-change-is-at-its-core-1870ba)
- [Covering the windiest 10% of Britain with windmills could generate about 20 kWh per day per person, roughly half the energy used driving an average car 50 km a day.](https://korrents.com/k/covering-the-windiest-10-of-britain-017f07)
- [Britain's onshore wind resource, though large, is not as large as the country's energy consumption.](https://korrents.com/k/britain-s-onshore-wind-resource-though-59971f)
- [Airplanes are already almost as energy-efficient as they could possibly be, so no redesign will radically improve their efficiency.](https://korrents.com/k/airplanes-are-already-almost-as-energy-efficient-027841)
- [Photovoltaic panels will keep getting cheaper and less energy-intensive to manufacture over time.](https://korrents.com/k/photovoltaic-panels-will-keep-getting-cheaper-a6361b)
- [Biofuels cannot supply enough energy to matter for a country like Britain or to replace all transport fuels.](https://korrents.com/k/biofuels-cannot-supply-enough-energy-to-328392)
- [Switching off a phone charger when not in use saves only a negligible amount of energy compared to overall consumption.](https://korrents.com/k/switching-off-a-phone-charger-when-ae3dc1)
- [Wave power is unlikely to play a significant role in solving Britain's sustainable energy problem, though it may suit small remote-island communities.](https://korrents.com/k/wave-power-is-unlikely-to-play-29e6df)
- [Britain cannot live on its own renewables under its current lifestyle and consumption levels.](https://korrents.com/k/britain-cannot-live-on-its-own-54be6c)
- [British people tend to oppose large-scale renewable energy projects even while supporting renewable energy in principle.](https://korrents.com/k/british-people-tend-to-oppose-large-scale-c66d58)
- [Hydrogen is a hyped-up bandwagon that is unlikely to help with our energy problems.](https://korrents.com/k/hydrogen-is-a-hyped-up-bandwagon-that-f3fb89)
- [Hydrogen-powered cars will ultimately use about as much energy as today's average fossil-fuelled car.](https://korrents.com/k/hydrogen-powered-cars-will-ultimately-use-about-9865d4)
- [Switching to electric cars is already a good idea, even before the electricity supply is greened.](https://korrents.com/k/switching-to-electric-cars-is-already-044183)
- [Heat pumps are more efficient than condensing boilers even when the heat pump's electricity comes from a natural-gas power station.](https://korrents.com/k/heat-pumps-are-more-efficient-than-c6a952)
- [The price of nuclear power is dominated by construction and decommissioning costs, not fuel costs.](https://korrents.com/k/the-price-of-nuclear-power-is-5d88f1)
- [Nuclear power is dangerous, but not uniquely so among energy sources like coal, oil, and wind.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-power-is-dangerous-but-not-74aa21)
- [Nuclear waste is only a minor worry compared with the other forms of waste being left to future generations.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-waste-is-only-a-minor-5dc9ff)
- [Assuming the nuclear fusion problem will be solved is reckless, even though estimating fusion's potential power output is still worthwhile.](https://korrents.com/k/assuming-the-nuclear-fusion-problem-will-c7562f)
- [Ramping up electric vehicles alongside wind power, roughly 3,000 vehicles per 3 MW turbine, with smart charging, would go a long way to solving the problem of wind fluctuations.](https://korrents.com/k/ramping-up-electric-vehicles-alongside-wind-5a0a15)
- [Reducing emissions from oil and gas matters less than coal, because supplies of both are expected to decline over the next 50 years anyway.](https://korrents.com/k/reducing-emissions-from-oil-and-gas-6ec93c)
- [Free markets alone cannot solve environmental and energy problems; legislation, regulation, and taxation are also necessary.](https://korrents.com/k/free-markets-alone-cannot-solve-environmental-67453c)
- [Europe cannot meet its energy needs from renewables alone and will need nuclear power, solar power from deserts elsewhere, or both.](https://korrents.com/k/europe-cannot-meet-its-energy-needs-3c05ec)
- [Solar thermal water heating is a practical technology that works in most of the world.](https://korrents.com/k/solar-thermal-water-heating-is-a-17cc3f)
- [Using tree planting to reverse climate change is not workable because it would require country-sized land areas.](https://korrents.com/k/using-tree-planting-to-reverse-climate-bd5666)
- [Air-source heat pumps are the best heating choice for most people.](https://korrents.com/k/air-source-heat-pumps-are-the-best-413e22)
- [For most materials, embodied energy per unit weight is at least about 10 kWh per kg, similar to fossil fuels' energy density by weight.](https://korrents.com/k/for-most-materials-embodied-energy-per-c93717)
- [The first thing to do in a new language is to imitate its accent completely, before the words.](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-thing-to-do-in-5b9012)
- [Keeping a foreign accent is a choice about who you are, not a limit on what you can hear or say.](https://korrents.com/k/keeping-a-foreign-accent-is-a-59ac2b)
- [In complex decisions exposed to fat tails, decisions should not rest on statistically based claims](https://korrents.com/k/in-complex-decisions-exposed-to-fat-0bb928)
- [Depending on exposure, one can be extremely wrong and be fine, or slightly wrong and blow up](https://korrents.com/k/depending-on-exposure-one-can-be-64a4c6)
- [Empirical knowledge of rare events’ role is inversely proportional to their impact](https://korrents.com/k/empirical-knowledge-of-rare-events-role-bc0628)
- [With no typical event under fat tails, prediction markets are ludicrous because they make events look binary](https://korrents.com/k/with-no-typical-event-under-fat-5720c2)
- [Only fools optimize, since a simple model error can blow through their capital](https://korrents.com/k/only-fools-optimize-since-a-simple-b18447)
- [Things that have worked for a long time are preferable](https://korrents.com/k/things-that-have-worked-for-a-4652f4)
- [Absence of volatility should not be confused with absence of risk](https://korrents.com/k/absence-of-volatility-should-not-be-ac3394)
- [Prosperity comes from avoiding blowups, as longer life comes from avoiding death](https://korrents.com/k/prosperity-comes-from-avoiding-blowups-as-1c1163)
- [Human-level artificial intelligence is plausibly centuries or millennia away, and no trend supports a shorter estimate.](https://korrents.com/k/human-level-artificial-intelligence-is-plausibly-centuries-ce1d80)
- [Because a few specialists already devote themselves to superintelligent AI, the rest of us have correspondingly less reason to spend our own effort on it.](https://korrents.com/k/because-a-few-specialists-already-devote-2ede7a)
- [Human-level AI is most likely centuries or millennia away, so there is no reason to reorganise one's work around its arrival.](https://korrents.com/k/human-level-ai-is-most-likely-centuries-a61b52)
- [Feelings are a guidance system for life: right decisions come from the gut, wrong ones from not listening to it](https://korrents.com/k/feelings-are-a-guidance-system-for-397f14)
- [Money alone does not make a person successful; what you want is money and meaning](https://korrents.com/k/money-alone-does-not-make-a-1857cf)
- [Difficulties come from ignoring life's early warnings: life whispers first, then screams](https://korrents.com/k/difficulties-come-from-ignoring-life-s-f2e53a)
- [To be truly happy you have to stand for something larger than yourself and give back](https://korrents.com/k/to-be-truly-happy-you-have-1feff0)
- [Much wrongdoing comes from good people doing bad things without knowing it, not from bad people](https://korrents.com/k/much-wrongdoing-comes-from-good-people-797640)
- [Setting goals makes otherwise-unethical behaviour more likely; goal setting is not bad but has overlooked problems](https://korrents.com/k/setting-goals-makes-otherwise-unethical-behaviour-more-5163c3)
- [Managers should make corporate ethics clear and avoid sending subtle, conflicting signals](https://korrents.com/k/managers-should-make-corporate-ethics-clear-c947c4)
- [Better organizations recruit more effectively, because most people want to work for a high-quality organization](https://korrents.com/k/better-organizations-recruit-more-effectively-because-370fb6)
- [An elite education can leave people unable to talk to those who are not like them](https://korrents.com/k/an-elite-education-can-leave-people-a5ca0f)
- [An elite education gives the chance to be rich but takes away the valuable chance not to be](https://korrents.com/k/an-elite-education-gives-the-chance-a819dd)
- [Being an intellectual is not the same as being smart](https://korrents.com/k/being-an-intellectual-is-not-the-d77162)
- [The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers](https://korrents.com/k/the-true-purpose-of-education-is-d6dd5b)
- [Introspection is the precondition of an intellectual life, and solitude is the precondition of introspection](https://korrents.com/k/introspection-is-the-precondition-of-an-a7cd54)
- [Google accepts a high false-negative rate in interviews, turning away qualified people, because that is considered better than sometimes hiring unqualified ones.](https://korrents.com/k/google-accepts-a-high-false-negative-rate-52fe8b)
- [Interview false negatives seem completely random and unrelated to a candidate's skills or qualifications.](https://korrents.com/k/interview-false-negatives-seem-completely-random-9ef462)
- [Studying a data-structures and algorithms book is the preparation most likely to help in a Google interview, because it trains you to recognise the class of problem being asked.](https://korrents.com/k/studying-a-data-structures-and-algorithms-book-acbae2)
- [Hashtables are arguably the single most important data structure, and a candidate absolutely has to know how they work.](https://korrents.com/k/hashtables-are-arguably-the-single-most-f4c6e0)
- [Population growth matters only insofar as people consume and produce.](https://korrents.com/k/population-growth-matters-only-insofar-as-b764f1)
- [What matters for the world's resources is total consumption: local population times per-capita consumption.](https://korrents.com/k/what-matters-for-the-world-s-4a4739)
- [Promising developing countries a first-world lifestyle is an impossible promise, a cruel hoax.](https://korrents.com/k/promising-developing-countries-a-first-world-lifestyle-3c6233)
- [Rich countries will soon consume less, willingly or not, because present rates are unsustainable.](https://korrents.com/k/rich-countries-will-soon-consume-less-09633f)
- [Living standards are not tightly tied to consumption, so consuming less need not mean real sacrifice.](https://korrents.com/k/living-standards-are-not-tightly-tied-4db4b6)
- [Much American consumption is wasteful and adds little or nothing to quality of life.](https://korrents.com/k/much-american-consumption-is-wasteful-and-512900)
- [Run sustainably, the world's fisheries could yield at maximum historical rates indefinitely.](https://korrents.com/k/run-sustainably-the-world-s-fisheries-3875e9)
- [We know how to cut consumption; what has been lacking is political will.](https://korrents.com/k/we-know-how-to-cut-consumption-85bed3)
- [The world's consumption problems can be solved if we choose to.](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-s-consumption-problems-can-b860cd)
- [Not all decisions are important, yet some people spend more time on trivial choices than on life-changing ones](https://korrents.com/k/not-all-decisions-are-important-yet-d51b2a)
- [Learning starts with observing reality and learning the core concepts that account for it](https://korrents.com/k/learning-starts-with-observing-reality-and-6e4104)
- [Focus on understanding useful, important and correct general ideas and their applications](https://korrents.com/k/focus-on-understanding-useful-important-and-cce3a7)
- [Ideas that explain a whole range of phenomena are the ones to favour](https://korrents.com/k/ideas-that-explain-a-whole-range-39e23f)
- [Some disciplines are more reliable than others, such as those describing experimentally tested ideas](https://korrents.com/k/some-disciplines-are-more-reliable-than-71b574)
- [Acquiring insight into how things work is a worthwhile effort in itself, not only for any payoff](https://korrents.com/k/acquiring-insight-into-how-things-work-dc2cc5)
- [Most people could do the learning behind such a book; it takes curiosity and real interest, not special talent](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-could-do-the-learning-7bc3be)
- [The safest way to try to get what one wants is to try to deserve it](https://korrents.com/k/the-safest-way-to-try-to-8dda5d)
- [Acquiring wisdom is a moral duty and not only something done to advance in life](https://korrents.com/k/acquiring-wisdom-is-a-moral-duty-0b4f18)
- [Advancing in life depends more on what one learns later than on what one already knows](https://korrents.com/k/advancing-in-life-depends-more-on-1aa952)
- [People who are learning machines rise in life even when they are not the smartest or the most diligent](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-are-learning-machines-rise-a2178b)
- [Knowing the big ideas of the disciplines well enough for an exam does not help; they have to sit in a mental latticework and be used automatically for life](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-the-big-ideas-of-the-d92411)
- [Inversion frequently solves problems that nothing else will](https://korrents.com/k/inversion-frequently-solves-problems-that-nothing-71595b)
- [Sloth and unreliability are what to avoid: an unreliable person craters whatever their virtues](https://korrents.com/k/sloth-and-unreliability-are-what-to-174923)
- [One is not entitled to an opinion on a subject until one can state the arguments against one’s position better than its supporters](https://korrents.com/k/one-is-not-entitled-to-an-f252f6)
- [One has to allow for the self-serving bias of everybody else, and failing to do so is foolish](https://korrents.com/k/one-has-to-allow-for-the-428ab6)
- [Envy, resentment, revenge and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought, and self-pity gets close to paranoia, which is very hard to reverse](https://korrents.com/k/envy-resentment-revenge-and-self-pity-are-128983)
- [Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required for correct thinking](https://korrents.com/k/objectivity-maintenance-routines-are-totally-required-e7a429)
- [Checklist routines avoid a lot of errors, and a checklist is the procedure that works best for putting elementary wisdom to use](https://korrents.com/k/checklist-routines-avoid-a-lot-of-2aa66f)
- [There are two kinds of knowledge: that of those who really know, having paid the dues and having the aptitude, and that of those who have only learned to prattle the talk](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-two-kinds-of-knowledge-c9aaea)
- [The highest form civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust: not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another](https://korrents.com/k/the-highest-form-civilization-can-reach-797648)
- [FizzBuzz-style screening is needed because many people applying for programming jobs cannot program.](https://korrents.com/k/fizzbuzz-style-screening-is-needed-because-many-85f0f2)
- [It may be foolish to interview a programmer without looking at their code first.](https://korrents.com/k/it-may-be-foolish-to-interview-78e9e7)
- [Abolishing DRM and selling music in open licensable formats that any player can play is clearly the best alternative for consumers.](https://korrents.com/k/abolishing-drm-and-selling-music-in-b9c84c)
- [DRM has not worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy.](https://korrents.com/k/drm-has-not-worked-and-may-2232d6)
- [Licensing a DRM to many companies means disclosing its secrets, and history says they will leak.](https://korrents.com/k/licensing-a-drm-to-many-companies-b5e904)
- [Evolution could not have built new levels of organization at all without cooperation.](https://korrents.com/k/evolution-could-not-have-built-new-dc3c50)
- [Cooperation means a selfish replicator giving up some of its own reproductive potential to help another.](https://korrents.com/k/cooperation-means-a-selfish-replicator-giving-25f3be)
- [Natural selection opposes cooperation by default, so cooperation only survives where a specific mechanism is at work.](https://korrents.com/k/natural-selection-opposes-cooperation-by-default-ef0cce)
- [Because good art exists, good taste exists too: it is the ability to recognize good art.](https://korrents.com/k/because-good-art-exists-good-taste-d736f4)
- [What gets into art shows is decided mostly by market price, which for recent art is set largely by successful businessmen and their wives.](https://korrents.com/k/what-gets-into-art-shows-is-b74a21)
- [No religion holds its members to the high standards of moral responsibility that secular science and medicine do](https://korrents.com/k/no-religion-holds-its-members-to-3a87c3)
- [Open-ended rational criticism, imperfect as it is, is the secret of the success of science and medicine](https://korrents.com/k/open-ended-rational-criticism-imperfect-as-it-aab18b)
- [There are solid grounds for believing that intercessory prayer simply does not work](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-solid-grounds-for-believing-d57498)
- [Religious people can be asked to live up to the same moral standards as secular people in science and medicine](https://korrents.com/k/religious-people-can-be-asked-to-0fd096)
- [An interviewer who cannot decide on a candidate should say No Hire.](https://korrents.com/k/an-interviewer-who-cannot-decide-on-d6fab6)
- [Brain-teaser questions tell an interviewer nothing about whether a candidate is smart and gets things done, only whether they have heard that teaser before.](https://korrents.com/k/brain-teaser-questions-tell-an-interviewer-nothing-d2b683)
- [Interviewers should hear nothing about a candidate beforehand and should not compare notes until each has decided independently.](https://korrents.com/k/interviewers-should-hear-nothing-about-a-ecedcc)
- [Handling recursion and pointers is an excellent test of a good programmer, even though modern languages have made that skill itself almost unnecessary.](https://korrents.com/k/handling-recursion-and-pointers-is-an-55cd28)
- [When a candidate describes a team project, the interviewer should look for signs that they took a leadership role.](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-candidate-describes-a-team-6a4573)
- [Good writing keeps sentences short and prefers short words](https://korrents.com/k/good-writing-keeps-sentences-short-and-b0829d)
- [Writers should avoid jargon, treating any word not regularly read in a newspaper as suspect](https://korrents.com/k/writers-should-avoid-jargon-treating-any-f8d40e)
- [Math is good training for the mind and makes you a more rigorous thinker](https://korrents.com/k/math-is-good-training-for-the-20470d)
- [Economics programs use math courses as one long IQ test to find out who is really smart](https://korrents.com/k/economics-programs-use-math-courses-as-c54e4c)
- [Admissions committees for economics PhD programs are perhaps excessively fond of mathematics on transcripts](https://korrents.com/k/admissions-committees-for-economics-phd-programs-530b27)
- [Warnings of an imminent US recession in 2006 are partisan gloom rather than a real signal about the economy.](https://korrents.com/k/warnings-of-an-imminent-us-recession-05803c)
- [Nuclear power is the wrong technology for cutting carbon: efficiency and renewables can do the job without it.](https://korrents.com/k/nuclear-power-is-the-wrong-technology-4d0694)
- [The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction: when in doubt, remove.](https://korrents.com/k/the-simplest-way-to-achieve-simplicity-aee356)
- [Savings in time feel like simplicity: when forced to wait, life seems unnecessarily complex.](https://korrents.com/k/savings-in-time-feel-like-simplicity-261e12)
- [More emotions are better than fewer: when emotion comes first, do not be afraid to add ornament or layers of meaning.](https://korrents.com/k/more-emotions-are-better-than-fewer-feeb24)
- [Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.](https://korrents.com/k/simplicity-is-about-subtracting-the-obvious-25e911)
- [Aspiring economists should take as many math and statistics courses as they can stomach](https://korrents.com/k/aspiring-economists-should-take-as-many-d99d2f)
- [Choose economics courses by the instructor, not the topic, since any part of economics can be interesting or deadly dull](https://korrents.com/k/choose-economics-courses-by-the-instructor-d45abf)
- [Having nothing to hide is not a reason to accept surveillance.](https://korrents.com/k/having-nothing-to-hide-is-not-2f30f7)
- [For most software, interactivity is a curse for users and a crutch for designers.](https://korrents.com/k/for-most-software-interactivity-is-a-f16b48)
- [Information software design is graphic design: a software designer who decides what the user will see is doing graphic design whether she realizes it or not.](https://korrents.com/k/information-software-design-is-graphic-design-503ac8)
- [Good judgment can be sought mostly by collecting instances of bad judgment and pondering ways to avoid them, in the manner of inversion](https://korrents.com/k/good-judgment-can-be-sought-mostly-ecbb94)
- [One should never think about something else when one should be thinking about the power of incentives](https://korrents.com/k/one-should-never-think-about-something-4b8d66)
- [Driven by incentives, a decent person drifts into immoral behavior to get what he wants and rationalizes it](https://korrents.com/k/driven-by-incentives-a-decent-person-c84f2c)
- [Because of incentive-caused bias, a professional advisor’s advice deserves distrust, especially when it is especially good for the advisor](https://korrents.com/k/because-of-incentive-caused-bias-a-professional-b144de)
- [The man-with-a-hammer tendency does not exempt smart people](https://korrents.com/k/the-man-with-a-hammer-tendency-does-not-exempt-845141)
- [Practicing fewer skills leads to man-with-a-hammer error and shrinks learning capacity, by leaving gaps in the latticework of theory](https://korrents.com/k/practicing-fewer-skills-leads-to-man-with-a-hammer-7a7cc1)
- [A thinking person needs to assemble their skills into a checklist used routinely, or will miss much that is important](https://korrents.com/k/a-thinking-person-needs-to-assemble-f33838)
- [Reaching a conclusion quickly and then resisting any change in it naturally causes many errors of cognition](https://korrents.com/k/reaching-a-conclusion-quickly-and-then-d59037)
- [Liking and loving act as a conditioning device that makes the lover ignore faults, comply with wishes, favor associated things and distort other facts](https://korrents.com/k/liking-and-loving-act-as-a-e0a545)
- [People have an automatic tendency to think and act as they see others around them thinking and acting](https://korrents.com/k/people-have-an-automatic-tendency-to-40279c)
- [Learning to ignore the examples of others when they are wrong is a skill few skills exceed in worth](https://korrents.com/k/learning-to-ignore-the-examples-of-5c5ed2)
- [Many small steps toward disaster can carry a person too far to avoid it, because each step presents so little contrast with the present position](https://korrents.com/k/many-small-steps-toward-disaster-can-337182)
- [A loss hurts much more than an equal gain helps](https://korrents.com/k/a-loss-hurts-much-more-than-74f562)
- [The best antidote to excess self-regard is to force oneself to be more objective about oneself, one’s family and friends, one’s property and the value of one’s activity](https://korrents.com/k/the-best-antidote-to-excess-self-regard-dbeab9)
- [Trained, habitual use of simple probability math is one standard antidote to foolish optimism](https://korrents.com/k/trained-habitual-use-of-simple-probability-339284)
- [Learning is most easily assimilated and used when experience is hung on a latticework of theory answering the question Why](https://korrents.com/k/learning-is-most-easily-assimilated-and-f48ae5)
- [Pressure from many psychological tendencies at once accounts for extreme results such as the Milgram experiment and the success of some cults](https://korrents.com/k/pressure-from-many-psychological-tendencies-at-ba75f2)
- [Leaders in Washington are proudly ignorant guessers, sick of the solid information research and reporting provide](https://korrents.com/k/leaders-in-washington-are-proudly-ignorant-fe70e5)
- [Using the vast knowledge now available to educated people will leave you lonesome](https://korrents.com/k/using-the-vast-knowledge-now-available-a27559)
- [Most claimed research findings are false, and that can be shown rather than merely suspected.](https://korrents.com/k/most-claimed-research-findings-are-false-11dd9d)
- [The smaller the studies a field runs, the less likely its published findings are to be true.](https://korrents.com/k/the-smaller-the-studies-a-field-3bacb7)
- [The smaller the effects a field studies, the less likely its published findings are to be true.](https://korrents.com/k/the-smaller-the-effects-a-field-335399)
- [The more analytical freedom a field allows in designs, definitions and outcomes, the less likely its published findings are to be true.](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-analytical-freedom-a-field-84a1fd)
- [The greater the financial interests and prejudices in a field, the less likely its published findings are to be true.](https://korrents.com/k/the-greater-the-financial-interests-and-92f50c)
- [A hotter field with more teams racing on the same question produces less reliable findings, not more.](https://korrents.com/k/a-hotter-field-with-more-teams-4b7252)
- [You can only understand the path of a life looking backward, so the dots have to be trusted to connect in the future: trust in something, whether gut, destiny or karma.](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-only-understand-the-path-9bac78)
- [Being fired can turn out to be the best thing that could have happened: the heaviness of success gives way to the lightness of being a beginner again, which frees creativity.](https://korrents.com/k/being-fired-can-turn-out-to-19187b)
- [The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do; if you have not found it, keep looking and do not settle.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-way-to-be-truly-deffec)
- [Remembering that one will soon be dead is the most useful tool for making the big choices in life, because expectations, pride and fear of failure fall away in the face of death.](https://korrents.com/k/remembering-that-one-will-soon-be-cee343)
- [Asking each morning whether today would be worth living as the last day of one’s life shows when something needs to change.](https://korrents.com/k/asking-each-morning-whether-today-would-4e87c9)
- [Death is very likely the best invention of life: the change agent that clears out the old to make way for the new.](https://korrents.com/k/death-is-very-likely-the-best-7fdfc0)
- [Time is limited, so one should not live someone else’s life: dogma is living with other people’s thinking, and one’s own intuition already knows what one wants to become.](https://korrents.com/k/time-is-limited-so-one-should-19f4ab)
- [The chief danger of biofuels is that growing them for vehicles takes arable land away from food and causes hunger.](https://korrents.com/k/the-chief-danger-of-biofuels-is-c0a8a9)
- [Cognitive-behavioural therapy, being rational, tends to be a more masculine mode of therapy.](https://korrents.com/k/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-being-rational-tends-to-15eeb6)
- [Feelings people are told not to feel are stored inside, and a later loss can make them break down.](https://korrents.com/k/feelings-people-are-told-not-to-9cbe5b)
- [Cognitive behavioural therapy aims to change how we think about emotions and leans on regulating or suppressing painful feelings, which can be damaging.](https://korrents.com/k/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-aims-to-change-252b45)
- [Measuring outcomes of medical or surgical interventions is part of good practice, but publishing individual doctors' results remains controversial.](https://korrents.com/k/measuring-outcomes-of-medical-or-surgical-f93d17)
- [A surgeon's performance cannot be separated from that of the institution because quality depends heavily on institutional systems.](https://korrents.com/k/a-surgeon-s-performance-cannot-be-c4f03a)
- [Casemix makes it unwise to publish surgeons' unadjusted mortality figures for comparison.](https://korrents.com/k/casemix-makes-it-unwise-to-publish-8cf6e6)
- [A single risk-adjusted summary of a surgeon's results risks giving spurious credibility to analyses that ignore non-patient influences.](https://korrents.com/k/a-single-risk-adjusted-summary-of-a-b5885d)
- [Non-risk-adjusted mortality data cannot support patient choice and only signal that a fuller review is required.](https://korrents.com/k/non-risk-adjusted-mortality-data-cannot-support-patient-fd23eb)
- [America has no chance of becoming humane and reasonable, because power corrupts and human beings get drunk on it](https://korrents.com/k/america-has-no-chance-of-becoming-eea4e0)
- [The most vocal Christians demand the Ten Commandments in public buildings but never mention the Beatitudes](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-vocal-christians-demand-the-c6f5bc)
- [The Constitution's tragic flaw is that only nut cases want to be president](https://korrents.com/k/the-constitution-s-tragic-flaw-is-294600)
- [All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being](https://korrents.com/k/all-great-literature-is-about-what-2dad96)
- [The two most abused, addictive and destructive substances are legal, despite the government's war on drugs](https://korrents.com/k/the-two-most-abused-addictive-and-d4ec51)
- [The industrialized world is hopelessly hooked on fossil fuels, and they will soon run out](https://korrents.com/k/the-industrialized-world-is-hopelessly-hooked-657d8b)
- [Computers change but people do not, so understanding people is how you make better software](https://korrents.com/k/computers-change-but-people-do-not-6666d8)
- [The vast majority of software development projects fail](https://korrents.com/k/the-vast-majority-of-software-development-7d8bea)
- [Positive emotions that arise during painful work are markers that healing change is happening.](https://korrents.com/k/positive-emotions-that-arise-during-painful-8ec572)
- [Predictions should be less extreme than the information they rest on, an idea that is deeply counterintuitive](https://korrents.com/k/predictions-should-be-less-extreme-than-9beb1f)
- [Loss aversion was the most useful contribution of the prospect theory work to the study of decision making](https://korrents.com/k/loss-aversion-was-the-most-useful-bfbb9b)
- [Social science disciplines use ritual tests of competence that screen work by form rather than substance](https://korrents.com/k/social-science-disciplines-use-ritual-tests-bea199)
- [Which scientific writing gains lasting fame is decided by a strange and rather arbitrary process](https://korrents.com/k/which-scientific-writing-gains-lasting-fame-f95f48)
- [Critique-and-reply debates in the social sciences are absurdly adversarial; hardly anyone admits an error](https://korrents.com/k/critique-and-reply-debates-in-the-social-sciences-32958c)
- [World oil supply is close to its peak and will decline while demand keeps rising.](https://korrents.com/k/world-oil-supply-is-close-to-3534fb)
- [The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content and turns everything into a sales pitch.](https://korrents.com/k/the-standard-powerpoint-presentation-elevates-format-3f901e)
- [Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure: if the numbers are boring you have the wrong numbers.](https://korrents.com/k/audience-boredom-is-usually-a-content-3a5b24)
- [Visual reasoning works best when information is shown side by side, and the more intense the detail, the greater the clarity.](https://korrents.com/k/visual-reasoning-works-best-when-information-48101f)
- [Chartjunk is a clear sign of statistical stupidity.](https://korrents.com/k/chartjunk-is-a-clear-sign-of-f7d189)
- [Software productivity cannot be measured, because there is no way to measure a development team's output.](https://korrents.com/k/software-productivity-cannot-be-measured-because-ed622e)
- [Lines of code cannot measure productivity, because better-designed code is shorter.](https://korrents.com/k/lines-of-code-cannot-measure-productivity-95f791)
- [Localisation - producing locally everything that can be produced locally - is the right answer to unjust global trade.](https://korrents.com/k/localisation-producing-locally-everything-that-2c4d33)
- [Empathy is probably the single most important difference between a good hacker and a great one, because great software has to be seen from the user's point of view.](https://korrents.com/k/empathy-is-probably-the-single-most-2c62d6)
- [Big companies have software designed by committee to avoid disasters, so a startup wins design wars by having the same people design and implement the product.](https://korrents.com/k/big-companies-have-software-designed-by-d05e27)
- [Great software requires a fanatical devotion to beauty: the parts no one is supposed to see should be beautiful too, because unseen details become visible in the aggregate.](https://korrents.com/k/great-software-requires-a-fanatical-devotion-1a4cc9)
- [Premature design, deciding too early what a program should do, is as dangerous as premature optimization; specifications should be allowed to change on the fly.](https://korrents.com/k/premature-design-deciding-too-early-what-871b6a)
- [You need a good sense of design to judge good design, and there is no correlation, except possibly a negative one, between people's ability to recognize it and their confidence that they can.](https://korrents.com/k/you-need-a-good-sense-of-dd7a9c)
- [Design is for users, but you have to design what the user needs rather than what he says he wants.](https://korrents.com/k/design-is-for-users-but-you-ab8bdf)
- [You are most likely to get good design if the intended users include the designer, because looking down on the user corrupts the designer.](https://korrents.com/k/you-are-most-likely-to-get-7e884f)
- [Good design requires a dictator: design by committee is a synonym for bad design, because a design has to be all of a piece.](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-requires-a-dictator-design-cf4712)
- [To get good design you have to get close to your users and stay close, calibrating your ideas on actual users constantly.](https://korrents.com/k/to-get-good-design-you-have-441ca5)
- [It is hard to design something good for users you look down on, because you cannot stay interested in something you do not like yourself.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-hard-to-design-something-47443f)
- [People seek a complete theory of the universe to understand it and not feel victims of dark and mysterious forces.](https://korrents.com/k/people-seek-a-complete-theory-of-7a6e63)
- [The standard model of particle physics is unsatisfactory, being ugly and ad hoc.](https://korrents.com/k/the-standard-model-of-particle-physics-02d440)
- [A fully consistent quantum theory of gravity is essential to understanding the universe.](https://korrents.com/k/a-fully-consistent-quantum-theory-of-7fa550)
- [It is good that the search for understanding will never end, since there will always be new discovery; without it we would stagnate.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-good-that-the-search-509fb8)
- [A photograph is never simply transparent: to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude](https://korrents.com/k/a-photograph-is-never-simply-transparent-18d21f)
- [Disgust and pity at war pictures should not distract from asking whose cruelties and deaths are not being shown](https://korrents.com/k/disgust-and-pity-at-war-pictures-05df9d)
- [The problem is not remembering through photographs but remembering only the photographs, which eclipses other understanding](https://korrents.com/k/the-problem-is-not-remembering-through-42b143)
- [What looks like callousness toward images of suffering comes from the unstable attention television is built to arouse and satiate](https://korrents.com/k/what-looks-like-callousness-toward-images-23a770)
- [Israelis and Arabs are one family, so a loss for either side is a loss for all humankind](https://korrents.com/k/israelis-and-arabs-are-one-family-2f68e0)
- [Every act of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should shame us and every child killed be mourned as our own](https://korrents.com/k/every-act-of-violence-in-the-920d94)
- [Differences between the public's and economists' positive economic views resemble judgemental anomalies in which laypeople and experts systematically disagree.](https://korrents.com/k/differences-between-the-public-s-and-9d1b32)
- [Differences between the public's and economists' economic views do not solely reflect economists' self-serving bias.](https://korrents.com/k/differences-between-the-public-s-and-7bd31d)
- [The robustness of apparent biases about economics suggests that the judgemental anomaly is real.](https://korrents.com/k/the-robustness-of-apparent-biases-about-0f0fb6)
- [Taste is not just personal preference: there is such a thing as good and bad design, and a maker's taste can be wrong.](https://korrents.com/k/taste-is-not-just-personal-preference-ecda08)
- [Good design is simple, because being forced to be simple forces a maker to face the real problem and deliver substance instead of ornament.](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-is-simple-because-being-f03704)
- [Good design is timeless: if something is ugly it cannot be the best solution, and someone will eventually find a better one.](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-is-timeless-if-something-bba3f4)
- [Good design solves the right problem; a lot of bad design is industrious but misguided.](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-solves-the-right-problem-d8af53)
- [Good design is redesign: it is rare to get things right the first time, and experts plan to throw away early work.](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-is-redesign-it-is-e9d4cb)
- [Great designers make it look easy, and the ease is mostly an illusion: the conversational tone of good writing comes on the eighth rewrite.](https://korrents.com/k/great-designers-make-it-look-easy-ced981)
- [The only style worth having is the one you cannot help; setting out to develop a personal style is the wrong goal.](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-style-worth-having-is-b66a62)
- [Great design comes disproportionately from a few hotspots, because nothing is more powerful than a community of talented people working on related problems.](https://korrents.com/k/great-design-comes-disproportionately-from-a-55bd8a)
- [The recipe for great work is very exacting taste plus the ability to gratify it; it is easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty.](https://korrents.com/k/the-recipe-for-great-work-is-065c69)
- [Good design can copy: the greatest masters decide it is more important to be right than original.](https://korrents.com/k/good-design-can-copy-the-greatest-33b8e1)
- [Success is peace of mind from knowing you made the effort to do the best you are capable of](https://korrents.com/k/success-is-peace-of-mind-from-8b7594)
- [Others cannot judge your success: only you know whether you did your best](https://korrents.com/k/others-cannot-judge-your-success-only-56725d)
- [Character, what you really are, matters much more than reputation, what you are perceived to be](https://korrents.com/k/character-what-you-really-are-matters-242dd9)
- [Worrying about what you cannot control hurts the things you can control](https://korrents.com/k/worrying-about-what-you-cannot-control-18dd57)
- [Not all change is progress, but there is no progress without change](https://korrents.com/k/not-all-change-is-progress-but-e12788)
- [Whatever you are doing, you must be patient](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-you-are-doing-you-must-3b5608)
- [We hope things turn out as we want but fail to do what is needed to make them real](https://korrents.com/k/we-hope-things-turn-out-as-fc97be)
- [You can lose while outscoring an opponent and win while being outscored](https://korrents.com/k/you-can-lose-while-outscoring-an-5dcc69)
- [The score of a game should be the byproduct of doing your best, not the end itself](https://korrents.com/k/the-score-of-a-game-should-4a39f9)
- [Do your best regularly and the results will be about what they should be](https://korrents.com/k/do-your-best-regularly-and-the-b44d2f)
- [College athletes are there for an education first and the sport second](https://korrents.com/k/college-athletes-are-there-for-an-3e5b73)
- [Industriousness and enthusiasm are the cornerstones of success, with faith and patience at the top](https://korrents.com/k/industriousness-and-enthusiasm-are-the-cornerstones-a229ad)
- [Public figures and commentators responding to the September 11 attacks were infantilizing the public](https://korrents.com/k/public-figures-and-commentators-responding-to-614768)
- [Courage is a morally neutral virtue, and whatever else is said of the September 11 attackers, they were not cowards](https://korrents.com/k/courage-is-a-morally-neutral-virtue-49ab45)
- [After September 11, the politics of democracy was replaced by grief management; people may grieve together but should not be stupid together](https://korrents.com/k/after-september-11-the-politics-of-217bfb)
- [The unanimous, reality-concealing rhetoric of American officials after September 11 seemed unworthy of a mature democracy](https://korrents.com/k/the-unanimous-reality-concealing-rhetoric-of-american-701222)
- [Deep, authentic emotional experience, regulated between patient and therapist, is a key agent of therapeutic change.](https://korrents.com/k/deep-authentic-emotional-experience-regulated-between-b5e218)
- [When keeping a caregiver's attachment means excluding certain feelings, a person's ability to regulate emotion suffers.](https://korrents.com/k/when-keeping-a-caregiver-s-attachment-ab8c7c)
- [An emotionally alive therapy relationship helps people tolerate feelings and brings security and intimacy into other relationships.](https://korrents.com/k/an-emotionally-alive-therapy-relationship-helps-701020)
- [Politics has been corrupted by the idea of the marketplace](https://korrents.com/k/politics-has-been-corrupted-by-the-c73f01)
- [A citizen deciding politically should ask what is good for the community, not what is good for themselves](https://korrents.com/k/a-citizen-deciding-politically-should-ask-0f733b)
- [All education is essentially initiation into some ongoing social activity](https://korrents.com/k/all-education-is-essentially-initiation-into-768a79)
- [A revival of liberal undergraduate education will probably have to happen in places not dominated by a graduate school](https://korrents.com/k/a-revival-of-liberal-undergraduate-education-dfb420)
- [Student choice in what to study is a disaster](https://korrents.com/k/student-choice-in-what-to-study-c571e5)
- [The intellectual life is not selling ideas but coming together to determine the truth and significance of things](https://korrents.com/k/the-intellectual-life-is-not-selling-c3e31f)
- [A marketplace is fine for shopping, but real life begins after you leave the store](https://korrents.com/k/a-marketplace-is-fine-for-shopping-2f8cdc)
- [The American Constitution provides flexible institutions for making decisions together as a community](https://korrents.com/k/the-american-constitution-provides-flexible-institutions-2cdcda)
- [Users spend most of their time on other sites, so they prefer yours to work the same way as the sites they already know.](https://korrents.com/k/users-spend-most-of-their-time-471577)
- [A feature that works the same everywhere needs no teaching: a first-time visitor can use it by transferring what they learned on other sites.](https://korrents.com/k/a-feature-that-works-the-same-fe86ef)
- [The world is multicultural and people should be taught about its cultural diversity](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-is-multicultural-and-people-37075d)
- [Matters of taste can differ between cultures, but matters of truth are transcultural](https://korrents.com/k/matters-of-taste-can-differ-between-39ab04)
- [Extreme skepticism about truth refutes itself](https://korrents.com/k/extreme-skepticism-about-truth-refutes-itself-ccd4c6)
- [Systems as different as a genome and the web are best described as networks with complex topology rather than as ordered or random structures.](https://korrents.com/k/systems-as-different-as-a-genome-2359c5)
- [Large real-world networks share one property: the number of connections per node follows a scale-free power law.](https://korrents.com/k/large-real-world-networks-share-one-property-5ce757)
- [Scale-free structure follows from just two mechanisms: networks keep adding nodes, and new nodes attach preferentially to well-connected ones.](https://korrents.com/k/scale-free-structure-follows-from-just-two-30fa72)
- [Because two generic mechanisms reproduce the observed distributions, large networks are governed by self-organizing rules that do not depend on what the network is made of.](https://korrents.com/k/because-two-generic-mechanisms-reproduce-the-9cbdd8)
- [In computing, elegance is not a luxury: it decides between success and failure.](https://korrents.com/k/in-computing-elegance-is-not-a-14dddd)
- [A design has to be kept simple for reliability and intellectual control, but nobody yet knows how to reach simplicity systematically.](https://korrents.com/k/a-design-has-to-be-kept-544f73)
- [The more population exceeds the environment's carrying capacity, the more freedoms must be given up](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-population-exceeds-the-environment-256ae3)
- [The weightiest mistake in the tragedy of the commons paper was leaving out the word unmanaged](https://korrents.com/k/the-weightiest-mistake-in-the-tragedy-a4e501)
- [It is really hard to design products by focus groups, because people often do not know what they want until they are shown it.](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-really-hard-to-design-30b488)
- [Focus and simplicity are worth the work: simple can be harder than complex, because the thinking has to be got clean, but once there one can move mountains.](https://korrents.com/k/focus-and-simplicity-are-worth-the-0c8172)
- [The Internet is a place to turn one’s brain on, and television a place to turn it off.](https://korrents.com/k/the-internet-is-a-place-to-68ece4)
- [Wesco was not just a smaller, equally good version of Berkshire -- each dollar of its book value was plainly worth less, and the gap was widening in Berkshire's favor.](https://korrents.com/k/wesco-was-not-just-a-smaller-e87e19)
- [Multilayer neural networks trained with backpropagation are the best example of successful gradient-based learning.](https://korrents.com/k/multilayer-neural-networks-trained-with-backpropagation-d8d4aa)
- [With suitable architecture, gradient-based learning can form decision surfaces that classify high-dimensional patterns such as handwritten characters with minimal preprocessing.](https://korrents.com/k/with-suitable-architecture-gradient-based-learning-can-bcf1c0)
- [Convolutional neural networks are specifically designed to handle variability in two-dimensional shapes.](https://korrents.com/k/convolutional-neural-networks-are-specifically-designed-c0a38a)
- [Graph transformer networks allow multimodule document recognition systems to be trained globally with gradient methods to minimize overall performance.](https://korrents.com/k/graph-transformer-networks-allow-multimodule-document-80ce0d)
- [Human dignity belongs to the person and does not depend on usefulness](https://korrents.com/k/human-dignity-belongs-to-the-person-9127e9)
- [Recognising every person's unconditional dignity means reverence even for the incurably ill, and rules out euthanasia](https://korrents.com/k/recognising-every-person-s-unconditional-dignity-581a2b)
- [The spiritual person cannot fall ill and remains present behind a psychosis](https://korrents.com/k/the-spiritual-person-cannot-fall-ill-59a11b)
- [Being human is at bottom being responsible, which is more than being free](https://korrents.com/k/being-human-is-at-bottom-being-f59892)
- [A person strives for value and meaning, not for pleasure](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-strives-for-value-and-48ece3)
- [Psychotherapy is ultimately about existential reorientation rather than transforming drives](https://korrents.com/k/psychotherapy-is-ultimately-about-existential-reorientation-db751c)
- [Faith in God is a decision, not a drive](https://korrents.com/k/faith-in-god-is-a-decision-c30f3d)
- [Every human being believes in meaning for as long as they live, acknowledged or not](https://korrents.com/k/every-human-being-believes-in-meaning-8702bd)
- [Recurrent backpropagation learns slowly over long intervals mainly because error backflow decays.](https://korrents.com/k/recurrent-backpropagation-learns-slowly-over-long-70a930)
- [LSTM can solve complex artificial long-time-lag tasks that prior recurrent network algorithms never solved.](https://korrents.com/k/lstm-can-solve-complex-artificial-long-time-lag-c89603)
- [A website that promotes flow should be built like a gourmet meal, but most are built like a cafeteria](https://korrents.com/k/a-website-that-promotes-flow-should-0c7652)
- [Clear, hierarchical goals turn a random walk into a chase](https://korrents.com/k/clear-hierarchical-goals-turn-a-random-234061)
- [People in flow are probably more critical, not more easily influenced, since flow must be challenging](https://korrents.com/k/people-in-flow-are-probably-more-6e1d0a)
- [Pushing complexity further means using all our ways of taking in information, not all of them rational](https://korrents.com/k/pushing-complexity-further-means-using-all-708db5)
- [Television does not give children physical evidence of cause and effect](https://korrents.com/k/television-does-not-give-children-physical-2c7c56)
- [Online communities are easy to drop out of and need a common interest or ideology to have leverage](https://korrents.com/k/online-communities-are-easy-to-drop-51b0e1)
- [The Net may not produce a more complex vision of reality, because what becomes too easy becomes sloppy](https://korrents.com/k/the-net-may-not-produce-a-51d893)
- [Knowledge passed on outside DNA, in books and other records, should be counted as part of human evolution.](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-passed-on-outside-dna-in-26a361)
- [During the next century people will discover how to modify human intelligence and instincts like aggression.](https://korrents.com/k/during-the-next-century-people-will-8f2808)
- [Suggestions that UFOs carry beings from outer space can be discounted; an alien visit would be much more obvious, and probably much more unpleasant.](https://korrents.com/k/suggestions-that-ufos-carry-beings-from-eb196c)
- [Humanity should be wary of answering signals from alien civilisations until it has developed further.](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-should-be-wary-of-answering-5e05fd)
- [Great work comes down to taste: exposing yourself to the best things humans have done and bringing them into your own.](https://korrents.com/k/great-work-comes-down-to-taste-0811e2)
- [Microsoft's problem is that it has no taste: it does not think of original ideas or bring much culture into its products.](https://korrents.com/k/microsoft-s-problem-is-that-it-c1b240)
- [People who make a difference do not die alone; something dies in everyone they affected](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-make-a-difference-do-53357f)
- [The desktop computer industry had stopped innovating, with Microsoft dominating, and had entered a dark age.](https://korrents.com/k/the-desktop-computer-industry-had-stopped-b59225)
- [The Web spread so fast largely because of its simplicity, and making it more complicated too quickly would be a loss.](https://korrents.com/k/the-web-spread-so-fast-largely-d02667)
- [The Web is an incredible democratizer: a small company can look as large and be as accessible as a big company, neutralizing the advantage of costly distribution channels.](https://korrents.com/k/the-web-is-an-incredible-democratizer-8b8225)
- [Things do not have to change the world to be important.](https://korrents.com/k/things-do-not-have-to-change-377b03)
- [People in an information economy are thinking less, mainly because of television, and more information from the Web will not change that: most already get more than they can assimilate.](https://korrents.com/k/people-in-an-information-economy-are-c71e85)
- [Television is the way it is because networks give people exactly what they want, which is a more depressing thought than a conspiracy.](https://korrents.com/k/television-is-the-way-it-is-36574c)
- [Individuals are inherently good, noble and honorable, with a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups.](https://korrents.com/k/individuals-are-inherently-good-noble-and-913794)
- [What is wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology.](https://korrents.com/k/what-is-wrong-with-education-cannot-2782be)
- [Once objects are understood, it is clear that all software will eventually be written using them; the timing and the winners can be argued, the inevitability cannot.](https://korrents.com/k/once-objects-are-understood-it-is-f5144d)
- [Equal opportunity matters, not equal outcome, and above all equal opportunity means a great education.](https://korrents.com/k/equal-opportunity-matters-not-equal-outcome-86f57d)
- [In education the most important thing is a person who incites and feeds a child’s curiosity, which machines cannot do the way people can.](https://korrents.com/k/in-education-the-most-important-thing-f7e00b)
- [Technology cannot solve problems that are human, organizational and political in nature, however hopeful it is to think so.](https://korrents.com/k/technology-cannot-solve-problems-that-are-8b80be)
- [One thing a leader can individually contribute is instilling in the organization the goal of having only A players.](https://korrents.com/k/one-thing-a-leader-can-individually-24baef)
- [In software the gap between the best and the worst person is about a hundred to one, so it pays to go after the best people in the world.](https://korrents.com/k/in-software-the-gap-between-the-41c275)
- [An artist and a scientist or engineer of the highest calibre differ little: both express something of the truth they perceive so that others can benefit.](https://korrents.com/k/an-artist-and-a-scientist-or-1d2a50)
- [What ruined Apple was not growth but values: executives who cared more about their own glory and wealth than about making great computers for people to use.](https://korrents.com/k/what-ruined-apple-was-not-growth-cdf631)
- [About half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from unsuccessful ones is pure perseverance.](https://korrents.com/k/about-half-of-what-separates-successful-fbb0f5)
- [The Web will radically change how goods and services are discovered, sold and delivered, levelling big and small and near and distant.](https://korrents.com/k/the-web-will-radically-change-how-73781d)
- [When computing becomes a monopoly, the industry’s ability to innovate is sucked dry.](https://korrents.com/k/when-computing-becomes-a-monopoly-the-34536f)
- [Computers are ultimately turning into communications devices, and the Web is the missing piece that powers that vision.](https://korrents.com/k/computers-are-ultimately-turning-into-communications-ee5616)
- [Facts that do not hang together on a latticework of theory are not held in a usable form](https://korrents.com/k/facts-that-do-not-hang-together-05e84a)
- [With only one or two models in use, a person is liable to torture reality to fit them, or to think they fit](https://korrents.com/k/with-only-one-or-two-models-f1bf6c)
- [Thinking with a single model is a disastrous way to think and to operate in the world, so multiple models are needed](https://korrents.com/k/thinking-with-a-single-model-is-c9bd30)
- [Some 80 or 90 important models carry about 90% of the load in making a person worldly-wise, and only a handful carry the heaviest](https://korrents.com/k/some-80-or-90-important-models-1ec738)
- [Without the elementary mathematics of probability in one’s repertoire, one gives everybody else a huge advantage](https://korrents.com/k/without-the-elementary-mathematics-of-probability-a27578)
- [The psychology of misjudgment is terribly important to learn, and terribly smart people make bonkers mistakes by failing to heed it](https://korrents.com/k/the-psychology-of-misjudgment-is-terribly-55404a)
- [Everyone has a circle of competence, and it is very hard to advance](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-has-a-circle-of-competence-fe8c03)
- [Playing games where others have the aptitudes and one does not is close to certain to lose, so one has to find where one has an edge and stay inside one’s circle of competence](https://korrents.com/k/playing-games-where-others-have-the-edad12)
- [The wise bet heavily when the world offers them the odds, and not the rest of the time](https://korrents.com/k/the-wise-bet-heavily-when-the-7761a6)
- [It makes sense to load up on the very few good insights one has rather than pretend to know everything about everything at all times](https://korrents.com/k/it-makes-sense-to-load-up-d5fca1)
- [In a lousy business, wonderful new inventions can give owners nothing, because the gains from improvements flow through to the customers](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-lousy-business-wonderful-new-238ccd)
- [Advantages of scale are very important to which businesses succeed and which fail](https://korrents.com/k/advantages-of-scale-are-very-important-dcbb37)
- [Over the long term a stock is hard put to earn a much better return than the business underneath it earns](https://korrents.com/k/over-the-long-term-a-stock-0ab319)
- [Aiming straight at success makes you more likely to miss it](https://korrents.com/k/aiming-straight-at-success-makes-you-7db885)
- [Everything can be taken from a person except the freedom to choose their attitude in any circumstances](https://korrents.com/k/everything-can-be-taken-from-a-caffb3)
- [Even in a concentration camp a person can decide what becomes of them mentally and spiritually](https://korrents.com/k/even-in-a-concentration-camp-a-0d8319)
- [The salvation of human beings is through love and in love](https://korrents.com/k/the-salvation-of-human-beings-is-85beb6)
- [Humour is one of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation](https://korrents.com/k/humour-is-one-of-the-soul-bb2a8d)
- [A prisoner who lost faith in his own future was doomed](https://korrents.com/k/a-prisoner-who-lost-faith-in-a61572)
- [What matters is not what we expect from life but what life expects from us](https://korrents.com/k/what-matters-is-not-what-we-15929c)
- [Life ultimately means taking responsibility for answering its problems and fulfilling the tasks it sets each person](https://korrents.com/k/life-ultimately-means-taking-responsibility-for-95403e)
- [The search for meaning is a person's primary motivation, not a rationalisation of instinctual drives](https://korrents.com/k/the-search-for-meaning-is-a-16b960)
- [Mental health rests on some tension between what one is and what one should become](https://korrents.com/k/mental-health-rests-on-some-tension-dea11b)
- [The meaning of life differs from person to person and from hour to hour](https://korrents.com/k/the-meaning-of-life-differs-from-e0c27c)
- [Everyone has a specific mission in life, a concrete assignment that demands fulfilment](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-has-a-specific-mission-in-12062a)
- [Self-actualisation is possible only as a side effect of self-transcendence](https://korrents.com/k/self-actualisation-is-possible-only-as-a-f0c194)
- [The more a person forgets themselves in a cause or in love for someone, the more human they are](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-a-person-forgets-themselves-72aadc)
- [Suffering in some way ceases to be suffering once it finds a meaning](https://korrents.com/k/suffering-in-some-way-ceases-to-ec6115)
- [A person's main concern is to see a meaning in life, not to gain pleasure or avoid pain](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-s-main-concern-is-7fb827)
- [Freedom is in danger of degenerating into arbitrariness unless it is lived responsibly](https://korrents.com/k/freedom-is-in-danger-of-degenerating-0b530f)
- [People are not fully determined by conditions; they decide whether to give in to them or stand up to them](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-not-fully-determined-by-2e3df7)
- [The human being invented the gas chambers and is also the being who entered them upright, praying](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-being-invented-the-gas-a9fd7c)
- [Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue](https://korrents.com/k/happiness-cannot-be-pursued-it-must-eade17)
- [Put simply, the feeling of meaninglessness comes from having enough to live by but nothing to live for](https://korrents.com/k/put-simply-the-feeling-of-meaninglessness-428652)
- [Learning only from one’s own experience, and minimizing what one learns from the good and bad experience of others, is a sure-shot producer of misery and second-rate achievement](https://korrents.com/k/learning-only-from-one-s-own-fbd533)
- [Staying down after severe reverses guarantees being permanently mired in misery, since adversity is plentiful even for the lucky and wise](https://korrents.com/k/staying-down-after-severe-reverses-guarantees-6c49b9)
- [Many hard problems are best solved by addressing them backward, studying how to create non-X in order to create X](https://korrents.com/k/many-hard-problems-are-best-solved-5f8815)
- [Most people process new and disconfirming information so that their original conclusion remains intact, whereas giving priority to disconfirming evidence was a large part of Darwin’s result](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-process-new-and-disconfirming-5c50a5)
- [Addiction can happen to anyone, through a subtle process whose bonds are too light to be felt until they are too strong to be broken](https://korrents.com/k/addiction-can-happen-to-anyone-through-925781)
- [Simplicity takes hard work to achieve and education to appreciate, and complexity sells better.](https://korrents.com/k/simplicity-takes-hard-work-to-achieve-ac6b6f)
- [Introducing a complicated concept earns credit; showing that an established complicated concept is better avoided rarely does.](https://korrents.com/k/introducing-a-complicated-concept-earns-credit-2b8716)
- [In a crisis, the actions taken depend on the ideas that are lying around](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-crisis-the-actions-taken-aef2bc)
- [The basic job of policy thinkers is to keep alternatives alive until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable](https://korrents.com/k/the-basic-job-of-policy-thinkers-250268)
- [The timeless way of building brings order out of ourselves and cannot be attained, only allowed to happen](https://korrents.com/k/the-timeless-way-of-building-brings-4a2368)
- [Working in the timeless way, a town can grow without architects or planners](https://korrents.com/k/working-in-the-timeless-way-a-d5f92f)
- [Wanting to bring a building or a town to life is a fundamental human instinct](https://korrents.com/k/wanting-to-bring-a-building-or-5ce47b)
- [There is a central quality, objective and precise but nameless, that is the root criterion of life in buildings, towns and people](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-a-central-quality-objective-be5c58)
- [A lifeless place almost always has a mastermind behind it whose will leaves no room for its own nature](https://korrents.com/k/a-lifeless-place-almost-always-has-d8a43a)
- [The more living patterns a room, building or town has, the more it comes to life as a whole](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-living-patterns-a-room-fa9da8)
- [A place comes alive not through one isolated pattern but through a whole interdependent system of patterns](https://korrents.com/k/a-place-comes-alive-not-through-305573)
- [The quality that makes places alive cannot be made, only generated by a process](https://korrents.com/k/the-quality-that-makes-places-alive-931853)
- [The process that makes towns alive must let their people shape rooms, houses, streets and churches for themselves](https://korrents.com/k/the-process-that-makes-towns-alive-5a089d)
- [Patterns decide not only a building's shape but how far it comes to life](https://korrents.com/k/patterns-decide-not-only-a-building-d70878)
- [Pattern languages are the source of beauty and of ugliness in buildings](https://korrents.com/k/pattern-languages-are-the-source-of-49aa0d)
- [To let a pattern form itself in design, you must give up control and let the pattern do the work](https://korrents.com/k/to-let-a-pattern-form-itself-9f31c0)
- [To make a building egoless, the builder must let go of willful images and start with a void](https://korrents.com/k/to-make-a-building-egoless-the-240f07)
- [Used well, the method of pattern languages ends by freeing us from all method](https://korrents.com/k/used-well-the-method-of-pattern-9a9240)
- [The social sciences need the rigour and mathematical foundations that made the hard sciences successful](https://korrents.com/k/the-social-sciences-need-the-rigour-243ceb)
- [The right way to study human problem-solving is to simulate it with computer programs](https://korrents.com/k/the-right-way-to-study-human-a6df86)
- [Schools give little hint until late that human behaviour can be studied scientifically](https://korrents.com/k/schools-give-little-hint-until-late-5dd54d)
- [The social sciences should be hardened, and natural and social scientists should work together on public policy](https://korrents.com/k/the-social-sciences-should-be-hardened-5a1c40)
- [The world's great problems all have technical and human content that cannot be separated](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-s-great-problems-all-5bada3)
- [Solving problems like hunger, pollution and poverty requires deeper knowledge of both nature's laws and human behaviour](https://korrents.com/k/solving-problems-like-hunger-pollution-and-abd8bb)
- [The powers of the human mind, though finite, should be used to seek a more humane world](https://korrents.com/k/the-powers-of-the-human-mind-0eaf48)
- [A design pattern describes a recurring problem and the core of its solution, usable a million times without repeating itself](https://korrents.com/k/a-design-pattern-describes-a-recurring-5e7a33)
- [Towns and buildings can only become alive if all the people make them, sharing a common pattern language that is itself alive](https://korrents.com/k/towns-and-buildings-can-only-become-b99849)
- [No design pattern is an isolated entity](https://korrents.com/k/no-design-pattern-is-an-isolated-aacc44)
- [Metropolitan regions will not come to balance until each is small and autonomous enough to be an independent sphere of culture](https://korrents.com/k/metropolitan-regions-will-not-come-to-df66fd)
- [Individuals have no effective voice in a community of more than 5,000 to 10,000 people](https://korrents.com/k/individuals-have-no-effective-voice-in-34d846)
- [There is abundant evidence that high buildings make people crazy](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-abundant-evidence-that-high-ad9088)
- [People use green open spaces when they are close, but not when they are more than three minutes away](https://korrents.com/k/people-use-green-open-spaces-when-a814e1)
- [The more monolithic a building is, the more it prevents people from being personal and making human contact](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-monolithic-a-building-is-f297e2)
- [Everybody loves window seats, bay windows and big low-silled windows with chairs drawn up to them](https://korrents.com/k/everybody-loves-window-seats-bay-windows-054ec2)
- [Scientists must above all not fool themselves, and they are the easiest people to fool](https://korrents.com/k/scientists-must-above-all-not-fool-a61ad2)
- [Whoever puts out a theory must also report all the facts that disagree with it](https://korrents.com/k/whoever-puts-out-a-theory-must-20d299)
- [Scientists should give all the information others need to judge their work, not just what points one way](https://korrents.com/k/scientists-should-give-all-the-information-6445c4)
- [Scientific integrity means bending over backwards to show how one may be wrong](https://korrents.com/k/scientific-integrity-means-bending-over-backwards-2be560)
- [A scientist should explain to laymen what they are doing, even if that costs public support](https://korrents.com/k/a-scientist-should-explain-to-laymen-a32593)
- [Teaching students only how to get certain results, not how to experiment with integrity, is very dangerous](https://korrents.com/k/teaching-students-only-how-to-get-1b221d)
- [Details that could throw doubt on an interpretation must be given](https://korrents.com/k/details-that-could-throw-doubt-on-f871c1)
- [Being idealistic about people is how one ends up a true realist](https://korrents.com/k/being-idealistic-about-people-is-how-182c66)
- [Presupposing a spark of the search for meaning even in a delinquent draws it out and helps them become what they can be](https://korrents.com/k/presupposing-a-spark-of-the-search-e03aa7)
- [Bad fortune is met by strength of character](https://korrents.com/k/bad-fortune-is-met-by-strength-06780c)
- [Temperance is the will-power to resist good fortune that offers too much of a good thing](https://korrents.com/k/temperance-is-the-will-power-to-resist-d1f628)
- [Moral virtue is a settled habit of preferring a good life to a good time](https://korrents.com/k/moral-virtue-is-a-settled-habit-d8f8b3)
- [Neurotic disorders that block good choices call for psychotherapy, not moral exhortation](https://korrents.com/k/neurotic-disorders-that-block-good-choices-ea9386)
- [Curing a disorder that blocks good choices does not by itself give the power to make them](https://korrents.com/k/curing-a-disorder-that-blocks-good-3eb923)
- [The virtues needed to lead a good life cannot be formulated as rules](https://korrents.com/k/the-virtues-needed-to-lead-a-be9ff6)
- [The territory never gets onto the map: representation always filters it out, so the mental world is only maps of maps.](https://korrents.com/k/the-territory-never-gets-onto-the-d3e3d2)
- [Sectarianism fed by fanaticism is always castrating; radicalization nourished by a critical spirit is always creative](https://korrents.com/k/sectarianism-fed-by-fanaticism-is-always-ebfeda)
- [The great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well](https://korrents.com/k/the-great-humanistic-and-historical-task-4ff760)
- [Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be strong enough to free both oppressed and oppressors](https://korrents.com/k/only-power-that-springs-from-the-e74c00)
- [True generosity consists in fighting to destroy the causes that nourish false charity](https://korrents.com/k/true-generosity-consists-in-fighting-to-fd987a)
- [Having internalized the oppressor's image, the oppressed fear freedom, which would demand autonomy and responsibility instead](https://korrents.com/k/having-internalized-the-oppressor-s-image-f29005)
- [Freedom is acquired by conquest, not received as a gift, and must be pursued constantly and responsibly](https://korrents.com/k/freedom-is-acquired-by-conquest-not-6c97ff)
- [Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed, since they are themselves the result of violence](https://korrents.com/k/never-in-history-has-violence-been-b311ce)
- [The rebellion of the oppressed, always or nearly always as violent as the oppressors' initial violence, can initiate love](https://korrents.com/k/the-rebellion-of-the-oppressed-always-7d7bbd)
- [Trusting the people is the indispensable precondition for revolutionary change](https://korrents.com/k/trusting-the-people-is-the-indispensable-650c71)
- [Finding the oppressor out must involve action and serious reflection, neither purely intellectual nor mere activism, to be praxis](https://korrents.com/k/finding-the-oppressor-out-must-involve-d9782c)
- [Apart from inquiry and praxis, individuals cannot be truly human](https://korrents.com/k/apart-from-inquiry-and-praxis-individuals-9def92)
- [In banking education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who think themselves knowledgeable on those thought to know nothing](https://korrents.com/k/in-banking-education-knowledge-is-a-9141a0)
- [Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of people upon their world in order to transform it](https://korrents.com/k/liberation-is-a-praxis-the-action-6c51f1)
- [Any situation in which some people prevent others from engaging in inquiry is one of violence](https://korrents.com/k/any-situation-in-which-some-people-c75efa)
- [To exist humanly is to name the world and to change it](https://korrents.com/k/to-exist-humanly-is-to-name-9a710e)
- [Dialogue cannot exist without a profound love for the world and for people](https://korrents.com/k/dialogue-cannot-exist-without-a-profound-2aef14)
- [Hopelessness is a form of silence, of denying the world and fleeing from it](https://korrents.com/k/hopelessness-is-a-form-of-silence-a50dba)
- [What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives but their procedures](https://korrents.com/k/what-distinguishes-revolutionary-leaders-from-the-96cf4b)
- [Leaders who impose their decisions instead of acting dialogically do not organize the people but manipulate them](https://korrents.com/k/leaders-who-impose-their-decisions-instead-9eeca0)
- [Liberation is a painful childbirth, bringing forth a new person viable only as oppression gives way to humanization of all](https://korrents.com/k/liberation-is-a-painful-childbirth-bringing-c18326)
- [Knowledge emerges only through invention, re-invention and restless, hopeful inquiry people pursue in the world and with each other](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-emerges-only-through-invention-re-invention-18ac72)
- [True humanists cannot use banking education to pursue liberation, which it would negate, nor may revolutionary societies inherit it](https://korrents.com/k/true-humanists-cannot-use-banking-education-ce6557)
- [The banking approach to adult education will never propose that students critically consider reality](https://korrents.com/k/the-banking-approach-to-adult-education-c3f551)
- [Organisations that design systems are constrained to produce designs that copy their communication structures.](https://korrents.com/k/organisations-that-design-systems-are-constrained-0b2169)
- [No design group can be both organised and unbiased.](https://korrents.com/k/no-design-group-can-be-both-d01b02)
- [An organisation that is not fully flexible in how it communicates stamps an image of itself on every design it produces.](https://korrents.com/k/an-organisation-that-is-not-fully-d1a4e9)
- [The larger an organisation, the less flexible it is and the more its designs copy it.](https://korrents.com/k/the-larger-an-organisation-the-less-4aa378)
- [A design effort should be organised according to the need for communication.](https://korrents.com/k/a-design-effort-should-be-organised-fa667d)
- [Because the first design is almost never the best, organisational flexibility matters for good design.](https://korrents.com/k/because-the-first-design-is-almost-e60402)
- [Adding people to a design effort does not simply add productivity.](https://korrents.com/k/adding-people-to-a-design-effort-d7efc2)
- [Probably the biggest common cause of poorly designed systems is a design organisation in need of work.](https://korrents.com/k/probably-the-biggest-common-cause-of-2f3c8e)
- [A small, well-chosen design team gives a better system; reasoning that works for peeling potatoes fails for design.](https://korrents.com/k/a-small-well-chosen-design-team-gives-fae658)
- [Any system design will someday be bettered by someone.](https://korrents.com/k/any-system-design-will-someday-be-d82bbb)
- [Military-style organisations design systems that look like their organisation charts.](https://korrents.com/k/military-style-organisations-design-systems-that-look-58388a)
- [Managers whose prestige is tied to their budget will expand their organisations.](https://korrents.com/k/managers-whose-prestige-is-tied-to-72951d)
- [Confirmations are easy to find for nearly any theory if we look for them](https://korrents.com/k/confirmations-are-easy-to-find-for-66bf8f)
- [Confirmations should count only when they come from risky predictions](https://korrents.com/k/confirmations-should-count-only-when-they-e76483)
- [The more a scientific theory forbids, the better it is](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-a-scientific-theory-forbids-a47cc6)
- [Being irrefutable is not a virtue in a theory but a vice](https://korrents.com/k/being-irrefutable-is-not-a-virtue-9a4324)
- [Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to refute it](https://korrents.com/k/every-genuine-test-of-a-theory-2a67dc)
- [There are no ultimate sources of knowledge: every source is welcome, and every source is open to criticism](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-no-ultimate-sources-of-3c8ba8)
- [The more we learn about the world, the clearer our knowledge of our own ignorance becomes](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-we-learn-about-the-bbea6d)
- [Observation is always selective](https://korrents.com/k/observation-is-always-selective-9e17e7)
- [Rather than heaven on earth, we can make life a little less terrible and a little less unjust in each generation](https://korrents.com/k/rather-than-heaven-on-earth-we-6fb0c9)
- [Work to eliminate concrete evils rather than to realize abstract goods](https://korrents.com/k/work-to-eliminate-concrete-evils-rather-68137e)
- [Do not aim to bring about happiness by political means](https://korrents.com/k/do-not-aim-to-bring-about-4e5e96)
- [The Utopian attitude is opposed to reasonableness](https://korrents.com/k/the-utopian-attitude-is-opposed-to-9b5390)
- [There is no scientific way of choosing between two ends](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-scientific-way-of-eadb0f)
- [Rationality is the critical attitude: freely discussing theories to find their weak spots so they can be improved](https://korrents.com/k/rationality-is-the-critical-attitude-freely-0ddf43)
- [False theories often serve well enough: formulae known to be false can be excellent approximations](https://korrents.com/k/false-theories-often-serve-well-enough-c0d170)
- [Public opinion is something everyone can influence, philosophers especially](https://korrents.com/k/public-opinion-is-something-everyone-can-766353)
- [Rational discussion needs only a readiness to learn from one's partner in it](https://korrents.com/k/rational-discussion-needs-only-a-readiness-36bcdd)
- [The population problem cannot be solved in a technical way](https://korrents.com/k/the-population-problem-cannot-be-solved-4caa30)
- [A finite world can support only a finite population, so population growth must eventually reach zero](https://korrents.com/k/a-finite-world-can-support-only-de56e0)
- [Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all](https://korrents.com/k/freedom-in-a-commons-brings-ruin-6edd11)
- [Appeals to conscience cannot control human breeding in the long run](https://korrents.com/k/appeals-to-conscience-cannot-control-human-bd2428)
- [The only coercion worth recommending is mutual coercion agreed upon by the majority of those affected](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-coercion-worth-recommending-is-3c00ce)
- [Other, more precious freedoms can be preserved only by giving up the freedom to breed, and soon](https://korrents.com/k/other-more-precious-freedoms-can-be-871a2e)
- [Justice demands seclusion, permits sorrow rather than anger, and rules out the pleasures of the limelight](https://korrents.com/k/justice-demands-seclusion-permits-sorrow-rather-42b85d)
- [Under the Nazi regime, evil lost the quality by which most people recognize it: temptation](https://korrents.com/k/under-the-nazi-regime-evil-lost-cfdbff)
- [Every custom has its origin in some single act](https://korrents.com/k/every-custom-has-its-origin-in-b68079)
- [Any act that has once appeared in human history remains a potentiality long after it has passed](https://korrents.com/k/any-act-that-has-once-appeared-26d81c)
- [Whatever the punishment, once a crime has first appeared, its reappearance is more likely than its first emergence was](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-the-punishment-once-a-crime-c43282)
- [Political responsibility exists apart from individual deeds and can be neither judged morally nor tried in a criminal court](https://korrents.com/k/political-responsibility-exists-apart-from-individual-f14eb4)
- [Every government takes political responsibility for its predecessor's deeds, and every nation for its past](https://korrents.com/k/every-government-takes-political-responsibility-for-e76248)
- [Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon](https://korrents.com/k/nonviolence-is-a-powerful-and-just-1a2244)
- [Black Americans had never really been patient in the pure sense of the word](https://korrents.com/k/black-americans-had-never-really-been-f6f129)
- [Nonviolence mattered psychologically to Black Americans because they had to win and vindicate their dignity to earn self-esteem](https://korrents.com/k/nonviolence-mattered-psychologically-to-black-americans-20b23c)
- [Most Black American leadership is innately opposed to compromise](https://korrents.com/k/most-black-american-leadership-is-innately-ab4763)
- [Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere](https://korrents.com/k/injustice-anywhere-is-a-threat-to-14b27c)
- [People are bound together, so whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-bound-together-so-whatever-0c83f4)
- [There are two types of laws: just and unjust](https://korrents.com/k/there-are-two-types-of-laws-eb8ee8)
- [People have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws](https://korrents.com/k/people-have-a-moral-responsibility-to-6ac86c)
- [Whoever breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and willing to accept the penalty](https://korrents.com/k/whoever-breaks-an-unjust-law-must-59407e)
- [This generation must repent not only for bad people's hateful words and deeds but for good people's appalling silence](https://korrents.com/k/this-generation-must-repent-not-only-b23b00)
- [Human progress is not inevitable; it comes through tireless effort, and without it time favors social stagnation](https://korrents.com/k/human-progress-is-not-inevitable-it-e72b65)
- [Time should be used creatively, because the time is always ripe to do right](https://korrents.com/k/time-should-be-used-creatively-because-ec1511)
- [Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever; the yearning for freedom eventually shows itself](https://korrents.com/k/oppressed-people-cannot-remain-oppressed-forever-f7f1f9)
- [It is just as wrong, perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-just-as-wrong-perhaps-66dac3)
- [So many were like the accused: neither perverted nor sadistic, but terribly and terrifyingly normal](https://korrents.com/k/so-many-were-like-the-accused-ec8268)
- [For law and morality, this normality is more terrifying than the atrocities: the new criminal can hardly know he does wrong](https://korrents.com/k/for-law-and-morality-this-normality-f3db8f)
- [Denmark's people and government behaved uniquely among all European countries in the story of the Danish Jews](https://korrents.com/k/denmark-s-people-and-government-behaved-105258)
- [A court's jurisdiction must be settled before trial, and a court found competent must also pass judgment](https://korrents.com/k/a-court-s-jurisdiction-must-be-9570db)
- [The tokenism Black Americans condemn is an end in itself, meant to end protest rather than begin a process](https://korrents.com/k/the-tokenism-black-americans-condemn-is-87e85e)
- [Nonviolence is a weapon unique in history that cuts without wounding and ennobles whoever wields it](https://korrents.com/k/nonviolence-is-a-weapon-unique-in-793d31)
- [Nonviolence, the answer to Black Americans' need, may become the answer to humanity's most desperate need](https://korrents.com/k/nonviolence-the-answer-to-black-americans-a751c1)
- [Those who cause devastation must not be allowed to also be innocent](https://korrents.com/k/those-who-cause-devastation-must-not-37751f)
- [The innocence of those responsible for the harm is itself what constitutes the crime](https://korrents.com/k/the-innocence-of-those-responsible-for-de8d15)
- [A young Black American was expected to make peace with mediocrity, not to aspire to excellence](https://korrents.com/k/a-young-black-american-was-expected-986aa9)
- [If you know where you came from, there is really no limit to where you can go](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-know-where-you-came-4e9570)
- [The truly terrible thing is that Black Americans are the ones who must accept white Americans](https://korrents.com/k/the-truly-terrible-thing-is-that-652905)
- [What white Americans believe and inflict shows not Black inferiority but their own inhumanity and fear](https://korrents.com/k/what-white-americans-believe-and-inflict-6c6b72)
- [Black Americans should not be driven from their American home, and can make America what it must become](https://korrents.com/k/black-americans-should-not-be-driven-ee9513)
- [America celebrates a century of freedom a century too soon, and Black Americans cannot be free until white Americans are](https://korrents.com/k/america-celebrates-a-century-of-freedom-d115d4)
- [Black Americans' experience gives them no reason to respect standards white America claims but does not live by](https://korrents.com/k/black-americans-experience-gives-them-no-382876)
- [Whoever debases others is debasing themselves](https://korrents.com/k/whoever-debases-others-is-debasing-themselves-70f2c0)
- [Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within](https://korrents.com/k/love-takes-off-the-masks-we-7470f5)
- [White people, in general, cannot be taken as models of how to live](https://korrents.com/k/white-people-in-general-cannot-be-bc7f84)
- [We must assume everything is now in our hands, and we have no right to assume otherwise](https://korrents.com/k/we-must-assume-everything-is-now-239f71)
- [To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger](https://korrents.com/k/to-act-is-to-be-committed-472f4e)
- [Religious salvation has no point if it does not let one behave with love toward others, however they behave](https://korrents.com/k/religious-salvation-has-no-point-if-ff2447)
- [Being sensual arguably means respecting and rejoicing in the force of life and being present in all one does](https://korrents.com/k/being-sensual-arguably-means-respecting-and-ff66a4)
- [The idea of God is only of use if it makes us larger, freer and more loving; otherwise discard it](https://korrents.com/k/the-idea-of-god-is-only-0f868d)
- [The Christian world has revealed itself as morally bankrupt and politically unstable](https://korrents.com/k/the-christian-world-has-revealed-itself-673ac7)
- [Freedom is hard to bear](https://korrents.com/k/freedom-is-hard-to-bear-dc1e9d)
- [Life is tragic simply because time passes and each of us will one day see our last sunset](https://korrents.com/k/life-is-tragic-simply-because-time-a11e7a)
- [Perhaps humanity's root trouble is sacrificing life's beauty to totems, races and nations to deny the fact of death](https://korrents.com/k/perhaps-humanity-s-root-trouble-is-a9fb65)
- [To a free person, the country is the individuals who compose it, not something above them](https://korrents.com/k/to-a-free-person-the-country-866199)
- [Freedom is rare and delicate, and its great threat is the concentration of power](https://korrents.com/k/freedom-is-rare-and-delicate-and-de61da)
- [A free person asks neither what the country can do for them nor what they can do for the country](https://korrents.com/k/a-free-person-asks-neither-what-37bc47)
- [A free person sees government as a means, neither a giver of favors nor a master to be worshipped](https://korrents.com/k/a-free-person-sees-government-as-326b52)
- [If government is to exercise power, it is better done locally than by states, and by states than nationally](https://korrents.com/k/if-government-is-to-exercise-power-d58ef4)
- [Economic arrangements play a dual role in promoting a free society](https://korrents.com/k/economic-arrangements-play-a-dual-role-d921ea)
- [History suggests capitalism is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for political freedom](https://korrents.com/k/history-suggests-capitalism-is-a-necessary-77d633)
- [To advocate anything, people must first be able to earn a living](https://korrents.com/k/to-advocate-anything-people-must-first-a90eb6)
- [Using political channels, though inevitable, tends to strain the social cohesion a stable society needs](https://korrents.com/k/using-political-channels-though-inevitable-tends-8cfb47)
- [Freedom is a tenable goal only for responsible individuals, not for madmen or children](https://korrents.com/k/freedom-is-a-tenable-goal-only-e729b7)
- [A consistent liberal is not an anarchist](https://korrents.com/k/a-consistent-liberal-is-not-an-a4e78e)
- [Contaminating air, land, rivers and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials is humanity's most alarming assault on the environment](https://korrents.com/k/contaminating-air-land-rivers-and-sea-9487cb)
- [The objection is not to all insecticide use but to handing potent poisons indiscriminately to the largely or wholly ignorant](https://korrents.com/k/the-objection-is-not-to-all-0c2257)
- [Huge numbers of people have been exposed to pesticides without their consent and often without their knowledge](https://korrents.com/k/huge-numbers-of-people-have-been-e1c818)
- [Pesticides were allowed into use with little or no advance study of effects on soil, water, wildlife and people](https://korrents.com/k/pesticides-were-allowed-into-use-with-a8d3ad)
- [Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent care for the natural world that supports all life](https://korrents.com/k/future-generations-are-unlikely-to-condone-2a5f8f)
- [This is an age of specialists who each see their own problem and miss or reject the larger frame](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-an-age-of-specialists-f00024)
- [This is an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make money at any cost is seldom challenged](https://korrents.com/k/this-is-an-era-dominated-by-db95f7)
- [The public must decide whether to stay on the present course, and can do so only with all the facts](https://korrents.com/k/the-public-must-decide-whether-to-ec7330)
- [Spraying campaigns like eastern Illinois's raise a moral question: can a civilization wage relentless war on life without destroying itself](https://korrents.com/k/spraying-campaigns-like-eastern-illinois-s-e60c4f)
- [Insecticides are not selective poisons; they do not single out the one species people want to be rid of](https://korrents.com/k/insecticides-are-not-selective-poisons-they-e3af13)
- [Shifting even a small share of spending on ever more toxic sprays into research could help keep poisons from waterways](https://korrents.com/k/shifting-even-a-small-share-of-70e065)
- [Cancer cures must still be sought, but for the unaffected and the unborn, prevention is the imperative need](https://korrents.com/k/cancer-cures-must-still-be-sought-fcfa19)
- [Predators and prey are part of a vast web of life, all of which needs to be taken into account](https://korrents.com/k/predators-and-prey-are-part-of-a13bf8)
- [A primitive science of insect control has armed itself with modern weapons and turned them against the earth](https://korrents.com/k/a-primitive-science-of-insect-control-0e5663)
- [Government power must be dispersed](https://korrents.com/k/government-power-must-be-dispersed-946af2)
- [The fundamental threat to freedom is the power to coerce, whether held by a monarch, dictator, oligarchy or momentary majority](https://korrents.com/k/the-fundamental-threat-to-freedom-is-6a56fa)
- [Markets greatly reduce the issues that must be decided politically, minimizing government's direct participation](https://korrents.com/k/markets-greatly-reduce-the-issues-that-292809)
- [The Great Depression was produced by government mismanagement, not by instability inherent in the private economy](https://korrents.com/k/the-great-depression-was-produced-by-e06257)
- [Letting people follow their own interests is desirable because no one can predict where they will come out](https://korrents.com/k/letting-people-follow-their-own-interests-a1e247)
- [A competitive market involves no personal rivalry and no personal haggling](https://korrents.com/k/a-competitive-market-involves-no-personal-5ed7fd)
- [The major disadvantage of a negative income tax is its political implications](https://korrents.com/k/the-major-disadvantage-of-a-negative-00147f)
- [Every human being is now exposed to dangerous chemicals from conception until death, for the first time in history](https://korrents.com/k/every-human-being-is-now-exposed-e0643f)
- [Chemical insect control seems to have assumed that soil could absorb any amount of poison without striking back](https://korrents.com/k/chemical-insect-control-seems-to-have-3c5430)
- [Plant life is part of a web of life with intimate, essential ties to the earth, other plants and animals](https://korrents.com/k/plant-life-is-part-of-a-5c2aac)
- [Booming sales of chemical crabgrass killers show how readily unsound methods catch on](https://korrents.com/k/booming-sales-of-chemical-crabgrass-killers-7f0a5f)
- [Known alternatives to chemical spraying should be used more widely, and ingenuity and resources devoted to developing new ones](https://korrents.com/k/known-alternatives-to-chemical-spraying-should-b82c21)
- [Modern insect control overlooks that the really effective control of insects is the one nature applies, not people](https://korrents.com/k/modern-insect-control-overlooks-that-the-5b7667)
- [Decolonization, whatever name it goes by, is always a violent event](https://korrents.com/k/decolonization-whatever-name-it-goes-by-3c2eeb)
- [Decolonization is truly the creation of new men](https://korrents.com/k/decolonization-is-truly-the-creation-of-eaa3d9)
- [In the colonies cause is effect: people are rich because they are white, and white because they are rich](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-colonies-cause-is-effect-f9d9a7)
- [Destroying the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist's sector, burying it or banishing it from the territory](https://korrents.com/k/destroying-the-colonial-world-means-nothing-e60e79)
- [In colonial countries only the peasantry is revolutionary, because it has nothing to lose and everything to gain](https://korrents.com/k/in-colonial-countries-only-the-peasantry-d58d79)
- [The starving, exploited peasant is the one who very soon discovers that only violence pays](https://korrents.com/k/the-starving-exploited-peasant-is-the-8be6cf)
- [Violence can be understood as the perfect mediation: the colonized man liberates himself in and through violence](https://korrents.com/k/violence-can-be-understood-as-the-003711)
- [At the individual level violence is a cleansing force, ridding the colonized of inferiority and despair and restoring self-confidence](https://korrents.com/k/at-the-individual-level-violence-is-d3c924)
- [The violence of the colonized unifies the people](https://korrents.com/k/the-violence-of-the-colonized-unifies-23f17e)
- [Europe is literally the creation of the Third World, its riches plundered from the underdeveloped peoples](https://korrents.com/k/europe-is-literally-the-creation-of-32a88a)
- [Impetuous spontaneity bent on quickly settling scores with the colonial system is destined to fail as a doctrine](https://korrents.com/k/impetuous-spontaneity-bent-on-quickly-settling-8e661c)
- [African unity can only be achieved under pressure and leadership from the people, with total disregard for bourgeois interests](https://korrents.com/k/african-unity-can-only-be-achieved-a3feb1)
- [In underdeveloped countries a bourgeois phase is out of the question](https://korrents.com/k/in-underdeveloped-countries-a-bourgeois-phase-08a439)
- [Nobody, neither leader nor militant, has a monopoly on truth; seeking truth in local situations is the community's responsibility](https://korrents.com/k/nobody-neither-leader-nor-militant-has-8bb65d)
- [Nationalism that is not explained, enriched, deepened and quickly turned into social and political consciousness leads to a dead end](https://korrents.com/k/nationalism-that-is-not-explained-enriched-53fb3b)
- [Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity](https://korrents.com/k/each-generation-must-discover-its-mission-93d691)
- [National consciousness, which is not nationalism, is alone capable of giving an international dimension](https://korrents.com/k/national-consciousness-which-is-not-nationalism-208584)
- [We should leave behind a Europe that never stops talking of man yet massacres him at every street corner](https://korrents.com/k/we-should-leave-behind-a-europe-934af4)
- [What we want is to walk in the company of every human being, night and day, for all time](https://korrents.com/k/what-we-want-is-to-walk-e53739)
- [For Europe, ourselves and humanity, we must make a new start, think in a new way and try to create a new man](https://korrents.com/k/for-europe-ourselves-and-humanity-we-7ecb7f)
- [We should not pay tribute to Europe by building states and societies modelled on it; humanity expects more than that emulation](https://korrents.com/k/we-should-not-pay-tribute-to-14bb12)
- [Making the cross-connections that produce new ideas requires a certain daring](https://korrents.com/k/making-the-cross-connections-that-produce-new-915a2e)
- [A new idea usually seems unreasonable at first and reasonable only afterward](https://korrents.com/k/a-new-idea-usually-seems-unreasonable-22b8d2)
- [The people most likely to get new ideas know their field well and are unconventional in their habits](https://korrents.com/k/the-people-most-likely-to-get-82c3fe)
- [Creativity, in the writer's feeling, requires isolation](https://korrents.com/k/creativity-in-the-writer-s-feeling-d884bd)
- [Group idea sessions seem to serve to educate participants in facts and thoughts, not to think up new ideas](https://korrents.com/k/group-idea-sessions-seem-to-serve-f9cc59)
- [Everyone in a creative session seems to need to be willing to sound foolish and to hear others sound foolish](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-in-a-creative-session-seems-ee0172)
- [A creative group should probably have no more than about five people](https://korrents.com/k/a-creative-group-should-probably-have-697bfa)
- [A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them](https://korrents.com/k/a-feeling-of-responsibility-is-probably-82a2c3)
- [Understanding higher organisms' perceptual recognition, generalization, recall, and thinking requires answers to three fundamental questions about sensing, storage, and behavioral influence of information.](https://korrents.com/k/understanding-higher-organisms-perceptual-recognition-genera-388871)
- [It is legitimate and necessary to ask whether life has meaning, and so to face suicide squarely](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-legitimate-and-necessary-to-c266a4)
- [No writer who knows of great writers who never received the Nobel Prize can accept it other than with humility](https://korrents.com/k/no-writer-who-knows-of-great-d4a86e)
- [What a writer puts into the work eventually becomes clear, and that plus craft decides whether the writer endures or is forgotten](https://korrents.com/k/what-a-writer-puts-into-the-309507)
- [Writing at its best is a lonely life, and writers' organizations ease the loneliness but probably do not improve the writing](https://korrents.com/k/writing-at-its-best-is-a-9a263f)
- [A writer who gains public stature by shedding loneliness often produces worse work, because the work is done alone](https://korrents.com/k/a-writer-who-gains-public-stature-c672d2)
- [Each book should be a new attempt at something beyond reach, never done before or tried by others and failed](https://korrents.com/k/each-book-should-be-a-new-311009)
- [Because great writers already exist, a writer is driven past what has been done, to where no one can help](https://korrents.com/k/because-great-writers-already-exist-a-e2bae0)
- [A writer should write what they have to say, not speak it](https://korrents.com/k/a-writer-should-write-what-they-2749ce)
- [Among the things Christians disagree about is how important their disagreements are](https://korrents.com/k/among-the-things-christians-disagree-about-ae8182)
- [The moral law tells us which tune to play; our instincts are merely the keys](https://korrents.com/k/the-moral-law-tells-us-which-04c78c)
- [Progress means getting nearer where you want to be, so after a wrong turning going forward brings you no nearer](https://korrents.com/k/progress-means-getting-nearer-where-you-b9a1b1)
- [If God is like the moral law, then God is not soft](https://korrents.com/k/if-god-is-like-the-moral-49619b)
- [Only a person can forgive](https://korrents.com/k/only-a-person-can-forgive-e5b988)
- [Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness](https://korrents.com/k/christianity-tells-people-to-repent-and-a36d05)
- [Christianity is a fighting religion](https://korrents.com/k/christianity-is-a-fighting-religion-106915)
- [Atheism turns out to be too simple](https://korrents.com/k/atheism-turns-out-to-be-too-6a8c77)
- [Besides being complicated, reality is usually odd, in this writer's experience](https://korrents.com/k/besides-being-complicated-reality-is-usually-6e6293)
- [Goodness is itself; badness is only spoiled goodness](https://korrents.com/k/goodness-is-itself-badness-is-only-fe73eb)
- [Free will makes evil possible, but it is also the only thing that makes worthwhile love, goodness or joy possible](https://korrents.com/k/free-will-makes-evil-possible-but-1fd24b)
- [One must choose: the man who claimed divinity was the Son of God, or a madman or worse](https://korrents.com/k/one-must-choose-the-man-who-cf3148)
- [Calling the man who claimed divinity merely a great human teacher is patronising nonsense; he left no such option](https://korrents.com/k/calling-the-man-who-claimed-divinity-4e1ab3)
- [Now is the chance to choose the right side, and that chance will not last for ever](https://korrents.com/k/now-is-the-chance-to-choose-7a1bb0)
- [This world is enemy-occupied territory](https://korrents.com/k/this-world-is-enemy-occupied-territory-b22482)
- [A faith with a good God but without sin, hell, the devil or redemption is a boys' philosophy](https://korrents.com/k/a-faith-with-a-good-god-7a6384)
- [Basic shared Christianity is not an alternative to the churches but a hall opening onto their several rooms](https://korrents.com/k/basic-shared-christianity-is-not-an-e264bf)
- [The writer's best, perhaps only, service to unbelieving neighbours is explaining and defending belief common to nearly all Christians](https://korrents.com/k/the-writer-s-best-perhaps-only-d96718)
- [Science cannot create ends; at most it can supply the means to attain them](https://korrents.com/k/science-cannot-create-ends-at-most-0d3ee8)
- [On human problems science should not be overestimated, and experts are not the only ones entitled to speak on how society is organised](https://korrents.com/k/on-human-problems-science-should-not-84c73b)
- [People can find meaning in life only by devoting themselves to society](https://korrents.com/k/people-can-find-meaning-in-life-3c9ca0)
- [The economic anarchy of present capitalist society is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil](https://korrents.com/k/the-economic-anarchy-of-present-capitalist-4f6ac2)
- [Concentrated private capital becomes an oligarchy too powerful to be checked even by a democratic political society](https://korrents.com/k/concentrated-private-capital-becomes-an-oligarchy-10b659)
- [The crippling of individuals is the worst evil of capitalism, and the whole educational system suffers from it](https://korrents.com/k/the-crippling-of-individuals-is-the-4cd63e)
- [Only a socialist economy with an education oriented to social goals can eliminate capitalism's grave evils](https://korrents.com/k/only-a-socialist-economy-with-an-818b68)
- [A planned economy is not yet socialism and may come with the complete enslavement of the individual](https://korrents.com/k/a-planned-economy-is-not-yet-0449e1)
- [Voluntary agreement can guide state action only in areas where people actually agree](https://korrents.com/k/voluntary-agreement-can-guide-state-action-d6d397)
- [Democracy's price is limiting deliberate control to areas of real agreement and leaving some things to chance](https://korrents.com/k/democracy-s-price-is-limiting-deliberate-4eb1fe)
- [Central planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective tool of coercion and enforcing ideals](https://korrents.com/k/central-planning-leads-to-dictatorship-because-6054d2)
- [Observing the Rule of Law is what most clearly separates a free country from arbitrary government](https://korrents.com/k/observing-the-rule-of-law-is-bb7749)
- [The Rule of Law is one of the liberal age's greatest achievements and the legal embodiment of freedom](https://korrents.com/k/the-rule-of-law-is-one-e4c862)
- [The Rule of Law, more than contract, should probably be seen as the true opposite of rule by status](https://korrents.com/k/the-rule-of-law-more-than-23cbe7)
- [While people freely control their income and possessions, economic loss only costs them their least important wants](https://korrents.com/k/while-people-freely-control-their-income-d78de2)
- [An authority directing all economic activity would control the limited means for all our ends](https://korrents.com/k/an-authority-directing-all-economic-activity-e07a0d)
- [Freedom of choice under competition rests on being able to turn to someone else when one person refuses](https://korrents.com/k/freedom-of-choice-under-competition-rests-d66645)
- [An authority directing the whole economy would be the most powerful monopolist conceivable](https://korrents.com/k/an-authority-directing-the-whole-economy-5ff926)
- [Private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, for owners and scarcely less for non-owners](https://korrents.com/k/private-property-is-the-most-important-500045)
- [Only because control of production is divided among many independent people does nobody have complete power over us](https://korrents.com/k/only-because-control-of-production-is-7e9a2c)
- [A society as wealthy as ours has no reason not to guarantee basic security to all without endangering freedom](https://korrents.com/k/a-society-as-wealthy-as-ours-38f6d3)
- [To preserve freedom, security must be provided outside the market and competition left to work unobstructed](https://korrents.com/k/to-preserve-freedom-security-must-be-10edc8)
- [In a society moving toward totalitarianism, the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be more successful](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-society-moving-toward-totalitarianism-b2b3c2)
- [Even when we are forced to choose between evils, they remain evils](https://korrents.com/k/even-when-we-are-forced-to-8db431)
- [There can be no international law without a power to enforce it](https://korrents.com/k/there-can-be-no-international-law-afb098)
- [A policy of freedom for the individual is still the only truly progressive policy, as in the nineteenth century](https://korrents.com/k/a-policy-of-freedom-for-the-d1b176)
- [Opposing central planning should not be confused with a dogmatic laissez-faire attitude](https://korrents.com/k/opposing-central-planning-should-not-be-7a889c)
- [The liberal case favours using competition to coordinate human efforts, not leaving things as they are](https://korrents.com/k/the-liberal-case-favours-using-competition-98bf1c)
- [To use their knowledge in making plans, individuals must be able to predict how the state will act](https://korrents.com/k/to-use-their-knowledge-in-making-9ef0f8)
- [Intellectual progress needs not that everyone may think or write anything, but that any idea may be argued by someone](https://korrents.com/k/intellectual-progress-needs-not-that-everyone-1515c3)
- [Submission to the impersonal forces of the market made possible a civilisation that could not otherwise have developed](https://korrents.com/k/submission-to-the-impersonal-forces-of-f3c9c8)
- [Judging whether life is worth living is answering the fundamental question of philosophy](https://korrents.com/k/judging-whether-life-is-worth-living-3ed150)
- [Hope is the typical act of evasion, and a fatal one](https://korrents.com/k/hope-is-the-typical-act-of-7bde46)
- [Being logical is easy; being logical all the way to the bitter end is almost impossible](https://korrents.com/k/being-logical-is-easy-being-logical-153f3a)
- [The absurd arises from the clash between human need and the unreasonable silence of the world](https://korrents.com/k/the-absurd-arises-from-the-clash-0449d7)
- [To live is to keep the absurd alive, and that means above all contemplating it](https://korrents.com/k/to-live-is-to-keep-the-379c8c)
- [Revolt is one of the only coherent philosophical positions](https://korrents.com/k/revolt-is-one-of-the-only-2450c0)
- [Revolt gives life its value and, sustained across a whole life, restores that life's majesty](https://korrents.com/k/revolt-gives-life-its-value-and-07248f)
- [Suicide does not follow from revolt; it is not revolt's logical outcome](https://korrents.com/k/suicide-does-not-follow-from-revolt-2000f6)
- [The absurd makes clear that there is no future](https://korrents.com/k/the-absurd-makes-clear-that-there-01f11c)
- [Belief in the absurd amounts to putting the quantity of experiences in place of their quality](https://korrents.com/k/belief-in-the-absurd-amounts-to-2436b5)
- [Where lucidity rules, a scale of values becomes useless](https://korrents.com/k/where-lucidity-rules-a-scale-of-a9ceba)
- [The absurd yields three consequences: revolt, freedom and passion](https://korrents.com/k/the-absurd-yields-three-consequences-revolt-427a53)
- [Ironic philosophies produce passionate works](https://korrents.com/k/ironic-philosophies-produce-passionate-works-f53207)
- [There is no fate that scorn cannot overcome](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-fate-that-scorn-92679a)
- [Every sun has its shadow, and it is essential to know the night](https://korrents.com/k/every-sun-has-its-shadow-and-90be73)
- [The struggle toward the heights is itself enough to fill a heart; the condemned labourer must be imagined happy](https://korrents.com/k/the-struggle-toward-the-heights-is-575b14)
- [If life is only absurd and freedom bounded by limited fate, what counts is the most living, not the best](https://korrents.com/k/if-life-is-only-absurd-and-20677f)
- [Suicide, like the leap, is acceptance at its extreme](https://korrents.com/k/suicide-like-the-leap-is-acceptance-6f2b12)
- [A map is not the territory it represents, but if it is correct it shares the territory's structure, which is what makes it useful.](https://korrents.com/k/a-map-is-not-the-territory-212884)
- [Languages are at best maps: a word is not the object it represents.](https://korrents.com/k/languages-are-at-best-maps-a-2bd326)
- [Many unhappy people could become happy through well-directed effort](https://korrents.com/k/many-unhappy-people-could-become-happy-61003e)
- [Power kept within proper bounds may add greatly to happiness, but as life's sole end it leads to disaster](https://korrents.com/k/power-kept-within-proper-bounds-may-0347e6)
- [Humans depend on co-operation, and nature has given them, somewhat inadequately, the instincts for the friendliness it needs](https://korrents.com/k/humans-depend-on-co-operation-and-nature-21c21c)
- [Competition treated as the main thing in life is too grim to be a basis of life for more than a generation or two](https://korrents.com/k/competition-treated-as-the-main-thing-f11781)
- [A happy life must be largely a quiet life, because true joy can live only in quiet](https://korrents.com/k/a-happy-life-must-be-largely-c0955f)
- [Every form of courage, in women as in men, should be admired as much as a soldier's physical courage](https://korrents.com/k/every-form-of-courage-in-women-3140f5)
- [The essentials of human happiness are simple, so simple that sophisticated people cannot admit what they really lack](https://korrents.com/k/the-essentials-of-human-happiness-are-3207fb)
- [Nothing is as dull as being encased in oneself, nothing as exhilarating as directing attention and energy outward](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-is-as-dull-as-being-5e86de)
- [Happiness that needs intoxication of any kind is spurious; satisfying happiness comes with the fullest use of one's faculties](https://korrents.com/k/happiness-that-needs-intoxication-of-any-af9b69)
- [No one should be expected to distort the main lines of their life for the sake of another person](https://korrents.com/k/no-one-should-be-expected-to-11dec2)
- [People should not be deliberately eccentric but natural, following their spontaneous tastes so far as these are not anti-social](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-not-be-deliberately-eccentric-305b7f)
- [The secret of happiness is to make one's interests as wide as possible and one's reactions to them friendly rather than hostile](https://korrents.com/k/the-secret-of-happiness-is-to-c797b9)
- [A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations; people want to be liked, not endured](https://korrents.com/k/a-sense-of-duty-is-useful-87c174)
- [Rightly conceived, male and female excellence do not differ, at least not as tradition teaches; zest is the secret of happiness for both](https://korrents.com/k/rightly-conceived-male-and-female-excellence-3a61b6)
- [Of all kinds of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness](https://korrents.com/k/of-all-kinds-of-caution-caution-48ca74)
- [A woman with professional skill ought to be free to keep using it despite motherhood, for her own sake and the community's](https://korrents.com/k/a-woman-with-professional-skill-ought-629570)
- [Provided it is not excessive, even the dullest work is probably less painful to most people than idleness](https://korrents.com/k/provided-it-is-not-excessive-even-f2f33a)
- [To bear misfortune well, it is wise to have cultivated a width of interests in happier times](https://korrents.com/k/to-bear-misfortune-well-it-is-249162)
- [Except in very rare cases, happiness does not simply fall into one's mouth through fortunate circumstances](https://korrents.com/k/except-in-very-rare-cases-happiness-df97c9)
- [Admitting at least one painful truth to oneself every day is as useful as a daily kind action](https://korrents.com/k/admitting-at-least-one-painful-truth-06c9be)
- [People seem to measure by false standards, seeking power, success and riches while undervaluing what is truly precious in life](https://korrents.com/k/people-seem-to-measure-by-false-504ff8)
- [In the mind, it is more the rule than the exception for the past to survive](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-mind-it-is-more-21a066)
- [The need for religion derives from the child's helplessness and longing for a father, kept alive by fear of fate](https://korrents.com/k/the-need-for-religion-derives-from-d01fbf)
- [Life as we find it is too hard for us, so we cannot do without palliative remedies](https://korrents.com/k/life-as-we-find-it-is-2826dd)
- [One might say that human happiness is not part of the plan of creation](https://korrents.com/k/one-might-say-that-human-happiness-ead003)
- [Our possibilities of happiness are limited from the start by our constitution, and it is much easier to be unhappy](https://korrents.com/k/our-possibilities-of-happiness-are-limited-263f3d)
- [The religions of humanity must be classified as mass delusions, and no one who shares a delusion recognizes it as such](https://korrents.com/k/the-religions-of-humanity-must-be-44f0ed)
- [We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-never-so-defenceless-against-0b8578)
- [There is no recipe for happiness that suits everyone; each person must find their own means](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-recipe-for-happiness-4bba1f)
- [Religion saves many people from individual neuroses by imposing mental infantilism and a mass delusion, but little more](https://korrents.com/k/religion-saves-many-people-from-individual-958ca3)
- [Emphasis on work binds the individual to reality more than any other technique of living](https://korrents.com/k/emphasis-on-work-binds-the-individual-9e3b5d)
- [Beauty shows that culture is not simply utilitarian, since a lack of beauty is something civilization cannot tolerate](https://korrents.com/k/beauty-shows-that-culture-is-not-cf615d)
- [Love and necessity were together the parents of human culture, whose first result was that more people could live together](https://korrents.com/k/love-and-necessity-were-together-the-3af066)
- [People are not gentle creatures who only defend themselves; a strong desire for aggression is part of their instinctual endowment](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-not-gentle-creatures-who-baa403)
- [Feuds between neighbouring, closely related peoples are a relatively harmless outlet for aggression that makes group cohesion easier](https://korrents.com/k/feuds-between-neighbouring-closely-related-peoples-2a4520)
- [The evolution of civilization is the struggle between the life and death instincts, and may be described as the human species' struggle for existence](https://korrents.com/k/the-evolution-of-civilization-is-the-08f650)
- [Each renunciation of instinct feeds conscience, so conscience may paradoxically be called the result of renunciation, which then demands more](https://korrents.com/k/each-renunciation-of-instinct-feeds-conscience-ed318e)
- [The price of progress in civilization is paid in lost happiness, through a heightened sense of guilt](https://korrents.com/k/the-price-of-progress-in-civilization-ae31c8)
- [Ethics must be regarded as a therapeutic effort](https://korrents.com/k/ethics-must-be-regarded-as-a-fe4272)
- [Humanity's power over nature has grown so great that people could now easily exterminate one another](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-s-power-over-nature-has-21efeb)
- [The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge](https://korrents.com/k/the-good-life-is-one-inspired-659d95)
- [Happiness is no less real because it ends, and thought and love keep their value though not everlasting](https://korrents.com/k/happiness-is-no-less-real-because-13fef8)
- [What can be said at all can be said clearly, and whereof one cannot speak one must be silent](https://korrents.com/k/what-can-be-said-at-all-f22aa4)
- [The truth of the thoughts in this book seems unassailable and definitive, so its problems have in essentials been finally solved](https://korrents.com/k/the-truth-of-the-thoughts-in-ef7120)
- [The world is everything that is the case](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-is-everything-that-is-0aaf5c)
- [The world is the totality of facts, not of things](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-is-the-totality-of-e2ce8c)
- [Most philosophical propositions and questions are not false but senseless, arising from not understanding the logic of our language](https://korrents.com/k/most-philosophical-propositions-and-questions-are-4898a8)
- [Philosophy is not a theory but an activity whose object is the logical clarification of thoughts](https://korrents.com/k/philosophy-is-not-a-theory-but-e34847)
- [What can be shown cannot be said](https://korrents.com/k/what-can-be-shown-cannot-be-3e1f24)
- [Future events cannot be inferred from present ones; superstition is belief in the causal nexus](https://korrents.com/k/future-events-cannot-be-inferred-from-731429)
- [The limits of my language mean the limits of my world](https://korrents.com/k/the-limits-of-my-language-mean-350cc5)
- [That the sun will rise tomorrow is a hypothesis; we do not know whether it will rise](https://korrents.com/k/that-the-sun-will-rise-tomorrow-6c1159)
- [The modern view of the world rests on the illusion that the laws of nature explain natural phenomena](https://korrents.com/k/the-modern-view-of-the-world-1c1ac8)
- [The sense of the world must lie outside the world; within the world there is no value](https://korrents.com/k/the-sense-of-the-world-must-c3fc2a)
- [Ethics cannot be expressed; it is transcendental, and ethics and aesthetics are one](https://korrents.com/k/ethics-cannot-be-expressed-it-is-80fc2d)
- [The world of the happy is quite another than the world of the unhappy](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-of-the-happy-is-4ee2ce)
- [Death is not an event of life; whoever lives in the present lives eternally, if eternity means timelessness](https://korrents.com/k/death-is-not-an-event-of-306d67)
- [How the world is does not matter to what is higher; God does not reveal himself in the world](https://korrents.com/k/how-the-world-is-does-not-638988)
- [Even if every possible scientific question were answered, the problems of life would remain untouched](https://korrents.com/k/even-if-every-possible-scientific-question-1ab775)
- [These propositions are elucidations that the reader, once through them, must recognize as senseless and throw away like a ladder](https://korrents.com/k/these-propositions-are-elucidations-that-the-2e2914)
- [Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent](https://korrents.com/k/whereof-one-cannot-speak-thereof-one-faf492)
- [Unless the question of China is settled peacefully, a greater world war will be inevitable](https://korrents.com/k/unless-the-question-of-china-is-8032a2)
- [China's resources should be developed internationally under a socialist scheme, for the good of the world and of China](https://korrents.com/k/china-s-resources-should-be-developed-45bfb6)
- [Cooperation, not struggle, drives human evolution, so the fighting instinct should be eliminated from people](https://korrents.com/k/cooperation-not-struggle-drives-human-evolution-239b00)
- [International war is organized robbery on a grand scale](https://korrents.com/k/international-war-is-organized-robbery-on-c9e305)
- [Trusts cannot be suppressed, so the remedy is for the whole people of a country to own them](https://korrents.com/k/trusts-cannot-be-suppressed-so-the-45a0d8)
- [The goal of material civilization is public profit, reached fastest by cooperation rather than competition](https://korrents.com/k/the-goal-of-material-civilization-is-51a062)
- [China should use capitalism to create socialism, letting the two work side by side](https://korrents.com/k/china-should-use-capitalism-to-create-63360e)
- [Railways and hospitals are not a test of high civilization and are at best a necessary evil](https://korrents.com/k/railways-and-hospitals-are-not-a-5c390b)
- [Vigorous writing is concise: a sentence should have no unnecessary words, for the same reason a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.](https://korrents.com/k/vigorous-writing-is-concise-a-sentence-47a464)
- [Concise writing does not mean short sentences or leaving out detail; it means making every word tell.](https://korrents.com/k/concise-writing-does-not-mean-short-807de1)
- [The simpler the statement of a law of nature, the more general it is](https://korrents.com/k/the-simpler-the-statement-of-a-bebfe6)
- [Research needs the pursuit of a specific aim, which guides it through early failures](https://korrents.com/k/research-needs-the-pursuit-of-a-b72f37)
- [A researcher's work would seem hopeless without occasional striking facts showing a step nearer the truth](https://korrents.com/k/a-researcher-s-work-would-seem-eb5cfc)
- [Experiment, and the researchers who used the quantum of action, settled that it is real, not his own derivation](https://korrents.com/k/experiment-and-the-researchers-who-used-4f3635)
- [The quantum of action deserves full citizenship among the universal physical constants](https://korrents.com/k/the-quantum-of-action-deserves-full-98567c)
- [The quantum of action has not yet produced a genuine quantum theory](https://korrents.com/k/the-quantum-of-action-has-not-fcb38e)
- [Bohr's atom rests on hypotheses every physicist would have flatly rejected a generation ago](https://korrents.com/k/bohr-s-atom-rests-on-hypotheses-14508f)
- [The quantum has made it obvious that the old framework of classical physics must be burst asunder](https://korrents.com/k/the-quantum-has-made-it-obvious-64f663)
- [The main principles of classical thermodynamics will probably survive the quantum and be extended](https://korrents.com/k/the-main-principles-of-classical-thermodynamics-d115b9)
- [Science will master the quantum dilemma, and what looks unsatisfactory now will prove harmonious and simple](https://korrents.com/k/science-will-master-the-quantum-dilemma-f8ec8d)
- [The harder the quantum problem proves, the more it will deepen our knowledge of physics](https://korrents.com/k/the-harder-the-quantum-problem-proves-b61edc)
- [Although only entropy differences are measured, it is useful to define an absolute value of entropy](https://korrents.com/k/although-only-entropy-differences-are-measured-97c7c6)
- [The law of love is the law of life; departing from it leads to disintegration](https://korrents.com/k/the-law-of-love-is-the-56fa8c)
- [A social system should be judged at least as much by its effects outside economics and politics as inside them](https://korrents.com/k/a-social-system-should-be-judged-c53b78)
- [The world worth seeking is one built on the impulse to create rather than the desire to keep or seize possessions](https://korrents.com/k/the-world-worth-seeking-is-one-20e4b3)
- [Economic forces are organized, but the forces of intelligence are not](https://korrents.com/k/economic-forces-are-organized-but-the-f24fbf)
- [Intelligence is organized experience, but intelligence itself must be organized](https://korrents.com/k/intelligence-is-organized-experience-but-intelligence-8f357f)
- [Simply stating the facts is the most terrible thing that can be done to an injustice](https://korrents.com/k/simply-stating-the-facts-is-the-7820fa)
- [Perhaps the most valuable information is the kind that guides the search for information](https://korrents.com/k/perhaps-the-most-valuable-information-is-e382a9)
- [Being free and miserable is preferable to being bound and filled](https://korrents.com/k/being-free-and-miserable-is-preferable-a3b364)
- [Making people understand one another is the best way to make them love one another; true charity comes only with clarity](https://korrents.com/k/making-people-understand-one-another-is-18b6ed)
- [It takes strength to know history and keep one's courage](https://korrents.com/k/it-takes-strength-to-know-history-e8f184)
- [The value of philosophy lies largely in its uncertainty; without it a person stays imprisoned in common-sense prejudice](https://korrents.com/k/the-value-of-philosophy-lies-largely-b3aab9)
- [Philosophy cannot say with certainty what is true, but it suggests possibilities that free thought from the tyranny of custom](https://korrents.com/k/philosophy-cannot-say-with-certainty-what-c4eaf5)
- [The impartiality that is desire for truth in contemplation is justice in action and universal love in emotion](https://korrents.com/k/the-impartiality-that-is-desire-for-646273)
- [Philosophy should be studied for the sake of its questions, not for definite answers, which can rarely be known to be true](https://korrents.com/k/philosophy-should-be-studied-for-the-81f279)
- [India is being crushed less by English rule than by modern civilization](https://korrents.com/k/india-is-being-crushed-less-by-a97d18)
- [Civilization is the conduct that shows people their duty, and doing one's duty is the same as being moral](https://korrents.com/k/civilization-is-the-conduct-that-shows-64cfca)
- [Self-rule means learning to rule ourselves, so it lies within our own reach](https://korrents.com/k/self-rule-means-learning-to-rule-ourselves-3ff00b)
- [Self-rule that copies English institutions without the English would only make India English](https://korrents.com/k/self-rule-that-copies-english-institutions-without-b2a0e5)
- [Means and ends are as inseparably connected as a seed and the tree it grows into](https://korrents.com/k/means-and-ends-are-as-inseparably-cc10e4)
- [Passive resistance secures rights through personal suffering and is the opposite of armed resistance](https://korrents.com/k/passive-resistance-secures-rights-through-personal-9ad8c6)
- [Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization and represents a great sin](https://korrents.com/k/machinery-is-the-chief-symbol-of-5562b3)
- [People of different religions living in India do not stop it from being one nation](https://korrents.com/k/people-of-different-religions-living-in-236140)
- [Teaism is a cult founded on adoring the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday life](https://korrents.com/k/teaism-is-a-cult-founded-on-a1405a)
- [People who cannot feel the littleness of their own great things tend to overlook the greatness of little things in others](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-cannot-feel-the-littleness-203a2c)
- [It is better to remain 'barbarians' than to base a claim to civilisation on the glory of war](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-better-to-remain-barbarians-0443e9)
- [East and West have developed along different lines, but there is no reason one should not supplement the other](https://korrents.com/k/east-and-west-have-developed-along-75ea32)
- [Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters individuality in architecture](https://korrents.com/k/slavish-conformity-to-traditions-and-formulas-3f4e45)
- [Vanity is fatal to sympathetic feeling in art, in the artist and the public alike](https://korrents.com/k/vanity-is-fatal-to-sympathetic-feeling-9f7bf0)
- [The present age is destroying the beautiful in life](https://korrents.com/k/the-present-age-is-destroying-the-b4fa6a)
- [Chivalry is as native to Japan as the cherry blossom and is still a living moral force there](https://korrents.com/k/chivalry-is-as-native-to-japan-4a5fac)
- [Politeness that comes only from fear of offending taste is a poor virtue; it should express regard for others' feelings](https://korrents.com/k/politeness-that-comes-only-from-fear-cc3351)
- [Under feudalism, benevolence is what saved Japan from despotism of the worst kind](https://korrents.com/k/under-feudalism-benevolence-is-what-saved-75a8db)
- [Feudalism should not be identified with despotism](https://korrents.com/k/feudalism-should-not-be-identified-with-a5a611)
- [Discipline in self-control can go too far, repressing the soul and distorting pliant natures](https://korrents.com/k/discipline-in-self-control-can-go-too-f77891)
- [Bushido may vanish as a separate code of ethics, but its power and light will survive](https://korrents.com/k/bushido-may-vanish-as-a-separate-34251d)
- [The fault lies with church methods and forms that obscure Christ's teachings, not with the teachings themselves](https://korrents.com/k/the-fault-lies-with-church-methods-3794e5)
- [The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line](https://korrents.com/k/the-problem-of-the-twentieth-century-107f0e)
- [Black Americans live with a double consciousness, always seeing themselves through the eyes of a contemptuous world](https://korrents.com/k/black-americans-live-with-a-double-648126)
- [Black Americans need schooling more than ever, both practical training and higher culture](https://korrents.com/k/black-americans-need-schooling-more-than-561f02)
- [Black Americans need the vote in self-defence, or nothing will save them from a second slavery](https://korrents.com/k/black-americans-need-the-vote-in-1ce4de)
- [Black Americans should support Booker T. Washington's thrift and industrial training but firmly oppose his acceptance of injustice](https://korrents.com/k/black-americans-should-support-booker-t-dc1579)
- [Making the blacksmith a scholar is almost, but not quite, as silly as making the scholar a blacksmith](https://korrents.com/k/making-the-blacksmith-a-scholar-is-d53c02)
- [A university exists above all to connect real life with growing knowledge, not merely to teach bread-winning](https://korrents.com/k/a-university-exists-above-all-to-5ee805)
- [That a pitiless war within each species is a condition of progress is unproved and unconfirmed by direct observation](https://korrents.com/k/that-a-pitiless-war-within-each-0dc443)
- [What moves a person to help a neighbour whose house is on fire is a wide instinct of human solidarity, not love](https://korrents.com/k/what-moves-a-person-to-help-baad6f)
- [Human society rests not on love or sympathy but on an awareness, even if only instinctive, of human solidarity](https://korrents.com/k/human-society-rests-not-on-love-e27e09)
- [The war of each against all is not the law of nature; mutual aid is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle](https://korrents.com/k/the-war-of-each-against-all-adfce7)
- [Life in society is what enables parrots to reach their very high, almost human intelligence and feelings](https://korrents.com/k/life-in-society-is-what-enables-5d8821)
- [If evolution rested mainly on the survival of the fittest through calamities, the animal world would go backward](https://korrents.com/k/if-evolution-rested-mainly-on-the-ccd058)
- [Competition is not the rule among animals or among humans; among animals it is limited to exceptional periods](https://korrents.com/k/competition-is-not-the-rule-among-d940fc)
- [Nature tends, though not always fully, toward avoiding competition, which is always harmful to the species](https://korrents.com/k/nature-tends-though-not-always-fully-6dc74e)
- [It would contradict all we know of nature if defenceless early humans had progressed by reckless competition rather than mutual support](https://korrents.com/k/it-would-contradict-all-we-know-48cd34)
- [The documents historians rely on exaggerate the part of human life given to struggle and underrate its peaceful side](https://korrents.com/k/the-documents-historians-rely-on-exaggerate-38af9e)
- [Sociability is so inherent in human nature that no period of history shows people living as isolated families fighting for subsistence](https://korrents.com/k/sociability-is-so-inherent-in-human-761c5e)
- [Broadly, human ethical progress is the gradual extension of mutual aid from the tribe toward the whole of humanity](https://korrents.com/k/broadly-human-ethical-progress-is-the-3e17fa)
- [Neither the centralized State nor teachings of pitiless struggle could uproot the feeling of human solidarity](https://korrents.com/k/neither-the-centralized-state-nor-teachings-740a61)
- [Animal species with the least individual struggle and the most mutual aid are invariably the most numerous and prosperous](https://korrents.com/k/animal-species-with-the-least-individual-9ab7c3)
- [History as written so far describes almost only how theocracy, military power, autocracy and the rich came to rule](https://korrents.com/k/history-as-written-so-far-describes-6fb7a3)
- [For industrial progress, mutual aid and close contact are much more advantageous than mutual struggle](https://korrents.com/k/for-industrial-progress-mutual-aid-and-b1dfd3)
- [Mutual aid is the origin of human ethics, and mutual support rather than struggle has led moral progress](https://korrents.com/k/mutual-aid-is-the-origin-of-fddd6c)
- [Explaining religious experience away as a symptom of bodily disorder is a too simple-minded 'medical materialism'](https://korrents.com/k/explaining-religious-experience-away-as-a-abdf4d)
- [Religion, as a working definition, means individuals' solitary feelings, acts and experiences in relation to whatever they consider divine](https://korrents.com/k/religion-as-a-working-definition-means-4c2163)
- [In the broadest terms, religious life may be described as belief in an unseen order and in adjusting ourselves to it as our supreme good](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-broadest-terms-religious-life-b03830)
- [Healthy-minded optimism is inadequate as a philosophy, because the evil it ignores is part of reality and may be the key to life's meaning](https://korrents.com/k/healthy-minded-optimism-is-inadequate-as-a-c5744e)
- [The most complete religions seem to be those that most fully develop their pessimistic elements, such as Buddhism and Christianity](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-complete-religions-seem-to-c38c7f)
- [Conversion is the process by which a divided, unhappy self becomes unified and happy through a firmer hold on religious realities](https://korrents.com/k/conversion-is-the-process-by-which-8589a2)
- [The saintly qualities are indispensable to the world's welfare](https://korrents.com/k/the-saintly-qualities-are-indispensable-to-7e5c2d)
- [We should be saints if we can, but each person must find the kind of religion and degree of saintliness that fits their powers and vocation](https://korrents.com/k/we-should-be-saints-if-we-7a988c)
- [A mystical state defies expression, so its quality must be experienced directly and cannot be passed on to others](https://korrents.com/k/a-mystical-state-defies-expression-so-e7b4e8)
- [Alcohol's hold on humanity comes from its power to stimulate the mystical faculties that sobriety suppresses](https://korrents.com/k/alcohol-s-hold-on-humanity-comes-6f8be9)
- [Ordinary waking consciousness is only one type of consciousness, surrounded by entirely different potential forms](https://korrents.com/k/ordinary-waking-consciousness-is-only-one-fc6ad9)
- [No account of the universe can be final if it disregards forms of consciousness other than the ordinary one](https://korrents.com/k/no-account-of-the-universe-can-8f28f6)
- [Developed mystical states rightly carry authority for those who have them, but impose no duty on outsiders to accept their revelations uncritically](https://korrents.com/k/developed-mystical-states-rightly-carry-authority-85728c)
- [I believe feeling is the deeper source of religion, and philosophic and theological formulas are secondary products](https://korrents.com/k/i-believe-feeling-is-the-deeper-6fcdfc)
- [The further limits of our being seem to reach into a dimension of existence beyond the sensible, understandable world](https://korrents.com/k/the-further-limits-of-our-being-4749ad)
- [The pragmatic way of taking religion is, I believe, the deeper way](https://korrents.com/k/the-pragmatic-way-of-taking-religion-6fc8e9)
- [Human experience as a whole, as I see it, points beyond narrow 'scientific' bounds; the real world is more intricately built than physical science allows](https://korrents.com/k/human-experience-as-a-whole-as-e503b5)
- [No question is more important than freeing women from past political, religious and social dogmas](https://korrents.com/k/no-question-is-more-important-than-f65561)
- [Abolitionists who felt the slave's wrongs were blind to the equal legal wrongs of their own mothers, wives and sisters](https://korrents.com/k/abolitionists-who-felt-the-slave-s-3d318c)
- [A liberal divorce law is wise](https://korrents.com/k/a-liberal-divorce-law-is-wise-c0c191)
- [The early case for liberal divorce was not wrong, only made before people were ready to hear it](https://korrents.com/k/the-early-case-for-liberal-divorce-0c30f2)
- [Women owe their liberty to no religion; their religious nature has always been perverted to subject them](https://korrents.com/k/women-owe-their-liberty-to-no-c1bfe2)
- [Governments, religions and scriptures are human inventions, and women who see this will no longer be oppressed by claims of divine command](https://korrents.com/k/governments-religions-and-scriptures-are-human-aac594)
- [The Pentateuch's writers made God jealous and revengeful, and no other books so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman](https://korrents.com/k/the-pentateuch-s-writers-made-god-71b18b)
- [No race can prosper until it sees as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem](https://korrents.com/k/no-race-can-prosper-until-it-088c8e)
- [Grievances should not be allowed to overshadow opportunities](https://korrents.com/k/grievances-should-not-be-allowed-to-d7b399)
- [The races can be socially separate yet united in everything essential to mutual progress](https://korrents.com/k/the-races-can-be-socially-separate-2ef227)
- [There is no security for anyone except in the highest intelligence and development of all](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-security-for-anyone-e32908)
- [Agitating for social equality is folly; progress must come from constant struggle, not artificial forcing](https://korrents.com/k/agitating-for-social-equality-is-folly-0533d7)
- [No race with something to contribute to world markets stays ostracized for long](https://korrents.com/k/no-race-with-something-to-contribute-3d5c1a)
- [Legal rights matter, but being prepared to exercise them matters far more](https://korrents.com/k/legal-rights-matter-but-being-prepared-b7edd6)
- [There is no reason to suppose an idea less true than reality, since we never know for certain what underlies the senses](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-no-reason-to-suppose-7ff924)
- [Town society is cruelly callous to the happiness and misery of other creatures compared with its own](https://korrents.com/k/town-society-is-cruelly-callous-to-65606f)
- [The highest commandment is sympathy for all sentient beings; love is the foundation of all religion](https://korrents.com/k/the-highest-commandment-is-sympathy-for-9b02ee)
- [Once our pity is aroused, joining others in preying on life insults all that is good in us](https://korrents.com/k/once-our-pity-is-aroused-joining-c5011e)
- [No religion should convert another; each should assimilate the spirit of the others and keep its own individuality](https://korrents.com/k/no-religion-should-convert-another-each-aa58ea)
- [Holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possession of any church](https://korrents.com/k/holiness-purity-and-charity-are-not-abf0ae)
- [Superstition is a great enemy of humankind, but bigotry is worse](https://korrents.com/k/superstition-is-a-great-enemy-of-79790e)
- [Science is nothing but the finding of unity](https://korrents.com/k/science-is-nothing-but-the-finding-1055d5)
- [In the Hindu view, people travel not from error to truth but from lower to higher truth](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-hindu-view-people-travel-498d05)
- [Those who do not need images in worship have no right to call them wrong](https://korrents.com/k/those-who-do-not-need-images-1e1565)
- [All religions should be accepted as true, not merely tolerated](https://korrents.com/k/all-religions-should-be-accepted-as-906c3a)
- [Sectarianism, bigotry and fanaticism have filled the earth with violence and held human society back](https://korrents.com/k/sectarianism-bigotry-and-fanaticism-have-filled-e0ba62)
- [Metre gives verse a power to move people that vague and indefinite prose lacks](https://korrents.com/k/metre-gives-verse-a-power-to-fb02f0)
- [Whether a more equal distribution of wealth is attainable is uncertain; if it is not, Providence is cruel](https://korrents.com/k/whether-a-more-equal-distribution-of-de27d4)
- [What beauty and peace human societies have comes from the daily performance of small duties, not big deeds and fine talk](https://korrents.com/k/what-beauty-and-peace-human-societies-ddca2e)
- [It is better for a government to keep pace with a people's desires than to give way before them later](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-better-for-a-government-6167b8)
- [Spain should grant Filipinos their rights freely, without reservations or mistrust](https://korrents.com/k/spain-should-grant-filipinos-their-rights-a33e3f)
- [Palliative reforms are useless and even harmful when a government faces evils that need a radical cure](https://korrents.com/k/palliative-reforms-are-useless-and-even-cf9d9b)
- [Real reform in the Philippines must begin with a free press and Filipino delegates](https://korrents.com/k/real-reform-in-the-philippines-must-3a0f39)
- [Uprisings and revolutions have always occurred in countries where thought and feeling were forced into silence](https://korrents.com/k/uprisings-and-revolutions-have-always-occurred-d6b820)
- [Public offices should be awarded by competition, with the work and its judging published](https://korrents.com/k/public-offices-should-be-awarded-by-840625)
- [No claim, not even in God's name, entitles Spain to keep six million people exploited and denied their rights](https://korrents.com/k/no-claim-not-even-in-god-605602)
- [Even the bravest rarely have the courage of what they really know](https://korrents.com/k/even-the-bravest-rarely-have-the-2cecf1)
- [What does not kill me makes me stronger](https://korrents.com/k/what-does-not-kill-me-makes-dc42bd)
- [You should not disown your deeds once done; pangs of conscience are indecent](https://korrents.com/k/you-should-not-disown-your-deeds-3dd6b3)
- [If you know why you live, how you live can take care of itself](https://korrents.com/k/if-you-know-why-you-live-94318d)
- [The will to a system shows a lack of honesty](https://korrents.com/k/the-will-to-a-system-shows-473a1a)
- [Without music, life would be a mistake](https://korrents.com/k/without-music-life-would-be-a-d2c4c5)
- [Only thoughts that come from walking have any value; a sedentary life is the real sin](https://korrents.com/k/only-thoughts-that-come-from-walking-e89254)
- [A person should know what they want, and that they want something](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-should-know-what-they-b09c60)
- [A person should not play the coward to their own deeds by repudiating them once done; pangs of conscience are indecent.](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-should-not-play-the-7315f4)
- [Happiness is the test of conduct and the end of life, but it can only be reached by not making it the direct aim](https://korrents.com/k/happiness-is-the-test-of-conduct-1e7e05)
- [Asking yourself whether you are happy stops you being so; the only chance is to aim at some end outside happiness](https://korrents.com/k/asking-yourself-whether-you-are-happy-4965e5)
- [Universities exist to make capable and cultivated human beings, not to train people for a particular livelihood](https://korrents.com/k/universities-exist-to-make-capable-and-f280f6)
- [Educate people to be capable and sensible, and they will make themselves capable professionals](https://korrents.com/k/educate-people-to-be-capable-and-8830ca)
- [What most distinguishes one mind from another is the ability to judge evidence correctly](https://korrents.com/k/what-most-distinguishes-one-mind-from-b0e139)
- [No part of intellectual education is more valuable, or harder to replace, than logic](https://korrents.com/k/no-part-of-intellectual-education-is-a5dc9e)
- [Bad people need only that good people look on and do nothing; someone who lets wrong be done in their name without protest is not good](https://korrents.com/k/bad-people-need-only-that-good-601525)
- [A university ought to be a place of free inquiry, and the better it does its other duties the more surely it will be](https://korrents.com/k/a-university-ought-to-be-a-06b999)
- [What we achieve depends less on how much time we have than on how we use it](https://korrents.com/k/what-we-achieve-depends-less-on-7fb67a)
- [One side would make war rather than let the nation survive; the other would accept war rather than let it perish](https://korrents.com/k/one-side-would-make-war-rather-0639a2)
- [Everyone knew that the interest in slavery was somehow the cause of the Civil War](https://korrents.com/k/everyone-knew-that-the-interest-in-e85dd5)
- [The nation should finish the war with malice toward none and charity for all, and seek a just and lasting peace](https://korrents.com/k/the-nation-should-finish-the-war-8e90ef)
- [The living must dedicate themselves to the unfinished work, so that government of the people, by the people, for the people does not perish](https://korrents.com/k/the-living-must-dedicate-themselves-to-c30d79)
- [It is better to be a dissatisfied human than a satisfied pig, and a dissatisfied Socrates than a satisfied fool](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-better-to-be-a-da8c0c)
- [The main ingredients of a satisfied life appear to be tranquillity and excitement, either of which is often enough alone](https://korrents.com/k/the-main-ingredients-of-a-satisfied-612801)
- [When fortunate people find too little enjoyment in life, the cause is generally that they care for nobody but themselves](https://korrents.com/k/when-fortunate-people-find-too-little-c8faf3)
- [After selfishness, the main thing that makes a life unsatisfying is a mind left uncultivated](https://korrents.com/k/after-selfishness-the-main-thing-that-092270)
- [Almost every woman at some time has charge of someone's health, so every woman is a nurse](https://korrents.com/k/almost-every-woman-at-some-time-21cb6c)
- [When a patient is cold, feverish, faint, sick after food or has a bedsore, it is generally the fault of the nursing, not the disease](https://korrents.com/k/when-a-patient-is-cold-feverish-9e9562)
- [Nursing should mean the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet and diet, not just giving medicines](https://korrents.com/k/nursing-should-mean-the-proper-use-541874)
- [The first rule of nursing is to keep the air a patient breathes as pure as the outside air without chilling him](https://korrents.com/k/the-first-rule-of-nursing-is-4ebc57)
- [Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting and fear of surprise harm a patient more than any exertion](https://korrents.com/k/apprehension-uncertainty-waiting-and-fear-of-fae245)
- [Unnecessary noise is the cruellest absence of care that can be inflicted on the sick or the well](https://korrents.com/k/unnecessary-noise-is-the-cruellest-absence-e4b777)
- [The most important practical lesson for nurses is what to observe and how to observe it in the sick](https://korrents.com/k/the-most-important-practical-lesson-for-de3cc1)
- [A woman should bring the best she has to the world's work, heeding neither of the two current cries about what women should do](https://korrents.com/k/a-woman-should-bring-the-best-bb1b9a)
- [We are not bound to follow everything the founders did; that would reject all progress and current experience](https://korrents.com/k/we-are-not-bound-to-follow-6e6372)
- [Slavery should be treated as an evil not to be extended, tolerated only where its presence makes that necessary](https://korrents.com/k/slavery-should-be-treated-as-an-c9b4b3)
- [Right makes might, and in that faith we should dare to do our duty as we understand it](https://korrents.com/k/right-makes-might-and-in-that-a5f28d)
- [Species are not fixed: species of the same genus descend from other, mostly extinct, species](https://korrents.com/k/species-are-not-fixed-species-of-611116)
- [Natural selection has been the main, but not the only, means by which species change](https://korrents.com/k/natural-selection-has-been-the-main-62b92f)
- [Because living things multiply so fast, a struggle for existence inevitably follows](https://korrents.com/k/because-living-things-multiply-so-fast-d54a6e)
- [The fossil record is a very incomplete history of life, of which only fragments survive](https://korrents.com/k/the-fossil-record-is-a-very-3c93ba)
- [Natural selection can make no great or sudden change; it acts only by very short, slow steps](https://korrents.com/k/natural-selection-can-make-no-great-ce880d)
- [Animals descend from at most four or five ancestors, and analogy hints at one ancestor for all life, though analogy may mislead](https://korrents.com/k/animals-descend-from-at-most-four-369f48)
- [This theory will give psychology a new foundation and throw light on the origin of humans](https://korrents.com/k/this-theory-will-give-psychology-a-aa72d7)
- [There is grandeur in a view of life in which endless beautiful forms evolved from a simple beginning](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-grandeur-in-a-view-32a0ec)
- [Most people lead lives of quiet desperation, and what is called resignation is confirmed desperation](https://korrents.com/k/most-people-lead-lives-of-quiet-41b0fc)
- [Most luxuries and many comforts are not only unnecessary but positive hindrances to human elevation](https://korrents.com/k/most-luxuries-and-many-comforts-are-db5a53)
- [The cost of a thing is the amount of life that has to be exchanged for it, now or in the long run](https://korrents.com/k/the-cost-of-a-thing-is-84eefa)
- [A person is rich in proportion to the number of things they can afford to leave alone](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-is-rich-in-proportion-66da0e)
- [Life is frittered away by detail, and should be kept simple](https://korrents.com/k/life-is-frittered-away-by-detail-321cff)
- [Life is worth living deliberately, facing only its essential facts, so as not to find at death that one has not lived](https://korrents.com/k/life-is-worth-living-deliberately-facing-c1680b)
- [A government that deliberately enacts and persists in injustice will eventually become the laughing-stock of the world](https://korrents.com/k/a-government-that-deliberately-enacts-and-166b7c)
- [Law will never make people free; people have to make the law free](https://korrents.com/k/law-will-never-make-people-free-d1ad32)
- [Whoever can discern truth has a higher authority than the highest judge who can discern only law](https://korrents.com/k/whoever-can-discern-truth-has-a-6d77f3)
- [In this country the press exerts a greater and more harmful influence than the church did at its worst](https://korrents.com/k/in-this-country-the-press-exerts-0f8880)
- [People are to be human beings first, and Americans only late and when convenient](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-to-be-human-beings-bbdcb8)
- [A righteous reform cannot be achieved by expediency; in morals there is no sliding uphill](https://korrents.com/k/a-righteous-reform-cannot-be-achieved-c2a29e)
- [A country's fate depends less on how people vote than on what kind of people they are each day](https://korrents.com/k/a-country-s-fate-depends-less-bc81cd)
- [Good government makes life more valuable and bad government makes it less valuable](https://korrents.com/k/good-government-makes-life-more-valuable-b26518)
- [The Fourth of July is his free audience's celebration, not his; they may rejoice, while he must mourn](https://korrents.com/k/the-fourth-of-july-is-his-2412fc)
- [America is false to its past and present declarations of liberty, and binds itself to be false to the future](https://korrents.com/k/america-is-false-to-its-past-4f7ce9)
- [Where everything is plain, there is nothing to be argued](https://korrents.com/k/where-everything-is-plain-there-is-6bbc09)
- [For now, it is enough to affirm the equal humanity of the Black race](https://korrents.com/k/for-now-it-is-enough-to-383304)
- [Every man alive knows that slavery is wrong for himself](https://korrents.com/k/every-man-alive-knows-that-slavery-e7829e)
- [What is inhuman cannot be divine](https://korrents.com/k/what-is-inhuman-cannot-be-divine-c64bbf)
- [At a time like this, scorching irony rather than convincing argument is needed](https://korrents.com/k/at-a-time-like-this-scorching-726b60)
- [No nation on earth is guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than the United States at this time](https://korrents.com/k/no-nation-on-earth-is-guilty-49e348)
- [Health so outweighs every other blessing that a healthy beggar is happier than a sick king](https://korrents.com/k/health-so-outweighs-every-other-blessing-3d0a1d)
- [Cheerfulness is the direct currency of happiness, and securing it should be the supreme aim of the pursuit of happiness](https://korrents.com/k/cheerfulness-is-the-direct-currency-of-fadaef)
- [The more a person has within themselves, the less they want from other people](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-a-person-has-within-92f9d5)
- [The value people set on the opinion of others is out of all proportion to anything it can gain them](https://korrents.com/k/the-value-people-set-on-the-c13da8)
- [The safest way not to be very miserable is not to expect to be very happy](https://korrents.com/k/the-safest-way-not-to-be-2c4f42)
- [The present is the only time that is fully real, and existence lies in it alone](https://korrents.com/k/the-present-is-the-only-time-824804)
- [People should sometimes look at their possessions as they would appear if they had lost them](https://korrents.com/k/people-should-sometimes-look-at-their-3bd89d)
- [Each misfortune seems exceptional, but misfortune in general is the rule](https://korrents.com/k/each-misfortune-seems-exceptional-but-misfortune-15a1de)
- [What women need is not to act or rule as women, but to grow, discern and live freely and unimpeded](https://korrents.com/k/what-women-need-is-not-to-af3ff9)
- [Men and women constantly pass into one another; no man is wholly masculine and no woman purely feminine](https://korrents.com/k/men-and-women-constantly-pass-into-ce7bec)
- [At present, women are the best helpers of one another](https://korrents.com/k/at-present-women-are-the-best-1b2dff)
- [Men should remove arbitrary barriers to women; women must show their own dignity to teach men how to help](https://korrents.com/k/men-should-remove-arbitrary-barriers-to-78be3d)
- [Women may fill any office, even that of sea captain](https://korrents.com/k/women-may-fill-any-office-even-172bfd)
- [Women need, at this time, a much wider range of occupations to rouse their latent powers](https://korrents.com/k/women-need-at-this-time-a-01ee08)
- [Because women do not hold property on equal terms with men, their cause may well be pleaded by a party like the anti-slavery one](https://korrents.com/k/because-women-do-not-hold-property-52e3c1)
- [The science of operations is a science in itself with its own abstract truth and value, as logic is](https://korrents.com/k/the-science-of-operations-is-a-1b5188)
- [The analytical engine might act on things other than number, and could compose elaborate music if musical relations could be so expressed](https://korrents.com/k/the-analytical-engine-might-act-on-6423d6)
- [The analytical engine weaves algebraic patterns as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves](https://korrents.com/k/the-analytical-engine-weaves-algebraic-patterns-c21260)
- [The analytical engine gives analysis a new, vast and powerful language, making its truths more quickly and accurately useful to mankind](https://korrents.com/k/the-analytical-engine-gives-analysis-a-a0668c)
- [With any new subject people tend first to overrate it, then by reaction to undervalue it](https://korrents.com/k/with-any-new-subject-people-tend-78fdac)
- [The analytical engine cannot originate anything; it can do only what we know how to order it to perform](https://korrents.com/k/the-analytical-engine-cannot-originate-anything-7441b4)
- [An observer of another society should not generalize on the spot, however firmly they grasp particular facts](https://korrents.com/k/an-observer-of-another-society-should-cbf1b0)
- [In judging a society, every consideration is subordinate to the relative amount of human happiness](https://korrents.com/k/in-judging-a-society-every-consideration-2f17fc)
- [Judging one people by another misses the truth; judging a nation by the essentials of human happiness sees it as it is](https://korrents.com/k/judging-one-people-by-another-misses-e0fd02)
- [How far women are degraded is as good a test as any of the state of domestic morals in a country](https://korrents.com/k/how-far-women-are-degraded-is-c3d0c0)
- [Even in France, England and the United States women are half-educated, barred from most paid work, and bound by laws they cannot consent to](https://korrents.com/k/even-in-france-england-and-the-799fb0)
- [Many women must support themselves without access to varied work or education, so they are raised to see marriage as their one object](https://korrents.com/k/many-women-must-support-themselves-without-c964a0)
- [Another soul can provoke me but not instruct me; I must find what it says true in myself or reject it](https://korrents.com/k/another-soul-can-provoke-me-but-a80939)
- [Historical Christianity dwells with harmful exaggeration on the person of Jesus; the soul knows no persons](https://korrents.com/k/historical-christianity-dwells-with-harmful-exaggeration-757b9d)
- [Imitation cannot rise above its model and condemns the imitator to mediocrity](https://korrents.com/k/imitation-cannot-rise-above-its-model-fe278e)
- [Books are the best of things when used well, and among the worst when abused](https://korrents.com/k/books-are-the-best-of-things-511589)
- [Young scholars wrongly defer to the views of great authors, forgetting those authors were once young men in libraries too](https://korrents.com/k/young-scholars-wrongly-defer-to-the-6e7387)
- [Action is subordinate for a scholar but essential; without it thought cannot ripen into truth](https://korrents.com/k/action-is-subordinate-for-a-scholar-22239f)
- [Character is higher than intellect](https://korrents.com/k/character-is-higher-than-intellect-e091d5)
- [Americans have listened too long to European culture, and the American spirit is suspected of being timid and imitative](https://korrents.com/k/americans-have-listened-too-long-to-55f866)
- [European civilization has refined manners at the expense of morals](https://korrents.com/k/european-civilization-has-refined-manners-at-bb5c9d)
- [English liberty has been reduced to the security of property, a selfish principle to which nobler ones are sacrificed](https://korrents.com/k/english-liberty-has-been-reduced-to-4499d3)
- [Property should circulate, divided more equally among a family's children, rather than entrenched by inheritance of the eldest son](https://korrents.com/k/property-should-circulate-divided-more-equally-d62680)
- [The only rightful security of property is the right to enjoy and bequeath what one's own talents and industry acquired](https://korrents.com/k/the-only-rightful-security-of-property-71369c)
- [The passions are necessary helpers of reason](https://korrents.com/k/the-passions-are-necessary-helpers-of-813089)
- [Enslaving people strips them of half their virtue and teaches them fraud and cruelty, then blames them for dishonesty](https://korrents.com/k/enslaving-people-strips-them-of-half-7a0bd1)
- [The slave trade hardens the people who deal in it; slave dealers are not born worse than other men](https://korrents.com/k/the-slave-trade-hardens-the-people-f3344c)
- [The slave trade violates the first natural right of mankind, equality and independence](https://korrents.com/k/the-slave-trade-violates-the-first-e570ee)
- [Christians who sell enslaved families apart betray their own rule to do unto others as they would be done by](https://korrents.com/k/christians-who-sell-enslaved-families-apart-600b11)
- [Ideas of beauty in complexion are wholly relative](https://korrents.com/k/ideas-of-beauty-in-complexion-are-773404)
- [Since complexion changes with climate, this may help remove prejudice against Africans on account of their colour](https://korrents.com/k/since-complexion-changes-with-climate-this-7557d5)
- [Trade with Africa would be an inexhaustible source of wealth for British manufacturing, and the slave trade stands in its way](https://korrents.com/k/trade-with-africa-would-be-an-5e81c5)
- [Abolishing slavery would be a universal good](https://korrents.com/k/abolishing-slavery-would-be-a-universal-50942f)
- [Nothing in the world, or out of it, can be called good without qualification except a good will](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-in-the-world-or-out-a91bc5)
- [A good will seems to be the indispensable condition of even deserving happiness](https://korrents.com/k/a-good-will-seems-to-be-770d89)
- [Duty is the necessity of acting out of respect for the law](https://korrents.com/k/duty-is-the-necessity-of-acting-8d2468)
- [There is only one categorical imperative: act only on a maxim you could at the same time will to become a universal law](https://korrents.com/k/there-is-only-one-categorical-imperative-ed8362)
- [Act so as to treat humanity, in yourself or in anyone else, always as an end and never as a means only](https://korrents.com/k/act-so-as-to-treat-humanity-d7a4c1)
- [In the kingdom of ends, what can be replaced by an equivalent has value; what is above all value and admits no equivalent has dignity](https://korrents.com/k/in-the-kingdom-of-ends-what-efa5cf)
- [Autonomy is the basis of the dignity of human beings and of every rational nature](https://korrents.com/k/autonomy-is-the-basis-of-the-18c878)
- [Writing that deeply impresses even one active mind in a hundred may have considerable effects](https://korrents.com/k/writing-that-deeply-impresses-even-one-3f21ee)
- [There never was a good war or a bad peace](https://korrents.com/k/there-never-was-a-good-war-b2e064)
- [Money spent on wars would have added vastly more to human comfort if spent on public works](https://korrents.com/k/money-spent-on-wars-would-have-e1e9b3)
- [Science is advancing so fast that the power humans may gain over matter in a thousand years is impossible to imagine](https://korrents.com/k/science-is-advancing-so-fast-that-51d8e4)
- [Moral understanding is not improving as science is, and people should stop being wolves to one another](https://korrents.com/k/moral-understanding-is-not-improving-as-2862b9)
- [Even successful wars eventually become misfortunes for those who unjustly started them](https://korrents.com/k/even-successful-wars-eventually-become-misfortunes-348a6b)
- [Tyranny is not easily conquered, but the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph](https://korrents.com/k/tyranny-is-not-easily-conquered-but-ad9f9d)
- [We value too lightly what we get too cheaply; only its cost gives a thing its value](https://korrents.com/k/we-value-too-lightly-what-we-12ce40)
- [Every person is rich or poor according to how far they can afford the necessities, conveniences and pleasures of life](https://korrents.com/k/every-person-is-rich-or-poor-d7c2b6)
- [We get our dinner from traders by appealing to their self-interest, not to their kindness](https://korrents.com/k/we-get-our-dinner-from-traders-b11a1a)
- [High wages are both the effect and the natural sign of a nation growing richer](https://korrents.com/k/high-wages-are-both-the-effect-ccae01)
- [No society can flourish when most of its members are poor, and those who feed and house everyone deserve to be decently fed and housed](https://korrents.com/k/no-society-can-flourish-when-most-e01a8c)
- [When people in the same trade meet, the talk usually turns to conspiring against the public or raising prices](https://korrents.com/k/when-people-in-the-same-trade-467336)
- [By pursuing their own interest, people frequently serve society better than when they set out to serve it](https://korrents.com/k/by-pursuing-their-own-interest-people-11ae6c)
- [A worker who spends a whole life on a few simple, repetitive tasks generally loses the habit of thinking](https://korrents.com/k/a-worker-who-spends-a-whole-f4993d)
- [Time changes more minds than reason does](https://korrents.com/k/time-changes-more-minds-than-reason-e751de)
- [Society is always a blessing, but government is at best a necessary evil and at worst an intolerable one](https://korrents.com/k/society-is-always-a-blessing-but-6079e5)
- [One honest man is worth more to society than all the kings who ever lived](https://korrents.com/k/one-honest-man-is-worth-more-bab7e6)
- [Everything right and natural argues for America separating from Britain](https://korrents.com/k/everything-right-and-natural-argues-for-763eb8)
- [Americans have it in their power to begin the world over again](https://korrents.com/k/americans-have-it-in-their-power-e2e3dd)
- [In a free country the law ought to be king, and there ought to be no other](https://korrents.com/k/in-a-free-country-the-law-2a4a27)
- [Doubt is not pleasant, but certainty is absurd, since we know nothing of first principles](https://korrents.com/k/doubt-is-not-pleasant-but-certainty-fea4c0)
- [People are born free, yet everywhere they are in chains](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-born-free-yet-everywhere-98a5e6)
- [The strongest is never strong enough to stay master unless strength is turned into right and obedience into duty](https://korrents.com/k/the-strongest-is-never-strong-enough-2e721e)
- [Renouncing liberty means renouncing being human, giving up the rights of humanity and even its duties](https://korrents.com/k/renouncing-liberty-means-renouncing-being-human-abe481)
- [Whoever refuses to obey the general will must be compelled by the whole body, which means being forced to be free](https://korrents.com/k/whoever-refuses-to-obey-the-general-44ca7e)
- [The general will is always right and aims at the public good, but the people's deliberations are not always equally correct](https://korrents.com/k/the-general-will-is-always-right-a41b19)
- [Sovereignty cannot be represented; a law the people has not ratified in person is null and void](https://korrents.com/k/sovereignty-cannot-be-represented-a-law-9f26b1)
- [The English people think themselves free but are mistaken; they are free only while electing members of parliament](https://korrents.com/k/the-english-people-think-themselves-free-c5a5cb)
- [A people of gods would govern itself democratically; so perfect a government is not for humans](https://korrents.com/k/a-people-of-gods-would-govern-4d9bb3)
- [Serving others is paying a debt, not conferring a favour](https://korrents.com/k/serving-others-is-paying-a-debt-d6be75)
- [Thanks and compliments, however often repeated, cannot discharge our real obligations to each other or to God](https://korrents.com/k/thanks-and-compliments-however-often-repeated-f241db)
- [All our ideas, the fainter perceptions, are copies of our impressions, the more lively ones](https://korrents.com/k/all-our-ideas-the-fainter-perceptions-e7c04f)
- [Knowledge of cause and effect is never reached by reasoning a priori; it comes entirely from experience of things constantly conjoined](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-of-cause-and-effect-is-755e80)
- [Custom is the great guide of human life; it alone makes experience useful by leading us to expect the future to resemble the past](https://korrents.com/k/custom-is-the-great-guide-of-a52d1e)
- [A wise person proportions their belief to the evidence](https://korrents.com/k/a-wise-person-proportions-their-belief-a2d007)
- [Because uniform experience establishes the laws of nature, the proof against any miracle is as complete as an argument from experience can be](https://korrents.com/k/because-uniform-experience-establishes-the-laws-459b62)
- [No testimony suffices to establish a miracle unless its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact it seeks to establish](https://korrents.com/k/no-testimony-suffices-to-establish-a-4691b3)
- [A book with neither abstract reasoning about quantity or number nor experimental reasoning about fact should be burned as sophistry and illusion](https://korrents.com/k/a-book-with-neither-abstract-reasoning-ebdaa4)
- [In England, one allowed religion would very possibly make government arbitrary, two would set people at each other's throats; with many, all live in peace](https://korrents.com/k/in-england-one-allowed-religion-would-98d446)
- [Religious wars are a dreadful folly, an abomination reserved for devout preachers of patience and humility](https://korrents.com/k/religious-wars-are-a-dreadful-folly-e24be6)
- [By resisting their kings, the English alone have limited royal power and built a government that can do good but is restrained from evil](https://korrents.com/k/by-resisting-their-kings-the-english-46a7f5)
- [In England trade enriched citizens and made them freer, and that freedom in turn extended commerce and the state's greatness](https://korrents.com/k/in-england-trade-enriched-citizens-and-a0740a)
- [A merchant who enriches the country is more useful to a nation than a fashionable lord who fawns at court](https://korrents.com/k/a-merchant-who-enriches-the-country-37821d)
- [Had smallpox inoculation been practised in France, it would have saved thousands of lives](https://korrents.com/k/had-smallpox-inoculation-been-practised-in-d3334b)
- [Respect is owed to those who lead minds by the force of truth, not to conquerors who enslave their fellow creatures](https://korrents.com/k/respect-is-owed-to-those-who-c6ddf6)
- [Admit no more causes of natural things than are both true and sufficient to explain them](https://korrents.com/k/admit-no-more-causes-of-natural-d8b3b1)
- [Nature is pleased with simplicity and has no use for superfluous causes](https://korrents.com/k/nature-is-pleased-with-simplicity-and-5af9c2)
- [The same natural effects should, as far as possible, be given the same causes](https://korrents.com/k/the-same-natural-effects-should-as-56fd06)
- [Never give up the evidence of experiments for dreams and fictions of our own devising](https://korrents.com/k/never-give-up-the-evidence-of-4220da)
- [Conclusions drawn by induction from phenomena stand until new phenomena correct them, whatever hypotheses are imagined against them](https://korrents.com/k/conclusions-drawn-by-induction-from-phenomena-d4357b)
- [I frame no hypotheses about the cause of gravity: whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is a hypothesis](https://korrents.com/k/i-frame-no-hypotheses-about-the-dbcb20)
- [It is enough that gravity really exists, acts by the laws explained, and accounts for the motions of the heavens and the sea](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-enough-that-gravity-really-bf93d5)
- [The system of sun, planets and comets could only come from an intelligent and powerful Being](https://korrents.com/k/the-system-of-sun-planets-and-2bf31e)
- [We know the attributes of things, never their real substance](https://korrents.com/k/we-know-the-attributes-of-things-56d945)
- [The properties of light should be proved by reason and experiments, not explained by hypotheses](https://korrents.com/k/the-properties-of-light-should-be-f8e27a)
- [The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena, without feigning hypotheses, back to a first cause that is not mechanical](https://korrents.com/k/the-main-business-of-natural-philosophy-01a8a4)
- [In natural philosophy, as in mathematics, analysis should always come before synthesis](https://korrents.com/k/in-natural-philosophy-as-in-mathematics-40bd49)
- [Induction from experiments demonstrates nothing, but it is the best way of arguing that nature allows](https://korrents.com/k/induction-from-experiments-demonstrates-nothing-but-312ebb)
- [Explaining things by hidden 'occult qualities' tells us nothing](https://korrents.com/k/explaining-things-by-hidden-occult-qualities-18bd0b)
- [Matter was probably made in the beginning as solid, hard, impenetrable, moving particles](https://korrents.com/k/matter-was-probably-made-in-the-75cb75)
- [Perfecting natural philosophy will also enlarge the bounds of moral philosophy](https://korrents.com/k/perfecting-natural-philosophy-will-also-enlarge-77f310)
- [Nature is simple and consistent with itself: gravity moves the heavens, and other attracting and repelling powers move small particles](https://korrents.com/k/nature-is-simple-and-consistent-with-a86230)
- [Women are denied advantages from infancy and then reproached for lacking them](https://korrents.com/k/women-are-denied-advantages-from-infancy-e64d48)
- [Since the soul was made to contemplate truth, keeping women from knowledge is as cruel and unjust as keeping them from good](https://korrents.com/k/since-the-soul-was-made-to-0f3a49)
- [A lack of education makes women's talk insipid and their solitude unbearable; learning is necessary to make them useful company](https://korrents.com/k/a-lack-of-education-makes-women-96b9ab)
- [Those who deny women intellectual improvement must either claim women have no souls or let them cultivate their minds](https://korrents.com/k/those-who-deny-women-intellectual-improvement-da9ef4)
- [Piety founded on reason and truth is secure; piety founded on feeling and inclination will not last](https://korrents.com/k/piety-founded-on-reason-and-truth-90fcee)
- [In matters of importance women should assert their liberty instead of submitting to impertinent customs](https://korrents.com/k/in-matters-of-importance-women-should-9b4b73)
- [Nothing should be believed merely because it was once believed, but only when it carries clear and uncontested evidence](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-should-be-believed-merely-because-8f3568)
- [He wrote the Principia with an eye to principles that would bring thinking people to believe in a God](https://korrents.com/k/he-wrote-the-principia-with-an-562361)
- [Whatever service his work did was due to nothing but industry and patient thought](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-service-his-work-did-was-2cb298)
- [The planets' present motions could not come from natural causes alone but were impressed by an intelligent agent](https://korrents.com/k/the-planets-present-motions-could-not-7f3171)
- [New opinions are usually opposed just for being uncommon, but a truth is no less true for being new](https://korrents.com/k/new-opinions-are-usually-opposed-just-ee95b9)
- [Human understanding is bright enough for all our purposes, and its limits are no excuse for idleness](https://korrents.com/k/human-understanding-is-bright-enough-for-93f3f6)
- [Our task is not to know everything, but to know what concerns our conduct](https://korrents.com/k/our-task-is-not-to-know-e777e3)
- [The argument from universal consent seems rather to show there are no innate principles, since none has universal assent](https://korrents.com/k/the-argument-from-universal-consent-seems-10dd54)
- [Hoping to know through other people's understanding is probably as unreasonable as hoping to see through their eyes](https://korrents.com/k/hoping-to-know-through-other-people-e099eb)
- [All the materials of reason and knowledge come from experience](https://korrents.com/k/all-the-materials-of-reason-and-ed4d51)
- [Whatever exists is in God, and without God nothing can exist or be conceived](https://korrents.com/k/whatever-exists-is-in-god-and-653a46)
- [People think themselves free because they are aware of their wishes but ignorant of the causes that make them wish](https://korrents.com/k/people-think-themselves-free-because-they-3d2ed7)
- [The mind has no absolute or free will; each choice is determined by a cause, itself determined by another, without end](https://korrents.com/k/the-mind-has-no-absolute-or-5f03c9)
- [Hatred grows when it is returned, and it can be destroyed by love](https://korrents.com/k/hatred-grows-when-it-is-returned-bcb2bb)
- [Good and bad are not qualities of things in themselves but notions formed by comparing things with one another](https://korrents.com/k/good-and-bad-are-not-qualities-1e51b6)
- [A free person thinks about death least of all; their wisdom is a meditation on life, not death](https://korrents.com/k/a-free-person-thinks-about-death-66d9f6)
- [Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself; we do not rejoice because we control our lusts, we control them because we rejoice](https://korrents.com/k/blessedness-is-not-the-reward-of-3deb66)
- [All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare](https://korrents.com/k/all-excellent-things-are-as-difficult-927b9c)
- [Facts are judged by the senses, natural things by reason, and revealed things by faith](https://korrents.com/k/facts-are-judged-by-the-senses-cbf763)
- [Disbelieving a church ruling on a matter of fact is not heresy, though it may be presumptuous, because on facts that authority is not infallible](https://korrents.com/k/disbelieving-a-church-ruling-on-a-0c9b6e)
- [Shortening a piece of writing takes time: a letter can run long simply for want of leisure to make it shorter.](https://korrents.com/k/shortening-a-piece-of-writing-takes-fbce35)
- [Rulers may not take life as freely as God, because though they are God's ministers they are only men](https://korrents.com/k/rulers-may-not-take-life-as-70448e)
- [Violence cannot weaken truth, and truth cannot stop violence; each only strengthens or provokes the other](https://korrents.com/k/violence-cannot-weaken-truth-and-truth-383a55)
- [Ridicule is in some cases an appropriate and just way to reclaim people from their errors](https://korrents.com/k/ridicule-is-in-some-cases-an-9d0a30)
- [Words are tools the wise reckon with, but fools treat them as money, valuing them by the authority of famous names](https://korrents.com/k/words-are-tools-the-wise-reckon-58b7f0)
- [A general inclination of all humankind is a perpetual, restless desire of power after power that ends only in death](https://korrents.com/k/a-general-inclination-of-all-humankind-00c5bf)
- [Nature made people so equal in body and mind that no one can claim a benefit another cannot also claim](https://korrents.com/k/nature-made-people-so-equal-in-17c4bd)
- [Without a common power to keep them in awe, people are in a state of war of everyone against everyone](https://korrents.com/k/without-a-common-power-to-keep-df9515)
- [Without security, there is no industry, arts or society, only fear of violent death, and life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short](https://korrents.com/k/without-security-there-is-no-industry-70d691)
- [Where there is no common power there is no law, and where no law, no injustice; in war, force and fraud are the cardinal virtues](https://korrents.com/k/where-there-is-no-common-power-fa5522)
- [Covenants without the sword are only words and give no security](https://korrents.com/k/covenants-without-the-sword-are-only-dd4b64)
- [The papacy is nothing but the ghost of the dead Roman Empire, sitting crowned on its grave](https://korrents.com/k/the-papacy-is-nothing-but-the-eb15ae)
- [Having a vigorous mind is not enough; what matters most is applying it rightly](https://korrents.com/k/having-a-vigorous-mind-is-not-cdd93b)
- [Knowing other nations' customs helps us judge our own and not dismiss different customs as irrational](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-other-nations-customs-helps-us-9f72bc)
- [Nothing should be accepted as true unless it is known so clearly and distinctly that no ground for doubt remains](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-should-be-accepted-as-true-3d43cd)
- [I think, therefore I am, is certain enough to be the first principle of philosophy](https://korrents.com/k/i-think-therefore-i-am-is-4ddead)
- [A practical science of nature's forces could make humans the lords and possessors of nature](https://korrents.com/k/a-practical-science-of-nature-s-edccc3)
- [If anything can ever make people wiser and more ingenious, it is probably to be found in medicine](https://korrents.com/k/if-anything-can-ever-make-people-0adeef)
- [Seeking, knowing and believing truth is the highest good of human nature](https://korrents.com/k/seeking-knowing-and-believing-truth-is-17edb4)
- [Revenge is a kind of wild justice that the law ought to weed out](https://korrents.com/k/revenge-is-a-kind-of-wild-661b14)
- [A person with a spouse and children has given hostages to fortune, since they hinder great enterprises](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-with-a-spouse-and-581008)
- [A little philosophy inclines the mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy brings it back to religion](https://korrents.com/k/a-little-philosophy-inclines-the-mind-fee589)
- [Without love, a crowd is not company and talk is empty noise](https://korrents.com/k/without-love-a-crowd-is-not-d2661a)
- [Refusing new remedies invites new evils, because time itself is the greatest innovator](https://korrents.com/k/refusing-new-remedies-invites-new-evils-b447a5)
- [Neither nature nor sworn words are as strong a force on what people do as custom](https://korrents.com/k/neither-nature-nor-sworn-words-are-271854)
- [Some books should be sampled, some read through, and a few read wholly with close attention](https://korrents.com/k/some-books-should-be-sampled-some-0b76d9)
- [Learning to die is learning to be free; whoever has learned to die has unlearned servitude](https://korrents.com/k/learning-to-die-is-learning-to-eedc0f)
- [People call barbarous whatever is not customary in their own country](https://korrents.com/k/people-call-barbarous-whatever-is-not-26bc6a)
- [The greatest thing in the world is for a person to know that they belong to themselves](https://korrents.com/k/the-greatest-thing-in-the-world-6b8b15)
- [Cruelty is the most extreme of all vices](https://korrents.com/k/cruelty-is-the-most-extreme-of-abb149)
- [A person playing with a cat cannot know whether they amuse the cat more than it amuses them](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-playing-with-a-cat-fb3b7a)
- [Moral philosophy applies as well to an ordinary private life as to a grand one, since every person carries the whole human condition](https://korrents.com/k/moral-philosophy-applies-as-well-to-1aec6f)
- [No desire is more natural than the desire for knowledge](https://korrents.com/k/no-desire-is-more-natural-than-512056)
- [Even on the highest throne a person is only sitting on their own backside; the finest lives keep to the common human model](https://korrents.com/k/even-on-the-highest-throne-a-8534de)
- [No wild beast is more harmful to a human being than another human being](https://korrents.com/k/no-wild-beast-is-more-harmful-0d0978)
- [Fighting one another with weapons is worse than the behaviour of any wild beast](https://korrents.com/k/fighting-one-another-with-weapons-is-abdcbf)
- [The fellowship of learning binds people together more closely than marriage ties or kinship](https://korrents.com/k/the-fellowship-of-learning-binds-people-3ab2e8)
- [Peace is the mother of all good things, while war suddenly destroys everything pleasant and fair](https://korrents.com/k/peace-is-the-mother-of-all-54cf86)
- [Weighing its gains against its harms shows that an unjust peace is far better than a righteous war](https://korrents.com/k/weighing-its-gains-against-its-harms-8fc0bb)
- [Killing Turks pleases the devil, because however wicked they are, they are people for whose salvation Christ died](https://korrents.com/k/killing-turks-pleases-the-devil-because-68e98b)
- [A ruler should inflict injuries all at once and grant benefits little by little](https://korrents.com/k/a-ruler-should-inflict-injuries-all-de93d4)
- [The chief foundations of every state are good laws and good arms, and good laws depend on being well armed](https://korrents.com/k/the-chief-foundations-of-every-state-46c315)
- [Advice should follow how people actually live, since acting wholly on professed virtue among so much evil leads to ruin](https://korrents.com/k/advice-should-follow-how-people-actually-e6091b)
- [A ruler should wish to be both loved and feared, but if one must be given up it is much safer to be feared](https://korrents.com/k/a-ruler-should-wish-to-be-f2f3e6)
- [A wise ruler need not keep his word when it would harm him and its reasons are gone, because people are not wholly good](https://korrents.com/k/a-wise-ruler-need-not-keep-130e0f)
- [Since fortune changes and people keep to their ways, people succeed while the two agree and fail when they diverge](https://korrents.com/k/since-fortune-changes-and-people-keep-ab78a9)
- [Only someone whose garment is torn by the violence of love is wholly pure of covetousness and sin](https://korrents.com/k/only-someone-whose-garment-is-torn-ec3bb4)
- [Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries](https://korrents.com/k/love-is-the-astrolabe-of-god-afc908)
- [However much we describe and explain love, falling in love makes us ashamed of our words](https://korrents.com/k/however-much-we-describe-and-explain-209fec)
- [Nothing but love itself can explain love and lovers](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-but-love-itself-can-explain-4c381c)
- [Whoever has doubt or disquiet in the heart is secretly a denier and a philosopher](https://korrents.com/k/whoever-has-doubt-or-disquiet-in-377abb)
- [The knowledge of people of heart lifts them up, while knowledge of the body weighs them down](https://korrents.com/k/the-knowledge-of-people-of-heart-977ce8)
- [One should seek the reality a name points to, not stop at naming God](https://korrents.com/k/one-should-seek-the-reality-a-c8edc5)
- [Patience, not haste, will accomplish what one desires, and God knows what is best](https://korrents.com/k/patience-not-haste-will-accomplish-what-a390d0)
- [The business of philosophy is to study creation in order to be guided to its Creator](https://korrents.com/k/the-business-of-philosophy-is-to-cfcb6e)
- [Philosophical reasoning is no forbidden innovation just because it did not exist in early Islam](https://korrents.com/k/philosophical-reasoning-is-no-forbidden-innovation-92cd05)
- [We should study what the ancients wrote, accept what is true and be warned by what is wrong](https://korrents.com/k/we-should-study-what-the-ancients-9ed204)
- [No one can discover alone everything a science or an art requires](https://korrents.com/k/no-one-can-discover-alone-everything-1ce1e6)
- [A useful thing should not be banned because it harms some people by accident](https://korrents.com/k/a-useful-thing-should-not-be-eac9cc)
- [People come to belief in different ways: some through philosophy, some through argument, some through exhortation](https://korrents.com/k/people-come-to-belief-in-different-e8f805)
- [Rational investigation does not contradict revealed law, because truth cannot contradict truth](https://korrents.com/k/rational-investigation-does-not-contradict-revealed-0c92b1)
- [Where scripture seems to oppose a truth proved by philosophy, it admits of interpretation](https://korrents.com/k/where-scripture-seems-to-oppose-a-6f67ac)
- [The human mind can grasp some things, but some things that really exist lie entirely beyond its reach](https://korrents.com/k/the-human-mind-can-grasp-some-6b22b7)
- [God is truly described only by negations; positive attributes misdescribe God](https://korrents.com/k/god-is-truly-described-only-by-d8f417)
- [The eternity of the universe is unproven, and a merely plausible argument does not justify reading scripture figuratively](https://korrents.com/k/the-eternity-of-the-universe-is-b6df18)
- [It is a mistake, made even by many who think themselves wise, to believe the world holds more evil than good](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-a-mistake-made-even-ef6480)
- [The Law aims at the well-being of both soul and body, the soul's through correct opinions suited to people's capacity](https://korrents.com/k/the-law-aims-at-the-well-being-9d6784)
- [Each of the 613 commandments serves a purpose: teaching truth, removing error, ordering society, reducing evil or training character](https://korrents.com/k/each-of-the-613-commandments-serves-0c7adb)
- [Humanity's true perfection is intellectual, holding true ideas about God, and it alone is one's own and gives immortality](https://korrents.com/k/humanity-s-true-perfection-is-intellectual-52cfca)
- [The many beliefs, religions and sects that divide people are like a sea of shipwrecks that few escape unharmed](https://korrents.com/k/the-many-beliefs-religions-and-sects-64e056)
- [Knowledge that is not immune to doubt deserves no confidence and cannot count as certainty](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-that-is-not-immune-to-7ce842)
- [Assuming that certainty can rest only on formal arguments wrongly limits the mercy of God](https://korrents.com/k/assuming-that-certainty-can-rest-only-c466e4)
- [To find where the experts in a field go wrong, one must study it deeply enough to equal or surpass them](https://korrents.com/k/to-find-where-the-experts-in-a21cd2)
- [Defending Islam does not require condemning the exact sciences, which religious law neither approves nor condemns](https://korrents.com/k/defending-islam-does-not-require-condemning-7bd32a)
- [A truth stays true whoever holds it; people should be judged by the truth, not the truth by its holders](https://korrents.com/k/a-truth-stays-true-whoever-holds-8cc02c)
- [Sufism consists of experience rather than definitions, and its last stage cannot be reached by instruction alone](https://korrents.com/k/sufism-consists-of-experience-rather-than-0a9e19)
- [Only a spotless mind counts as virtue; everything else is empty show](https://korrents.com/k/only-a-spotless-mind-counts-as-191153)
- [People without love keep everything for themselves, while loving people belong wholly to others](https://korrents.com/k/people-without-love-keep-everything-for-0c9035)
- [Using harsh words when kind ones are at hand is like choosing unripe fruit over ripe](https://korrents.com/k/using-harsh-words-when-kind-ones-52fd70)
- [The way to punish wrongdoers is to shame them with kindness and let the wrong pass](https://korrents.com/k/the-way-to-punish-wrongdoers-is-08aace)
- [Sharing food with those in need and protecting every living thing is the chief of all teachings](https://korrents.com/k/sharing-food-with-those-in-need-4afe62)
- [The more one learns, the more freely wisdom flows, as digging deeper in sand reaches water](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-one-learns-the-more-450b83)
- [Wisdom is discerning what is true in whatever one learns, from whoever says it](https://korrents.com/k/wisdom-is-discerning-what-is-true-d12fb3)
- [As water takes on the nature of the soil it flows through, a person's wisdom takes on the company they keep](https://korrents.com/k/as-water-takes-on-the-nature-9a6944)
- [People are made for God, and the human heart stays restless until it rests in God](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-made-for-god-and-0d8786)
- [Free curiosity does more for learning than frightening compulsion](https://korrents.com/k/free-curiosity-does-more-for-learning-25c140)
- [Whoever loves friends and enemies in God loses no one dear, because God cannot be lost](https://korrents.com/k/whoever-loves-friends-and-enemies-in-9f1fa9)
- [Everything that exists is good, so evil is not a substance](https://korrents.com/k/everything-that-exists-is-good-so-37e8c0)
- [A will indulged becomes lust, lust served becomes habit, and habit unresisted becomes necessity](https://korrents.com/k/a-will-indulged-becomes-lust-lust-06afc6)
- [A happy life is joy in the truth, which is joy in God](https://korrents.com/k/a-happy-life-is-joy-in-894037)
- [Time is understood until one tries to explain it, yet without things passing, coming or being there would be no past, future or present](https://korrents.com/k/time-is-understood-until-one-tries-fc29dd)
- [Past, present and future exist in some way in the soul, as memory, sight and expectation, and are not seen anywhere else](https://korrents.com/k/past-present-and-future-exist-in-b20553)
- [Acting against one another, including being vexed and turning away, is contrary to nature](https://korrents.com/k/acting-against-one-another-including-being-1e733d)
- [No one loses any life but the one they are living now, however long they live](https://korrents.com/k/no-one-loses-any-life-but-7e6a5c)
- [The universe is transformation, and life is opinion](https://korrents.com/k/the-universe-is-transformation-and-life-c094ca)
- [Remove your judgement that you have been harmed and the harm goes with it](https://korrents.com/k/remove-your-judgement-that-you-have-186472)
- [The mind takes on the character of the thoughts it habitually holds](https://korrents.com/k/the-mind-takes-on-the-character-75543a)
- [As a rational, social being, a person's city is the whole world](https://korrents.com/k/as-a-rational-social-being-a-34d589)
- [The source of good is within you and keeps flowing if you keep digging](https://korrents.com/k/the-source-of-good-is-within-d413ca)
- [Stop discussing what a good person should be, and be one](https://korrents.com/k/stop-discussing-what-a-good-person-22edb3)
- [Very little is needed to live a happy life](https://korrents.com/k/very-little-is-needed-to-live-395c46)
- [Moral perfection is living each day as the last, neither agitated nor sluggish nor pretending](https://korrents.com/k/moral-perfection-is-living-each-day-745d9a)
- [What pains a person is not the external thing but their own judgement about it, which they have the power to wipe out](https://korrents.com/k/what-pains-a-person-is-not-be7d42)
- [A person can be happy despite a misfortune by staying free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-can-be-happy-despite-353d34)
- [People who do not watch the movements of their own minds must be unhappy](https://korrents.com/k/people-who-do-not-watch-the-8048bb)
- [What is in our power is by nature free; what is not is weak, slavish and in others' power](https://korrents.com/k/what-is-in-our-power-is-eeabc8)
- [People are disturbed not by events but by their opinions about them](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-disturbed-not-by-events-e6242f)
- [The uninstructed blame others for their condition, learners blame themselves, and the fully instructed blame no one](https://korrents.com/k/the-uninstructed-blame-others-for-their-f0e533)
- [Wish for things to happen as they do, not as you would like, and life will flow tranquilly](https://korrents.com/k/wish-for-things-to-happen-as-3348de)
- [Disease and lameness impede the body, not the will, unless the will chooses](https://korrents.com/k/disease-and-lameness-impede-the-body-511be2)
- [Of anything taken from you, say it has been given back, not lost](https://korrents.com/k/of-anything-taken-from-you-say-6804e3)
- [Education is learning to apply general notions to particular cases and to tell what is in our power from what is not](https://korrents.com/k/education-is-learning-to-apply-general-0e2da6)
- [Difficulties show what people are, like a trainer matching a wrestler with a rough opponent](https://korrents.com/k/difficulties-show-what-people-are-like-fc3951)
- [Spend time with people and you will either become like them or bring them round to your own ways](https://korrents.com/k/spend-time-with-people-and-you-1092aa)
- [Keep company with an impure companion and you become impure too, even if you started out pure](https://korrents.com/k/keep-company-with-an-impure-companion-af6163)
- [Time is the only thing that is truly ours](https://korrents.com/k/time-is-the-only-thing-that-9bc41a)
- [Being everywhere means being nowhere; constant travel brings many acquaintances but no friends](https://korrents.com/k/being-everywhere-means-being-nowhere-constant-9ab20b)
- [Poverty is wanting more, not having too little; contented poverty is not poverty](https://korrents.com/k/poverty-is-wanting-more-not-having-e5d440)
- [Keep company with people who will improve you, and with those you can improve; both sides learn](https://korrents.com/k/keep-company-with-people-who-will-d72ab3)
- [We suffer more often in imagination than in reality](https://korrents.com/k/we-suffer-more-often-in-imagination-24e18f)
- [Philosophy shapes the soul and guides conduct, showing what to do and what to leave undone](https://korrents.com/k/philosophy-shapes-the-soul-and-guides-e99a9c)
- [A troubled person needs a change of soul rather than a change of place](https://korrents.com/k/a-troubled-person-needs-a-change-0eb1e8)
- [Treat those beneath you as you would want those above you to treat you](https://korrents.com/k/treat-those-beneath-you-as-you-144bf9)
- [A happy life must be judged over a complete life, not a single day or a short time](https://korrents.com/k/a-happy-life-must-be-judged-acf197)
- [No moral virtue arises in us by nature](https://korrents.com/k/no-moral-virtue-arises-in-us-aca861)
- [Being good is no easy task](https://korrents.com/k/being-good-is-no-easy-task-290cd1)
- [Virtue is in our own power, and so is vice](https://korrents.com/k/virtue-is-in-our-own-power-84d40d)
- [Perhaps we ought not to fear poverty, disease, or anything not caused by our own vice](https://korrents.com/k/perhaps-we-ought-not-to-fear-eb16ad)
- [Happiness does not lie in amusement](https://korrents.com/k/happiness-does-not-lie-in-amusement-84f6a8)
- [Happiness must be some form of contemplation](https://korrents.com/k/happiness-must-be-some-form-of-a0307f)
- [Without being raised under right laws, it is hard to get a right training for virtue from youth](https://korrents.com/k/without-being-raised-under-right-laws-4c595e)
- [Every part of life, public or private, carries moral duties, and what is right or wrong depends on them](https://korrents.com/k/every-part-of-life-public-or-f41a73)
- [Good faith, meaning truth and keeping promises and agreements, is the foundation of justice](https://korrents.com/k/good-faith-meaning-truth-and-keeping-fba0bf)
- [Disputes should be settled by discussion, resorting to force only when discussion is impossible](https://korrents.com/k/disputes-should-be-settled-by-discussion-48dfc6)
- [Both force and fraud are unworthy of humans, but fraud is the more contemptible](https://korrents.com/k/both-force-and-fraud-are-unworthy-e8439f)
- [Fear is a poor safeguard of lasting power; affection can keep it safe](https://korrents.com/k/fear-is-a-poor-safeguard-of-6b2a4f)
- [Lasting glory cannot be won by pretence, empty show or hypocritical talk](https://korrents.com/k/lasting-glory-cannot-be-won-by-93cdc1)
- [Nothing is expedient unless it is morally right; a thing is expedient because it is right, not the reverse](https://korrents.com/k/nothing-is-expedient-unless-it-is-6e3511)
- [People led by virtue and the rules of propriety gain a sense of shame and become good](https://korrents.com/k/people-led-by-virtue-and-the-9f3c02)
- [Learning without thinking is wasted effort, and thinking without learning is dangerous](https://korrents.com/k/learning-without-thinking-is-wasted-effort-7a84c9)
- [Knowledge means holding that you know what you know and admitting that you do not know what you do not](https://korrents.com/k/knowledge-means-holding-that-you-know-9c2bb4)
- [The mind of the superior person is set on what is right; the mind of the petty person is set on gain](https://korrents.com/k/the-mind-of-the-superior-person-caa2de)
- [Virtue is not remote: whoever wishes to be virtuous finds it at hand](https://korrents.com/k/virtue-is-not-remote-whoever-wishes-4afac2)
- [If names are not correct, language does not match the truth of things and affairs cannot succeed](https://korrents.com/k/if-names-are-not-correct-language-bbb25e)
- [Reciprocity can serve as a rule for life: do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself](https://korrents.com/k/reciprocity-can-serve-as-a-rule-174fa5)
- [People are nearly alike by nature; it is practice that sets them far apart](https://korrents.com/k/people-are-nearly-alike-by-nature-201b62)
- [If a ruler asks only what will profit his kingdom, high and low will seize profit from each other and the kingdom will be endangered](https://korrents.com/k/if-a-ruler-asks-only-what-3ba937)
- [Rulers who are wise and good take pleasure in their parks; those who are not cannot enjoy them](https://korrents.com/k/rulers-who-are-wise-and-good-6a37d7)
- [A ruler who lets people die of famine and blames the bad year is like a killer who blames the weapon](https://korrents.com/k/a-ruler-who-lets-people-die-0c5f07)
- [A ruler who keeps fat horses while his people starve is leading beasts to devour men](https://korrents.com/k/a-ruler-who-keeps-fat-horses-f35be0)
- [The realm can be united by a ruler who takes no pleasure in killing people](https://korrents.com/k/the-realm-can-be-united-by-bc3340)
- [A king who fails to win the realm fails because he does not act, not because he is unable to](https://korrents.com/k/a-king-who-fails-to-win-b90714)
- [Only the educated keep a steady heart without a secure livelihood; ordinary people without one will not](https://korrents.com/k/only-the-educated-keep-a-steady-5c86fa)
- [Punishing people who fell into crime for want of a livelihood is entrapping them](https://korrents.com/k/punishing-people-who-fell-into-crime-f979c2)
- [The Tao that can be walked is not the enduring, unchanging Tao, and the name that can be named is not the enduring name](https://korrents.com/k/the-tao-that-can-be-walked-98a200)
- [The highest excellence is like water, which benefits all things and takes the low place without striving](https://korrents.com/k/the-highest-excellence-is-like-water-c91c8b)
- [Knowing others is discernment and knowing oneself is intelligence; overcoming oneself is mightier than overcoming others](https://korrents.com/k/knowing-others-is-discernment-and-knowing-8db863)
- [Those who know the Tao do not care to speak about it; those ever ready to speak about it do not know it](https://korrents.com/k/those-who-know-the-tao-do-41e6ca)
- [The more prohibitions and display of legislation in a state, the poorer the people and the more thieves and robbers](https://korrents.com/k/the-more-prohibitions-and-display-of-0648b3)
- [Great things begin small: a large tree grows from a tiny sprout and a long journey starts with one step](https://korrents.com/k/great-things-begin-small-a-large-24c99a)
- [No calamity is greater than lightly going to war](https://korrents.com/k/no-calamity-is-greater-than-lightly-ae4a01)
- [Sincere words are not fine, and fine words are not sincere](https://korrents.com/k/sincere-words-are-not-fine-and-debd4c)
- [Being adaptable is often what destroys a thing; being unable to do something can keep it out of the snare](https://korrents.com/k/being-adaptable-is-often-what-destroys-174b17)
- [Having dreamt he was a butterfly, he cannot tell whether he is a man who dreamt or a butterfly dreaming it is a man](https://korrents.com/k/having-dreamt-he-was-a-butterfly-77daab)
- [Life is limited but knowledge is not, and using the limited to pursue the limitless is fatal](https://korrents.com/k/life-is-limited-but-knowledge-is-40787d)
- [Virtue should prevail and outward form be forgotten, yet people forget what matters and remember what does not](https://korrents.com/k/virtue-should-prevail-and-outward-form-a0aa31)
- [A person without passions is one who does not let good and evil disturb him and accepts whatever happens](https://korrents.com/k/a-person-without-passions-is-one-1cef64)
- [What we are results from what we have thought; acting from an evil thought brings pain after it](https://korrents.com/k/what-we-are-results-from-what-165066)
- [Hatred never ceases through hatred; it ceases through love](https://korrents.com/k/hatred-never-ceases-through-hatred-it-66d8b5)
- [Earnestness is the path to Nirvana and thoughtlessness the path of death](https://korrents.com/k/earnestness-is-the-path-to-nirvana-dc7fee)
- [Conquering oneself is a greater victory than conquering a million men in battle](https://korrents.com/k/conquering-oneself-is-a-greater-victory-c07ee6)
- [Evil and purity are one's own doing; no one can purify another](https://korrents.com/k/evil-and-purity-are-one-s-2020c2)
- [The teaching of the awakened is to avoid sin, do good and purify one's mind](https://korrents.com/k/the-teaching-of-the-awakened-is-6bac1a)
- [Overcome anger with love, evil with good, greed with generosity and lies with truth](https://korrents.com/k/overcome-anger-with-love-evil-with-359c23)
- [You must make the effort yourself; the Buddhas only show the way](https://korrents.com/k/you-must-make-the-effort-yourself-0e0338)
- [It is better to know that you do not know than to think you know what you do not](https://korrents.com/k/it-is-better-to-know-that-c5e481)
- [No one with understanding could think a man believes in divine things yet not in gods](https://korrents.com/k/no-one-with-understanding-could-think-6270c0)
- [Fearing death is a pretence of wisdom; no one knows whether death may be the greatest good](https://korrents.com/k/fearing-death-is-a-pretence-of-190603)
- [Virtue does not come from money; money and every other good come from virtue](https://korrents.com/k/virtue-does-not-come-from-money-7361dc)
- [A bad man cannot injure a man better than himself](https://korrents.com/k/a-bad-man-cannot-injure-a-21383e)
- [Anyone who honestly opposes a multitude's wrongdoing in public life will not survive; a fighter for right needs a private station](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-who-honestly-opposes-a-multitude-d06ba6)
- [Discussing virtue daily is the greatest good, and the unexamined life is not worth living](https://korrents.com/k/discussing-virtue-daily-is-the-greatest-ad4758)
- [No evil can happen to a good man, in life or after death](https://korrents.com/k/no-evil-can-happen-to-a-61d858)
- [Warfare is based on deception](https://korrents.com/k/warfare-is-based-on-deception-4f4567)
- [No country has ever benefited from prolonged warfare](https://korrents.com/k/no-country-has-ever-benefited-from-378f02)
- [The highest excellence in war is breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting, not winning every battle](https://korrents.com/k/the-highest-excellence-in-war-is-7da38a)
- [Someone who knows both the enemy and themselves need not fear the result of a hundred battles](https://korrents.com/k/someone-who-knows-both-the-enemy-967bc6)
- [In war, as with water, there are no constant conditions](https://korrents.com/k/in-war-as-with-water-there-af54e1)
- [A destroyed kingdom can never be restored, and the dead cannot be brought back to life](https://korrents.com/k/a-destroyed-kingdom-can-never-be-03670c)
- [Spies are a most important element in war because an army's ability to move depends on them](https://korrents.com/k/spies-are-a-most-important-element-63b163)
- [Good people are thought to grow better through their friendship, each taking the mould of the qualities they admire in the other](https://korrents.com/k/good-people-are-thought-to-grow-1881f0)
- [Have no friends who are not your equals](https://korrents.com/k/have-no-friends-who-are-not-7c84f9)
- [Friendship with the upright, the sincere and the well-informed helps you; friendship with the showy, the smooth and the glib harms you](https://korrents.com/k/friendship-with-the-upright-the-sincere-347130)
- [When you see a worthy person, think of equalling them; when you see the opposite, look inward and examine yourself](https://korrents.com/k/when-you-see-a-worthy-person-a7c192)
- [Anyone you walk with can be your teacher: follow their good qualities and avoid their bad ones](https://korrents.com/k/anyone-you-walk-with-can-be-ff2709)
- [Do not take evil-doers or low people for friends; have the virtuous, the best of people, for friends](https://korrents.com/k/do-not-take-evil-doers-or-low-661d26)
- [Whoever is satisfied with their lot is rich](https://korrents.com/k/whoever-is-satisfied-with-their-lot-44d378)
- [No calamity is greater than discontent with one's lot, and the sufficiency of contentment endures](https://korrents.com/k/no-calamity-is-greater-than-discontent-935b4b)
- [Whoever is content and knows when to stop needs fear no shame or blame, and lives long, free from danger](https://korrents.com/k/whoever-is-content-and-knows-when-61150e)
- [Those whose desires are few get what they want, and those whose desires are many go astray](https://korrents.com/k/those-whose-desires-are-few-get-346897)
- [Pleasure, as the aim of life, means the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul](https://korrents.com/k/pleasure-as-the-aim-of-life-b0e99c)
- [Being content with little is a great good, and those who least need luxury enjoy it most](https://korrents.com/k/being-content-with-little-is-a-7b5c34)
- [Natural wealth is limited and easy to get, while the wealth of vain fancies recedes without end](https://korrents.com/k/natural-wealth-is-limited-and-easy-959168)
- [Of everything wisdom provides for a happy life, by far the most important is gaining friends](https://korrents.com/k/of-everything-wisdom-provides-for-a-a0090c)
- [Understanding that death is nothing to us makes mortal life enjoyable, by taking away the longing for immortality](https://korrents.com/k/understanding-that-death-is-nothing-to-76487a)
- [A pleasant life is impossible without living wisely, well and justly, and living that way is impossible without living pleasantly](https://korrents.com/k/a-pleasant-life-is-impossible-without-b6aea4)

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