korrents

GANs

Two networks trained against each other, one generating fake examples and one judging them, until the generator's output is convincing.

What people on korrents have said about GANs, newest first — 142 positions from 97 people.

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Who Everyone EREric Ries 5 SPSerhii Plokhy 5 CHCasey Handmer 4 CMCharity Majors 4 LDLaura Deming 4 AKAndrej Karpathy 3 EHElie Hassenfeld 3 MHMax Hodak 3 APAda Palmer 2 AMAdam Mastroianni 2 CFCamille Fournier 2 EBEd Barnhart 2 ESElizabeth Stone 2 ETEric Topol 2 ESEvan Spiegel 2 FLFei-Fei Li 2 GHGeorge Hotz 2 JHJensen Huang 2 MPMark Pincus 2 MGMichael Grunwald 2 NLNick Lane 2 NFNicole Forsgren 2 PCPatrick Collison 2 SWSara Walker 2 SAScott Aaronson 2 SPSunil Pai 2 TTTerence Tao 2 TPThuan Pham 2 THTroy Hunt 2 WHWayne Hale 2 AOAddy Osmani 1 ACAlbert Cheng 1 ABAlbert-László Barabási 1 ASArielle Schwartz 1 ADAswath Damodaran 1 AVAustin Vernon 1 BSBalaji Srinivasan 1 BCBoris Cherny 1 BDBret Devereaux 1 BPBrian Potter 1 CMCasey Muratori 1 CLCharles Fain Lehman 1 CSChris Smaje 1 CMCraig Mod 1 DLDan Luu 1 DHDave Hone 1 DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson 1 DLDerek Lowe 1 DFDylan Field 1 DPDylan Patel 1 EMElon Musk 1 FVFilippo Valsorda 1 FRFrank Rosenblatt 1 GMGabor Mate 1 GKGary Klein 1 GMGary Marcus 1 GHGraham Hancock 1 HWHillel Wayne 1 HKHolden Karnofsky 1 JHJames Holland 1 JDJamie Dimon 1 JLJanna Levin 1 JDJeff Dean 1 JBJennifer Burns 1 JMJohn Mearsheimer 1 JHJon Haidt 1 JRJosé Luis Ricón 1 KBKent Beck 1 LFLex Fridman 1 LRLisa Randall 1 MZMario Zechner 1 MFMartin Fowler 1 MNMartin Nowak 1 MGMatthew Green 1 NANadia Asparouhova 1 NSNate Silver 1 NONeri Oxman 1 NSNoah Smith 1 NONorman Ohler 1 OKOliver Kim 1 PGPaul Graham 1 PDPavel Durov 1 PSPeter Steinberger 1 PLPieter Levels 1 RARalph Adolphs 1 RARéka Albert 1 RSRory Sutherland 1 SBSamo Burja 1 SPSarah Paine 1 SAScott Alexander 1 SCSean Carroll 1 SGSeth Godin 1 SYSteve Yegge 1 TDThomas Depierre 1 TSTynan Sylvester 1 WLWill Larson 1 YBYoshua Bengio 1
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  1. EM

    Elon Musk quoted

    Our readingThe term "far right" is a propaganda term that became especially popular in recent years.

    Their words“Far right” is a propaganda term that became especially popular in recent years

    ↗@elonmusk on Xx.com

  2. 5 days earlier
  3. NS

    Nate Silver quoted

    Our readingIn a midterm year, a new poll in one state affects perceptions of that state's race but not the national political environment.

    Their wordsA new poll in Michigan or Maine or South Carolina or Alaska pretty much affects that state and that state only.

    ↗Beware big swings in midterm forecastsnatesilver.net

  4. 8 days earlier
  5. DH

    David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

    Our readingMost organisations are bottlenecked on ideas, vision and taste rather than on implementation, so making code cheap does not make them productive.

    Their wordsThe other thing I'd say is that most organizations don't know what they want. They don't know how to make it better. They're not bottlenecked on implementation. They're bottlenecked on ideas. They're bottlenecked on vision. They're bottlenecked on taste. And if you don't have those element in excess of your implementational capacity, it doesn't help. So you can make a lot of shitty ideas come true, then what?

    ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 6th of 41 in this recording

    taste

  7. CM

    Casey Muratori quoted

    Our readingOnce 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.

    Their wordsIt's it's so massive that there is no way that your game will be organically noticed anymore pretty much period.

    ↗Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratoriyoutube.com 17th of 26 in this recording

  9. PG

    Paul Graham quoted

    Our readingFounders' reputation for overconfidence is sample bias; most good startups actually underrate themselves.

    Their wordsStartup founders have a reputation for overconfidence, but this is just sample bias; the arrogant ones are also the loudest. Even now most good startups underrate themselves, so it really helps to encourage them.

    ↗@paulg on Xx.com

    startups

  10. 6 days earlier
  11. AD

    Aswath Damodaran quoted

    Our readingNobody can yet know whether the current enthusiasm for AI is excessive, so anyone claiming conviction about how it resolves is overreaching.

    Their wordsanyone who claims to have conviction that they know what's coming is being either ignorant or arrogant

    ↗AI’s Bar Mitzvah Moment: From Hype & Hope to Business Questions!aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

  13. MH

    Max Hodak quoted

    Our readingThe brain is the only organ that cannot even in principle be transplanted; the heart, liver and lungs are support characters.

    Their wordsthe only organ that you can't even in principle transplant is the brain. The like the heart, pancreas, the liver, the lungs, as far as I'm concerned, they're really support characters. They're there to keep the brain activity interesting and and going.

    ↗From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodakyoutube.com 13th of 18 in this recording

  14. 1 day earlier
  15. AO

    Addy Osmani quoted

    Our readingThe 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.

    Their wordsyou want to get to a point where you know, your your machine, your org is self-sufficient enough that you know, you just need to occasionally tap the blimp, make sure that things are working. You can course correct if it's not, but that frees you up to then focus on the next important sets of problems that the org needs to, you know, tackle heads on.

    ↗From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmaniyoutube.com 8th of 22 in this recording

  16. 2 days earlier
  17. TT

    Terence Tao quoted

    Our readingExcessively AI-polished proofs can remove natural friction and become easy to read but hard to learn from.

    Their wordsAn excessively AI-polished proof may sand away both the "artificial" friction (typos, awkward phrasing, disorganization) and the "natural" friction, leaving a text that is easy to read and hard to learn from.

    ↗Mathematics in the age of AIarxiv.org 4th of 5 in this piece

  19. RA

    Ralph Adolphs quoted

    Our readingLosing your emotions does not leave you a cooler decision-maker; it leaves you unable to organise a life at all.

    Their wordsif you have massive frontal lobe lesions that make it the case that you're no longer emotionally responding to stimuli the consequences are devastating which is that you cannot make decisions complex decisions in your life you can't organize your life you're not motivated to take the right path through life because you don't feel one one way or the other about the different options that are available.

    ↗Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphsyoutube.com 7th of 22 in this recording

  20. 8 days earlier
  21. SP

    Sunil Pai quoted

    Our readingOrganisations say they want disagreement but charge social capital for it, until people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.

    Their wordswe say we want disagreement, but every disagreement costs the person making it a little social/political capital. do it often enough and you become the negative person. people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.

    ↗every company needs a cassandrasunilpai.dev

  23. SP

    Sunil Pai quoted

    Our readingOrganisational 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.

    Their wordsan ai is oddly well suited to this job. cassandra doesn’t want a promotion and doesn’t need the people in the channel to like her. disagreeing with the vp three times this month won’t show up in a performance review. she doesn’t have an ego invested in being right either.

    ↗every company needs a cassandrasunilpai.dev

  24. 2 days earlier
  25. MH

    Max Hodak quoted

    Our readingAny 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.

    Their wordsAnd so we can distribute the voting across a lot of the company for this initial review, which is essential because if you're doing anything cool, by the time you get a couple years into it, that top of funnel is overwhelming. And if you place any in any small group of employees or any one person in the way as a bottle bottleneck on this, they will absolutely bottleneck the whole rest of the organization.

    ↗Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com 6th of 22 in this recording

    hiring

  27. MH

    Max Hodak quoted

    Our readingDeep tech companies rarely fail because the technology does not work; they fail because nobody built the systems to run the organisation around it.

    Their wordsIt's like it's it's uncommon that these deep tech companies that fail because the technology doesn't work. They fail because once you end up with this organization of hundreds of people and thousand hundreds of thousands of square feet of physical infrastructure, you haven't built the systems to manage that.

    ↗Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enoughyoutube.com 11th of 22 in this recording

    infrastructure

  28. 7 days earlier
  29. PC

    Patrick Collison quoted

    Our readingThe lean startup was almost the only option twenty years ago; with AI you can start something far more aggressive and ambitious up front.

    Their wordsSo, I um yeah, I think maybe maybe a better way of saying it is 20 20 years ago that whole lean startup thing was uh was almost the only thing to do because of capital available and you didn't have AI that made, I don't know, spinning up an organization with many different potentialities and capabilities so much easier, whereas now I think you can start these much more aggressive and ambitious things up front.

    ↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com 12th of 20 in this recording

    startups

  31. PC

    Patrick Collison quoted

    Our readingThe fear that a big lab will simply build your product is overstated, because no organisation can aggressively prosecute a hundred priorities at once.

    Their wordsAnd just human organizations are complicated and it's very hard to have um to manage to aggressively prosecute 100 different priorities and to deal with all the issues and interference that arises among them and so forth. And so, you know, Google has done incredibly well in a bunch of specific places, but it's not like Google has done all the things even if in some kind of basic material sense, uh Google maybe, you know, had that ability.

    ↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com 15th of 20 in this recording

    Google

  32. 1 day earlier
  33. JD

    Jeff Dean quoted

    Our readingA startup's durable advantage over a general model is having visibility into data the general model will never see.

    Their wordsYeah, I mean I think uh sometimes it's uh a product that you build that might have access to particular kind of data that the underlying model might not the a general model. So it might be you're building something to help users organize all their own personal information and the model won't necessarily have access to that. And so there you can have a big advantage because all of a sudden your model has visibility or your product has visibility into important data.

    ↗Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AIyoutube.com 14th of 22 in this recording

    startups

  34. 3 days earlier
  35. BC

    Boris Cherny quoted

    Our readingA model is better thought of as a living creature with a personality you must get to know than as a component you specify.

    Their wordsAnd the model is not like that. It's um the way to think about it is almost like a like a living creature, like it's something more organic.

    ↗Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Promptyoutube.com 8th of 20 in this recording

  36. 1 day earlier
  37. JH

    Jensen Huang quoted

    Our readingShape the company to fit the founder the way an F1 car is fitted to its driver; the next CEO can reshape it after you.

    Their wordswhatever it takes to fit the car to you whatever it takes to fit the organization to you, that's what you got to do. And the next CEO, whatever the personality is, they can figure it out.

    ↗Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com 7th of 20 in this recording

  39. JH

    Jensen Huang quoted

    Our readingSystems thinking is the most useful skill of the coming decade, because everything below the system level will be done agentically anyway.

    Their wordsone of the most important things is systems understanding. Systems awareness, system design, system organization. Um, but systems thinking. And the reason for that is because most of the low-level things that that has to be done are going to be done agentically anyways.

    ↗Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com 8th of 20 in this recording

    design

  40. 7 days earlier
  41. ES

    Elizabeth Stone quoted

    Our readingNetflix’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.

    Their wordsIt was instead a very strongly held opinion that that you get to excellence by giving people a lot of agency and accountability. By pushing decisions as deep in the organization as possible, hiring great people who can be trusted to have good judgment and make good decisions.

    ↗Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)youtube.com 11th of 20 in this recording

    hiring

  43. ES

    Elizabeth Stone quoted

    Our readingTalent density is the non-negotiable first ingredient — without it you cannot trust decisions made at every level or let people take risks.

    Their wordsWell, the talent density is the non-negotiable. Like you have to start with that. If you don't have that, you can't get to a place where you have confidence in decision-making at all levels of the organization, allowing people to take risks and innovate quickly.

    ↗Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)youtube.com 12th of 20 in this recording

  44. 7 days earlier
  45. ET

    Eric Topol quoted

    Our readingOur organs and cell types age at different rates, so a single chronological age is an illusion.

    Their wordsIt also turns out our organs age at a different pace.

    ↗Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece

  47. ET

    Eric Topol quoted

    Our readingMeasurable, modifiable biological age at the organ and cell level is the most important advance yet in the science of human ageing.

    Their wordsI believe this represents the most important advance we have yet seen in the science of human aging.

    ↗Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com 4th of 4 in this piece

  49. BS

    Balaji Srinivasan quoted

    Our readingAn organization that demands trust ends up with less of it than one that shows its work instead.

    Their wordsParadoxically, the organization that demands trust can get less of it, while the organization that shows their work - thereby not asking for trust - builds up more of it.

    ↗The Network Statethenetworkstate.com 24th of 25 in this piece

  50. 11 days earlier
  51. KB

    Kent Beck quoted

    Our readingExploring, 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.

    Their wordsSo how you write code, how you manage projects, who you hire, how many people, what the org structure is is completely different in the three phases.

    ↗How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industryyoutube.com 25th of 28 in this recording

  52. 2 weeks earlier
  53. AP

    Ada Palmer quoted

    Our readingThe 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.

    Their wordsThe Inquisition, the Vatican, it controls everything, which is completely untrue and is propagandistic. The Inquisition is overseen by a whole bunch of isolated guys who are in isolated towns and it takes weeks or months to even communicate with the Vatican and they're making their own decisions.

    ↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com 25th of 26 in this recording

    government

  54. 7 days earlier
  55. SP

    Sarah Paine quoted

    Our readingThe most consequential international organisation of the last century is the one nobody has heard of: it standardised the shipping container.

    Their wordsAnd then for those of you who are skeptical about international organizations, here's one you've never heard of. The International Organization for Standardization then standardized these container sizes to fit one if by truck, two if by railway cars, and thousands if by sea. And this just plummets transport costs.

    ↗Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can't escape geographyyoutube.com 16th of 26 in this recording

  56. 7 days earlier
  57. MP

    Mark Pincus quoted

    Our readingKeeping ineffective people is a debt owed to the effective ones, and promoting anyone whose merit is not obvious to everybody else erodes the culture.

    Their wordsI think that you owe it to in that moral contract to your good employees to fire the weak people. And they're not bad people. They may be really smart. They are not effective in your organization. They are not taking hills.

    ↗FarmVille Creator: The Hidden Path to Successful Productsyoutube.com 13th of 16 in this recording

  59. MP

    Mark Pincus quoted

    Our readingLeaders are trained fastest by an apprentice who shadows every meeting, which is an unscalable way of scaling an organisation.

    Their wordsit's this nonscalable way to scale your organization and it's through like passing your vampire blood. That's what inside Zinga they called it, Pinkis' vampire blood. What he did that I started to do is you pick someone from the organization who's promising. I usually pick the people who didn't fit in the smart misfits and they become your tech assistant which is not your chief of staff, not your executive assistant.

    ↗FarmVille Creator: The Hidden Path to Successful Productsyoutube.com 15th of 16 in this recording

  60. 3 weeks earlier
  61. ER

    Eric Ries quoted

    Our readingOrganizations are dragged into mediocrity by a force no one controls but everyone obeys, until their founders lose control of what they built.

    Their wordsI call it the force that no one controls but everyone obeys that tends to drag organizations down into mediocrity to the point that we lose control of them. Now, sometimes we lose control of them because we get fired.

    ↗How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Riesyoutube.com 1st of 24 in this recording

    startups

  63. ER

    Eric Ries quoted

    Our readingA 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.

    Their wordsas leaders we get so focused on value statement mission statements we forget the mission statement is not the mission. The map is not the territory. Mission is an emergent property of the living superorganism of the thing we're birthing.

    ↗How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Riesyoutube.com 11th of 24 in this recording

  65. ER

    Eric Ries quoted

    Our readingCorporations are the oldest artificial intelligence on the planet, superorganisms running on the same emergent principle that makes a transformer appear intelligent.

    Their wordscorporations, organizations are the oldest form of artificial intelligence on the planet. They are an example of this emergent intelligence.

    ↗How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Riesyoutube.com 22nd of 24 in this recording

  67. ER

    Eric Ries quoted

    Our readingAdding ants to a puzzle makes it get solved faster while adding humans makes it worse, unless the humans are carefully aligned.

    Their wordsThe more ants you put in the puzzle, the faster the solution. But the more humans you add, the worse. Unless the humans are very carefully aligned, this is the key lesson for organizational design.

    ↗How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Riesyoutube.com 23rd of 24 in this recording

    design

  69. ER

    Eric Ries quoted

    Our readingThe 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.

    Their wordsif you want to manage something like as a leader, you have to understand that the most consequential decisions that will affect any organization's life are almost by definition made when no manager is present.

    ↗How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Riesyoutube.com 24th of 24 in this recording

  70. 2 weeks earlier
  71. ES

    Evan Spiegel quoted

    Our readingLarge, structured organizations become risk-averse because everyone inside them is optimizing for the next promotion.

    Their wordsas soon as you have an organization that's very large and very structured like that, uh people become very focused on getting a promotion, right? Getting, you know, into the next step of the hierarchy. And that means that all of a sudden, uh they become a lot more risk-averse.

    ↗How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO)youtube.com 10th of 22 in this recording

  73. ES

    Evan Spiegel quoted

    Our readingA company needs both a flat inventive team and a large operational one, and the leader's real job is the relationship between them.

    Their wordsthe companies that are very successful actually have both types of organizations inside their company. And that the leaders of the organization are the ones who are responsible for creating a healthy, functioning relationship between the two types of organizations.

    ↗How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO)youtube.com 11th of 22 in this recording

  74. 4 weeks earlier
  75. TP

    Thuan Pham quoted

    Our readingA 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.

    Their wordsevery feature that we want to put out has to be queued up on mobile development bandwidth dispatch bandwidth and it become impossible to navigate tradeoff because every feature you want to do you have to go negotiate with so many team

    ↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com 10th of 24 in this recording

  77. TP

    Thuan Pham quoted

    Our readingThe 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.

    Their wordsthe philosophy we all operate at the time was no one should be blocking anybody else. No one can block anybody else.

    ↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com 13th of 24 in this recording

  78. 7 days earlier
  79. MZ

    Mario Zechner quoted

    Our readingTwo 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.

    Their wordsAnd organizations have super high pain tolerance. But human-made enterprise codebases take years to get there. The organization slowly evolves along with the complexity in a demented kind of synergy and learns how to deal with it. With agents and a team of 2 humans, you can get to that complexity within weeks.

    ↗Thoughts on slowing the fuck downmariozechner.at

  80. 3 days earlier
  81. NF

    Nicole Forsgren quoted

    Our readingThe processes organisations build to make work uniform are usually the same processes that slow the work down.

    Their wordsOr like all of the the things that we have structured process around to try to make things more uniform are often the things that slow us down.

    ↗Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summityoutube.com 5th of 18 in this recording

  83. NF

    Nicole Forsgren quoted

    Our readingA future where agents run and improve an organisation is impossible unless humans can first see and understand the system themselves.

    Their wordsFor that to be true, agents need to be able to see and understand the system. And agents need to be able to improve the things that need fixed. For that to be true, humans need to be able to see and understand the system and then take action to fix it. Uh and for that to be true, we got to see the system.

    ↗Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summityoutube.com 17th of 18 in this recording

  84. 2 days earlier
  85. AK

    Andrej Karpathy quoted

    Our readingNobody 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.

    Their wordsYou're you're not a completely free agent and you can't actually like be part of that conversation in a fully autonomous um free way. Like if you're inside one of the frontier labs. Like there's some things that you can't say. Uh and conversely there are some things that the organization wants you to say.

    ↗Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AIyoutube.com 15th of 20 in this recording

  87. TT

    Terence Tao quoted

    Our readingSome theorems may only ever be provable by unintelligible case-by-case brute force; the four colour theorem still has no conceptually elegant proof.

    Their wordsI mean, some problems have been basically solved by pure brute force. The four color theorem is is a famous example. Um, we have still not found a conceptually elegant proof of this theorem.

    ↗Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIyoutube.com 17th of 24 in this recording

  88. 9 days earlier
  89. SY

    Steve Yegge quoted

    Our readingAI's business results are lagging because organisations have a low tolerance for non-determinism, not because the models are not good enough.

    Their wordsMy my feeling is that probably people have a low tolerance for non-determinism. And these things are fundamentally non-deterministic. So, they can't just go replace customer call center software because they they could be wrong.

    ↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 18th of 25 in this recording

  91. AK

    Andrej Karpathy quoted

    Our readingAgentic organisations will be forkable in a way that classical companies never were.

    Their wordsYou can’t fork classical orgs (eg Microsoft) but you’ll be able to fork agentic orgs.

    ↗@karpathy on Xx.com

    AI agentsMicrosoft

  92. 9 days earlier
  93. AS

    Arielle Schwartz quoted

    Our readingPolyvagal theory survives the 2026 "untenable" critique: what the critics contested was mechanism and evolutionary framing, not the clinical proposition.

    Their wordsThe central clinical proposition of polyvagal theory-that autonomic state functions as an organizing platform shaping perception, emotion, and relational behavior-was not empirically disproven in the critique.

    ↗Clinical Reflections on the Critique on Polyvagal Theory proposed by Grossman et al., (2026)drarielleschwartz.com

    Polyvagal theory

  94. 13 days earlier
  95. JH

    Jon Haidt quoted

    Our readingThe minimum age for opening a social media account should be 16, because puberty is a sensitive period of brain rewiring that needs protecting.

    Their wordsSixteen is also roughly the age by which a majority of adolescents have completed puberty: a sensitive period of neural reorganization during which it is extremely important to protect the brain.

    ↗Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kidsafterbabel.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

    social media

  96. 5 days earlier
  97. PS

    Peter Steinberger quoted

    Our readingEverything 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.

    Their wordsSo, I, I completely moved away from that. I, I, everything, everything I blog is organic, handwritten and maybe, maybe I, I, I use AI as a fix my worse typos. But there's value in the rough parts of an actual human.

    ↗OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491youtube.com 22nd of 30 in this recording

  98. 2 weeks earlier
  99. LD

    Laura Deming quoted

    Our readingThe brain is the one real unknown standing between organ cryopreservation and reversible whole-body preservation.

    Their wordsthe big unknown to get to whole body reversible is the brain. Um it's unclear like like the brain can withstand a lot of change and does withstand a lot of different types of damage or or change with age for example.

    ↗How Until is Engineering Away Time in Organ Transplants | Laura Demingyoutube.com 9th of 15 in this recording

  101. LD

    Laura Deming quoted

    Our readingTransplant patients regularly lose organs that are already on their way to them, purely because of timing.

    Their wordsbasically transplant patients today surprisingly frequently miss organs that are on route to them because there's a timing problem. Um, so like you know, organs expire um very quickly after they become available from a donor.

    ↗How Until is Engineering Away Time in Organ Transplants | Laura Demingyoutube.com 10th of 15 in this recording

  103. LD

    Laura Deming quoted

    Our readingOrgans 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.

    Their wordsAnd it's crazy because like they're the they're like one of the most precious resources we know of. And yet like people regularly charter private jets, you know, like like you're putting a surgeon on a private jet to go pick up an organ, get it back to the patient in time.

    ↗How Until is Engineering Away Time in Organ Transplants | Laura Demingyoutube.com 11th of 15 in this recording

  105. LD

    Laura Deming quoted

    Our readingOrgan matching happens at literally the last minute, so nobody has the time to find the best match.

    Their wordsAnd then I also think um you know right now for matching it's like everything's done at literally the last minute. It's like someone dies, an organ comes available and like you're just kind of calling around trying to find like what patient is available to get this organ and you don't have that much time to make the optimal match, right?

    ↗How Until is Engineering Away Time in Organ Transplants | Laura Demingyoutube.com 14th of 15 in this recording

  106. 6 weeks earlier
  107. NS

    Noah Smith quoted

    Our readingMost manufacturing miracles began with women moving from farms to cities into labour-intensive light industry.

    Their wordsMost manufacturing miracles in history started with women migrating from farms to cities to work in labor-intensive light industry (garments, toys, electronics, etc.).

    ↗I think India can do itnoahpinion.blog 2nd of 3 in this piece

  108. 9 days earlier
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    Rory Sutherland quoted

    Our readingPeople judge an organisation by the humans they deal with, because judging other people is the task evolution equipped them for.

    Their wordsWe don't really have much evolved experience in evaluating postal efficiency, do we? Okay, we have quart of a million half a million years of evolved experience in deciding who to like and trust because for most of our evolutionary, you know, existence, that was one of the most fi five most important questions to get right.

    ↗Marketing Expert: The Playbook Behind Every Great Campaign | Rory Sutherlandyoutube.com 5th of 16 in this recording

  110. 8 weeks earlier
  111. DF

    Dylan Field quoted

    Our readingThe 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.

    Their wordsthe only thing that we know is that models will improve. Will it be incremental? Will it be exponential? I mean somewhere in between. Who knows? But uh what you have to believe is that you get better as models get better. Your organization gets better as models get better.

    ↗Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Fieldyoutube.com 17th of 22 in this recording

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  113. AC

    Albert Cheng quoted

    Our readingYou cannot manufacture virality, but you can find the moments users already screenshot and make those moments far better.

    Their wordsSo as opposed to going against I guess human intuition and trying to get them to share stuff that they otherwise wouldn't on the margins want to share like lean into it more actually like grab the moments where users are already organically screenshotting and make those much much much better and you can kind of 5x or 10x and and drive a lot of growth that way too.

    ↗Finding hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)youtube.com 22nd of 26 in this recording

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  115. LF

    Lex Fridman quoted

    Our readingArresting Pavel Durov was a historic wrong and a gigantic PR mistake that will keep founders from building in France.

    Their wordsI think this situation, this historic wrong that’s been done is, put simply, is just a gigantic PR mistake for France. There’s no entrepreneur that sees, that aspires to be the next Pavel Durov to create the next Telegram, sees this and wants to operate in France after seeing this.

    ↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 18th of 28 in this recording

    startupsTelegram

  117. PD

    Pavel Durov quoted

    Our readingThere is no such thing as an unbiased source of information; understanding the world means reading conflicting sources that hate each other.

    Their wordsBecause there's no such thing as an unbiased source of information. When the war in Ukraine started in 2022, I instantly realized Telegram is going to be used to spread propaganda by both sides.

    ↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 21st of 28 in this recording

    warTelegram

  118. 4 days earlier
  119. GM

    Gary Marcus quoted

    Our readingAlmost every major figure in AI has now arrived at the critique of large language models he began making in 2019.

    Their wordsBut one by one, almost every major thinker in AI has come around to the critique of LLMs that I began presenting in 2019.

    ↗Game over for pure LLMs. Even Turing Award Winner Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus.garymarcus.substack.com

    LLMs

  120. 7 days earlier
  121. NO

    Norman Ohler quoted

    Our readingHuman hierarchy began with beer: when temples in Sumer started brewing and branding it, they got rich, and the ruling class emerged.

    Their wordsThey make beer. They labeled the beer, and the temple that would make the beer, the beer would be attributed to that temple. It would be sold, so that temple rises in status, makes money. That's how hierarchies started up.

    ↗Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA | Lex Fridman Podcast #481youtube.com 19th of 22 in this recording

  122. 2 weeks earlier
  123. DH

    Dave Hone quoted

    Our readingEvolution does not perfect anything; organisms are bodge jobs, which is why the human eye has a blind spot and a squid's does not.

    Their wordsI think people think evolution is, like, perfecting things in some way. And they're not. They're bodge jobs, you know? That's why we have a blind spot in our eye, but things like squid don't.

    ↗Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park | Lex Fridman Podcast #480youtube.com 22nd of 24 in this recording

  124. 7 weeks earlier
  125. JD

    Jamie Dimon quoted

    Our readingThe 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.

    Their wordsif you look at the history of banks from up until 2007, a lot of banks were earning 30% equity. Most of them went bankrupt. We never did that much. Okay, but in '08 and '09, we were fine, and they weren't.

    ↗The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bankyoutube.com 5th of 19 in this recording

  126. 2 weeks earlier
  127. MG

    Michael Grunwald quoted

    Our readingGrass-fed organic beef is worse for the climate and the planet than beef finished in a feedlot.

    Their wordsWe need better beef - which means more efficient beef, not organic grass-fed beef, which is even worse for the climate and the planet than conventional feedlot-finished beef - but in the rich world we also need to eat less beef.

    ↗WE ARE EATING THE EARTHmichaelgrunwald.substack.com

  128. 5 weeks earlier
  129. BP

    Brian Potter quoted

    Our readingAmerican cities chose subways over elevated railways knowing they cost two to four times as much, because nobody would live under an el.

    Their wordsCities began to prefer subways to elevateds, despite the fact that they were two to four times as expensive to build as elevated trains.

    ↗Why we stopped building subways cheaplyworksinprogress.news 1st of 3 in this piece

    America

  131. CF

    Camille Fournier quoted

    Our readingA 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.

    Their wordsYou should not try to create a ladder that functions as a pure checklist or scorecard that guarantees promotion if people check enough boxes; promotions are as much about the needs of the organization as the skills of the employees.

    ↗10 Years of Engineering Ladderselidedbranches.com 2nd of 4 in this piece

  133. CL

    Charles Fain Lehman quoted

    Our readingAfter two decades of the war on drugs, drugs were cheaper and more potent than when it began.

    Their wordsAfter two decades of the War on Drugs, in other words, drugs were much cheaper and more potent than they were when the War on Drugs began.

    ↗What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  135. CF

    Camille Fournier quoted

    Our readingFlat, manager-free organisations do not deliver the equality they promise: they get abandoned, and the informal power left behind is unaccountable.

    Their wordsThe Tyranny of Structurelessness has yet to be overcome, and for those who still care about creating strong, transparent, equitable organizations, this work matters.

    ↗10 Years of Engineering Ladderselidedbranches.com 4th of 4 in this piece

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  137. JH

    James Holland quoted

    Our readingIf anyone in the Nazi leadership was a genius it was Goebbels the propaganda chief, not Hitler.

    Their wordsAnd you were talking about the genius of war. It’s not Hitler that’s a genius. If anyone’s a genius, it’s Goebbels, the propaganda chief.

    ↗James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles | Lex Fridman Podcast #470youtube.com 7th of 27 in this recording

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  139. SA

    Scott Alexander quoted

    Our readingAsking 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.

    Their wordsUSAID is not, itself, a charity. It is an organization that funds other charities.

    ↗Contra MR On Charity Regrantsastralcodexten.com

  140. 2 weeks earlier
  141. JL

    Janna Levin quoted

    Our readingInside 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.

    Their wordsIn other words, the singularity ends up in their future and they can no more avoid the singularity than they can avoid time coming their way. There’s no shenanigans you can do once you’re inside the black hole to try to skirt it.

    ↗Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468youtube.com 5th of 24 in this recording

  142. 4 weeks earlier
  143. AK

    Andrej Karpathy quoted

    Our readingBecause 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.

    Their wordsIn contrast, an individual will usually only be an expert in at most one thing, so the broad quasi-expertise offered by the LLM fundamentally allows them to do things they couldn't do before.

    ↗Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusionkarpathy.bearblog.dev

    LLMs

  144. 13 days earlier
  145. TH

    Troy Hunt quoted

    Our readingA breached organisation owes its customers a fast and transparent disclosure, and that obligation applies to the person saying it too.

    Their wordsWhen I have conversations with breached companies, my messaging is crystal clear: be transparent and expeditious in your reporting of the incident and prioritise communicating with your customers.

    ↗A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing Listtroyhunt.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

  146. 7 weeks earlier
  147. DP

    Dylan Patel quoted

    Our readingGoogle 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.

    Their wordsBut Google has never had that DNA of like, "This is a product we should sell." The Google Cloud, which is a separate organization from the TPU team, which is a separate organization from the DeepMind team, which is a separate organization from the Search team. There's a lot of bureaucracy here.

    ↗DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459youtube.com 34th of 44 in this recording

    Googlesemiconductors

  148. 13 days earlier
  149. OK

    Oliver Kim quoted

    Our readingSouth Korea and Taiwan began their miracles with far more schooling than their income implied, and African states with far less.

    Their wordsAt independence, South Korea and Taiwan had far higher rates of primary education than most of Sub-Saharan Africa.

    ↗No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960global-developments.org 1st of 8 in this piece

    education

  150. 2 days earlier
  151. JB

    Jennifer Burns quoted

    Our readingPopular postmodernism has turned into the opposite of what it began as, re-inscribing the binaries it set out to dissolve as oppressor and oppressed.

    Their wordsPostmodernism started about disrupting binaries. We're going to be fluid. We're going to go beyond the border. We're going to disrupt the binary. And it's devolved in its popular forms to the re-inscribing of many different binaries. Oppressor and oppressed has become this paradigmatic set of glasses you put on to understand the world.

    ↗Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457youtube.com 19th of 20 in this recording

  152. 3 months earlier
  153. GH

    Graham Hancock quoted

    Our readingScience 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.

    Their wordsBut what’s not really been addressed before is why that happened, why the Gulf Stream was cut, why a sudden pulse of meltwater went into the world ocean, and it was so much of it and it was so cold that it actually stopped the Gulf Stream in its tracks. And that’s where the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis offers a very elegant and very satisfactory solution to the problem.

    ↗Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History | Lex Fridman Podcast #449youtube.com 7th of 25 in this recording

  154. 2 weeks earlier
  155. CH

    Casey Handmer quoted

    Our readingAn organisation that compromises its technical integrity on its flagship programme loses the ability to keep it anywhere else.

    Their wordsThis is symptomatic of an agency who, compromising their technical integrity on their flagship program, subsequently lost the ability to maintain technical integrity anywhere else.

    ↗SLS is still a national disgracecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 2nd of 5 in this piece

  157. CH

    Casey Handmer quoted

    Our reading · no longer heldNASA can still be reorganised into an agency that exploits cheap heavy lift, and the next administrator will decide whether it is.

    No longer holdsAt the time I was optimistic, now I am not.

    SaidThis obviously has not occurred.

    ↗SLS is still a national disgracecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 4th of 5 in this piece

  158. 2 days earlier
  159. EB

    Ed Barnhart quoted

    Our readingReligion in South America began in the Amazon, not on the coast.

    Their wordsI think religion in South America began in the Amazon. I think there were people there, very old. Actually, the earliest pottery in all of the Americas, all these places that we have civilizations that grew up, you know where the oldest pottery is? The middle of the Amazon.

    ↗Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America | Lex Fridman Podcast #446youtube.com 7th of 25 in this recording

    Americareligion

  161. EB

    Ed Barnhart quoted

    Our readingEvery paradigm-shifting idea began as heresy, so outlandish ideas have to be kept on the table.

    Their wordsBut I do also try to always remind myself that every paradigm shifting idea that humans have ever had began as heresy and lunacy. That guy was crazy up to the second. He was brilliant. And so we got to keep our minds open to the things that sound outlandish, because one of them eventually is going to lead us to the big paradigm shift.

    ↗Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America | Lex Fridman Podcast #446youtube.com 13th of 25 in this recording

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  163. DL

    Derek Lowe quoted

    Our readingHow much machine learning can help a biological problem is set by the quality of the data around that problem, not by the algorithms.

    Their wordsI predict (with confidence bordering on arrogance) that whatever machine-learning progress can be made will correlate extremely closely with the quality of the data around any given problem

    ↗AI and Biologyweb.archive.org 1st of 4 in this piece

  164. 4 weeks earlier
  165. MG

    Matthew Green quoted

    Our readingTelegram urges people away from default-encrypted messengers while refusing to build the features that would encrypt its own users.

    Their wordsIndeed, it no longer feels amusing to see the Telegram organization urge people away from default-encrypted messengers, while refusing to implement essential features that would widely encrypt their own users’ messages.

    ↗Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.com 3rd of 4 in this piece

    privacyTelegram

  166. 5 days earlier
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    Pieter Levels quoted

    Our readingAnything you would hire somebody to run should be automated instead.

    Their wordsAnd for me, it’s so obvious to make this automatic, why would you have somebody organize this? It makes more sense to automate it, and this with most of my things

    ↗Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440youtube.com 20th of 30 in this recording

  168. 6 weeks earlier
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    Filippo Valsorda quoted

    Our readingOpen source maintenance can be a mature profession organised into small specialist firms, the way law and medicine already are.

    Their wordsFrom the onset, I envisioned small firms of professional maintainers with thematic portfolios, accommodating diverse maintainers and project sizes, just like the specialized firms of other professionals.

    ↗Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firmwords.filippo.io 2nd of 3 in this piece

    open source

  170. 4 weeks earlier
  171. SW

    Sara Walker quoted

    Our readingLife is the process by which information structures matter over time and space, and any individual organism is only one instance of a lineage.

    Their wordsAnd so for me, I think life is the process of how information structures matter over time and space, and an example of life is what emerges on a planet and yields an open-ended cascade of generation of structure and increasing complexity. And this is the thing that life is. And any individual is just a particular instance of these lineages that are structured across time.

    ↗Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #433youtube.com 6th of 22 in this recording

  173. SW

    Sara Walker quoted

    Our readingPast roughly fifteen assembly steps, the only molecules we ever observe are ones that life made.

    Their wordsAnd what Lee’s been able to show in the lab with his team is that for organic chemistry, it’s about 15 steps. And then you only see molecules that the only molecules that we observe that are past that threshold are ones that are in life.

    ↗Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #433youtube.com 13th of 22 in this recording

  174. 7 weeks earlier
  175. SC

    Sean Carroll quoted

    Our readingWhen somebody accuses you of being arrogant about an idea, almost all they ever mean is that they disagree with you.

    Their wordsYeah, it is interesting because, when people react against you by saying you are being arrogant about this, 99.999% of the time, all they mean is I disagree. That’s all they really mean, right?

    ↗Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #428youtube.com 18th of 20 in this recording

    JavaScript

  176. 4 weeks earlier
  177. SG

    Seth Godin quoted

    Our readingEmployees and customers do not want what founders want, and equity stakes become a demotivator in almost every organisation.

    Their wordsEmployees don't want what you want. Customers don't want what you want. Uh you know, that that one of the challenges of the whole stock option thing is entrepreneurs and founders think that other people will be as motivated by owning part of the company as they are. They are not. Not even close.

    ↗Seth Godin: "Failure is Learning on Your Way to Mastery" and Other Advice for Creativity (The Knowledge Project #105, published 23 February 2021)youtube.com 16th of 16 in this recording

    startups

  178. 3 weeks earlier
  179. SP

    Serhii Plokhy quoted

    Our readingThe 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.

    Their wordsAnd the Soviet collapse is continuation of the disintegration of the Russian Empire that started back in 1917, that was arrested for some period of time by the Bolsheviks, by the Communist ideology, which was internationalist ideology. And then came back in full force in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

    ↗Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415youtube.com 2nd of 30 in this recording

    Russia

  181. SP

    Serhii Plokhy quoted

    Our readingDenazification works as propaganda because the words fascism and Nazi make a post-Soviet audience stop analysing, not just start listening.

    Their wordsSo, once you use terms “fascism,” and “Nazi,” and “denazification,” suddenly people, not just start listening, they just stop analyzing. And as a propaganda tool, this is, of course, very powerful tool.

    ↗Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415youtube.com 15th of 30 in this recording

  183. SP

    Serhii Plokhy quoted

    Our readingDefining 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.

    Their wordsSo, there is a period of collaboration, and that’s what propaganda tries to define him by, or there is a Division Galizien by 20,000 people, and somehow it makes irrelevant the experience of 2-3 million people.

    ↗Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415youtube.com 16th of 30 in this recording

    war

  185. SP

    Serhii Plokhy quoted

    Our readingPropaganda 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.

    Their wordsThat’s the only way how you deal with propaganda, because propaganda is not necessarily something that is an outright lie. It can be just one factor that’s taken out of the context and is blown out of proportion. And that is good enough.

    ↗Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415youtube.com 17th of 30 in this recording

  187. SP

    Serhii Plokhy quoted

    Our readingRussians and Ukrainians behave differently even when they speak the same language: police violence ended the protests at Bolotnaya and began them on the Maidan.

    Their wordsYou have Bolotnaya in Moscow and police violence, and that’s the end of it. You have the Maidan in Ukraine and you have police violence, and that’s the beginning, that’s not the end.

    ↗Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415youtube.com 19th of 30 in this recording

    Russiawar

  188. 8 weeks earlier
  189. CM

    Charity Majors quoted

    Our readingHierarchy is not intrinsically authoritarian: it is a property of self-organising systems that emerges for the benefit of the parts.

    Their wordsBut hierarchy is not intrinsically authoritarian. Hierarchy did not originate as a political structure that humans invented for controlling and dominating one another, it is in fact a property of self-organizing systems, and it emerges for the benefit of the subsystems.

    ↗Questionable Advice: "My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?"charity.wtf 1st of 5 in this piece

  191. CM

    Charity Majors quoted

    Our readingIf building the organisation is nobody’s first job, it will not get done well.

    Their wordsIf you aren’t making building the organization someone’s number one job, it won’t be anyone’s number one job, which means it probably won’t get done very well.

    ↗Questionable Advice: "My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?"charity.wtf 2nd of 5 in this piece

  193. CM

    Charity Majors quoted

    Our readingFlat, manager-free organisations do not deliver the equality they promise: they get abandoned, and the informal power left behind is unaccountable.

    Their wordsOn the other hand, the manager-free experiments I’m aware of (e.g. holacracy at Medium and GitHub, or “Choose Your Own Work” at Linden Lab) have all been quietly abandoned or outgrown.

    ↗Questionable Advice: "My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?"charity.wtf 3rd of 5 in this piece

  194. 3 weeks earlier
  195. SA

    Scott Aaronson quoted

    Our reading · no longer heldHuman-level AI is most likely centuries or millennia away, so there is no reason to reorganise one's work around its arrival.

    No longer holdsI was wrong, of course, not to contemplate more seriously the prospect that AI might enter a civilization-altering trajectory, not merely eventually but within the next decade.

    SaidOnce I saw the empirical case that a generative AI revolution was imminent—sometime during the pandemic—I updated, hard.

    ↗On being wrong about AIscottaaronson.blog 2nd of 3 in this piece

  196. 4 days earlier
  197. CS

    Chris Smaje quoted

    Our readingFifteen years of running a small organic market garden in England returned its owners a few thousand pounds a year between them.

    Their wordsMy wife and I have averaged a joint annual income of £5,500 from the market garden over the last ten years.

    ↗Food, land, work and rent: the real story of Vallis Vegchrissmaje.com 2nd of 4 in this piece

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  199. LR

    Lisa Randall quoted

    Our readingString theorists were overly arrogant at the outset, promising to solve problems they were never going to solve.

    Their wordsI do think that string theorists were a bit overly ambitious… Not overly ambitious, but a little bit overly arrogant in the beginning, thinking they could solve many problems that they weren’t going to solve.

    ↗Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events | Lex Fridman Podcast #403youtube.com 14th of 16 in this recording

  200. 2 weeks earlier
  201. JM

    John Mearsheimer quoted

    Our readingRussia's refusal to accept NATO on its border is exactly what the United States demands for its own neighbourhood.

    Their wordsWell, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And if we don't like great powers coming into our neighborhood, it's hardly surprising that the Russians did not want NATO on their doorstep.

    ↗John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401youtube.com 10th of 22 in this recording

    RussiaAmericawar

  202. 3 months earlier
  203. NO

    Neri Oxman quoted

    Our readingLiving 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.

    Their wordsSo if you think about entire all of nature, let's say all of living systems as a matrix that runs across two axes one is material sophistication, which is terribly relevant for designers, and the other is communication. The termites ace on communication, but their material sophistication is crap.

    ↗Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #394youtube.com 5th of 16 in this recording

    design

  204. 2 months earlier
  205. GH

    George Hotz quoted

    Our readingWe will build superintelligence long before we build anything as robust as a bird, because nothing we have built can survive in nature at all.

    Their wordsI think we’re going to build super intelligence before we build any sort of robustness in the AI. We cannot build an AI that is capable of going out into nature and surviving like a bird. A bird is an incredibly robust organism. We’ve built nothing like this. We haven’t built a machine that’s capable of reproducing.

    ↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com 5th of 30 in this recording

    AI alignment

  207. GH

    George Hotz quoted

    Our readingReproduction 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.

    Their wordsThere’s two stacks of life in the world. There’s the biological stack and the silicon stack. The biological stack starts with reproduction. Reproduction is at the absolute core. The first proto-RNA organisms were capable of reproducing. The silicon stack, despite, as far as it’s come, is nowhere near being able to reproduce.

    ↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com 6th of 30 in this recording

  208. 6 weeks earlier
  209. AM

    Adam Mastroianni quoted

    Our readingRanking people costs something every time: the top become more arrogant, the bottom more indignant, and the rankers more callous.

    Their wordsEvery time we rank one another, we lose a little humanity.

    ↗I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copexperimental-history.com 6th of 6 in this piece

  210. 4 months earlier
  211. MG

    Michael Grunwald quoted

    Our readingChanging what food is made of will work better than changing people's minds about what to eat.

    Their wordsThe food and climate stuff I write about would be simple if everyone just went vegan, but it turns out to be hard to change hearts and minds, so we’re going to have to change our food.

    ↗Get Over Your All-Natural Selfmichaelgrunwald.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

  212. 2 weeks earlier
  213. TD

    Thomas Depierre quoted

    Our readingAn 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.

    Their wordsWe are not suppliers. All the people writing and maintaining these projects, we are not suppliers. We do not have a business relationship with all these organisations.

    ↗I am not a suppliersoftwaremaxims.com 1st of 4 in this piece

    open source

  214. 3 months earlier
  215. CM

    Charity Majors quoted

    Our readingTreating the org chart as a ladder on which higher is always better is the central lie of hierarchy.

    Their wordsThe “Big Lie” of hierarchy is that your organizational structure is a vertical tree from the CEO on down, where higher up is always better.

    ↗The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)charity.wtf 1st of 3 in this piece

  216. 2 weeks earlier
  217. NL

    Nick Lane quoted

    Our readingPredation is what makes evolution creative: without it there would be no arms races, no great feats of evolution, and a far less beautiful world.

    Their wordsIn some ways, maybe it does do good. I don’t want to make an argument for nuclear arms, but predation as a mechanism forces organisms to adapt, to change, to be better, to escape, or to kill. If you need to eat, then you’ve got to eat. A cheetah is not going to run at that speed unless it has to because the zebra is capable of escaping. So it leads to much greater feats of evolution would ever have been possible without it, and in the end, to a much more beautiful world.

    ↗Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318youtube.com 12th of 22 in this recording

  219. NL

    Nick Lane quoted

    Our readingFeelings begin as electrical fields on cell membranes, giving an organism real-time feedback on how it is doing in its environment.

    Their wordsAnd I had suggested that that’s linked to the electrical fields on the membranes themselves and that they give some indication of how am I doing in relation to my environment as a real-time feedback on the world.

    ↗Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318youtube.com 17th of 22 in this recording

  220. 4 weeks earlier
  221. GK

    Gary Klein quoted

    Our readingOrganizations sincerely believe they want insights and still suppress them, because insights are disorganizing.

    Their wordsWhat blocks insight is that organizations say they want insights and they want innovation and they really don't. But they're they're being serious. They think they want insights. But insights are disorganizing.

    ↗Insights for Making Better Decisions | Gary Klein | Knowledge Project 144youtube.com 1st of 16 in this recording

    innovation

  222. 4 weeks earlier
  223. AM

    Adam Mastroianni quoted

    Our readingAlmost all of education is organised around knowledge and skills, which are exactly the part that does not last.

    Their wordsAlmost all of education centers around knowledge and skills rather than vibes.

    ↗You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?experimental-history.com 5th of 7 in this piece

    education

  224. 5 months earlier
  225. BD

    Bret Devereaux quoted

    Our readingUrban life in the West did not merely change after Rome, it practically vanished, and had to be built again from scratch centuries later.

    Their wordsthe system of social organization that characterized the ancient world practically vanished and would have to be redeveloped centuries later.

    ↗Collections: Rome: Decline and Fall? Part II: Institutionsacoup.blog 3rd of 4 in this piece

  226. 3 months earlier
  227. CH

    Casey Handmer quoted

    Our readingThe incumbent space contractors will lose their business to new entrants unless they learn to make far more hardware for far less money.

    Their wordsEither the incumbent space industry adapts to Starship by finding ways to produce much more space hardware for much lower cost, or dozens of other new companies, unbound by tradition, entrenched interests, and high organizational overhead, will permanently take their business.

    ↗Starship is Still Not Understoodcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com 4th of 4 in this piece

  228. 8 weeks earlier
  229. AV

    Austin Vernon quoted

    Our readingBoeing's decline began when its management moved away from the factory and the engineers stopped running it.

    Their wordsThe changes separated its management and board from the day-to-day processes at the heart of its business.

    ↗America's Aerospace Industry is Regeneratingaustinvernon.site

    aviation

  230. 6 months earlier
  231. CH

    Casey Handmer quoted

    Our readingNASA can still be reorganised into an agency that exploits cheap heavy lift, and the next administrator will decide whether it is.

    Their wordsThe required organizational transition is equivalent in scope and difficulty to the Apollo program, and will be made or broken during the tenure of the next NASA administrator.

    ↗SLS: What now?caseyhandmer.wordpress.com

  232. 6 weeks earlier
  233. HW

    Hillel Wayne quoted

    Our readingSoftware is not uniquely unpredictable; other engineering disciplines are hit by the same surprises and overruns.

    Their wordsTo assume that software is uniquely unpredictable is a special kind of arrogance.

    ↗We Are Not Specialhillelwayne.com 2nd of 7 in this piece

  234. 19 months earlier
  235. CM

    Craig Mod quoted

    Our readingSoftware should unbloat over time: the longer it is around, the more elegant it should become.

    Their wordsI love software that does this: Software that unbloats over time. This should be the goal of all software. The longer it’s around, the more elegant it should become. Smooth over like a river stone.

    ↗Fast Software, the Best Softwarecraigmod.com

  236. 8 days earlier
  237. JR

    José Luis Ricón quoted

    Our readingWhat limits science is how it is funded and organised, not how much money it gets.

    Their wordsI'm of the view, though this would take another post to explain, that the problems that science suffers have more to do with how science is done (funded, organized, produced) rather than how much money is gets, in general.

    ↗Fixing science (Part 1)nintil.com

  238. 8 months earlier
  239. NA

    Nadia Asparouhova quoted

    Our readingA project that skips forming a foundation still has to formalise its governance, or it drifts into a tyranny of structurelessness.

    Their wordsOn the other hand, by avoiding foundations, projects also avoid the question of how to formalize their governance, thus risking a “tyranny of structurelessness” that might range from projects living inside a company forever, to disorganized chaos that negatively impacts project velocity.

    ↗Governance without foundationsnadia.xyz 3rd of 3 in this piece

  240. 3 months earlier
  241. SB

    Samo Burja quoted

    Our readingWhen a functioning organisation dies, capital that cannot be sold or transferred dies with it.

    Their wordsFunctioning firms are repositories of many kinds of capital that cannot be liquidated, and when they die, it is destroyed.

    ↗The Succession Problemsamoburja.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

  242. 7 weeks earlier
  243. WL

    Will Larson quoted

    Our readingOrganisational fixes are slow because they have to drain years of accumulated state, and that same slowness is what makes them durable once they take.

    Their wordsThis is because systems accumulate months or years of state, and you have to drain that all away. Conversely, the same properties that make them slow to fix make them extremely durable once in effect!

    ↗Staying on the path to high performing teams.lethain.com 4th of 6 in this piece

  244. 11 months earlier
  245. TH

    Troy Hunt quoted

    Our readingMuch of the received wisdom about passwords has been reversed, yet organisations still apply yesterday’s patterns to today’s threats.

    Their wordsIn some cases, this has led to once-held "truths" about how we create and manage accounts to be totally flipped on their head, yet we still see modern organisations applying the patterns of yesterday to the threats of today.

    ↗Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Eratroyhunt.com 1st of 4 in this piece

  246. 4 months earlier
  247. GM

    Gabor Mate quoted

    Our readingTrauma is not confined to terrible events: a child whose parents were too stressed or distracted to see them has been traumatized too.

    Their wordsBut trauma is not restricted to horrific experiences. It refers to any set of events that, over time, impose more pain on the child than his or her sensitive organism can process and discharge.

    ↗BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com

    Trauma

  248. 3 months earlier
  249. AP

    Ada Palmer quoted

    Our readingBacon’s scientific project produced almost nothing useful for two hundred years after it began.

    Their wordsIt really took two hundred years for Bacon’s academy to develop anything useful.

    ↗On Progress and Historical Changeexurbe.com 5th of 5 in this piece

  250. 12 months earlier
  251. DL

    Dan Luu quoted

    Our readingNormalization of deviance is well studied in healthcare and aviation and almost never discussed in software, although software organisations do it constantly.

    Their wordsIt's well studied in a number of other contexts including healthcare, aviation, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and civil engineering, but we don't see it discussed in the context of software.

    ↗Normalization of deviancedanluu.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

    aviation

  252. 3 weeks earlier
  253. EH

    Elie Hassenfeld quoted

    Our reading · no longer heldExplicit cost-effectiveness models deserve less weight in a giving decision than the strength of the organisation carrying the work out.

    No longer holdsI remain ambivalent about putting so much weight on cost-effectiveness estimates because they are subject to numerous debatable assumptions, but I’ve changed my mind based on work we did over the past few months.

    SaidThe resulting strong consensus that cash is significantly less cost-effective than bednets/deworming persuaded me to put more weight on cost-effectiveness analysis in my giving this year.

    ↗Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2015blog.givewell.org

  254. 6 months earlier
  255. MF

    Martin Fowler quoted

    Our readingSuccessful microservice systems almost always began as a monolith that grew too big, and systems built as microservices from scratch end up in serious trouble.

    Their wordsAlmost all the successful microservice stories have started with a monolith that got too big and was broken up

    ↗MonolithFirstmartinfowler.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  256. 3 months earlier
  257. TS

    Tynan Sylvester quoted

    Our readingBalancing a system elegantly is not the same as giving people what they actually came for, which is emotion.

    Their wordsThe problem with level 2, though is that it works on abstract, mechanical-level analysis of systems, which doesn’t relate directly to what players actually want from their games: emotions.

    ↗The three levels of designertynansylvester.com

  258. 3 months earlier
  259. EH

    Elie Hassenfeld quoted

    Our readingExplicit cost-effectiveness models deserve less weight in a giving decision than the strength of the organisation carrying the work out.

    Their wordsI put less weight on explicit cost-effectiveness analysis. Conceptually, my goal is to maximize the impact of my charitable contribution, but I put less weight on the explicit cost-effectiveness models we create than others.

    ↗Staff members’ personal donations – giving season 2014blog.givewell.org 1st of 2 in this piece

  261. EH

    Elie Hassenfeld quoted

    Our readingAn excellent organisation is significantly more likely to succeed than a weaker one, so organisational strength belongs in the decision about where to give.

    Their wordsThis has reinforced my intuition that excellent organizations are significantly more likely to succeed than others, and GiveDirectly’s overall excellence increases my estimate of the impact it will achieve.

    ↗Staff members’ personal donations – giving season 2014blog.givewell.org 2nd of 2 in this piece

  262. 6 months earlier
  263. YB

    Yoshua Bengio quoted

    Our readingAdversarial nets need neither Markov chains nor unrolled approximate inference networks for training or sample generation.

    Their wordsThere is no need for any Markov chains or unrolled approximate inference networks during either training or generation of samples.

    ↗Generative Adversarial Networks (with 7 co-authors)arxiv.org 1st of 2 in this piece

  264. 16 months earlier
  265. WH

    Wayne Hale quoted

    Our readingIn a risky organisation, defer to expertise rather than to leaders.

    Their wordsDefer to expertise rather than leaders.

    ↗After Ten Years: Enduring Lessonswaynehale.wordpress.com 2nd of 4 in this piece

  266. 3 weeks earlier
  267. WH

    Wayne Hale quoted

    Our readingDisasters come from organisational conditions, not from bad individuals, so blaming a person prevents the fix.

    Their wordsSo don’t blame an individual; looks for the organizational factors that lead to that kind of a mindset.

    ↗After Ten Years: Working on the Wrong Problemwaynehale.wordpress.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

  268. 17 months earlier
  269. HK

    Holden Karnofsky quoted

    Our readingAn 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.

    Their wordsAn ungrounded estimate making an extravagant claim ought to be more or less discarded in the face of the “prior distribution” of life experience.

    ↗Why we can’t take expected value estimates literally (even when they’re unbiased)blog.givewell.org 5th of 8 in this piece

  270. 2 years earlier
  271. FL

    Fei-Fei Li quoted

    Our readingGrowth of internet image data can enable more sophisticated models for indexing and interacting with multimedia.

    Their wordsThe explosion of image data on the Internet has the potential to foster more sophisticated and robust models and algorithms to index, retrieve, organize and interact with images and multimedia data.

    ↗ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database (with 5 co-authors)doi.org 1st of 4 in this piece

  273. FL

    Fei-Fei Li quoted

    Our readingHow large-scale internet image data can be harnessed and organized remains a critical problem.

    Their wordsBut exactly how such data can be harnessed and organized remains a critical problem.

    ↗ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database (with 5 co-authors)doi.org 2nd of 4 in this piece

  274. 9 months earlier
  275. SA

    Scott Aaronson quoted

    Our readingHuman-level AI is most likely centuries or millennia away, so there is no reason to reorganise one's work around its arrival.

    Their wordsIf I were forced at gunpoint to guess, I'd say that human-level AI seemed to me like a slog of many more centuries or millennia

    ↗The Singularity Is Farscottaaronson.blog

  276. 21 months earlier
  277. MN

    Martin Nowak quoted

    Our readingEvolution could not have built new levels of organization at all without cooperation.

    Their wordsCooperation is needed for evolution to construct new levels of organization.

    ↗Nowak, "Five rules for the evolution of cooperation" (Science, via PubMed Central)pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1st of 3 in this piece

  278. 7 years earlier
  279. AB

    Albert-László Barabási quoted

    Our readingBecause 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.

    Their wordsA model based on these two ingredients reproduces the observed stationary scale-free distributions, indicating that the development of large networks is governed by robust self-organizing phenomena that go beyond the particulars of the individual systems.

    ↗Barabasi & Albert, "Emergence of scaling in random networks" (arXiv)arxiv.org 7th of 8 in this piece

    network science

  281. RA

    Réka Albert quoted

    Our readingBecause 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.

    Their wordsA model based on these two ingredients reproduces the observed stationary scale-free distributions, indicating that the development of large networks is governed by robust self-organizing phenomena that go beyond the particulars of the individual systems.

    ↗Barabasi & Albert, "Emergence of scaling in random networks" (arXiv)arxiv.org 8th of 8 in this piece

    network science

  282. 42 years earlier
  283. FR

    Frank Rosenblatt quoted

    Our readingUnderstanding higher organisms' perceptual recognition, generalization, recall, and thinking requires answers to three fundamental questions about sensing, storage, and behavioral influence of information.

    Their wordsIf we are eventually to understand the capability of higher organisms for perceptual recognition, generalization, recall, and thinking, we must first have answers to three fundamental questions: 1. How is information about the physical world sensed, or detected, by the biological system? 2. In what form is information stored, or remembered? 3. How does information contained in storage, or in memory, influence recognition and behavior?

    ↗The perceptron: a probabilistic model for information storage and organization in the braindoi.org