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• Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics - Google Developers Blog2 savers
• Superpositioned: The Quantum Decade Ahead1 savers
• NBC1 savers
• Neural Networks Are Already Clean41 savers
• How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models27 savers
• Ouroboros3 savers
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• Can we predict the jobs robots will do? \ Anthropic5 savers
• michelle pan3 savers
• Ray Kurzweil4 savers
• Pranav Jadhav1 savers
• Luke Drago1 savers
• Abstract Warfare: How TSMC Made Its Own Market9 savers
• The Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths — David Tisch | 20VC transcript — 996.fm1 savers
• Shreesh's Webpage2 savers
• How we built our lab in 30 days — Bindwell2 savers
• The Illusions of Barbell Theory - by Tina He - Fakepixels1 savers
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• katiewav's library1 savers
• Do the hardest thing5 savers
• Phase Lock9 savers
• Secret Billionaires, Mafia Brides, Alpha Kings: The Insane World of Microdramas - The New York Times1 savers
• Paul, Philip S. oral history - 102792212 - CHM1 savers
• How to simplify your life: delete, reduce, automate, outsource (in that order)1 savers
• Letter #99: Michael Moritz and John Doerr (2008)2 savers
• spakhm.com3 savers
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• Bring back hating2 savers
• The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: How to Simplify Your Life — Tips from Oliver Burkeman, Chip Conley, Elizabeth Gilbert, and More (#885) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss1 savers
• The Essay That Started the AI Race - Kevin Roose2 savers
• basement ventures — Investing in companies we want to see in the world3 savers
• A Viewer’s Guide to Warren Buffett’s Nightly Trips Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole - WSJ1 savers
• PepperHead Meta Tier List1 savers
• Mens et Manus - Sri Kosuri2 savers
• Decentralized Robbery: Dissecting the Nomad Bridge Hack and Following the Money | Mandiant | Google Cloud Blog1 savers
• The Law of Accelerating Returns1 savers
• A reading list for generalists — LessWrong24 savers
• Azlen Elza4 savers
• the Law of Accelerating Returns. « the Kurzweil Library1 savers
• Florent Tavernier1 savers
• Brian Hie | Bookshelf2 savers
• Nibble and your appetite will grow — Steph Ango2 savers
• Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models - The New York Times1 savers
• Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models - The New York Times1 savers
• Coming to America: Nubank's David Vélez - Colossus2 savers
• What's the date? — LessWrong5 savers
• The pharma industry from Paul Janssen to today: why drugs got harder to develop and what we can do about it | Alex’s blog10 savers
• Diffusion will be everywhere3 savers
• The Early Years of Academic Computing1 savers
• The Early Years of Academic Computing1 savers
• mamuso - manuel muñoz solera1 savers
• Imperfection – mamuso.dev1 savers
• Sudo by New Matter — For the love of listening.1 savers
• Interview with Richard Ho, OpenAI - by Dr. Ian Cutress1 savers
• | Efficient Computer1 savers
• PortsDR | Decompiled and Recompiled Game Ports1 savers
• The best selling product of all time – Asymco1 savers
• MicroLLM lab — tiny LLMs, Q4, in your browser1 savers
• “Ask for what you need” is a terrible social system :: the6thspence.substack.com/14 savers
• Our year of Saturday dinners - Amanda Litman1 savers
• My 9 Games | 9本のゲームで自分を紹介してシェア1 savers
• Worst Thing is to Miss It | Richard Powers Dance4 savers
• engram generative audio sampler | thoughtful things1 savers
• The Archetype of the Alcoholic - by Brian Maierhofer1 savers
• CAUSTIC//VOLUME1 savers
• You Probably Don’t Get Why Stripe Bought OpenRouter — Research — AMP PBC2 savers
• Surya’s Books3 savers
• Why Japanese companies do so many different things3 savers
• Watch billionaire hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller's full CNBC appearance - YouTube2 savers
• yuhang lu1 savers
• — | io:OAI | Entropy1 savers
• Fishstrap1 savers
• We Looked At The Data — Pantheon8 savers
• spakhm.com1 savers
• Building a Machine - Colossus1 savers
• Lost_in_Space1 savers
• The Task Economy2 savers
• mimo-v2.6 RL7 savers
• loading.dev6 savers
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• Aesthetics & Beauty1 savers
• You are probably underestimating how good self-love can be - LessWrong8 savers
• I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup10 savers
• The Copernican Revolution from the Inside — LessWrong3 savers
• Bookshelf – Luke Drago1 savers
• MATS Reading List – Luke Drago4 savers
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• Earning Efficiency of Top Roblox Games1 savers
• Involution Without Export Is Wasted Effort - by David Cheng3 savers
• runescape-bench: AI Agent Benchmark for RuneScape1 savers
• The Complete Guide to Scale Economies Shared Investing1 savers
• Xiaomi1 savers
• Shrey Gupta3 savers
• How to actually feel your emotions - by Joe Hudson1 savers
• A map of Bay Area memespace — LessWrong3 savers
• Giovanni D'Antonio3 savers
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• Open-Weight Inference Economics & GPU Useful Life | Ornn Data1 savers
• #106 Bill Walsh (The Score Takes Care of Itself) - Colossus1 savers
• Evolution as Backstop for Reinforcement Learning · Gwern.net9 savers

highlights — 2557

• I believe we become much more effective operators in the world when we perceive our whole nervous system as the seat of our intelligence, rather than just our brains. We also become less trapped in our heads.

  How to Stop Overthinking - Vacha's Garden of Light

• There can be a tendency to think that all our intelligence is contained in our heads. This can cause people to retreat into their heads when they want to solve a problem

  How to Stop Overthinking - Vacha's Garden of Light

• In economics, the lump of labour fallacy is the misconception that there is a finite amount of work—a lump of labour—to be done within an economy

  Lump of labour fallacy

• "It only takes one smart cow to open the latch of the gate, and then all the other cows follow."

  Smart cow problem

• Most important, understand that goals are for losers and systems are for winners. People who seem to have good luck are often the people who have a system that allows luck to find them.

  How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - by Scott Adams | Derek Sivers

• Focus on your diet first and get that right so you have enough energy to want to exercise. Exercise will further improve your energy.

  How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - by Scott Adams | Derek Sivers

• Pick strategies that scare off the people who fear embarrassment.

  How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - by Scott Adams | Derek Sivers

• All you need for success is luck.

  How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - by Scott Adams | Derek Sivers

• “Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. if my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad."

  The Dilbert Afterlife - by Scott Alexander

• Youth is a superpower, Jordan said. Investing is a long-term game, and the earlier you are in your career, the longer your runway is to do something great.

  [FKPXLS] SPECIAL VOLUME: JOINING PACE - by Tina He

• Nothing is more American than inventing weird cringe fusions of religion and atheism where you say that God doesn’t exist as (gestures upward) some Big Man In The Sky the way those people believe, but also, there totally is a God, in some complicated sense which only I understand.

  The Dilbert Afterlife - by Scott Alexander

• But if someone were to try to be Dilbert today – to say, earnestly, “I hate my job because I am smarter than my boss and could do it better than him,” that would be the obvious next question, the same way “I am better at picking stocks than Wall Street” ought to be followed up with “Then why don’t you invest?”

  The Dilbert Afterlife - by Scott Alexander

• Arguably this had something to do with the Bohemian turn, the reaction against the forced cheer of the 1950s middle-class establishment of company men who gave their all to faceless corporations and then dropped dead of heart attacks at 60

  The Dilbert Afterlife - by Scott Alexander

• there is a “tendency for that which is ahead to get further ahead.” AI may intensify this loop like nothing before it

  Opinion | Open-model AI is good competition for Anthropic and OpenAI - The Washington Post

• DeepSeek’s first outside round valued it above $50 billion. Moonshot has raised $2 billion. Zhipu is already publicly traded in Hong Kong, where investors have handed a company that gives its models away a market capitalization north of $100 billion.

  Opinion | Open-model AI is good competition for Anthropic and OpenAI - The Washington Post

• Red Hat built a business on freely available software and in 2019 sold to IBM for $34 billion. Confluent, MongoDB, HashiCorp, Databricks — all are large, successful companies built on code anyone can download. Google gave away Android and Kubernetes; Microsoft, which once called open source a cancer, now owns the open-source platform GitHub. None of them were confused about how to make money.

  Opinion | Open-model AI is good competition for Anthropic and OpenAI - The Washington Post

• Cost leadership, he argued, is the surest route to a market position a rival cannot easily attack. Walmart, Dell, Southwest — none of them won by building the fanciest product. They won by delivering a comparable one at a structurally lower cost,

  Opinion | Open-model AI is good competition for Anthropic and OpenAI - The Washington Post

• Sears was not allowed to outlaw Walmart. IBM was not allowed to outlaw Dell. The legacy airlines were not allowed to outlaw Southwest

  Opinion | Open-model AI is good competition for Anthropic and OpenAI - The Washington Post

• What this means is that tokens are not a commodity.

  Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

• you can only be alive if you do at least one thing seriously (competitive sport/starting a company/collecting stamps), you can do more, but definitely not less

  Hi, I'm Yoni :)

• almost no one is as impressive from up close as they are from afar

  Hi, I'm Yoni :)

• you should learn it by copying people who are systematically winning

  The Rationality Community Sucks

• The Krakoa era effectively concedes Magneto’s argument: mutants only achieve safety once they stop asking permission to exist and start exercising collective power.

  The X-Men Were Built for a World That No Longer Exists

• The plant is the only commercial entity in the United States authorized by the Drug Enforcement Administration to import coca leaves, which come primarily from Peru via the National Coca Company

  Stepan Company

• Not only does the company operate with negative equity and leverage of 3.8x ($17 B of net debt on $4.7 B of EBITDA), they announced plans today to borrow an additional $5 Billion to fund a “special dividend”.

  Juicing The Market, One Repurchase at a Time

• American companies are ruthless when it comes to using financial engineering to maximize shareholder value.

  Juicing The Market, One Repurchase at a Time

• We're sort of recreating the feudal system from first principles

  Posting, Priests, & Private Markets - Colossus

• Open standards favor larger companies.

  Standards: Open For Business - Above the CrowdAbove the Crowd | By Bill Gurley

• He set down a group of general principles of management,[1] and is credited for having developed the first modern organizational chart.[2]

  Daniel McCallum

• Print photos and send them to people. (Such a nice thing to slip into a thank you note, as I learned from my newlywed friends who sent pictures of me & guests from their wedding)

  100 things I know - by Mari Andrew - Out of the Blue

• it’s a beautiful thing to see all life as sacred and meaningful

  100 things I know - by Mari Andrew - Out of the Blue

• I know that we are all thoughts in the mind of God.

  50 things I know - by Sasha Chapin - Sasha's 'Newsletter'

• There's these thinkers like Nick Land — their ideas percolate underneath the surface in the Valley and are influential on everyone, but are not necessarily named.

  Posting, Priests, & Private Markets - Colossus

• This effect describes when new trends are found on the streets, showing how innovation flows from the lower class to upper class.[

  Trickle-up fashion

• Dedicate even more time to the Quadrant 1, Tier 1 rocks in your life

  10 Types of Odd Friendships You're Probably Part Of — Wait But Why

• proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other

  10 Types of Odd Friendships You're Probably Part Of — Wait But Why

• A little extra consistency and a little extra time per training session can compound into a massive increase in volume and progress.

  Advice on Upskilling - Justin Skycak

• consider setting 1–2 professional and 1–2 personal goals for the next quarter or two.

  All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job

• Poker and chess are zero-sum games with deterministic outcomes

  The End of Decisions - Maurice Russo

• the data labeling industry will continue to fuel great businesses and be an excellent AGI long, ASI short.

  A Stargate for Data - by willdepue - Will DePue

• It’s incredible how much progress in AI owes everything to the blessing of the internet, a one-time civilizational subsidy to deep learning, decades of unintentional accumulation of a perfect dataset: every book, blog post, image, video, paper, discussion, etc. all digitized and freely available. Without the internet, we’d likely see comparably minimal progress in AI today

  A Stargate for Data - by willdepue - Will DePue

• Instead, we’re starting to hit the limits of an exponential demand for data.

  A Stargate for Data - by willdepue - Will DePue

• By saying you’re taking the time to think through things carefully, you can pacify the part of yourself that fears the consequences of your decision, and be comfortable with inaction because

  you'll make worse decisions by thinking about them

• I usually arrive at the same conclusion I came to initially even after sleeping on it for a few days, and if I spend too long on it I’m overthinking and going in circles.

  you'll make worse decisions by thinking about them

• Constellation has compounded shareholder returns at roughly 34% a year since its 2006 IPO. (Berkshire Hathaway, by contrast, managed about 11% over the same stretch.)

  Invisible Companies: Why Overlooked Businesses Win- Colossus

• Steve Ross wasn’t the only one. Constellation Software, Waste Management, HEICO, and many other rollups searched for just these sorts of businesses, and built extraordinary profits by looking where no one else was looking

  Invisible Companies: Why Overlooked Businesses Win- Colossus

• Ross essentially picked up a bunch of stones off the ground and traded them in for a diamond

  Invisible Companies: Why Overlooked Businesses Win- Colossus

• In the case of Indeed, they initially offered online publishers the ability to pay for a real time search API of online jobs. Not many took them up on that offer. But when they injected their sponsored jobs into the API and offered to share the revenue with publishers, the demand was huge.

  Business Model Jujutsu - AVC

• the development of the western part of the US in the railroad era, the creation of suburbs, shopping malls, and fast food in the auto era, and the adoption of iPhones, Facebook, and ridesharing in the internet/mobile era).

  The Carlota Perez Framework - AVC

• TCI does not believe this to be the case and Martina Cheung, CEO of S&P Global, was also there in person to drive this point.

  Inside TCI’s Conference: The Anti-AI Portfolio