@heydyvex Of course. And therefore, as Popper said: "it is our duty, not to prophesy evil but, rather, to fight for a better world".

@RolandForTexas You are a taker, not a maker. All you’ve done your whole life is take from the makers of the world. The zero-sum mindset you have is at the root of so much evil. Once you realize that civilization is not zero-sum and that it is about making far more than one consumes, then it

My article in the @IndianExpress: On @PrashantKishor and the politics of dare... After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. Theodore Roosevelt once observed that credit belongs not to the critic who points out how the strong man stumbles,

If you aren’t curious about it, you’ll never be good at it. @naval

The same holds for research, I think.

"The paradox of teaching entrepreneurship is that such a formula (for innovation) cannot exist; Because every innovation is new and unique, no authority can prescribe in concrete terms how to be more innovative. Indeed, the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that

Stonehenge no more! Had no idea this account existed until today 👏 regular updates on Ejipura Flyover progress. Accounts like this are the need of the hour for ALL Bengaluru (and arguably India) infra projects, with daily geo-tagged images and videos.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.

"Be patient, it takes 10 years to build a career in anything." @naval

Skim read https://t.co/9gVpphHIkl. Largely scientism. Philosophically bankrupt (technically and pejoratively) as in there is zero engagement with the relevant philosophy. It's all assumed uncritically. *Nothing* (!!) about creativity or explanations...never mind universality.

Reinforcement learning is revealed yet again to be a waste of time.

@SebastienBubeck @MarkSellke this is embarrassing

https://t.co/Zw36zKRX4h

Fast iteration is the key to success. - Paul Graham

“In my whole life I've never been good at something I wasn't very interested in. It just doesn't work. There's no substitute for strong interest.” — Charlie Munger

"The limiting factor in anyone understanding anything is how interested they are." @DavidDeutschOxf

One thing I do differently/more than basically everyone I've ever worked with is to make every single task & subtask an opportunity to learn something new or make something kinda cool. That's a cool thing about computers. You can do the work, or build a thing to make them do it

The reason AI coding works so well is that the source code of the median app was already slop before LLMs.

I have a new blog post about the so-called “tokenizer-free” approach to language modeling and why it’s not tokenizer-free at all. I also talk about why people hate tokenizers so much!

We need more words for how people relate to different ideas about future possibilities. Because “belief/disbelief” doesn’t begin to cover it. Probability tries to reduce to a number what is reality a vast spectrum of differently structured attitudes.