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All-time best quote from Dune: "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."


His mental clarity is amazing.

You could combine the first two into: Hard work is the magnitude of the vector and curiosity is the direction. I might not have gotten that immediately, but it would have stuck in my head till I did.



The good thing about learning AI is that we have them:

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The extreme focus of a young Bill Gates:


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“Working on something hard brought best in me and created a new set of opportunities.” — Lisa Su, AMD CEO


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Ironically, the better you are at ignoring the world, the more attention you get from it.


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Steve Jobs: "You have to start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology."


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Want to learn? Go build something.


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Are you a great mobile web / React Native dev and want to build Replit's mobile app in California? You are in for an incredible experience. If interested, do the following: Step 1: Retweet this. Step 2: Send a DM to connect Step 3: Apply through the link below..


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“If you want to be successful, I would encourage you to grow a tolerance for failure.” — Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang


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This tracks completely with what I've experienced using AI as a pair programmer. As soon as I'm tempted to let it drive, I learn nothing, retain nothing. But if I do the programming, and it does the API look-ups, explains the concepts, I learn a lot.

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

itsalexvacca's tweet image. BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)


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If they can train you to do it, they can train a machine to do it.


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English is the most powerful human language and the universal medium for thought. I’d take mastery of English over multilingualism any time of the day.

From Essayful

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Talking to AI helps you execute at your current level of intelligence much faster, but nothing beats reading books at actually getting smarter


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A physical book has no notifications and no dying battery.


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Thinking from first principles instead of pattern-matching the past lets you anticipate important changes with a bit of advance notice. Not all of them, but some big ones.


I really like how smart people explain things in a simple way.

Cron jobs that call an LLM



Great post about the meaning of agency.

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are…



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A good proxy to determine if you’re working on the right things for ambitious people is to ask yourself: 1. Am I learning superlinearly each day - is my growth rate accelerating? 2. Am I having a ton of fun? If the answer to either question is no, then re-evaluate your life.


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