Imagine a teacher who accepted every student, rich or poor, and knew exactly how to unlock their potential. That was Confucius. If #Confucius lived today, he might be an education influencer. Centuries before "personalized learning" or "inclusive classrooms" became buzzwords,…
In ancient Greece, leisure was conceived as opposed to economic activity. It was freedom from necessary labour, a privilege to pursue intellectual activities. Their word for leisure or free time was “skholē” (σχολή), which became the etymological root for today’s English word…
It’s not a dichotomy but a hybrid, more as applying a poker mindset to manage uncertainty and outcomes, while using chess strategy for process and decision-making. These approaches aren’t mutually exclusive, they complement each other. Outcomes are stochastic (like poker), and…
Life is poker, not chess Four years ago I walked away from a guaranteed promotion at McKinsey and a $300K PE offer to work in gaming for a third of the salary. Many thought I was insane. They were playing chess: calculating the optimal move with perfect information.
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English #etymology of the day: satin < Middle French zatin < Arabic zaytūn "olive", and here's where it gets even weirder. "Zaytūn" was the Arabic name of the Chinese port city of Quanzhou, a famous satin exporter. 1/2
Technically speaking, the core Confucian value is ren 仁 (“humanity”), which is said to encompass the other virtues of propriety, rightness, and wisdom. But the point remains correct that people consistently over represent certain facets.
What we call 'reasoning' in LLMs is next-token probability estimation over bounded context windows, not a system that stores or checks discrete premises. There's no built-in proof engine or formal inference mechanism. Contradictory statements aren't detected or resolved: they…
“You can’t trust me, my morals or my ethics, but please, trust my AI”
Huge repository of information about OpenAI and Altman just dropped — 'The OpenAI Files'. There's so much crazy shit in there. Here's what Claude highlighted to me: 1. Altman listed himself as Y Combinator chairman in SEC filings for years — a total fabrication (?!): "To…
Proof that Zhu Xi articulated the “Lindy Effect” (the longer something has survived, the longer its remaining life expectancy) around 823 years before @nntaleb. He tells us the more “increasingly longstanding” the memory of the ancient kings, the more “not forgotten” they become.
🧵 1/8 The Illusion of Thinking: Are reasoning models like o1/o3, DeepSeek-R1, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet really "thinking"? 🤔 Or are they just throwing more compute towards pattern matching? The new Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) show promising gains on math and coding benchmarks,…
“AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers” I tried to warn @DeryaTR_ that this was going to happen and he called me a hater. But it is indeed happening. And I am sure what is described below is just the tip of the iceberg.
A lot of East Asian Philosophy still concerns itself with the practical application of said Philosophy. In the Western Thought tradition somewhere during Modern-Post Modern times, Philosophy ceased to have real world implications and more into intellectual m*sturbation.
In prior times [in East Asia], getting a philosophy “degree” meant you were in the queue to be put in charge of a city.
Huge repository of information about OpenAI and Altman just dropped — 'The OpenAI Files'. There's so much crazy shit in there. Here's what Claude highlighted to me: 1. Altman listed himself as Y Combinator chairman in SEC filings for years — a total fabrication (?!): "To…
Today we launch a brand new series @EmpirePodUK VICTORIAN NARCOS- THE STORY OF THE OPIUM WARS
The US spent trillions on pointless wars achieving absolutely no meaningful objectives in the last 25 years alone. Neglecting to invest internally resulting in e.g. crumbling infrastructure, failing health service and education system whilst spending 100s of billions of dollars…
"The evolution of numerals" It all started in India. Number 0 to algebra. A compelling summary by William Dalrymple, one of Britain's greatest living historians and leading voices on Indian scholarship.
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