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- AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms - Google DeepMind5 savers
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- Taking ethics seriously, and enjoying the process — EA Forum4 savers
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If you truly love the girl, you need to become the best version of yourself.” Cameron was twenty-five years old but he wasn’t there yet. He would not try to meet someone until he had made himself perfect.
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissAbdulla is a Uighur. Before coming to San Francisco, he worked for ByteDance in Beijing.
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissLike Cluely, Sperm Racing seemed to be first and foremost a social-media hype machine. As far as I could tell, being a highly agentic individual had less to do with actually doing things and more to do with constantly chasing attention online.
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissI think I was just bored. Honestly, I was really bored.
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissHumans are great at agency and terrible at book learning
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissMany of these people are smart enough that they could answer their own questions, but they want someone else to do it, because then they don’t have to have this terrifying encounter with their own humanity.”
Child’s Play, by Sam Krissgood ideas are underweight.
Startup Advice - Sam AltmanIf you don’t know the answer to that one, maybe you are doing something wrong or not doing enough. Or maybe you are (optimally?) not very ambitious?
Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world“Build small groups of peers..with broadly similar interests...every day they are talking about the thing you care about, trying to solve problems in that thing.”
Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world“You learn about other cultures, you learn different points of view by refining your eye and you develop a skill that is extremely useful for judging other things and cracking cultural codes in other settings. It’s an education in market economics - art markets. Like how do you buy the best pictures in an area Haitian art, or how do you assemble a very good voodoo flag collection? How do you get artists in Mexico to do their best work for you? That’s a business problem that you need to solve.
Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the worldROS inhibits key hepatic transcriptional regulators such as AMP-activated kinase (AMPK) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPAR-alpha), which are responsible for fatty acid oxidation
KEGG PATHWAY: map04936Our findings show that the AMP grazing sites had on average 13% more soil C and 9% more soil N compared to the CG sites, across a 1 m depth
Adaptive multi-paddock grazing enhances soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and stabilization through mineral association in southeastern U.S. grazing lands - ScienceDirectUltimately, to the extent the tariffs do raise prices, they will mostly fall on the segment of relatively high-income consumers able to afford EVs and solar at all
The climate case for Biden’s new China tariffs | Semaforbut they do let Detroit off the hook and effectively give it a pass on needing to innovate
The climate case for Biden’s new China tariffs | Semaforcarbon border tariff
The climate case for Biden’s new China tariffs | SemaforThe long-term political viability of the Inflation Reduction Act subsidies underpinning the ongoing US climate tech boom relies on Biden being able to prove that taxpayers aren’t handing a mountain of cash to Chinese manufacturers, and that the subsidies can genuinely spur domestic job creation and investment in strategic industries
The climate case for Biden’s new China tariffs | SemaforI know all this has been said a thousand times before and will be said after me
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved by Nâzim Hikmet - Poems | Academy of American PoetsI am interested in proofs even if they do not accomplish their intended task.
How to think in writing - by Henrik KarlssonI push myself to make definite positive claims.
How to think in writing - by Henrik KarlssonSeeing your ideas crumble can be a frustrating experience, but it is the point if you are writing to think. You want it to break. It is in the cracks the light shines in.
How to think in writing - by Henrik KarlssonThis often requires breaking old ideas, which is much easier to do when the ideas are as rigid as they get on the page.
How to think in writing - by Henrik KarlssonIt feels to them as if they do, especially if they're not in the habit of critically examining their own thinking. Ideas can feel complete. It's only when you try to put them into words that you discover they're not. So if you never subject your ideas to that test, you'll not only never have fully formed ideas, but also never realize it.
How to think in writing - by Henrik Karlssonowever, there is still a great deal of normative content in canonical Buddhist literature. The result, to quote Jay Garfield, is that the scholar of Buddhist ethics is confronted with “a lot of what might appear to be disconnected observations about moral life… Not all of [which] will fit together neatly.”5 Any attempt to treat Buddhist ethics is therefore highly interpretive and reconstructive.
Buddhism and Utilitarianism | Utilitarianism.netexperience of the taste of the noble fruit (i.e. “the fruits of asceticism”)
Why You Don't Want VipassanaBut that’s not what most people want. They like their identity and goals in life, so it fucks them up.
Why You Don't Want VipassanaThis kind of development aid has been roundly criticized and did especially badly in Russia.
Does Capitalism Beat Charity? - by Scott AlexanderThe Chicago Boys and their intellectual mentors placed the word “freedom” at the top of their priority list. The paradox of promoting this supposed economic “freedom” in the midst of a dictatorship is the darkest part of their legacy.
The Complicated Legacy of the “Chicago Boys” in Chile - ProMarketThe University of Chicago conceives of the economy “not as an instrument to justify one ideology or another,” but rather to observe reality in a way that was “positivist and empirical.
The Complicated Legacy of the “Chicago Boys” in Chile - ProMarketQuoting Voltaire: “In order to have taste, it is not enough to see and to know what is beautiful in a given work. One must feel beauty and be moved by it.”
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhileIt lets us try ideas on for size without needing to immediately jump to explain it to others
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhileIf we are moved, not by the fear of seeing an illusory security vanish, but by a thirst for knowing, then error, like suffering or sorrow, will cross us without ever becoming frozen, and the trace of its passage will be a renewed understanding.”
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhileOne who fears to be wrong is powerless to discover.
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhileA pure ‘truth-seeker’ has an interest in always getting it right. This attitude constrains the search space, focusing searches on plausible paths to explore and discarding what is implausible or beyond the pale. However, because their assessment of plausibility will always proceed from their standing system of beliefs, even their most rational epistemic attempts can be caught in what Nguyen calls an epistemic trap: belief systems that make us shut down a line of questioning before exploring its validity.
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhilescientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhileBut the downside is that this habit it that it primes our brains to value our work in the context of the taste of others rather than of our own. We have outsourced our value systems for what is good and bad (how we may judge aesthetic value) to other people.
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhileFor any creative pursuit, this ability to notice more deeply is what distinguishes good from great. This specific pursuit of what feels beautiful gives rise to a form of attention that starts to reveal the infinite depth of the world.
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhileThe most profound and fruitful work is also that which attests to the most delicate sensitivity in apprehending the hidden beauty of things
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhileChina will never seek hegemony, and its development strengthens the world’s forces for peace.
Chinese Consul General in Penang Zhou Youbin Publishes A Signed Article Titled "The Chinese Path to Modernization - A Bright Path Towards the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation"We should resolutely not repeat the mistakes of “polluting first and treating later” of Western countries in industrialization
Chinese Consul General in Penang Zhou Youbin Publishes A Signed Article Titled "The Chinese Path to Modernization - A Bright Path Towards the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation"The common prosperity we desire is not egalitarianism. We will first make the pie bigger, and then divide it properly through reasonable institutional arrangements, and development gains will benefit all our people in a more substantial and equitable way.
Chinese Consul General in Penang Zhou Youbin Publishes A Signed Article Titled "The Chinese Path to Modernization - A Bright Path Towards the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation"The common prosperity we desire is not egalitarianism.
Chinese Consul General in Penang Zhou Youbin Publishes A Signed Article Titled "The Chinese Path to Modernization - A Bright Path Towards the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation"democratic, culturally advanced
Chinese Consul General in Penang Zhou Youbin Publishes A Signed Article Titled "The Chinese Path to Modernization - A Bright Path Towards the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation"historical inevitability
Chinese Consul General in Penang Zhou Youbin Publishes A Signed Article Titled "The Chinese Path to Modernization - A Bright Path Towards the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation"If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert or a cup of tea, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert or my tea when I finally have them.
Memories from the Root Temple: Washing Dishes | Plum VillageCan impure body, speech, and mind be transformed into pure body, speech, and mind, or are they entirely separate?
What Om Mani Padme Hum Means? - Shambhala PubsHong Kong is the ultimate abstraction whereby our lives are no longer dependant on mother nature but on artificial life-support systems which feed off mass-produced assemblies of raw materials processed out-of-sight and out-of-mind. As a vision or model of a future city, it’s both enthralling and frightening.
Project 2501: Recreating 'Ghost in the Shell' in Hong Kong – RandomwireIf one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration
Politics and the English Language | The Orwell FoundationThe outstanding feature of Mr. X’s work is its living quality’, while another writes, ‘The immediately striking thing about Mr. X’s work is its peculiar deadness’, the reader accepts this as a simple difference of opinion.
Politics and the English Language | The Orwell FoundationThe immediately striking thing about Mr. X’s work is its peculiar deadness’, the reader accepts this as a simple difference of opinion.
Why I Write | The Orwell FoundationWriting a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist or understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention.
Why I Write | The Orwell Foundation