flâneur

Jay Adityanag Tipirneni

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on the atlas — 24

highlights — 10

  • EA manufactured a secular eschatology. Longtermism provided the structure: millennial time frames, civilizational stakes, and the possibility that actions taken now could determine the fates of trillions of people. This is a substitution for the eschaton, the final judgment and the world to come. It serves the same psychological function and provides the same sense of cosmic importance that human beings require to sustain sacrifice over time.
    Rented Virtue - by Will Manidis and Nabeel S. Qureshi
  • Three prize-winning AI-generated short stories are extremely bad news. If the judge’s commentary on the prize-winning AI-generated short story is also AI-generated, maybe we should pack it up and digest ourselves into grey goo ahead of schedule.
    If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
  • I found that the various forms of nonsense all started to bleed into one another. The motionless people drooling on the sidewalk, the Waymos whooshing around with no one inside. A kind of pervasive mindlessness.
    Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
  • It’s cases like these that make me skeptical of reasoning about China’s tech successes through financial measures or productivity ratios. As of this writing, Xiaomi’s market value is $130 billion. That is only around half of the market value of AppLovin, the mobile advertisement company. Rather than being an indictment of Xiaomi, I view this imbalance as an indictment of financial valuations. Isn’t it better, from a national power perspective, to develop firms like Xiaomi, which calls its shots and then makes them?
    2025 letter | Dan Wang
  • That contributes to a culture I think of as Silicon Valley’s soft Leninism. When political winds shift, people fall in line, most prominently this year as many tech voices embraced the right.
    2025 letter | Dan Wang
  • A vision is not something you develop overnight. You need to work at it, putting time aside for the process, and learning to integrate it into your everyday life.
    Principles of Effective Research | Michael Nielsen
  • When it comes to proactivity and responsibility, it seems to be incredibly difficult to internalize these principles and act on them consistently.
    Principles of Effective Research | Michael Nielsen
  • I believe that the foundation of effective research is to internalize a strong vision of what you want to achieve, to work proactively towards that vision, taking personal responsibility for successes and failures.
    Principles of Effective Research | Michael Nielsen
  • As an alive person, you have one major advantage over dead people: you can take actions. You can work jobs and write novels and learn math and parent children and watch movies and rescue adorable animals in need.
    The Life Goals of Dead People - by Ozy Brennan
  • Chris Macleod calls this “epiphany addiction”: “Each time they feel like they’ve stumbled on some life changing discovery, feel energized for a bit without going on to achieve any real world changes, and then return to their default of feeling lonely and unsatisfied with their life. They always end up back at the drawing board of trying to think their way out of their problem, and it’s not long before they come up with the latest pseudo earth shattering insight.”7
    Confront reality (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)