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This is dense.... but worth the read.
OpenAI co-founder on learning vs. entertainment:
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never doom. never goon. read daily. sunlight in the morning. no dead scrolling. expensive furniture. loyal friends. stranger kindness. deep sleep. huge fucking speakers. mostly silent. long days. short nights. solitudinous contemplation. morning writing. purpose. money. health.
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Newton locked himself in a room for 18 months during a plague and invented calculus, gravity, and optics. Tesla spent entire days alone in his lab talking to pigeons. Einstein would disappear into his own head mid-conversation and forget you existed.
Solitude wasn’t their weakness. It was their weapon.
The world calls it antisocial. History calls it genius. Because the same brain that can’t handle a crowded party is often the one running twenty parallel thoughts simultaneously — and needs the silence to sort through all of them.
Most people are terrified of being alone with their own mind. Geniuses are terrified of not getting enough time with it.
The loneliness wasn’t a side effect of their greatness. It was probably the source of it.
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neuroticism is the antithesis of enlightenment and therefore also the root of all ‘evil’
all bad things that you do to yourself or others, all envy, all fear, all anxiety-provoked behavior that makes you act in ways that are not noble is all born from neuroticism
once you understand this you can start to cure yourself and alleviate anxious thoughts and behaviors
as you get better you’ll also learn to easily read the neuroticism in others
all fear based things are basically just neurotic
you envy others or some of you envy me, because you’re neurotically triggered
the neurotic trigger causes fear which causes envy which leads to toxic competitive dynamics
neuroticism will always trap you in lower states of consciousness basically
creative abundance is only accessible in non-neurotic higher states of mind
in any person that lacks higher creative capacity the truth is always that they’re plagued with neuroticism
you don’t have to permanently be in such a state however, as mentioned, you can cure yourself
once you cure yourself then fear disappears and the feelings of envy or needing to compete with me or others also disappears
eightfold path is fundamental for this basically
as neuroticism is ultimately mental suffering - thus the eightfold path is literally a spiritual-philosophical framework for curing suffering and shedding all neuroticism
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Start here: the primer on data compression fundamentals
mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html
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"People are brainwashed to not realize that so many "noble" pursuits (academia, service, anything where one is paid with "honors") are zero-sum. And wealth pursuits, outside of rent seeking, aren't zero-sum." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Ben Affleck is clearly studying good math using ussr math books 📚
Ben Affleck says AI is simply matrix multiplication, linear algebra and floating point calculations, and however convincingly it sounds like a person, it has nothing to do with thought, humanity or feeling
“Nor do I believe, and I think it’s important to draw the distinction between what AI does, which is simply predict the next token or the next word in a sentence, then add that word on, run it back to the machine, do a lot of computation and pick the next word."
"That is a very different thing than sentience or thought. And I think we need to be really clear about that because it can be convincingly, in an illusory way, sound like thought or like a person."
"But let’s be real clear. This is matrix multiplication. This is linear algebra. These are floating point calculations. It has nothing to do with thought, humanity, or feeling.”
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Hi, I'm Felix. I'm an eng lead working on Claude. I love watching people take flight and do things they never thought possible.
We often describe that as "being more ambitious" when using AI, which is tricky advice to follow. I wrote a tutorial:
felixrieseberg.com/how-to-be…
anthropic’s lead engineer btw.
Hi, I'm Felix. I'm an eng lead working on Claude. I love watching people take flight and do things they never thought possible.
We often describe that as "being more ambitious" when using AI, which is tricky advice to follow. I wrote a tutorial:
felixrieseberg.com/how-to-be…
I curated 125 free math textbooks, written by the mathematicians who teach the courses and shared on their own university pages. No sign-up, no paywall, no pirated copies. From high school algebra to graduate analysis. 👇
abakcus.com/book-lists/free-…
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it’s honestly insane how much of the modern tech tree has been unlocked because of a single guy
thanks to Elon we have
- online payments
- mass market electric cars
- batteries and grid-scale energy storage
- self driving cars and robotaxis
- humanoid robots
- advanced brain computer interfaces
- next generation tunneling
- reusable rockets
-global satellite internet
- basically the modern space industry
- Moon and Mars transportation
- orbital compute and space data centers
- frontier AI
- gigantic AI supercomputers
- physical world AI
and the wildest part is that these branches are now starting to merge
there is a very real chance that this one guy ends up being the reason humanity reaches Kardashev II
genuinely the man of the millennium
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Recommended reading for the weekend:
1. @a16z — State of Markets II
2. @GoldmanSachs — AI Is Becoming a Stock Picker’s Market
3. @FundaAI — Optics: FCC Transceiver Rules Might Be Better Than Feared, and Better for Top Chinese Players Than You'd Think
4. @abcampbell — There Are Bonds in the Singularity
5. @federalreserve — An Update on AI and the Economy
Have a great weekend everyone!
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Hi everyone,
Try the Mega link below
Tips to use:
- It’s a big one, 8200 cards, so never let the type A personality inside of you take over and read the whole explanation if not needed, just don’t, never ever
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- Update the PCV vaccine cards since the guidelines changed and i really didn’t care after step 2
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Good luck 👍🏻
I have decided to giveaway my USMLE Step 2/3 Anki for free for everyone
This helped me to score a 275 2 years ago
It’s a little bit big, but i’m sure it’s of very high quality
I wish you all success
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