A good heuristic for when to use a thinking model is "Think about it before you come talk to me." Raw transformers are for telling you an answer off the dome.

Anti-ageism and anti-lookism as a pivot opportunity for woke

More attempts to blow up what makes Britain politically powerful. The "bog monster" of the voting public, long chained in the swamp, now in a tyranny of newfound adolescence, will stand on its feet. Do not cripple it, just wait.

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Falsifiability is crucial to science in significant part because it allows anyone to challenge prestigious authorities. Therefore a good test for the health of a scientific field is "could a key belief in the field be debunked by a (sufficiently good) anonymous blog post?"

Typically the constraining bottleneck of a knowledge growth process is how widely and deeply it can collide right up against reality. In startups this is sometimes called ‘talking to your customers’.

The infinite game is one way to put it, but as humans ‘you always need somewhere to jump to’.

I think people massively underestimate how much national security risk the US is creating for itself by prioritizing personal loyalty over competence in government hiring + retention. We are not in the 90s anymore in terms of geopolitics or technology + are on very thin ice...