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Now that I've read all thousand-plus pages of arbitration documents rather than relying on headlines, I have my own apology to post: I screwed. Twice actually. First I nodded along to Bryan Johnson's account of his experience based on my own prejudices. This was foolish of me

"a central preoccupation of upper-middle-class life...dinner table behavior inculcates the message about the importance of talk..At the dinner table and elsewhere, children are expected to have opinions and supply reasons for them." a.co/d/dRxEZ9u

Most people never hit their potential because they feel too much shame to verbalize precisely what they’re good at—so instead, they use general terms to describe their competencies to feel safe. If you’re literally the best in the world at designing the grid photos on an

no one’s doing it like this anymore

Charlie Munger on persuasion.

"Think of people's ego and vanity as a kind of front. When they are attacking you and you don't know why, it is often because you inadvertently threatened their ego, their sense of importance...Whenever possible..make people feel secure about themselves" a.co/d/7har3ur

"Judge talent at its best but character at its worst." — Lord Acton

From Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel acceptance speech!

The conservative movement has developed a pathological oppositional culture in which people with the ability to engage in sound epistemic practices all too often fail to do so for fear of being stigmatized as “acting lib.”

[NRSC meeting] "How is the map looking?" "It's going to be allred" "Woo-hoo! " "That's a great attitude. I got to tell you, if I was getting this news, I don't know that I'd take it this well."

Orson Scott Card: Casualty of Culture Wars I had an idea the other day: that I'd write an article about how Orson Scott Card, one of my greatest inspirations as a writer, was wronged. This came shortly after listening to an old "Secular Humanist Revival Meeting" where he spoke.

agency = the kinetic form of interest. if you truly care, action is inevitable.

so far groups associated in one way or another with "longtermism" have 1. operated a multibillion financial fraud 2. started a murderous death cult 3. developed the technology that they think has a good chance of causing human extinction

TRUMP: "We have an interesting deal with Japan, that we have to protect them, but they don't have to protect us.... who makes these deals?" The United States! After we literally wrote in a pacifist clause into the Japanese Constitution and neutered their military!

The BBC’s Mark Easton dropped ten wallets on the streets of Belfast as a social experiment — and got them all back.

Instagram Palestine supporters and Instagram vaccine skeptics both use the same line about a trillion dollars of propaganda not working on them

(losing at chess, visibly frustrated) oh I see you're playing the gay guy defense. i, personally, would never open that way, but you do you

Huge update to our preprint today on the superhuman performance of reasoning models in medical diagnosis! TL;DR – they don't just surpass humans in meaningful benchmarks, but in actual medical care from unstructured clinical data: A 🧵⬇️: x.com/AdamRodmanMD/s…

4o / o4: word salad slop o3: beautiful reasoning, top 0.1% intelligence. I'm not sure the benchmarks properly capture this shift. Right now, o3 is too pricey. But when it's not? I presume we're in for the biggest, sharpest shift in human history.