As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

From one of my favorite Hacker News comments ever, by Jonathan Blow:

A really great exercise for everyone in deep tech: Write down the science fiction story of the future of your company, project, technology, or research. Make it as vivid and realistic as you possibly can. Now, believe you are already a character in the story. Live by it.

Really good

what's happening with ai adoption in india right now is amazing to watch. we love to see the explosion of creativity--india is outpacing the world.

David Silver really hits it out of the park in this podcast. The paper "Welcome to the Era of Experience" is here: goo.gle/3EiRKIH.

What would a post AGI world look like? Google DeepMind

“You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.” — Bhagavad Gita

Be the person your LLM thinks you are

How quickly can species evolve to adapt to new climates?

Demis is a genius and he should be given all resources in the world to make this happen.

i hope my emails find me well

A moral equivalence between India and Pakistan is absurd I hope this conflict doesn't escalate, but it's foolish for the West to judge India India has been patient in an impossible situation

The single greatest skill you can develop is the ability to stay in a great mood in the absence of things to be in a great mood about.

Leonardo da Vinci on excellence:

Nietzsche, what a line

Software creates soft men Soft men create hard times Hard times create hard men Hard men create hardware Hardware creates good times Good times creates software

Obsession, Obsession, always obsession

I think about this at least 1x a week.

You just need to take a good look at all the older people who didn't get to live the life they wanted, and it will become obvious that the causes are always the same, generation after generation: