“Cultivate absolute accuracy in observation, and truthfulness in report.” – Joseph Bell
“The things that you won start to own you. I go for freedom. There’s only one true luxury in life—the private jet.” – Sam Zell (quoted by David Senra)
E.g., vibe coding lets you build more stuff because there will be less emotional attachment to the products in general
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- 1-2g2b2 The Turing principle is also about the correspondence between the two bodies, and knowledge is not necessarily embodied in the human mindrevisit
- 3-1a3 Multidisciplinary thinking is the most realistic thinking
- 3-1c3c3 Take ideas seriously, but not too seriously. Don’t be the idea.
- 5-1b1a3 We are more than technology, because we create knowledge-technology. We are more than functions. Don’t be a function.
- 13-4d6 The economist must take account of all the interrelations in the economy and recognize that money costs are determined by final prices reflecting consumer demands and valuations
- On ownership
Contradictory?
“Be fanatical about what you’re doing” – Todd Gravesrevisit
When you are not attached, you probably won’t give a dumb (explains why we need skin in the game). Hence, practical takeaway is to iterate (i.e., pivot) within your moat.
Regarding giving a dumb, when it comes to LLMs, if you don’t control the reasoning process (i.e., “black box”), you probably wouldn’t take the output seriously. This is why we need interpretability research—it’s know thyself applied externally (analogous to KYC).
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- I also discuss our tendency to overly commit to something here
- 2-1a3.1 ‘Feedback loops’ - Iterate. The more and quicker the better.
- 3-1a4b1.3 Your circle of competence can be widened, deepened, made clearer
- 6-3z A world without ownership is a world with less creativity and human flourishing
- 10-1b2 Attachment is children’s first journey from the strange to the familiar, from observer to knower — The first step in emicization (未知 ⇒ 既知)
- QUE5 - What are people in your field religious about, in the sense of being too attached to some principle that might not be as self-evident as they think. What becomes possible if you discard it.