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1Warren Buffettpeople55467487
2Ludwig Lachmannpeople14625121
3Sherlock Holmespeople1405090
4David Deutschpeople1273691
5Daniel Everettpeople11714103
6Naval Ravikantpeople963561
75-2 What counts cannot be countednotes896425
8Murray Rothbardpeople893851
910-2g3d1 Humans do stupid things because we can guess and create meanings. Our ability comes with a great cost of potentially doing very (infinitely) stupid things.notes743935
1012-1e Nothing is necessary = Everything is contingentnotes713734
11Michael Burrypeople702347
121-1a5b4.4 Real-time calibration (i.e., recalibration) lets you adapt to the changing landscapenotes694227
13Ludwig von Misespeople691752
142-1a Information is in the difference. No difference, no information. 情報とは差異. 区別のないところに情報は生まれない.notes664917
155-1b4a Amara’s law - we expect too much in the short-run, but too little in the long-runnotes663333
162-1a0c1d1 Focus on the few variablesnotes642836
175-1b1a2c0 No theory can exhaust realitynotes613625
18Saifedean Ammouspeople601050
192-1b2b 'Second-order thinking' - Solve the root cause of a problem (prevention) and not symptoms. Be smart-lazy.notes583226
203-1c1b You are what you think and you think what you see, and you see what you thinknotes552530
213-1d6 Constraints in the form of consistent style leave space for creativity and progressnotes553718
2213-1a3.0a Always go for the best—work on the best project, work in the best industry, work with the best peoplenotes542628
235-1b1b1a3 Network effects (digital) > Supply and demand (physical)notes531637
247-1d2a The relation between technology and the problem-situation (i.e., culture and mind) is reflexivenotes523616
255-1b1b1a1 Things can become easier the more complexity you have (Network effects = Power-law)notes502921
261-2 We are falliblenotes493316
272-2d Gresham’s Law generalized—the bad practice drives out the goodnotes491336
282-1a3.1 'Feedback loops' - Iterate. The more and quicker the better.notes481533
292-1a6 'Incentives' - Incentives drive (almost) everything. Understand your incentives.notes483711
302-1b2b5 Know the correlations between your bets. Holy grail is fifteen or so uncorrelated bets.notes482325
312-1d 'Ecosystem' & 'Thermodynamics' & 'Double-entry bookkeeping' - Everything is connected, there is no free lunchnotes483414
323-1c3c4.2 “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect”notes482424
339-4b2a1b Build the Idea Maze - Explain the history around an idea, and why yours is a good one. Virtually render the history of the evolution of that idea.notes48399
34Charlie Mungerpeople483711
353-1a4b5 Anything can be priced in principle. But not everything will be.notes471829
367-1b4b You can let the tech decide what are the problems to be solved. Otherwise, it will decide by itself. It's about possibility and not about should.notes472522
378-1b3 The software can control the hardwarenotes471928
3810-2g1 Culture is an implicit theory for its members. It dictates what to look at and how they reason about the world.notes463214
393-1c3c4.3 “Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy only when others are fearful”notes461630
404-1a4b2b1 'One-of-those' over one-off - Learn from history (not just from your 'own' experience)notes463016
415-3b Knowledge creates new frontiers (and new markets)notes462422
42Li Lupeople463412
43William Zinsserpeople46739
441-1c6a1c The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absencenotes452718
452-1a4 'Language instinct' - Language can't exhaust mindnotes45378
462-1aa Privacy is the absence of information leakagenotes431924
472-1b2c 'Compounding' - Permeate across the timelinenotes431924
485-2b5 Theories precede datanotes432518
492-1b2b2 'Multiplying by zero' - Be risk-prone but avoid ruin at all costnotes422319
502-1c1 'Comparative advantage' - If others can do it, let themnotes422418
513-1a4b1.2 Define and stay within your circle of competencenotes421626
524-1a3b Go to specific places to get specific feedbacksnotes421725
535-2a0 Know what to measurenotes422121
54RUL3 - Invert, always invertnotes422913
5510-2g1f2a4 The mind ≠ A computernotes411427
5610-2g2c1 Symbols are universal. Being arbitrary and contingent means it can represent anything, and do everything.notes413011
5712-1a2a1 Free markets and free speech, by definition, transcend the concepts of nation-statesnotes411724
582-1b2 Play in different time horizon. That is, in the long-run.notes412516
596-3b When you own something, you have an incentive to invest in itnotes411229
609-4b2a1e Be the outsider - 外部性・外来性を重視することnotes411724
612-1a6b 'Pavlovian association' & 'Social proof' - Understand the arbitrary association formed within your culture. There are no pure indexes for humans.notes402416
622-1b2b1.1 If it’s not worth doing well, it’s not worth doing at allnotes401228
633-1c2e 情報は関係性の中にある - Meaning is often in relation to other thingsnotes402713
644-1a4b2b2 History repeats and reversesnotes401129
655-1b1b2b Don't try to be the best. Be the only.notes402911
665-3c Knowledge is irreversible, and can only go from private to publicnotes402713
679-1b You can’t really transfer your knowledge to others, because each knowledge has to be created individuallynotes402416
681-2g2s7b3 An explanation for how something really works cannot rely on infinitynotes391722
692-1b2e 'Algorithms' & 'Replication' - Share your problem-situation as clearly possible, so that others can make decisions without you on your behalf (i.e., multiply)notes391227
703-1a The reality doesn’t have categories, there are only problems to be solved. Be problem-project-oriented. 'Academic subjects' are mere social constructs.notes392712
714-1a4b2b Being reactive is like being analog in the heat of the momentnotes391623
725-1b1a2c0.1 Perfect replication is impossiblenotes392019
735-2a Check your growth rate of expectations vs circumstances. The former is hard to measure. But remember - you get what you measure.notes391326
749-1a1 People who converge upon the truth converge with each othernotes392712
759-1b0a When you have learned something, the way it exists in your mind is the same as the way it exists in the mind of the inventornotes391326
769-4b2a1d A group of people who doesn't know who they are and where they came from won't make it to the moon or Marsnotes392514
7710-2g1f3 We can only figure out what they know by what they do ('performance'), because we can never directly study what people know ('competence'). To assert that we can is a common error in thinking.notes381820
7810-2g3d1.1 Humans create their own causenotes381325
7913-8a2 The demand for money stems from fundamental uncertainty about both the future environment and the future-selfnotes381622
804-1d0 Look at the whole of conversations, including how things are being said as well as what’s not being said (e.g., taboos)notes382711
819-2a1 It doesn’t matter where you came from (or where you are); what matters is what you can do and where you are goingnotes382414
82How Popper would use LLMsessays38830
83RUL3 - Love bad news. Always question to falsify your idea and theory. Invalidate ASAP. How fast you can invalidate matters as much as how fast you can build them. Rule out bad explanations.notes382810
841-1a2e7 Dark matter both help and impede our perception of the worldnotes37433
855-1b1b1a1a Pareto principle (or law of the vital few) - 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causesnotes371423
865-2c2a Prioritize bullshit avoidance over money and prestige. Don't waste your time.notes372116
877-1a2a You will be solving universal problems by attending to local-parochial problems firstnotes371819
887-1b4 You can solve problems that just became solvablenotes371819
892-1a1a3a You're the average of your five closest friends OR You're the average of the people whose content you consume the mostnotes362313
902-1b2f 'Equivalence' - Reality doesn't care genealogy. Solving problems is what matters. How it's done matters less.notes36279
917-1 Create what people want or will wantnotes361521
922-1b2b1 'Inversion' - Avoid stupid obvious bullshit you'd regret in the futurenotes352015
932-1c 'Opportunity costs' - Look beyond the obvious. See what's hidden.notes35926
943-1a3 Multidisciplinary thinking is the most realistic thinkingnotes351718
953-1d6c Amara’s law modified - we underestimate the importance of consistency in the short-run, but overestimate in the long-runnotes35287
966-3b2 In corporate networks you can only quitnotes351322
977-1a2a3 Win at the corner then come back (傾く・バロック)notes351718
988-2b2b Key moment is when people (e.g., devs) don't have to worry about the infrastructure (e.g., platform risks including high take rates)notes351025
99Nassim Talebpeople352114
1001-1a5b4 'Release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity'notes341420
10110-2g1f Imitation = limitation (imitation has limitation)notes341024
10210-2g3d Behaviors can be replicators even when its meanings are not (properly) understood, because we can guess the meaning of memes. For rational memes, knowledge is THE replicator.notes341420
10313-4d4e All the consumer has to do is to think about himself—in contrast, the entrepreneur (e.g., producer, investor, operator) is primarily about othersnotes341123
10413-5f The interest rate is determined by the time-preference schedules, rather than vice versanotes341321
1052-1a6c3 'Global and local maxima' - Don't prematurely overoptimize. Occasionally throw in some 'randomness'.notes341618
1063-1c2e0 There is no minimum ideanotes341717
1075-1 When you are long truth you are long volatility and timenotes342212
1085-1b4c2a When you have an agency, you don't get depleted. We aren't powered by a battery.notes341717
1098-4 LLMsnotes342113
1101-2i Brandolini’s Law (the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle)—the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce itnotes331419
1112-1b2b0b Do not underestimate the essential—don’t risk what you have and need, to get what you don’t neednotes331023
1122-1e Everything is connected in a complex waynotes331716
1133-1a4b1.3 Your circle of competence can be widened, deepened, made clearernotes33924
1144-1a4b6b When ideas are exposed to various contexts (i.e., different people-place-time) they often find unexpected match. Ideas have timing.notes331914
1155-1b1a2c0.2 Analogue information (e.g., tones of voice, EQ) cannot be perfectly-exhaustively represented by digital systems (e.g., universal writing systems)notes331716
1165-3a Knowledge via new explanations is inherently creative and its effects are positive-sum, because it begets new problems to be solvednotes332013
1179-2a2 You have to figure out where you are going by living abductively via surprisesnotes331023
1181-2f1a Error-correction is the beginning of infinity. All jumps to universality occur in digital systems.notes322210
1191-2g2b Humans are significant insofar as we can create knowledgenotes32248
12012-1a2c Digital network can solve the problem of network defects (both as a failure and a political defection) because not constrained by the arbitrary state and its physical borders means it doesn't get too big or too complexnotes321220
1212-1a0a 'Occam's razor' & 'Irreducibility' - Simplify the problem but don't oversimplify.notes321418
1223-1c3c3a1 Don't be so attached to anything because almost everything is contingent. Assume no self.notes322012
1235-1b4b Compounding is usually too slow to notice. You have to be deliberate in how you think and what you see.notes322111
1246-3b4d Community first, monetization later; morality first, money second; missionary over mercenarynotes32626
1257-1a2a1.1 'Scale' - Anything that scaled started small, at the edge, at the frontier, as an avant-gardenotes321121
1269-4f Product is merit and distribution is connectionnotes321022
1271-1a5a3 Knowledge is about knowing the edgenotes311021
12810-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the societynotes312110
12910-2d1a The regularity in nature can be expressed arbitrarily well either by the language of mathematics, natural language, or by computers (zeros and ones)notes311021
13011-3.3 'The law of diminishing returns' - We can recalibrate the curve so that we are always at the growing phase of the S-curve!notes31922
13111-3.4a More is differentnotes311417
1323-1c2e3 Infinite semiosis - 'There is no beginning or end to symbols because it is recursive'notes311120
1335-1b4c1b You can easily replace the self-discipline with the four laws of habit formation - (1) make it obvious, (2) make it attractive, (3) make it easy, and (4) make it satisfyingnotes311813
1345-1b4c4 Pay attention to your ‘taboos’ - If there is something you fear unconsciously, you have to face itnotes311615
1355-2a2 What gets measured gets managednotes312011
1368-1b3d Monetary policies can come first and the currency circulation can come later (or symbiotically-simultaneously), not vice versa (i.e., bottom-up vs top-down)notes311120
1379-2b3e3 There is no universal knowledgenotes311615
1381-1a5b4.3 build-launch-measure-learn and iterate - don't restartnotes30921
1391-1c6a3.1 Really good opportunities aren’t often and won’t last longnotes301416
1401-2b In the quest for truth, what matters is the explanation and not where it came from (the quest for truth ≠ a quest for certainty-justification-necessity)notes301614
1411-2d You have to know your problem-situation (and your web of ideas) as best as you can to judge the merit of new explanationsnotes301614
1421-2e1 Be ambitious but leverage what you already knownotes301020
1431-2g2c1 Testability matters only when you have a good explanation (hard-to-vary explanation)notes301416
14411-3.4 'Utility' (marginal, diminishing, increasing) - Specialization beats the Invisible Handnotes301020
1452-3a 'First principles thinking' - If it's not forbidden by the laws of physics, it is possiblenotes301218
1463-1a4b7 The monetary account will increasingly explain the world—especially as it pertains to the human actions—though never exhaustivelynotes301812
1475-1b2 Don’t invest in prediction, because knowledge is inherently unpredictablenotes301317
1485-1b3a In particular, we underestimate how much we can change in the future during and after downturns. Things change.notes30219
1496-3b1 Users become owners with tokensnotes30723
1507-1b4b4 It’s better to take the risk of telling others about your ideas than to hide themnotes30426
1517-1d Create something simpler-faster-cheaper for things we’ve been doing for thousands of yearsnotes301614
1529-2a3b Don’t pick up anything which has certain downside. Avoid bullshit.notes301317
1539-4b2a1f Two-way debate benefits from criticismnotes301614
1549-4b3e1 Concise explanations accelerate. It helps others understand you better and faster at all scales.notes301911
155RUL3 - Write out your goals. It’s amazing how few people do.notes301713
1561-1a2e3 Cultures are evolution’s ultimate solution to the problem of providing adaptive flexibilitynotes291415
15710-1a5 Digitizing history means explaining each fork as contingent points (the could've been) for the history around an idea. History is the Idea Maze, and must be created symbolically (never non-digitally nor indexically) by the individuals.notes291217
15813-10 The law of the diminishing marginal utility of money applies only to the valuations of each individual personnotes291415
15913-1a3a1c A new form of evolutionary processes emerges with money—memes become accountable with money, although not exhaustivelynotes29722
16013-4d4 Value is subjectivenotes29236
1612-1a1a4a 'Probabilistic thinking' - Do not assume miracles!notes291019
1622-1a7a5 Build day by day unless anything fundamental ('the core') changed. Superficial-uncontrollable criteria (e.g., share price) matter less.notes291415
1632-1b3a 'Circle of competence' & 'Niches' - Build a moat. Thrive in where you can.notes291415
1642-3b 'Leverage' - The effort put in and its utility-results doesn't have to correlate at all. Use this to your advantage.notes291316
1653-1a4a1 The whole must be evoked in explaining the partsnotes291910
1663-1b1b Problems encountered during projects are valuable. The harder they are the better.notes291514
1673-1c3c4 'Tendency to distort due to liking or disliking' - Never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.notes29821
1685-1b1a1 Improving on already existent technology by removing one of its restraints amounts to innovationnotes291613
1699-2a3 Be long volatility with peoplenotes291019
1709-4e2c Figure out what's really worth automating-delegating first, before automating-delegating anythingnotes29209
17110-2e4 Other times (in 'our universe') are just special cases of other universes. There is no demarcation between other times and other universes in the multiverse.notes28199
17212-1a Turning constants into variables increases volatilitynotes28820
17313-5b2a Because of money, the concept of rate of return can be abstracted to the ratio between present goods exchanged against future goods in generalnotes28622
17413-9 Man allocates everything so that each unit goes into the use with the highest prospective marginal utility on his value scale—i.e., in accordance with the principle of maximizing his psychic incomenotes281018
1752-1a0b 'Thought experiment' - Don't limit yourself to binary thinking. Explore at least three possible solutions.notes28424
1762-1a3 'Seeing the front' - Incorporate what can't be explicatednotes281612
1773-1c2d Human knowledge is hierarchically structured. It's a list but also about how things on the list relate to one another. The sum of what we know is greater than all things put together.notes281414
1785-2b6 Theories need datanotes281711
1797-1a2a1 絶対に勝てるところから勝っていくnotes281711
1807-1a4b Understanding the measurement-constraints amounts to understanding the system-incentives. That is, creating explanations.notes28199
1818-1a What can go digital will go digitalnotes281810
1828-1c4 ‘Killer application’ is knowledge-technology-universality that begets reflexivity between app-platform-people by pushing people over the thresholdnotes281810
1839-1a2 Most fairly good ideas are adjacent to even better onesnotes281117
1849-4b2d1 Explanatory knowledge creation ≠ Biological knowledge (the former, specifically scientific knowledge, is more composable, and thus more universal)notes281315
1859-4c Someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivialnotes281612
1861-2g2t3d Because creation (and growth) of knowledge is in essence error-correction, and because being wrong is way easier than being right, knowledge-creating-bearing entities will become more alike (and thrive) across the multiversenotes271413
18712-1e4 Nothing is objectively and independently goodnotes27189
18813-1a3a1f Success in the money economy implies adaptation to others (including distant ones), not merely to its surrounding environmentnotes27621
1892-1a0c1c Purpose (and curiosity) beats for-profitnotes271413
1902-1a0c1d The One Commandment is about focus - Focus on a single moral innovationnotes271215
1913-1a4b4a Financial cycles ≠ Product cyclesnotes271116
1923-1c3c Keep each ideas separately, because there is nothing absolute and necessary in the connections I make between themnotes271215
1935-1b1 Invest in preparedness. Be redundant and resourceful in every aspect. Minimize opportunity cost to achieve great things.notes271611
1945-1b1a1c1 The interoperability law - information can be copied from any system that can embody information to any other such system, irrespective of the details (i.e., substrate-independent)notes271512
1957-1a4a1 Wealth created ≠ the P&L of a business. Remember - you get what you measure.notes271116
1968-1c4d2 Web2 writing is enmeshed in Web2 incentive structurenotes271116
1978-1c5 Look for Lollapalooza, or system equivalent of critical mass, or chemical equivalent of activation energy, alloying, and catalystsnotes271314
1988-2d2 In digital world, you can be in multiple nations (or equivalents) at the same timenotes271314
1998-2d3 You can vote with ballot, wallet, or foot (physical & digital)notes27720
2009-4b2a1d1 歴史の中にひそむあらかじめスクリプトされたものを読みとることで時代の現在を生きるnotes27207
201Eric Voskuilpeople271215
202RUL3 - Bounded commitment - choose one best thing available, commit for predetermined time period, then revisit. Similar to balancing depth-first vs breadth-first in search algorithms. Think of your time as quantifiable resource like capital.notes27207
2031-1c4b You always have to solve problems, including the problem of what problems to solvenotes261610
2041-2e You literally MAKE a decision by creating the best explanation that you can from the web of ideas that you have at the moment (i.e., abduction-guessing)notes261214
2051-2f1b9 Repeat what worksnotes26917
20612-1e0 Everything changesnotes26179
20713-1a3a2d4 The purchasing power of money in terms of all other commodities is continually changing, and there is no way to measure such changesnotes26620
20813-6f Praxeology is concerned with that part of value scales that can be ascertained from actionsnotes26620
2092-1a0c1d2 Less is often morenotes26818
2102-1a7a2 Assets with actual substance or weight have the best prospects over the long termnotes261511
2112-1b2b0a Ask - What’s the correct very-long-term solution; How do I solve this using and committing the minimum amount of time possible; Does this really matter (almost always, no)notes26719
2123-1b Be flexible with the problem itself, because you may not know what’s the real problem yetnotes261511
2133-1c3c3b Wealth = Measurement (work with a small group) + Leverage (develop new techniques and its value is multiplied by all the people who use it)notes261214
2143-1c3c6 Nerds have an advantage in doing great work because they expend little effort on seeming anythingnotes261412
2155-1b1a2d Knowledge is by definition unpredictablenotes26188
2165-1b4 Be prepared to deal with short-term nonsenses, but know what you’re focused on in the long-run and stay optimisticnotes261412
2176-3b3g Federated (protocol) networks have a tendency, a fundamental by-product of their architecture, to evolve into corporate networks because network effects ensure that small advantages compound to create big winnersnotes26917
2186-3d Be very specific about problems and divide a project clear cut so it doesn't become bleak, like shared common room.notes261511
2197-1a6a Successful founders see different problemsnotes26197
2207-1b2b1 The best is seeing the front by yourself, because inexplicit and unconscious ideas exist between heads not within themnotes261511
2219-1b2 Inevitable meme variation is another reason why it's impossible to predict how people will use your work and ideasnotes26188
2229-2a3b0 Imagine what happens when it goes wrong—think first of the downside instead of the upsidenotes261214
2239-2b1 情報媒体が情報自体よりも情報力を持つこともあるnotes261313
2249-2b3c We are more different than we are alikenotes26818
22510-1b1 It is the body that learns - '考えるな. 感じろ.'notes251312
22610-2e8 Reasoning about causes and effects is reasoning about variants of the causes and effects. What would've happened. How it could've been otherwise.notes251114
22710-2f3a Learning human languages consists of constantly conjecturing-guessing the meaning of the words being usednotes25619
22810-2g1d Humans are the apex predators because we plan, share knowledge, and leave knowledge for future generations, by talking to each other. We are knowledge-oriented.notes251213
22910-2g1f2a1 The question is what's the brain in NOT what’s in the brainnotes251114
23010-2g3a Everything is (or more precisely, became) symbol. Social values-knowledge-structures themselves are symbols represented by non-explicit forms (e.g., traditions and habits) interpreted non-explicitly ('流れ込む情報').notes25169
23112-1c Open source means more composability means more digitizeable and measurablesnotes251312
23213-1a3a1e Money puts back memes to the game genes were playing—to the game of survivalnotes25520
23313-5g1 The ERE (evenly rotating economy) is not the condition but the effect of thought experimentnotes25520
2342-1a0c1 'Failure comes from a failure to imagine failure'notes251015
2352-1a1a7 'Hindsight bias' - Keep a record of your thoughts at the time you make the decisionnotes251114
2362-1a6c1 'Tendency to minimize energy output' - Align your incentives properly, then (almost) everything will follownotes251411
2373-1d7 'Escape velocity' - Little expressivity goes long waynotes25619
2384-1a4b2d 'Tendency to want to do something' - Don't get paid for work, but for being right.notes25619
2394-1e2 Deprival-Superreaction Tendency—loss aversion to both possessed reward and almost possessed rewardnotes25718
2405-2a3 People fight over tangiblesnotes25718
2416-3b2.3 Dollar is state network for paymentnotes25421
2427-1d2 Technology changes the problem-situation, and determines which ideas are possible and obsoletenotes251411
2439-2b1.2 Marshall McLuhan - 'It is the medium itself that is the message, not the content'notes251411
244RUL3 - Ask at night how what you’ve learned that day fits into your web of ideas, and search for overlaps and contradictions. Most people do not do this.notes25169
2451-1a2a4 The flexibility of humans are found particularly in the tacit knowledgenotes241410
2461-1a2a5 Overt knowledge can be found inside and outside our brains (e.g., Wikipedia), but dark matter is found only within the individualnotes24321
2471-2f1b2 Composability allows incremental piecemeal error-correctionnotes24168
2481-2f1b4 The content of a theory is in what it rules out (and how!)notes241311
2491-2g2s7b2 The laws of physics determine what's rare-common, probable-improbable, finite-infinitenotes241311
2501-2g3.1 It’s explanations all the way downnotes241014
25112-1d Flexible media will surface contingencynotes241212
25213-1a3a2e7 Values (and also prices—to the extent that value scales can be ascertained only through them) are not concerned with the pastnotes24717
25313-4d6 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 valuationsnotes24816
2542-1a6c 'Inertia' - In most ordinary moments the situation thinks for us, and these seemingly insignificant decisions compound.notes241311
2552-1a6c0 If you don't create an explanation, you will be enmeshed in the situation (analog). You have to transcend your situation-culture-parochiality by explanations (digital). Explanation is the way to universality.notes241311
2562-1b2g 'Margin of safety' - Be redundant and resourcefulnotes241113
2573-1a2 The problem itself doesn't care how it's solved. Everything should be structured around solving problems.notes241113
2583-1a4b 情報文化史 = 経済文化史 (経済と文化はそもそも独立して存在しない)notes241014
2593-1c1d You must build your own media distribution to avoid distortion for yourself and othersnotes24186
2603-1c3c1 To create is to recombine. Innovation happens when ideas have sex (either between people or with one’s past ideas). Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution.notes241113
2614-1a4b2b3 Time will tell because time can de-contextualize seeming necessitiesnotes241113
2626-3a2.1 How you achieve something matters as much as what you achievenotes24915
2638-1c4d1a1 The culture (or ‘gestalt’) dictates what’s been written as well as what’s not been writtennotes241113
2648-2b2a 'Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people'notes24618
2659-4b2b The evolution of ideas (memes) is somewhat intentional, whereas that of genes are random AND cannot be rejectednotes24168
266Carlo Cipollapeople24159
267RUL3 - Create something, or become someone, that is hard to duplicate ('Barriers to entry')notes24159
268Scott Aaronsonpeople24177
2691-1a1b1 Joel Gold - The conscious mind is only a small fraction of the mental world much like the visible aspect of the universenotes23419
2701-1a2d An innate capacity to learn ≠ Specific ('parochial') knowledgenotes23914
2711-1a5a2 Good writing happens at the edge of explicit-inexplicit or explicit-unconscious — that is, via surprises.notes231310
2721-1a5b2.1 Be very mindful of where you 'experiment'; one of the most important decisions you can make is who you get feedbacks from (as well as ask questions of)notes23716
2731-2g2q1 Science is about independent replication. Only trust as scientific truth what can be independently verified-replicated.notes23194
2741-2g3 The sphere of comprehensibility expands infinitelynotes23194
2751-2h A good explanation makes it harder to fool yourselfnotes23158
27610-1b7 Culture and grammar shape each other through their evolved symbiotic relationshipnotes23914
27713-1a3.1 The concept of cost must evoke the multiversenotes23149
2782-1a1a8 'Tendency to overestimate consistency of behavior' - Behavior of others are often not innate-intentional but situationalnotes23167
2792-1a5a Evolution doesn't care about lifetime of each individual gene-meme carrier (its sample is beyond your own experience and any human lifetime)notes23176
2802-1a7a Curiosity (i.e., the Fun Criterion) leads you to wealth, because wealth is knowledgenotes23167
2813-1c3d2 Well defined problems are completable, and allow you to take small stepsnotes23716
2825-1b1b1 Become good at multiple things rather than being super good at one specific thing (the former is both easier and effective)notes231211
2835-1b4c Exponential growth feels flat in the beginning, precisely why it’s worth making an extraordinary effort to get it started. You can also follow the Fun Criterion (the latter likely exhausts the former). Consistency is the key.notes231310
2845-2b1a1 Your goals are gateway to your problem-situation, just like your concepts and categories are to your purpose and valuesnotes23815
2855-2c2b0 The truer and deeper the idea is, the more likely it will survive criticism, change in society, and withstand unpredictable consequences brought about by itselfnotes23212
2865-2c2b1 Focus on the fundamentals, on the deeper ideas closer to abstract knowledge, on what matters, and build yourself (including technology) around itnotes231013
2875-2d2 You need somewhat grandiose goals to procrastinate structurally - テーマはひとつでは多すぎるnotes23815
2886-3a2 How you have something can (and will) matter more than what (you think) you have (e.g., DEX vs CEX - DEX will counter Maximalists movement)notes23158
2896-3z A world without ownership is a world with less creativity and human flourishingnotes23158
2906-8 Train your weakest linknotes23518
2919-1b0c Reality doesn't differentiate reading-thinking-writing-playing-doing-investing-buildingnotes23617
2929-1b1a It almost never happens that two minds hold precisely the same ideanotes23194
2939-2b It’s not just about what you say or what you do, but also about how you say it and how you present itnotes231310
2941-1a5a1 The process of argument starts in the middle, and doesn’t start with axioms and end with the conclusionnotes22175
2951-1c2a There is no escape we are and will be shaped by anti-rational memesnotes22193
2961-1c6a1a Pay attention to what can’t be said (e.g., taboos)notes22148
2971-2f1 Popperian epistemology allows your knowledge to grow forever because it is digital. It can fix its errors by rejecting bad ideasnotes22157
2981-2f1b5 検証と反証には非対称性があるnotes22616
29910-2e9 Variants do exist in the multiverse - not in the past or in the future, but they literally do exist somewhere in the multiverse!notes22139
30010-2f1 Chomsky’s UG approach only looks at a subset (syntax) of a subset (language) of the whole (communication system — ‘the gestalt’). Syntax is only secondary to conversation.notes22139
30110-2g1f2b The brain and symbols evolved reflexively to enhance communication to deal with cultural and sexual selectional pressures.notes221012
30210-2g2c0e Synechism - the idea that everything is connected and nothing can be understood in isolationnotes22166
30310-2g4 Cultures and languages are reflexivenotes22175
30413-1a Humans have problems because we have to choose because we could be otherwise because of the multiversenotes22157
30513-1a3.4 There are no objective or real costs that determine pricenotes22517
30613-1a3a1d Money facilitates the maximum use of knowledge available, and accommodates error-corrections (the two are the same thing)notes221210
30713-1a3a2d3 Value scales are unified individually—they become more transparent, more measurable, and more comparable to the individual—with money, although never exhaustivelynotes221111
30813-6a3 Value scales converge with knowledge—put differently, value scales differentiate without knowledgenotes22814
3092-1a0c1g No lock-in = 去る者は追わない・追えないnotes22814
3102-1a4b 百聞は一見に如かず - Build, Show, Use > Explain, Tell, Researchnotes221210
3112-1c3 'Win and help win' always outcompetenotes22166
3123-1c1d5 Dashboards over newspapersnotes22616
3133-1c3a2 情報の起源に触れることは物理的に不可能notes22139
3143-1c3c3 Take ideas seriously, but not too seriously. Don’t be the idea.notes22148
3155-1b1a8a1 Prediction ≠ Knowledge (because prediction requires knowledge)notes22139
3165-1b1b1a Power-law curiosity - be professionally curious about a few topics and idly curious about many morenotes22913
3175-2b7 The skeptical empiricist doubts both data and theorynotes22139
3185-2c2b The Lindy effectnotes22814
3198-1e You have to go beyond skeuomorphism. Native means novelty.notes22814
3209-2a1.1 Idea is direction. Execution is speed.notes22517
3219-3a Luck-Skill dichotomy is at best arbitrary. We can train our ability to create ‘luck’.notes221111
322Henry Singletonpeople22418
323RUL3 - When automating, make sure the initial constraints and requirements are not stupid-dumb-bullshit.notes22157
3241-2f1b Analog computation cannot accommodate error-correction. Information that cannot be reliably retrieved is not really being stored.notes211110
3251-2g New theory is constrained in terms of what it can say, since it must either be consistent with existing theories, or contradict them but address the problems thereby raisednotes21129
32610-1b4.1 Peirce - One needs 'interpretant' for language to get off the groundnotes21714
32710-2f3 Learning human languages is about learning its culturesnotes21129
32810-2g2e7 Abstraction is universal, precisely because they are in the abstract (i.e., itself not contingently constrained by its own physicality)notes21219
32910-2g2e9c Life has been creating knowledge by conjecturesnotes211011
33011-2 Capital market aligns financial incentives with curiosity. More precisely, capital market constrains curiosity with financial incentives.notes211110
33113-4 Time is scarce because action involves choosing one thing over othersnotes21813
33213-4d4d A man is necessarily a consumer, but not necessarily a producernotes21615
33313-8a2.1 Money is the present good par excellencenotes211011
33413-9a All goods are somewhat substitutable for one another thanks to moneynotes211110
3352-1a0b2 'Relativity' - Look at the problem in as many ways as possible. You might as well find new problems.notes21714
3362-1a1a3 'Availability heuristic' - We easily recall what is salient, important, frequent, and recentnotes211011
3372-1a2 See clearly - 解像度を高めるnotes21165
3382-1a6c4 'Randomness' - The appearance of 'randomness' is subjectivenotes21219
3392-1c2 'Specialization' - Minimizing opportunity costs maximize comparative advantages and leads to prosperitynotes21813
3402-1z Observenotes21912
3413-1a0 Use categories, but don't be categorizednotes211011
3423-1c3c0 Ideas have timingnotes21174
3433-1c3c2a Any ideas have the potential to be MORE universal (if not universal), and constraints are to be removed sooner or later because knowledge is irreversiblenotes211110
3444-1a3 Each conversation has to end either a success or a failure, you have to zone-in when you are ‘friend-zoned’notes21516
3454-1a4b2a1 忘却を促進することで、人為的な古典化を起こす。notes21147
3464-1a4b2a3 整理 = 意識的にすてることnotes21912
3475-1b1a2 Some technology contains knowledge which can be universal. You can’t predict how people will use such technology.notes21912
3485-1b1a4 We can run multiple billion-dollar functions either sequentially or simultaneously. Or preferably both.notes21813
3495-1b1a8 ‘Opportunity cost' and 'comparative advantage' must be rooted in explanations. Never use them as ad hoc criteria.notes211110
3505-1b1b2 Flow to the most interesting, because the Fun Criterion doesn’t distinguish what’s fun via categories. Fun just means fun.notes211011
3515-1b4b3 Time beats timingnotes21129
3525-2c1 You perceive yourself by what you do repeatedly, just as you judge others by their routine behaviors.notes21714
3536-3a1 You have to own your own creation. The difference between creator and influencer is the gap of digital property rights.notes21615
3546-3b2.7 International Intermediate (e.g., Indian network) vs Chinese state (2040s)notes21516
3556-3b2e Network effects + Feedback loops + Composability = Exponential growthnotes21813
3567-1a5a Finding some distribution arbitrage in your time and place is also a great source for growthnotes21129
3577-1b5 You can solve problems that just got creatednotes21912
3587-2a Be opportunistic and flexible globally rather than inverting locally and prematurely optimizednotes21147
3599-2a It’s easy to convince if people don’t know you enough for what you are notnotes211011
3609-2a3a Pick up the biggest upside potentialnotes211110
3619-2b3 いわゆる「知識」は合理科学が浸透したコミュニティにのみあてはまる・「世界はひとつ」ではないnotes21912
3629-4b2a1d0.3 The essence of analysis is articulation - 分析の本質は分節notes21147
363安田隆夫people21615
3641-1a4c If you assume the possible existence of the ‘ultimate’ theory, you’d be assuming a meaningless (zero-freedom) worldnotes20146
3651-1a6 To live is to live like a detectivenotes20128
3661-2f1b3a Deutsch - 'Nor is a person capable of making progress merely by virtue of being willing to drop a theory when it is refuted; one must also be seeking a better explanation of the relevant phenomena. That is the scientific frame of mind.'notes20146
3671-2g1b What matters is the explanation, and not what you can seenotes20146
3681-2g2r0 The Turing principle implies 梵我一如notes20164
3691-2g2s7b You can’t justify the predicted value of the probability inductively, because theory (i.e., the laws of physics) provides the probability, not the experimentnotes20713
37010-2g2 Culture invents symbols, and the core of language is the symbolnotes20911
37113-1a1 The uncertainty of the future must be true because the contrary would completely negate the possibility of actionnotes20713
37213-1a3.0 Return is about how much, when you expect to get it, how sure you are—in comparison with other possible returnsnotes20614
37313-6c1 The action axiom meaningfully implies corresponding value scales only when the action is mediated via corresponding knowledgenotes20119
3742-1a0 'Creative destruction' - Think outside the box. Evolution of ideas must be revolutionary. Knowledge creation involves rebellion against current explanatory framework.notes201010
3752-1a6c5 'Randomness' is the opportunity to reason abductivelynotes20911
3762-1a7 'Curiosity instinct' - Curiosity alone can drive humans into ideas without any (at least obvious) financial incentivesnotes201010
3772-1c1a1 Companies will outsource everything that isn’t their value proposition. To build successful B2B company, simply be the outsource.notes201010
3782-3c 'Surface area' - Manage your exposure to volatilitiesnotes20713
3793-1a4b1.1 Mark Twain - 'It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.'notes20614
3803-1c1 Learning with intent to use them in the future (i.e., performance-output-oriented) filters down information, while constantly reminding you of the very problem-situation you are trying to solve and the very purpose that comes with it.notes20119
3813-1c1d0 We are overconsuming novelty (and “serendipity”) and under-consuming purpose. The first thing to look at each day should be your purpose and metrics to improve upon, not some random stories.notes20155
3823-1c2e2 Creativity is more than just combining thingsnotes20416
3833-1c3c3a Realize that having invested time in something doesn't make it good. There is no necessary correlation between the time you put in and its usefulness.notes20812
3844-1a5 Don’t get obsessed with the failure rate, because what matters is where it’s going and not where it came fromnotes20812
3855-1b1b1a2 Network effect means compoundingnotes20911
3866-3b2.5 India (or any other country-company-community) can act as the tech-media superpower of de-Americanization-dollarization movementnotes20812
3876-3b2d Composability is software's version of compounding interest-effect, because composability saving keystrokes implies compoundingnotes20812
3887-1b4f Let the tech decide where to go (both intellectually and physically)notes20155
3899-4b2a1d2 Don't bee too technical but also don't be too ambitious. Look from both technical and historical perspectives.notes20911
3901-1a4c1 Emergence is another beginning of infinity. Knowledge is based on and consists of emergent phenomena.notes19172
3911-2f1b6 Volatility is good for insurgents (idiosyncratic disruptors) and bad for incumbents (legacy institutions)notes19415
3921-2g1c Memes beat genes. We will see what cannot be seen with new knowledge and new technology.notes19136
3931-2g2i Genes (life) are programs that embody the laws of physics (of their own niches)notes19514
3941-2g2s7d A history has to be explained in multiversal terms. The true explanation of what happened involves many other instances of me.notes19145
39510-1a1 歴史 = 編集 = 関係の発見notes19811
39610-2e6 Any theory must account for the meaning of 'the future' and 'the past' because both are arbitrary abstractions and do not exist objectively in realitynotes19127
39710-2f3a2 There can only be enough overlap of meanings between any entities (e.g., individual, group, society, theory, reality) — ‘ゆらぎ’notes19136
39810-2g1a Science emerged from culturenotes19136
39910-2g1g Scientific knowledge implies location-time-scale-independent applicabilitynotes19118
40012-1f 言葉と物事の関係性が一対である必要性はない (e.g., 二項同体)notes19109
40113-1a3a2e2a Money and differences in the economy are reflexivenotes19712
40213-4d5 Prices are derived from subjective valuesnotes19712
40313-5b2d Production processes in the evenly rotating economy are interchangeable, hence the analysis becomes scale-independent and substrate-independentnotes19316
40413-6a1 Without knowledge, self-identity is no stronger than the identity between any two peoplenotes19910
4052-1a1a3d 'Relative satisfaction (or misery) tendencies' - Your average five is important, and you can spend time with the best of the best with internetnotes19811
4062-1a6a Understanding incentives amounts to understanding its culturenotes19163
4072-1a7a1 (1) Increase your productivity; (2) Don't let your income increase faster than your productivity; (3) Don't let your debt increase faster than your incomenotes19514
4082-1b2b1a Get your incentives right from the beginningnotes19811
4093-1a4b2 Price can only convey so muchnotes19145
4103-1b1b1 No learning without doing; specifically, no learning without cultural doingnotes19118
4113-1c3c5 Best of all is when you can say they would’ve found this had they taken their own ideas seriouslynotes19109
4123-1c3d Problems should be well defined and should be actionablenotes19613
4133-1d4a What matters is if your tools-frameworks are universalnotes19136
4144-1a4a Even if you revisit ‘the same conversation’ (or ‘re-reading a book’) they are never the same thing twice because you are never the samenotes19712
4154-1a4b6a0 You can use ideas both NOW (upside - cognitive offload) and LATER (upside - ideas becoming useful with new interpretation). Ideas ≠ Money.notes19109
4166-3b2a Interoperability implies compoundingnotes19910
4177-1a Create something you would want for yourself, and never for some imaginary audiencenotes19811
4187-1d1c You can be at the edge of the newest technologynotes19712
4198-1b2 Digital-physical is entwinednotes19118
4208-2 Blockchains-Cryptonotes19136
4219-2a3b0.1 ロスは速攻切る。勝ちポジションは徐々に積み上げていく。損益に対して生じる非対称な行動心理を予め計算に入れておくこと。notes19712
4229-2b3d Everett on George Berkeley's critique of the very notions of abstraction and generalization - There is no mind of any kind, only bodies and the world in which they movenotes19910
4231-1a2e4b Naval - 'Enlightenment is in between your thoughts, in understanding why you are having such thoughts'notes18810
4241-1a2e5 Cultures nurture mindsnotes18126
4251-1a2e9 Emic vision = Interpreting what you are seeing as symbolsnotes18612
42610-1b6 Culture ⇒ Culturally invented symbols ⇒ Language (Culture invents things. Everyone is part of a culture. Every individual learning take place within culture. Every invention is built up over time, including language.)notes18153
42710-2b I cannot be fully explicatednotes1899
42810-2g1j A good explanation explain more than what they were originally designed tonotes18315
42910-2g2e9d There are no 'species' in nature. Reality doesn't distinguish life by categories.notes18513
43010-2g3d1.2 There is no objective history—the past can be recreated and reinterpretednotes18414
43110-2g3e We are, and will be, transitioning from anti-rational memes to rational memesnotes18153
43211-3.1 'Equilibrium' - Anything innovative escapes the Invisible Handnotes18612
43313-1a3a1i The market’s encouragement of successful forecasters fosters a relation of final equilibrium between present capital value and actual future rentsnotes18414
43413-1a3a2e2 The introduction of money creates the money market wherein everything can be exchanged for anything in the economynotes18117
43513-8a2a Money allows you to deal with change per se, since there is no substantive difference between changes in values scales of others and that of himself in the futurenotes1899
4362-1a6c1a 'First-conclusion bias' - Separate the problem-defining phase of the decision-making process from the problem-solving phasenotes18711
4372-1a7a4 In the long run reality gets in; narrative can get you so farnotes18513
4382-1b2b1.2 Anything worth doing is worth doing to excessnotes18612
4393-1a4b2b What is smart at one price is dumb at anothernotes18117
4403-1a4e システムとユーザーはつながっているだけでなくハウリングしあっているnotes18108
4413-1b1 Occasionally revisit the problem itself. Occasionally check in on long-term.notes1899
4423-1c2e1 Connecting-relating ideas is a way of creating knowledgenotes18108
4433-1c2e4.1 'Scarcity' - Knowledge is rare but never a scarce resourcenotes18117
4443-1c2e4.2 'Supply and demand' - Physical is getting expensivenotes18108
4453-1c2f In tech, most of the value is in the ordering, in the useful configuration of zeroes and ones, which users click to pay for itnotes18153
4463-1c3 Write down anything with intent to use them in the future, because you won’t be able to do away with solving problemsnotes18315
4473-1c3c00 Evergreen notes should be atomicnotes18513
4483-1c3c4.1 It’s easy to push a really good idea to wretched excessnotes18108
4494-1c Great negotiators actively try to reveal hidden assumptions, that is, they look for surprises. They are more than just being ready for them.notes18117
4505-1a4.2 You can be nicer via error-correctionnotes18612
4515-1b1a2c1 Principles are meta-contingency. Whatever can happen can happen regardless of how.notes18135
4525-1b1a3 We are more than technology, because we create knowledge-technology. We are more than functions. Don’t be a function.notes18117
4535-1b3 How much we can change is also unpredictablenotes18108
4545-2c2a0 Avoiding bullshit takes you far enough. Maybe the extra bit comes from really knowing about yourself.notes18108
4556-3a Ownership is not just about physical-digital asset, but about yourselfnotes18711
4567-1b3b Outside-in tech vs Inside-out technotes18117
4577-1b4b3 When you dump oscillations, you dump low end as well as high endnotes18513
4587-2 Long optionality, volatility, changenotes18108
459Become A Problem-Solving Artistessays18144
460Elie Ayachepeople18171
461Paul Grahampeople18126
4621-1a2 Our mind is flexiblenotes17116
4631-1a2a There is no human nature if by this we mean a kind of a priori knowledge common to all and only to humansnotes17611
4641-1a2c Everett on Aristotle - He is responsible for the characterization of the mind as a blank slate ('Mind is in a sense potentially whatever is thinkable, though actually it is nothing until it has thought')notes17710
4651-1a2f You are redundant if you are flexible and (close to being) universal - that is, composable and interoperablenotes17611
4661-1a5b5 Shipping perfection means you are too late - you have to find a balance of finding the right moment and being fixablenotes1789
4671-1c4 To be surprised is to be mistakennotes17116
4681-1c6a3.0 The decision should be obviousnotes1798
4691-2g2e What science and creative thought in general achieves is unpredictable creation out of nothing. That is, creation of knowledge. And so is biological evolution (i.e., life).notes17710
47010-1a1b 行き詰らないとアブダクションできないnotes17107
47110-1a2d 何が自発してきたのか・何が創発してきたのかを見つめることが重要notes17512
47210-1b4f Digitization implies displacement and composabilitynotes17134
47310-2g1b1 Scientific discourses are less fallible because the fundamental theories of physics are exceedingly hard to varynotes17107
47410-2g1f2 Culture (also) shapes phenotype for humans (Culture ⇒ Phenotype)notes17413
47510-2g2c0 A system is universal if it contains enough expressibility to represent anything. It can do anything and everything.notes17107
47610-2g3f Anti-rational memes contain knowledge, and each individual has to discover themnotes17611
47711-2.1 Fiat money shields ideas from criticism—the cost of bullshit goes down in such economynotes1789
47813-1a3a2.1 An exchange is positive-sum only subjectivelynotes17413
47913-3a The use of the mathematical concept of function in a science of human action is inappropriate—because it disregards time and knowledge creation (i.e., the multiverse)notes17125
48013-5 Man prefers his end to be achieved in the shortest possible time (i.e., positive time preference)notes17413
48113-5b1c Saving is fundamentally about foregoing things that could’ve been done—it’s about choosing one specific timeline over othersnotes17512
4822-1a0a1 Don't waste time unnecessarily complicating thingsnotes1798
4832-1a0c 'Denial' - Accept the existence of Black Swansnotes1789
4842-1a0d Don't confuse the Grey Swans with the Black Swansnotes17413
4852-1a1 'The map is not territory' - Find many maps as possible, across globe-time-fields, and try to bring your map closer to the territory as possible (i.e., reality)notes1789
4862-1b2c1 Knowing your sustainable growth is the key to consistency. Do not depend on will power.notes17611
4872-1b2e2 Knowledge doesn't care how it's replicated and its impact on the knowledge bearing entities. What matters is whether the content is replicated, and there's space for creativity and variation here.notes17107
4882-1b3 Play different games. Avoid competition.notes1789
4892-1b3a1 Narrow it down so you can have a chance to build your own moatnotes17611
4902-2b 'Critical mass' & 'Activation energy' & 'Alloying' & 'Catalysts' - Look for, or create, lollapalooza effectsnotes17512
4914-1a4b2a Silence can decontextualize-displace the negotiator from the negotiationnotes17116
4924-1a4b2a4 Prioritize by weighing the value of additional information against the cost of not decidingnotes1798
4935-1b2.3 Don’t be the turkey—the Black Swan might be a Grey Swan depending on your perspectivenotes17107
4945-1b4b1 Life’s evolution’s superpower is its time horizon. 3.8 billion years of miniscule changes compounded.notes17125
4955-2d1 Procrastinators often follow exactly the wrong track. They try to minimize their commitments, assuming that if they have only a few things to do, they will quit procrastinating and get them done.notes17413
4966-2 The cost effectiveness of anything addictive decreases over time. When you engage with them, you will either waste your time or money, very likely both.notes1789
4977-1a4a Growth in revenue and in user base are not the same thing.notes17710
4987-1b4b1 Technical truth ≠ Political truthnotes1789
4997-1b4b5 Any kind of expertise is valuable, and some people will take unexpected action to capture that value such that it will be serendipitous to younotes17512
5008-1 The frontiernotes17611
5019-2a4 Specifically, be long volatility with people’s ability to create new knowledgenotes17143
5029-2b3g Edward Sapir - 'The particular and the variable, rather than the universal or invariable, are where the intellectual gold is to be mined.'notes17107
5039-4b3b1 Popper - 'We let our ideas die in our place' (another difference between memes vs genes)notes17152
504Mark Spitznagelpeople17710
505Now17116
506Robert Cialdinipeople17017
507RUL3 - Finish what you start, because the best work often happens in what was meant to be the final stagenotes1789
508松岡正剛people17215
5091-1a2e4 Cultures precede languagesnotes1697
5101-1a4b You can’t cope with the reality solely via induction or deductionnotes1679
5111-1a4b2 Problems arise only when you reason via abductionnotes1688
5121-1a5b4.5 Truth is about correspondence with realitynotes1697
5131-1c5 Surprises are the doors to revealing the inexplicit and the unconsciousnotes16106
5141-1c6a1b Your ability to detect surprises will get better, and you will never be short of themnotes1697
5151-2g1c2a ヒトの特殊性は情報処理能力そのものではなく、情報を記号により外部化する能力にあるnotes16313
5161-2g2b2 The Turing principle is also about the correspondence between the two bodies, and knowledge is not necessarily embodied in the human mindnotes16106
5171-2g2p The laws of physics, by conforming to the Turing principle, make it physically possible for those same laws to become known to physical objects. Thus, the laws of physics may be said to mandate their own comprehensibility.notes16124
5181-2g2r The Turing principle, if true, dictates that we can form accurate theories about reality. Knowledge to the Turing principle is what steam engines are to the principles of thermodynamics. That is, the Turing principle implies knowledge.notes1679
5191-2g2s8 The unobserved parts of the wider phenomenon have in no way affected what we observe, yet they are essential to its explanation. Causation doesn't exhaust explanation.notes16142
52010-1b4c ミメシス is analog-indexical, パロディア is digital-iconical, アナロギア is digital-symbolicalnotes16511
52110-2g2c2 Human minds are capable of knowing what ideas meannotes1679
52211-3.5 There is no universal utility. Utility doesn't exist in the abstract, it must be rooted in the context and corresponding explanations.notes1697
52312-1a2 Ideology (did and) will shape the state, instead of vice versanotes16214
52412-1a2a2 資本は資本の一元性を好み、商品は商品の多様性を好むnotes16412
52512-1a2b Crypto is the new 'nation' that can take over the USnotes16313
52612-1a3 The tangible and explicit (can) come in last in the evolution of organic communitynotes16610
52713-1a3a2e5 Time component in prices emerges with the introduction of moneynotes1697
52813-1a3a2e8 The capital value—the “price of the good as a whole”—of any good at any time is based on expectations of future rental pricesnotes1688
52913-3a0 The evenly rotating economy (ERE) disregards knowledge creationnotes16412
53013-4d3 Values cannot be measurednotes16115
53113-5b2e There is no substantial difference between debt and equity, at least in the evenly rotating economynotes16412
53213-5d2 Interest is not the reward of capital goods per se—it is derived from the generalized investment of timenotes16610
53313-5e The capitalists are constrained by the aggregated time-preference schedules just as sellers of any other present goods are constrained by the aggregated demand schedules of the consumersnotes1679
53413-9a1 A value scale consists of goods with which the individual is familiar—the good will not be on the value scale if the individual does not know about that goodnotes16511
5352-1a7b Work in a field you have both a natural aptitude for and deep interest in. It should become increasingly interesting as you learn more about it.notes16115
5362-1b2a 'Seizing the middle' - 'Time is the friend of someone who is properly positioned and the enemy of someone poorly positioned.'notes16412
5372-1b2b0.2 Focus on the 'what is' before deciding 'what to do' about itnotes16610
5382-1b4 Not fighting can win you the battlenotes16511
5392-1c2a Matt Ridley - 'Self-sufficiency leads to economic downturns. Mutual interdependence is more robust.'notes1697
5403-1a3.1 Get the basics well. Relate to the basics. Do the basics well.notes16115
5413-1a4 Explanatory means it will span across ‘boundaries’notes16106
5423-1c1d0.1 'Velocity' - 'If you don’t know where you want to go, any road will take you there.'notes16412
5433-1d6a Consistent style allows cognitive offload with regard to everything unrelated to the problems at handnotes1688
5443-1d6e You can only progress within the context of your own specificity. You can’t progress objectively, although you can progress towards the objective knowledge.notes1697
5454-1a4b2b0 Your algo is your principlesnotes16610
5464-1a4b3d The 'ledger of record' shifts the focus to adjacent layersnotes1679
5474-1a4b6a1 Future self is enough of an audiencenotes16133
5485-1b1a1c4 The interoperability laws (i.e., substrate-independent formulation of information) are more detailed exposition of the Turing principlenotes1688
5495-1b4c1c Align your short-term reward with your long-term visionnotes1679
5505-2a1 You get what you measurenotes16151
5515-2b Errors of omission are dangerous because you make them by defaultnotes16412
5525-2b0 You are what you do repeatedlynotes16142
5535-2b4b You have to keep finding surprisesnotes16610
5546-3b2c Composability with ownership means you can permeate across other possibilitiesnotes16106
5557-1a1a3 If you know that others can solve certain problems, let them. Only work on important problems worth focusing on.notes16610
5567-1a5 Startups work on technology because great ideas made viable by newest tech (itself a new technology) is the best source of rapid change and growthnotes1697
5577-1b4b0 Tech does what culture does to you. You see what could've been based on the tech you know.notes16412
5587-1d1 Apply the newest technology to the oldest problems. The best source of arbitrage is between the newest tech papers and the oldest books.notes16511
5597-1d2b Centralized tech ⇒ Mass media (via mass production) ⇒ Homogenized societal experiences ⇒ Communism, Nazism, Democratic Capitalismnotes16412
5607-1e We ask ‘what is the rich doing’ because they are the ones who have the resource to experiment with to find ways to cheapen the means of productionnotes1688
5618-1c2a What matters is the creativity per se, because non-creative parts will be made easiernotes16106
5628-1c3a Internet turned everyone into publisher. Crypto can turn everyone into investor.notes1679
5639-1b1 Ideas are never replicated fully because each individual has different problem-situation. Meme variation (and mutation) is inevitable.notes1688
5649-2b3e Everett on John Locke - His tabula rasa didn’t mean there were no innate abilities, but that there were no innate specific concepts (innate capacities ≠ innate knowledge)notes16511
5659-4b2a1d1.2 You can let the tech decide, but ideas and visions often can shape the technotes16106
566AN3C - People don’t want better, they want less crapnotes16106
567Will Guidarapeople16511
5681-1a1b The mind includes inexplicit as well as unconsciousnotes15105
5691-1a2e11 Nothing objectively represents the representednotes15132
5701-1a5 We always reason abductivelynotes1569
5711-1a5a A real essay doesn’t take a position and then defend it (deductive). It starts with a question (abductive), in trying to figure something out.notes15105
5721-2f1b8 検証が厳しければ厳しいほど、それに耐える仮説の価値は大きくなっていくnotes1569
5731-2g1c3 Confining yourself only to 'your mind' is quite an arbitrary decisionnotes1569
5741-2g1c3a Humans have no nature and no self apart from the experiences they have united in their memories (the Buddhist notion of anatman - 'no self')notes15123
5751-2g2i0 Life is computation in the sense of assuming other object (i.e., genes assuming its surrounding environment)notes1578
5761-2g2j1b Accuracy in virtual reality = The relationship between theory and experiment in science. That is, you can never prove-experience-measure-certify that it's accurate-true program.notes1596
5771-2g2t3d2 Knowledge-creation must also imply access to previously inaccessible universes, owning to its unlimited improvabilitynotes15105
57810-1a2c 情報文化史は編集技術の歴史notes15114
57910-2e8a Understanding is about counterfactual and contingencynotes15114
58010-2g1f1 Natural selection can only operate on phenotypes (physical attributes) and not on genotypes (the knowledge bearing entity). The same (or similar) phenotypes doesn’t mean they share the same genotype.notes1569
58110-2g2c1d Computation is nothing more than an aid to communicationnotes15411
58210-2g3 Symbols are shaped by social values, social knowledge, and social structuresnotes15510
58311-2a Invest for the wealth it can generate, not for the money per senotes1569
58412-1a2d Abstractions such as 'the economy' and 'the supply chain' can be realized arbitrarily well (never exhaustively)notes1569
58512-1b The only certainty is rising volatilitynotes1569
58613-1a3a There must always be room for improvement in his value scale—otherwise action would disappearnotes15510
58713-1a3a2d3b Value scales and money are reflexive—value scales become more actionable with money, because money changes the topology of value scalesnotes1578
58813-1a3a3 The equilibrium price implies no further changes (the so-called subjective improvements)notes1569
58913-4b The multiverse implies the scarcity of time in each universenotes15411
59013-5b2.1 Saving (in money) can literally save younotes15510
59113-5b2g The investment return in the evenly rotating economy (ERE) is exclusively dependent on time elementnotes15114
59213-5b3 Labor is uniquely the nonspecific factornotes15213
59313-9a2 Indifference cannot be a basis for action—the choice could not be meaningfully revealed in actionnotes1578
5942-1a1a3c Belong where your desired habits are the normnotes15123
5952-1a5 'Sampling' - Increase your sample size with QUALITY datanotes1569
5962-1b2d 'Trust' - The most effective business is one with trust. Build one.notes15510
5972-1c1a4 'Commoditize your complement' tacticnotes15510
5982-2a 'Emergence' - Knowledge can be created out of nothing and is unpredictablenotes15105
5993-1a3a Start with problems instead of opinions. The latter usually comes with confirmation bias.notes1569
6003-1a4d 市場メカニズムにもノンマーケット・セクターにも根本的な大きな欠陥があるnotes15411
6013-1b2 Use the Fun Criterion to filter what problems to work onnotes15123
6023-1c1d6 Media grabs what's easily grabbable (e.g., short-term over long-term development)notes15510
6033-1c3d3 When problems are so well defined, your future self might be able to solve new problems by reusing and recombining themnotes1596
6043-1d2 The problem of what problems to solve includes the problem of deciding which tools-frameworks (e.g., tech stack, writing medium, criteria, objective, goals, exercise protocols) to use and improve uponnotes1596
6054-1d3 The most effective communication is to listennotes1596
6064-1e1 Loss aversion - e.g., the prospect of competitor buying you, and having have to acquire you later at higher cost, are the two biggest concerns which motivate potential acquirersnotes15105
6074-2b Good storytelling is about taking readers to something slightly in advance by using what they already knownotes1569
6085-1b1b3 Productize yourself (as an embodiment of reality)notes15105
6095-1b1d1 Not investing is also a form of investingnotes1569
6105-2b2 You can’t flow to the most interesting if you react to everything that comes at you by defaultnotes1587
6115-2b4 Explanation (explicit or inexplicit) precedes both your options and choicesnotes15114
6125-2c2 Fake stuff usually has a sharp peak of seeming to matternotes1569
6136-2a Addiction lessens one’s ability to experience joy in life.notes15312
6146-3b2f Composability implies compoundingnotes1596
6156-3b3c Tasks held captive as proprietary in corporate networks become market-basednotes1596
6166-3c When you are invested, you'll try to own itnotes1569
6177-1b3d New stars rise along with the new platformnotes1587
6188-2b2d Value shifts to adjacent layersnotes15105
6199-1b0 Knowledge (both explicit and inexplicit) is created individually. You don’t say “I took it from him.” You can’t blame “he took it from me.”notes15132
6209-2b1.4 Where you put your writing on can affect how you writenotes15411
6219-4b2a1d0.1 Digitization (articulation) is a play with contingency (i.e., 'could have been'-s)notes15510
6229-4b2a2 Memes can be transmitted from anyone to anyonenotes15105
6239-4b3e3d リトライの操作を迅速にすること・させることnotes1578
624RUL3 - Live in the future and build what seems interestingnotes1596
625RUL3 - Run upstairs. Choose the difficult terrain like guerillas.notes15105
6261-1 Our mind can constrain itself (i.e., why you need proper epistemology)notes14311
6271-1a2a1 Human nature is variable (Cultures ⇒ Flexible human brains ⇒ Variable dark matters ⇒ Variable 'human natures' ⇒ Cultures . . .)notes14104
6281-1a2e2 Languages are not innate to humansnotes14212
6291-1a2e6 Culturing and social acting (along with languaging) ⇒ Our actions, beliefs, desires, values, and selfnotes14311
6301-1a2e6a The dark matter of mind is multilayered, differentially manifested, and variously derived from the experiences of livingnotes1477
6311-1a4c2 The whole is greater than the sum of its partsnotes14104
6321-1b Memes are more powerful than genes because they can out-evolve themnotes14104
6331-2f1b3 Merely dropping a theory because it doesn't work is behaviorism and is not error-correction. It's analog reasoning in disguise. You need explanation.notes1477
6341-2g2b1 Constructor Theory defines knowledge independent of peoplenotes14113
6351-2g2b5 The most significant universality is that of people. We are universal explainers, and possess the only kind of universality capable of transcending its parochial origins.notes1468
6361-2g2c Knowledge must be first conjectured (i.e., created) and then tested. That’s what life has been doing all along, according to Darwin’s theory. It can’t be derived mechanically (Lamarckism is wrong).notes1486
6371-2g2c3 Intractable does not mean unpredictablenotes14311
6381-2g2d Knowledge is life. Life is knowledge.notes14113
6391-2g2j1d Cantgotu environments - you will always be proven wrong because no program will render it; you can never prove that you were therenotes14410
6401-2g2t3e Other life-forms can't permeate across the multiverse because biological knowledge is primarily about the surrounding environment and its correspondence within THAT universe, and the latter is subject to 'randomness'notes1477
64110-1a History is all the data we have so farnotes14212
64210-1b3 Sapir - 'Culture is not something given but something to be gradually and gropingly discovered'notes1495
64310-1c1 'Grammar of society' - Society and culture are connected and constructed in grammar-like ways. Individuals are 'fillers' for slots in a culture-grammar.notes14410
64410-2d1c Evolution achieved that jump to universality with the DNA genetic codenotes14311
64510-2g1b Science is headed towards less and less parochialism because we can be honest with what knowledge is. That is, towards universality.notes1459
64610-2g2c Indexes are physical because they merely ‘indicate’ and hence do not require culture. Symbols are cultural. Put differently, indexes are analog and symbols digital.notes1495
64713-1a3a1a1 Only monetary income (or loss) can be observed and measured ex post—never psychic income (or loss)notes1477
64813-1a3a2f The market implies specialization implies speculationnotes14410
64913-1a3a4 The equilibrium price cannot be realized, except in the evenly rotating economy (ERE)notes1477
65013-2 Knowledge precedes actionnotes1468
65113-2.3 Learning is about changing your behaviornotes1468
65213-5b2a0.1 Only demonstrated time-preference schedules can be compared—we can say “A has demonstrated higher time-preference than B” but we cannot say “A has higher time-preference than B”notes14410
65313-5b2b Because of money, the rate of return will tend to be uniform throughout the length and breadth of the production structurenotes14311
65413-6a The same individual exhibits different scale of values at different timesnotes1459
65513-8a2b Prices do not exhaust value scales, but value scales can be ascertained only through prices in money economynotes1495
65613-8a3 Money must evoke the past, but the demand for money lies in the futurenotes1477
6572-1a0c1h Small countries (or any community) must be convincing. Presidents and mayors must act like CEOs and turn their communities into startup countries-counties.notes1459
6582-1a1a Biases when picking up maps (+ cognitive biases in general)notes14311
6592-1a1a2 'Bias from incentives' - Explicate your culture-incentive as much as possiblenotes1495
6602-1a1a5 'Narrative instinct' - Often the right explanation is one with the least intent involvednotes14104
6612-1a1a9 'Survivorship bias' - We only see what can be seennotes1468
6622-1a7a3 Ben Graham - 'Markets are a voting machine in the short term and a weighing machine in the long term'notes1477
6632-1b2e1 Understanding comes from copying the information-knowledge as information-knowledge medium; not from copying the substratenotes1495
6642-3a1 Always ask - what does this even MEANnotes1459
6652-6 You get what you pay fornotes1468
6663-1a4b4 Not everything are priced yetnotes14113
6673-1a4b8 With few exceptions, buy on the cheapest market and sell on the dearest leads to satisfaction of the most highly valued ends of each individual, both as consumer and as a producernotes1495
6683-1b0 Think forward, but also think in reverse via inversionnotes1477
6693-1c1d0a Zipf’s law distribution = Passive consumption make up 99% of activities on the internet, and less than 1% even comment on content, and much less than THAT actually create something newnotes1495
6703-1d4b1 What’s been considered ‘analog’ must be represented digitally, because the distinction is rather arbitrarynotes14104
6713-1d5 You can question the adequacy of the tools at hand insofar as it relates to some specific problems of yours. You don’t evaluate them ‘comparatively' based on its ‘utility’ without explanations.notes1486
6723-1d6c1 The marginal cost of doing something wrong 'just this once' always seems alluringly lownotes1477
6734-1a4b2e Don't get startednotes1477
6744-1a4b6a When you write down, you are helping yourself both now and in the futurenotes1486
6755-1b1a1c The relationship between knowledge in the abstract and technology (the physical mediator of such knowledge) is contingentnotes1486
6765-1b1a2c Contingency cannot be exhaustively accounted for, because that amounts to predicting minds and knowledgenotes14104
6775-1b1a8c 決断 ≠ 判断 (the former precedes the latter — why you start out with some end-state of the world you’d like to achieve and live in)notes1495
6786-3b2.4b Politics was (about) social media (2010s) and will be (about) cryptocurrency (2020s)notes1459
6796-3b2d1 Don't reinvent the wheel. Copy and paste. Save keystrokes.notes1477
6807-1a5b Ask which problem-situation is the most problematic one (conscious, inexplicit, unconscious, future, new)notes1468
6817-1b3 You can solve problems others will have but don’t have yetnotes1477
6828-1c Look for inherently digital-native areas and conceptsnotes1495
6838-1c4d1 Web3 writing differs particularly from Web2 writing, because of the incentive structurenotes1468
6848-1c4d5c Don’t be constrained by the definition of ‘apps’, ‘platforms’, and ‘people’ — because they are arbitrary (e.g., platform can be build on top of platform, apps when combined can turn into platform, etc)notes1459
6858-2d4 You can vote with timenotes14212
6869-2b3a There is no universal culture, because culture is contingency (文化 = 上澄み)notes1459
6879-2b5 Universality per se is never enoughnotes14104
6889-4b2a Writing is THE evolution. It’s more fast-universal-explicit in contrast to the evolution of genes.notes1486
6899-4b2c You can host multiple memes both consequentially or simultaneously during your lifetime. A gene in contrast can be hosted only once per life-cycle.notes1495
6909-4b3e3a Interfaces should follow the principle of least astonishmentnotes1459
691Balaji Srinivasanpeople1486
692Chris Dixonpeople1468
693Jeff Bezospeople14104
694RUL3 - It’s useful to ask why about things that seem wrong, and especially ones that seem wrong but somehow funny.notes1477
695RUL3 - List ⇒ Rank ⇒ Iteratenotes14131
696To Measure or Not To Measure, That Is The Questionessays1468
697What can be measured can be copied, and vice versanotes14311
6981-1a2e7a Apperceptions = The ways by which we process, make sense of, and assimilate our experiencesnotes1349
6991-1a5b3 Ship at least every month. Scope down until you have no excuse not to ship. Being output-project-oriented means being payoff-oriented.notes1349
7001-1a7 Epistemology is the way with which we go about our detective work; other sciences are application of such detective lensnotes1349
7011-1c6a3 Say yes only when both your heart and head say sonotes13310
7021-1c6e This goes on ad infinitumnotes13310
7031-2g1b1 Predicting the same outcome doesn’t mean they have the same explanationnotes13103
7041-2g2j1a Because we can only be with the virtual-reality, all our renderings will be inaccuratenotes1394
70510-1b Culture is set of ideas which affect behavior including unconscious ones like skills, expectations, and emotional preferences.notes13103
70610-1b2a Emicization = The construction of an insider point of view (the 'dark matter')notes1367
70710-2g2c0a Universal systems retain the capacity to represent knowledge that is not yet created, thus can be useful in the future.notes1367
70810-2g2e6 Abstraction is the unseennotes1358
70910-2g2e9a The contingent relation between the form and the abstract can be only realized by digital systems. Analog systems cannot do this.notes1367
71010-2g2e9b DNA is digital system which evolves by discrete changes. If it were analog, evolution couldn’t have happened.notes1358
71111-1d There is no objective risknotes1385
71213-1a3d Any improvement is subjectivenotes13211
71313-4d2 There is no objective valuenotes13112
71413-4d4b Everyone must consumenotes13211
71513-4e Knowledge is never a scarce resource, hence never a means or a goodnotes1349
71613-5a The role of capital is to advance men in time toward their objective in producing consumers’ goodsnotes1358
71713-5b1 Without the capitalists, the income earned by the owners of land and labor fluctuates with consumer demand and is received at a much later datenotes1367
71813-5b2c There is no time inconsistency in the evenly rotating economy (ERE)notes1349
71913-6 Man reveals only a part of his value scale through actionsnotes1367
72013-9a3 Praxeology is concerned with preference as revealed through choicenotes1376
72113–5b2i The rate of interest will be uniform in the evenly rotating economy only when everyone becomes the same—i.e., when all individuals have identical time-preference schedules, expectations, and subjective valuationsnotes13310
7222-1a0c1b You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.notes1349
7232-1a0c1i Every polity will be publicly traded eventually just like companies and coinsnotes1385
7242-1a1a1 'Falsification (confirmation) bias' - Always try to falsify your theory. Don't pick up similar maps.notes1367
7252-1a1a6 'Tendency to overgeneralize from small samples'notes1394
7262-1b2b0.1a Prioritize upstream productivitynotes13112
7272-4a 'Commitment & Consistency bias' - To change your behavior, make changing your belief difficultnotes1367
7283-1a1 It’s either you are solving problems or notnotes1385
7293-1c1b0 You are what you consume (read)notes1385
7303-1c1d2 Historic records are full of embellishment, lying, and misinterpretation. It’s mediated by many minds both conscious and unconscious.notes1385
7313-1c2e4 There is no limit to the number of symbols available to humans for languagesnotes1367
7324-1 Assumptions are hypotheses and you use the conversation (’negotiation’) to test themnotes1358
7334-1a4b5a Maybe consciousness is seeing your thinking mediated on some other physical form, realizing that it could’ve been put otherwise (and optionally you improve upon)notes1367
7345-1b1a4a Being hedged in the long-run entails being long optionalitynotes1358
7355-1b1a7 Technology’s ‘function’ consists of many parts, and you have to have an explanation for how each contributes to the whole (i.e., ‘vertically-integrated’)notes1394
7365-1b1b1a1.1 The more anomalies you’ve seen, the more easily you’ll detect new ones. Life should become more and more surprising as you grow older. It compounds.notes13103
7375-1b1b1a2.1 Network effect means scaling increasinglynotes1349
7385-1b4a0 We overestimate the technological impact in the next 10 years, but underestimate the next 20 (and often right about 15 years later)notes13121
7395-2c Be impatient about the things you most want to donotes1358
7405-2c2b3 'When you punt something into the future, the future eventually arrives'notes1367
7415-2d When you are purpose-goal-oriented, you'll be problem-project-oriented, because you will face problems in the process of achieving the former and will break them down into mini-problemsnotes1385
7426-3b2.5a Community network > State network (e.g., Indian network > Indian state-market)notes13310
7436-3b3e Everyone benefits in blockchain and protocol networksnotes13112
7446-3b4c Building true communities is the best way to go viralnotes13211
7457-1a5c Engineers address the problem itself, and sales people help making that problem everyone’s problem NOWnotes1376
7467-1a6b Successful founders apply new technology to solve problems at edge casesnotes1394
7477-1b0 The creator-user (or producer-consumer) distinction is arbitrary. There are no 'producers' and 'consumers' in the non-human world.notes1367
7487-2b The more of a noob you are locally, the less of a noob you are globallynotes1376
7498-1b3a A blockchain takes the code seriouslynotes1394
7508-1b3f1 You can value tokens using traditional financial metrics (e.g., PE ratio) by studying the cash flows and burn rates of blockchain networksnotes13310
7518-2b3 On-chain gets you immutability, verifiability, monetization. Just as online gets you distribution-sharing-collaboration.notes1376
7528-2d1a SNSのテーマは統一したほうがいい。応援してくれる遠い人や知らない人を増やす。みんなが知りたくて知らないものと知りたくて知っているものに特化すること。notes13310
7539-2b3e2 There is no universal symbol-idea (in the sense of capable of conveying universal meaning)notes1367
7549-3 Increase surface area of lucknotes13103
7559-4b2b0 Memes are subject to conscious variation and selection, and can be rejected intentionally, whereas genes are random and can’t be rejected.notes1358
7569-4b3e3b Emphasize ease of use over perfection. Embrace iterative minimalism.notes13211
7579-4c1 If you can't write about it, you can't code it. If you can't program it, you don't understand it.notes1385
758QUE5 - Don’t aim for the average — Ask 'What is rich doing' 'What are nerds doing'notes13130
759QUE5 - Who has the right answer but I ignore because they’re inarticulate. Who do I listen to who is in essence just good marketing.notes1367
760The Epistemology of Note-Taking Toolsessai13013
7611-1a2e1 Nothing in the body is dedicated to language. Gene ≠ Language. Culture ⇒ Language.notes12210
7621-1a2e9b When 'properly' emicized by the culture, we see what's not there and can not see what's therenotes1293
7631-1a4d Nothing can be explained only in terms of itselfnotes12102
7641-1a5b3.1 What counts is the payoff from success—and not how often you are rightnotes1239
7651-1a5b4.3a Pick iterable projects (for you)notes1248
7661-2f1a3 To be scientific is to be criticalnotes1257
7671-2f1a3c A central flaw in Kantian philosophy = the doctrine that certain truths about the physical world could be ‘known a priori’ - that is to say, without doing sciencenotes1266
7681-2f1b3a1 The question is not whether anomalies happened in the past, but whether we have explanations for such anomalies.notes12111
7691-2f1b7 世の中に流布する仮説との違いが大きければ大きいほど、利益の潜在的可能性が大きいnotes12210
7701-2g1c4 Technology is what makes us humansnotes12111
7711-2g2b2a Computer is technology that has deep theoretical and philosophical significancenotes1248
7721-2g2f The virtual-reality rendering of their environment (i.e., creating knowledge about its niches) is the characteristic means by which human beings (and life in general) survivenotes1275
77310-1b4a Learning is imitation and testingnotes1275
77410-1b4e Developing a taste means transitioning from being obsessed with where it came from (analog) to focusing on what it is and what it can do (digital)notes1275
77510-2d2 ‘The tools for thought’ do not necessarily have to accommodate recursiveness, because we can think recursively nonethelessnotes1275
77610-2g1f2c It's as though everything from culture-grammar-symbol-DNA-brain evolved so that high accuracy correspondences were made easier to achievenotes1248
77710-2g2c0c We don't think at the moment (we don't 'generate' ideas), our thinking is connectednotes1275
77810-2g2c1c The primary function of language is communication. Not expression of thought.notes1239
77910-2g2e5 Abstractions exist and affect physical objects. Knowledge makes enormous difference in the world.notes1275
78010-2g3d2 Decontextualize, then recontextualizenotes12210
78110-2g5 Every invention is built up over time within culturenotes1266
78212-1e3 There is no should in naturenotes1284
78313-1a2 The omnipresence of uncertainty introduces the ever-present possibility of error in human actionnotes1275
78413-1a2a The action axiom implies success and failurenotes1257
78513-1a3a1b All errors will be subjective without moneynotes12210
78613-1a3a2a The difference is implied in any exchange and division of labornotes1275
78713-2.1 Human action must be purposeful—”action” without intent is the equivalent with dust in the windnotes12111
78813-5b2k There is no such thing as mispricing, at least objectivelynotes1239
78913-5g Do not confuse the effect for the cause—to explain the causality at play, you must explain what must have happened at first and what would have happened in the absence of changenotes1257
79013-6a2 Knowledge keeps you the same, from the perspective of exhibited value scalesnotes1257
79113-6e Praxeology is concerned with the fact that humans solve problems—regardless of hownotes1257
79213-8 Marginal utility—as the quantity of the supply (stock) of a good increases, the utility (value) of each additional unit decreasesnotes1266
79313-9a0a The multiverse implies money, money price, and market exchangenotes1248
7942-1a1a1b 'Hanlon's razor' - We (they) are dumber and thus less ill-intent than we think we (they) arenotes1293
7952-1b2d1 Consistency builds trustnotes1266
7962-1c2b Forced vertical integration made Tesla intimately familiar with the complex supply chain required to build a car. Good counter-argument to outsourcing everything.notes1284
7972-2c 'Tragedy of the commons' - Also look for negative lollapalooza effects ('devolution')notes1248
7983-1a4b2a A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great pricenotes1284
7993-1c Know what your problems arenotes1284
8003-1c1d4 We are bombarded with ‘unlikely’ events on our social media feednotes1284
8013-1c2 Write down your problemsnotes1284
8023-1c3a1 Tracing its beginning is as impossible as predicting the futurenotes1257
8033-1c3c3a2 Time spent doesn't mean muchnotes1293
8043-1c3d0 Break down into mini-projects, they become more actionable because they are less scary than bigger onesnotes1293
8053-1c3d2b Chasing growth ⇒ Keep redefining the problems to be solvednotes1257
8064-1a4b6a0.3 Time is money means money is timenotes1266
8074-1a4b6a0a Knowledge ≠ Moneynotes1248
8084-1a5c When you have your Second Brain, you can have a conversation with itnotes1266
8094-2c 周辺的関心の方が中心的関心よりも活発に働く。脱線話の方が記憶に残る。notes12210
8105-1a2 Solving problems is a concrete framework of moralitynotes1239
8115-1b1a1c0 There is no universal technologynotes12111
8125-1b1a8d Knowledge doesn’t automatically make us wise—the most learned are not the wisest (or the richest)notes1248
8135-1b4c4a Taboos likely can offer gateways to your unconsciousnotes1275
8145-2b1 Writing out your goals is how you become performance-oriented in lifenotes1257
8155-2b1b Writing down makes it easier for your conscious to see the unconsciousnotes1266
8165-2b4a You can either decide from existent options, or make a decision (literally in the sense of creation) by creating new explanationnotes1275
8175-2c2b0.2 You need resilience against volatility (i.e., Stoic robustness)notes1275
8185-3c1 One of the lessons from the last era of the internet is that if a service needs to be built, it will probably get built — if not as a public good, then as a private goodnotes1248
8196-3b3 Don't think corporate network structure (especially its incentives) is the normnotes1266
8206-3b3d Externalized incentives (negative externalities) go away when everything is externalizednotes1293
8217-1a1a2 Solve your own problems. Otherwise you'll lose time and money without self-indulgence alarms going off.notes12102
8227-1a2 You can also make their problem as your problem by using growth as a guidance.notes1266
8237-1a2a1.1 Look for two-step-aheaders, instead of people many steps ahead of younotes1266
8247-1a2a4 バロックの本質は逸脱notes12111
8257-1b2a Arbitrage what’s been said vs what’s been boughtnotes1257
8267-1b4b0.1 Technologists are those who lead with technologies, and less with heartnotes12111
8277-1b4b4a Let knowledge permeate, and don’t force your constraints on themnotes12210
8287-1b4b4b Permeate both across other possibilities in this universe and across multiversal timelinesnotes1239
8297-1d2a5 Tech shapes technotes1266
8307-1f Developing in anticipation of development cost cheapening is a form of investmentnotes1266
8318-1b3b When software is in charge, designers can take full advantage of the expressivity of softwarenotes1257
8328-1c4d1a2 People only pay attention to certain parts of music, art, building, product, photo etc.notes1248
8338-2b2 The most efficient business is one with trust, or one completely withoutnotes1275
8349-4b3e3e 'Friction and viscosity' - Give THE problem as much attention as possible. Better UI-UX often can make innovation possible because users benefit from cognitive offload.notes1257
835Elden Ring Meets Karl Popperessays12111
836Judea Pearlpeople12111
837Naruto and LLMsessays12210
838The essence of writing is rewritingnotes1257
839The Multiverse Implies Economicsessai12111
8401-1a1a Our mind is not necessarily composed linearly or hierarchically. It could be a connected web of nodes and reflexive.notes1174
8411-1a5b Real thought is full of false startsnotes1156
8421-1a5b4.1 Shipping early means cognitive offload means key momentnotes11110
8431-2.0 It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrongnotes1174
8441-2f1b1 Digital system is composablenotes11101
8451-2g1b2 Don’t pay as much attention to people’s conclusions as to the reasoning that led them to their conclusionsnotes1147
8461-2g1c3b Self = A memory of skandhas (form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness)notes1138
8471-2g2j1c The accuracy of an image generator’s rendering can in principle be experienced, measured and certified by the user, but the accuracy of a virtual-reality rendering never can be. Image is what can be seen, the program is the unseen.notes1138
8481-2g2t5a There is no such thing as the 'same' instance of a particle at different times - i.e., there is no such thing as speed of 'one instance' in the quantum physics (Heisenberg uncertainty principle)notes1183
84910-1b4d '好み' = ミメシスからパロディアへnotes1165
85010-1c Culture is an abstract network shaping and connecting social roles, hierarchically structured knowledge domains and ranked values. It's dynamic and subject to change.notes1183
85110-2d The medium of expression, language, can also improve indefinitelynotes1192
85210-2f Language assumes shared knowledge, just as conversation is implicit in the contextnotes1147
85310-2g You can’t extract the meaning from the words only, because the explicit (seen) is built upon the inexplicit (unseen)notes1156
85410-2g1f2a Our brains (including our emotions) and our cultures are related symbiotically through the individual, and that neither supervenes on the othernotes1183
85513-1a0 The multiverse implies both explanation and actionnotes1174
85613-1a3a2d The more extended the market, the more will exchange-values (as compared to direct use-values) predominate in the decisions of the producernotes1156
85713-1a3a2d6 There is no perfect moneynotes1156
85813-1a3a2e3 Any prior money must necessarily trace its origin back to the original moneynotes1147
85913-1a3a4b The long run of the evenly rotating economy (ERE) is not real at all, but a very useful theoretical construct that enables the economist to point out the direction in which the market is moving at any given timenotes1165
86013-1a3a5 The concept of an equilibrium price presupposes a world without further subjective re-evaluations or changenotes1165
86113-1a3c We will never attain objectivitynotes1138
86213-1b The mind, with its intention, can shape the multiversenotes1165
86313-2.2 Most “actions” are mere behaviornotes1147
86413-5a1 Civilization advances by virtue of additional capitalnotes1129
86513-7 Value scales consist of specific units, and associated subjective utilitiesnotes1165
86613-9a0 “The price is the first and most obvious indication of the nature of the alternatives” – Philip Wicksteednotes1129
8672-1a1a1a 'Self-preservation' - Don't trigger your biological defaults (defense mode)notes1156
8682-1a1a4b Compounding is usually too slow to notice, making it easier to discount both how much progress and catastrophe are achievablenotes11101
8692-1b2b0 Judgment is knowing the long-term consequences of your actionsnotes1138
8702-1e1 'Layer-1' & 'Layer-2' phrasing is probably not the best analogy-understanding-topologynotes1156
8712-3e Cryptocurrency is financial volatilitynotes1138
8723-1a5 Any explanation must evoke human creativity (i.e., our ability to come up with explanations) fullynotes1147
8733-1b1a Often the real insight is in the question and not in answernotes1174
8743-1c1c You must build your own media for yourselfnotes1165
8753-1c2a Your mind, including the unconscious, has to know the problems you explicitly havenotes1156
8763-1c2e3.1 It’s symbols all the way downnotes1156
8773-1c3e2 Experience provides problems-concepts-knowledgenotes1165
8784-1a4b2b2a Rules and leaders emerge from informal governance but they are a product of inscrutable social dynamics rather than thoughtful designnotes1138
8794-1a4b3 If you write down ideas, you can have a conversation with each one of them individually, or with any configurations from themnotes1174
8804-1e3 Convex utility in losses—when you’re trapped, your risk preferences change. Beware a man who has nothing to lose.notes1138
8815-1b1a1a Technology is about how to do things differently. Some technology can be more universal than others, but it can never be perfectly universal.notes1129
8825-1b1a1e Innovation and science can feed each other. We tend to treat them separately, but both are attempts to solve problems.notes1165
8835-1b4a0.1 New is overvalued relative to greatnotes1156
8845-1b4a2 Optimalism > Optimismnotes1129
8855-3 Don’t fight. Transcend.notes1183
8866-3b2b Interoperability implies composabilitynotes1165
8876-3b3b Not differentiating developers from users mean what attracts the former also attracts the latter, and vice versanotes1156
8886-3b3f2 BTC Maximalists are monotheists and political networknotes1138
8897-1a1a1 Imaginary problems lead to ‘investment’ and ‘work’ - don't indulge with themnotes1174
8907-1a2b For startups, growth is a constraint much like truthnotes11101
8917-1a3 You’ll act when you target growthnotes1147
8927-1c1 Intuition about which hill to climb is usually better than people realizenotes1183
8938-1b3e Software will be at the intersection between ideological and economicalnotes1129
8948-1c4a2 Twitter’s 140-character limit was useful constraintnotes1138
8958-1c4d5b There are many ways by which apps, platforms, and people can interact reflexivelynotes1174
8968-2b Crypto will disrupt everything because it can change how organizations are formed, monetized, and exited. It could take decades to play out.notes1165
8978-2b1 Web3 ecosystem is built on the assumption that we cannot trust anyonenotes1129
8988-2b2c The iPhone (or the blockchain) momentnotes1138
8998-2b2e Humans really care about other humansnotes1129
9009-1a You don’t have to be convincing per se, because convincing and true will become identicalnotes1165
9019-2a3b0.2 Understand the downside 5 to 10 years from nownotes1138
9029-2b1.3 UI (and UX) mattersnotes1129
9039-4b Writing generates ideasnotes1156
9049-4b2a1 Most of the evolution happened inside human brainsnotes1156
9059-4b2a1c The moment you write about any societal problem in depth you'll find yourself writing a history of that problemnotes1165
9069-4b2a1d0 情報には文脈がある = 情報文化は区切りでできている (digit) = 情報における分節の重要性notes1147
9079-4b2b1 We are free because we can create knowledge, and knowledge is unpredictablenotes1183
9089-4b2b2 We are also free because we are in the multiversenotes1174
9099-4b3c Your epistemology has to be digital, that is, error-correctablenotes1147
9109-4b3e2 Concise explanations make it easier to criticize and combine ideasnotes1174
9119-4b3e4 Write each sentence like you are talking to a friendnotes1174
912Sam Waltonpeople11101
9131-1a2a2 The inexplicit and unconscious is also NOT innately structurednotes1055
9141-1a2e7c You can't help being cultural, but you don't have to commit to any specific culturenotes1055
9151-1a4 We don’t just take in ‘new things’ into our mind; at the same time, we recalibrate the framework with which such new inputs can be processed.notes1046
9161-1a5b2 Launch means criticism. It’s an equivalent to experimental testing in science.notes1055
9171-1c4a Because you will be and want to be mistaken, by default you should be long optionalitynotes1055
9181-2a1 Our ‘direct’ experience is also virtual because its meaning is conjectured and interpreted via guessesnotes1082
9191-2b2 He who controls the past controls the futurenotes1064
9201-2f1c Your thinking must be digital to be mistaken, to be surprisednotes1082
9211-2g1 Einstein - 'No fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.'notes1073
9221-2g1a In most cases, the new theory likely predicts the same outcome as the old ones, but that doesn’t mean we don’t need new theories because new theories give better explanationsnotes1046
9231-2g1c2 You can be {Your mind + Second Brain + Mental models + LLM with your data + your scripts-codes represented via machines}notes1055
9241-2g2 New theory in turn constrains what the low-level theories could benotes1046
9251-2g2h Life is associated with a fundamental principle of physics – the Turing principle – since it is the means by which virtual reality was first realized in nature. (Life = physical embodiment of knowledge = the Turing principle)notes1073
9261-2g2j1 Accuracy is the closeness, as far as is perceptible, of the rendered environment to the intended one (intension)notes1037
9271-2g2j3 Life itself is iconic (imitation-copying)notes1046
9281-2g2s5 When the instances are fungible, there is no such thing as 'which' - histories and individual particles are not perfectly partitioned into instancesnotes1073
9291-2g2s7c Very unlikely event certainly happens somewhere in the multiversenotes1073
9301-2g2t6 The effect of interference on a history depends on what other histories are present (e.g., Mach-Zehnder interferometer)notes1055
93110-1b2 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)notes1037
93210-2f1a We are making communication efficient not only combinatorically (syntax) but also semantically (by using context)notes1091
93310-2f2a Explanation regarding any evolution must take knowledge into accountnotes1055
93410-2f3b Reading is about extracting the meaning from the words, and not about extracting words from the pagenotes1046
93510-2g2c1a Universality of symbols - if one specie can manipulate symbols, then that species can understand any other species who also use symbolsnotes1073
93610-2g2e2 Abstractions are real, and created the same way as with any other knowledgenotes1082
93710-2g3b Not all symbols contain knowledgenotes1037
93811-1c When investing, you have to address your problem. You have to hedge your risk.notes1064
93912-1a2a Crypto is network-ideological movement and doesn't differentiate Chinese and Americansnotes1082
94012-1e2 There is no objective happinessnotes1055
94113-1a3.3 The use of labor has a cost in accordance with the subjective value of the leisure forgonenotes1055
94213-1a3a2d5 Money is one of the best explanatory tools available, but not perfectnotes1046
94313-1a3a2e Some products are produced because of the greater extent of the marketnotes1046
94413-1a3a2g The specialization process continues indefinitelynotes1055
94513-1a3b The subjective value theory persists because of the multiverse—because we are falliblenotes1073
94613-5b2j There is no natural rate of interest in realitynotes1037
94713-8a2c Value scales are ascertainable from the real actions, not vice versa—because value scales cannot be exhaustednotes1055
94813-8c Utility alone determines the price and the quantity exchangednotes1064
9492-1 Mental models (着せ替え・持ち替え・言い換え)notes1082
9502-1a4c We don't know how we create knowledge yet, but that doesn't mean we can'tnotes1055
9512-1a6c4c We can explain things because we are multiversal objects. The multiverse implies explanatory knowledge.notes1064
9522-1b Seeing the unseen (面影・うつろい)notes1082
9532-1b1 'Asymmetric warfare' - Play by different rulesnotes1073
9542-1b3b 'Arbitrage' - Arbitrage both space and time (both offline and online)notes1046
9552-1c1a2 The attract-extract cycle - Bigger networks have less to gain and more to lose by interoperatingnotes1037
9562-1c1b 'Two-front war' - Deal with it effectively by knowing your priority. Use it effectively against those whose priorities are vague.notes1028
9572-1c4 100x-ing the pie > slicing extra few %notes1046
9583-1a2a Culture (be it individual-company-country) should be built around solving problems. Incentives should be built around solving problems.notes1064
9593-1a4a 歴史において、世界史・日本史といった区別は客観的に存在しないnotes1028
9603-1a4b3 Thomas Sowell - 'Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.'notes10100
9613-1a4b6 The importance of the monetarily accountable compared to the unaccountable increases indefinitely, although the former never exhausts the latternotes1037
9623-1a4c Market and non-market categorization is arbitrarynotes1055
9633-1b0a You can think forward and invert insofar as you have a problem to solvenotes1055
9643-1c1c2 Second Brain is a private media, where you are both the editor and the readernotes1055
9653-1c3b1 You don’t take notes to know where the knowledge came from (justification), but to use it in the future, to solve problems.notes1091
9663-1c3c2 Take ideas seriously, to an extent that you will be comfortable ‘breaking rules’ if necessarynotes1064
9673-1c3c2a1 How do we find constraints (i.e., detect bullshit)notes1037
9683-1c3c2b Getting rid of your own misconceived notions alone can take you far enoughnotes1073
9693-1d1 We must start with our own peculiar constraintsnotes1091
9703-1d4b Your tools-frameworks-systems must be error-correctable (i.e., digital)notes1073
9713-1d6d Consistency with specific problems in mind is the key to (detect) progressnotes1073
9723-1d7a 'Bottlenecks' - Don't hate them. Rather, use them creatively.notes1037
9733-1d8 When you have something, you can not have it. When you don't have something, you cannot have it. That's a huge difference.notes1019
9744-1a2a When you make them say ‘no’ to anything, you make them feel as if they are in more control of the conversationnotes1064
9754-1a3a Imaginary problems lead to imaginary feedback, and that's not feedbacknotes1037
9764-1a4b6a0.1 You can use money NOW for LATER. Investment is when it's deployed for the benefit of the latter, but often it's spent at the expense of it.notes1037
9774-1a4b6a0.4 Bill Gates - 'No matter how much money you have, you can’t buy more time. There are only 24 hours in everyone’s day' (Time ≠ Money)notes1064
9784-1a4b8c When you outsource your thinking, you can reap the benefits of multitasking without any downsides.notes1073
9794-1c1 Don’t prematurely zoom in during conversation, because he might not be self-conscious of the real problemsnotes1055
9805-1a4.1 The world is becoming ever more transparent and unpredictable. You have to be nice, but you can’t be nice to everybody all the time unless you really are nice to begin with.notes1082
9815-1b1a1b What can be universal is knowledge. But knowledge has to be instantiated by physical medium and this involves technology (e.g., pen and paper).notes1046
9825-1b1a8a When using probability, we need an explanation for why that probability applies, because knowledge is unpredictablenotes1055
9835-1b1b1a5 'Come for the tool, stay for the network' tacticnotes1055
9845-1b1b2a If you follow the Fun Criterion, you’ll be good at thingsnotes1082
9855-1b4c4b To truly have fun, you have to get rid of your own misconceptionsnotes1055
9865-2a2.1 Know what you are measuring it withnotes1055
9875-2b2a Use LATER folder, instead of reactively watching-reading-listening, and give them timenotes1064
9885-2b4a1 小局における矛盾も大局を鑑みると決して矛盾ではないという可能性notes1064
9895-2c2b0.3 The way you become resistant to volatility is not by being robust or antifragile per se but by being one with the realitynotes1091
9905-2c2b2 When you are long bullshit, you are short volatility and timenotes1064
9916-3b2.4 Decentralization is securitynotes1064
9926-3b2g No composability implies fragmentationnotes1037
9936-3b3a Networks with billions of owners are possiblenotes1055
9946-3b4 Tokens are the natural asset class to provide a sensible organizational structure for networksnotes1055
9956-3b7 NFT = A digital twin of the physical objectnotes1037
9967-1a1b Theoretical physics has that universal applicability because the laws of physics apply to all things physicalnotes1073
9977-1a2a2 Get ahead in the short-run, then in the long-runnotes1064
9987-1a2d Optimizing for growth can lead to discovering startup ideas. It’s a form of evolutionary pressure.notes1037
9997-1b2 You can solve problems others have inexplicitly or unconsciouslynotes1064
10007-1d3 The most valuable advantage in business is technical onenotes1055
10018-1b1 Physical (offline) can exist as printouts of digital (online)notes1037
10028-1b3i Token rewards should taper off as the network growsnotes1028
10039-2a1a キャラ (物語思考) ≠ キャリア (「自己分析」) — Don’t obsessed with where it came from, think about where it’s going)notes1091
10049-2b3b Universal culture is meaninglessnotes1028
10059-2b3e4 Specific knowledge ≠ Universalitynotes1064
10069-4b1 Writing is abduction repeatednotes1037
10079-4b2b1a We are free insofar as we can create knowledgenotes1091
10089-4b3 Writing is actingnotes1046
10099-4b3a Write a bad version 1.0 as fast as you cannotes1082
10109-4b3d Experience can only provide you with parochial problems, but its solution often consists of some universality which can be applied elsewherenotes1037
10119-4c2 'Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.' 'Design to express algorithms, and only incidentally tell machines how to execute them.'notes1082
1012RUL3 - The transparency principle - make your decision-making process as visible and open to scrutiny as possiblenotes1082
1013The Products of My Writingessays1019
10141-1a Culture and technology can influence our perception of what human mind is — explicitly, inexplicitly, and unconsciouslynotes936
10151-1a1a1 Ability to think recursively allows such thing as categorization of tasks into sub-tasks. Recursion is a property of thought (and not language per se).notes954
10161-1a1c Don’t let your conceptions constrain the mindnotes945
10171-1a2b Everett on Kant - His notion of categories is best translated into an inborn ability of humans to generalize and learn by any means. Humans are born to be learners. Individual humans have innate capacities to adjust to the world.notes936
10181-1a2e The mind is universal, that means domain specific genes are unlikelynotes936
10191-1a2e7d 文化とは生きること・生きることは情報文化にかかわることnotes936
10201-1a2e7e 文化とは多様性を克服した情報モードnotes936
10211-1a2e8 'Seeing' really occurs after going through (or together with) emicizationnotes963
10221-1a3 We repeatedly update our theories, including theories about how the mind works, and keep making sense of the worldnotes945
10231-1a4a If you don’t recalibrate your framework, ‘contradictions’ will surely pile upnotes963
10241-1a5b4.4a Our eyes produce clarity through a perpetual process of adjustmentnotes954
10251-2g2b3 Computational universality is about computers inside our physical world being related to each other under the universal laws of physics to which we (thereby) have access (because human brains are computers)notes936
10261-2g2b4 The universality of computation is a property of hardware and rather uncontroversial. The universality of explanation is a property of software and rather controversial.notes936
10271-2g2c2 The principles of quantum physics dictates that speed and position (or definite path and definite path superposition) cannot be tested simultaneouslynotes918
10281-2g2l3 We create knowledge actively. We are more than biological life.notes936
10291-2g2s7b4 Mathematics is not independent of physicsnotes927
10301-2g2t5 Because rejoining means being fungible means there is no such thing as which of them has ended up as-at which final instance-positionnotes945
10311-2g2t5b The term 'uncertainty principle' is doubly misleading because first of all fungibility is a physical fact and not uncertainty of anything, and second of all because it can be derived from more general principle of quantum physicsnotes972
103210-1a2 History rewrites (edits) itselfnotes963
103310-1a3a The US doesn't want you to remember what happened recentlynotes945
103410-1a4 Digitizing history doesn't mean throwing away everything and returning to the caveman era of a blank git repositorynotes927
103510-1b8 All languages will show culture-language connections if we look for itnotes963
103610-1c2 Each person occupies a role, alone or jointly. Roles are like apparel, worn for specific situations.notes927
103710-1d Cohesive culture is formed with values, knowledge structures, and social rolesnotes936
103810-2c We can provide ever better explanations about ourselvesnotes945
103910-2d2e9e Evolution of 'other life-forms' must evoke the influence of human existencenotes954
104010-2e Languages are theories about the world and enmeshed in assumptions.notes963
104110-2f3a1 Speaking the same language doesn’t mean they share the same exact meanings.notes972
104210-2g1c Universality of peoplenotes972
104310-2g1e What sets humans apart is our ability to accumulate knowledge by means of languagenotes936
104410-2g1f2a2 You can't separate the mind from the context-culture-body that generated-evolved it. Cartesian dualism is arbitrary categorization-abstraction.notes963
104510-2g2c1e What makes humans unique is not computational abilitynotes927
104610-2g2e6a Science is about understanding the whole of reality, of which only an infinitesimal proportion is ever experiencednotes954
104711-3.2 'Regression to the mean' - Don't be fooled by randomnessnotes918
104812-1a1 Network can become the statenotes936
104912-1a2b2 The real split will be top-bottom instead of left-rightnotes918
105013-1a0a Refuting the existence of the multiverse will refute praxeologynotes936
105113-1a3a1h The market tends to establish and maintain as high a quality of forecasting as is humanly possible to achievenotes936
105213-1a3a2e1 The greater the extent of the market, the greater the need for moneynotes936
105313-1a3a4a The actual market prices are the only ones that ever existnotes945
105413-2a The supply of capital goods enforces narrower limits than knowledgenotes954
105513-4d1 A good is valued not for itself, but for its service in satisfying the wants of acting individualnotes972
105613-5b2 Money is usable in every line of productionnotes936
105713-5b3c The demand of landowners and laborers for present goods tend to be inelastic with respect to interest ratesnotes936
105813-5d3 Capital per se is not permanentnotes927
10592-1a0.1 Complacency will kill you ('The Red Queen effect')notes927
10602-1a0c2 Failing is inevitable, but do not fail epistemologicallynotes945
10612-1b2e0 The less guessing layers the betternotes981
10622-1c1a Even if you are better at everything that doesn't mean you should do everything by yourselfnotes945
10632-3d Social media is social volatilitynotes936
10642-3d1 You must understand the risk profile of social distribution one has with othersnotes945
10652-5 'Reciprocity' - You never know who you touch. You never know how or when you’ll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else.notes963
10663-1 Start with problemsnotes945
10673-1c1a Prioritize performance-oriented media (i.e., news-you-can-use, including tutorials and fitness-diet-sleep scoreboard which you have control) over consumption-oriented medianotes963
10683-1c1d1 Journalists distort our reality by 10,000xnotes972
10693-1c1d3 Social media makes news sentiment negativenotes954
10703-1c3a We are not interested in where the knowledge came fromnotes936
10713-1d Consistency requires consistent constraintsnotes972
10723-1d6a1 Staying consistent is rather difficult with information abundance. What we need is purpose-intention.notes972
10733-1d6b Consistent style makes it easier to see whether you are making a progress or notnotes963
10744-1a4b5c Deutsch - Consciousness is clearly intimately related to the growth and representation of knowledge within the brainnotes954
10754-1a4b6a0.2 Money is our time and energy in an abstracted formnotes936
10764-1a5b Your problems precede any conversationsnotes954
10775-1a4 Getting rid of your misconceived notions amounts to being nice (or moral)notes945
10785-1b1.1 Redundancy over premature optimization—especially against Black Swansnotes981
10795-1b1b1a4 Game = Game + Streaming + Virtual Goodsnotes945
10805-1b2.1 Don’t invest in prediction, because the Black Swan is inherently unpredictablenotes945
10815-1b2a The “Doubt-Avoidance Tendency” - people want certainty-predictability-control over accuracy-realitynotes972
10825-1b4a1 Don’t be a depressive realist or a blissfully unaware. Be a rational optimist.notes945
10835-1b4b2 Hanlon's razor applied - See things as results of habitsnotes936
10845-1b4c2 No wonder why someone who is having fun is genuinely great at what they do. Because you have to have fun to achieve great things.notes954
10855-1b5 Keep solving problems including the problem of what problems to solvenotes972
10865-2a0.1 There are things that cannot be measurednotes954
10875-2b3 You have to be guessing everything all the time, including your goals themselves because the unconscious is what can’t be explicated yetnotes945
10886-1b You either have to realign the incentives of capitalist entities you are outsourcing your health, or you have to take care of yourselfnotes945
10896-3b2.3a Credit is not moneynotes927
10906-7a You are what you consume (eat)notes936
10917-1a1 You can only solve your own problems. You incidentally help others by solving THAT.notes954
10927-1b3c Some technologies will be structurally overlooked by corporate networks. Barriers to entry doesn't necessarily correlate to its importance.notes945
10937-1b4c Don’t go looking for ‘great ideas’ without technology. Ideas are great insofar as they address problems. In other words, great ideas have to contribute to solving problems one way or another (and that often involves using technology)notes936
10947-1b4d Don't be proud of being 'too early' because it's easy to be 'too early' if your tech knowledge is naivenotes936
10957-1b5a You can create problems. Not in the sense of causing problems, but literally creatively creating them. There are good problems and bad problems. Work on and solve good problems.notes954
10967-1d2a2 Founders must be legitimate and competent. Pay attention to the selection mechanism, and be aware if otherwise.notes927
10978-1b2a Most automation (and probably disruption as well) happens indirectlynotes936
10988-1b3f A blockchain economy must balance the supply ('faucets') and demand ('sinks') of native tokens to fuel sustainable growthnotes963
10998-1b4a The meaning of the word 'computer' shiftsnotes945
11008-1c4d4 There are infinitely more things to be written as there are infinitely more ways to write themnotes936
11018-2b2b1 Low take rates have a multiplier effectnotes918
11028-2c Crypto = Money + Computer (Crypto is programmable money)notes936
11038-2d Network states (digital) can probably address the problem nation states (analog) inherently possessnotes972
11048-4a1 Multi-modal transferability means software will be built differentlynotes927
11058-4b1 There will be AI-first applicationsnotes936
11068-4b3 AI could one-box the entire internetnotes954
11079-1b0d Reality doesn't differentiate investing from solo-funding, crowdfunding, referring, donating, and sending money. It's just paying.notes918
11089-2a0 The Identity Stack - To build something great means becoming someone's top primary identifiernotes927
11099-2b3e3.1 Maybe there is no abstract universality, just less localitynotes936
11109-2c Mark Twain - “Humor is a way to show you’re smart without bragging.”notes963
11119-4b2a1a Brains mimic the evolution of life, both generally and literallynotes945
11129-4b3e3 The easier something is to read, the more deeply readers will engage with your ideas. Keep the friction low.notes945
1113Deconstruct, then reconstructnotes927
1114Don't make the difficulty-rewards relationship a simple straight linenotes936
1115Hans-Hermann Hoppepeople936
1116Not every top-downs are inherently evilnotes954
1117QUE5 - 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.notes945
1118QUE5 - What’s the best thing you could be working on, and why aren’t younotes972
1119RUL3 - “Always produce” is a good heuristic for finding the work you lovenotes972
1120RUL3 - Any system should be measured by how much it can help with whatever its output.notes990
1121Tim Ferrisspeople918
11221-1a1 We don’t necessarily have to think hierarchically (i.e., in files and folders)notes844
11231-1a2e4a 言い換え = Making sense in your own world, that is, in your own language and in your own web of ideasnotes826
11241-1a2e7b You need some form of constraints to see anythingnotes871
11251-1a2e9a Culture defines the Black Swannotes817
11261-1c You need the best available epistemology because it affects how you see the worldnotes862
11271-1c6a2a Don’t let how you work affect what problems you can work onnotes844
11281-1c6a2a1 Be careful with 'just-in time productivity'notes844
11291-2a We perceive nothing as what it really is, but only virtuallynotes862
11301-2f When you create better explanations, you discard the old onesnotes844
11311-2f1b3b French Revolution, Russian Revolution, and Chinese Revolution were analog. That is, not done in piecemeal error-correction fashion.notes844
11321-2g1c3d Don't judge a book by its cover. Read the whole context instead.notes835
11331-2g1c5 We don’t really know what constitutes humannotes853
11341-2g1d We are universal explainers. We can transcend our biological limitations.notes862
11351-2g2j Accurate rendering depends on understanding its physics. The converse is also true - discovering the physics of an environment depends on creating a virtual-reality rendering of it. And explanation already is rendering inside one’s mind.notes844
11361-2g2k1 Replication of knowledge is what matters. Not replication per se.notes844
11371-2g2k2 The program (e.g., Roman-numeral system) survives by causing computer (e.g., people) to use them. The former instructs the latter.notes826
11381-2g2k3 Genes (and memes) survive by causing people to create knowledgenotes853
11391-2g2s6a The multiverse is the objective reality. Each universe is an emergent phenomenon in the context of this reality.notes862
11401-2g2t3c The effect of knowledge creation is significant both within a history (distance-independent) and across the multiverse (convergence)notes871
11411-2g2t3d1 Knowledge-bearing entities extend-permeate across the multiversenotes871
11421-2g2t4 Because fungibility exists (i.e., histories DO rejoin) we must evoke the multiverse. The multiverse emerged from quantum physics (genealogically).notes844
11431-2g2u The explanation (the theory of knowledge) must involve quantum physics, the Turing principle (the theory of computation), and, as Popper himself stressed, the theory of evolution.notes844
114410-1a3 歴史は記憶の変換・記憶の創成の連続notes835
114510-1b1a Experts develop higher proportion of unconscious knowledge than beginnersnotes835
114610-1b5 We enter the world of language-based learning once we have mastered a languagenotes853
114710-1b9 Ethnogrammatical studies are to explain the linkage between nonlinguistic evidence and noncultural evidencenotes844
114810-2e4a There is no such thing as 'which half' would see 'heads', any more than there is an answer to the question 'which one am I'notes862
114910-2e7 The common-sense concept of cause and effect makes sense because 'variants' do exist somewhere in the multiverse. Nothing necessitates causes to precede their effects.notes844
115010-2g1.1 Experience to theory over theory to experience—the latter theory is harder to get it off because it shapes your experiencenotes817
115110-2g1f2a3 Everett on Descartes - Dualism is one of the worst error ever introduced into philosophy, and simply ignores evolutionnotes844
115210-2g1h The best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.notes835
115310-2g2e1 Our best explanation invokes abstractions including causation and the laws of physicsnotes871
115410-2g2e3 Abstractions seem ‘inaccessible’ to empiricismnotes862
115510-2h Explicating the inexplicit amounts to knowledge, and knowledge is unpredictable, and never derived mechanicallynotes853
115611-1a Start from what you knownotes817
115711-3 資本主義が自慢する「合理性」には、必ずや「ゆらぎ」「欠陥」「誤謬」「たまたま」が巣くっているnotes844
115811-3a Explanation of equity market requires knowing about other parts of market. Explanation of market in general requires knowing about non-market bits.notes862
115912-1a2b3 Left eventually becomes the right, not ideologically but economically and systematicallynotes862
116013-1 Humans act purposefully, because humans can conceptually have problemsnotes835
116113-1a3 All action involves exchange across the multiversenotes853
116213-1a3a1 The essence of the exchange is that both people make it because they expect that it will benefit themnotes826
116313-1a3a1a Everyone benefits a psychic profit at the time of exchange (ex ante), but not everyone will benefit from the exchange (ex post)notes853
116413-5b1a Saving is not necessarily a monetary phenomenon—the restriction of present consumption constitutes savingnotes844
116513-5b1b Saving cannot be exhaustively measured in monetary termsnotes835
116613-5b2a0 Utilities or values between persons cannot be compared—but demonstrated time-preference schedules can be comparednotes826
116713-8a The supply is seller’s demandnotes826
116813-8c1 Utilities are not quantities, but ranks—even in the case of the most divisible of goods, there will still be a difference in rank, not an equalization, between the two utilitiesnotes817
11692-1a0c1a 'Influence of stress' - 'In the thick of battle, you will not rise to the level of your expectations, but fall to the level of your training'notes835
11702-1a0c1f The network won't let anyone (particularly the state) coercenotes853
11712-1a6c2 Establishing rituals is the key to creating positive inertianotes835
11722-1a6d1 Digitize the idea from the context within which that's been spoken-writtennotes853
11732-1b2b2.1 Life is a multiplicative game—take advantage of network effects but avoid the risk of ruinnotes835
11742-1b2b3 Don't invest what you can't afford to losenotes844
11752-1b2b5.1 Brian Armstrong's Rule of 70-20-10notes835
11762-1c1a3 Platforms eventually cannibalize their complementsnotes826
11772-3b0 Knowledge creation is not a function of timenotes853
11783-1c1d10 Ascending-descending world > first-third (developed-developing) world dichotomynotes817
11793-1c1d2a If the news is fake, imagine historynotes853
11803-1c1d8 Sentiment (both macro and micro) is important and should be measurednotes853
11813-1c3d2a1 Project ≠ Todo - doing something for its own sake isn’t the same as doing something to solve problemsnotes844
11823-1c3e1 There are emergent problems which will emerge as you go about life, that can only be accounted for with new explanationsnotes862
11833-1d4c Humans can correct its own errors because we use symbolsnotes853
11844-1a1 Real conversation is full of false startsnotes844
11854-1a4 Each new conversation is a fresh startnotes826
11864-1a4b2b2b Blockchains enable thoughtful evolution based on immutable rules and credible neutralitynotes844
11874-1a4b3b A blockchain constitution means an immutable topic to be discussednotes853
11884-1a4b6b1 Ideas and its contexts applied are arbitrarynotes853
11894-1a4b8a Your mind is not a bucketnotes844
11904-1a4b8b Multitasking can be adapted without any downsides if you conceptualize the mind accordinglynotes844
11915-1a Be nicenotes844
11925-1b1a1c3 The interoperability law means we can do away with dynamical laws because the former is scale-independentnotes871
11935-1b1a2c2 Constructor Theory is all about knowledge of how to correct errors (primarily of our parochiality-physicality) and thus optimismnotes871
11945-1b1a4b The extreme version of the two-job route is dangerous, because you postpone the abductionsnotes844
11955-1b1a6 The reality doesn’t care how many things you are good at. What matters is the explanation.notes817
11965-1b1a9 The Fun Criterion is an explanationnotes853
11975-1b1b1a1b Not every relationships matter. Most likely, only a few matter.notes826
11985-1b1b1a6 Corporate networks can play different games from protocol networks because they have way more sources of fundingnotes835
11995-1b1c Market should beget and benefit from volatilitynotes826
12005-1b4c1 When you are ‘self-disciplined’ your unconscious is likely not engaged, and you’re probably not solving any real problems.notes835
12015-2b0b Most books about thinking focus on being more rational when the fundamental problem is not knowing what problems to exercise judgementnotes844
12025-2b1a Your goals reflect your problem-situation, and as such must be criticizednotes835
12035-2b1a2 When you invert, you are inverting the problem-situation itself (’why do I have this problem’)notes844
12045-2b1a2a Simplify the problem, but not too simplynotes844
12055-2b1a3 Extract the most problematic part of the problem-situationnotes835
12065-2c2b0.1 Invest in what can't be easily disruptednotes853
12076-3 Our definition of health should also consider the health of mind (e.g., ’clarity of mind’ and ‘neural health’), not just physical health.notes835
12086-3b0 When you own something, you can do whatever with itnotes826
12096-3b2.3c When the money is printed, financial assets appreciatenotes835
12106-3b2.4a Less volition within nation states leads to negative feedback loops of more coercionnotes844
12116-3b4b Users become marketers with tokensnotes835
12127-1b The problem and its solution doesn’t have to be addressed by the same individualnotes826
12137-1b0a The producer-consumer distinction is blurred in non-profit organizations and open source projects. Likely why their diffusions are slow.notes835
12147-1b3a Don’t argue. Build. Their incomprehension is your moat.notes844
12157-1b4a Start with technology. Technology is knowledge. Use them as objective constraints.notes817
12167-1b4b4c Public Networked Learner must use composability with ownership and compounding to its advantagenotes835
12178-1b Look for places where we’ve taken an offline experience and put it online (physical ⇒ intermediate) but haven’t fundamentally innovated yet (⇒ internet-native)notes862
12188-1b3c Software is a highly plastic flexible medium and almost any economic model that can be dreamed up can be implemented in softwarenotes862
12198-1b4 Blockchains are new kind of computernotes844
12208-1c2 Robotics then software (likely in that order, although not necessarily) will replace Uber, Amazon, Doordashnotes853
12218-2b2.1 Blockchain technologies allow composable forms of trust. Trust can be digitized.notes844
12228-2d1b Forwardable insights can lead to network effectsnotes862
12239-1 Be truthfulnotes844
12249-1a3 The maxima in the space of startup ideas are not spiky and isolated.notes853
12259-1c When you take Popperian epistemology seriously, you take people (including children) seriouslynotes853
12269-1c2 You can only hope that people you care about will somewhat understand your explanations, but they will never understand you exhaustivelynotes844
12279-2 Everything is salesnotes844
12289-2b3c1 Everett on Joseph Campbell's 'Monomyth' (innate content) - A tendency to think in generic terms of people and races is undoubtedly the profoundest flaw in mythological thinking. You could shape any myths into a monomyth if you so wished.notes871
12299-2b3e1 Our ideas are acquired by living and thinkingnotes844
12309-2b3f Everett on Hume - Ideas only make sense or exist through experiencenotes835
12319-2b3h Edward Sapir - 'One is always unconsciously finding what one is in unconscious subjection to'notes835
12329-4a Writing is fighting, and good writing can fuel technological progressnotes853
12339-4b3b We get closer to the objective knowledge by correcting one's own errorsnotes835
12349-5 How to writenotes826
1235Benjamin Franklinpeople853
1236Costly speech means only the wealthy speak freelynotes844
1237QUE5 - Who owns themnotes826
12381-1a1.1 More precisely, we think hierarchically but it's dynamic and subject to changenotes752
12391-1a1c1 Peirce said his achievements were due to his peculiar way of thinking as well as his method of thinkingnotes752
12401-1a2e10 There is no such thing as objective meaningnotes743
12411-1a2e5.1 Mind without culture is grammar without lettersnotes725
12421-1a2e9c Culture is technologynotes752
12431-1a4b0b According to Peirce, mathematics precedes all other fields of study, and only studies imbued with a strong mathematical foundation were worthy of the label ‘science’. Mathematics cannot be derived from logic.notes734
12441-1a5b1 Unpublished essays and deleted sentences are like experiments that get inconclusive resultsnotes734
12451-1a5b4.2 GTFOL, ASAPnotes725
12461-1c6a The Fun Criterion might be the way to distinguish what constitutes ‘the most interesting’notes734
12471-1c6a2 Todo list can be never exhaustivenotes743
12481-1c6a4 You can only say 'no' when you have your 'yes'notes725
12491-1d Usually the obstacles are your own preconceived notions, and rarely the laws of physicsnotes761
12501-2b1 Power cares about its past because the former is derived from the latternotes752
12511-2c New explanations are to be judged by how many more problems can be solved by itnotes725
12521-2f1a3b Philosophy without science is “empty ideas”notes752
12531-2g2j2 Icons are intentional resemblances. It is 'about' something.notes716
12541-2g2t2 History (i.e., entangled) is information flow channel because it is approximately autonomous. That is to say, its entanglement means we can successfully predict some aspects of the future of that history from its past within that history.notes743
125510-1a2b マルチメディア・ネットワークの未来は、これまでのいっさいの情報文化史的な成果の再編集に向かうnotes716
125610-2 Thick descripting myself — a configuration of ideas which is menotes752
125710-2a I am a set of ideas including conscious and unconsciousnotes743
125810-2f0a What natural selection favored was complex thinking, not complex sentences. A gene for syntax (complex sentences) is ‘junk’ portion, as it were (i.e., not necessary).notes716
125910-2g2c0b There is no a priori - 直観は存在しないnotes743
126010-2g2c0d Semiotics is a theory of how human experience grows by means of the mediating structures we create, and derives from phenomenology (philosophy of things we experience)notes743
126110-2g2e Universality of the laws of physics depends on the existence of universal explainers — peoplenotes734
126210-2g2e9 Abstractions are corrected by realizing how ‘it could’ve been otherwise’notes743
126312-1a2b1 Left-right consensus is anarchynotes716
126413-10a Time preference per se doesn’t explain anythingnotes734
126513-1a3.2 If all factors are specific, there is no costnotes725
126613-1a3a2d1 Money superimposes direct use-values of things onto a commensurable unitnotes752
126713-1a3a2e4 Money is demanded and considered useful because of its already existing money pricesnotes734
126813-3b All the decisions to supply present goods on the present-future market to provide for the maintenance of the capital structure must be considered—various intercapitalist transactions cannot be netted out as duplicationsnotes734
126913-4a The multiverse implies human action—the laws of physics dictate that humans actnotes743
127013-5b The capitalists are the only ones who spend money on labor, land, and capital goodsnotes734
127113-5b2a1 The production structure, along with credit transaction, constitute the time marketnotes716
127213-5b3d The total savings going into investment in production is the total supply of savings minus consumers’ loan demands for present goodsnotes725
127313-5b4 Zones of indeterminacy between valuations and in pricing dwindle radically with moneynotes716
127413-7.1a Prices can reveal differences between goods that appear identicalnotes752
127513-8a1 In money economy, every exchange comes down to the demand for the good and moneynotes716
12762-1a3.3 負もフィードバックする (Feedback loops work both ways)notes734
12772-1a6d Never say yes to something important without thinking it over for a daynotes725
12782-1a8 Interest rate affects businesses, but not curiosity!notes752
12792-1b2b4 Look for value-added risk reducing tradesnotes752
12802-1b3.1 Pick weak competitionsnotes734
12813-1a4b1 Understand what you abstracted awaynotes743
12823-1b1a1 People think big ideas are answers, but often the real insight is in the question. The question-answer categorization is arbitrary.notes743
12833-1c1c1 The first thing to look at each day should be your purpose and metrics you can improve uponnotes752
12843-1c1d9 Phrasing mattersnotes734
12853-1c2e5 Symbols are constructed of other symbolsnotes752
12863-1c3c4a Person who finds profound new theories often holds onto beliefs that contradict themnotes743
12873-1c3d1 Well-defined mini-projects can be recycled. Your future self won’t have to repeat himself for similar project.notes761
12883-1d4a0 Often times what matters is not what's used in the system, but what it does and can donotes761
12894-1a4b3c A blockchain record means an immutable subject to be interpretednotes743
12904-1a4b5 When you write down anything, you are literally saving yourself (although never entirely) at that momentnotes752
12914-1a4b6 You write to forget. And when your mind forget something, it’ll have a space for another configuration of ideasnotes743
12924-1a4b6b0 We can make almost anything happen (in the way we want) regardless of contextual constraints because we can tweak everything (in piecemeal engineering fashion) by using symbolsnotes743
12934-1a5a If you properly set up the conversation you only need a handful of conversations for insights (e.g., via client slicing and segmentation)notes734
12944-1d0.2 Avoid the anonymous 'we' and 'they,' because they mask personal responsibilitynotes725
12954-2 Conversation has to be bottleneckednotes716
12965-1b1a Technology itself should be the kind that begets and benefits from volatilitynotes734
12975-1b1b You should beget and benefit from volatility (learning)notes734
12985-1b1b1a4.1 ゲーム = ゲーム性 (駆け引き) + 操作性 + 物語性 + 再現性 + 世界観 + クラフト系 + 音ゲー + スポーツnotes725
12995-1b4c3 The definition of fun is arbitrary and contingent depending on the individual. You can be ‘making an effort’ while having fun.notes734
13005-2b0a Most errors in judgement happen when we don't know we're supposed to be exercising judgementnotes752
13015-2c2b1a If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s, for your future selfnotes770
13025-3c2 BSM formula is technology, and took much longer than expected to catch on publiclynotes725
13036-1a We are outsourcing to capitalist entities who are not aligned with usnotes743
13046-3a3 The frontier will be on-chainnotes752
13056-3b3f Blockchain network > Protocol network > Corporate networknotes743
13066-3b6 Digital-native ownership can address ambiguities of physical onesnotes734
13076-3b8 You can't really influence legacy-analog-land from frontier-digital-cloud, nor should you.notes725
13087-1b1 You can solve problems others are conscious ofnotes743
13097-1d1d You can use technology people assume is “dead”notes734
13108-1b3b2 There are infinite more things to experiment on-chain (and off-chain) just as there are infinite things to write aboutnotes716
13118-1b3g Poor faucets-sinks design can lead to the problem of 'only the rich can deploy'notes734
13128-1d Look for inherently crypto-native areas and conceptsnotes752
13138-2b4 You don't (and can't) put everything on-chain, just as you don't (and can't) put everything onlinenotes725
13148-2d2a You can’t be a multiple in analog worldnotes770
13159-1d1 Because minds never hold precisely the same idea (the same configuration of ideas), “having everyone on the same page” (syncing) is epistemological impossibilitynotes725
13169-2b2 There is no objective hierarchy amongst knowledge; only cultural-subjective hierarchy exists because we are cultural being (知識・情報そのものに優劣はない)notes752
13179-2b3b1 Contingency = Meaning (or, contingency implies meaning)notes743
13189-4b1a Abductions are historic events. Real writing is history being written.notes752
13199-4b2 Writing is creative destructions happening on papernotes734
13209-4b2e A mind can create ideas which have never existed beforenotes734
13219-4d A good essay = importance (do I want it) + novelty (did you think about it a lot) + correctness + strengthnotes734
13229-4d1 Communicate in the headline, then in the subtitle, then slightly differently in the opening sentence, and expand on it in the opening paragraphnotes725
13239-4e2a Open source + Crowdfunding + 3D printer + App stores = A golden age of buildersnotes716
13249-4e2f The low initial cost of starting a startup ⇒ Investors need founders more than founders need investorsnotes743
1325AN3C - A restaurant can afford to serve the occasional burnt dinners. In tech, you cook one thing and that’s what everyone eats.notes725
1326AN3C - There is no way a training could prepare a man for combatnotes743
1327QUE5 - Ask “am I working on what I most want to work on” because per-project procrastination is far worse than daily procrastinationnotes761
1328QUE5 - Is this long vol, or short volnotes725
1329QUE5 - What's your company's billion-dollar functionnotes770
1330RUL3 - Always be ready to face the ultimate choice. Know what's important for you. Eliminate ambiguity.notes761
1331RUL3 - Avoid premature optimizationnotes761
1332RUL3 Look for an ongoing trade of knowledge. Can I learn from him. Can I teach him something.notes734
1333Unreasonably reasonableessays707
13341-1a2e8a We see symbolically and not otherwisenotes633
13351-1c5a Write down what surprises younotes633
13361-1c6c You ‘actualize’ yourself when you solve both the problem and the problem-situation via better explanationsnotes642
13371-2b0.5 We crave necessity because we are contingentnotes633
13381-2f1a2 Skepticism is how you stay being critical even when you don’t have the vocabulary to articulate your own imperfection and incompleteness because proper categories and anti-theses aren’t fully developed yetnotes633
13391-2f2 Popperian epistemology is universal, because it allows any knowledge to be creatednotes633
13401-2f3 Other epistemologies are analog because they keep both new and old theories based on ‘degrees of truth’ or ‘probabilistic truthnotes642
13411-2f4 Other epistemologies are parochial because they don't fix its own errors. It's like a model that never recalibrates.notes651
13421-2g1c3c Self = A sequence of experiences ('recursive definition of the self')notes642
13431-2g2s The very fact that physical variables can store information, that they can interact with one another to transfer and replicate it, and that such processes are stable, all depend on the details of quantum theorynotes615
13441-2g2s4 Everyday objects are partitioned into nearly autonomous histories with one instance-position-speed, but every atom in those objects is a multiversal object not partitioned (i.e., fungible)notes651
13451-2g2s7 There is no universe number 1 or number 2 because that would make them non-fungible (as well as implying some transcendental perspective). There is no point asking which event we will experience.notes624
13461-2g2s7a Knowing probability doesn't mean you can predict itnotes642
13471-2g2s7b5 Proof theory is computer science and not mathematicsnotes615
13481-2g2t3 A history approximation breaks down when there is interference (i.e., merging), and histories do rejoin via interference phenomenonnotes624
13491-2g2t3f Contingency can be only realized when you evoke the multiversenotes651
13501-2g3b In short, new theories have to solve more problems than existent onesnotes651
135110-1a8 Crypto is applied (multidisciplinary) subjectnotes624
135210-1c3 Think of yourself as a machine operating within a machine and know that you have the ability to alter your machines to produce better outcomes.notes615
135310-2e1 Most of the modern languages assume that time ‘flow’notes615
135410-2f0 One cannot understand sentence structures well without understanding the discourses they are embedded innotes633
135510-2f4 Learning computer languages is about mere syntax (learning human languages ≠ learning computer languages)notes615
135610-2g1i Universality and infinity are necessary condition for the growth of knowledge, but not sufficientnotes624
135710-2g2e9b1 Evolution couldn't have happened without the multiversenotes651
135810-2g3c Not all memes are rationalnotes642
135910-2g3d1b 土器そのものの象徴化即ち威信財の登場notes624
136010-2g3g Memes precede knowledgenotes624
136111-3.3a The law of returns—with the quantity of complementary factors held constant, there always exists some optimum amount of the varying factornotes642
136213-1a3a1g Knowledge via memes doesn’t grow without moneynotes633
136313-1a3a2d7 There is no perfect marketnotes615
136413-1a3a2e6 Money prices of the past influence current expectations, but today’s demand also influences the present price—and the influence of the latter can dwarf that of the formernotes633
136513-1a3a5.1 The concept of an equilibrium becomes meaningless when knowledge creation is introducednotes624
136613-3 All action must take place in timenotes642
136713-4d4c The man only strives for a favorable balance of trade as it pertains to him as an entrepreneurnotes624
136813-4d5a The rate of interest is derived from subjective valuesnotes624
136913-5b2h In the evenly rotating economy, the rates of interest will differ in accordance with a psychic componentnotes624
137013-5b3b A landowner’s pre-income demand for money is practically inelastic unlike a laborer’s—the land will be rent out regardless of the height of interestnotes624
137113-5c1 All consumers can be capitalists if their time-preference schedules so dictatenotes642
137213-5d1 Capital goods per se are not productivenotes633
137313-6a4 Knowledge informs preferences. Knowledge precedes temperament.notes615
137413-6c The action axiom implies corresponding value scalesnotes633
137513-6d Praxeological laws apply regardless of the content of value scales—regardless of the nature of ends pursuednotes633
137613-7.1 The difference in goods can be ascertained only through human actionsnotes633
137713-7a Utilities cannot be combinednotes633
137813-7b “Total utility” can be ascertained only when the marginal good with which the individual acts upon coincides with what whatever the totality means in that contextnotes615
137913-8d Speculative anticipations merely assist the market price toward equilibriumnotes651
138013-9b1 The closeness of the substitution does not exist objectively, but only subjectively in the minds of consumersnotes633
13812-1a1a3e There’s no objective averagenotes642
13822-1a4a Sometimes the best information is the least transmissible.notes633
13832-1a6c4a Randomness is an emergent phenomenon inherent within each universenotes615
13842-1a6c4b Explanation is the way to the multiversenotes615
13853-1a4c' Crypto can integrate culture of each network unlike top-down Western global capitalism which did away with the cultural aspects of communitiesnotes660
13863-1b1c Occasionally ask 'am I working on what I most want to work on'notes633
13873-1c1b1 You are also how you consumenotes624
13883-1c3c2d Any explanation, including the theory of physics, can be improved indefinitelynotes660
13893-1c3d2a Chasing growth ≠ Listing off projects like todonotes624
13903-1c3e However, you will always be solving the problem of what problems to solve because of your unconscious. Don’t be a reductionist in approaching problems themselves.notes642
13914-1a Don’t ask question but start with onenotes633
13924-1a4b1 You are a configuration of ideas (both conscious and unconscious)notes633
13934-1a4b3c1 Legacy statistics are manipulation-pronenotes624
13944-1a4b5b Deutsch - The solution to the problem of consciousness will invoke no specific quantum-mechanical processes, but it will depend crucially on the quantum-mechanical, and especially the multi-universe, world-picture.notes633
13954-1c2 Don’t trigger defensive responsesnotes642
13965-1a3 We don’t derive an ought from an is. Only problems exist. We can just solve them.notes633
13975-1b1a1c2 The interoperability law connects physics and informationnotes633
13985-1b1a2a Any instantiation of knowledge (meaning every technology and representation) will have its own restraintsnotes633
13995-1b1a2b Anything physical can’t do away with its own contingencynotes651
14005-1b1a5a Universal constructor is obedient, whereas universal explainers are disobedient (i.e., creative)notes624
14015-1b1d Invest in volatility (literally)notes624
14025-1b4b0 Evolution is trendnotes642
14035-3d Innovation is invention catching on. Innovation itself is technology, and technology is knowledge. Innovation is knowledge becoming public.notes642
14046-1 Understanding one’s health requires understanding one’s environment, because culture and technology affects both what we do inexplicitly and unconsciouslynotes615
14056-2b Cut inputs after arousalnotes615
14066-3b2.1 State network ≈ Corporate networknotes615
14076-3b2.3b Your spending is someone else's income. Spending matters.notes615
14086-3b3f1 Not every crypto network is technical networknotes615
14096-3b3g1 Network effects also affect blockchain networksnotes633
14106-3b5 Tokens encapsulate complicated code (primarily, ownership) into an uncomplicated wrappernotes633
14116-7 Brain and gut works reflexivelynotes633
14126-7b Nutrition doesn’t exist independently from the patientnotes651
14137-1a1c The problem-situation is more rigid in scientific discourse, compared to elsewherenotes633
14147-1b2b You can help explicating problems others have inexplicitly or unconsciouslynotes615
14157-1b4e What you can > What you want (できること > やりたいこと)notes633
14167-1c You are not committed to any specific problem. You are committed to figuring out something no one knew before. You are committed to the unpredictable.notes633
14177-1d0 People who find ways to drive down the costs and simplify the product made the biggest difference (Ford)notes642
14187-1d2a1 Network-era businesses today have new organizational needsnotes624
14198-1a1 We are digitizing more than evernotes624
14208-1b3b1 Any system that can be written down can be realizednotes615
14218-1c4a1 iPhone and texting (along with visual voicemail) boosted each othernotes633
14228-1c4d3 Blockchain and Web3 writing can boost each othernotes624
14239-1b0b 'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.'notes660
14249-1b2b Technology, knowledge, and people constitute symbols (including relations, because relations are also symbols)notes633
14259-2b1.1 形式の内容化もありうる (形式 > 内容)notes633
14269-2b1.5 You are both what you write and how you writenotes624
14279-2b3c2 Everett on Chomsky - UG (that humans are born with a tacit knowledge of many intricate details of grammar) and the idea that the linguistics capacity were identical and innate in all humans are 'monogrammar' similar to 'monomyth'notes642
14289-2b4 More applicability (i.e., universality) per se doesn't necessarily mean it's for the betternotes633
14299-2b6 Infinity per se is never enoughnotes642
14309-2b7 Universality means there are infinite possibilities, but you can only pick fewnotes624
1431AN3C - Piraha doesn’t differentiate ‘reality’ and ‘dream’notes633
1432AN3C - Recombination is 1,000x more effective than random mutationnotes660
1433AN3C - There are things insiders can’t say precisely because they’re insidersnotes633
1434Bitsteinpeople633
1435Marc Andreessenpeople642
1436Mertpeople642
1437Morgan Houselpeople624
1438RUL3 - Pay attention to what you’re not supposed to, what you can’t say. ‘Inappropriate’ things. It’s usually a good start for things grandiose.notes642
1439The Triad is the Underlyingessays606
1440To be universal, protocols must be unopinionatednotes633
14411-1a2e7d1 To live = To live culturally = To live economicallynotes541
14421-1b1 The placebo effect is very likely real, just that they can’t be easily tested since ideas themselves aren’t physicalnotes523
14431-1c2 Your ‘explanation’ also contains inexplicit, as well as unconscious, contentnotes523
14441-1c6a1d In the absence of evidence, do not assume miraclesnotes532
14451-1c6b You are having fun when your whole being is engaged in solving a problemnotes541
14461-1c6d The Fun Criterion must be used in the context of solving problemsnotes532
14471-2a2 Logical reasoning is no less a physical process than scientific reasoning is, and it is inherently falliblenotes541
14481-2a4 We must remain within the confines of our own explanations, even if our understanding of physical processes (that constitute reasoning in general) improves arbitrarilynotes532
14491-2b0 Truth needs an explanation. Being true doesn't mean you don't need one.notes523
14501-2f1a1 Scientists evaluate theories with excess reasonable doubtnotes523
14511-2f1b3a0 Adjustments should be made graduallynotes514
14521-2f1b4a Truth is about how much reality is in a theorynotes523
14531-2g1a1 Popper, Turing, Everett, Dawkins (then Deutsch himself) gave a better explanation as to why the prevailing theories were true after all (unfortunately, they have found themselves constantly on the defensive against obsolete theories)notes532
14541-2g1e Our biological bodies are (still) encoded in genes. Often times it is helpful to understand our biological-default tendencies-biases.notes532
14551-2g2a The problem of ‘fine-tuning’ should be approached by being honest with what knowledge is, and not anthropocentricallynotes532
14561-2g2i0a Going against the Turing principle means deathnotes523
14571-2g2k Genes embody knowledge about their niches. Replication itself is not the fundamental significance of life.notes523
14581-2g2l Knowledge is a fundamental physical quantity, and the phenomenon of life only slightly less sonotes523
14591-2g2m The existence of highly adapted replicators depends on the Turing principle because those are in essence universal virtual-reality generators. Explicit reference to replicators, evolution, or biology, are not necessary.notes523
14601-2g2n The Turing principle is an apparent fact, and we are trying to explain that fact, to place it within the same framework as other facts we knownotes532
14611-2g2o Evolution is a well-established fact, and itself not a theory. Only the explanations of how evolution happens or looks are theories (e.g., natural selection, genetic processes, and family trees).notes532
14621-2g2r1 If you believe that there are bounds on the domain in which reason is the proper arbiter of ideas, then you believe in unreason or the supernaturalnotes523
14631-2g2s6 The reality does not make distinction of the universes in the multiverse because each universe exists equally as a part of the multiversenotes532
14641-2g2s7b1 The laws of physics provides the measure (provides a meaning to proportions and averages for infinite sets) for the multiversenotes532
14651-2g2t Quantum theory via diversity within fungibility allows both branching (the multiverse) and stability in the sense of what’s been branched stays branched (stable existence of each universe, allowing the classical physics as approximation)notes514
14661-2g2t3e1 Explanatory knowledge is inherently about the multiversenotes523
14671-2g3a At the limit, new theories create new problemsnotes532
146810-1a6 History is the analysis of the log filesnotes514
146910-1a7 History is more of a method and less about subject (if not applied subject). History is dependent on your epistemology and technology - more generally, your knowledge - because you can only see what you can see.notes514
147010-1c4 Think about your problem as a set of outcomes produced by a machine then customize, because thinking in terms of machine implies composability, and composable system is fixablenotes532
147110-2d1 The laws of physics are not necessarily to be expressed with current notation. The relation is arbitrary.notes532
147210-2d1d Humans are distinguished because of the syntax of their DNA (genomes)notes532
147310-2e0 Languages are theories. The vocabulary and grammar embody substantial assertions about the world.notes550
147410-2e2 The multiverse does not ‘come into existence’ or ‘cease to exist’; those terms presuppose the flow of time. It is only imagining the flow of time that makes us wonder what happened ‘before’ or ‘after’ the whole of reality.notes532
147510-2e4b Money is fungible. So is energy. So are we.notes541
147610-2f1b We filter both what needs to be said and what doesn't have to be, either consciously or subconsciouslynotes532
147710-2g1a1 Science is not pure rationality autonomous from its cultural matrixnotes532
147810-2g1b2 Good products are hard to varynotes523
147910-2g2b Language as the most advanced form of communication is what differentiates humans, not communication per senotes541
148010-2g2c0d1 Peircean semiotics is about process and not about topicnotes532
148110-2g2c1b Only humans struggle in expressing themselves - 表現しきれないというのは人間のみnotes532
148210-2g2d Science symbolizes physicality beyond parochialism (from seen to the unseen)notes514
148310-2g2e4 Abstractions seem less ‘justified’ to the justified-true-belief misconceptionnotes532
148411-1b Investment is expression and you need methods and techniques (i.e., knowledge)notes532
148511-4 Diversification can achieve what multiplicity does in the digitalnotes550
148612-1a2b4 Blockchains can change the course of history, in the sense of how history unfoldsnotes523
148712-1a4 The Network State - go cloud first, land last, but not land never; fractal polity with capital in the cloud; can be achieved with the most robust existing tech stack we havenotes541
148812-1e1 There are no permanent solutions in a dynamic systemnotes532
148913-1a3a2e5.1 Money necessarily evokes prices in the past—in barter economy, this is not necessarily the casenotes550
149013-3c What maintains capital is gross expenditure and gross investment and not net investmentnotes514
149113-5b2d1 In the evenly rotating economy (ERE), every isolable factor will earn its DMVP and this will be its price since factor units are interchangeablenotes514
149213-5c The capitalists’ money for investment must be first savednotes532
149313-5d The capitalists per se are not powerfulnotes523
149413-5f1 You must evoke others to explain the interest ratenotes541
14952-1a0aa Applied Occam's razor - 'If you can't program it, you don't understand it. If you can't write about it, you can't code it.'notes550
14962-1a1a4 'Representativeness heuristic' - Remember the Linda test (i.e., the conjunction fallacy)notes523
14972-1a7a6 Mr. Market is there to serve me, never to guide menotes550
14982-1e2 Both 'underlying' assets and 'derivatives' can be considered as 'contingent claims'notes541
14992-1e3 実体経済も市場経済も等しく経済notes523
15002-2c1 If you have negative externalities, tax itnotes523
15012-3b1 'Sensitivity to fairness' - What is fair changesnotes514
15022-4 Be nice (but smart)notes505
15033-1a2b Problem-situation should define which system and organizational structure should be adaptednotes514
15043-1a4b5.1 Money can be anything—but money will not be everythingnotes541
15053-1b2b There is a difference between trying to incorporate the inexplicit and unconscious into your theories, and simply indulging in the unconsciousnotes523
15063-1c1e Know your own incentive as a writernotes532
15073-1c2b Conjecturing the relative importance of such problems-projects is also essentialnotes514
15083-1c2c Your mind has inexplicit and unconscious assumption not only with regard to what constitute as problems but also their relative importancenotes541
15093-1c2d1 Individuals or nations might possess the same values, but the ordering differsnotes541
15103-1c3b We are not interested in where the knowledge is stored, but rather whether it’s easy to retrieve them when we have tonotes523
15113-1c3b2 Reading the 'original' texts should not be the default to learn about philosophy (or anything for that matter)notes523
15123-1c3c3a2 More precisely, almost everything CAN BE made contingentnotes523
15133-1c3d3a Problems are also unpredictable. Your mini-projects may turn out to be useful later. They are optionality.notes532
15144-1a2b Labelling is like prompting without making it look like a questionnotes532
15154-1a4b It’s really tough to get annoyed when you are having conversation with yourself or with ideasnotes523
15164-1a4b3e Meaningful narratives > Meaningless speculationnotes523
15174-1a4b5c1 松岡正剛 - われわれは複数の情報生命複合体。意識はそこから突起する文法的な主語のようなもの。notes523
15184-1a4b6a0b Knowledge = Wealthnotes532
15194-1a4b7 Your mind is different from other medium (e.g., paper) because it can transfer ideas to other mediumnotes523
15204-1a4c PG - spend 2 weeks on an essay and reread drafts 50 times — you can’t do this in conversation.notes532
15214-1e Emphasize what they’ll miss out on, rather than what they can getnotes523
15225-1b1a8b You can use analogy, but you have to explain why the analogy holdsnotes541
15235-1b4c4c When you have fun proper, it should also be intellectually stimulatingnotes514
15245-2c1a 自己シグナリング:人間は、他人を評価するのと同じで、自分で自分の行動を見て、自分の性格を判断している。notes550
15255-2c2c The probability of extinction is effectively independent of its age (Van Valen)notes541
15265-3e Matt Ridley - 'Knowledge is both a public good and a temporarily private one. Knowledge is expensive to produce, but can sometimes pay for itself.'notes532
15276-3b0a Ownership means tradingnotes523
15286-3b0d Users become traders with tokensnotes523
15296-3b2.2 Network state ≠ State networknotes514
15306-3b2.5b Indian network (or any other country-company-community network) can provide the civilizational stack to the worldnotes523
15316-3b2.6 China is the manufacturing superpowernotes541
15326-3b3.1 There is no necessary incentive (i.e., norm incentives)notes523
15337-1a2a0 The definition of 'local' doesn't imply physical-geographical proximity due to the existence of internetnotes532
15347-1a2c Startup = Growthnotes541
15357-1a4c Different institutions have different motivations-incentivesnotes523
15367-1b4g Intellectual and physical can merge in the digitalnotes523
15377-1b6 There are only problems to be solved. Types of problems are arbitrary, because one type can be easily morphed into another.notes541
15387-1d1b Look for technology which haven’t gotten a lot of press yet because it’s really new from labs, or because people assume it’s “dead” although doesn’t explain whynotes541
15398-1c1 Potential scenario - Digital frontend + Human backend ⇒ Digital frontend + Digital backendnotes532
15408-1c3a1 Internet vs Telecom will recur in Crypto vs Financial Servicesnotes532
15418-1c3b Farming became the most common job during the 19th centurynotes532
15428-1c4a Smartphones skyrocketed online screen timenotes523
15438-1c4a3 Focused vision heightens alertness — bigger screen doesn’t always translate to more focusnotes514
15448-1c4d5 We need mechanisms to realign technology-media-society (or technology-media-individual)notes532
15458-2a Do not overestimate the robustness of legacy institutions. Crypto is more than just an asset class due to its programmability, permissionless-ness, and peer-to-peer architecture.notes541
15468-2d1 People gather for an ideology on new media, instead of geographical constraints (e.g., local newspapers)notes523
15478-3 Roboticsnotes523
15488-4a Multi-modality means transferability (着せ替え・持ち替え・言い換え)notes532
15499-1c1 Your partners and friends have to sign up for your explanationnotes523
15509-1d2b Dismissing some people as irrational presupposes the bucket theory of mind. Everyone’s mind is active. Do not assume you can ‘transfer’ your knowledge to others.notes550
15519-2b0 Low voice midnight FM MC voice resonates betternotes514
15529-2b3b2 We have meaning because we are freenotes523
15539-2b5.1 Contingency > Universalitynotes523
15549-4b2a1d1.1 Inexperienced people can have great ideas too, sometimes far better ones than more experienced peoplenotes523
15559-4b2a1d3 Technologists and background technologies interact reflexivelynotes532
15569-4b2d The evolution of ideas is defined by ‘jumps’ via creative mutationsnotes532
15579-4b2f The most important source of variation in explanatory theories is creativity. More ‘jumps’ via creativity allows qualitatively different types of ‘mutations’.notes541
15589-4e1 If they are already paying for your writing, all the better, because that would lower their hurdles to pay for your productnotes523
15599-4e2e There are much lower-risk ways to make money than a start upnotes514
15609-4e2e1 Startup = Open Source Project = Crypto Protocol = Non-Profit = Individual Tinkeringnotes532
1561AN3C - Don’t write the essay readers expect - one learns nothing from what one expects - be surprising.notes550
1562AN3C - Piraha doesn’t differentiate the future and the pastnotes550
1563Culture transforms ‘things’ into symbols and meaningnotes514
1564David Ogilvypeople514
1565Economics of Godessays550
1566Per Bylundpeople514
1567Peter Bevelinpeople523
1568QUE5 - Are they timeless and universal (if yes, things are likely to be uncorrelated)notes550
1569QUE5 - The modern theory of evolution based question — what replicating strategies did this meme use to get herenotes550
1570QUE5 - What are the best returns I can sustain for the longest period of timenotes532
1571QUE5 - Will I care about this a year from now, 10 years, 80 yearsnotes550
1572RUL3 - “Staying Upwind” - don’t plan too much; instead, work on ambitious projects and flow to the most interesting that gives you the best options for the futurenotes550
1573RUL3 - Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.notes550
1574Todd Gravespeople532
1575意識は推論そのものnotes523
15761-1a2a3 Everett on Freud - No earlier theory made more lively use of the notion of innate, a priori dark matternotes422
15771-1a4a1 Regime-switching model implemented Popperian epistemology to trade financial derivativesnotes431
15781-1a4b0 Deduction can't generate knowledge.notes422
15791-1a4b1 You either have to ignore them as irrelevant or consider them as problems to be solvednotes431
15801-1c5b Asking what surprised them usually is an extremely useful questionnotes440
15811-1c6 Flow to the most interesting, because surprises are interestingnotes422
15821-1c6a2c Don't keep a schedulenotes422
15831-2a3 Errors will occur, but have to be solvable-correctable.notes431
15841-2g2b3a Both Great Simulator and all-possible-computer-programs-are-running arguments are bad explanations because computation doesn't precede physical world and its laws.notes440
15851-2g2b6 Universal computers would be dependent on universal explainersnotes431
15861-2g2i1 Humans can embody universal laws of physics (non-parochial)notes422
15871-2g2k4 Genes are (computer) programs expressed in the language of DNA instead of zeros and onesnotes431
15881-2g2q Knowledge can result in one thing being represented by another thing with increasing accuracy, through the creation of explanatory knowledgenotes413
15891-2g2t3b We are channels of information just like histories and all other relatively autonomous objects but we are extremely unusual because we can create knowledgenotes413
159010-1 Thick descripting history — other configurations — ‘contingent others’ — 【別様の可能性】notes422
159110-1a1a 知識がなければ編集は動かせないnotes431
159210-1a2a 'マツリゴト' = 飛散する民族的な情報文化を統合・再構成した情報システムnotes413
159310-2d1b The DNA genetic code expresses the laws of physicsnotes422
159410-2f0b Complex tools do not necessarily require complex languages (Tool complexity ≠ Linguistic complexity)notes413
159510-2f2 The theory of the evolution of language must take culture into accountnotes422
159610-2g2d1 Science is a discussion within specific culture whose context is the laws of physics and its language mathematics, doing away with the need to explain the relationship between the two (of culture and language)notes413
159710-2g2e6b We exist in multiple versions, in universes called ‘moments’. Each version of us is not directly aware of the others, but has evidence of their existence because physical laws link the contents of different universes.notes431
159810-2g2e8 Abstractions require Popperian epistemology, to be error-correctablenotes422
159910-2g3d1a Tools became early symbols by displacementnotes422
160013-1a3.1a Praxeological analysis can supply some truths about time preferences, using ceteris paribus assumptions—i.e., by evoking the multiversenotes431
160113-1a3a2 A necessary condition for an exchange to take place is that the two goods have reverse valuations on the respective value scales of the two parties to the exchangenotes413
160213-1a3a2b The extent of the market determines the extent of division of labornotes431
160313-1a3a2c The exchange utilizes the differences of all parties involved to the benefit of all parties involvednotes431
160413-2b The accumulated stock of capital goods imposes a conservative force on present-day actionnotes422
160513-4d Space and time are scarce for the individual, hence both are goodsnotes422
160613-4d4a A consumer does not need to have a “favorable balance of trade”notes413
160713-4d5b There is no risk-free interest in the free marketnotes422
160813-4f Both the good and its factors must be scarcenotes413
160913-5b3a Land has no reservation price (except in rare cases where it has subjective-use-value to the owner)notes413
161013-6b One's action cannot imply more than one value scale with regard to that actionnotes413
161113-9b The more substitutes there are, the more elastic will tend to be the demand schedules for that goodnotes413
161213-9c The more diverse an economy, the less likely it is that any good remains truly inelasticnotes413
161313-9e The emergence of new types of goods will bring about price decrease for old substitutes because of the shift in demand schedules, under the assumptions of constant supply schedulesnotes422
16142-1a0b1 Do no consult your 'intuition' all the timenotes413
16152-1a0c1e Communities will become more selectivenotes413
16162-1a1a3b Your thinking is downstream of what you consumenotes431
16172-1a3.2 Curiosity begets both network effects and feedback loopsnotes431
16182-1a6.1 Remember that most people will pretend to operate in your interest while operating in their ownnotes422
16192-1b2b0.1 Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.notes431
16202-1b2b6 Don't borrow against your securitiesnotes422
16212-3 Meta-contingency. Optimism. Possibility.notes413
16222-3a2 Ask - how would I build XXX todaynotes413
16233-1b1a2 You have to ask hitherto unasked questionsnotes413
16243-1c1d7 You have to know where the content you consume stands in the spectrum of things (metadata)notes413
16253-1c2g Often times ordering does matter—some things are easy one way but not the other way aroundnotes413
16263-1c3c2c The theory of physics is already universal in the sense that it applies to all things physicalnotes422
16273-1d4 There are no perfect tools, just as there are no ultimate problemsnotes422
16283-1d6c2 Everything looks bigger up closenotes422
16294-1a4b8 Your mind can and does hold ideas like any other medium, but that’s not what the mind is fornotes422
16304-1d0.1 The Pinocchio Effect - Liars use more words than truth tellers and use far more third-person pronounsnotes431
16315-1a1 You can be as nice as you want as long as you work hard on growthnotes431
16325-1b Stay upwindnotes413
16335-1b1a1b1 Babbage’s discovery of the universality of computation was innovation via discovery of knowledge (he himself couldn’t build universal computer)notes413
16345-1b1a1d The reality doesn’t distinguish ‘theoretical’ from ‘practical’notes422
16355-1b2.2 There is no objective Black Swannotes422
16365-1b4c1a Watch out if you need “self-discipline” — it might indicate that you aren’t solving any of your problemsnotes431
16376-3b0.1 When you own something, you can go anywherenotes413
16386-3b0c Permissionless blockchains without tokens and token trading are impossiblenotes422
16396-3b4a Tokens empower individuals to become stakeholders in networks, not just participantsnotes422
16406-4 Proper epistemology should lead to a proper state of mindnotes431
16417-1a1a Don't solve imaginary problemsnotes422
16427-1a4 Optimizing for growth can lead to discovering startup ideasnotes413
16437-1a6 Great combination is being good at technology and knowing the problems that can be solved by itnotes431
16447-1b1a A crowded market is actually a good sign, because it means both that there's demand and that none of the existing solutions are good enoughnotes413
16457-1b4b2 Andy Grove - 'Technology happens. It's not good, it's not bad.'notes431
16467-1d2a3 No LLCs meant only close-knit partnerships with trust were availablenotes422
16477-1d2a4 Tech innovation can (and did) drive pragmatic changes in regulationnotes440
16487-1d2c Decentralized tech ⇒ . . .notes422
16498-1b3h A broad distribution of tokens can mitigate the risk of plutocracynotes413
16508-1b4b Blockchains = Full-fledged computersnotes431
16518-1c3 Investing may become the most common job for the 21st century with more automationnotes422
16528-1c3a0 99% investing (learning) and 1% building might become the normnotes422
16538-1c3c Manufacturing became the most common job during the 20th centurynotes431
16548-1c4d Web boosted and was boosted by essaysnotes413
16558-1c4d1a Writing pre-internet era was mostly about English literaturenotes422
16568-1c4d5a This is a specific case where we need the knowledge-technology-universality to push app-platform-people over the thresholdnotes431
16578-2d3a The diaspora can be (and IS) the statenotes413
16588-3a Robotics will be the new demographicsnotes440
16598-4b A context window can reach billionsnotes422
16609-1d2a Defending yourself (online) makes sense only if you assume the bucket theory of mindnotes422
16619-2a3b1 Don’t pick up anything whose epistemology is not Popperiannotes422
16629-4 Why writenotes413
16639-4b3e Communicate effectivelynotes422
16649-4b3e3f The Two-Minute Rule - 'When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do'notes431
16659-4e If you are a writer and have an audience, it’ll become much easier to market your product, because you already know what they’re interested innotes413
1666Andrej Karpathypeople404
1667Jensen Huang - from retrieval only to retrieval plus generationnotes440
1668Michael Saylorpeople440
1669Prices are one but manynotes431
1670RUL3 - (1) Don’t ignore your dreams; (2) Don’t work too much; (3) Say what you think; (4) Cultivate friendships; (5) Be happy.notes440
1671RUL3 - Make a conscious effort to avoid addictions. Ask “is this how I want to be spending my time”notes440
1672RUL3 - Write down what surprise younotes440
1673Symbol = culturally agreed upon form + culturally developed meaning. The core of language is the symbol. Social values-knowledge-structures ⇒ Symbol.notes440
1674There is no such thing as an individual in the abstract—because each individual has unique, specific problem-situationsnotes422
1675We do not yet understand the nature of the universality of the DNA replication systemnotes440
1676株価は時間軸と水準値の間でしか動かない。期待値と確率は違う。峻別すること。つまり、ペイオフについて考えること。notes422
16771-1a2d1 The Turing principle allows 'learning' to take place, but it doesn't care hownotes330
16781-1a4b0a Induction can't generate (or more precisely, create) knowledge.notes321
16791-1c1 The problems arise only when you understand them as conflicts between your existent explanation of the world and the reality out therenotes321
16801-1c3 The way to find such conflict is to know what surprises younotes321
16811-1c4c You have to start with problems (your problems) to attain better explanationsnotes321
16821-1c6a1 You can’t define what’s fun for you, because inexplicit and unconscious parts of you also constitute what is funnotes312
16831-1c6a2b The real work requires big chunks of time and the right mood. You don’t do real work in scheduled little slices like dutifully crossing off to-do lists.notes321
16841-2b0.5a The best we can attain is belief, since truth cannot be guaranteednotes321
16851-2f1a3a Peirce - science without special equipment is philosophynotes321
16861-2f1b3a2 Don't just complain but solve!notes321
16871-2g1c1 There is no clear line between human and technologynotes321
16881-2g1c3e When you connect ideas, the content doesn't change but meanings changenotes321
16891-2g2d1 生命は無秩序が生み出したゆらぎ・その中で生じたヒトというゆらぎ・さらにそのなかで生じた科学というゆらぎnotes330
16901-2g2g Life is a form of virtual-reality generationnotes321
16911-2g2l1 Where there is knowledge, there must have been lifenotes312
16921-2g2l2 Knowledge was first created with lifenotes312
16931-2g2q2 Popperian epistemology itself has to be conjecturednotes312
16941-2g2s2 Electron has multiple positions and speeds without being divisible into autonomous sub-entities each of which has one speed and one position.notes312
16951-2g2s2a Quantum mechanical law of motion resembles the law governing the spread of an ink blot (確率分布)notes321
16961-2g2s3 Interference = Diversity within fungibility = The structure and stability of all static objects (Or put differently, things exist rather stably because we HUMANS don't operate at the level of quantum physics)notes321
16971-2g2t1 Decoherence - the process of objects becoming too entangled to be interfered (i.e., merged)notes321
16981-2g2t4a Quantum computation is possible thanks to fungibilitynotes312
16991-2g2u1 Don't take neo-Darwinism too seriouslynotes330
17001-2g2v Epistemology is a theory of (emergent) physics. It is a factual theory about the circumstances under which a certain physical quantity (knowledge) will or will not grownotes321
170110-1a2d1 マルチメディア + 情報過多 = 意味情報への関心notes312
170210-1b4b Learning = ミメシス + パロディアnotes321
170310-2e5 The multiverse neither consists of a sequence of moments nor permits a flow of time.notes312
170410-2f3a0 The best thing to learn (and the best way to learn anything) is to learn another languagenotes330
170510-2f3c How to program the ability to learn human languagesnotes312
170610-2f5 Mathematicsnotes321
170710-2g2e9b2 Only when evoking the multiverse can we say this and that made this and that difference in the context of evolutionnotes321
170811-1 Trading-Market-Finance-Investment-Speculationnotes321
170913-1a3a2d2 Money facilitates actions, primarily in the form of exchangenotes321
171013-1a3a2d3a The number of markets needed is immeasurably reduced with the establishment of a money economynotes321
171113-4c All means are scarcenotes312
171213-5a2 Higher stage production processes will benefit both nominally and in real terms, after the effect of saving plays out, in the evenly rotating economy going through progressing phasenotes312
171313-5b2f Interest exists with or without a loan market—interest reflects expected return, which reflects time preference, at least in the evenly rotating economynotes312
171413-8a1a The supply (and demand) curves can be aggregated respectively, because whether it is instantiated within one individual or across different individuals does not matter from the perspective of the curvenotes321
171513-8b Supply = Stock - Reservation Demandnotes321
171613-9g The substitutive effect will be mixed with the complementary effect, and the nature of each particular case determines which effect will be the strongernotes321
17172-1a6a1 Doctrines = generalized religionsnotes312
17182-1a6b1 Animals can extrapolate—but can never realize its contingenciesnotes312
17192-1ab Bluffing exists because information is privatenotes312
17203-1b2a Using the Fun Criterion is not synonymous with simply having funnotes321
17213-1c2f1 生命活動の特徴は無秩序から秩序を見出すことnotes312
17223-1c3c3c Tech is for technology as well as for technique (技術)notes312
17234-1a1a There should be many false starts with booksnotes312
17244-1a2 Labelling is a great way to start because it gives you optionality; even if you ‘mislabel’ their emotions it’ll make them explain more about themselves, while conveying that you are trying to understand themnotes312
17254-1a4b2 During conversations you are engaging with the ideas that’s instantiated in that individual, and this could be yourself from the past.notes312
17264-1a4b3a Constitution formalized the shift of national governance from individual rulers to written lawnotes321
17274-1a4b4 If you write down a set of ideas (including its internal relations and value hierarchy), you can have a conversation with that (which is almost yourself from the past)notes321
17284-1b Uncover as much information as possiblenotes321
17294-1d Tactical empathy identifies the inexplicit and unconscious obstaclesnotes312
17304-2a 会話は相手の知的レベルに合わせることnotes321
17315-1b1a5 Our ability to come up with such functions is why we are not mere universal constructors (and why we are worth infinitely more than billion-dollar)notes312
17325-1b1c2 Do market sizing calculations early and oftennotes312
17336-3b0b No trading means no ownership; you can't have one without the othernotes312
17346-3b0e You can trade anything onchain, unlike tradi-finotes321
17356-3b1.1 Collect is the new likenotes312
17366-3b2h 'Trademarks, patents, and copyrights' - If secrecy were the only protection for ideas, companies wouldn't just have to be secretive with other companies; they'd have to be secretive internally.notes312
17376-3b4e Community and monetization can also be realized at the same timenotes321
17387-1b2a1 We seem more willing to spend money on good fruit jam than on good softwarenotes321
17398-1c4b Popular magazines boosted and was boosted by literacynotes312
17408-1c4c TV boosted and was boosted by short storiesnotes312
17418-1c4e What blockchains can donotes321
17428-2a1 Crypto can decide which assets become obsolete and possiblenotes330
17439-1b2a Technology can be invented via individuals as well as via groups of people, but both can’t do away with their own constraints (i.e., their contingency)notes312
17449-1d Because ‘education’ can only happen within one’s self, what we need is more books and not ‘teachers’notes312
17459-1d2 If you love books, become one. Teachers in the traditional sense of the word will be replaced by them. But never expect to be read uniformly.notes312
17469-4b3e3c Make CTAs (call-to-action) clearnotes312
17479-4e2 Full-stack writers write articles and build things (e.g., software, hardware, movies)notes312
17489-4e2b SaaS first ⇒ code second ⇒ hire lastnotes321
1749AN3C - It took Darwin a book to explain his theory but now it can be summarized into a paragraphnotes330
1750Betty Edwardspeople330
1751Dogecoin demonstrates the power of tokens absent confounding factorsnotes330
1752Henry Fordpeople321
1753QUE5 - How to get ahead of 95% of writers - write your first draft, then ask for each sentence “Is this the way I’d say this if I were talking to a friend”notes321
1754QUE5 - If you were going to take a break from 'serious' work to work on something just because it would be really interesting, what would you donotes312
1755Ray Daliopeople303
1756RUL3 - Flow interesting. Interesting means surprise.notes330
1757RUL3 - Simplify the problem by deciding the “no-brainer” questions firstnotes330
1758Sol Pricepeople321
1759The Cantillon effectnotes330
1760The fabric of reality implies the beginning of infinityessays303
1761There is no universal perceptionnotes321
1762聴覚機能の進化によって知覚できる音および言語は制限されるnotes330
17631-1a2e9d Technology is culturenotes220
17641-2g1c2b 人間は外的な記号notes220
17651-2g2s1 Hydrogen atom exists because its electron’s uncertainty-principle tendency to spread is exactly balanced by the electrostatic force with positively charged nucleus.notes211
17661-2g2t3a Histories, universes, particles, planets, humans — these are all approximate and emergent phenomena in the multiversenotes211
176710-2e3 In the multiverse, snapshots do not have time stampsnotes211
176810-2g2a Symbols are the original social contractnotes211
176912-1 Surfacing contingencies (ゆらぎ)notes211
177013-1a3a5a The equilibrium price can be achieved conceptually because the demand will dwindle to zero when the price is high enoughnotes220
177113-1a4 The value of a unit of a convertible factor is set by the value of its marginal product when all its uses are taken into considerationnotes220
177213-9d Elastic goods prefer price decrease, and vice versa for inelastic goods whose demand curve is steeper, under the assumption of constant demand schedulesnotes211
177313-9f The elasticity of demand per se has also no relevance for complementing goods (e.g., golf balls) as it relates to its complementary effect to the complemented (e.g., golf clubs)notes211
17742-1a1a9a Survivorship bias + Incentives = We can't see what can be seen and see what's not even therenotes220
17752-1b2a1 Look for an idea that could evolve into a great onenotes220
17762-2 ウツ・ウツツ (空・現)notes202
17773-1b2c You have to approach the unconscious parts of the mind as a Popperian, and not as a Romanticistnotes220
17783-1c2e3.2 Not all symbols are explicitnotes211
17793-1c2e4.1a Knowledge can have value to the extent that it influences goods which are scarcenotes211
17803-1d3 You must start with some specific framework with an intent to solve at least some of your own problemsnotes211
17814-1a4b2a1.1 Silence can give ideas spacenotes220
17824-1a4b2c Asking questions such as 'what does xxx MEAN to you' can displace the counterpart from the context of the situation, and allow them to take a step backnotes211
17834-1d1 Capture emotions because that indicate they know what they are talking aboutnotes211
17844-1d2 Most people love talking about themselvesnotes220
17854-1d4 Listening is the most effective way to pay respect, and it's freenotes220
17865-1a5 Morality might be a subset of physics. The laws of physics might provide the measure for morality, as it were.notes220
17875-1b1a1b1a However, Babbage’s idea was represented by pen and paper, themselves technologynotes211
17885-1b1a1b2 Vitalik Buterin generalized the principle of blockchains to outside cryptocurrency, and built Ethereumnotes211
17895-1b1b1a5.1 Blockchain network becomes better as tools are addednotes211
17905-1b1b1b Be more than what you are supposed to be. You have to be surprising.notes211
17915-1b1c1 Pursue market which is convincingly, and surprisingly, largenotes211
17925-1b4a0.2 Users will always go where the newest news isnotes211
17935-1b4c3a Find work where you like even the parts others find tedious or frighteningnotes220
17946-5 Sit lessnotes211
17957-1a5a1 Find an inexpensive custom acquisition channel and pile up users through an underpriced angles others haven't realized yet.notes220
17967-1a5b1 Optimizing for growth should provide some insights about the problem-situationnotes211
17977-1a5c1 Engineer + Influencer = Company OR Countrynotes220
17987-1d1a You can also arbitrage the technology itselfnotes211
17997-1d1e You can use technology from one field to anothernotes211
18007-1d2b1 Both good (’the Golden 50s’ in the U.S.) and bad (Nazism and Communism) culture-mind were made easier by homogenized societal experiences with centralized technologynotes220
18018-2b2b2 Take rates + Token incentives = Economic equation for blockchain networksnotes211
18028-5 VR-ARnotes220
18039-1c3 This applies to 'children' because 'children' is a social constructnotes211
18049-4b2a1d0.2 人間は句読点を打った動物notes211
18059-4e2d Idea (1min) ⇒ Mockup (1d+) ⇒ Prototype (7d+) ⇒ Program (2-4w) ⇒ Product (3-6m) ⇒ Business (6-12m) ⇒ Profits (1y+)notes211
1806AN3C - People hide their flawsnotes211
1807Any system that encourages top-down organizations to get too big and do evil is evilnotes220
1808Bob Noycepeople220
1809Claude Shannonpeople211
1810CPU, GPU, Brain, Mind, Energyessays211
1811Gresham's Law and AIessays211
1812Jeff Bezos - 'When the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right.'notes220
1813Moat Digitizedessays211
1814Money - Days of Future Pastessays202
1815QUE5 - Anything fundamental changed vs superficial-uncontrollable metricsnotes220
1816QUE5 - Ask “what is his historic event that makes him think that way”notes220
1817QUE5 - What platforms are there. What makes people get on new platforms. What else can be deployed on that platform. (E.g., Crypto wallets and AR glasses)notes220
1818RUL3 - Ask 'what would it look like if it were easy and fun'notes220
1819Symbols ⇒ Languages (both are agreement, i.e., an arbitrary linkage between a form and a meaning)notes220
1820The most important sort of disobedience is to write essays at allnotes220
1821There is no absolute securitynotes211
1822Your spending is someone else's incomenotes211
1823観測は光を当てないとできないnotes211
18241-1a2e7 Culture is the individual dark matter acquired from culturing, social acting, languagingnotes110
18251-1b2 The interpretation isn’t physical eithernotes110
18261-2g2a1 The principle of the universality of computation and that of testability (Constructor Theory is the generalization of the latter) might provide an answernotes110
18271-2g2k5 Life is knowledge and expressed via DNA, and DNA is symbol. Because humans are primarily about knowledge-symbol-meaning (each implies the other), they became self-aware of DNA as symbols. That is, of its arbitrariness.notes110
18281-2g2s2b There is a field (or waves) in reality (i.e., in the multiverse) for every individual particle that we observe in a particular universe. Individual particle’s disturbance spread through electron fieldnotes110
182913-1a3a6 The result of the exchange process is that the stock goes into the hands of the most capable possessorsnotes110
18302-1a1a6a Xenophanes - it’s easy to attribute universal truth to mere local appearancesnotes110
18312-1a1b Constantly check your own biasnotes110
18322-1a6.2 Treasure honorable people who are capable and will treat you well even when you’re not lookingnotes110
18333-1a0a 'Life is projects it is not a job'notes110
18344-1a4b2a2 忘却 = 自然に廃棄することnotes110
18354-1a4b6c Ideas can get better as you recycle and reuse them, unlike most physical thingsnotes110
18365-1b1a1f Edison (practitioner) and Einstein (theoretician) both have a place in realitynotes110
18375-2c2a1 Progressive titles might be there to hide its unprogressive naturenotes110
18386-3b3h Protocol networks could get subsumed by corporate networksnotes110
18396-6 Once you hit 25, your aerobic capacity decreases 10% per decade (or 1% per year)notes110
18407-1b2c You can create problems then offer solutions simultaneouslynotes110
18418-4b2 What can be done by AIs will be done by AIsnotes110
1842AN3C - John Steinbeck - “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”notes110
1843AN3C - The Batman Effect - the placebo effect of alter ego works, because memes can beat genesnotes110
1844Chiara Marlettopeople110
1845Double slit experiment with and without an observer are different experimentsnotes110
1846Explanation has to be non-formalizable, but they are nonetheless conjectured and created by physical processesnotes110
1847James J. Hillpeople110
1848John Steinbeck - 'Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.'notes110
1849Logan Chipkinpeople101
1850Mr. Beastpeople101
1851QUE5 - Story and anecdote capture what cannot be captured rationally, and humans are irrational. What is your story and anecdote that you often refer back to.notes110
1852Quentin Tarantinopeople101
1853RUL3 - Growth rate - +5~7% a week is good; +10% is exceptionally well; +1% you haven’t figured out what you’re doingnotes110
1854RUL3 - Let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push younotes110
1855Truly open means no intermediarynotes110
1856Tychism - Peirce’s sub-theory on chance as fundamental to the Universe, which anticipates the quantum physicsnotes110
1857技術が99% - メンタルも技術notes110