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1Warren Buffettpeople55568487
2Ludwig Lachmannpeople14625121
3Sherlock Holmespeople1405090
4David Deutschpeople1263591
5Daniel Everettpeople11815103
6Naval Ravikantpeople963561
75-2 What counts cannot be countednotes936627
8Murray Rothbardpeople903951
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 Burrypeople712447
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
185-2a0 Know what to measurenotes612338
19Saifedean Ammouspeople601050
202-1b2b 'Second-order thinking' - Solve the root cause of a problem (prevention) and not symptoms. Be smart-lazy.notes583226
2113-1a3.0a Always go for the best—work on the best project, work in the best industry, work with the best peoplenotes562729
223-1c1b You are what you think and you think what you see, and you see what you thinknotes552530
233-1d6 Constraints in the form of consistent style leave space for creativity and progressnotes553718
245-1b1b1a3 Network effects (digital) > Supply and demand (physical)notes531637
257-1d2a The relation between technology and the problem-situation (i.e., culture and mind) is reflexivenotes523616
265-1b1b1a1 Things can become easier the more complexity you have (Network effects = Power-law)notes513021
272-2d Gresham’s Law generalized—the bad practice drives out the goodnotes501436
281-2 We are falliblenotes493316
292-1d 'Ecosystem' & 'Thermodynamics' & 'Double-entry bookkeeping' - Everything is connected, there is no free lunchnotes493514
309-4b2a1b 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.notes49409
31Charlie Mungerpeople493811
322-1a3.1 'Feedback loops' - Iterate. The more and quicker the better.notes481533
332-1a6 'Incentives' - Incentives drive (almost) everything. Understand your incentives.notes483711
342-1b2b5 Know the correlations between your bets. Holy grail is fifteen or so uncorrelated bets.notes482325
353-1c3c4.2 “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect”notes482424
363-1a4b5 Anything can be priced in principle. But not everything will be.notes471829
377-1b4b 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
388-1b3 The software can control the hardwarenotes471928
39Li Lupeople473512
4010-2g1 Culture is an implicit theory for its members. It dictates what to look at and how they reason about the world.notes463214
413-1c3c4.3 “Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy only when others are fearful”notes461630
424-1a4b2b1 'One-of-those' over one-off - Learn from history (not just from your 'own' experience)notes463016
435-3b Knowledge creates new frontiers (and new markets)notes462422
44William Zinsserpeople46739
451-1c6a1c The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absencenotes452718
462-1a4 'Language instinct' - Language can't exhaust mindnotes45378
475-1b1b2b Don't try to be the best. Be the only.notes442915
482-1aa Privacy is the absence of information leakagenotes431924
492-1b2c 'Compounding' - Permeate across the timelinenotes431924
505-2b5 Theories precede datanotes432518
512-1b2b2 'Multiplying by zero' - Be risk-prone but avoid ruin at all costnotes422319
522-1c1 'Comparative advantage' - If others can do it, let themnotes422418
533-1a4b1.2 Define and stay within your circle of competencenotes421626
544-1a3b Go to specific places to get specific feedbacksnotes421725
55RUL3 - Invert, always invertnotes422913
5610-2g1f2a4 The mind ≠ A computernotes411427
5710-2g2c1 Symbols are universal. Being arbitrary and contingent means it can represent anything, and do everything.notes413011
5812-1a2a1 Free markets and free speech, by definition, transcend the concepts of nation-statesnotes411724
592-1b2 Play in different time horizon. That is, in the long-run.notes412516
602-1b2e 'Algorithms' & 'Replication' - Share your problem-situation as clearly possible, so that others can make decisions without you on your behalf (i.e., multiply)notes411328
613-1a The reality doesn’t have categories, there are only problems to be solved. Be problem-project-oriented. 'Academic subjects' are mere social constructs.notes412912
626-3b When you own something, you have an incentive to invest in itnotes411229
639-4b2a1e Be the outsider - 外部性・外来性を重視することnotes411724
642-1a6b 'Pavlovian association' & 'Social proof' - Understand the arbitrary association formed within your culture. There are no pure indexes for humans.notes402416
652-1b2b1.1 If it’s not worth doing well, it’s not worth doing at allnotes401228
663-1c2e 情報は関係性の中にある - Meaning is often in relation to other thingsnotes402713
674-1a4b2b2 History repeats and reversesnotes401129
685-3c Knowledge is irreversible, and can only go from private to publicnotes402713
699-1b You can’t really transfer your knowledge to others, because each knowledge has to be created individuallynotes402416
709-1b0a 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 inventornotes401426
711-2g2s7b3 An explanation for how something really works cannot rely on infinitynotes391722
7210-2g1f3 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.notes391920
734-1a4b2b Being reactive is like being analog in the heat of the momentnotes391623
745-1b1a2c0.1 Perfect replication is impossiblenotes392019
755-2a Check your growth rate of expectations vs circumstances. The former is hard to measure. But remember - you get what you measure.notes391326
769-1a1 People who converge upon the truth converge with each othernotes392712
779-4b2a1d 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
78RUL3 - 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.notes392910
7910-2g3d1.1 Humans create their own causenotes381325
8013-8a2 The demand for money stems from fundamental uncertainty about both the future environment and the future-selfnotes381622
814-1d0 Look at the whole of conversations, including how things are being said as well as what’s not being said (e.g., taboos)notes382711
825-1b1b1a1a Pareto principle (or law of the vital few) - 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causesnotes381523
839-2a1 It doesn’t matter where you came from (or where you are); what matters is what you can do and where you are goingnotes382414
84How Popper would use LLMsessays38830
851-1a2e7 Dark matter both help and impede our perception of the worldnotes37433
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
928-4 LLMsnotes362313
932-1b2b1 'Inversion' - Avoid stupid obvious bullshit you'd regret in the futurenotes352015
942-1c 'Opportunity costs' - Look beyond the obvious. See what's hidden.notes35926
953-1a3 Multidisciplinary thinking is the most realistic thinkingnotes351718
963-1d6c Amara’s law modified - we underestimate the importance of consistency in the short-run, but overestimate in the long-runnotes35287
976-3b2 In corporate networks you can only quitnotes351322
987-1a2a3 Win at the corner then come back (傾く・バロック)notes351718
998-2b2b 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
100Nassim Talebpeople352114
1011-1a5b4 'Release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity'notes341420
10210-2g1f Imitation = limitation (imitation has limitation)notes341024
10310-2g3d 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
10413-4d4e All the consumer has to do is to think about himself—in contrast, the entrepreneur (e.g., producer, investor, operator) is primarily about othersnotes341123
10513-5f The interest rate is determined by the time-preference schedules, rather than vice versanotes341321
1062-1a0a 'Occam's razor' & 'Irreducibility' - Simplify the problem but don't oversimplify.notes341618
1072-1a6c3 'Global and local maxima' - Don't prematurely overoptimize. Occasionally throw in some 'randomness'.notes341618
1082-1e Everything is connected in a complex waynotes341816
1093-1c2e0 There is no minimum ideanotes341717
1105-1 When you are long truth you are long volatility and timenotes342212
1115-1b4c2a When you have an agency, you don't get depleted. We aren't powered by a battery.notes341717
1121-2i 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
1132-1b2b0b Do not underestimate the essential—don’t risk what you have and need, to get what you don’t neednotes331023
1143-1a4b1.3 Your circle of competence can be widened, deepened, made clearernotes33924
1154-1a4b6b When ideas are exposed to various contexts (i.e., different people-place-time) they often find unexpected match. Ideas have timing.notes331914
1165-1b1a2c0.2 Analogue information (e.g., tones of voice, EQ) cannot be perfectly-exhaustively represented by digital systems (e.g., universal writing systems)notes331716
1175-3a Knowledge via new explanations is inherently creative and its effects are positive-sum, because it begets new problems to be solvednotes332013
1189-2a2 You have to figure out where you are going by living abductively via surprisesnotes331023
1199-4b3e1 Concise explanations accelerate. It helps others understand you better and faster at all scales.notes331914
1201-2f1a Error-correction is the beginning of infinity. All jumps to universality occur in digital systems.notes322210
1211-2g2b Humans are significant insofar as we can create knowledgenotes32248
12212-1a2c 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
1233-1c3c3a1 Don't be so attached to anything because almost everything is contingent. Assume no self.notes322012
1245-1b4b Compounding is usually too slow to notice. You have to be deliberate in how you think and what you see.notes322111
1256-3b4d Community first, monetization later; morality first, money second; missionary over mercenarynotes32626
1267-1a2a1.1 'Scale' - Anything that scaled started small, at the edge, at the frontier, as an avant-gardenotes321121
1279-4f Product is merit and distribution is connectionnotes321022
1281-1a5a3 Knowledge is about knowing the edgenotes311021
12910-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the societynotes312110
13010-2d1a The regularity in nature can be expressed arbitrarily well either by the language of mathematics, natural language, or by computers (zeros and ones)notes311021
13111-3.3 'The law of diminishing returns' - We can recalibrate the curve so that we are always at the growing phase of the S-curve!notes31922
13211-3.4a More is differentnotes311417
1333-1a4a1 The whole must be evoked in explaining the partsnotes311912
1343-1c2e3 Infinite semiosis - 'There is no beginning or end to symbols because it is recursive'notes311120
1355-1b4c1b 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
1365-1b4c4 Pay attention to your ‘taboos’ - If there is something you fear unconsciously, you have to face itnotes311615
1375-2a2 What gets measured gets managednotes312011
1388-1b3d 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
1399-2b3e3 There is no universal knowledgenotes311615
1409-4b2a1f Two-way debate benefits from criticismnotes311714
1411-1a5b4.3 build-launch-measure-learn and iterate - don't restartnotes30921
1421-1c6a3.1 Really good opportunities aren’t often and won’t last longnotes301416
1431-2b 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
1441-2d You have to know your problem-situation (and your web of ideas) as best as you can to judge the merit of new explanationsnotes301614
1451-2e1 Be ambitious but leverage what you already knownotes301020
1461-2g2c1 Testability matters only when you have a good explanation (hard-to-vary explanation)notes301416
14710-1a5 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.notes301317
14811-3.4 'Utility' (marginal, diminishing, increasing) - Specialization beats the Invisible Handnotes301020
14913-4d4 Value is subjectivenotes30246
1502-3a 'First principles thinking' - If it's not forbidden by the laws of physics, it is possiblenotes301218
1513-1a4b7 The monetary account will increasingly explain the world—especially as it pertains to the human actions—though never exhaustivelynotes301812
1525-1b2 Don’t invest in prediction, because knowledge is inherently unpredictablenotes301317
1535-1b3a In particular, we underestimate how much we can change in the future during and after downturns. Things change.notes30219
1546-3b1 Users become owners with tokensnotes30723
1557-1b4b4 It’s better to take the risk of telling others about your ideas than to hide themnotes30426
1567-1d Create something simpler-faster-cheaper for things we’ve been doing for thousands of yearsnotes301614
1579-2a3b Don’t pick up anything which has certain downside. Avoid bullshit.notes301317
158RUL3 - Write out your goals. It’s amazing how few people do.notes301713
1591-1a2e3 Cultures are evolution’s ultimate solution to the problem of providing adaptive flexibilitynotes291415
16013-10 The law of the diminishing marginal utility of money applies only to the valuations of each individual personnotes291415
16113-1a3a1c A new form of evolutionary processes emerges with money—memes become accountable with money, although not exhaustivelynotes29722
1622-1a1a4a 'Probabilistic thinking' - Do not assume miracles!notes291019
1632-1a7a5 Build day by day unless anything fundamental ('the core') changed. Superficial-uncontrollable criteria (e.g., share price) matter less.notes291415
1642-1b3a 'Circle of competence' & 'Niches' - Build a moat. Thrive in where you can.notes291415
1652-3b 'Leverage' - The effort put in and its utility-results doesn't have to correlate at all. Use this to your advantage.notes291316
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
17313-1a3a1f Success in the money economy implies adaptation to others (including distant ones), not merely to its surrounding environmentnotes28721
17413-5b2a Because of money, the concept of rate of return can be abstracted to the ratio between present goods exchanged against future goods in generalnotes28622
17513-9 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
1762-1a0b 'Thought experiment' - Don't limit yourself to binary thinking. Explore at least three possible solutions.notes28424
1772-1a3 'Seeing the front' - Incorporate what can't be explicatednotes281612
1783-1c2d 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
1795-1b1 Invest in preparedness. Be redundant and resourceful in every aspect. Minimize opportunity cost to achieve great things.notes281711
1805-2b6 Theories need datanotes281711
1817-1a2a1 絶対に勝てるところから勝っていくnotes281711
1827-1a4b Understanding the measurement-constraints amounts to understanding the system-incentives. That is, creating explanations.notes28199
1838-1a What can go digital will go digitalnotes281810
1848-1c4 ‘Killer application’ is knowledge-technology-universality that begets reflexivity between app-platform-people by pushing people over the thresholdnotes281810
1859-1a2 Most fairly good ideas are adjacent to even better onesnotes281117
1869-4b2d1 Explanatory knowledge creation ≠ Biological knowledge (the former, specifically scientific knowledge, is more composable, and thus more universal)notes281315
1879-4c Someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivialnotes281612
1881-2g2t3d 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
18912-1e4 Nothing is objectively and independently goodnotes27189
19013-1a3a2d4 The purchasing power of money in terms of all other commodities is continually changing, and there is no way to measure such changesnotes27720
1912-1a0c1c Purpose (and curiosity) beats for-profitnotes271413
1922-1a0c1d The One Commandment is about focus - Focus on a single moral innovationnotes271215
1933-1a4b4a Financial cycles ≠ Product cyclesnotes271116
1943-1c3c Keep each ideas separately, because there is nothing absolute and necessary in the connections I make between themnotes271215
1955-1b1a1c1 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
1967-1a4a1 Wealth created ≠ the P&L of a business. Remember - you get what you measure.notes271116
1978-1c4d2 Web2 writing is enmeshed in Web2 incentive structurenotes271116
1988-1c5 Look for Lollapalooza, or system equivalent of critical mass, or chemical equivalent of activation energy, alloying, and catalystsnotes271314
1998-2d2 In digital world, you can be in multiple nations (or equivalents) at the same timenotes271314
2008-2d3 You can vote with ballot, wallet, or foot (physical & digital)notes27720
2019-4b2a1d1 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
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
20610-2e8 Reasoning about causes and effects is reasoning about variants of the causes and effects. What would've happened. How it could've been otherwise.notes261214
20712-1e0 Everything changesnotes26179
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
225Eric Voskuilpeople261115
22610-1b1 It is the body that learns - '考えるな. 感じろ.'notes251312
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
2681-1a1b1 Joel Gold - The conscious mind is only a small fraction of the mental world much like the visible aspect of the universenotes23419
2691-1a2d An innate capacity to learn ≠ Specific ('parochial') knowledgenotes23914
2701-1a5a2 Good writing happens at the edge of explicit-inexplicit or explicit-unconscious — that is, via surprises.notes231310
2711-1a5b2.1 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
2721-2g2q1 Science is about independent replication. Only trust as scientific truth what can be independently verified-replicated.notes23194
2731-2g3 The sphere of comprehensibility expands infinitelynotes23194
2741-2h A good explanation makes it harder to fool yourselfnotes23158
27510-1b7 Culture and grammar shape each other through their evolved symbiotic relationshipnotes23914
27613-1a3.1 The concept of cost must evoke the multiversenotes23149
2772-1a1a8 'Tendency to overestimate consistency of behavior' - Behavior of others are often not innate-intentional but situationalnotes23167
2782-1a5a Evolution doesn't care about lifetime of each individual gene-meme carrier (its sample is beyond your own experience and any human lifetime)notes23176
2792-1a7a Curiosity (i.e., the Fun Criterion) leads you to wealth, because wealth is knowledgenotes23167
2803-1c3d2 Well defined problems are completable, and allow you to take small stepsnotes23716
2815-1b1b1 Become good at multiple things rather than being super good at one specific thing (the former is both easier and effective)notes231211
2825-1b4c 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
2835-2b1a1 Your goals are gateway to your problem-situation, just like your concepts and categories are to your purpose and valuesnotes23815
2845-2c2b0 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
2855-2c2b1 Focus on the fundamentals, on the deeper ideas closer to abstract knowledge, on what matters, and build yourself (including technology) around itnotes231013
2865-2d2 You need somewhat grandiose goals to procrastinate structurally - テーマはひとつでは多すぎるnotes23815
2876-3a2 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
2886-3z A world without ownership is a world with less creativity and human flourishingnotes23158
2896-8 Train your weakest linknotes23518
2909-1b0c Reality doesn't differentiate reading-thinking-writing-playing-doing-investing-buildingnotes23617
2919-1b1a It almost never happens that two minds hold precisely the same ideanotes23194
2929-2b It’s not just about what you say or what you do, but also about how you say it and how you present itnotes231310
293Scott Aaronsonpeople23167
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
2991-2g2r0 The Turing principle implies 梵我一如notes22175
30010-2e9 Variants do exist in the multiverse - not in the past or in the future, but they literally do exist somewhere in the multiverse!notes22139
30110-2f1 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
30210-2g1f2b The brain and symbols evolved reflexively to enhance communication to deal with cultural and sexual selectional pressures.notes221012
30310-2g2c0e Synechism - the idea that everything is connected and nothing can be understood in isolationnotes22166
30410-2g4 Cultures and languages are reflexivenotes22175
30513-1a Humans have problems because we have to choose because we could be otherwise because of the multiversenotes22157
30613-1a3.4 There are no objective or real costs that determine pricenotes22517
30713-1a3a1d Money facilitates the maximum use of knowledge available, and accommodates error-corrections (the two are the same thing)notes221210
30813-1a3a2d3 Value scales are unified individually—they become more transparent, more measurable, and more comparable to the individual—with money, although never exhaustivelynotes221111
30913-6a3 Value scales converge with knowledge—put differently, value scales differentiate without knowledgenotes22814
3102-1a0c1g No lock-in = 去る者は追わない・追えないnotes22814
3112-1a4b 百聞は一見に如かず - Build, Show, Use > Explain, Tell, Researchnotes221210
3122-1c3 'Win and help win' always outcompetenotes22166
3133-1c1d5 Dashboards over newspapersnotes22616
3143-1c3a2 情報の起源に触れることは物理的に不可能notes22139
3153-1c3c0 Ideas have timingnotes22175
3163-1c3c3 Take ideas seriously, but not too seriously. Don’t be the idea.notes22148
3175-1b1a8a1 Prediction ≠ Knowledge (because prediction requires knowledge)notes22139
3185-1b1b1a Power-law curiosity - be professionally curious about a few topics and idly curious about many morenotes22913
3195-2b7 The skeptical empiricist doubts both data and theorynotes22139
3205-2c2b The Lindy effectnotes22814
3218-1e You have to go beyond skeuomorphism. Native means novelty.notes22814
3229-2a1.1 Idea is direction. Execution is speed.notes22517
3239-3a Luck-Skill dichotomy is at best arbitrary. We can train our ability to create ‘luck’.notes221111
3249-4b2a1d0.3 The essence of analysis is articulation - 分析の本質は分節notes22148
325Henry Singletonpeople22418
326RUL3 - When automating, make sure the initial constraints and requirements are not stupid-dumb-bullshit.notes22157
3271-2f1b Analog computation cannot accommodate error-correction. Information that cannot be reliably retrieved is not really being stored.notes211110
3281-2g 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
32910-1b4.1 Peirce - One needs 'interpretant' for language to get off the groundnotes21714
33010-2f3 Learning human languages is about learning its culturesnotes21129
33110-2g2e7 Abstraction is universal, precisely because they are in the abstract (i.e., itself not contingently constrained by its own physicality)notes21219
33210-2g2e9c Life has been creating knowledge by conjecturesnotes211011
33311-2 Capital market aligns financial incentives with curiosity. More precisely, capital market constrains curiosity with financial incentives.notes211110
33413-1a1 The uncertainty of the future must be true because the contrary would completely negate the possibility of actionnotes21813
33513-4 Time is scarce because action involves choosing one thing over othersnotes21813
33613-4d4d A man is necessarily a consumer, but not necessarily a producernotes21615
33713-8a2.1 Money is the present good par excellencenotes211011
33813-9a All goods are somewhat substitutable for one another thanks to moneynotes211110
3392-1a0b2 'Relativity' - Look at the problem in as many ways as possible. You might as well find new problems.notes21714
3402-1a1a3 'Availability heuristic' - We easily recall what is salient, important, frequent, and recentnotes211011
3412-1a2 See clearly - 解像度を高めるnotes21165
3422-1a6c4 'Randomness' - The appearance of 'randomness' is subjectivenotes21219
3432-1c2 'Specialization' - Minimizing opportunity costs maximize comparative advantages and leads to prosperitynotes21813
3442-1z Observenotes21912
3453-1a0 Use categories, but don't be categorizednotes211011
3463-1c3c2a 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
3474-1a3 Each conversation has to end either a success or a failure, you have to zone-in when you are ‘friend-zoned’notes21516
3484-1a4b2a1 忘却を促進することで、人為的な古典化を起こす。notes21147
3494-1a4b2a3 整理 = 意識的にすてることnotes21912
3505-1b1a2 Some technology contains knowledge which can be universal. You can’t predict how people will use such technology.notes21912
3515-1b1a4 We can run multiple billion-dollar functions either sequentially or simultaneously. Or preferably both.notes21813
3525-1b1a8 ‘Opportunity cost' and 'comparative advantage' must be rooted in explanations. Never use them as ad hoc criteria.notes211110
3535-1b1b2 Flow to the most interesting, because the Fun Criterion doesn’t distinguish what’s fun via categories. Fun just means fun.notes211011
3545-1b4b3 Time beats timingnotes21129
3555-2c1 You perceive yourself by what you do repeatedly, just as you judge others by their routine behaviors.notes21714
3566-3a1 You have to own your own creation. The difference between creator and influencer is the gap of digital property rights.notes21615
3576-3b2.7 International Intermediate (e.g., Indian network) vs Chinese state (2040s)notes21516
3586-3b2e Network effects + Feedback loops + Composability = Exponential growthnotes21813
3597-1a5a Finding some distribution arbitrage in your time and place is also a great source for growthnotes21129
3607-1b5 You can solve problems that just got creatednotes21912
3617-2a Be opportunistic and flexible globally rather than inverting locally and prematurely optimizednotes21147
3629-2a It’s easy to convince if people don’t know you enough for what you are notnotes211011
3639-2a3a Pick up the biggest upside potentialnotes211110
3649-2b3 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
365安田隆夫people21615
3661-1a4c If you assume the possible existence of the ‘ultimate’ theory, you’d be assuming a meaningless (zero-freedom) worldnotes20146
3671-1a6 To live is to live like a detectivenotes20128
3681-2f1b3a 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
3691-2g1b What matters is the explanation, and not what you can seenotes20146
3701-2g2s7b 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
37110-2e6 Any theory must account for the meaning of 'the future' and 'the past' because both are arbitrary abstractions and do not exist objectively in realitynotes20137
37210-2g2 Culture invents symbols, and the core of language is the symbolnotes20911
37313-1a3.0 Return is about how much, when you expect to get it, how sure you are—in comparison with other possible returnsnotes20614
37413-6c1 The action axiom meaningfully implies corresponding value scales only when the action is mediated via corresponding knowledgenotes20119
3752-1a0 'Creative destruction' - Think outside the box. Evolution of ideas must be revolutionary. Knowledge creation involves rebellion against current explanatory framework.notes201010
3762-1a6c5 'Randomness' is the opportunity to reason abductivelynotes20911
3772-1a7 'Curiosity instinct' - Curiosity alone can drive humans into ideas without any (at least obvious) financial incentivesnotes201010
3782-1c1a1 Companies will outsource everything that isn’t their value proposition. To build successful B2B company, simply be the outsource.notes201010
3792-3c 'Surface area' - Manage your exposure to volatilitiesnotes20713
3803-1a4b1.1 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
3813-1a4b2 Price can only convey so muchnotes20155
3823-1c1 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
3833-1c1d0 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
3843-1c2e2 Creativity is more than just combining thingsnotes20416
3853-1c3c3a 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
3863-1c3c4.1 It’s easy to push a really good idea to wretched excessnotes201010
3874-1a5 Don’t get obsessed with the failure rate, because what matters is where it’s going and not where it came fromnotes20812
3885-1b1b1a2 Network effect means compoundingnotes20911
3896-3b2.5 India (or any other country-company-community) can act as the tech-media superpower of de-Americanization-dollarization movementnotes20812
3906-3b2d Composability is software's version of compounding interest-effect, because composability saving keystrokes implies compoundingnotes20812
3917-1b4f Let the tech decide where to go (both intellectually and physically)notes20155
3929-4b2a1d2 Don't bee too technical but also don't be too ambitious. Look from both technical and historical perspectives.notes20911
3931-1a2e4 Cultures precede languagesnotes19109
3941-1a4c1 Emergence is another beginning of infinity. Knowledge is based on and consists of emergent phenomena.notes19172
3951-2f1b6 Volatility is good for insurgents (idiosyncratic disruptors) and bad for incumbents (legacy institutions)notes19415
3961-2g1c Memes beat genes. We will see what cannot be seen with new knowledge and new technology.notes19136
3971-2g2i Genes (life) are programs that embody the laws of physics (of their own niches)notes19514
3981-2g2s7d A history has to be explained in multiversal terms. The true explanation of what happened involves many other instances of me.notes19145
39910-1a1 歴史 = 編集 = 関係の発見notes19811
40010-2f3a2 There can only be enough overlap of meanings between any entities (e.g., individual, group, society, theory, reality) — ‘ゆらぎ’notes19136
40110-2g1a Science emerged from culturenotes19136
40210-2g1g Scientific knowledge implies location-time-scale-independent applicabilitynotes19118
40311-2.1 Fiat money shields ideas from criticism—the cost of bullshit goes down in such economynotes19910
40412-1f 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
40513-1a3a2e2a Money and differences in the economy are reflexivenotes19712
40613-4d5 Prices are derived from subjective valuesnotes19712
40713-5b2d Production processes in the evenly rotating economy are interchangeable, hence the analysis becomes scale-independent and substrate-independentnotes19316
40813-6a1 Without knowledge, self-identity is no stronger than the identity between any two peoplenotes19910
4092-1a1a3d 'Relative satisfaction (or misery) tendencies' - Your average five is important, and you can spend time with the best of the best with internetnotes19811
4102-1a6a Understanding incentives amounts to understanding its culturenotes19163
4112-1a7a1 (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
4122-1b2b1a Get your incentives right from the beginningnotes19811
4133-1b1b1 No learning without doing; specifically, no learning without cultural doingnotes19118
4143-1c3c5 Best of all is when you can say they would’ve found this had they taken their own ideas seriouslynotes19109
4153-1c3d Problems should be well defined and should be actionablenotes19613
4163-1d4a What matters is if your tools-frameworks are universalnotes19136
4174-1a4a 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
4184-1a4b6a0 You can use ideas both NOW (upside - cognitive offload) and LATER (upside - ideas becoming useful with new interpretation). Ideas ≠ Money.notes19109
4196-3b2a Interoperability implies compoundingnotes19910
4207-1a Create something you would want for yourself, and never for some imaginary audiencenotes19811
4217-1d1c You can be at the edge of the newest technologynotes19712
4228-1b2 Digital-physical is entwinednotes19118
4238-2 Blockchains-Cryptonotes19136
4249-2a3b0.1 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
4259-2b1.4 Where you put your writing on can affect how you writenotes19415
4269-2b3d 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
427Elie Ayachepeople19181
428Paul Grahampeople19136
4291-1a2e4b Naval - 'Enlightenment is in between your thoughts, in understanding why you are having such thoughts'notes18810
4301-1a2e5 Cultures nurture mindsnotes18126
4311-1a2e9 Emic vision = Interpreting what you are seeing as symbolsnotes18612
43210-1b6 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
43310-2b I cannot be fully explicatednotes1899
43410-2g1j A good explanation explain more than what they were originally designed tonotes18315
43510-2g2e9d There are no 'species' in nature. Reality doesn't distinguish life by categories.notes18513
43610-2g3d1.2 There is no objective history—the past can be recreated and reinterpretednotes18414
43710-2g3e We are, and will be, transitioning from anti-rational memes to rational memesnotes18153
43811-3.1 'Equilibrium' - Anything innovative escapes the Invisible Handnotes18612
43913-1a3a1i The market’s encouragement of successful forecasters fosters a relation of final equilibrium between present capital value and actual future rentsnotes18414
44013-1a3a2e2 The introduction of money creates the money market wherein everything can be exchanged for anything in the economynotes18117
44113-8a2a 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
4422-1a6c1a 'First-conclusion bias' - Separate the problem-defining phase of the decision-making process from the problem-solving phasenotes18711
4432-1a7a4 In the long run reality gets in; narrative can get you so farnotes18513
4442-1b2b1.2 Anything worth doing is worth doing to excessnotes18612
4453-1a4b2b What is smart at one price is dumb at anothernotes18117
4463-1a4e 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
4473-1b1 Occasionally revisit the problem itself. Occasionally check in on long-term.notes1899
4483-1c2e1 Connecting-relating ideas is a way of creating knowledgenotes18108
4493-1c2e4.1 'Scarcity' - Knowledge is rare but never a scarce resourcenotes18117
4503-1c2e4.2 'Supply and demand' - Physical is getting expensivenotes18108
4513-1c2f 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
4523-1c3 Write down anything with intent to use them in the future, because you won’t be able to do away with solving problemsnotes18315
4533-1c3c00 Evergreen notes should be atomicnotes18513
4544-1c Great negotiators actively try to reveal hidden assumptions, that is, they look for surprises. They are more than just being ready for them.notes18117
4555-1a4.2 You can be nicer via error-correctionnotes18612
4565-1b1a2c1 Principles are meta-contingency. Whatever can happen can happen regardless of how.notes18135
4575-1b1a3 We are more than technology, because we create knowledge-technology. We are more than functions. Don’t be a function.notes18117
4585-1b3 How much we can change is also unpredictablenotes18108
4595-2c2a0 Avoiding bullshit takes you far enough. Maybe the extra bit comes from really knowing about yourself.notes18108
4606-3a Ownership is not just about physical-digital asset, but about yourselfnotes18711
4617-1b3b Outside-in tech vs Inside-out technotes18117
4627-1b4b3 When you dump oscillations, you dump low end as well as high endnotes18513
4637-2 Long optionality, volatility, changenotes18108
464Become A Problem-Solving Artistessays18144
4651-1a2 Our mind is flexiblenotes17116
4661-1a2a There is no human nature if by this we mean a kind of a priori knowledge common to all and only to humansnotes17611
4671-1a2c 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
4681-1a2f You are redundant if you are flexible and (close to being) universal - that is, composable and interoperablenotes17611
4691-1a5b5 Shipping perfection means you are too late - you have to find a balance of finding the right moment and being fixablenotes1789
4701-1c4 To be surprised is to be mistakennotes17116
4711-1c6a3.0 The decision should be obviousnotes1798
4721-2g2e 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
4731-2g2s8 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.notes17152
47410-1a1b 行き詰らないとアブダクションできないnotes17107
47510-1a2d 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
47610-1b4f Digitization implies displacement and composabilitynotes17134
47710-2g1b1 Scientific discourses are less fallible because the fundamental theories of physics are exceedingly hard to varynotes17107
47810-2g1f2 Culture (also) shapes phenotype for humans (Culture ⇒ Phenotype)notes17413
47910-2g2c0 A system is universal if it contains enough expressibility to represent anything. It can do anything and everything.notes17107
48010-2g3f Anti-rational memes contain knowledge, and each individual has to discover themnotes17611
48113-1a3a2.1 An exchange is positive-sum only subjectivelynotes17413
48213-1a3a2e5 Time component in prices emerges with the introduction of moneynotes17107
48313-3a 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
48413-5 Man prefers his end to be achieved in the shortest possible time (i.e., positive time preference)notes17413
48513-5b1c Saving is fundamentally about foregoing things that could’ve been done—it’s about choosing one specific timeline over othersnotes17512
4862-1a0a1 Don't waste time unnecessarily complicating thingsnotes1798
4872-1a0c 'Denial' - Accept the existence of Black Swansnotes1789
4882-1a0d Don't confuse the Grey Swans with the Black Swansnotes17413
4892-1a1 '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
4902-1b2c1 Knowing your sustainable growth is the key to consistency. Do not depend on will power.notes17611
4912-1b2e2 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
4922-1b3 Play different games. Avoid competition.notes1789
4932-1b3a1 Narrow it down so you can have a chance to build your own moatnotes17611
4942-2b 'Critical mass' & 'Activation energy' & 'Alloying' & 'Catalysts' - Look for, or create, lollapalooza effectsnotes17512
4954-1a4b2a Silence can decontextualize-displace the negotiator from the negotiationnotes17116
4964-1a4b2a4 Prioritize by weighing the value of additional information against the cost of not decidingnotes1798
4975-1b2.3 Don’t be the turkey—the Black Swan might be a Grey Swan depending on your perspectivenotes17107
4985-1b4b1 Life’s evolution’s superpower is its time horizon. 3.8 billion years of miniscule changes compounded.notes17125
4995-2d1 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
5006-2 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
5017-1a4a Growth in revenue and in user base are not the same thing.notes17710
5027-1b4b1 Technical truth ≠ Political truthnotes1789
5037-1b4b5 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
5048-1 The frontiernotes17611
5059-2a4 Specifically, be long volatility with people’s ability to create new knowledgenotes17143
5069-2b3g Edward Sapir - 'The particular and the variable, rather than the universal or invariable, are where the intellectual gold is to be mined.'notes17107
5079-4b3b1 Popper - 'We let our ideas die in our place' (another difference between memes vs genes)notes17152
508Mark Spitznagelpeople17710
509Robert Cialdinipeople17017
510RUL3 - Finish what you start, because the best work often happens in what was meant to be the final stagenotes1789
511松岡正剛people17215
5121-1a4b You can’t cope with the reality solely via induction or deductionnotes1679
5131-1a4b2 Problems arise only when you reason via abductionnotes1688
5141-1a5b4.5 Truth is about correspondence with realitynotes1697
5151-1c5 Surprises are the doors to revealing the inexplicit and the unconsciousnotes16106
5161-1c6a1b Your ability to detect surprises will get better, and you will never be short of themnotes1697
5171-2g1c2a 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
5181-2g2b2 The Turing principle is also about the correspondence between the two bodies, and knowledge is not necessarily embodied in the human mindnotes16106
5191-2g2p 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
5201-2g2r 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
52110-1b4c ミメシス is analog-indexical, パロディア is digital-iconical, アナロギア is digital-symbolicalnotes16511
52210-2g2c2 Human minds are capable of knowing what ideas meannotes1679
52311-3.5 There is no universal utility. Utility doesn't exist in the abstract, it must be rooted in the context and corresponding explanations.notes1697
52412-1a2 Ideology (did and) will shape the state, instead of vice versanotes16214
52512-1a2a2 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
52612-1a2b Crypto is the new 'nation' that can take over the USnotes16313
52712-1a3 The tangible and explicit (can) come in last in the evolution of organic communitynotes16610
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
5577-1b3d New stars rise along with the new platformnotes1697
5587-1b4b0 Tech does what culture does to you. You see what could've been based on the tech you know.notes16412
5597-1d1 Apply the newest technology to the oldest problems. The best source of arbitrage is between the newest tech papers and the oldest books.notes16511
5607-1d2b Centralized tech ⇒ Mass media (via mass production) ⇒ Homogenized societal experiences ⇒ Communism, Nazism, Democratic Capitalismnotes16412
5617-1e 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
5628-1c2a What matters is the creativity per se, because non-creative parts will be made easiernotes16106
5638-1c3a Internet turned everyone into publisher. Crypto can turn everyone into investor.notes1679
5649-1b1 Ideas are never replicated fully because each individual has different problem-situation. Meme variation (and mutation) is inevitable.notes1688
5659-2b3e 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
5669-4b2a1d1.2 You can let the tech decide, but ideas and visions often can shape the technotes16106
5679-4c1 If you can't write about it, you can't code it. If you can't program it, you don't understand it.notes1688
568AN3C - People don’t want better, they want less crapnotes16106
569Will Guidarapeople16511
5701-1a1b The mind includes inexplicit as well as unconsciousnotes15105
5711-1a2e11 Nothing objectively represents the representednotes15132
5721-1a5 We always reason abductivelynotes1569
5731-1a5a 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
5741-2f1b8 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
5751-2g1c3 Confining yourself only to 'your mind' is quite an arbitrary decisionnotes1569
5761-2g1c3a 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
5771-2g2c 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).notes1596
5781-2g2i0 Life is computation in the sense of assuming other object (i.e., genes assuming its surrounding environment)notes1578
5791-2g2j1b 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
5801-2g2t3d2 Knowledge-creation must also imply access to previously inaccessible universes, owning to its unlimited improvabilitynotes15105
58110-1a2c 情報文化史は編集技術の歴史notes15114
58210-2e8a Understanding is about counterfactual and contingencynotes15114
58310-2g1f1 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
58410-2g2c1d Computation is nothing more than an aid to communicationnotes15411
58510-2g3 Symbols are shaped by social values, social knowledge, and social structuresnotes15510
58611-2a Invest for the wealth it can generate, not for the money per senotes1569
58712-1a2d Abstractions such as 'the economy' and 'the supply chain' can be realized arbitrarily well (never exhaustively)notes1569
58812-1b The only certainty is rising volatilitynotes1569
58913-1a3a There must always be room for improvement in his value scale—otherwise action would disappearnotes15510
59013-1a3a2d3b Value scales and money are reflexive—value scales become more actionable with money, because money changes the topology of value scalesnotes1578
59113-1a3a3 The equilibrium price implies no further changes (the so-called subjective improvements)notes1569
59213-4b The multiverse implies the scarcity of time in each universenotes15411
59313-5b2.1 Saving (in money) can literally save younotes15510
59413-5b2g The investment return in the evenly rotating economy (ERE) is exclusively dependent on time elementnotes15114
59513-5b3 Labor is uniquely the nonspecific factornotes15213
59613-8a3 Money must evoke the past, but the demand for money lies in the futurenotes1587
59713-9a2 Indifference cannot be a basis for action—the choice could not be meaningfully revealed in actionnotes1578
5982-1a1a3c Belong where your desired habits are the normnotes15123
5992-1a5 'Sampling' - Increase your sample size with QUALITY datanotes1569
6002-1b2d 'Trust' - The most effective business is one with trust. Build one.notes15510
6012-1c1a4 'Commoditize your complement' tacticnotes15510
6022-2a 'Emergence' - Knowledge can be created out of nothing and is unpredictablenotes15105
6033-1a3a Start with problems instead of opinions. The latter usually comes with confirmation bias.notes1569
6043-1a4d 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
6053-1b2 Use the Fun Criterion to filter what problems to work onnotes15123
6063-1c1d6 Media grabs what's easily grabbable (e.g., short-term over long-term development)notes15510
6073-1c3d3 When problems are so well defined, your future self might be able to solve new problems by reusing and recombining themnotes1596
6083-1d2 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
6094-1d3 The most effective communication is to listennotes1596
6104-1e1 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
6114-2b Good storytelling is about taking readers to something slightly in advance by using what they already knownotes1569
6125-1b1b3 Productize yourself (as an embodiment of reality)notes15105
6135-1b1d1 Not investing is also a form of investingnotes1569
6145-2b2 You can’t flow to the most interesting if you react to everything that comes at you by defaultnotes1587
6155-2b4 Explanation (explicit or inexplicit) precedes both your options and choicesnotes15114
6165-2c2 Fake stuff usually has a sharp peak of seeming to matternotes1569
6176-2a Addiction lessens one’s ability to experience joy in life.notes15312
6186-3b2f Composability implies compoundingnotes1596
6196-3b3c Tasks held captive as proprietary in corporate networks become market-basednotes1596
6206-3c When you are invested, you'll try to own itnotes1569
6218-2b2d Value shifts to adjacent layersnotes15105
6229-1b0 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
6239-4b2a1d0.1 Digitization (articulation) is a play with contingency (i.e., 'could have been'-s)notes15510
6249-4b2a2 Memes can be transmitted from anyone to anyonenotes15105
6259-4b3e3d リトライの操作を迅速にすること・させることnotes1578
626Now15114
627RUL3 - Live in the future and build what seems interestingnotes1596
628RUL3 - Run upstairs. Choose the difficult terrain like guerillas.notes15105
6291-1 Our mind can constrain itself (i.e., why you need proper epistemology)notes14311
6301-1a2a1 Human nature is variable (Cultures ⇒ Flexible human brains ⇒ Variable dark matters ⇒ Variable 'human natures' ⇒ Cultures . . .)notes14104
6311-1a2e2 Languages are not innate to humansnotes14212
6321-1a2e6 Culturing and social acting (along with languaging) ⇒ Our actions, beliefs, desires, values, and selfnotes14311
6331-1a2e6a The dark matter of mind is multilayered, differentially manifested, and variously derived from the experiences of livingnotes1477
6341-1a4c2 The whole is greater than the sum of its partsnotes14104
6351-1b Memes are more powerful than genes because they can out-evolve themnotes14104
6361-2f1b3 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
6371-2g2b1 Constructor Theory defines knowledge independent of peoplenotes14113
6381-2g2b5 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
6391-2g2c3 Intractable does not mean unpredictablenotes14311
6401-2g2d Knowledge is life. Life is knowledge.notes14113
6411-2g2j1d Cantgotu environments - you will always be proven wrong because no program will render it; you can never prove that you were therenotes14410
6421-2g2t3e 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
64310-1a History is all the data we have so farnotes14212
64410-1b3 Sapir - 'Culture is not something given but something to be gradually and gropingly discovered'notes1495
64510-1c1 'Grammar of society' - Society and culture are connected and constructed in grammar-like ways. Individuals are 'fillers' for slots in a culture-grammar.notes14410
64610-2d1c Evolution achieved that jump to universality with the DNA genetic codenotes14311
64710-2g1b Science is headed towards less and less parochialism because we can be honest with what knowledge is. That is, towards universality.notes1459
64810-2g2c 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
64913-1a3a1a1 Only monetary income (or loss) can be observed and measured ex post—never psychic income (or loss)notes1477
65013-1a3a2f The market implies specialization implies speculationnotes14410
65113-1a3a4 The equilibrium price cannot be realized, except in the evenly rotating economy (ERE)notes1477
65213-2 Knowledge precedes actionnotes1468
65313-2.3 Learning is about changing your behaviornotes1468
65413-5b2a0.1 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
65513-5b2b Because of money, the rate of return will tend to be uniform throughout the length and breadth of the production structurenotes14311
65613-6a The same individual exhibits different scale of values at different timesnotes1459
65713-8a2b Prices do not exhaust value scales, but value scales can be ascertained only through prices in money economynotes1495
6582-1a0c1h Small countries (or any community) must be convincing. Presidents and mayors must act like CEOs and turn their communities into startup countries-counties.notes1459
6592-1a1a Biases when picking up maps (+ cognitive biases in general)notes14311
6602-1a1a2 'Bias from incentives' - Explicate your culture-incentive as much as possiblenotes1495
6612-1a1a5 'Narrative instinct' - Often the right explanation is one with the least intent involvednotes14104
6622-1a1a9 'Survivorship bias' - We only see what can be seennotes1468
6632-1a7a3 Ben Graham - 'Markets are a voting machine in the short term and a weighing machine in the long term'notes1477
6642-1b2e1 Understanding comes from copying the information-knowledge as information-knowledge medium; not from copying the substratenotes1495
6652-3a1 Always ask - what does this even MEANnotes1459
6662-6 You get what you pay fornotes1468
6673-1a4b4 Not everything are priced yetnotes14113
6683-1a4b8 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
6693-1b0 Think forward, but also think in reverse via inversionnotes1477
6703-1c1d0a 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
6713-1d4b1 What’s been considered ‘analog’ must be represented digitally, because the distinction is rather arbitrarynotes14104
6723-1d5 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
6733-1d6c1 The marginal cost of doing something wrong 'just this once' always seems alluringly lownotes1477
6744-1a4b2e Don't get startednotes1477
6754-1a4b6a When you write down, you are helping yourself both now and in the futurenotes1486
6765-1b1a1c The relationship between knowledge in the abstract and technology (the physical mediator of such knowledge) is contingentnotes1486
6775-1b1a2c Contingency cannot be exhaustively accounted for, because that amounts to predicting minds and knowledgenotes14104
6785-1b1a8c 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
6796-3b2.4b Politics was (about) social media (2010s) and will be (about) cryptocurrency (2020s)notes1459
6806-3b2d1 Don't reinvent the wheel. Copy and paste. Save keystrokes.notes1477
6817-1a5b Ask which problem-situation is the most problematic one (conscious, inexplicit, unconscious, future, new)notes1468
6827-1b3 You can solve problems others will have but don’t have yetnotes1477
6838-1c Look for inherently digital-native areas and conceptsnotes1495
6848-1c4d1 Web3 writing differs particularly from Web2 writing, because of the incentive structurenotes1468
6858-1c4d5c 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
6868-2d4 You can vote with timenotes14212
6879-2b3a There is no universal culture, because culture is contingency (文化 = 上澄み)notes1459
6889-2b5 Universality per se is never enoughnotes14104
6899-4b2a Writing is THE evolution. It’s more fast-universal-explicit in contrast to the evolution of genes.notes1486
6909-4b2c 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
6919-4b3e3a Interfaces should follow the principle of least astonishmentnotes1459
692Balaji Srinivasanpeople1486
693Chris Dixonpeople1468
694Jeff Bezospeople14104
695Judea Pearlpeople14212
696Money—Days of Future Pastessai14014
697RUL3 - It’s useful to ask why about things that seem wrong, and especially ones that seem wrong but somehow funny.notes1477
698RUL3 - List ⇒ Rank ⇒ Iteratenotes14131
699What can be measured can be copied, and vice versanotes14311
7001-1a2e7a Apperceptions = The ways by which we process, make sense of, and assimilate our experiencesnotes1349
7011-1a5b3 Ship at least every month. Scope down until you have no excuse not to ship. Being output-project-oriented means being payoff-oriented.notes1349
7021-1a7 Epistemology is the way with which we go about our detective work; other sciences are application of such detective lensnotes1349
7031-1c6a3 Say yes only when both your heart and head say sonotes13310
7041-1c6e This goes on ad infinitumnotes13310
7051-2g1b1 Predicting the same outcome doesn’t mean they have the same explanationnotes13103
7061-2g2j1a Because we can only be with the virtual-reality, all our renderings will be inaccuratenotes1394
70710-1b Culture is set of ideas which affect behavior including unconscious ones like skills, expectations, and emotional preferences.notes13103
70810-1b2a Emicization = The construction of an insider point of view (the 'dark matter')notes1367
70910-2d2 ‘The tools for thought’ do not necessarily have to accommodate recursiveness, because we can think recursively nonethelessnotes1376
71010-2g2c0a Universal systems retain the capacity to represent knowledge that is not yet created, thus can be useful in the future.notes1367
71110-2g2e6 Abstraction is the unseennotes1358
71210-2g2e9a The contingent relation between the form and the abstract can be only realized by digital systems. Analog systems cannot do this.notes1367
71310-2g2e9b DNA is digital system which evolves by discrete changes. If it were analog, evolution couldn’t have happened.notes1358
71411-1d There is no objective risknotes1385
71513-1a3d Any improvement is subjectivenotes13211
71613-4d2 There is no objective valuenotes13112
71713-4d4b Everyone must consumenotes13211
71813-4e Knowledge is never a scarce resource, hence never a means or a goodnotes1349
71913-5a The role of capital is to advance men in time toward their objective in producing consumers’ goodsnotes1358
72013-5b1 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
72113-5b2c There is no time inconsistency in the evenly rotating economy (ERE)notes1349
72213-5g 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 changenotes1367
72313-6 Man reveals only a part of his value scale through actionsnotes1367
72413-9a3 Praxeology is concerned with preference as revealed through choicenotes1376
72513–5b2i 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
7262-1a0c1b You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.notes1349
7272-1a0c1i Every polity will be publicly traded eventually just like companies and coinsnotes1385
7282-1a1a1 'Falsification (confirmation) bias' - Always try to falsify your theory. Don't pick up similar maps.notes1367
7292-1a1a6 'Tendency to overgeneralize from small samples'notes1394
7302-1b2b0.1a Prioritize upstream productivitynotes13112
7312-4a 'Commitment & Consistency bias' - To change your behavior, make changing your belief difficultnotes1367
7323-1a1 It’s either you are solving problems or notnotes1385
7333-1c1b0 You are what you consume (read)notes1385
7343-1c1d2 Historic records are full of embellishment, lying, and misinterpretation. It’s mediated by many minds both conscious and unconscious.notes1385
7353-1c2e4 There is no limit to the number of symbols available to humans for languagesnotes1367
7364-1 Assumptions are hypotheses and you use the conversation (’negotiation’) to test themnotes1358
7374-1a4b5a 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
7384-1a4b6a0.3 Time is money means money is timenotes1376
7395-1b1a4a Being hedged in the long-run entails being long optionalitynotes1358
7405-1b1a7 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
7415-1b1b1a1.1 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
7425-1b1b1a2.1 Network effect means scaling increasinglynotes1349
7435-1b4a0 We overestimate the technological impact in the next 10 years, but underestimate the next 20 (and often right about 15 years later)notes13121
7445-2c Be impatient about the things you most want to donotes1358
7455-2c2b3 'When you punt something into the future, the future eventually arrives'notes1367
7465-2d 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
7476-3b2.5a Community network > State network (e.g., Indian network > Indian state-market)notes13310
7486-3b3e Everyone benefits in blockchain and protocol networksnotes13112
7496-3b4c Building true communities is the best way to go viralnotes13211
7507-1a5c Engineers address the problem itself, and sales people help making that problem everyone’s problem NOWnotes1376
7517-1a6b Successful founders apply new technology to solve problems at edge casesnotes1394
7527-1b0 The creator-user (or producer-consumer) distinction is arbitrary. There are no 'producers' and 'consumers' in the non-human world.notes1367
7537-2b The more of a noob you are locally, the less of a noob you are globallynotes1376
7548-1b3a A blockchain takes the code seriouslynotes1394
7558-1b3f1 You can value tokens using traditional financial metrics (e.g., PE ratio) by studying the cash flows and burn rates of blockchain networksnotes13310
7568-2b3 On-chain gets you immutability, verifiability, monetization. Just as online gets you distribution-sharing-collaboration.notes1376
7578-2d1a 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
7589-2b3e2 There is no universal symbol-idea (in the sense of capable of conveying universal meaning)notes1367
7599-3 Increase surface area of lucknotes13103
7609-4b2b0 Memes are subject to conscious variation and selection, and can be rejected intentionally, whereas genes are random and can’t be rejected.notes1358
7619-4b3e3b Emphasize ease of use over perfection. Embrace iterative minimalism.notes13211
762Elden Ring Meets Karl Popperessays13211
763QUE5 - Don’t aim for the average — Ask 'What is rich doing' 'What are nerds doing'notes13130
764QUE5 - 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
765To Measure or Not To Measure, That Is The Questionessays1358
7661-1a2e1 Nothing in the body is dedicated to language. Gene ≠ Language. Culture ⇒ Language.notes12210
7671-1a2e9b When 'properly' emicized by the culture, we see what's not there and can not see what's therenotes1293
7681-1a4d Nothing can be explained only in terms of itselfnotes12102
7691-1a5b3.1 What counts is the payoff from success—and not how often you are rightnotes1239
7701-1a5b4.3a Pick iterable projects (for you)notes1248
7711-2f1a3 To be scientific is to be criticalnotes1257
7721-2f1a3c 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
7731-2f1b3a1 The question is not whether anomalies happened in the past, but whether we have explanations for such anomalies.notes12111
7741-2f1b7 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
7751-2g1c4 Technology is what makes us humansnotes12111
7761-2g2b2a Computer is technology that has deep theoretical and philosophical significancenotes1248
7771-2g2f 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
77810-1b4a Learning is imitation and testingnotes1275
77910-1b4e 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
78010-2g1f2c It's as though everything from culture-grammar-symbol-DNA-brain evolved so that high accuracy correspondences were made easier to achievenotes1248
78110-2g2c0c We don't think at the moment (we don't 'generate' ideas), our thinking is connectednotes1275
78210-2g2c1c The primary function of language is communication. Not expression of thought.notes1239
78310-2g2e5 Abstractions exist and affect physical objects. Knowledge makes enormous difference in the world.notes1275
78410-2g3d2 Decontextualize, then recontextualizenotes12210
78510-2g5 Every invention is built up over time within culturenotes1266
78612-1e3 There is no should in naturenotes1284
78713-1a2 The omnipresence of uncertainty introduces the ever-present possibility of error in human actionnotes1275
78813-1a2a The action axiom implies success and failurenotes1257
78913-1a3a1b All errors will be subjective without moneynotes12210
79013-1a3a2a The difference is implied in any exchange and division of labornotes1275
79113-2.1 Human action must be purposeful—”action” without intent is the equivalent with dust in the windnotes12111
79213-5b2k There is no such thing as mispricing, at least objectivelynotes1239
79313-6a2 Knowledge keeps you the same, from the perspective of exhibited value scalesnotes1257
79413-6e Praxeology is concerned with the fact that humans solve problems—regardless of hownotes1257
79513-8 Marginal utility—as the quantity of the supply (stock) of a good increases, the utility (value) of each additional unit decreasesnotes1266
79613-9a0 “The price is the first and most obvious indication of the nature of the alternatives” – Philip Wicksteednotes1239
79713-9a0a The multiverse implies money, money price, and market exchangenotes1248
7982-1a1a1b 'Hanlon's razor' - We (they) are dumber and thus less ill-intent than we think we (they) arenotes1293
7992-1a4c We don't know how we create knowledge yet, but that doesn't mean we can'tnotes1275
8002-1b2d1 Consistency builds trustnotes1266
8012-1c2b Forced vertical integration made Tesla intimately familiar with the complex supply chain required to build a car. Good counter-argument to outsourcing everything.notes1284
8022-2c 'Tragedy of the commons' - Also look for negative lollapalooza effects ('devolution')notes1248
8033-1a4b2a A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great pricenotes1284
8043-1c Know what your problems arenotes1284
8053-1c1c You must build your own media for yourselfnotes1275
8063-1c1d4 We are bombarded with ‘unlikely’ events on our social media feednotes1284
8073-1c2 Write down your problemsnotes1284
8083-1c3a1 Tracing its beginning is as impossible as predicting the futurenotes1257
8093-1c3c3a2 Time spent doesn't mean muchnotes1293
8103-1c3d0 Break down into mini-projects, they become more actionable because they are less scary than bigger onesnotes1293
8113-1c3d2b Chasing growth ⇒ Keep redefining the problems to be solvednotes1257
8124-1a4b6a0a Knowledge ≠ Moneynotes1248
8134-1a5c When you have your Second Brain, you can have a conversation with itnotes1266
8144-2c 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
8155-1a2 Solving problems is a concrete framework of moralitynotes1239
8165-1b1a1c0 There is no universal technologynotes12111
8175-1b1a8d Knowledge doesn’t automatically make us wise—the most learned are not the wisest (or the richest)notes1248
8185-1b4c4a Taboos likely can offer gateways to your unconsciousnotes1275
8195-2b1 Writing out your goals is how you become performance-oriented in lifenotes1257
8205-2b1b Writing down makes it easier for your conscious to see the unconsciousnotes1266
8215-2b4a You can either decide from existent options, or make a decision (literally in the sense of creation) by creating new explanationnotes1275
8225-2c2b0.2 You need resilience against volatility (i.e., Stoic robustness)notes1275
8235-3c1 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
8246-3b3 Don't think corporate network structure (especially its incentives) is the normnotes1266
8256-3b3d Externalized incentives (negative externalities) go away when everything is externalizednotes1293
8267-1a1a2 Solve your own problems. Otherwise you'll lose time and money without self-indulgence alarms going off.notes12102
8277-1a2 You can also make their problem as your problem by using growth as a guidance.notes1266
8287-1a2a1.1 Look for two-step-aheaders, instead of people many steps ahead of younotes1266
8297-1a2a4 バロックの本質は逸脱notes12111
8307-1b2a Arbitrage what’s been said vs what’s been boughtnotes1257
8317-1b4b0.1 Technologists are those who lead with technologies, and less with heartnotes12111
8327-1b4b4a Let knowledge permeate, and don’t force your constraints on themnotes12210
8337-1b4b4b Permeate both across other possibilities in this universe and across multiversal timelinesnotes1239
8347-1d2a5 Tech shapes technotes1266
8357-1f Developing in anticipation of development cost cheapening is a form of investmentnotes1266
8368-1b3b When software is in charge, designers can take full advantage of the expressivity of softwarenotes1257
8378-1c4d1a2 People only pay attention to certain parts of music, art, building, product, photo etc.notes1248
8388-2b2 The most efficient business is one with trust, or one completely withoutnotes1275
8399-4b3e2 Concise explanations make it easier to criticize and combine ideasnotes1284
8409-4b3e3e '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
841Naruto and LLMsessays12210
842The essence of writing is rewritingnotes1257
8431-1a1a Our mind is not necessarily composed linearly or hierarchically. It could be a connected web of nodes and reflexive.notes1174
8441-1a5b Real thought is full of false startsnotes1156
8451-1a5b4.1 Shipping early means cognitive offload means key momentnotes11110
8461-2.0 It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrongnotes1174
8471-2f1b1 Digital system is composablenotes11101
8481-2g1b2 Don’t pay as much attention to people’s conclusions as to the reasoning that led them to their conclusionsnotes1147
8491-2g1c3b Self = A memory of skandhas (form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness)notes1138
8501-2g2j1c 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
8511-2g2t5a 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
85210-1b4d '好み' = ミメシスからパロディアへnotes1165
85310-1c 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
85410-2d The medium of expression, language, can also improve indefinitelynotes1192
85510-2f Language assumes shared knowledge, just as conversation is implicit in the contextnotes1147
85610-2g You can’t extract the meaning from the words only, because the explicit (seen) is built upon the inexplicit (unseen)notes1156
85710-2g1f2a Our brains (including our emotions) and our cultures are related symbiotically through the individual, and that neither supervenes on the othernotes1183
85813-1a0 The multiverse implies both explanation and actionnotes1174
85913-1a3a2d The more extended the market, the more will exchange-values (as compared to direct use-values) predominate in the decisions of the producernotes1156
86013-1a3a2d6 There is no perfect moneynotes1156
86113-1a3a2e3 Any prior money must necessarily trace its origin back to the original moneynotes1147
86213-1a3a4b 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
86313-1a3a5 The concept of an equilibrium price presupposes a world without further subjective re-evaluations or changenotes1165
86413-1a3c We will never attain objectivitynotes1138
86513-1b The mind, with its intention, can shape the multiversenotes1165
86613-2.2 Most “actions” are mere behaviornotes1147
86713-5a1 Civilization advances by virtue of additional capitalnotes1129
86813-7 Value scales consist of specific units, and associated subjective utilitiesnotes1165
8692-1a1a1a 'Self-preservation' - Don't trigger your biological defaults (defense mode)notes1156
8702-1a1a4b Compounding is usually too slow to notice, making it easier to discount both how much progress and catastrophe are achievablenotes11101
8712-1b2b0 Judgment is knowing the long-term consequences of your actionsnotes1138
8722-1e1 'Layer-1' & 'Layer-2' phrasing is probably not the best analogy-understanding-topologynotes1156
8732-3e Cryptocurrency is financial volatilitynotes1138
8743-1a4b3 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.'notes11110
8753-1a5 Any explanation must evoke human creativity (i.e., our ability to come up with explanations) fullynotes1147
8763-1b1a Often the real insight is in the question and not in answernotes1174
8773-1c2a Your mind, including the unconscious, has to know the problems you explicitly havenotes1156
8783-1c2e3.1 It’s symbols all the way downnotes1156
8793-1c3e2 Experience provides problems-concepts-knowledgenotes1165
8804-1a4b2b2a Rules and leaders emerge from informal governance but they are a product of inscrutable social dynamics rather than thoughtful designnotes1138
8814-1a4b3 If you write down ideas, you can have a conversation with each one of them individually, or with any configurations from themnotes1174
8824-1e3 Convex utility in losses—when you’re trapped, your risk preferences change. Beware a man who has nothing to lose.notes1138
8835-1b1a1a Technology is about how to do things differently. Some technology can be more universal than others, but it can never be perfectly universal.notes1129
8845-1b1a1e Innovation and science can feed each other. We tend to treat them separately, but both are attempts to solve problems.notes1165
8855-1b4a0.1 New is overvalued relative to greatnotes1156
8865-1b4a2 Optimalism > Optimismnotes1129
8875-3 Don’t fight. Transcend.notes1183
8886-3b2b Interoperability implies composabilitynotes1165
8896-3b3b Not differentiating developers from users mean what attracts the former also attracts the latter, and vice versanotes1156
8906-3b3f2 BTC Maximalists are monotheists and political networknotes1138
8917-1a1a1 Imaginary problems lead to ‘investment’ and ‘work’ - don't indulge with themnotes1174
8927-1a2b For startups, growth is a constraint much like truthnotes11101
8937-1a3 You’ll act when you target growthnotes1147
8947-1c1 Intuition about which hill to climb is usually better than people realizenotes1183
8958-1b3e Software will be at the intersection between ideological and economicalnotes1129
8968-1c4a2 Twitter’s 140-character limit was useful constraintnotes1138
8978-1c4d5b There are many ways by which apps, platforms, and people can interact reflexivelynotes1174
8988-2b Crypto will disrupt everything because it can change how organizations are formed, monetized, and exited. It could take decades to play out.notes1165
8998-2b1 Web3 ecosystem is built on the assumption that we cannot trust anyonenotes1129
9008-2b2c The iPhone (or the blockchain) momentnotes1138
9018-2b2e Humans really care about other humansnotes1129
9029-1a You don’t have to be convincing per se, because convincing and true will become identicalnotes1165
9039-2a3b0.2 Understand the downside 5 to 10 years from nownotes1138
9049-2b1.3 UI (and UX) mattersnotes1129
9059-4b Writing generates ideasnotes1156
9069-4b2a1 Most of the evolution happened inside human brainsnotes1156
9079-4b2a1c The moment you write about any societal problem in depth you'll find yourself writing a history of that problemnotes1165
9089-4b2a1d0 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
9099-4b2b2 We are also free because we are in the multiversenotes1174
9109-4b3c Your epistemology has to be digital, that is, error-correctablenotes1147
9119-4b3e4 Write each sentence like you are talking to a friendnotes1174
912Sam Waltonpeople11101
913The Multiverse Implies Economicsessai11011
9141-1a2a2 The inexplicit and unconscious is also NOT innately structurednotes1055
9151-1a2e7c You can't help being cultural, but you don't have to commit to any specific culturenotes1055
9161-1a4 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
9171-1a5b2 Launch means criticism. It’s an equivalent to experimental testing in science.notes1055
9181-1c4a Because you will be and want to be mistaken, by default you should be long optionalitynotes1055
9191-2a1 Our ‘direct’ experience is also virtual because its meaning is conjectured and interpreted via guessesnotes1082
9201-2b2 He who controls the past controls the futurenotes1064
9211-2f1c Your thinking must be digital to be mistaken, to be surprisednotes1082
9221-2g1 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
9231-2g1a 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
9241-2g1c2 You can be {Your mind + Second Brain + Mental models + LLM with your data + your scripts-codes represented via machines}notes1055
9251-2g2 New theory in turn constrains what the low-level theories could benotes1046
9261-2g2b3 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)notes1046
9271-2g2b4 The universality of computation is a property of hardware and rather uncontroversial. The universality of explanation is a property of software and rather controversial.notes1037
9281-2g2h 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
9291-2g2j1 Accuracy is the closeness, as far as is perceptible, of the rendered environment to the intended one (intension)notes1037
9301-2g2j3 Life itself is iconic (imitation-copying)notes1046
9311-2g2s5 When the instances are fungible, there is no such thing as 'which' - histories and individual particles are not perfectly partitioned into instancesnotes1073
9321-2g2s7c Very unlikely event certainly happens somewhere in the multiversenotes1073
9331-2g2t6 The effect of interference on a history depends on what other histories are present (e.g., Mach-Zehnder interferometer)notes1055
93410-1b2 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
93510-2f1a We are making communication efficient not only combinatorically (syntax) but also semantically (by using context)notes1091
93610-2f2a Explanation regarding any evolution must take knowledge into accountnotes1055
93710-2f3b Reading is about extracting the meaning from the words, and not about extracting words from the pagenotes1046
93810-2g1c Universality of peoplenotes1073
93910-2g2c1a Universality of symbols - if one specie can manipulate symbols, then that species can understand any other species who also use symbolsnotes1073
94010-2g2e2 Abstractions are real, and created the same way as with any other knowledgenotes1082
94110-2g3b Not all symbols contain knowledgenotes1037
94211-1c When investing, you have to address your problem. You have to hedge your risk.notes1064
94312-1a2a Crypto is network-ideological movement and doesn't differentiate Chinese and Americansnotes1082
94412-1e2 There is no objective happinessnotes1055
94513-1a3.3 The use of labor has a cost in accordance with the subjective value of the leisure forgonenotes1055
94613-1a3a2d5 Money is one of the best explanatory tools available, but not perfectnotes1046
94713-1a3a2e Some products are produced because of the greater extent of the marketnotes1046
94813-1a3a2g The specialization process continues indefinitelynotes1055
94913-1a3b The subjective value theory persists because of the multiverse—because we are falliblenotes1073
95013-5b2j There is no natural rate of interest in realitynotes1037
95113-8a2c Value scales are ascertainable from the real actions, not vice versa—because value scales cannot be exhaustednotes1055
95213-8c Utility alone determines the price and the quantity exchangednotes1064
9532-1 Mental models (着せ替え・持ち替え・言い換え)notes1082
9542-1a6c4c We can explain things because we are multiversal objects. The multiverse implies explanatory knowledge.notes1064
9552-1b Seeing the unseen (面影・うつろい)notes1082
9562-1b1 'Asymmetric warfare' - Play by different rulesnotes1073
9572-1b3b 'Arbitrage' - Arbitrage both space and time (both offline and online)notes1046
9582-1c1a2 The attract-extract cycle - Bigger networks have less to gain and more to lose by interoperatingnotes1037
9592-1c1b 'Two-front war' - Deal with it effectively by knowing your priority. Use it effectively against those whose priorities are vague.notes1028
9602-1c4 100x-ing the pie > slicing extra few %notes1046
9613-1a2a Culture (be it individual-company-country) should be built around solving problems. Incentives should be built around solving problems.notes1064
9623-1a4a 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
9633-1a4b6 The importance of the monetarily accountable compared to the unaccountable increases indefinitely, although the former never exhausts the latternotes1037
9643-1a4c Market and non-market categorization is arbitrarynotes1055
9653-1b0a You can think forward and invert insofar as you have a problem to solvenotes1055
9663-1c1c2 Second Brain is a private media, where you are both the editor and the readernotes1055
9673-1c3b1 You don’t take notes to know where the knowledge came from (justification), but to use it in the future, to solve problems.notes1091
9683-1c3c2 Take ideas seriously, to an extent that you will be comfortable ‘breaking rules’ if necessarynotes1064
9693-1c3c2a1 How do we find constraints (i.e., detect bullshit)notes1037
9703-1c3c2b Getting rid of your own misconceived notions alone can take you far enoughnotes1073
9713-1d1 We must start with our own peculiar constraintsnotes1091
9723-1d4b Your tools-frameworks-systems must be error-correctable (i.e., digital)notes1073
9733-1d6d Consistency with specific problems in mind is the key to (detect) progressnotes1073
9743-1d7a 'Bottlenecks' - Don't hate them. Rather, use them creatively.notes1037
9753-1d8 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
9764-1a2a When you make them say ‘no’ to anything, you make them feel as if they are in more control of the conversationnotes1064
9774-1a3a Imaginary problems lead to imaginary feedback, and that's not feedbacknotes1037
9784-1a4b6a0.1 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
9794-1a4b6a0.4 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
9804-1a4b8c When you outsource your thinking, you can reap the benefits of multitasking without any downsides.notes1073
9814-1c1 Don’t prematurely zoom in during conversation, because he might not be self-conscious of the real problemsnotes1055
9825-1a4.1 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
9835-1b1a1b 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
9845-1b1a8a When using probability, we need an explanation for why that probability applies, because knowledge is unpredictablenotes1055
9855-1b1b1a5 'Come for the tool, stay for the network' tacticnotes1055
9865-1b1b2a If you follow the Fun Criterion, you’ll be good at thingsnotes1082
9875-1b4c4b To truly have fun, you have to get rid of your own misconceptionsnotes1055
9885-2a2.1 Know what you are measuring it withnotes1055
9895-2b2a Use LATER folder, instead of reactively watching-reading-listening, and give them timenotes1064
9905-2b4a1 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
9915-2c2b0.3 The way you become resistant to volatility is not by being robust or antifragile per se but by being one with the realitynotes1091
9925-2c2b2 When you are long bullshit, you are short volatility and timenotes1064
9936-3b2.4 Decentralization is securitynotes1064
9946-3b2g No composability implies fragmentationnotes1037
9956-3b3a Networks with billions of owners are possiblenotes1055
9966-3b4 Tokens are the natural asset class to provide a sensible organizational structure for networksnotes1055
9976-3b7 NFT = A digital twin of the physical objectnotes1037
9987-1a1b Theoretical physics has that universal applicability because the laws of physics apply to all things physicalnotes1073
9997-1a2a2 Get ahead in the short-run, then in the long-runnotes1064
10007-1a2d Optimizing for growth can lead to discovering startup ideas. It’s a form of evolutionary pressure.notes1037
10017-1b2 You can solve problems others have inexplicitly or unconsciouslynotes1064
10027-1d0 People who find ways to drive down the costs and simplify the product made the biggest difference (Ford)notes1055
10037-1d3 The most valuable advantage in business is technical onenotes1055
10048-1b1 Physical (offline) can exist as printouts of digital (online)notes1037
10058-1b3i Token rewards should taper off as the network growsnotes1028
10069-2a1a 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
10079-2b3b Universal culture is meaninglessnotes1028
10089-2b3e4 Specific knowledge ≠ Universalitynotes1064
10099-4b1 Writing is abduction repeatednotes1037
10109-4b2b1 We are free because we can create knowledge, and knowledge is unpredictablenotes1073
10119-4b2b1a We are free insofar as we can create knowledgenotes1091
10129-4b3 Writing is actingnotes1046
10139-4b3a Write a bad version 1.0 as fast as you cannotes1082
10149-4b3d Experience can only provide you with parochial problems, but its solution often consists of some universality which can be applied elsewherenotes1037
10159-4c2 '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
1016RUL3 - The transparency principle - make your decision-making process as visible and open to scrutiny as possiblenotes1082
1017The Epistemology of Note-Taking Toolsessai1028
1018The Products of My Writingessays1019
10191-1a Culture and technology can influence our perception of what human mind is — explicitly, inexplicitly, and unconsciouslynotes936
10201-1a1a1 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
10211-1a1c Don’t let your conceptions constrain the mindnotes945
10221-1a2b 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
10231-1a2e The mind is universal, that means domain specific genes are unlikelynotes936
10241-1a2e7d 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
10251-1a2e7e 文化とは多様性を克服した情報モードnotes936
10261-1a2e8 'Seeing' really occurs after going through (or together with) emicizationnotes963
10271-1a3 We repeatedly update our theories, including theories about how the mind works, and keep making sense of the worldnotes945
10281-1a4a If you don’t recalibrate your framework, ‘contradictions’ will surely pile upnotes963
10291-1a5b4.4a Our eyes produce clarity through a perpetual process of adjustmentnotes954
10301-2g2c2 The principles of quantum physics dictates that speed and position (or definite path and definite path superposition) cannot be tested simultaneouslynotes918
10311-2g2l3 We create knowledge actively. We are more than biological life.notes936
10321-2g2s7b4 Mathematics is not independent of physicsnotes927
10331-2g2t5 Because rejoining means being fungible means there is no such thing as which of them has ended up as-at which final instance-positionnotes945
10341-2g2t5b 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
103510-1a2 History rewrites (edits) itselfnotes963
103610-1a3a The US doesn't want you to remember what happened recentlynotes945
103710-1a4 Digitizing history doesn't mean throwing away everything and returning to the caveman era of a blank git repositorynotes927
103810-1b8 All languages will show culture-language connections if we look for itnotes963
103910-1c2 Each person occupies a role, alone or jointly. Roles are like apparel, worn for specific situations.notes927
104010-1d Cohesive culture is formed with values, knowledge structures, and social rolesnotes936
104110-2c We can provide ever better explanations about ourselvesnotes945
104210-2d2e9e Evolution of 'other life-forms' must evoke the influence of human existencenotes954
104310-2e Languages are theories about the world and enmeshed in assumptions.notes963
104410-2f3a1 Speaking the same language doesn’t mean they share the same exact meanings.notes972
104510-2g1e What sets humans apart is our ability to accumulate knowledge by means of languagenotes936
104610-2g1f2a2 You can't separate the mind from the context-culture-body that generated-evolved it. Cartesian dualism is arbitrary categorization-abstraction.notes963
104710-2g2c1e What makes humans unique is not computational abilitynotes927
104810-2g2e6a Science is about understanding the whole of reality, of which only an infinitesimal proportion is ever experiencednotes954
104911-3.2 'Regression to the mean' - Don't be fooled by randomnessnotes918
105012-1a1 Network can become the statenotes936
105112-1a2b2 The real split will be top-bottom instead of left-rightnotes918
105213-1a0a Refuting the existence of the multiverse will refute praxeologynotes936
105313-1a3a1h The market tends to establish and maintain as high a quality of forecasting as is humanly possible to achievenotes936
105413-1a3a2e1 The greater the extent of the market, the greater the need for moneynotes936
105513-1a3a4a The actual market prices are the only ones that ever existnotes945
105613-2a The supply of capital goods enforces narrower limits than knowledgenotes954
105713-4d1 A good is valued not for itself, but for its service in satisfying the wants of acting individualnotes972
105813-5b2 Money is usable in every line of productionnotes936
105913-5b3c The demand of landowners and laborers for present goods tend to be inelastic with respect to interest ratesnotes936
106013-5d3 Capital per se is not permanentnotes927
10612-1a0.1 Complacency will kill you ('The Red Queen effect')notes927
10622-1a0c2 Failing is inevitable, but do not fail epistemologicallynotes945
10632-1b2e0 The less guessing layers the betternotes981
10642-1c1a Even if you are better at everything that doesn't mean you should do everything by yourselfnotes945
10652-3d Social media is social volatilitynotes936
10662-3d1 You must understand the risk profile of social distribution one has with othersnotes945
10672-5 '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
10683-1 Start with problemsnotes945
10693-1c1a 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
10703-1c1d1 Journalists distort our reality by 10,000xnotes972
10713-1c1d3 Social media makes news sentiment negativenotes954
10723-1c3a We are not interested in where the knowledge came fromnotes936
10733-1d Consistency requires consistent constraintsnotes972
10743-1d6a1 Staying consistent is rather difficult with information abundance. What we need is purpose-intention.notes972
10753-1d6b Consistent style makes it easier to see whether you are making a progress or notnotes963
10764-1a4b5c Deutsch - Consciousness is clearly intimately related to the growth and representation of knowledge within the brainnotes954
10774-1a4b6a0.2 Money is our time and energy in an abstracted formnotes936
10784-1a5b Your problems precede any conversationsnotes954
10795-1a4 Getting rid of your misconceived notions amounts to being nice (or moral)notes945
10805-1b1.1 Redundancy over premature optimization—especially against Black Swansnotes981
10815-1b1a1c3 The interoperability law means we can do away with dynamical laws because the former is scale-independentnotes981
10825-1b1b1a4 Game = Game + Streaming + Virtual Goodsnotes945
10835-1b2.1 Don’t invest in prediction, because the Black Swan is inherently unpredictablenotes945
10845-1b2a The “Doubt-Avoidance Tendency” - people want certainty-predictability-control over accuracy-realitynotes972
10855-1b4a1 Don’t be a depressive realist or a blissfully unaware. Be a rational optimist.notes945
10865-1b4b2 Hanlon's razor applied - See things as results of habitsnotes936
10875-1b4c2 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
10885-1b5 Keep solving problems including the problem of what problems to solvenotes972
10895-2a0.1 There are things that cannot be measurednotes954
10905-2b1a2a Simplify the problem, but not too simplynotes954
10915-2b3 You have to be guessing everything all the time, including your goals themselves because the unconscious is what can’t be explicated yetnotes945
10926-1b You either have to realign the incentives of capitalist entities you are outsourcing your health, or you have to take care of yourselfnotes945
10936-3b2.3a Credit is not moneynotes927
10946-7a You are what you consume (eat)notes936
10957-1a1 You can only solve your own problems. You incidentally help others by solving THAT.notes954
10967-1b3c Some technologies will be structurally overlooked by corporate networks. Barriers to entry doesn't necessarily correlate to its importance.notes945
10977-1b4c 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
10987-1b4d Don't be proud of being 'too early' because it's easy to be 'too early' if your tech knowledge is naivenotes936
10997-1b5a 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
11007-1d2a2 Founders must be legitimate and competent. Pay attention to the selection mechanism, and be aware if otherwise.notes927
11018-1b2a Most automation (and probably disruption as well) happens indirectlynotes936
11028-1b3f A blockchain economy must balance the supply ('faucets') and demand ('sinks') of native tokens to fuel sustainable growthnotes963
11038-1b4a The meaning of the word 'computer' shiftsnotes945
11048-1c4d4 There are infinitely more things to be written as there are infinitely more ways to write themnotes936
11058-2b2b1 Low take rates have a multiplier effectnotes918
11068-2c Crypto = Money + Computer (Crypto is programmable money)notes936
11078-2d Network states (digital) can probably address the problem nation states (analog) inherently possessnotes972
11088-4a1 Multi-modal transferability means software will be built differentlynotes927
11098-4b1 There will be AI-first applicationsnotes936
11108-4b3 AI could one-box the entire internetnotes954
11119-1b0d Reality doesn't differentiate investing from solo-funding, crowdfunding, referring, donating, and sending money. It's just paying.notes918
11129-2a0 The Identity Stack - To build something great means becoming someone's top primary identifiernotes927
11139-2b3e3.1 Maybe there is no abstract universality, just less localitynotes936
11149-2c Mark Twain - “Humor is a way to show you’re smart without bragging.”notes963
11159-4b2a1a Brains mimic the evolution of life, both generally and literallynotes945
11169-4b3e3 The easier something is to read, the more deeply readers will engage with your ideas. Keep the friction low.notes945
1117Deconstruct, then reconstructnotes927
1118Don't make the difficulty-rewards relationship a simple straight linenotes936
1119Hans-Hermann Hoppepeople936
1120Not every top-downs are inherently evilnotes954
1121QUE5 - 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
1122QUE5 - What’s the best thing you could be working on, and why aren’t younotes972
1123RUL3 - “Always produce” is a good heuristic for finding the work you lovenotes972
1124RUL3 - Any system should be measured by how much it can help with whatever its output.notes990
1125Tim Ferrisspeople918
11261-1a1 We don’t necessarily have to think hierarchically (i.e., in files and folders)notes844
11271-1a2e4a 言い換え = Making sense in your own world, that is, in your own language and in your own web of ideasnotes826
11281-1a2e7b You need some form of constraints to see anythingnotes871
11291-1a2e9a Culture defines the Black Swannotes817
11301-1c You need the best available epistemology because it affects how you see the worldnotes862
11311-1c6a2a Don’t let how you work affect what problems you can work onnotes844
11321-1c6a2a1 Be careful with 'just-in time productivity'notes844
11331-2a We perceive nothing as what it really is, but only virtuallynotes862
11341-2f When you create better explanations, you discard the old onesnotes844
11351-2f1b3b French Revolution, Russian Revolution, and Chinese Revolution were analog. That is, not done in piecemeal error-correction fashion.notes844
11361-2g1c3d Don't judge a book by its cover. Read the whole context instead.notes835
11371-2g1c5 We don’t really know what constitutes humannotes853
11381-2g1d We are universal explainers. We can transcend our biological limitations.notes862
11391-2g2j 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
11401-2g2k1 Replication of knowledge is what matters. Not replication per se.notes844
11411-2g2k2 The program (e.g., Roman-numeral system) survives by causing computer (e.g., people) to use them. The former instructs the latter.notes826
11421-2g2k3 Genes (and memes) survive by causing people to create knowledgenotes853
11431-2g2s6a The multiverse is the objective reality. Each universe is an emergent phenomenon in the context of this reality.notes862
11441-2g2t3c The effect of knowledge creation is significant both within a history (distance-independent) and across the multiverse (convergence)notes871
11451-2g2t3d1 Knowledge-bearing entities extend-permeate across the multiversenotes871
11461-2g2t4 Because fungibility exists (i.e., histories DO rejoin) we must evoke the multiverse. The multiverse emerged from quantum physics (genealogically).notes844
11471-2g2u 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
114810-1a3 歴史は記憶の変換・記憶の創成の連続notes835
114910-1b1a Experts develop higher proportion of unconscious knowledge than beginnersnotes835
115010-1b5 We enter the world of language-based learning once we have mastered a languagenotes853
115110-1b9 Ethnogrammatical studies are to explain the linkage between nonlinguistic evidence and noncultural evidencenotes844
115210-2e4a 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
115310-2e7 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
115410-2g1.1 Experience to theory over theory to experience—the latter theory is harder to get it off because it shapes your experiencenotes817
115510-2g1f2a3 Everett on Descartes - Dualism is one of the worst error ever introduced into philosophy, and simply ignores evolutionnotes844
115610-2g1h The best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.notes835
115710-2g2e1 Our best explanation invokes abstractions including causation and the laws of physicsnotes871
115810-2g2e3 Abstractions seem ‘inaccessible’ to empiricismnotes862
115910-2h Explicating the inexplicit amounts to knowledge, and knowledge is unpredictable, and never derived mechanicallynotes853
116011-1a Start from what you knownotes817
116111-3 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
116211-3a Explanation of equity market requires knowing about other parts of market. Explanation of market in general requires knowing about non-market bits.notes862
116312-1a2b3 Left eventually becomes the right, not ideologically but economically and systematicallynotes862
116413-1 Humans act purposefully, because humans can conceptually have problemsnotes835
116513-1a3 All action involves exchange across the multiversenotes853
116613-1a3a1 The essence of the exchange is that both people make it because they expect that it will benefit themnotes826
116713-1a3a1a Everyone benefits a psychic profit at the time of exchange (ex ante), but not everyone will benefit from the exchange (ex post)notes853
116813-1a3a2e4 Money is demanded and considered useful because of its already existing money pricesnotes844
116913-5b1a Saving is not necessarily a monetary phenomenon—the restriction of present consumption constitutes savingnotes844
117013-5b1b Saving cannot be exhaustively measured in monetary termsnotes835
117113-5b2a0 Utilities or values between persons cannot be compared—but demonstrated time-preference schedules can be comparednotes826
117213-5b4 Zones of indeterminacy between valuations and in pricing dwindle radically with moneynotes826
117313-7.1a Prices can reveal differences between goods that appear identicalnotes862
117413-8a The supply is seller’s demandnotes826
117513-8c1 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
11762-1a0c1a '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
11772-1a0c1f The network won't let anyone (particularly the state) coercenotes853
11782-1a6c2 Establishing rituals is the key to creating positive inertianotes835
11792-1a6d1 Digitize the idea from the context within which that's been spoken-writtennotes853
11802-1b2b2.1 Life is a multiplicative game—take advantage of network effects but avoid the risk of ruinnotes835
11812-1b2b3 Don't invest what you can't afford to losenotes844
11822-1b2b5.1 Brian Armstrong's Rule of 70-20-10notes835
11832-1c1a3 Platforms eventually cannibalize their complementsnotes826
11842-3b0 Knowledge creation is not a function of timenotes853
11853-1c1d10 Ascending-descending world > first-third (developed-developing) world dichotomynotes817
11863-1c1d2a If the news is fake, imagine historynotes853
11873-1c1d8 Sentiment (both macro and micro) is important and should be measurednotes853
11883-1c3d2a1 Project ≠ Todo - doing something for its own sake isn’t the same as doing something to solve problemsnotes844
11893-1c3e1 There are emergent problems which will emerge as you go about life, that can only be accounted for with new explanationsnotes862
11903-1d4c Humans can correct its own errors because we use symbolsnotes853
11914-1a1 Real conversation is full of false startsnotes844
11924-1a4 Each new conversation is a fresh startnotes826
11934-1a4b2b2b Blockchains enable thoughtful evolution based on immutable rules and credible neutralitynotes844
11944-1a4b3b A blockchain constitution means an immutable topic to be discussednotes853
11954-1a4b6b1 Ideas and its contexts applied are arbitrarynotes853
11964-1a4b8a Your mind is not a bucketnotes844
11974-1a4b8b Multitasking can be adapted without any downsides if you conceptualize the mind accordinglynotes844
11985-1a Be nicenotes844
11995-1b1a2c2 Constructor Theory is all about knowledge of how to correct errors (primarily of our parochiality-physicality) and thus optimismnotes871
12005-1b1a4b The extreme version of the two-job route is dangerous, because you postpone the abductionsnotes844
12015-1b1a6 The reality doesn’t care how many things you are good at. What matters is the explanation.notes817
12025-1b1a9 The Fun Criterion is an explanationnotes853
12035-1b1b1a1b Not every relationships matter. Most likely, only a few matter.notes826
12045-1b1b1a6 Corporate networks can play different games from protocol networks because they have way more sources of fundingnotes835
12055-1b1c Market should beget and benefit from volatilitynotes826
12065-1b4c1 When you are ‘self-disciplined’ your unconscious is likely not engaged, and you’re probably not solving any real problems.notes835
12075-2b0b Most books about thinking focus on being more rational when the fundamental problem is not knowing what problems to exercise judgementnotes844
12085-2b1a Your goals reflect your problem-situation, and as such must be criticizednotes835
12095-2b1a2 When you invert, you are inverting the problem-situation itself (’why do I have this problem’)notes844
12105-2b1a3 Extract the most problematic part of the problem-situationnotes835
12115-2c2b0.1 Invest in what can't be easily disruptednotes853
12126-3 Our definition of health should also consider the health of mind (e.g., ’clarity of mind’ and ‘neural health’), not just physical health.notes835
12136-3b0 When you own something, you can do whatever with itnotes826
12146-3b2.3c When the money is printed, financial assets appreciatenotes835
12156-3b2.4a Less volition within nation states leads to negative feedback loops of more coercionnotes844
12166-3b4b Users become marketers with tokensnotes835
12177-1b The problem and its solution doesn’t have to be addressed by the same individualnotes826
12187-1b0a The producer-consumer distinction is blurred in non-profit organizations and open source projects. Likely why their diffusions are slow.notes835
12197-1b3a Don’t argue. Build. Their incomprehension is your moat.notes844
12207-1b4a Start with technology. Technology is knowledge. Use them as objective constraints.notes817
12217-1b4b4c Public Networked Learner must use composability with ownership and compounding to its advantagenotes835
12228-1b 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
12238-1b3c Software is a highly plastic flexible medium and almost any economic model that can be dreamed up can be implemented in softwarenotes862
12248-1b4 Blockchains are new kind of computernotes844
12258-1c2 Robotics then software (likely in that order, although not necessarily) will replace Uber, Amazon, Doordashnotes853
12268-2b2.1 Blockchain technologies allow composable forms of trust. Trust can be digitized.notes844
12278-2d1b Forwardable insights can lead to network effectsnotes862
12289-1 Be truthfulnotes844
12299-1a3 The maxima in the space of startup ideas are not spiky and isolated.notes853
12309-1c When you take Popperian epistemology seriously, you take people (including children) seriouslynotes853
12319-1c2 You can only hope that people you care about will somewhat understand your explanations, but they will never understand you exhaustivelynotes844
12329-2 Everything is salesnotes844
12339-2b3c1 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
12349-2b3e1 Our ideas are acquired by living and thinkingnotes844
12359-2b3f Everett on Hume - Ideas only make sense or exist through experiencenotes835
12369-2b3h Edward Sapir - 'One is always unconsciously finding what one is in unconscious subjection to'notes835
12379-4a Writing is fighting, and good writing can fuel technological progressnotes853
12389-4b3b We get closer to the objective knowledge by correcting one's own errorsnotes835
12399-5 How to writenotes826
1240Benjamin Franklinpeople853
1241Costly speech means only the wealthy speak freelynotes844
1242On bullet-pointsessai808
1243QUE5 - Who owns themnotes826
12441-1a1.1 More precisely, we think hierarchically but it's dynamic and subject to changenotes752
12451-1a1c1 Peirce said his achievements were due to his peculiar way of thinking as well as his method of thinkingnotes752
12461-1a2e10 There is no such thing as objective meaningnotes743
12471-1a2e5.1 Mind without culture is grammar without lettersnotes725
12481-1a2e9c Culture is technologynotes752
12491-1a4b0b 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
12501-1a5b1 Unpublished essays and deleted sentences are like experiments that get inconclusive resultsnotes734
12511-1a5b4.2 GTFOL, ASAPnotes725
12521-1c6a The Fun Criterion might be the way to distinguish what constitutes ‘the most interesting’notes734
12531-1c6a2 Todo list can be never exhaustivenotes743
12541-1c6a4 You can only say 'no' when you have your 'yes'notes725
12551-1d Usually the obstacles are your own preconceived notions, and rarely the laws of physicsnotes761
12561-2b1 Power cares about its past because the former is derived from the latternotes752
12571-2c New explanations are to be judged by how many more problems can be solved by itnotes725
12581-2f1a3b Philosophy without science is “empty ideas”notes752
12591-2g2j2 Icons are intentional resemblances. It is 'about' something.notes716
12601-2g2t2 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
126110-1a2b 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
126210-2 Thick descripting myself — a configuration of ideas which is menotes752
126310-2a I am a set of ideas including conscious and unconsciousnotes743
126410-2f0a 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
126510-2g2c0b There is no a priori - 直観は存在しないnotes743
126610-2g2c0d 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
126710-2g2e Universality of the laws of physics depends on the existence of universal explainers — peoplenotes734
126810-2g2e9 Abstractions are corrected by realizing how ‘it could’ve been otherwise’notes743
126912-1a2b1 Left-right consensus is anarchynotes716
127013-10a Time preference per se doesn’t explain anythingnotes734
127113-1a3.2 If all factors are specific, there is no costnotes725
127213-1a3a2d1 Money superimposes direct use-values of things onto a commensurable unitnotes752
127313-3b 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
127413-4a The multiverse implies human action—the laws of physics dictate that humans actnotes743
127513-5b The capitalists are the only ones who spend money on labor, land, and capital goodsnotes734
127613-5b2a1 The production structure, along with credit transaction, constitute the time marketnotes716
127713-5b3d The total savings going into investment in production is the total supply of savings minus consumers’ loan demands for present goodsnotes725
127813-8a1 In money economy, every exchange comes down to the demand for the good and moneynotes716
12792-1a3.3 負もフィードバックする (Feedback loops work both ways)notes734
12802-1a6d Never say yes to something important without thinking it over for a daynotes725
12812-1a8 Interest rate affects businesses, but not curiosity!notes752
12822-1b2b4 Look for value-added risk reducing tradesnotes752
12832-1b3.1 Pick weak competitionsnotes734
12843-1a4b1 Understand what you abstracted awaynotes743
12853-1b1a1 People think big ideas are answers, but often the real insight is in the question. The question-answer categorization is arbitrary.notes743
12863-1c1c1 The first thing to look at each day should be your purpose and metrics you can improve uponnotes752
12873-1c1d9 Phrasing mattersnotes734
12883-1c2e5 Symbols are constructed of other symbolsnotes752
12893-1c3c4a Person who finds profound new theories often holds onto beliefs that contradict themnotes743
12903-1c3d1 Well-defined mini-projects can be recycled. Your future self won’t have to repeat himself for similar project.notes761
12913-1d4a0 Often times what matters is not what's used in the system, but what it does and can donotes761
12924-1a4b3c A blockchain record means an immutable subject to be interpretednotes743
12934-1a4b5 When you write down anything, you are literally saving yourself (although never entirely) at that momentnotes752
12944-1a4b6 You write to forget. And when your mind forget something, it’ll have a space for another configuration of ideasnotes743
12954-1a4b6b0 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
12964-1a5a If you properly set up the conversation you only need a handful of conversations for insights (e.g., via client slicing and segmentation)notes734
12974-1d0.2 Avoid the anonymous 'we' and 'they,' because they mask personal responsibilitynotes725
12984-2 Conversation has to be bottleneckednotes716
12995-1b1a Technology itself should be the kind that begets and benefits from volatilitynotes734
13005-1b1b You should beget and benefit from volatility (learning)notes734
13015-1b1b1a4.1 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
13025-1b4c3 The definition of fun is arbitrary and contingent depending on the individual. You can be ‘making an effort’ while having fun.notes734
13035-2b0a Most errors in judgement happen when we don't know we're supposed to be exercising judgementnotes752
13045-2c2b1a 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
13055-3c2 BSM formula is technology, and took much longer than expected to catch on publiclynotes725
13066-1a We are outsourcing to capitalist entities who are not aligned with usnotes743
13076-3a3 The frontier will be on-chainnotes752
13086-3b3f Blockchain network > Protocol network > Corporate networknotes743
13096-3b6 Digital-native ownership can address ambiguities of physical onesnotes734
13106-3b8 You can't really influence legacy-analog-land from frontier-digital-cloud, nor should you.notes725
13117-1b1 You can solve problems others are conscious ofnotes743
13127-1d1d You can use technology people assume is “dead”notes734
13138-1b3b2 There are infinite more things to experiment on-chain (and off-chain) just as there are infinite things to write aboutnotes716
13148-1b3g Poor faucets-sinks design can lead to the problem of 'only the rich can deploy'notes734
13158-1d Look for inherently crypto-native areas and conceptsnotes752
13168-2b4 You don't (and can't) put everything on-chain, just as you don't (and can't) put everything onlinenotes725
13178-2d2a You can’t be a multiple in analog worldnotes770
13189-1d1 Because minds never hold precisely the same idea (the same configuration of ideas), “having everyone on the same page” (syncing) is epistemological impossibilitynotes725
13199-2b2 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
13209-2b3b1 Contingency = Meaning (or, contingency implies meaning)notes743
13219-4b1a Abductions are historic events. Real writing is history being written.notes752
13229-4b2 Writing is creative destructions happening on papernotes734
13239-4b2e A mind can create ideas which have never existed beforenotes734
13249-4d A good essay = importance (do I want it) + novelty (did you think about it a lot) + correctness + strengthnotes734
13259-4d1 Communicate in the headline, then in the subtitle, then slightly differently in the opening sentence, and expand on it in the opening paragraphnotes725
13269-4e2a Open source + Crowdfunding + 3D printer + App stores = A golden age of buildersnotes716
13279-4e2f The low initial cost of starting a startup ⇒ Investors need founders more than founders need investorsnotes743
1328AN3C - A restaurant can afford to serve the occasional burnt dinners. In tech, you cook one thing and that’s what everyone eats.notes725
1329AN3C - There is no way a training could prepare a man for combatnotes743
1330QUE5 - Ask “am I working on what I most want to work on” because per-project procrastination is far worse than daily procrastinationnotes761
1331QUE5 - Is this long vol, or short volnotes725
1332QUE5 - What's your company's billion-dollar functionnotes770
1333RUL3 - Always be ready to face the ultimate choice. Know what's important for you. Eliminate ambiguity.notes761
1334RUL3 - Avoid premature optimizationnotes761
1335RUL3 Look for an ongoing trade of knowledge. Can I learn from him. Can I teach him something.notes734
1336Unreasonably reasonableessays707
13371-1a2e8a We see symbolically and not otherwisenotes633
13381-1c5a Write down what surprises younotes633
13391-1c6c You ‘actualize’ yourself when you solve both the problem and the problem-situation via better explanationsnotes642
13401-2b0.5 We crave necessity because we are contingentnotes633
13411-2f1a2 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
13421-2f2 Popperian epistemology is universal, because it allows any knowledge to be creatednotes633
13431-2f3 Other epistemologies are analog because they keep both new and old theories based on ‘degrees of truth’ or ‘probabilistic truthnotes642
13441-2f4 Other epistemologies are parochial because they don't fix its own errors. It's like a model that never recalibrates.notes651
13451-2g1c3c Self = A sequence of experiences ('recursive definition of the self')notes642
13461-2g2s 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
13471-2g2s4 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
13481-2g2s7 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
13491-2g2s7a Knowing probability doesn't mean you can predict itnotes642
13501-2g2s7b5 Proof theory is computer science and not mathematicsnotes615
13511-2g2t3 A history approximation breaks down when there is interference (i.e., merging), and histories do rejoin via interference phenomenonnotes624
13521-2g2t3f Contingency can be only realized when you evoke the multiversenotes651
13531-2g3b In short, new theories have to solve more problems than existent onesnotes651
135410-1a8 Crypto is applied (multidisciplinary) subjectnotes624
135510-1c3 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
135610-2e1 Most of the modern languages assume that time ‘flow’notes615
135710-2f0 One cannot understand sentence structures well without understanding the discourses they are embedded innotes633
135810-2f4 Learning computer languages is about mere syntax (learning human languages ≠ learning computer languages)notes615
135910-2g1i Universality and infinity are necessary condition for the growth of knowledge, but not sufficientnotes624
136010-2g2e9b1 Evolution couldn't have happened without the multiversenotes651
136110-2g3c Not all memes are rationalnotes642
136210-2g3d1b 土器そのものの象徴化即ち威信財の登場notes624
136310-2g3g Memes precede knowledgenotes624
136411-3.3a The law of returns—with the quantity of complementary factors held constant, there always exists some optimum amount of the varying factornotes642
136513-1a3a1g Knowledge via memes doesn’t grow without moneynotes633
136613-1a3a2d7 There is no perfect marketnotes615
136713-1a3a2e6 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
136813-1a3a5.1 The concept of an equilibrium becomes meaningless when knowledge creation is introducednotes624
136913-3 All action must take place in timenotes642
137013-4d4c The man only strives for a favorable balance of trade as it pertains to him as an entrepreneurnotes624
137113-4d5a The rate of interest is derived from subjective valuesnotes624
137213-5b2h In the evenly rotating economy, the rates of interest will differ in accordance with a psychic componentnotes624
137313-5b3b 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
137413-5c1 All consumers can be capitalists if their time-preference schedules so dictatenotes642
137513-5d1 Capital goods per se are not productivenotes633
137613-6a4 Knowledge informs preferences. Knowledge precedes temperament.notes615
137713-6c The action axiom implies corresponding value scalesnotes633
137813-6d Praxeological laws apply regardless of the content of value scales—regardless of the nature of ends pursuednotes633
137913-7.1 The difference in goods can be ascertained only through human actionsnotes633
138013-7a Utilities cannot be combinednotes633
138113-7b “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
138213-8d Speculative anticipations merely assist the market price toward equilibriumnotes651
138313-9b1 The closeness of the substitution does not exist objectively, but only subjectively in the minds of consumersnotes633
13842-1a1a3e There’s no objective averagenotes642
13852-1a4a Sometimes the best information is the least transmissible.notes633
13862-1a6c4a Randomness is an emergent phenomenon inherent within each universenotes615
13872-1a6c4b Explanation is the way to the multiversenotes615
13883-1a4c' Crypto can integrate culture of each network unlike top-down Western global capitalism which did away with the cultural aspects of communitiesnotes660
13893-1b1c Occasionally ask 'am I working on what I most want to work on'notes633
13903-1c1b1 You are also how you consumenotes624
13913-1c3c2d Any explanation, including the theory of physics, can be improved indefinitelynotes660
13923-1c3d2a Chasing growth ≠ Listing off projects like todonotes624
13933-1c3e 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
13944-1a Don’t ask question but start with onenotes633
13954-1a4b1 You are a configuration of ideas (both conscious and unconscious)notes633
13964-1a4b3c1 Legacy statistics are manipulation-pronenotes624
13974-1a4b5b 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
13984-1c2 Don’t trigger defensive responsesnotes642
13995-1a3 We don’t derive an ought from an is. Only problems exist. We can just solve them.notes633
14005-1b1a1c2 The interoperability law connects physics and informationnotes633
14015-1b1a2a Any instantiation of knowledge (meaning every technology and representation) will have its own restraintsnotes633
14025-1b1a2b Anything physical can’t do away with its own contingencynotes651
14035-1b1a5a Universal constructor is obedient, whereas universal explainers are disobedient (i.e., creative)notes624
14045-1b1d Invest in volatility (literally)notes624
14055-1b4b0 Evolution is trendnotes642
14065-3d Innovation is invention catching on. Innovation itself is technology, and technology is knowledge. Innovation is knowledge becoming public.notes642
14076-1 Understanding one’s health requires understanding one’s environment, because culture and technology affects both what we do inexplicitly and unconsciouslynotes615
14086-2b Cut inputs after arousalnotes615
14096-3b2.1 State network ≈ Corporate networknotes615
14106-3b2.3b Your spending is someone else's income. Spending matters.notes615
14116-3b3f1 Not every crypto network is technical networknotes615
14126-3b3g1 Network effects also affect blockchain networksnotes633
14136-3b5 Tokens encapsulate complicated code (primarily, ownership) into an uncomplicated wrappernotes633
14146-7 Brain and gut works reflexivelynotes633
14156-7b Nutrition doesn’t exist independently from the patientnotes651
14167-1a1c The problem-situation is more rigid in scientific discourse, compared to elsewherenotes633
14177-1b2b You can help explicating problems others have inexplicitly or unconsciouslynotes615
14187-1b4e What you can > What you want (できること > やりたいこと)notes633
14197-1c 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
14207-1d2a1 Network-era businesses today have new organizational needsnotes624
14218-1a1 We are digitizing more than evernotes624
14228-1b3b1 Any system that can be written down can be realizednotes615
14238-1c4a1 iPhone and texting (along with visual voicemail) boosted each othernotes633
14248-1c4d3 Blockchain and Web3 writing can boost each othernotes624
14259-1b0b 'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.'notes660
14269-1b2b Technology, knowledge, and people constitute symbols (including relations, because relations are also symbols)notes633
14279-2b1.1 形式の内容化もありうる (形式 > 内容)notes633
14289-2b1.5 You are both what you write and how you writenotes624
14299-2b3c2 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
14309-2b4 More applicability (i.e., universality) per se doesn't necessarily mean it's for the betternotes633
14319-2b6 Infinity per se is never enoughnotes642
14329-2b7 Universality means there are infinite possibilities, but you can only pick fewnotes624
1433AN3C - Piraha doesn’t differentiate ‘reality’ and ‘dream’notes633
1434AN3C - Recombination is 1,000x more effective than random mutationnotes660
1435AN3C - There are things insiders can’t say precisely because they’re insidersnotes633
1436Bitsteinpeople633
1437Marc Andreessenpeople642
1438Mertpeople642
1439Morgan Houselpeople624
1440RUL3 - 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
1441The Triad is the Underlyingessays606
1442To be universal, protocols must be unopinionatednotes633
14431-1a2e7d1 To live = To live culturally = To live economicallynotes541
14441-1b1 The placebo effect is very likely real, just that they can’t be easily tested since ideas themselves aren’t physicalnotes523
14451-1c2 Your ‘explanation’ also contains inexplicit, as well as unconscious, contentnotes523
14461-1c6a1d In the absence of evidence, do not assume miraclesnotes532
14471-1c6b You are having fun when your whole being is engaged in solving a problemnotes541
14481-1c6d The Fun Criterion must be used in the context of solving problemsnotes532
14491-2a2 Logical reasoning is no less a physical process than scientific reasoning is, and it is inherently falliblenotes541
14501-2a4 We must remain within the confines of our own explanations, even if our understanding of physical processes (that constitute reasoning in general) improves arbitrarilynotes532
14511-2b0 Truth needs an explanation. Being true doesn't mean you don't need one.notes523
14521-2f1a1 Scientists evaluate theories with excess reasonable doubtnotes523
14531-2f1b3a0 Adjustments should be made graduallynotes514
14541-2f1b4a Truth is about how much reality is in a theorynotes523
14551-2g1a1 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
14561-2g1e Our biological bodies are (still) encoded in genes. Often times it is helpful to understand our biological-default tendencies-biases.notes532
14571-2g2a The problem of ‘fine-tuning’ should be approached by being honest with what knowledge is, and not anthropocentricallynotes532
14581-2g2i0a Going against the Turing principle means deathnotes523
14591-2g2k Genes embody knowledge about their niches. Replication itself is not the fundamental significance of life.notes523
14601-2g2l Knowledge is a fundamental physical quantity, and the phenomenon of life only slightly less sonotes523
14611-2g2m 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
14621-2g2n 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
14631-2g2o 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
14641-2g2r1 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
14651-2g2s6 The reality does not make distinction of the universes in the multiverse because each universe exists equally as a part of the multiversenotes532
14661-2g2s7b1 The laws of physics provides the measure (provides a meaning to proportions and averages for infinite sets) for the multiversenotes532
14671-2g2t 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
14681-2g2t3e1 Explanatory knowledge is inherently about the multiversenotes523
14691-2g3a At the limit, new theories create new problemsnotes532
147010-1a6 History is the analysis of the log filesnotes514
147110-1a7 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
147210-1c4 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
147310-2d1 The laws of physics are not necessarily to be expressed with current notation. The relation is arbitrary.notes532
147410-2d1d Humans are distinguished because of the syntax of their DNA (genomes)notes532
147510-2e0 Languages are theories. The vocabulary and grammar embody substantial assertions about the world.notes550
147610-2e2 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
147710-2e4b Money is fungible. So is energy. So are we.notes541
147810-2f1b We filter both what needs to be said and what doesn't have to be, either consciously or subconsciouslynotes532
147910-2g1a1 Science is not pure rationality autonomous from its cultural matrixnotes532
148010-2g1b2 Good products are hard to varynotes523
148110-2g2b Language as the most advanced form of communication is what differentiates humans, not communication per senotes541
148210-2g2c0d1 Peircean semiotics is about process and not about topicnotes532
148310-2g2c1b Only humans struggle in expressing themselves - 表現しきれないというのは人間のみnotes532
148410-2g2d Science symbolizes physicality beyond parochialism (from seen to the unseen)notes514
148510-2g2e4 Abstractions seem less ‘justified’ to the justified-true-belief misconceptionnotes532
148611-1b Investment is expression and you need methods and techniques (i.e., knowledge)notes532
148711-4 Diversification can achieve what multiplicity does in the digitalnotes550
148812-1a2b4 Blockchains can change the course of history, in the sense of how history unfoldsnotes523
148912-1a4 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
149012-1e1 There are no permanent solutions in a dynamic systemnotes532
149113-1a3a2e5.1 Money necessarily evokes prices in the past—in barter economy, this is not necessarily the casenotes550
149213-3c What maintains capital is gross expenditure and gross investment and not net investmentnotes514
149313-5b2d1 In the evenly rotating economy (ERE), every isolable factor will earn its DMVP and this will be its price since factor units are interchangeablenotes514
149413-5c The capitalists’ money for investment must be first savednotes532
149513-5d The capitalists per se are not powerfulnotes523
149613-5f1 You must evoke others to explain the interest ratenotes541
14972-1a0aa 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
14982-1a1a4 'Representativeness heuristic' - Remember the Linda test (i.e., the conjunction fallacy)notes523
14992-1a7a6 Mr. Market is there to serve me, never to guide menotes550
15002-1e2 Both 'underlying' assets and 'derivatives' can be considered as 'contingent claims'notes541
15012-1e3 実体経済も市場経済も等しく経済notes523
15022-2c1 If you have negative externalities, tax itnotes523
15032-3b1 'Sensitivity to fairness' - What is fair changesnotes514
15042-4 Be nice (but smart)notes505
15053-1a2b Problem-situation should define which system and organizational structure should be adaptednotes514
15063-1a4b5.1 Money can be anything—but money will not be everythingnotes541
15073-1b2b There is a difference between trying to incorporate the inexplicit and unconscious into your theories, and simply indulging in the unconsciousnotes523
15083-1c1e Know your own incentive as a writernotes532
15093-1c2b Conjecturing the relative importance of such problems-projects is also essentialnotes514
15103-1c2c Your mind has inexplicit and unconscious assumption not only with regard to what constitute as problems but also their relative importancenotes541
15113-1c2d1 Individuals or nations might possess the same values, but the ordering differsnotes541
15123-1c3b We are not interested in where the knowledge is stored, but rather whether it’s easy to retrieve them when we have tonotes523
15133-1c3b2 Reading the 'original' texts should not be the default to learn about philosophy (or anything for that matter)notes523
15143-1c3c3a2 More precisely, almost everything CAN BE made contingentnotes523
15153-1c3d3a Problems are also unpredictable. Your mini-projects may turn out to be useful later. They are optionality.notes532
15164-1a2b Labelling is like prompting without making it look like a questionnotes532
15174-1a4b It’s really tough to get annoyed when you are having conversation with yourself or with ideasnotes523
15184-1a4b3e Meaningful narratives > Meaningless speculationnotes523
15194-1a4b5c1 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
15204-1a4b6a0b Knowledge = Wealthnotes532
15214-1a4b7 Your mind is different from other medium (e.g., paper) because it can transfer ideas to other mediumnotes523
15224-1a4c PG - spend 2 weeks on an essay and reread drafts 50 times — you can’t do this in conversation.notes532
15234-1e Emphasize what they’ll miss out on, rather than what they can getnotes523
15245-1b1a8b You can use analogy, but you have to explain why the analogy holdsnotes541
15255-1b4c4c When you have fun proper, it should also be intellectually stimulatingnotes514
15265-2c1a 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
15275-2c2c The probability of extinction is effectively independent of its age (Van Valen)notes541
15285-3e 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
15296-3b0a Ownership means tradingnotes523
15306-3b0d Users become traders with tokensnotes523
15316-3b2.2 Network state ≠ State networknotes514
15326-3b2.5b Indian network (or any other country-company-community network) can provide the civilizational stack to the worldnotes523
15336-3b2.6 China is the manufacturing superpowernotes541
15346-3b3.1 There is no necessary incentive (i.e., norm incentives)notes523
15357-1a2a0 The definition of 'local' doesn't imply physical-geographical proximity due to the existence of internetnotes532
15367-1a2c Startup = Growthnotes541
15377-1a4c Different institutions have different motivations-incentivesnotes523
15387-1b4g Intellectual and physical can merge in the digitalnotes523
15397-1b6 There are only problems to be solved. Types of problems are arbitrary, because one type can be easily morphed into another.notes541
15407-1d1b 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
15418-1c1 Potential scenario - Digital frontend + Human backend ⇒ Digital frontend + Digital backendnotes532
15428-1c3a1 Internet vs Telecom will recur in Crypto vs Financial Servicesnotes532
15438-1c3b Farming became the most common job during the 19th centurynotes532
15448-1c4a Smartphones skyrocketed online screen timenotes523
15458-1c4a3 Focused vision heightens alertness — bigger screen doesn’t always translate to more focusnotes514
15468-1c4d5 We need mechanisms to realign technology-media-society (or technology-media-individual)notes532
15478-2a 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
15488-2d1 People gather for an ideology on new media, instead of geographical constraints (e.g., local newspapers)notes523
15498-3 Roboticsnotes523
15508-4a Multi-modality means transferability (着せ替え・持ち替え・言い換え)notes532
15519-1c1 Your partners and friends have to sign up for your explanationnotes523
15529-1d2b 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
15539-2b0 Low voice midnight FM MC voice resonates betternotes514
15549-2b3b2 We have meaning because we are freenotes523
15559-2b5.1 Contingency > Universalitynotes523
15569-4b2a1d1.1 Inexperienced people can have great ideas too, sometimes far better ones than more experienced peoplenotes523
15579-4b2a1d3 Technologists and background technologies interact reflexivelynotes532
15589-4b2d The evolution of ideas is defined by ‘jumps’ via creative mutationsnotes532
15599-4b2f The most important source of variation in explanatory theories is creativity. More ‘jumps’ via creativity allows qualitatively different types of ‘mutations’.notes541
15609-4e1 If they are already paying for your writing, all the better, because that would lower their hurdles to pay for your productnotes523
15619-4e2e There are much lower-risk ways to make money than a start upnotes514
15629-4e2e1 Startup = Open Source Project = Crypto Protocol = Non-Profit = Individual Tinkeringnotes532
1563AN3C - Don’t write the essay readers expect - one learns nothing from what one expects - be surprising.notes550
1564AN3C - Piraha doesn’t differentiate the future and the pastnotes550
1565Culture transforms ‘things’ into symbols and meaningnotes514
1566David Ogilvypeople514
1567Jensen Huang - from retrieval only to retrieval plus generationnotes550
1568Per Bylundpeople514
1569Peter Bevelinpeople523
1570QUE5 - Are they timeless and universal (if yes, things are likely to be uncorrelated)notes550
1571QUE5 - The modern theory of evolution based question — what replicating strategies did this meme use to get herenotes550
1572QUE5 - What are the best returns I can sustain for the longest period of timenotes532
1573QUE5 - Will I care about this a year from now, 10 years, 80 yearsnotes550
1574RUL3 - “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
1575RUL3 - 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
1576Todd Gravespeople532
1577意識は推論そのものnotes523
15781-1a2a3 Everett on Freud - No earlier theory made more lively use of the notion of innate, a priori dark matternotes422
15791-1a4a1 Regime-switching model implemented Popperian epistemology to trade financial derivativesnotes431
15801-1a4b0 Deduction can't generate knowledge.notes422
15811-1a4b1 You either have to ignore them as irrelevant or consider them as problems to be solvednotes431
15821-1c5b Asking what surprised them usually is an extremely useful questionnotes440
15831-1c6 Flow to the most interesting, because surprises are interestingnotes422
15841-1c6a2c Don't keep a schedulenotes422
15851-2a3 Errors will occur, but have to be solvable-correctable.notes431
15861-2g2b3a 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
15871-2g2b6 Universal computers would be dependent on universal explainersnotes431
15881-2g2i1 Humans can embody universal laws of physics (non-parochial)notes422
15891-2g2k4 Genes are (computer) programs expressed in the language of DNA instead of zeros and onesnotes431
15901-2g2q Knowledge can result in one thing being represented by another thing with increasing accuracy, through the creation of explanatory knowledgenotes413
15911-2g2t3b We are channels of information just like histories and all other relatively autonomous objects but we are extremely unusual because we can create knowledgenotes413
159210-1 Thick descripting history — other configurations — ‘contingent others’ — 【別様の可能性】notes422
159310-1a1a 知識がなければ編集は動かせないnotes431
159410-1a2a '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
159510-2d1b The DNA genetic code expresses the laws of physicsnotes422
159610-2f0b Complex tools do not necessarily require complex languages (Tool complexity ≠ Linguistic complexity)notes413
159710-2f2 The theory of the evolution of language must take culture into accountnotes422
159810-2g2d1 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
159910-2g2e6b 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
160010-2g2e8 Abstractions require Popperian epistemology, to be error-correctablenotes422
160110-2g3d1a Tools became early symbols by displacementnotes422
160213-1a3.1a Praxeological analysis can supply some truths about time preferences, using ceteris paribus assumptions—i.e., by evoking the multiversenotes431
160313-1a3a2 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
160413-1a3a2b The extent of the market determines the extent of division of labornotes431
160513-1a3a2c The exchange utilizes the differences of all parties involved to the benefit of all parties involvednotes431
160613-2b The accumulated stock of capital goods imposes a conservative force on present-day actionnotes422
160713-4d Space and time are scarce for the individual, hence both are goodsnotes422
160813-4d4a A consumer does not need to have a “favorable balance of trade”notes413
160913-4d5b There is no risk-free interest in the free marketnotes422
161013-4f Both the good and its factors must be scarcenotes413
161113-5b3a Land has no reservation price (except in rare cases where it has subjective-use-value to the owner)notes413
161213-6b One's action cannot imply more than one value scale with regard to that actionnotes413
161313-9b The more substitutes there are, the more elastic will tend to be the demand schedules for that goodnotes413
161413-9c The more diverse an economy, the less likely it is that any good remains truly inelasticnotes413
161513-9e 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
16162-1a0b1 Do no consult your 'intuition' all the timenotes413
16172-1a0c1e Communities will become more selectivenotes413
16182-1a1a3b Your thinking is downstream of what you consumenotes431
16192-1a3.2 Curiosity begets both network effects and feedback loopsnotes431
16202-1a6.1 Remember that most people will pretend to operate in your interest while operating in their ownnotes422
16212-1b2b0.1 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
16222-1b2b6 Don't borrow against your securitiesnotes422
16232-3 Meta-contingency. Optimism. Possibility.notes413
16242-3a2 Ask - how would I build XXX todaynotes413
16253-1b1a2 You have to ask hitherto unasked questionsnotes413
16263-1c1d7 You have to know where the content you consume stands in the spectrum of things (metadata)notes413
16273-1c2g Often times ordering does matter—some things are easy one way but not the other way aroundnotes413
16283-1c3c2c The theory of physics is already universal in the sense that it applies to all things physicalnotes422
16293-1d4 There are no perfect tools, just as there are no ultimate problemsnotes422
16303-1d6c2 Everything looks bigger up closenotes422
16314-1a4b8 Your mind can and does hold ideas like any other medium, but that’s not what the mind is fornotes422
16324-1d0.1 The Pinocchio Effect - Liars use more words than truth tellers and use far more third-person pronounsnotes431
16335-1a1 You can be as nice as you want as long as you work hard on growthnotes431
16345-1b Stay upwindnotes413
16355-1b1a1b1 Babbage’s discovery of the universality of computation was innovation via discovery of knowledge (he himself couldn’t build universal computer)notes413
16365-1b1a1d The reality doesn’t distinguish ‘theoretical’ from ‘practical’notes422
16375-1b2.2 There is no objective Black Swannotes422
16385-1b4c1a Watch out if you need “self-discipline” — it might indicate that you aren’t solving any of your problemsnotes431
16396-3b0.1 When you own something, you can go anywherenotes413
16406-3b0c Permissionless blockchains without tokens and token trading are impossiblenotes422
16416-3b4a Tokens empower individuals to become stakeholders in networks, not just participantsnotes422
16426-4 Proper epistemology should lead to a proper state of mindnotes431
16437-1a1a Don't solve imaginary problemsnotes422
16447-1a4 Optimizing for growth can lead to discovering startup ideasnotes413
16457-1a6 Great combination is being good at technology and knowing the problems that can be solved by itnotes431
16467-1b1a 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
16477-1b4b2 Andy Grove - 'Technology happens. It's not good, it's not bad.'notes431
16487-1d2a3 No LLCs meant only close-knit partnerships with trust were availablenotes422
16497-1d2a4 Tech innovation can (and did) drive pragmatic changes in regulationnotes440
16507-1d2c Decentralized tech ⇒ . . .notes422
16518-1b3h A broad distribution of tokens can mitigate the risk of plutocracynotes413
16528-1b4b Blockchains = Full-fledged computersnotes431
16538-1c3 Investing may become the most common job for the 21st century with more automationnotes422
16548-1c3a0 99% investing (learning) and 1% building might become the normnotes422
16558-1c3c Manufacturing became the most common job during the 20th centurynotes431
16568-1c4d Web boosted and was boosted by essaysnotes413
16578-1c4d1a Writing pre-internet era was mostly about English literaturenotes422
16588-1c4d5a This is a specific case where we need the knowledge-technology-universality to push app-platform-people over the thresholdnotes431
16598-2d3a The diaspora can be (and IS) the statenotes413
16608-3a Robotics will be the new demographicsnotes440
16618-4b A context window can reach billionsnotes422
16629-1d2a Defending yourself (online) makes sense only if you assume the bucket theory of mindnotes422
16639-2a3b1 Don’t pick up anything whose epistemology is not Popperiannotes422
16649-4 Why writenotes413
16659-4b3e Communicate effectivelynotes422
16669-4b3e3f The Two-Minute Rule - 'When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do'notes431
16679-4e 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
1668Andrej Karpathypeople404
1669Economics of Godessays440
1670Michael Saylorpeople440
1671Prices are one but manynotes431
1672RUL3 - (1) Don’t ignore your dreams; (2) Don’t work too much; (3) Say what you think; (4) Cultivate friendships; (5) Be happy.notes440
1673RUL3 - Make a conscious effort to avoid addictions. Ask “is this how I want to be spending my time”notes440
1674RUL3 - Simplify the problem by deciding the “no-brainer” questions firstnotes440
1675RUL3 - Write down what surprise younotes440
1676Symbol = culturally agreed upon form + culturally developed meaning. The core of language is the symbol. Social values-knowledge-structures ⇒ Symbol.notes440
1677There is no such thing as an individual in the abstract—because each individual has unique, specific problem-situationsnotes422
1678We do not yet understand the nature of the universality of the DNA replication systemnotes440
1679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
16801-1a2d1 The Turing principle allows 'learning' to take place, but it doesn't care hownotes330
16811-1a4b0a Induction can't generate (or more precisely, create) knowledge.notes321
16821-1c1 The problems arise only when you understand them as conflicts between your existent explanation of the world and the reality out therenotes321
16831-1c3 The way to find such conflict is to know what surprises younotes321
16841-1c4c You have to start with problems (your problems) to attain better explanationsnotes321
16851-1c6a1 You can’t define what’s fun for you, because inexplicit and unconscious parts of you also constitute what is funnotes312
16861-1c6a2b 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
16871-2b0.5a The best we can attain is belief, since truth cannot be guaranteednotes321
16881-2f1a3a Peirce - science without special equipment is philosophynotes321
16891-2f1b3a2 Don't just complain but solve!notes321
16901-2g1c1 There is no clear line between human and technologynotes321
16911-2g1c3e When you connect ideas, the content doesn't change but meanings changenotes321
16921-2g2d1 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
16931-2g2g Life is a form of virtual-reality generationnotes321
16941-2g2l1 Where there is knowledge, there must have been lifenotes312
16951-2g2l2 Knowledge was first created with lifenotes312
16961-2g2q2 Popperian epistemology itself has to be conjecturednotes312
16971-2g2s2 Electron has multiple positions and speeds without being divisible into autonomous sub-entities each of which has one speed and one position.notes312
16981-2g2s2a Quantum mechanical law of motion resembles the law governing the spread of an ink blot (確率分布)notes321
16991-2g2s3 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
17001-2g2t1 Decoherence - the process of objects becoming too entangled to be interfered (i.e., merged)notes321
17011-2g2t4a Quantum computation is possible thanks to fungibilitynotes312
17021-2g2u1 Don't take neo-Darwinism too seriouslynotes330
17031-2g2v 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
170410-1a2d1 マルチメディア + 情報過多 = 意味情報への関心notes312
170510-1b4b Learning = ミメシス + パロディアnotes321
170610-2e5 The multiverse neither consists of a sequence of moments nor permits a flow of time.notes312
170710-2f3a0 The best thing to learn (and the best way to learn anything) is to learn another languagenotes330
170810-2f3c How to program the ability to learn human languagesnotes312
170910-2f5 Mathematicsnotes321
171010-2g2e9b2 Only when evoking the multiverse can we say this and that made this and that difference in the context of evolutionnotes321
171111-1 Trading-Market-Finance-Investment-Speculationnotes321
171213-1a3a2d2 Money facilitates actions, primarily in the form of exchangenotes321
171313-1a3a2d3a The number of markets needed is immeasurably reduced with the establishment of a money economynotes321
171413-4c All means are scarcenotes312
171513-5a2 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
171613-5b2f Interest exists with or without a loan market—interest reflects expected return, which reflects time preference, at least in the evenly rotating economynotes312
171713-8a1a 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
171813-8b Supply = Stock - Reservation Demandnotes321
171913-9g The substitutive effect will be mixed with the complementary effect, and the nature of each particular case determines which effect will be the strongernotes321
17202-1a6a1 Doctrines = generalized religionsnotes312
17212-1a6b1 Animals can extrapolate—but can never realize its contingenciesnotes312
17222-1ab Bluffing exists because information is privatenotes312
17233-1b2a Using the Fun Criterion is not synonymous with simply having funnotes321
17243-1c2f1 生命活動の特徴は無秩序から秩序を見出すことnotes312
17253-1c3c3c Tech is for technology as well as for technique (技術)notes312
17264-1a1a There should be many false starts with booksnotes312
17274-1a2 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
17284-1a4b2 During conversations you are engaging with the ideas that’s instantiated in that individual, and this could be yourself from the past.notes312
17294-1a4b3a Constitution formalized the shift of national governance from individual rulers to written lawnotes321
17304-1a4b4 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
17314-1b Uncover as much information as possiblenotes321
17324-1d Tactical empathy identifies the inexplicit and unconscious obstaclesnotes312
17334-2a 会話は相手の知的レベルに合わせることnotes321
17345-1b1a5 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
17355-1b1c2 Do market sizing calculations early and oftennotes312
17366-3b0b No trading means no ownership; you can't have one without the othernotes312
17376-3b0e You can trade anything onchain, unlike tradi-finotes321
17386-3b1.1 Collect is the new likenotes312
17396-3b2h '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
17406-3b4e Community and monetization can also be realized at the same timenotes321
17417-1b2a1 We seem more willing to spend money on good fruit jam than on good softwarenotes321
17428-1c4b Popular magazines boosted and was boosted by literacynotes312
17438-1c4c TV boosted and was boosted by short storiesnotes312
17448-1c4e What blockchains can donotes321
17458-2a1 Crypto can decide which assets become obsolete and possiblenotes330
17469-1b2a 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
17479-1d Because ‘education’ can only happen within one’s self, what we need is more books and not ‘teachers’notes312
17489-1d2 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
17499-4b3e3c Make CTAs (call-to-action) clearnotes312
17509-4e2 Full-stack writers write articles and build things (e.g., software, hardware, movies)notes312
17519-4e2b SaaS first ⇒ code second ⇒ hire lastnotes321
1752AN3C - It took Darwin a book to explain his theory but now it can be summarized into a paragraphnotes330
1753Betty Edwardspeople330
1754CPU, GPU, Brain, Mind, Energyessays321
1755Dogecoin demonstrates the power of tokens absent confounding factorsnotes330
1756Gresham's Law and AIessays321
1757Henry Fordpeople321
1758Money - Days of Future Pastessays312
1759QUE5 - 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
1760QUE5 - 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
1761Ray Daliopeople303
1762RUL3 - Flow interesting. Interesting means surprise.notes330
1763Sol Pricepeople321
1764The Cantillon effectnotes330
1765The fabric of reality implies the beginning of infinityessays303
1766There is no universal perceptionnotes321
1767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
17681-1a2e9d Technology is culturenotes220
17691-2g1c2b 人間は外的な記号notes220
17701-2g2s1 Hydrogen atom exists because its electron’s uncertainty-principle tendency to spread is exactly balanced by the electrostatic force with positively charged nucleus.notes211
17711-2g2t3a Histories, universes, particles, planets, humans — these are all approximate and emergent phenomena in the multiversenotes211
177210-2e3 In the multiverse, snapshots do not have time stampsnotes211
177310-2g2a Symbols are the original social contractnotes211
177412-1 Surfacing contingencies (ゆらぎ)notes211
177513-1a3a5a The equilibrium price can be achieved conceptually because the demand will dwindle to zero when the price is high enoughnotes220
177613-1a4 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
177713-9d Elastic goods prefer price decrease, and vice versa for inelastic goods whose demand curve is steeper, under the assumption of constant demand schedulesnotes211
177813-9f 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
17792-1a1a9a Survivorship bias + Incentives = We can't see what can be seen and see what's not even therenotes220
17802-1b2a1 Look for an idea that could evolve into a great onenotes220
17812-2 ウツ・ウツツ (空・現)notes202
17823-1b2c You have to approach the unconscious parts of the mind as a Popperian, and not as a Romanticistnotes220
17833-1c2e3.2 Not all symbols are explicitnotes211
17843-1c2e4.1a Knowledge can have value to the extent that it influences goods which are scarcenotes211
17853-1d3 You must start with some specific framework with an intent to solve at least some of your own problemsnotes211
17864-1a4b2a1.1 Silence can give ideas spacenotes220
17874-1a4b2c 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
17884-1d1 Capture emotions because that indicate they know what they are talking aboutnotes211
17894-1d2 Most people love talking about themselvesnotes220
17904-1d4 Listening is the most effective way to pay respect, and it's freenotes220
17915-1a5 Morality might be a subset of physics. The laws of physics might provide the measure for morality, as it were.notes220
17925-1b1a1b1a However, Babbage’s idea was represented by pen and paper, themselves technologynotes211
17935-1b1a1b2 Vitalik Buterin generalized the principle of blockchains to outside cryptocurrency, and built Ethereumnotes211
17945-1b1b1a5.1 Blockchain network becomes better as tools are addednotes211
17955-1b1b1b Be more than what you are supposed to be. You have to be surprising.notes211
17965-1b1c1 Pursue market which is convincingly, and surprisingly, largenotes211
17975-1b4a0.2 Users will always go where the newest news isnotes211
17985-1b4c3a Find work where you like even the parts others find tedious or frighteningnotes220
17996-5 Sit lessnotes211
18007-1a5a1 Find an inexpensive custom acquisition channel and pile up users through an underpriced angles others haven't realized yet.notes220
18017-1a5b1 Optimizing for growth should provide some insights about the problem-situationnotes211
18027-1a5c1 Engineer + Influencer = Company OR Countrynotes220
18037-1d1a You can also arbitrage the technology itselfnotes211
18047-1d1e You can use technology from one field to anothernotes211
18057-1d2b1 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
18068-2b2b2 Take rates + Token incentives = Economic equation for blockchain networksnotes211
18078-5 VR-ARnotes220
18089-1c3 This applies to 'children' because 'children' is a social constructnotes211
18099-4b2a1d0.2 人間は句読点を打った動物notes211
18109-4e2d Idea (1min) ⇒ Mockup (1d+) ⇒ Prototype (7d+) ⇒ Program (2-4w) ⇒ Product (3-6m) ⇒ Business (6-12m) ⇒ Profits (1y+)notes211
1811AN3C - People hide their flawsnotes211
1812Any system that encourages top-down organizations to get too big and do evil is evilnotes220
1813Bob Noycepeople220
1814Claude Shannonpeople211
1815Jeff Bezos - 'When the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right.'notes220
1816QUE5 - Anything fundamental changed vs superficial-uncontrollable metricsnotes220
1817QUE5 - Ask “what is his historic event that makes him think that way”notes220
1818QUE5 - 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
1819RUL3 - Ask 'what would it look like if it were easy and fun'notes220
1820Symbols ⇒ Languages (both are agreement, i.e., an arbitrary linkage between a form and a meaning)notes220
1821The most important sort of disobedience is to write essays at allnotes220
1822There is no absolute securitynotes211
1823Your spending is someone else's incomenotes211
1824観測は光を当てないとできないnotes211
18251-1a2e7 Culture is the individual dark matter acquired from culturing, social acting, languagingnotes110
18261-1b2 The interpretation isn’t physical eithernotes110
18271-2g2a1 The principle of the universality of computation and that of testability (Constructor Theory is the generalization of the latter) might provide an answernotes110
18281-2g2k5 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
18291-2g2s2b 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
183013-1a3a6 The result of the exchange process is that the stock goes into the hands of the most capable possessorsnotes110
18312-1a1a6a Xenophanes - it’s easy to attribute universal truth to mere local appearancesnotes110
18322-1a1b Constantly check your own biasnotes110
18332-1a6.2 Treasure honorable people who are capable and will treat you well even when you’re not lookingnotes110
18343-1a0a 'Life is projects it is not a job'notes110
18354-1a4b2a2 忘却 = 自然に廃棄することnotes110
18364-1a4b6c Ideas can get better as you recycle and reuse them, unlike most physical thingsnotes110
18375-1b1a1f Edison (practitioner) and Einstein (theoretician) both have a place in realitynotes110
18385-2c2a1 Progressive titles might be there to hide its unprogressive naturenotes110
18396-3b3h Protocol networks could get subsumed by corporate networksnotes110
18406-6 Once you hit 25, your aerobic capacity decreases 10% per decade (or 1% per year)notes110
18417-1b2c You can create problems then offer solutions simultaneouslynotes110
18428-4b2 What can be done by AIs will be done by AIsnotes110
1843AN3C - John Steinbeck - “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”notes110
1844AN3C - The Batman Effect - the placebo effect of alter ego works, because memes can beat genesnotes110
1845Chiara Marlettopeople110
1846Double slit experiment with and without an observer are different experimentsnotes110
1847Explanation has to be non-formalizable, but they are nonetheless conjectured and created by physical processesnotes110
1848James J. Hillpeople110
1849John Steinbeck - 'Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.'notes110
1850Logan Chipkinpeople101
1851Moat Digitizedessays101
1852Mr. Beastpeople101
1853QUE5 - 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
1854Quentin Tarantinopeople101
1855RUL3 - Growth rate - +5~7% a week is good; +10% is exceptionally well; +1% you haven’t figured out what you’re doingnotes110
1856RUL3 - Let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push younotes110
1857Truly open means no intermediarynotes110
1858Tychism - Peirce’s sub-theory on chance as fundamental to the Universe, which anticipates the quantum physicsnotes110
1859技術が99% - メンタルも技術notes110