Compute is currency
View on XThe ratio of winners vs suckers stays the same. AI helps the mute suckers to become generative. Just be presentable enough to avoid being put in the spam folder, 90% of the competition is not real. Quality of choice matters, exponentially.
View on Xboldness, ambition, imagination and execution
View on Xpreaching chastity in a house of ill repute
View on X死水无活鱼
今天，阿飞和大家说一说，被许家印坑了几百亿、并造成近千亿损失的央企：中国航空工业集团。 中航工业集团的老董事长谭瑞松，与许家印是好朋友，据阿飞所知，两人经常在恒大歌舞团欣赏艺术表演。
选择环境比在环境里做选择要重要得多
View on XWhat's the Mandarin equivalent? Is there a diff between 挣 and 赚?
"Only the German language calls earning money verdienen ('to deserve it' through effort). The French and Spanish 'win' ( ganar ) it, the English 'harvest' ( earn ) it, Americans 'make' ( make money ) it, and the poor Hungarians 'search' for it.
平凡人的世界
View on X在一个方向踩刹车和往反方向踩油门还是有很大差别的
View on X灵活的走位哈哈，说的真好
人这一生最要紧的就是学会跑路，不是什么沟通、包容、原谅。 跑路是一项人生技能，非常重要的技能。 发现自己可以跑，是你人生中最紧要的一件事，就是你自己可以有移动的能力。 不适合的环境可以跑，不适合的人可以跑，伤害我的人也可以离他远远的。 灵活的走位可以避开这个世界上大部分的问题。
This is great for me. Both as a consumer, and as a designer. PeakForm was ahead of its time and I just needed to move faster. My taste is legit!
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catch me in the wave!
View on X事以密成
View on XSynthetic danger is such a good term, it's danger without full context
最近越来越强烈地感觉到，人类正在经历一场 Stimulus Inflation，刺激通胀。 这已经不是简单的大家越来越没耐心的问题。 整个信息社会对于“什么东西值得让我产生反应”的阈值，正在被持续抬高。 十年前，F1、洞潜、翼装飞行、高空跳伞、极限攀岩还是相对小众的文化；
from Jack Ma on Alibaba IPO day: 'as a business, you need to be in love with the government, but not marry them.'
View on XFrom productivity to creativity
View on X要有搁置自己优势的勇气
View on XNothing left to gain is much harder to realize than nothing to lose
The time to be most ambitious is when you have nothing to lose or nothing left to gain.
Smoothness kills, especially when enabled by modern technology
This is probably controversial: I think using money to eliminate every minor inconvenience from your life is a negative in the long run. There's a certain level of inconvenience that's just an important part of the human experience. The smooth, textureless life is the forgotten
Great post. I agree with aggressively remove boring / repetitive friction, but you don't get to 'keep' the unpredictable friction, let alone control the amount of it. That is fine. Embrace the variability and accept the unknown, because what doesn't change the brain numbs it.
Removing friction is how rich people end up losing agency and human IQ It starts with Uber-everywhere, grocery delivery, all-inclusive holidays, then private driver, chef, assistant etc… without noticing you’re also removing exposure to reality I see this in London with young x.com/sahilbloom/sta…
假装懂的人越多，其实承认自己不懂的ROI越高
AI发展到现在这个程度，假装“懂”的成本越来越低，承认自己“不懂”的难度也就越来越大。 但长期看，越是这样，不管是工作还是投资，努力学习之后依然诚实承认“不懂”的收益、复利也会越来越高，这一点可能想到的人不多，能做到的人更少，但这一点点感悟，还是希望与大家共勉。
鱼身上的骨头是人眼里的刺
View on XPredictability > Suitability
View on X跟兔子打架、跟刺猬赛跑
View on X先打打杀杀，再人情世故
View on XGPT^iπ - the world’s first complex‑valued language model, outputs may be imaginary, irrational, or both.
View on XHow do you go from being treated as a case to being treated as a theory
Power not only shapes theories and categories; it shapes our assumptions about what is universal and what is not. x.com/BrankoMilan/st…
Trust your natural brain
View on XReality is largely negotiable
View on XFor the distance between who I am now and who do I want to become, if I myself want to travel this distance, it is ambition; if I expect others to reach for me, it is entitlement.
View on Xunspoken expectations are premeditated resentments
View on XSuch a great interview and great interviewee. I had a impression of these 'science gurus' that are proven wrong by Venki. Great points across the board being delivered in such a humble and rational way. Gotta watch more of this guy.
View on XI didn't know 电信 had so many data centers
Working on a data atlas of China; a sneak peak. China-wide map of all data centers, energy mix in western data center clusters.
This is such a good case study of culture gone wrong. Again, you can be neutral, but you cannot be undecided
View on XThe move is more important than the target
View on X先识别价值，再发现价值，最后才能创造价值 好多人被社会推着把这个顺序搞反了
View on X需要投入多种成本的事情是最难做的。如果只需要投入时间，精力，或者金钱，那还好说，就怕需要多种成本的consistent投入，那难度就会指数级上升，而不是简单的加法，因为涉及到分配协调平衡 所以说简单的‘努力’、‘真心’，在复杂的事情面前会显得很廉价
View on XOne often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it
View on XAI没有主观能动性，更没有生存焦虑；用人用惯了的人，反而切换适应AI的能力或者意愿都会弱
View on XWhen you play high stakes poker, eventually the stakes get high enough to justify anything... OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake
View on X美国是把货币当作信用维持，俄罗斯是把信用当成货币花 这两种逻辑说实话都是自然的，就怕在两者之间反复横跳
回复里一群缸径在为失信辩护。这其实涉及到的是信用修复的问题。失信就会万劫不复吗？时间其实是修复信用最好的工具，时过境迁，知道他失信的人没了，忘了，信用自然就变好了，直到他再次失信。人如此，征服更是如此。
Creating is the fun part!
Ronny Chieng had one message for Harvard grads during his commencement speech: destroy AI. "Look, a lot of other respected graduation speakers in colleges around America are talking about you guys needing to master AI for the future. I'm here to tell you the mission of your
You only care about it when it becomes yours
看Druckenmiller的访谈，他刚开始买Nvidia的时候甚至都不知道该怎么拼，也不知道Nvidia的收入算多还是算少。他不是AI产业链的专家，不是那种看透未来十年的愿景型投资者；
- merit + distance traveled - make it better, not worse - mistake the product for the process - desire to win overwhelmed by the fear of losing
View on XEither think zeroth-order (subconcious), or think second-order or more. Most people have the adequate thinking capacity, but allocate it so evenly that they don't have neither a natural instinct nor a deep understanding of anything at all.
View on XYou have to lose a (physical) function to fully appreciate its presence
I don't know who needs to hear this but your ability to create the reality that you want is directly determined by your willingness to experience its opposite. Saving money will have you feeling broke while it's actually making you rich. Setting boundaries will have you feeling
Addiction to anything is addition to certainty
View on X不结仇，不陷害，不撒谎，不逃避
View on X我有资格去体验你的生活，但是你没有资格来体验我的 Real wealth
View on X'every utterance reinforces the same prior'
the contrast between zohran mamdani & vivek ramaswamy is undeniable. zohran almost always speaks from a coherent moral grammar (left populist, materialist, “rent is too high”, etc.) that voters can compress into one sentence & repeat at the dinner table. every utterance x.com/undercoercion/…
money less real
View on Xdon't let the emotion overwhelm, but don't let it pass without any action, either
View on X'What people do at the end of Goldman Sachs, has a lot of influence on the kind of people who select Goldman Sachs in the first place'
View on XLife slow enough to feel it
View on XThere are more titles than competencies
View on XMemory compounding 回忆复利
View on X创造环境比改变环境更容易
View on XTo what degree do I have to participate in your self image?
View on XHeuristics over perfections!
View on XAristocratic AI
View on X真正稀缺的不再是实现愿望的能力，而是愿望本身
田渊栋的年终总结，这两天在圈子里传得挺广。 很多人转发的时候，关注点都放在了他被裁这件事上。 毕竟他在Meta干了十多年，是做强化学习的知名华人科学家，年初还被调去给Llama4救火，结果忙活大半年，10月份人被裁了。
少写指令，多给背景。 广开言路，自由发挥
View on XDiscontinuous history
View on XDon't outsource the curiosity loop
View on XThe existence of the feedback means more than its content
View on X在一个僵化的 条条框框的系统里 试图创造不确定性 运用不确定性 就算输了 也是正收益的 In a rule-saturated space, any action that challenges the existing structure has great risk, and greater reward. Assuming the environment constant, the risk/reward grows exponentially with time
View on XLook for the breaking dams
View on X13:39 if you have too much to do, you get to pick what you want to do 16:00 less inertia 20:40 credit that people don't identify as credits 21:55 force ourself to mark to market 27:10 it can't get worse because it's over 51:45 cats outside the bag
View on X种树时 把种子撒的相隔远一点 相信他们会越长越近 布局低相关性的知识 经历 技能 可能一开始这些小树会显得稀疏 但是有灾害时不会都死光 多元化 diverstification 可能在股票市场里很常见 但是要应用到生活中 变化多的时代 一定要能抗风险 勇于探索不相关的东西 因为未来的自己永远会比现在聪明
View on XWe suffer more in imagination than in reality
View on XMy thoughts exactly
What does it take to create soemthing special?
I like the idea of ‘pretrained model’
We get transfered SO MANY STUFF out of the box from our ancestors, its ridiculous. My favorite example is that empirically, we seem to have "snake detection module" hard-wired to our brain (that detects snake faster than other things) We are, in so many ways, literally x.com/tszzl/status/1…
要被社会接受，不要被社会同化
View on XGreat thread: culture is either 1. constrained in a set of conditions that will eventually change or 2. passed/inherited in a mechanism that cannot be assumed to be constant. These are not mutually exclusive, the mechanism is influenced by historical conditions, and vice versa.
I think the time has come for me to write my take on @daveckang's entire research ouvre--its strengths and the limitations I find in its central arguments. I do think that his new piece in IO really rests on ideas and assumptions of this earlier work, even if they are not cited.
When your habits survive your dreams
View on X把教育看作消费，就要要求情感回报；把教育看作投资，就要要求金钱回报。
View on X搜索/推荐引擎是面向广告商优化，而不是面向消费者优化
View on XGreat analysis that makes me doubt the utility and benefit of AI tools, especially to those who’re still developing their thinking and writing skills. The inertia from inactivity will be placated by these ‘helpers’.
Mark Zuckerberg on spinning off Instagram, Facebook's strategy tax, antitrust regulation, brand erosion, and network collapse May 3, 2018
There is some advantage in invincible obtuseness
View on XComplexity hoards power
When you need an abacus and an “ice cream-based explainer” to understand a method of voting, maybe it’s not so great for a democracy? The same applies to the filibuster, the Byrd Rule & related procedural hieroglyphics: complexity hoards power, it doesn’t share it x.com/benpershing/st…
The goal is to engage, not to isolate
View on XYou die the day you're alive the most
View on XThe three tables at the casino Europe is the middle class casual table. It's not that hard to be seated, and some free chips already come with that seat. You can play big, but your big wins are taxed at 65% and redistributed to the other players.
View on XThe continuity of the system proves stronger than the lessons it teaches
View on XFreedom is a right, but only in the sense of a right to exercise an option. You have a right to use your freedom at minimal cost, but it's not an asset and can't be held forever. The freedom you have in your 20s won't taste the same in your 30s even if you put it in the fridge.
View on XDrinking sake doesn't make you a Samurai
View on XYou can be neutral, but you can’t be undecided
View on XWishcasting
View on XA very efficient bicycle is still a bicycle
View on XPeople keep dancing after the music stops because they like dancing
View on XDon’t make another mistake reacting to the original mistake
View on X敢于斗争 善于和解
View on XThe mother and her son near Mukilteo lake...
3 月 6 日（路透社）——特朗普的一名高级官员和三位知情人士称，特朗普政府计划撤销约 24 万名因与俄罗斯的冲突而逃离的乌克兰人的临时合法身份，这可能会让他们快速被驱逐出境。
In one story told by Diogenes Laertius, Zeno discovered someone attempting to steal from him, and as he beat him, the thief, who seems familiar with Stoicism, protested, “I was destined to steal!”, to which Zeno replied, “Yes, and to be beaten!”
View on XIt is better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
View on XThe bigger the space, the less room there is for middle ground, because people become too disoriented to recognize and agree to where that is.
View on XThe unexamined life is not worth living But the overexamined life is also not worth living
View on XBe guided by beauty
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