ideas, research, and notes
Writing
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A snapshot of the world on 8 August 2026.
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Repetition as a way through the hard part of learning.
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Institutions, education, and the unnecessary slowness around us.
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Thinking about the scale of trillion-dollar ideas.
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A short case for the greatest fiction of all time.
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Where embodied AI might find the real-world data it needs.
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Outliers, work, and optimism in a power-law world.
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What the Manhattan Project and the Wallfacer Project say about coordination.
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A starting point for learning about continual learning.
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A question about recursive self-improvement and what follows.
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A very short hello.