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great leadership is more important, not less important, with greater technology.  The more sophisticated and complex our technology become, the more important the greatest leader becomes.

a really well done ELI5 explainer on AI training models. read this closely and you’ll learn a lot about how the incentives of the commercial web impact the quality of the training data.

going quite a bit faster when you’re going slowly is a really big gain. Going very fast when you’re already going fast is the action of a dickhead.

While there are arguments for and against the impact of the individual – Carlyle vs. Tolstoy – we all benefit from taking an optimistic view of this question and acting as if individuals can make a very big difference.

Taste is not merely superficial preferences but a fundamental human experience linked to moral judgment and self-discovery.

The internet lacks the patience for difficulty and comprehension, resulting in a poor version of culture compared to what existed before.

Many people desire alternatives to the current internet and are frustrated with the lack of human curation.