Conan Xin (conanxin)
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Conan Xin (conanxin)
some of the biggest challenges faced by computers and human minds alike: how to manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future; how to do so with grace and confidence; and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same
Secrecy, writes psychologist Michael Slepian in his 2022 book, The Secret Lives of Secrets, is not an act, but an intention — “I intend,” he writes, “for people not to learn this thing.” “To intend to keep a secret, ” he continues, “you need to have a mind capable of reasoning with other minds.” Thus, psychologists believe we start to develop a conc... See more
Dark Matter | Hazlitt
A woman's lowest calling is to seduce and separate man from his soul and leave him aimlessly wandering.
A woman’s highest calling is to lead man to his soul and unite him with source.
A man's lowest calling is to ambush and force way into life of woman.
Man’s highest calling is to protect woman so she is free to walk the Earth unharmed.
— Cherokee Prov
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“Hard times are coming,” declared author Ursula K. Le Guin in a short but rousing speech after receiving the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Those challenges, she explained, made it essential to have writers “who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society a... See more
Generative AI closes off a better future
Well now really when we go back into falling in love. And say, it’s crazy. Falling. You see? We don’t say “rising into love”. There is in it, the idea of the fall.
And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamental things. That there is always a curious tie at some point between the fall and the creation. Taking this ghastly risk is the... See more
And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamental things. That there is always a curious tie at some point between the fall and the creation. Taking this ghastly risk is the... See more
Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create. Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. If you walk through and don’t like what you see on the other side, you can’t get back to where you were before. We can call these Type 1 decisions. Bu... See more