Ken Karakotsios

Ask for things that feel unreasonable, to make sure your intuitions about what’s reasonable are accurate (try not to be a jerk in the process). If you’re only asking for things you get, you’re not aiming high enoug

Over the years, as I’ve aged and made smarter friends, I’ve gradually grown dumber relative to my pee

too strong a sense of continuity with one’s past self might hamper efforts in the present to abandon “sunk costs” — investments already made in a doomed plan or projec

In terms of the other constants known at the time, α = e²/(4πε_0)ħc, where:

e is the electron’s charge,

ε_0 is the electromagnetic constant for the permittivity of free space,

ħ is Planck’s constant,

and c is the speed of light.

Unlike these other constants, which have units associated with them, α is a truly dimensionless constant

why is our Universe the precise way it is, rather than any other way we could’ve imagined? There are only three things that make it so:

the laws of nature themselves,

the fundamental constants governing reality,

and the initial conditions that our Universe was born with.

Our notes are a reflection of our lives. Think about using an LLM to summarize a key relationship or pattern in your thinking over time. It could produce a history of your mind on a particular topic, including a summary and a timeline of key events that could help you understand yourself, and your world, better.