Robin Harford

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick

Was the earth made for to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the earth from others, that they might beg or starve in a fruitful land, or was it made to preserve all her children? - Gerrard Winstanley, a 17th-century English religious and political philosopher who was a leader of the

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin

If we one day get artificial general intelligence, then by definition AI can also do better at the job of AI programming. That means that further progress in making AI will be dominated not by human programmers but by AI. Recursively self-improving AI could leave human intelligence far behind, creating superintelligence. It's gonna be the last

It's always good to think of someone else's newsletter that you always read and ask yourself why you stick with it. - David Hieatt

You can't borrow other people's results. You have to test your data with your people. Yup, no shortcuts to be had here. - David Hieatt

People are rich because lots of people like what they do.