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Our episode with @vgr is now live!
We discuss:
🙃 Being slightly nonsensical
🍀 Avoiding tragic luck
🥉 The perks of mediocrity
🎲 Appreciating randomness
👔 The case for fixed point futurism
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Infinite Loops 🎙x.com
Mechanizing serendipity through opportunistic stepping stones: why successful discovery isn't random but requires collecting diverse experiences and taking calculated risks
TRANSCRIPT
It seems almost like wrong, like that can't be true. But you know, like, because everybody also, again, associates the word random with serendipity. It's like random good things happening.
But the thing is that you have to, one thing that might lead to some caution about that is if you look at the Wikipedia page on serendipity, and if you actually
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asimov.press
Novelty search algorithm: how seeking interesting discoveries without objectives can paradoxically solve problems better than goal-directed approaches
TRANSCRIPT
It's actually, in fact, his like first day of grad school. I remember I was, it was like a few months after this revelation. And I just like poured this whole point onto him. Like I just overwhelmed the poor guy He like it his first day And I was like you don need objectives Like we could just do amazing things like just looking for novelty and
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There is no way of getting it perfect. There is no complete, no finish line, no done. There is simply “What’s the next experiment?” There is only play.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
Hard truth #5: Growth loops eventually collapse, and the product has to carry that load
Andrew Chen calls it “the law of shitty clickthroughs”.
Every channel and every loop will eventually saturate and decline. The only question is how long they last.
Some loops endure for over a decade. SurveyMonkey’s user-generated loop (users sending surveys to... See more
Andrew Chen calls it “the law of shitty clickthroughs”.
Every channel and every loop will eventually saturate and decline. The only question is how long they last.
Some loops endure for over a decade. SurveyMonkey’s user-generated loop (users sending surveys to... See more