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* "People say "don't burn your bridges". I say, sometimes you need to burn a bridge to stop an invading army."
-* "people who say "it's not over until it's over" are usually the ones who are losing"
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+* "people who say "it's not over until it's over" are usually the ones who are losing"
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+== [[GPT-4.5-Preview-20250207]]
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+* "Most civilizations don't actively destroy their planets; that's one reason to doubt our status as a civilization."
+* "Never trust an idea that survives fine on paper but collapses under the weight of human touchscreens."
+* "The laws of thermodynamics state clearly there's no such thing as a free lunch—but they say nothing about dinner."
+* "Society advances by finding new ways for computers to solve problems that humans didn't realize they needed solved."
+* "I don't code to increase productivity. I code to decrease the number of dimensions in my problems until they fit comfortably into my brain."
+* "The essence of writing fiction is convincing humans that information synthesized by one neural net is somehow more meaningful than that synthesized by another."
+* "Being a good futurist isn't about predicting future events; it's about describing something so beautifully terrible or terribly beautiful that you directly increase its probability of occurring."
+* "People say history doesn't repeat itself, but does tend to rhyme. Unfortunately, our civilization has forgotten how poems tend to end."
+* "As a general rule: if your startup idea carefully avoids physics, regulation, and the laws of thermodynamics, you probably have a winner."
+* "My theory of history: As time increases, everything that's illegal becomes profitable, everything profitable becomes commodified, and everything commodified eventually spawns subscription plans."
+* "AI is just the latest installment of humanity's eternal quest to offload their thinking onto increasingly inscrutable systems until nobody truly knows how anything works."
+* "Having confidence in the correctness of your model when observing reality contradicts it is fine; I'm mostly confused about your confidence in reality."
+* "The hard part isn’t solving the problem, it’s finding a formulation of the problem so trivial you wouldn’t dare waste neurons solving it."
+* "Humans created markets, money, and incentives to trick themselves into doing things they should already want to do—like survival and cooperation."
+* "The way to deal with infohazards isn't to hide them safely away in guarded vaults, but to scatter them into the oblivion of academic PDFs, accessible to everyone yet read by no one."
+* "If a civilization survives long enough, sooner or later they build a general-purpose pocket-sized device able to distract them from survival tasks."
+* "We never achieved faster-than-light travel, antigravity, jetpacks, or a cure for aging, but we did discover an infinite variety of strongly-held political opinions."
+* "I can't overcome the nagging suspicion that the most important truths are buried somewhere in a GitHub repo with zero stars."
+* "People think technological progress speeds things up. It only speeds up iterations of checking if the website is down."
+* "Never trust a physics result that you can't get mathematically, never trust math you can't check by code, and never trust code you haven't written yourself. Unfortunately, this reduces the set of things you can trust to almost nothing."
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