Category: Blog
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The AGI Economy is Coming Faster Than You Think
From Rohit Krishnan in Freethink (new to me). If Pascal’s Wager can be applied the “when AGI”, and I think it certainly can be, it feels wiser to me to assume the kind of thinking below is more likely than not. What to do about that? I have no idea. I don’t see myself rapidly…
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Writers and thinkers I most respect
On a run this morning, while listening to Dwarkesh interview Tyler Cowen, I came up with what I think is my modern canon of writers and thinkers whose work I most consume. Here it is: Hopefully I’ll add more, but the list being short gives me lots to take in from a few Good People…
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Going where you don’t know you’re going
It seems true to me that you have to eliminate more than you add in order to get to where you want go. Or said differently, get down as close to ground level of the ‘thing’ it is you want to do or manage to do. The best running I’ve done in my running life…
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To Sadie, on Your 30th Birthday
I can remember, and feel, what it was like to fall in love with you. Summer of 2016. The string of numbers representing a year has never meant as much to me as those do. The year I was born is the only other string that meant anything to me at that point, but all…
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Music and Protest
The 1960s obviously produced some of the best music during very turbulent times. You have Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Joan Baez (Oh, Freedom!), Simon and Garfunkel, and Peter, Paul and Mary just to name a few. They were very political, but in retrospect we enjoy their harmonies and nascent methods (Jimi Hendrix!). We…
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To Paul: On having a second kid
You called me yesterday and asked: What would you say to me that would help me prepare for kid #2? I think you used the word wisdom: What wisdom do you have to share with me? Bonus question was: What did you do to help Sadie in preparation for kid #2 Here are my thoughts…
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Training with Doug
I’ve started training for a 100k race this November that my friend Doug is also registered for, the Looking Glass 100k. Other than the Black Mountain Monster 24hr that I ran (dropped at 40 miles) I think this is the only other race I’ve registered for in something like a few years. It’s quite fun…
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Shepherd graduates from pre-school
Four years of ‘school’ at Black Mountain Presbyterian weekday school has come to a close for Shepherd. Our oldest kid has given us one of our first big milestones as parents. Sadie said it best on the playground at the after-graduation picnic: He’s going out into the world! Year 1 Shepherd, when you started at…
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Thoughts from my run #2