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Chats between Duncan Anderson and James Peck on anything we find interesting... hopefully you find it interesting as well :) Please note all statements are the individuals own and do not represent the organisations they work for.
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This blog is the best explanation of AI intelligence increase I've seen: https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/
### Defining Market Bubbles
- Traditional definition: 20%+ share price decline with economic slowdown/recession
- Alternative perspective: hype/story not matching reality over time (dot-com example)
- Duncan’s view: share prices ahead of future expectations
- Share prices predict...
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August 23, 2025 • 60 mins
https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/
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Techno-optimism is the belief that rapid technological progress is the main driver of human prosperity and should be pursued as a moral imperative. It argues that:
Growth = Good: Innovation creates abundance, longer lives, and better living standards.
Barriers = Bad: Regulation, caution, and pessimism slow down progress and should be resisted.
Technology as Solution: Challenges ...
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Jon Haidt three great untruths:
(1) “What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker”; (2) “Always trust your feelings”; and (3) “Life is a battle between good people and evil people.”
Possible opposites for the three untruths:
(1) “What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker” => What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Or post traumatic growth.
(2) “Always trust your feelings” => Your feelings are signals that you should always listen to,...
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“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
― Malcolm X
https://ground.news/about
https://www.readtangle.com/
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87. Helpful Support (Independence) vs Harmful Support (Dependence). Mentioning Jon Haidt, Kim Scott,
January 6, 2025 • 56 mins
Helpful Support = 1. Increased Trajectory + 2. Increase Resilience
Harmful Support = 1. No Improvement In Trajectory + 2. Lowered Resilience
Support in Different Contexts
- Workplace: Managers should focus on developing employees' skills and independence
- Parenting: The goal is to raise independent adults, not perpetually dependent children
- Friendships: There's a delicate balance between being supportive and becoming a "coach"...
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October 19, 2024 • 65 mins
The main points talked about are:
- Teaching kids about the business world. For example, they could learn by trading shares.
- Understanding how to build healthy relationships with themselves and others. A way to do this is by exploring philosophy.
- Learning how to create things. Instead of focusing on music, we could emphasize entrepreneurship and building projects.
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September 16, 2024 • 62 mins
- A16Z on why they support Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_sNclEgQZQ
- Tim Urban explaining social justice fundamentalist (wokeness): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALdi_MX3bfQ
- Nate Silver on election: https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model
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Jon Haidt's main points:
- No smartphones before high school. Parents should delay children’s entry into round-the-clock internet access by giving only basic phones (phones with limited apps and no internet browser) before ninth grade (roughly age 14).
- No social media before 16. Let kids get through the most vulnerable period of brain development before connecting them to a firehose of social comparison and algorithmically chose...
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/andrew-sullivan-americas-new-religions.html
“Religion is an attempt to find meaning in events, not a theory that tries to explain the universe.” It exists because we humans are the only species, so far as we can know, who have evolved to know explicitly that, one day in the future, we will die. And this existential fact requires some way of reconciling us to it while we are alive.
No meaning...
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February 3, 2024 • 56 mins
"Free speech is the master value as it's the value that updates all othe values."
“I’m worried that as technology gets more powerful that it’ll be easier for the minorities who want to screw things up, to screw things up.”
“Today it’s possible for one person to derange the lives of million, even billions of people.” Sam Harris.
Who is worse for free speech? The hard left or the hard right?
IMO the hard left. Woke people.
“Woke ...
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January 4, 2024 • 60 mins
What is good parenting = 1. Like school + 2. Have good friends + 3. Good parent / child relationship + 4. Good academic outcomes (top 10%) + 5. Good extra curricula.
Eastern and Western parenting. It's important to remember that parenting styles within any culture.
1. *Education Focus*:
- Eastern: There's often a strong emphasis on academic achievement, discipline, and respect for authority.
- Western: Education may be mo...
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November 18, 2023 • 55 mins
- The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/identity-trap
- A Case for Color Blindness | Coleman Hughes | TED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxB3b7fxMEA
- Compelling case for our colourblind Constitution https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/letters/compelling-case-for-our-colourblind-constitution/news-story/27c30802cc4fc971304b923db33f9ce1
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October 7, 2023 • 62 mins
Podcast:
- Marc Andreessen: How Risk Taking, Innovation & Artificial Intelligence Transform Human Experience
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixIc1Ai6jM
Big 5 personality traits:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
- conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. extravagant/careless)
- agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. critical/rational)
- neuroticism (sensitive/nervous vs. resilient/confident)
- o...
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September 16, 2023 • 61 mins
Trust = Consistency * Time. Ray Dalio.
Bad news early is good news as you have time to do something about it.
Anything that isn’t against the laws of physics can be invented. David Deutsch
The job of a founder is to find solutions to impossible problems. Sam Altman.
People like to talk about the importance of "vision," but ultimately running a startup is like doing science: you have to follow the truth wherever it leads. Vision is ...
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August 19, 2023 • 61 mins
Relevant links:
- Mental abilities = 1. Quantity * 2. Quality
- Link to what the most popular IQ test consists of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Adult_Intelligence_Scale
- Intelligence continuum: inherited (born) <=> built
- Lex Fridman Podcast: Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences | #302 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hppbxV9C63g
- Sam Harris Podcast: Forbidden Knowledge: A Conversation wi...
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- Esther Perel: People used to leave relationships because they were unhappy, now people level them to because they want to be more happy.
- Tim Urban: Happiness = Reality - Expectations
- John Gottman relationship stages: Phase 1: Falling in Love – Limerence · Phase 2: Building Trust · Phase 3: Building Commitment and Loyalty.
- Elon Musk: 'Who wrote the code running in your head?' Or are the values you have 'written by you', or ...
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Relevant links and ideas:
- Purpose Vs Play Vs Peace: Plentiful Ingredients For A Pleasant Life. https://www.cloudstreaks.com/blog/2022/4/9/purpose-vs-play-vs-peace-plentiful-ingredients-for-a-pleasant-life
- Satisfaction vs Happiness.
- Maslow's heirarchy of needs.
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Relevant articles.
- Intellectual fragility: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-girls
- Exiting the Vampire Castle: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/
- Naval: the the foundation morality is the creation of an environment that allows for error correction.
- Good intentions don't necessarily lead to good outcomes.
- Tim urban: Victim culture vs Dignity culture vs Honour...
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April 27, 2023 • 92 mins
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April 6, 2023 • 61 mins
Outcome = 1. The issue you care about * 2. The strategy you have to improve things for the issue * 3. The way you interact with others to try and update their views to align more with your... or that you update your views based on interactions with othes.
- The last part I think is where Cancel Culture is concerned.
- You can agree with the issue being important, agree with the strategy someone has to make a difference about the...
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