tech-philosophy

amrit ✅ @amritwt · 18h i should just print nat friedman's website and stick it on my wall at this point since i have read it so many times [Embedded text card:] As human beings it is our right (maybe our moral duty) to reshape the universe to our preferences - Technology, which is really knowledge, enables this - You should probably work on raising the ceiling, not the floor Enthusiasm matters! - It's much easier to work on things that are exciting to you - It might be easier to do big things than small things for this reason - Energy is a necessary input for progress It's important to do things fast - You learn more per unit time because you make contact with reality more frequently - Going fast makes you focus on what's important; there's no time for bullshit - "Slow is fake" - A week is 2% of the year - Time is the denominator The efficient market hypothesis is a lie - At best it is a very lossy heuristic - The best things in life occur where EMH is wrong - In many cases it's more accurate to model the world as 500 people than 8 billion - "Most people are other people" We know less than we think - The replication crisis is not an aberration - Many of the things we believe are wrong - We are often not even asking the right questions The cultural prohibition on micromanagement is harmful - Great individuals should be fully empowered to exercise their judgment - The goal is not to avoid mistakes; the goal is to achieve uncorrelated levels of excellence in some dimension - The downsides are worth it