“Okay” seems like the best word of all time. It’s used by speakers of every language from what I can tell. Chinese borrow almost no English words, but they still say “okay”.

“Americans invent as the Greeks sculpted and the Italians painted.” - Times of London at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876

Regarding the fertility crisis, I’ve never seen it mentioned that fertility is itself heritable. Naively, perhaps the problem could resolve itself in enough generations, as the genes of individuals unlikely to reproduce under modernity become extinct.

Never regret things resulting from overall circumstances you wouldn’t go back in time to change.

When there is a warning sign for falling objects, what exactly are you supposed to do?

The lessons of failure are often adjacent to the failure itself. So learning too from failure can keep you stuck in a local maximum.

Perfectly sizing bets in a paradigm shift is impossible. If you 10x investment and demand goes up 30x you make a fortune. If you 10x but demand only goes up 3x? Bubble!

OpenAIs marketing strategy

When we automated physical labor (Industrial Revolution) being good with your hands was an asset, not a liability. Likewise, in the AI revolution, being good with at the things that are automated will be an asset.

Hype seems just as important for AI companies as researcher. Are hype men getting big comp packages too, is the money flow less transparent or is this not commodified yet?