Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
Follow the white rabbit 🐇
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How I kept a job at McDonald’s with an IQ of 70 (video)
Cannabidiol reverses attentional bias to cigarette cues in a human experimental model of tobacco withdrawal
Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398
Meta’s smart glasses can take calls, play music, and livestream from your face
So Much for the Decentralized Internet
Being creative is like being a lion. Good amounts of rest. Sprint for the kill when it feels right.
Why most tennis players struggle to make a living
OpenAI & Jony Ive are planning a murder
Sam Altman tapping Jony Ive for a hardware AI project broke the internet (or at the very least it crushed the hopes & dreams of Humane’s Imran Chaudhri - more on that in a sec)
Are we destined for a zero-sum future?
People are becoming more zero-sum in their thinking, and weaker economic growth may explain why. Older generations grew up with high growth and formed aspirational attitudes; younger ones have faced low growth and are more zero-sum
Unedited JK Rowling Interview on the Birth of Harry Potter (1998)
The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human
Labelling concepts an concept handles
A “concept handle” is a memorable noun phrase representing a complex, often abstract topic. For example: “prisoner’s dilemma,” “Overton window,” “belief in belief,” etc. In my own writing, examples include Enabling environment, Enacted experience, etc. The “concept handle” is a concept handle for itself, coined by Scott Alexander.
The Batman of the Suburbs (video)
Is AI better at picking and pairing fonts than you?
Beware of lateral thinking
Other places
(͡ ͡° ͜ つ ͡͡°)Telegram/Discord group for me to save & share random stuff that might be useful.
X/Twitter - https://x.com/rtheoryxyz
👾 some YouTube video essays
— Robert
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