Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Avoiding Impossible Trade-offs
Alignment is the art of minimizing friction in a system and making it easy to achieve the desired outcome. Do…
January 17, 2019Alignment is the art of minimizing friction in a system and making it easy to achieve the desired outcome. Do…
January 17, 2019The text arrived at 12:19 PM yesterday. I was in the office commons filling up a glass of water.…
February 23, 2018We feel guilty for all that we have not yet read, but overlook how much better read we already…
December 19, 2017Every action has a consequence, and each consequence has another consequence. These are called Second-Order Effects. Every change you…
February 27, 2017Every Sunday, like clockwork, the Farnam Street newsletter arrives in my inbox. Started by Shane Parrish several years ago,…
October 30, 2016“In 1915, deep in the jungles of South America, the rising conflict between two rival American fruit companies came…
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