Richard Gilstrap @myobjectiveview

If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think is right about it.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man. — Galileo Galilei

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

@LocasaleLab Through a combination of high-resolution sensors and inference capabilities (the AI), individuals may legitimately engage in collaborative research. The barriers are evaporating

@MichaelDell The goal is not hardship for its own sake. It is the right amount of structured difficulty that builds future sovereignty. cc: @patrick_oshag

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

@PeterDiamandis Yes — The human substrate is optimized more for responding to salient present conditions than for perceiving slow accumulation toward nonlinear thresholds. Preemptive adaptation may be too costly wrt fitness and therefore, we often feel thresholds only after crossing them.

@LocasaleLab Aim #1: Cure Cancers Aim #2: Make money curing cancers These are not equivalent

@LocasaleLab Very well stated

In physics, as in life, the path of least resistance is often the least interesting.

@karpathy Yes, LLMs influence what “feels true” by modulating salience. Because humans evolved for salience rather than truth, alignment with truth requires deliberate structures—humility, peer review, and disciplined inference—to counteract our default biases.

The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty — some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.

Although it may not “feel like it” in real-time, we are each pursuing the Hero’s Journey. Choose aims wisely.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability.

@sahill_og Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” LLMs have collapsed the barriers to how…

The first rule of learning is to admit you don’t know. The second rule is to never stop asking why.

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

So, it’s a question, fundamentally. Do you define yourself as a victim of the world, or as the world? You can define yourself, you see—if you identify you with what you call the voluntary system of the nerves, and say, “Only that’s me”—and that’s really a rather limited amount of my total performance; what I do voluntarily—then you’ve defined yourself as the victim in the game. And so you are able to feel that life was a trap. Something else—whether it was God, or whether it was fate, or whether it was “the big mechanism,” “the system”—imposed this on you. And you can say, “Poor little me.” But you can equally well, and with just as much justification, define yourself not only as what you do voluntarily, but also what you do involuntarily; that’s you, too. Do you beat your heart, or don’t you? Or does it just happen to you? And if you define yourself as the works, then nobody’s imposing on you. You’re not a victim. You’re doing it. Of course, you can’t explain how you do it in words, because words are too clumsy and it’d take too long to say. You’d get bored with it. But actually, then you can say—with gusto—“I am responsible for this life. Whether comedy or tragedy—I did it.” And it seems to me that that is a basis for behavior and going on which is more fundamentally joyous, and profitable, and great, than defining ourselves as miserable victims, or sinners, or what have you.

We often overlook the beauty of simplicity. Some of the most profound insights are found in the elegant and uncomplicated.

@Schwarzenegger “It is better to deal with one problem when it happens than 100 imagined problems.” Thank you Arnold. I needed to read this today.