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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Pointing-and-Calling reduces errors by up to 85 percent and cuts accidents by 30 percent. The MTA subway system in New York City adopted a modified version that is “point-only,” and “within two years of implementation, incidents of incorrectly berthed subways fell 57 percent.”
Atomic Habits
James Clear
While we can’t directly see the multiverse, we have ways of probing and visualizing the multiversal structure of reality. One way is interference. If you are able to remain ambivalent between two branches, you can observe the interference effects between them, demonstrating that they both exist. I’m not going to talk about interference here (even though it’s one of my favorite topics), but rather another way you can visualize the multiverse, which is by recreating the same initial conditions repeatedly and watching the indeterministic paths of the rollouts.
Language Models Are Multiverse Generators
moire
I now say to myself that the greater part of conscious thinking must be counted among the instinctive functions,
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
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