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...ponential cost curves, since they unlock value in the first few plys. These are Gilded Turds. Look great to start but look worse the longer they go on. I only care about Grubby Truffles. Look terrible to start but look better and better the ...
...e definitely missing something."[bv] Grubby Truffles win out in this phase over Gilded Turds.
In cacophony Gilded Turds have an advantage. No one has time to distinguish between the two.[cc] Modern society is awash in Gilded Turds. Everywhere you look, in every domain...
Two very different kinds of beauty: the Gilded Turd vs the Grubby Truffle. The Gilded Turd is superficially beautiful, but fundamentally disgusting. The Grubby Truffle is superficially disgusting but f...
...be a superficial signal of excellence But it's easy for beauty to be skin deep. Gilded turds.
...tems are often beautiful in their superficial appearance and ugly underneath. A gilded turd.
The modern world is largely a focus on optics over substance. The gilded turd era.
...etween. Far away (superficial) resonance is easy. Just add a veneer of quality. Gilded turd. Close up resonance is also reasonably easy. A thing whose details, when you take the time to look carefully at them, reveal their beauty to you. Sca...
...trong-fundamentals (beautiful mess) is better than shiny-but-poor-fundamentals (gilded turd), but when it's superficially-messy-and-weak-fundamentals it's the worst of both worlds.
...ngs makes them more efficient but more hollow. Over time the process can create gilded turds. Just the shell of quality; hollow or actively gross inside. When that force is turned on communities, you get a bunch of people so upset with the s...
...t, you get performative rigor. That is, superficially high quality, but often a gilded turd[we]. This effect gets stronger the more believably LLMs can give superficially high-quality answers[wf] on more topics.
...ity. But the closer you look, the more you realize it's fundamentally hollow. A gilded turd. "Wow, beautiful, look at that shiny gold!!" "Wait… eww, what's that smell?"
...rage. But it's brittle, corruptible, and dangerous. A hollowed out existence, a gilded turd. Superficially strong, fundamentally gross. Our current existence is a late stage one, in the world of tech, private equity rollups in nearly every i...
... quality while eroding the fundamentals. The more you do it, the more you get a gilded turd. What's inside counts much more than what it looks like.
...become less impressive the closer you look. They are hollow. In the worst case, gilded turds.
...n some domains, it's OK if every so often it delivers not a golden nugget but a gilded turd. But in some domains (like law) there might be significant downside for a gilded turd. And you might not realize it's giving you gilded turds until m...
... a thing that blossoms in quality the closer they look at it. The opposite of a gilded turd. The most engaged and savvy users will self-select into the community, building high-quality momentum. You can hide in plain sight, and allow a motiv...
... looks superficially great but turns out to be terrible as you look closer is a gilded turd. Concept videos are often like this: exciting… but the more you think about it, the more you realize how unrealistic it is. The more time you spend w...
...it can absorb and grow from disconfirming evidence. The former is a (dangerous) gilded turd. The latter is a sublime jumble. Another way of putting it: is the belief system open or closed?