Just because you're great at seeking and absorbing disconfirming evidence at the tactics (e.g.
... at seeking and absorbing disconfirming evidence at the level of strategy (e.g. ground truth market dynamics and your place in then).
Topic: ground truth
88 chunks · 61 episodes
2.0x burst in 2024 Q2
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- ground truth appears in 88 chunks across 61 episodes, from 2023-10-30 to 2026-08-03.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 11/4/24 (2024-11-04), with 5 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with echo chamber, mental model, and feedback loop, while by chunk count it sits between Claude Code and mental model; its yearly rank moved from #9 in 2023 to #23 in 2026.
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It's easy to dump on jargon.
... tends to become an echo chamber and then increasingly become more kayfabe than ground truth. But still, the experts are implicitly voting that the jargon is worth having, so it might be load-bearing.
Our agency is what makes us mortal.
...e individual components often die. Individuals experiment and are culled by the ground truth of reality. That creates the space for new individuals that are viable to grow. This is a kind of self-pruning diversity. This characteristic is what...
Systems that have a structured formal language will have interesting applications with LLMs.
...cupied by the former. Systems like code and formal DSLs have a form of built-in ground truthing for syntactical correctness: "does this compile? Are there any errors?". LLMs often hallucinate, but if you have a formal DSL you can automaticall...
If you're playing twelve dimensional chess, make sure you aren't playing on an imaginary board.
If you're playing twelve dimensional chess, make sure you aren't playing on an imaginary board. The more meta something gets, the more leverage it can have, but also the farther away from ground-truthing it gets. It might sound genius, but be completely non-viable in the real world for some non-obvi
As organizations get bigger they turn their focus inward.
...l social complexity, the game, scales super-linearly with size of organization. Ground truthing happens when a system interacts with the outside world. In these mega organizations, it's easy to forget, in some sense, that there is an outside ...
When people agree on something, it forms a bond.
... This can lead to emergently-manufactured confirmation bias that decoheres from ground truth... even if everyone is well-intentioned!
A useful narrative can capture your thinking.
...ecomes more and more self-coherent... but potentially decoheres from the actual ground truth. If others only hear the narrative (and don't have any relevant priors), they will likely find it convincing due to this satisfying self-coherence. B...