Archive - Sarv’s Newsletter

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Intelligence doesn't exist. Let's talk aptitude instead.

We need to move past human-centric definitions of intelligence.

Apr 8 •

November 2022

How Tech Hype is Ruining College Students in Tech

College campuses are filled with entrepreneurship LARPers. These students, inundated in startup mythology through their teens, look at creating startups…

Nov 27, 2022 •

October 2022

Generative AI will destroy our concept of trust on the internet.

In Silicon Valley circles, there’s a lot of talk about AGI killing everyone and replacing humans, but I don’t think there’s quite enough discourse about…

Oct 19, 2022 •

June 2022

The Midwit Trap

Why smart people easily end up so unhappy and stuck

Jun 27, 2022 •

May 2020

Behaviour change = Environment change

Why the only way to meaningfully change your behaviour is to change your environment.

May 12, 2020 •

March 2020

Why I intern at startups when school is on

In this fantastic podcast, Sam Altman talks about founders with ‘deferred life plans’. Founders who want to do X, and then do the Y they’ve always…

Mar 9, 2020 •

February 2020

What causes online outrage?

The lunch hall effect: what high school has to do with twitter mobs

Feb 1, 2020 •

December 2019

Weekly musings about tech and living in the 21st century

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Dec 7, 2019 •

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