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Poor Charlie's Almanack (stripe.press)
2 points by gregzeng95 178 days ago
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So stunning to see his "100 models of the world" and hints about superintelligence being interdisciplinary. Almost like he was anticipating powerful AIs.

I could not read some of his talks, but most of the text was very clearly thought out, and time-tested over decades of stunning success. He lived his advice of staying within the boundaries of what he understood well.

excellent idea to read this at year ending/ year beginning ... the local library had a copy in ebook format.

So Charlie almost went blind in the 1950s, then went on to live many decades more, with amazing success. Ben Franklin and then some.