“The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less - currently around 25 percent below non-distressed houses.” FallHouseShareKeysPercentSellsPropertyHousingForeclosureHousing MarketHouse Prices Author:Mark Zandi
“The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.” MovingFallAbilityBehindsFocusKeysSeparationMoving Ahead Author:Orrin Woodward
“The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.” IfsWayTryingLittlesIdeasEndsWould BeFallProcessCasesSourceKeysBalanceCodePensArtificial IntelligenceArtificialExplosionsAccelerateRewritingTippingTiltTipping Point Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.” LightEarthFallWaterHoursKeysSpeciesWaveFlatsGravityMinorsBellyHarborsCaressRush Hour Book:The Blaze of the Poui: Poems Source: The Blaze of the Poui: Poems