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Author of Flock Without Birds. Paradigms, mental models, inner planets.</div><h1 id="w-node-d9b670ff-9c3b-39c0-8665-b87e76739f34-ff34a15d">Filip Dousek</h1><a id="w-node-d3117115-5140-d764-f16f-3cf061c8e33a-ff34a15d" href="https://www.flockwithoutbirds.com" target="_blank" class="hp-hero__birds-link-block w-inline-block"><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5fb68ef53210f2be3834a15c/5fb6994707e3db858423c7d5_birds.png" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 767px) 240px, (max-width: 991px) 320px, (max-width: 1919px) 28vw, 320px" srcset="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5fb68ef53210f2be3834a15c/5fb6994707e3db858423c7d5_birds-p-500.png 500w, https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5fb68ef53210f2be3834a15c/5fb6994707e3db858423c7d5_birds.png 640w" alt="" class="birds-link__image"/><div class="_22px-text pentograf">Flock Without Birds</div></a></div></div></section><section class="section"><div class="container w-container"><h2>Media</h2></div><div class="container media w-container"><div class="media__main-grid-3x"><a id="w-node-fc150992-71f5-7e08-358e-055b24ce89eb-24ce89eb" data-w-id="fc150992-71f5-7e08-358e-055b24ce89eb" href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bBNQdtztQkZ5ra8zv/seeing-the-invisible-and-how-to-think-about-machine-learning" target="_blank" class="media__link-block black w-inline-block"><div id="w-node-fc150992-71f5-7e08-358e-055b24ce89ec-24ce89eb" class="media__label">Substack</div><div id="w-node-fc150992-71f5-7e08-358e-055b24ce89ee-24ce89eb" class="media__main-text-wrapper"><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5fb68ef53210f2be3834a15c/626992e4ebfbf37f87277e76_text.png" loading="lazy" id="w-node-fc150992-71f5-7e08-358e-055b24ce89ef-24ce89eb" alt="" class="m-symbol"/><h3>Seeing the Invisible (And How to Think About Machine Learning)</h3></div><div class="media__text-wrapper"><p>Peter Thiel has a question he asks founders: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on? 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