Aishwarya Goel
@ag_infer
Mostly Curious!
Aishwarya Goel
aishwaryagoel.com
Importantly, if writing is thinking, are we not then reading the ‘thoughts’ of the LLM rather than those of the researchers behind the paper?
Nature • Writing Is Thinking
“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward…Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.”
- what Krishna tells Arjuna in The Bhagavad Gita:
refusals shape lives just as powerfully as ambitions.
Joan Westenberg • Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits
Even the smartest people are dumb most of the time. This is because cognition is computationally costly, so the brain must ration rationality.
Gurwinder on Substack
That scarf has value not because it’s a great scarf but because I chose to spend an irreplaceable fraction of my life making it. It’s a symbol of how much I care about her.
In short, it has meaning . Meaning doesn’t make an object more useful. It’s not even transferrable. If my mother-in-law gave the scarf to you, its meaning would evaporate.
But I... See more
In short, it has meaning . Meaning doesn’t make an object more useful. It’s not even transferrable. If my mother-in-law gave the scarf to you, its meaning would evaporate.
But I... See more
