rookie mistake for smart people everywhere is to obsess over truth at the expense of memetic fitness
rookie mistake for smart people everywhere is to obsess over truth at the expense of memetic fitness
expanded version of these ideas
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Understanding what is true is essential for success,
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
First you learn the rules, then you transcend them. People sometimes therefore conclude that learning the rules is a mistake. But the rules are not a distraction from the true art, they are a path that leads you to it.
The moral of the story: Sometimes the “ground truth” is not the ground truth.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
Now, the biggest mistake one can make in this state is to turn to numeric information as a source of refuge or reassurance.
Geoffrey A. Moore • Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials)
When I shit on AI hype it's not cause I don't want it
I would be a huge beneficiary to AI advancements
But I'm on the ground trying to get this shit to work the way you guys talk about it, and it just doesn't
It just doesn't work the way the twitter threads say