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Historically I’ve wrestled with this duality coming in contact with difficult problems. First, the level-headed, begrudging acceptance that yes, this is meant to be hard . In the same vein, I’m like god, why is this so hard? Sooner or later, I get over myself. It’s not that my problems are uniquely hard, they just generally take energy to solve and... See more

How Seth thinks about organization Organizing is like building a case to hold your tools. You don’t get points for making it fancy, you get points for doing the work.

My old belief was that storing all these links in a souped-up database would lead me to magically generate new insights about the topics I write about. After several years of banging my head into a wall, I realized that to generate new insights from these links I would need a new approach.

That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs o... See more

focus less on AI as something separate from humans, and more on tools that enhance human cognition rather than replacing it… If we want a future that is both superintelligent and "human", one where human beings are not just pets, but actually retain meaningful agency over the world, then it feels like something like this is the most natural option.

I think there are things in life that you want to telescope and compress and accelerate and streamline and make more efficient. And there are things where the value is precisely in the inefficiency, in the time spent, in the pain endured, in the effort you have to invest. And I don’t think we’re going to differentiate between those things. Because ... See more