Humans In The Loop
What it means to be human in an AI-built world
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Humans In The Loop
#6 — Automated Delegation
In order to delegate something today you need to describe the project, or your goals, to your assistants. There are different ways to do this:
But what if AI could automatically identify tasks that were able to be delegated to your... See more
In order to delegate something today you need to describe the project, or your goals, to your assistants. There are different ways to do this:
- Text/typing → Slowest
- Voice → Fastest/easiest
- Loom videos → Adds the most context
But what if AI could automatically identify tasks that were able to be delegated to your... See more
Michael Houck • World Class Delegation (from a Unicorn Founder)
Jonathan Swanson of Athena on delegation
Turns out, there's a stark difference between creating true fans around one narrow, rigid aspect of yourself, and creating true fans of a dynamic, evolving human.
The Imperfectionist: Doing things is what counts
ckarchive.com“Here’s what I mean: everyone seems to yearn for the productivity technique or life philosophy or set of personal rules that will cause them to do more writing, launch a business, be a better listener, or finally start meditating. But nothing beats actually doing a bit of the thing to reinforce to yourself that you’re capable of making progress on it. The best way to convince a five-year-old that enjoyable leisure doesn’t require addictive technology is to spend a few hours demonstrating that it doesn’t; and the best way to prove to yourself that you can add words to the manuscript of your novel is to add a few.”
Most traditions are solutions to forgotten problems.
100 Simple Truths
Agreeableness is not the same as agreeing. In fact, they have little in common. Finding someone who’s only job is to agree with everything that is said is easy. On the other hand, agreeableness is the skill of having a contrary position and being pleasant about it. It’s the hard work of bringing professional work to people who expected something... See more
429 Too Many Requests
Reasoning by analogy, or copying what others are doing, is sort of like being a cover band where you’re playing somebody else’s music. Whereas with first-principles thinking, you go back to the fundamental raw materials of music, which are the notes, and then you build an original song from scratch. That is first-principles thinking.
Lenny Rachitsky • First-Principles Thinking
We’re not just bits of intelligence bouncing through the world. We have complicated emotions, and nuanced and unspoken social hierarchies. We act irrationally and pursue goals that may not be in our best interests. We don’t exist within the clean confines of an operating system or a laboratory—we act and react in a highly variable world. Creating a... See more
Alice Albrecht • The Case for Cyborgs
How can we go from accumulating insights to embodying and integrating learnings?
sari azout • My Favorite Questions
People worried about AI taking their jobs and taking control are competing with a myth. Instead, people should train themselves to be better humans even as they develop better AI. People are still in control, but they need to use that control wisely, ethically and carefully.