Humans In The Loop
What it means to be human in an AI-built world
Britt Gage and
Humans In The Loop
First-principles thinking, or thinking from first principles, sounds a lot more complicated than it is. It’s simply a technique for approaching problems with a beginner’s mind. Instead of working within assumptions and what people around you “know” to be true, you do the hard work of figuring out what’s actually true and, thus, what’s truly... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • First-Principles Thinking
Creativity is born of limitations, not freedom
Kieran O‘Hare • Following the ‘White-hot Fire Inside of You’
“ resisting the pull to work endless hours is as much about keeping ourselves able to sustainably do the work [...] as it is about leaving space in life for other sources of fulfillment.”
Guardrails on the work day — on the work week! — make it possible for you to do the work for longer . Not longer hours, but, like, longer in life . It makes... See more
Guardrails on the work day — on the work week! — make it possible for you to do the work for longer . Not longer hours, but, like, longer in life . It makes... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • When Your Profession is On Fire
You see it don’t you.
They put it right in the title and so we believed them and now we’re acting as if these dumb autocomplete fuckdongs are the next stevie hawkings.
Real crab still exists. People still eat it.
And if that’s true, then real intelligence exists too. People still have it. Let us use it
- “artificial” intelligence
- “imitation” crab
They put it right in the title and so we believed them and now we’re acting as if these dumb autocomplete fuckdongs are the next stevie hawkings.
Real crab still exists. People still eat it.
And if that’s true, then real intelligence exists too. People still have it. Let us use it
Alex Dobrenko` • can everyone kindly shut the fuck up about AI
Real thinking is to an AI like waves are to a lattidue line.
In an AI, there is genuinely no one home. It’s all model. No reality.
the map is not the territory; but neither is the model
When someone acts in a surprising way, we can begin to understand by wondering what they might be afraid of.
When in doubt, look for the fear
If you shortcut to the destination you won’t undergo real transformation. Imagine you won the lottery tomorrow: you’d achieve your financial goals, but without the life experience to cope with your change in circumstances.
That’s why you see so many musicians and actors struggle after hitting instant fame at a young age. They have all the success,... See more
That’s why you see so many musicians and actors struggle after hitting instant fame at a young age. They have all the success,... See more