provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
The total volume of things that became worth doing due to the technology greatly exceeds the quantity of time saved by the technology.
I'm dying. Of overwork.
The value of my seconds didn't crash through the floor. They became more valuable. My seconds are now multiplied. The amount of work I get done is astounding. The speed through which I can... See more
I'm dying. Of overwork.
The value of my seconds didn't crash through the floor. They became more valuable. My seconds are now multiplied. The amount of work I get done is astounding. The speed through which I can... See more
kache • Tweet
AGI was supposed to replace me. Instead, I have more work to do than ever.
As an operator, doing nothing is never the right strategy.
As an investor, doing nothing is often the right strategy.
Geoff Lewistwitter.cominvesting vs. operating requires entirely different skills
People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real worry is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world. -Pedro Domingos
sari azout • Tweet
The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.
-David Graeber
alex and
People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.
Robert Greene • Mastery
There’s a lot of hype around AI, and in particular, Large Language Models (LLMs). To be blunt, a lot of that hype is just some demo bullshit that would fall over the instant anyone tried to use it for a real task that their job depends on. The reality is far less glamorous: it’s hard to build a real product backed by an LLM .
Phillip Carter • All the Hard Stuff Nobody Talks About When Building Products With LLMs
Memes may dominate how we communicate online, but in the last few years, their rapid spread has also necessitated the birth of a parallel, shadow ecosystem, where the best ideas are paradoxically harder to find. Not everyone wants their ideas to go viral anymore. One friend writes a newsletter that he asks people not to share around. Another... See more
Introducing: Antimemetics (my new book!)
AI discovered wholly new proteins before it could count the ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’, which makes it neither vaporware nor a demigod but a secret third thing.
these tools benefit the highly skilled more than the less skilled .
How to have a career even when OpenAI's o3 drops
referring to AI