sparks
this is amazing and applies to helping someone learn anything.
from Mr Beast
“It’s getting ever harder to distinguish humans from bots, not just because bots are becoming more humanlike, but also because humans are becoming more botlike.”
Gurwinder • For Paid Subscribers (December 2023)
Human advantage will be caring about other humans: “humans care about other humans and also not at all about machines”
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
Sam Altman bfast with JB.
(note: i want to write about intelligence)
# on shortification of "learning"
There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having... See more
Andrej Karpathyx.comthe truth. “There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education… This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those ‘Garden Veggie Straws’, which feel like you're eating healthy until you look at the ingredients.”
material solutions can't fix spiritual problems
“things that work in practice, but wouldn’t work in theory.”
a lot of things have to emerge, bottoms up, for one to believe they are feasible.
don’t know how else to explain it except to say that when I make time to read, my capacity to deal with my own life — and my own bullshit — expands . My natural tendency to be tightly wound loosens its grip.
Reading as a default state
Ignoring AI’s potential is, well, ignorant
Nate Silver • It's time to come to grips with AI
tweets like “consistently amazed by how useless chatgpt is” don’t help the cause.
these tweets are the “equivalent to, in the 1990s, dismissing the Internet as a “pornography and hacking machine. Yes, these are common use cases, but they’re the tip of a massive iceberg.”