Thinking About Thinking
by Indy Neogy and · updated 3mo ago
Thinking About Thinking
- The model was helpful—but only to an extent. They found that while AI improved the output of less creative writers, it made little difference to the quality of the stories produced by writers who were already creative.
from AI can make you more creative—but it has limits by Rhiannon Williams
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- It is difficult to overstate the advantage of intensely thinking about things in a world coated with a film of unthinking inertia. But it is also difficult to convey.
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from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."
sari and added 8mo ago
- If you did a lot of maths at school you are used to being given problems of the first type, and when you see a problem you want to find the analytic solution. It’s a good instinct, since analytic solutions are efficient. As long as you have the right method you can quickly reach an exact answer.
Lots of being smart is working out when you’re lookin... See morefrom Complex Problems and the Rush to Judgement by Tom Stafford
Indy Neogy added 9mo ago
- We should all want to cultivate a thirty second mind that can absorb the essence of a problem and come up with insights based on deep fluency with how the world works. However, a different type of “thirty second mind” is far more common today. Nearly thirty years after the internet became mainstream, the majority of people in our society have almos... See more
from The Thirty Second Mind by The Rational Walk
David Pennington added 9mo ago
The detriment of going from a multi-disciplinary mindset to an attention vacuum.
Jeff Bezos in the Lex Fridman podcast:
... See moreefficiency and invention are sort of at odds, because invention, real invention, not incremental improvement, incremental improvement is so important in every endeavor, in everything you do, you have to work hard on also just making things a little bit better. But I'm talking about real invention, real lateral
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