Thought provoking

rest itself becomes an act of rebellion. If AI gives us near-limitless productive capacity, the truly radical act might be to not use it at all. By setting realistic targets for ourselves, and putting up boundaries, we can slow the erosion of our humanity.

Similarly, AI creates nigh-infinite consumption potential. OpenAI 's Sloptok can generate

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I think back to really early technologies, thousands of years ago. We discovered fire and invented use cases for it. Some of those use cases burned down London, and some just kept families warm. Fire itself is pretty neutral. We invented the wheel. We did really cool things with the wheel, but the wheel also enabled mass warfare.

It’s what we do... See more

I don't care if a robot wrote it. If it's good, it's good.

Joan Westenberg

When it comes to AI, I tend to see it as a tool. It can be a tool for great things or really crummy things. It can be a tool for cool people and terrible people. It can be used ethically or very unethically. But it’s very much a tool in the same sense that everything else is a tool.

What we do with the things we invent, with the technology we... See more

I don't care if a robot wrote it. If it's good, it's good.

Joan Westenberg

Karpathy believes the next era is less about artificial intelligence replacing people and more about augmented intelligence: AI as a cognitive power tool . Today’s models, he says, are closer to “compressed human knowledge we can remix,” like a supercharged Wikipedia, rather than autonomous workers.

Unitree unviels H2 humanoid robot

today’s LLM’s lack full reliability and struggle to abstract

Pay for the best models, use them every day, and hold yourself to a standard where using them makes your work better rather than worse. Don’t be lazy and use these tools to do better work.

How we traded beauty for efficiency

David Perell’s advice on how to use AI

watch people use AI, they basically take the answers, copy and paste them. They don’t really question them. They treat it as dry clay, not wet clay. And that is no way to use AI.

How we traded beauty for efficiency

Great metaphor on how to use input or feedback from anyone else - robot or human

human effort matters. In a workout, if you don’t feel it burn, you’re not really working out, right? I think that cognitive work is the same way.

The AI Debate Is Not About Art, It's About Money

Friction, uncomfortableness, effort and struggle are essential ingredients in change (growth, improvement, expansion).

When in doubt, look for the fear every time. They sell Supreme T-shirts at a store in Manhattan. People wait in line to pay $90 for a T-shirt. Why are they doing it? Look for the fear: status, affiliation. Sometimes we call it greed or seeking profit, but that's also a form of fear.

A conversation with Seth Godin

From Seth Godin

how to think about AI. One way to do it is to say, "How can I lower my costs? How can I become more efficient?" That's what almost every big company is doing; they're racing to the bottom. The other way to do it is to say, "How can I work harder? How can this put me on the spot to do things I might be uncomfortable with?" And that's what I'm trying... See more

A conversation with Seth Godin

From Seth Godin