Tools For Thought
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Tools For Thought
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"We choose to build a second brain because it lets us garden our thinking over days, months, and years. Where social media is compulsive, tools for thought are reflective. Where social media is here and now, tools for thought dwell in the long now. Tools for thought slowly build compounding momentum through low, slow feedback loops that point us in
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ChatGPT as muse, not oracle
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I gave a talk about Noosphere at the Summer of Protocols program.Here’s a teaser. I go wide!We cover Noosphere, tools for thought, how the web centralized, the dream of collective intelligence, and how we might recover it with decentralized protocols.
Gordon Brander • Noosphere at Summer of Protocols
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“Cheating” on homework by using ChatGPT may end up being a more important skill than anything else kids learn in school.
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Alexander Obenauer
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From 2016 onward, the sense of the internet as a transparent information organizing agent has been in decline. After the algorithms, you could not have a curated, chronological feed of your follows. After the Cambridge Analytic scandal, fears over disinformation and misinformation dominated discussions of our new communications technologies. After 2020, it was no longer a conspiracy theory that the federal government was involved in online censorship. The Elon Musk’s Twitter Files and Mark Zuckerberg’s public apology for caving to pressure from the FBI have corroborated digital dissidents’ accusations.
In the most practical sense, we are now much less limited by ideas than ever before. Even people who don’t consider themselves creative now have access to a machine that will generate innovative concepts that beat those of most humans (though not the most creative ones). Where previously, there were only a few people who had the ability to come up ... See more
Ethan Mollick • Automating Creativity
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This is a common error, which existed long before AI. In fact, generating (or selecting) good ideas is a key challenge. LLMs so far seem to be about as good as the internet at generating lots of quite generic ideas - those who can select the ones that match their context (and yes, then, execute on them) are the ones who will have a chance to succeed.