Daniel Santos
@danielsantos
Brazilian lifelong learner. Curiosity waves surfer. I will probably die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Daniel Santos
danielsantos.org
“Disbelief in one’s capabilities,” writes the psychologist Albert Bandura, “creates its own behavioral validation.”
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
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A descrença em nossas próprias capacidades cria sua própria validação comportamental. Falando em português claro, conforme o meu entendimento em relação ao que o autor está dizendo, se acreditarmos que “podemos fazer”, acabamos de fato conseguindo fazer. E se acreditarmos no contrário, que não podemos fazer, nós mesmos nos impediremos de conseguir fazer de fato.
A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the edge of a vast national park, and one of the biggest challenges is protecting the animals from lions—especially at night. Richard had noticed that
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LLMs are a moat, but for how long?
An LLM vendor like OpenAI isn’t an aggregator, As far as I can tell.
• An aggregator leverages a monopoly on demand to commodify supply .
• Whereas a traditional industrial monopoly leverages a monopoly on supply to extract $ from demand .
LLM vendors seem more like a traditional industrial monopoly. Like an
... See moreGordon Brander from Subconscious • LLMs and Information Post-Scarcity
Jim is an engineer and works for “THE COMPANY”. A client has requested a JSON file that contains all recent, Canadian buyers of their “PRODUCT ABC”. Jim can handle this task no problem, but thinks it is a little short-sighted. Jim thinks to himself, “What if they want to check buyers from the US? What if they want a shorter or longer time frame?”.... See more
Deliver the Bare Minimum
Example of overengineering, a phenomenom which assolates IT development and impairs keeping things simple
The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you. They spread their legs to you and pull you inside. And you go deep and leave your possessions and your ties to the world at the door and you like it inside and you don't want for your possessions or your ties and then, the book evaporates.
Caroline Kepnes, You (You, #1)
Instead of asking whether machines will ever become conscious, we might ask whether humans can become conscious enough to outgrow the “artificial intelligence” both inside them and in the machines around them.