Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will curate sources and ideas and let AI handle execution or assembly. Honing an ability to curate and arrange these sources will cultivate depth and meaning in your work—tuning the machine to your... See more
terrain.com • Design Literacy
Balancing analog handwriting and AI dictation for different note-taking purposes: reflection versus efficiency in knowledge capture
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We live in an interesting time because the AI dictation has got to a level now that it's kind of a solved problem.
And if you want to just sit there and talk for 15 minutes, sometimes you're going to surface ideas that you wouldn't with pen and paper because we often edit ourselves when we write out longhand. And that is absolutely valuable.
But
... See moreLarge language models are excellent personality simulators. If you give a language model a prompt about what kind of personality to mimic, it will reliably answer your questions in that style. It can even produce long-form writing consistent with a given personality type. (For more on this, I wrote about it in "Personality Simulation Is Coming.")
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Dan Shipper • AI Can Help You Make Big Life Decisions
LLMs are excellent personality simulators, Shipper argued, and went further by feeding GPT-4 data to simulate his personality. He had it create a personality test that he gave to his then‑girlfriend as well as to his mother, who both lost against the LLM in guessing the right answers.
Your brain works best when you are not instructing it on what to do. A lot of creative work is really just sitting around
Daniel Vassallo • Daniel Vassallo on Applied Antifragility – Visión Periférica Podcast • Podcast Notes
Unfortunately, that flabby life is the default we slide into without a deliberate struggle against it. You are always getting weaker unless you’re making efforts to get stronger. If you aren’t finding new ways to push your physical and mental limits, or at least maintain their capacity, they are shrinking. Your capacity is unlikely to be stretched... See more
Nat Eliason • Raising Your Ceiling
Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.