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- a supercharged "ideaverse" to support and power all of your thinking efforts.
- the work of defining what needs to be done is harder than doing the work itself
LLMs and all such products tend to converge: on styles, on forms, on patterns; the “sameness” isn’t incidental, it’s actually core to what these technologies do, how they work; they will always have this quality; this quality is their modus operandi, really! There is no world in which LLMs write interesting things.
Humans care about what other human
... See more- the goal is not to like every person we meet. the goal is to like ourselves with every person we meet.
- Tackle the Monkey First: "Let’s say you’re trying to teach a monkey how to recite Shakespeare while on a pedestal. How should you allocate your time and money between training the monkey and building the pedestal? The right answer, of course, is to spend zero time thinking about the pedestal. But I bet at least a couple of people will rush off a... See more
The human psyche is exceptional at converting jealousy into victimhood.
The human species was given this tremendous gift of neuroplasticity, the ability to change ourselves and be better in deliberate ways. My definition of greatness is anyone that’s making that effort, even in a tiny way, just to take this incredible machinery that we were given—our nervous system—and to leverage it toward being better, feeling better
... See more- This speech delivered at the Secular Solstice is a beautiful reminder that despite our flaws, we (humans) have always found a way to thrive: “You’re only human.” That’s what someone says when they want you to set your sights a little lower, to make your goals a little less lofty. “Only human”. It’s supposed to be a reminder that, when you get... See more
“Children are not our projects. They are to share life with.”
-from On Being interview with Sara Hendren
Edwin Land, the scientist and inventor best known for co-founding the Polaroid Corporation and inventing instant photography, said, “My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn’t know they had.”