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Similarly, I think people need to ask themselves – and it might be easier if we ask each other – What do you really want to be doing? How did you fall in love in the first place? People start optimizing for things like “hm, if I did this I would get 5% more traffic” or “I would get to the next follower milestone” I think because it’s visible, and... See more
Anna Dorothea Ker • "People First" - Making Tech Work for You
Distinguishing healthy self-acknowledgment from destructive shame that hijacks our inner narrative and blocks love, creativity.
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Very good. So I think acknowledging the flaws is critical, critical, always. Acknowledging my humanness, my vulnerability, my frailty, the fact that I make mistakes, the fact that I fall, I stumble, and I sometimes have a very weak moment. And even internally, the fact that even if nobody sees it, I'm struggling with something that may be very,
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The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness . Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage. Left unchecked, LLMs will make systems larger, not better — appealing to perverse vanity metrics, perhaps, but... See more
The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck
How to respond to transformative AI by choosing meaningful work, redefining human value, and treating AI as creative instruments.
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Okay, so what should other people do if they agree with you that this is this moment of great historical significance? The actual thing I do is I found myself a thing I really, really care about and try to bridge from a future to people I care about. It's like I build Shopify. I try to understand what the future looks like with any trick in the
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Maybe cognitive minimalism— identifying which mental loops actually matter, and pruning the rest— isn't deprivation but liberation.