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Ask for things that feel unreasonable, to make sure your intuitions about what’s reasonable are accurate (try not to be a jerk in the process). If you’re only asking for things you get, you’re not aiming high enough. Jobs are a great example: Especially if you’re early in your career, you should aim to get rejected from most things you apply for.
Cate Hall • How to Be More Agentic
10 AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE IDEOLOGY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
The algorithms and machine learning that decides whether your child gets health insurance coverage are impossibly opaque and complex.
But they are still embodied, even if they appear not to be. They run on silicon and coltan and copper, housed in servers that can be destroyed, hacked, or damaged. Complex legal paperwork can’t stop a bullet piercing... See more
But they are still embodied, even if they appear not to be. They run on silicon and coltan and copper, housed in servers that can be destroyed, hacked, or damaged. Complex legal paperwork can’t stop a bullet piercing... See more
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Despite of (or in fact, because of) all its constraints and weirdness, AI is perfect for idea generation. You often need to have a lot of ideas to have good ideas. Not everyone is good at generating lots of ideas, but AI is very good at volume. Will all these ideas be good or even sane? Of course not. But they can spark further thinking on your
... See moreoneusefulthing.org • How to Use AI to Do Practical Stuff: A New Guide
In theory, any action that is available through an application programming interface (API) can be done by an LLM. This functionality is available with OpenAI’s custom GPTs—its platform for creating and hosting your own version of ChatGPT—and called GPT Actions.
Michael Taylor • The No-Fluff Guide to AI Agents
full-stack app builder Bolt
🎧 Do 60-minute Coding Tasks in 60 Seconds—With AI
“I think there's a whole class of people who are allergic to code...they don't even want to know it exists...and Val Town is not the product for those people. The product for those people is Claude Artifacts or Github Spark.”
🎧 Do 60-minute Coding Tasks in 60 Seconds—With AI
I tuned my inputs to listen more to channels from the real world, including the nature channel, the friend channel, the love channel, the curiosity channel, the literature channel, and the travel channel. I smelled a lot of roses and marveled at amazing vistas near and far. I even let myself get bored from time to time. I reduced my clock speed to
... See morebackchannel.com • How I Stopped Trying to Upgrade My Life – Backchannel
Steve is the cofounder and CEO of Val Town, a cloud-based platform for developers to write, share, and deploy code directly in the browser.