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Or just get GPT to do it for you, probably better as well.

sho_hn 4y ago
The nice thing about AI being able to do it is that it gives you the freedom to simply enjoy things with far reduced performance pressure. I'm not a professional chef, I don't cook as well as one, but it's still satisfying to prepare a meal. I'm not as good at Korean as a native speaker and not as effective at acquiring it as many other students, but it's still nice to progress at my own pace. Just write if you want to.
- RMWildly 4y ago
  This is my attitude. Doing these kinds of things for your own satisfaction is something that gets majorly overlooked. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut talking about writing a poem every day just for the heck of it. Even if you're not actively trying to progress, writing/coding/working out/cooking/whatever else can be done for its own sake and still be rewarding, and sometimes it's good to resist the urge to compete with others or even monetize hobbies.
  - sho_hn 4y ago
    It's true freedom! The ability to live and fill life as we choose. Something we don't value enough.
- iliekcomputers 4y ago
  As a person who loves playing chess but will never be as good as an IM (let alone GMs or Magnus or engines), I've had to internalize this. It's a good feeling.
davidthewatson 4y ago
I think there's an important point embedded here, but it's subtle. That is, the important thing to realize is that you're having an improvisational conversation with an intelligent agent, but one that is not sentient. And like two jazz musicians riffing over a mode, there is a much deeper architecture to that conversation than may not be apparent to the casual observer. So while I think regular writing is an important part of thinking, and AI is an important part of our evolution in thinking, it is a mistake to think that we should just "let the AI do the writing" or "get GPT to do it for you" as it will be frequently wrong, particularly when the conversation rises to the complexity of requiring sensemaking, i.e. it's not just objective fact that's not difficult for machines to compute, but rather messy, subjective consensus where the need for the conversation with AI becomes particularly powerful and may, in fact, change our course in ways we could not anticipate. That is, the emergent sensemaking we require is a collaboration of humans and machines that arises just as Kubernetes did, by realizing that the need is for improvisation AND orchestration, not one OR the other.

The nice thing about AI being able to do it is that it gives you the freedom to simply enjoy things with far reduced performance pressure. I'm not a professional chef, I don't cook as well as one, but it's still satisfying to prepare a meal. I'm not as good at Korean as a native speaker and not as effective at acquiring it as many other students, but it's still nice to progress at my own pace. Just write if you want to.

RMWildly 4y ago
This is my attitude. Doing these kinds of things for your own satisfaction is something that gets majorly overlooked. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut talking about writing a poem every day just for the heck of it. Even if you're not actively trying to progress, writing/coding/working out/cooking/whatever else can be done for its own sake and still be rewarding, and sometimes it's good to resist the urge to compete with others or even monetize hobbies.
- sho_hn 4y ago
  It's true freedom! The ability to live and fill life as we choose. Something we don't value enough.
iliekcomputers 4y ago
As a person who loves playing chess but will never be as good as an IM (let alone GMs or Magnus or engines), I've had to internalize this. It's a good feeling.

davidthewatson 4y ago

I think there's an important point embedded here, but it's subtle. That is, the important thing to realize is that you're having an improvisational conversation with an intelligent agent, but one that is not sentient. And like two jazz musicians riffing over a mode, there is a much deeper architecture to that conversation than may not be apparent to the casual observer. So while I think regular writing is an important part of thinking, and AI is an important part of our evolution in thinking, it is a mistake to think that we should just "let the AI do the writing" or "get GPT to do it for you" as it will be frequently wrong, particularly when the conversation rises to the complexity of requiring sensemaking, i.e. it's not just objective fact that's not difficult for machines to compute, but rather messy, subjective consensus where the need for the conversation with AI becomes particularly powerful and may, in fact, change our course in ways we could not anticipate. That is, the emergent sensemaking we require is a collaboration of humans and machines that arises just as Kubernetes did, by realizing that the need is for improvisation AND orchestration, not one OR the other.