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by madiator 4y ago
And I am completely surprised by people who think this tech today is not good, and fail to account that it can get way better in the future.
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How to get better at predicting the future(newsletter.smarter.blog)
1 points by madiator 4y ago|0 comments
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by madiator 4y ago
Aside: if you scroll to past issues, the author has all sorts of other articles like how to get into p0rn. Wonder if the author picked up AI recently, in which case, that's impressive.
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by madiator 4y ago
The other reason I have heard is that since it's slower to write by hand you are forced to summarize it, which means you need to understand. You can't mindlessly type anymore.
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by madiator 4y ago
I don't get why you don't care about your physical health. You got one body for the rest of your life..
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by madiator 4y ago
I always think about thinking and try to write about it at my substack: http://newsletter.smarter.blog
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by madiator 4y ago
Adopting the growth mindset in lieu of the fixed mindset. I was unhappy with my abilities and used to think, "I just have poor memory", or "I have hit my maximum ability" etc. But somehow somewhere I realized I can work
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by madiator 4y ago
I don't know how I stumbled upon them, but I am glad to have gone through his audiobooks Mythos, Heroes, and Troy. Absolute treat to listen to the stories and the narration is just perfect.
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The Silicon Valley of the 13th century(newsletter.smarter.blog)
12 points by madiator 4y ago|3 comments
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by madiator 4y ago
You can think of your mind as a garden as well: https://newsletter.smarter.blog/p/mind-as-a-garden
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I just tried an AI-powered writing app, and I am so hilariously out of a job(twitter.com)
3 points by madiator 4y ago|1 comments
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by madiator 4y ago
+1 for paying for good information, which is what the author Yuval Harari recommends. He asks why we are willing to pay for high quality food, clothes etc., but not for high quality information.
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by madiator 4y ago
Learning is remembering and understanding. You have to progressively build layers of understanding (and be able to recall it quickly). This article focuses mostly on the second part, about remembering. You could recall things but you may no
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by madiator 4y ago
Hmm. I highly recommend a three way redundancy as others have mentioned. Put a copy in the cloud or store your harddisks somewhere else.
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by madiator 4y ago
What will you do if there is a fire and you lose your laptop and the external hard disk?
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DJI Avata(youtube.com)
1 points by madiator 4y ago|0 comments
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by madiator 4y ago
Regarding the ethics. Thought experiment: I look at a copyrighted image, get inspiration, and then draw a new image (which is not the same as the copyrighted image). Is that ethical? But if I do this millions of times, after looking at mil
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by madiator 4y ago
Do you want to become an expert in very many different things? Just becoming an expert in one field can take a good fraction of your lifetime, so you may want to consider that. A useful mental model is to already see what you are good at, a
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DALL·E, GPT-3 and Midjourney Prompt Marketplace(promptbase.com)
3 points by madiator 4y ago|0 comments
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How to Take Better Notes(newsletter.smarter.blog)
2 points by madiator 4y ago|0 comments
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by madiator 4y ago
Yeah, I read it first as places where you unnaturally age very fast.
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Tips for Productivity, Thinking, and Doing(nabeelqu.co)
1 points by madiator 4y ago|0 comments
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by madiator 4y ago
Similarly, when I sometimes talk to people about AI (and AGI) and how it will change the world, people respond, meh, yeah ok, so what?
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How to get better at predicting the future(newsletter.smarter.blog)
4 points by madiator 4y ago|0 comments
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by madiator 4y ago
> Regrettably, this will have an intended impact on approximately 500 employees in our Maps unit, equivalent to around 10% of our total global headcount. At least they are honest about it. I am currently reading the first chapter of 21 l
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by madiator 4y ago
Yeah the term mental models is being misused these days. Each of us build thousands of mental models in our head, and what the list in the article contain are, principles or lenses. I wrote about this in https://smarter.blog&#x2F
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The hidden prices of everything you do(newsletter.smarter.blog)
2 points by madiator 4y ago|0 comments
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Tragedy of the Commons(newsletter.smarter.blog)
1 points by madiator 4y ago|1 comments
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Scale is all you need in AI?(twitter.com)
4 points by madiator 4y ago|0 comments
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by madiator 4y ago
A different mental model I like and use is to treat your brain as a walled garden. Be selective and picky about what you sow.

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