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by twayt 3y ago
Ok I actually thought about this a fair bit a few days ago and I think I have a good answer for this. You’ve probably heard of the cheap bar trick that goes something like: “And what does a cow drink? Milk!”. Irrespective of intelligence, h
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by twayt 3y ago
Using the example that you just used: The best ideas sound bad. Really bad ideas also sound bad. Many good sounding ideas are also hugely successful businesses. Maybe the etiology of success had nothing to do with how bad sounding the idea
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by twayt 3y ago
I wonder how much of this startup playbook is just a way to rationalize luck. Companies that succeed may not necessarily do all of these things. Companies that fail may do all of these things. A person who'd be inclined to click this
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by twayt 4y ago
Correction: just as unethical
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by twayt 4y ago
Not really, the desire to be unique and different is also one that’s relative to other people
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by twayt 4y ago
Because technological progress is not an iterative process. There is a certain level of talent x struggle needed to get to the next frontier. If everyone decided to not suffer in pursuit of excellence and simply work on iterating on what we
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by twayt 4y ago
People think that the happiness (in the way society thinks about it) is a given. It is not. There’s a lot that goes into you being able to “do nothing” / be present / mindful / enjoy the moment. Many exceptional people sacri
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by twayt 4y ago
I don’t buy that truly intrinsic motivation exists. If anything I think the display of intrinsic motivation is an external performance more than anything. If everyone a person cared about was taken away, I can’t convince myself that they’ll
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by twayt 4y ago
Happiness is like flux and is predicated upon moving goalposts (hedonic treadmill). It seems to have emerged that way to drive evolution / progress. In order for happiness to be sustained, you need economic / technological /
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by twayt 4y ago
One thing you realize after a certain age is that the notion of a person having any attribute X, whether X is a good thing (genius etc.) or bad thing, is almost completely a product of the environment / society and has little to do wit
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by twayt 4y ago
Yea but then you also disincentivize the one guy who could potentially make an outsized contribution to the innovation of the company. What you’re saying is a virtue in peacetime and a sin in wartime. Precisely the argument the author is tr
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by twayt 4y ago
It’s by emergent construction that language has this property. It’s no accident. In order to be able to communicate at all across the arbitrary range if subjective human experience, we had to come up with sounds / words / concepts
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by twayt 4y ago
The premise of this always puzzled me. I’ve seen many people “promoted” to a “higher” level because they displayed characteristics that they would be more successful at that role than anyone else despite lacking competence in their current
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by twayt 4y ago
That’s the conclusion, not the reasoning.
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by twayt 4y ago
And your point is?
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by twayt 4y ago
Its a great way to swindle overzealous educators. The kind that do hugely unproductive things to students because they think that its in their best interests.
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by twayt 4y ago
It’s a better way to ingest protein and calories. Vegetarian food has less protein by volume than meat and some of the protein substitutes taste bad and / or have a disgusting texture.
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by twayt 4y ago
The economy, social behavior, investing and most aspects of human society are “reflexive”. People modulate their behavior and outlook based on what they think other people think. Going even deeper, people absorb way more from other people t
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by twayt 4y ago
This guy is so weirdly pessimistic about the future. I don’t understand what you get by being right about predicting omission. Doesn’t seem to be helpful. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t stand to inherit the future others seek to build
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by twayt 4y ago
Its not "Alex Fridman"
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by twayt 4y ago
On a related note, I've personally observed that it also helps a lot with: 1. Generating (or simply repeating) obvious ideas in a domain that I am not an expert in 2. (With some prompting) Generating creative ideas in a domain that I a
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by twayt 4y ago
With the improved text embedding model, this is both doable right now and almost certainly more informative than a single text query string.
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by twayt 4y ago
The key is that it is way faster and has a broader set of knowledge than a human. Being an editor is often easier and more productive than being both a single generator and editor
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by twayt 4y ago
Rigid expectations may have been more prevalent but they most certainly were also more attainable because the competitive group was smaller. Rigid expectations might actually be better for humans. Having multiple potential paths and failing
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by twayt 4y ago
What’s the single biggest problem you’re facing today that has a huge impact on your mental health?
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by twayt 4y ago
The prerequisite for this is a healthy foundation of self belief. Young adults out there are getting hammered by messages that imply that they are fundamentally flawed and will never stack up. It’s a fragile place to be
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by twayt 4y ago
Many young women feel like they’re failures because they can’t meet the unrealistic expectations society has of them to be successful, beautiful and nurturing. Many young men feel like they’re failures because they can’t meet society’s expe
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by twayt 4y ago
This is about language, not thinking. When you use the word could, it usually implies a positive spin on things.
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by twayt 4y ago
How much of the recent tomfoolery in world leadership is due to COVID / Vaccine related brain damage?
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by twayt 4y ago
How do you know this is actually from GPT-3?

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