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I think there are two things at work here: -An expectation that because a scientist is incredibly good at one thing, they must be good at another, entirely different type of thing. This seems to uniqu…

Yeah exactly, I think the massive volume increase in content requires more aggressively filtering what you pay attention to. My tolerance for bad content has gone to nothing because the second I reali…

I think there's a difference here between low-effort AI slop and something made with the help of AI. I always wonder how many AI images and articles we consume without realizing they were made by…

I think this is extremely true when it comes to prompting, but not only in this way. I would add that this also applies to an LLM's output on deep enough topics. Anyone can point at a public GitH…

But then what's the point of the proof? I guess it's cool that it's possible, but given enough tokens, you could take someone who's never written a line of code and have them promp…

I don’t see a world in which this doesn’t just annihilate the current market for books. If I can write a query into Amazon for a book on topic X, I can write that query into ChatGPT or whatever and cu…

I guess this is a general problem where things that show you take initiative get converted into “thing to put on your resume”, and if that’s the primary motivation, you’ll do the bare minimum to check…

I think much of this comes down to wanting to be a type of person vs. wanting to do the actual thing. It’s easy to be consumed by “I’m the wealthy San Francisco founder guy” and doing everything that …

I think this is intuitively true, and I've noticed this even as someone who doesn’t have an engineering background. In my LLM coding experience, I’ve had this happen numerous times, for instance …

I totally agree with this when it comes to skill acquisition and deep expertise, which I care about more with skills than whatever rewards I might get for that expertise. It's just important not …

It's not if you use it correctly. If you say "Find me good brands for X", then yes you'll get bad stuff. I said something like: "Identify [category]-making cluster regions in …

Yeah it's quite interesting how most of the decline of great brands came as a result of ownership changes, not complacency on part of the owner/founder. I've actually found AI a great r…

I wonder if there’s an inverse of this: brands that actually got better over time because they don’t have massive brand history to fall back on, or simply because they actually care.

Yes, and I even think this applies to generally valuable skills. I can be really good at organizing projects, but I shouldn’t channel that into spending hours creating the perfect Jira template with 1…

Possibly, but I think it’s a bit more intuitive than that. It’s basically just like companies with terrible websites: Most of them are terrible because they no longer exist, have no budget because the…

True! And the point isn't that you shouldn't base whether you do something on how much economic value it produces. I think the judgment is more that if you're doing something to produce…

> Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI. People fear being replaced by machines and respond by giving those ma…

I've come around to the other side of this in a way. I used to think "wow they don't care at all" the same way I previously looked at menus clearly made in MS Word: The place will …