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Major update for Magic Tags for Roam Research. Transform tags into beautiful icons while preserving all functionality, such as backlinking and searching.
You can now define unlimited tags, choose from all Blueprint and Lucide icons, and im-/export your settings.

07.02.2026 20:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Uncertainty Trap Understanding the Mechanics and Psychology of Intermittent Reinforcement

If a vending machine eats your dollar, you stop using it immediately.

If a slot machine eats your dollar, you pull the lever again.

Why?

www.goedel.io/p/the-uncert...

07.12.2025 10:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Building Virtual AI Teams: All Hands on Deck Understanding Multi-Persona Prompting and When It Works (Part 2)

Multi-persona prompting transforms one AI model into a virtual expert panel that simultaneously approaches problems from multiple perspectives. This implementation guide provides four production-ready templates.

www.goedel.io/p/building-v...

25.10.2025 18:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Building Virtual AI Teams: A New Approach to Complex Problems Understanding Multi-Persona Prompting and When It Works (Part 1)

Most people use AI like a search engine: ask a question, get an answer. But complex decisions need multiple perspectives. Hereโ€™s how to turn one AI into a virtual expert panelโ€”complete with the prompts that work (and the mistakes that waste your time).

www.goedel.io/p/building-v...

18.10.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rubber Duck Debugging Breaking Down Complex Problems to Their Fundamental Truths

Rubber duck debugging improves problem-solving by clearly explaining challenges to an unresponsive listener. It originated in software development but is helpful for any complex problem. It reveals solutions through explanation, not external feedback.

www.goedel.io/p/rubber-duc...

11.10.2025 18:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Madagaskar: Die kleinen Helfer der KI - ARTE Reportage - Die ganze Doku | ARTE Hinter den Meisterleistungen der kรผnstlichen Intelligenz steht eine fรผr die User unsichtbare menschliche Armee, etwa in Madagaskar: Dort klicken jeden Tag fast 100.000 Menschen, um die Algorithmen der...

Hinter den Meisterleistungen der kรผnstlichen Intelligenz steht eine fรผr die User unsichtbare menschliche Armee, etwa in Madagaskar: Dort klicken jeden Tag fast 100.000 Menschen, um die Algorithmen der digitalen Giganten der Welt zu trainieren. Sehr sehenswerte Doku.

www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

24.09.2025 07:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Can ChatGPT help science writers?

The Science Press Package (SciPak) team at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) tested for over a year whether ChatGPT can deliver reliable, high-quality short journalistic summaries of new scientific articles. In short, itโ€™s not ready yet.

www.science.org/content/blog...

21.09.2025 06:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Cruel Arithmetic of Time The Philosophy of Temporal Acceleration

Iโ€™m turning 50 next year, so I started a personal series called โ€œMidlife Mediationsโ€ exploring how we inhabit time, create meaning, and understand what it means to โ€œarriveโ€ in life.

www.goedel.io/p/the-cruel-...

15.09.2025 11:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Passive-Aggressive Behavior The Indirect War on Direct Communication

www.goedel.io/p/passive-ag...

07.09.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Passive-aggressive behavior is indirectly expressing negative feelings instead of addressing them openly. It often involves a mismatch between words and actions, with subtle acts of resistance, procrastination, or inefficiency to show control without confrontation.

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07.09.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We canโ€™t without changing the fundamental way they work. You could try to completely ban topics like this (as they do with sex, weapons, bomb building, and some other things) or use another specialized LLM to plausibilize the results of the first one to increase the chance of detecting it.

07.09.2025 20:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I waited hours for this cloud to come near the lake #lightning strike reflection.

31.08.2025 10:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21468    ๐Ÿ” 2027    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 671    ๐Ÿ“Œ 97
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Es triggert mich mehr als es sollte.

31.08.2025 11:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Es gibt Tage, das bestehe ich gefรผhlt nur aus Gefรผhl. Uff.

31.08.2025 13:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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real gamers get it ๐Ÿ˜ค

31.08.2025 15:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 96    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Comic. Figur 1 sagt: "DrauรŸen ist herrliches Wetter. Wollen wir uns daheim einschlieรŸen und sรคmtliche Vorhรคnge zuziehen?" Darauf Figur zwei begeistert: "Du hast immer die besten Ideen!"

Comic. Figur 1 sagt: "DrauรŸen ist herrliches Wetter. Wollen wir uns daheim einschlieรŸen und sรคmtliche Vorhรคnge zuziehen?" Darauf Figur zwei begeistert: "Du hast immer die besten Ideen!"

31.08.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 401    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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The Hidden Danger of Biased Prompts When AI Sees What Isn't There

AI confidently identifies non-existent patterns and generates fake evidence images to support its false claims when prompts assume something exists.

www.goedel.io/p/the-hidden...

31.08.2025 12:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Exactly.

30.08.2025 15:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To teach people to spot the argument from ignorance fallacy, focus on helping them recognize burden-shifting language. Practice with real examples from everyday discussions, emphasizing that whoever makes a claim is responsible for providing evidence, not vice versa. The article has some more ideas.

30.08.2025 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Double Bind The Inescapable Trap of Contradictory Communication

โ€œAlso, I want you to be more innovative and take risks, but remember that any mistakes will reflect poorly on your tenure review.โ€

Unlike simple mixed messages, double binds create systematic traps where every possible response leads to failure.

www.goedel.io/p/double-bind

30.08.2025 13:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Gaslighting The Sneaky Manipulation That Rewrites Reality

Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which the abuser attempts to sow self-doubt and confusion in their victimโ€™s mind by denying, misdirecting, contradicting, and lying about events, making the victim question their own memory, perception, and sanity.

www.goedel.io/p/gaslighting

24.08.2025 16:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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First-Principles Thinking Breaking Down Complex Problems to Their Fundamental Truths

First-principles thinking strips problems to their fundamental truths. This methodโ€”popularized by Elon Musk but practiced by historyโ€™s greatest innovators, from Aristotle to Einsteinโ€”rejects established assumptions in favor of elemental reasoning.

www.goedel.io/p/first-prin...

23.08.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Can You Prove Me Wrong? How Arguments from Ignorance Reverse Logic and Undermine Evidence-Based Thinking

During a discussion about extraterrestrial life, your colleague declares, โ€œScientists have never proven that aliens donโ€™t exist, so they must be out there somewhere.โ€ When you ask for evidence, they respond: โ€œWell, can you prove they donโ€™t exist?โ€

www.goedel.io/p/can-you-pr...

21.08.2025 18:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Whataboutism The Deflection Trap That Destroys Productive Discourse

When criticism arises, responding with "What about them?" deflects responsibility and prevents solutions.

The result: Problems persist. Institutions avoid accountability. Democratic dialogue degrades into blame-shifting contests.

www.goedel.io/p/whataboutism

16.08.2025 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The deceptive nature of LLM reasoning Why chain-of-thought is just a โ€œfragile illusionโ€

Researchers reveal that the much-praised chain-of-thought reasoning could be a โ€œfragile mirageโ€ โ€“ impressive with familiar data, but failing dramatically with deviations. Instead of genuine logical conclusions, AI systems use superficial semantic tricks.

www.goedel.io/p/the-decept...

12.08.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Enshittification of Generative AI Thanks for subscribing to Whereโ€™s Your Ed At Premium, please shoot me an email at ez@betteroffline.com if you ever have any questions. Yesterday, OpenAI launched GPT-5, a new โ€œflagshipโ€ model of some...

Premium Newsletter: The enshittification of AI has begun. With GPT-5, OpenAI has cut access to all other models, reducing the value of even their $200-a-month subscriptions. They join Anthropic in screwing their customers over by making their products worse.

www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

08.08.2025 17:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1258    ๐Ÿ” 252    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 52    ๐Ÿ“Œ 44
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The Black Box Deception How AI Companies Are Hiding True Costs Behind Opaque Systems

The generative AI industry has perfected a new form of corporate sleight-of-hand: the black box strategy. Under the guise of "optimization" and "smart routing," major LLM providers systematically obscure what users receive for their money...

www.goedel.io/p/the-black-...

08.08.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Slippery Slope Fallacy When Logic Takes a Tumble

The slippery slope fallacy occurs when someone argues that a relatively small first step will inevitably lead to a chain of related events resulting in some significant (usually adverse) effect...

www.goedel.io/p/the-slippe...

08.08.2025 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
r/ChatGPTPro 
u/vurto โ€ข 28d
If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work?
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It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque.
On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't.
All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction.
I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read).
And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable.
How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with.
I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto โ€ข 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

05.08.2025 04:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9364    ๐Ÿ” 1904    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 191    ๐Ÿ“Œ 222
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Increasing use of AI among developers leads to declining trust Takeaways from the latest Stack Overflow survey

The latest developer surveys reveal a fascinating paradox: while the use of AI tools in software development is skyrocketing, trust in these technologies is declining simultaneously.

www.goedel.io/p/increasing...

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