A tool that makes you feel comfortable no matter the results is entertainment. Or worse: a formless mass of iridescent protoplasm, quietly eating your writing voice. notefields.substack.com/p/dancing-wi...
I think we will see more and more emphasis on real world data validation to sort out all those plausible sounding claims everywhere
This piece was inspired by reading Candide for Venkatesh Rao's Contraptions Bookclub. It helped me coping with my colleagues outer space longtermist techno-optimism. Find me cultivating my garden (I don’t really like actual gardening though 🧑🌾)
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I sometimes get frustrated when old writing uncovers that mental breakthroughs from the day before have been circulating in my notes for years without moving. But rushing Sensemaking fires back, it’s accumulating epistemic debt that will haunt me later.
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How to be a good craftsperson:
1. searching for challenging work that may fail
2. taking care of skills
3. prioritizing embodied knowledge as the only relevant (maybe the only possible) kind of knowledge
4. insist on doing the job well, never compromise on quality
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How to avoid getting fooled by Silicon Valley metaphors? I think it helps to realize the hype around LLMs will be gone eventually. “The brain works like a large language model” is not a metaphor built to last, it will perish eventually, maybe sooner than later.
NotebookLM made me belief I could 10x myself by crunching through books like Keanu Reeves crunches through robot secret agents.
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With too much galaxy brain thinking, you will end up with a pretty solution model for everything, but will always lack the capacity to execute upon it.
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Between Dubai chocolate, high-end headphones from brands I never heard of, electrical trolleys and overtired toddlers in Batik I found a quiet corner to contemplate my continental identity.
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I tried to capture the gloomy vibe I feel on my daily commute in the Munich subway. Don’t let a good crisis go to waste.
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As soon as I put my phone away, stuff that used to make sense starts to break apart.
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I might visualize my decaying corpse every morning to make peace with the fact that in the end we all will become excellent fertilizer.
But would it help?
"November 15th, 2015: Woke up in the morning, energized. Got stuck on the couch, sore back. Try again tomorrow."
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AI is not my friend
AI is not my friend
AI is not my friend
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Being bold in English is easy. Being sceptical in German is easy too.
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superb reference
Sounds exciting, would love to see an example!
Do you know any sources on the quality/reliability of LLM summarizers? Always wonder what gets lost in summarization..
Were there OG slopniks too? (carrying the water for capital by promoting that more cheap chintz is all we ever wanted, hoping to catch a cozy spot as chintz factory line manager for themselves)
Slopnik (noun, derogatory):
A person with an unhealthy, excessive dependence on AI assistants, often anthropomorphizing them and exhibiting impaired judgment or social isolation as a result.
„not everything deserves your attention“ 🎯
Thanks @inevernu.bsky.social for reading & sharing just the right things in time!
Slopcore
Custom bot?
The problem with the Turing test: there is a 2/3 chance humans got more stupid, instead of machines getting smarter 🔥
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software could get grunujpy
Once a meme passes the event horizon of a vibe, it becomes based and cringe simultaneously, lost to discourse forever
Tiny scrolls of scripture, fastened to the legs of unassuming grocery drones
