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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.…

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 becaus…

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 th…

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 a…

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 ChatGP…

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 b…

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 do…

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…

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…

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 Europ…

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 gr…

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 car…

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 …

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 n…