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It matters a lot what kind of tasks AI would be able to solve. Two completely different worlds arise if AI can do what I call a modern PhD grunt work vs it being able to produce ge…

Some might say that 2 is as made up as infinity. Let me elaborate a little - your brain together with society made an abstraction "apple", and only by not distinguishing between th…

I was in academia in the pre-GPT-3 era and I don't see a difference between the superficial pass-the-criteria understanding of things then and now. People already rely on a ton of …

Interesting thing: I've got my internal request that is similar to this pelican. And there was 0 progress on it in the past ~2 years. Which might have at least a couple of explanat…

Some research suggests it takes around 21 days to build a habit. How about instead of doing another tired New Year's resolution you start now and enter New Year with a habit in pla…

/e/ docs say it uses Android keyboard, wouldn't that be a source of a data leak?

Is there a guide on what steps I need to take to get rid of most of the tracking? I know basics - browser switch, migrate email, etc, but they don't cover much. Any suggestions? Is…

I was always told that writing becomes easier with practice. But I have found myself in the opposite situation, where my resentment towards the material and the process grows over …

The study did not add income as a control variable, so the article is basically about how rich people go to the therapist more often.