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Then, to add yet another layer of protection, Microsoft started running GPT-4 on hundreds of computers and set them to converse with one another—millions of exchanges apiece—with instructions to get other machines to say something untoward. Each time a new lapse was generated, the meta-prompts and other customizations were adjusted accordingly. Then the process began anew. After months of honing, the result was a version of GPT-4 unique to Microsoft’s needs and attitudes, which invisibly added dozens, sometimes hundreds, of instructions to each user inquiry.
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker
Charles Duhigg
Matt Mullenweg, co-Founder of WordPress and Automattic, consistently reads between 40-50 books per year. To help achieve his reading goals, he has discovered a hack to make this more achievable.
“I started experimenting a bit with Audible’s sync feature with the Kindle, so I can be reading and then switch to audio and it’s exactly where I left off,” says Mullenweg. “Then when I switch back to reading it’s exactly where the audio stopped.”
Six Productivity Hacks From Some of the World's Most Productive People - Amantha Imber
amanthaimber.com
Clinging to suffering, paradoxically, is a way of trying to take care of ourselves. We’re convinced that the kernel of resolution will appear from somewhere inside the rubble of the problem. But usually the only thing that appears is more suffering…we’re left stuck in the rubble, scavenging for that unfindable gem of relief. So too, continually thinking about what hurts makes us feel that our pain matters, that it didn’t happen for no reason, and that it won’t be forgotten.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
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