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When a person is not doing his job, there can only be two reasons for it. The person either can’t do it or won’t do it; he is either not capable or not motivated. To determine which, we can employ a simple mental test: if the person’s life depended on doing the work, could he do it? If the answer is yes, that person is not motivated; if the answer is no, he is not capable. If my life depended on playing the violin on command, I could not do it. But if I had to run a mile in six minutes, I probably could. Not that I would want to, but if my life depended on it, I probably could.
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
AI learning across a long time span is challenging, because when a person’s happiness goes up, the AI does not know whether it was a result of today’s activities, or last week’s, or last year’s, or some combination thereof. This problem is akin to a challenge facing social media algorithms: How can Facebook train its newsfeed to help a user grow over the longer term, rather than simply entice immediate advertising clicks? When the person shows growth, how does the Facebook AI know which day’s content or algorithms caused that growth?
Ai 2041
Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
31. Affect Heuristic:
Emotions evolved to guide us in a low-data world, so are useful in times of uncertainty, as long as you treat them as advisors not masters, and understand their advice: fear for caution, envy for ambition, regret for wisdom, and hatred for motivation.
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