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When a technology changes how a broad range of goods or services are produced, it’s called a “general-purpose technology.” There have been two major general-purpose technologies for humans: 1) the Agricultural Revolution, which gave us food production at scale and let us transition from hunting and gathering to farming; and 2) the Industrial Revolution, which gave us manufacturing at scale. The folks at Our World in Data argue that Transformative AI marks a third:
Everything Everywhere All At Once: The Explosion in Generative AI
Rex Woodbury
These are like general “directions of travel” rather than discrete milestones along your journey, and they are what psychologists typically refer to as “values.”
In Defense of Radical Self-Betterment
Gena Gorlin
The notes we take aren’t just bits of new information. They’re breeding grounds for curiosity, creativity, and natural human responses.
A Better Note-Taking System for Your Scattered Brain
Ria Tagulinao
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