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In the allegory of long spoons, there are people in hell and people in heaven. In each location, the inhabitants are given access to food, but the utensils are too unwieldy to serve oneself with.
In [hell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell), the people cannot cooperate, and consequently starve.
In [heaven](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven), the diners feed one another across the table and are sated.
Allegory of the Long Spoons
wikipedia.org
Text inputs have no affordances
When I go up the mountain to ask the ChatGPT oracle a question, I am met with a blank face. What does this oracle know? How should I ask my question? And when it responds, it is endlessly confident. I can't tell whether or not it actually understand my question or where this information came from.
**Good tools make it clear how they should be used.** And more importantly, how they should *not* be used.
Why Chatbots Are Not the Future
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More things than you would think are dynamic strategic problems. If you can improve running by offloading a (barely conscious) decision process, you can improve pretty much everything, even the processes you think are too straightforward or “human.”
Understanding what you want to optimize, what you need to control, and what information is directly relevant to this is much — much, *much*, ***much*** — more important than algorithmic sophistication, whether in the form of complex neural networks, Large Language Models, or anything else.
Wavelights and AIs as Strategic Amplifiers
marcelo.rinesi
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