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This is one reason why we continually grasp for the latest get-rich-quick or weight-loss scheme. New plans offer hope because we don’t have any experiences to ground our expectations. New strategies seem more appealing than old ones because they can have unbounded hope.
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
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
I am also constantly disappointed by the weather, but at least the weather doesn't enable third-party cookies.
The Wisdom of James Mickens
Harvard University Gazette
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