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AI, with its perceived threat to automate a vast array of jobs, seems like the apotheosis of post-scarcity existence, but in reality it just highlights how the dumb human component of so much work is that work’s essential and enduring quality. For years, it has seemed obvious to me that corporate PowerPoint decks should be the first thing we automate, but there’s one major obstacle: The purpose of a PowerPoint deck is to prove that a human knew enough about a topic to make the deck.
#200: All Tomorrow's Parties
Kneeling Bus
Loss in Judo is more personal than in other sports. Defeat in a sport like tennis feels bad, but defeat in a fighting sport is crushing in ways that most people do not comprehend. My coach liked to say that “at the end of the day, Judo is a fight, and humans respond very differently to losing in a physical fight.”
An Expertise Acceleration Experiment in Judo
Cedric Chin
A three second warning can’t compete against 45 minutes of seeing charismatic and funny guys do reckless things.
Be Wary of Imitating High-Status People Who Can Afford to Countersignal
Rob Henderson
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