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We recently did some team training where they said “you haven’t joined a meeting until you’ve spoken” and suggested check-ins for every meeting.
Hughes Johnson’s suggestion is start with maybe just one word on how you are feeling, and then also end with a checkout, for example, are you happy with the decision we took?
Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ceremony in which a baby’s first feeding includes a sample of all the major tastes, so we created our own version of the ritual by topping his spoonfuls of congee with a drop of soy sauce, a squeeze of lime, a smear of well-chopped gai lan.
Just Taste - by Kate Ray - soft leaves
Just Taste
Kate Ray
But roughly speaking (and today), you're not asking some magical AI. You're asking a human data labeler. Whose average essence was lossily distilled into statistical token tumblers that are LLMs. This can still be super useful ofc ourse. Post triggered by someone suggesting we ask an AI how to run the government etc. TLDR you're not asking an AI, you're asking some mashup spirit of its average data labeler.
People Have Too Inflated Sense of What It Means To...
Andrej Karpathy
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