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Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communicate information. Writing the report is important; reading it often is not.
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
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
The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was *legitimizing* a Schelling point: interesting intellectuals can charge money for doing their thing and people who interested in the life of the mind should pay for their output. The Schelling point, the place at which these two groups would choose to meet without any coordination mechanism, was the writer’s Substack.
BAM Is Now Reader-Supported
Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
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