Jacob Falkovich
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From one piece By Chains or by Promises 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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LLMs themselves are the perfect captive reader: they never get bored or confused, never miss a reference or have an emotional reaction, never ask themselves why am I reading this?, never close the tab.
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Large language models write to satisfy an evaluator's grading criteria rather than to move a human reader.Their words
LLMs write to get a grade, not with the goal of moving the reader.
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Most people who would be a good audience for an essay will never notice it or bother to engage with it.Their words
99% of people who you'd want to read your essay probably don't know you exist, or don't give a fuck, or wouldn't be bothered to engage even if they read it.
28 May
From one piece Slop Readers 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There's little point trying to avoid LLMisms as a human, the readers who'll latch onto that don't care what you're saying anyway.
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The prerequisite to good writing is having something you want to tell people about, which AI doesn't.
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From one piece Jacob Will Work For You 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The high value human tasks, like understanding the client's true pain points and deciding on priorities and trade-offs, would be easier with a smaller, proactive team.
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clients want a lot more from a software vendor than a solution that performs ABC by XYZ date.
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From my experience, a lot of company culture is downstream from profit margins.
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From one piece I’m Writing The Dating Sequences over at secondperson.dating 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Ultimately, the only thing that matters is if you think the writing is good, not how much effort I put into it.
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I suspect that both Substack and OnlyFans may become a Girardian bubble. Everyone joins after hearing from the few people who succeed; the thousands who slink away after months of effort netted them a mere 17 subscribers usually do so quietly.
19 August 2023
From one piece Seth Explains Consciousness 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It is unclear whether a digital emulation of a person could ever be conscious, even in principle.Their words
But it is not clear at all that such a being could even exist in principle.
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Free will does not require violating the laws of physics, yet the subjective experience of it is real and meaningful.Their words
There is no "spooky free will" that violates the laws of physics in our common model of them, but the experience of free will certainly exists and is informative.
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Color as perceived is not an objective property of objects, but a construct generated by the perceiving brain.Their words
Redness is not "objective" in the sense of being "in the object", it only exists in the models generated by the sort of brains which are hooked up to eyes.
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Being YouTheir words
I highly recommend that you read Being You, and then that you spend a good while thinking about it.
10 June 2023
From one piece Whose dream bf is it anyway 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Whether one does find a good spouse or not depends more on one's orientation towards actually building relationships, and whether they can identify non-trivial traits in a partner that would contribute to that.
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It's not that looks and status don't matter, it's that focusing on looks and status as one's dating strategy is perfectly pointless.
7 March 2023
From one piece What’s Not Our Problem 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But power is ultimately held by those with the will to power. That will does not grow in decoupled idea labs, and would immediately corrupt them if it did.
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The proportion of profiteers seems highly correlated with the number of VERITAS plaques on campus and the high-mindedness of the organization's mission statement.
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High rung thinking will almost always land on "centrist" position because it acknowledges tradeoffs, or on non-politicized positions because it's not beholden to supporting either of the two parties in a zero-sum game. It's not a coincidence that the political square is a triangle.
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