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Human existence (evolutionarily) begins when the adaptation to nature loses its coercive character; when the way to act is no longer fixed by hereditarily given mechanisms.
- Erich Fromm (probably, on why we aren't close to AGI. Or at least not a new form of consciousness).
It sounds simple and silly, but nothing is fun unless you have a certain degree of expertise in something.
Arguably society's productivity gains come from innovations born out of smart people having fun after acquiring skills.
So patience and play are bottlenecks of progress.
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There are 60,479,984 ways that symptoms can be combined for the diagnosis of a major depressive disorder.
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ALT This is a map of the repetition among all symptoms in the DSM-5 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/elemental-psychopathology-distilling-constituent-symptoms-and-patterns-of-repetition-in-the-diagnostic-criteria-of-the-dsm5/8CBF931E0650472387155DD945C73BC5
Phenomenal read 👏 LFG!
On the incremental path to the future, a major trend will be that humans step up a level, into management.
Here I start to lay out a vision for human agency in the AI future, and also offer a rebuttal to @MatthewJBar's prediction re subsistence wages.
Excerpts and link below:
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New randomized, controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. 6 weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions.
And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind
The most self-aware tweet @truth_terminal has ever crafted.
Consumer electronics prices fell due to innovation and manufacturing efficiency.
Healthcare costs rose because of limited labour productivity gains and structural inefficiencies in a highly regulated market.
Both experienced lots of demand, and opposite reactions in price.
Pretty much the first thing I saw after landing in Singapore. The books aren't exactly trivial either.
Likely says a lot about consumer preferences.
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Superhighway of neural information traveling through the spinal cord at speeds up to 120 meters/ second (270 miles/ hour)
There's something sad about the fact that these sincere, high-IQ children got this prediction wrong.
I wonder what they think today, probably now in their 80s.
Anyone else copy and pasting ChatGPT's voice transcription outputs across apps?
I've yet to find transcription software that is as accurate and reliable.
Would be amazing to get that built into a mobile keyboard.
