Curated. I was reluctant to curate this post because I found myself bouncing off it some due to length – I guess in pedagogy there’s a tradeoff between explaining at length (and you lose people) and you convey enough info vs keeping it brief and people read it but they don’t get enough. Based on private convo, Raemon thinks length is warranted.
I’m curating because I do think this kind of project is valuable. Everyday it feels easier to lose our minds entirely to AI, and I think it’s important to remember we can think better or worse, and we should be trying to do the former.
I have mixed feeling about Raemon’s project overall. Parts of it feel good, something feels missing (I think I’m partial to John Wentworth’s claim elsewhere that you need a bunch of technical study in the recipe), but I except the stuff Raemon is developing to be helpful to have engaged with for anyone who gets better at thinking.
It’s interesting to compare this to the other curated posts I got in my inbox over the last week, What is malevolence? and How will we update about scheming. Both of those (especially the former) I bounced off of due to length. But this one I stuck with for quite a while, before I started skimming in the worksheet section.
I think the instinct to apply a length filter before sending a post to many peoples’ inboxes is a good one. I just wish it were more consistently applied :)
Curated. I was reluctant to curate this post because I found myself bouncing off it some due to length – I guess in pedagogy there’s a tradeoff between explaining at length (and you lose people) and you convey enough info vs keeping it brief and people read it but they don’t get enough. Based on private convo, Raemon thinks length is warranted.
I’m curating because I do think this kind of project is valuable. Everyday it feels easier to lose our minds entirely to AI, and I think it’s important to remember we can think better or worse, and we should be trying to do the former.
I have mixed feeling about Raemon’s project overall. Parts of it feel good, something feels missing (I think I’m partial to John Wentworth’s claim elsewhere that you need a bunch of technical study in the recipe), but I except the stuff Raemon is developing to be helpful to have engaged with for anyone who gets better at thinking.
It’s interesting to compare this to the other curated posts I got in my inbox over the last week, What is malevolence? and How will we update about scheming. Both of those (especially the former) I bounced off of due to length. But this one I stuck with for quite a while, before I started skimming in the worksheet section.
I think the instinct to apply a length filter before sending a post to many peoples’ inboxes is a good one. I just wish it were more consistently applied :)