Strategies for discovering new valuable ideas
Plus: Why we need AI literacy, how worldview affects explanations, and why more computing power isn't enough for AGI – Digest for the week of May 26th.
In this digest:
Ignore the new releases, read these books instead – When overwhelmed by new options, it pays to find older, proven alternatives.
Broaden your range to improve your thinking – Explore fields that are different from yours to increase your repertoire of mental models.
This is why we need AI literacy – Texas professor fails entire class after ChatGPT told him it wrote their assignments.
Thiel vs. Gladwell: How worldview affects explanations – All observations are theory-laden.
Bigger doesn’t mean smarter – In nature, bigger brains don’t necessary mean smarter creatures. Does this apply to artificial brains, too?
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