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  • The hardest questions you can ask AI while expecting a reasonable response

    Somewhere in the bowels of X, Sam Altman indicated that to get to the edge of what you can learn from AI, ask for the hardest question it could reasonably answer. It gives back two answers – ones it can answer reasonably well given the availability of public information, and ones that are hard to…

  • Do Less.

    I’d been treating my brain like a hard drive: Transfer the file, and it’s there. But that’s not how it works at all, not even close. Learning is more like digestion. You don’t absorb more nutrition by eating faster. Past a certain rate, you just stop digesting, and the food you’re cramming in isn’t feeding…

  • The Crucial Difference Between Being Educated and Being Cultured

    “culture is what is left over after you have forgotten all you have definitely set out to learn” And: “To be a cultured person is to be a person with some kind of original philosophy… This implies a desire to focus such imaginative reason as we possess upon the mystery of life.“ And: “The more culture a…