I was originally going to email Gwern directly, but figured being in a public space would benefit others who have the same questions and also put more eyes on it. BLUF: I'm writing to you with a question and asking for advice in doing research better. When you're engaging with...
Main sections (taken from the article): 1. The progress of science and technology as a path to peace 2. The future of artificial intelligence: between promise and risk 3. The technology of the future: machines that “learn” by themselves 4. The sense of limit in the technocratic paradigm 5. Burning...
* This is a quick snapshot showing how I come to understand unfamiliar, key terminology. * If you're lucky enough to encounter confusion, then the process goes; Encounter an unfamiliar term, look at etymology of said term, encounter info that doesn't make sense, try to explore why it could be...
BLUF: I'm writing to you with a question and asking for advice in doing research better. When you're engaging with an overwhelming amount of resources how do you 1. prevent information overwhelm while 2. keeping a high fidelity understanding of your resources to be able to use them in a larger body of work?
After reading your Spaced Repetition post, many of your LW comments, subreddit posts, etc. I'm always excited with how you synthesize the number of links and breadth of resources you... (read 678 more words →)
"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms." - (attributed to) Socrates
I'd argue that for any conversation between people to make progress, they have to have some agreeance on what they're talking about. A counter example, if I were to order a 1/4" bolt from someone and we have different measurement standards of what 1/4" is, I won't be able to build on what I've received from them. Consistency is the key characteristic that allows interoperability between multiple parties.
I appreciate greatly that Gwern uses confidence tags to convey this aspect, as it gives me a relative sense of how much I can trust a piece of evidence.
Maybe most important, I'd also... (read more)
Following up on this; do you have these notebooks available?
Possibly of interest: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14380
"We found that participants who debated GPT-4 with access to their personal information had 81.7% (p < 0.01; N = 820 unique participants) higher odds of increased agreement with their opponents compared to partici- pants who debated humans. Without personalization, GPT-4 still outperforms humans, but the effect is lower and statistically non-significant (p = 0.31)."
Main sections (taken from the article):
I really liked this essay a lot, especially how it shows the importance and necessity of creativity in such a rigorous field like mathematics for being able to explore and potentially end up wrong. This sprung up many thoughts:
Advice I had heard from Jacob Lagerros, "If you're not embarrassed by what you ship, you ship too late."
The etymology of the words experiment, experience, and finally expert all are based on the root "-per", meaning "to try, to dare, to
Paul Graham
Link for the curious http://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html
I was reading the article "Terminate deliberation based on resilience, not certainty" to learn how to know when it is you have enough info (or not) to make a good decision. And when reading, I encountered and couldn't get past the phrase "credal resilience".
So, as a habit instilled in my process of learning, I look up the etymology and... (read 486 more words →)
I've heard this comment as, "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product."
I've read this book and tried to read it again as I thought I was missing something, but my impression of the book is that it's somewhat sloppy, a bit preachy of ZK being a cure-all, makes much more complicated a very simple system to the point of obfuscating the main point.
To my understanding, all the Zettlekasten is is having notes with:
1. individual names (if you look for one name, one note comes up),
2. creating links between associated ideas (if you think, "wow, this reminds me of..." you may forget that connection later, so you link them), and
3. having indexes to point you to good starting points when you develop strings of... (read more)
Appreciate the reply, thank you!