I am in the same situation as you (pre-ordered from Germany, no delivery date yet). In the mean time I have just listened to the audio book on Spotify.
We actually did have a post the other day reporting positive results of LLM use for education. The linked Harvard study contains a prompt that I was easily able to adapt and use with some fun and engaging results (just tried it on myself, not with students). I think suggesting a constructive approach like this for the (secondary) purpose of education could have been added in the discussion with the principal to make it seem less cynical. Also, training disadvantaged locals in LLM use for educating and as a side effect empowering them to also use the LLM tu...
Thank you for the retroactive feature request!
These days, I've left both traditional and roam-like note-taking apps behind because they all left me with collections of half finished notes on ideas/writings that I would seldomly revisit again. Instead I started to just use Anki for all my note-taking. It's not made for this use case, but it is part of my daily workflow anyway and it solves my biggest problem of stale notes by making me revisit them regularly.
With Anki I record any fleeting ideas as standalone notes, without an "answer" component. Later, when these note come up for review I spend a few ...
Three years ago I also felt very anxious about the possibility that everyone I loved could be dead in a few years and managed to disconnect emotionally from it after a while, which helped. I focused on other things than AI risk afterwards. Recently I decided that I no longer just want to sit and watch, and instead want to Actually Do Something About It.
Engaging with the topic again also brought the anxiety and grimness back, this time more concretely and viscerally than before. Two things helped me the most to not despair, while at the same time also not d... (read more)