/adrift/ by Stantonius

Floating without direction across the digital ocean in an unfinished dinghy.
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Prompting guidelines

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General Be explicit & literal: Spell everything out exactly as you want it Induce planning/CoT: +4% gain.

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The difference is meaning

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I've been thinking about the "meaning economy" for a while, given the possibility that cheap access to AI knowledge fundamentally changes what is valuable in our economy.

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Make good new things

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Paul Graham describes the following principles: take care of people and the world, and make good new things where PG describes emphasizes make (as opposed to critique) and new as being critical requirements of this philosophy.

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AI - the pleb's mentor

· 5 min read · blog

I keep hearing about the value of a mentor (Tyler Cowen talks about this a lot), or at the very least a strong community - this is not new information, but maybe I'm just actually listening now? In trying to be an optimist, here is a take of how AI will positively help folks like me achieve the benefits of a mentor/community without actually having one.

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How I blog

· 2 min read · blog

This is a live document that will evolve over time.

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