Discussion across the Atmosphere
On Learning to Ride Your Brain
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Your brain is already a bicycle, AI is a motorcycle, a regular computer is power tools
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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st
To use it well, you have to do more than issue instructions and evaluate outputs. You have to maintain orientation while the system generates possibilities faster than you can individually inspect them. You have to recognize when it is going somewhere interesting, when it is wandering, when it is…
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Tim Disney @disnetdev.com
The “smart” person has a particular social role: Serving as ready proof of the shallowness of the mental life of the median person on the median topic, who is revealed to be, not stupid per se, but simply atrociously unaware of the meta of most topics they weigh in on, to the point that they cannot…
Discussion
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Cosmik Network @cosmik.network
Can the Atmosphere become the Noosphere?
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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st
Your brain is already a bicycle, AI is a motorcycle, a regular computer is power tools
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Tim Disney @disnetdev.com
I really like this framing, using AI well means learning how to harness attention (both yours and the machine)
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Mike Bennett @mikehypercube.bsky.social
This is good (on using Generative AI effectively)
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Hacker News 20 @betterhn20.e-work.xyz
Learning to Ride Your Brain
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Contraptions @contraptions.blogsky.venki.dev
Saved in
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me
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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st
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Boris @bmann.ca
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Tim Disney @disnetdev.com
Connections
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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st
An Intro to Ego Development Theory by Cook-Greuter (EDT Summary) Sloww supplement this
“We sometimes teach study skills, concentration techniques, or emotional regulation, but these are usually treated as auxiliary skills rather than the central developmental achievement.” while we may not teach smarts, there is a lot of spirituality and self awareness which is…
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