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coderwolf··on Is AI Making Us Dumb?
I've been able to learn about niche topics far more after LLMs have become available. Reading through less materials, lets me learn about things right away. I'd say the same thing can happen for the students. The less friction to learning things usually makes things easier to learn. That leads the curious minds to more knowledge. That's a good thing.
coderwolf··on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
This is pretty obvious now,

- LLMs are capable of really cool things. - Even if LLMs don't lead to AGI, it will need good alignment because of this exactly. Because it still is quite powerful! - LLMs are actually kinda cool. Great times ahead

coderwolf··on Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?
A lot of the things are fundamentals, right? Teach him/her that. Like he/she still needs to learn to read. Then do basic maths to know how much to pay for groceries, etc.

Prep for the worst, hope for the best. So, if the AGI, UBI doesn't happen, that still would be ok. And if it does, knowing things that are useful, how those AGI things work might come in handy. Maybe those will end up empowering the kids.

coderwolf··on The five orders of ignorance (2000)
This would be so useful of a model, in personal development, life and more! Incredible take on this.
coderwolf··on Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users
well, canva is for the normies. and it shouldn't be a surprise that their other tool would be the same.
coderwolf··on Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds
I think you're right. (Did some ChatGPTing, and found this one holds).

But still, I don't believe IQ alone can improve your reasoning capability, could it? Like with proper education, and knowledge, a person with average IQ would more likely be able to see the correct patterns, and connections between ideas, than a high IQ person without the required education would.

It's like - having the proper education, trumps the meaning of having a high IQ. But, it's true, given the similar environment, I'd assume, the high IQ person would do better.

coderwolf··on Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds
Could you share some examples for what you mean?

There are two different form of understandability that comes to my mind,

1. Things that you don't understand because you don't have the necessary background knowledge, 2. And the things you'd fundamentally never understand because of the limitations of your own mind, which is, limited by the IQ.

I' assuming you're trying to mean the second version here.

coderwolf··on Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds
Is IQ really that important?

I mean, if your goal is to get from point A to point B, having a fast car just means you go there faster.

I'm thinking of IQ in a similar way, as in - high IQ = faster car. But at the end of the day, it's still the same, isn't it? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

coderwolf··on What organization app do you use? (notes/todo etc.)
Ticktick for todo list. Notion for note taking.