The users for sure don't want this. Among non-users, I'd say there's a sizable difference (let's say 50/50)...
Many things aren't that democratic when you look at it like that!
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Many things aren't that democratic when you look at it like that!
The caveats (perhaps not mentioned in the article) are: - Perhaps you have many metrics you need to track/analyze (CTR, conversion, rates on different metrics), so you can't strictly do bandit! - As someone mentioned below, sometimes the situation is dynamic (so having evenly sized groups helps with capturing this effect) - Maybe some other ones I can't think of?
But you can imagine this kind of auto-testing being useful... imagine AI continually pushes new variants, and it just continually learns which one is the best
Does anyone have strategies for actually thinking while using AI?
{ "reflections": [ { "text_snippet": "Life has been a haze this last year. After selling my company...", "response": "This reminds me of Joseph Campbell's concept of 'hitting the wasteland' - that disorienting period after achieving what society told you was the ultimate goal. Campbell wrote about this in 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces,' describing how many mythological heroes face their greatest crisis not in battle, but in the emptiness that follows victory. There's a beautiful quote from his lectures: 'If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take.'" }, { "text_snippet": "Everything feels like a side quest, but not in an inspiring way", "response": "This evokes Viktor Frankl's concept of the 'existential vacuum' - the state of emptiness that comes when our primary drive is satisfied but we haven't yet found what he calls our 'will to meaning.' You might find resonance in his lesser-known work 'The Unheard Cry for Meaning' where he writes: 'What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal.'" }, { "text_snippet": "I have infinite freedom, yet I don't know what to do with it", "response": "This reminds me of Kierkegaard's meditation on anxiety and freedom. He saw anxiety not as fear of external threats, but as the dizzying awareness of infinite possibility. In 'The Concept of Anxiety,' he describes it as 'the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility.'" } ], "questions": [ { "personal": "What did you imagine freedom would feel like before you achieved this level of it?", "philosophical": "When you say things feel like 'side quests,' I'm curious - what would a 'main quest' feel like to you now?" } ], "closing_thought": "Your situation reminds me of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha after he became a wealthy merchant. He had everything, yet felt a profound emptiness that eventually led him to his true path. Sometimes the void itself becomes the doorway to something deeper." }
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Really cool to read the comments in this thread & see the real-life advice of people who have been in these situations too!
I htink this is a really cool design space, particularly with the framing of the purpose of Zettelkasten as reflecting your personal understanding of the world, your views, rather than a cold, dead categorization of facts and objects.
How can we design software systems that enhance our sensemaking?
- Encouraging us to ask more questions, or write down our thoughts? You can imagine the AI bringing snippets to your attention, asking: "What do you make of this?" or "How might we connect these?"
- Augmenting our notes? Finding nubs of thought, and presenting research/articles to help us develop those lines some more
- Collaboration suggestions? People who wrote about the same things?
I think the interlinear is realy good at showing one translation (and isn't super distracting) -- do you imagine more like footnotes/etc type things?
I can imagine a click interaction (click on a word/phrase, learn more about the grammar, etc). What kind of interactions would people like for reading texts like this?
(this is so useful for Chinese too!)
Would be neat if anyone has benchmarks!!
1) show first 100 words of the idea (click into it) 2) votes! so we can see which ones are the best 3) ...thanks :))
There's something like the universal approximation theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...) for neural nets, if that's what you're looking for!
Imagine the space of ideas as a circle, with stuff in the middle being more easy to reach (the "cliched average"). Previously, traversing the circle was incredibly hard - we had to use tools like DeviantArt, Instragram, etc to agglomerate the diverse tastes of artists, hoping to find or create the style we're looking for. Creating the same art style is hiring the artist. As a result, on average, what you see is the result of huge amounts of human curation, effort, and branding teams.
Now reduce the effort 1000x, and all of a sudden, it's incredibly easy to reach the edge of the circle (or closer to it). Sure, we might still miss some things at the very outer edge, but it's equivalent to building roads. Motorists appear, people with no time to sit down and spend 10000 hours to learn and master a particular style can simply remix art and create things wildly beyond their manual capabilities. As a result, the amount of content in the infosphere skyrockets, the tastemaking velocity accelerates, and you end up with a more interesting infosphere than you're used to.