There are many benefits to A.I., such as being able to generate beautiful art, inspiring music, captivating writing, and mesmerizing videos. It democratizes creation (people can now create what’s in their minds), lowers costs (replacing human labor with algorithms), and enables hyper-personalization (works can be made just for you). The benefits are big and important.
But there is also something soul-crushing about it. People spend decades learning a craft and then see an A.I. make something...
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How do we predict high levels of success?
Below, I outline 13 approaches to predicting high levels of success with differing levels of complexity, including my own mega model at the bottom.
Note: here, I use the term "success" merely in terms of achievement, career success, or high levels of expertise, NOT in terms of happiness, living a good life, morality, having strong social bonds, etc. There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be successful in the way this post focuses on. But if you DO want "success" in the sense in...
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11 Types of Thinkers and Intellectuals (a little framework)
1. Ideators: generate novel ideas
Ex: Einstein
Strengths: creativity, insight
2: Investigators: vigorously investigate a topic in order to understand it
Ex: Curie
Strengths: truth-seeking, curiosity, systematicness, persistence
3. Provers: demonstrate that the ideas of others are sound, explore their limits, strengthen or work out the implications of existing theories
Ex: Singer
Strengths: consistency, logic, rigor, bullet-biting
4. Appliers: explo...
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Idea-Inducing Questions
Struggling to come up with an idea for a blog post? Want to post ideas on social media but can't think of what to write about? Want to come up with interesting topics for an intellectual discussion or meetup?
Use my lists of "Idea-Inducing Questions" to generate nearly endless ideas to write about, think about, or discuss!
Questions about learning and truth-seeking
• Recently learned: what's a powerful idea, concept, or mental model that you've been learning about recently that you...
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Contradictory Insight
I was recently having a conversation with Geoff A. and Jana G. about how to systematically generate surprising ideas. I then sat down and created this program with them based on our discussion. Take a minute to try it, and generate some insight that you've never considered before!
Click here to run Contradictory Insight!
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