Love and Death
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If you know nothing, everything becomes a miracle.
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few."
- Shunryu Suzuki
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Has anyone built any truly compelling things for kids (age 4 - 12) with all the gen AI stuff yet, beyond shallow gimmicks? Any success stories?
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FBI File On Jeff Bezos' Grandfather, A DARPA Co-Founder, Has Been Destroyed
What's not widely known is that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, helped form the Pentagon's supersecret Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA—renamed DARPA) in 1958. Years later, DARPA developed the internet and spurred breakthroughs in high-speed networking, voice recognition, and internet search. One year before Gise died in 1995, Bezos founded Amazon in the garage of his Bellevue, Washington home.
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People working on Reinforcement Learning or AI safety that don't have kids can not be taken serious. Anyone with small kids knows that "preventing agents hacking the reward function" or "designing agent incentives to avoid reward tampering" is categorically impossible and it is ok.
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Choosing who to spend significant time with is tough. Reevaluating past decisions and letting go of or reshaping relationships that no longer serve us is even tougher.
Related is "the sunk cost fallacy", that means that we are focused on our past investments instead of present and future costs and benefits, meaning that we commit to decisions that are no longer in our best interests.
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Reality Tunnel Management (RTM)
Close it
Tune in
Focus
Stop it
Filter and Enjoy
Cultivate Cognitive Security
Question Sources of Suggestibility
Keep it real.
Expand the delay between desire & gratification.
"The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore" - Rumi
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«Do not look back at your possibly less successful steps - because even the little that you will have acquired will bring you far more!» - Blanche Merz
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We ought to pay more attention to the absolutely gigantic thing in our sky
Solar activity continues at high levels with multiple M-Flares detected. Also AR 3664-3668 is showing rapid development.
