Good morning treepeople
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Over the years, I've been frequently surprised that enthusiasts of "Tools for Thought" and "Bicycles for the Mind" often overlook a few basics:
- Simple practices like changing location, exercising, riding a bike, or meditating can significantly impact one's mental and physical state, influencing thoughts more profoundly than any software.
- "Lucky accidents" and intuition (serendipity) frequently lead to breakthroughs when exploring complex ideas. Provoking this in software or else remains an open research challenge.
- Thoughts are meaningless in isolation; ultimately, it's all about relationships and communication.
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The System Model and the User Model: Exploring AI Dashboard Design
#Comment: How is the "internal state" of a complex system like a large AI model best represented to human users, so its key info is clear, transparent & actionable? What is the equivalent of "body language" or "smell" here that allows intuitive, at a glance sense- and decision making?
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Interactive decision making bot augmentation
"This is my favorite Claude use case: Take an ungodly amount of data and preferences, shove it into Claude, ask for an interactive decision-making bot, ask for scoring and reward mechanism, personalize as necessary."
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Generative Doubt
Extensively using LLMs during everyday writing tasks seriously messes with one's perception. Suddenly, i have doubt about all texts online - wondering if it might be secretly generated. Certain words, that vanilla LLMs overuse, have become taboo and many texts feel cheap.
"Generative Doubt" is a widespread novel psychological condition in the early 21st century. Assuming by default everything on screens is AI generated and daily meditation are effective strategies to deal with it.
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"Failure is the seed of success" - Kaoru Ishikawa (1915 - 1989)
"Think of at least four factor which influence your problem. See if a shift in one of these causes can give you a different effect to explore" - Kaoru Ishikawa
