Following up on this; do you have these notebooks available?
Possibly of interest: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14380
"We found that participants who debated GPT-4 with access to their personal information had 81.7% (p < 0.01; N = 820 unique participants) higher odds of increased agreement with their opponents compared to partici- pants who debated humans. Without personalization, GPT-4 still outperforms humans, but the effect is lower and statistically non-significant (p = 0.31)."
I really liked this essay a lot, especially how it shows the importance and necessity of creativity in such a rigorous field like mathematics for being able to explore and potentially end up wrong. This sprung up many thoughts:
Advice I had heard from Jacob Lagerros, "If you're not embarrassed by what you ship, you ship too late."
The etymology of the
Paul Graham
Link for the curious http://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html
I've heard this comment as, "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product."
I've read this book and tried to read it again as I thought I was missing something, but my impression of the book is that it's somewhat sloppy, a bit preachy of ZK being a cure-all, makes much more complicated a very simple system to the point of obfuscating the main point.
To my understanding, all the Zettlekasten is is having notes with:
1. individual names (if you look for one name, one note comes up),
2. creating links between associated ideas (if you think, "wow, this reminds me of..." you may forget that connection later, so you link them), and&n...
Appreciate the reply, thank you!
I think I've done similar explorations as you've mentioned and have been curious to develop a framework of how to go about this more generally; specifically I get lost in your first example's preservation of structure (I think this is shallow vs. deep dives, could be wrong about the terminology.)
To my understanding, the overall objective is "to get a feel for what is out there." After running through it a couple times, I think I see a general pattern of...
Thanks for posting this! I'd also tag to the idea of the "Illusion of Transparency" that it may seem like common knowledge of how to be a part of online communities but has been fairly foreign to me. It's nice to get explicit steps/suggestions such as this.
On posting related ideas, I see this as incredibly helpful as has been noted by the "zettlekasten" method and being able to develop a highly connected network of knowledge. It's really cool to think of a network growing in the direction of ideas and people by this sort of act.
"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms." - (attributed to) Socrates
I'd argue that for any conversation between people to make progress, they have to have some agreeance on what they're talking about. A counter example, if I were to order a 1/4" bolt from someone and we have different measurement standards of what 1/4" is, I won't be able to build on what I've received from them. Consistency is the key characteristic that allows interoperability between multiple parties.
I appreciate greatly that Gwern uses confidence tags to convey this aspect,... (read more)