The ideas that didn't make the editing rounds but are still useful for those who want to dive deeper:
OpenAI:
-Some people are incredibly worried about AI taking over humanity but first, it will have to survive human politics.
-A quote from a relevant book on the topic, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence:
"First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its environment. (And currently, the environment, not the brain, is acting as the bottleneck to intelligence.) Third, human intelligence is largely externalized, contained not in your brain but in your civilization. Think of individuals as tools, whose brains are modules in a cognitive system much larger than themselves—a system that is self-improving and has been for a long time."
TSA:
-Trying to cram more things into a single day is a legacy from the Industrial Revolution. Knowledge work is about insights, which could take minutes or hours.
-If thinking is the most important part of your job, then you need to do everything possible to maximize it, such as sleeping and eating well.
-Laying on the couch doing nothing is most likely not the best way to rest but you'll need to experiment.
Labor:
-A great book on the benefits of unions is What Do Unions Do? By Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff. It looks at the evidence up to the 1980s.
-I personally fall on the side against unions, especially in developed nations such as the United States. Instead, organizations should be their own union.
-To understand the conditions that created unions, the fiction book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is fantastic. Reading the book also makes it clear why unions don't make sense today.
The ideas that didn't make the editing rounds but are still useful for those who want to dive deeper:
OpenAI:
-Some people are incredibly worried about AI taking over humanity but first, it will have to survive human politics.
-A quote from a relevant book on the topic, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence:
"First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its environment. (And currently, the environment, not the brain, is acting as the bottleneck to intelligence.) Third, human intelligence is largely externalized, contained not in your brain but in your civilization. Think of individuals as tools, whose brains are modules in a cognitive system much larger than themselves—a system that is self-improving and has been for a long time."
TSA:
-Trying to cram more things into a single day is a legacy from the Industrial Revolution. Knowledge work is about insights, which could take minutes or hours.
-If thinking is the most important part of your job, then you need to do everything possible to maximize it, such as sleeping and eating well.
-Laying on the couch doing nothing is most likely not the best way to rest but you'll need to experiment.
Labor:
-A great book on the benefits of unions is What Do Unions Do? By Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff. It looks at the evidence up to the 1980s.
-I personally fall on the side against unions, especially in developed nations such as the United States. Instead, organizations should be their own union.
-To understand the conditions that created unions, the fiction book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is fantastic. Reading the book also makes it clear why unions don't make sense today.