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When you're through the looking glass your intuition is suddenly wrong. Things look the same but they work completely differently. Superficially similar, but fundamentally different.
...ignment it's resonant. Head is about logic. Heart is about values. Gut is about intuition. When you're able to steelman any argument, your head can lead you astray. LLMs make this even more powerful a possible tool… and distraction. Now wi...
...ting used to the physics of the earth… and then going to the moon. Some of your intuition is correct, but much of it is wrong. That's what happened to us as engineers. We're now in micro-intellectual-gravity. A single bit of effort can go ...
If you have 25 years of intuition about how long it takes to make a given piece of software, it's now wrong! What you thought would take a month will take an hour. The LLMs will say "...
...they've hollowed themselves out. The heart is where the meaning comes from. The intuition for indirect effects. To be in harmony with the world you need both.
David Lynch: "Intuition is a think and a feel at the same time" Intuition sets the boundaries of meaning. Aish: "Embodiment becomes the real editing tool, the instinct that ...
...ergent; diffusing through an unfathomably vast hyper-dimensional space. But our intuitions for hyper-dimensional spaces are often wrong. Hyperdimensional spaces are interconnected in surprising and weird ways. Wormholes that teleport from ...
...ng--trying to modify your own actions in response to it--is how you develop the intuition of how the thing works. It shifts you from a passive to active stance. It's the active stance that builds your intuition at an order of magnitude bet...
Teaching forces you to abduct your intuition. That's why one of the best ways to understand something is to teach it.
When you have your own authentic clarity, you stick with your intuition when everybody else would have given up.
...at?" It's so different, so many multi-layered implications, that it breaks your intuition and you'll constantly be surprised by it.
People who can code via LLMs don't necessarily have an intuition for what plain old code can do. That leads to, for example, trying to create an Anthropic Artifact to identify what kind of dog is in the picture. Bu...
... credence." "But your vibes are extremely valuable in this domain, because your intuition is finely calibrated for it–possibly the best indicator we have of what the right answer is"
...r you, it just gives you a structure to think within. Nucleation sites for your intuition.
To steer an ecosystem you need an intuition of the particular emergent game theory. To have lived through it in multiple iterations, to have been an active player, not a passive participant. To...
LLMs are good at intuition, not reasoning. The "no cake recipe should have 5 tablespoons of tabasco sauce in it" call is not reasoning, but intuition, so LLMs are good at it. "...
.... Just like Google-fu back in the day. The kinds of people who had developed an intuition on how to formulate their query (sometimes in non-obvious ways!) to get great results. In the early days of Google, some people literally got paid fo...
A few riffs on LLMs. An intuition for things that LLMs will get right: if Wikipedia has explained the concepts well. Those facts are likely to also ripple out and inform lots of other...
...ng a short explanation post to clarify your thinking (if you like writing). Our intuition is that all things have a positive opportunity cost. But when the opportunity cost is negative, our intuition is wrong. If it energizes you more than...
...ntly in it. The slightly more senior peer gets immense value of abducting their intuition into verbal guidance for the junior peer. The best way to understand your intuition is to teach it.