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The person who feels ownership is the one that makes sure nothing falls through cracks. If you're not an owner you only pay attention to the part you are responsible for and assume the rest is taken care of. That can leave significant cracks that can cause the whole thing to not cohere or even fall
Live editing a multi-camera setup is 10x easier than post-editing it. This is based on my experience in TV Productions in high school. When you're editing it live, you are in it, you can't pay attention to anything else or you will lose focus. You have to make good-enough decisions right then or fai
A virus doesn't just wake up and decide to take over the world. It is an emergent process. If it replicates and persists, it accumulates. AI is a similar emergent process. It could be like Kudzu. AI-derived processes could just grow and choke out otherwise useful spaces. For example, online spaces t
Ezra Klein in NYTimes: Pay Attention to How You Pay Attention.
...as often, because it can ground itself to some degree even when the human isn't paying attention. 2) Version control No matter how messy the situation gets, you can simply reset.
... use coding agents? Similar to self-driving. A system where the person is fully paying attention: safe. A system where the person never has to pay attention: safe. Anything in the middle: unsafe.
...t's done, and that once started can make progress even when you aren't actively paying attention. Examples of "baking": Handing off a task to a subordinate. Starting a Claude Code task. (Not that different!) Literally baking a cake. Kicking off a...
An interesting idea: idea vessels. A charismatic or interesting ideal vessel can cause people to engage with the idea inside more deeply[ij]. We pay attention to things that surprise us. So make the idea vessel surprising in some way enough to draw attention but not enough to overwhelm the viewer.
Increased sousveillance structurally selects for docility and polarization. In college it felt like every class I took included the lens of game theory, evolutionary biology, or the panopticon. The fear was centralized surveillance. But sousveillance turns out to be weirder and stronger. Sousveillan
...o constantly babysit it and be inundated by permissions that you'll likely stop paying attention to. If you enable YOLO mode you could blast your foot off and not realize it. Agent mode is like an airplane cockpit. It's an intimidating UX precise...
...ndering." They move the responsibility to the user, who almost certainly is not paying attention or equipped to decide properly. The service washes their hands without actually minimizing harm that much. From MCP to Shell How MCP Authentication F...
...tracted for a bit, nothing changes, everything keeps going as before. So you're paying attention, but you're not "in the loop" with it. That's what makes being "in the loop" or "in the arena" helps you absorb significantly more knowhow.
Are LLMs mass media or not? On the one hand there's a single shared model that has specific biases that shape all interactions with them. Some of them are really into "delve." On the other hand, everyone gets a custom experience with it based on what they talk with it about. But then again, even mas
A single metric can never capture the real world nuance. Data scientists and finance people typically look at a portfolio of metrics that are all correlated in different partial ways with what they actually care about, and then triangulate. In that regime, there must be someone to ultimately make a
We pay attention to meaningful novelty. Static on an old TV is totally novel but also meaningless.
Contextless context is not useful. Context that is incorrect is worse than nothing.[hr] Randomizing things the LLM will pay attention to, overriding its intuition on the right answer. If you give it good context it nudges in a useful way. If you give it bad context it overwhelms the model and just r
Cacophony leads to kakistrocracy[ji]. In this age of cacophony the most cynical among us realized that only optics matter. Optics: the superficial, not the fundamental. There's too much noise to pay attention to anything else. Noticing fundamentals takes time and in a cacophony that time is the prim
Are you above or below the API? If you're below the API, you are abstracted away to the rest of the system, more grist for the mill. Whether this new world is good or bad for you largely reduces to if you're above or below the API. If you are under the API, you are operating at its whim. Even if you
...being consciously aware. Your system 2 is connecting ideas even when you aren't paying attention. Steven King describes this phenomenon as the "boys in the basement". This is why you often have deep insights when out on a walk. What if we could h...
...to reduce dissonance by changing your belief or the incoming information you're paying attention to. If it's easy to ignore, you stop listening to the information to remove the dissonance. In a world of infinite content this is easier than ever b...