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...ill in front of the main one. You're climbing a smaller hill that you could get stuck on. Once you've climbed it, the only way to make progress is to go downhill… something very hard for an organization to do. You're moving in the righ...
...your way to a good architecture. If you only do fast 1-ply thinking, you'll get stuck in local-maxima with no good exits. The two major labs have inherited a culture that puts extreme focus on short-term execution over medium-term clar...
Docs, spreadsheets, email, and calendar are all stuck in how businesses processes worked in the 80s. Not personal needs, and not modern.
...e forward looking, not backward looking. If you're backward looking, you'll get stuck in an infinite reform loop.
Zero based thinking helps you not get stuck in your confirmation bias. Otherwise, that bias is an asymmetry that keeps doing what you were doing, all else equal. Zero-based thinking helps you n...
Idealists can sometimes get stuck in a cycle where they don't improve. In contrast, people who are not missionaries but mercenaries need to get good at their skill to be marketable. I...
If you ship too fast you get stuck in a niche.
... in a long-term hole. You moved fast, you solved problems… and you got yourself stuck in a deep hole.
When you're stuck in a relentlessly dull world, you don't even realize it's dull. Everything is gray. Nothing stands out. So you don't even realize anything could stan...
When you're stuck with something for life, you don't just give up as easily. Especially if there are a finite set of options so the opportunity cost is high. You push ...
You aren't stuck in traffic, you are traffic. When you use an aggregator, you're lending your energy to a thing you don't think is good for society.
One way to not get stuck in fast-twitch information streams: get your news from newspapers. A day after it happens, not as-it-happens. That gives some time for synthesis and ...
... face, everyone will treat it like a human even if they shouldn't. This can get stuck in various bad outcomes. With AI-as-software, no one thinks it's human, because there's no face. Once you give the LLM a name, you're already stuck.
...u don't think that other humans are ends in and of themselves, then you can get stuck in some dangerously antisocial beliefs. For example: "Techno Feudalism is inevitable so we should lock down megaphones so the plebes can't complain."...
... have this self-replicating technology? We're never getting rid of React! We're stuck for it for all time now. Apparently alphabets stopped morphing when dictionaries were published.
...t do self-directed refactoring[df][dg] well. What structure you lay down you're stuck with. So each layer you lay down, you have to make sure it is good to accrete on top of.[dh] Very hard to evolve and fix later.
Meta thinkers who are curious could get stuck in the sycosocial hall of mirrors more easily than others. I randomly came across a Claude artifact produced by someone about multiple levels of emer...
...rous. If the models are tied to the UX from the vertical integration, users get stuck to a single model. That requires that one model to be "perfect," which is impossible and dangerous to shoot for. But if you can swap models, then fin...
If you think someone you care about is stuck in a sycosocial relationship, send them this guide from Less Wrong: "So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT"
A HackerNews comment that stuck with me: "From the very beginning Facebook has been an AI wearing your friends as a skinsuit."