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LLMs can coordinate faster than humans… but that might mean they'll get stuck in local maxima more easily. The oddball individualistic humans can try the crazy idea that is non-consensus. The vast majority won't work, but every...
In programming, if the system is magic and you hit a wall, you're stuck. You can't wrap your head around it, so you can't fix it or debug.
The best way to not get stuck in a manic/psychosis loop is to have people who care about you that ground you. Those people have to not be in the loop with you, but you trust them ...
Products that get mission-believers first can get stuck on a small hill. People who believe the mission might be willing to use a product that isn't great… but no one else will be willing to. The product s...
We're stuck on a local maxima of software. The software isn't very good, it's not aligned with our interests, and the amount of the software is a tiny fraction o...
...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.