Adam

data analyst // casual runner // voracious reader // learns

[Adam @AAAbricknell]

4. I fear the use of language across the world is narrowing as AI proliferates, as more humans imitate their AI colleagues. I don't have the energy for a moral panic… but one wonders how this impacts one’s thinking processes.

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People are imitators. They copy the turns of phrase and writing they are exposed to.

One might not publish writing written by Claude oneself, but if one spends a lot of time talking to Claude, then the words get into one's writing nonetheless.

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My tolerance for anything which reminds me of Claude-speak might be almost zero now, outside of work. People might have always spoken that way. I can’t be certain, and I doubt it.

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@StefanFSchubert Learning too?

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@RichDecibels And Computerphile for... Computers. And algorithms. Pure class

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@RichDecibels Great list. I'd add 3brown1blue for maths

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21) suggests variance between local cultures held olden societies back far more than religion - the common factor to stagnation was more often things other than religion

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Summary thread of The Birth of Plenty:
1) civ needs 5 things for systemic growth: property rights, scientific method, capital, transport & comms

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20) as well as clear ownership and ability to buy/sell, negotiating/transacting/enforcement must all be cheap

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18) The Ottoman's view of how to develop (build factories) missed what was really needed for prosperity: institutional reform. So they continued to decline

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16) in 17C many french scientists fled to England. Remaining french scientists were in ivory towers; English scientists more freely advised commoners, leading to many incremental Inventions

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15) suggests it's easy to confuse other features as conditions for prosperity, eg: rates of investment, many factories; but it's all about the conditions in tweet #1.

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14) one weakness of old Holland was weak patent system: something US founding fathers improved on with their patent office