A downside of those omnipresent social media bots adopting an excessively upbeat and positive tone is that over time it makes you associate positivity with fakeness.
There's an important point when you have to switch from just consuming more knowledge to actually producing things. Diligent people/students often get sucked into just keep reading more books because they feel bad they don't know everything. (I'm not subtweeting anyone here.)
@oslopolitiops you should have some routines checking inside Oslo S. during late nights/early morning. Groping and assaulting women seems to be pretty common this days over there. Such disappointment. I’m starting to be scared to move alone in Oslo.
How to start a presentation?
Most people start with all the boring info (e.g., repeating everything your host just said) and unmotivated technical details. 🥱
After a few mins, everyone starts checking their phone! 😱
How to avoid this? Here is a simple template. 🧵
Everyone seems to think it's absurd that large language models (or something similar) could show anything like human intelligence and meaning. But it doesn’t seem so crazy to me. Here's a dissenting 🧵 from cognitive science.