Kai Hesthammer

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Rediscovered Twitter in the summer of 2021, now it's my personal public notebook.

[Kai Hesthammer @kaihesthammer]

There are typically credentialed & non-credentialed people on all sides of an issue.

Thus, the only option is to use your brain & evaluate the available information yourself.

If you care about the truth, that is.

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Long term > short term

So many really terrible choices are made because people hyperfocus on the short term and fail to consider the long term.

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@Wisdom_HQ Never had kids.

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As I've gotten older, my definition of success has moved from accomplishing great feats to having a happy loving family. (Spouse and children).

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@Rainmaker1973 Childless by choice

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Be quick to give credit and quick to take blame.

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Since we can't always be our best selves, we should strive to save our best selves for our loved ones not random people we meet.

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A strong mechanism for error correction is the most important part of any system.

Of course, I could be wrong and need to update this belief later.

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Money is insufficient to enjoy your life.

You need all three of these:
- Money*
- Time
- Health

* Money is the most overrated, as a healthy person with time can enjoy experiences that cost very little or are free. (Some enjoyable experiences even pay)

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Your spending and saving ratios should shift throughout life to reflect both earnings and ability to enjoy the experiences money can buy.

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There's no calm as calm as when your baby is asleep in your arms.

There's no tranquility or peace quite like it.

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Believing nothing and believing everything is equally simplistic and dumb.

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There's no privilege greater than growing up in a household with two loving parents.

I have benefited greatly from this tremendous privilege.

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At some point, you cease being a victim when you become a perpetrator.

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@pmarca How is that obvious?

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Add to that the output capabilities.

Kind of mind-blowing.

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Our brains are incredible, efficient processing units.

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They also handle a wide array of input types -- audio, text, video, smell, etc.

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Many of these don't even reach our explicit perceptions and are processed in the background.

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Implication: LLMs deal in information that has already been compressed. This should lead to some questions about how broadly applicable they can be.

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Language is a form of compression that most often involves a great amount of loss.