Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make.
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Read books.
Most of the problems people face with money, career, and life are not new. Someone struggled with it, studied it, and wrote the solution down decades ago.
Books compress experience. You get 30 or 40 years of someone else’s lessons in a few hours. That is why reading saves you time, money, and unnecessary mistakes.
If you want better results, borrow better thinking from people who have already been where you are trying to go.
just spent two hours crafting a thought, only to realize I didn’t agree with it anymore. this is one of many reasons the act of writing is so important, and should never be outsourced.
thinking hones your writing.
writing hones your thinking.
I’m not saying going for a walk will solve all your problems, I’m just saying there’s almost no problem that’s going to be made worse by going for a walk.
Because the network of facts is so highly connected, not wanting to acknowledge a single inconvenient truth will rapidly contaminate everything you believe.
Whenever possible when building a new product or doing a startup, you want to be doing something that would not have been technically possible even a couple year prior. AI is so exciting is because there are endless opportunities that could not have been done before.
"It's so simple. You spend less than you earn. Invest shrewdly, avoid toxic people and toxic activities, and try and keep learning all your life"
--- Charlie Munger
The older I get, the more I notice how valuable it is to simply move on from the anchors holding you back.
When someone makes a mistake forgive them. When someone wrongs you, move on. When someone slights you, let it go.
When someone tells you they didn’t mean it, believe them. When someone is holding you back, let them go.
When the story you tell yourself holds you back, change it.
Moving forward helps a lot and doesn’t cost a thing.
@ESYudkowsky We know some things, but not all. We know how to make GPT in the same way cave men knew to make fire. Understanding of causality without deep understanding of mechanism.