One of the biggest misconceptions people have about intelligence is seeing it as some kind of unbounded scalar stat, like height. "Future AI will have 10,000 IQ", that sort of thing. Intelligence is a conversion ratio, with an optimality bound. Increasing intelligence is not so much like "making the tower taller", it's more like "making the ball rounder". At some point it's already pretty damn spherical and any improvement is marginal.
Now of course smart humans aren't quite at the optimal bound yet on an individual level, and machines will have many advantages besides intelligence -- mostly the removal of biological bottlenecks: greater processing speed, unlimited working memory, unlimited memory with perfect recall... but these are mostly things humans can also access through externalized cognitive tools.
@paulg and in China, product managers knowing shits request software engineers to finish features in unreasonable time, end up with another merely working application called “prompting”
最近在带入组的本科实习生,发现怎么读论文其实是科研训练里最容易被忽略的一步。
推荐一篇每个科研新人都该读的经典短文:S. Keshav 的 How to Read a Paper。
文章提出了非常实用的“三遍读论文法”:
第一遍,5 到 10 分钟快速扫读:标题、摘要、引言、章节标题、结论和参考文献。
目标是回答 5C:
Category, Context, Correctness, Contributions, Clarity。
也就是判断这篇论文是什么、和谁相关、假设是否合理、贡献是什么、写得清不清楚。
第二遍,认真读论文主线,但先跳过证明细节。重点看图表、实验设置、结果是否清楚、引用了哪些关键工作。
第三遍才进入深度理解:尝试像复现一样重建作者的思路,检查假设、方法、创新点和潜在漏洞。
放在今天看,这个方法和 AI 辅助读论文其实很契合。
第一遍可以让 AI 帮忙快速总结论文的研究问题、核心贡献和主要结论,但自己一定要判断这篇文章是否真的值得继续读。
第二遍可以让 AI 帮忙解释方法、实验设置、图表和不熟悉的概念,但不能只看 AI 总结。关键图表、实验设计和结果数字一定要回到原文核对。
第三遍可以让 AI 扮演 reviewer,帮你追问:这篇文章的假设是否成立?实验是否支持结论?有没有 missing baseline?有没有潜在的数据泄漏、评价偏差或过度 claim?
读论文不是“读完”就行。真正重要的是知道什么时候快速跳过,什么时候认真理解。
尤其在 AI 工具越来越强的情况下,科研新人更需要训练自己的判断力。
AI 可以帮你压缩信息,但不能替你决定一篇论文是否重要、是否可信、是否值得借鉴。
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I get occasional DMs about what you can read to actually learn stuff about China today, Chinese history, etc. And the short answer is lol. But I figured it might be useful to share some books ive read over the years, pop history and not, that have helped out with this.🧵:
young men dont have hobbies anymore they just go into a room like this and stand still thinking about how they could have flourished under the Tokugawa shogunate