GCR’s Reads
Planning for this to be an ongoing series sharing books that GCR read during his ascent into Superforecaster status (sarcasm).
We’re now firmly in the age of the smartphone. At this point, anyone whose first cellphone wasn’t “smart” is considered an unc in ThreadGuy’s book (my first phone was an LG Rumour).
These devices are now turbo-charged with AI models, fine-tuned social media algorithms, and casino-like exchange apps… we joke about it on this site, but it’s clear we are all being slowly microwaved: attention spans and critical thinking abilities shrinking… screen time increasing… I’m not a Luddite who thinks you shouldn’t embrace and leverage the benefits of AI and technology at a broader level, but its worthwhile asking ourselves what differentiates humans from AI and keep pressing/protect those sacred areas.
One manifestation of this view (and the point of this series) is that I think it’s becoming increasingly important to (be able to) sit back and crack a book for extended periods (at this point let’s call it over 30 minutes?). Slow down and use your imagination (applies to non-fiction as well). And no, no grindset goals targeting X or Y pages per hour / books per year. I used to read 25 books a year, but that was purely a vanity metric; don’t get caught up in that. AI is always going to be able to scan and ingest surface level information orders of magnitude faster than humans.
And physical books only, no audiobooks, no e-books… essentially slow the fk down. There are latent consequences to trying to hyper-optimize every corner of your life.
(Disclaimers 1. AI provided no help writing this)
@ThePumponomics Yo could you check out $NOID. I usually never shill like this in comments and think its gay but im really bullish on this and think it just needs the initial attention
Heres the $NOID thesis simplified:
- First of all, it's a fair launch, no VCs or anything crazy like that.
- It's completely different to what we have ever seen before. We have never ever seen something like this before. It's a whole new kind of POW layer 1. (Present proves the past)
- No public keys or traditional signatures as we know it = nothing for quantum to attack.
What do you think the big themes will be this cycle? Do you think quantum is one of them? Then this is one of the coins you should look into.
- Only on SafeTrade, which i would see as bullish (Kinda hard to get hands on / many people dont wanna put time into signing up on SafeTrade / try a new platform) Also we are in a little SafeTrade season right now (As seen with PRL)
Also wanna talk about the risks of course:
- Dev is pseudonymous (Could be seen as bullish or bearish, up to you)
- Really new (But this also means higher potential)
Heres the $NOID thesis simplified:
- First of all, it's a fair launch, no VCs or anything crazy like that.
- It's completely different to what we have ever seen before. We have never ever seen something like this before. It's a whole new kind of POW layer 1. (Present proves the past)
- No public keys or traditional signatures as we know it = nothing for quantum to attack.
What do you think the big themes will be this cycle? Do you think quantum is one of them? Then this is one of the coins you should look into.
- Only on SafeTrade, which i would see as bullish (Kinda hard to get hands on / many people dont wanna put time into signing up on SafeTrade / try a new platform) Also we are in a little SafeTrade season right now (As seen with PRL)
Also wanna talk about the risks of course:
- Dev is pseudonymous (Could be seen as bullish or bearish, up to you)
- Really new (But this also means higher potential)