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The Reductionist Position on AI by Cal Newport
EDIT: This is what Cal Newport wrote: https://calnewport.com/when-it-comes-to-ai-think-inside-the-box/ I send this mail to Cal Newport. I thought that it might be interesting to discuss: Hi Cal, tl;dr: You are positioning yourself for failure by taking a reductionist position on AI. (Doesn’t mean that you are wrong. Just… -
Field Report #9: Excerpting Instead of Processing • Zettelkasten Method
Field Report #9: Excerpting Instead of Processing • Zettelkasten MethodThe conviction that you have a way of working that is best for you turns the challenge of modern knowledge work on its head: the problems do not cater to us. We have to adapt to the problem. Read the full story here -
Re: The Reductionist Position on AI by Cal Newport
@Sascha said: This is interesting, and it is OK if you are elaborating beyond what Cal wrote, but I don't think that what Cal wrote implies reductionism. As I read Cal, he is only advocating for better analysis of how LLMs work. This is reasonable enough. By analogy, it is also reasonable to try to understand consciousness… -
Re: Script to print all tags from .txt files (run from archive directory)
I've been trying this: and it's pulling in some numbers with preceding spaces I wasn't expecting, e.g. (snip) Any ideas why this might be happening? I don't think I even have 513 notes! -
Catpuccin Mocha Theme
Hi there, today I spent some time trying to recreate a catpuccin theme for the archive. I have used it and everything seems fine but please let me know if you see inconsistent things or colors that hurt your eyes. The theme is meant to be used as a dark style. To avoid posting a file and making you download it I'm instead… -
Re: Field Report #9: Excerpting Instead of Processing • Zettelkasten Method
My takeaways from Field Report #9 are these: 1. Why does it matter to have several methods for processing material? A range of approaches helps us connect better with a source's ideas. When we adapt our method to fit the material, we can dance with the ideas. The more methods we master, the more value we can extract from… -
Re: The Reductionist Position on AI by Cal Newport
The reductionism that I see is that Cal Newport is arguing from insufficiency of the underlying substance of consciousness. He states: LLMs are not conscious because they are feedforward and static (not self modifying I guess). But you'd have to establish that these characteristics are necessary to give rise to… -
Re: Anybody using this approach to manage contacts? How?
Many of the digital note taking tools that run off of text allow you to add metadata to your basic text files (as YAML headers, inline with a key:: value pair, or via #tags). Many of them have search functionality or use other programmatic means like query blocks, DataView, DataViewJS, etc. for doing queries on your files… -
Re: The Zettelkasten Method: nonlinear Zettel note format
@GeoEng51 Sorry, I butchered this wonderful illustration. Please note the illustration doesn't fit exactly (books would not overlap, entry notes would be outside the shaded areas) but hopefully, this will help clarify and answer your question. The attached picture is a typical illustration of a Zettelkasten. [1] The… -
Re: Rene's Sublimeless Zettelkasten
@argonsnorts , the wait is over sublimeless_zk-pre-0.3 released
With lots of cool features 
* Support for custom Themes * Theme Editor (json) (#12) * JSON validation of settings & themes (#3, #4) * Fix #5 : ignore single bracket links in double bracket mode * Setting "skip_first_heading_when_numbering":…