I think part of the message is that speed isn't a free lunch. If an intelligence can solve "legible" problems quickly, it's symptomatic of a specific adaption for identifying short paths.
So when you factor speed into tests, you're systematically filtering for intelligences that are biased to avoid novelty. Then if someone is slow to solve the same problems, it's actually a signal that they have the opposite bias, to consider more paths.
IMO the thing being measured by intelligence tests is something closer to "power" or "competitive advantage".
I think what you're describing is a form of conflict aversion, where the (tiny) conflict is what would clear up your read, or the group's attitude on something, for going forward. Short sighted kindness is a nice way to put it
They have helped me a lot with chunking tasks, and guiding me through tasks that I can't hold in focus.
There's a prompt I used while moving out, where I had claude ask me questions, what is in each room. And then once we had this item list, organizing it.
Possible, but potentially not as practical due to the iOS’ restrictive background process model. There, background tasks are generally expected to quickly do whatever it is they need to and exit and generally can’t run indefinitely. Periodic tasks are scheduled by the OS, with scheduling requests from apps being more likely to be honored if their processes are well-behaved (quick, low resource, don’t crash, and don’t run too frequently) with badly-behaved processes getting run less often.
Apps that keep themselves open by reporting that they’re playing audio might be able to work around this, but it’d still be spotty since users frequently play media which would suspended those backgrounded apps and eventually bump them out of memory.
Reminds me a lot of thermodynamics. Microstates and transition probabilities are a more “fundamental” description, but when you hit the metal, temperature and pressure are more useful in practice to human engineers
I was super obsessed with this for a while! When you have a string instrument tuned in 4ths, there are 2D patterns that emerge which you can use to "derive" or "extrapolate" what a scale shape/pattern will look like across the whole neck
You can find a 2D pattern in the white notes (green notes in the pic) that you can use to understand how the pattern will extend from a given point. For example notice EF+BC always appear in the same 2x2 box shape. Also how those boxes repeat in a diagonal line, and how boxes are connected vertically by a "strip" of 3 notes ADG
The only difference for guitar is that you have to correct for the G/B strings which are separated by a 3rd instead of a 4th, by scooting the pattern on the B+E strings up by one fret
Hey hn! I wanted to share my blog post. It's about the historical relationship between engineering and science, and an interpretation of the current AI movement. I would love perspectives.
IMO they do exist, but the popular attitude that it's not possible anymore is the issue, not a lack of genius. If everyone has a built in assumption that it can't happen anymore, then we will naturally prune away social pathways that enable it.
I was taken aback to learn my dad did the exact same thing at my age!