The AI expertise conundrum; strong winds and forest fires, frosty fingers, household goods, tuna collar; animal chiropractors, making clothing in various places, exceptional R&D contractors.| uncertaintymindset.substack.com
Big-time uncertainty, the efficiency trap, doing better interviews, extractive tech, the semantic apocalypse, output indistinguishability.| uncertaintymindset.substack.com
Current AI discourse doesn't talk about human meaning-making — subjective decisions about value that AI systems can't make, which are nonetheless crucial for building and using AI systems.| uncertaintymindset.substack.com
Getting useful answers depends on asking good questions, and foundationality is a key criterion in determining whether a question is “good.” A question is more foundational when its answer affects more other questions. This is why breakthroughs are more likely when we spend the time and effort to figure out how to articulate a question in a way that is more foundational.| uncertaintymindset.substack.com
This issue is about sensing when something has an inside which is coherent with its outside. It ranges over the Golden Triangle (of the Luberon), stone walls in New England, the Auvergne, and the south of France, crappy particleboard furniture, and the genesis for my current preoccupation with not-knowing.| uncertaintymindset.substack.com