Non human identity management will definitely be a huge issue in the future...excited to see how players in the field will tackle this. E.g. Entro/Okta
"Claiming, then, the use of the ordinary faculties of the mind in ordinary things, let me next endeavour to point out what appears to me to be a great deficiency in the exercise of the mental powers in every direction; three words will express this great want, deficiency of judgment. I do not wish to make any startling assertion, but I know that in physical matters multitudes are ready to draw conclusions who have little or no power of judgment in the cases; that the same is true of other departments of knowledge; and that, generally, mankind is willing to leave the faculties which relate to judgment almost entirely uneducated, and their decisions at the mercy of ignorance, prepossessions, the passions, or even accident." - Faraday lecture
We are now in a world where the common layman can get their hands on a GPT (a GPT that is predicted to be equivalent to a pHD in intelligence soon), instead of the person scrolling hugging face and churning out their custom built models.
I think in the future it'll be pretty interesting to see how this changes regular blue collar or secretarial work. Will the next future of startups be just fresh grads looking for B2B ideas that eliminate the common person?
I strongly disagree, I was able to learn so much about web development by using AI, it streamlines the entire knowledge gathering and dissemination process. By asking for general overviews then poking into the specifics of why things work the way they do, its possible to get an extremely functional and practical knowledge of almost any application of programming. For the driven and ambitious hacker, LLMs are practically invaluable when it comes to self learning. I think you have a case where you're simply dealing with the classic self-inflicting malady of laziness.
When I ask AI questions about things I know very little, I seem to get quite good results. When I ask it questions about things I know a lot about, I get quite bad answers.
Well the issue isn't about acquiring the knowledge in general. I think so far in my learning journey I've come to realize that "practical learning" is much better than learning in the hopes that something will be useful. For instance, almost everyone in the American education system at some point was forced to memorize that one mol of gas occupies 22.4 L at STP but almost noone will ever use that knowledge again.
Going through the actual real world issues of web development with an LLM on the side that you can query for any issue is infinitely more valuable than taking a course in web development imo because you actually learn how to DO the things, instead of getting a toolbox which half of the items you don't use ever and a quarter of which you have no idea how to functionally use. I strongly support learning by doing and I also think that the education system should be changed in support of that idea.
There are plenty of courses, classes, and schooling as you dewcribe, it’s just a matter of cost. A LLM is more useful for studying because it feels interactive however a lot of software development in general is applying what learned and what you need.
If you want to spend 10 years growing your career and understanding math with the help of an LLM you will work it out eventually, by gambling on your role at a company and their offering of projects.
If you want to spend 6 months - 6 years understanding the pieces you need for a professional career at various levels (hence the range), you pay for that kind of education.
So...are you able to articulate what you have learned about web development through LLMs that skimming MDN wouldn't net you?
Your "strong" disagreement and claim that you were able to learn so much about web development by using AI should be able to withstand simple and obvious followup questions such as "like what?".
“Tell me how MVC works” is far better than reading MDN documents. “Show me how to build a basic command line application.” “Tell me about polymorphism and give me some examples on how to use it.” “Teach me the basics on how to build an authentication system.” An LLM is great at that.
Reading MDM docs doesn’t put any context around what you’re reading. And reading all the docs doesn’t teach you any more than reading a dictionary teaches you how to write.
Docs are a reference, they really aren’t a place to start when you don’t know what you’re reading. Besides it’s boring.
You don’t learn Russian by reading Tolstoy. You read Tolstoy once you have some idea of what the words mean.
Everyone understands that, Brian! If i told you that "I was able to learn so much about Russian by using AI", would you expect that I SHOULD or SHOULD NOT be able to tell you something about what I've learned without writing multiple paragraphs about something else entirely? We are now four levels deep from the actual question.
My experience using LLMs to learn is similar. When I read MDN or some O'Reilly tome I get a lot of information but it's in the general sense. I can use what I've learned to build some specific project and it'll work but because the book isn't tailored to the specific thing I'm doing, there will often be a much better way. The LLM on the other hand gives an answer as specific as I'm willing to give it context for and since I know software engineering as a discipline I know when the specific suggestion from the LLM is far superior to the more general method learned in the text book.
Who wants to read all of those docs that they know nothing about?
Better: use an LLM, get something working, realize it doesn't work _exactly_ as you need it to, then refer to docs. Beginners will need to learn this, however. They still need to learn to think. But practical application and a true desire to build will get them to where they need to be.
What would be the use case of this? I have a remarkable 2 and there's the official Read on Remarkable extension that automatically sends a pdf of the page you're on or the book or whatever to your Remarkable. I'm not sure if it works on Remarkable 1 but there isn't any documentation on it being unsupported.
I wonder if they could send the messages to certain counties that are actually relevant to the "breaking" news. Geography based sorting of phone numbers to what I assume must be addresses could be a security issue though so not entirely sure. A better solution could be alert settings that would alert for violent crimes/amber alerts/natural disasters(which should never have the option to be disabled) and maybe a downtime period during the night similar to do not disturb mode on iOS devices that only have exceptions for natural disasters. A system that robust would need integration with individual phone manufacturers like airplane mode which has proven to be efficient.
I wonder if folks get amber alerts if they only use satellite based connectivity. I'm willing to be that Apple will have it automatically enabled in iOS 18.
I've seen a number of byproducts of the "Blue Zone trend" namely in youtube videos and dinner party conversations from so called health experts. The creator of Blue Zones (Dan Buettner) does seem to profit off of this as well, one quick look at the website shows a Blue Zone cooking course sale and other marketing schemes that could trap the unwary. https://www.bluezones.com/about/history/
I'm not questioning whether or not the intent was malicious but he does stand to gain quite a lot. Happy to see this being exposed. In a semi related sense I highly recommend checking out Bryan Johnson's (founder of Braintree Venmo) Blueprint protocol, I've been following his work for a number of years now and it is scientifically backed although the for profit arm of his initiative just reared its (ugly?) head recently with him selling supplements and dietary goods that are vetted by his agency.
The difference that I'm seeing personally and the initial appeal was that he was more open about the science and the results of it. If you go through the site you can see pretty good documentation about different supplements and what their intended purpose was. However, I do think some of the luster of the open-source model he had kind of disappeared when he started selling products which is a double edged sword in the sense that it does somewhat certify the quality of the product but also chips at his ethos.
The extreme to which he is taking things and the level of rigor he is (seemingly) applying, are the differences I see. He has a lot more time and resources at his disposal than most wellness hackers.
Doesn't seem like it. He was doing most of what he claims years before he marketed anything. I remember him on Lex Friedman years ago talking about only eating one meal per day, eating as healthy as possible, optimizing his sleep, etc.
I assumed that the Sogdian script iself was the cheeky part. I imagine if they had just lost a war to the Khotanese it would've been quite the inside joke of the time.
