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Posted by Samin100 4 days ago

Willingness to look stupid(sharif.io)
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nsavage 15 hours ago|
Reminds me of the Dan Luu article from a few years ago: https://danluu.com/look-stupid/
NoSalt 12 hours ago||
I am immune to this as I will never be "great" at anything. I am average, and I am OK with that.
juleiie 17 hours ago||
What has potential AGI teached me is that no matter what I write, as long as I do it manually, it has value. Not because it is good but because it is genuine.

Before LLMs I would never think that what I have to say is valuable in any way. Now I realize my every comment, my every human input to the global internet and society is infinitely more valuable than ai slop.

This has really given me a jolt I needed and confidence to freely voice anything anywhere knowing that I make a difference against the flood of auto generated soulless garbage.

Flaws in human writing aren’t an issue, they are the very feature I look for. These exaggerations, hyperboles, emotions. It’s all unmistakably human.

Even 4chan is an oasis of humanity in that way. Indeed it is bristling with genuine creativity despite its sole ingredient is 100% human flaws. No preservatives, no artificial sweeteners.

Holy shit I really wrote it quite fun, I encourage everyone to do the same have some fun writing because each one of us is now highly valued artist in a flood of ai slop literally no matter what you type I want to read your flawed shit.

samitugal 19 hours ago||
It’s actually a blessing when people don’t have huge expectations of you. The higher their expectations get, the more your stress increases and your productivity drops. Forever the underdog :)
Animats 21 hours ago||
Never make it to management that way. Other people have to do the failing.
agcat 11 hours ago||
This is true. It's okay to overshare and look stupid.
tombert 22 hours ago||
Queue obligatory Weird Al: https://youtu.be/SMhwddNQSWQ

I'm human so I'm certainly not immune to social anxiety or embarrassment from looking stupid, but I have been trying to do a manual override that for the last year.

Something it took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize is that the first draft of nearly everything I do is bad. The first draft of my code is usually bad, the first draft of an essay I write is usually bad, the first version of something I draw is usually bad. If I don't allow myself to look stupid, even if only for the first draft of something, then I'll never accomplish anything. Doing something crappy is a means to doing something not-crappy.

I don't think I'm alone with this. There appears to be some ambiguity on who actually first said this, but there's an adage of "There's no great writing, only good rewriting".

mnw21cam 15 hours ago|
It's "Cue", rather than "Queue".
tombert 12 hours ago||
You are right. My comprehension of words isn’t always the best :)
adverbly 15 hours ago||
I have very little pride or shame.

It's a superpower.

Look like an idiot and you'll learn the fastest!

oldestofsports 20 hours ago|
Just a few sentences in and the author is already comparing himself to nobel prize winners. Love it! Nice article!
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