Andrew Allen
Notes on AI, cognition, and things I'm trying to understand.
- On technologyDeveloping technology is fundamental to humanity because humans always want more. That desire is now pushing toward AI and transhumanism.
- Three principles to get 80% of the value out of AIA good starting point: pay for a good subscription, ask it before doing tasks by hand, and save context it can reuse.
- The evolution of public access to frontier AIAccess to frontier AI has changed a lot over the past couple years. With Mythos, it feels like it's starting to split.
- Human intelligence: spiky or smooth?Is the mind one general intelligence or a jagged set of strengths? The famous evidence for a single 'g' factor doesn't settle it.
- Less music = less noise?Music is really fun, but its innocence masks harmful modes of consumption.
- Stop feeding on productivity tipsMost productivity content on X and blogs isn't helpful. The tips that help are the ones you seek after encountering a concrete problem.