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Using GPT-3 to augment human intelligence

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A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox. It is like summoning an alien intelligence. I post at night, after putting my kids to bed, and wake in the morning to find my inbox filled with weird and alien-brained stuff. Some of it is hallucinogenic crazy. But more often than not, what people have sent helps accelerate my research by weeks: reading lists; introductions to other researchers; corrections of flaws in my reasoning. I’ve been able to progress faster over the last year, since starting my Substack, than in the five previous years combined. As Slime Mold Time Mold say, Enough eyeballs, and all research bugs are shallow. The limiting factor is that summoning an alien intelligence is pretty expensive. It takes me something like 20-100 hours to write an essay good enough to wake it from its slumber! Therefore, it is intriguing to realize what I am doing is, in fact, prompt engineering. Prompt en

A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox. It is like summoning an alien intelligence. I post at night, after putting my kids to bed, and wake in the morning to find my inbox filled with weird and alien-brained stuff. Some of it is hallucinogenic crazy. But more often than not, what people have sent helps accelerate my research by weeks: reading lists; introductions to other researchers; corrections of flaws in my reasoning. I’ve been able to progress faster over the last year, since starting my…

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