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  • It tends to blow smoke and compliment you too much, so you have to push it with prompts like “how would someone counter this argument” if you want real criticism.
    Now is the time for grimoires - by Ethan Mollick
  • Research has found that it often works best to give the AI explicit instructions that go step-by-step through what you want.
    Now is the time for grimoires - by Ethan Mollick
  • However, AIs also have limited context windows (memories) and tend to start to ramble if a conversation goes on too long.
    Now is the time for grimoires - by Ethan Mollick
  • With the current state of LLMs, it is almost certain that, in any topic in which you are a true expert, you will outperform today’s AIs, so learning to prompt them gives you a leg up on others.
    Now is the time for grimoires - by Ethan Mollick
  • Prompts are basically programs in prose, and do not require any coding experience to write. In fact, to create an expert prompt you just need three things:
    Now is the time for grimoires - by Ethan Mollick
  • That is why when we developed prompts for tutoring, we encode knowledge and expertise about the subject into our prompt, including the material discussed above. We have written more on prompt construction for learning,
    Now is the time for grimoires - by Ethan Mollick
  • Research shows that knowledge of a subject is just a part of what makes a tutor effective. Instead, it is important that tutors interact with the student, forcing them to make an effort, pay attention to the material being learned, and connect what they are learning to old knowledge.
    Now is the time for grimoires - by Ethan Mollick
  • People get very hung up on the idea that you have to be great at prompting AIs with specific wording to get them to accomplish anything. But this just doesn’t seem to be the case in idea generation. In the paper comparing AI to crowdsourcing, the authors tested three kinds of prompts: basic ones that stated the problem, more advanced ones that gave the AI a persona to be more like a human solver (“You are a Technical and Creative Professional, located in Europe.”), and a very advanced one that asked the AI to take the perspective of particular famous experts. While there were some differences …
    Automating creativity - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing
  • In the most practical sense, we are now much less limited by ideas than ever before. Even people who don’t consider themselves creative now have access to a machine that will generate innovative concepts that beat those of most humans
    Automating creativity - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing
  • First, don’t just ask the AI to generate ideas, use constraints as well.
    Automating creativity - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing
  • . At the same time, I generally would still suggest using few-shot techniques because they seem to help subjectively, other research has found them valuable, and they are easy to implement.
    Automating creativity - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing
  • AI can generate creative ideas in real-life, practical situations. It can also help people generate better ideas. The ideas AI generates are better than what most people can come up with, but very creative people will beat the AI (at least for now), and may benefit less from using AI to generate ideas There is more underlying similarity in the ideas that the current generation of AIs produce than among ideas generated by a large number of humans
    Automating creativity - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing
  • There were, however, two interesting caveats. First, the most creative people were helped least by the AI, and AI ideas were generally judged to be more similar to each other than ideas generated by people.
    Automating creativity - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing
  • Again, the AI proved helpful: humans with AI help created stories that were judged as significantly more novel and more interesting than those written by humans alone.
    Automating creativity - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing
  • The researchers — Karan Girotra, Lennart Meincke, Christian Terwiesch, and Karl Ulrich — used human judges to assess idea quality, and found that ChatGPT-4 generated more, cheaper and better ideas than the students. Even more impressive, from a business perspective, was that the purchase intent from outside judges was higher for the AI-generated ideas as well! Of the 40 best ideas rated by the judges, 35 came from ChatGPT.
    Automating creativity - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing
  • “Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant."
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  • That’s what personality is: it’s a blurry snapshot describing your behavior over long periods of time independent of context. There are many ways to break down personality, but the most popular and scientifically validated is called the Big Five. It describes five major personality traits: Openness to experience: how creative, imaginative, curious, and receptive to new ideas you are Conscientiousness: how organized, responsible, dependable, self-disciplined, and planning-oriented you are Extraversion: how outgoing, sociable, energetic, assertive, and action-oriented you are Agreeableness: how …
    Personality Simulation Is Coming - Chain of Thought - Every
  • If your organization knows its growth drivers and can scale them, OKRs will work great for you. But some companies may find the OKR system too limiting or too siloed. For example, you may want a different framework if: You exist in more of a knowledge-based or innovation-driven organization where lots of objectives don’t have clear measures. You don’t know if your leading indicators will get the lagging results.
    Objectives & Key Results (OKRs): The Strategist's Guide | ClearPoint Strategy
  • Obviously, the Spotify threat should’ve been taken more seriously when Pandora’s own executives preferred the service. And to be fair, there were many serious discussions about how to respond. The highest utility choice for the company would have been to crush the Swedish upstart. However, the highest utility choice for most individuals at the company was to do nothing. It was easier to continue to slowly lose market share rather than go out into the intellectual and financial wilderness required to reinvent the company. There was a mismatch between what the executives wanted (to protect their…
    The Futility of Utility - Napkin Math - Every
  • Sure, I may not have done exactly what I had thought I wanted, but finding ways to love the process would’ve allowed for better outcomes anyway.
    The Futility of Utility - Napkin Math - Every
  • Happiness is unfairly, and seemingly arbitrarily, distributed. Some people were unable to free themselves from drugs, from abusive partners, from poverty, despite years of effort. Others were the opposite: one person I was teaching quit crystal meth cold turkey and was fine. Even in the most dire of circumstances, the ability to be a utility-maximizing being appeared to be randomly gifted.
    The Futility of Utility - Napkin Math - Every
  • In neoclassical economics, the definition of utility is roughly “the value or enjoyment gained by consuming a good or service.” The core assumption at the heart of that definition is that consumers are rational and maximize their available utility. This idea only makes sense to people who spend very little time in the real world.
    The Futility of Utility - Napkin Math - Every
  • In neoclassical economics, the definition of utility is roughly “the value or enjoyment gained by consuming a good or service.” The core assumption at the heart of that definition is that consumers are rational and maximize their available utility. This idea only makes sense to people who spend very little time in the real world.
    The Futility of Utility - Napkin Math - Every
  • In order for rewarding positive behavior to be effective, it has to be specific. Being generally nice to someone is not enough; you need to notice a concrete behavior and reinforce it with friendly praise or acknowledgment
    The Art of Subtle Influence - No Small Plans - Every
  • So the first step in preserving autonomy is noticing when we’re coming to a person with a change agenda, and letting go of overt attempts at creating change.
    The Art of Subtle Influence - No Small Plans - Every
  • According to self-determination theory, humans have three basic needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
    The Art of Subtle Influence - No Small Plans - Every
  • “When you need encouragement, think of the qualities of the people arond you have: this one’s energy, that one’s modesty, another’s generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we’re practically showered with them.”
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