So you are confirming that if given the choice between understanding a thing at its root, or operating fluently at its surface — there are many people who not only choose the surface, but believe that choice to be purer?
Are these people equally dismissive of rooted thinking when they encounter it? Is there a way to bypass their bias?
I’ve found that with LLMs, I can arrive at first principles — collide contexts, timescales, and perceptions at warp speed — and then research and verify. What I haven’t yet cracked is how to most effectively transmit or translate what I’ve found. Not in the way I’m accustomed to, as a strategist. Because I’m still contending with this deeper concern: whether rooted, pattern-based thinking is even receivable anymore.
Yeah I do think many people think that's the better option, e.g., SBF famously said he would never read a book and that books should be blog posts instead (https://archive.ph/Yg64e). Which might be true in some cases! But I think does imply a pretty dismissive attitude towards original works.
So you are confirming that if given the choice between understanding a thing at its root, or operating fluently at its surface — there are many people who not only choose the surface, but believe that choice to be purer?
Are these people equally dismissive of rooted thinking when they encounter it? Is there a way to bypass their bias?
I’ve found that with LLMs, I can arrive at first principles — collide contexts, timescales, and perceptions at warp speed — and then research and verify. What I haven’t yet cracked is how to most effectively transmit or translate what I’ve found. Not in the way I’m accustomed to, as a strategist. Because I’m still contending with this deeper concern: whether rooted, pattern-based thinking is even receivable anymore.
Yeah I do think many people think that's the better option, e.g., SBF famously said he would never read a book and that books should be blog posts instead (https://archive.ph/Yg64e). Which might be true in some cases! But I think does imply a pretty dismissive attitude towards original works.