Aloud Issue No. 18 - Rao, Yudkowsky
Your weekly dose of the best writing on the internet, read aloud.
How to Define Concepts
Venkatesh Rao | June 2007 | Original Source
Blog post by Ribbonfarm author Venkat Rao about the fuzzy process of coming up with concepts, both in mathematics and in language more generally. (7 minutes)
The Virtue of Narrowness
Eliezer Yudkowsky | August 2007 | Original Source
Blog post by author and Artificial Intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky on the temptation to think in generalities and why we should avoid doing such. (8 minutes)
Something Worth Pondering
“Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works 10% more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity…”
― Richard Hamming
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