Philosophy

It’s been almost 7 years since I started learning about investing. It has kept me curious throughout all these years, as I read more about it and learned how it works. Some of the lessons were profound and some very trivial. Out of all of them, the one lesson that I would give the most weight is this: having a sense of what’s enough. It’s something that sounds very simple yet keeps me intrigued the more I think about it. It’s probably one aspect of investing (and many things in life) that would give you the highest leverage, used the right way. ...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how some of the errors we see with written content are going away after the advent of generative AI. I argued that an error (especially in written text content like emails, social media posts etc.) feels different now, as AI is eliminating most or all of them today. I also wrote that some of these errors that we make in content define the humanness of it. A small deviation signals it is not artificial, that there was a human behind the scenes. ...

What does it actually mean to think and reason? I recently came across this definition of a “Reasoning AI model” while reading the book How to AI by Christopher Mims. It also made me reflect on how we humans actually “think.” According to the book, a reasoning model is a type of AI/large language model that talks to itself in order to “reason” through a problem. While a technical definition of how an AI model ’thinks’ is more complicated, it still made me think - Do we also solve our problems by talking to ourselves? What’s the ideal process of reasoning for humans? Is it just talking to ourselves? Is it asking “Why?” to get to the root of a problem and then finding a solution? ...

This post is not about how and when AI (Artificial Intelligence) will take over and humans will be left with nothing to do in terms of work. I believe we are far away from that, and we are still not sure whether we will see that level of superintelligence in our lifetimes. What I want to focus on is this: given that we are working towards a world where AI could potentially do anything a human can (Artificial General Intelligence) and that intellectual tasks are slowly being outsourced to AI in phases; this is probably a good time to pause and think about how a world like that would look. ...