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Hi, I'm Michael Sun, the maker of metaessen.com which manages resources for practical use by simulating the real world and can be used as a bookmark manger or note-taking app.

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The body characterizes everything it touches. What it makes it traces over with the marks of its pulses and breathings, its excitements, hesitations, flaws, and mistakes. On its good work, it leaves the marks of skill, care, and love persisting through hesitations, flaws, and mistakes. And to those of us who love and honor the life of the body in this world, these marks are precious things, necessities of life.

Full of intelligence in the statement.

It makes me feel the warm.

AI is not intelligence or a person, even not the real AI, current AI is useful for some things, but not so useful for real value or real world, and it will waste too much your energy, resources, and money in the end.

I don't know whether other arguments are true, but some arguments in the end are right:

Using LLMs for code generation feels like a dead end. ..., This is hostile to your ability to understand your code, beyond the fact that you didn’t write it.

What you get from AI is not worth of what you have invested for it in long period.

Drawing answers directly from knowledge in model weights leads to hallucination even for multi-trillion-parameter models, so why bother making them that big?

Current AI is like the film company producing TV series or movies. "If similar stories do not exist or details are missing, screenwriters use imagination to fill in the gaps (remember hallucination? It's just a makeup.)", refer to the article https://devcyc.life/current-ai-is-like-the-film-company-prod...

Use reading book to replace reading phone is a good habit or strategy.

Not only read book, but also thinking them is a must thing.

Sometime you want to go outside from your home to see the real world.

Don't forget the real world, reading book lets you absorb the knowledge, but most time they are not right, accurate, or you don't understand them, the real world can tell you the real knowledge.

AI 2040: Plan A 11 days ago

A fiction? almost all is pure fantasy or imagination.

What are your real purposes?

No any definition for many important concepts.

No any logic for the concepts.

What is AI?

What are AI companies?

What is "smarter than humans"? All human?

How to check "smarter than humans"?

"building smarter-than-human AI systems within the next 1 to 10 years.", nonsense, AI can store or handle with all details from reality? Even all data centers in the world cannot store all details of the influenza virus.

No concepts and logic, just a fiction, joke, or marketing article.

No central idea, and somewhat chaotic

But the one argument is right:

Reality has lots of finicky details. I would like to see the authors of this document try to change a bike tire. Even with a superintelligent ChatGPT, I suspect they would struggle.

Details can kill AI, causing them useless or wrong directions.

The clearest sign a tool is serving you is that you stop noticing it—it becomes invisible.

It is because you are already very familiar with and accustomed to this tool.

The main meaning of the author probably is (from one article):

We need to remember that the purpose of using tools is to solve specific problems and achieve goals.

No tool is perfect. When using the useful functions of a tool, we also need to tolerate or ignore some of its shortcomings. Don't seek out or switch to a new tool simply because of some insignificant flaws. In the process of selecting and using tools, don't have the perfectionism, and always keep the goal in mind. The important thing is to master the useful functions of the tools to quickly, effectively, and efficiently complete tasks or goals, thereby significantly improving efficiency and productivity, rather than constantly complaining, switching tools, and wasting time and energy.

For the tools we choose, one must become truly familiar with and proficient in their use, continuously customize, modify, and improve them, and strive to use them to the fullest extent, thereby significantly improving efficiency and productivity, and solving practical problems and achieving goals faster and better.

Current AI is like the film company producing TV series or movies

Review AI code line by line is like watch movies frame by frame, and is impossible, very difficult, terribly boring, or abandoned sooner or later.

Half-Baked Product 20 days ago

Interesting story. This seems a true story of the author? The author understands the characters of the people in the process of business. Understanding reality is not easy.

Please prove this is an age of AI, could you confirm it?

If a real programmer does use "AI" usually, or use AI to solve all problems about programming, and AI does the all programming tasks, after 1 or 2 years, do you think his/her skills of programming are improving or declining? He/She will lose big part of programming skills very probability. Do you think he/she is a real-programmer then?

Current AI cannot be comparable with "machinery and assembly lines".

Current AI companies stole much data from Internet without permissions, and used the knowledge of many people directly shamelessly.

It cannot resolve many practical problems well, even in programming area.

Do you want the software-assistant to do the important or enjoyable things instead of you? Do you want your assistant in real life to eat the delicious food instead of you?

This is not an Age of AI. Why do so many not-real-programmers think this is an age of AI? It's just a hype.

I am developing my own app 2+ years manually, and not use "AI" at all.

Using AI usually can cause many problems, which the author pointed at.

Programming should be enjoyable, not an annoyed or unhappy thing.

So I said "Most time". I know the situation you said. The situation exists but is not regular (I think it's occasional except you want to create a complex system by notes).

By the way, the most important thing is thinking, not the notes, but notes can help you thinking and creating better systems.

More and earlier thinking, more notes, better systems.

I hope it can help you and other people.

It is too complicated. We just get, save or write something, maybe with some categories, keywords, or tags.

After saving, maybe you need some organization later, but most time they are just there. Most time you search content by categories, keywords, or tags.

I think we need right tools for different requirements.

Sorting or queuing is a common occurrence in life and work. For example, sorting the exam scores of students in the same grade at a school. Sorting is useful for lists with a few items or a lot of items.

Arbitrary sorting is particularly useful for prioritizing tasks.

Tags are mainly used for identification or grouping, and are quite different from sorting; the two are distinct.

Given the universality of sorting or queuing in real life, I believe it should be a fundamental feature of note-taking software.

AI's Dial-Up Era 9 months ago

What are the disadvantages of AI?

The author didn't mention them.

AI companies robbed so much data from the Internet free and without permission.

Sacrificing the interests of owners of websites.

It's not sustainable.

It's impossible for AI to go far.

One of my product design principles:

Concise

Focus only on the parts that are really needed, necessary, or the most important; hide the currently unnecessary or secondary, or simply remove the truly unnecessary and secondary; remove all unnecessary

Maybe it can help you