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“Dual Wielding Kindle Scribes” by mesaoptimizer


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This is an informal post intended to describe a workflow / setup that I found very useful, so that others might consider adopting or experimenting with facets of it that they find useful.

In August 2023, I was a part of MATS 4.0 and begun learning the skill of deconfusion, with an aim of disentangling my conflicting intuitions between my belief that shard theory seemed to be at least directionally pointing at some issues with the MIRI model of AGI takeoff and alignment difficulty, and my belief that Nate Soares was obviously correct that reflection will break Alex Turner's diamond alignment scheme. A friend lent me his Kindle Scribe to try out as part of my workflow. I started using it for note-taking, and found it incredibly useful and bought it from him. A month later, I bought a second Kindle Scribe to add to my [...]

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Outline:

(01:10) The Display

(04:06) Single-purpose devices enhance focus

(05:34) One to read, another to write on

(07:59) Moving on

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First published:

February 21st, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WhC6LtxgaLFBNXEsk/dual-wielding-kindle-scribes

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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