Henrik Karlsson
@phokarlsson · joined 02 Sep 2011
I write essays at https://t.co/Tf2yohMyM1 Right now thinking about writing-as-thinking, relationships, self-cultivation, LLMs
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Any recommendations of really good interview books?
I just finished reading the three that Martin Gayford did with David Hockney; they were fun! Another interview book, which I like even more, is the one Paul Cronin did with Werner Herzog.
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which are the most labor intensive essays ever written?
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@phokarlsson i think artists are on some kind of a spectrum with regards to how open they are to being buffeted around by the requirements of the work. Some seek to impose themselves. But what you describe is (for me) the kingly school of songwriting.
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Strangely, though, at the same time it requires you to be deeply self-attuned, because the only way to feel the latent structure of the song is to listen in to how the various possibilities resonate with you. But there is little space for choice.
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there will be a “right” way to extend the melody, add harmony to it, etc: it will tell you if you listen carefully. So it is really about letting go of ego and submitting to this structure outside of yourself.
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It is interesting how little freedom there is in creativity if you take it seriously. If I’m writing a song, I have some freedom when I make the first one or two choices—picking the first section of the melody, say. But after that the form really demands what comes next:
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A portrait of a person written purely by describing the imprints they have left in other people, the ways others are different because of their encounter.
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@phokarlsson “The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”
Chesterton
It’s dangerous to your own health to treat people otherwise!
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@phokarlsson (How) Will doing this benefit me/them?
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@phokarlsson Frisch: Thinking that you know the other is always the end of love. (...) But it's not b/c we know the other that our love ends, it's b/c our love ended that we think the other is complete. https://t.co/Oy2RaU5JOu
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treat people like they are too complex to fit in your head (link in next tweet) https://t.co/n4tiWEMoUV
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I collected my thoughts in more detail here. https://t.co/DhuqFip3Uh
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The data is from Games of Go on Disk which transcribes games from pro tournaments. I suspect that it is pretty hard to cheat on a live pro tournament, but not sure what precautions they take. https://t.co/pr8OqmxIoJ
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There is a parallel here to cognitive apprenticeship theory, ie the idea that the reason cognitive skills are hard to learn is that we can't see them so you should externalize them for students. For humans to learn from AIs, perhaps making reasoning explicit is needed.
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@phokarlsson That paper does not even once (that I can see) mention the hypothesis that better go AIs allow for easier cheating.
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The significant improvements seems to have come not after May 2016 when AlphaGo was released but after October 2017 when Leela Zero was open sourced.
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Ok, so this is interesting: it seems maybe the quality improved not after AlphaGo, but after the release of open source versions. Because they allowed players to look under the hood and understand the strategy. Just seeing the AI moves was not enough. https://t.co/8d1B1dsSzB http
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I think this is the root source of the graph. https://t.co/XZ1cuiC0X4
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"we estimated the time trends of decision quality only for the decisions that differed from the optimal AI decisions." which I take to mean that the graph above shows only the improved decision quality of moves that are not direct memorizations of moves done by AIs?
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I saw the graph here, which links to original study: https://t.co/5Q6ZTiyPn1
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Graph of decision quality among professional Go players. A sudden increase after AlphaGo. It is not only because they are learning from the AI. Players are suddenly inventing new moves at a faster rate too! https://t.co/sOyIcuvqDt
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Against accounts of the same size
8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views1 388this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %7.86%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.02%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 1 388 | 924 | 1.50× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 7.86% | 3.62% | 2.17× |
| Engagement rate | 2.02% | 1.52% | 1.33× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes64.0%15 451 in total
Reposts8.6%2 066 in total
Replies0.5%112 in total
Quotes1.3%319 in total
Bookmarks25.7%6 211 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
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