Cognitive skills for LLM creativity and metacognition
If you want to improve the ability of your LLM, you can do so by giving it “skills” – text-based, specific instructions to behave in…
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Cognitive skills for LLM creativity and metacognition
If you want to improve the ability of your LLM, you can do so by giving it “skills” – text-based, specific instructions to behave in …
Destiny coded in our names: The Nominative Determinism Hypothesis
Usain Bolt is the world’s fastest man, best known for the all-time record-breaking 9.58-second 100-meter run at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. 44 Kilometers …
Who is a Virtuoso? A new 8-dimension model
After a long hiatus from writing, I take a completely different direction focused on artists and technically excellent people. And that is because a naked …
AI passed the Umbrella test. Here’s why it matters.
The umbrella problem has been solved. And here’s why you should not take AI intelligence lightly. I made this test last year, and it seems …
Oldschool Education will make a comeback
Old school educational ideas are going to make a comeback after a whole decade of sentiments like “students must learn to apply” and “students must …
AI Forked Us
In my recent mania of doing too many things at once – training a model on latent human skills, funding applications, and building my startup[1] …
Anatomy of Human Skill
In this very, very short article, I’ve summarized how different types of human skills are decomposed into automatic behavior and purposeful behavior, and how they …
Are you located inside your body?
Even though the concept of “I” emerges from the brain, some psychological discoveries suggest the brain creates a simulation of what it processes and also …
Nunchi (눈치): A Silent skill of reading the room
I first learned the concept of nunchi in a Korean business class. It was introduced as a core Korean business skill of understanding a situation …
Learning techniques for Language Learning as an adult
Having recently gone through Korean language training as a native English speaker, I’ve noticed some basic habits you can adopt to learn a language faster …
Music, Faces, & Imagination make no sense
If you randomly talk with people and ask them absurd non-personal questions about their thoughts, you’d quickly realize that the most common human experiences are …
Why Your Empathy is Dying
Before I compiled concrete reasons why our Empathy levels drop, my instinct said, “Yeah, of course it’ll drop, empathy takes effort, and we don’t like …
Why even the smartest believe misinformation
Over 72% people are exposed to misinformation at least once a month on social media, according to this detailed list of statistics[1]. If you think …
Why you are consistently Unhappy
In the absence of an ongoing life-changing trauma or circumstance, such as death or being a victim of a crime or personal/financial crisis, if most …
5 downsides of being too smart and how to cope with them
Despite the commonly known positives of high intelligence, there are a few negative cliches like super-intelligent people are prone to mental disorders, are impulsive, have anxiety-induced mental …
Emerging Tech Skills not Displaced by AI
4 months ago, IBM replaced 200+ Human resource workers with AI agents[1] that automated many of the workflows. However, this automation also created new tech …