You know that you know coming up with a dumb idea that just simply will not work vs. something that changes the domain looks similar in the short term, but with wildly different outcomes and a tremendously different amount of knowledge, work, and prep beforehand. Something to be said about that.

There is also something interesting about, in the same way that gambling and investing are often indiscernible. There is a similar difficulty to discern the difference between this sort of blunt and dumb idea that essentially goes against the aesthetics, or attunement of the domain

It almost feels as if someone is bringing McDonald's hamburger to a local craft hamburger contest. You can't help but notice the details of your craft, and therefore when folks come into your space with certain lexicon and legends that don't quite fit the terms, it feels abrasive, ironically.

What I mean by that is that I see it more as coming from a place of special sensitivity to the world. It is an attunement to the intricacies, the complexities of the topic that they know and are talking about. So in a way, when someone enters that world with a vocabulary that's not clear enough.

This feels similar to RL agents taking knowledge from one place and applying it in another without fully losing it

A great example of transfer learning that I'm reminded of (that book Range? I think its from that I read many years ago) is Roger Federer not even doing Tennis until a later age. He picked up a bunch of different sports, and essentially the transfer learning that happened

Reward based learning (I'll give you a treat if you do this right), reward shaping (I'll give you a treat if you do this the way I say it and get it right) exploration vs exploitation, learning through trial and error, imitation learning (here's how to do things because I'm an expert), world models

We are on a tiny rock, many many light years away from other systems, millions of miles away from other planets — why even do anything at all.

The choice to do something at all - to fight for anything that you believe in - no matter what others think or say - has power in and of itself

Yet, perhaps it’s a feature (not a bug) of our lives. because if we had infinite time — would there really be an urgency to figure out a way to shove as much of this as we possibly can into one life? and live as brightly as we can?

Sometimes I think that, or perhaps I fool myself into thinking I know how things work; or how the creative process works, and I really have absolutely no clue