Summary
Some links and ideas I found interesting, but didn’t have the time to explore yet.
️ Content may be inaccurate or misleading! I haven’t vetted the trustworthiness of many sources referenced.
https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1934770112483217645
- “LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels”
- This study finds LLM dependence weakens the writer’s own neural and linguistic fingerprints.
- Relying only on EEG, text mining, and a cross-over session, the authors show that keeping some AI-free practice time protects memory circuits and encourages richer language even when a tool is later reintroduced.
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
wtf is going on with Soham Parekh?
- Related: understanding the culture of r/overemployed
Urs Hölzle’s Personal User Manual
- mentioned from https://www.yanda.com/manual
- “the art of getting into things”
- access more of the value in the world
- join more social circles + build community in unexpected ways
- understand people better
- “An incredibly important skill in itself: to make peace with not liking, to just like people liking it.”
- Related: liking things as a skill (Sasha Chapin)
https://ponnekanti.net/posts/min-maxing/
- Probably want to make one of these of my own.