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by dfgvfvbcv 18 days ago
Guard your mental resources. You always should have, but in the age of AI it is no longer optional.

Simple algorithm for not wasting your time:

1) By default nothing is valuable or worth your while 2) Aggressively hunt for signals indicating potential worth (ancient pedigree and/or critical acclaim being most valuable) 3) Choose maybe 10% of what survives for actual reading, scan some others and dump the rest

Oh, and let LLMs summarize near-zero information articles like this one.

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This sounds like work for a personally aligned local agent interacting with your past and future media timeline.

It probably exists in some form, any suggestions?

> This sounds like work for a personally aligned local agent interacting with your past and future media timeline.

I have one of those. It's me. I'm my personally aligned local agent.

You can be yours too, as long as the atrophy hasn't set in yet.

We all have our selves.

I was thinking more of the problem of choice from an ever vaster array of options within limited resources of time and attention.

But yeah. Still awake, thanks.

There is plenty of info here. That you failed to notice it is a separate issue.
Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crud) applies more than ever in the age of AI.

The best filter is time -- the cream does eventually rise to the top. And conveniently the time filter also excludes AI slop.