Andreas Stuhlmüller: belief

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…Was the smartest of times. It was the stupidest of times. And here's hoping that our better angels win out when it comes to better reasoning and better decision making. This has been an excellent conversation. I really have enjoyed the update on Elicit and I appreciate how consistent and disciplined you guys are about It's not easy, obviously, running a business and trying to make sure you're staying true to that North Star mission. I think you guys do a really admirable job of holding yourselves accountable to trying to find the right balance between those. And there are many echoes of the hard work that you've put into that in this conversation. So I really appreciate the time and encourage you to keep up the great work and the disciplined reasoning. Anything else you want to leave people with before we break? I think knowing when the models are making you better or worse at decision making is actually pretty subtle. And I think not that many people are paying close attention to it. I am reminded of the, now from a while back, the meter study where engineers thought they were being made more productive, but actually at a slight discount relative to unassisted work. And there was an engineering, probably no longer true in engineering, but I could imagine that for more complex decisions if you're not paying attention. Sometimes using the models like regresses you to the mean or like cuts off avenues of investigations and at other times it opens up the space and makes you think more clearly. And so I find it helpful to just introspect, am I actually getting benefits here or how is this changing my behavior? And so thinking about that and sharing it with the world does seem to me like just a clearly not good thing. Yeah. For the time being, we still have some agency over this process, and I think that's a great reminder to maintain an ownership mindset and hold ourselves accountable to doing our very best work and not getting lazy and letting the AIs lead us around. Excellent. Zheng Wang Yun and Andreas Schulwaler, founders of Elicit, thank you again for being part of the cognitive revolution.…

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