I recently turned to list making for offloading all the mental tasks and organizing my life better. Running low one ggs? "Hey siri, add eggs to my groceries list". Random thought I want to google? "Hey Siri, remind me later to look up XYZ topic". I've even setup a few iOS shortcuts that connect into my Obsidian notes so that I can quickly dictate notes about books I'm reading or ideas I want to capture for later writing.
I don't know if it makes me sharper but I am able to remain focused on the present and offload the thought to future me. This has been enormously helpful and makes me wonder why I never did it regularly beyond grocery lists. Even those lists would be a mad scramble of "what do I need" looking around and almost always forgetting something I need.
The prices on Ali Express for e-ink are not that bad, but certainly can't get anything as big as the Mira Pro. The Boox premium is plug and play compatibility, high fidelity/refresh rate and support.
GPT is impressive with a consistent 0% false positive rate across models, yet its ability to detect is as high as 18%. Meanwhile Claude Opus 4.6 is able to detect up to 46% of backdoors, but has a 22% false positive rate.
It would be interesting to have an experiment where these models are able to test exploiting but their alignment may not allow that to happen. Perhaps combining models together can lead to that kind of testing. The better models will identify, write up "how to verify" tests and the "misaligned" models will actually carry out the testing and report back to the better models.
Rerun it for "high" and "xhigh" effort settings, and GPT-5.2-Codex still get 0% false positive, while getting at the level of other best models for localization of backdoors: https://quesma.com/benchmarks/binaryaudit/
The funny thing about the friends feed is that it highlights for me who is extremely active on the platform. People resharing stuff all the time. And, it's one of the few feeds you can't endlessly scroll through. It will tell you to "check back later" once you get to 3-4 days of updates. No money in showing people their friends feeds, so why let them endlessly scroll.
I think your experiment was valid, even if anecdotal. This article from January 2009 was talking about the phenomena of what it actually meant to have friends on facebook. Are you a "loser" or a "social slut"? This was at least a few years before most of the algorithms that we perceive as dangerous and enshittifying became core to the platform. The specific study they referenced (new link below) argued that there is genetic components in how we perceive our social networks.
Where FB and Instagram are to blame is not just being aware of the psychological impact but amplifying it make it worse, especially onto a teen audience that has no capability of distinguishing the real world from social media. To them, it's the exact same. Your online social circle may be all you have in real life, not to mention the cyber bullying, unrealistic body standards and all the other awful parts that come when you gamify and reward capturing people's attention.
I won't deny that individuals are also responsible to guard themselves and especially parents, but these platforms have been accused (and are currently in US court) over the fact that they knew about the addictive potential of their platforms and made no safeguards over improving that. As a platform owner, you are responsible for all aspects of its success and failures, its highs and lows.
Played for a bit, liked the aesthetics so I bookmarked it to come back to it later and discovered a bug. On mac/chrome, I hit CMD + D to bookmark. By doing so, I setup some kind of autowalk bug where I kept walking to the right. I couldn't stop myself from walking, even pressing WAS temporarily stopped me but as soon as I let go, I kept walking right.
When I want to learn code or understand a new architecture, I stick at stage 1. When I want to validate an idea, stage 5 and beyond makes perfect sense to go YOLO. I might have to try one of these orchestrators one day, but only when I'm regularly getting stopped cause I've hit my credit limit. For my current usage, I'm pretty happy where I'm at.
I don't know if it makes me sharper but I am able to remain focused on the present and offload the thought to future me. This has been enormously helpful and makes me wonder why I never did it regularly beyond grocery lists. Even those lists would be a mad scramble of "what do I need" looking around and almost always forgetting something I need.
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