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Thoughts on thinking

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645 points bradgessler | 2 comments | 16 May 25 19:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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paulorlando ◴[16 May 25 19:35 UTC] No.44009047[source]▶
I've noticed something like this as well. A suggestion is to write/build for no one but yourself. Really no one but yourself.

Some of my best writing came during the time that I didn't try to publicize the content. I didn't even put my name on it. But doing that and staying interested enough to spend the hours to think and write and build takes a strange discipline. Easy for me to say as I don't know that I've had it myself.

Another way to think about it: Does AI turn you into Garry Kasparov (who kept playing chess as AI beat him) or Lee Sedol (who, at least for now, has retired from Go)?

If there's no way through this time, I'll just have to occasionally smooth out the crinkled digital copies of my past thoughts and sigh wistfully. But I don't think it's the end.

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ge96 ◴[16 May 25 19:57 UTC] No.44009243[source]▶
Yeah there is the personal passion and then the points/likes driven which sucks the joy out

I experienced this when I was younger with my rc planes, I joined some forum and I felt like everything I did had to be posted/liked to have value. I'd post designs/fantasy and get the likes then lose interest/not actually do it after I got the ego bump

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1. paulorlando ◴[16 May 25 20:01 UTC] No.44009291[source]▶
I think that's why some writers refuse to talk about their work in progress. If they do, it saps the life out of it. Your ego bump example kind of fits into that.
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2. paulorlando ◴[17 May 25 00:44 UTC] No.44011129[source]▶
If relevant, I wrote this in a related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43912331