Daniel Kokotajlo
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Whereas I've actually had the opposite experience.
many times had the opposite feeling when I meet anonymous bloggers in real life where I'm like, oh, there's actually even more to you than I realized off your online persona.
You know Alvaro de Menard, the fantastic anachronism guy?
So I met up with him recently, and he gives me this โ he made hundreds of translations of his favorite Greek poet, Cavafy, and he gave me a copy.
And it's just this thing he's been doing on his side.
It's just like translating Greek poetry he really liked.
I don't expect any anonymous posters on Twitter to be anytime soon handing me their translation of some Roman or Greek poet or something.
No, I mean, Chad, GBT can write you a book.
There's a difference between the Chad GPT book, which is most books.
What advice do you have to somebody who wants to become good at it but isn't currently good at it?
Do it every day.
And do you have advice on what kinds of things to start?
One frustration you can have is you want to do it, but it is just like you have so little to stay.
You don't have that deep a world model.
A lot of the ideas you have are just really shallow or wrong.
Just do it anyway?
I have noticed two things in my own โ I mean, I don't do that much writing, but from the little I do โ
One, I actually was very shallow and wrong when I started.
I started the blog in college.
So I just like would not โ if you are somebody who's like this is like a bullshit, like there's nothing to this.