It's striking how rapidly I can generate a large number of spaced repetition prompts using clozes when writing prose notes like notes.andymatuschak.org/The_cognitive_.
I notice that I have to write carefully (eg to avoid "giving away" deletions), and the prompts are lower-quality. But fast!
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I realized that even if I write these kinds of prompts carefully enough that they're effortful to review, they often end up containing so much specific contextual information that I would never spontaneously 'bump into' the ideas outside a review session.
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Yeah, for sure. I'm pretty excited about this direction:
Have you personally experimented with gpt3 prompt generation? If not it might be worth putting a few days into it. You might be surprised what's possible and there's more than one creative way to use gpt3 as a tool. Quick to try and big if successful.
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Yeah, I have. I didn't have much luck at all, but has gotten substantially better results out of a more specific question-generation model:
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You know, I also just realized: there's some tension between the goal of writing focused prompts and the goal of writing precise ones. It's related to this observation 's:
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When I began writing seriously, I was surprised by the difficulty I had in writing the truth. I don't mean I was dishonest. I mean sentences & paragraphs are weirdly squirrelly things. They rarely say quite what I believe. Sometimes that remains the case even after 20 revisions!
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The more successful you are at precisely articulating the prompt, the more you risk adding details that give away the correct response.
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