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Anna Gát 🧭
@TheAnnaGat
Art Philosopher • Founder-CEO of salon platform @interintellect_ • Bio: annagat.com • Words: american-innocence.com • Podcast: @thehopeaxis
New York, USA
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    Anna Gát 🧭
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    May 5
    Having run a conversation salon platform for 7 years, we've learned so much about human communication that I don't (yet) see LLMs get right. 1- Musicality: Human conversation is incredibly musical in that it is all about the rhythm. After the entry point, people relax into the
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    Feb 16, 2024
    For Eastern Europeans to arrive at Western universities is a shocker. You escape the horrible degeneration of democracy & run into these under-informed people who willingly celebrate it. On my day 1 in the UK, I got invited to join their Marxist Society. I was flabbergasted.
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    Aug 4, 2018
    ALWAYS email artists when you think their work is wonderful. Always. You think they know it; they don't. You will make their day (their week, their month). They will become more motivated, and go and create more wonderful art, which you can then enjoy. Everybody wins.
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    Jan 2, 2022
    Few people understand that Twitter is the general Slack channel for everyone in tech.
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    Anna Gát 🧭
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    Mar 24, 2024
    I regret to inform you that I've just been home to Budapest and every 4th woman you see anywhere in the city looks like Sydney Sweeney. Your yearning is geographical, not statistical.
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    Jan 26, 2022
    Just had sobering conversation w one of the smartest young people I know and we both admitted we stopped reading almost every cultural magazine / outlet we used to be devoted to because they've become so propagandistic. (And I feel this while on the Left -- how do others feel?)
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    Anna Gát 🧭
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    Nov 18, 2018
    When I turned 30 I made two resolutions: 1 I shall never have opinion about a book/author I haven't read 2 Whenever technically & linguistically accessible to me I shall read things first source, not what others wrote about them Now 5 years later I realise this changed my life.
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    Anna Gát 🧭
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    Dec 24, 2023
    People are forgetting the reason you can get away with crazy amounts of plagiarism in the humanities / soft sciences is not just because of favouritism + nepotism but also because **no one reads most of these papers** and everybody knows this and still they keep producing them
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    Anna Gát 🧭
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    Jul 9, 2023
    When I was in Brussels, I got my usual city tour by a local. She showed me the parky area beyond the Flagey. That’s where the rich live, she said. “Oh,” I asked. “Old money or new money?” She looked at me like I was deranged: “Old money. There is no new money.” Europe.
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    Anna Gát 🧭
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    Jun 23, 2021
    People who think Bill Gates can put a microchip in their arm surely haven’t tried Microsoft Teams, right?
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    Anna Gát 🧭
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    Feb 11, 2024
    A key rule of theatre is that the King is never played by the actor playing the King, but by all the other actors around him.
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    Anna Gát 🧭
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    Oct 19, 2022
    My Jordan Peterson hot take is that I used to enjoy listening to him and he made me think (though not always agree), but that he’s been visibly unwell for the past couple of years and it is worrying.
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    Anna Gát 🧭
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    Dec 22, 2018
    When I was mainly writing, I heard this great rule: "When people have a problem with a part of your text, they are usually right. When they suggest something to change it to, they are usually wrong." This seems to me a general truth. Has been helpful in the startup world too.
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    Anna Gát 🧭
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    May 3, 2024
    In my experience successful people are successful because they have such enormous personal problems that literally becoming the best in the world is less hard than solving them. So all the productivity and health life tips are totally missing the point….
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