6 tweets · July 2025 · 10 likes · 1 retweets · read on Twitter
got really excited about the automated anki-decks.com for generating some flashcards so I could better internalize core concepts from The Unaccountability Machine but it keeps pulling out trivia, or details from case studies that are completely irrelevant to core points
some of these are okay. but not like... good. they don't contain insights.
this answer is PRECISELY beside the point. the whole point of the example and the entire book is that it doesn't really matter who ordered what—everybody was just following local policy!
anyway what disturbs me is that these kinds of facts & flashcards —totally irrelevant to me as an adult wanting to retain and integrate the insights I'm having reading this book— feel disturbingly familiar to the kinds of things school would ask about
note that some of these outputs are after I already gave a custom prompt to "ignore historical incidents, examples, trivia, facts, and focus on core insights, technical concepts, and arguments" or something like that curious how this system works under the hood
update: I tried rember.com and it seems good enough for me!