GLOBAL MAXIMUM MINDSET: Sometimes, the smartest way to get better results from GenAI is to reset its context (literally) and give it a fresh start, not just keep iterating around a local maximum. This simple context engineering approach wasn’t obvious to me at first, but now I

"Homeschooling" is so much more heterogenous than schooling that it's trivially easy to find homeschooled adults who seem either damaged or superpowered as a direct result of it

The no free lunch theorem is irrelevant.

"One of the most basic observations we can make about the world is that the vast majority of people act on scripts—essentially roles that have been defined in advance." - Samo Burja on his distinction between live and dead players

Perhaps a majority of brilliant ideas, near their conception, are not only dismissed, but often ridiculed. My understanding is that early versions of GPT were written off out of hand by supposed luminaries (who now wholeheartedly embrace and replicate the technology). 1/2

Heya Grok based on the kind of content I enjoy who should I follow that I'm not currently?

Every time someone proposes training a model for some domain (virtual cells/materials/whatever), the first sentence should be: input data: x, output data: y, loss function: z. Would make it a lot easier for dum dums like me to understand what exactly is being proposed.

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Something I noticed at ICML: for the most part, VCs are strikingly disinterested in the technical content of the conference, and the discipline at large. You could be describing what obsoletes the transformer, and they couldn’t care less.

Paul Graham Even better, find a kind of work that you're so interested in that you'll learn AI to do it better than everyone else can.

Blue-state Republicans and red-state Democrats are the most moderating influence in Congress and are usually instrumental to any bipartisan legislation. Their continued erosion through gerrymandering will only make Congress more polarized and less capable of governing.

Quick impression of GPT-5 announcement: seems more about making a more useful product than about a leap in raw capabilities

The optimal amount of hallucinations is not zero. How do people not understand this. The complainers are midwits. Einstein, Tesla, Ramanujan all almost certainly experienced the kind of “hallucinations” we see in models. Snuff those out entirely and you will never reach ASI.

Someone should write about how California's ban on employee noncompete agreements has spurred faster progress, greater innovation, and stronger competition in AI, benefitting employees and consumers alike while companies thrive, and what it means for the broader national debate.

Sam Altman I believe we can do better than all three.

The “bitter lesson” asserts we have a cognitive bias towards encoding human knowledge over computation. Ironically, we also have a bias towards uncritically accepting what seems like bad news as truth — a “bitter lesson”, or “no free lunch” theorems.

COL (Ret) Jeff in 🇦🇹 He’s said it so many times now, it’s gotta be deliberate. Big numbers simply sound more impressive to people who lack critical thinking ability. He’s a good salesman. Let’s be honest, it’s impressive this guy got his “conservative” base to get on board with a consumption tax

What’s missing is the part of your cerebral cortex that understands that the #s needed are orders of magnitude off. Tariffs can’t replace income tax unless you shrink government by an utterly massive amount (and without touching entitlements, the right’s new position, it’s beyond

@matt_vanswol The irony here is that America was literally founded on secularism. The Founders had just watched centuries of Europe tear itself apart with religious wars — Catholics vs. Protestants, Anglicans vs. Puritans, you name it. Their solution? A Constitution that kept government out of

I remember in biology being told "viruses are not alive" as if it were a profound revelation. But we excluded them based on counterintuitive criteria such as independent replication. It's because "we said so". Many seeming profundities can be traced to arbitrary definitions.