John Borthwick
@borthwick
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John Borthwick
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"You should stay plugged in. You can manage anxiety and beat the House without resorting to shaming social platforms into managing attention for you. That's a terrible yielding of agency." Venkatesh Rao
Evidence that LLMs are reaching a point of diminishing returns - and what that might mean
Gary Marcusgarymarcus.substack.com
🤔 Questions, things I'm pondering
Relates to the broad question re; scaling, and the Bitter Lesson
• Working differently is usually more productive than working harder.
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➰ Quality is everything …
Two quotes from ZAMM on why:
'“he saw now that Quality was a cleavage term. What every intellectual analyst looks for. You take your analytic knife, put the point directly on the term Quality and just tap, not hard, gently, and the whole world splits, cleaves, right in two—hip and square, classic and romantic, technologica
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Thinking about how AI cleaves open the possibility space around any problem, finding patterns we dont see. And how human intelligence is different to machine intelligence ... examples of cleaving open the possibility space move 37 AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol
There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
we are just base for technology.
Maven
what a strange idea
So, how to wrap my arms around this term in a way that captures its spirit without flattening it?