Brain Food: Apprenticeship
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Brain Food: Apprenticeship
In this interview we discuss what, if anything, can be learned from his unusual career path. Should more people pass on university and just throw themselves at solving a problem they care about? Or would it be foolhardy for others to try to copy a unique case like Chris’?
Robert Wiblin • Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
The appeal of learning through others is that it can be efficient. Books, mentors, case studies all compress years of experience into hours of consumption. But compression has a cost: it assumes a decoder. Without proper tacit knowledge, the message can lose meaning or, in some cases, be actively confused. In these cases, theory isn’t wrong, just o... See more
🌀🗞 The FLUX Review, Ep. 191
“After my freshman year in college I was looking for some sort of a summer job ….
You are expected basically prepare yourself to go to medical school
My parents figured I would become a doctor
That’s what people did if they were smart … What else would you do?
I got a summer internship at University hospital shock trauma unit af
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