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Vampire Weekend - This Life (Official Video)
youtube.comThe incentive to find breakthrough science that provides a performance pathway other than scaling is increasing. A GPT-6 class model will cost $10 billion and three years to improve on GPT-5 by some uncertain degree. That’s a ton of time and a lot of cash for an uncertain payout: in other words, a substantial prize for anyone who can figure out... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🧠 AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
When you’re in middle age, which I am (mid-middle age, to be precise—I’m now 52), you start to realize how very much you need your friends. They’re the flora and fauna in a life that hasn’t had much diversity, because you’ve been so busy—so relentlessly, stupidly busy—with middle-age things: kids, house, spouse, or some modern-day version of
... See moreOne way of thinking about this is Daniel Kahneman’s simple model of thinking: System 1 and System 2. System 1 thinking is fast and intuitive. Current AI models’ pattern recognition and next-token prediction are good examples of this. System 2 thinking is slow and analytical, akin to genuine reasoning and understanding. It is System 2 thinking where... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🧠 AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
Yesterday I was talking to a Google recruiter and he was saying how as a big corporate it is difficult to change things or do new stuff. I frequently forget that about Google as I still have an image of it as a startup resulting from reading
I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 back in 2015. That book... See more
The time for a broadened, or expanded, sense of reason—far broader than generative A.I. will ever achieve—is upon us. It’s time to shed the shackles of secular humanism and walk boldly into a future where the human spirit is not contained in a Twitter-shaped box in which Lex Fridman wonders out loud whether or not he’s real or an avatar.
Vibes Are Not Enough
Pip Decks Review — Are they worth the hype?
youtube.comI've watched a few videos on these cards and I think they'd be incredibly useful for lots of tasks. They really help with getting you to think in new ways. Right now, the storytelling one is probably most useful to me.
reactive use of intelligence narrows our vision. In contrast, projective thinking is expansive, “open-ended,” and speculative, requiring the thinker to create the context, concepts, and the objectives.
