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Instead, good communities like this are decentralized networks of many micro-communities, where there are a few superconnectors that form the fast, efficient “backbone” interconnect of the larger community.
Linus Lee • A cellular theory of communities | thesephist.com
Sam Altman asks: why are scaling laws a property of the universe?
Daniel Selsam says intelligence emerges from compression—and the universe’s knowledge is a fractal you can keep mining.
In other words, scaling laws keep working because important concepts are sparse but inexhaustible—and... See more
vitrupox.comThe @JeffDean & @NoamShazeer episode.
We talk about 25 years at Google, from PageRank to MapReduce to the Transformer to MoEs to AlphaChip – and soon to ASI.
My favorite part was Jeff's vision for AGI as one giant MoE that is grown in bits and pieces over time like a forest, rather than... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.comwe cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.
John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
By promoting self-organization, energy flux gradually converts a clump of mindless molecules into information-processing machinery with agency—meaning the self-drive and purposeful action that we associate with life.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
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The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
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Curation as a Service (or CaaS) - I believe, as the amount of content on the web increases, there will inevitably be a need for more human curators. People who are domain experts (or have an obsession with a topic) that can sift through the garbage and collect the gems.
Jeremy Brown • The Case for Curation as a Service
