Sublime

Janine worked out of Orcas Island in Puget Sound and was a junior assistant to Lisa, who was the editor of Sophia’s mother, Zula. That was for a reason. If you had a good relationship with an editor, you wanted to stick with them your whole life, and Lisa was of an age that she would probably retire while Sophia was in her thirties. Janine, on the

There are 5 archetypes for people who create Non-Obvious ideas in the world.

Alan Schoenfeld, a math professor at Berkeley,

peer recognition

Every model, whether LLM or ML, will operate best if it is focused and specializes in specific conclusions it is trying to make. For example, I will make ChatGPT bots for very specific parts of my research, reading, and trading processes. Create specialized bots and models, then structure them hierarchically. The goal is to run a suite of bots,

For reasons that we’re coming to, it may well be that you have more aptitude—and more flair—for some activities that you’ve already tried than you realize.

Hence, we are more likely to accept a dangerous idea if it aligns with our own experiences and is supported by the people we value.

We could model agents who had disparate ideas or hypotheses about the situation they were in. They could base their actions on these, and learn which hypotheses worked and which didn’t, getting smarter over time.