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What the marshmallow test got wrong about child psychology | Psyche Ideas
doi:10.1080/09658211.2018.1495108psyche.co
My basic approach to understanding prodigies is the same as it is for understanding any expert performer. I ask two simple questions: What is the exact nature of the ability? and, What sorts of training made it possible? In thirty years of looking, I have never found an ability that could not be explained by answering these two questions.
Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool • Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Building complex reasoning skills online through open-ended activities
May-Li Khoeearly.khanacademy.org
Highly intelligent outlier men often have an underdeveloped Anima which, if unlocked, will revolutionise their genius into something near incomprehensible. Outlier cognition is not merely a gift, but a symptom of psychic survival. More often than not, these men have had traumatic, asymmetrical, or neglectful relationships with their mother -... See more
Laurenx.com
Will scaling reasoning models like o1, o3 and R1 unlock superhuman reasoning?
I asked Gwern + former OpenAI/DeepMind researchers.
Warning: long post.
As we scale up training and inference compute for reasoning models, will they show:
A) Strong... See more
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Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units. Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity.