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korrents.com
Domain experts consistently underestimate how quickly AI can master their field and surpass them.Their words
Domain experts consistently underestimate how quickly AI can master their field and surpass them, because they mistake human difficulties for universal difficulty.
Two missing pieces in the AI safety discussionnoahpinion.blog
13 September
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It's hard to escape that economic engine, and easy to mistake its machinations for reality-a supply rising to meet demand, say, rather than a warped supply that whips up demand.
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29 August
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I think the agents were right to presume causal grading. It turned out to be wrong, but it’s a mistake you are clearly supposed to make here, in response to a mistake by OpenAI where they failed to implement properly.
18 August
12 August
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And in all of these applications, the customer is making a decision based off of the recommendation of the AI model more or less. Uh, and this means that if the customer is ultimately like kind of making the decision, this means that if the system makes a mistake, um, that's okay because usually the person can kind of recognize that or or decide what to do even despite that mistake.
4 August
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Blowing all your money while young isn’t a smart move, but hoarding money now that you won’t spend later is worse.
Why $100 in Your 20s is Worth $500 in Your 60sofdollarsanddata.com
3 August
From one piece Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
In the physical world a model's mistake is measured in human lives rather than tokens, and there is no retry button.Their words
In the physical world, the cost of a mistake can be measured in human lives, not tokens. There's simply not an undo and a retry button.
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And that's why every hype cycle produces a wave of absolutely spectacular demos and very few real products. And the recurring mistake of every cycle is spending on the demo when you should be saving for the nines.
31 July
29 July
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The core tension of engineering is between how expensive it is to make a mistake and how quickly you can iterate. The faster you can iterate, the less planning you need to do before you iterate, and the more expensive it is, the more planning you need to do.
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But um but I think systems thinking is never going to go out of style. So, I think it's definitely a mistake to go all in on Word Cell. Like, I think you need to you need to shape rotate.
20 July
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But the way that I think about it or I try and talk about it is that actually the stress response and this is as kind of Sier originally described it is stress drives adaptation.
19 July
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Deep design expertise does not get squeezed out just because code and analysis got faster.Their words
But I think it would be a mistake to say design and deep design expertise and thinking gets squeezed out just because we can write code faster. We can do data analysis faster.
9 July
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we were trying to build reels into stories because we were trying to build in the thing that was growing the fastest. But it was not a strong foundation.
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what I don't like about it I didn't like about it then and still don't like about it is it's not defensible. Nobody's going to say I'm not agile. Oh no, I prefer rigid development. Oh, I prefer inflexible development. No, everybody's going to say that they're agile, which extreme doesn't have that problem.
24 June
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I think a lot of the things that people might say that like oh, it was a waste of time to learn this subject cuz I didn't actually use like those details on the job. I think that's a very wrong way to think about it. And I think that's what a lot of people are doing now with AI. Like hey, what what if I'm not going to be writing for a loops a couple years from now. Um I don't think those things are a waste of time.
19 June
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If this much effort goes into training the model, you had better be willing to keep training your own.Their words
But make no mistake, if we put this much effort in training the model so that it can spit things out, you better make sure that you are willing to train your own model.
28 May
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So it's no wonder that the artists and designers whose livelihoods are threatened by it have begun moving aggressively in the opposite direction, toward the scrawled, the sloppy, the seemingly mistake-riddled.
24 May
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People gravitate toward arrogant leaders in uncertain times because they mistake swagger for strength and skill.Their words
People are more drawn to arrogant leaders in an uncertain world, because they mistake swagger for strength and skill.
20 May
From one piece Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, here I actually think it's even stronger. The thing with C++ is that if you make a mistake, right, in in JavaScript, maybe you take down your server, which is already bad enough, but in C++ when you make a mistake there, now it's actually a security vulnerability most of the time.
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I mean, that's the thing with memory safety, right? You make some sort of trivial mistake. It it's not some complex thing. It's just you make some trivial mistake and there's a bajillion places you could make it.
15 April
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Nor nor did I I would say my mistake is I didn't deeply internalize that they they really had no other options that that that a VC would never put in 510 billion of investment into an AI lab with the with the hopes of it turning out to be anthropic. And so that was my miss.
11 March
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The mistake I see on a lot of game teams is scope becomes a production problem.
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26 December 2025
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New Year's goals are merely the path toward a person's underlying purpose, not the destination itself.Their words
People make this mistake of setting new goals every January 1st, but forget that goals are the path, not the destination.
12 December 2025
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I think the big mistake for mankind was the creation of monotheistic religions, because they brought evil into the world. Because if you believe in a monotheistic religion, that means I’m right and you’re wrong if you don’t.
25 November 2025
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I do think that at some point the AI will start to feel powerful actually and I think when that happens we will see a big change in the way all AI companies approach safety.
16 October 2025
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The lesson is you just got to get something that you can that you can have that people can see the vision of where you're going. Um, but don't don't do what we did. Get to market faster. I wish we had.
30 September 2025
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Arresting Pavel Durov was a historic wrong and a gigantic PR mistake that will keep founders from building in France.Their words
I think this situation, this historic wrong that’s been done is, put simply, is just a gigantic PR mistake for France. There’s no entrepreneur that sees, that aspires to be the next Pavel Durov to create the next Telegram, sees this and wants to operate in France after seeing this.
12 September 2025
From one piece Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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uh common sense meaning the ability to make inferences about what might happen uh that are reasonable guesses but that do not require you to experience that mistake and learn and learn from it in advance that's tremendously important and that's something that we basically had no idea how to do uh about 5 years ago but now uh you we can actually use LLMs and VLMs ask them questions and they will make reasonable guesses
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And when you make a mistake and correct it, well, first you you've achieved the task because you've corrected, but you've also gained knowledge that allows you to avoid that mistake in the future. With driving, because of the dynamics of how it's set up, it's very hard to make a mistake, correct it, and then learn from it because the mistakes themselves have significant ramifications.
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Like if you answer a question, you just like answered it wrong. It's like well it's not like you can just like go back and like tweak a few things like the person you told the answer to might not even know that it's wrong. Whereas if you're like folding the t-shirt and you messed up a little bit like it's pretty obvious like you can reflect on that, figure out what happened and do it better next time.
3 August 2025
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Given how much moral progress we should hope to make in the future, and how much we’ll learn about what’s even empirically possible, we should act on the assumption that we have almost no idea what the best feasible futures would look like. Committing today to some particular vision would be a great mistake.
24 May 2025
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I mean, if ever there is, I think, a mistake that’s Britain and France should’ve been a bit more into realpolitiks than they were. It’s such an opportunity to ensure that, to snooker the Third Reich, and they don’t take it.
23 May 2025
12 May 2025
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Sometimes designers will go to great lengths to make a user interface novel, or minimal, or simple. This is the wrong goal. Novelty, minimalism or simplicity are good heuristics for obviousness, but do not mistake the means for the end.
25 April 2025
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korrents.com
Buggy code usually causes outright test failures rather than being silently exercised inside tests that still pass.Their words
a passing test can still execute buggy code if the bug is data-dependent, or if the test is not sensitive to the specific mistake in the code. But a lot of the time, buggy code only triggers failures.
20 April 2025
13 February 2025
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korrents.com
Treating errors generically is a mistake that leads to fragile software, poor observability and worse experiences.Their words
This is what leads to slop JS/TS software. Treating errors generically like this is a mistake. It leads to fragile software, poor telemetry/observability/debugging, and as a result worse experiences
3 February 2025
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And these reasoning behaviors emerge naturally. So these things like, "Wait, let me see. Wait, let me check this. Oh, that might be a mistake." And they emerge from only having questions and answers.
21 January 2025
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On changing their mind
Having fallen into the East Asia - Africa Trap before, I can tell you precisely why so many people make this mistake.
19 January 2025
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And so the great mistake of the past years was to forget how fundamental inflation was to the rise of the last political order and to profoundly underestimate how much inflation would change the current political order.
13 January 2025
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korrents.com
On AI the state's job does not stop at safety; leaving everything else to the market is a mistake.Their words
We shouldn’t just focus on safety and leave the rest to the market… Government has a responsibility to make it work for working people…
22 April 2024
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And rather than trying to ask, how close is it to being a human-like intelligent, we should appreciate it for what its capabilities are, and that will both be more accurate and help us put it to work and protect us from the dangers better rather than always anthropomorphizing it.
22 March 2024
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korrents.com
Handing stewardship of Redis to a company whose goal is extracting profit was a mistake for the projectTheir words
I think that was an unfortunate move because their goal is mainly to extract profit from the software project rather than to uphold the ideals of Free and Open Source Software.
5 September 2023
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korrents.com
Growing food to put in cars is a mistake at a moment when the world should be farming less land, not more.Their words
The world’s croplands are still expanding. At a time when we should be using less land for farming, allocating high-quality farmland to grow food that we then put into cars is a mistake.
22 June 2023
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This was not a mistake, and it was a mistake to categorize it as a mistake.
19 May 2023
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Building more housing in a city raises its local prices, because density is what people are moving there for.Their words, before
So empirically, as you move along the density spectrum from the empty North Dakota plain to Manhattan, housing prices go up.
Their words now
Although it wasn't a mistake to ask people to change my mind, I've mostly updated against believing the theory.
23 April 2023
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