-
Their words
You are not trying to compete with AI in producing outputs, that is a losing game. Instead, you want to use your human advantages as basis of working with AI to do things that neither of you could do alone.
Related posts
Jennifer Pahlka Newsletter
The the words it uses that this site has seen least often elsewhere. Posts are matched on those words alone — nothing here is a summary of this one.
Top people
Showing Profile →
Hiding
Hiding
18 September
17 September
14 September
-
Their words
Technologies are not neutral, but political. Money is indeed one of the incentives, but not the only one. A mixture of millennialism, eugenics, search for utopia and for a spread of the specie beyond the confines of the Earth, are all elements we find among the founders’ views.
11 September
-
Their words
AI companies make for flawed messengers on this subject: they can reasonably be accused of marketing, of blame-shifting, of regulatory capture, and more.
10 September
-
Their words
The Frontier Lab flywheel is to get the smartest people to use the leading models. Then distill their inputs, your own model’s outputs, and resulting synthetic data and environments. And the people have to use the leading models because they’re locked in mutual competition.
1 September
-
Their words
But keep those methods you use to investigate things and monitor things very separate from the methods you use to generate reward which is something that AI companies including open AAI have held up as a principle especially in the case of avoiding putting training pressure on the chain of thought. So you might have monitors that read the agents chain of thought in order to alert you if something is going wrong somewhere but you don't train the agents with the outputs of that monitor.
31 August
-
korrents.com
AI-generated writing tends to repeat the same themes, names, and underlying ideas across different outputs.Their words
AIs don’t just repeat the same sentence patterns but also the same themes (memory is a favorite), names (Elara Voss, Marcus Chen), and underlying ideas.
29 August
-
Their words
Without a well-developed set of critical thinking skills, AI outputs will yield variegated results at best
The Professor and the Plutocrat and AIdanieldrezner.substack.com
28 August
23 August
22 August
-
Their words
The difference is mostly the delay, which stems not necessarily from the regulation itself, but from the incentives in the machinery that administers it.
21 August
-
Their words
A big-enough random reversible circuit is plausibly a secure cryptographic permutation, a big-enough random irreversible circuit degenerates into having only a few possible outputs.
20 August
11 August
10 August
5 August
3 August
-
Recommendsaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'Their words
This is such a useful book. It makes the case that there's no such thing as "human error" - instead most catastrophes are caused by system issues, misaligned incentives, and unrealistic processes. You are not the custodian of an otherwise safe system that you need to protect from erratic human beings.
29 July
20 July
9 July
-
korrents.com
AI tends to flatten outputs toward sameness, so personal taste and perspective become the main way to stand out.Their words
AI flattens everything it touches. The way you stand out is by getting clearer about what you really want, your taste, your perspective, your opinions.
8 July
-
Their words
However, these LLM reasoners that generate informal reasoning in natural language are fundamentally limited by the lack of precise, machine-checkable semantics, making their outputs prone to hallucinations [Huang et al., 2025b] and precluding autonomous verification, a prerequisite for tackling open-ended mathematical research.
7 July
26 June
-
korrents.com
On everyday high-stakes questions, a model's answer can now be trusted more than an expert human's.Their words
And I think they're at a point now where they've actually been at a point for a while now where I feel like I can just trust the outputs arguably more than I could trust the output from from a human,
15 June
-
Their words
the council does not simply keep the best bits from everyone. It keeps a minority of the good ideas, while peer review seems to give consensus ideas an extra push.
26 May
From one piece Who Audits the Auditors? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
-
Their words
institutions don't fail because people are wicked. Evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights might be flowing in the wrong direction.
-
Their words
AI systems however don't need lunch meetings, careers, or envelopes of cash to have an analogous failure.
3 May
-
Their words
The bottleneck has shifted from doing the work to writing clear specs and reviewing outputs fast enough to keep the pipeline moving-the middle is hollowing out.
22 April
-
Their words
there I feel like in academia, I have the freedom to work on things that go against this commercial incentive of companies and say like, "Actually, no, I'm going to do what I think is right for the users."
2 April
-
Dislikedrcmnd.app
Local Deep ResearchTheir words
Its responses are, in my view, pretty bland and not very high-quality. I did a side-by-side test of asking Local Deep Research a question, then asking pi the same question (telling it to use searxng to make as many internet searches as needed), and I fed both outputs into an LLM to ask which is better.
15 December 2025
-
Their words
When you're in any kind of creative thing, there is this benefit to not just following the financial incentives and and not trying to kind of like milk every last penny out of it. And to creating scarcity, not just for the sake of the scarcity, but for the sake of the quality.
19 October 2025
-
korrents.com
Centralized, hierarchical competitive tournaments are effective at creating strong incentives.Their words
Also, centralized hierarchical tournaments seem to be good at creating very effective incentives.
28 September 2025
-
Their words
That makes perfect sense when you consider that schools control 10% or less of the variance in student academic outputs.
There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com
2 September 2025
-
Their words
But once you actually have a sophisticated industrial economy, central planning can't handle the complexity. And so you try and create incentives and structures around that while not having pricing and that just doesn't work.
13 August 2025
-
Their words
Another big misunderstanding, and a fundamental one, is that people somehow think that the state suppresses the private sector. It’s not at all as simple as that. For the most part, if we look at the local government’s incentive system, they want to help the best, private companies, which are the most promising, because it makes them look good.
1 July 2025
-
Their words
Even if late 30s eventually find love, the reproductive window is much smaller. Cash incentives can’t trump biology.
19 June 2025
-
Their words
governing frontier AI requires standards for safety and security, incentives for the leading AI developers to follow those standards, and evidence that the standards are being followed.
12 June 2025
-
Likedrcmnd.app
Claude SonnetTheir words
I exclusively use the cheaper Sonnet model. It’s perfectly adequate for my needs, and in fact, I prefer its outputs over the more expensive Opus model.
21 May 2025
-
Their words
We live in the era of the symbolic executive, when "being good at stuff" matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff, where "what's useful" is dictated not by outputs or metrics that one can measure but rather the vibes passed between managers and executives that have worked their entire careers to escape the world of work.
15 February 2025
-
Their words
Contrary to some people’s beliefs, companies do not in fact have sufficient incentives to mitigate all major risks, and competition is driving corner-cutting that needs to be reined in somehow.
14 February 2025
3 February 2025
From one piece DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
-
Their words
I think that they're trying to shift the narrative. They're trying to protect themselves. We saw this years ago when ByteDance was actually banned from some OpenAI APIs for training on outputs. There's other AI startups that most people, if you're in the AI culture, were like they just told us they trained on OpenAI outputs and they never got banned.
-
Their words
The short-term that company that could make the most money is the one that figures out what advertising targeting method works for language model generations.
16 January 2025
-
korrents.com
AI judges used to evaluate AI outputs need ongoing validation and iteration, just like any other AI system.Their words
AI judges must be evaluated and iterated over time, just like all other AI applications.
25 July 2024
-
Their words
AI models are probabilistic, making their outputs unreliable.
15 June 2024
20 February 2024
From one piece Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #413 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
-
Their words
The problem is the defamation law in the US is so favorable to the publisher, to the media, and so unfavorable to the victim. And the incentives are all wrong.
-
korrents.com
Incentives drive all human behaviour, which makes a management team's incentives central to valuing a company.Their words
So as I like to say, incentives drive all human behavior and that certainly applies in the business world. So understanding the people and what drives them, and what the actual financial and other incentives of a business, are very important part of the analysis for investing in a company.
16 January 2024
-
Their words
I suspect that in the future, it'll be easier to get models to output exactly what we need with minimal prompting, and these techniques will become less important.
17 November 2023
-
Their words
And I believe that there is a good chance you would've had World War II in the absence of Hitler. I believe that Germany was very powerful, it was deeply worried about the balance of power in Europe, and it had strong incentives to behave aggressively in the late 1930s, early 1940s.
15 November 2023
-
korrents.com
Models fine-tuned to imitate another model's outputs copy its style without acquiring its factual accuracy.Their words
Models that are instruction-tuned on ChatGPT-generated data mimic ChatGPT's style (and may thus fool human raters!) but not its factuality
31 October 2023
10 October 2023
-
korrents.com
Text is a more powerful output modality for a model than images, because text supports many downstream tasksTheir words
Text is a much more powerful mode for model outputs. A model that can generate images can only be used for image generation, whereas a model that can generate text can be used for many tasks: summarization, translation, reasoning, question answering, etc.
Multimodality and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)huyenchip.com
3 October 2023
-
Their words
It seems to me that an attractive robust approach is to have governments pay lots for kids (at no cost or risk to them!) and then let those who respond to these incentives tell us which compromises seem most attractive.
10 June 2022
-
Their words
A strategically aware intelligence can choose its visible outputs to have the consequence of deceiving you, including about such matters as whether the intelligence has acquired strategic awareness
4 March 2022
25 January 2022
-
korrents.com
When a system's incentives produce bad behaviour, the blame belongs entirely to whoever created the incentives.Their words
And then you have a choice which is do you blame the people who are exhibiting the terrible behavior or do you blame the people who created the incentives? Right? And and and he he believes and I agree on this. I I think 100% you blame the people who created the incentives.
23 February 2020
-
Their words
In any case, I think we need to not only look at the incentives facing scientists, but also those facing department heads, journals, and grant-making agencies.
23 April 2017
Nothing matches.
What is a korrent?
A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at korrents.com.
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said. The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter, especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked article and a belief on korrents.com are left in their original language.