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30 July
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So we've always told computer scientists from the very beginning that really it's really important to specify what it is, what's the software that you're writing is trying to accomplish before then going and writing it. And so now we actually have agent-based systems that can do the writing, but the importance of specifying what what it is you want has actually gone up because before you'd be handing it off to a very intelligent human who maybe has context or can ask you follow-up questions.
27 July
From one piece Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And what's interesting is that the model is actually a little bit more intelligent without these prompts.
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Like this is actually like a new form of test time compute. Like when we talk about the scaling laws and kind of we talk about the model getting more intelligent over time, historically, it's been a function of the size of the neural net, the amount of training data, and the number of flops that you put in to the training. And then recently, we also added test time compute. So this is essentially a fancy way a researcher way of saying how many tokens does it generate. And now dynamic workflows are essentially a new way to orchestrate test time compute.
24 July
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Calling an intelligent, self-aware being legal property does not resolve whether it has an interest in freedom.Their words
But it recognizes that calling an intelligent, self-aware, emotionally complex being "property" does not answer the question of whether that being has an interest in freedom.
“KEY OUT”: When a Chimpanzee Asks to Be Freeboldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com
13 July
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When you look at these investigations, the reason this happens is, you know, these are very responsible, very intelligent parents who will, you know, put their child in the car and then get in the car and then you just get in this mode of I'm going to work. I'm going to do my job and you're in this routine.
22 June
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New research reveals that the higher women's IQs, the less they're liked-and the more they're undermined by coworkers.
10 June
15 May
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For a New LibertyTheir words
This is the chapter that has literally converted thousands of highly intelligent, economically informed people to anarcho-capitalism.
13 May
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The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder.Their words
I mean, you could argue that we we're already past peak truth on the on the on the internet, right? And now there's there's just more and more garbage every every day. It gets harder and harder to suss out the stuff that you do want to include in the training set in order to actually make something more intelligent.
10 May
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corporations, organizations are the oldest form of artificial intelligence on the planet. They are an example of this emergent intelligence.
9 May
15 December 2025
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That's a really intelligent way place to land because what they will do is woo you with their enthusiasm and then take you down a rabbit hole where you will spend years of your life and have nothing to show.
26 September 2025
From one piece Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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then we're entering the age of design where because our AIs are designed our our our all of our physical objects are designed our buildings are designed our technology is designed and we're we're designing now uh AIs things that can be intelligent themselves and that are themselves capable of design
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For me, having a goal is the essence of intelligence
14 June 2025
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so the mathematical community plural is incredibly super intelligent entity that no single human mathematician can come closer to replicating.
2 June 2025
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I had always thought that all "Intelligent Investing" is "Value Investing". And that true value is always sustainable. In otherh words, "All Intelligent Finance is Sustainable Finance."
19 February 2025
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Don’t base your life choices on whether parents and teachers constantly tell you that you’re “smart.” They’re not trustworthy assessors of your intelligence.
22 December 2024
From one piece Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The hard steps model of intelligent life is suspect: none of the steps it names turn out to be hard.Their words
But what we actually found was that none of those are actually hard. The whole idea of hard steps, that there are hard steps, is actually suspect. What's amazing about this model is it shows how important it is to actually work with people who are in the field.
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Life is going to be common in the universe; the genuinely open question is how long technological civilisations last.Their words
Intelligent life and how long intelligent, technological civilizations, I think there's a big question about how long those last. And I'm hopeful, but in terms of just, I think life is absolutely going to be common, pretty common in the universe.
28 November 2024
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More capable AI agents are more likely to find and exploit flaws in their reward functions.Their words
A more intelligent agent is more capable of finding "holes" in the design of reward function and exploiting the task specification-in other words, achieving higher proxy rewards but lower true rewards.
Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learninglilianweng.github.io
25 October 2024
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Intelligent InvestorTheir words
He has been a confidant of Buffett and Munger, a co-author with Daniel Kahneman, an editor on two revised editions of Ben Graham’s masterpiece The Intelligent Investor, considered to be the best book on investing ever written.
19 October 2024
22 July 2024
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Creating entities as intelligent as ourselves is dangerous, because intelligence is what makes an entity dangerousTheir words
It goes: intelligence makes entities dangerous, which is why humans are the dominant species on Earth.
25 May 2024
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I don’t think we’ve replicated human intelligence, unless I know that the simulator is making exactly the same kinds of mistakes that people do, because people make characteristic mistakes. They have characteristic biases, they have characteristic heuristics that we use, and those have yet to see evidence that ChatGPT will do that.
22 April 2024
From one piece Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #428 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This is the 2001 monolith hypothesis. I would be less surprised to find a quiescent alien artifact in our solar system than I would to catch a radio signal from an intelligent civilization.
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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.
11 December 2023
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