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Right. I don’t full agree with the title, but I think it’s quite plausible that technology as we know it is going sigmoidal. We still use trains, and we’d rather have Shinkansen as…

No. I just thought it was a funny username. It’s not yet 22.3 years but… those who know will know.

This is a great point. The complexity sources are entirely different. An OS is complex because it’s solving a difficult problem and we’ve seen decades of evolution both in knowledg…

What’s really disgusting is how unnecessary this is. LLMs have topped out in terms of language fluency. You’re not going to get a smarter model with 250 trillion tokens than with 2…

Right. But because it’s the smallest structure of its type (speaking loosely) it feels like something we should have a grasp on, even though it contains more complexity than we cou…

It’s also genuinely surprising. We’re used to thinking of the countable as the small infinity, which it is, and yet a structure we feel like we can visualize contains so much compl…