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that wavelength penetrates the skin. you need to be around 222nm for human safety uviquity has prototypes of a 220nm solid state chip they’ll commercialize next year (we’re an inve…

You clearly have deep understanding of base reality and the emergence of complexity. So please share an actual argument.

It’s the other way around. Waymo may do the job exquisitely, but exquisite is also expensive. Telsa has always constrained their system to lower cost hardware. It’ll be easier for …

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Power eventually turns a high trust society into a low trust society when that power is used to one’s own advantage.

Think different. No kidding. No one is going to think this.

YC is putting through 200+ companies per batch and making a tiny investment. It’s far more efficient to swallow the occasional bad bet than to do a lot due diligence… Now the VCs t…

This is a great point. LLMs may flood an app with more features without making it better. At the end I do the day you still need to make something people love. AI may help you buil…

Remember there is still survival bias here. We’re not seeing the complications from people who died of the infection.

Do driverless cars make all this moot?

Super interesting.

This sits in a larger field of complexity theory and complex adaptive systems. There was also some interesting work on “Artificial Life” although that research program seems to hav…

I could have bogged the essay down with qualifiers to address all the potential straw man objections, but that didn't seem productive. It's easy to take an uncharitable view on thi…

I'm not arguing that this approximator is necessary (not sufficient) for this class of networks. I've proposed some conjectures on what we might expect to see, but there are certai…

This is a great question, and I don't yet have an answer. I'm going to butcher this description, so please be charitable, but functionally, the attention mechanism reduces the dime…

More generally there’s graph neural networks, for instance, but not you’re including many dynamic networks that are not open-ended or evolvable. The idea is to identify common dyna…

Genetic systems code gene regulatory networks. I spent most of the essay on them.

Those neurons are being trained the day we were born. Reality corresponds to about 11 million bits per second. What I suspect’s happening is that we train higher and higher levels …

Activation functions are implementation details. See appendix for the general formula.

No, graphs are too inclusive.

The original papers were published in scientific journals. More assertive claims aren’t kosher.

You’re right. Writing is hard—especially when you’re cutting across disciplines. I wasn’t happy with the writing, but I stand by the claims.