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"Your enthusiasm for Oculus in 2014 was so intense that Mark Zuckerberg probably bought it just to make you stop posting about it." Incredible work!

This feels quite close to the definition of the singularity; if an LLM can become both the Generator and the Discriminator (to use a GAN analogy), then we have takeoff.

We might eventually see the code for the models and inference, but I do doubt we’ll see training code or be granted access to training data. Google is pretty bad at this.

That’s my general understanding as well, but it isn’t a large conceptual leap to go from real-time selection of pretrained “z-vectors” to real-time generation of the same. The larg…

Great research here. Contextual real-time weight modification is definitely one of the breakthroughs required for AGI. Why create a LoRA when you can generate one on the fly suited…

I develop sophisticated LLM programs every day at a small YC startup — extracting insights from thousands of documents a day. These LLM programs are very different than naive one-s…

I love that almost all the responses to your question are, "No! Bad idea!" It's a great idea. We want more than an open-world. We want an open-story. Open-story games are going to …

The technology is incredible, but the path to AGI isn't single-player. Qualia is the missing dataset required for AGI. See attention-schema theory for how social pressures lead to …

Simply put, AGI requires more data: qualia.

“1 + 1 = 2” is only true in our imagination, according to logical deterministic rules we’ve created. But reality is, at its most fundamental level, probabilistic rather than determ…

Agree on hard. But at least possible. I think a better analogy would be vision. Even with a full understanding of the eye and visual cortex, one can only truly understand vision by…

It’s analogous to the automobile. People do still walk, bike, and ride horses, but the vast majority of productive land transportation is done by automobile. Same thing with electr…

It’s true by definition. If we invent a better-than-all-humans inventor, then human invention will give way. It’s a fairly simple idea, and not one I made up.

If the universe is material, then we already know with 10-billion percent certainty that some arrangement of matter causes qualia. All we have to do is figure out what arrangements…

The only reason Sam would leave OpenAI is if he thought AGI could only be achieved elsewhere, or that AGI was impossible without some other breakthrough in another industry (energy…

Check out dspy. It gets out of the way for the most part, while giving optional prompt optimization tooling that future-proofs your work.

As a counter to my original thought, perhaps simulating the computation of a skull-sized organic system is possible by building an earth-sized silicon system.

Biology is an organic computation that runs at the speed of existence. There may be no way to simulate this computation in silicon at the same scale, insofar as biology is already …

The article isn’t as interesting as the idea that it is possible to identify someone smarter than oneself. Reminds me of PG’s blub paradox: “As long as our hypothetical Blub progra…

Counterpoint — good-enough technology prevents over-optimization, where we pay too high of a cost for too-marginal gains. It is generally better to reduce the cost of a 98% solutio…

Dang is basically saying what we all know: it is very difficult to predict future performance of people, and YC deliberately tries to avoid common traps like “where did you go to s…

If you aren’t caching LLM functions during development, then you’re an even greater glutton for punishment than the normal engineer. My local file cache Python decorator also allow…

Maybe the article covers this, but there an ancient memory technique (still used today) of “places and things”, also known as a memory palace. You put objects into spaces in your m…

OKRs are subjective goals that have objective measures of success. Naming is a problem here, but the idea that a company shouldn’t have goals that are measurable is flatly wrong. I…

The simulation hypothesis is a novel metaphysical idea — a form of monotheism where “god” is finite and flawed, being neither all-powerful nor all-good. This leads to the conclusio…