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book / recommends
“Yes, so three books I often recommend are, first, Story of Real Life by Ted Chang. It's my all time favorite short story and it's about a linguist learning and alien language, and I basically reread it every couple years.”
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01 / belief
“I think there is a question of what products they're building and whether those products themselves are something that kind of help or hurt humanity.”
02 / belief
“I think Anthropic takes a very principled view about what they do and don't care about and how they want their models to behave in a way that feels a lot more principle to me.”
03 / belief
“Almost like it's this destiny that their entire life, and experiences, and interests shape them towards. And so I think that principle applies pretty broadly, not just the founders, but the people creating, I think.”
04 / belief
“I think people don't realize that there's a big difference between moving from 80% performance to 90% performance to 99% performance to 99.”
05 / belief
“Like labeling cat photos and drawing bounding box around cars. And so I've actually always hated the word data labeling because it just paints this very simplistic picture when I think what we're doing is completely different.”
06 / belief
“Again, going back to the example I said earlier, certain companies, if you ask them what is good poem, they will simply robotically check off all of these instructions on our list. But again, I don't think that makes for good poetry, so certain frontier labs, the ones with more taste in sophistication, they will realize that it doesn't reduce to this six set of checkboxes and they'll consider all of these kind of implicit, very subtle qualities instead, and I think that's what makes them better at this at the end of the day.”
07 / belief
“I have an idea in my head, but I think the answer to that question maybe reveals certain things about what kinds of AI models those companies want to build and what direction and what future they want to achieve, yeah, so I think about that a lot.”