Dwarkesh Patel
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The mistake of conflating intelligence and power
If your definition of intelligence is "the ability to achieve your goals across a wide variety of domains", then Stalin was the most intelligent person who ever lived.
RLVR might be disproportionately bad at science
the verification loop for theories can be on the order of decades and centuries, and even then we know today as the better theory can often actually make worse…
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play.
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
"Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere."
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations and a…
Blog prize for the big questions about AI
The not-so-secret point of this whole contest is so that I can hire a…
Dwarkesh Patel: the man who has the ear of Silicon Valley - Money Talks from The Economist | Acast
Listen to Dwarkesh Patel: the man who has the ear of Silicon Valley from Money Talks from The Economist. AI may be young and fast-moving, but so is Dwarkesh Patel.