Dwarkesh Patel
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Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
“We never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the…
Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data
Breaking down 6 years of pretraining progress into data vs model…
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
"This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get."
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain…
Why compute might get 10x+ more expensive in coming years
If a human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over $250k a year. That’s 15x today’s spot price.
The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI
Abolishing pandemics/ Getting out of the way of AI automation/ Learning from Honk Kong MTR's business…
The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
Labs are throwing away the most valuable data.
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…