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This is somewhat elementary and handwavy napkin analysis of a complicated business which, like most casinos and hotels, is heavily levered with a complex capital stack. But the investment case gets smothered by a napkin.
A Very Chicago Gamble
Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
The other thing about chat was when we had these instruct models. The task of “complete this text, but in a nice or helpful way” is a pretty poorly defined task. That task is both confusing for the model and for the human who's supposed to do the data labeling.
Whereas for chat, people had an intuitive sense of what a helpful robot should be like. So it was just much easier for people to get an idea of what the model was supposed to do. As a result, the model had a much more coherent personality and it was much easier to get pretty sensible behavior robustly.
John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI
Dwarkesh Patel
In Indigenous agriculture, the practice is to modify the plants to fit the land. As a result, there are many varieties of corn domesticated by our ancestors, all adapted to grow in many different places. Modern agriculture, with its big engines and fossil fuels, took the opposite approach: modify the land to fit the plants, which are frighteningly similar clones.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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