Join 📚 Josh Beckman's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Josh's read, .
But roughly speaking (and today), you're not asking some magical AI. You're asking a human data labeler. Whose average essence was lossily distilled into statistical token tumblers that are LLMs. This can still be super useful ofc ourse. Post triggered by someone suggesting we ask an AI how to run the government etc. TLDR you're not asking an AI, you're asking some mashup spirit of its average data labeler.
People Have Too Inflated Sense of What It Means To...
Andrej Karpathy
Here’s the crazy part though—each side doesn’t see the others’ comments. Even when they keep scrolling down, women don’t see the pro-boyfriend comments. The same goes for men and the pro-girlfriend comments. They don’t see both sides, just their side. It’s like each user is experiencing the crowd’s reaction in their own isolated world.
Digital Déjà Vu
Nick Maggiulli
Executives are rarely held accountable unless they expose themselves to accountability, and this is a valuable opportunity to hold yourself accountable to your team. As you hold yourself accountable, it’ll become increasingly easy to hold your team accountable as well.
Using Cultural Survey Data.
lethain.com
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise