Join Notes
A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
I have found over and over that specialization leads to complexity; I now think that over-specialization may be the single greatest cause of complexity in software. Conversely, code that is more general-purpose is simpler, cleaner, and easier to understand.
A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
We can only take comfort knowing that our ancestors are not dead, only elsewhere, brought to life anew from the same light that once fell here, and beginning again the great adventure that is our past.
How It Unfolds
James S. A. Corey
As we go down the list, the proposals get fancier and add more bells and whistles, trying to make the AI a better expert. Sadly, none of them at all address what I expect to be the actual main bottleneck: The Client (i.e. the human user or users) has no understanding of what they need, what questions to ask, what’s possible or even logically coherent, etc.
Why Not Just Outsource Alignment Research to an AI?
johnswentworth
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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