We had a breakthrough in AI with transformers.
Where’s our breakthrough in AI with alignment?
Notes
Started reading "The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2015 - 2025" by Dwarkesh Patel with Gavein Leech.
Dense with citations and definitions. Taking my time here. 😮💨
From 6/5/17 in one of my notebooks I wrote down this quote from Andreesen Horowitz - AI Playbook:
AI is the new relational database, about to get into every important piece of software we write.
This seems to have mostly come true in 2025.
Magical Thinking is the belief that your thoughts alone is enough to affect the world. Success requires both appropriate action and realistic assessment of what's actually possible.
Just do it or you can just do things.
Critical thinking with concrete action. Always.
I've shipped the "notes" feature to my blog. When I'm logged in it shows a Twitter-like compose box, that creates short notes like these. So I can share thoughts on MY site, and not someone else's site.