Not just a piecemeal compilation of individual transactions This week: Wider or deeper, talent slap fight, strategy problems, good description, Hilbert’s sixth problem
Smaller models This week: nanoLLMs, fixing structured outputs, Humans are voids too, theory-driven entrepreneurial search, and a 3X3 I’m on the fence about
High-quality human supervision This week: Unsupervised elicitation, open tokens, the illusion of thinking, gravity
What do people want? This week: what do people want, humanity’s last exam, thinking beyond silicon, a bottomless pit of plagiarism
Denoise this noisy target This week: NoProp, Sudoku-Bench , Virtual reality arena, coding is not software engineering
Two views of the causal chain AI as normal tech, predictive optimization, continuous thought machines
Alignment with human preferences This week: Evaluation, measurement, span annotation, openai evolves, hegemons
Algorithmic Glazing This week: llm finetuning, algorithmic management, perceptual possibilities, ChatGPT won’t stop glazing