Ben Mathes distilling Babak Nivi:
- Ben Mathes distilling Babak Nivi:
- "The meaning and soul went into the training data, and it's in us as we read the text.
- It's not in the LLM anywhere.
- But we can get it as a result of reading the output."
From other episodes
- I think it would not be great if most LLM usage in the US is an open-source Chinese model.2025-11-24
- I loved this Hank Green video on ChatGPT, with Nate Soares, the author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.2025-11-10
- Excellent piece from Ben Mathes on Goodhart's Law and "Lowest Common Consensus".2025-11-04
- AI proxies will allow people to create superhero-level bespoke arguments.2025-08-25
- This week we saw the first high-profile example of a sycosocial relationship that went off the rails, leading to what looks like a public psychotic break.2025-07-21
- LLMs are essence extractors, not mechanical reproducers.2025-06-30
- I loved this piece on the Legible Frontier by my friend Ben Mathes.2025-04-28
- Alpha-zero showed how much learning could happen if you had a rigorous ground truth system.2025-01-27