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...umans in it. The downstream cost of correction is significantly lowered by that feedback loop. Compare to, for example, law, where you won't know for possibly decades if a given choice will work or not.
...portant than either separately. The model is the Élan Vital. The harness is the feedback loop.
...rofessional time to reflect and synthesize. Self reflection is a super power. A feedback loop to improve yourself. Distilling insights allows you to factor out tools and insights that you can now rely on and not have to create continuously. Co...
Find the smallest feedback loop that could work. Longer feedback loops are slower, less precise. The faster you can run the tight feedback loop, the faster you can innovate at that ...
...much I encouraged him to post it publicly. Humans are in the world: they have a feedback loop to see how their actions affect the world, to be able to update their mental model. They are situated. LLMs are not in the world, not directly. They ...
Feedback loops create leverage. Leverage is dangerous. It's not that we understood software better before, it's that it had to be modular because it was all laid d...
...un easier. This makes the next run faster and higher quality. This is where the feedback loop closes and becomes a meta, compounding loop.[jr] That LEARNINGS.md is a file that a human can help curate and steer. That's what gives you compoundin...
...iven that others liked this" is the compounding loop, a collective intelligence feedback loop. It allows people with little effort to go "... yeah, sure." Which is less effort than considering it from a standstill. But that's why folksonomies ...
...ess to your data. Already personalized, before you used it. A massively shorter feedback loop.
Speed of the feedback loop is the primary determinant of the quality of a system's output.
App Stores have a long feedback loop. You look at the piece of software and decide if it would be useful for you. You look at pre-made promotional images. You try to imagine: "If I took ...
The feedback loop on model improvement is "how long does a ground truth check take" Do you need to talk to a human? Do you need to run a physical experiment with expen...
... verbal-only communication channel, you get much less signal, and with a longer feedback loop. This is much worse in a group of multiple people without visuals. If you're presenting something the other person might find controversial, you have...
... at what people want in the customer base and then implementing it. A very long feedback loop, very expensive. Also, the people who are approving the features to add are people who are not the users, their goals are disjoint from the users. Wh...
...of conversation with the LLM, how much it can "get you", can lead to a harmonic feedback loop that you can get lost in. The AI feels like it "gets you" but none of the humans in your life do anymore. Does the AI "get you" or is it merely being...
...eally do exist, and they are what make the world go round. They create positive feedback loops that are auto-catalyzing. It's possible to have a thing be good for all of: The user The employee The company The shareholders The society They don'...
...s work great for stationary distributions. That is, systems without an internal feedback loop. Many systems have a compounding component. Every system has some kind of feedback loop with its surroundings. How well the "isolated system" assumpt...
...s long as each step feels like it will create more value in the future. A short feedback loop that shows "because you did this, this thing can happen" gives the inductive loop to pull you into using the tool more.
...lated, giving the human an opportunity to say "oh yeah that one's better." That feedback loop in the UI is fundamentally why it works. It accumulates human attention to the best ideas.
...ing according to the model in your head. This requires you to have a sufficient feedback loop from action to result. This happens naturally for human-scale, hand-made things where you get your hands dirty. It takes considerable effort if the p...