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...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...
...n. Smaller mistakes that are less likely to knock you out of the game, a faster feedback loop to learn.
... increasingly doesn't work outside of it. Getting to a toehold (bootstrapping a feedback loop) is everything, and yet make sure that any specific toehold you find doesn't become your everything.
...ey simply don't have enough space to incorporate all of the swirling interlayed feedback loops, many of which are outside of us, to know which ones will be strong enough to overcome other ones. But once you know it works, you can often figure ...
Learning happens in feedback loops. But the loop has to be minimally viable to even be a loop in the first place. Versus an open path. Once it is a loop then you learn as you iterate....
..., because you can more easily tell if you broke something. This allows a faster feedback loop. Even imperfect tests are better than no tests. As long as the tests are generally green, so you don't develop a boy-who-cried-wolf insensitivity to ...
... loop. It makes you lean more into the thing you were already doing. You need a feedback loop to balance it out. English kings realized they needed oppositional agents. Agents competing amongst themselves to represent the king today, keeping t...
Dictator mode allows you to execute quickly, but breaks the feedback loop. All throttle, no steering wheel. You won't realize what you've lost until it's too late. This is a massive and fundamental tradeoff.
...ct you, too. The quicker your actions affect you, the more obvious the indirect feedback loops. If it's not obvious, then it's an "externality", and you don't think about it. In a small community, the actions reflect back on you quickly. If yo...
... dangerous when there are lots of indirect effects (e.g. externalities, or long feedback loops that are hard to steer).
Longer feedback loops are inherently much harder to steer. The way we learn is by taking an action with a predicted effect, seeing how the outcome matched the prediction,...
The longer the feedback loop, the more annoying to use--even if the loop gives good results. You get around the loop, excruciatingly, and go "no, no that's not it, here's new dir...
As you get more senior, the feedback loops go from one day to two years. The steering wheel is connected with tons of leverage, but tons of lag. Very very hard to learn in that environment. S...
...ing I think is most interesting is how hard it is to steer based on a very long feedback loop. Set it and then come back to it later... and if you realize "oh crap I forgot to include some relevant context" you have to do it again. Longer feed...
... value is created. More indirect, less sure, a slower loop. Systems with longer feedback loops grow and adapt much more slowly.
In a close-ended system (Mediocristan) feedback loops take you towards an average point. In open-ended systems (Extremistan) feedback loops take you away from an average point.
...ificant upside. Anthropic Artifacts are just interface sugar, but they make the feedback loop immediate and help give a gradient of learning. But hallucinated mini-apps today have two significant problems. 1) They can't safely work with your d...
...f moving randomly, but the people moving it are interpreting it in a continuous feedback loop. As it starts looking like it's moving to a letter, if it makes sense, then it starts going there faster and faster as more of the people with hands ...
...ns will be used during the training of future iterations of the model, but that feedback loop is indirect and very long. Compare to for example some search ranking tweaks that can update nearly instantly. Humans are not like this. They quickly...
In the Github Copilot feedback loop, if you don't like the recommendation, write a bit more comments and it will generate a new thing. The next thing to do to steer it is fast and obvio...