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...LMs can coordinate faster than humans… but that might mean they'll get stuck in local maxima more easily. The oddball individualistic humans can try the crazy idea that is non-consensus. The vast majority won't work, but every so often, one d...
We're stuck on a local maxima of software. The software isn't very good, it's not aligned with our interests, and the amount of the software is a tiny fraction of what it could be...
A way to get stuck in a product local maxima: fill potholes. You want to add value, so you go where people are today and solve problems they actually have. But now you have structurally locked y...
...You want incremental variation to be able to remix and tweak things to find the local maxima. If the system doesn't allow remixing, then each thing is separate, binary. Variation has to jump to a viable alternative. BlueSky has an amazing lex...
You can't hill-climb your way to a good architecture. If you only do fast 1-ply thinking, you'll get stuck in local-maxima with no good exits. The two major labs have inherited a culture that puts extreme focus on short-term execution over medium-term clarity.
...reates a monoculture. Overfit, fragile. Too little information sharing leads to local maxima and lack of alignment.
...e have all the ingredients but we don't have the cake yet. Chatbots seem like a local maxima to me. Chatbots are not the ideal UX. I think the ideal UX will include the ability to chat, but that will not be the primary interaction that everyt...
Specialists sometimes get to their local maxima and assume it's a global maxima.[py][pz] Generalists don't ever think they're at the global maxima.
Going for more scale incrementally makes sense, but gets you stuck in local maxima. Going for less scale than today almost never does. Companies walk up the scale ladder until they're trapped with a local maxima. The good enough pro...
...lion years. Questions that are uncomfortable but help you see your way out of a local maxima.
A/B testing can get you stuck in fractal niches upon niches. That is, weird local maxima within local maxima. When you look up you are like "wait where are we? This obviously doesn't make sense." A/B testing doesn't have a vision, it's ju...
...t won't become obvious for some time. Following the rules will get you stuck in local maxima or even worse, if the rules no longer work the way you thought they did in the old world. After disruptive events, reality reconfigures, and massive ...
...he tuning of the other knobs, too. A complex, irreducible problem. You can find local maxima but never global ones; the global one is too hard with even a tiny number of dimensions because it is a combinatorial explosion of space. The curse o...
... experiment with. But they're hacks on top of hacks; almost certainly hitting a local maxima.
...rage. By optimizing at the layer above, you'll be less likely to get stuck in a local maxima in the layer below
...'re at the top of the hill. Maybe there's a new hill that doesn't have the same local maxima of basic file systems, but also doesn't require a whole new universe of new large scale applications like Fuschia does? Perhaps a pocket universe emb...
...if you try to do an outside-in first-principles rethink of a machine stuck in a local maxima the default organizational force you will meet is "well have you talked to these 1,375 pieces of the machine who all have notes about why the part of...