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...s allow humans to have comb-shaped expertise. You used to have to choose, broad meta-expertise (generalist) or specific deep expertise. As a generalist, maybe you could have one or two deep expertises: a T shape. LLMs can handle depth...
The power of meta: don't make an "X," make a "machine to make an X." If it's not that much more expensive to make the machine, then you now can get an order of magnitu...
...u don't have expertise, you just have to throw everything at the wall and apply meta-cognitive patterns. For example, have it spin up adversarial review sub-agents often. To get good results from LLMs requires meta-cognition. You have...
A meta-approach that makes a system default-converging: "How can I add one thing that makes the whole make more sense?" This requires you to understand the ...
A meta-approach to game-changing combinatorial innovation: Bazaar Alchemy. Most approaches to innovation focus on innovating on one differentiating componen...
This week's Wild West Roundup: Ars: Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity Instagram accounts. "Pricey Instagram handles were stolen and resold before Meta patched the exploit." Addition...
The Anomaly Almanac: A meta-pattern for systematizing a real-world domain into a default-converging model. Describe the model as it currently exists, as well as a list of "surpr...
Throughline Tacking: a meta-pattern for discovering the throughline of your product. It can be hard to balance the messy reality of the world-as-it-exists and the world-as-we-th...
How much of Anthropic's crazy revenue growth is Meta employees? The Information has a scoop about its Tokenmaxxing. "Over a recent 30-day period, total usage on the [Meta internal] dashboard topped 60 t...
...this new era you need AI judgment and domain judgment. AI judgment is a form of meta-cognitive flexibility and curiosity. Domain judgment is about having developed the intuition and knowhow for a given domain. You develop the domain j...
...nslate from anything to anything. For the first time it's possible to have that meta-boundary-object of the actual software definition, in a language everyone on the team can interact with. Note that the system of record for code is n...
Meta reflections are where you get leverage. The work about the work, to make your future work higher leverage. Reflections are always important, never ur...
The key meta skill is selective unlearning. Being able to see how things that worked for you before do or don't work in a new context.
...y in a default Claude session. A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta. Vulnerability in MS-Agent AI Framework Can Allow Full System Compromise. Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware. A vulnerability i...
...it (e.g. make the information flows more legible to leadership) just change the meta-game and cause the dysfunction to squish out elsewhere. In some cases, that's worse: the kayfabe is that the game is gone, but in reality it's now ju...
...t now AI gives those geniuses 100x more capability than before if they have the meta-cognition necessary to direct a swarm of agents. It unleashes the power of their insight to an extraordinary degree. In a world of agent swarms, the ...
...ces you to develop your complexity, to move up the ladder of adult development. Meta-cognition is necessary to effectively drive agent swarms.
...ture clear enough, they can auto-converge. If you have just the right amount of meta-structure then LLMs can be default-convergent, instead of default-divergent. Once you have that, you can pump infinite cognitive labor into it.
... a new technology is a punctuated equilibrium for the human race, extending the meta-singularity of humans.
Some people have a meta-process to get good in a new domain. This process is often meticulous and careful, which means it gets off to a slow start. But if done right it can ...