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At the late stage of a paradigm, all of the problems bunch up into one meta-problem. But because each problem seems unrelated and small, you don't realize that there's a single thing that could solve all of them at once. But ...
... be a system to get coherent pluralism. Of course, this would just create a new meta-game, and it's possible that the emergent outcomes would be even worse than before.
...he obvious schelling points. Of course, this would change the internal politics meta-game…
...s": little bits of functionality. Patterns can also be wired together to create meta-patterns, which can nest indefinitely. The LLM makes a number of patterns that aren't useful, but then users don't use them. The ones users keep arou...
...om having had a lot of varied experiences and survived them all. Ambiguity as a meta-class becomes less novel, less scary. "I've experienced this kind of situation before."
Meta thinkers who are curious could get stuck in the sycosocial hall of mirrors more easily than others. I randomly came across a Claude artifact produced...
Perhaps the metacrap fallacy isn't true in the age of LLMs. The metacrap fallacy was "Once users have put enough meta-structure on their data, all kinds of automatic ...
The equilibrium of the best LLM models being available via API seems meta-stable to me. You could imagine an alternate universe where ChatGPT got popular before OpenAI had released a public completion API. In that world, Op...
... the CPO of OpenAI is an exec from the all-time champ of engagement maximizing, Meta. OpenAI will become an even more intense version of Facebook. The honed engagement-maximizing playbook of Facebook, multiplied by the superhuman powe...
...et: "I think there's an opportunity for someone to use these models and build a meta-app creator that lets people create a cluster of mini-apps hyper customized to them.[pf] for example, i would love to have a meta-app that contains a...
... make generalists almost as good as specialists in many domains. The generalist meta-skills of volition, savviness, curiosity are now more important than the expertise.[qm][qn]
...augh out loud funny?" If the LLM says it is, you know to look more carefully. A meta-note: I originally drafted this about "blue M&M's" and asked Claude if that was correct. It told me it was, "not brown M&Ms as often misremembered." ...
...uires different plys of analysis. Consumer PMIng - 1 ply Platform PMing - 2 ply Meta-platform PMing - 3 ply Consumer PMing is insanely hard… so meta-platform PMing is practically impossible.
Programming well requires meta-cognition.[zf] That is, thinking about thinking. That's a rare skill in the general population. But there are some systems that can accrete results o...
...ries open up a whole new universe of categories within them. The web was such a meta-category definer. There was a new category of thing: the web browser. But within the web, there was an explosion of new categories that previously we...
...s necessary to work together inside the organization towards a coherent outcome metastasize and take over the organization's soul. A little bit of kayfabe is not bad–it's healthy, even.[abw] Imagine if in every team meeting when the b...
...] It seems like no one's mining for gold![afq][afr] Everyone's trying to do the meta play, not just using[afs] LLMs, a new, disruptive input.
...start floating up or down the quality gradient instead of languishing. The main meta property of a good quality pump: more activity makes it sort better. A good quality pump gives you upside if the new content is great, but capped dow...
...reas. This internal lack of curiosity in which domains you're incurious in is a meta-blindspot.
...st not always hitting it out of the park like they do for React style code. The meta insight is that LLMs' ability to write code on demand is not some smooth distribution over types of code, but spiky based on which types of code are ...