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...ill by default diverge. If you connect them with a steel band, then the highest pace layers will be locked to the speed of the lowest pace layer. But if you connect the pieces with rubber bands, then each segment can move somewhat independe...
... the challenge of building a platform and a product at the same time. Different pace layers! The lower pace layer is moving quickly and breaking things, which means the higher pace layer needs to build on an actually slower pace layer, but ...
Lower pace layers need to move slowly to be able to be depended on. What should be a slow pace layer moving quickly is the worst of both worlds. This is one reason pl...
Everyone thinks their pace layer is the most important one that everything else orbits around. Because the one above and the one below are inscrutable to you. We all implicitly think...
Loops in different pace layers can't be directly connected. They are inscrutable to each other because they run at such different speeds. But they can induct each other.
Lower pace layers should be boring.
...ave basically been a singularity since we invented language and transcended the pace layer of biologic evolution. We've transcended many other layers since then, this is just the most recent one. Maybe each new pace layer transcending via a...
...l products don't go slow because they get lazy, it's because they're at a lower pace layer! Things depend on them. They have leverage. If you go fast, you break real stuff. When you get more leverage, you go slower. That's the fundamental t...
...faster you can innovate at that level. Feedback loops should nest, one for each pace layer.
...s stored routines. Humans can adapt themselves. Evolution popping up into a new pace layer and then taking over.
In every paradigm, evolution pops up a pace layer and then takes over that layer. it pokes through and then spreads out and changes everything. That's the history described in my old essay The Runawa...
... that happens complexity isn't possible to emerge. Once it does it can pop up a pace layer.
.... Things roll down hill. Evolution is gradient descent within faster and faster pace layers. Every so often a new paradigm creates a new even faster pace layer on top. Gradient descent without a goal, without a north star of meaning, optimi...
Lower pace layers must go slower. They are higher leverage but must move slower. If you think you're at a higher pace layer but are at a lower one, you'll have a bad ...
...eed gives you something beige. Curation and caching needs to happen in a higher pace layer, outside of the model weights, and it needs to involve deeper reflection from real humans.
...uild on a foundation of jello. You need an infinite viscosity layer as the base pace layer, the bedrock.
The force that separates things into pace layers is the rate of change. A layer that is supposed to be a lower layer but has a high rate of change is impossible to build on top of.
...o? Does the model set the ceiling for what you can do… or the floor? You need a pace layer outside the model to accumulate intermediate insights. Those intermediate insights can be fed back into the model in future iterations as context to ...
Three pace layers of prototyping with LLMs: 1) The LLM does everything. Expensive, loosey-goosey, flexible 2) The LLM behavior is sublimated into a mechanistic harnes...
...t. It's a snapshot of when it was trained. The model can't shift but the memory pace layer can.