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...viating from the norm. A defection that turns out to work is acclaimed. But the vast majority of the time, they don't work. Sometimes the deviation is accidental. But sometimes it's intentional: a defection. The renegades are where innovative ...
...se to join with it and participate, it gains even more momentum. Of course, the vast majority of these experiments will fail! The standardization momentum thus accumulates after the original innovative act.
...ning Man tickets. In Coachella, the entity producing the event is producing the vast majority of the things that you're paying to see. The event could be great if they do a great job, or bad if they do a bad job. Even if the other participants...
...works!" A large proportion of code in the world is glue code. In the future the vast majority will be glop.
...ividually unexceptional humans do. You swarm all of the possible solutions. The vast majority are crap and kind of fall away, unused. The small subset that are great are all that remain. Humans have a trick the LLMs don't: the world can cache ...
...use to improve the product within conservative differential privacy limits. The vast majority of non-private tools collect many orders of magnitude more data than they need, "just in case", and then do very little with it to actually improve t...
...s generating millions of images every day that have never been seen before. The vast majority have an audience of 1. Like going on a hike in the meadow by yourself. A vastly personal experience, just for you. Your own personal museum just for ...
... machine see it". It can be fully in the open but so noisy and chaotic that the vast majority of things aren't seen by the machine. "This doesn't change anything because all of the data was already public anyway" doesn't necessarily track; bec...
...caches them. Which means that at any time step, if you random sample ideas, the vast majority are useful ones. LLMs then capture all of those useful ideas that someone bothered to write down, embeds them into a crystallized mirror that can be ...
The vast majority of value for companies is created from discretionary effort of the employees. Discretionary effort is not just "an hour more work." It's more connect...
... everyone can see. Everyone can see "There's no way up the mountain!" The vast, vast majority of people who try to make it up the mountain will die. But the lucky few that make it through won't have realized how hard it was when they started! ...
...could have a kind of network effect with more use can't get off the ground. The vast majority of functionality that is specific to a given experience is thin and small… but every origin has to reinvent the world anew in their own pocket univer...
...f energy, most entities will avoid doing that. Only if an entity represents the vast majority of the ecosystem individually might going it alone work, but it would be an aggressive and bad-faith act. "Embrace, extend, extinguish" In this way t...
...ordination cost evaporates away. For large systems the coordination cost is the vast majority of the cost to build something.
...hey wouldn't notice a mistake in the suggestion. In that case, just because the vast majority of users have not rejected the suggestion does not mean that it's high quality. But you can fix that by creating an asymmetry: if any user rejects th...
The pipeline of reasoning that powers society… and LLMs. The vast majority of "reasoning" is actually a fuzzy interpolation of previously cached answers. The caching is not just in a single brain, but in the collective actio...
...pcanon.com/p/what-can-llms-never-do Humans are capable of reason. But the vast, vast majority of the time we do what LLMs do. We use a cached good-enough reasoning answer via hyper-powered fuzzy intuition. Our "System 2" or reasoning center is...
...ce?" That gives you an immediate good-enough default policy for cases where the vast majority of people would agree. Good enough policies are ones that lead to very very few nasty surprises in practice, and where users that want to be a bit mo...
...finite mindset, more authentic, more creative. If they are non overlapping (the vast majority of participants are audience, not creator) then the more finite, performative, and transactional it will be.
...larger, you can feel your action to output less (it's more shared) and also the vast majority of people who are judging you can only see your optics. So the organization becomes about performative actions, not valuable actions. This is inheren...