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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...
...ermines if we need to breathe is the inverse density of O2 in our lungs. In the vast majority of cases, these two signals correlate very well. But it's possible for them to diverge! For example, if you hyperventilate before going underwater an...
...n, which takes more people power to handle. The largest organizations spend the vast majority of their overall effort just on dealing with internal organizational dynamics, not with producing externally-visible value.
...t have to be overcome. The casino part is what makes it worth the while for the vast majority of entities that invest time and effort in crypto. So saying 'I want crypto without the casino' is hard for me to imagine, because the casino is the ...
...pple has a very small number of senior, empowered, and accountable "chefs". The vast majority of people in the organization are expert "line cooks". Those line-cooks don't resent that they are implementing someone else's vision. They are proud...
... sample from all code being executed across the universe at any given time, the vast majority of code would have had orders of more time of accumulated execution wall-clock time than the amount of wall-clock time of humans thinking about it wh...
...ook well. Even when it's cooked well, it's merely good, rarely great. The vast, vast majority of turkey dinners are dry and bland. There are a lot of situations in life like roasting a turkey: very hard to do well, and even if you do there isn...
...ogether "would this be a valuable starting point" and "would this work". In the vast majority of strategic questions, the "would this work" dominates your analysis--the vast majority of seemingly great ideas get stuck in the mundane filter of ...
...o assume that most hard things are challenging for interesting reasons. But the vast majority of hard things are challenging for totally mundane reasons.