Humans are not automatically strategic, yet there has never been an easier time to stumble onto a strongly dominant strategy. This is the confluence of two trends: (1) most of us automatically leave a detailed digital footprint whenever we use the internet, and (2) language models are increasingly able to...
Personal AI workforces are forming. The question is whether you control yours. László Moholy-Nagy's "A19" (1927) Last week I spoke to a clone of myself: a language model fine-tuned by friends on my public essays. I wasn't expecting to be surprised, given how this technology is a couple of years...
Humans are not automatically strategic, yet there has never been an easier time to stumble onto a strongly dominant strategy.
This is the confluence of two trends: (1) most of us automatically leave a detailed digital footprint whenever we use the internet, and (2) language models are increasingly able to turn unstructured data into strategic insights and advice.
If you could sync all your data into a single location, you could quite cheaply use the world's most powerful models to structure this data and gradually offload work to a trusted, private AI. In the limit, this would make you vastly more capable of processing information-in, and infinitely more strategic.
What should we outsource,... (read 465 more words →)
Personal AI workforces are forming. The question is whether you control yours.
Last week I spoke to a clone of myself: a language model fine-tuned by friends on my public essays. I wasn't expecting to be surprised, given how this technology is a couple of years old now, but the conversation was unlike anything I could have expected.
The clearest way to describe it was like consulting a future version of myself; ‘future-me’ who had already done the research I hadn't gotten around to doing yet. When asked about topics I hadn’t written about, it made intellectual connections I am almost sure I’d have made myself, had I taken the time... (read 2444 more words →)
for example, it's not that rare for a researcher to win a Nobel prize in two fields
This statement is actually quite inaccurate. Only two individuals have won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific disciplines (pre 2024), and to put this in perspective:
This totals 739 Nobel Prizes awarded in scientific categories (excluding Peace and Literature). With only two cases of cross-disciplinary laureateship, the occurrence rate is approximately 0.27% (2/739). This is indeed extremely rare.