Intelligence is the computational part of the ability to achieve goals in the world.
notes
- Memorable quotes from other things I read this week:
- Writing a tech blog people want to read: āI try not to include too many caveats. For instance, Iāll say ācompanies reward pragmatic engineersā instead of saying āin my experience, Iāve seen companies reward pragmatic engineers, but every company operates differently so itās hard to say anything for sureāā
- āThe Bitter Lessonā by Rich Sutton: We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered.
- Rich Sutton, being interviewed by Dwarkesh.: āI donāt want to approach the question in an adversarial way, but I would question the idea.ā
- Other things I read this week with no particularly memorable quotes: