Wisdom in fragments

You can read natural selection as nature's way of doing Bayesian model selection at a very slow timescale.

We are glued to the world through our senses, and our sensory information entrains and informs the inversion process that can be read as perceptual inference.

The illusion, or hypothesis, that you are you is quite a unique gift and quite a fragile gift, and it can go away.

You don't know anything. It's all inference, including that you are you and that you exist.

I'm not trying to craft a grand story so much as get stuff done.

I think, and I have thought for many months, or a year now, that this is as big as or bigger than the internet itself as a revolution in computing.

You don't need a cult of personality. You need a whole lot of talented engineers working together, with good communication and collaboration, to produce a great product.

If you're trying to fake that and compete with somebody who does it naturally, good luck.

I wasn't writing it to a spec, or for an imaginary customer. I was writing it for me.

If you were going to give Leonardo da Vinci a CNC machine, would you do it when he was 17, or would you wait until he had already learned the craft? I think I would wait.

You still need to be an engineer to do AI coding effectively, but now you need taste, which you didn't have to have before.

I was not looking for an excuse, but it served as a great explanation for a lot of things.

I always knew I was different, but I didn't think I was wrong.

Right now, I would say that AI on a constrained task is a better engineer than I am.

I also don't want our work to be part of a hype cycle that distracts from other issues.

It's imperative that we grapple with the questions: what is it to be sentient? What is it to be human? What is it to be intelligent?