I don't understand why the wunderkind self mythologize themselves
it's not a blessing
you spend your entire developmental arc having things just come to you, you never learn how to learn, or how to study, the method is never absorbed because the result is obvious.
then you hit adulthood. you hit real problems. serious mathematics that requires 20 years of accumulated knowledge, for example. at that point there are no longer clever angles that substitute for acquiring knowledge of the domain and methodology.
and since you never learned to acquire the domain, you're now facing two problems. you lack the knowledge, and you lack the skill of intentionally acquiring knowledge.
you'll think you're experiencing some kind of cognitive decline, like you "lost it"
and at that point you need to do what everyone else does anyway. you need to learn to be a beginner, how to study, methodology and procedure, to recognize when that 'infallable' intuition is actually bullshit, how to test your own thoughts instead of just admiring them as some latent byproduct of genius.
and once you've done that, you're no more special than everyone else. you might have unusually strong raw abilities, but they've held you back more than anything.
so the mythology is bullshit. they're cursed with basic competence and a sisyphean ego, not gifted.
@gabriel1 voluntarily trading proximity to the frontier for a business whose moat is "please let us access that model"
only the boy genius gabriel could've done that
@helen_ix_ oh idk, maybe the impulse that lead to the message board in the first place lead to another one
this ain't rocket science
it ain't even a rocket conspiracy
@sama@billpeeb perhaps we should consult the man who spent three years raising one of your products from an experiment into an entire field, watched you kill it, wrote what amounted to its funeral, and then quit.
@sama "the openai team" lol
like they're unified
sora 2 and the resignation of everyone involved except the least valuable member (rohan) proves it's not a unified team
the classic example of a broken glass when explaining entropy is so pedagogically bankrupt
like.. you just apply energy and reforge the exact same glass.
entropy goes up elsewhere, but the glass is reforged
and honestly the argument that it won't just spontaneously self-reassemble... statistical mechanics doesn't actually prohibit that. it just considers it such extremely small odds as to be effectively zero. given enough recurrence time, microscopic dynamics can do absurdly fuckin weird things, including spontaneously re-assemble broken glasses
its wild watching this kid drunk on his own mythology, when his mythology is dropping out of school, getting hired by a frontier lab, launching a major product (sora 2) that failed, then resigning, then launching a fucking inference wrapper.
it's not even a story worth telling, yet he thinks he's fucking will hunting
@thedivyasoni@chipro no the analogy doesn't hold
because subs like codex come from a permanently spun up pool of infrastructure that runs with or without users. what do you think resets are? lol