I'm increasingly convinced that the ultimate sign of growth is faster recovery. You still get upset. You still make mistakes. You still have bad days. But you return to center faster.
Apologize faster. Reset faster. Learn faster. Fast recovery compounds.
Major cheat code for life: Master the art of the fresh start. From a bad morning. From a bad interaction. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the fall and the reset. Fast recovery compounds.
Whatever AI sceptics say, LLMs really can reason. They're not just doing an imitation that looks like reasoning, it's the real deal.
But even though they are able to reason, sometimes they won't! If you ask an LLM a question it can't answer, sometimes it will just try to imitate reasoning without doing it.
The chain of thought looks basically indistinguishable from actual reasoning. But under the hood something very different is going on.
@TrentonBricken talked with me about what work on circuits inside LLMs has revealed: