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- 2-1a0c1d1 Focus on the few variables
- 3-1a3.1 Get the basics well. Relate to the basics. Do the basics well.
- 3-1c3c4.2 “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect”
- 6-3b3g Federated (protocol) networks have a tendency, a fundamental by-product of their architecture, to evolve into corporate networks because network effects ensure that small advantages compound to create big winners
- 8-1c4 ‘Killer application’ is knowledge-technology-universality that begets reflexivity between app-platform-people by pushing people over the threshold
E.g.,
- Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta represent 50% of the Nasdaq 100’s total market cap
- Up from 25% a decade ago
I think Brandolini’s Law explains Pareto principle (as well as Zipf’s law distribution). And LLMs could accelerate this unevenness because the average will likely fatten with LLMs.
Related:
- 1-2i Brandolini’s Law (the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle)—the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it
- 3-1c1d0a Zipf’s law distribution = Passive consumption make up 99% of activities on the internet, and less than 1% even comment on content, and much less than THAT actually create something new
- Our Overfitted Century by Erik Hoel
- Comfort → non-risk taking behavior
- Cutting out “inefficiency” → leads to a look-alike (e.g., spaceships, cars, faces) and less diversity
- Model collapse—rare patterns disappear; diversity collapse; models converge toward narrow (or fattened) averages
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- Overfitting led to mode collapse, and mode collapse is leading to at least partial model collapse (which all leads to more overfitting, by the way, in a vicious cycle)
- Takeaways:
- Repeat what works but only to an extent—recalibrate, always
- 1-1a5a3 Knowledge is about knowing the edge
- 5-1b1b2b Don’t try to be the best. Be the only.
Pareto principle is contingent that other people will stay reactive—and by definition, there exists variance in people’s agency around the average.develop
Related:
- 2-1a1a3e There’s no objective average
- 4-1a4b2b Being reactive is like being analog in the heat of the moment
- 5-1b1b2b Don’t try to be the best. Be the only.
- Carlo Cipolla: “One finds the same percentage of stupid people whether one is considering very large groups or one is dealing with very small ones”