Scaling Knowledge

By Moritz Wallawitsch

Scaling Knowledge is a blog and podcast about progress, epistemology, and AI.

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The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.

Scaling Knowledge episodes:

July 23, 2023AI, Airships, Knowledge Retrieval, & More w/ Anton Troynikov, Founder @ Chroma
Anton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/atroyn
Moritz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MoritzW42
Scaling Knowledge: https://scalingknowledge.substack.com

Mentioned Resources
Unlimiformer: Long-Range Transformers with Unlimited Length Input: arxiv.org/abs/2305.01625

Memorizing Transformers: arxiv.org/abs/2203.08913

Chroma: https://www.trychroma.com

⁠You and your Research⁠: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

Against Method⁠: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method

Contents:
(00:00) Preview
(01:14) Introduction
(06:13) Edech
(12:12) Airchips cost structure
(24:06) Techno Optimism
(25:09) Convenience vs Enabling Technology
(31:13) Chroma and LLM Landscape
(35:37) Minecraft Bot
(37:05) Knowledge Retrieval
(39:38) New Knowledge Retrieval Research and Techniques: (Direct Retrieval Augmentation of Transformers, Conditional Retrieval)
(42:35) AI Native Platforms
(45:43) Theorem Proving and Generation
(49:40) Do LLMs Reason
(52:18) Computational Complexity and LessWrong
(53:58) Frameworks and Taking Your Work Seriously
(55:53) Job Displacement and Jobs Supply vs Demand Side
(58:29) The Printing Press
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1h 4min
July 22, 2023 The Myth of Artificial Intelligence with Erik J. Larson
Twitter: Moritz (@moritzW42)
Blog: https://scalingknowledge.substack.com
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About Erik: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_J._Larson
Erik's book: https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Artificial-Intelligence-Computers-Think/dp/0674983513
Transcript: https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/i/135360356/transcript-rawapproximation
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Content
(00:00) Preview
(01:33) Intro
(06:55) Unpredictability of Invention
(10:09) Limits of Deep learning progress
(12:59) Abduction
(16:45) Creativity and Serendipity
(19:16) Neumann on Self Improving Machines
(24:30) His upcoming book
(26:40) Progress & Innovation decentralisation
(28:21) Neurosymbolic AI
(30:29) AI research progress
(33:16) Automation, Displament, and Alienation
(34:58) Outro
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35min
July 14, 2023The Almanack of Keith Rabois
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Keith Rabois
Twitter: twitter.com/rabois

Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Rabois
Mo Golshan
OG written content version

Mo's twitter: twitter.com/mogolshan

Mentioned links:
Interview with John Sculley on Apple and Steve Jobs: John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript | Cult of Mac
Read The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint by Edward Tufte: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
Achieving Business Success One Person at a Time* by Peter Engel: The Exceptional Individual: Achieving Business Success One Person at a Time by Engel, Peter
Advisory board: Should Your Startup Have an Advisory Board? | by Mark Suster | Both Sides of the Table
Essay on hiring great PMs: How to Hire a Product Manager: the Classic Essay by Ken Norton

What is more important for a start-up: quality of team or size of market? pmarca archive.posterous.com/the pmarca guide to startups part 4

How to Raise money before launch? How to raise money before launch. by Delian Asparouhov

Should a student finish college or go work for a startup if given the chance to work for a YC, TechStars alumni? A Student's Guide to Startups

Content:
(00:00): Intro
(01:00): Navigating the Ambitious Problem-Solving Journey: From Start to Success
(28:34): Navigating Startup Operations: From Team Building to Executive Hiring
(28:58): "Lessons on Assembling Your Founding Team: Complimentary Co-founders, Cult Creation, and Problem Solving"
(01:41:31): "Exploring Venture: Lessons on Assembling Founders, Succeeding in Early Stage Investing, and Venture Capital"
(01:41:53): "Assessing Extraordinary Founders: Traits, Strategies, and Unconventional Qualities"
(02:34:31): "Productivity and Life Advice: Strategies for Success in Venture and Beyond"
(02:34:50): Contrarian Thinking and Managing Time: Lessons for Success
(03:06:20): Outro
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3h 8min
June 19, 2023Moats in AI, Real and Regulatory with Brian Chau
We discuss qualitative and quantitative moats, midwits, altruism, egalitarianism, regulation, obstructionism and more.
Twitter
Brian (@psychosort)

Moritz (@moritzW42)
Blogs
Brian: From the New World

Moritz: Scaling Knowledge

Content:

(00:00) Brian's background
(03:20) On writing
(07:05) AI doomers: steel man and critique
(14:05) Job displacement
(19:20) Signaling jobs
(28:20) Future economics of art
(31:10) Qualitative v. quantitative moats (Google doc leak)
(37:00) Midwits and conformity selection
(40:00) How to fix Midwits phenomenon (Civil service reforms)
(42:00) Why the free market selects against the free market
(46:00) Problems with regulators (FDA and co.)
(52:00) The root of Altruism
(55:00) Origin of envy
(55:25) Conspiracy theories and egalitarianism
(1:00:00) Egalitarian murders
(1:06:45) Polarization and obstructionism
(1:09:05) Obstructionism and regulation
(1:10:25) Issue polarization, affective polarization, and partisanship
(1:12:00) Education system and the Freddie deBoer case
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1h 17min
May 26, 2023 Naval and others on Freedom, Consensus, Zone of Genius, Identity, and the Evolution of Truth [Airchat Part 2]
Part 1: Naval and others on Product Design, Smart Glasses, the AI Industry, 10x Designers, and more.
A collection of conversations from ⁠Airchat⁠
Find Scaling Knowledge on ⁠other platforms⁠
Full transcript

Content
(00:00) Intro
(00:58) Amazon Gentrification
(02:01) Freedom
(04:22) Innovation
(05:25) Consensus
(07:00) Numeracy Skills
(08:19) Mastery and Creativity Intersection
(09:20) Fun
(10:41) Curiosity
(13:48) Nassim Taleb and Deutsch
(18:20) Identity and Epistemology
(23:20) Evolution of Truth
(24:06) Naval on organized religion
(26:42) Curiosity
(26:42) Zone of Genius
(29:53) The great Scientists
(33:00) Nature vs. Nurture
(40:09) Outro

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41min
May 21, 2023Naval and others on Product Design, Smart Glasses, the AI Industry, 10x Designers, and more [Airchat Part 1]
Part 2: Naval and others on Freedom, Consensus, Zone of Genius, Identity, and the Evolution of Truth [Airchat Part 2]
A collection of conversations from Airchat.
Find Scaling Knowledge on other platforms. Scaling Knowledge blog.
Full transcript here.

Content
(00:00) Intro
(00:56) Simplicity
(05:34) Design feeling natural
(06:46) Smart Glasses
(14:00) AirPods
(16:06) Humane (hu.ma.ne)
(24:10) Conversational Dunbar number
(25:10) AI Industry and platforms
(29:04) Disrupting Ebay
(34:00) 10x Engineers/Designers
(40:59) Outro

People
Naval
Twitter

Airchat
Brian
Twitter

AirChat
Kumar
Twitter

AirChat
Keith
AirChat
Tom
Twitter

AirChat
Moritz
Twitter

AirChat
Kyle Barber
Patryush Sing
Raghav Gulati
Petri Kajander

Some AirChat Links
Conversational Dunbar number
product design simplicity (Naval)
product design simplicityu (Brian)
natural design
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42min
March 27, 2023 On Communities of Knowledge, Virtue Signalling, & Sacred Values vs. Consequences with Steven A. Sloman (Author of 'The Knowledge Illusion')
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone: https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Illusion-Never-Think-Alone/dp/0399184368
Stevens Bio: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/ssloman
Steven on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YL5RTcUAAAAJ
Follow Moritz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MoritzW42

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1h 6min
March 03, 2023On Accelerating the Growth of Knowledge & Wealth - with Logan Chipkin
I had fun chatting with my friend Logan Chipkin about various topics and misconceptions related to the growth of knowledge and wealth including:
Austrian Economics and Critical Rationalism

Black Box View of Government

Economic Creationism

Time Imperialists

Why Equality is undesirable

Moralizing

Anarcho Capitalism

Austrian Economics
Subscribe to Scaling Knowledge: https://scalingknowledge.substack.com
Follow Logan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChipkinLogan
Follow Moritz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MoritzW42
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1h 16min
October 02, 2022 Kenneth Stanley - Interestingness, Novelty Search vs. Objectives in Education & Learning
Follow Kenneth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kenneth0stanley and check out his website!
Subscribe to Scaling Knowledge: https://scalingknowledge.substack.com
Follow James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/experilearning
Follow Moritz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MoritzW42
0:00 - Intro
1:02 - Why are objectives flawed? What does it mean for the education system?
14:48 - What feedback have you gotten from students/parents/teachers/administrators?
21:37 - How can students implement non-objective driven search book while in school?
31:21 - What is the role of curiosity in non-objective driven search?
39:55 - Is our nose for the interesting innate? Is it fixed ability, or can it improve/get worse over time? Does the education system worsen it?
49:25 - How does novelty search accumulate complexity?
59:36 - Can following your interests just cause you to spin your wheels, not making any significant progress? What is the risk-reward tradeoff in novelty search
1:11:27 - Startups and non-objective search.
1:19:40 - Homeschooling - balancing non-objective driven learning with objective-driven learning.
1:28:11 - Knowledge accumulation in society and open-endedness.
1:35:11 - Creating networks/communities to facilitate open-ended search in education and beyond.
1:48:51 - How to adapt to the mindset of non-objective search and taking risks?
1:55:15 - Would privatization of the education system help? How can we measure whether an open-ended system is making progress?
2:04:37 - Minimum criteria and open-ended systems. Observing rather than measuring open-ended systems.
2:09:16 - Closing comments
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2h 12min
October 02, 2022 Epistemology, The Burden Of Knowledge And Open-Endedness with James B
Subscribe to Scaling Knowledge: https://scalingknowledge.substack.com
Follow Moritz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MoritzW42
Follow James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/experilearning
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45min

FAQs about Scaling Knowledge:

How many episodes does Scaling Knowledge have?

The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.