Ashita Orbis//understanding ai7 protocols
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Learning path

You build things

For engineers and technical people who don't write software for a living. Start with how the systems work, end with what they mean for the person operating them.

The path

  1. 1
    [1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models
    Andrej Karpathy · Video · 60 min watch · Introductory

    The shape of a language model, from someone who built them.

  2. 2
    Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
    Andrej Karpathy · Video · 210 min watch · Intermediate

    Open the machine: data, training, tokens, hallucination, reasoning.

  3. 3
    The Bitter Lesson
    Richard Sutton · Essay · 5 min read · Introductory

    The founding argument: general methods riding computation win.

  4. 4
    Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security
    Gwern Branwen · Essay · 60 min read · Advanced

    What one careful thinker wants AI to be for a single person — and why chatbots aren't it.

Then follow your interest

What it does to work

  1. 1
    Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier
    10 min read · Introductory

    The field experiment on AI and skilled work.

  2. 2
    The Cyborg Era: What AI means for jobs
    18 min read · Intermediate

    The substitution question, taken seriously from both sides.

  3. 3
    Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI
    23 min read · Introductory

    Comparative advantage, spelled out.

Where this is heading

  1. 1
    AI as Normal Technology
    90 min read · Intermediate

    The slow-diffusion counterweight to every acceleration story.

  2. 2
    The AI 2040 Scenario (Plan A — The Deal)
    150 min read · Intermediate

    The alarmed camp's positive plan, concrete enough to argue with.

The deeper questions

  1. 1
    Ghost in the Cloud
    35 min read · Introductory

    The theology hiding inside the Singularity.

  2. 2
    Antiqua et Nova: Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence
    105 min read · Intermediate

    A two-millennia tradition's definition of intelligence, applied to machines.