Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Spending most of the compute memorising the world in pre-training is brute force; what we want is a model that reasons the way a student sits an open-book exam.
Drawn from what Aravind Srinivas said
What these subjects mean
mental models Thinking tools borrowed across disciplines: inversion, second-order effects, circles of competence, probabilities, incentives.
scaling laws Whether more compute keeps buying more capability, and where the curve now bends -- pre-training, post-training, test-time.