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Neel Nanda's mental models

2 claims Neel Nanda made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Power laws, Probabilistic thinking. Everything they said here.

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Power laws

In many things a few cases account for most of the result, so the average misleads and the outlier decides.

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In any mentoring conversation, only a small fraction of what's discussed turns out to be highly valuable.

  1. Neel Nanda Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind in general, I expect 90% of a mentoring chat to be kinda useless, and 10% to be particularly high value. Post 49: Things That Make Me Enjoy Giving Career Adviceneelnanda.io · 17 Jun 2022All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsin general, I expect 90% of a mentoring chat to be kinda useless, and 10% to be particularly high value.

    ↗Post 49: Things That Make Me Enjoy Giving Career Adviceneelnanda.io

    17 Jun 2022

Probabilistic thinking

Think in odds, not certainties, and bet heavily only when the odds are clearly yours.

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Being smart and competent makes someone right more often, but not right every time.

  1. Neel Nanda Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind Someone being smart and competent just means they're right more often, not that they're always right Post 47: How I Formed My Own Views About AI Safetyneelnanda.io · 27 Feb 2022All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsSomeone being smart and competent just means they're right more often, not that they're always right

    ↗Post 47: How I Formed My Own Views About AI Safetyneelnanda.io

    27 Feb 2022