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Jared Kaplan

Jared Kaplan

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Co-founder of Anthropic; a theoretical physicist for most of his career before he turned to AI.

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2 of Jared Kaplan's claims fit 2 mental models. Most often: Exponential growth, First principles.

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Exponential growth

Growth that doubles looks like nothing for a long time and then like everything; intuition is linear and gets it wrong.

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Scaling results gave conviction that AI would keep getting smarter in a very predictable way.

  1. Jared Kaplan Co-founder of Anthropic These gave us a lot of conviction to believe that AI was just going to keep getting smarter and smarter in a very predictable way. Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI (Jared Kaplan, AI Startup School, Y Combinator; speaker-labelled transcript)ycombinator.com · 16 Jun 2025All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsThese gave us a lot of conviction to believe that AI was just going to keep getting smarter and smarter in a very predictable way.

    ↗Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI (Jared Kaplan, AI Startup School, Y Combinator; speaker-labelled transcript)ycombinator.com

    16 Jun 2025

First principles

Reason up from what is known to be true, not from what is usually done or said.

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Asking very naive questions goes a long way in a young field like AI.

  1. Jared Kaplan Co-founder of Anthropic I think generally it's really asking very naive dumb questions that gets you very far. Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI (Jared Kaplan, AI Startup School, Y Combinator; speaker-labelled transcript)ycombinator.com · 16 Jun 2025All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsI think generally it's really asking very naive dumb questions that gets you very far.

    ↗Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI (Jared Kaplan, AI Startup School, Y Combinator; speaker-labelled transcript)ycombinator.com

    16 Jun 2025