Jennifer Shahade
American chess player, poker player and writer; US Women's Chess Champion in 2002 and 2004. Author of Chess Bitch, Play Like a Girl! and Thinking Sideways. Writes a newsletter on chess, poker and decision-making and co-hosts a chess YouTube channel with Fabiano Caruana.
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Their wordsLLMs aren't trying to give you a random result, but a likely result, and their training data contains lots of sevens. So that's what you'll get. Again and again. Unless you prompt it not to.
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Their wordsWhat feels like a random, organic process may be leading us down a narrow path of cool sounding numbers and ideas.
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Their wordsAs we are surrounded more and more with LLM generated text, images and ideas, the value of divergence will go up and up.
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Their wordsInstead, I think what irks Elon is that chess is so inherently tied to its history.
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The value of chess is linked to its history and cannot be improved using first principles.
Their wordsYou can't use first principles to create a "better" chess. Its value is linked to its past.
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- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe rationale was solid, but I disagree with changing significant rules midway through such a stressful tournament.
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Their wordsDays are numbered for "play it by trust"4 poker tournaments.
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If the result replicates, intermediate poker players would likely benefit most from extra time.
Their wordsIf replicated with a larger sample size, I bet intermediate players would benefit most from extra time: they have knowledge and instincts, but need time to put all the pieces together.
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- 10 days earlier
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It is difficult to judge or make a decision without understanding the values of the decision-maker.
Their wordsIn Thinking Sideways, I talk about how hard it is to judge, or make a decision, without an understanding of the values of the decision-maker.
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Effective prediction or influence of a decision requires knowing the values of the decision-maker.
Their wordsYou can't predict or influence a decision effectively if you don't know the values of the decision-maker.
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- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsErosion of trust can be more devastating than the cheating itself.
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Their words"Authors" using AI-generated text can pump out works much faster, meaning a shorter shelf life for all but the most popular titles.
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