What Patrick Collison thinks about LLMs
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Patrick Collison has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsconsuming its publications is so easy for the models (the world's knowledge is neatly serried in their pretraining corpora) and so cumbersome for most humans (with trenches of CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls ensuring that only the unusually dedicated reader will ever make contact)
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Our readingModels can prove monumental theorems and still have never written an essay worth reading.
Their wordsI mean, it's very interesting, right? Because these can prove the Jacobian conjecture, you know, whatever. Uh and so clearly they're capable of these monumental feats. Um but somehow I still haven't read the LLM essay that I found super compelling.
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