Strategic Taste

TLDR: Figure out what you care about, stare at the hard problem, understand it to its object-level foundations, understand why the solutions don't work so far, write your assumptions and uncertainties about the universe, and go create value.

Strategic Taste TLDR: Figure out what you care about, stare at the hard problem, understand it to its object-level foundations, understand why the solutions don't work so far, write your assumptions and uncertainties about the universe, and go create value. So a frightening amount of my job can be described as AI "strategy", which I think of as decomposing goals into action. Doing this well requires: Information and "information flow", up-to-date knowledge about the world and decisionmakers for the factors in that system Choosing an appropriate high-level goal The skill to break that goal into

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