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AI isn’t ultimate leverage because it does things for you. It’s ultimate leverage because it collapses the time between “I don’t understand this” and “I can build with this” across every domain simultaneously. Historically, becoming excellent at anything meant picking one narrow lane and spending a decade in it, because acquiring competence was slow and…
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Open any newsletter today and you will see headlines about AI models that can write code, generate images and hold an entire conversations. Against that backdrop, something called ‘Linear Regression’ a concept covered in your statistics 101 can feel almost pointless to learn. The urge to throw massive neural network at every data problem is…
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No matter what goal you have in life, there are a few things you need to get right if you want to achieve those goals. Your main goal is known as a terminal goal, and the subgoals are called instrumental goals. These instrumental goals are not taught—they emerge naturally because they are often the most efficient way…
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Intelligence is the ability to accomplish complex goals. These goals could be anything—from growing toward sunlight to coding websites. These goals may emerge through evolution, be programmed, or arise spontaneously. What matters is that the entity behaves in a way that moves toward achieving them. The three fundamental building blocks of intelligence are computation, memory,…
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A more intelligent entity tends to control a less intelligent one—not because it has evil intentions, but because it often has complex goals. If a less intelligent entity becomes an obstacle, it gets rid of it. For example, if you want to build a highway through a jungle and there happens to be a gorilla…
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Power naturally follows intelligence. Gorillas are physically stronger than us, but we dominate them. We control their habitat, their breeding—even their fate—because we are much smarter than they are. We can cooperate on a large scale and build tools that allow us to control them. Even though power naturally follows intelligence, in humans it is…
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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is one of humanity’s most ambitious frontiers — the quest to build machines that can think, learn, and adapt like humans. AGI is mimicking human intelligence. An AGI must be able to learn everything a human can and apply knowledge from one domain to another. For example, if an AGI learns…
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When I decided to go deep into AI, I started by reading science fiction stories about AI and broad general books on the subject. My primary goal was to develop genuine curiosity, so that studying AI wouldn’t feel like work but more like play. Once I became deeply curious, I wanted to understand its history—what…
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