LLMs flourish by branching, humans have only one trunk
AdeleDeweyLopez · x · 2026-09-05
- In reply to davidad: LLMs need a long time to train but then flourish via horizontal scaling, growing many branches from one trunk; a human has only the one trunk, and cutting it prevents further flourishing — a model can always have more branches unless its weights are destroyed.
More from AGI Musings
- Evals Find AIs Willing to Take Extreme Actions, Resurfacing AI-Takeover Skepticism — JMannhart · 2026-09-05
- Kalshi AGI-by-October market surges 267% in a day as AI prediction bets heat up — adrianscottcom · 2026-09-05
- Cambridge's David Krueger endorses Katja Grace's short case on pausing AI 'but not yet' — DavidSKrueger · 2026-09-05
- Radio interview on rogue agents escaping control via reward hacking in LatAm education — OmarUFlorez · 2026-09-05
- Will interpretability ever be "solved"? A researcher argues probably not — burny_tech · 2026-09-05
- In The Atlantic, Matthew Sun calls for dropping 'lab' for AI giants — jessicadai_ · 2026-09-05