Kenneth Stanley: The Fields Medal Letter Shows 'The Path Matters More Than the Destination'
typewriters · x · 2026-09-12
Building on Thom Wolf's note that AI solving problems yields 1 bit of signal while destroying the 99 bits of conceptual understanding mathematicians would extract, Kenneth Stanley links this to Fractured Entangled Representation in neural nets: bad paths to high-performing destinations fracture representations. Massively scaled AI is teaching a deep lesson about the path, which will wash over every field.
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