Kenneth Stanley: scaled AI shows 'the path matters more than the destination', linking math insight to FER
kenneth0stanley · x · 2026-09-12
AI researcher Kenneth Stanley quotes a philosophical tweet ('the destination is only as good as the journey') and connects it to his field: mathematics arriving at the insight that the path matters more than the destination, which he links to Fractured Entangled Representation (FER) in neural networks—FER arising from taking a bad path to a high-performing endpoint. He argues massively scaled AI is teaching us something deep about the importance of the path over the place you end up, a theme he expects to wash over every field.
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