Yacine: Stop reading what labs publish, think from first principles
yacineMTB · x · 2026-11-11
Prominent AI voice Yacine urges researchers to stop relying on what labs publish and instead reason from first principles, arguing people are more often wrong than right — even when new work improves on the last, both approaches may be fundamentally flawed.
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