Manav’s Blog

Belief and truth

Anything is true if enough people believe in it.

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LLMs should not be treated as humans

It does a disservice to the potential of both LLMs and humans.

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Three ways of doing good

  1. Build something you love
  2. Build something people love
  3. Live the future

Langton’s ant

Langton’s ant

Where is Nāgasena?

King Milinda asks the monk Nāgasena his name. “Nāgasena,” he answers, but that is only a conventional designation; no person is to be found behind the name.

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Goodhart’s law

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

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Sigil

What’s a sigil
For a mind