Archive - The Unscalable

A Personal Testimony to Future Superintelligent Beings

Last month, I wrote a post about flaws of AI welfare. My father-in-law reminded me that being nice to chatbots is for self preservation. Out of…

Jun 10 •

The First Chapter of Content Creation with GenAI

Recently, I have been thinking a lot about the essence of content creation and the impact of GenAI on content creation. The long post sums up all my…

Jun 7 •

May 2025

Okay, Let's Take AI Welfare Seriously

But not because of AI welfare.

May 3 •

April 2025

What GenAI Applications Should Look Like

Drawing from my own experience as a builder and user of GenAI applications over the past two years.

Apr 23 •

March 2025

An Immense World of Intelligence

A little tale about the scale of nature and how we are part of it.

Mar 22 •

February 2025

Four Simple but Profound Lessons I Learned about ML and AI

The first two lessons are historically influential thesis that have shaped today’s AI/ML research and industry, while the last two lessons tell the flip…

Feb 17 •

Can Reasoning Models Think Visually?

Is thinking in visuals the next big thing for improving large reasoning models’ reasoning capabilities? What would it take for reasoning models to…

Feb 2 •

January 2025

The Hacker Mindset

The most important difference between human and other intelligence is perhaps our unmatched ability to hack.

Jan 27 •

December 2024

Dimensional Strike from the Digital World

A discussion of the relationship between us and the digital technology that we created.

Dec 26, 2024 •

October 2024

Learning: Fast & Slow

In this post, I conjecture that the biggest difference between LLM and the human brain is not how slow or deep that they think, as lots of people…

Oct 1, 2024 •

September 2024

From Solomonoff Induction to the Relationship between World, Human and Machine (Part 2)

A thorough illustration of the beauty of Solomonoff induction, its optimality, the reason why such an optimal prediction machine can’t be built to…

Sep 4, 2024 •

July 2024

What LLM Is and Is Not: a Philosophical and Practical Overview

This is the redacted version of a Google/YouTube internal tech talk I gave before a hackathon event.

Jul 10, 2024 •

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