reedwhistle

Interesting follow up would be to see if any open weight models can do this and then run some interpretability experiments on them to figure out which motifs and circuits light up

Ive been interested in exploring other domains as well, including biology, genomics, etc. Do you have any recommendations on where to get started?

Yep, I think a lot of them are grieving the loss of their identity. Quite understandable given how much of their life force they've poured into math, especially at the level of that Tao is at.

It makes me think of the book Finite and Infinite Games. It provides a perspective that work is just one role that we _choose_ to assume in our life. Realizing that we can choose other roles and move in and out of them freely has helped me alot with big changes (career and otherwise) in my life.

I went through something similar when I worked started working for AWS in the pre-LLM era. I had to learn to let go of the desire and perceived need to fully understand the system because it was just too big