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The Anthropic Cheat Code

Graph minds are possible because we can cheat complexity along one vector

Venkatesh Rao
Oct 01, 2022
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This is part of the Graph Minds Notebook series

I’ve been reviewing and thinking about various notions of complexity recently, in preparation for a talk I’m doing in a couple of weeks on the topic. There are many such notions — computational complexity, chaos-theoretic complexity, systems-theoretic complexity, and so on. But whichever notion of complexit…

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