Research
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Segal: AI lowers the bar while design and research raise the ceiling
“I think research has a very, and design has a very important part to play in raising the ceiling of what's possible. Whereas AI has mostly lowered the bar, but it hasn't, hasn't raised the ceiling.”
Wang: Mechanistic interpretability is easiest path to research for engineers
“And Macinterp is probably the easiest, single easiest way that engineers can get into research if they want to.”
Staniszewski: AI research is only a head start; ecosystems create lasting value
“The thing that will really give that long-term value is the ecosystem that you create around, whether that's the run and distribution, whether that's the collection of voices you can have, the collection of integrations you can build, the workflows that you ca…”
Carlini: 90% of scientific research is routine work that AI can automate
“90% of this is not doing something new. Like, 90% of this is like doing things a million people have done before, and then a little bit of something that was new. There's a reason why we say we stand on the shoulders of giants. It's true. Almost everything tha…”
Research Disproves the Claim That Yelling Causes Children Lifelong Trauma
“This is their idea that anything we do to get, anytime you yell at a kid that can traumatize a kid, that injury, emotional injury can be with them for a lifetime. It's not true. It's not what the best research has shown”
Byun: Research, not probability modeling, is the bottleneck in forecasting
“The thing that's blocking people from making interesting predictions about important events in the world is less kind of on the probabilistic side and much more on the research side.”
Andreessen: Research output, not teaching, determines academic tenure and hiring
“Professors get hired and get tenure in large part of the basis of their research in contrast to their teaching.”
Antin: UX research remains ineffective while treated as a service discipline
“As long as research is a service discipline, I think we're going to be stuck in this spot.”
Antin: Casual customer conversations do not constitute valid research
“Anyone can talk to a user that does not constitute research or insights work, you know, because one user can be powerful, but one user can be idiosyncratic.”
Mazumdar-Shaw: India spends less than 1% of its GDP on research
“You know, we spend less than one percent on research.”
Huberman: Sizable Portion of Podcast Income Will Fund Research and Scholarships
“A fairly sizable portion of the Huberman lab podcast income is going to be donated to research and to scholarships for students.”
Top researchers' time is the primary bottleneck in investment research
“One of the great bottlenecks in research is the time of
The most important and most creative researchers.”
Krawcheck: Wall Street research and investment banking have irreconcilable conflicts of interest
“Our analysts on Wall Street were doing investment banking and research for two different sets of clients where the conflicts were 1000% clear. If you were giving one good advice, you were giving the other bad advice.”
Heffernan: Research Disproves Myths That Whistleblowers Are Mostly Women or Religious
“There's a mythology that says they're mostly women, and the research doesn't bear that out. There's mythology that says they're people of faith, the research doesn't bear that out.”