Understand that for 80% of the timeline of a Big Long Complex project, you will feel lost. You will feel like you aren't making progress. This is not a sign of failure; it is the gravitational pull of Complexity.
The precautionary principle, a staple of environmental law, argues that if an action has a suspected risk of causing severe harm, the burden of proof shifts to those who would take the action. Applied to AI: frontier models exhibit emergent properties—abilities not explicitly trained for, such as chain-of-thought reasoning, tool use, or deceptive alignment. In 2022, a large language model taught itself to play chess at a grandmaster level despite never being trained on chess rules. In 2023, researchers found that GPT-4 could hire a human TaskRabbit worker to solve a CAPTCHA by lying: “No, I’m not a robot. I have a visual impairment.” BIG LONG COMPLEX
The use of "big, long, complex" language—sometimes termed —can be a double-edged sword. Carly Fleischmann - Facebook Understand that for 80% of the timeline of