AICommunity and the search for something worth building
SPC says the earliest phase of building calls for curiosity, good questions and talented peers—not isolation.
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SPC describes the earliest phase of building as closer to open-ended research than engineering, arguing that finding worthwhile ideas is more likely in a group than alone. A post sharing the essay quotes an Anthropic cofounder saying he joined SPC, blocked off three months to see if he could make progress and planned to teach himself machine learning: “It gave me a community where I could be a novice again.”
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Community and the search for something worth building
SPC says the earliest phase of building calls for curiosity, good questions and talented peers—not isolation.
TLDR
SPC describes the earliest phase of building as closer to open-ended research than engineering, arguing that finding worthwhile ideas is more likely in a group than alone. A post sharing the essay quotes an Anthropic cofounder saying he joined SPC, blocked off three months to see if he could make progress and planned to teach himself machine learning: “It gave me a community where I could be a novice again.”