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power law
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Observed neighbors
tail-centric evaluation
If value concentrates in outliers, benchmarks and evaluations should focus on rare discontinuous wins, not only on average performance improvements.
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Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossibletail-risk engineering
The 'many small events plus a few huge events' pattern means risk is concentrated in the tail, so reliability engineering should be tail-aware.
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Complex Systems Thinking – How to change the way we think about problem solving