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Claude Shannon

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2 episodes
Oct 30, 2025• Infinite Loops

Kenneth Stanley — The Trap of the Objective (EP.288)

Ken Stanley explores how pursuing ambitious objectives can blind us to the stepping stones that lead to breakthrough innovations, arguing that following interestingness and novelty can often yield more creative and unexpected discoveries than traditional goal-oriented approaches.

1:25:34
Oct 13, 2025• a16z Podcast

Columbia CS Professor: Why LLMs Can’t Discover New Science

A discussion with Columbia CS Professor Vishal Misra about the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) and why they cannot discover fundamentally new science or create entirely new paradigms of knowledge.

50:54