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Everyone on HN knows what OpenAI is, but there are tons of people who use ChatGPT and either don’t know OpenAI or don’t know the distinction between OpenAI (the company) and OpenAI (the conjunction of two words)

I recall enjoying books so much i would skip homework and read, regardless of feeling overloaded or not

Kids would even read in class and get their novels confiscated for the hour

A funny Goodhart’s Law parallel showed up in during GPT-5.1 training, where the model was rewarded for using the web search tool, so it learned the behavior of superficially using web search to calculate “1 + 1” and not utilize the result.

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/

I worked thru David Silver’s RL course a while back, it’s got great explanations as he builds up the equations. It’s light on implementation, but the intuitive side really complements more code-heavy examples that lack the “why” behind the equations.

https://davidstarsilver.wordpress.com/teaching/

It’s not exactly nominative determinism, but maybe this could all be explained by every Ben Wallace being destined for basketball greatness (middle school or nba or otherwise)