This reminds me of a quote from Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics:
As the fourth-century Chinese philosopher Xiaoguang Li once observed, we tend to think of earlier civilizations as being more venerable, like a wise old ancestor who has seen many things; but in fact later civilizations are older than earlier civilizations, because the future has a longer history than the past. Thus I hope it will increase, rather than decrease, your opinion of his wisdom if I now inform you that actually Xiaoguang “Mike” Li is a friend of mine who observed this in 2002.
I once lent Xiaoguang “Mike” Li my copy of “Probability Theory: The Logic of Science”. Mike Li read some of it, and then came back and said:
“Wow… it’s like Jaynes is a thousand-year-old vampire.”
Then Mike said, “No, wait, let me explain that—” and I said, “No, I know exactly what you mean.” It’s a convention in fantasy literature that the older a vampire gets, the more powerful they become.
yeah, you are totally right! As a younger sibling myself, I defaulted to the “less competent one is younger” version of this analogy, but you are totally right!
Gemini 3.1 Pro is probably older in terms of subjective-years-spent-in-training. (Assuming each new model is trained with more FLOPS than previous models.)
Disagree. The older sibling is the one with more life experience i.e. later cutoff date. Also gemini pro is the “big brother/sister” of gemini flash, etc.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is actually the older sibling, because it was born earlier.
This reminds me of a quote from Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics:
This is getting very tangential, but the moment I saw “Xiaoguang Li” I thought of the thousand year old vampire quote:
yeah, you are totally right! As a younger sibling myself, I defaulted to the “less competent one is younger” version of this analogy, but you are totally right!
Gemini 3.1 Pro is probably older in terms of subjective-years-spent-in-training. (Assuming each new model is trained with more FLOPS than previous models.)
Disagree. The older sibling is the one with more life experience i.e. later cutoff date. Also gemini pro is the “big brother/sister” of gemini flash, etc.