When facts change I change my mind. What do you do sir?

Jelani Nelson @minilek · October 12, 2026 ↗Mike was my colleague at Berkeley, and he's been fairly skeptical of deep learning's trajectory for years. Most scientists are skeptics, and it can take a big shock to get someone to consider a possibility that goes against the anchoring effect coded in our DNA. I too was…

They seem to be living in an era where if you don’t have the ability to change your opinion on something on a dime, you’re toast.

We live in exponential times and we need exponential mental models to navigate these disturbing, treacherous, exciting, wonderful, shocking, and scary times.