New blog post about asymmetry of verification and "verifier's law": Asymmetry of verification–the idea that some tasks are much easier to verify than to solve–is becoming an important idea as we have RL that finally works generally. Great examples of asymmetry of verification are things like sudoku puzzles, writing the code for a website like instagram, and BrowseComp problems (takes ~100 websites to find the answer, but easy to verify once you have the answer). Other tasks have near-symmetry of verification, like summing two 900-digit numbers or some data processing scripts. Yet other tasks are much easier to propose feasible solutions for than to verify them (e.g., fact-checking a long essay or stating a new diet like "only eat bison"). An important thing to understand about asymmetry of verification is that you can improve the asymmetry by doing some work beforehand. For example, if you have the answer key to a math problem or if you have test cases for a Leetcode problem. This greatly increases the set of problems with desirable verification asymmetry. "Verifier's law" states that the ease of training AI to solve a task is proportional to how verifiable the task is. All tasks that are possible to solve and easy to verify will be solved by AI. The ability to train AI to solve a task is proportional to whether the task has the following properties: 1. Objective truth: everyone agrees what good solutions are 2. Fast to verify: any given solution can be verified in a few seconds 3. Scalable to verify: many solutions can be verified simultaneously 4. Low noise: verification is as tightly correlated to the solution quality as possible 5. Continuous reward: it’s easy to rank the goodness of many solutions for a single problem One obvious instantiation of verifier's law is the fact that most benchmarks proposed in AI are easy to verify and so far have been solved. Notice that virtually all popular benchmarks in the past ten years fit criteria #1-4#; benchmarks that don’t meet criteria #1-4# would struggle to become popular. Why is verifiability so important? The amount of learning in AI that occurs is maximized when the above criteria are satisfied; you can take a lot of gradient steps where each step has a lot of signal. Speed of iteration is critical—it’s the reason that progress in the digital world has been so much faster than progress in the physical world. AlphaEvolve from Google is one of the greatest examples of leveraging asymmetry of verification. It focuses on setups that fit all the above criteria, and has led to a number of advancements in mathematics and other fields. Different from what we've been doing in AI for the last two decades, it's a new paradigm in that all problems are optimized in a setting where the train set is equivalent to the test set. Asymmetry of verification is everywhere and it's exciting to consider a world of jagged intelligence where anything we can measure will be solved.

I’ve been realizing lately just how insane the information asymmetry is. I heard normies are still paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars for courses on how to build AI trading bots. Feels like a massive opportunity right now.

The maturation of Bitcoin markets is creating an interesting asymmetry. The asset itself has achieved global scale. The infrastructure supporting programmable financial activity around it remains comparatively early.

I still want to be long the Hyperliquid ecosystem but I need some asymmetry. It’s time for an options dex to properly take on Deribit. Hypercall, owned by $SYN, is that challenger. Let’s see if they can cook.

one of my highest conviction holds right now is $microduck i bought it near ATH around 15m because once i finally did my dd, the asymmetry looked obvious this isn’t just another random AI meme you’re betting on a physical AI/robotics product with Nvidia ties that people are already rushing to order to me, it has that iPhone of robotics potential once people start receiving them and timelines get flooded with videos, the meme basically markets itself then you have the CEO repeatedly retweeting the coin page $AI ran toward 300m so why can’t something more visual, viral and normie-friendly reach the same parity? people always understand the thesis after price validates it at 10m nobody cared at 30m they start getting it at 100m they’ll say it was obvious i still think 30m is hilariously mispriced

Europe has become painfully boring. Realized vol crushed. Long gamma punished. Options activity dried up. And now the front end is historically cheap. The asymmetry just flipped.