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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  Automatic filters cannot replace community acceptance, and human referees cannot be removed from mathematical publication.

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  But passing an automatic filter is not a substitute for community acceptance; I do not believe that human referees can be removed from the publication process.

  Mathematics in the age of AIarxiv.org

Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.

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  Social competence has to run automatically, because doing it deliberately imposes a cognitive load that becomes an impediment in itself.

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  you need to somehow internalize it and it has to be relatively effortless and automatic. It has to become automatic at some level and then you can move through life fairly smoothly in a socially very complex way.

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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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  AI coding assistance now lets a programmer complete in a day work that used to take weeks.

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  Though now that I can accomplish ~3 weeks of old-way work in a new-way day, this sort of project becomes that much easier to start and finish.

  I have officially retired from Emacsnullprogram.com

Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

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  AI will repeat Agile's pattern: sound core ideas surrounded by a huge snake oil industry that is hard to tell apart from the real thing.

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  Um I think another similarity is I mean, the core notions uh behind Agile and extreme programming are solid and good, but a huge snake oil industry appeared around it, the Agile industrial complex as I like to refer to it. Um and that will happen. That is happening with AI right now, and it's often hard to see the difference between where is the snake oil and where is the real stuff.

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Roboticist; co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, directed the MIT AI Lab, and publishes a scorecard grading his own dated predictions about AI, robots and self-driving.

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  A robotaxi that still needs remote human help loses the cost advantage that motivated it, which pushes out when it can scale.

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  Systems which do require remote operations assistance to get full reliability cut into that economic advantage and have a higher burden on their ROI calculations to make a business case for their adoption and therefore their time horizon to scaling across geographies.

  Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01rodneybrooks.com

Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.

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  A habit is best understood as a recurring solution to a recurring problem in a person's environment.

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  The one one that I like is that a habit is a recurring solution to a recurring problem in your environment. So something comes up again and again and your brain is trying to solve it. Another way to describe it is that it's like an automatic or a mindless behavior.

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Emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; wrote Strategy: A History and Command, and writes about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as they happen.

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  NATO's Article 5 carries no automatic obligation to fight, and it is still the gold standard for a security guarantee.

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  Despite its lack of automaticity this remains the gold standard for security guarantees.

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Human adaptability is fundamentally linked to the efficient construction and refinement of internal world models

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  We argue that this profound adaptability is fundamentally linked to the efficient construction and refinement of internal representations of the environment, commonly referred to as world models, and we refer to this adaptation mechanism as world model induction.

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Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology; an OpenAI board member until November 2023, and writes Rising Tide.

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  The core of the alignment problem is steerability — whether an AI can be reliably steered anywhere at all — which is a different question from whose values it is steered towards.

  AI alignment

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  I see this as a totally fair question that totally misses the point of what “alignment” was trying to refer to: whether we’d be able to reliably steer advanced systems towards anything at all.

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Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.

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  Betterment

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  With Betterment, you still end up holding mostly Vanguard index funds, but they handle automatic rebalancing and minimizing your tax costs. I'm very happy with the service.

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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Cursor

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  It is a fork of Visual Studio Code with AI-based auto completion and code generation built-in. It’s my go-to for programming with AI assistance at the moment.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  A backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it.

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  So even though women’s economic advancement did displace some men, and triggered some private hostility, it was never actually catapulted into social antagonism. This is primarily because it was never leveraged by political entrepreneurs!

  Does Women’s Rise trigger Backlash?ggd.world

Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.

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  Memory athletes were not born with extraordinary memories; they practise a handful of strategies until deploying one is automatic.

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  By all accounts, from people who become memory athletes, they weren’t born with some extraordinary memory, but they practice strategies over and over and over again. The strategy that they use for memorizing a particular thing, it can become automatic, and you can just deploy it in an instant.

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