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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  Superintelligence has only five possible futures: killing the human race, human disempowerment, paperclip maximizer, departing for parts unknown, or stoner.

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  There are only five possible futures for superintelligence: 1. Kills human race 2. Human disempowerment 3. Paperclip maximizer 4. Departs for parts unknown 5. Stoner

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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  In a race to beat China on AI, the winners would be the AIs rather than humans.

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  The winner would then be the AIs, not us. That is not to say that the China issue is not real, hence the export controls and attempted international agreement.

  We Must Pace The Frontierthezvi.substack.com

Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.

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  Apple's Siri AI still lags behind the intelligence of the leading frontier AI models.

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  Siri AI can't compete with the intelligence offered by models from the four American companies leading the AI race right now.

  iOS and iPadOS 27: The MacStories Reviewmacstories.net

Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Worked on the research that turned scaled reinforcement learning into reasoning models, and writes about where he thinks that path leads.

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  Needing to build defences is not a licence to race: racing forward at all costs is absurd given the stakes.

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  The idea of racing forward at all costs seems absurd once one internalizes the seriousness of the stakes.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  Solar power combined with batteries has surpassed nuclear power as the superior energy technology for most uses.

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  Because solar has, broadly speaking, won the technological race. Intermittency was the last big problem, and batteries have gotten good and cheap enough to make solar reliable.

  Why you won’t get a flying carnoahpinion.blog

Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.

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  In a midterm year, a new poll in one state affects perceptions of that state's race but not the national political environment.

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  A new poll in Michigan or Maine or South Carolina or Alaska pretty much affects that state and that state only.

  Beware big swings in midterm forecastsnatesilver.net

Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.

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  The widest religious gap in American family size is about half a child.

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  Comparing evangelicals to atheists and agnostics – the widest religious contrast the data offers – and controlling for age, race, education, and sex, the gap is about 0.6 children.

  Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com

Senior space editor at Ars Technica; wrote Liftoff and Reentry on SpaceX, and reports on launch and rocket programmes.

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  Almost nobody in America is paying attention to the space race with China, and a Chinese landing at the lunar south pole will change that.

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  This will likely serve as a wake-up call to those not paying attention to the US-China space race—which, to be clear, is the vast majority of Americans.

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  AI text detectors and the LLMs they try to catch are locked in a permanent cat-and-mouse arms race.

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  AI checkers are essentially a cat-and-mouse game. AI checkers may learn to detect a certain pattern that is indicative of AI-generated content. Then, the next LLM may incidentally or deliberately not exhibit that pattern and avoid detection. The AI checker then has to be updated to detect said LLM, and so forth.

  Building an AI Text Detector From Scratchmagazine.sebastianraschka.com

Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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  First, Refactoring, Domain-Driven Design, and the Pragmatic Programmer are all classics for a reason. Amazing books, and mandatory reads. Working Effectively with Legacy Code deserves all its praise, and of course everyone (yes, really) should check out the Mythical Man-Month.

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  The Mythical Man-Month

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  First, Refactoring, Domain-Driven Design, and the Pragmatic Programmer are all classics for a reason. Amazing books, and mandatory reads. Working Effectively with Legacy Code deserves all its praise, and of course everyone (yes, really) should check out the Mythical Man-Month.

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  The Design of Design

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  The Design of Design by Frederick P. Brooks. It never received the attention that The Mythical Man-Month got, yet The Design of Design shares many of its qualities. It's a book that grows, and there's a wealth of insights on offer.

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  Once a technological arms race begins, escalation can be hard to stop even if it leaves everyone worse off.

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  Once an arms race has begun, strategic uncertainty means that it may be difficult to prevent escalation, even if it ends up making everyone worse off.

  The downside of robot solutionismprogrammablemutter.com

Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Concurrency is hard not because human brains cannot handle it but because nobody gets enough practice at it.

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  I think a large part of the problem of why it's hard for us is because you don't get a lot of practice. Usually when you have a race condition in a system, you find out months later and then you try a fix and you find out weeks later after that if the fix actually worked.

  Formal methods with Hillel Wayneyoutube.com

Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Home Assistant

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  home assistant + their HA Green (little box that's open source to connect all your devices with Home Assistant)

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Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.

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  The self-critical half of a maker's mind should be coached to be kind, because a gentler internal auditor produces bolder work.

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  A kinder assistant makes for a more daring detective.

  The Natural-Born Artist.georgesaunders.substack.com

Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.

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  A home assistant is only as good as its context, and context comes from sensors placed around the house rather than from a better model.

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  the way you get best context is by having sensors properly placed around the home that don't necessarily invade privacy, but allow you to pick up a lot of comings and goings and who's who in the room and your voice and these kinds of things.

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Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.

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  There is far less trade-off than people assume between a safer AI race and widely shared gains: a big lead can be held by a widely owned public company.

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  some people think either uh frontier AI gets commoditized and we all enjoy the benefits, but there might be some risk because like it's the market's really competitive and cutthroat, or um things are safer because there's a big gap between the leader and the laggard, but that means that the leaders get fantastically wealthy. No, like you could just have a relatively big gap, but it's a public company ownership and it's widely distributed.

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Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.

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  Leaders are trained fastest by an apprentice who shadows every meeting, which is an unscalable way of scaling an organisation.

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  it's this nonscalable way to scale your organization and it's through like passing your vampire blood. That's what inside Zinga they called it, Pinkis' vampire blood. What he did that I started to do is you pick someone from the organization who's promising. I usually pick the people who didn't fit in the smart misfits and they become your tech assistant which is not your chief of staff, not your executive assistant.

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Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  You do not have to believe in AGI to believe in the timelines on which the United States wins the semiconductor race.

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  But I don't know like I don't know what fast timelines means, right? Like I I like don't think you have to believe in AGI to have the timelines where the US wins.

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

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  Keach Hagey, The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

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Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft since 2014; joined the company in 1992 and ran its cloud business before that.

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  AI will do to software what the cloud did: expand the market massively rather than crush the margins of the incumbent.

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  So this AI thing will be that right. So if you take coding um what we built with GitHub and VS code in over whatever decades uh suddenly the coding assistant is that big in one year and so that I think is what's going to happen as well which is the market expands massively.

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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  Effective use of AI coding tools requires domain expertise: the tool should be used as an assistant, not as a replacement for the engineer.

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  This is intentional and I believe good AI drivers are experts in their domains and utilize AI as an assistant, not a replacement.

  Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Featuremitchellh.com

Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.

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  Dragon myths were not inspired by dinosaur fossils: if they had been, dragons from different cultures would look alike.

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  Why don't Chinese dragons look like Mexican dragons or equivalent thunderbirds or whatever? Well, because it probably wasn't influencing them. If they were all seeing the same skeleton, they'd probably all produce the same kind of mythical animals.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Tariffs are beside the point in the energy race with China; what is actually costing America is environmental regulation, and Texas is out-deploying California ten to one because of it.

  energyChinaAmerica

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  In terms of things that are causing us to lose to China, tariffs are neither here nor there because, as we've discussed, we're not sensitive to cost on power. But the environmental regulations that are actively preventing us from deploying renewable energy in the United States, like this is the reason Texas is winning. Texas is out deploying California 10 to1.

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Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

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  Coding with an AI assistant slides from copiloting into autopiloting, and the bugs that follow are hard to trace.

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  For me personally, I kept introducing bugs, and I couldn't figure out why. And what I realized is that I developed... I wasn't copiloting well, I was autopiloting much better.

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Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.

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  Britain must be an AI maker rather than an AI taker, and a government should not stay neutral about who shapes the technology.

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  This is the global race of our lives. Now, some countries are going to make AI breakthroughs and export them… Others will end up buying those breakthroughs and importing them. The question is – which of those will Britain be? AI maker or AI taker?

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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  Cloudflare Workers

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  Anyway that’s why I’m using Cloudflare Workers for my AI agent stuff. Race you to the finish line.

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Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.

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  The copper backplane inside a rack is the new advanced packaging, and scaling it is where the next generation of performance comes from.

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  The copper backplane in the data center rack is effectively the new advanced packaging in the system-level Moore’s Law race.

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Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  The DEI movement on campus comes out of a Marxist socialist way of looking at the world.

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  A friend of mine sent me Christopher Rufo's book, America's Cultural Revolution, which is sort of a sociological study of the origins of the DEI movement and critical race theory. I found it actually one of the more important books I've read and also I found it quite concerning. Ultimately, DEI comes out of a kind of Marxist socialist way to look at the world.

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