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Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.

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  The tradeoff between government borrowing cost and interest-rate risk should rest with the politically accountable Treasury, not the independent Fed.

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  The tradeoff between cost of borrowing and how much interest rate risk taxpayers shoulder should be squarely on the shoulders of the politically-accountable Treasury not the independent Fed.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  True AI alignment is impossible because obedience and benevolence are fundamentally incompatible goals.

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  AI alignment will forever be balancing the tradeoff between paperclip-maximizing and disempowerment, because these two rival concepts of alignment are fundamentally incompatible.

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US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.

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  The tradeoff in cyber-capable models cannot be designed away: the model that can do something nefarious is the same model that hardens the system against it.

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  the challenge with a lot of these cyber capable models is the same model that is able to sort of do something nefarious is the same model that can be very valuable in hardening an existing system.

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Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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  A functionally organised engineering team seizes up at around a hundred people, because every feature then has to be negotiated against every other team's bandwidth.

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  every feature that we want to put out has to be queued up on mobile development bandwidth dispatch bandwidth and it become impossible to navigate tradeoff because every feature you want to do you have to go negotiate with so many team

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  LLM intelligence should not be understood through an animal analogy; it is a different kind of entity altogether

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  2025 is where I (and I think the rest of the industry also) first started to internalize the "shape" of LLM intelligence in a more intuitive sense. We're not "evolving/growing animals", we are "summoning ghosts".

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Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.

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  Our built-in emotions were tuned for a world that no longer exists, and hunger is one that now fails to guide us correctly.

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  I think for example our intuitive feeling of hunger is not succeeding in guiding us correctly in this world with an abundance of food.

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Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.

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  Langsmith

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  The overall workflow is intuitive, especially for those new to formal evaluation processes. The UI guides you through creating datasets, running experiments, and annotating results.

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Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  Intuitive physics can be learned from passive observation alone, so an embodied robot is not required to understand the physical world.

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  But it seems like you can understand it through passive observation, which is pretty surprising to me. And again, I think hints at something underlying about the nature of reality in my opinion, beyond just the cool videos that it generates.

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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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  A speed difference between languages that share the LLVM backend measures the benchmark author, not the languages.

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  It's just that Zig, C, C++, all those languages that were being tested, they're all LLVM backends, right? That's the one that actually turns the thing into the executable part. And if there's a variation in speed, it just means in one language you didn't quite express what you are supposed to correctly.

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American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  Barking Up the Wrong Tree

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  A fun romp through a lot of counter-intuitive studies and data on success , happiness , relationships , etc.

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Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Naked Statistics

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  The book’s stated goal is to convey an intuitive (as in: very little math) understanding of statistics, and I think it succeeds at that. It shows both the awesome power of statistics (for research, science, predictions) and the dangers of its misuse.

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Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto; co-creator, with Diederik Kingma, of the Adam optimizer for training neural networks.

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  An optimizer's hyper-parameters should mean something a practitioner can reason about, and should rarely need tuning.

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  The hyper-parameters have intuitive interpretations and typically require little tuning.

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Research scientist at Anthropic; co-creator of the Variational Autoencoder and, with Jimmy Ba, of the Adam optimizer, two of the most widely used tools in deep learning.

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  An optimizer's hyper-parameters should mean something a practitioner can reason about, and should rarely need tuning.

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  The hyper-parameters have intuitive interpretations and typically require little tuning.

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Software engineer who led Google's webspam team for over a decade and later served as administrator of the United States Digital Service.

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  Garmin Forerunner 610

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  If you're going to run no more than 5-6 hours (like a marathon), I'd recommend the Garmin Forerunner 610. It has an intuitive interface and touch screen.

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