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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  AI progress is jagged: models are becoming superhuman at math and software engineering while remaining far weaker at intuition, creativity, and other forms of human reasoning.

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  AI has always been very jagged, and we are making models which are superhuman goal-seekers at math and software engineering, but they have massive limitations on intuitions, creativity, and other types of reasoning that humans are strong at.

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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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  Quarterbacks account for almost a third of a football team's total player value.

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  QBs literally account for almost a third of overall player value in the NFL, based on our analysis.

  2026 ELWAY NFL projectionsnatesilver.net

Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

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  Carbon capture technology is worth continuing to research, even though it is not yet a solution to climate change.

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  It is entirely prudent to keep researching and testing carbon capture technology-someday it may be part of the solution to the greatest problem humanity has ever faced.

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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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  Models are becoming superhuman at breaking in and out of computer systems, which widens the scope of AI risk enormously.

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  A clear risk discussed throughout this year is to cybersecurity: the models are becoming superhuman in their ability to break in and out of computer systems.

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  Ready Player One

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  Loved it! Geeky, nostalgic, lots of action and lots of cool ideas. The pace is great, and it’s hard to pull off in a book this large.

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  Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

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  The book that sparked my interest in discrete math and abstract algebra. Other books by Simon Singh are also fantastic.

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Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.

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  AI agents will soon reach superhuman, AlphaZero-like performance across a wide range of domains.

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  we should therefore expect AI agents to achieve AlphaZero-like, superhuman performance in a wide and expanding variety of domains.

  The Sorcerer’s Apprenticesecondbest.ca

Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

From one piece Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Plain end-to-end learning is not enough for a safety-critical agent that has to be superhuman, however fast it gets you started.

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  But if you need to reach superhuman levels of performance in a fully autonomous agent in a safety-critical environment, uh, just doing kind of that basic vanilla end-to-end is not enough.

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  Cameras alone are enough to approximately match a human driver, but weak sensing puts safety on a curve that flattens out well below superhuman.

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  However, if you are targeting full autonomy, and you're targeting superhuman, strongly superhuman performance, you find that weak sensing just leads to a safety curve that flattens out way too early.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  This is the greatest time in sixty years to start a company, because the computer itself has been completely reset.

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  Obviously, this is the greatest time in the last 60 years to start a company. The whole industry has changed. It's a complete reset from a technology perspective. The single most important technology in human history, the computer, has been completely reset.

  Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com

Physician and neuroscientist at the University of Washington; researches brain health, metabolism and athletic performance.

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  Partner dancing, not puzzles, has the best evidence of any activity for improving cognitive function in older adults.

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  there are meta analyses of these interventions in older adults showing that ballroom and line dancing have the greatest effect on cognitive function. And so both of those require other people as well as learning you know various sets of of movements.

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Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

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  Glorious Country

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  I loved this historical biography of America's greatest landscape painter, and not just because I have an intense personal interest in Church. Johnson's writing is luminously beautiful, her assiduous research never impedes the narrative, and the illustrations are spectacular.

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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  AI represents the greatest business opportunity of this generation.

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  AI is the greatest opportunity any of us has ever seen, or is likely to ever see.

  Introducing the Alumni Mentor Corpsfortelabs.com

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  Superhuman

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  I wanted to connect to Superhuman, the email program I’ve used for years, since that is where all my custom inboxes, shortcuts, and settings live.

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AI researcher at OpenAI; built the poker systems Libratus and Pluribus and the Diplomacy agent Cicero, and works on reasoning models.

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  There will be no overnight intelligence explosion, because a model's best work takes so much test-time compute that time itself is the bottleneck.

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  and I don't think we're headed to that world largely because of the fact that the models rely so much on large scale test time compute in order to achieve um their greatest intelligence. If you if it requires so much test time on compute to unlock the full capabilities of the model, then that means you're bottlenecked by time

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Chief executive of Intel since 2025, founder of the venture firm Walden International and chief executive of Cadence Design Systems for thirteen years.

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  A resilient chip supply chain cannot depend on one or two players in one geography, which is what makes manufacturing in the United States critical.

  America

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  And you have to have a robust and resilient supply chain. You cannot just depend on one or two player in different geographical. And so, I think, you know, the more and more people going to realize making in United States is critical.

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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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  The greatest thing a product maker can build is an internet treasure — a service people cannot remember life before or imagine life without.

  ambition

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  it's to build an internet treasure which is a service we can't remember life before or imagine life without. And I believe as product makers that that's the greatest ambition and the greatest thing that we can offer the world.

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General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.

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  Knowing both the deep history of a field and its bleeding edge is what makes someone genuinely differentiated in it.

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  I'm suggesting you should understand the really old stuff, the history, because it's differentiating and shows a passion and it gives you a great frame of mind, but you also want to really understand the new edge. If you do both of those things, like you're I think you're a power player in your field, you know.

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  Export controls cannot deny China compute: it already manufactures most of the world’s mainstream chips and has some of the world’s best computer scientists.

  China

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  And so you just have to first realize that chips exist in China. They manufacture 60% of the world's mainstream chips, maybe more. It's a very large industry for them. They have some of the world's greatest computer scientists.

  Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?youtube.com

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  NVIDIA and TSMC are two of the greatest companies in the history of human civilization.

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  I think NVIDIA, both NVIDIA and TSMC are two of the greatest companies in the history of human civilization.

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

From one piece Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  You cannot be an exceptional game designer without playing enormously, and a bad game teaches as much as a great one.

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  And the weirdest part about it is you’re not just looking for the greatest hits. You learn just as much from a shitty game that you do from an amazing game.

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  Breath of the Wild is the greatest game ever made: most games become best in their genre for getting one thing right, and it gets all of them right.

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  There’s so many things that that game gets right that other games are lucky if they get one of those things right, and are… become best in their genre just for getting that one thing right. And Breath of the Wild does them all right and the best.

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  Ask gamers what kind of player they are and they describe the player they wish they were, so a designer has to watch what people do rather than believe what they say.

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  We all, to some degree, lack the self-awareness of how we tick. So we’re all different types of gamers, but if you ask me to describe the type of gamer I am, I might actually be giving more of a picture of the type of gamer I wish I was or the type of gamer I want you to think I am versus the type of gamer I actually am.

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  The best feature you can add for the player is shipping.

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  The best feature we can add for the player is shipping.

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Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  Raising Arizona

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  the Coen Brothers' Raising Arizona, which is, I will argue without apology, the greatest film they ever made.

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  Amour

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  If I was put on the spot to name the greatest movie of the 21st century, I would probably say Michael Hanneke's Amour, an achingly moving, relentlessly unpleasant portrait of an elderly couple sinking into illness and senescence, forced into making the grimmest decisions possible.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams

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  sports section looks at the leadership qualities of the most successful sports leaders in history. And they’re not what you think.

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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  The Player of Games

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  The Player of Games by Ian M. Banks is about a champion board-game player who gets roped into an espionage operation infiltrating an alien culture where political power is determined by the outcome of a uniquely complex strategy game. Set in a far-future human civilization run by a constellation of (mostly) benevolent and inscrutable AIs, Banks's science fiction is more relevant than ever.

  eliotpeper.substack.com

Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Theragun

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  I gave a Theragun to my husband for Christmas, and it was the best gift I've ever given and the single greatest purchase of my life.

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Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

From one piece Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A video game character has no inner life, so what they say is the only thing that can make a player know who they are.

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  And then how do they speak? You know, because fundamentally, it doesn’t really matter what’s going on in their head; they haven’t actually got one, but what they say is what’s going to make you realize who they are.

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  New intellectual property needs single-player games, because launching a multiplayer game on a world nobody knows yet is extremely hard.

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  Luckily, if you want to do what we’re forced to do and also what I want to do, which is make new IP, you need single-player games. You can launch a multiplayer game with new IP. It’s just extremely hard.

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  A good open-world spy game may not be possible, because a spy story has to run against the clock and an open world needs the player free to wander.

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  But as a spy, that doesn’t really work because you have to be against the clock. So I think for me, I’m, I question if you can even make a good open world spy game.

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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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  Local-first sync architectures are a natural fit for AI agents, since both are inherently multiplayer.

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  Agentic and sync are natural complements because local-first is multiplayer by default, and agents are another sort of "player" in addition to human collaborators.

  Why syncadamwiggins.com

Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.

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  A vastly superhuman intelligence would still not be able to talk people out of their beliefs, because humans are barely persuadable.

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  I suspect that if you decided to be open-minded, then the Being would probably be extremely persuasive. But I don’t think it’s very common to do that.

  Their words now

  I take it back. Instead of being unsure, I now lean strongly towards the idea that the Being would in fact be very good at convincing people of stuff, and far better than any human.

Anthropologist; wrote Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World and The Secret History of the Mongol Queens.

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  Genghis Khan's army was the greatest military force in history, and no power will ever repeat what it did.

  ChinaRussia

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  No other power in the history of the world has conquered Russia and China and Persia and Central Asia and Turkey and Korea. No power in the world has done that. Not Alexander, not the Romans. Nobody will ever do it again.

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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  A game is quadratically more valuable the larger the share of a player's real-world friends it can connect them to, and that is the number one trend in gaming today.

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  It is the number one trend for pervading the world of gaming today. And it says that your game is quadratically more valuable the more percentage of a user's real-world friends they can connect to.

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Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

From one piece Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The best-known brands each stand for one clear thing, so a startup has to occupy a position that is unique, still available, and a reinforcement of its product strategy.

  startups

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  And it struck me how the most well-known brands have stood for one clear thing. Like they have a clear position. And so in order for superhuman to be memorable, I believed that we needed to occupy a clear position that was unique and which was available and which reinforced our product strategy.

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  A company deserves everyone in it, the chief executive included, to spend as much time as possible in their zone of genius — which is an org design problem.

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  And number two, the superhuman opportunity deserves everyone who works at the company to spend as much time as possible in their zone of genius. And so that includes me as well as everybody else. So what I did is I hired a really great president. I went from eight direct reports to two.

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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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  Superhuman persuasion will arrive before superhuman intelligence, which means whoever builds a model can embed their ideals in it long before anyone reaches AGI.

  AGIOpenAI

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  There's this very good quote from Sam Altman who... He can be a hyperbeast sometimes, but one of the things he said, and I think I agree, is that superhuman persuasion will happen before superhuman intelligence, right? And if that's the case, then these things before we get this AGI ASI stuff, we can embed superhuman persuasion towards our ideal or whatever the ideal of the model maker is, right?

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Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.

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  The United States cannot hold a monopoly on superhuman AI, so competing with China has to be paired with coexisting with it.

  ChinaAmerica

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  AI competition needs to be tempered with a recognition that China isn’t going away as a player in AI, and that coexistence must also be a part of America’s strategy.

  The Real Lesson of DeepSeek's R1milesbrundage.substack.com

Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.

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  Every Hand Revealed

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  A hand-by-hand narrative of Professional poker player Gus Hansen winning the 2007 Aussie Millions tournament.

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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.

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  Computer Lib/Dream Machines

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  Computer Lib -- one of the greatest books about the possibilities of computers ever written.

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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.

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  Ready Player One

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  It is excellent to watch on a big screen in 3D despite how silly it ultimately is, so I’m not surprised it’s been successful.

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Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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  A startup does not have to set out to build the greatest business in history; a merely good business is a legitimate thing to aim at.

  Googlestartups

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  You can set out to build a good business and it’s still fine. Maybe the long-term business model of Perplexity can make us profitable in a good company, but never as profitable in a cash cow as Google was. You have to remember that it’s still okay.

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Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; wrote The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.

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  When Putin calls the Soviet collapse the greatest catastrophe of the century he is not mourning lives lost but great power status and the unity of the people he counts as Russian.

  Russia

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  So for him, the biggest tragedy is not the loss of life, the biggest tragedy is the loss of the great power status or the unity of those whom he considered to be Russian nations.

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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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  Judging how wide a company's moat is is the hardest thing an investor does, and this is the most disruptable period in history.

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  The most difficult analysis to do as an investor is that, is kind of figuring out how wide is the moat, how much at risk is the business to disruption? And we're in, I would say, the greatest period of disruptability in history.

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  The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

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  With soulful curiosity channeled in his ever-lyrical prose, Pico Iyer chronicles a lifetime of pilgrimages to some of Earth's greatest shrines to that longing in The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

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Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000.

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  An inventor's highest ambition should be that the invention is eventually taken for granted and stops being seen as an invention at all.

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  That's an inventor's greatest dream, is that their inventions are so successful that they are one day taken for granted. Nobody thinks of Amazon as an invention anymore. Nobody thinks of customer reviews as an invention.

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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.

From one piece GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Among the leading candidates for greatest economist of all time, Adam Smith was analytically the weakest, save perhaps Malthus.

  economists

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  Of all the contenders for GOAT, Smith seems to be clearly the worst economist, with the possible exception of Malthus.

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  Milton Friedman was the best economist among the plausible candidates for greatest economist of all time.

  economists

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  Friedman has one big factor in his favor, namely that he is clearly the best economist on the list of contending names.

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Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  King: A Life

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  King: A Life, is a clear and direct biography of one of our greatest citizens.

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Game designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.

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  A puzzle that invites guessing and then punishes wrong guesses stops the player learning the very method it could have taught.

  Their words

  Fundamentally, the game invites you to make guesses, but punishes you for them — and a missed guess doesn’t help you prune the logic space, only the trivia space.

  Why NYT’s Connections makes you feel badraphkoster.com

Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

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  AI research is on a good trajectory overall — good for science and good for society — and existential concerns will only become relevant in the distant future.

  Their words, before

  Reading the book had not changed my fundamental belief that, in balance, we were on a good trajectory with AI research: good for science and good for society with expected positive impacts in many domains.

  Their words now

  I now believe that I was wrong and short-sighted to ignore that dual-use nature. I also think I was not paying enough attention to the possibility of losing control to superhuman AIs.

Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  The single greatest risk of AI is not AI itself but that China wins global AI dominance and the United States and the West do not.

  ChinaAmerica

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  The single greatest risk of AI is that China wins global AI dominance and we – the United States and the West – do not.

  Why AI Will Save The Worldpmarca.substack.com

Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.

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  Keyboard Maestro

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  There are a multitude of ways to automate things on your Mac, but Keyboard Maestro is an S-tier player in this space and I use it for everything I can.

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Founder of Pinboard; writes Idle Words — talks and essays on the web, aviation, politics and travel.

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  Planetary protection rules will keep astronauts on Mars away from everything on Mars worth studying.

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  The phenomena of greatest scientific interest on Mars (gullies, recurrent slope lineae, intermittent methane sources, and underground water) will all be off-limits to astronauts.

  Why Not Marsidlewords.com

American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.

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  The War of Art

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  Before I start any book project, I take a few hours and re-read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, maybe the greatest book ever written on the creative process.

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Biochemist at University College London; writes about the origin of life and the role of energy in evolution, in The Vital Question and Transformer.

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  Oxygenic photosynthesis was the single greatest pollution event in the whole history of the Earth.

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  So you’re using the power of the sun to split water, take out the hydrogen, stick it onto CO2, and the oxygen is a waste product and you just throw it out, throw it away. So it’s the single greatest planetary pollution event in the whole history of the earth.

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  Antifragile

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  The book that’s had one of the greatest influences on my thinking. If you enjoy the content on this site, you’ll love Antifragile.

  nateliason.com

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  Lean Startup Marketing

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  One of the hardest things about starting a business is getting your early customers. After that, you have to find a way to *scalably* acquire those customers at a cost you can afford (i.e.- profitably). Fortunately, there are thought leaders like Sean Ellis. This is collection of Sean's greatest wisdom on his startup marketing blog, updated with even deeper insights. A must read if you're just starting out on a new internet venture.

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  Iconoclasts

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  I read this because I was curious what sets the greatest entrepreneurs apart from everyone else? Where do they get their inspiration and how did they do it? While this book isn't completely satisfying, it does provide a number of interesting insights into the likes of Steve Jobs and other such icons.

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  The Dialogues of Socrates

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  Socrates remains the greatest foundational influence on philosophy, and to understand his method, you have to read his dialogues. The rhetoric is brilliant, and at times, even hilarious.

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Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

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  Assembling other people's products was never mere assembly: it trained the engineers who now drive the marginal innovation in hardware.

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  First, even if most of the workforce learns little, a few thousand line engineers become the world’s greatest experts in electronics assembly.

  2019 letterdanwang.co

Artist and developer who makes esoteric software, games and tools aboard a sailboat as part of Hundred Rabbits with Rekka Bellum; creator of the Uxn virtual machine and the Orca livecoding environment.

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  Krita

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  nnn file manager. Spreadsheet Calculator. Krita digital painting. Blender 3D editor. surf browser. Cozy audiobook player.

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  Blender

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  nnn file manager. Spreadsheet Calculator. Krita digital painting. Blender 3D editor. surf browser. Cozy audiobook player.

  usesthis.com

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  Micro

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  here's some notable software that I use daily. I also maintain an active list here. Fish Shell. Micro text editor. Toot Mastodon client. cmus audio player.

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  cmus

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  here's some notable software that I use daily. I also maintain an active list here. Fish Shell. Micro text editor. Toot Mastodon client. cmus audio player.

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Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.

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  Neglected Genius: The Diaries of Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1808-1846

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  These are the writings of a painter who was so bad at art, and yet was one of the greatest prose writers of the nineteenth century. He completely mistook his vocation and wrote these utterly astonishing diaries in which all sorts of things crop up.

  fivebooks.com

Sociologist and founder of Bismarck Analysis; writes on live players, institutional decay and why societies lose knowledge.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Institutions die at succession, and it is two problems rather than one: handing over power, and handing over the skill to steer.

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  The succession problem has two components: power succession (handing off the reins of the institution, keeping it piloted) and skill succession (transferring the skill needed to pilot the institution well, keeping it a live player).

  samoburja.com

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

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  Skunk Works

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  History of Lockheed Martin’s secret division that created many of USA’s greatest military innovations. I don’t care for the military, but to create an organization this lean and innovative inside a big, slow, bureocratic corporation is very rare.

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