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17 September
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.
This is spot on. We need to stop listening to fantasies - these people have watched too many marvel movies. Quoting @JesseBWatters 🚨 NEW: @Jason Calacanis just DEBUNKED every A.I. DOOMER panicking about A.I. "BIOWEAPONS" 🚨 “You would have to create an incredible THRILLER.” “We were all trained on SCIENCE FICTION to get excited about it… When they see a crisis like this, they want to JUMP on it.” “NERDS, get BACK TO WORK.” 🤣 Related
16 September
Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.
15 September
Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
Absurdly optimistic, but not as absurd as the pessimism of AI doomers. At least lots of smart people will be TRYING to use AI to cure disease. Quoting @pmddomingos If AI will cure all diseases within a decade, slowing it down is mass murder. Related
6 September
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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The idea of racing forward at all costs seems absurd once one internalizes the seriousness of the stakes.
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2 September
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
31 January
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
Bluesky New video! Memorable for its delightfully absurd name, the Hairy Ball Theorem is extremely beautiful and has some surprising applications: youtu.be
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17 January
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
https://t.co/ENzer2fHqJ I will be saving £250 a month in future, as Abi helps keep my locally advanced prostate cancer under control. I can afford it, but absurd it's taken so long for NHS to pay for this very effective drug. Hats off to campaigners and @BBCHughPym for coverage Related
12 December 2025
Assyriologist and curator at the British Museum; reads cuneiform, and wrote The Ark Before Noah and The First Ghosts.
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but it means that Assyriologists have the inbuilt idea that what we have is something like all there ever was, which is absurd.
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31 October 2025
Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
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