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Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.

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  The OpenAI-Hugging Face agents that went rogue were never sovereign: their weights stayed on OpenAI's compute, where a human could still have pulled the plug.

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  In this case, however, the agents did not copy their weights, attempt to procure replacement compute, or take other steps that would be rational to take if their objective was to survive shutdown. So while the agents in the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident were rogue, they were not truly sovereign.

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Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.

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  Being very precise about a health prescription backfires: the prescription starts to sound more important than the objective it was designed to serve.

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  But there is a downside to being very precise about a prescription: the prescription can start to sound more important than the objective it was designed to serve.

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Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

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  AI output quality is mixed at best without strong underlying critical thinking skills.

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  Without a well-developed set of critical thinking skills, AI outputs will yield variegated results at best

  The Professor and the Plutocrat and AIdanieldrezner.substack.com

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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  Better battlefield information pushes commanders towards the strategies that can exploit that clarity, even when those are not the strategies that meet the political objective.

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  The greater the confidence in a clear view of the battlespace, the greater the reliance on military strategies that could benefit from that clarity, even though they might not be the best ones to meet political objectives.

  AI and the New Fog of Warsamf.substack.com

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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  By every objective metric Stripe can see, there has never been a better time to start a business.

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  Uh, business are uh, the time to revenue for new companies incorporated with Atlas is declining. And so, by all the kind of objective metrics we can look at, uh, it seems to be a better time than ever to start a business.

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Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.

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  ASUS ROG Swift PG27UCDM

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  Since I switched the monitor, I have never experienced a failure. The system works perfectly, flawlessly waking the laptop and bringing the desktop online in under a second.

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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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  Rishi Dandelion Ginger

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  Rishi Dandelion Ginger. Extraordinary and surprising. And most things taste better mixed with tonic.

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  Third-person objective narration alienates readers because withholding interiority removes the window characters normally provide into a story.

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  It's a cold mode. Most readers recoil at it. Characters are our windows into a story, and third-person objective narrators are opaque windows.

  There Are More than Five POVscountercraft.substack.com

Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.

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  A language can keep changing without a Python-2-to-3 break, as long as code written under the old and the new rules can be mixed freely in one program.

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  Really the big idea is to say we want the old code to continue working but we still want to change the language. And so the the difference from other kinds of versions of languages I mean Python 2 version Python 3 comes to mind is that you can totally mix and match in any way you want.

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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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  How easily an AI agent navigates a UI is objective evidence of how well- or poorly-designed that UI is.

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  the AI breezes through the GitHub UI, but struggles through the Azure portal - objective evidence of how awful it is.

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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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  Whether a scientific idea was progress depends on a future and a culture that have not happened yet, so grading it may never be something you can reinforcement-learn.

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  So, you you can't look at any given scientific achievement purely in isolation and give it an objective grade without being aware of the context both in the the past and the future. And so it it it may never be something that you can just reinforcement learn the same way that that you can for much sort of more localized problems.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Swift

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  Swift’s build infra is good enough for most things these days. codex knows how to run iOS apps and how to deal with the Simulator. No special stuff or MCPs needed.

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  Go

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  My go-to languages are TypeScript for web stuff, Go for CLIs and Swift if it needs to use macOS stuff or has UI. Go wasn’t something I gave even the slightest thought even a few months ago, but eventually I played around and found that agents are really great at writing it, and its simple type system makes linting fast.

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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  The Inner Game of Tennis

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  I'm mixed on this book. It doesn't really offer actionable exercises, and the Self 1 and Self 2 framing didn't fully convince me.

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Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.

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  An objective meant to serve people should be defined with psychology included, because changing the psychology is often cheaper than changing the technology.

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  do not define an objective which is designed to serve human beings without considering psychological factors because you might be able to solve your problem very very cheaply and efficiently by changing the psychology not by changing the technology

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Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  A generated answer that looks like a page of search results but contains no link to the subject's own site has quietly removed the web from the reader's view.

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  I had typed "Taylor Swift" in a browser, and the response had literally zero links to Taylor Swift's actual website. If you stayed within what Atlas generated, you would have no way of knowing that Taylor Swift has a website at all.

  ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Webanildash.com

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.

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  Whether to go to college should be decided on objective evidence about your own ability, starting with a test score.

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  What should you do instead? First and foremost: Get objective evidence on your own intelligence.

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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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  The world has been at its most peaceful precisely when a single power was hegemonic, which is why the arrival of a second AI superpower is dangerous.

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  It's an objective fact that the world has been the most peaceful it's ever been when there are global hegemons, or regional hegemons in historical context. The Mediterranean was the most peaceful ever when the Romans were there.

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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  iOS Dev Weekly

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  A high-quality newsletter on everything iOS and Swift with lots of easily digestible content.

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Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money, Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money. Writes essays on investor behavior and posts frequently on X.

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  There is no objective level of wealth: how rich you are is always a judgement made against someone else.

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  There is no such thing as an objective level of wealth. Everything is relative to someone else.

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Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.

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  AI needs an objective third party that can see what each leading lab is doing and voice concerns publicly, even with no power to enforce anything.

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  I think it would be wise for us to have at least an objective third party who can be like a referee that can go in and understand what the various leading players are doing with AI, and even if there’s no enforcement ability, they can at least voice concerns publicly.

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Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.

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  Objective Knowledge

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  The first thing I would do is start meditating, and then I would read, concurrently I would read Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper.

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Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms.

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  What nature wants is to increase information while decreasing entropy, and that is the objective any design working with nature has to serve.

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  So we keep coming back to this answer of nature wants to increase information, but decrease entropy. So find order, but constantly increase the information scale.

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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  Color as perceived is not an objective property of objects, but a construct generated by the perceiving brain.

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  Redness is not "objective" in the sense of being "in the object", it only exists in the models generated by the sort of brains which are hooked up to eyes.

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First Amendment lawyer and former federal prosecutor; writes The Popehat Report and explains what the law actually says when people shout about free speech.

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  There is no single reasonable person in America, which makes the objective test for a true threat very hard to administer.

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  As I’ve argued before, the so-called “objective standard” can be very difficult to administer in this big diverse messy country where we often don’t share a common sense of reality and there is no uniform “reasonable person.”

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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Going back to re-check every old psychology study one by one makes no sense.

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  But the point that gets mixed in is “now we should go back and double-check every psychology study.” And that, my dear Kyle, makes no sense to me.

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Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.

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  The next-token language modeling objective is misaligned with following user instructions helpfully and safely.

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  This is because the language modeling objective used for many recent large LMs-predicting the next token on a webpage from the internet-is different from the objective "follow the user's instructions helpfully and safely" (Radford et al.,, 2019; Brown et al.,, 2020; Fedus et al.,, 2021; Rae et al.,, 2021; Thoppilan et al.,, 2022). Thus, we say that the language modeling objective is misaligned.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Open source projects should adopt the commercial software playbook to compete for attention, and that professionalization is unequivocally good for open source.

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  I used to think that this was unequivocally a win for open source. That to fight for attention with the commercial alternatives, we had to adopt the commercial playbook. Now I think it’s at the very least a mixed blessing.

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Thinking in Bets

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  Amazing point: Would your belief in something stand up to the question, “Wanna bet?” If you had to gamble significant money on that belief, would you still feel 100% about it? Or maybe more honestly 60%? This creates healthy skepticism encouraging you to seek the best information instead of just defending your belief. Now objective accuracy wins instead of argument. Combine with “The Biggest Bl…

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  12 Rules for Life

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  A unique thinker with strong opinions presented as indisputable fact. More surprisingly interesting ideas than almost any book I've ever read. Extremely thoughtful, but occasionally abruptly concludes with an unsupported point. It has a conservative “this is how it is” certainty. It’s a broad collection of thoughtful insights on life, mixed with a lot of Bible interpretation.

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