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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  A unit of AI inference needs to be defined, for example via a chain of increasingly hard problems where each consecutive pair is solvable by one model.

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  Someone needs to define the unit, perhaps using a chain of increasingly hard problems, each pair of which can be solved by a single model.

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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  Serverless computing was the last chapter of the cloud.

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  Serverless was the last chapter of the cloud, and Steren helped define the paradigm at Google.

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

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  Vibe coding is not programming, and the line between them is whether you look at the implementation at all.

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  And vibe coding, if we define it here, is you tell an agent to build software for you. You do not look at the implementation. That, to me, is what separates vibe coding from programming or, let's say, agent-accelerated development.

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

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  If you cannot quantitatively define what good enough means, you are not building a product — you are iterating on a demo.

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  If you can't quantitatively define what good enough means, you're not really building a product, you're just iterating on your demo.

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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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  Demographic Headwinds: The Economic Consequences of Lower Birth Rates and Longer Lives

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  A short volume, to the point, worry is in order.

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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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  Ambition should be measured in the eyes of your customer rather than your peers, which means being willing to take the best ideas wherever you find them.

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  if you're truly ambitious, burn your resume. If you and if you define your ambition in the eyes of your consumer, not your peers, you're not trying to win awards and respect from your peers.

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Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

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  Lasting satisfaction comes from studying how others play, then defining and fully playing one's own game rather than someone else's.

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  The only lasting path to satisfaction, happiness, skin in the game, maximizing learning, is to really study everybody's game, define your own, and then play it to the best of your ability.

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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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  Every person has a purpose in life, and each person gets to define what that purpose is.

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  The pretty truth is that you have a purpose on this planet. The gorgeous truth is that you get to define that purpose.

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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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Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.

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  A language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted.

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  What the Apple paper shows, most fundamentally, regardless of how you define AGI, is that LLMs are no substitute for good well-specified conventional algorithms.

  A knockout blow for LLMs?garymarcus.substack.com

Engineering leader and writer; wrote The Manager's Path and Platform Engineering, and blogs at Elided Branches.

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  Defining what expertise looks like in a job family is not HR’s work, and a career ladder left to them will be wrong.

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  Don’t let (or make!) HR do all of the work. It’s really not their job to define expertise in your functions.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

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  Roberts reflects on the wild problems we face in our lives and how to navigate them—like career changes, marriage, or children—that can't be solved on a spreadsheet.

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Historian at Stanford and the Hoover Institution; wrote Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative and Goddess of the Market, on Ayn Rand.

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  The return of inflation is what made Donald Trump's second presidency possible, and therefore what makes everything that presidency changes possible.

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  And so my argument is, that has now opened the door to the presidency of Donald Trump, which is potentially a deeply transformative moment that will change the size and shape of government, that may change our foreign policy profoundly, that may change our immigration policy, that may change the demographics of our country, all of that, and my thesis is that that's all been made possible by inflation.

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Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.

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  Industry benchmarks are a dangerous target because every company defines the underlying metric differently.

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  So, taking also any benchmark that is derived from competition and saying this is where we should be is also so dangerous because it might not even be applicable depending on how you define the metric.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Japan's decades of stagnation were caused by its shrinking working-age population rather than by its monetary policy.

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  The key difference wasn't policy - it was demographics. Japan's working-age population is shrinking.

  Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?ggd.world

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

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  Defining Ukraine's war record by the 20,000 men of the Division Galizien makes the 2 to 3 million Ukrainians who fought in the Red Army irrelevant, which is what propaganda is for.

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  So, there is a period of collaboration, and that’s what propaganda tries to define him by, or there is a Division Galizien by 20,000 people, and somehow it makes irrelevant the experience of 2-3 million people.

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Theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, working on particle physics, extra dimensions and dark matter.

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  We are probably in the middle of an extinction event right now, if you measure one by the number of species being killed off.

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  I do think that we might be in the middle of an extinction right now if you define it by the number of species that are getting killed off. It’s subtle, but it’s a complex system.

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Development economist; argues that letting people move to rich countries does more for the poor than aid, and wrote Let Their People Come.

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  Demography is about to turn the rich world’s problem from finding a job for every person into finding a person for every job.

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  But once the demographics reverse, the challenge will be to find a person for every job. In the coming years, the impact of demographic changes is going to lead to chronic labor shortages.

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Progress toward more intelligent artificial systems requires defining and evaluating intelligence so systems can be compared with each other and with humans.

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  To make deliberate progress towards more intelligent and more human-like artificial systems, we need to be following an appropriate feedback signal: we need to be able to define and evaluate intelligence in a way that enables comparisons between two systems, as well as comparisons with humans.

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