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20 September
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
Today modern advertising, public relations and corporate values statements typically carry any equivalent constraints to the old-fashioned check on rhetoric imposed by the imminent expectation of contradiction by an opposing equally-platformed counter-advocate. Contrast 1858’s Lincoln and Douglas, “divid[ing] time and address[ing] the same audiences” in seven three-hour debates, with modern corporate values statement radiating outward to “stakeholders” forever, and you can measure what... 1/ Related
18 September
Former option trader and risk analyst, now a distinguished professor at NYU. Author of the Incerto essay series, including The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.
ERRATUM: a technical mistake in my statement on Doura Europos: the synagogue, temple, and church were NOT in the same room. The exhibition "Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos," ISAW, did that for curatorial purposes "to illustrate coexistence". (h/t Dr. R. Tomb) But it was correct that the synagogue had human representation. "the three communities were “living, working, and worshiping next to one another” in an apparently open environment." Quoting @MauriceMassaad @nntaleb A significant leak has been detected. No squid ink available for now, as there has been no fresh supply. Related
16 September
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
Amazon exec: "you wouldn't notice [if someone blew up a datacenter]. I mean, we might be a bit upset, but you wouldn't notice! [laughs]" Amazon official statement after DCs were blown up: "After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this Region." (yes, more than one DC was blown up, but, like other failures, of course DCs being blown up aren't uncorrelated events) data centers Related
15 September
Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.
Tuesday Talk*: AI, AI, AI, The Hoax The CEOs of the major Artificial Intelligence companies say it’s a potential existential threat to humanity. The president’s statement followed a weekend essay from Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, callin…
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14 September
Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
13 September
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
11 September
President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.
Today, we remember. We remember that 25 years ago, the world stood still. We remember the 3,000 people who left home that morning and never returned. Where the Twin Towers once stood, two columns of light now rise into the New York sky. They remind us that light triumphs even on the darkest of days. My statement on 25 years since 9/11. link.europa.eu
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10 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Fear Is Not an Argument We are told that AI entities much like ChatGPT might soon kill us all. The statement is vague and unfalsifiable. It might be true, it might be false. People with credentials (e.g., Turing Award recipient Yoshua Bengio)…
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9 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
It is important to distinguish between rational arguments and moral arguments. If one says 'A super intelligent will kill us all'. They are making a moral statement, not a rational one. It is the same type of statements as in 'if you don't put plastic walls in the grocery stores, the elderly will die'. Or 'if you drive a gasoline car, you are destroying the planet'. All of these statements have a rational basis. But the rational basis is secondary in practice. The person making the statement does not have to provide rational evidence, and providing contrary rational evidence will not affect t… Quoting @cmuratori I don't follow this explanation. Could someone at one of these labs complete the thought publicly, so I can understand exactly what is being proposed? What difference would it make if your company "gets there first"? What specifically are you going to instruct your first-mover human-extinction-capa… Related
8 September
Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
My joint statement with Prime Minister @AndyBurnham and President @EmmanuelMacron on the Two-State Solution: pm.gc.ca
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1 September
Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.
It has been an honour and a privilege to represent Holborn and St Pancras for the last 11 years. My statement. Related
3 August
Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.
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And at scale, the long tail is the problem space, is your entire problem statement. When you drive millions of miles per week, a rare event that might happen once in a million miles, that just becomes your daily reality.
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1 July
Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
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My response is that that's a statement by someone who doesn't understand software engineering. Coding is part of what you're doing, but it's only a small part of what you're doing.
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13 June
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
this statement is true, but it all comes down to: "What does quality mean, in this particular circumstance?" talking about "fast" and "slow" is toddler-level reasoning, and it irks me when the AI debate gets so wrapped around that axle. Quoting @awscloud @honeycombio Quality first, quantity second. Hear how @mipsytipsy built it on the AWS for Software Companies podcast. Related
19 May
President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
Horrible Congressman Thomas Massie put out an old Endorsement, from many years ago, of him by me long before I found out that he was the Worst Congressman in the History of our Country. I endorsed Ed Gallrein, a true American Patriot, which Massie knows full well, so the statement that he put out is fraudulent, just like HE is fraudulent. WITHDRAW YOUR FAKE STATEMENT, MASSIE, RIGHT NOW! President DONALD J. TRUMP America Related
10 May
Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.
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as leaders we get so focused on value statement mission statements we forget the mission statement is not the mission. The map is not the territory. Mission is an emergent property of the living superorganism of the thing we're birthing.
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13 March
Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.
Anthropic Google
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Because Enthropic saw it before Google. And then Google had Nano Banano and Gemini 3 which caused their user metrics to skyrocket and leadership at Google was like oh and then they started making the statement of we have to double compute every is it 6 months or I don't remember the exact number that they said.
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16 July 2025
Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One.
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So, you while we kind of saved the system a lot, we bailed a lot of people out, they made us pay 5 billion dollars on the more the bad mortgages that Bear Stearns had done. And that's what made me make the statement I wouldn't do it again.
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4 August 2024
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
27 June 2023
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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Now, finally, the Court has resolved the question: the First Amendment requires that, at a minimum, the government prove that a speaker was reckless about whether their statement would be interpreted as threatening.
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7 March 2023
Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.
1 June 2020
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.
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The strength of this book is the central role it places on problems. Its aim is to teach you about inequalities, which are the backbone of analysis. But it's all too easy to teach the statement of an inequality without conveying the intuition for when and how you'd use it. By focusing on well-chosen puzzles, this book does an admirable job circumventing that risk and leaving you with the feeling of having trained a skill, rather than having learned a list of facts.
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23 March 2018
Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.
Nota bene: Cover diversity When you take over a storied magazine, your first cover is important: it’s a public statement of who you are, what you stand for, what you hope to achieve.
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5 March 2018
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
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"Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration." - @rauchg Here's my talk from @assertjs two weeks ago dissecting that statement.
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1 April 2017
Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge, former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and author of The Art of Statistics.
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