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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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  International coordination on AI development should become a top priority for governments around the world.

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  And I believe that international coordination on future AI development needs to become a top priority for governments around the world.

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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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  Western export bans have not reduced Russian demand for brand-name SUVs and trucks, driving a criminal network that smuggles stolen vehicles to Russia via the Middle East.

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  While Western export bans have severed Russia from much of the auto market, they have not tempered the demand for brand-name SUVs and trucks. That has given rise to a sophisticated network of criminals that steals cars, hides them in shipping containers and sends them to Russia, often by way of the Middle East

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

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  Blocking data center construction in America would not slow the rate of AI progress, only the rate of AI progress in America.

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  Preventing companies from building data centers in America wouldn't slow down the rate of progress in AI. It would merely slow down the rate of progress in AI in America.

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Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  Restoring vision to the blind is a good business, and a company doing it should aim to be profitable rather than permanently funded.

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  Yeah, well I mean becoming profitable or at least have like having the ability to do this forever is a super high priority. Restoring vision to the blind is pretty good business if you can actually do that.

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Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  Bus grids cannot function as a city's primary transit backbone at the scale of a very large, low-density city like Los Angeles, no matter how much priority the buses get.

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  But in fact, the scale of buses is rather short, and in a Los Angeles-size city they are hopeless, no matter how much priority they have.

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Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.

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  It is already too late to fully prevent climate change because the atmosphere has been irreversibly altered by carbon pollution.

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  At this point, we've missed the boat at completely preventing climate change. Our atmosphere has been fundamentally altered by carbon pollution.

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

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  Cooling someone after a head injury does not help; what matters is stopping them from getting hot.

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  So there have been lots of studies where they've done cooling hypothermia in people after traumatic brain injuries and concussions hasn't really shown much of an effect. What seems to be important is preventing hyperothermia.

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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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  Fossil fuel polluters and their allies aim not to win the climate debate but to prolong it indefinitely, preventing public consensus for action.

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  Polluters and their cronies are not trying to win the climate argument, merely to prolong it in perpetuity so there's never enough public consensus for action.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.

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  Curing, preventing or managing all disease by the end of the century is now too conservative a goal.

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  But still, I thought that by the end of the century was a stretch. Now, I think it's like uh too conservative.

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Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.

From one piece Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can't escape geography 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The maritime order goes unappreciated because its objectives are negative: you can never prove you prevented anything.

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  But the maritime world is about negative objectives. It's preventing things from bad things from happening. And um you can never prove that you prevented anything.

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  Sanctions are economic chemotherapy: shaving a point or two of growth a year is what compounds into the difference between two countries.

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  Sanctions are like economic chemotherapy. What you're doing is presenting preventing one or two percent growth per annum even with leaky sanctions, right?

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  Long-context efficiency has become a central priority in LLM development because agent harnesses require working with increasingly long contexts.

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  In 2026, long-context efficiency is king as more and more LLMs get plugged into agent harnesses (OpenClaw etc.), which requires working with longer and longer contexts.

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Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.

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  Preventing the underlying causes of public health fears works better than debunking them after they take hold.

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  The only solution is preventing the disease, not treating the symptoms.

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Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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  Longer context is an engineering and inference problem, not a research problem — nothing prevents it from working.

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  There's There's nothing preventing longer context from working. You just have to train at longer context and then learn to to serve them at inference. And both of those are engineering problems that we are working on and that I would assume others are working on as well.

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Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

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  Health should be a person's top life priority, above the things they currently rank ahead of it.

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  In fact, I want to be the strongest voice in your mind encouraging you to make health your top life priority.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Tariffs are beside the point in the energy race with China; what is actually costing America is environmental regulation, and Texas is out-deploying California ten to one because of it.

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  In terms of things that are causing us to lose to China, tariffs are neither here nor there because, as we've discussed, we're not sensitive to cost on power. But the environmental regulations that are actively preventing us from deploying renewable energy in the United States, like this is the reason Texas is winning. Texas is out deploying California 10 to1.

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Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.

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  US export controls produced China's chip breakthroughs rather than preventing them: while China could comfortably import American chips, its own industry stalled for twenty years.

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  And remember that DeepSeek happened in times of crisis, urgency, not in times of comfort. A lot of these technological breakthroughs and leapfrogging happens in times of crisis. This is called crisis innovation. And you got to thank the US for that. When the Chinese were comfortably importing chips from the US, the whole industry stalled for 20 years.

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Philosopher at Oxford; co-founded effective altruism and 80,000 Hours, wrote Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future, and now works on what a good future would actually contain.

From one piece Introducing Better Futures 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Whether anyone can actually do anything about how good the future is, rather than whether it matters, is the strongest objection to prioritising it.

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  I see this as the strongest argument against the better futures perspective, and the reason why I don’t feel confident that work on Flourishing is higher-priority than work on Surviving, rather than merely in the same ballpark.

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  The near-term goal should be a state of the world that can steer itself towards good outcomes, not any particular end state.

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  From my point of view, the key priority in the world today is to get us closer to viatopia, not to some particular narrow end-state.

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  Improving how good the future turns out to be, given that humanity survives, is roughly as high a priority as preventing extinction.

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  This essay series will argue that work on Flourishing is in the same ballpark of priority as work on Surviving.

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Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.

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  Fifty years on, monoclonal antibodies still cannot be manufactured cheaply enough to use them for obvious jobs like preventing malaria in children.

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  Yet the production methods still can’t make them below $10 per gram, so they’re still not cheap enough for some “obvious” applications like preventing kids getting malaria in a rainy season.

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Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

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  The precautionary principle now applies to children and phones: little is lost by restricting access and much is likely gained.

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  Little is lost by preventing a 14-year-old from accessing TikTok or Snapchat, or telling a 10-year-old they cannot have unrestricted access to the internet through their own smartphone, but so much will almost certainly be gained.

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Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology; an OpenAI board member until November 2023, and writes Rising Tide.

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  Delaying the open release of a new capability by months or years is worth doing, even though preventing its spread indefinitely is not.

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  The current status quo—where new models that push the frontier are kept private, and openly available equivalents are only released after a lag of months or years—is valuable.

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Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.

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  A modern phish is automated end to end: the stolen credentials are used and the data exported within moments of being entered.

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  This was obviously highly automated and designed to immediately export the list before the victim could take preventative measures.

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

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  As search turns into an AI interface, a company with no earned acquisition channel on its roadmap is in serious trouble within one to two years.

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  Focusing on these earned channels that you own becomes the utmost priority. And if you don't have them on your growth road map, you're going to be in some really big trouble over the next year to two years because your cost of acquisition is only going to go up.

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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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  Securing model weights against theft is a more urgent policy priority than safety research, because security is built out of atoms and takes calendar time that safety does not.

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  Increasing the incentive and technical ability of AI companies to have good security is a very high priority, and in my view even more urgent than safety (though that’s also very important).

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American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.

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  Tül pens

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  My favorite pens at the time were the Papermate InkJoy and the Tül pens I had stolen from lab before departing for my MFA in Iowa City.

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  Papermate InkJoy

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  My favorite pens at the time were the Papermate InkJoy and the Tül pens I had stolen from lab before departing for my MFA in Iowa City.

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Writes about the biotech industry, drug development and forecasting — “I write to learn, mostly about biotech.”

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  The hard part of drug discovery is knowing what to make - which target is worth drugging - not designing the molecule.

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  The most significant factor preventing us from taking better molecules into clinical trials is not our ability to design arbitrary molecules, but our (lack of) understanding of underlying disease biology. In other words, we often know how to make something, but not what to make.

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Journalist and author writing on politics, liberalism and ideas; a contributor to Quillette and co-author of a book on Christopher Hitchens.

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  Making humanity's long-term potential the overriding priority licenses imposing real costs on people who are alive today.

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  The problem with these grand ambitions—saving humanity from extinction and enabling our species to reach its full potential millions of years from now—is that they ostensibly justify any cost in the present.

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