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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  Building institutions that can incorporate diverse perspectives, adapt flexibly to change, and keep public legitimacy is the central challenge of state capacity today.

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  Creating institutional forms that can incorporate diversity and respond flexibly to a changing environment while maintaining legitimacy in the eyes of citizens is the fundamental project of state capacity that faces us.

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Getting rid of milk chocolate sooner is better, and people can gradually adapt to darker chocolate.

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  The faster you get rid of milk chocolate the better, you can slowly adapt yourself to darker and darker chocolate

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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

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  Professionals across many fields will adapt to working with AI, and that shift cannot be reversed.

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  Mathematicians, software developers, engineers, lawyers, physicians will all learn to work with AI. You cannot put the genie back in the bottle.

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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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  If we are serious about going to the stars we will have to adapt our bodies, because we are not going to export Earth everywhere we go.

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  the other extreme is if we're serious about exploring the universe and going to the stars, we are going to have to adapt ourselves to that environment. We're not going to export Earth with us everywhere we go.

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Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab.

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  The bottleneck in AI is no longer the progress of the models but their diffusion — if the models froze today, the economy would still take decades to absorb what already exists.

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  I think we're at this like in amazing moment in the world where the bottleneck is not the progress of the AI models, the bottleneck is diffusing that through the rest of the world and and helping the world adapt to this amazing technology that already exists. Like I think if the models didn't improve at all from today, there would still be like decades and decades of like total upheaval and change in the economy and how the world operates and and everything around us

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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  Empathy, body language and tone of voice are learnable skills, and expecting the world to adapt to how you are wired is not going to work.

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  There are people who say, "Well, it's up to the rest of the world to adapt to the ways that I'm weird." It's just not because I mean, it's not going to happen. So, learning empathy, learning how to read body language, learning how to read tone of voice, this is not natural skills, but they're skills. They're learnable.

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Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.

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  Prose written in an intensely musical, rhythmically dense style is inherently difficult for composers to adapt successfully into music.

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  Writers of such concentrated style can pose a danger for composers.

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Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.

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  Having worked at a highly selective, demanding employer signals conscientiousness and reliability.

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  Having worked there is a signal that you work hard, you complete your assignments, you adapt well to new tasks and requirements, and you're ready to take on new challenges.

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  The difficulty of raising more children increases gradually enough that parents adapt to it without noticing.

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  It rarely gets hard all at once. You slide into the new level of challenge without really noticing it.

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Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.

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  Web forms make people adapt to databases; AI flips this so people can provide information in any form they like, and no form is the best kind of web form design.

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  With Web forms, the burden is on people to adapt to databases. Today's AI models, however, can flip this requirement. That is, they allow people to provide information in whatever form they like and use AI do the work necessary to put that information into the right structure for a database.

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Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.

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  All five mass extinctions were ultimately climate change — the climate shifting faster than life could adapt to it.

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  There are five recognized mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth, and all of them are ultimately some form of climate change. Whether it's volcanic eruptions or hyper-oxygenation, or an ice age or whatever, it's climate changing too quickly for things to adapt to.

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

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  The memorize-fetch-apply paradigm behind LLMs can reach arbitrary skill given training data, but it cannot adapt to novelty or acquire new skills on the fly.

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  This "memorize, fetch, apply" paradigm can achieve arbitrary levels of skills at arbitrary tasks given appropriate training data, but it cannot adapt to novelty or pick up new skills on the fly (which is to say that there is no fluid intelligence at play here.)

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  OpenAI's new o3 model represents a significant leap forward in AI's ability to adapt to novel tasks. This is not merely incremental improvement, but a genuine breakthrough, marking a qualitative shift in AI capabilities compared to the prior limitations of LLMs.

Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.

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  Amazonian peoples look frozen in time because abundance removed the pressure that makes cultures change.

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  And one thing the Amazon is, once you figure out how not to die in it, it’s a paradise of food. Food’s fallen from the sky all the time there, and once you learn to adapt to that environment, you’ve got very little need. There’s no pressure to make anything else. Things are working.

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Neuroscientist at UC Davis; studies memory and wrote Why We Remember.

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  The thing to fear about a new technology is not the technology but the maladaptive ways people adapt to it — with AI, what people will do, not what AI will do.

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  I think a lot of the problems that come up with technology aren’t the technology itself, as much as the fact that people adapt to the technology in maladaptive ways. I mean, one of my fears about AI is not what AI will do, but what people will do.

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  AI should be released iteratively rather than built in secret, because AI and surprise do not go together and the world needs time to adapt before it is under the gun.

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  So part of the reason that we deploy the way we do, we call it iterative deployment, rather than go build in secret until we got all the way to GPT-5, we decided to talk about GPT-1, 2, 3, and 4. And part of the reason there is I think AI and surprise don’t go together. And also the world, people, institutions, whatever you want to call it, need time to adapt and think about these things.

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Biochemist at University College London; writes about the origin of life and the role of energy in evolution, in The Vital Question and Transformer.

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  Predation is what makes evolution creative: without it there would be no arms races, no great feats of evolution, and a far less beautiful world.

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  In some ways, maybe it does do good. I don’t want to make an argument for nuclear arms, but predation as a mechanism forces organisms to adapt, to change, to be better, to escape, or to kill. If you need to eat, then you’ve got to eat. A cheetah is not going to run at that speed unless it has to because the zebra is capable of escaping. So it leads to much greater feats of evolution would ever have been possible without it, and in the end, to a much more beautiful world.

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Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Profit First

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  Podcast. A simple system for managing money based around human flaws. Written for entrepreneurs, but you can adapt it for personal finance.

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