Related posts

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.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Voluntary slowdowns should become commonplace until shared safety bars are established.

  Their words

  I expect and hope for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established.

  An Alien Mindopenai.com

Gear reviewer who publishes long-form hi-fi audio and camera equipment reviews, plus video reviews, at stevehuffphoto.com.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A revised version of an established product is usually just different from the original, not actually better.

  Their words

  Many companies take a perfectly great speaker and every year or two release a "V2" with claims of big improvements. Usually it's just differences rather than being better.

  My Fave Speakers Ever and Why. Fleetwood Helios.stevehuffphoto.com

Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A decade of arguing that software is too slow has started to work: new products are now attacking established categories on a performance pitch alone, and getting traction.

  Their words

  I also see people attacking major product categories now with performance-based pitches. Things like File Pilot or the Blick video editor, like things like this that have been coming out lately where it's like, oh, really performant software to try to take on uh incumbents in a space and they've been getting traction.

  youtube.com

Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Progress toward AI autonomously solving major open scientific problems requires first mastering the organization and presentation of established knowledge in long-form writing.

  Their words

  Models being stagnant in long-form, non-fiction writing should be alarming to those reliant on models autonomously solving grand, open science problems in the near future.

  interconnects.ai

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

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Startups are the main thing that keeps an economy from going stagnant, because established companies reliably drift towards being bad.

  startups

  Their words

  I think startups are really like the main thing that keeps the economy from becoming stagnant. Um I think companies do just like drift towards suckiness and startups will continue to be important forever.

  youtube.com

Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A habit has to be established before it can be improved, so standardizing a behavior comes before optimizing it.

  Their words

  this is a very deep truth about habits, which is a habit must be established before it can be improved. You know, it has to become the standard in your life before you can scale it up and optimize and turning it into something more. You need to standardize before you optimize.

  The Silent Cost of Bad Habits | James Clearyoutube.com

Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Every country that has succeeded at manufacturing set the conditions first and then moved slowly.

  Their words

  Every country that has gone on a brilliant run of manufacturing first established the right conditions and then proceeded slowly.

  molsonhart.com

Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Debanking became a public issue because it happened to well-connected wealthy people, who are not the typical victims.

  Their words

  We’re hearing about debanking because it sometimes affects socially established wealthy entrepreneurs and their companies.

  Debanking (and Debunking?)bitsaboutmoney.com

Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A cosmic impact can be established from its proxies alone without a crater — that is exactly how the dinosaur extinction was first argued.

  Their words

  Luis and Walter Alvarez, who made that incredible discovery, initially their discovery was based entirely on impact proxies, just as the Younger Dryas is. There was no crater. And for a long time they were disbelieved because they couldn’t produce a crater.

  youtube.com

Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.

From one piece Fighting for our web 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  What has gone wrong online belongs to the industry that grew up around the web, not to the web itself, which is still a substrate anyone can build on.

  Their words

  The web is still just a substrate on which anything can be built. Most importantly, the web is the people who use it, not the companies that have established themselves around it.

  Fighting for our webcitationneeded.news

• Our readingkorrents.com

  One person building something honest and small can shift how a whole industry is seen, without a platform or a job at a big publication.

  Their words

  And it doesn’t always take a job at The New York Times or a huge pre-established platform to become one of the voices speaking up, helping to turn that tide.

  Fighting for our webcitationneeded.news

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

• Our readingkorrents.com

  As soon as founder mode is an established idea people will misuse it: founders excusing an inability to delegate, and managers deciding to act like founders.

  startups

  Their words

  I also have another less optimistic prediction: as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people will start misusing it. Founders who are unable to delegate even things they should will use founder mode as the excuse. Or managers who aren't founders will decide they should try to act like founders.

  Founder Modepaulgraham.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.

• Lovedrcmnd.app

  Man-Computer Symbiosis

  Their words

  Man-Computer Symbiosis -- established the vision of computing that inspired Engelbart, Kay, etc., to pursue what they did.

  patrickcollison.com

Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

• Recommendsrcmnd.app

  The Vulnerables

  Their words

  Sigrid Nunez's novel The Vulnerables: Nunez's most famous novel, The Friend, was what you get when you take autofiction from a well-established NYC writer and add a big, friendly dog.

  kylechayka.substack.com