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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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  Even well-informed AI insiders frequently develop something like "AI psychosis" from engaging with these ideas.

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  Though be very, very careful when speaking with others, whether it be the less informed public or the more informed insiders who often come down with AI psychosis.

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Neurologist at Oxford; studies apathy, motivation and attention after brain injury, and edits the journal Brain.

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  ADHD is a real condition and over-diagnosed at the same time; the two claims are not incompatible, because the line marking normality is a judgement call.

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  But I also think that this is not mutually incompatible with the view that there's also overdiagnosis. And I think we need very careful ways of making diagnosis because the conventional way is you take a history from a person about what the problem is.

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

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  The pace at which dangerous AI capabilities spread is set by the least cautious developer, not the most careful one.

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  The capability diffusion is determined by the lowest common denominator.

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Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.

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  AI learns from patterns, so where the patterns are scarce, as in liver surgery, a human working with the machine beats the machine working alone.

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  So this speaks of a very important fact that um AI learns from patterns. When the patterns are not abundant, then we have to be careful. We have to know how to use AI or how not to use AI.

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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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  Letting a coding agent live-edit the production server works fine in practice.

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  But now with Claude Code on my VPS in the last year, it just live edits on my production server, which sounds like it should go wrong but it just doesn't, it's very careful and only twice in 12 months messed up which meant my site didn't load for 10 seconds which is OK

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Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.

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  Raise the number all you like, but never raise the lifestyle with it — you can make a lot of money and still be broke.

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  But the thing I was careful not to do was to change the lifestyle because I I watched people around me change the lifestyle so you can make a lot of money and still be broke.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Because an LLM can argue almost any direction competently, the right way to use one for forming an opinion is to make it argue every side.

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  The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  AI will revolutionise mathematics by giving it an experimental side: large-scale data on which methods work, rather than the careful solving of individual problems.

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  So, I think AI-type tools we really will will actually revolutionize the ex- the experimental side of math where where um you don't care so much about uh individual problems and and the process of solving them, but you you want to gather just large-scale data about about what things work, what things don't.

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Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.

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  Careful step-by-step thinking is a property of the developer, not something a tool or framework can enforce

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  Notebooks don't force you to write clean code. AI tools don't force you to think carefully. Discipline comes from the developer, not the environment.

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  The Wide Wide Sea

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  The causes and meaning of those events have been debated ever since, and Sides delivers a careful, sympathetic and engaging account of the entirety of Cook's final expedition.

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Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.

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  Industrial policy that grows a poor country’s economy does not automatically reduce its poverty.

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  But, peering past the hype around Morowali reminds us that we should be careful before assuming that industrial policy must be pro-poor.

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