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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  The New Right will view nonwhite immigrants and their children as enemies and invaders no matter what they do.

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  What it tells us is that if you’re a nonwhite immigrant, or the child of nonwhite immigrants, it doesn’t matter what you do — the New Right will still view you as an enemy and as an invader.

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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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  Safety guardrails make a coding model more dangerous rather than less, because one refusal turns it into something that refuses anything.

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  The safety guardrails in a way make it more dangerous not less I think because after rejecting you it becomes kind of a pedantic child that will just reject whatever If in that moment your server will go down and it feels it's related it could just reject fixing it

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Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.

From one piece How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandt 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Children develop by struggling and failing on the road to success while a caring adult supports them, and school should be running that loop all day instead of leaving it to after-school sports.

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  The key to developing a child is that they struggle and fail on their road to success supported by a caring adult. And you just want to run that loop.

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  Family income, not IQ, is the single biggest predictor of a child's academic performance in America.

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  The single biggest indicator of your performance is your family income. You can predict somebody's test scores basically.

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  AI is education's microscope: the first instrument that gives learning science a closed measurement loop at the level of one child.

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  AI because it's on a onetoone basis is giving us a data loop that nobody in learning science no one in education has ever had and we have it. It's a closed loop and that magical data loop is what's allowing us to get the five to 10 times improvements in education because it's our microscope.

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  The strongest thing that convinces a child they can do something is not an adult telling them, it is watching a classmate do it.

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  the number one motivator to get rid of a block. It's actually not the guy as the the biggest one. The number one thing that convinces kids they can do something is watching their classmate do it.

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  A worked example whose scaffolding is progressively removed teaches faster than making a child figure the problem out unaided.

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  The better way to learn, the faster way to learn is to give you them a worked example where you show them and then you progressively remove the parts of the example where they're having to progressively go up and then by the end they can solve the problem with no scaffolding.

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  eve

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  But how many that give you a Git repo where you actually *own* the entire intelligence stack? Runtime, model choice, skills, tools, connectivity, sandbox…

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

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  Assembly is far simpler to learn than the modern web stack: anyone who can vertically centre a div can learn to read it.

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  it's really much easier if you can understand how to center a div as they say if you can vertically center a div in HTML then you can probably learn assembly language I would say

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Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.

From one piece Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  American family size has barely changed across three generations of parents; what has grown is the share who stop at one child.

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  Among the Silent Generation (born 1925–1945), only 15% of parents had a single child. It was 22% of Boomers and 27% of Generation X.

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  The widest religious gap in American family size is about half a child.

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  Comparing evangelicals to atheists and agnostics – the widest religious contrast the data offers – and controlling for age, race, education, and sex, the gap is about 0.6 children.

  Do Religious Families Actually Have More Kids?graphsaboutreligion.com

Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".

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  AI alignment should be approached like governing a corporation through institutions, not like raising a virtuous individual.

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  If you do think it's the overall system that matters, then the alignment that's needed is far less like training a virtuous child and more like managing a semi-virtuous corporation!

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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

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  The global fall in births over the past two centuries is mostly explained by falling child mortality, and that part of the question is settled.

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  The main cause of falling fertility globally over the last 200 years has been declining child mortality.

  We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Declinelymanstone.substack.com

Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.

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  Performance work used to mean half a day reading traces before writing a single fix, and language models have collapsed that step to minutes.

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  I remember anytime I would work with a big site on their performance problems, uh you could easily spend half a day, um you know, just looking at traces before you've even written any fixes at all. And now that we have LLMs, it's very quick to like reason through massive stack traces and actually be able to get down to fixes you can make.

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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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  A child who has seen ten cats learns what a machine needs the whole internet of cat photos for, by a learning pathway nobody has solved.

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  that child who learns about what you say kitty cat would not have the chance to download the internet of images of cat. They likely have seen three cats, 10 cats at most, but yet they're able to identify that tail as a cattail instead of a fox tail through a different kind of learning pathway.

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  Future AI, say in fifteen years, will not be built on the LLM stack; it will have to move to symbolic learning.

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  However, looking ahead, I still do not believe that future AI (say, in 15 years) will be based on the LLM stack. I believe it will necessarily have to move closer to its optimal, final form -- symbolic learning. Obviously this is a risky and contrarian belief -- the safe bet would be LRMs. But let's see.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

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  Mind candy fantasy: in which an early-21st-century American young woman, whose English-lit thesis and love life are going equally poorly, does a good deed; gets rewarded with three wishes, without realizing it; and, in consequence, wanders off, first into Faery and then into a Fantasyland which is convincingly poor, sexist and dirty, but also magical.

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Adults need their expectations to match reality to feel comfortable, unlike children.

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  Adult people are comfortable when their expectations match reality, which is not how the child world works.

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Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.

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  What made Netflix fast — local teams building whatever stack they needed — stops working once agents operate across systems; common paved paths now matter more.

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  In a world of AI with agents operating across multiple systems, wanting source of truth data, the importance of having preferred paved paths that get the most of the benefits and produce some guardrails so we can make sure we're doing good work, common infrastructure, common paved paths, solving problems once with a core set of capabilities becomes more important.

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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  Loving, competent parents leave infants in hot cars because routine takes over from intention; the mechanism is habit, not negligence.

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  When you look at these investigations, the reason this happens is, you know, these are very responsible, very intelligent parents who will, you know, put their child in the car and then get in the car and then you just get in this mode of I'm going to work. I'm going to do my job and you're in this routine.

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Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.

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  As AI makes coding easy for everyone, the ability to code stops being a meaningful edge for entrepreneurs.

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  Indie entrepreneurs need to stack every advantage they have, and increasingly "coding" won't be the advantage it once was.

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Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

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  Parental stress and sleep deprivation make harsh reactions to normal child behavior more likely.

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  When a parent is stressed, low on sleep, or otherwise depleted, they may be even more prone to reacting harshly to normal kid behavior and boundary-pushing.

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Chief executive of Intel since 2025, founder of the venture firm Walden International and chief executive of Cadence Design Systems for thirteen years.

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  Selling silicon is no longer enough — customers now ask for the whole rack, so a chip company has to become a full-stack company.

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  And eventually, you have to really move into a full stack. So, not just a silicon, you need to have a software, and some of the customer asked me, "Give me the whole rack." So, there's a system that you have to build.

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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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  Trustworthiness is the most underrated asset in business, and prioritizing by ROI always ranks it last.

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  Trustworthiness is the most underrated asset in all of business. And the things that create trustworthiness by definition stack rank to the bottom if we do it by ROI because doing the right thing has intangible rewards but tangible costs.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

From one piece Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Nvidia should build only what would not otherwise exist — twenty years of CUDA at a loss is the test, and the world already has plenty of clouds.

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  the work that we do with building our our computing platform. If we don't if we don't do it, I genuinely believe it doesn't get done. If we didn't take the risk that we take, if we didn't build MVLink the way we built, if we didn't build the whole stack, if we didn't create the ecosystem the way we did it, if we didn't dedicate ourselves to 20 years of CUDA while losing money most of that time, if we didn't do it, nobody else would have done it.

  Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?youtube.com

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  Nvidia's engineers can routinely get another 2x out of an AI lab's stack, and doubling the tokens a fleet produces doubles that lab's revenue.

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  And so our expertise um helps our our our um uh our AI labs partners get another 2x out of their stack easily. Often times it's not unusual that we you know by the time that we're done optimizing their stack or optimizing a particular kernel their model sped up by 3x 2x 50%.

  Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?youtube.com

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  No platform in the world has a better performance-per-total-cost-of-ownership ratio than Nvidia's, and nobody will run the public benchmark to show otherwise.

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  Nvidia's computing stack is the best performance per TCO in the world, bar none. Nobody can demonstrate to me that any single platform in the world today has better performance TCO ratio. Not one company.

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Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  The world can make roughly 200 gigawatts of AI chips a year by 2030, which makes a gigawatt a week a plausible quarter of the market rather than a fantasy.

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  Um, and then you stack on 70 this year, 80 next year, growing to 100 by 2030. You're at like 700 EV tools by the end of the decade. Um, 700 EV tools, three and a half tools per gigawatt. um assuming it's all allocated to AI which it's not but three and a half tools per gigawatt gets you to 200 gigawatts worth of AI chips for the data centers to deploy

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  When a skill becomes widely attainable, people feel pressure to seek a rarer, higher-leverage skill to prove their value.

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  When rare skills become more attainable, people feel pressure to move "up the stack" to prove their value.

  Will Claude Code ruin our team?justinjackson.ca

Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.

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  Bloated, slow software is caused by a lack of engineering care, not by the choice of technology stack.

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  The real problem is a lack of care. And the slop; you can build it with any stack.

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

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  AI researchers are overly focused on risks from model misalignment relative to risks arising from other layers of the AI stack.

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  Many AI researchers are overly focused on risks from model misalignment, and will be in for a rough surprise when havoc arises from other layers of the stack.

  🌻 AI vs. the pentagonjasmi.news

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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  Blueprint Longevity Mix

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  These are in the Blueprint stack including Essential Capsules and Longevity Mix

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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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  Next.js

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  I now use different languages for different tasks. For web development, I prefer the Next.js stack.

  hamel.dev

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  Local-first software will not become the dominant architecture, and that is an acceptable outcome.

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  Local-first is not going to win, but that's okay We'll explore the complexities of traditional stack (db-server-frontend), develop a theory of software evolution: which systems succeed and why.

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  Knowing that poverty and child mortality have actually fallen is what makes people think the future can improve.

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  Only 17% of those who got no correct answers on historical development changes thought the world would be better off. 62% of those with more than five correct answers did.

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American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.

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  An age limit on social media does not need perfect enforcement to work, because its job is to change the default rather than to stop every child.

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  The goal is not perfect enforcement. Some kids will still find workarounds. The goal is to shift the environment so children are not pressured into digital spaces they don’t want, simply to avoid being left out.

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  Child of God

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  Cormac McCarthy's Child of God is the perfect starter book to see if you enjoy McCarthy's maximalist prose and macabre images before tackling the longer Blood Meridian.

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Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?

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  Most people are not genuinely interested in videos of someone else's young child.

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  Toddler parenthood is a reality distortion zone that makes it hard to remember that most people find your toddler breathtakingly uninteresting.

  Tales from Toddlerhoodwaitbutwhy.com

From one piece Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Cost 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Something is broken in how people pair up in the West, and that shortage of couples and marriages, not money, is why there are too few children.

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  The empirical evidence strongly refutes the idea that rising opportunity costs of childbearing are driving low fertility. Declining marriage due to exogenous technology and economics shocks is tanking fertility irrespective of child direct or opportunity costs.

  Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com

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  Earning more does not make a woman less likely to have children, except at the very bottom of the income distribution.

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  the shift from 50th to 99th percentile earnings has no negative effect on women’s fertility, and unearned income for women has a neutral-to-positive effect

  Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com

Reinforcement-learning researcher; co-wrote the field's standard textbook, wrote The Bitter Lesson, and shared the 2024 Turing Award.

From one piece Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Learning is not training: a child learns by actively trying things and seeing what happens, not by being shown what to do.

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  So I don't think uh learning is really about training. I think learning is about about learning. It's about an active process. The child tries things and sees what happens.

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  Copying a trained digital mind into the next one matters far more than learning from people, because no child can inherit another child's learning.

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  You can't have one child learn grow up and and learn about the world and then and then every new child has to repeat that process. Whereas with AIS, with a digital intelligence, you could hope to do it once and then copy it into the next one as a starting place.

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Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  In thousands of years of trying, nobody has found a reliable, repeatable way of moving a child from one educational percentile into another.

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  But in thousands of years of education humanity has discovered no replicable and reliable means of taking kids from one educational percentile and raising them up into another.

  Education Doesn't Work 3.0freddiedeboer.substack.com

Co-founder of the AI agent company Sierra, and previously an eighteen-year Google executive who ran product for Workspace, virtual and augmented reality, and Google Labs.

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  An application-layer AI company's real breakthroughs come from going a click or two down the stack rather than from using the models as they are.

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  many of the breakthroughs that we've had that have enabled us to to deliver such quality and cost savings and more have come through novel agent architectures and and really going down a click or two in in the stack to innovate at at lower levels of the technology stack.

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  If the industrial stack is not off fossil fuels within ten or twenty years, the country gets poor twice over — the way Britain did when its coal ran out, and again when Florida floods.

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  the meta problem here is if we don't move our industrial stack off fossil fuels in 10 or 20 years, first of all, we'll get poor the same way you UK did, right? Because they ran out of coal basically. And the second thing is we'll get poor because we'll flood our coastal cities in Florida underneath climate change.

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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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  The one-child policy accidentally produced a golden age for Chinese women, who received the education investment that would otherwise have gone to a son.

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  Maybe on the good side, it’s actually a golden age for Chinese women because the Chinese girls never had as much education investment apportioned to them as they’ve had after being the only child in the family. And you raised a daughter like a son. And if we look at all the skill gaps and the education gaps and the returns to education, actually girls fared better.

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From one piece There Is No Long Decline in Fertility 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  There is no long decline in human family size: once child survival is accounted for, the two-century downward trend disappears.

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  What you can see is that the “long decline” of TFR since the late-19th century is… an illusion! It isn’t real!

  There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com

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  The total fertility rate is a culturally biased measure, because societies substitute between abortion, infanticide and contraception to reach the same family size.

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  Thus, TFR as an indicator is cross-culturally biased by social preferences between infanticide and abortion, child neglect and abortion, etc.

  There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com

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  NVIDIA's Nsight Graphics GPU flame graphs are shallow and cumbersome to use compared to full-stack profiling tools

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  They do have flame graphs in Nsight Graphics for GPU workloads, although their flame graphs are currently shallow as it is GPU code only, and onerous to use as I believe it requires an interposer; on the plus side they have click-to-source.

  Doom GPU Flame Graphsbrendangregg.com

Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.

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  England switched from wood to coal because deforestation had made firewood scarce.

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  As I set out last time, the usual story — that this was caused by deforestation, making firewood so scarce that people resorted to burning an inferior but cheaper fuel — simply does not stack up.

Historian at Stanford and the Hoover Institution; wrote Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative and Goddess of the Market, on Ayn Rand.

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  Milton Friedman's body of work rests on his collaborations with women, and without Anna Schwartz and Rose Friedman his resume would be far thinner than it is.

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  But she shared many of his ideas and when I think of Friedman, if you take away Anna Schwartz, if you take away Rose Friedman, if you take away the other woman who collaborated with him, you have a much thinner resume than the one he actually has.

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Founder and editor of Techdirt; coined the Streisand effect, and writes on platform liability, speech law and copyright.

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  Telegram reports no child sexual abuse material at all to the clearing house that handles it, and that is indefensible even if no law compels a non-US company to.

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  I know from the report that Stanford put out earlier this year that Telegram does not report CSAM to NCMEC at all. That is very stupid. I would imagine Telegram would argue that as a non-US company it doesn’t have to abide by such laws.

  techdirt.com

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  Sendy

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  I use Sendy for newsletters. It's a self-hosted service which uses Amazon Simple Email Service. It's written using PHP and thus it needs the LAMP stack to be hosted. I use a DigitalOcean droplet with the LAMP stack installed to host it.

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Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

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  Identification of a Woman

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  Identification of a Woman (Italy, 1982, CC) 3.8 Critics often point out various flaws in Antonioni films, but I’d rather focus what he does so well. He’s one of those directors that appeal to serious film buffs because the visuals are so brilliantly constructed. (Tarkovsky, Ozu, Kairostami, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Wes Anderson are some other examples.)

  themoneyillusion.com

Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.

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  JavaScript has the lowest bar of entry to being productive, but one of the highest bars of any stack to building high-quality, stable, reliable software.

  JavaScript

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  My hot take is that JS has the lowest bar of entry to building and being productive (a good thing) but one of the highest bars of any language and stack to building high quality, stable, and reliable software. Very few devs have the expertise to pull off the latter

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Ruby on Rails took off because its creator evangelized it by arguing its superiority against the competing alternatives.

  Ruby on Rails

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  And for a long time, I thought that's what had worked. That this was why Ruby on Rails took off, became one of the most popular full-stack web frameworks of all time, inspired countless clones, and created hundreds of billions in enterprise value for companies built on it. But I was wrong. It wasn't the crusade that did it.

Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  The lower a layer sits in the software stack, the harder it is for an individual developer to build in it.

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  the lower we go in the stack, the harder it is for individuals to build.

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

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  Returns for performance are superlinear rather than proportional across most domains that matter.

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  One of the most important things I didn't understand about the world when I was a child is the degree to which the returns for performance are superlinear.

  Superlinear Returnspaulgraham.com

Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.

From one piece George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Anyone who cannot write a full software stack for NVIDIA's generic GPUs has no chance of writing one for their own, more specialised, AI chip.

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  It’s always harder to write software for more specialized hardware. A GPU is pretty generic. If you can’t write an in Nvidia stack, there’s no way you can write a stack for your chip. My approach with Tinygrad is first write a performant NVIDIA stack.

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  Reproduction is the thing life is built on and the thing machines cannot do; for all its progress, the silicon stack is nowhere near reproducing itself.

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  There’s two stacks of life in the world. There’s the biological stack and the silicon stack. The biological stack starts with reproduction. Reproduction is at the absolute core. The first proto-RNA organisms were capable of reproducing. The silicon stack, despite, as far as it’s come, is nowhere near being able to reproduce.

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Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.

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  Foundation

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  Asimov’s Foundation books were a strong influence on me as a child

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Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.

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  A world without mass child mortality does not have to be imagined, because rich countries are already living in it.

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  I think we don’t have to imagine what a future could look like without this immense loss.

  What does it mean when fewer people die?scientificdiscovery.dev

Economist at the University of Houston; wrote Fully Grown, on why a slow-growing economy is a sign of success, and blogs at Growth Economics.

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  What broke the Malthusian trap was that productivity growth raised the price of bringing a child to adulthood.

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  The key change is that productivity growth, starting around 1870, reached down and profoundly raised the price of bringing a child to adulthood.

  Review of DeLong's "Slouching Towards Utopia"growthecon.com

British novelist, author of the His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust trilogies.

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  The Summer Book

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  Sophie and her grandmother spend a lot of time pottering about and playing and building little Venetian lagoons for the ants to go into and that sort of thing. It's very funny and very charming. And you think that's all it is—a sweet little book about a child and her grandmother.

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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Bossypants

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  Not only is Tina Fey a very funny writer, it's fascinating to have the opportunity to climb inside the head of a successful female leader. Reading the internal drama within Tina's head as she thought about whether she wanted a second child while considering how it would affect the 100+ employees that worked for her on 30 Rock was priceless. As a manager, it gives me an understanding and level of empathy I wouldn't have had otherwise.

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Psychotherapist who trained with Jeffrey Young from 1989 and founded The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and the Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. Wrote Disarming the Narcissist.

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  Nobody living with a narcissist should feel obliged to become their therapist.

  PsychotherapyNarcissism

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  And no one should feel burdened to become the therapist of the narcissist in their life. It's not your responsibility as a partner, as a child of a narcissist, or even a friend.

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  The Tales of Edgar Allen Poe

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  I read this as a child, and liked it for the same reason that other young people like reading Poe.

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British military historian and former army officer; author of Stalingrad, Berlin: The Downfall 1945, D-Day and The Second World War.

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  A Woman in Berlin

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  This book, A Woman in Berlin, is one of the great diaries of the whole war. Although it was published anonymously we do know the name of the woman who wrote it now.

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