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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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  Recursive self-improvement in AI will mainly make existing model capability cheaper rather than raise peak intelligence.

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  RSI is poised to make modern LLMs vastly cheaper. Trends that have shown LLMs get exponentially cheaper at a given intelligence are likely to accelerate.

  Why I still haven’t bought into true RSIinterconnects.ai

Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.

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  Major historical events do not necessarily have deep intellectual or ideological causes; assuming so is a common fallacy.

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  But I think this impulse to gild the lily and attribute the rise of Hitler to deep intellectual trends is an example of a pretty common fallacy of assuming that an incredibly important world event must have incredibly important roots.

  How to stop Hitlerslowboring.com

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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  Publishing industry claims to predict how trends will play out, but such predictions are unreliable.

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  Publishers want to have people believe they know exactly how and when things will shake out, but you just never know.

  Processing: How Nicholas Russell Wrote Observercountercraft.substack.com

Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.

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  The simplest explanation for rising long-term interest rates is a surge in demand for funds from the AI boom.

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  The simplest story consistent with the facts is that we’re seeing a surge in demand for funds as a result of the AI boom.

  Bessent and the Bondspaulkrugman.substack.com

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

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  PC boot and BIOS keys are inconsistently assigned across the F-key range, Delete, and Escape.

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  I really want to fix consistent boot and bios keys for PCs!!! How did we end up using the entire F-key range AND delete AND escape across the range? THIS IS MADNESS.

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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.

From one piece The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held 2 beliefs · levels.io

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  Smarter people hold their opinions firmly but revise them quickly when new information appears, while clinging to consistency for its own sake is a mark of lower intelligence.

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  The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held and change them when new information arises The dumbest people I know keep their opinions the same just so they can remain consistent Time changes too fast try remain consistent, better to sail the waves to wherever they are taking you!

  levels.io

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  Changing your mind in light of new facts should be celebrated rather than held against you.

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  The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held and change them when new information arises The dumbest people I know keep their opinions the same just so they can remain consistent Time changes too fast try remain consistent, better to sail the waves to wherever they are taking you!

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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  AI labs tend to downplay safety risks in their public rhetoric even while acting responsibly in practice.

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  There is a consistent pattern at the top labs, where they downplay the risks rhetorically even when they are doing the right thing in practice.

  Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Cardthezvi.substack.com

Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.

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  The raw count of food recalls is a poor measure of foodborne illness trends because unknown contamination goes uncounted.

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  The problem is that "number of recalls" is a terrible metric because we don't know what we don't know.

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Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.

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  Frontier labs are incentivised toward fear because it justifies staying closed, which leaves open-source advocates rooting for Chinese labs.

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  Frontier Labs are incented to be fearful as it provides a moral justification for staying closed. Chinese Labs take the consistent position of doing what’s good for all and being open. So the little guys find themselves in the uncomfortable position of rooting for the Chinese…

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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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  A model fitted only to trends in its own outcome cannot forecast anything, because it contains no variable anyone could change.

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  The demand for explanations of low fertility is entirely a demand for variables which will reduce these technical trends to near zero.

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

Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  Neither the AI enthusiasts nor the AI sceptics are making it up; both camps are looking at real trends.

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  See, the problem is that neither side is making it up. Like they are seeing really scary trends.

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Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.

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  Consistent roast color in sample roasting is essential for making fair, informed green-coffee buying decisions.

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  Roast quality and color can have a big impact on perceived cup score and buying decisions, so if you are serious about choosing the right green for your company, it is a good idea to do your own sample roasting, using a system that yields your preferred roast level consistently.

  Sample Roestingscottrao.com

Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.

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  The US warming trend since 1970 is consistent across raw, adjusted, satellite, and surface temperature datasets

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  The overall US warming trend (around 0.5F per decade since 1970 in max, min, and mean temperatures) is robust in every dataset, raw or adjusted, satellite or surface.

  Hot days, cold thermometerstheclimatebrink.com

Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.

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  Europe's corporate sector has become a net lender to the rest of the economy, and that low rate of productive investment is what left its industry exposed.

  EuropeChina

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  The two seemingly contradictory trends connect, because the relatively low rate of productive investment leaves European industry vulnerable to its most vigorous competitors whose firms are contending with an even more deflationary macroeconomic situation at home in China.

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Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.

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  Language classes are worth something for the company and the correction, but listening and reading are what actually teach the language.

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  Sure, language classes can provide social benefits and feedback. But the real means of learning a language is consistent, ample amounts of listening and reading.

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Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

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  How NOT to Invest

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  Ritholtz does exactly that, running through such surefire ways to wreck your wealth as ignoring taxes, paying excessive fees, misinterpreting data, overreacting to short-term trends, and trading too much.

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  NuPhy Halo IO Series 96 Keyboard

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  I decided to give NuPhy keyboards a try, and I'm glad I did. This keyboard has become my favorite one to use.

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  Contradictions between useful philosophies are only a problem for someone who expects reality to be philosophically consistent.

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  Useful philosophies disagree with each other sometimes, and this is only an issue if you expect yourself, or reality, to be philosophically consistent.

  Without hope of resolutionsashachapin.substack.com

Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.

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  Atmospheric CO2 concentration is a lagging indicator of emissions trends, not a leading one.

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  Either way, atmospheric CO2 is better seen as a lagging rather than leading indicator of changes in emissions, as it is harder to see the effects of emissions reductions on concentrations over shorter time periods.

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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  Younger generations are rejecting AI hype while older generations, who stand to benefit from it, remain optimistic

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  there's a consistent theme where Gen Z (and millennials, to some extent) are rejecting the AI hype while older generations are optimistic and coincidentally in a position to benefit from it.

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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  Keyboard buyers increasingly expect switches and keyboards to sound good, not just feel good.

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  This is something more and more keyboard companies look into, and customers except good sounding keyboards.

  Review of the MoErgo Go60 Keyboardarslan.io

Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  Keychron K7

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  Keyboard: Keychron K7. I've tried the weird keyboards but I still type fastest on the Mac layout. This is one of the few keyboards that's almost exactly the Mac layout - the "Command" key is in the right place.

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Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

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  The mass adoption of React and single-page-app architecture across nearly all web apps was driven by trend-following rather than technical fit, producing fragile, scripting-dependent software.

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  As the software industry is largely driven by trends and fashion, React's "cool factor" led to a mass amnesia regarding how to make normal, well-designed web apps made of HTML with a sprinkling of scripting on top and everything became one big tangled, brittle mass of Javascript that completely keeled over when scripting wasn't available.

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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Keeping a codebase clean now pays off directly rather than aesthetically, because a coding agent will copy the patterns already in it almost exactly.

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  one of the magic tricks about these things is that they they're incredibly consistent. If you've got a code base with a bunch of patterns in, they will follow those patterns almost to a T.

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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  TailwindCSS

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  TailwindCSS - A great way to keep my styling consistent and stay productive.

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

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  Native app UI is no longer more consistent or polished than the web, and may be worse.

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  These days, though, native is as bad as the web, if not worse.

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Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.

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  People who extrapolate from first-principles models have a stronger track record predicting AI progress than those who wait for empirical proof.

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  Extrapolators have a remarkable track record in the AI field, being repeatedly early to trends and capabilities that empiricists believed were still decades away.

  Empiricists vs. Extrapolatorssecondbest.ca

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

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  Training a model on principles rather than a list of rules is not an ideology but an empirical finding: its behaviour is more consistent and covers edge cases.

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  it's it's kind of purely a practical and empirical thing that we've observed that by teaching the model principles, getting it to learn from principles, its behavior is more consistent, it's easier to cover edge cases, and the model is more likely to do what people want it to do.

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Co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management; author of the Oaktree memos.

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  Transformative technologies reliably attract more investment and infrastructure than they need, and that excess is what speeds their adoption.

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  There’s a consistent history of transformational technologies generating excessive enthusiasm and investment, resulting in more infrastructure than is needed and asset prices that prove to have been too high. The excesses accelerate the adoption of the technology in a way that wouldn’t occur in their absence.

  Is It a Bubble?oaktreecapital.com

Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

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  Utility blockchains that provide useful services tend not to accrue much long-term value to their coinholders, unlike a winning monetary protocol.

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  Utility protocols face heavy competition, and thus their value trends toward their marginal cost of operation.

  Why Most Cryptocurrencies Won’t Accrue Valuelynalden.com

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

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  A declining manufacturing share of GDP as an economy matures reflects economic success rather than decline.

  China

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  Both of these trends are a consequence of economic success, in terms of higher output and productivity: at least some of what is decried as "de-industrialization" is good actually. It is also good for China's planners to recognize that reality and not distort the economy in pursuit of an impossible outcome.

  China bows to de-industrializationandrewbatson.com

Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  Growth always stops eventually, and only a company that instrumented its business beforehand gets to find out why instead of scrambling.

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  It's easier to even predict whether growth will slow down at a certain point. it's easier to catch these trends earlier. If you don't have good observability over how your business runs and what the company's um key levers are, then you will be scrambling.

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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  In My Tribe

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  There is something highly refreshing about the way Kling offers his own consistent old school economic libertarian perspective, takes his time responding to anything, and generally tries to understand everything including developments in AI from that perspective.

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

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  People find pairwise comparisons of answers easier and more consistent to judge than absolute ratings

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  People find comparing two answers easier than assigning absolute ratings, resulting in greater consistency across annotators.

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Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.

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  Reasoning models trained on verifiable rewards automatically gain greater autonomy and long-horizon planning ability as a side effect.

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  Consistent with the Kantian hypothesis, reasoning models automatically gain greater autonomy, self-consistency and long-horizon planning ability for free.

  Do LLMs really reason?secondbest.ca

Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.

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  AI progress is faster than people expect, and ordinary scaling can be enough to solve problems that looked very hard.

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  GPT-2, R1, and nearly every other AI model released since 2018 have all been part of a consistent story: AI capabilities that rival and ultimately exceed human intelligence are easier and cheaper to build than almost anyone can intuitively grasp, and this gets easier and cheaper every month.

  The Real Lesson of DeepSeek's R1milesbrundage.substack.com

Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.

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  You are not constantly branching into many worlds — you are that space, and the quantum reality is not the one you live in.

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  So my interpretation of reality is if you fold it up, all that bifurcation of many worlds, and you just fold it into the structure that is you, and you just said you are all of those many worlds and your history converged on you, but you’re actually an object exists that was selected to exist, and you’re self-consistent with the other structures. So the quantum mechanical reality is not the one that you live in. It’s this very deterministic, classical world, and you’re carving a path through that space. But I don’t think that you’re constantly branching into new spaces. I think you are that space.

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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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  The long decline in mortality is not guaranteed to continue: new shocks and old unsolved diseases can reverse it.

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  None of these trends are a given.

  scientificdiscovery.dev

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

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  A drug discovery scientist starting today will probably retire without ever having worked on a drug that reached the market.

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  Such prolificacy is unlikely to be repeated any time soon; if current trends hold, a drug discovery scientist starting their career today is likely to retire without ever having worked on a single drug that makes it to market.

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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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  Every doubling of the solar built worldwide has cut its price by 30 to 40 per cent, and that learning rate is why the price keeps falling.

  solarenergy

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  Per doubling of production, costs have fallen a consistent 30-40% since 1970, but it’s only in the last few years that this price has become competitive with legacy electricity generation

  Radical Energy Abundancecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

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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  Public discourse has degraded into tribalism, mass shaming campaigns, and one-dimensional narratives replacing genuine debate.

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  There were a bunch of bad trends: Tribalism was flaring up everywhere, mass shaming campaigns were roaring back into fashion, politicians were increasingly clown-like, public discourse had become a battle of one-dimensional narratives.

  A Short History of My Last Six Yearswaitbutwhy.com

Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Sixty years of peer review produced no evidence that it made science better, and the literature it produced is in a bad state.

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  All we can say from these big trends is that we have no idea whether peer review helped, it might have hurt, it cost a ton, and the current state of the scientific literature is pretty abysmal.

  The rise and fall of peer reviewexperimental-history.com

Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.

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  OrbStack

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  A better alternative to Docker. Used for running and isolating local development services. Makes it easier to set up consistent environments across various projects.

  ripandis.com

Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  Most apparent trends in American housing are the Bay Area in disguise: a handful of outlier metros drive the correlations people quote.

  America

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  In general, housing trends are largely driven by a small number of outlier metros.

  Is There a Housing Shortage or Not?construction-physics.com

Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

From one piece Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change (with 1 co-authors) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Imaginary social trends can spuriously shape people's real beliefs and behaviors.

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  Imaginary trends could thus spuriously shape people's real beliefs and behaviors.

  doi.org

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  Misperceptions of attitude change may hinder efforts to understand social worlds, distort democracy, and turn imaginary trends into real ones.

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  These misperceptions may bedevil people's efforts to understand and change their social worlds, distort the democratic process, and turn imaginary trends into real ones.

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Co-founded GiveWell and led Open Philanthropy; writes Cold Takes, on the most important century and how to think about it.

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  Counting every being that can suffer, and applying consistent moral weights, yields conclusions its own defenders find uncomfortable and cannot fully endorse.

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  Combining these three pillars yields a number of unusual, even uncomfortable views about ethics. I feel this discomfort and don't unreservedly endorse this approach to ethics.

  Future-proof ethicscold-takes.com

Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  Mac OS

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  I have a lot of feelings about macOS: it is astonishingly painful for developers, but makes up for it with a consistent experience for users.

  usesthis.com

Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Software's real advantage over physical engineering is consistency: a component does what it is specified to do every time, while physical materials only fall within a tolerance.

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  Software is far more consistent than any other kind of engineering.

  We Are Not Specialhillelwayne.com

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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  The Mesh

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  If you're interested in understanding the collaborative consumption movement (ie- car sharing, AirBnb, city bike sharing, etc), this book gives a great overview of the trends and opportunities.

  jasonevanish.com

Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.

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  Dracula theme

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  Both my editor and IDE is rocking Dracula theme. It’s a great dark theme and gives me a consistent environment across my devices and setups.

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

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  Emfit QS+Active

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  I've found the only thing I'm consistent with are in the set-it-and-forget-it category, and I really like the Emfit QS+Active

  blog.samaltman.com

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

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  The Inevitable

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  Podcast (Part 2). A story about how the world will change in the next few decades. The nature of technology available today makes certain trends almost inevitable. Even though the exact future is unknowable, we can still extrapolate from high-level trends to make some good predictions about the future.

  radex.io

Mathemusician and video maker known for the Doodling in Math Class series; directed the eleVR virtual reality research group at the Communications Design Group.

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  Mac mini

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  I really like Mac Minis for installations, especially since once we've got the headsets running we can unplug all external keyboards and projectors and everything, and it'll run as a self-contained unit for days on end (or until Apple decides it must interrupt with a request to update).

  usesthis.com

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  Kinesis contoured keyboard

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  For keyboards, most of my typing is done on the MacBook keyboard using just my inner fingers, sometimes a Kinesis contoured keyboard (the weird scoopy one) if my outer fingers aren't being the problem at the moment, and sometimes other keyboards.

  usesthis.com

Journalist, editor and typesetter covering technology and printing history; wrote for TidBITS and the Economist and published The Magazine.

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  Macally icekey

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  For that, I have a scissor-action Macally icekey that's no longer sold. I've worn out two previous Matias keyboards through an incredible amount of use.

  usesthis.com

Computer scientist teaching at Princeton; spent three decades at Bell Labs in the group that produced Unix, C and C++, and co-authored The C Programming Language and The Practice of Programming.

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  iMac

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  Mostly Macs at this point. I have a 27-inch iMac at work (big screen) but with the tiny wireless keyboard; I long ago got tired of keyboards that, with wheels, could double as skateboards, so it's nice to have a little one made by a reliable manufacturer.

  usesthis.com

Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.

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  Dell Mini 9

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  I do everything on a netbook, a Dell Mini 9. I've been using it since 2008, and have worn out two keyboards.

  usesthis.com

Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.

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  Kindle 4

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  The best Kindle they have made is the Kindle 4 (also known as the cheap kindle). After using the Aztec Kindle, the various Kindles with keyboards and finally the Kindle touch - I find that I am able to be a happier and more efficient reader with the cheaper kindle.

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Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.

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  Matias Tactile Pro

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  They've also got Matias TactilePro keyboards. Because if your typing doesn't sound like a hailstorm on a tin roof, you're not typing.

  usesthis.com

Engineer who worked on the Linux kernel and helped launch Android at Google; author of Linux Kernel Development and Linux System Programming.

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  IBM Model M

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  On the workstation, I use a dorky Logitech keyboard, but I'm absolutely obsessed with the old IBM Model M keyboards. Those things can withstand small arms fire, and I love the tactile response of the buckling springs.

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Designer and writer; design director of NYTimes.com, later a principal designer at Adobe, and author of the Subtraction.com blog.

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  KB Cover

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  Also, I tend to keep my keyboards covered with a KB Cover. It's rubbery and looks pretty attractive, but it does slow you down a little until you've become accustomed to it.

  usesthis.com