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Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.

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  The human mind is incredibly complex and understanding and treating the nearly infinite ways it can stumble is hard.

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  One of the most important for me is just how incredibly complex the human mind is, and how hard the task is of understanding & treating the nearly infinite ways it can stumble/faulter.

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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.

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  Roughly half of the possible outcomes of advanced AI development would be good or great for society.

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  There is nearly an infinite range of outcomes here between being fine and being dead. Also, many of them - probably half! - have outcomes which end up being good, if not great, for society.

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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  There is infinite demand for intelligence.

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  Last week it accelerated to +24.8%. It’s almost inconceivable. Infinite demand of intelligence.

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Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.

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  Real-time AI video generation can be used to create games and worlds generated on demand instead of pre-built.

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  Right now it is infinite slop, but it can be used to make a video game / world that is generated on demand instead of pre-built.

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Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.

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  The cost of compute is the only intrinsic limit on AI self-replication; every other constraint on agents will have to be built by humans.

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  This is the sole intrinsic thing about AI that prevents agents from truly infinite self-replication. They will be constrained by the need to find and pay for sufficient compute to run themselves.

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

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  In verifiable domains model capability scaling should remain unbounded, because the space of enumerable patterns is infinite by construction.

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  In verifiable domains, model capability scaling should remain unbounded. Models will simply keep improving by "absorbing more and more of the computational universe", which is infinite by construction.

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Founder and CEO of Valar Atomics, a nuclear-reactor company founded in 2023.

From one piece How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Energy demand is set by price: reduce the price and you create the demand, which makes the market for cheap energy effectively infinite.

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  energy being a commodity, the demand is set by the price, right? So if you can reduce the price, you increase the demand.

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  Nuclear plants should be financed with venture equity rather than project finance, because what is left is technology-execution risk and American venture capital is the best in the world at underwriting that.

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  And the type of risk that we are asking investors to take is um, we know the physics works. We know that there's infinite demand and how we go from here to there is technology execution. And guess what? Venture capital in the United States is the best at underwriting tech risk of anywhere in the world.

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Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  A test checks a handful of examples; a proof settles an infinite state space, which is why formal methods can say things testing never can.

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  But a proof can reason about potentially infinite state spaces. So, it can tell you things about like every possible thing that could possibly happen in the entire universe.

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

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  Ideas are infinite and worthless; vision is the ability to shepherd one into existence, and Titan had an idea with no path to reality.

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  What I call vision is the ability to not only take a great idea, but shepherd it into existence, and you’re doing that through inspiration first and foremost.

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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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  Boredom is a missing skill rather than a property of the situation: there is infinity in every direction, including a blank wall.

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  And so it's not really about the environment or the wall. It's really about how we see it and whether we can find the thing that is deep and rich and infinite in that direction.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Deliberately shifting a culture is far harder now that everyone can personalise their media and skip past anything they dislike.

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  cultural engineering is extremely difficult in the 21st century: in this age of infinite personalisation, people can swipe past anything they dislike

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

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  Money cannot buy back a manufacturing capability a country has lost, because what is missing is the knowhow.

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  Even with infinite money, we cannot duplicate that, because we lack the knowhow.

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Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; works on the search for life elsewhere and wrote The Little Book of Aliens and Light of the Stars.

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  The many-worlds interpretation invents infinitely many unobservable universes to avoid what quantum mechanics is plainly saying: that measurement matters.

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  Many of them try to pretend the measurement problem isn't there. Go to enormous lengths like the many-worlds interpretation, literally inventing an infinite number of unobservable parallel universes to avoid the thing that quantum mechanics is telling them, which is that measurements matter.

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Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.

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  Scrolling and swiping interfaces are designed to prevent closure, so that the user never reaches an end and keeps going.

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  They aren’t designed to solve your problem, but actually aim to prevent closure, and create an illusion that there are still infinite choices available to you.

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Research scientist at Meta in Berlin working on multilingual models and evaluation; led the multilingual team at Cohere and was a research scientist at Google DeepMind before that.

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  When pre-training data is limited, it is better to train a smaller model for multiple epochs than to train a larger model on unique data once.

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  In sum, whenever we don't have infinite amounts of pre-training data, we should train smaller models for more (up to 4) epochs.

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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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  Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

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  Going Infinite is awesome. I would have been happy with my decision on the basis of any one of the following:

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Finite and Infinite Games

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  So abstract. Maybe the most abstract book you’ll ever read. Compares “finite” games with rules and winners, versus “infinite” games without winners where we can play with the game itself. Is it about a job versus a calling? Religion versus spirituality? A story versus story-telling? Who knows. Thought-provoking if you can apply the metaphor to whatever concerns you.

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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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  Infinite Jest

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  It's incredibly written, deeply complex, confusing as hell, and you'll probably throw it at the wall when it's done. But then you'll kinda go "okay... I'm glad I did that" and maybe start it again.

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Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

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  This is another wonderful book aiming to popularize calculus (2019 was a good year for that goal). What I enjoyed about this one is how broad a view Strogatz takes of the origins of calculus, ranging from the clever proofs Archimedes was developing up to Fourier's study of heat.

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Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.

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  Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus

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  I learned so much from this book, mostly about the history not just of calculus but of our subject, mathematics, in general.

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Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.

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  The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

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  David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West: Ever since I read The Wright Brothers” (on an earlier summer reading list of ours — and it was fantastic) I have been a fan of the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough writes about. This tale of how the American Northwest Territory was settled looks intriguing.

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