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Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.

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  Making AI agent hardware and software free to consumers dramatically lowers the barrier to entry and brings AI's benefits to ordinary people who otherwise wouldn't adopt it.

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  what Meta has assembled is free (to consumers) hardware and software that dramatically reduces the barrier to entry for ordinary people looking to harness the power of agents, making the AI upside a lot more accessible to the masses who don't want to buy a Mac Mini.

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

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  American labs leading is good because Chinese lab employees would be unable to warn the public about threats.

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  This is why it's a good thing that American labs are in the lead. If Chinese labs were, their employees wouldn't be able to warn us about threats.

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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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  Reducing trade deficits and reviving manufacturing would not end the resentment fueling right-wing authoritarian movements.

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  Crude economic factors don’t explain the fascist shift in Germany. And Trumponomics, even if it worked (which it doesn’t) wouldn’t end the resentment feeding our own authoritarian movement.

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Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

From one piece Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get" 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A saboteur among our AI investigators would be hard to spot, because these models are sloppy and spiky enough that a suspicious error just looks like ordinary incompetence.

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  But the problem is these agents are just naturally pretty sloppy and they're naturally pretty spiky in their capability profiles. And so you wouldn't necessarily even if you noticed a weird error that it made, you wouldn't necessarily jump to the conclusion that it was like because of some sort of malign crazy conspiracy.

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  Deleting the rollouts where a monitor caught cheating is structurally the same as positively reinforcing all the cheating the monitor missed.

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  But if there was some amount of cheating that the monitor didn't catch, then those rollouts wouldn't be removed. And it might be like structurally very analogous to just positively reinforcing whatever the cheating rollouts were that happened not to be caught by your monitor.

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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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  Claude

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  I keep rejected by Claude for the most benign things now Like it wouldn't download and install a 1990s game from archive(dot)org because of copyright

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

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  Being told to be realistic about your ambitions is how ambitions fail; the boundaries people accept about what they can do are the ones that stop them.

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  If I had thought in those ways, it probably wouldn't have happened. I just didn't think that we should have these boundaries to what you can do.

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

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  Blocking data center construction in America would not slow the rate of AI progress, only the rate of AI progress in America.

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  Preventing companies from building data centers in America wouldn't slow down the rate of progress in AI. It would merely slow down the rate of progress in AI in America.

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives

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  Words are tools to hide truth. I can’t say much about these recordings and books by Alan Watts. It wouldn’t be fair to do so.

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Graphic designer and type designer, who created the original Macintosh icons and typefaces at Apple from 1982 and has since designed interface graphics for NeXT, Microsoft, Facebook and Pinterest.

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  A computer meant for anyone has to be understandable without a manual, and it has to be friendly.

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  And we wanted it to be as understandable as possible, so you wouldn't necessarily need a manual, and that it should be friendly

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Perpetually running proactive agents are not a technology problem but a token problem, and no ordinary subscription would survive one.

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  I mean, honestly, that's not so much a tech problem. It's more a token problem where we could do that today, but you wouldn't get very far with your subscription and not everyone is willing to spend so many tokens.

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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.

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  Renouncing your own cognitive ability because the models are good is premature, because companies still pay an enormous premium for it.

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  there still seems to be an enormous premium on cognitive ability. And so, I wouldn't I I I I think, um, renouncing that before there's evidence that we've saturated, uh, those benefits would be premature.

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Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

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  Batching exists only because moving data costs about a thousand times more energy than computing on it.

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  Um because if you didn't have that thousandx difference then you know you wouldn't have to do batching but you have to do batching of you know many examples or maybe many tokens at once in order to amortize that data movement

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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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  Big AI is cannibalising the app businesses indie hackers used to build, and their revenue and traffic are falling as a result.

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  I'm seeing a trend here of declining revenue and traffic with indiehackers On my own projects too Maybe big VC products too but I wouldn't know cause they don't share revenue To me it seems clear BigAI is cannibalizing everything that used to be apps

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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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  Lean is overrated as the reinforcement-learning environment behind recent AI progress in mathematics, but it should not be written out of the story.

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  And so I think you are right that lean is maybe overrated on the side of the importance of it being used as a VR environment for any kind of like just progress in math generally. But I I I definitely wouldn't write it out of the story.

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Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.

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  Contemporary composition is as vital as ever.

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  Although the musical scene exhilarates me more than ever - contemporary composition is eternally vital - I wouldn't want to overstay my welcome.

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AI researcher at OpenAI; built the poker systems Libratus and Pluribus and the Diplomacy agent Cicero, and works on reasoning models.

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  Within a year a model will write an entire state-of-the-art poker solver in one shot — the work of a whole PhD thesis.

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  And I wouldn't be surprised if you know 6 months or a year from now, the model is able to do zero shot an entire poker solver, basically my entire PhD thesis in one go.

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General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.

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  A pay package that pays nothing unless the stock rises enormously is a good deal for shareholders, and most chief executives would refuse it.

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  I would agree to that type of package for every company I've ever worked with, and most CEOs wouldn't take it. Uh, it basically says you don't make money unless the stock goes way up. And if you stock goes way up, you make an obscene amount of money. And I would do that deal over and over and over and over again.

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Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.

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  A poor country should prioritise owning a piece of AI over retraining its workers, but it should not bet everything on that.

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  I would prioritize trying to index, but just given how fast AI could, you know, hit the world. But, um I definitely wouldn't just rely on that because like it could the the sort of um messy middle type cases or the just a long timelines cases on which like you we don't get it anything like AGI all that soon.

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Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.

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  One-on-one meetings create politics and waste a chief executive's time, and complaints about colleagues should be redirected to the colleague instead.

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  So I I don't do one-on- ones. My friend Bing told me that Jeff Bezos wouldn't ever do one-on ones because it created politics and it was a huge waste of his time. I was like, I love that. No one ones.

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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  Most people who would be a good audience for an essay will never notice it or bother to engage with it.

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  99% of people who you'd want to read your essay probably don't know you exist, or don't give a fuck, or wouldn't be bothered to engage even if they read it.

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Rust engineer at Google working on Android; maintains Tokio and works on Rust in the Linux kernel.

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  For a TypeScript team, Rust belongs on the backend — API servers — and not in the front end.

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  But okay, so to begin with, I think when it comes to TypeScript, Rust fits in as the backend language. That's where I would put it. I wouldn't use it in the front end. I think it's a pretty good fit for backends, API servers.

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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.

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  Nvidia does not run rival chip architectures in parallel because it simulates them and they come out provably worse.

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  Yeah, we we could do all of those things. Um it's just not better. And we simulate it all. they're in our simulator provably worse and so we wouldn't do it.

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Long-time Debian developer and free-software maintainer (remctl, INN, pam-krb5) who has published book reviews on his personal site since the 1990s.

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  The Book That Wouldn't Burn

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  The best book I read last year was Mark Lawrence's The Book That Wouldn't Burn, which much to my surprise did not make a single award list for its publication year of 2023. It was a tour de force of world-building that surprised me multiple times.

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Assyriologist and curator at the British Museum; reads cuneiform, and wrote The Ark Before Noah and The First Ghosts.

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  The Babylonians did not destroy Ashurbanipal's library; they carted it home, and what is left at Nineveh is the leftovers.

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  But they wouldn’t destroy the library because it was the giant brain from which the Assyrians ran a world empire, and it had all the knowledge in the world. They destroyed that? They spoke the same language, they had the same writing system. They’d have taken them all safely home, cart after cart after cart.

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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.

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Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google.

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  You cannot manufacture virality, but you can find the moments users already screenshot and make those moments far better.

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  So as opposed to going against I guess human intuition and trying to get them to share stuff that they otherwise wouldn't on the margins want to share like lean into it more actually like grab the moments where users are already organically screenshotting and make those much much much better and you can kind of 5x or 10x and and drive a lot of growth that way too.

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  Curate your own information sources, or an algorithmic feed decides what is important and you end up consuming the same memes and news as everyone else.

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  So it's extremely important to curate the information sources that you have, so that you wouldn't be somebody who is left to the will of AI-based algorithmic feed telling you what's important so that you end up consuming the same information, the same stuff, the same memes, the same news as everybody else.

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Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.

From one piece Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A language model cannot produce work that is both original and good, because nothing gives it a score for originality.

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  You see this for the music now. You can generate new music. It could generate new stuff that you wouldn't know. For an LLM variance is bad. originality is is is a lower score. So what's the feedback loop for original but good?

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  The leading chatbots are undifferentiated: in a blind test most people could not tell one model's output from another's.

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  Like it seems to me right now you could do like a double blind test of the same prompt given to Grock Claude Gemini um Mistral Deep Seek. Do a double blind test. I bet most people wouldn't be able to tell which is which.

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Chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, which he has led since 2005 after turning around Bank One.

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  Rescuing a failing bank at the government's request is not worth doing again, because a later administration will make you pay for the sins you inherited.

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  So, you while we kind of saved the system a lot, we bailed a lot of people out, they made us pay 5 billion dollars on the more the bad mortgages that Bear Stearns had done. And that's what made me make the statement I wouldn't do it again.

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Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.

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  Robinhood is designed for active traders rather than long-term investors.

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  Personally, I wouldn't use Robinhood. This is more of a platform designed for traders.

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Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.

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  F.I.R.E for dummies

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  I stand in awe of what author Jackie Cummings Koski has done here. This is a comprehensive overview of what FIRE is and how it is done, fashioned in the famous "for dummies" template. I wouldn't have known how to even begin to pull this together, let alone gotten it over the finish line in such fine form.

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

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  Death is how the universe makes room: finite lifetimes let far more kinds of things exist than immortality ever could.

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  So death is a way to make room in the universe for other things to exist that wouldn’t be able to exist otherwise.

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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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  If we live in a simulation, whoever is running it does not know how it ends, because nobody runs a simulation whose outcome they already know.

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  But we run the simulations to see what happens, not if we knew what happens, we wouldn’t run the simulation. So whoever created this existence, they’re running it because they don’t know what’s going to happen, not because they do.

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