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Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Worked on the research that turned scaled reinforcement learning into reasoning models, and writes about where he thinks that path leads.

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  International coordination on AI development should become a top priority for governments around the world.

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  And I believe that international coordination on future AI development needs to become a top priority for governments around the world.

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Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  Restoring vision to the blind is a good business, and a company doing it should aim to be profitable rather than permanently funded.

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  Yeah, well I mean becoming profitable or at least have like having the ability to do this forever is a super high priority. Restoring vision to the blind is pretty good business if you can actually do that.

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Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  Bus grids cannot function as a city's primary transit backbone at the scale of a very large, low-density city like Los Angeles, no matter how much priority the buses get.

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  But in fact, the scale of buses is rather short, and in a Los Angeles-size city they are hopeless, no matter how much priority they have.

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Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab.

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  Every one of the billions of people on earth will have their own superintelligence, tailored to them, and its point is to expand their agency.

  AI alignment

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  we believe that everybody in the world, you know, all the billions of people in the world are going to have a super intelligence that is adapted and tailored to them, that is enables them to accomplish their goals, knows their context, and ultimately is an expander of their own agency.

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

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  Current AI4Math systems largely operate as solvers of isolated, well-defined proofs rather than as researchers that expand mathematical knowledge.

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  Despite these strides, we argue that current AI4Math systems still largely operate as solvers, excelling at isolated, well-defined proof generation rather than as researchers capable of expanding the boundaries of mathematical knowledge.

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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  Realizing AI's potential to expand human potential requires humans and AI working together, not AI acting alone.

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  AI has the potential to trigger an explosion of human potential, but it will require both humans and AIs working together to realize that potential.

  Introducing the Alumni Mentor Corpsfortelabs.com

Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

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  Claude Code Artifacts

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  Artifacts in Claude Code have been life changing. Excited to expand to Pro and Max!

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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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  Schools are still preparing children to become knowledge workers, and that game is over.

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  my kids are in this educational system that is trying to prep them to get into a good college and to be a knowledge worker and I know that game is over

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  Long-context efficiency has become a central priority in LLM development because agent harnesses require working with increasingly long contexts.

  LLMs

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  In 2026, long-context efficiency is king as more and more LLMs get plugged into agent harnesses (OpenClaw etc.), which requires working with longer and longer contexts.

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

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  Docker Swarm lost because it stretched a single-node API across a cluster, and no amount of bolted-on storage and networking could repair that choice.

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  They tried to take the Docker API which worked really well for one node and expand it across multiple systems and it was not the right API to scale to another type of thing that we needed. And so they kept trying. They tried to add storage. They tried to add networking but the Docker API was never meant for that.

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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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  The modern economy pressures nearly every kind of creative or professional worker to also become a small media company, a skill unrelated to their original craft.

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  the economy now asks every creative person to essentially become a small media company, which is a very specific skill set that has nothing to do with why most of us started making things in the first place

  On Monetizationmariandrew.substack.com

Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.

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  As publishers see the danger from AI bots expand, they retreat to putting more and more content behind either password protection or payment walls or both, leaving the only publicly-accessible content to be AI-generated slop; open resources like research work, scientific analysis, and fair use of content all suffer as a result of people responding to the bad actors, since legitimate uses of open content are no longer possible.

  Endgame for the Open Webanildash.com

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

From one piece Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The semiconductor supply chain will underbuild not because it cannot expand but because nobody in it believes the demand is real.

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  Um in general the semiconductor supply chain has not right it's lived through the booms and bust and uh we can talk a bit more about it but basically no one you know some players as of very recently have like woken up but in general no one really sees demand for 200 gawatts a year of AI chips or you know trillions of dollars of spend a year in the semiconductor supply chain.

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  Hundreds of billions of dollars of AI value rest on about a billion dollars of lithography tooling that cannot be scaled quickly.

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  oh 50 gigawatts of economic you know sort of capex in in the data center and what gets built on top of that in terms of tokens is even larger right it might be hundred billion dollars worth of AI value into the supply chain is held up by this $1.2 two billion dollars worth of tooling that simply just cannot expand its supply chain quickly.

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  The reason we cannot simply make more memory is that there is nowhere to put the tools, and a fab takes two years to build.

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  Uh, Micron bought a fab from a company in Taiwan that makes lagging edge chips, right? Um, Heinix and Samsung are doing, you know, some pretty crazy things to try and expand capacity at their existing fabs, uh, that also have like very large knock-on effects in the economy. And so, hey, why can't we build more capacity is like there's nowhere to put the tools, right?

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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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  Opening school to everybody necessarily made average measured performance look worse, because the students who used to be excluded are now in the data.

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  But if you know anything about my obsession with selection bias, you can predict the outcome: when you expand access from a population that excludes more students to one that excludes fewer, you’re very likely to see declining performance.

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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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  A game must be incubated by the smallest possible group with whatever technology is to hand, and the team expanded only once the idea is proved.

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  The right way to incubate a video game is you have the smallest group possible and you try to get the idea across with whatever technology you can get your hands on, using other engines, using art from whatever. You prove out that idea, and once you know what you’re doing, then you expand the team.

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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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  Long stretches of being disconnected -- no internet, no phone, no people -- are what make creative work possible.

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  All the best, happiest, and most creatively productive times in my life have something in common: being disconnected.

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  Media silence creates a vacuum, which your own thoughts expand to fill.

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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  Long stretches of being disconnected -- no internet, no phone, no people -- are what make creative work possible.

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  Media silence creates a vacuum, which your own thoughts expand to fill.

  Offline 23 hours a daysive.rs

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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  Health should be a person's top life priority, above the things they currently rank ahead of it.

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  In fact, I want to be the strongest voice in your mind encouraging you to make health your top life priority.

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

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  I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

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  Perhaps the best of the various gig-worker memoirs published in recent years.

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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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  Batteries will replace transmission as the cheapest way to keep the lights on, and the grid will shrink rather than grow.

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  we will see batteries aggressively displace transmission as the most cost-effective way to ensure continuity of electricity supply, leading to an eventual pruning of the grid and drastic reduction in the average distance that power travels between production and consumption, even as the average time that power is stored increases.

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  Do we need to drastically expand the grid in order to metabolize renewables? No.

Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Batteries will replace transmission as the cheapest way to keep the lights on, and the grid will shrink rather than grow.

  energy

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  Do we need to drastically expand the grid in order to metabolize renewables? No.

  Energy Predictions 2025caseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft since 2014; joined the company in 1992 and ran its cloud business before that.

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  AI will do to software what the cloud did: expand the market massively rather than crush the margins of the incumbent.

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  So this AI thing will be that right. So if you take coding um what we built with GitHub and VS code in over whatever decades uh suddenly the coding assistant is that big in one year and so that I think is what's going to happen as well which is the market expands massively.

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  Government is people with goals, so it grows by nature; there must be very strict limits on how far it can expand its power at the expense of citizens.

  government

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  That's how you end up in an endless loop of ever-increasing taxes, ever-increasing regulation, which ultimately suffocates free market, free enterprise, and free speech. So, you do want to have very, very strict limitations on the extent the government can increase its powers at the expense of citizens.

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Philosopher at Oxford; co-founded effective altruism and 80,000 Hours, wrote Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future, and now works on what a good future would actually contain.

From one piece Introducing Better Futures 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Whether anyone can actually do anything about how good the future is, rather than whether it matters, is the strongest objection to prioritising it.

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  I see this as the strongest argument against the better futures perspective, and the reason why I don’t feel confident that work on Flourishing is higher-priority than work on Surviving, rather than merely in the same ballpark.

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  The near-term goal should be a state of the world that can steer itself towards good outcomes, not any particular end state.

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  From my point of view, the key priority in the world today is to get us closer to viatopia, not to some particular narrow end-state.

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  Improving how good the future turns out to be, given that humanity survives, is roughly as high a priority as preventing extinction.

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  This essay series will argue that work on Flourishing is in the same ballpark of priority as work on Surviving.

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Historian of the Second World War; wrote Normandy '44 and Brothers in Arms, and co-hosts the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.

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  A large army is inherently impractical and inefficient: every extra soldier is another mouth to feed and one fewer worker making the tanks and shells.

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  Whereas, there’s also another point, which is having large armies is actually inherently impractical and inefficient, because the larger the army, the more people you’ve got to feed, the more barracks you’ve got to have, the more space you’ve got to have for training, the more people you’re taking out of your workforce to produce tanks and shells, and all the rest of it, because they’re tramping around with rifles.

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Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.

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  The chief executive is no longer a leadership role but a figurehead measured only on growing the company’s market capitalisation.

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  The Chief Executive — who makes over 300 times more than their average worker — is no longer a leadership position, but a kind of figurehead measured on their ability to continually grow the market capitalization of their company.

  The Era Of The Business Idiotwheresyoured.at

Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

From one piece 3 Years of Extremely Remote Work 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Giving local staff authority over more-qualified remote workers reduces a company's competitiveness

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  there's a power imbalance: the local worker is in charge and doesn't have to listen. This reduces company competitiveness.

  3 Years of Extremely Remote Workbrendangregg.com

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  Remote workers are often passed over for opportunities in favor of less-qualified local colleagues

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  Opportunities can be given to local workers despite the remote worker being more qualified, or even number one in the world in that area.

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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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  Forced labour in Chinese clean-energy supply chains is real, and it is not why the goods are cheap.

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  But my point is that this is still not the reason (or is only a very small reason) why these goods from China are cheaper than elsewhere. The main driver of lower labour costs has been automation; not having a human worker at all.

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American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

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  Cloudup

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  Cloudup — image sharing, though still waiting for the paid tier to expand beyond 1k images.

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

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  The faster AI progresses, the better NVIDIA does, so a shock like DeepSeek should expand its market rather than shrink it.

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  The more progress that AI makes or the higher the derivative of AI progress is, especially because NVIDIA's in the best place, the higher the derivative is, the sooner the market's going to be bigger and expanding and NVIDIA's the only one that does everything reliably right now.

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Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.

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  As search turns into an AI interface, a company with no earned acquisition channel on its roadmap is in serious trouble within one to two years.

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  Focusing on these earned channels that you own becomes the utmost priority. And if you don't have them on your growth road map, you're going to be in some really big trouble over the next year to two years because your cost of acquisition is only going to go up.

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

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  Securing model weights against theft is a more urgent policy priority than safety research, because security is built out of atoms and takes calendar time that safety does not.

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  Increasing the incentive and technical ability of AI companies to have good security is a very high priority, and in my view even more urgent than safety (though that’s also very important).

  Why Security Comes Firstmilesbrundage.substack.com

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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  Immigration cannot hold a rich country's working-age population steady, because doing so would require it to become 40 to 50 per cent foreign-born.

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  For rich countries to maintain their working-age population ratios in 2050 through permanent migration (where each worker brings one dependent), Lant Pritchett estimates they would need to become 40-50% foreign-born.

  Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?ggd.world

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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  Growing older tends to expand rather than shrink the number of achievable dreams and options.

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  As I grow older, I have more dreams. I now know many things that I didn't know before, and I have access to more resources than I ever did.

  Measuring personal growthhuyenchip.com

Journalist and author writing on politics, liberalism and ideas; a contributor to Quillette and co-author of a book on Christopher Hitchens.

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  Making humanity's long-term potential the overriding priority licenses imposing real costs on people who are alive today.

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  The problem with these grand ambitions—saving humanity from extinction and enabling our species to reach its full potential millions of years from now—is that they ostensibly justify any cost in the present.

  How Effective Altruism Lost Its Wayquillette.com

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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  We do not know the meaning of life, so the thing to do is expand the scope and scale of consciousness, digital and biological, until we know what questions to ask.

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  which is that we don’t know the meaning of life, but the more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, digital and biological, the more we’re able to understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe. So I have a philosophy of curiosity.

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