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Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Humanity invents great works, panics, and desperately tries to wrest them back under control.

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  We are all slaves to the Dreaming. We invent great works, panic, and desperately try to wrest them back under our control; for this, we get called Luddites.

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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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  Specialized robots will invent techniques in their domain that humans never thought of or could not do.

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  Basketball robots are likely to invent new basketball moves that humans didn't think of doing, or couldn't do easily.

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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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  The Brandenberger Family

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  At least that’s what I felt hearing (and seeing) the Brandenberger Family. If you love those old records by the Carter Family, but feared that style of singing had disappeared, this is the band for you.

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

From one piece From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Vision, hearing, balance and a kilobit per second of motor control would get you halfway to the Matrix.

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  because if you can if you get vision, hearing, balance, and a kilobit per second of motor control, you're halfway to the Matrix.

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  Humanity is not good enough at molecular biology to make drugs that restore vision or hearing or stop Parkinson's.

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  People have spent huge amounts of time and money looking for drugs to restore vision or to restore hearing or to stop Parkinson's or to to help paralyzed people move again. Understanding the like the biology and the molecular detail required to make a drug has been very difficult. Humanity just isn't that good at that, to be totally honest.

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  Getting vision, hearing, balance and motor signals in and out of the brain is an end in itself, because the world you experience is generated in there.

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  That world is is generated by the brain. And so, if you can get visuals the visual signal, auditory signal, balance, motor, like somatic sensory motor in and out of the brain, that is that is an end in itself. That is the central object.

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Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.

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  Televised hearings built for viral clips are the wrong venue for honest accountability conversations.

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  the time to make that point is not during a televised hearing when everyone is trying for a viral clip.

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US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.

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  Washington cannot make good technology policy in a vacuum: without startups and industry saying what they believe, the decisions come out worse.

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  if if DC is in a vacuum isn't hearing anything from the startup ecosystem or even from big tech ecosystem or even from financial services or all these different industries, we can't make the best decisions.

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Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.

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  An emotion is a fan-in, fan-out architecture: many different signals converge on one central state, out of which many different behaviours can follow.

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  I can get to the emotion state from seeing a bear or smelling a bear or hearing a bear or hearing a twig snap, hearing somebody yell there's a bear. Zillions of different inputs completely unlike the rigid reflex which only has one input and that's it.

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

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  Software did not invent iterative development: mining engineers had their Agile revolution in 1960.

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  And the first thing he pointed out to me was that they had their Agile revolution in 1960.

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Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.

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  America cannot win manufacturing back by repatriating what left; it wins only by inventing the next wave of manufacturing and building that here.

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  it it won't work to try to repatriate uh the the manufacturing that left the US. Um that's a uh you you don't you don't beat China at its own game. What you do is invent the future, invent the next wave of manufacturing uh and build that here.

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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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  A model can make an existing algorithm a hundred times faster and still cannot invent a better one, however long you give it.

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  And then I was like, okay, can you come up with an algorithm that is better than the algorithms that I came up with or that anybody else came up with and go ahead and like look at all the published work and synthesize that and then try to come up with something novel and it it's not able to do it. And I can give it a lot of time and it's it's still not able to do it.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.

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  There is no factory you can pay to produce biological data; each new dataset requires inventing a new scientific method first.

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  it's not just like there's some factory somewhere that you can pay to produce the the data like you actually need to invent new novel scientific approaches

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Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.

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  What you have to invent is the whole system around a product, including how it is sold, bought and installed, not the one piece people remember.

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  So, you have to think about the full the full thing you're trying to build not just the one piece even though that's what you might remember. You have to remember it's it's a it's a system that you're going to innovate with.

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Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.

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  Gamified learning is medicine wrapped in candy, and in practice children eat the candy and throw the medicine away.

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  Gamified learning is a bit like wrapping medicine in candy. Yes, it may help some students swallow some instruction they otherwise find bitter, but in practice it’s easy to pull off the candy, consume it, and throw the medicine away.

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Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  You probably only have one good idea in your whole product, and the job is getting the user to experience it as fast as possible.

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  You probably only have one good idea in your whole product. Get the user to experience that as fast as possible. Well, it sounds so easy, but if you go try every single product out there, you will see a million accidental steps they introduced from the user hearing about your product to like seeing the value in it.

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Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

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  The Venn diagram of developer experience and agent experience is a circle: well-modularised code and good tests help the agents exactly as they help the humans.

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  which is that the the Venn diagram of developer experience and agent experience is a circle. And the point here is that, you know, what we do that that's good for the agents is good for the humans and vice versa. I'm hearing a lot of feedback saying, "Yeah, actually, if you have well-modularized code, that actually makes it easy for the agents to work with."

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

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  Keach Hagey, The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

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Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.

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  Taste is not innate; it is a loop of noticing whether you like something, asking why, and learning the canon that led to it.

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  It's just this loop of okay, I'm having an experience of any sense. Maybe I'm looking at art, maybe I'm hearing music, maybe I'm literally eating food and tasting something, you know, but like do I like it? Do I not like it? Why?

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Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook.

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  Even generalised superintelligence will change society more slowly than the AGI community expects, because intelligence is not the only rate limiter.

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  I don't think all parts of the economy can absorb intelligence equally. So let's just say we develop fairly generalized super intelligence. I always use the analogy like you can invent a lot of drugs, but if clinical trials still take a long time, you're not necessarily going to get new therapies rapidly.

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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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  Innovation depends on being near the factory floor; you cannot improve what is thirty hours of travel away.

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  When the factory floor is down the hall, instead of 30 hours of travel away, it’s easier to make improvements and invent.

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

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  When writing software becomes cheap, platform SaaS dies: companies stop buying Salesforce and start building their own business logic, as China already does.

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  But what happens when every company can just invent their own business logic really cheaply and quickly? You stop using platform SaaS, you start building custom tailored solutions, you change them really quickly.

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.

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  How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

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  The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Principles for a Changing World Order

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  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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  The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Principles for a Changing World Order

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  How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

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  The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Principles for a Changing World Order

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  The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch

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  The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Principles for a Changing World Order

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  Principles for a Changing World Order

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  The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Principles for a Changing World Order

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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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  Subscription platforms like Substack and OnlyFans tend to become a Girardian bubble, where a few visible successes obscure the many who quietly give up after failing to build an audience.

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  I suspect that both Substack and OnlyFans may become a Girardian bubble. Everyone joins after hearing from the few people who succeed; the thousands who slink away after months of effort netted them a mere 17 subscribers usually do so quietly.

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Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.

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  Debanking became a public issue because it happened to well-connected wealthy people, who are not the typical victims.

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  We’re hearing about debanking because it sometimes affects socially established wealthy entrepreneurs and their companies.

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Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

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  Physicists did not invent dark matter and dark energy to rescue their theories — they would much rather the answer were something cooler, and the data will not allow it.

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  I tear my hair out when people who are not physicists accuse physicists, like you say, of losing the plot because they need dark matter and dark energy. I don’t want dark matter and dark energy; I want something much cooler than that. I’ve tried. But you got to listen to the equations and to the data.

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