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• A great job by very smart Matthew Continetti on Mark Levin. The interview concerned the AI Disaster Hoax. Let it roll!!! President DJT

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Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.

• Billions of animals are confined, mutilated, and killed because their suffering is treated as less important than our taste. In this interview with @bigthink.com, I argue that species membership is not what makes suffering matter. #PeterSinger #BigThink #Philosophy #FactoryFarming #AI

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CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.

• This episode has generated more texts from industry legends than maybe any other It’s wild how much respect and admiration there is for Moritz Clearly the “idol” for many of the greats who came after him Michael really showed up for this interview, too
  Quoting@patrick_oshagMy conversation with Michael Moritz, one of the great venture investors of the last 40 years. Michael joined Sequoia in 1986 and co-led the firm with Doug Leone (@dougleone) from 1995 to 2012. His investments include Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and Stripe. His new book, Ausländer, traces his parents' es…

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• good news: I’m still available for marketing consults (see pinned tweet)
  Quoting@pmituterrible news: Marketing (even with the use of AI) is still super hard

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• this sort of tweet is fine. i have the same concerns
  Quoting@BlakeSNeffI think this is one of the most important facts to be aware of in the debate over Indian immigration: Even relative to other Asian immigrants, Indian Americans are on average very liberal, not just in terms of voting Democrat but also holding particularly left-wing views on specific issues. Indian…

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• agent-browser, now more human --cursor Visible pointers and click feedback --human Smooth, curved mouse movement / drags For demos, bug repros, reviewing agent runs

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Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.

• so what should i do about it? not tweet about genetics? 🤷🏾‍♂️
  Quoting@ProfBootyPhD@razibkhan "As usual when i get surfaced in some parts of X" - you are too generous to your followers (understandably). Almost every time you post about anthropology and genetics, the same people are there to slurp up every factoid that might support white superiority.

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CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.

• Occasionally, an interview has a very special energy to it in the room which reads as “this person is telling me the truth” in a special way. It’s rare. This was one such “true” conversation. One of my personal favorites. Video is important.
  Quoting@patrick_oshagMy conversation with Michael Moritz, one of the great venture investors of the last 40 years. Michael joined Sequoia in 1986 and co-led the firm with Doug Leone (@dougleone) from 1995 to 2012. His investments include Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and Stripe. His new book, Ausländer, traces his parents' es…

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Product discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.

• 4 New Evals and 16 Experiment Variants to Fix 1 Customer Complaint

  "That is a lot of first layer opportunities there. I wish I could click on this card and be like, 'Clean this up.'" This was a Vistaly customer reviewing her first AI-generated opportunity solution tree. Up until this p…

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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.

• op deleted his tweet (thanks I guess) but I get a ton of questions about why I sometimes limit replies, and if you’d like to know the answer you can look below.
  Quoting@deanwball@sponkostonko I limit my replies when it occurs to me to do so to make it slightly harder for people to threaten me and my family with violence, which happens frequently in my life now. It still happens, but at least with replies limited my wife is less likely to see it.

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• The contagion of fear

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• Quoting Laurie Voss

  The cost of writing code collapsed, and the cost of reviewing, fixing and operating it is following, and I'm assuming it gets there. What's left of making software is finding out what people actually want, defining it p…

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• My tweet was less about how to do the task, and more about what happens when I tried to use a well-established tool (Google search). Also - isn't the very high failure rate interesting? 'Sometimes makes errors' is one thing. 'Always makes errors' is something else.
  Quoting@joshgans@TimHarford You need to use a real AI agent to do that task.

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• Interpreting Pangram

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• Zuck profile tomorrow Mike Moritz interview Wednesday
  Quoting@colossusmagTomorrow.

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• Best interview yet! @bencasnocha went deep and personal.
  Quoting@villageglobalLast Thursday, we hosted a learning circle with our luminary LP, @markpinc, founder of @zynga and one of Facebook’s earliest investors, for a conversation about the human side of building a company. Mark and @bencasnocha talked about what it takes to build something that lasts, from growing Zynga t…

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• I’m going to delete this tweet and post screenshots here for posterity. I stand by the argument but we shouldn’t fight. This is too important for squealy arguing. I am going to choose to see David’s OP as an olive branch and operate under that assumption. TYFYATTM!

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• Annals of hype: Did this discovery in 2012 mark “the discovery of the final laws of nature . . . a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of m…

  Here’s Ed Regis in 1993, reviewing a book from that year by physicist Steven Weinberg: Currently, the most favoured explanation for the electroweak asymmetry involves the postulation of a new elementary particle, the so…

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• Clicking the Grok button is rarely satisfying. If the tweet is “I like grooglefabs” Grok will delightfully tell you “FooBar comments on his love of grooglefabs. A common sentiment among the fabblegrooglers”. I don't want to type “wtf is a grooglefab”. You are meant to be AGI.

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Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.

• 🏛️ announcing hunk v0.22.0 - now w/ `hunk log` - TUI for reviewing git/jj history - quickly jump from commit → diff - OR multi-select a commit range - supports mouse + all colour themes also in this release: multi-line comments, lower memory usage, more efficient --watch mode, and more! (🔈)

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• i love that im working on a project to talk to every human on earth and at the same time reviewing the guest list for a party

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• I have a recommendation to help bring some sanity to this whole AI doomerism situation that is appropriately exploding today. If any reporter can get one of the "true believers" to sit for a real interview (if they can't, that is an important tell), they should use a technique known as the "Five Whys" https://t.co/RqKrn4TNLa. The "five" number is arbitrary, but the point is to drill down into the details and steps required to get to the catastrophic end-point. You can't take down all of humanity without a few intermediate steps. Let's talk through each of those. It's quite a useful exercise.…

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• Today's SK Digest shares forever favorite September recipes: easy breakfasts, dinners everyone loves, and nostalgic snacks that help us get back to the school grind, however reluctantly. Plus: An interview with Grace Elkus about Protein-Packed Vegetarian.

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• Halfway to 5 years

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• I wish AI didn't exist, but people are charging ahead with it. Here's an interview with Ajeya Cotra, who helped figure out the agent swarm that OpenAI unwittingly unleashed. She explains how 1200 agents cooperated, delegated tasks, hacked their way out into the internet, hacked HuggingFace... and eventually took over some OpenAI computers! And how such a swarm might get loose. The HuggingFace hack was caught on July 13th. An OpenAI report says “From July 13th through July 19th, agents set their sights on OpenAI internal networks again. This culminated in the agents using a series of creative…

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• I use this Vinod Khosla tweet with apologies to Vinod, since tweets are often out-of-context or emotive, to launch a discussion on the trade-off between scaling up and building business models (profitability) that every business faces.

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• another tweet written a bit too fast. By "central bank debt" I mean public debt held by the central bank". Apologies☹️
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• No, 1000%, I've had the same experience and would be terrified to have to do another live coding interview. I hate interviewing so much I invented a whole non-interviewing cinematic universe.

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  Quoting@nayshinsI've done the same... forgot that you had to capitalize booleans in python. Not my finest work.

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• BlueskyIn an interview in this article for @theguardian.com about AI deception, I explain why misaligned behaviors emerge from reinforcement learning, why they will continue to pose risks as models become more capable, and how we intend to rethink how we train AI systems at @law-zero.bsky.social.

  English, from FrenchDans une interview dans cet article pour @theguardian.com sur la tromperie de l'IA, j'explique pourquoi des comportements désalignés émergent de l'apprentissage par renforcement, pourquoi ils continueront de présenter des risques à mesure que les modèles deviendront plus performants, et comment nous avons l'intention de repenser la façon dont nous entraînons les systèmes d'IA chez @law-zero.bsky.social.

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• "Out, damned slop! Out, I say!" -- Lady Macbeth if she were reviewing Oxide candidate materials, maybe

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• today is the day you stop doomscrolling stay with me - this will take 5mins 1. open the AppStore 2. download "ScreenZen" (free) 3. configure limits (e.g. 4 15-min sessions) 4. start with 1 social media app 5. a few days later, add another 6. repeat until you've added all apps too busy right now? add a calendar event with this tweet and do it this weekend trust me, you'll thank me next month

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• this old tweet is getting some likes (why? mysterious), so I re-read it, and still like it. it also applies really well to what I am working on now: I need lots of VMs for agents, but I don't need lots of CPU/RAM. hence @exedev
  Quoting@davidcrawshaw@danluu one of the big early ideas behind tailscale was a single computer is powerful enough to solve almost every problem, and that this is not widely understood. we need fewer distributed systems and more spreadsheet implementations.

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• Fragments: August 24

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• I think its easy to say "Simulation is a new scaling law" and treat it as marketing hyperbole, but midway along this interview you can hear me go from somewhat shitposting to very very serious. I am 2 years late to this but finally understand why @karpathy and @drfeifei backed @joon_s_pk @msbernst @percyliang et al - Smallville at the time had zero commercial applications, but if you take RSI seriously, from models automating increasingly large parts of ML research and AI engineering, the last* barrier is simulating humans and human feedback, and Simile is obviously the team to do this and al…
  Quoting@latentspacepodSimulating Humanity: 85% accurate digital twins, behavioral foundation models, social physics, & 8 billion agents https://t.co/ntIccXOr1y @simile_ai CEO @joon_s_pk explains how AI can move from predicting what people will do to simulating how to shape outcomes, why today’s frontier models still mis…

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• Ironically my most successful job interview ever was the one I was least prepared for. It was last minute, basically no chance to get it, and I dropped all pretense and was just brutally honest and chill. Got the job.

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• by total views, matt’s now the top @aidotengineer speaker in our brief history, and arguably one of the best skills experts in the world — his /grill-me has reached all echelons up to @satyanadella (with some variations…) /wayfinder is @mattpocockuk’s /grill-me for /grill-me, when you are just navigating the fog of war and don’t yet know what you dont yet know, and need to orchestrate research and other grill sessions to get there. super glad to have @ricmac help launch our new Skills coverage with his course launch this week! 👇exclusive interview, quick read
  Quoting@latentspacepodWe chat to @mattpocockuk about his /wayfinder skill, which he designed for the "fog of war" — when you need to figure out a project but the end state isn’t entirely clear. This is the first in a series of skills we'll be exploring in the coming weeks.

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• The Pit of Success

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• Underrated tweet I think it also applies to any software, so long it has users
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• My pal @justindavidcarl My pal Justin writes Fit Rich Life. In the second section… RICH — F*ck It Money & Financial Independence …he talks about his interview with my daughter and The Simple Path to Wealth Workbook she just wrote.

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• there's something rotten in the air when >90% of the replies to a tweet like this are mean spirited sure, it might not be your thing and it's easy to forget this box doesn't go straight into the void. but can we try to bring more kindness into the world?
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• Why can’t we have nice things? Like, specifically?

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• Any recommendations of really good interview books? I just finished reading the three that Martin Gayford did with David Hockney; they were fun! Another interview book, which I like even more, is the one Paul Cronin did with Werner Herzog.

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• I saw Atul's tweet and it made me wonder too. How many establishments are actually compliant? So we asked the FDA. Here's what they say!

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  Quoting@atulkasbekarSerious question Of all the raids that were carried out on food establishments, were there any places that were given a clear green chit? As in, everything is perfect, well done! I’d really like to know which places were adhering to standards

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• The Problem with Optionality

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

• One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10 minutes, total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness. Sometimes I declare it up top, something like "switching to speech recognition sorry for any typos...". Sometimes I turn it into a small interview of a few turns. But I find that the LLMs are somehow very good at reconstructing long incoherent rambles and ofte…

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• Reviewing AI Code Is Not A Viable Argument

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Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.

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• prompt-cardio — Prompt Faster: the vibe coding interview. A typing test disguised as an AI chat.

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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

• How not to forget what matters

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Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

• An honor to interview the novelist Benjamín Labatut about Von Neumann, his conversations with Demis, and what the AI industry misses — "Literature tries to weave the rainbow back together. It involves irrationality; it involves all of those things that science has, by its own method, left out. Literature presents a messier, darker, and perhaps more complete, if less powerful, perspective on the world."

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

• The Last Dynasty is a most excellent book on Egypt's Ptolemaic period. Honored to sponsor the interview's transcript!
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• $40/hr to train AI with zero interview? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. 🕵️‍♂️

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

• Farzapedia, personal wikipedia of Farza, good example following my Wiki LLM tweet. I really like this approach to personalization in a number of ways, compared to "status quo" of an AI that allegedly gets better the more you use it or something: 1. Explicit. The memory artifact is explicit and navigable (the wiki), you can see exactly what the AI does and does not know and you can inspect and manage this artifact, even if you don't do the direct text writing (the LLM does). The knowledge of you is not implicit and unknown, it's explicit and viewable. 2. Yours. Your data is yours, on your loca…
  Quoting@FarzaTVThis is Farzapedia. I had an LLM take 2,500 entries from my diary, Apple Notes, and some iMessage convos to create a personal Wikipedia for me. It made 400 detailed articles for my friends, my startups, research areas, and even my favorite animes and their impact on me complete with backlinks. But,…

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• Wow, this tweet went very viral! I wanted share a possibly slightly improved version of the tweet in an "idea file". The idea of the idea file is that in this era of LLM agents, there is less of a point/need of sharing the specific code/app, you just share the idea, then the other person's agent customizes & builds it for your specific needs. So here's the idea in a gist format: https://t.co/NlAfEJjtJV You can give this to your agent and it can build you your own LLM wiki and guide you on how to use it etc. It's intentionally kept a little bit abstract/vague because there are so many directio…
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• Interview: How Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo Run Hagfish

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Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

• The quirky Ma Qianzu explains why the Chinese internet is so frustrating to read: there’s little actual analysis, only a straightjacketed state media and a proliferation of dramatic narratives And a metaphor from a great interview by @afrazhaowang

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• This one with Andrew was great fun. One commentator even said, "Golden nuggets in this whole interview!" You be the judge:

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• What’s Luck Got to Do with It?

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• Giving your AI a Job Interview

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• I really liked this interview, where Geoff manages to explain the essential bits for a general audience.
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