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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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  Funding for mathematics and interest in the topic will rise considerably in the medium term

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  I expect the funding for mathematics, and the interest in the topic, to rise considerably, at least in the medium term.

  The mathematicians rebel against AImarginalrevolution.com

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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  Even Anthropic does not prioritize AI safety to the extent that doing so would maximize its own medium-term (3-12 month) business interests.

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  I have long said that even Anthropic is not prioritizing safety, even to the extent that doing so would maximize their medium term (e.g. 3-12 months) business interests.

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Professor of strategic studies at St Andrews; wrote How the War Was Won and The Strategists, and writes weekly on the war in Ukraine.

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  Without the ability to sell fuel abroad Russia is not a great power and not even a medium economic power.

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  Russia without the ability to raise money by exporting fuel is not only not a great power, it is not a medium economic power.

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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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  People who lack intrinsic motivation to invest time upfront in a new tool often won't, even if it would save them time later

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  The "homework problem" described above might be much worse in practice for end users who aren't motivated to invest in their email triage systems, even if it will save them time in the medium term.

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Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.

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  Muybridge

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  I think this book is a contemporary masterpiece? A cartoonist at the top of his game, a perfect meeting of subject and medium, and beautiful book design by Drawn and Quarterly.

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Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.

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  Featherlite Helix chair

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  Instead, I use the Featherlite Helix medium-back chair and absolutely love it.

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Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

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  Bitcoin's use as a medium of exchange will only grow at scale if it solves problems for spenders or recipients better than existing alternatives.

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  Bitcoin is not going to catch on as a charity. In order for spending it to catch on persistently at scale (i.e. not just billions of dollar-equivalents in annual global medium-of-exchange volume, but trillions), it has to solve problems for spenders and/or recipients that other solutions are not doing.

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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  Humans together in a shared world are a naturally empathetic medium, while typing messages at each other is a self-reinforcing negative dynamic.

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  I think the lesson from all of that is that humans talking to humans and being together in the real world or a virtual world, is a naturally empathetic medium, which naturally leads to bonding, and though conflict sometimes occurs, it's just generally so much more promoting of our social norms and good interactions between people and positivity promoting.

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Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.

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  The video game audience has come to embrace the medium’s worst traits as emblems of the hobby rather than treat them as flaws.

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  So many of the worst things about video games are not just reluctantly tolerated but enthusiastically embraced because, through association, they have become emblems of our beloved hobby/artform/lifestyle.

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Co-founder of AQR Capital Management; quantitative investor and writer.

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  The stock market has become less informationally efficient over the past thirty-plus years, particularly in the relative pricing of common stocks over medium horizons.

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  I argue that over the past 30+ years markets have become less informationally efficient in the relative pricing of common stocks, particularly over medium horizons.

  The Less-Efficient Market Hypothesisaqr.com

American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.

From one piece Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Generative AI appeals to people who want to express themselves in a medium without working in it.

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  Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

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  Thinking inspiration outweighs execution is a sign of not knowing the medium.

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  Believing that inspiration outweighs everything else is, I suspect, a sign that someone is unfamiliar with the medium.

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Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  The internet is a micro medium: it reaches specific people better than any medium before it and reaches everyone badly.

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  The internet is a micro medium. It is the best medium ever developed to reach specific people, but it is terrible at reaching everyone. There is no homepage. It is impossible to reach a hundred million people in one day on the internet, which is something TV used to do every night.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  Flat, manager-free organisations do not deliver the equality they promise: they get abandoned, and the informal power left behind is unaccountable.

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  On the other hand, the manager-free experiments I’m aware of (e.g. holacracy at Medium and GitHub, or “Choose Your Own Work” at Linden Lab) have all been quietly abandoned or outgrown.

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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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  Never trust a cynic: seeing bad behaviour in everyone is how a person excuses their own, and it is not true, because most people are medium good.

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  If somebody is cynical, meaning that they see bad behavior in everyone, it’s easy for them to excuse their own bad behavior by saying that, “Well, everyone does it.” That’s not true. Most people are kind of medium good.

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  There is no attention economy: attention cannot serve as money, so a platform must always convert it into cash at somebody's expense.

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  "Monetize" is a terrible word that tacitly admits that there is no such thing as an "Attention Economy." You can't use attention as a medium of exchange.

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Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.

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  WordPress Gutenberg editor

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  I write directly in WordPress’s new Gutenberg editor, which is now on par with Medium as a best-of-class writing environment for the web.

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  When I write for Waxy.org, I write directly in WordPress's new Gutenberg editor, which is now on par with Medium as a best-of-class writing environment for the web.

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Journalist and author of Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Writes the newsletter Culture Study, which runs a recurring links-and-recommendations issue.

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  Leuchtturm1917 Medium Week Planner

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  The Planner I Use Obsessively: Leuchtturm1917 Medium *Week* (Not Weekly) Planner

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Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?

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  IA Writer

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  For longer-form writing, I switch somewhat randomly between iA Writer, Byword, and Medium (in the browser).

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  Medium

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  I sometimes even use Medium's editor to compose even if I don't intend to publish on Medium, because it's so beautiful.

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