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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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  Academic publications are easy for AI models to consume from pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls.

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  consuming its publications is so easy for the models (the world's knowledge is neatly serried in their pretraining corpora) and so cumbersome for most humans (with trenches of CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls ensuring that only the unusually dedicated reader will ever make contact)

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Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.

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  Large national investments in girls' athletic opportunities translate into better international sports results.

  America

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  America has made unusually large investments in athletic opportunities for girls and it pays off.

  Destroying women’s sports in order to save itslowboring.com

Gear reviewer who publishes long-form hi-fi audio and camera equipment reviews, plus video reviews, at stevehuffphoto.com.

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  Accuphase E-3000

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  Accuphase is WORLD CLASS and fully end game for any sane music lover. It will cost you but it ends the itch for better.

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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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  The people who come up with genuinely novel insights are also unusually clear communicators of them, against the assumption that expertise spoils explanation.

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  One is it seems like there's a really strong correlation between the people who come up with genuinely novel insights and also who are actually quite clear in their communication of it.

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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  Zig

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  Zig is exceptional software: ambitious, practical, independent, and unusually serious about quality. Ghostty exists in large part because Zig made it possible for me to build the kind of software I wanted to build. This is why I support Zig.

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Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.

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  Software should be fast, knowable, and owned by the person using it

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  I've always been opinionated about how software should work. Mainly, it should be fast. The bounds of it should be "knowable." The contract you have with it should be "sane" (i.e., you just own it).

  Software Bonkerscraigmod.com

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

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  AI companies should not be the ones certifying their own safety and security practices

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  In short, whether AI is a normal technology or an unusually dangerous one, it doesn't make sense for companies to check their own homework on safety and security.

  The Launch of AVERImilesbrundage.substack.com

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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  Labour markets will eventually recover from AI, but the speed of the transition makes the short term unusually painful compared with past technologies.

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  To be clear, speed in itself does not mean labor markets and employment won’t eventually recover, it just implies the short-term transition will be unusually painful compared to past technologies, since humans and labor markets are slow to react and to equilibrate.

  The Adolescence of Technology (January 2026)darioamodei.com

Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.

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  The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

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  That is what cognitive philosopher Andy Clark explores in The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

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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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  Britain's construction costs exploded because it privatised planning to consultants and risk to contractors, which multiplies conflict and soft costs.

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  Our best explanation is that the UK adopted what we call the globalized system of procurement, privatizing planning functions to consultants and privatizing risk to contractors, which creates more conflict; the UK also has an unusually high soft cost factor.

  High Costs are not About Precaritypedestrianobservations.com

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

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  If negative emotion comes from underweighting sensory evidence, that explains EMDR: it forces high-precision attention onto something the mind usually represses.

  EMDRPsychotherapy

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  First, it justifies various psychotherapies - EMDR and coherence therapy seem to come out especially well here - that focus on trying to get the brain to pay unusually precise attention, under unusually safe conditions, to something it usually represses.

  The Precision Of Sensory Evidenceastralcodexten.com

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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  Looking Glass Universe

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  She covers ideas from physics and math explained simply and unusually honestly.

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