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Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.

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  Making AI agent hardware and software free to consumers dramatically lowers the barrier to entry and brings AI's benefits to ordinary people who otherwise wouldn't adopt it.

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  what Meta has assembled is free (to consumers) hardware and software that dramatically reduces the barrier to entry for ordinary people looking to harness the power of agents, making the AI upside a lot more accessible to the masses who don't want to buy a Mac Mini.

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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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  AI will transform how scientific discovery is done, and within two or three years a working scientist's job will already look dramatically different.

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  If you are working on material science, if you are working on pharmaceuticals, if you are working on chemistry, you in 2 3 years or even today are doing your role as a scientist dramatically different because of artificial intelligence.

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Professor at Stanford working on robot learning and meta-learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence.

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  It is the diversity of a robot data set, not its size, that produces generalization: dropping the most diverse slice hurts far more than dropping a random fifth.

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  we find that the performance on held out tasks decreases dramatically. Whereas if we um just take out a random 20% of the data that's less diverse than the most diverse subset, the performance um only decreases a little bit. And so this suggests that actually having really diverse data plays an important role in enabling it to generalize to new tasks.

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Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.

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  Recursive self-improvement will increase AI capability very quickly from here.

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  Recursive self improvement will dramatically increase capability very quickly from here.

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  A first-person 'I' narrator and a collective 'we' narrative voice produce dramatically different narrative effects.

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  Narratively, there is a dramatic difference between an "I" narrator and a collective "we" narrative voice.

  There Are More than Five POVscountercraft.substack.com

Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

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  This book dramatically changed me as a leader and as a person. It will help you develop self-awareness and connect deeply with your sense of purpose as a leader. If I could recommend one book to help you develop the human skills behind the

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Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.

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  The most fundamental thing wrong with today's models is not scale or efficiency but that they generalize dramatically worse than people do.

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  The thing which I think is the most fundamental is that these models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife

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  Ben's personal reflections on reinventing himself at "midlife" (though relatable at any age). I love how he leaned into a new version of himself without dramatically blowing up his life.

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

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  YubiKey

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  basically I strongly recommend the use of 2-3 YubiKeys to dramatically strengthen your digital security.

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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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  Margin Call

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  What it is stellar at—almost unmatched in fiction—is depicting archetypes that are both dramatically compelling and reasonably true to those working at various levels in the industry.

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Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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  Real reasoning will have arrived when spending more compute at inference time reliably buys a dramatically better answer.

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  I think if we can achieve that amount of inference compute, where it leads to a dramatically better answer as you apply more inference compute, I think that will be the beginning of real reasoning breakthroughs.

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Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000.

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  Getting to orbit was solved in the 1950s and 60s, and the only interesting problem left in spaceflight is making access to orbit dramatically cheaper.

  startups

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  The only interesting problem is dramatically reducing the cost of access to orbit, which is, if you can do that, you open up a bunch of new endeavors that lots of start-up companies everybody else can do. One of our missions is to be part of this industry and lower the cost to orbit, so that there can be a renaissance, a golden age of people doing all kinds of interesting things in space.

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Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  AI will improve warfare by cutting wartime death rates, because commanders now decide under pressure on sharply limited information.

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  I even think AI is going to improve warfare, when it has to happen, by reducing wartime death rates dramatically. Every war is characterized by terrible decisions made under intense pressure and with sharply limited information by very limited human leaders.

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Singaporean writer and author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD; blogs at visakanv.com about ambition, writing and thinking in public.

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  Antifragile

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  I remember Antifragile blowing my mind several times when I first read it. It didn't exactly have anything dramatically new to say that I hadn't heard before in some way, but it brought together things in a way that I found compelling. It made me rethink and reevaluate a lot of my life and gave me a useful frame for making sense of things with.

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