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Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity • And why black holes are the ultimate power plants.
Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
And why black holes are the ultimate power plants.
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The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI • Abolishing pandemics/ Getting out of the way of AI automation/ Learning from Hong Kong MTR's business model
The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI
Abolishing pandemics/ Getting out of the way of AI automation/ Learning from Hong Kong MTR's business model
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Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math • Math is where we’ll see superintelligence first. What will it look like?
Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
Math is where we’ll see superintelligence first. What will it look like?
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The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job • Labs are throwing away the most valuable data.
The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
Labs are throwing away the most valuable data.
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The data black hole at the center of AI • "We see these AIs as a galaxy glittering with capabilities, but at their center, invisible to the naked eye, holding all the constellations together, is an unimaginably massive black hole of data."
The data black hole at the center of AI
"We see these AIs as a galaxy glittering with capabilities, but at their center, invisible to the naked eye, holding all the constellations together, is an unimaginably massive black hole of data."
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Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time • "He begged to work for the regime that tortured him."
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
"He begged to work for the regime that tortured him."
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The sample efficiency black hole • "We see these AIs as a galaxy glittering with capabilities, but at their center, invisible to the naked eye, holding all the constellations together, is an unimaginably massive black hole of data."
The sample efficiency black hole
"We see these AIs as a galaxy glittering with capabilities, but at their center, invisible to the naked eye, holding all the constellations together, is an unimaginably massive black hole of data."
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Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI? • “One robot now turns into many robots next year, but the number of ballerinas is the same.”
Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
“One robot now turns into many robots next year, but the number of ballerinas is the same.”
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The mistake of conflating intelligence and power • If this is your definition of intelligence is "the ability to achieve your goals across a wide variety of domains", then Stalin was the most intelligent person who ever lived.
The mistake of conflating intelligence and power
If this is your definition of intelligence is "the ability to achieve your goals across a wide variety of domains", then Stalin was the most intelligent person who ever lived.
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Notes on pretraining parallelisms and failed training runs.
Notes on pretraining parallelisms and failed training runs.
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RLVR might be disproportionately bad at science • the verification loop for theories can be on the order of decades and centuries, and even then we know today as the better theory can often actually make worse predictions
RLVR might be disproportionately bad at science
the verification loop for theories can be on the order of decades and centuries, and even then we know today as the better theory can often actually make worse predictions
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Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch • AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play.
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play.
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David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution • "Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere."
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
"Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere."
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Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served • It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations and a blackboard
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations and a blackboard
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What I've been thinking about this weekend - More open questions, intelligence vs power, the problem of verification in science, the parallel discovery of Darwinism • Hodge podge of things I was thinking about this weekend.
What I've been thinking about this weekend - More open questions, intelligence vs power, the problem of verification in science, the parallel discovery of Darwinism
Hodge podge of things I was thinking about this weekend.
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Blog prize for the big questions about AI • The not-so-secret point of this whole contest is so that I can hire a research collaborator
Blog prize for the big questions about AI
The not-so-secret point of this whole contest is so that I can hire a research collaborator
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Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat • “If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it"
Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
“If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it"
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Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses • The true story of Einstein, Newton, and Darwin
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
The true story of Einstein, Newton, and Darwin
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Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute • Plus, why an H100 is worth more today than 3 years ago
Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
Plus, why an H100 is worth more today than 3 years ago
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I’m glad the Anthropic fight is happening now • “Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”
I’m glad the Anthropic fight is happening now
“Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”
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How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution • Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years."
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution
Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years."
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Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential" • "That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"
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Notes on Space GPUs • Turning my Elon prep into a blog post
Notes on Space GPUs
Turning my Elon prep into a blog post
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Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space” • “Those who live in software land are about to have a hard lesson in hardware.”
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
“Those who live in software land are about to have a hard lesson in hardware.”
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Hiring scouts to help me find guests • $100/hour, fully remote. Ideal candidate is maybe a grad student/post doc/or working in one of: bio, history, econ, math/physics, AI/hardware.
Hiring scouts to help me find guests
$100/hour, fully remote. Ideal candidate is maybe a grad student/post doc/or working in one of: bio, history, econ, math/physics, AI/hardware.
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What I've been reading recently - Jan 10, 2026 • Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos, Machines of Loving Grace, Max Hodak’s theory of consciousness, Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
What I've been reading recently - Jan 10, 2026
Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos, Machines of Loving Grace, Max Hodak’s theory of consciousness, Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
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Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain • The brain's secret sauce is its reward functions, not its architecture.
Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
The brain's secret sauce is its reward functions, not its architecture.
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Capital in the 22nd Century • Piketty was wrong about the past. He’s probably right about the future.
Capital in the 22nd Century
Piketty was wrong about the past. He’s probably right about the future.
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An audio version of my blog post, Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
An audio version of my blog post, Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
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Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War • Oil crisis, Sino-Soviet split, ethnic rebellions, and arms build-up
Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War
Oil crisis, Sino-Soviet split, ethnic rebellions, and arms build-up
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