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Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
And why black holes are the ultimate power plants.
Jul 10
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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 Honk Kong MTR's business model
Jul 1
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June 2026
Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
Watch now (94 mins) | Math is where we’ll see superintelligence first. What will it look like?
Jun 30
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The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
Labs are throwing away the most valuable data.
Jun 26
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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…
Jun 19
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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."
Jun 16
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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.”
Jun 4
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May 2026
Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
Working up from basic logic gates to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.
May 22
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The mistake of conflating intelligence and power
If your definition of intelligence is "the ability to achieve your goals across a wide variety of domains", then Stalin was the most intelligent person…
May 16
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Notes on pretraining parallelisms and failed training runs.
Deeply researched interviews
May 16
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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…
May 16
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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.
May 15
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