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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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December 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
An audio version of my blog post, Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
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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December 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War • Oil crisis, Sino-Soviet split, ethnic rebellions, and arms build-up
Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025) • Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term
Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term
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December 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025) • Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term
Podcast Strategy Doc (December 2025)
Podcast Strategy Doc (December 2025)
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December 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Podcast Strategy Doc (December 2025)
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research • “These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
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November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research • “These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
RL is even more information inefficient than you thought • And implications for RLVR progress
RL is even more information inefficient than you thought
And implications for RLVR progress
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November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
RL is even more information inefficient than you thought • And implications for RLVR progress
Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI • Plus a tour of Fairwater 2, the most powerful AI datacenter in the world
Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
Plus a tour of Fairwater 2, the most powerful AI datacenter in the world
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November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI • Plus a tour of Fairwater 2, the most powerful AI datacenter in the world
Sarah Paine – How Russia sabotaged China's rise • Plus, where Russia and China go from here
Sarah Paine – How Russia sabotaged China's rise
Plus, where Russia and China go from here
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November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Sarah Paine – How Russia sabotaged China's rise • Plus, where Russia and China go from here
Thoughts on the AI buildout • Fab CapEx overhang, 1 GW a week, China privileged in long timelines, and much else
Thoughts on the AI buildout
Fab CapEx overhang, 1 GW a week, China privileged in long timelines, and much else
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November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Thoughts on the AI buildout • Fab CapEx overhang, 1 GW a week, China privileged in long timelines, and much else
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away • "The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
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November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away • "The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable • Life is continuous with Earth’s geochemistry
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
Life is continuous with Earth’s geochemistry
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November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable • Life is continuous with Earth’s geochemistry
Some thoughts on the Sutton interview • I have a much better understanding of Sutton’s vision now
Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
I have a much better understanding of Sutton’s vision now
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November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Some thoughts on the Sutton interview • I have a much better understanding of Sutton’s vision now
On The Vital Question by Nick Lane • Life is continuous with Earth's geochemistry??
On The Vital Question by Nick Lane
Life is continuous with Earth's geochemistry??
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November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
On The Vital Question by Nick Lane • Life is continuous with Earth's geochemistry??
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine • Plus, how VLA models work, self-improvement from deployment, and China’s hardware advantage
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
Plus, how VLA models work, self-improvement from deployment, and China’s hardware advantage
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November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine • Plus, how VLA models work, self-improvement from deployment, and China’s hardware advantage
How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine • “The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril” – Winston Churchill
How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
“The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril” – Winston Churchill
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November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine • “The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril” – Winston Churchill
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel • Is the answer already in our genome?
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel
Is the answer already in our genome?
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November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel • Is the answer already in our genome?
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer • Plus, how solar fits into the next 10 years
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
Plus, how solar fits into the next 10 years
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November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer • Plus, how solar fits into the next 10 years
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard • “Chickens are unbeatable at converting grain into protein”
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
“Chickens are unbeatable at converting grain into protein”
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November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard • “Chickens are unbeatable at converting grain into protein”
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China • Plus, the most lopsided naval battle in human history
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
Plus, the most lopsided naval battle in human history
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November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China • Plus, the most lopsided naval battle in human history
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history • The most consequential figure of the 20th century
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
The most consequential figure of the 20th century
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November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history • The most consequential figure of the 20th century
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner • An audio version of the original blog post
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
An audio version of the original blog post
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November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner • An audio version of the original blog post
Sarah Paine 6 part July lecture series - free tickets for paid subscribers • 6 new lectures from my most popular guest, 4 times over.
Sarah Paine 6 part July lecture series - free tickets for paid subscribers
6 new lectures from my most popular guest, 4 times over.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Sarah Paine 6 part July lecture series - free tickets for paid subscribers • 6 new lectures from my most popular guest, 4 times over.
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church • The man behind the last few decades of biotech breakthroughs
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church
The man behind the last few decades of biotech breakthroughs
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November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church • The man behind the last few decades of biotech breakthroughs