The one thing I like about AI investment vs the internet - a v large proportion is being spent actually building things. Makes me a little more sanguine about whether we’re in a bubble (which we probably are).

Extraordinary

By the time these studies are published, the models are always about 2 years out of date… And 2 years of AI progress is *a lot*

The same result keeps cropping up

AI and medicine - incredibly exciting. The frontier models are already substantially outperforming doctors

I’m always struck by the number of ppl who aren’t able to integrate that the facts that China is simultaneously the second largest economy in the world with some incredibly dynamic sectors - and at the same time a developing country with a GDP per capita of $12,500

The mountain shots in ‘The Eight Mountains.’ Imo the best film of the 2020s. We’re not short of great films today, but we’re short of great filmmakers (Christopher Nolan is boring)

America is so comically powerful that Trump swinging his dick around will, in a very narrow sense, ‘produce results.’

During a very good moment for very bad people, I am absolutely going to enjoy watching Vinay Prasad being passed over for Surgeon General

A lovely little poem about fairytales, self-blame, and illness.

A Long Covid nightmare

This would almost certainly mean the end of Long Covid research at the NIH

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