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Demis Hassabis doesn't think we're in a simulation, at least not the way Bostrom framed it. “I don't think this is some kind of game.” But he does believe reality may be computational at its core. AlphaGo and AlphaFold model nature too well to ignore.

A hypothesis on the accelerating decline of reading: * Broadly speaking, people read for pleasure/entertainment and for learning/obtaining information. * Reading for pleasure has been declining for a while and is being replaced by videos (very sharply among young people).

Find Your People (the commencement speech I just gave at Bucknell): foundersatwork.posthaven.com/find-your-peop…

This gave me chills. Awesome lens. From Invest Like the Best Patrick OShaughnessy via James Clear Investor Rick Buhrman on the kindness of mastering your craft: INTERVIEWER: What is the kindest thing that anyone's ever done for you? ​ BUHRMAN: ... our oldest son, Theo, who just turned

Good post from Balaji on the "verification gap". You could see it as there being two modes in creation. Borrowing GAN terminology: 1) generation and 2) discrimination. e.g. painting - you make a brush stroke (1) and then you look for a while to see if you improved the

Those predicting rapid AI-driven economic transformation seem to ignore the massive complexity of deploying AI in ways that go beyond automating or assisting with specific tasks and instead replacing workers or teams. To make this more concrete, here's a particularly gnarly

Good books immerse you in a new world. Great books introduce you to a new worldview. Good books are page-turners—they're meant to be devoured. Great books are corner-folders—they're made to be savored. Good books keep you engaged. Great books leave you changed.

Reminder that if you want to give o3-pro a try and don't want or can't afford the $200/month pro sub, you can access it from the Open AI playground.

Many people assume that LRM reasoning breaks down past a certain "complexity" or "number of steps" threshold. This is incorrect. It breaks down past an unfamiliarity threshold. And that threshold is very low. There is no limit to the complexity of tasks you can solve with these

I vastly prefer books. People hammer out tutorials in an evening (myself included). Books take hundreds or even thousands of hours between drafts, editing, fact checking, and beta readers.

Wrapped up Stanford CS336 (Language Models from Scratch), taught with an amazing team Tatsunori Hashimoto Marcel Rød Neil Band Rohith Kuditipudi. Researchers are becoming detached from the technical details of how LMs work. In CS336, we try to fix that by having students build everything:

My favorite ideas from the episode with Charlie Songhurst

sometimes people say they don't have many ideas for things to vibe code. an approach i like to recommend is to "cook from the fridge". you know how it can be overwhelming to ask "what do i feel like eating?" Sometimes it's easier to just look in the fridge and see what

+1 for "context engineering" over "prompt engineering". People associate prompts with short task descriptions you'd give an LLM in your day-to-day use. When in every industrial-strength LLM app, context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window

Kevin Kelly on how the most interesting technologies serve as platforms that enable other people’s creativity

Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. I'm a medical doctor and I actually read the paper. Here's my perspective on why this is both impressive AND misleading ... 🧵

From Brie Wolfson essay “Flounder Mode”

"Flounder mode" 👌 A nice counter to the overly-intense silicon valley culture. Each to their own, but I think life's a lot richer with the curious tinkerers chasing things besides money :)

Fantastic piece on the one-and-only Kevin Kelly by Brie Wolfson! > I want to live in a world where you can have an impact and be happy. Brie - Simple solution to your quest: write wonderfully introspective and hope-giving pieces like this! 🙏