Dwarkesh Patel

8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning

Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x

This is a video version of a post I wrote last week.

General relativity from first principles – Adam Brown

Adam Brown is back! General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced.

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?

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."

Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time

"He begged to work for the regime that tortured him."

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…

TRIGGERnometry: People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen

Triggernometry is proudly independent. Thanks to the sponsors below for making that possible:- Earn a yield on…

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.

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.