Dwarkesh Patel
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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 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
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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.
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
"Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere."
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations and a…