Weekend Reading & Selected Links
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Happy weekend! Here are some links to things I've been reading or watching that you might also enjoy:
- An email history of the founding years of OpenAI, featuring Altman, Musk, Sutskever, Brockman and other protagonists. Compiled by Oliver Habryka.
- 'Modernity's Self-Destruct Button', a new First Things essay by Louise Perry.
- 'Getting AI datacentres in the UK', a new report by Jack Wiseman, Duncan McClements and Theo Horsley.
- 'Ozempic For Sleep', a new post by Isaak Freeman.
- Full video of last week's Congressional hearing on UAP sightings.
- Ilya's recent comments on scaling. (And an interpretation.)
- A recent lecture by former-guest-of-the-pod Rob Boyd. Good for those looking for an introduction to cultural evolution.
- New Peter Robinson interview with Peter Thiel.
- 'The Dangerous and Frightening Disappearance of the Nuclear Expert', a 2023 Politico article.
- 'Yes, inflation made the median voter poorer', a recent analysis of the US by Zach Mazlish.
- 'Here's What I Think We Should Do', a recent "proactive AI policy agenda" by Dean Ball.
- 'How to Accelerate Science', a new article by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber.
- 'Looking Back at the Future of Humanity Institute', a new Asterisk article by Tom Ough.
- 'How our team at Our World in Data became a global data source on COVID-19', a new article by Saloni Dattani, Edouard Mathieu and Lucas Rodés-Guirao.
- Tim Hwang: "What is the greatest, rarest PDF that you have saved down?"
- 'Approval Extraction Advertised as Production', an essay ostensibly about YC, by Ben Hoffman.
- Frank Fukuyama on DOGE.
Have a great weekend,
Joe