February 2025
- https://zhengdongwang.com/2024/12/29/2024-letter.html A great retro on AI progress
- https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections humblebragging
- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bb5Tnjdrptu89rcyY/what-s-the-short-timeline-plan raising AI alarm
- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NXTkEiaLA4JdS5vSZ/what-o3-becomes-by-2028 speculation
- https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-cyropaedia scott on cyrus
- https://gwern.net/on-really-trying anecdata on trying harder
- https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/what-to-watch-for-aaron-reichlin facts on new policy
- https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HX9ZDGwwSxAab46N9/you-don-t-need-to-justify-everything on being less rational
- https://space.ong.ac/escaping-flatland career advice
- https://danluu.com/teach-debugging/ problem-solving advice
- https://dynomight.substack.com/p/ranking in favour of algo ranking
- https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-46-the-transition AI developments in the new administration
- https://simonw.substack.com/p/anthropics-new-citations-api new Anthropic features
- https://aligned.substack.com/p/should-we-control-ai on control vs alignment
- https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-a-means-to-freedom-by-hp-lovecraft a book review from the GOATs
- https://metarationality.com/ - A guide to meta-rationality (roughly, a theory of the application of critical thinking)
- https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunking/ - patio11 longpost on ‘debanking’ in response to crypto people
- https://eugeneyan.com/writing/anti/ - emerging anti-llm sentiment on bluesky
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoG5EammWI4 - Dominic Cummings talking about the same things he always talks about
- https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/the-dream-machine - a pitch for science philanthropy
- https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/issue-17-no-great-stagnation-in-cruise - issue 17 of WiP
- https://thezvi.substack.com/p/childhood-and-education-roundup-7 - Zvi big roundup of parenting/education discourse
- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nAsMfmxDv6Qp7cfHh/fabien-s-shortform - Fabien Roger’s favourite AI safety papers of 2024
- https://mitchellh.com/writing/building-large-technical-projects - A guide to how to build software, from the founder of Hashicorp