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Given its status as one of the great American business biographies, I decided to read Titan, on Rockefeller, a couple of months ago. (I also paired it with a little of Tarbell’s history.) Titan is an impressive work, clearly the product of prodigious research. Assorted points

@So8res Certainly, I think it would be better if nobody was building AGI. I don't expect that to happen, though.

This is very likely Trump's most consequentially bad decision. RFK Jr. is cancelling cancer vaccine research and all mRNA vaccine research. And his decisions are all based on quack science. There were qualified conservative scientists for this post, and Trump picked a meme.

I agree that I underestimated this distance, at least partially out of youthful idealism.

At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live.

🧵✨🙏 With the new Claude Opus 4, we conducted what I think is by far the most thorough pre-launch alignment assessment to date, aimed at understanding its values, goals, and propensities. Preparing it was a wild ride. Here’s some of what we learned. 🙏✨🧵

There are a lot of problems with this platform, but the quality of AI discourse here is still 100x better than Bl**sky, which is awash in “every ChatGPT query bulldozes an acre of rainforest” level takes.

The Urgency of Interpretability: Why it's crucial that we understand how AI models work

What can an 8-year-old build in 45 minutes with the assistance of AI? My daughter has been learning to code with @cursor_ai and it's mind-blowing🤯 Here are highlights from her second coding session. In 45 minutes she built a chatbot powered by @CloudflareDev Workers AI 👀

twitter is dead so this is now a shitposting account until futher notice https://t.co/tiL5LxW6ms

We accept the yaml we think we deserve

what % of manifold users are deeply, personally invested in the answer to this one, d'you think

I created my first market on @ManifoldMarkets: https://t.co/6Jv1MZ4yUB

pair programming is very high leverage ��� you don’t just get the immediate task done, but also teach someone to be able to do it themselves

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alternate history novel where Ask Jeeves became the dominant search engine, and now we’re all sending each other Jeevesmails, making spreadsheets in Jsuite, and instead of Google Glass we got the wildly successful Jeeves Smart Monocle

Something really encouraging about my project Modern Serial is that I haven't done any marketing for weeks, yet sales continue coming in every day or so. My suspicion is that people are learning about the site via word-of-mouth, but it's hard to know for sure.

It’s actually crazy how much developing tiny games for #pico8 improved my performance in programming job interviews. For instance, in PICO-8, if you want to detect that 2 objects ran into each other, you’ve gotta write that collision detection code yourself, by hand. There’s no

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The media coverage keeps coming! My project Modern Serial got a lot of Canadian visitors today after this mention in the @Wealthsimple TLDR newsletter.