Links
Writings and videos that I find deep and insightful
Writings
The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton
Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant by Steve Yegge
Software 2.0 by Andrej Karpathy
ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web by Ted Chiang
Machines of Loving Grace by Dario Amodei
Elon Dreams and Bitter Lessons by Ben Thompson
Talks
Jailbreaking the Simulation by George Hotz
Two Paths to Intelligence by Geoffrey Hinton
Parables on the Power of Planning in AI by Noam Brown
Don’t teach. Incentivize by Hyung Won Chung
Podcasts
Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning by Lex Fridman
Jim Keller: The Future of Computing by Lex Fridman
George Hotz: Tiny Corp by Lex Fridman
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI by Lex Fridman
Short Science Fiction
What’s Expected of Us by Ted Chiang
Valuable Humans In Transit by qntm
Novels
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Permutation City by Greg Egan