A non-exhaustive list of questions that I do not really see discussed as much as I think they probably deserve to be discussed.
What's good?
I want to start by talking about some things that seem like potential ways out of the dark forest tangle—even if they’re imperfect, which they all are.
The Pacing of the Frontier
In the wake of the letter calling on us to prepare to potentially Pace the Frontier, there has been much discussion of when pacing the frontier would be prudent, and whether it makes sense to prepare to do so.
The Questions Concerning Technology
A set of 41 questions drafted with a view to helping us draw out the moral or ethical implications of our tools.
Questions · Patrick Collison
Some questions that I find interesting. I've omitted some that are related to Stripe. (Pointers to interesting readings on these topics are always welcome, as are pointers to responses.)
Wildland: Why, What and How?
We are excited to present the paper outlining the project’s high-level rationale, as well as some nuts and bolts of this initiative.
Forms Upon the Frontier: Folk Life and Folk Arts in the United States (Monograph Series, Vol. XVI, No. 2, April 1969)
Good condition. (folklore, frontier life) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Guns, games and violence: The real questions you should be asking
Don’t get thrown by causality
Rudy's Theory of Revolution
Eclecticisms Conversations Series: Episode 001 - Interview with Rudy Fraser of Blacksky
Post-alpha plans
Hey folks 👋 We’re about a month into the spaces alpha! From what I can tell, it’s going along pretty nicely. We pushed out one breaking change about two weeks back, but it’s been pretty stable apart from that. I wanted to share a list of some of the open questions we’re still noodling on. Many of these will likely involve breaking changes. Most of these are not truly “open”, we have opinions on them and need to just nail it down. However, if anything is important to you, please sha...
Too Much TV: Substack Is Going To Give Me A Stroke
And I take a look at the new Paramount, circa 2029.
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
Foundation and Empire tells the incredible story of a n…
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shoc…
The Jagged AI Frontier
The nonintuitive strengths and weaknesses of AI performance relative to human performance, and how it is changing over time.
AI 2027
What will be left for us to work on?
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
Taking more seriously the claim that recent ML models do not "reason", it still is quite odd the particular ways that superhuman game-playin…
General-purpose large language models outperform specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks
StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction
