What eras bookend our interregnum?
The Era of Experience & The Age of Design: Richard S. Sutton, Upper Bound 2025
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…
233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper
This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.
Notes from inside China's AI labs
Lessons from my trip to talk to most of the leading AI labs in China.
Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker
The warning shots will continue until civilization wakes up
Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.
Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.
The first step towards recursive self improvement
AI, Ethics, and Society — Home
Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics
Is the wall AI is hitting in the room with us right now?
Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman
Plus, a machine hermeneutics story
Study Guide: Empire of AI by Karen Hao (SuperSummary)
Analyzing literature can be hard — we make it easy! Thi…
