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• Venkatesh Rao (@contraptions): "I’m not very agentic and don’t want to be. Having experienced Claude Code for a few months, it strikes me as the right way to be. Being agentic is for machines. Humans should be principalic (**ducks***). The human meme of “you can just do things” I think was not about agency at…"1 savers
• LLM Resources2 savers
• Learning through human feedback — Google DeepMind1 savers
• Understanding the role of the discount factor in reinforcement learning - Cross Validated1 savers
• OpenAI Newsroom on X: "We recently submitted a confidential S-1. We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it. We have not decided on timing yet; it may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company. But it’s a complicated set of tradeoffs and this" / X1 savers
• Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity — Google DeepMind1 savers
• It is the end of the world and I am here to take you home1 savers
• Urban Dictionary: Retardmaxxing1 savers
• Marc Andreessen's 'Casual Ownership' Philosophy Puts Silicon Valley's Anxiety Culture On Trial1 savers
• Grief is a Bird in an Airport - by Simran Varma1 savers
• The stable marriage problem - by Ajeya Cotra - Good Bones2 savers
• Until you get punched in the face - by Cate Hall2 savers
• get sexier - by Sophie Kim - sophie at inkhaven!1 savers
• 26 things i know - by Sophie Kim - sophie at inkhaven!1 savers
• how to do good in the world - by Sophie Kim1 savers
• someday - by Sophie Kim - sophie at inkhaven!1 savers
• the daughter who would have stayed - by Sophie Kim1 savers
• The Worst Version of You Is Getting All the Practice1 savers
• Is this it? - by Leon Jia - Leon's Substack3 savers
• Scaling a Betting Operation - Chris Dierkes1 savers
• Trading Weekend Perp Markets - by Lihong - The Logbook1 savers
• Why music? - by Andrew Wu - Flights of fancy1 savers
• leaping - by Celeste 🌱 - celeste-land1 savers
• Curius / Onboarding2507 savers
• Searching for outliers | benkuhn.net35 savers
• Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible - Alexey Guzey28 savers
• The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.22 savers
• Beyond the Sky - Colossus19 savers
• mode collapse - by vincent huang - a slice of my mind14 savers
• A woefully incomplete guide to technical upskilling12 savers
• i have found a way out - by Sophie Kim10 savers
• after my dad died, we found the love letters | Jenneral HQ7 savers
• I Stumbled Across My Boyfriend's ChatGPT and It Ended Our Relationship6 savers
• ALIGNMENT - by vincent huang - a slice of my mind5 savers
• Do not conquer what you cannot defend — LessWrong5 savers
• Stop asking people to maximize - Mark Xu5 savers
• Jane Street Blog - Can you reverse engineer our neural network?4 savers
• The seam through the center of things - by Cate Hall4 savers
• knowing what to do - by vincent huang - a slice of my mind3 savers
• None of us are easy to be with - by hasif 💌3 savers
• To Contain a Brain3 savers
• Abhay Shukla · rcbi3 savers
• human-human interaction - by vincent huang2 savers