2025-04-07
Elon Musk Breaks Rank, Rages Against Donald Trump's Tariffs
Billionaire Elon Musk and president Donald Trump's honeymoon appears to be over. Musk lashed out at the architect of Trump's catastrophic tariff policy, which has ravaged international markets and stoked...
Travel maven Rick Steves made a great hour-long documentary about the history...
Travel maven Rick Steves made a great hour-long documentary about the history of fascism in Europe. “We’ll see the horrific consequences: genocide and total war.”
The world according to ChatGPT
Published on April 7, 2025 1:44 PM GMT1.I linked this in a small comment yesterday, but I think it deserves greater prominence.It's an article by Sam Kriss, "Born in the...
AI 2027: Dwarkesh’s Podcast with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander
Published on April 7, 2025 1:40 PM GMTDaniel Kokotajlo has launched AI 2027, Scott Alexander introduces it here. AI 2027 is a serious attempt to write down what the future...
When Institutions Fail, Black Women Build New Worlds
Explore the power of radical acceptance for Black women in academia, envisioning a liberated future beyond institutional violence and oppression.
Arguing all sides with ChatGPT 4.5
Published on April 7, 2025 1:10 PM GMTTwo years ago I posted a demo of getting ChatGPT to argue any side of a question. Time to update it. I have...
Too Brilliant, Too Black: The Institutional Fear of Black Womanhood
Unpack the triple threat of race, gender, and education facing darker-skinned Black women navigating institutional violence, colorism, and silencing tactics.
'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a Decade
I've reported on Facebook for years and have always wondered: Does Facebook care what it is doing to society? Careless People makes clear it does not.
The Same Heaven
Published on April 7, 2025 12:57 PM GMTIkigaiThere is a village in Japan with an unusual density of 100 year olds. This caught the interest of a group of scientists....
So I Built a Sentient AI Twitter Agent... What's the Worst That Could Happen?
The project tackles some serious challenges in AI development. It's about understanding how AI systems can develop their own patterns of behavior and understanding. We're talking about autonomous systems that...
Response Time: Vol. 43
In our latest “Response Time” interview, we ask Lauren Gilbert, Senior Customer Happiness Manager at Memberful, about the most valuable thing working in customer service has taught them, and more.
RFC: a tool to create a ranked list of projects in explainable AI
Published on April 6, 2025 9:18 PM GMTTL; DRInspired by a recent post by Neel Nanda on Research Directions, I'm building a tool that extracts projects from ICLR 2025 and...
Roblox Engineer Reveals How to Ace FAANG ML Interviews—From Junior to Staff+
Machine learning system design round is increasingly becoming one of the rounds of assessment at top FAANG companies for ML engineers. The caveat is that ML System design interviews are...
Here’s Everything I Learned Building a Blog to Teach Cybersecurity
It was in early 2025 that I initiated my own blog, OpenExploit.in, with one simple aim: to make cybersecurity easy to learn and available to all.
This One Practice Makes LLMs Easier to Build, Test, and Scale
LLM prompt modularization allows you to safely introduce changes to your system over time. How and when to do it is described below.
Tobi Lütke is the CEO at Shopify
#founder #ceo #shopify #disagreement
Why Spam Lands in Your Inbox and How To Spot It
Selzy shares the reasons why spam lands in your inbox and offers effective tips to identify and avoid spam emails.
No Testing Is (Sometimes) Better Than Some Testing
In this edition of ToDUX, I discuss why the mantras “if it’s not tested, it’s just another opinion” and “some research is better than no research” can be harmful. My...
Is Excellence An Accident?
Excellence isn't about running the race better, it's about changing the track entirely. Richard Feynman didn't solve impossible physics problems by working harder than other scientists. Excellence isn't just intentional...
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