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Here's an unpublished essay on the far future, which was written as a chapter for an academic text on modern SF. The chapter was written a...

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The apparent rate of biomedical progress has never been greater.

Testing grand theories of politics (or economics) is difficult because such theories are always contingent on ceteris paribus assumptions but outside of a lab, all else is rarely the same. The great Philip Tetlock has run multi-decade forecasting experiments but these are time and resource consuming. Tetlock, however, now suggests that LLMs could speed the […]

For every team that says “this is as good as it’s going to get,” there’s a doppelgänger team out there who refuses to settle. They are pushing & they will eat your lunch-unless you raise your bar.

This is the #1 trait I look for when hiring. Here's why you should aim to be someone who turns a little into a lot & why you should bring skill, judgment, and magic to raise the bar.

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Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024 You can see the future first in San Francisco. Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to

Some sentences just sound awkward. In order to ensure clarity, writers need to consider more than just grammar: weight is equally important. In the following extract from Making Sense, acclaimed linguist David Crystal shows how sentence length (and weight) affects writing quality.

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The answer is not another video of Steve Jobs

The role-playing game, celebrating its 50th birthday, continues to inspire players and Hollywood creators

I've had these conversations with a navel-gazer or two. — Miloš Miljković (@miljko)

They assumed that new developments would come from a top-down theoretical approach led by respectable experts, spending years doing research before attempting… — Peter Hague (@peterrhague)

More burial sites are forgoing pristine lawns for drought resistant plants and wildflowers that help wildlife. Efforts picked up in the pandemic.

Tirelessly worked on over the past 2 years, Book of Fuligin is the brainchild behind editor and contributor Ramón Perales Cano. Nearly 40 creators have come together to tell stories honoring Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun and celebrating his genre-defining legacy. Spanning the length of 250 or so pages, Book of F

Computers have often been used as fictional objects in literature, movies and in other forms of media. Fictional computers may be depicted as considerably more sophisticated than anything yet devised in the real world. Fictional computers may be referred to with a made-up manufacturer's brand name and model number or a nickname.

Why some startups grow fast

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America, before and after vaccines.

Personal writing and other things by Nabeel Qureshi.

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