Links
Writings and videos that I find deep and insightful
Update: I also made Link Drift, an interactive cloud of links you can click through. Check it out if you want to browse this page in a more playful way.
Writings
- The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton
- Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant by Steve Yegge
- Software 2.0 by Andrej Karpathy
- ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web by Ted Chiang
- Machines of Loving Grace by Dario Amodei
- Elon Dreams and Bitter Lessons by Ben Thompson
Novels
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- Permutation City by Greg Egan
- The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams
Nonfiction
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
Talks
- Jailbreaking the Simulation by George Hotz
- Two Paths to Intelligence by Geoffrey Hinton
- Parables on the Power of Planning in AI by Noam Brown
- Don’t teach. Incentivize by Hyung Won Chung
Podcasts
- Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning by Lex Fridman
- Jim Keller: The Future of Computing by Lex Fridman
- George Hotz: Tiny Corp by Lex Fridman
- Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI by Lex Fridman
- Andrej Karpathy Episode by Dwarkesh Patel
Short Science Fiction
- What’s Expected of Us by Ted Chiang
- Julia by Fernando Borretti
- Valuable Humans In Transit by qntm
- Friendship is Optimal by Iceman
- The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
- Learning to Be Me by Greg Egan
- A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck