AGI
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Their wordsI am actively looking at buying more land and real estate (especially coastal) as that's a scarce asset that will remain scarce post-AGI
↗I'm scrambling to chase any remaining moats as AI companies suck up everything elselevels.io
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Daniel W. Drezner quoted
Political scientist writing Drezner’s World on international relations
Our readingThe culture of the Trump administration guarantees that special envoys will not be constrained.
Their wordsBut the story also reveals why the culture of the Trump administration guarantees that this will not happen: The secretary of state is not managing anything at Foggy Bottom so he can stay close to the president; The deputy secretary of state is an insecure martinet who would never have been placed in such a high position in any competent administration; The special envoys appointed by Trump will either leak to the press or complain to the White House if anyone tries to rein in their activities.
↗Heckuva Job You’re Doing, Marco Rubio!danieldrezner.substack.com
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsAGI-assisted automation will finally provide us with consistent quality services like the one below
- KD
Kent C. Dodds quoted
Software engineer and educator
Their wordsI've not used it in a long time because agents are good at managing that on their own
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- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsWe should thank our lucky stars that Linus isn't part of the anti-ai nonsense that's ravaging the old Linux world.
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Brad DeLong quoted
Economics professor at the University of California
Their wordsMonetary policy works by managing expectations: For what moves spending is the market’s expected future path of short rates, which feeds into long rates, equity prices and exchange rates.
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsI've always believed that the destiny of humans was to become the characters in fantasy novels, and it was always clear that this was going to require magic, gods, spirits, and modification of human nature, all of which we have now either created or will soon achieve.
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- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsWhat's good for humanity at large in the long run may well be temporarily tragic for the individual in the short run.
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- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsIt's possible for tech layoffs to be both individually tragic and collectively bullish.
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Josh Puckett quoted
Designer, advisor and investor
Their wordsWhether it’s answering emails, reviewing portfolios, or just listening and encouraging, elders should make themselves available to others.
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François Chollet quoted
Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark
Their wordsHumanity has not yet created a conscious computer program, and there are no signs we are close to doing so.
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Creator of Flask and Jinja
Their wordsIt’s not very hard to make an agent somewhat durable. It’s surprisingly hard to make an agent harness inherently durable and not turn into a crazy mess.
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Sunil Pai quoted
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026
Our readingMachines can be conscious
Their wordsI absolutely think machines can be conscious, and it’s not a dramatic thing to believe.
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Ramez Naam quoted
Author and clean-energy investor who has been publishing…
Our readingMachines can be conscious
Their wordsIt's clear to me that consciousness can exist in other substrates than humans, including in digital systems.
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Paul Graham quoted
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
Their wordsThe skeptics who say AI can't conjecture, can't theorize, and can't explain are describing last spring's models.
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Pieter Levels quoted
Our readingAGI might create a two-tier split in society
Their wordsI think this is super accurate AGI might just create a two-tier split in society
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsReal estate and land also one of the few scarce resources left in a post-AGI world where almost every good becomes almost free
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Danny Martinez quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Decimals
Their wordsI think the the general theme that comes back is I want someone that is a tinkerer, you know, is using the latest tools, is reimagining what it means to be a designer.
↗Danny Martinez - Thriving in today’s design job marketyoutube.com 2nd of 19 in this recording
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Celso Martinho quoted
Vice president of engineering at Cloudflare as of 2026
Our readingWebsites were not built for agents, and browsing as it stands is a messy process for them.
Their wordsWebsites were not built for agents to use. Browsing today is a messy process of clicking pixels and hoping the right element loads. In a programmatic world this is slow and fragile.
↗The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf updateblog.cloudflare.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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François Chollet quoted
Their wordsThe purpose of the AI industry should be to produce tools that, in the human hand, will improve human prosperity and welfare. It should not be to create a "successor species" to the human race.
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- RN
Ramez Naam quoted
AI alignmentrecursive self-improvement
Their wordsI do expect autonomous self-improvement to arrive at some point. I’m skeptical that it leads to Type 5 - runaway super-intelligence - without a major conceptual breakthrough.
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsThe constant decel messaging in Europe is insufferable as an adult, but its effect on kids is worse.
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Terence Tao quoted
Their wordsImproper usage of AI offloads thinking, understanding and learning, thus mortgaging future mathematical development.
↗A value-based approach to mathematicsterrytao.wordpress.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Terence Tao quoted
Their wordsThe value of math, like so many other forms of knowledge, also comes from the process, not just the product.
↗A value-based approach to mathematicsterrytao.wordpress.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Tyler Cowen quoted
Economist at George Mason University
Their wordsMany people panicked about the possibility of strong AI models killing us all. That fear was not based on peer-reviewed scientific research showing a high chance of doom, nor was doom indicated in any market prices of the time, including measures of risk.
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Robin Hanson quoted
Associate professor of economics at George Mason University
Their wordsLike our other bio-squishy descendants, our teaching and guidance should eventually show them how to join civilization.
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Peter Steinberger quoted
Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade
Their wordsBiggest limitation isn’t the tech, it’s imagination and creativity.
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Tim Harford quoted
Economist and journalist
Our readingA tossed coin is more likely to land on the same face it started on than on the opposite face.
Their wordsPersi Diaconis, celebrated both as a mathematician and magician, has found that a coin toss is, in general, a 51/49 proposition in favour of finishing the same way up that it started.
↗Random is as random doestimharford.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Gretchen Rubin quoted
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature
Their wordsMonitoring has an almost uncanny power. It doesn’t require change, but it often leads to change, because people who keep close track of just about anything tend to do a better job of managing it.
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Matthew Yglesias quoted
Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American…
Their wordsBut the actual details of schools that serve high-need populations vary quite a lot, and it’s worth both engaging with the specifics of your local situation and thinking about the general policy questions.
↗Why I send my kid to low-income urban public schoolsslowboring.com