Derek Thompson

Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AI

Derek Thompson1w1 week agoPaywalled.

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The Labor Market for Recent College Graduates, Confidence in U.S. Higher Education Slips Back Slightly

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Second Breakfast, and more ›

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AI Safety Is Having a Moment

Derek Thompson1w1 week agoPaywalled.

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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing..., Pacing the Frontier, and more ›

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Yahoo Tech, patheos.com, and more ›

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We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internet

Derek Thompson2w2 weeks agoHN Covered by820 min read

How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI?, The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet, and more ›

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A Sunday of Liberty, thoughts.pivic.com, and more ›

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How to Survive the AI Cyberpocalypse

Derek Thompson4w4 weeks agoPaywalled.

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Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the Incident, How fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing?

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The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit

Derek Thompson5w5 weeks agoHN Covered by48 min read

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The Great American AI Rebellion

Derek Thompson5w5 weeks agoPaywalled.

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No data centers in my backyard, America’s data center backlash is bipartisan — can it stay that way?, and more ›

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The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilization

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The DSA sweet spot: highly educated, downwardly mobile, Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books, and more ›

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The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse

Derek Thompson7w7 weeks agoPaywalled.

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JPMorgan flags a warning quietly flashing in stocks that preceded the dot-com crash

The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet

Derek Thompson7w7 weeks agoPaywalled.

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Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace

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What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern

Derek Thompson8w8 weeks ago15 min read

A Philosopher's One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird

Derek Thompson9w9 weeks agoHN Covered by1820 min read

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Marginal REVOLUTION, CIAM Weekly, and more ›

Is This the End of Booze?

Derek Thompson10w10 weeks agoPaywalled.

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America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are

Derek Thompson11w11 weeks agoHN Covered by515 min read

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The Anti-Social Century

It’s the Best Time Ever to Become a Millionaire by Working Alone

Derek Thompson11w11 weeks agoPaywalled.

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Artificial Intelligence, Productivity, and the Workforce: Evidence from Corporate Executives

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The U.S. Went to War to Take Away Iran's Superweapon. It Gave Iran a New One.

Derek Thompson12w12 weeks agoPaywalled.

The Derek Thompson Substack Turns 1! Here's How the Newsletter Is Doing

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Americans have never been healthier or more alone. Might these things be related

Derek Thompson13w13 weeks agoHN Covered by615 min read

The Anti-Social Century, ‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World, and more ›

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Why Do the Best Leaders Fail at the Most Important Job?

Derek Thompson14w14 weeks agoPaywalled.

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America's Real Social Crisis Is the Opposite of Loneliness

Derek Thompson15w15 weeks agoHN Covered by615 min read

A majority of Americans say the country’s best years are behind us, Male loneliness and isolation: What the data shows

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