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Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data

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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

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Why compute might get 10x+ more expensive in coming years

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The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI

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The sample efficiency black hole

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The mistake of conflating intelligence and power

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Notes on pretraining parallelisms and failed training runs.

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RLVR might be disproportionately bad at science

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What I've been thinking about this weekend - More open questions, intelligence vs power, the problem of verification in science, the parallel discovery of Darwinism

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Blog prize for big questions about AI

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What I learned this week - Pretraining parallelisms, Can distillation be stopped, Mythos and the cybersecurity equilibrium, Pipeline RL, On why pretraining runs fails

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Notes on Space GPUs

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Hiring scouts to help me find guests

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Can aristocratic status games preserve labor share of income?

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Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)

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Podcast Strategy Doc (December 2025)

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Thinking through how pretraining vs RL learn

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Thoughts on the AI buildout

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On The Vital Question by Nick Lane

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