Links

Oct 2026

• Lance Oppenheim interviewed by Phoebe Bridgers pi.fyiOct 1

Sep 2026

• Mark colossus.comSep 14
• God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques astralcodexten.substack.comSep 12
• Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier darioamodei.comSep 12
• Scenarios for our Economic Future anthropic.comSep 10
• Culture Becomes a Dark Forest erikhoel.substack.comSep 9
• What are we teaching music for? ecumene.substack.comSep 9
• The Education of a Doomer borretti.meSep 7
• Everything In The World Is Exactly The Same mindslice.substack.comSep 6
• notes on the brothers karamazov ava.substack.comSep 6
• Pivot to AI safety, I beg you ceselder.substack.comSep 2
• After Work, We’ll Have Each Other asteriskmag.comSep 2
• Backsliding, by Meghan O’Gieblyn harpers.orgSep 1

Aug 2026

• There's no reason for software to be slow anymore danluu.comAug 30
• The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations dwarkesh.comAug 29
• What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools strangeloopcanon.comAug 29
• Human Life in a Post-AGI World - Google DeepMind Talk tylercowen.comAug 28
• Til death or the Singularity acotra.substack.comAug 28
• Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident metr.orgAug 26
• Psychokinetics ponnekanti.netAug 19
• Where do children’s earliest memories go? | Aeon Essays aeon.coAug 17
• You Should Write More Online gwern.netAug 16
• How to Get Rich in America kyla.substack.comAug 13
• Why We Like Things asteriskmag.comAug 13
• the life you were meant to live personalcanon.substack.comAug 11
• Notes from China, Q3 2026 milan.cvitkovic.netAug 10
• What just happened? A retrospective of AI alignment — LessWrong lesswrong.comAug 9
• In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley (1961–2026), with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years writings.stephenwolfram.comAug 6
• No Data Centers In My Backyard jasmine.substack.comAug 3

Jul 2026

• Why compute might get 10x more expensive in coming years dwarkesh.comJul 29
• Consciousness is a great mystery. Its definition isn't. erikhoel.substack.comJul 29
• We Rarely Lose Technology etiennefd.substack.comJul 28
• What will more intelligence actually do for us? noahpinion.substack.comJul 26
• Contra Plan A, Scott, and others - let’s not increase existential risk millionsfold performativebafflement.substack.comJul 23

Jun 2026

• Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You moultano.wordpress.comJun 27
• Should you be in charge of your life? sashachapin.substack.comJun 23
• Should People Avoid Whole-Body Screening Info? astralcodexten.substack.comJun 23
• The worthlessness of vitamin D is mildly exaggerated dynomight.netJun 23
• The Old World Is Dying jasmi.newsJun 10
• The Fairchildren of AI semaphore.substack.comJun 8
• i used to think that novels were a waste of time personalcanon.substack.comJun 6

May 2026

• If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you samkriss.substack.comMay 27
• Is “colorectal cancer” rising in “young people”? dynomight.netMay 26
• Notes from inside China's AI labs interconnects.aiMay 24
• Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease owlposting.comMay 22
• On the conquest of Peru performativebafflement.substack.comMay 13
• There was only mom nintil.comMay 3
• Hydration: More Than You Wanted to Know drwilliambuffington.substack.comMay 3
• Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud bitsaboutmoney.comMay 2
• It is the end of the world and I am here to take you home nataliercargill.substack.comMay 1

Apr 2026

• Curious cases of financial engineering in biotech owlposting.comApr 27
• Links for April samenright.substack.comApr 26
• On creating 'new knobs of control' in biology owlposting.comApr 17
• The AI people have been right a lot dylanmatthews.substack.comApr 16
• The Intelligence Curse intelligence-curse.aiApr 16
• How to walk through walls henrikkarlsson.xyzApr 15
• My journey to the microwave alternate timeline lesswrong.comApr 12
• Driving cross-country marginalrevolution.comApr 12
• everything i read in february & march 2026 personalcanon.comApr 4
• Infinite midwit experimental-history.comApr 2

Mar 2026

• Being John Rawls astralcodexten.comMar 31
• Things I learned at OpenAI semaphore.substack.comMar 29
• Developing creative identity michaelnotebook.comMar 29
• Reasons to be pessimistic (and optimistic) on the future of biosecurity owlposting.comMar 16
• Vignettes from the Takeoff strangeloopcanon.comMar 15
• So You Want to Build a Tunnel... — Practical Engineering practical.engineeringMar 8
• Agents of Chaos, by Will Stephenson harpers.orgMar 8
• How to Rack 30 Petabytes of Storage si.incMar 5

Feb 2026

• THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS citriniresearch.comFeb 22
• Contra Caplan on higher education mindthefuture.infoFeb 20
• Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss harpers.orgFeb 20
• Seedance, Kling and the Chinese AI Video Ecosystem chinatalk.mediaFeb 17
• Do Less. usefulfictions.substack.comFeb 15
• Julia borretti.meFeb 15
• What Happened With Bio Anchors? astralcodexten.comFeb 13
• On Recursive Self-Improvement (Part I) hyperdimensional.coFeb 8
• You Are Here brooker.co.zaFeb 8
• The dawn of the posthuman age noahpinion.blogFeb 7
• Owning a $5M data center blog.comma.aiFeb 6
• Heritability of human life span dynomight.netFeb 6
• Notes on Space GPUs dwarkesh.comFeb 6
• As Rocks May Think evjang.comFeb 4
• Do the dirty work sfalexandria.comFeb 2
• Children and Helical Time moultano.wordpress.comFeb 1
• My Year of Rest and Chinesemaxxing couldabeenattheclub.substack.comFeb 1

Jan 2026

• The Great Entertainment kyla.substack.comJan 26
• The Adolescence of Technology darioamodei.comJan 26
• Life on Claude Nine babuschk.inJan 25
• The Dilbert Afterlife astralcodexten.comJan 17
• Chinese Peptides in Silicon Valley nytimes.comJan 15
• best books, essays, and poems of 2025 personalcanon.comJan 15
• What I've been reading recently dwarkesh.comJan 10
• The AI revolution is here post.substack.comJan 9
• Subjective time scottsumner.substack.comJan 6
• how to avoid half-heartedness avabear.xyzJan 3
• 2025 letter (Dan Wang) danwang.coJan 3
• Notes on Taiwan thefitzwilliam.comJan 2

Dec 2025

• 2025 letter (Zhengdong Wang) zhengdongwang.comDec 30
• Capital in the 22nd Century philiptrammell.substack.comDec 29
• writing is an inherently dignified human activity personalcanon.comDec 29