Ethan's AI Reading List

AI is incredibly consequential for our society. Here's what I read to help me think about it.

In no particular order:

Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one

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Date Added: April 19, 2026

The coming AI personal security nightmare

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Date Added: April 19, 2026

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

By Thinking Machines Lab

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Date Added: April 18, 2026

The Last Question

By Isaac Asimov

Published: 1956

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Date Added: April 17, 2026

AI Code is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers are Looking the Other Way

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Published: 2026-04-08T06:41:00+00:00

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Date Added: April 17, 2026

AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

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Published: 2025-12-17T13:26:00+00:00

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Date Added: April 17, 2026

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess

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Date Added: April 16, 2026

Anthropic’s philosopher answers your questions

By Amanda Askell

Published: 2025-12-05

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Date Added: April 13, 2026

OSGym: Scalable OS Infra for Computer Use Agents

By Zengyi Qin, Jinyuan Chen, Yunze Man, Shengcao Cao, Ziqi Pang, Zhuoyuan Wang, Han Fang, Ling Zhu, Zixin Xie, Zibu Wei, Tianshu Ran, Haoran Geng, Ray Pan, Qizhen Sun, Zachary Bright, Yuyang Cai, Chongye Yang, Jiace Zhao, Tianrui Liu, Han Cao, Yeyang Zhou, Rui Wang, Song Wang, Xiang Ren, Bo Zhang, Yutong Ban, Pieter Abbeel, and Brian Anthony

Published: 2026-04-02

Tags: #Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

Date Added: April 11, 2026

Why the AI world is suddenly obsessed with a 160-year-old economics paradox

By Greg Rosalsky

Published: 2025-02-04T06:30:00-05:00

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Date Added: April 9, 2026

AI may be making us think and write more alike

By Darrin Joy

Published: 2026-03-11T23:15:51+00:00

Tags: #creativity #language #society

Date Added: April 8, 2026

Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left

By Raj Nandan Sharma

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Tags: #technical

Date Added: April 8, 2026

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

By Ronan Farrow, and Andrew Marantz

Published: 2026-04-06

Tags: #frontierlab #philosophy #society

Date Added: April 7, 2026

Is Copyright Law the Wrong Weapon Against AI?

By Olivia Farrar

Published: 2026-03-31T08:52:59-0400

Tags: #copyleft #copyright #law #society

Date Added: April 7, 2026

Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned. Here is the letter I shared with my colleagues, explaining my decision.

By Mrinank Sharma

Published: 2026-02-09T15:25Z

Tags: #frontierlab #philosophy

Date Added: April 5, 2026

You Will Know Nothing and You Will Be Happy

By Alexander Skula

Published: 2026-03-08

Tags: #philosophy #society

Date Added: April 5, 2026

The Floor Is the Ceiling

By Alexander Skula

Published: 2026-03-19

Tags: #Philosophy / Aesthetics #philosophy #technical #work

Date Added: April 5, 2026

#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast

By Lex Fridman

Published: 2026-03-23T16:28:42+00:00

Tags: #philosophy #podcast #technical

Date Added: April 4, 2026

Open Source AI is the Path Forward

By Mark Zuckerberg

Published: 2024-07-23T14:55:03+00:00

Tags: #canonicalwork #opensource #philosophy

Date Added: April 3, 2026

Personal Superintelligence

By Mark Zuckerberg

Published: 2025-07-30

Tags: #canonicalwork #philosophy

Date Added: April 3, 2026

Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)

By Nathan Lambert, Louis Castricato, Leandro von Werra, and Alex Havrilla

Published: 2023-05-26

Tags: #technical

Date Added: April 3, 2026

Don’t trust AI to talk accurately about itself: Bard wasn’t trained on Gmail

By Simon Willison

Published: 2023-03-22

Tags: #culture #demonstration

Date Added: April 3, 2026

CNET's Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors

By Jon Christian

Published: 2023-01-17T10:17:46-05:00

Tags: #art #culture #media

Date Added: April 3, 2026

Programming AIs worry me

By Hillel Wayne

Published: 2023-02-16

Tags: #culture

Date Added: April 3, 2026

Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

By Jonas Degrave

Published: 2022-12-03T20:14:12.000Z

Tags: #demonstration

Date Added: April 3, 2026

GPT4 should be part of your toolkit

By Hillel Wayne

Published: 2023-04-25

Tags: #development

Date Added: April 3, 2026

Making ChatGPT Useful

By Hillel Wayne

Published: 2022-12-07

Tags: #demonstration #development

Date Added: April 3, 2026

GPT is revolutionary

By Hillel Wayne

Published: 2023-03-24

Tags: #culture #history

Date Added: April 3, 2026

Everything is Ghibli

By Carly Ayres

Published: 2025-03-27

Tags: #art #culture #marketing

Date Added: April 3, 2026

The diminished art of coding

By Nolan Lawson

Published: 2026-03-22T21:52:33+00:00

Tags: #art #culture

Date Added: April 3, 2026

AI ambivalence

By Nolan Lawson

Published: 2025-04-02T17:11:01+00:00

Tags: #culture

Date Added: April 3, 2026

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜

By Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell

Published: March 1, 2021

Tags: #technical #whitepaper

Date Added: April 3, 2026

Attention Is All You Need

By Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin

Published: 2023-08-02

Tags: #Computer Science - Computation and Language #Computer Science - Machine Learning #technical #whitepaper

Date Added: April 3, 2026

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

By Ptacek

Published: 2025-06-02

Tags: #culture

Date Added: April 3, 2026

I Think AI Would Kill my Wife

By Armin Ronacher

Published: 2023-02-17T00:00:00

Tags: #philosophy

Date Added: April 3, 2026

AI Changes Everything

By Armin Ronacher

Published: 2025-06-04T00:00:00

Tags: #culture

Date Added: April 3, 2026

Why I stopped using AI code editors

By Luciano Nooijen

Published: 2025-04-01

Tags: #culture #education

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Speed matters

By Jamie Brandon

Published: 2021-10-14

Tags: #culture

Date Added: April 2, 2026

ChatGPT: it makes things up (that's its job)

By Luke Plant

Published: 2023-05-01T14:21:00+01:00

Tags: #demonstration

Date Added: April 2, 2026

ChatGPT: abstract logic and the doubling down bias

By Luke Plant

Published: 2023-05-01T19:16:00+01:00

Tags: #demonstration

Date Added: April 2, 2026

ChatGPT: it has no inner monologue or meta-cognition

By Luke Plant

Published: 2023-05-01T17:24:00+01:00

Tags: #demonstration

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

By Joel Spolsky

Published: 2001-04-21T00:15:00+00:00

Tags: #culture

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Yes, and...

By Carson Gross

Published: 2026-02-27

Tags: #culture #education

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Why I’m not letting the juniors use GenAI for coding

By Luke Plant

Published: 2025-07-26T21:30:00+01:00

Tags: #culture

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Is there a no-AI audience?

By Shubham Bose

Published: 2025-07-02

Tags: #culture

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

By Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Henighan, Tom B. Brown, Benjamin Chess, Rewon Child, Scott Gray, Alec Radford, Jeffrey Wu, and Dario Amodei

Published: 2020-01-23

Tags: #Computer Science - Machine Learning #Statistics - Machine Learning #technical #whitepaper

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Three Observations

By Sam Altman

Published: 2025-02-09

Tags: #canonicalwork

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Abundant Intelligence

By Sam Altman

Published: 2025-09-23

Tags: #canonicalwork

Date Added: April 2, 2026

The Gentle Singularity

By Sam Altman

Published: 2025-06-10

Tags: #canonicalwork

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Darwin Among the Machines

By Samuel Butler

Published: 1863-06-13

Tags: #history #philosophy

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Machines of Loving Grace

By Dario Amodei

Published: 2024-10

Tags: #canonicalwork #economics #history #philosophy

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Einstein–Szilard letter

By Albert Einstein

Published: 1939-08-02

Tags: #history #philosophy

Date Added: April 2, 2026

The Adolescence of Technology

By Dario Amodei

Published: 2026-01

Tags: #canonicalwork #economics #history #philosophy

Date Added: April 2, 2026

On DeepSeek and Export Controls

By Dario Amodei

Published: 2025-01

Tags: #economics #nationalsecurity #politics

Date Added: April 2, 2026

The Urgency of Interpretability

By Dario Amodei

Published: 2025-04

Tags: #canonicalwork #nationalsecurity #politics #technical

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

By Mario Zechner

Published: 2026-03-25

Tags: #aicoding

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Why the future doesn't need us.

By Bill Joy

Published: 2000-04

Tags: #philosophy

Date Added: April 2, 2026

Lena

By Sam Hughes

Published: 2021-01-04

Tags: #aifiction #philosophy

Date Added: April 2, 2026