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:

You can just say it

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Published: 2026-05-28T00:00:00+00:00

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Date Added: May 29, 2026

The Education of a Libertarian

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Published: 2009-04-13T04:39:00-0400

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Date Added: May 29, 2026

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

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Date Added: May 29, 2026

The Dead Economy Theory

By Owen McGrann

Published: 2026-05-16

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Date Added: May 29, 2026

The real AI

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Published: 2026-05-24T09:03:00+00:00

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Date Added: May 29, 2026

The AI Bubble

By No One's Happy

Published: 2026-05-20T18:00:00.000Z

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Date Added: May 29, 2026

What if you don't need MCP at all?

By Mario Zechner

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Date Added: May 26, 2026

Pope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I. in 42,300-Word Encyclical

By Motoko Rich, Elisabetta Povoledo, and Elizabeth Dias

Published: 2026-05-25

Tags: #Artificial Intelligence #Encyclicals #Leo XIII #Leo XIV #Popes #Roman Catholic Church #internal-open-access-from-nl

Date Added: May 25, 2026

As A.I. Fever Rises in Silicon Valley, Pope Leo Has a Few Words

By David Streitfeld

Published: 2026-05-25

Tags: #Anthropic AI LLC #Artificial Intelligence #Computers and the Internet #Francis #Google Inc #Innovation #Jesus Christ #Leo XIV #Musk, Elon #OpenAI Labs #Popes #Religion and Belief #Roman Catholic Church #Thiel, Peter A

Date Added: May 25, 2026

The price of humans

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Published: 2026-05-22

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Date Added: May 24, 2026

Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

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Date Added: May 21, 2026

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

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Published: 2026-05-13T14:43:44+00:00

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Date Added: May 21, 2026

Multi-Agents: What's Actually Working | Cognition

By Walden Yan

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Date Added: May 21, 2026

Don’t Build Multi-Agents | Cognition

By Walden Yan

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Date Added: May 21, 2026

The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy

By Simon Willison

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Date Added: May 16, 2026

AI isn’t coming for your job. It’s coming for your mind

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Date Added: May 16, 2026

The Sigmoids Won't Save You

By Scott Alexander

Published: 2026-01-16

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Date Added: May 15, 2026

The bottleneck was never the code

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Published: 2026-04-29

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Date Added: May 15, 2026

A Theory of Deep Learning

By Elon Litman

Published: 2026-05-04T17:17:00.000000

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Date Added: May 15, 2026

A Theory of Generalization in Deep Learning

By Elon Litman, and Gabe Guo

Published: 2026-05-02

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

Date Added: May 15, 2026

NV-Embed: Improved Techniques for Training LLMs as Generalist Embedding Models

By Chankyu Lee, Rajarshi Roy, Mengyao Xu, Jonathan Raiman, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro, and Wei Ping

Published: 2025-02-25

Tags: #Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence #Computer Science - Computation and Language #Computer Science - Information Retrieval #Computer Science - Machine Learning

Date Added: May 15, 2026

Beyond Single Embeddings: Capturing Diverse Targets with Multi-Query Retrieval

By Hung-Ting Chen, Xiang Liu, Shauli Ravfogel, and Eunsol Choi

Published: 2025-11-04

Tags: #Computer Science - Computation and Language #Computer Science - Information Retrieval

Date Added: May 15, 2026

Multi-Aspect Dense Retrieval

By Weize Kong, Swaraj Khadanga, Cheng Li, Shaleen Kumar Gupta, Mingyang Zhang, Wensong Xu, and Michael Bendersky

Published: 2022-08-14

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Date Added: May 15, 2026

Learning Word Vectors for 157 Languages

By Edouard Grave, Piotr Bojanowski, Prakhar Gupta, Armand Joulin, and Tomas Mikolov

Published: 2018-03-28

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

Date Added: May 15, 2026

the 90 day disclosure policy is dead

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Date Added: May 15, 2026

Learning Software Architecture

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Date Added: May 13, 2026

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

By Tuhin Nair

Published: 2026-05-12

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Date Added: May 13, 2026

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

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Date Added: May 11, 2026

AI Slop is Killing Online Communities

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Published: 2026-05-06

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Date Added: May 11, 2026

James Shore: You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs

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Date Added: May 11, 2026

Task Paralysis & AI | g5t.de

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Date Added: May 11, 2026

The fall of the theorem economy

By David Bessis

Published: 2026-04-21

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Date Added: May 11, 2026

Local AI Needs to be the Norm

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Date Added: May 11, 2026

The People vs. AI

By Andrew R. Chow

Published: 2026-02-19T12:00:00.000Z

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Date Added: May 8, 2026

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

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Published: 2026-04-19T11:56:09+00:00

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Date Added: May 8, 2026

Why I'm against the use of generative AI altogether

By Andrea Bartz

Published: 2026-04-10

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Date Added: May 4, 2026

Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye

By Lars Faye

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Date Added: May 4, 2026

What will be scarce?

By Alex Imas

Published: 2026-04-14

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Date Added: May 3, 2026

Opinion | It’s the Age of Electricity and America Isn’t Ready

By Robinson Meyer

Published: 2026-04-27

Tags: #Artificial Intelligence #Data Centers #Electric Light Bulbs #Electric Light and Power #Electric and Hybrid Vehicles #Energy Efficiency #Federal-State Relations (US) #Infrastructure (Public Works) #Natural Gas #Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates) #Solar Energy #United States Economy #United States Politics and Government #Wind Power

Date Added: May 3, 2026

Opinion | It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It

By Raffi Krikorian

Published: 2026-04-15

Tags: #Anthropic AI LLC #Artificial Intelligence #Computer Security #Computers and the Internet #Cyberattacks and Hackers #Cyberwarfare and Defense #Security and Warning Systems #Software

Date Added: May 3, 2026

Guillotine: Hypervisors for Isolating Malicious AIs

By James Mickens, Sarah Radway, and Ravi Netravali

Published: June 6, 2025

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Date Added: April 28, 2026

The Bitter Lesson

By Rich Sutton

Published: March 13, 2019

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Date Added: April 24, 2026

Human skills will matter more than ever in the age of AI | McKinsey

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Date Added: April 22, 2026

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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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

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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

Lena

By Sam Hughes

Published: 2021-01-04

Tags: #aifiction #philosophy

Date Added: April 2, 2026