Weekend Reads #437
A collection of cross-disciplinary thoughts, perspectives, and opinions
700 million people live on less than $2.15/day, reducing the world poverty rate to 1% would take $318bn, about 1/7th of what is spend on global alcohol consumption - Link
What if Trump is painfully right? - Link
4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now. At the current trajectory, we believe that Claude Code will be 20%+ of all daily commits by the end of 2026. - Link
So first of all the definition many people will intuitively think of this as self-awareness. Is the model able to describe its own experience in a persuasive way? I think consciousness is inherently linked to the ability to suffer and to experience pain. - Podcast
The mechanics of financial bubbles - Podcast
Let Your Kids Fail - Link
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea. - Link
The Real Story of Asian Americans in Suburbia - Link
Value capture: we abandon our rich and subtle personal values in favour of the simplified, quantified values we are being so conveniently offered. - Link
