September 2024 updates
Hi everyone! New writing The ouroboros of academic peer review This is mostly old writing, but a reminder that I have a list of my favorite movies, TV shows,...
July-August 2024 updates
Hi everyone, New writing How my views on AI changed every year 2017-2024Writing advice Best of Twitter I revived my weekly Best of Twitter newsletter -...
June 2024 updates
Hi everyone, New essays I'm terrified of old people. I'm broke, divorced, and unemployed. By any reasonable measure, I'm probably the worst person in the...
April-May 2024 updates
Hi everyone, No new published essays since the last update, but I have a bunch of Google Docs, mostly about science: thoughts on science, science literacy,...
March 2024 updates
Hi everyone, New writing College Q&A Rare omens of exceptional talent Links Brighter Than a Cloud by Claire L. Evans: In the absence of an organizing mind,...
February 2024 updates
Hi everyone, I interviewed Dwarkesh Patel, the LBJ of podcasting. We mostly talked about people. A bunch about events. And even managed to discuss an idea or...
Napoleon: a Cautionary Tale for Young Idealists (and other January 2024 updates)
Hi everyone, New essay -- Napoleon: a Cautionary Tale for Young Idealists I'm in Boston now, studying physics. If you do physics, let me know, I would love...
2023 updates
Hi everyone, Starting with the most important stuff: thanks for making it through the year. I love you all. I spent the last several years working on making...
August-September 2023 updates
Hi everyone, New essays Omens of exceptional talent (what are yours?) 16 questions posed & answered by Leslie Berlin's book "Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's...
July 2023 Updates
Hi everyone, New posts Advice from Tyler Cowen. Top rated MR comment is ofc "This is just so very blindingly false" 🙂 Questions. Tim Ferriss: "The English is...
new post: questions
link: guzey.com/questions questions what are you thinking about these days? what happens to your consciousness when you walk into a teleporter? what's the...
CORRECTED LINKS: April-May 2023 Updates
Hi everyone, New posts: After years of dismissing AI alignment as a bs field, I’ve come to think that it’s finally into real science (and we should really...
April-May 2023 Updates
Hi everyone, New posts: After years of dismissing AI alignment as a bs field, I've come to think that it's finally into real science (and we should really...
Q1 2023 updates
Hi everyone, Welcome to the AI world. It's exciting & scary but hopefully more exciting than scary. And hopefully we'll figure out how to make aliens on GPUs...
November 2022 Updates: links, friends, miscellaneous
Links ppl underappreciate Sam Altman's blog: https://blog.samaltman.com/successful-people (What are your favorite posts?). Lena: "MMAcevedo's demeanour and...
November 2022 Updates: new posts & essays
Hi everyone, New posts & essays since the last update: Oct 31: What is the alternative to utilitarianism? "From my observations, people who try to take...
September-October 2022 Updates
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August 2022 updates
Hi everyone, New essay: Q&A with my high school self: helping 14-16 year old Alexey to deal with his emotions, to ask for help, to talk to people (and his...
Q1 2022 Updates
Hi everyone, I’ve been mostly incredibly hard at work with New Science. Announced a one-year fellowship. We’ll provide young life scientists with a bench in...
4 independent sources I have say that the Russian border shuts down in <48, probably less than 24 hours. If you are in Russia and you can leave, leave now.
(for all of my non-Russian subscribers, apologies for the out-of-schedule email) Kamil Galeev was the first source 2 days ago, confirmed by 3 more (private)...