September 2024 updates

October 5, 2024

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

September 4, 2024

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

July 9, 2024

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

June 7, 2024

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

April 4, 2024

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

March 4, 2024

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)

February 4, 2024

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

December 22, 2023

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

October 5, 2023

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

August 9, 2023

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

July 28, 2023

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

June 11, 2023

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

June 11, 2023

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

April 5, 2023

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

November 30, 2022

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

November 30, 2022

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

October 29, 2022

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August 2022 updates

September 7, 2022

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

April 9, 2022

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.

March 3, 2022

(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)...

New essay: Theses on Sleep

February 12, 2022

Summary of the essay: In this essay, I question some of the consensus beliefs about sleep, such as the need for at least 7 hours of sleep for adults,...

November/December 2021 updates

January 15, 2022

Hi everyone, Writing My low-demand, worry-free, and healthy diet (spoiler: it's Athletic Greens, muesli with kefir, and MealSquares) Why I switched my...

Guzey September/October 2021 updates

November 16, 2021

Hi everyone, Personal updates My O1 extraordinary ability visa was approved by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and I moved to Boston...

August 2021 updates

September 13, 2021

Hi everyone, New writing published a list of all winners of Emergent Venturesthe 15,000-word piece on Bloom et al (pdf) I’ve been working on since last...