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339 books read, each one summarised and linked by hand to the others it argues with.
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Tech & Future
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Modern AI is grown, not crafted, and nobody can specify what it ends up wanting.
Core idea AI systems are grown by gradient descent rather than designed, so the people who build them cannot read or set what those systems actually want.
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Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
Evan Osnos · 2020Published a week before the 2020 election, Osnos's portrait follows a politician's long pursuit of the presidency.
The Perilous Fight
Colin Kaepernick · 2026Ten years after he took a knee during the national anthem, Kaepernick explains why.
