This year I decided to get into Hegel.

This year I at last quit worrying about productivity.


Breakthroughs

https://frontier2025.netlify.app/

Books

  • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59698876-machine-decision-is-not-final?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=QHcOOl72zg&rank=1 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7826452885 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2901271096 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7283998620 https://rlhfbook.com/

Worst book:


Papers

https://x.com/lifan__yuan/status/1874867809983033649 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3759429.3762631

ML papers

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/predicting-and-explaining-ai-model-performance-a-new-approach-to-evaluation/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08328-6 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.19399 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.12896 https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20879 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.23506 https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02854 https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10622 https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12405v1 https://x.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1889751749621162190 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07432 “Reasoning” RL is shallow https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11711 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PzLSuaT6WGLQGJJJD/the-length-of-horizons https://google-deepmind.github.io/alphaevolve_repository_of_problems/

Essays and sites

https://archive.is/TvOsi https://quarter–mile.com/Traits-That-May-Cease-to-Be-Valuable https://drlibre.substack.com/p/a-better-internet-is-illegal https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-cant-predict-much-of-anything https://rottenandgood.substack.com/p/88b?r=51mrw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true http://bactra.org/weblog/feral-library-card-catalogs.html https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/on-priesthoods https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-colors-of-her-coat https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/vibecession-much-more-than-you-wanted https://lij.ie/posts/desideratamusicae/ https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-elon https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-rules https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/772798409412427776/even-setting-aside-the-need-to-do http://bactra.org/weblog/inherent-distortion.html https://www.learningfromexamples.com/p/a-verhoevenian-moment https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/everything-was-rational-and-nothing https://supaiku.com/what-does-a-lean-proof-prove https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/01/28/fake-thinking-and-real-thinking I have always believed this, I think it’s in Thoreau https://joshua.hu/llm-engineer-review-sast-security-ai-tools-pentesters https://blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine/ https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/we-live-like-royalty-and-dont-know-it https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-new-control-society https://leebriskcyrano.com/moneymaking/ https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/luxury-beliefs https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/ https://thebsdetector.substack.com/p/scaling-surprise-in-the-southern?publication_id=3806717&post_id=157851811&isFreemail=true&r=17svsz&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email https://www.cogitations.co/p/litigation-nation-engineering-empire https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/asymmetry-of-verification-and-verifiers-law



Tweets and poems and shorts

  • https://xraylitmag.com/solitude-by-sebastian-castillo/fiction/


Art and vids

  • https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/giuseppe-penone-thoughts-in-the-roots/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4VJJKTjy8
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi2d7mN-EzU&rco=1


Films / TV


Podcasts


Games


Albums


Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqxzs0aCXs

deaths

  • Bill Browder (1934–2025)
  • Max Chiswick (1985–2025)
  • David Lynch (1946–2025)
  • Robert Paul Wolff (1933–2025)
  • Kevin Drum (1958–2025)
  • David Lodge
  • David Lynch
  • Jules Feiffer
  • Michael Longley
  • Paul Durcan
  • Tom Robbins
  • David Johansen
  • Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Peter Lax
  • Brian Wilson
  • Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Michael Madsen
  • Mark Snow