Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, a research & analysis company specializing in semiconductors, GPUs, CPUs, and AI hardware. Nathan Lambert is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of a blog on AI called Interconnects.
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming,…

“But it is a sign of like what could happen. So one of the dystopian worlds is described by Brave New World. So we could just be stuck scrolling Instagram, looking at cute puppies or worse, and then”
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of the early 20th century. The author also wrote "Ulysses", "…

“So to see it in another intelligence system, the nonlinearity of it akin to Eulis Cesar Finnegan's wake by James Joyce. It's just beautiful to watch.”

The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Geng…

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Described as everything from a "last gasp" of romantic fiction to a founding text of the Beat Generation movement, this story amounts to a nonfiction novel (as critics were later to describe some works). Unpublished writ…

The Bitter Lesson
The Bitter Lesson by Richard Sutton
“necessities, the mother of invention or is there still a lot of gains? I think we should summarize what the bitter lesson actually is about is that the bitter lesson essentially if you paraphrase it is that the types of training that will win out”