Gwern’s lunchtime visit to the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR).
Dream about a new feature in Chrome which helped me understand LLMs a bit better.
Random recollections from the hectic conversations at the afterparty of the Reproductive Frontiers Summit of 2025.
Random recollections from the hectic conversations at a dinner party organized by Dwarkesh Patel.
The exact backstory to that picture of an airplane with red dots on top of it.
Application of a simple concept from physics to personal finance.
To win (?) a twitter argument, we calculated the energetic cost of O’Neil habitat per person. Oddly, it is just affordable by modern standards, ~0.72 million USD per person. Let it be known that the SF housing crisis is cheaper to solve by building O’Neil cylinders.
Thoughts on the recent ‘DeepSeek shock’ of the stock market. The market is being even less efficient than usual, and much of the ‘professional’ commentators are idiots or bullshitters. I wrote this post to prevent my Gell-Mann amnesia.
