Best Writing Series

2026-05-03 · 23 min read

This article is based on my handwritten notes from Reiner Pope's blackboard-style interview with Dwarkesh Patel, plus cross-checks against the published transcript and Dwarkesh's flashcards made in preparation for this episode of the podcast.

2026-05-25 · 22 min read

In April, Eric Jang spent two weeks rebuilding AlphaGo Zero from scratch, and put the result online as autogo along with a long, interactive write-up. Last week he sat down with Dwarkesh Patel for a two-and-a-half hour blackboard lecture on what he learned. The thread that holds…

2024-12-23 · 37 min read

On X, I (anonymously) follow many AI researchers, jailbreakers, academics and prominent figures from both open- and closed-source research labs. It honestly feels like the closest thing to being in the room with these influential individuals and participating in the broader…

2026-05-25 · 9 min read

I've watched When Life Gives You Tangerines on Netflix in the past month and it was very moving. As I complete this sentence, I detest the word "moving" in it. Moving how? Moving what? To better phrase it, watching this show is getting bombarded by flashbacks from your own life.…

2026-02-25 · 5 min read

Or: The Market Discovers That Humans Were Load-Bearing

2026-10-17 · 7 min read

How looped transformers reuse their layers to reason in latent space, why recurrent depth is suddenly showing up at the frontier, and what it could cost us in chain-of-thought monitorability.