Links for May 2025

Previous month Links For April 2025

Projects

• I did a road trip and was building Finding Obscure Places in preparation. Looks like it’s easier to plan the trip manually for now?

Links

1. Cool custom maps, for example one to find Hacker Spaces
2. A writing intensive courseI plan to take
3. Very humbling piece and a discussion about a guy that can’t find a suitable job in IT in 2025
4. A good opportunity: Fellowship on AI for Human Reasoning
5. More AI grants: Truth-seeking: Cosmos x FIRE
6. And more: Risks From Internal Deployment of Frontier AI Models
7. One week I watched a lot of Primeagen on Youtube, here’s a good video about struggles with burnout, impostor syndrome and motivation
8. Root for your friends!
9. Also a 10/10 movie (in Spanish) El secreto de sus ojos
10. And also to read Chainsaw Man (I got too tired of waiting for a season 2 lol)

Food for thoughts:

I think “resource curse” countries are a great surrogate for studying possible future AGI-induced economic and political phenomena. A country like the UAE (oil) or Botswana (diamonds) essentially has an economic equivalent to AGI: they control a small, extremely productive utility (an oilfield or a mine instead of a server farm), and the wealth generated by that utility is far in excess of what those countries’ leaders need to maintain power. Sure, you hire foreign labor and trade for resources instead of having your AGI supply those things, but the end result is the same.

and a quote:

Avoid Flow. Do What Does Not Come Easy. The mistake most weak pianists make is playing, not practicing.