Bertrand Russell on using the unconscious mind for problem-solving: Think really hard about a problem, then allow it to recede in your mind. When you return to it later, you'll discover that your unconscious has made great progress in solving the problem amzn.to/3yaDr0i

Simulate anyone and see how your content resonates - Artificial Societies is live, and it's free to try

We simulated 1000 VC investors and used it to hack into YC. For months since, we've been building something even wilder at Artificial Societies. Something that feels like peering into the future. DM for early access link.

Halo inversion: Weak selection pressure on any positive trait tends to also select for all other positive traits; as pressure intensifies, the improvement of the primary trait increasingly comes at the expense of others instead.

The idea that ‘historian’ is one of the jobs most at risk from AI is darkly funny; after all, in a world dominated by often-wrong AI what use could *a set of people with specialist training in chasing down and verifying the sources of information* possibly be?

There’s a window right now where AI agents will get built for every vertical and domain. The playbook is to go deep on the context engineering required for the vertical or particular space, figure out the right UX that ties into the existing workflows naturally, and connect to

introducing nia. ship reliable code 10x faster

Nia by @NozomioAI is an MCP that gives coding agents 10x more developer context. It indexes external repos and docs, so any coding agent always has the right context. Congrats on the launch, Arlan! ycombinator.com/launches/NyY-n…

Leap is announcing three new papers today, in plant biology, immunology and meteorology. All co-authored with scientists from leading institutions. All findings made automatically by our Discovery Engine. In hours! This feels like a big moment, and I wanted to share why. 1/n

Very sorry to read of the death of Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley. What a life she lived! Escaped the holocaust via Kindertransport, computer pioneer, philanthropist, autism activist. Amazing, amazing. franmonks.com/how-to-make-a-…

"It's lovely to be useful." — Jony Ive

Spiral-Bench 🌀 I've wanted to understand the psychological effects of sycophancy, and the tendency of models to get stuck in escalatory delusion loops w/ users. I made an eval to get visibility on this. It measures how a model enables (or prevents) delusional spirals. 🧵

It is #InternationalDogDay, and I love dogs so let’s have a look at dogs in medieval Ireland. Dogs weren’t just pets then —they were enshrined in law& legend. They were status symbols & even place-names. From lap-dogs to war hounds, their pawprints are everywhere. A thread

Artificial Societies has raised $5.3m. We are building the Thinking Machine that can see all potential societal outcomes of any given actions, and help humanity find the golden paths. Yes, we are here to build Psychohistory. And we are just getting started.

Mr C talks about "greatest club in the world" The End. A fantastic example of inversion - "we didn't think about how we wanted the club, we thought about how we didn't want the club..." youtube.com/watch?v=0UGsBM…

Over the last three years, housebuilding in London has collapsed. Molior recorded just 2,158 private starts in the first half of 2025, around 5% of London’s (low) targets, and still falling. What is going on? I have posed this question to numerous specialists, most of whom

Good thought experiment here from Tom Forth: if you believe London's economy is being harmed by tube strikes this week, then you should also believe that other UK cities' economies are held back *every day* by not having metro systems.

It was all about "data" yesterday at the YC alumni S25 demo day 2 big trends: - human data for AI model training - data for AI agent during inference/execution always love visiting YC and get to see where the puck is headed by looking at what the best founders in the world

Introducing HUMAINE: the LLM benchmark that puts real human experience first 🎯 21,352 human evaluators. 27 models. 22 demographic groups. 5 evaluation dimensions. In partnership with Hugging Face. See insights below 🧵

Digital Twins will soon be all the rage, thanks scott budman for your experience with them. But did you know that Grok can already make a digital twin of almost anyone? Here, I made a digital twin of myself and had it interview the digital twin of Tim Draper about the future