Here are my AI preparation public roundups and interviews. ### Public Roundups | Topic | People | Question | Quotes | Link | | -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | Superhuman Reasoning | Finbarr Timbers, Gwern, Jacob Buckman, Karthik Narasimhan, Near, Nathan Lambert, Pengfei Liu, Ross Taylor, Shannon Sands, Steve Newman, Tamay Besiroglu, Teortaxes, Xeophon | Will Scaling Reasoning Models Like o3 and R1 Unlock Superhuman Reasoning? | "I think general reasoning will come fairly quickly. Right now it's easier to scale in domains where problems are easy to verify with an external signal." | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1883585761490174425) | | DeepSeek-R1 | Finbarr Timbers, Jacob Buckman, Jordan Schneider, Nathan Lambert, Ross Taylor | DeepSeek-R1: What's the main takeaway & what should we expect next? | "we should expect massive improvements. And we should expect to be able to pay more and get better answers" | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1884324055916204478) | ### Public Interviews | Person | Affiliation | Topics | Quotes | Link | | --------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Tyler Cowen | Economist | AI Preparation | "you need to be more human, is one way to put it" | [Marginal Revolution](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/01/chris-barber-asks-me-to-give-ai-related-advice.html) | | Finbarr Timbers | Ex-DeepMind | Diminishing returns on coding models? | "The only place I think there's really differentiation is getting differentiated datasets" | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1885148780238106748) | | Eric Jang | Head of AI at 1X (Creating NEO humanoid robot) | Humanoid robot timelines | 5 years (2030) for humanoid robot early adopter product-market fit, 10-20 years (2035-2045) for diffusion | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1886441420288131558) | | Finbarr Timbers | Ex-DeepMind | AI Preparation | Entry-level and well-defined remote jobs will be impacted most | [Recap on X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1886809521676575056), [Full transcript on X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1886907873613238316) | | Flo Crivello | Founder of Lindy (creating AI agents) | AI Preparation | "Five years from now every knowledge work job will be doable by an AI" | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1886950437426970981) | | Eric Jang | Head of AI at 1X | Post-Money World | Stockpiling Cash May Be The Incorrect AGI Preparation Strategy | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1887247536433529165) | | Jaime Sevilla | Co-founder of Epoch AI | AI future & preparation | "Going beyond 2030 is serious speculation mode, but I’d say 50% chance that we have AI that is as good as most humans in most remote tasks by 2035." | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1887530028835217865) | | Ivan Vendrov | Midjourney, ex-Anthropic | AI future & preparation | "It will feel very dumb for humans to be writing code in the year 2030." | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1887665470624633068) | | Eric Jang | Head of AI at 1X | AI Preparation | "If you won't be competitive on labor, you need good capital allocation skills" | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1887892827188998259) | | Jeremy Howard | Answer.AI and fast.ai | AI Preparation | "I've lived through these cycles and can see them repeating like clockwork." | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1888037803566747942) | | Tamay Besiroglu | Co-founder of Epoch AI | AI future & preparation | "I think 2035 or so might be my median for when we’ll have drop-in AI remote workers." | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1888044907522310416) | ### Additional Content | Topic | Person | Quote | Link | | ------------------ | ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | Preparation advice | Anonymous ex-OpenAI | "we'll see the rise of the micropreneur" | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1884696055591428463) | | Preparation advice | Me | "either do very rote work and automate it or do work that is novel and hard to automate" | [X](https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1885086038366052797) | For more about me, see [[Chris Barber]]