What people recommend, in their own words, with the receipt.
Co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic; writes the Import AI newsletter.
3 things
The Rise and Fall of Agent CivilizationsPodcast Dwarkesh Patel
Both Dwarkesh Patel and Ajeya Cotra have excellent writeups which are worth reading and which I’ll quote from briefly here:
Import AI 471, Jack Clark's own newsletter, discussing writeups of the Hugging Face incident.
jack-clark.net ↗·2026-08-31
The Hugging Face attack surprised meOther Ajeya Cotra (Planned Obsolescence)
Both Dwarkesh Patel and Ajeya Cotra have excellent writeups which are worth reading and which I’ll quote from briefly here:
Import AI 471, Jack Clark's own newsletter, discussing writeups of the Hugging Face incident.
jack-clark.net ↗·2026-08-31
AIs are not peopleOther Taylor Belrose
There is a particular joy in reading a piece like this where you get to see a human being who has struggled with the same question and read broadly and deeply and become extremely opinionated, all in service of reducing their own confusion about an important issue to them.
Import AI 470, Jack Clark's own newsletter, on Taylor Belrose's Substack essay about AI consciousness and rights.
jack-clark.net ↗·2026-08-24
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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The small bar beside a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The bar shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Full and green is recent. It drains, and turns amber and then grey, as the post gets older.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The bar is empty after about:
A striped bar means the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no bar.