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Prelude One of my favorite historical photos of all time was taken in 1927, at the fifth Solvay Conference, focused on Electrons and Photons. You will likely recognize many of the names in that photo: Bohr, Curie, Dirac, Einstein, Heisenberg, Schrödinger. Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees went on to win Nobel Prizes. The golden era of quantum physics unfolded in the first half of the 20th century. A tremendous amount of progress has been made since, but I would argue that most of it has been engineering rather than foundational research. We are unlikely to ever witness a period quite like that again. That gathering of legends laid the groundwork for quantum theory for centuries to come. ...

Everyone’s waiting for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The reality is that it’s already here, and it hasn’t changed a thing. No one is talking about Artificial General intuition (AGi) - yet. When it arrives, it’ll change everything. When will AGi be here? If you’re reading this, you’ve most likely listened to Andrej Karpathy’s conversation with Dwarkesh about how AGI is still a decade away. It’s one of the highest signal-to-noise conversations I’ve heard on the topic. But I’d argue that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is already here. Intuition is a decade away. ...