Substacks recommended by Timothy B. Lee

Recommended by Timothy B. Lee

The Argument

By Jerusalem Demsas

Join Us. We're Libbing Out.

Jerusalem Demsas leads a team of writers making the case for pro-abundance liberalism.

- Timothy B. Lee

AI Summer

By Timothy B. Lee

A podcast where Timothy B. Lee interviews leading experts about the future of AI technology and policy.

This is my podcast. Every week my cohost and I talk to leading experts about the future of AI.

- Timothy B. Lee

Derek Thompson

A newsletter about abundance and building a better world.

Derek writes brilliantly about the economy and is co-author of the best-selling book Abundance. I've been reading his work avidly for 15 years.

- Timothy B. Lee

Ride AI

By Luke Hopping

This is your weekly digest of important events and new developments at the intersection of technology and transportation. Check out the annual Ride AI conference at https://rideai.org

Keep up to date about developments in autonomous vehicles.

- Timothy B. Lee

Hyperdimensional

By Dean W. Ball

A newsletter about emerging technology and the future of governance.

During his time in the White House, Dean Ball helped draft Trump's AI Action Plan. Now he's writing beautiful weekly essays about the present and future of AI.

- Timothy B. Lee

AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans

By Melanie Mitchell

I write about interesting new developments in AI.

Deep insights into why and how AI systems work (and don't work) from a prominent computer scientist.

- Timothy B. Lee

Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

Legendary data journalist Nate Silver covers politics, the future of media, and more.

- Timothy B. Lee

AI as Normal Technology

By Arvind and Sayash

Analyzing AI as transformative but normal technology, not superintelligence.

Two Princeton Computer scientists cut through the hype to help readers understand what's really going on in the AI world.

- Timothy B. Lee

Apricitas Economics

By Joseph Politano

Data-driven Insights on Economics, Business, Finance, and Public Policy.

If you want a deep, data-driven understanding of the economy, you need to be reading this newsletter.

- Timothy B. Lee

Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

Matt has been my favorite blogger for nearly 20 years now and his work has shaped my thinking on a number of policy issues. His newsletter, Slow Boring, has a high signal-to-noise ratio.

- Timothy B. Lee

Interconnects

By Nathan Lambert

The cutting edge of AI, from inside the frontier AI labs, minus the hype. The border between high-level and technical thinking. Read by leading engineers, researchers, and investors on Wednesday mornings.

Insightful and accessible commentary from a guy whose day job is actually training AI models.

- Timothy B. Lee

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Noah provides deeply insightful economic commentary on a wide range of topics, from renewable energy to the rise of Chian.

- Timothy B. Lee

Understanding AI

Recommended by Timothy B. Lee