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2025

Open letter to any Shtetl-Optimized readers who know Elonoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2025
The mini-singularityoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2025
Above my pay grade: Jensen Huang and the quantum computing stock market crashoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2025

2024

The Google Willow thingoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2024
Podcasts!original ↗
4 Dec 2024
Thanksgivingoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2024
Letter to a Jewish voter in Pennsylvaniaoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2024
Steven Rudich (1961-2024)original ↗
3 Nov 2024
My podcast with Brian Greeneoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2024
My Nutty, Extremist Beliefsoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2024
My October 7 postoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2024
Quantum advantage for NP approximation? For REAL this time?original ↗
5 Oct 2024
Sad times for AI safetyoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2024
The International Olympiad in Injusticeoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2024
Quantum Computing: Between Hope and Hypeoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2024
AI transcript of my AI podcastoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2024
My podcast with Dan Faggellaoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2024
Quantum fault-tolerance milestones dropping like atomsoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2024
In Support of SB 1047original ↗
4 Sept 2024
Book Review: “2040” by Pedro Domingosoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2024
“The Right Side of History”original ↗
16 Aug 2024
My Reading Burdenoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2024
My pontificatiest AI podcast ever!original ↗
11 Aug 2024
My “Never-Trump From Here to Eternity” FAQoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2024
New comment policyoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2024
My Prayeroriginal ↗
14 Jul 2024
Quantum developments!original ↗
12 Jul 2024
The Zombie Misconception of Theoretical Computer Scienceoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2024
BusyBeaver(5) is now known to be 47,176,870original ↗
2 Jul 2024
“Never A Better Time to Visit”: Our Post-October-7 Trip to Israeloriginal ↗
27 Jun 2024
Luca Trevisan (1971-2024)original ↗
19 Jun 2024
Situational Awarenessoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2024
Openness on OpenAIoriginal ↗
21 May 2024
Jim Simons (1938-2024)original ↗
11 May 2024
UmeshFestoriginal ↗
10 May 2024
My Passover press releaseoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2024
That IACR preprintoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2024
Avi Wigderson wins Turing Award!original ↗
10 Apr 2024
And yet quantum computing continues to progressoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2024
Open Letter to Anti-Zionists on Twitteroriginal ↗
25 Mar 2024
Never go to “Planet Word” in Washington DCoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2024
On being facelessoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2024
The Problem of Human Specialness in the Age of AIoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2024
On whether we’re living in a simulationoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2024
Does fermion doubling make the universe not a computer?original ↗
29 Jan 2024

2023

Postdocs wanted!original ↗
22 Dec 2023
Rowena Heoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2023
On being wrong about AIoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2023
Weird but cavity-freeoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2023
Staggering toward quantum fault-toleranceoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2023
More Updates!original ↗
27 Nov 2023
Updates!original ↗
18 Nov 2023
New travel/podcast/speaking policyoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2023
The Tragedy of SBForiginal ↗
6 Nov 2023
The floorboard testoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2023
Bring the Brodutch family homeoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2023
Shtetl-Optimized’s First-Ever “Profile in Courage”original ↗
10 Oct 2023
To all those who’ve emailed me…original ↗
9 Oct 2023
Quantum miscellanyoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2023
Palate cleanseroriginal ↗
21 Aug 2023
Long-awaited Shtetl-Optimized Barbenheimer post! [warning: spoilers]original ↗
14 Aug 2023
Testing GPT-4 with math pluginsoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2023
“Will AI Destroy Us?”: Roundtable with Coleman Hughes, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Gary Marcus, and me (+ GPT-4-enabled transcript!)original ↗
29 Jul 2023
Because they couldoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2023
On students as therapyoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2023
Common knowledge and quantum utilityoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2023
Life, blogging, and the Busy Beaver function go onoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2023
Book Review: “Quantum Supremacy” by Michio Kaku (tl;dr DO NOT BUY)original ↗
19 May 2023
Could GPT help with dating anxiety?original ↗
16 May 2023
Robin Hanson and I discuss the AI futureoriginal ↗
10 May 2023
Brief Update on Texan Tenureoriginal ↗
7 May 2023
AI and Aaronson’s Law of Dark Ironyoriginal ↗
5 May 2023
Five Worlds of AI (a joint post with Boaz Barak)original ↗
28 Apr 2023
Will UT Austin and Texas A&M survive beyond this week?original ↗
17 Apr 2023
AI safety: what should actually be done now?original ↗
16 Apr 2023
GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam!original ↗
11 Apr 2023
Quips are what I’ve gotoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2023
If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reasonoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2023
An unexpected democracy sloganoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2023
Xavier Waintal responds (tl;dr Grover is still quadratically faster)original ↗
24 Mar 2023
Of course Grover’s algorithm offers a quantum advantage!original ↗
22 Mar 2023
On overexcitable childrenoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2023
The False Promise of Chomskyismoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2023
Why am I not terrified of AI?original ↗
6 Mar 2023
Should GPT exist?original ↗
22 Feb 2023
Statement of Jewish scientists opposing the “judicial reform” in Israeloriginal ↗
16 Feb 2023
Visas for Chinese students: US shoots itself in the foot againoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2023
Movie Review: M3GANoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2023
Cargo Cult Quantum Factoringoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2023

2022

Happy 40th Birthday Dana!original ↗
30 Dec 2022
Short letter to my 11-year-old selforiginal ↗
24 Dec 2022
Google’s Sycamore chip: no wormholes, no superfast classical simulation eitheroriginal ↗
2 Dec 2022
My AI Safety Lecture for UT Effective Altruismoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2022
Dismantling Quantum Hype with Tim Nguyenoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2022
Reform AI Alignmentoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2022
WINNERS of the Scott Aaronson Grant for Advanced Precollege STEM Education!original ↗
18 Nov 2022
Sneerersoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2022
Sam Bankman-Fried and the geometry of conscienceoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2022
The Caesar problem remains openoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2022
Oh right, quantum computingoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2022
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