The Effort Knob, the Data Center at Sea, and Go Read a Book
Reasoning effort is a price dial most of us have been setting incorrectly, Peter Thiel bets $140 million on wave-powered compute, and people stop reading for fun.
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- The Cache
The keyboard-driven game board — this week's top hits as real post screenshots, cache checks on past on-air claims, and prefetch bets on next week.
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A $140M bet that the cheapest place to run AI is the open ocean. Scroll down — we're going under.
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How models learn to think less, and what a unit of thinking costs — a guided reading of Sebastian Raschka's effort-knob survey. Turn the dial.
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An interactive editorial explainer about disposable agents, shared evidence, and where self-improvement accumulates.
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An interactive editorial explainer about declining reading, abundant text, and the effort through which judgment develops.
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chapter timeline
- 0:00Cold Open
- 0:48Models of the Week
- 3:44The Cache: Palantir, Escaped Agents, and AI Art
- 8:47Getting Out of the Terminal
- 12:31Voice Interfaces
- 15:09Claude Sessions Messaging Each Other
- 17:09Cloudflare Wallets and Agent Payments
- 21:10Opus 5 and the CLAUDE.md Debate
- 26:37Tokenomics Foundation
- 28:06The Marble-Carving Robot
- 30:41Claude Design
- 32:24Wheel of Tokens
- 33:51Panthalassa: The Data Center at Sea
- 41:56The Effort Knob
- 1:05:46Knowledge-Centric Self-Improvement
- 1:14:07The Age of Reading Is Over
- 1:32:14Close