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It's Known as 'The List'–and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses

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Comments (19)

pretext · 4h ago

https://archive.ph/Xp9cN

bgwalter · 13m ago

"they all know each other"

Stop right there. In this industry, a clique of people who all know each other attest each other superhuman abilities? Unheard of!

Shouldn't "AI" write itself by now and make them redundant?

This WSJ article is like a Cisco article in 1999. Beware of the crash.

trashchomper · 3h ago

Is it that secret? I imagine you could get 90% the way there within a day or two with just a combo of highly cited papers + Linkedin scraping

_tk_ · 2h ago

So… where is the list?

tveita · 2h ago

Might be worth legally changing your name to an entry on the list, just in case.

sonorous_sub · 3h ago

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