David A. Price @PriceIndex

Author of Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age (Knopf, 2021). Also The Pixar Touch, Love and Hate in Jamestown. davidaprice.com Joined October 2010

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The Wall Street Journal @WSJ

2 hours ago

Governments and experts are worried that a superintelligent AI could destroy humanity. For some in Silicon Valley, that wouldn’t be a bad thing, writes David A. Price. on.wsj.com/4o6kplB

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My better half and I saw Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale in a theater yesterday (recommended!). Inspired us right away to re-watch Season 1, Episode 1. I’d forgotten how mean the early Downton was! O’Brien and Barrow vs. Bates, Mary vs. Edith, duke vs. Mary … savage. The movies…

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Julian Schrittwieser @Mononofu

6 days ago

As a researcher at a frontier lab I’m often surprised by how unaware of current AI progress public discussions are. I wrote a post to summarize studies of recent progress, and what we should expect in the next 1-2 years: julian.ac/blog/2025/09/2…

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David A. Price @PriceIndex

3 weeks ago

Seeing Toy Story again on the big screen after 30 years: what a gem. Sparkles at every level (plot, characters, dialogue, voice acting, animation). "In every art form it is the emotional content that makes the difference between mere technical skill and true art." -- Frank…

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Walter Isaacson @WalterIsaacson

3 months ago

Happy July 4! As we head into our 250th next year, I’ve written a short book, out in November, about the Declaration’s “We hold these truths” sentence, how Jefferson and Franklin and Adams crafted it, and how it can help help us find common ground today. simonandschuster.com/books/The-Grea…

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Xor @XorDev

3 months ago

We are now closer to 2050 than 2000

Progress Bar 2025 @ProgressBar202_

3 months ago

We are now closer to 2050 than 2000

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Ethan Mollick @emollick

5 months ago

o3 now one-shots extremely New Yorker-y original New Yorker cartoons, and sometimes the punchlines are actually kind of okay. And most of them involve therapists or cellphones or both, which feels very on-brand.

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Steve Jobs Archive @SJArchive

6 months ago

Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull and director Jon M. Chu (Wicked, Crazy Rich Asians) recently joined us for an honest and illuminating talk about their creative process. Watch the video here: youtu.be/SQrQ5N4zOXw?si…

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Emily Jin @ew_jin

9 months ago

@PriceIndex's 2021 book, "Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age," tells how Bletchley Park's codebreakers cracked the hardest Axis codes, accelerating WWII's end. Innovation thrived from the perfect fusion of talent and circumstance. 1/9

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David A. Price @PriceIndex

10 months ago

Inspired by Jon Y interview, I read Tae Kim's THE NVIDIA WAY yesterday. Highly recommended history of this fascinating company! I learned so much and it was super readable, too. Thank you @firstadopter

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

10 months ago

We learn more from reading on paper than on screens. 54 studies, 171k people: we process print more deeply than digital content—as long as it's informational rather than purely narrative. The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books.