There is genre of ‘tech bro’s who are genuine nerds and who also seem like genuine people who remain steadfastly pro-human. Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum is one of those, whose brilliant essay
Let a Thousands Societies Bloom is a review of his experiment with new e-countries (and contains a lot of lessons about society / community building) and so is Andrej Karpathy, whose
interview with Dwarkesh Patel did as much as anything to at least tap the brakes on the runaway AI bubble.
Karpathy’s review of LLM’s is typically uncompromisingly technical but intelligible enough for us normies to get a sense of where we’re at with LLM’s.