Alexander Wissner-Gross
10 things Alexander uses or recommends, from 9 episodes.
Alexander's top picks
What Alexander uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.
Recommends it · 1 episode
"For those in the audience who don't live in an area with a properly dark night sky, I highly recommend the experience. If you live on the east coast and you haven't been to Acadia National Park, which has some of the darkest skies in the eastern half of the United States, they have a night sky festival once per year in the fall. You can go lie on a beach and look up at the night sky. You can see the International Space Station. You can see Andromeda. It is so dark."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"If you like sci-fi, read Accelerando by Charlie Stross, which is I think the single best sci-fi treatment of what's in the process of happening right now."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"Everyone should read 1984. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"This is like the Orwell episode. Everyone should go read Politics and the English Language. Everyone should read 1984."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"Check out Sunday Robotics. They've got a very friendly looking robot for at-home use that actually looks friendly and quite cheery and I think you can optimize for that."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"For folks in the audience, if you haven't read Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End and also his novella set in the same universe, Fast Times at Fairmont High — I think these are the most credible pre/trans singularity depiction of what education could and should look like."
What Alexander warns against
Things Alexander says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.
"What do we have? We have Gemini Omni, which is still limited to about 10 seconds."
"I use Fable every day and I use its competitors every day. And I will say the strongest models — the models that are strongest at revenue per token value maxing — are just still terribly weak at modeling the visual dynamics of the world."
All 10 of Alexander's picks
- Acadia National Park Recommends it "For those in the audience who don't live in an area with a properly dark night sky, I highly recommend the experience. If you live on the east coast and you haven't been to Acadia National Park, which has some of the darkest skies in the eastern half of the United States, they have a night sky festival once per year in the fall. You can go lie on a beach and look up at the night sky. You can see the International Space Station. You can see Andromeda. It is so dark." Only Alexander
- Meta Quest Uses it "AR XR VR hasn't panned out. I love my Quest as much as anyone, but it hasn't panned out." +1 other
- Accelerando Recommends it "If you like sci-fi, read Accelerando by Charlie Stross, which is I think the single best sci-fi treatment of what's in the process of happening right now." +1 other
- 1984 Recommends it "Everyone should read 1984. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." +1 other
- Politics and the English Language Recommends it "This is like the Orwell episode. Everyone should go read Politics and the English Language. Everyone should read 1984." +1 other
- Sunday Robotics Recommends it "Check out Sunday Robotics. They've got a very friendly looking robot for at-home use that actually looks friendly and quite cheery and I think you can optimize for that." Only Alexander
- Rainbows End Recommends it "For folks in the audience, if you haven't read Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End and also his novella set in the same universe, Fast Times at Fairmont High — I think these are the most credible pre/trans singularity depiction of what education could and should look like." Only Alexander
- Stablecoins Recommends it "I do like stablecoins insofar as they enable more efficient financial asset transfers and to the extent they help to stabilize the US dollar." +1 other
- Anthropic Opus 4 Uses it "I've been using it for the past few hours. I ask it to my standard go-to, asking it to generate a cyberpunk firstperson shooter game design that's visually stunning." Only Alexander
- Substack Uses it "Voice over for Substack if folks want to listen to an AI version of myself on the innermost loop newsletter." +30 others