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Why Renaissance Art Was Really About Power – Ada Palmer

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Referenced when describing how quoting ancient authors can bolster Florentine prestige.

The Minimal Productivity System That Could Reinvent Your Life | Cal Newport

Cal Newport

Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI

Latent Space

An AI system developed by Noam Brown and OpenAI that performed in the top 10% of human players in Diplomacy. Its development influenced Brown's own playstyle and understanding of the game.

An Important Message On AI & Productivity: How To Get Ahead While Others Panic | Cal Newport

Cal Newport

A diplomacy-playing bot built by Noam Brown's team at Meta that combined a language model with a simulator to beat real human players in a psychologically complex game.