Artificial intelligence and the upcoming intelligence explosion.
At the dawn of the intelligence explosion, I find it extremely important to maintain situational awareness on the AI industry, AI policy, and the debates related to these topics. Over the last few years, my revealed preferences look like this:
Weekly, I read The Zvi Substack AI newsletter. Zvi gets into the weeds and processes through the chaos of the AI Twitter Hivemind to come up with a high-bandwidth weekly much more than you wanted to know, digest commentary.
For more in-depth AI discussions, I listen to podcasts like Dwarkesh Podcast, 80000 Hours podcast, and sometimes the Cognitive Revolution podcast, also if you are selective Lex Friedman podcast.
Also, I find the AI explained YouTube account extremely valuable and based.
For books on the topic, I recommend Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom and The Precipice by Toby Ord.
Also check out the following Twitter lists if you wanna get into the weeds yourself and participate in the discussions: The Zvi AI twitter lists and Alex K Chen lists.