Reading List Week 38

Published on Sun 27 September 2026 in Reading Lists

What will be scarce?

  • When AI makes most things cheap, we'll spend on whatever still needs a human in the loop. Not so convinced.

How quickly could robots scale up?

  • From 10,000 humanoid robots a year to billions, if costs fall the way they did for cars and solar panels.

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

  • A Fields medallist puts a frontier model through some real research mathematics. Worth reading for his reactions alone.

FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it

  • Kevin Buzzard at Imperial has spent years leading a project to formalise Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean. Then an AI model got there first.