Release of Claude Fable (Claude 5), the $1,800 NVIDIA DGX Spark that runs frontier models on your desk, and Anthropic's June 4 paper claiming AI now writes over 80% of its own code. That feeds the question: if smaller models already do 90% of what most people need, who is all this frontier compute actually for? We get into Flash Company, a 48-hour ideation sprint for three people sharing one AI, plus detours into vintage photo booths and a tool that turns getting deactivated from Slack into a party. The deep dive covers the post-work world — Jared Diamond calling agriculture the worst mistake in human history, the Minimum Viable Society paper, UBI versus network states, and a stratosphere balloon called World View.TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) Cold open
(02:09) Weekly Check-in — News
(31:20) Tools
(42:28) Building
(01:04:17) Rabbit Holes
(01:08:13) Open Tabs
(01:13:16) Deep Dive — the post-work world
(01:44:40) AMA
(01:53:58) Closing quotesRESOURCES
PEOPLE
Bernie Sanders — proposed a 50% public stake in big AI firms
Carl Newport — inspired the Longview tool; read history to filter news
Charlie Munger — "articulate the other side's argument better than they can"
Daniel Kahneman — psychologist who won the Nobel in economics (cross-field example)
Dave Blunden — on the Moonshots podcast, called govt-taxing-AI chaotic
Jack Clark — co-author, Anthropic self-improvement paper
Jared Diamond — called agriculture "the worst mistake in human history"
Jesse Israel — founder of The Big Quiet public meditations
Marina Favaro — co-author, Anthropic self-improvement paper
BOOKS
Life 3.0 — Max Tegmark
Seven Pillars of Wisdom — T.E. Lawrence
PROJECTS / COMPANIES / TOOLS
Brazen — leaderboard for asking and getting told no (brazen.click)
Chicory coffee — 30% coffee / 70% chicory morning blend
Claude Fable — public release of Claude 5, off the Mythos stack
Clerk — best-in-class authentication
Cosine — UK frontier AI lab (HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest, BAE, PwC)
Flash Company — 48-hour guided ideation sprint (flashcompany.org)
Flash Fund — fund seeded by Flash Company revenue
Gemma 4 — Google's 12B quantized local model
Gemini — answered the Russia longevity query
Kimi — Chinese model that refused the Russia query
Longview — AI news-in-historical-context tool (thelongview.org)
Monaco glasses — Linux vibe-coding glasses on Mono OS
Next.js / Vercel / Clerk — Tay's go-to build stack
PhotoSixes — River's old NY animated-GIF photo booth startup
Qwen — open-source model run locally on Mac
repurpose — pushes one piece of content to many platforms
The Big Quiet — mass public meditations
World View — stratosphere weather-balloon experience
FRAMEWORKS / CONCEPTS / LAWS
Network state — community by shared interest, not geography
UBI / universal high income / universal basic services / universal basic capital — distribution models
Overview effect — astronauts' sense of interconnectedness
GEO — generative engine optimization (being surfaced in AI answers)
PAPERS / ARTICLES / ESSAYS
When AI Builds Itself: Our Progress Towards Recursive Self-Improvement and Its Implications — Anthropic (Favaro & Clark), June 4
"UK pint prices up 36% since last World Cup" — BBC (example run through Longview)