@jasmine’s substack

🌻 how to party like an AI researcher

a NeurIPS 2025 scene report

Dec 10 • Jasmine Sun

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November 2025

🌻 you're invited: the utopia debates

See me debate AI & taste in SF on December 10

Nov 26 • Jasmine Sun

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🌻 expanding the market for culture (ft. celine nguyen)

internet autodidacts, writing on Substack, contrarian optimism about AI

Nov 18 • Jasmine Sun and Celine Nguyen

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1:15:02

🌻 don't take the bait

vice signaling is eating silicon valley

Nov 10 • Jasmine Sun

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October 2025

🌻 AI friends too cheap to meter

“Let me date my chatbot I’m almost 30 and doing well”

Oct 27 • Jasmine Sun

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🌻 how dems lost the future (ft. kelsey piper)

tech vs. trump, authoritarian envy, the case for argument

Oct 12 • Jasmine Sun and Kelsey Piper

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1:47:11

September 2025

🌻 are you high-agency or an NPC?

AI anxiety and the new language of silicon valley

Sep 21 • Jasmine Sun

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August 2025

🌻 america against china against america

notes on shenzhen, shanghai, and more

Aug 28 • Jasmine Sun

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🌻 42 notes on AI & work

economic anxiety at the jagged frontier

Aug 12 • Jasmine Sun

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🌻 we know more than we can tell

july links & scraps

Aug 2 • Jasmine Sun

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July 2025

🌻 from counterculture to cyberculture (ft. fred turner)

Stewart Brand, accelerationism, dating apps

Jul 23 • Jasmine Sun and Fred Turner

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🌻 forecasts vs. fiction (ft. daniel kokotajlo)

AI 2027, self-fulfilling prophecies, SF writing workshop

Jul 11 • Jasmine Sun and Daniel Kokotajlo

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