(cache)Archive - Strange Cosmos by Yarrow Bouchard

The sad decline of effective altruism

A once wholesome and inspiring movement has become entangled with cults and has lost years chasing dead end ideas

Apr 28 • Yarrow Bouchard

March 2026

The pseudo-religious origins of the AI bubble

Transhumanism, not technology, is fuelling much of the current AI optimism

Mar 18 • Yarrow Bouchard

January 2026

Is the AI industry in a bubble? An incomplete survey of evidence

AI valuations depend on improvement in AI capabilities, which depends on scaling, which is running out of steam

Jan 3 • Yarrow Bouchard

December 2025

Self-driving cars aren’t nearly a solved problem

Contrary to popular belief, Waymos aren't actually fully autonomous, and the problem is harder than it may seem

Dec 28, 2025 • Yarrow Bouchard

July 2023

Full Autonomy is Harder Than I Thought

Jul 19, 2023 • Yarrow Bouchard

October 2022

The Age of Auto-Labeling is the Age of Automation

A paradigm shift for AI

Oct 6, 2022 • Yarrow Bouchard

February 2022

A Simple Calculation About Tesla's AI Data Advantage Over Waymo

Tesla has at least an 50% performance advantage

Feb 21, 2022 • Yarrow Bouchard

January 2022

Tesla's Ace in the Hole: 60,000 Full Self-Driving Beta Testers

The age of AI robotics cometh

Jan 29, 2022 • Yarrow Bouchard

June 2021

Tesla and the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data

Why does the size of Tesla’s training fleet matter?

Jun 3, 2021 • Yarrow Bouchard