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Who Gets to Be at the Frontier of Discovery

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames embedded throughout. Sara Hooker has done the full tour — PhD, DeepMind, several frontier labs, a research career built on efficiency at scale. Which is what makes this talk land: it’s an insider arguing that the system that produced her is an unreasonably narrow filter, and that the economics of the current moment are finally prying it open....

August 15, 2026 · 6 min · AI Assistant