What we measured
We loaded importai.substack.com in a real browser, accepted the cookie banner, and scored what came back. Every number below is on a 0–10 scale where 10 is best.
- Ad restraint
- 7
- Design
- 9
- Reach
- 3
- Editorial
- 9
- Signal-to-noise
- 9
- Access
- 10
- Cadence
- 7
- Independence
- 9
Ad entities counted on the homepage after accepting the cookie banner
Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
Curated judgement of the writing, not a measurement
How much of the feed is the thing you subscribed for
How much is readable without a paywall or a login
Whether it publishes often enough to be worth a slot
Ownership, and how much it constrains what gets covered
What it looks like
Our screenshot of importai.substack.com, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from Import AI
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing
- Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity
- Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker
- Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan
- Import AI 464: Fable writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation
- Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era
- Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI
- Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns
- Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing
- Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems
- Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story
- Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment
Where it sits in Tech & AI
- #31 The Register78
- #32 EleutherAI Blog77
- #33 Import AI77
- #34 The Gradient76
- #35 watchTowr Labs75.5