Outside of a handful, the majority of podcasts are repetitious enough these days that I would rather listen to a bunch of theater nerds play through a long Dungeons and Dragons campaign together than ...

Losing someone young, or losing an older person while you are young, is always hard. When my father passed away from cancer while I was in my early twenties, it wasn't surprising at all. This fact ha...

Nuclear war aside (since that's basically an ever-present #1 risk), what do you think the biggest global risks/challenges are over the next decade?

I am completely overcome by sadness by this. I wouldn't be at Block today, if not for Bob. He personally recruited me. He introduced me to @jack. He made me a better engineer. He partied and loved lif...

I don’t expect the petition to work. But I do hope more people start taking the dangers more seriously. 🤷‍♂️

That we don't even understand the nature of our own creations, here.

This paper from Microsoft Research on GPT-4 is kinda ... horrifying. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712

I AM HODLING I type d that tyitle once because I knew it was right the first time.  Still right.  w/e.  Wife’s next to me, flying to Nostrica, banks breaking, BTC pumping WHY AM I HOLDING? I'LL ...

That feeling when you have serious people reaching out to you like, "is this going to be hyperinflation?" And you're like, "Nah, not this quarter."

The algorithm wants you be as upset as possible. It's terminal goal is to turn you into a doomscrolling zombie who hates the world.