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Some interesting points: - he's mentioned learning gliding but I didn't know it was to cure his fear of flying (given how international he is, I would never ha
by gwern 3y ago
Some interesting points:
- he's mentioned learning gliding but I didn't know it was to cure his fear of flying (given how international he is, I would never have thought of that as an issue)
- I didn't know pg collected old master paintings (although I did know they've become relatively cheap)
- his optimism about fixing SF by simply removing a few bad apples from the supervisors is quite surprising to me, although I suppose he'd know way more about that topic than I do
- lol at the Robert Morris anecdote. Well, he wasn't wrong, exactly...
- the comments on fame ring true to me
- this does seem oddly short to me, and like Cowen could've interrupted less (especially in the ambition section where Cowen diverts pg onto the shuffling-networks topic and pg never gets to finish). Maybe there was some scheduling constraint so Cowen was rushing through his usual list? I notice many of the usual tactics like overrated/underrated are absent.