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by brindlejim 4y ago
Let's be clear: Alfred Lin championed the investment in FTX. It's not Sequoia. It's a limited number of partners.
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by brindlejim 4y ago
The difference between Mochary and Campbell is stark. Campbell did not receive compensation for his coaching. He used to say "I don't take money, options, or bullshit." There was a reason for that. Campbell knew that if he to
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by brindlejim 4y ago
I've worked for and with some of the companies that Mochary mentions in his podcast interview with Lenny. https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-fire-people-with-grace-... They work nothing like he says. It makes me doub
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by brindlejim 4y ago
As a sidenote, many of the commitments that SBF made to the FTX Future Fund were either in FTT or paid in installments, which means that they will never be paid at all. Huge impact on the EA movement and their grantees.
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by brindlejim 4y ago
I think that making humanity a multi-planetary species, by definition, derisks the possibility that humanity will die out, especially if the extra-terrestrial colonies are self-sufficient. I actually don't see how you can logically dis
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by brindlejim 4y ago
> That's a false dichotomy. In a western democracy, do you vote for the things you believe in, or do you vote for one of the few representatives that pretends to approximate your beliefs closely? No it's not, actually. Democrac
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by brindlejim 4y ago
I agree with the author that there is a good Elon and a bad Elon. But I think Twitter only gets the bad Elon. At Tesla, Elon is producing EVs to help save the planet. At SpaceX, he is producing spacecraft to help save humanity. At Twitter,
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by brindlejim 4y ago
By far one of the most thorough critiques of the 1619 project and its systemic racialist fallacy was from socialist academics: https://www.amazon.com/Times-Project-Racialist-Falsification...
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by brindlejim 4y ago
Banning non-competes is a great idea. However, everyone here should be aware that lots of startups are now including "power of attorney" clauses in their employment contracts that grant to the employer power of attorney to assign
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by brindlejim 4y ago
"Believing in democracy" means believing that granting real power to all adult citizens through voting and other forms of feedback is a better form of government than those governmental forms that only grant power to a few. Say, t
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by brindlejim 4y ago
Fwiw, Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) is actually a classics scholar named Costin Alamariu, who holds a PhD from Yale and wrote a dissertation on the tyrants of antiquity. He puts on a Slavic accent for his podcast, but he moved to the US as a boy
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by brindlejim 6y ago
This is true in many cases. But in many others, it is the OSS maintainers who are expending the effort responding to the needs of free-software users. Many would argue that companies and adopters of OSS are creating negative externalities f
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by brindlejim 6y ago
You could argue that reinforcement learning policies are already causal models insofar as they relate state-action pairs to the rewards and penalties that they lead to. The trial and error that RL performs in a simulation is an exploration
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by brindlejim 6y ago
People's reputations and careers can be destroyed by a simple accusation of discrimination made on social media, let alone by an accusation levied by a founder against one of their investors. If the accused also have a powerful positio
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by brindlejim 6y ago
Trump is pushing a catastrophic narrative that logically leads to violence. https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/only-the-church-can-tr... > After all, when people believe our national destiny hangs in the balance,