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4th episode of Deus Ex Machina with geopolitical researcher Samo Burja of Bismarck Analysis. Had a great conversation regarding historical perspectives on progress, revolution vs evolution, linearity in time, the Ukraine war. open.spotify.com/show/5liFaVspC…

ChatGPT poetry aside, generally a true take on the Enlightenment’s consequences

After the Communists took power in 1949 and Lawrence Kadoorie's family had to flee to Hong Kong, they concluded that their father’s generation, isolated and wealthy, had been blind to the rise of communism and paid a terrible price. “The best protection against Communism is to

TIL that the first CIA officer to die in the line of duty was shot in China in 1950 by Tibetans: Douglas S. Mackiernan cia.gov/legacy/honorin…

Community notes goes hard some times

The global AI race is basically Chinese in China vs Chinese in America now. Similar to math olympiads or Olympic ping pong. I mean just look at the last names on these LLM reasoning papers

I have a group chat where one member is Dutch technology founder. The chat as just descended into European stagnation memes and I feel kinda bad for him but he contributes most of them

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create horse girls. Horse girls become journalists. Journalists create hard times.

New Johnathan Bi just dropped and you don't wanna miss it!

This is how taxpayer money should be spent, on real strategic priorities against geopolitical adversaries. There's like 50K people total living in Greenland. The CIA can just assign an intern 1:1 to each Greenlander for total coverage. Infiltrating their one Whatsapp group gives

New pope has a BS in Math and great yearbook design skills. So bullish for the Catholic Church's next two millennia reign on God's earth

An OpenAI friend said he couldn’t hang out one weekend because he was babysitting. I asked him if it was his siblings. He said he’s babysitting their training run and it’s their version of on call. He thought it was hilarious I thought he was babysitting real children. I guess

You're the average of the people around you and Silicon Valley has definitely increased my intensity, speed, and ambitions. This really hit home when I went back for my 5 year college reunion and realized that a place that's objectively intense and high achieving like Yale

Hosting a fireside chat next month with Saikat Chakrabarti. Silicon Valley folks may know Saikat as the founding eng of Stripe, but he’s dedicated the last decade of his life to public service, from running the tech for Bernie’s campaign to serving as AOC’s chief of staff. Now

We asked for everyone’s hot takes as the intro. Proliferation of mechanical wombs. Europe is underpriced. End of the golden age of autism. To name a few. Come through to future Chatham House convos at NYC fine dining establishments

Obama said in a 2009 speech: "Our kids can't all aspire to be the next LeBron or Lil Wayne. I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers." Hope he's pleased to see his dream fulfilled as AI research scientists get traded

I believe in the pendulum of history swinging back and forth. Action->Reaction Correction->Overcorrection We are in a conservative wave, but I wonder if Mamdani's win is the first sign of the woke wave's return. Some friends are already trying to front run the next left wave.

In SF instead of saying they're unemployed people say they're an ex-frontierlab researcher working on an agent swarm startup and I think that's beautiful.