Sholto Douglas: belief

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…On a more serious note, one thing I have been thinking about is, how could you use this money to an altruistic end? And basically, if there's somebody who's up and coming, in the field that I know, which is making content, could I use money to support them? And I'm of two minds on this. One, there are people who did this for me, and it was kind of actually responsible for me continuing to do the podcast when it just did not make sense as there were a couple hundred people listening or something. I want to shout out Anil Varanasi for doing this. And also Leopold, actually, for the foundation that he was previously running. On the other hand, the thing about what that blogger was saying, that the good ones you actually do notice. It's hard to find a hidden talent. Maybe I'm totally wrong about this. But I'd feel like if I put up a sort of grant application, I give you money if you're trying to make a blog, I'm actually not sure about how well that would work. There's different things you could do, though. Like, there's “I'll give you money to move to San Francisco for two months”. And sort of meet people and get more context and taste and feedback on what you're doing and it's not so much about the money or time. It's putting them in an environment where they can more rapidly grow. Like, that's something that one could do. I think you do that quite proactively in terms of you deliberately introduce people that you think will be interesting to each other and this kind of stuff, so… yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, that's very fair, and I, obviously I've benefited a ton from moving to San Francisco. And it's unlikely that I would be doing the podcast- at least on AI- to the degree I am if I wasn't here. So maybe it's a mistake to judge people based on the quality of their content as it exists now and just throw money at them- not throw money, but give them enough money to move to SF to get caught up in this intellectual milieu and then maybe do something interesting as a result.…

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