Luke Burgis: evaluation

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…What part of Silicon Valley, if any, do you secretly admire more than perhaps your audience expects from you? I really admire people getting together to build things, usually, without sorting by things like political preference. The thing that I love about Silicon Valley is solving real problems in the world with the best people you can find working in small teams together—wish the church did more of this, should do more building, maybe, and less talking about the ethics of AI—to actually try to build things, experiment with things. I think the church probably needs a workshop in Rome to actually start building things. You can speak much more intelligently about it. I admire so many things about Silicon Valley. I miss the energy of it. DC is very different energy. It has created a culture. There are some parts of it that I think can be dangerous, but San Francisco is still the most important city in the world, particularly because of the AI boom, because it’s never been replicated anywhere else. I think there’s a reason for that. Why do you remain personally so tied to the state of Michigan?…

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