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3 Jan 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Holden Karnofsky — History's most important century
“At some point, if I get enough subscribers, I will explain who all these stuffed animals are, but my wife and I basically use a stuffed animal personality classification system where we will compare someone to various stuffed animals to explain what their strengths and weaknesses are.”
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- Holden Karnofsky
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- commitment
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- 3 Jan 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Yeah, yeah. That is a stuffed animal named Mora. At some point, if I get enough subscribers, I will explain who all these stuffed animals are, but my wife and I basically use a stuffed animal personality classification system where we will compare someone to various stuffed animals to explain what their strengths and weaknesses are. Mora is a pink polar bear who's very creative but also very narcissistic and loves attention. So she's kind of the mascot of the blog because it's this blog that's just very crazy, very out there, and is just me writing in public. So it just felt like her spirit. Gosh, okay. So let me ask, what is the goal of the blog? Why have a second job as a blogger in addition to being the CEO of a big organization?…
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