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01 / belief
“Where does time and space fit in? Because they’re neither purely true based on the relations of ideas, and it would be circular if we learned induction through induction.”
02 / belief
“I do think a lot of the most challenging things we have in the world right now, and a lot of the gating factors to productivity, economic growth, and just human well-being, I believe, are collective action problems, coordination problems, getting people to agree on something.”
03 / belief
“A lot of what we do and a lot of how we think we succeed is, we create a culture in a group of people where entrepreneurs decide they want to work with us.”
04 / belief
“I would say something like 90 percent of the net new market-cap value went to start-ups, went to new organizations that didn’t exist before the internet: Amazon, Google, and such.”
05 / belief
“The Stripe founders — I think of Stripe as a very smart financial services firm and who, by the way, were not particularly .”
06 / belief
“I think you’re making that point, which is, the people that produce these things, if they’re very powerful things that manage much of the world, being one of the countries and companies that produce them seems to give you immense power.”
07 / belief
“I think ultimately the same thing will happen in AI because it’s just too important.”
08 / belief
“I think you have a great question. I do think it’s different if they can get the open weights of DeepSeek, and the Peruvian people and government can fine-tune or change those weights and decide on .”
09 / belief
“If you go to Yale or Ford Foundation endowments — first time I learned this is when I raised venture capital.”
10 / belief
“Like a lot of philosophy, you have to take it in the context, like Naming and Necessity I think of as a response — gosh, I’m forgetting the whole history of it, but as I recall, it was a response to the descriptive theory of reference, like Russell.”
11 / belief
“I think that the best solution to it is to have smart regulation that incentivizes or requires things to be built in the proper way, in a way that avoids things like bank runs.”
12 / belief
“What I struggle with, and I understand him as a theory of psychology, I think of describing the experience of the Dasein and being-in-the-world.”
13 / belief
“I think that one of the reasons that open source will eventually be one of the two dominant models, competitive with proprietary AI, partly because of questions like this.”
14 / belief
“I have a friend who’s really into it, and we’ve been spending time together, and he’s trying to teach me. If you want, I’ll send you some videos that I think are really good.”
15 / belief
“I would argue housing is more of a regulatory problem, or you could argue a collective-action problem.”
16 / belief
“I think Peter Thiel said crypto is — what’d he say — crypto is libertarian and AI is socialist or communist.”
17 / belief
“You will have, I think, digital assets in those worlds, and you can have those either locked inside of the game owned by the game maker, or you can have them on a blockchain, where the user can move them around and control them.”