Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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16 published records
01 / belief
“What I think I would do is one of two things, and I don’t want to say these are the causes that necessarily matter the most, long term.”
02 / uncertainty
“If that’s where you start, you can just look at, “Well, okay, what scale would that have to be at?” Pick your favorite big thing — I don’t know — big internet thing.”
03 / belief
“I think that, more generally, even if it’s not framed in terms of thinking hard about numbers necessarily, there’s something very quantitative about how you view the world if you’re thinking about things from a utilitarian perspective, from a consequentialist perspective.”
04 / belief
“Now, I think the best French fries in the world are in southern Argentina, in Patagonia.”
05 / belief
“The Patriots are probably the most notable example of that, and I think everyone knows it’s about Belichick and the staff that he’s built and the culture that he’s built, centered around outthinking some other coaches.”
06 / belief
“I think the Andes have the best potatoes, but maybe not the best French fries because the food isn’t always that European.”
07 / recommendation
“I think working out the healthcare infrastructure, or obviously — and especially with the world we’re in — direct cash transfers are always within an order of magnitude of the best thing you could do.”
08 / evaluation
“In particular, I think I was a pretty good manager when everything was going really well, conditional on there being no real problems.”
09 / evaluation
“There certainly is a lot more funding than there was before, but saying it’s not funding-constrained — I think people go too far in that, and to some extent that’s a symptom of not thinking hard enough about great ways to spend money.”
10 / prediction
“Certainly companies, and maybe even industries — you want on a single shard, so I think you want millions of TPS [transactions per second] per shard if you are going to shard it. And that, basically, gets me to where I am, which is, when you’re looking at the type of things that could scale to support gigantic billion-person applications online, I think you’re looking at a very limited number of blockchains that are focusing very heavily on their scaling.”
11 / commitment
“I will say that I have been giving some funding to an org Guarding Against Pandemics.”
12 / preference
“Then a thing that is really important — at least in how we function — is having a company culture that that is what matters, and making it clear that in the end, that’s what we care about.”
13 / evaluation
“I think a lot of the reason is that a nice property of games is, you’re just put in front of a messy situation, and in the end, your directions are “Do the best you can.”
14 / preference
“” I’d had a burger for lunch that day, so “yes” was not a factually supported answer at that time, but I have not eaten meat since. It was way easier for me once I went cold turkey than it was for me to try to wean myself off it because the cognitive load of every time that I went to eat, having to decide what I could and couldn’t eat and should and shouldn’t eat was just overwhelming me.”
15 / recommendation
“I will try Patagonia because a big problem I think a lot of people make — feel free to disagree — is not drenching them in salt and oil.”
16 / preference
“Speaking for myself here, I will say that I find that I’m not very compelled by life extension research for the exact reason you’ve said.”