ETH Denver Day 1 and 2

A few notes: Incorrectly believed that ETH Denver 2023 was going to be more muted than 2022 due to market conditions. Some builders are working harder than ever building cool things (met multiple people at my house of mostly college students routinely building until 3-5 am). The actual main event...

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3/3/23 Friday Links

New signaling meta for elite law schools? Silvergate rumored to be insolvent Are stick shifts a cultural or tax-reducing phenomenon?

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3/2/23 Thursday Links

4000 weeks interactive life chart Student Loan forgiveness under further scrutiny AI "visionaries" New Bruno Macaes

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EigenLayer Predictions

I've written a bit about EigenLayer in the past , and have gotten to know and chat with some of the team members. The team is absolutely stacked and deeply academic (largely Sreeram Kannan and his graduate students). EigenLayer has been making the rounds on CT. Nick Prince (Crypto Product + Vent...

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3/1/23 Wednesday Links

NIL deals and the future of the NCAA Interactive charts about the relationship between AI and compute TikTok dating meta Rough estimate of fuel + economic logistics for a Pacific War

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2/28/23 Tuesday Links

Snapchat enters the chatbot game Vitalik on real-world crypto UX Why DeepMind didn't build ChatGPT The EigenLayer Whitepaper drops (few days ago)

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2/27/23 Monday Links

Impact of cold exposure on various well-being factors More "official" lab leak news High-level overview of LLMs Where do insurance markets actually make sense?

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2/26/23 Sunday Links

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-heralds-an-intellectual-revolution-enlightenment-artificial-intelligence-homo-technicus-technology-cognition-morality-philosophy-774331c6 https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/an-instinct-thats-basic-and-deeper https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/style/snowboard...

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Drive to Survive Meta

Drive to Survive season 5 just released (2022 season). As expected, when something works, copies begin to emerge in order to extract more value and stay on top of the meta. We now see this with: Full Swing , another documentary series by Netflix following golfers The cornucopia of dating/reali...

2/25/23 Saturday Links

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gp9pmgSX3BXnhv8pJ/i-hired-5-people-to-sit-behind-me-and-make-me-productive-for#comments Is there a billion-dollar opportunity for productivity here? Anything that scales with software? https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/02/19/a-decade-later-how-david-lees-historic...

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