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Intern @theinformation. GP @slow. Fmr VP Product FB. co-founder dropio & fin. Seed investor solana, venmo, openphone, teamshares, sublime. wless.in ¶.

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We def don't need superintelligence / the edge for AI to kill us all.. here are 8 pratical ways it will all end.
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8 ways AI will actually probaly actually kill us all... no superintelligence required!

I am short the paperclip optimizing death… or AGI overload takeover… but good news, there are plenty of practical ways AI can actually kill us all without being that sophisticated at all /. Using

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Zero-Day models to hold banks and countries for ransom is the only busness model that makes sense... everything else is just commodity
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The Path To Financial Success For Anthropic and OpenAI? Become Defense Companies

This isn’t cyber defense in the traditional sense… the model should be (1) develop new edge / very powerful models… don’t release them/ don’t share them where they get adapted to / distilled… hold

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The actual way to help teens & families online... if it were really about solutions (not politics)

Meta just paid $17B and agreed to a kitchen sink of screen-time limits, hidden likes, and school-hours mutes to settle child-safety claims from 47 states. Fine, whatever... everyone gets to declare a

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Companies that are ‘Market Participants’ are never that valuable as businesses to own

Here is the paradox of capitalism On one hand, fair competition in open markets is fundamentally what makes capitalism great. It is the whole point / the operation of the invisible hand… and why the

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Everything defining our era is downstream of collapsing cost of compute, storage, and communication.

I went back and watched myself give talks in 2009, 2010, 2016, and 2018. I hadn't changed my mind about anything (for better and worse) Sixteen years, four talks, three variables I apparently can't

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How do we make more people feel ‘elite’ in the face of internet ‘elite’ collapse.

The real issue we face today isn’t the over-production of elites (demand) It is the collapse of the number of ‘elite feeling’ slots that exist (supply). I have been reading a bit about Peter Turchin’s

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Is the US speed running late-empire? And if so what can we possibly do about it?

How do we preserve mobility, freedom, celebration of success, and property rights in a world where technology and capital compound faster than labor and institutions? Roman Republic got super rich

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THE REAL SPACEX IPO LESSON: WE LIVE IN A CAPITALIST MULTIVERSE OF VALUE

DCF is no longer the only globally scalable story of value. The internet lets minority belief systems create trillion-dollar markets For the last few decades, the dominant global story of value has

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Someone is Gonna Win a Nobel Prize for Figuring out How Much To Spend on Matrix Multiplication

The future of Algorithmic Economics In the last 2 weeks or so tech twitter has latched on to the ‘route between multiple LLMs’ story… ‘only a tiny percentage of problems are ‘worth it’ to spend

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Week In Review - Half-Kelly

More or Less — Have Secret or Own Narrative Jess is in Davos… we are left behind with the riffraff… fun conversation around Clawdbot, Ralph — mercenary AI ‘founders’ … I was personally interested

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The Future if Flat Earth…

If you believe in AGI, then the most plausible long-run model for human belief and purpose is not enlightenment, rationality, or truth. It’s Flat Earth. Flat Earth isn’t interesting because it’s

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The Themes That Matter for 2026

So what are the themes of the year that actually matter? The stories we tell ourselves about the world have always mattered a great deal… but we live in a particularly strong moment of narrative

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