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Hey Eltonlin, this sounds really cool and I hope you can make an impact in improving access to education. Some time ago I wrote a blog post titled "Professors as Creators" which di…

I'll be interested to see how the longevity of e-sports pans out. Most games will be woefully outdated after a decade: will the audience move to the next big game, or stay playing …

Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. Just wanted to say, I would be very interested in reading more about the experiments you ran on getting GPT-4 to describe its plans. GPT-3's ex…

Hi all, today I'm launching a side-project I've been working on for a while: Web3 Readers' Club. I think the internet lacks spaces for discussion: most sites operate in the form of…

I saw lots of people criticizing PG's essay, but I really liked it. Free will and agency are interesting philosophical topics to wonder, even if they don't hold much practical valu…

I think there's something to comparing education (especially when delivered remotely) to YouTube. There's a huge variance between the teaching skills of teachers, just as there is …

What caused you to move? Did COVID restrictions or the ability to work remotely play a part? Did moving improve your quality of life?

Hey crawfordcomeaux, I noticed you've shared some interesting ideas about communities in Hacker News! I wonder if you have an opinion on whether remote working will change where an…

This concept is important to the way I think about crypto. It feels like a war between two elites (TradFi vs Crypto insiders and VCs), if crypto wins it it will not "democratize fi…

Thanks for the great article! I wished the section on DeFi addressed the biggest elephant in the room, overcollateralization. A DeFi borrower always needs to lock in more assets as…

Pretty interesting. A lot of people here are focusing on permanence, but for me the main difference on addressing by content vs by host name is the loss of authorship it opens up f…

Bizarrely, I'm seeing recruiters using this on LinkedIn.