September was unusually coherent for Taleb: beneath the insults, math puzzles, linguistic jokes, Lebanese history, anti-Zionist polemics, AI enthusiasm, olive trees, strength training, and attacks on academics, the same…
September was unusually revealing because Paul Graham spent the month circling the same handful of ideas from very different directions: startups should be governed by reality rather than prestige or doctrine; AI is bec…
Keith Rabois’s last month on X is interesting less because of any single argument than because it compresses several recurring features of his worldview into one unusually dense sample: extreme confidence in personal ju…
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