@chamath What happens to @OpenAI and Sam Altman if @elonmusk controls the future of space-based compute, energy, and AI infrastructure?
Does OpenAI eventually become dependent on Elon’s ecosystem… or blacklisted from it entirely?
I was a little concerned when @netflix rolled out Manti Te’o….but they totally redeemed themselves with the greatest football half time show of all time! Super Bowl ain’t got shit on the @NFL on #netflix! Nice work @SnoopDogg, @laineywilson, & the goat #andreabocelli
Based on preliminary research, no company in history has grown EBITDA 41% at an annual rate, or ~30-fold, over 10 years. If Elon and team meet these goals, the impact will be much greater than on Tesla alone: productivity and real GDP growth will accelerate meaningfully, auto fatalities will drop more than 50%, and all Tesla shareholders—importantly, its employees and their families—will become more wealthy than they ever dreamed possible.
Here’s a guy who started off the week talking about how amazing America is & how it’s the best country in the world! It’s embarrassing that the USA fans would attack him & his family this week. He’s a hero…not only in America but across the world
Chamath: Charlie Kirk was absolutely right about America’s youth
"One of the most powerful things that I think Charlie got absolutely and precisely right was the plight of young people."
"Meaning the malaise, and the anxiety, and what was at the root cause of it."
"At the root cause, in the way people think, and now in the way people act, is economic instability."
"Charlie does a really good job of very precisely putting it into a box what they're going through."
"The lack of home ownership, the overwhelming and just crushing debt, the failure of the school system, the inability to find a great job, the hookup culture that takes people away from having a committed relationship, getting married, having children."
"There's a totality of issues that are really cultural."
"I think that we need to sort of find a way to give folks a chance to believe in something."
"And if you don't, I think the algorithm will take you to a very bad place."
i’d argue you’re too easily moved by the choice words. “privilege” and “equality” are selected because they confuse the notion of fairness. another way to frame his statement “if you’re accustomed to succeeding due to hard work, ingenuity, risk/sacrifice, and, sure, some amount of luck, having the outcomes reset so that everyone is rewarded more equally feels unfair.”
is succeeding after making good choices, sacrificing personally, and working hard really “privilege”?
is it oppressive that everyone doesn’t get to the same place?
perhaps the real oppression is the loss of individual liberties when naively egalitarian philosophies mutate into marxism, denying opportunities for individual sacrifice, effort, and achievement to be rewarded.
framed as privilege v equality misses the mark.. equality of opportunity and equality of outcome are v different things. silicon valley’s most successful are the immigrants who found america as one of the only places on earth where an individual with zero baseline privilege can struggle and sacrifice and effortfully succeed. calling them privileged after the fact seems hardly the point. but an easy one to make.
@FortuneMagazine@ChipotleTweets Huge @ChipotleTweets fan here!! I’ve lived in several diff cities….chicago, Columbia, MO, Austin, Seattle, & Tampa & your FL restaurants have the worst service in the USA. Chipotle used to be the fast casual crown jewel…now it’s struggling with growth. Hold onto your values!