Lorenzo Barberis Canonico

pessimist bc of game theory + optimist bc of collective intelligence

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

On a long enough timeline, we are all getting cancelled

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

I've realized why the ending of The Odyssey has struck such a personal note: it captured in cinematic language the complex feelings of regret I have about how prediction markets Trojan-horsed gambling into every aspect of society

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@JulianGill2 @jachiam0 @unixpickle I love working with EAs so much that I have 2 now!

@jachiam0 here's the memo I put together when interviewing EAs https://t.co/0sYRJDA3nL

I think focusing what the difference between a VA, EA and Chief of Staff means in your context if the best approach

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@antoniogm @coinbase Would love to read it if you are open to sharing!

[Anirudh Pai @ani_pai]

https://t.co/NQj3OFoyPo

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@aakashgupta Great analysis?

Any takes on why Elon bet on GPUs as opposed to TPUs? Shouldn't we expect the xAI team to be able to come up with its own alternative architecture?

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@justinskycak I remember reading that part of your book and thinking "he's hardcore without being reckless"

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@tbpn @ByrneHobart Broke: obsessed with the present

Woke: obsessed with tech history

Bespoke: listens to the @FoundersPodcast

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Lots of people talk about cloning von Neumann, but more should talk about cloning Ramanujan.

He came from a horrible environment and spent ~80% of his life in it, yet he was so brilliant that his random notebook discovered a half-century after he died contained novel insights.

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@ankurnagpal @carryhq_ Yea, bc PM contracts are binary outcomes (so the whole capital could easily go to 0), which is what makes them sub-optimal for long-term compounding

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@AnthonyPierott3 have you tried https://t.co/TGBBxKMMPT?

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@AnthonyPierott3 The Pianist and I are going to start going to this on Sundays https://t.co/OPzAT13lG2

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@wisercharlie @cac_abq Is this the Richard Rohr center?

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@robinhanson 100% agreed. I've always found his humor mean-spirited

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@StartupArchive_ What's ironic is that he ended up making a similar mistake with Facebook by cashing out before it became a $1T company. He discusses a similar idea that it's harder to go from $10B to $100B but easier to go from $100B to $1T https://t.co/3RC6Lu9phw

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@NolanAnalyst for a second I thought he was smoking ahaha

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@ConradBastable Even when you are in dad mode, you are still blogging in your head 😂

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@melbaldove What were you doing beforehand? Were you on a sabbatical, doing a startup or contract work?

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The fastest way to get good at something is to do it a lot while carefully fixing your mistakes. This should be obvious but many people downplay the importance of a massive volume of action-feedback-adjustment cycles.

[Lorenzo Barberis Canonico @LBarberis]

@wisercharlie Angel Studios made "Cabrini" which was such a shockingly good movie not just because of the legit screenplay but also the astounding cinematography https://t.co/tbe0rP8r6J