Nolan Church

Mafia Talent | 10X Recruiting | DoorDash + Carta OG

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

There is only one employee perk that matters: great colleagues.

Working with great people pushes you to grow faster and makes every day so damn fun.

Great people > everything. Nothing else matters.

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

@teddyferrin hater

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

@growing_daniel Flock solved 80% of crime in SF, and yet their PR is worse than Fukushima, Chernobyl, and the BP Oil Spill

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

if you are feeling down about the future, watch this

[Neuralink @neuralink]

A beautiful surprise

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

@JesseTinsley alternative perspective: Carta won

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

🤌🏻

[critter @BecomingCritter]

Clavicular genuinely rated Chamath a 2/10 to his face. Brutal

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

@drgurner @BowTiedMarmott @drgurner the book Breath by James Nestor changed my mind on this topic. I’ve been taking every night for 6 years

ps thank you @andrewparker for telling me about the book!

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

@Dconley12 amen

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

i was going to write down my thoughts, but this is better

[goodalexander @goodalexander]

do you ever take a step back and ask like the most absolutely basic question

"is there a SINGLE thing in my life that is meaningfully more efficient due to AI, outside of writing code"

Airbnb. Shit show. Uber. Shit show. Doordash. Worse than it was. Average employee: cooked. Power: doesn't work. Water: no idea if it's poisoned, govt is corrupt. Airlines: frozen for months at a time due to govt shut downs. Gasoline: mooning bc (checks notes) in a stalemated war w a 3rd world country

Even GTA 6 apparently couldn't be accelerated with AI and took years to build. is there a single video game you actually play that's built entirely with AI? it seems like all the demos are just dudes making some shitty vaporware game nobody plays and the posts are like "yo I spent only $1,800 in tokens to make some dogshit that demos well for clout"

and they have a $500k marketing subsidy from a lab.

"I've been lucky enough to use Astra for 3 months and I finally can talk about it." okay, what the fuck did you ship? yes, you shipped nothing other than more AI analytics dashboards about how many tokens you're burning

and all the AI influencers look like Twinks. like, they get the tokens bc they're in some weirdos polycule or burning man camp or whatever kinkfest in an SF sauna that moves the needle

that's why this whole "Pace the frontier" thing is so retarded. Pace what exactly. Productivity is at ONE POINT FOUR PERCENT ANNUALIZED. THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS CLOSED. where is Anduril? where is the killer robot? if it's so dangerous can't you send it to a fcking war zone and win?

oh. turns out it's not dangerous and you're just mentally ill. cool.

but Trump says it can't stop. it won't stop. bc the debt and productivity situation is so fcked that AI is the ONLY REASONABLE WAY WE AVOID COMPLETE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE.

but once you understand how utterly insane that all is - you see how bullish it is. AI literally doesn't fucking work. Subagents are a meme bc agents break down at 2 orders of abstractions and start vomiting technical debt and overengineered garbage. Everyone is working 2x as much to manage agents, not going for a walk voice prompting.

do you have any idea how much money needs to be invested to move productivity from 1.4% to 4%?

ALL THE MONEY. So that's the joke. Dario says we need to slow down. And what, see productivity at 0%?

So it's either Trumplandia where we invest all the money in an insane hail mary that will probably not work. Or Dario world where we managed the inevitable collapse with an AI powered global government. Pick your poison. Either way the Data Centers won't default.

[Shyam Sankar @ssankar]

Contrast the present hysteria with Los Alamos.

The Manhattan Project scientists thought the first nuclear explosion could ignite the atmosphere and end humanity.

They did the math. They determined it wouldn’t. And they proceeded.

Because they weren’t fighting a thought experiment. They were fighting the Nazis.

Effective Altruism inverts this. Multiply a sufficiently horrifying hypothetical future by enough hypothetical future humans and suddenly speculation acquires the moral authority of fact.

That’s not empiricism. It’s secular eschatology.

Take risks seriously. Do the work. Engineer against them.

But don’t confuse the ability to imagine the apocalypse with the authority to rule the present.

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

@kevinnbass @martin_casado @davisbell_slc

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

@davisbell_slc @teddyferrin lol @teddyferrin get in the public fight! no side texts

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

these ppl say the craziest shit for regulatory capture

[Evan Hubinger @EvanHub]

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

@daltonlbrough @MLB regardless of the outcome, the correct answer is the Giants

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

@MLB

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

The city with the most compelling case for MLB expansion right now: Salt Lake City. It's got an owner. It's got a public-private partnership to fund a stadium. And it's got a site that's already being developed. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox talked with us about how far ahead SLC is.

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

One of the reasons we chose Millcreek is because of its layout and design.

You're advocating for change. And I'm not immediately against it. I'm asking if there are recent examples that we can learn from.

Last thing: Telling your constituents/neighbors to move is off-putting at best, and disrespectful at worst. Especially those asking questions in good faith.

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

This is great. 2 additions:
1) Severance: My rule is to be as generous as possible. If the company is performing well, 8+ weeks gives people time to land on their feet. Treat others the way you'd want to be treated.

2) Communicating to the team: Give the top performers more intimate details about the termination. The team will talk, and rumors start that freak people out. If the top performers know what actually happened, they can kill those rumors before they begin.

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

@bikelakecity @NateForUtah My view is that there should be a diversity of areas: some dense, some spacious.

Zoning helps accomplish that goal.

[Nolan Church @NolanChurch]

@NateForUtah I'm trying to engage in good faith, and am asking if you've looked into how this experiment has played out in other areas?

If there's positive data, it seems like an easy way to get more people on board.