Raffi Holzer

I'm an entrepreneur in my bones. Passionate about all things AI, urban planning, and brain computer interfaces.

[Raffi Holzer @RaffiHolzer]

@WilliamBryk Not sure we’ll actually solve math that fast. In part because it’s largely been trained on language. I haven’t played with o3 yet so I could be dead wrong but o1 was neither wholly reliable as a mathematician nor nearly as creative as you’d want one to be.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

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@dead_user0516 @jacksonhinkle Coin is older than Palestine.

[Harris Sultan @TheHarrisSultan]

My dad, who is a moderate Muslim, finally expressed his concern and asked me, 'Why are you supporting this genocide?'

He mentioned that he's stopped looking at his phone because he can no longer bear to watch videos of Palestinian children being bombed by Israel.

I replied, 'I empathize with the suffering, and it's not easy for me either.'

Then I showed him a photo, and we both agreed on the gravity of the situation in Palestine.

I then informed him that the photo was actually of a Yemeni child pulled from the rubble resulting from a Saudi bombing in Yemen.

I pointed out that Israel has allegedly killed 7,000 Palestinians, while the Saudis have killed at least 150,000 Yemeni Muslims. Some estimates suggest upto 300,000.

How can we call the current conflict a 'genocide' when what the Saudis did is hardly even discussed by Muslims? Don’t get me started on 200,000 Muslims killed by Bashar Al Asad in Syria.

He responded that if that's the case, he also disagrees with what the Saudis did. I replied, 'How convenient. Nearly half a MILLION fellow Muslims have been killed by other Muslims, and you didn't even know about it. Yet when Israel retaliates against a terrorist organization that has killed, raped, and maimed 1,500 of its citizens, the whole Muslim world reacts?'

It seems to have less to do with preserving Muslim lives and more to do with a religious fantasy of hostility toward Jews.

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

There are people that are denying this reality. So it is very important that journalists like @jaketapper are documenting it, showing it:

https://t.co/sAyJMDBJhO

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@KAnthonyAppiah I wrote my first substack post on charity prioritization and was largely inspired by your work. Would be honored if you read it.

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Raffi’s Substack: Effective Altruism vs Charity Begins at Home https://t.co/4yYXORSleN

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Raffi’s Substack: Here goes nothing. https://t.co/Ve3dxFWC3D

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@StartUpRabbi @TBACHHH Thanks man!

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@KTmBoyle @pmarca @bariweiss @CaitlinPacific @antoniogm @eriktorenberg @joinClubhouse Sorry I missed this. Was it recorded by chance?

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@antoniogm @SamHarrisOrg @pmarca @KTmBoyle @eriktorenberg Or at least a statement of belief. Perhaps even dogma. I’m ok granting Sam a decoupling of belief from “religion”, which carries a broad set of other associations.

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@antoniogm @SamHarrisOrg @pmarca @KTmBoyle @eriktorenberg For Antonio it could be some sort of religion. Either way, you both necessarily submit to belief at the bottom of your epistemological pyramids.

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@antoniogm @SamHarrisOrg @pmarca @KTmBoyle @eriktorenberg But positing a religious foundation for ethics is just punting on that same problem. At some point you get to some set of ideas you can’t prove. For Sam that seems to be some ill defined notion of ethics arising from his own confidence in the rightness of western liberal values..

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@antoniogm @SamHarrisOrg @pmarca @KTmBoyle @eriktorenberg As I’m listening to Sam struggle to defend his position on a non religious justification for human rights I’d like to propose that the question is better than any of the answers. Sam has a major epistemological issue that he seems to be running away from...

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@GannonWilder @buggeroaf I was rooting for you guys. You picked a really fucking hard market. But you did a great job running the shit out of it.

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@SamHarrisOrg I appreciated your podcast on the current racial tensions in the US at the moment but wondered how you’d respond to this very different treatment of the data: https://t.co/vMKxNY1MOD