OpenAI fired this 23-year-old from their Superalignment team.
But he turned his insider knowledge into a $1.5B fund that's outperforming Wall Street by 700% this year.
He says maybe ~200 people in SF understand what's *actually* happening in AI right now.
Here's his thesis: 🧵
On June 13, 2013, Aerovelo’s human-powered helicopter Atlas won the AHS Igor I. Sikorsky Challenge and its $250,000 prize. During the record-breaking 64 second flight, Atlas reached a height of 3.3 metres https://t.co/gaWyd7uHln
"A willingness to take quick and bold action, even when it carries political risk, is surely among the most important hallmarks of leadership in a crisis."
https://t.co/3vdoQMuDu7
Trillions for everything but stopping the virus. This is what happens when capital is allocated politically rather than intelligently.
https://t.co/4KVmdtxxhT
Founders worry too much about highly funded competitors. Usually funding matters less than the founders' ability. In the short term, a highly funded competitor can hurt you by e.g. lowering prices. But if you survive long enough, it will ultimately become a test of ability.
11 yo and his friends are always coming up with ideas for beating the system. I told him that the really big money is not in little tricks like that, but in making things that help people.
YouTube should not be censoring videos that dispute WHO. They claimed no evidence for human-to-human transmission, airborne transmission, travel bans, masks.
WHO isn’t always wrong. But they are humans, not oracles, and we must be allowed to rebut. @SusanWojcicki, please fix!
Something I taught my 11 yo: Practice teaches you how to do things without having to think consciously about each step. So even when you "already know how" to do something by making a conscious effort, you can often reach another level of knowing how to do it through practice.