Daniel Kokotajlo

And how did this episode in general inform your worldview around how people will make high stakes decisions where potentially their own self-interest is involved in this kind of key period that you imagine will happen by the end of the decade?

Okay, Scott, can I ask you some questions?

Of course.

How often do you discover a new blogger you're super excited about?

Order of once a year.

Okay.

And how often after you discover them does the rest of the world discover them?

On the point about, well, there's people who can write short form, so why isn't that translating?

I will mention something that has actually radicalized me against Twitter as an information source is I'll meet, and this has happened multiple times, I'll meet somebody who seems to be an interesting poster, has funny, seemingly insightful posts on Twitter.

I'll meet them in person, and they are just absolute idiots.

Like there's like, it's like they've got 240 characters of something that sounds insightful and it matches to somebody who maybe has a deep worldview might say, but they actually don't have it.

Whereas I've actually had the opposite experience.

many times had the opposite feeling when I meet anonymous bloggers in real life where I'm like, oh, there's actually even more to you than I realized off your online persona.

You know Alvaro de Menard, the fantastic anachronism guy?

So I met up with him recently, and he gives me this – he made hundreds of translations of his favorite Greek poet, Cavafy, and he gave me a copy.

And it's just this thing he's been doing on his side.

It's just like translating Greek poetry he really liked.

I don't expect any anonymous posters on Twitter to be anytime soon handing me their translation of some Roman or Greek poet or something.

No, I mean, Chad, GBT can write you a book.

There's a difference between the Chad GPT book, which is most books.