Daniel Kokotajlo

Or with the AI firms post, it's like, come on, who doesn't... Like, these are just weird ideas.

Like, and also, some of these seem obvious, whatever.

And...

My podcasts do what I expect them to do.

My blogs just take off way more than I expect them to take off in advance.

Your blog posts are actually very good.

Yeah, they're good.

But the thing I would emphasize is that for me, I'm not a regular writer and I couldn't do them on a daily basis.

And as I'm writing them, it's just this one or two week long process of...

feeling really frustrated.

Like, this is all bullshit, but I might as well just stick with this on cost and just do it.

That's right.

That's right.

And it's also courage makes it sound very virtuous, which I think it can often be given the topic.

But at least often it's just like,

confidence no not even confidence is the sense of you it's closer to maybe what uh aspiring actor feels when they go to an audition where it's like i feel really embarrassed but also i just like really want to be a movie star um yeah so i mean the way i got through this is i blogged for i'm trying to

I wonder if this sends the wrong message or raises expectations or raises concerns and anxieties, but...

One idea I've been shooting around and I'd be curious of your take on this.

I feel like this slow compounding growth of a fan base is fake.

If I notice some of the most successful things in our spirit that have happened, like Leopold releases situational awareness.