Daniel Kokotajlo

He hasn't been building up a fan base over years.

It's just really good.

And

And as you were mentioning a second ago, whenever you notice a really great new blogger, it's not like then it takes them a year or two to build up a fan base.

It's like, nope, everybody, at least that they care about, is talking about it almost immediately.

I know, I mean, the situation awareness is just like...

in a different tier almost.

But things like that, and even things that are an order of magnitude smaller than that, will literally just get read by everybody who matters.

And I mean, like literally everybody.

And I hope, I mean, I expect this to happen with AI 2027 when it comes out.

But Daniel, I guess you kind of have, but you've been building your reputation in this specific community

And I expect the AI 2020 is just like really good and I expect it will just like blow up in a way that isn't downstream of you having built up an audience over years.

Yeah.

Okay, so you say that throwing money at people to get them to blog at least didn't seem to work for the FTX folks.

If it was up to you, what would you do?

What's your grand plan to get 10 more Scott Alexanders?

Man, um...

I hate to admit that, but maybe it's true.

Invented it from first principles.

Yeah.