Dwarkesh

So I'm back to not understanding.

There are many, many times more people who have written good books than who are actively operating great bloggers right now, I think.

Maybe that's financial?

No, no, no, no, no.

Books are the worst possible financial strategy.

Substack is where it's at.

You think so?

Oh, yeah.

The other thing is that blogs are such a great status gain strategy.

Like, I was talking to Scott Aronson about this.

If people have questions about quantum computing, they ask Scott Aronson, or he is like the authority.

I mean, there are probably hundreds of other professors who do quantum computing.

Nobody knows who they are because they don't have blogs.

I think it's underdone.

I think there must be some reason why it's underdone.

I don't understand what that is because I've seen so many of the elements that it would take to do it in so many different places.

And I think it's either just a multiplication problem where 20% of people are good at one thing, 20% of people are good at another thing, and you need five things.

There aren't that many.

Plus something like courage, where people who would be good at writing blogs don't want to do it.

I actually know several people who I think would be great bloggers in the sense that sometimes they send me like multi-paragraph emails of response to an ACX post.