Garry Tan
speaker
1,293 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Garry Tan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That manuscript became his posthumous works, which attracted immediate attention across Europe and inspired some of the most important philosophers of the Enlightenment.
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What does Spinoza have to do with startups, you might ask?
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Well
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Here is a man canceled by everyone he knew, offered a salary to stop.
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Nearly killed for shipping, and his response was to build precision tools by day and write the most dangerous book in Europe by night alone, with no permission from anybody.
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If you're gonna start a startup, you could do well to learn from Spinoza.
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He had a name for the engine that kept him going.
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Canadis.
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It means your striving, the drive in every living thing to keep going and to increase its power to act.
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Not your resume, not your title, not your job, the striving itself.
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This talk is about the tools that amplify it.
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So what did he actually say that was worth deleting a man over?
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The gist of the heresy was that God is not a king on a throne.
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God is spread through everything that exists.
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God or nature, he wrote.
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Four hundred years later, we are making a similar mistake about intelligence.
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Everyone is waiting for AGI as a singular event, a god in a data center, some announcement, some threshold, some day when the sky changes color.
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So now I'll say a version of Spinoza's heresy, updated 400 years later.
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Everyone is watching the sky.
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And the thing they're watching for is already in the room.
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