John Collison

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6,048 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 5 Feb

John Collison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Cheeky Pint · Elon Musk on Space GPUs, AI, Optimus, and his manufacturing method · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

No, no.

And the expl yeah, the explanation you hear is that they're dispositionally conservative.

You know, they're Taiwanese or German as the you know story may be, and they just like don't believe the say like is that really the explanation or is there something else?

Are there other are there other ideas you think others should go pursue that you're not for whatever reasons right now?

I I don't even mean within AI, I mean just generally.

Yeah, you

You joked or, you know, um were self-conscious about uh, you know, using the uh the limiting factor phrase again.

But I actually think there's something deep here.

And if you look at a lot of things we've touched on over the course of it, maybe you kind of have a good note to end on.

If you think of a senescent lower agency

Company.

It would have some bottleneck and not really be doing anything about it.

Um, you know, Mark and Dreessen had the line of uh most people are willing to endure any amount of chronic pain to avoid acute pain.

Uh and it feels like a lot of the cases we're talking about are just leaning into the acute pain, whatever it is.

It's like, okay, we gotta figure out how to, you know, work with steel or we gotta figure out how to run the chips in space, or like we'll take some near term acute pain.

to actually solve the bottleneck.

And so that's kind of a unifying thing.

Cheeky Pint · Julia DeWahl of Antares on building nuclear reactors for the US military · 25 Nov 2025 podcast

Julia Dual is the co-founder of Intares, which is designing nuclear micro reactors for the military and other off-grid use cases.

Cheers.

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