Sholto Douglas
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I don't know if they were actually relevant to getting... They were somewhat relevant.
But I think more so that we have all read almost all the blogs that do in-depth treatises on AI.
That's right.
If you write something that is high quality, it's almost invariably going to be shared around Twitter and read.
Yeah.
Certainly when Leopold posts that, like the next day, it's almost like,
You can picture it like being almost stapled.
Not it wasn't, but it was stapled to walls, so to speak, on Twitter.
Like, you know, everyone was talking about it.
You went to any event for the following week.
Every single person in the entire city was talking about that essay.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like Renaissance Florence.
Yeah, that's something else which is underappreciated, which is that a piece of writing doesn't need to have a fundamentally new insight so much as give people a way to express cleanly a set of ideas that they already are like aware of in a sort of broader way.
And if it's really crisp and articulate, then even still, that's very valuable.
Next questions.
Shall we do...
From JackedPajeet, how much can you bench?
Yeah, exactly.
What's your favorite history book?