Will McCaskill's Pitch to Investors

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Will McCaskill was a founder of effective altruism which our former podcast guest Will McCaskill is still very active in. SBF introduced SPF and Elon Musk to each other I don't think they did anything together but that he tried. It's a valorization of a kind of glib quickness and fast talking over careful thought, says Mindscape co-founder John MacIntosh. "I'm instantly repelled by that idea," said MacIntosh about the book project for Tesla CEO Elon Musk. “How could many more people think that that’s going to make a true genius out of them? There are warning signs here"

Welcome to that beloved Mindscape annual tradition, the Holiday Message. An opportunity for a quicker and less-well-thought-out solo episode to round off another year. Ironically, this year the theme is the importance of slowing down and thinking things out really well! Illustrated by two things that have been on my mind: a couple of internet/tech kerfuffles (Elon Musk buying Twitter, Sam Bankman-Fried and the collapse of FTX), and the distinction between foundations of physics and “regular” physics. See if you can dimly perceive the thread that ties them together.

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