What I read this week...
SBF vs. Brian Armstrong, OpenAI deal, and gas stoves...
What I read this week…
Some Socially Desirable Traits Are Disputed More Than Others (Rob Henderson)
Wokeness as prairie fire (Noahpinion)
Inside the structure of OpenAI’s looming new investment from Microsoft and VCs (Fortune)
The media loved Sam Bankman-Fried; it hated Brian Armstrong (Semafor)
Crypto firms Genesis and Gemini charged by SEC with selling unregistered securities (CNBC)
Meta's big reset (The Verge)
New Alzheimer’s Drug Approved by FDA, Promises to Slow Disease (WSJ)
Defying gravity, 2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.1B, up 89% on 2021. (HolonIQ)
A College Kid Built an App That Sniffs Out Text Penned by AI (Daily Beast)
The Gas-Stove Debate Exemplifies the Silliest Tendencies of American Politics (The Atlantic)
On Twitter…
President Biden@POTUS
If you’ve ever thought about installing rooftop solar to save money on energy bills, now’s the time.
Thanks to our investments, you can save up to 30% of the cost of installing your solar panels on your 2023 tax returns.
7:00 PM · Jan 7, 2023
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Lex Fridman@lexfridman
Here's my conversation with @MrBeast about the future of YouTube, Twitter, and beyond. This conversation, was mind-blowing and inspiring. Jimmy & team are constantly innovating and redefining what's possible in making epic videos. It's super fun to watch. youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_Pwv…
5:52 PM · Jan 11, 2023
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Derek Thompson@DKThomp
I would love policy to make housing more abundant but the accurate version of this meme should read
1. Once upon a time
2. A *white* family could (thx to redlining, the GI Bill, etc) own a small house without AC
3. And *not* send their kid to college
4. On one income
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸 @creation247
what happened? https://t.co/hprA7BzYkf
12:23 AM · Jan 8, 2023
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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma
China is debuting an offshore wind turbine with rotor diameters of about 1/6 OF A MILE 🤯
7:29 PM · Jan 8, 2023
28 Reposts · 378 Likes
Robin Brooks@RobinBrooksIIF
China is a case study in how to look at lending. Credit growth (blue) is positive, but what matters for growth is whether credit growth is going up or down, i.e. the credit impulse (black). That impulse is deeply negative. There is NO credit expansion boosting China's GDP in '23.
9:37 PM · Jan 10, 2023
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Paul Graham@paulg
I find this very surprising, but it seems to be true nonetheless: You can't donate lots of money without getting shit for it.
10:04 AM · Jan 11, 2023
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Meta's big reset article was interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Why is the credit impulse going down in China? Is it solely because of COVID? In that case wouldn't that improve?