What I read this week...

ChatGPT, college enrollment cliff, and more FTX

What I read this week…

• The incredible shrinking future of college (Vox)

• Exclusive: Sam Bankman-Fried knew plenty about his Alameda Research hedge fund–and sent details to Forbes just months ago (Forbes)

• Sam Bankman-Fried and the long road to taking crypto mainstream (New Yorker)

• FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident (CoinDesk)

• OpenAI’s new chatbot ChatGPT could be a game-changer for businesses (Tech Monitor)

• China clamps down on internet as it seeks to stamp out Covid protests (WSJ)

• Jiang Zemin accelerated Chinese Communist Party’s embrace of market principles (WSJ)

• Tech layoffs send H-1B visa holders scrambling for new jobs (Bloomberg)

• Could MrBeast be the first YouTuber billionaire? (Forbes)

• UC Berkeley can’t use race in admissions. Is it a model for the country? (WaPo)

• Inside Amazon’s struggle to deal with an antisemitic film (Variety)

• How one billionaire with a savior complex and a voracious sexual appetite got conned by his best friend, who saw him as the perfect mark. (NY Mag)

• Cheer, chant, clean: Japan takes out the trash, and others get the hint (NYT)

On Twitter…

Rick Carew @rickcarew

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway discloses a new $4.1b stake in Taiwan Semiconductor, known as TSMC, as he continues to trim his stake in Chinese EV maker BYD. $TSM (h/t @YunLi626 @CNBC)

Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟ @PelosiTracker_

BREAKING🚨: SBF used a loophole in the Citizens United rule to donate $37M of "dark money" to Republicans "I donated about the same amount of money to both parties this year ... I just didn't disclose the Republican ones bc the media would freak the f*** out"

Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi

thread comparing a top public school (Stuy) with top private (HM)- Stuy has much higher SAT's yet much lower admissions into Ivy League schools. The author doesn't say the quiet part out loud - Ivy's discriminate against Asians. Stuy is 72% Asian, HM is 17%

Aaron Chalfin @AaronChalfin

How admissions to top universities in the US really works as revealed by a simple comparison between one of NYC's top public high schools (Stuyvesant HS) and one of NYC's top private high schools (Horace Mann School). A short thread with some basic descriptive statistics 👇👇

Sam Altman @sama

today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here:

chat.openai.comChatGPTA conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

david friedberg @friedberg

tomorrow's @theallinpod is done before it's recorded... cc @Jason @DavidSacks @chamath @sama

Andrew Steinwold @AndrewSteinwold

GPT-4 is rumored to be coming soon, sometime between Dec - Feb - GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters - GPT-4 supposedly has 100 trillion parameters It is something like 500x more powerful than GPT-3 What kinda stuff will you be able to create with GPT-4!?

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