Hosting a fireside chat next month with Saikat Chakrabarti.
Silicon Valley folks may know Saikat as the founding eng of Stripe, but he’s dedicated the last decade of his life to public service, from running the tech for Bernie’s campaign to serving as AOC’s chief of staff. Now
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- We asked for everyone’s hot takes as the intro. Proliferation of mechanical wombs. Europe is underpriced. End of the golden age of autism. To name a few. Come through to future Chatham House convos at NYC fine dining establishments
- An OpenAI friend said he couldn’t hang out one weekend because he was babysitting. I asked him if it was his siblings. He said he’s babysitting their training run and it’s their version of on call. He thought it was hilarious I thought he was babysitting real children. I guess
- People love Palantir and Anduril's brands so much they're trying to make everything company look like a quasi-military patriotically mission-driven company I just met an "Anduril for Elderly Care" and "Palantir for Roofing"
- 4th episode of Deus Ex Machina with geopolitical researcher @SamoBurja of @bismarckanlys. Had a great conversation regarding historical perspectives on progress, revolution vs evolution, linearity in time, the Ukraine war.
- It is understood that now it is the era of the FOBs and the meta is shifting to looking like you went to Tsinghua/PKU undergrad. Chinese accents are a plus for comp negotiation with ZuckDay 1 of A/B testing my linkedin until i get a DM from Meta
- You're the average of the people around you and Silicon Valley has definitely increased my intensity, speed, and ambitions. This really hit home when I went back for my 5 year college reunion and realized that a place that's objectively intense and high achieving like Yale
- We're kickstarting our new speaker series in the Fall. First lineup: ✨ @bradlightcap , COO @OpenAI ✨ @FaulknerKristen OLY, 2x @Olympics Gold Medalist ✨ @AshwinSreenivas , Founder @DecagonAI ✨ @raykurzweil , Inventor & Futurist ✨ @russelljkaplan , President @cognitionReally excited to launch Elements, Chemistry’s new speaker series 👇 Limited seats available -- apply in comments below.
- In SF instead of saying they're unemployed people say they're an ex-frontierlab researcher working on an agent swarm startup and I think that's beautiful.
- Replying to @theamberyangBro this is a wild accusation. Just ask my handler
- The global AI race is basically Chinese in China vs Chinese in America now. Similar to math olympiads or Olympic ping pong. I mean just look at the last names on these LLM reasoning papers
- TIL that the first CIA officer to die in the line of duty was shot in China in 1950 by Tibetans: Douglas S. Mackiernan cia.gov/legacy/honorin…
- Dan Wang is coming on my podcast later this year so I guess I am part of the silent aristocracy that flexes that at least. Stay tuned!the not so silent aristocracy of people with pre release copies of the new dan wang book who keep flexing it on me
- Replying to @theamberyangok so if I don't live within the bounds of Cerebral Valley, then is my AI career jeopardized? I don't want to be competitively disadvantaged by living in Rincon Hill. This is stressing me out 😳












