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Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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Fellow @ManhattanInst. Founder, @worksinprogmag (@stripe). Views mine.
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Jul 25, 2024
    The 2024 GOP platform calls for abolishing the Biden EO on AI, and instead supporting AI development rooted in free speech and human flourishing What should that look like? In my new piece report for the Manhattan Institute, I argue for four principles to guide AI policy. 🧵
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Feb 22, 2025
    Requesting a “brutalism is actually good” photo dump that isn’t just completely leaning on good foliage
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    Joseph Alessio
    Cognition
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    Feb 21, 2025
    brutalism haters are aesthetically bankrupt, how could anyone dislike this
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Feb 22, 2025
    Replying to @carnundotcom
    Anything looks good with enough nice plants
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Oct 30, 2023
    The ultimate Singapore culture shock: a $15k bike left unattended
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Dec 31, 2024
    Preparing for the new year with my gf
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Oct 22, 2023
    I just discovered an amazing Australian style sushi place in the West Village. Highly recommend!
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Dec 16, 2021
    Awesome
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Mar 24, 2025
    My pet theory is that this was the price of crypto/web3, a lost generation of founders
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    Patrick Collison
    Stripe
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    Mar 24, 2025
    Replying to @paulg
    Who's the best founder under 28? I'm deliberately choosing an arbitrary age to exclude Alex Wang, who is extremely impressive, but I feel like years past usually had a super young (<28) clear industry leader. (Zuckerberg, Dell, Jobs, Gates, Andreessen, etc.)
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Nov 19, 2022
    Found this inspiring poster and put it up… what moral leader first said these wise words?
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    May 23, 2022
    I'm always surprised by the degree EAs are mischaracterized by their critics
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Mar 22, 2022
    does anyone know what's up with this wonderful design tradition in old philosophy paperbacks? why did it ever end?
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Sep 26, 2020
    What’s this genre called?
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Mar 8, 2025
    Last week in Niseko
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    Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸
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    Aug 30, 2021
    Extreme chaotic neutral energy to donate to Center for Effective Altruism and Make a Wish in one go