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Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies
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Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies

Dwarkesh Patel 1h 11m 56 months ago
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Byrne Hobart writes The Diff, a newsletter about inflections in finance and technology with 24,000+ subscribers.  
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The Diff newsletter: https://diff.substack.com/
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Timestamps: 
() - Byrne's one big idea: stagnation 
() -Has regulation caused stagnation? 
() - FDA retribution 
() - Embryo selection 
() - Patient longtermism 
() - Are there secret societies? 
() - College, optionality, and conformity
() - Differentiated credentiations underrated? 
() - WIll contientiousness increase in value? 
() - Why aren't rationalists more into finance? 
() - Rationalists are bad at changing the world. 
() - Why read more? 
() - Does knowledge have increasing returns? 
() - How to escape the middle career trap? 
() - Advice for young people 
() - How to learn about a subject?
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