Sitting on the Tarmac in The Land of Stoicism – Ep 164

We don’t have to go decades back to find an analogy. Just look back a few years, to the pandemic. We all lived through it, most of us in sweatpants. And it offers a near-perfect preview of what is about to happen in AI.

A great speaker can bend logic with emotions and exert undue influence on your decision making. The better someone speaks, the more discriminating your Sophist filter needs to be.

On Jonah and Molly's wedding

Here is what changed my mind. Not something about gold, but many things about the dollar. The US dollar is the world's reserve currency. It has had a well-deserved place since WWII, and that rested on three things: the largest, steadiest, most diverse economy; a politically stable democracy; the best military.