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Patrick Collison

@patrickc

Fallibilist, optimist. Stripe CEO. šŸ‡®šŸ‡Ŗ

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Iā€™m honestly so stoked for this project.

It has the opportunity to completely redefine how greenfield development is done in America and weā€™re hopefully going to get a kick-ass walkable city out of it too.

californiaforever.com/news/the-urbanā€¦

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Excited to work with Navier! Gets people around much faster + reduces car commuting/congestion/emissions/etc. (Yes, they had us at 'electric flying boat'.)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/ā€¦

Excited to work with @navierboat! Gets people around much faster + reduces car commuting/congestion/emissions/etc. (Yes, they had us at 'electric flying boat'.) bloomberg.com/news/articles/ā€¦
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I was an undergrad in 2006. Friends who've been in academia since then, and remain on campus today, tell very similar stories.

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'Universities matter tremendously to our world, but theyā€™re currently in a state of crisis.'

The latest episode of the Ben & Marc Show with benahorowitz.eth and Marc Andreessen šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø explores the complexities and dynamics of the American university system, touching on both its historical roots andā€¦

'Universities matter tremendously to our world, but theyā€™re currently in a state of crisis.' The latest episode of the Ben & Marc Show with @bhorowitz and @pmarca explores the complexities and dynamics of the American university system, touching on both its historical roots andā€¦
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As of later this year (October 5, specifically), the commencement of the design of the Boeing 737 will lie closer to the Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk flight than it will to the present day.

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Where are the Gen Z founders of tech companies? Patrick Collison asked Sam Altman. Altman's answer is haunting.

Here's the interview, from last May:
youtube.com/watch?v=1egAKCā€¦

I transcribed the key exchange, at the very end of the video:

Patrick Collison: When we first met, 15 or so yearsā€¦

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I'm late, but I finally got around to finishing Generations. It's excellent: exceptionally data-rich and comprehensive.

amazon.com/Generations-Diā€¦

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I'm not an effective altruist, but I find the recent genre of pieces like the below a bit strange. Essentially all of the major AI lab leaders agree that AI potentially poses enormous risks[1], as does a majority of the US public[2]. It's not a crank view. EA was simply among theā€¦

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Congratulations Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross!

(And there are still a few days left to win the grand prize if you've already polished off all the mince pies and you're hankering for a new challenge.)

nytimes.com/2023/12/25/tecā€¦

Congratulations @natfriedman and @danielgross! (And there are still a few days left to win the grand prize if you've already polished off all the mince pies and you're hankering for a new challenge.) nytimes.com/2023/12/25/tecā€¦
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For those who enjoyed the below piece (which is excellent), this interview with Janssen is also great: vimeo.com/195216394.

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New big blog post covering the history of the pharma industry, why drugs cost orders of magnitude more to develop now than in the 50s, and some suggestions on what we can do to improve R&D efficiency. Written for a general audience.

atelfo.github.io/2023/12/23/bioā€¦

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I wish digital maps had a setting to increase label density by a factor of 10+, for a perspective like the road atlases of yore. We manufacture these amazing high-resolution displays but then render maps in crayon.

I wish digital maps had a setting to increase label density by a factor of 10+, for a perspective like the road atlases of yore. We manufacture these amazing high-resolution displays but then render maps in crayon.
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