Investor and writer of the popular newsletter The Diff, Byrne Hobart, and co-host Erik Torenberg discuss today’s major inflection points in technology, business, and markets - and help listeners build a diversified portfolio of trends and ideas for the future. The Riff is a part of the Turpentine podcast network.
He references populist presidents and how they tend to govern. Andrew Jackson was considered a populist president. Are there any others besides Donald Trump?
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43:09 in terms of security, the NSA has the worlds best offensive capabilities. Large US tech companies generally have the better defensive ones. But it’s definitely an open question how seriously the current set of AI startups take their responsibilities there. That being said, nationalizing the labs is just conceding defeat. Why would any competent researcher stay instead of going to some other private company where they can make a competitive wage and own some of the upside from their work?
Erik, with all due respect, please, breath and slow down when you speak. You're a smart guy and have smart guests, I like to hear the takes, but it's frankly frustrating listen to you trip up over every sentence. It's not taking the listener into account. For someone who's trying to do so much spoken media, you could increase the quality of your speaking to level up all your podcasts.
Byrne, I like all your videos. I think you could have a pretty large audience, but you should look into getting a better microphone. I can't think of any popular podcast that doesn't have great audio quality.
This was interesting but I wish the title question was explored more. My answer to the question is that you should focus on a single niche, conquer it, and then slowly expand. Don’t try to build an empire at once.
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Got here from the long read on substack and I have to say the deepness of analysis and the quality and amount of material. Everytime. Keep up the good work, good analysis is actually hard to find
EA is an attempt at the highest good in this day and age when religion is less prominent. See Pageau talk at ARC. Modernity is receding, to reveal spiritual things! (Paul Vanderklay)
Our analysis of the OpenAI / Sam Altman drama. Timestamps below. Check out our sponsor: - Need Soc 2 compliance? Get 20% off your first year of Secureframe by mentioning "The Riff" during your free demo: secureframe.com/riff TIMESTAMPS: (00:30) Non obvious thoughts about governance and legal structures (03:30) Could the board have found out something about Sam? (04:40) Tech’s online coordination and choosing sides (06:00) Why haven’t the OpenAI board shared their reasoning? (12:00) Are they going to bring Sam back? (15:00) What should OpenAI’s pivot be? (17:15) Sponsor: Secureframe (18:20) Analyzing Microsoft's moves and the sweetheart deal (21:40) Satya's succession plans (24:45) OpenAI's unique governance structure (27:50) Why Byrne is long on Microsoft (35:40) What explains Microsoft's turnaround? (37:55) Meta and Google (44:00) Which of these companies Byrne would short: Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft (46:00) Was this a coup from the Effective Altruism movement?
First to the party! Huge fan Erik, I’m sure this will be another great one! I had my YT algo recommend MoZ episode 1 and have seen nearly every episode Turpentine has put out. If you ever want to do something with your network fans, count me in as an anchor tenant!
