Hmm I didn’t spend 47 hours watching the interview, reading all three long posts, and clicking the central links but
Is this not just a dude tryna make a buck here?
I mean if you start a fund to make money on orange dogs (at the same exact time you wrote your essays) then you should be totally ignored when you talk about how great and necessary orange dogs are?
Unlikely, since he could have walked away with a million dollars instead of doing this. (Per Zvi’s other post, “Leopold was fired right before his cliff, with equity of close to a million dollars. He was offered the equity if he signed the exit documents, but he refused.”)
So I generally think this type of incentive affecting people’s views is important to consider. Though I wonder, couldn’t you make counter arguments along the lines of “oh well if they’re really so great why don’t you try to sell them and make money? Because they’re not great.” And “If you really believed this was important, you would bet proportional amounts of money on it.”
Hmm I didn’t spend 47 hours watching the interview, reading all three long posts, and clicking the central links but
Is this not just a dude tryna make a buck here?
I mean if you start a fund to make money on orange dogs (at the same exact time you wrote your essays) then you should be totally ignored when you talk about how great and necessary orange dogs are?
Based on how he engaged with me privately I am confident that he it not just a dude tryna make a buck.
(I am not saying he is not also trying to make a buck.)
Unlikely, since he could have walked away with a million dollars instead of doing this. (Per Zvi’s other post, “Leopold was fired right before his cliff, with equity of close to a million dollars. He was offered the equity if he signed the exit documents, but he refused.”)
So I generally think this type of incentive affecting people’s views is important to consider. Though I wonder, couldn’t you make counter arguments along the lines of “oh well if they’re really so great why don’t you try to sell them and make money? Because they’re not great.” And “If you really believed this was important, you would bet proportional amounts of money on it.”
Very good counterpoint