That guy is a scammer who participated in the Alameda / FTX scam: he was SBF's mentor and fled the ship, like a rat, before SBF was sent to jail.
So far and as long as I know the ill-acquired mansion in England by MacAskill with 15 million GBP stolen by SBF hasn't been clawed back yet (but it may: in other fraud cases funds and properties have been clawed back as much as 20 years after the fact).
And he certainly didn't hand the mansion back without being asked: for thieves don't do that.
A despicable human being.
Now I know why he's given a voice in some publications: it's for the same reason SBF was presented as the 2nd coming of Christ before his scam came to light. These people have relations and splurge (corrupt) money on a lot of people.
The mansion in question (Wytham Abbey) was purchased as an event venue with funds from Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna via Coefficient Giving. No funding from FTX was involved. (The Effective Ventures Foundation did receive unrelated funding from FTX, but that was returned in a settlement with the bankruptcy estate in 2023.)
This one's interesting in claiming to be first/early to worry about pandemics (prior to COVID) and AI existential dilemma (before ChatGPT) as, kind of, stakes in the ground justification for 'the value of the effective altruism movement'. I find that interesting in that I don't see much publicity from the big EA guns supporting the recommendations given by pandemic experts around the world. Can we hear from some of us powerful members in defence of Fauci? If not, the entire movement is a fucking scam full of cowards.
Feels like shaky justification for the validity of the 'movement'. But I'm suspicious of any belief system once it gets to a group size large enough to create a full-circle-jerk. Especially if many members have enough wealth to insulate themselves against the worries of your average human.
I’ve had the best luck by spending quite a bit of time going over the big picture architecture up front and then diving into the modules to further refine the details, making sure to generate step-by-step chunks of work in Markdown format for implementation. I’ll spend literally a couple of days doing this before starting any coding.
Edit: My latest project is all GPT-6 Astra High. It takes a lot of steering to keep it from adding a bunch of, while useful, features that are not strictly enough to the point. That main issue is it’ll use a lot of extra tokens in the process!
Do you mind sharing any code from what you have produced? People talk about LLM successes and failures, but what's there to really talk about when the code can speak for itself?
In case it is unclear, I am genuinely curious. I have great success with chatbots, but vibing coding has never gotten me further than a proof-of-concept.
I've been playing around with a new DSL, and I've had good luck adding a "describe" feature, eg,
newdsl describe some_feature
This returns the docs for that language feature. So instead of a giant SKILL.md containing the language spec, it exposes a way for an LLM to introspect.
DSLs climb the ladder of abstraction and constrain the solution space at the language level, which IMO provides tighter feedback to both humans and machines.
How sure are you that any printer driver didn’t include a backdoor? What’s the difference between the LLM code with the backdoor and the human code with the backdoor?
If not that, the ability to trust the reputation of the author which creates an incentive not to willingly insert a backdoor.
Yes, `npm install` was always bullshit because most people didn't bother to check, which is exactly why it was exploited multiple times, which created a conversation about "supply chain security".
If you want to argue that "npm changed the world" then you are correct. It did not change the world for the better though.
Is there truly anything new under the sun? Hasn't all of existence alway been here? All math, all physics? We could have merely discovered it. Intuition might be nothing more than combinations of what already exists rather than some sort of divine insight that unlocks previously unknowable mysteries.
Agreed. I don't believe intuition and creativity would be more than pattern recognition, remixing ideas, and trial and error combined with a kind of "genetic algorithm" approach if you deconstructed them into what the brain is actually doing.
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/10/04/will-maca...
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