“He becomes extremely online... Twitter seemed to be the fulcrum of that stuff. Eventually, he teams up with Trump. He spends nearly $300 million to help get him elected.”
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Said on On with Kara Swisher
“We met once a week for, I think, about eight weeks online… we practice coming up with probabilities for extreme… back of the envelope math… very specific percentages for very abstract outcomes is quite common”
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took an 8-week online effective-altruism class that practiced back-of-envelope probability calculations for extreme outcomes
8 weeks; 10% probability cited for human extinction
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