"The Ethereum ecosystem should absolutely not be proud of itself for creating a system that rewards people with $300k salaries for making diagrams and writing blog posts."

"My main critique in both cases was 'respect public legitimacy more'. (Sam's sin was the fraud plus the 'woke shibboleths' thing, the OpenAI board's sin was making a sudden huge decision and feeling en…"

"I sometimes feel like I'm living in a simulation."

"The universe is a computer. We're just trying to figure out the operating system."

"I sometimes wonder if I'm accidentally building Skynet."