1. “Olympiaders were 1500x more likely to be billionaires and 4000x more likely to be unicorn founders than the average person!”
2. An SRO approaching to regulating AI.
3. Dwarkesh: “We don’t talk enough about how any state or group which is harvesting encrypted packets right now will be able to read those contents once quantum computers arrive. There’s a huge espionage and transparency overhang on any information that is currently “secret” and hasn’t been encrypted using post-quantum cryptography.”
4. Craig Venter, RIP. Here is the NYT obituary.
5. What happened to Haiti?
6. With the UAE’s departure, OPEC will become much more an instrument of Iranian power (FT). But also weaker.
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