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Hoffman finds increased wealth and fame "tremendous" but notes it shifts her perception of societal "weirdness" from the poor to the rich. She argues that rich people exhibit a lack of generosity, like having large fridges but not offering food, in contrast to poor households that share readily.
Her experience with poverty ingrained a lasting aversion to frivolous spending, even with money available. Hoffman cites examples like refusing to buy $7.99 raspberries and comparing it to her great uncle's reaction when gas prices hit $1.
Hoffman's early memories of Crown Heights include prevalent robberies, physical abuse by her father towards her mother, and sleeping in overcrowded, hot conditions without air conditioning. Her parents were very young, 35 and 30, when raising their ten children.
Hoffman asserts that "comfort" is a concept primarily for the rich, contrasting the thin-walled homes where poor families openly discussed finances with the siloed rooms of the wealthy. Poor households, despite having less, fostered more relaxed and hospitable social environments.
While attending a private Jewish school on scholarship, Hoffman felt socio-economically out of place and tried to fit in by adopting a feminine "Jappy" persona and altering her speech. Coming out and pursuing stand-up comedy later empowered her to embrace her true self.
At 17, Hoffman was publicly outed by a girlfriend in a conservative environment, leading to the loss of most of her friends overnight. She was already living independently, working, and studying, viewing another major life change as an overwhelming burden.
Hoffman has received backlash not for her most controversial jokes but from the "pit bull community" and the "celiac community," which she jokingly attributes to "rich white women." She argues that being offended is not the "worst thing," prioritizing issues like poverty and anti-Mexican sentiment over anti-Semitism.
Hoffman married Gabby Wendy, known from *The Bachelor* and *The Traitors*, and credits their shared background of humble beginnings for their strong relationship. They are mutually healing each other from past traumas through their commitment and trust.
Quantum computers, employing Shor's algorithm, could break Bitcoin's SHA-256 hashing by efficiently factoring primes, posing a fundamental security threat to its cryptography.
A targeted quantum attack on Satoshi's wallet could flood the market with previously 'dead' Bitcoin, potentially crashing its price and disrupting the entire crypto economy by violating the '21 million' coin cap.
Upgrading Bitcoin to quantum resistance would necessitate every account submitting a transaction, leaving lost or unmanaged wallets vulnerable to seizure and massive, unpriced inflation.
Tyson Proper, a 19-year-old co-conspirator, was transferred to a mental health facility for homicidal ideations, having spent $3,000 of graduation money on tactical gear and expressing delusional beliefs about the government sacrificing children to a demonic figure.
Mia Wong notes that 30% of trans people have experienced homelessness in their lifetime, an eight-fold increase over the 4% rate for the general American population, highlighting their defining experience of dispossession.
David Sacks cites a study showing that electing a Republican DA leads to a 7% drop in all-cause mortality for young black men in that city.
Gavin Baker says building a 1-gigawatt terrestrial data center costs $35 billion for semiconductors and $25 billion for power and cooling, while orbital compute via SpaceX would cost $35 billion for silicon plus $5 billion for launch, making it potentially cheaper as terrestrial costs inflate.
Haberman and Swan found Trump's health a 'lock box'; aides lack full information despite a statement citing 22 specialists, and they note declining hearing, unusual sleep patterns, and unexplained makeup on his hands.
Rohit Khanna says New York's DSA victories were driven by candidates acknowledging the Gaza genocide and advocating wealth taxes, Medicare for All, and universal childcare, signaling a moral and economic shift in the Democratic base.
Ro Khanna accused Elon Musk of sentencing 4.5 million children to death by dismantling USAID, prompting Musk's threats of lawsuits and arrest; Khanna says subpoena power and independent media made his criticism effective.
Dwarkesh notes AI models are significantly less sample-efficient than humans during training, with some estimates placing them 1 to 1 million times less efficient.
Continual learning, critical for AIs to absorb real-world experience, requires distilling knowledge into model weights rather than expanding unscalable in-context memory, mirroring how human brains learn through compression.
Planet is a public company operating the world's largest Earth-observing satellite fleet, with its stock increasing 450% over the last year. The company generates 25 terabytes of imagery daily from its 200 satellites.
Will Marshall coined the term 'Large Earth Models,' which combines planetary sensing data with large language models to enable AI to understand the physical world, moving beyond theoretical text-based knowledge.
Planet has indexed the Earth for searchability over the last decade, accumulating a 150-petabyte archive of 3,000 images for every landmass point. This historical data is crucial for comparing current conditions to past norms.
Planet's satellite fleets offer varied resolutions: a scanning fleet (Owl) upgrading from 3-meter to 1-meter, a high-resolution system aiming for 30-centimeter daily imagery, and a Tanager hyperspectral imager with 400 spectral bands.
Will Marshall states Planet's revenue is approximately 60% from defense and intelligence, 25% from civil government, and 15% from commercial clients. AI is lowering barriers to entry, making space data accessible to more entities.
Planet is placing Nvidia chips on its satellites for edge processing and satellite-to-satellite communication, significantly reducing data analysis time from hours to seconds for time-critical applications like disaster response.
Project Suncatcher involves putting TPUs for Google into orbit, an early step towards orbital AI compute. A Google study suggests compute in orbit will be cheaper than terrestrial when launch costs reach $200-$300 per kilogram.
Will Marshall argues that while launch costs are important, the long-term competitive advantage in orbital compute will depend more on compute efficiency (flops per watt) than on raw launch capacity.
Will Marshall maintains Earth is by far the best planet, emphasizing the need to protect its unique biosphere. Space technology's primary role should be to help manage Earth intelligently, not solely for off-world colonization.
Alex, a transgender man, was born with a female body in Germany but identified as a boy from age three, praying for a penis and exhibiting behavior his doctor parents considered "weird stuff."