Chamath Palihapitiya

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Founder and CEO of the venture firm Social Capital, co-host of the All-In podcast, and an early executive at Facebook.

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behavioural science 3

A sense of someone's integrity builds from small observations over a long period, because people reveal themselves in small ways over time.
The main fight in investing is with oneself: panicking, overreacting, underreacting, refusing to observe the present, living in the past or over-believing in the future are psychological traps.

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investing 3

The main fight in investing is with oneself: panicking, overreacting, underreacting, refusing to observe the present, living in the past or over-believing in the future are psychological traps.
Defining behavioural principles that protect against the worst parts of one's own psychology can be a winning investment strategy.

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curiosity 2

Continuing to learn means that today's views will probably look slightly immature and naive later.
Obvious questions to CEOs draw practised answers, so pattern recognition built on them is brittle and superficial.

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humility 2

Continuing to learn means that today's views will probably look slightly immature and naive later.
Letting oneself be seduced by the narrative of someone with strong views and believing it fully can show its nooks and crannies, as long as one then comes back to the centre.

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recursive self-improvement 2

Recursive self-improvement will increase AI capability very quickly from here.
AI is already inside the recursive self-improvement loop — what the labs have shipped in recent weeks shows the cycle has started.

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