2023-03-22
1 小时 38 分钟We have 600 plus kind of roughly intact scrolls that we can't open.
And I heard about this and I thought that was incredibly exciting,
like the idea that there was information from 2000 years in the past.
We don't know what's in these things.
We could read all of them.
Then that would give us approximately a doubling of the total text that we have for antiquities.
There are thousands more papyrus scrolls in there and we now have the techniques to read them.
Then there's gold in that mud and you know, it's gotta be dug out.
I just fundamentally don't believe the world is efficient.
And so if I see an opportunity to do something I used to,
but I no longer have a reflexive reaction that says, oh, that must not be a good idea.
If it were a good idea, someone would already be doing it.
Okay.
Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Nat Friedman,
who was the CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021.
Before that he started in Sol2 companies, Zimian and Xamarin.
And he is also the founder of AI Grant and California YMB.
And most recently, he is the organizer and funder of The Squirrel Prize,
which is where we'll start this conversation.
So Nat, do you want to tell the audience about what The Squirrel Prize is?