Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha

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  Okay, today I have the pleasure of interviewing Austin Vernon, who writes about engineering,

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  software, economics, investing on the internet, but not that much else is known about him.

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  So Austin, do you want to give us a bit about your background?

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  I know that the only thing the internet knows about you is this one little JPEG that you had to upload with your recent paper,

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  but what about an identity reveal or I guess a little bit of a background reveal to the extent that you're willing to do comfortable sharing?

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  My degree is in chemical engineering and I'm kind of like a life-long love of engineering and also things like Toyota production system and stuff like that and I've worked as a chemical engineer like in a large processing facility.

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  I've done a lot of petroleum engineering.

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  Let's see and then now you know I taught myself how to write software and now I'm working on kind of like more research early commercialization of co2 electrolysis.

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  Okay, yeah.

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  So I'm really interested in talking about all those things.

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  But so I guess the first question I have is Alex Berger, who's the co CEO of open philanthropy.

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  He asked this question when I asked on Twitter,

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  what I should ask you and he suggested I should ask you why so shady.

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  So what do you you have?

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  I mean, famously, you have kind of like,

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  anonymous personality pseudonymous thing you have on the internet.

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  What's up with that?

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  Yeah, yeah.

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  I think he posted a tweet that said, I don't know who this guy is,

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  or if he's credible at all, but his stuff sure is interesting.

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