| 1 | Apr 10, '24 | I’m about to do the Lumina treatment, a cure for dental cavities developed by Lantern Bioworks. I figured I’d do an unboxing and let you come with me on this journey. Here’s the bo | 188× | 6.7M | 9.6k | 760 | 14k |
| 2 | Oct 14, '24 | Let me get this straight: it's not two arms coming together to catch it by squeezing (like chopsticks). It's two arms coming together at just the right width at just the right mome | 118× | 4.2M | 20k | 1.1k | 2.1k |
| 3 | Sep 11, '25 | The emperor has no clothes | 118× | 4.2M | 21k | 500 | 1.1k |
| 4 | Jul 30, '25 | My son just explained to my wife that lobsters are effectively immortal and that the only reason they die "of old age" is because they have to continually molt, and each time they | 100× | 3.6M | 134k | 5k | 6.9k |
| 5 | Jun 26, '25 | Starting to think that if you're a serious person, you need to own a 3D printer. Feels a bit like home computers in 80s/90s. | 81.1× | 2.9M | 3.7k | 126 | 1.2k |
| 6 | Feb 23, '24 | Google’s Gemini issue is not really about woke/DEI, and everyone who is obsessing over it has failed to notice the much, MUCH bigger problem that it represents. (1/n) | 77.1× | 2.8M | 6.4k | 1k | 3.2k |
| 7 | Nov 20, '23 | This will ultimately be cited as one of the finest examples of mob irrationality. It's saying: "We're upset, so we're instinctively polarizing and threatening to hand over the worl | 57.9× | 2.1M | 5.2k | 413 | 664 |
| 8 | Jan 25, '25 | R1 isn’t the true big disruption. It’s just a herald. Here’s what I predict will happen: Within 3-6 months, an American company will duplicate the same cost-savings in a similar mo | 45× | 1.6M | 9.9k | 808 | 2.4k |
| 9 | Nov 20, '23 | I am probably one of a small number of people who have had the chance to work directly with both @AdamDAngelo and @Sama and get to know them. Here’s what you need to know about the | 43.4× | 1.5M | 3.2k | 304 | 1.3k |
| 10 | Jan 15, '24 | My theory as to why attractive people get bad plastic surgery is that standard camera lens focal length is different from what one sees in a mirror. | 41.8× | 1.5M | 5k | 260 | 1.3k |
| 11 | Oct 8, '24 | Conspiracy theorists who keep saying there’s “no way” the hurricane could have intensified so much without some human cause are so close to getting it. | 38.9× | 1.4M | 63k | 5.7k | 1.1k |
| 12 | Apr 15, '22 | I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter priv | 27.1× | 0 | 39k | 7.7k | 10k |
| 13 | Feb 23, '24 | This event is significant because it is major demonstration of someone giving a LLM a set of instructions and the results being totally not at all what they predicted. | 26.5× | 946k | 2.7k | 223 | 202 |
| 14 | Mar 31, '25 | The original architects of American global power did something very clever that no other empire had ever done before: they deliberately hid the instruments of their power. Specific | 25.3× | 904k | 10k | 1.6k | 8.1k |
| 15 | Apr 3, '25 | Ok, so I am not an administration apologist but I have not heard any intellectually rigorous discussion of the current tariff policy. I'm not sure what I'm about to say is either, | 24.4× | 872k | 2.2k | 194 | 1.3k |
| 16 | Jan 28, '25 | I think the Deepseek moment is not really the Sputnik moment, but more like the Google moment. If anyone was around in ~2004, you'll know what I mean, but more on that later. I thi | 24.3× | 866k | 6.4k | 1.1k | 3.4k |
| 17 | Oct 12, '25 | My wife always had this clever thing when our kids were young and fights would happen. Sometimes a kid would run crying to us saying "He hit me!" like they'd been attacked for no r | 17.7× | 632k | 9k | 878 | 1.1k |
| 18 | Jul 20, '24 | One of things I like about AOC is that she’s been leaking behind-closed-doors shit the whole time she’s been in office, like telling us about the party all the freshmen Congressmen | 16.2× | 578k | 3.7k | 173 | 852 |
| 19 | Oct 1, '24 | In case you are wondering (you know, for your online arguments), it takes an estimated 4-8 years to convert a port to full automation, and between $500 million to $2B. For referenc | 15× | 535k | 3.2k | 184 | 381 |
| 20 | Apr 20, '25 | There's a perspective that most people in the West don't realize about China. Every kid in China grows up knowing that they're part of a 5000-year-old civilization. You hear this a | 14× | 499k | 2.4k | 425 | 1.4k |
| 21 | Oct 8, '25 | I was the nerdy kid who maxed out my 401k and saved 25% of my paycheck by living way below my means starting from my first real job at 22 because that’s what all the financial plan | 12.8× | 457k | 4.2k | 51 | 769 |
| 22 | Jul 30, '25 | Or more specifically, a tendency to [ab]use first principles thinking to go "in theory, if the following things are true, it should mean that we can achieve certain unprecedentedly | 12.6× | 448k | 14k | 226 | 236 |
| 23 | Nov 10, '25 | My AI investment thesis is that every AI application startup is likely to be crushed by rapid expansion of the foundational model providers. App functionality will be added to the | ⚡ 12× | 20.7M | 13k | 1.4k | 9.8k |
| 24 | Jan 18, '24 | The most astounding thing to me about Von Neumann was not his capabilities, but the fact that he seemed to be entirely well-adjusted, had no mental illness or emotional traumas, an | 11.3× | 404k | 2.3k | 109 | 568 |
| 25 | Jun 9, '25 | I feel like the burning Waymos are emblematic of the culture war in America: right vs left, with tech caught in the middle being punished when we’re just trying to build things to | 10.5× | 374k | 2.3k | 88 | 171 |
| 26 | Apr 8, '25 | I have finally settled on my prediction for the outcome of the tariff war: China will not roll over. They didn't give in when they were weak, they definitely won't now. Trump will | 10.3× | 369k | 2.5k | 173 | 848 |
| 27 | Apr 16, '24 | Long Covid appears to be “virus gets into parts of the body that the immune system can’t fully clear, immune system remains activated because it knows it’s there, causes damage to | 10.2× | 364k | 2k | 368 | 911 |
| 28 | Apr 25, '25 | Just so everyone knows, there is a side effect of CT scans with contrast where you stop being able to sleep for YEARS. The doctors just ignore you because it’s “not supposed to hap | 9.6× | 343k | 2.8k | 273 | 1.4k |
| 29 | Aug 1, '24 | There's this hypothetical climate scenario where a summer heat wave hits a city, temp is high enough that: - internal combustion engines don't work - HVAC is overloaded and also br | 9.2× | 327k | 2.5k | 402 | 856 |
| 30 | Mar 31, '25 | Every time I line a pan with aluminum foil to bake something, I think of how aluminum used to be so rare that it was more precious than gold or silver and Napoleon would serve his | 9.1× | 323k | 8k | 447 | 684 |
| 31 | Feb 17, '24 | People debating about whether Sora “understands physics” miss the point that most human beings don’t “understand physics” - at least not in any analytical form that enables interna | 8.8× | 313k | 2.7k | 172 | 313 |
| 32 | Apr 27, '25 | @jackiehluo You paid $100 so that the doctor would be liable for malpractice if you took the advice of the AI. | 8.7× | 309k | 5.2k | 29 | 58 |
| 33 | Dec 9, '24 | @clownworld It has clear gelatin in it, which makes the texture subtly more pleasant. Ironically, it’s the kind of thing you’d drink if you had the shits and needed to help solidif | 8.5× | 302k | 2.4k | 12 | 46 |
| 34 | Feb 23, '24 | It is demonstrating very clearly, that one of the major AI players tried to ask a LLM to do something, and the LLM went ahead and did that, and the results were BONKERS. | 7.9× | 283k | 1.9k | 129 | 119 |
| 35 | Jan 25, '25 | I’ve seen this tech trend before. The sudden appearance of a dark horse product at near-parity is just the first sign of their NEXT product, which will blow everything out of the w | 7.8× | 278k | 2.5k | 124 | 334 |
| 36 | Sep 13, '24 | In a sane world, we would’ve seen a note of congratulations from the President (or at least VP) on this achievement and others like it. Instead, space activities are being increasi | 7.5× | 267k | 5.6k | 410 | 131 |
| 37 | Jul 30, '25 | @sterespect @elonmusk side quest | 5.9× | 210k | 3.8k | 11 | 16 |
| 38 | Jul 30, '25 | @sivori No, although he is the tallest. | 5.8× | 206k | 2.4k | 5 | 10 |
| 39 | Nov 15, '25 | Boy, when Elon said “the most entertaining outcome is the most likely outcome” he was not fucking kidding. | 4.3× | 155k | 2.5k | 94 | 193 |
| 40 | Jul 30, '25 | @lvmkernel This was my first thought too (and a thing I recall my own father explaining to me 30+ years ago about giant insects or something) but in the moment I did not bring it u | 4.2× | 149k | 2.5k | 4 | 32 |
| 41 | Apr 15, '22 | The internet is not a "frontier" where people can go "to be free," it's where the entire world is now, and every culture war is being fought on it. It's the MAIN battlefield for ou | 4.0× | 0 | 9.7k | 1.1k | 252 |
| 42 | May 28, '24 | @DanielleFong The length and depth to which he pressed his point really took it from "ok, thereʻs a valid point in here" to "Yann is clearly projecting his own despair at dying for | 3.6× | 129k | 2.4k | 28 | 66 |
| 43 | Apr 15, '22 | They would like you (the users) to stop squabbling over stupid shit and causing drama so that they can spend their time writing more features and not have to adjudicate your stupid | 3.6× | 0 | 9.1k | 606 | 200 |
| 44 | Jul 21, '24 | @gfodor If this were true it would mean there’s at least one person in the Democratic establishment who is competent | 3.5× | 125k | 2.9k | 35 | 24 |
| 45 | Aug 6, '25 | Why has no one designed a bicycle for horses? Seems like a simple way to get more speed using the power of a horse. | 3.5× | 124k | 3.1k | 79 | 119 |
| 46 | Jul 14, '22 | Contrarian opinion: the recession we're having now (or heading into) is caused primarily by covid, and not by monetary policy or inflation or anything like that. | 3.3× | 0 | 6k | 923 | 739 |
| 47 | Jul 18, '23 | It turns out that the dark part of "humans are very adaptable" is also "when something is really bad and there is no palatable solution, a large percentage of people will deny it, | 2.9× | 102k | 2.6k | 539 | 134 |
| 48 | Oct 31, '22 | [Hey Yishan, you used to run Reddit, ] How do you solve the content moderation problems on Twitter? (Repeated 5x in two days) Okay, here are my thoughts: (1/nnn) | 2.7× | 0 | 3.3k | 656 | 1.7k |
| 49 | Apr 15, '22 | It means that upholding free speech means you're not standing up against some religious conservatives lobbying to remove Judy Blume books from the library, it means you're standing | 2.5× | 0 | 6.4k | 469 | 118 |
| 50 | Apr 15, '22 | Because it is not TOPICS that are censored. It is BEHAVIOR. (This is why people on the left and people on the right both think they are being targeted) The problem with social netw | 2.5× | 0 | 5.4k | 723 | 234 |
| 51 | May 6, '22 | Two weeks ago, the NY Times asked to interview me regarding Elon and free speech, saying (among other things) that she believed that thus far, no one has been able to succinctly an | 2.4× | 0 | 4.8k | 578 | 548 |
| 52 | Jun 7, '21 | OH: "Amazon was the first company to adopt the hybrid model: working from office on Monday to Friday and working from home on Saturday and Sunday." | 2.2× | 0 | 5.7k | 515 | 94 |
| 53 | Mar 1 | Do you miss the old Quora answers of yore? I'm trying out a subscriber-only newsletter where I answer questions: Secrets to tech, AI, climate, social platforms, and more! | 2.2× | 78k | 70 | 4 | 24 |
| 54 | May 29, '23 | The majority of human beings cannot fully comprehend a statement that has a conditional as a key part of its meaning. This sounds incredible to those who can, but I'm pretty sure i | ⚡ 2.2× | 3.7M | 2.7k | 230 | 1.1k |
| 55 | Mar 30, '20 | This paper appears to yield a number of VERY USEFUL hypotheses and treatment for critical patients if true: (1/n) | 2.0× | 0 | 2k | 1k | 692 |
| 56 | Apr 15, '22 | Neither side is lying. Mostly, it's really because enforcement is hard, and there are LOTS of errors. There's a separate emerging problem (more FB than Twitter) where AI models mak | 2.0× | 0 | 5.4k | 250 | 96 |
| 57 | Apr 15, '22 | They DON'T CARE ABOUT POLITICS. They really don't. Donald Trump was not de-platformed for being right-wing. I talk a bit about this in my thread about Omega Events: | 1.8× | 0 | 3.6k | 192 | 457 |
| 58 | Apr 15, '22 | Many of the older tech leaders today (@elonmusk, @pmarca, etc, GenXers basically) grew up with that internet. To them, the internet represented freedom, a new frontier, a flowering | 1.7× | 0 | 4.7k | 243 | 94 |
| 59 | Apr 15, '22 | Reddit was born in the last years of the "old internet" when free speech meant "freedom from religious conservatives trying to take down porn and sometimes first-person shooters." | 1.7× | 0 | 4.6k | 300 | 95 |
| 60 | Apr 15, '22 | I think if Elon takes over Twitter, he is in for a world of pain. He has no idea. | 1.6× | 0 | 3.8k | 294 | 150 |
| 61 | Apr 15, '22 | Elon's been too busy doing Actual Real Things like making electric cars and reusable rockets and fucking actresses/singers, so he has a Pretty Fucking Good Excuse For Not Paying At | 1.6× | 0 | 4.3k | 181 | 75 |
| 62 | Apr 15, '22 | I believe that too. But I also ran Reddit. | 1.4× | 0 | 4.2k | 105 | 38 |
| 63 | Apr 15, '22 | Both sides think the platform is institutionally biased against them. "All the top executives and board members are men." "Silicon Valley employees are overwhelming woke and left-w | 1.4× | 0 | 3.7k | 206 | 79 |
| 64 | Apr 15, '22 | (It's also where Russia is fighting a real war against us, using free speech literally. But that's another story too) | 1.4× | 0 | 3.9k | 134 | 29 |
| 65 | Apr 15, '22 | (Remember when it seemed very important to certain people that we ban things like this?) | 1.3× | 0 | 3.9k | 116 | 27 |
| 66 | Apr 15, '22 | You really want to avoid censorship on social networks? Here is the solution: Stop arguing. Play nice. The catch: everyone has to do it at once. I guarantee you, if you do that, th | 1.3× | 0 | 2.8k | 351 | 57 |
| 67 | Apr 15, '22 | This free speech idea arose out of a culture of late-90s America where the main people who were interested in censorship were religious conservatives. In practical terms, this mean | 1.3× | 0 | 3.3k | 133 | 72 |
| 68 | Apr 15, '22 | Because the problems are NOT about politics, or topics of discussion. They are about all the ways that humans misbehave when there are no immediately visible consequences, when tal | 1.2× | 0 | 3k | 287 | 124 |
| 69 | Apr 15, '22 | Elon is one of those, because he doesn't understand what has happened to internet culture since 2004. Or as I call it, just culture. | 1.2× | 0 | 3.4k | 138 | 53 |
| 70 | Dec 12, '22 | I think one under-appreciated positive effect of remote work has been erasing the discriminatory effect of HEIGHT, especially on perceptions of leadership ability. | 1.2× | 0 | 2.7k | 126 | 230 |
| 71 | Apr 15, '22 | There is this old culture of the internet, roughly Web 1.0 (late 90s) and early Web 2.0, pre-Facebook (pre-2005), that had a very strong free speech culture. | 1.2× | 0 | 3.3k | 140 | 59 |
| 72 | Apr 15, '22 | It's not that the principle is no longer valid (it is), it's that the practical issues around upholding that principle are different, because the world has changed. | 1.2× | 0 | 3.4k | 114 | 59 |
| 73 | Mar 4, '21 | What if I told you that I had created a low-cost, self-replicating, carbon capture device nearly 10x more efficient than anything else you can purchase at scale today? | 1.2× | 0 | 2.1k | 379 | 288 |
| 74 | Apr 15, '22 | All my left-wing woke friends are CONVINCED that the social media platforms uphold the white supremacist misogynistic patriarchy, and they have plenty of screenshots and evidence . | 1.2× | 0 | 3.1k | 149 | 65 |
| 75 | Apr 15, '22 | I KNOW he doesn't, because he was pretty late to Bitcoin, and if he'd been plugged in to internet culture he would've been on Bitcoin way earlier. | 1.1× | 0 | 3.1k | 102 | 38 |
| 76 | Sep 24, '24 | @bryancsk “Second only to your mom” is a great response that can be interpreted multiple ways, some leading to chaos. | 1.1× | 39k | 2.4k | 9 | 45 |
| 77 | Apr 15, '22 | Jack has his meditation retreats and unusual diets and spiritual journeys - he's an odd guy yeah - but I'm pretty sure some of that is so he can cope with All You Fucking Assholes. | 1.1× | 0 | 3k | 127 | 40 |
| 78 | Apr 15, '22 | All my alt/center-right/libertarian friends are CONVINCED the social media platforms uphold the woke BLM/Marxist/LGBTQ agenda and they ALSO have plenty of screenshots and evidence | 1.1× | 0 | 3k | 122 | 40 |
| 79 | Apr 15, '22 | It was "censored" not because it was a wrong idea, but because ideas really can - at certain times and places - become lightning rods for actual, physical, kinetic mob behavior. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.6k | 158 | 93 |
| 80 | Apr 15, '22 | That is just an unpleasant, inconvenient truth that all of you (regardless of your political leaning) need to accept about speech. Ideas really ARE powerful, and like anything else | 1.0× | 0 | 2.5k | 204 | 69 |
| 81 | May 6, '22 | We didn't end up doing the interview. | 0.9× | 0 | 2.8k | 43 | 12 |
| 82 | Apr 15, '22 | ... of times when the platform has made enforcement decisions unfairly against innocuous things they've said, and let far more egregious sexist/racist violations by the other side | 0.9× | 0 | 2.7k | 86 | 26 |
| 83 | Jul 14, '22 | Common sense says that if you kill a million Americans (even retired ones), and cripple tens of millions more with chronic fatigue, it is going to have an effect on a nation's prod | 0.9× | 0 | 2k | 340 | 41 |
| 84 | Apr 15, '22 | It is because we brought all of our old horrible collective dysfunctions onto the internet, and the internet is very fast and everyone can say anything to anyone, and the place whe | 0.9× | 0 | 2.4k | 162 | 70 |
| 85 | Apr 15, '22 | And the worst part, the part that is going to hurt ALL OF HUMANITY, is that this will distract from his mission at SpaceX and Tesla, because it's not just going to suck up his time | 0.9× | 0 | 2.4k | 123 | 36 |
| 86 | Apr 15, '22 | But the platforms have to be polite. They have to pretend to enforce fairness. They have to adopt "principles." Let me tell you: There are no real principles. They are just trying | 0.9× | 0 | 2.3k | 153 | 44 |
| 87 | Apr 15, '22 | There is a reason why Jack has a crazy meditation routine and eats one meal a deal and goes on spiritual retreats. Because it takes an INHUMAN level of mentality to be able to run | 0.8× | 0 | 2.2k | 104 | 90 |
| 88 | Apr 15, '22 | "The best antidote to bad ideas is not to censor them, but to allow debate and better ideas." How naive. | 0.8× | 0 | 2.1k | 130 | 72 |
| 89 | Apr 15, '22 | And the old GenX tech titans are right there with you - vaguely left-wing but also center-right - seeing their version of "censorship" - and drawing all the wrong conclusions from | 0.8× | 0 | 2.3k | 82 | 35 |
| 90 | Apr 15, '22 | They kind of care about money, but mostly they wish you would shut up and be civil. | 0.8× | 0 | 2.1k | 104 | 25 |
| 91 | Apr 15, '22 | ... the platforms have made enforcement decisions unfair against them for innocuous things they've said merely questioning (in good faith) the woke orthodoxy, and let far more egre | 0.8× | 0 | 2.3k | 71 | 18 |
| 92 | Apr 15, '22 | Replace "lab leak theory" with whatever topic you think has been unfairly censored, and the reason it was censored (or any other action taken against it) is not because of the cont | 0.8× | 0 | 2k | 99 | 60 |
| 93 | Apr 15, '22 | And "pretty good" is about as good as any social network can possibly be, in my opinion. (@Jack, if you are reading this, my hat's off to you. Saying this as one of the few people | 0.8× | 0 | 2.2k | 62 | 24 |
| 94 | Apr 15, '22 | I want you to pause for a minute and think about your political alignment and whether you're on the left or right of this issue, because you probably think one of those things. | 0.7× | 0 | 2.1k | 62 | 21 |
| 95 | Apr 15, '22 | But that is impossible: they (we) made a platform where anyone can say anything, largely without consequence, so people are going to be their worst selves, and social networking is | 0.7× | 0 | 1.9k | 129 | 61 |
| 96 | Apr 15, '22 | This is what you think of when you hear "debate." This is not what is happening on social networks today. | 0.7× | 0 | 1.9k | 106 | 34 |
| 97 | Apr 15, '22 | Right-wingers and libertarians: it's true, right? You can remember PLENTY of examples. | 0.7× | 0 | 2.1k | 53 | 11 |
| 98 | Apr 15, '22 | I'm now going to reveal the institutional bias of every large social network (i.e. FB, Twitter, Reddit): | 0.7× | 0 | 1.8k | 135 | 44 |
| 99 | Apr 15, '22 | Elon is going to try like heck to "fix" the problems he sees. Each problem he "fixes" will just cause 3 more problems. | 0.7× | 0 | 1.8k | 114 | 27 |
| 100 | Apr 15, '22 | Free speech may be noble, but here's what's it's like these days: | 0.7× | 0 | 1.9k | 67 | 18 |
| 101 | Apr 15, '22 | Elon is not going to fix some problems. I am absolutely sure of this. He has no idea what he's in for. (He might hire back Jack, which might be ok, but I don't know if Jack wants t | 0.6× | 0 | 1.8k | 83 | 30 |
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