Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies

Byrne Hobart writes The Diff, a newsletter about inflections in finance and technology with 24,000+ subscribers. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platform. Episode website here . The Diff newsletter: https://diff.substack.com/ Follow Byrne on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes! Thanks for reading The Lunar Society! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Timestamps: ( 0:00:00 ) - Byrne's one big idea: stagnation ( 0:05:50 ) -Has regulation caused stagnation? ( 0:14:00 ) - FDA retribution ( 0:15:15 ) - Embryo selection ( 0:17:32 ) - Patient longtermism ( 0:21:02 ) - Are there secret societies? ( 0:26:53 ) - College, optionality, and conformity ( 0:34:40 ) - Differentiated credentiations underrated? ( 0:39:15 ) - WIll contientiousness increase in value? ( 0:44:26 ) - Why aren't rationalists more into finance? ( 0:48:04 ) - Rationalists are bad at changing the world. ( 0:52:20 ) - Why read more? ( 0:57:10 ) - Does knowledge have increasing returns? ( 1