Nat Friedman
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Nat Friedman is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between September 04, 2023 and June 18, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “The specific elites include Nat Friedman”; “Nat Friedman announces tha”; “Nat Friedman announces that a team has won his competition”. It most often appears alongside Africa, ValueBase, ACX Grants.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: September 04, 2023
- Last seen: June 18, 2025
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- Africa (3 shared issues)
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- ValueBase (3 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (2 shared issues)
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- California (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- FDA (2 shared issues)
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- Georgism (2 shared issues)
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- India (2 shared issues)
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- Italy (2 shared issues)
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- Lars Doucet (2 shared issues)
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- NYT (2 shared issues)
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- Poland (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The specific elites include the Collison brothers, Reid Hoffman, Nat Friedman, Marc Andreessen, and others, led by the mysterious Jan Sramek. The specific land is farmland in Solano County, about an hour’s drive northeast of San Francisco. The specific utopian city is going to look like this:
Inline links: Jan Sramek
45: You’ve probably seen this, but: Nat Friedman announces that a team has won his competition to start decoding an ancient Roman library buried during the Vesuvius eruption. The first text seems to be a work by the philosopher Philodemus on the pleasures of life. In theory the buried library could hold more classical text than the total existing classical corpus (although much of it will be copies of works we already have).
Inline links: a team has won his competition
2: Late addition to Meetups Everywhere: Moscow on October 6, see link for more. Other meetups coming up this week include Philadelphia, Austin, Istanbul, Canberra, Budapest, and Warsaw. 3: If you haven’t already, vote for the winner of this year’s book review contest - voting closes Sunday, October 6. 4: And if you’re an ACX veteran, you might remember the winner of the very first book review contest - Lars Doucet’s review of Progress And Poverty, the book on Georgism. Since then, Lars has gone on to start a Georgism-inspired land valuation company, Valuebase, which has gotten investment from Sam Altman, Nat Friedman, and others. Now they’re recruiting paid interns, including: Technical interns: Ideal candidates have experience in programming, data science, machine learning, or AI, and are eager to work on real-world problems that scale across millions of properties.
Wires got crossed in asking for an update here, but luckily they’ve succeeded enough to leave a public trail: this project became the land valuation company Valuebase, worth $14 million with investments from Sam Altman, Nat Friedman, and others. Co-founder Lars Doucet left to work on the political advocacy side (see 2024 section), while other co-founder Will Jarvis remains at the company as CEO; you can read a recent interview with him here explaining why he thinks his work matters.