Venkatesh Rao
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Venkatesh Rao is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between November 01, 2021 and January 02, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Venkatesh Rao’s Twitter followers trying to predict the 2020s”; “The Gervais Principle , by postrationalist heresiarch Venkatesh Rao”; “like Venkatesh Rao, are willing to “be slightly evil”“. It most often appears alongside OpenAI, Robin Hanson, 538.
Metadata
- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: November 01, 2021
- Last seen: January 02, 2025
Appears In
- 21
- Book Review: The Gervais Principle
- It’s Still Easier To Imagine The End Of The World Than The End Of Capitalism
Related Pages
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- OpenAI (2 shared issues)
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- Robin Hanson (2 shared issues)
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- 538 (1 shared issues)
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- A Few Good Men (1 shared issues)
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- Adam D’Angelo (1 shared issues)
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- Adolf Eichmann (1 shared issues)
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- AGI (1 shared issues)
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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- Akron (1 shared issues)
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- Akron, Ohio (1 shared issues)
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- Altman (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
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.
— Not exactly a prediction market (in fact, kind of the opposite of a prediction market insofar as it delights in things without objective answers), but here are Venkatesh Rao’s Twitter followers trying to predict the 2020s along a bunch of dimensions, eg:
Inline links: here are
The Gervais Principle, by postrationalist heresiarch Venkatesh Rao, claims to be a business book.
Suppose we believe the case for technofeudalism and, like Venkatesh Rao, are willing to “be slightly evil”. How might we increase our share of the pie? Obviously most of the advice here is just to get rich in the normal way. Is there anything else?
Inline links: “be slightly evil”