venture capital list their funds, they are not able to manage risk in a systematic way.

So they use a hand waiving heuristic to decide where they place their funds.

And so they're obviously going to place their funds with people that go to, you know, 10 or 12 universities and to maybe very rarely outside of that come through certain circles of friends.

Any sufficient advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. talking today with Christopher Sweat, who is a philosopher, a thinker, someone that I met online,

as I've met most of my friends and contacts in the last 10 years.

There are some friends I have. I haven't ever met in person probably never will.

Some live as far away as Uganda, Egypt, whatever.

But today, Chris, it's a pleasure to be talking one-on-one again.

Yeah, you too.

The internet's a powerful place, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah, it's really amazing.

I have guys that, gals that apply for jobs to work on different projects or internship, never met that. I actually don't know if they're male or female. I don't know nothing about it. And I'm sending them money and I'm, you know,

they could be bots who were all I know.

But Chris, you're a remarkable intellect,

and I know you don't feel that word is completely free

from maybe overburdensome character.

So I want to talk about intellectual and being on the internet in this in this day and age.

But I just want to point out that I have you know really utmost respect for for you for you going back to school as you are now one of my you know in some sense rival institutions because you see Boulder gets some of the best students in the world and I'm

fighting against them to get people like you and get people like my graduate students but anyway man thank you so much for coming and thank you for the effort that you're putting into, you know, just your dreams and what you're trying to do and we're going to talk about all your cool projects. But I wanted you to introduce yourself. What's your world line as we say in physics what got you to this point from where did you come your origin story in the science fiction sense tell my audience who might not be as familiar with you from your online work as I am.

Yeah, 100%. I think I started out as a tinkerer as a lot of thinkers or experimenters kind of started out. And I got really lucky that my tinkering started like around the time that broadband internet was coming out, which doesn't seem like an advanced

invention these days. And it probably doesn't seem that advanced for some of your

young listeners, but that was a huge deal. I was like 10 or 11 years old. So I my tinkering started with just like simple wireless networks and computers and that that that moved into racing simulators, which is like a whole quest. We could do a whole episode talking about racing simulators, which I feel like are still it's still kind of an underground scene. And I think through this different kind of experimentation I was doing as a young person, I got to see how different systems interacted with other systems and I got addicted to it.

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