Politico

What could the government be doing regarding technology that it isn’t?

Trying to understand it more, by ensuring they actively learn before trying to figure out how it fits into their policy worldview. AI policy is a good place to start, where the focus as soon as it was seen as important was to try and create laws and regulations as quickly as possible. Interest groups flocked in and destroyed any semblance of amity.

What’s one underrated big idea?

Almost everything in the world is downstream of strong talent selection, and our methods of selecting talent are getting worse as we try to do it even harder. Tests that used to work, work less well now. Ranks are gamed. Interviewing is hard. Even proof of work is getting gamed. Getting into a college, or a job, is impossibly hard unless you jump through hundreds of hoops.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

Crypto.