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The speaker recalls that a blogging fellowship associated with Nick Whitaker offered a very large prize during the period when FTX money was circulating, but it did not lead to a large surge in blogging.
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“back when there was lots of FTX money rolling around,”
“I think this was Nick,”
“tried to sponsor a blogging fellowship with just an absurdly high prize.”
“But it didn't result in like a Cambrian explosion of logging,”Play from 2:37:06Report a misattribution
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