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So there's a big breakthrough in quantum computing, some kind of materials breakthrough with aminofullerene and graphene. It's going to be a real big deal for quantum computing. I don't think we have any idea what's going to happen with quantum computing. Yeah, I've said this before, but I feel like it's the only story that matters because every other one of our problems will be folded into
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Can we make an agreement? I would like to ask you for something. Could you just, as a favor to me, never mention Styx's technical setup again? Please, never, never again. It's just different. Yeah, let's just never talk about it again. All right. And if we could let the technical and sound conversation stop, that'd be great, because otherwise I'm just...
Here's the problem with it. Even though you notice that I do a pretty good job of noticing the comments as I'm talking about the topics, here's the thing that's not as obvious to you. I can do that when the topic is about the news. So if I'm talking about the news, news, and then you're talking about the news, and then I'm talking about the news, I can blend and Venn diagram all of that information. But there's a part of my head that is completely different from that mode, and that's the problem-solving, like technical head.
So the problem is not that it's a distraction. It's a specific kind of distraction that uses a different part of my brain. And then the resources I need in my head to get from technical problem-solving to talking about the news is such a big leap that I can't do it in real time. But I can do all of the newsy topics in real time. They don't distract. They actu
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ally add. They're additive. Does that make sense? It's a brain processing thing. It's almost like real estate in the brain. If you take me to the wrong real estate, then I can't use the right real estate. So that's why I seem extra prickly about that. It's not that it bothers me. It's that I can't do the job under those conditions. All right. Mark Andreessen had this big manifesto about everythin…
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