Harvard
16 statements across 14 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Apr 17, 2021 by David Friedberg · across every show →
Everything said about Harvard, oldest first
Apr 17, 2021 neutral
David Friedberg: Institutions function like organisms driven to endlessly expand
“Institutions to me are like any living organism. They want to grow. And so, you know, every government wants to add laws, spend more money, grow its budget. Every company wants to have more power, grow its top line. Even every university, Harvard's endowment w…”
Jun 30, 2022 positive
Friedberg: Harvard study combined X-ray imaging and AlphaFold to map nuclear pore complex
“What this team at Harvard did that they published two weeks ago is a really groundbreaking, extremely detailed view of the entire nuclear comp, nuclear pore complex, Around the nucleus of the cell by combining both x-ray imaging and alpha fold.”
Jan 6, 2023
Sacks predicts Supreme Court will strike down university affirmative action policies
“I think the majority will rule to strike down these policies That really discriminate against Asian Americans, and I think they're the last group in America where it seems to be okay to discriminate against, and I think the Supreme Court is gonna find that unc…”
Jan 20, 2023 positive
Friedberg: Harvard study demonstrates epigenetic data loss drives mammalian aging
“I was going to talk about this really fantastic paper on the, one of the driving forces of aging, as demonstrated by a team from Harvard, In collaboration with many others on epigenetics and the loss of data integrity and epigenetics really being the core driv…”
Jul 1, 2023
Chamath: 43% of white Harvard admits are athletes, legacies, or donor kin
“The National Bureau of Economic Research did a study in 2019 that they published, and what they found was that 43%, so 43% of white students admitted to Harvard were athletes, Or legacy students, or children of faculty and staff, or had a relative that were do…”
Oct 20, 2023 neutral
Dec 16, 2023 negative
Dec 29, 2023 negative
May 3, 2024 neutral
May 3, 2024 negative
Chamath: Elite universities consist mostly of privileged, over-coached students
“You see them at Columbia, Harvard. There are these specific Berkeley, UCLA that are bastions of privileged kids for the most part. These are extremely elite institutions that typically Allow in kids that have been coached their entire lives to get into those s…”
Aug 23, 2024 negative
Aug 23, 2024 positive
Mar 19, 2025
Apr 19, 2025 negative
May 21, 2025