Abie Cohen

Cosmic optimism changes this by encouraging truly interdisciplinary approaches that blend hard sciences with philosophy, arts, and contemplative practices. It grows its deeply felt optimism about human potential and technological progress, but redefines the current understanding of what is ‘progress’. Rather than limiting progress to mean the... See more

But I think that if it’s true that AI does more of the basic work that humans do, more people will work in Flounder Mode. We will have the luxury of following our curiosity, and curiosity is something that the LLMs seem to lack. It’s human.

The hardest part about being in a leadership position in a company is it requires this constant calibration of arrogance and humility. The arrogance to believe that we are going to build a more sublime internet but also the humility to know that there are many things that we will be wrong about. And it's hard because it's often not clear at what... See more

Social as a model works when people have about as much to offer as they want to receive along a given axis. But no trait is distributed uniformly; there are are outliers in the nice-to-look-at, nice-to-listen-to, nice-to-read, nice-to-get-stock-tips from axes, there's a population that can offer a respectable performance with these traits, and... See more

What is true spiritually is true economically, too.

The Impending VR Moment

The iPhone didn’t happen in a vacuum. Apple needed to learn to make low-power devices with the iPod; flash memory needed to become viable at an accessible price point; Samsung needed to make a good enough processor; 3G networking needed to be rolled out; the iTunes Music Store needed to provide the foundation for the App... See more