Ishan
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Ishan
The Chinese proverb 天高皇帝远 ("tian gao huang di yuan"), "the sky is high, the emperor is far away", encapsulates a basic fact about the limits of centralization in politics. Even in a nominally large and despotic empire - in fact, especially if the despotic empire is large, there are practical limits to the leadership's reach and attention, the... See more
eth.limo • My Techno-Optimism
Because the victim is sacred, it is criminal to kill him—but the victim is sacred only because he is to be killed.
René Girard • Violence and the Sacred
Statistical robustness is about finding metrics that can handle tail events, large deviations, without changing much. And, for measuring venture returns, the median is used vs. the mean because it is more robust as a statistical estimator. It represents the typical outcome (i.e., middle-of-the-road funds) vs. the mean that is sensitive to outliers... See more
An Allocator’s Manifesto: Why is every single fund top quartile?
- It's a useful capability to have: if we get warning signs that near-superintelligent AI is starting to do things that risk catastrophic damage, we will want to take the transition more slowly.
- Until such a critical moment happens, merely having the capability to soft-pause would cause little harm to developers.
- Focusing on industrial-scale hardware,
eth.limo • D/Acc: One Year Later
The ubiquitous off-ramps and backup plans among the current generation, and instinct to burnish the rough edges off of one’s opinions, stand in opposition to throwing oneself into an endeavor with the abandon, nearly reckless, that is required to succeed, or at least fail in a sufficiently substantial way that provokes development.
Alexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
Venture capital has a pay-to-play nature, where not only bad investors, but many good investors often pay up as they mature to make sure they are part of the biggest success stories partly since they can afford it (and need it) with more capital and credibility, partly due to their more granular and selective pattern recognition, partly due to the... See more
Optionality in venture funds
To me, this approach seems risky, and could combine the flaws of multipolar races and centralization. If we have to limit people, it seems better to limit everyone on an equal footing, and do the hard work of actually trying to cooperate to organize that instead of one party seeking to dominate everyone else.
eth.limo • D/Acc: One Year Later
creating decentralized governance mechanisms to deal with negative externalities is socially a very hard problem .
eth.limo • My Techno-Optimism
In a separate example, each participants get 20 tokens and secretly chooses how many to put into a common pot. Tokens in the pots are multiplied and split evenly among 4 group members. After seeing everyone’s contributions, each player can spend 1 token to deduct 3 tokens from any teammate (“punishment” option).
Research around the world shows that,... See more
Research around the world shows that,... See more