Juan Orbea
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A node in a network
Juan Orbea
Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. In this influential book, Neumann shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, the tail-eating serpent. The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, Great... See more
O'Reilly Media • The Origins and History of Consciousness: Bollingen Series
Incrementally improving an explanation of a technical idea might take a single author weeks to do, but could go on to save a day for thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of students, if it becomes the best option available.
Robert Wiblin • Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
The Software of Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Non-trivial | Start solving the world's most pressing problems
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beautiful things don't ask for attention
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
— Oscar Wilde
A more controversial application than this scanning-the-brain-to-understand-it scenario is scanning-the-brain-to-download-it. When an entire network of neurons receives input (from the outside world or from other networks of neurons), the signaling amongst them appears at first to be frenzied and random. So the question addressed by the San Diego... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Robotics FOMO, Scaling Laws, & Technology Forecasting - Michael Dempsey: Blog
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You might agree that future people matter in the abstract. But it’s this point — that our actions today could meaningfully impact their lives — that might compel you to believe that positively influencing the long-term future should be a key moral priority of a time. This is the idea encapsulated by longtermism.