Juan Orbea

"dominating the present with insights."

Is the human brain different from a computer?The answer depends on what we mean by the word “computer.” Certainly the brain uses very different methods from conventional contemporary computers. Most computers today are all digital and perform one (or perhaps a few) computations at a time at extremely high speed. With regard to digital versus analog... See more

On one side, there are employees who think of the company like a job. They come in, they work hard, and they do their job. They are rational actors, and the value they add to the company, while valuable, scales linearly.

As intelligence saturates the matter and energy available to it, it turns dumb matter into smart matter. Perhaps what I should say is that intelligence is more powerful than cosmology. That is, once matter evolves into smart matter (matter fully saturated with intelligence), it can manipulate matter and energy to do whatever it wants. This... See more

On Tubules and Quantum Computing

Yet another manifestation of the law of accelerating returns as it rushes toward the Singularity can be found in the world of economics, a world vital to both the genesis of the law of accelerating returns, and to its implications. Pharmaceutical drugs are increasingly effective. The statistical methods underlying the productivity measurements tend... See more