Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
Bill and I have been frequently paired in a variety of venues as pessimist and optimist respectively. Recently a Noble Prize winning panelist dismissed Bill’s concerns, exclaiming that, “we’re not going to see self-replicating nanoengineered entities for a hundred years.” I pointed out that 100 years was indeed a reasonable estimate of the amount... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Founders Fund Delian Asparouhov on Miami as a major tech hub, what he thinks as the drivers for innovation now, and the pros of incubating companies like Varda within firms
open.spotify.comBits and Atoms and
Traditional philosophy has been going on almost three thousand years; machine goal alignment has until the advent of superintelligence, a nebulous event which may be anywhere from a decades to centuries away. If the control problem doesn’t get adequately addressed by then, we are likely to see poorly controlled superintelligences that are... See more
LessWrong • Superintelligence FAQ - LessWrong
This style of thinking is foreign to me, but I find it fascinating, and important. Stereotypical "wealthy white liberals" ignore this at their peril: these more "traditional" values are actually quite popular even among some ethnic minorities in the United States, and even more so in places like Africa and India, which is exactly where Balaji is... See more
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Now think about how the math continues to cascade through the network. Princeton hopes that I continue to be an active recruiting node on the network, providing the students with great employment options. But my cost/reward math doesn’t work. The denominator is zero. So Princeton lost a recruiter node in their network for now. Further, now those... See more
nfx.com • Your Life Is Driven by Network Effects
3) Pushing against regulatory conservatism in general, by increasing the chance that there's some jurisdiction that will let you do any particular thing. Allowing people to opt into network states that accept higher levels of risk could be a successful strategy for pushing against this.
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
High-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU): HALEU is a uranium fuel that contains ~20% U-235. Based on the demand by SMRs and microreactors for HALEU, we’ll need capabilities to develop dozens of metric tons of HALEU uranium in the next decade.
Bessemer Venture Partners • Investing in a world powered by nuclear fission
How will we apply the thousands of trillions of bytes of information derived from each brain scan? With this approach, we don’t have to copy every single connection. Although the information contained in a human brain would require thousands of trillions of bytes of information (on the order of 100 billion neurons times an average of 1,000... See more