Juan Orbea

Why Intelligence is More Powerful than Physics

In 2018, venture capital funds directed +$35B of investment to software, while directing $1.9B to synthetic biology. Why is this happening? Only 5% of people in Forbes 400 have formal scientific training, and it makes sense that people don't invest in things they don't understand. So this is a big problem.

To make an analogy, imagine that the things that these nodes all give you show up on your life dashboard as you navigate life. They appear with a lot of numbers. Probabilities, rewards, costs, frictions. You make your decisions reading this dashboard and what the network presents to you there. You have agency and free will in making your decisions.... See more

Sam thinks we will still really care about interaction with other people. We’ll still have fun, and the reward systems of our brain are still going to work the same way. Star Trek is pretty good, honestly. I like all of the ones that are where we turn our focus to exploring and understanding the universe as much as we can.

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