Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
“DAO” in its purest form refers to an unincorporated association of persons using censorship-resistant technologies to permissionlessly engage in non-hierarchical governance of shared resources and goals. Organizations that do not meet this definition must not be deemed DAOs.
Gabriel Shapiro • Defining Real and Fake DAOs
Team NYT basically runs the US, and its total lack of competence means that the US is collapsing.
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Why SETI Will Fail (and why we are alone in the Universe)
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Another and generally better algorithm has you repeatedly drop yourself in random parts of the terrain, do simple hill climbing, and then after many such attempts step back and decide which of the hills were highest.
cdixon.org • Cdixon | Climbing the Wrong Hill
Technology has changed the nature of the threats our society is facing, but the defense industry is still generally approaching these questions with a twentieth century mindset. Before we can make meaningful progress in the space, we need to reconceptualize our approach to the question.
Anatomy of Next • Technology and Defense at Founders Fund HQ
A hard decision is not hard because you can’t seem to “figure it out.” Hard decisions are hard because option A is better in some ways and option B is better in others. “When alternatives are on a par, it may matter very much which you choose, but one alternative isn’t better than the other,” Chang writes. “Rather, the alternatives are in the same neighborhood of value, in the same league of value, while at the same time being very different in kind of value.”
Human Behavior and
Eventually, as the negative consequences of the financial crisis played its way out, and say, all the banks disappeared, some kind of new approach (e.g. Google innovating an entirely new way of handling banking) or the emergence of an entirely different regime, would have come into place, and we would have moved forward effectively with no damage... See more
Jordan Hall • Four Layer Model of Social Systems | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 1
Polymath is the Greek word for a Renaissance person like Leonardo Da Vinci or Ben Franklin who excels in many disciplines.