Juan Orbea

Feral Type – its niche is narrative and society. Narrative becomes reality. This gives rise to 2 failure conditions: 1) delusion (which is an identification with an ideology that takes the story as actually being reality) and 2) deception (the perception of society being first and foremost a hierarchy/conflict between domesticated people).

Thorium fuel: Like HALEU for fast reactors, thorium fuel is also more efficient, as the thorium can be fully consumed and then recycled, without needing continuous replenishment of fuel. Thorium today is only beginning to be incorporated into nuclear reactors in countries like India, where thorium supply is abundant.

Crossroad #7 – ReassessmentsAt any point, you can choose to reassess the course you’re on.The network gravity has been building up since your birth and gets stronger over time. Each network adding and integrating with the others, changing the math on your dashboard until it’s near destiny. But you can decide to ignore that network math and forcibly... See more

FLAG, a fiber-optic cable now being built from England to Japan, is a skinny little cuss (about an inch in diameter), but it is 28,000 kilometers long, which is long even compared to really big things like the planet Earth. When it is finished in September 1997, it arguably will be the longest engineering project in history. Writing about it... See more

An individual can save (way) more than one life by directing some amount of money to the most effective charities and NGOs (which can be 100s and even 1000s times more effective in having a positive impact than the median charity). There are also other avenues for having such a high impact, such as directing your career to tackle the world's... See more

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

Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic.