Juan Orbea
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A node in a network
Juan Orbea
Can we create new senses for humans? | David Eagleman
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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.”
It’s natural to care about future generations: we may all want the lives of our children and grandchildren to go well, even before they are born.
An Introduction to Longtermism
A deep dive into the core traits and how they are likely to play out in real life situations;
Adam Grant • PrinciplesYou From Ray Dalio
Now a new set of organizations is building on the Ball Foundation work, often with the help of artificial intelligence, to design assessments that they claim are highly effective at pinpointing people’s aptitudes and matching them to potential careers. Most are focused on employers, offering assessments that can be given to applicants to see if the... See more
Education Next • First, Know Thyself. Then, Pick a Career Path
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The law of accelerating returns implies that by 2099, the intelligence that will have emerged from human-machine civilization will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than it is today, dominated of course by its nonbiological form. The point is that if there are ways around this limit (or any other currently understood limit), then the... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Crossroad #1 – What Family You’re Born IntoYou don’t get to choose this one. For better or worse, your family is the fundamental layer of your network topology. Seeing your family through the lens of the network forces model can reveal the hidden depth of that influence.