Juan Orbea

This is Balajian megapolitics in a nutshell. 

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.

That said, this is a mindset you want to encourage in all employees. One way to do this is emphasize values or impact outside of your job description as part of the performance review process. The importance is emphasizing something bigger than the individual, particularly in the most critical stages as a company scales from a few dozen people, to... See more

Having criteria for the standard of communication that cultivates Free Ethical and Effective speech is an absolute necessity. 

Chris Olah has had a fascinating and unconventional career path.

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

The reason for this is that this cluster of fields of knowledge is interdependent on each other (the brain level affects the behaviour level, the behaviour level affects the behaviour of other brains...), and no single discipline is sufficient to answer the questions posed in Cognitive Science

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. 

High-temperature gas reactors (HTGRs): In HTGRs, gasses (typically helium) act as the coolant that is fed directly into the turbine to produce energy. Helium is an inert gas, so it generally won’t chemically react with any material, and exposing helium to neutron radiation won’t make it radioactive. Helium can therefore be heated to higher... See more