Juan Orbea

You might agree that future people matter in the abstract. But it’s this point — that our actions today could meaningfully impact their lives — that might compel you to believe that positively influencing the long-term future should be a key moral priority of a time. This is the idea encapsulated by longtermism.

Hubspot, for example, uses Canva to empower 300 team members to move quickly, create on-brand designs, and collaborate. Large global organizations such as Hubspot have trouble maintaining brand consistency and implementing design systems. Companies miss deadlines because design teams create bottlenecks due to too many projects and insufficient team... See more

In this policy paper, authors Austin Vernon and Eli Dourado explore what life would be like with endless energy. Coining the term “energy superabundance,” they look at energy policy, not in the usual sense of trying to restrict energy consumption, but as a way to promote energy abundance—a future in which energy is so clean and plentiful, limiting... See more

You might imagine that roughly around the time when TARP and the various bail-out decisions were being made, that it could have gone either way, and that we could have, for example, allowed the too-big-to-fail entities to fail, and that it would have had negative consequences at the financial layer, negative consequences probably at the economic... See more

So far, I’ve been talking about the hardware of computing. The requisite hardware capacity is a necessary but not sufficient condition. A key advantage of nonbiological intelligence is that machines can easily share their knowledge. We exposed it to thousands of hours of recorded speech, corrected its errors, and patiently improved its performance.... See more

Objective and Subjective