Juan Orbea

Giving What We Can member Henry Howard donated 50% of his income to charity in 2021 during his first year working as a junior doctor in Australia.

If you add a compounding effect on top of an already large number, it becomes very difficult to predict the size of future outcomes.

But blockchains are the only infrastructure system that at least attempts to do ultimate dispute resolution at the non-state level (either through on-chain smart contract logic or through the freedom to fork). This makes them an ideal base infrastructure for network states.

Put simply, humanity might last for an incredibly long time. The lifespans of other species suggest there might be hundreds of thousands of years ahead of us, and the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions of years. If human history were a novel, we may still be living on its very first page.

Third — and here I can only describe what I am observing across the industry — marketing seems to be substituting for real, hard science in the presentation of these startups.

Sam states that, for him, AGI is basically the equivalent of a median human that you could hire as a coworker.