Juan Orbea
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Juan Orbea
As human beings, we can perceive less than ten trillionth of light waves. "Our experience of reality," says neuroscientist David Eagleman, "is limited by our biology." He wants to change that. His research on brain processes has led him to create new interfaces, such as a sensory vest, to process unpublished information about the world around us.
TED • Can we create new senses for humans? | David Eagleman
Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic.
Joseph Henrich • The Weirdest People In The World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Rivalrous – things that are exclusive (aka if I have it you can't have it) and once they are consumed, they are gone.
Jordan Hall • The Rivalrous and the Anti-Rivalrous | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 2
When the niche shifts from being just nature, to being consciousness and culture itself, wild type groups start to have a conflict. What emerges from this transition is the Domesticated type.
Jordan Hall • The Game of Thrones | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 4
AI that can start to be an AI scientist and self-improvement could help us solve the hard alignment problems that we don’t know how to solve. The alignment problem is: how do we build AGI that does what is in the best interest of humanity? How do we make sure humanity gets to determine the future of humanity. It is also interesting to note how this... See more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman | AI for the Next Era
slowly is the fastest way to get where you want to be
The Noninvasive Surgery-Free Reversible Programmable Distributed Brain Implant, Full-Immersion Shared Virtual Reality Environments, Experience Beamers, and Brain Expansion
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Whatever it is, things that simply won’t happen if you don’t do them are your biggest opportunity to work on something that matters, and it’s a category that will get both narrower and deeper the further you get into your career.
lethain.com • Work on What Matters.
“Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.”