Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
The Course 6-9 curriculum provides flexibility to accommodate students with a wide diversity of interests in this area. This includes topics from neuroengineering (reverse engineering circuits in the brain and developing brain interfaces) to biologically-inspired approaches to artificial intelligence.
MIT • Course 6-9: Computation and Cognition | Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Where “snacking” is the broad category of doing easy and low-impact work, there’s a particularly seductive subset of snacking that I call “preening.” Preening is doing low-impact, high-visibility work.
lethain.com • Work on What Matters.
Blockchains are the Lego of crypto-finance and crypto-governance: they are a very effective tool for implementing transparent in-protocol rules to govern common resources, assets and incentives.
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Then there is the other side of the spectrum. This group has a different DNA – they act more like founders than employees. They pour their passion into the company because they believe in its mission, and it is how they operate. They add value to the company beyond their job description and responsibilities. They ask and do what is best for the... See more
Sarah Tavel • The Mitochondria in Startups
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.
Giving What We Can • Henry Howard gave 50% of his income to charity in 2021
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.”
Traditional philosophy has been going on almost three thousand years; machine goal alignment has until the advent of superintelligence, a nebulous event which may be anywhere from a decades to centuries away. If the control problem doesn’t get adequately addressed by then, we are likely to see poorly controlled superintelligences that are... See more