Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
social systems and
If your experience consisted entirely of being privileged, pampered, and recurringly rewarded in the greatest period of wealth creation in human history, you'd be upbeat too. You'd defer to authority. You'd think that the universe is benign and human nature is fundamentally wonderful.
David Brooks • The Organization Kid
Featuring a foreword by Jung, this Princeton Classics edition introduces a new generation of listeners to this eloquent and enduring work.
O'Reilly Media • The Origins and History of Consciousness: Bollingen Series
Entrepreneurship and
The Law of Accelerating Returns
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
To return to the issue of subjectivity, consider: is the reinstantiated mind the same consciousness as the person we just scanned? But it is not easily resolved, or even readily understood. How do we distinguish a process that is conscious from one that just acts as if it is conscious?We can’t simply ask it. If it says “Hey I’m conscious,” does... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
However, “autonomous” does not mean “automatic” and, even if it did, smart contracts are not automatic. Smart contracts also obviously are not autonomous because they are unconscious and inert, not spontaneous and self-controlled.
Gabriel Shapiro • Defining Real and Fake DAOs
