Juan Orbea

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.

Through when times are really good and when times are really bad. I think that’s kind of a really good test of a relationship, right? And then sort of find that fertile soil of sort of peace, where things are not totally wild in either direction, where you start to make a decision, right?

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? Probably not and we think 10x (May 2022) seems more in line with the historical trend.

We have ways to set up our lives for success when it comes to desires. So desires are path dependent, and one desire can bring us, if we follow that desire, will bring us to a place where we’re in a different position than we were when we started.

The Intuitive Linear View versus the Historical Exponential View

And so, the Enlightenment undertook a major strategic retreat. If the only way to stop people from killing one another about the right way to open an egg involved a world where nobody thought about it too much, then the intellectual cost of ceasing such thought seemed a small price to pay. The question of human nature was abandoned because it is... See more

Sam thinks we will still really care about interaction with other people. We’ll still have fun, and the reward systems of our brain are still going to work the same way. Star Trek is pretty good, honestly. I like all of the ones that are where we turn our focus to exploring and understanding the universe as much as we can.