Juan Orbea

 Expensive to build and often needing highly skilled engineers to maintain, artificial intelligence systems generally only pay off for large tech companies with vast amounts of data. But what if your local pizza shop could use AI to predict which flavor would sell best each day of the week? 

Using blockchain or smart contracts in some superficial way is not enough for an organization to be considered a DAO. For organizations that use smart contracts but aren’t DAOs, Gabriel prefers the term Cybernetically enhanced organizations.

6 discussion topics on which David agrees with Taleb:(1) [p. 286] The sterilized randomness of games does not resemble randomness in real life; thinking it does constitutes the Ludic Fallacy (his neologism). This is exactly right, and mathematicians should pay attention. In my own list of 100 instances of chance in the real world, exactly 1 item is... See more

The first? Selling things online. Bezos was a trader with some exposure to internet companies, but this wasn't a years-long journey of discovery and understanding. This was a dude who read a stat on some random website, and thought "there's something here." Early on, most of that skepticism came from an inability for a startup to compete with large... See more

 Peter Thiel discusses his encounter with the mimetic theory of René Girard and its applications in his life, business, and thinking.