Juan Orbea

The most lasting and effective way to change your life is to change who you’re surrounded by. Since networks so powerfully shape who we are and what we do, the best way to change ourselves is to change our networks.This is a big limitation at the way we look at self-development and self-transformation. We think we can just roll out of bed one day,... See more

"I'm a big believer that the only real driver of human progress and economic growth over the long term is the societal structure that enables scientific progress, and then scientific progress itself."

It is not trying to justify network states using some abstract theory (eg. some Dunbar's number or concentrated-incentive argument that the optimal size of a political body is actually in the low tens of thousands). Rather, it is an argument that situates network states as a response to the particular political situation of the world at its current... See more

A publication isn't content. A publication is the exploration

of an idea.

If you add a compounding effect on top of an already large number, it becomes very difficult to predict the size of future outcomes.

This could occur in many different ways: For example, all organizational decisions could be determined by tokenholder voting, but token ownership and voting turnout could be widely dispersed among many “minnows” (persons each holding a small % of total token supply/total voting power). Alternatively, different types of decisions could be delegated... See more

smrs are designed for easy manufacture and transport broadening their potential geographic reach and they offer five times the fuel efficiency of traditional nuclear reactors. Traditional nuclear reactors only extract about four percent of the energy that you could feasibly get out of uranium fuel leaving 96 percent as waste. That's an incredible... See more