Juan Orbea

Most people who want to pursue a research career feel they need a degree to get taken seriously. But Chris not only doesn’t have a PhD, but doesn’t even have an undergraduate degree. After dropping out of university to help defend an acquaintance who was facing bogus criminal charges, Chris started independently working on machine learning... See more

Anybody who has studied the VC industry knows that it works by “power law” returns in which a few key deals return the majority of a fund.

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

It is composed of 2390 works in 3171 editions and translations (1618 in Greek and 637 in Latin).

As human brains increasingly interact with technology that mimics their own capabilities, the need for students to understand both the science and engineering of intelligence continues to grow as well. Addressing these challenges will require a deeper understanding of how the brain produces intelligent behavior and how we may be able to replicate... See more

But here’s the magic few people ever talk about …We’ve created more than $1.5 billion in value to Upfront from just 6 deals that WERE NOT immediately up and to the right.The beauty of these businesses that weren’t immediate momentum is that they didn’t raise as much capital (so neither we nor the founders had to take the extra dilution), they took... See more