Juan Orbea

A self-confessed nerd with a Bachelor's degree in Astrophysics, Liv Boeree combined her science background and passion for games to become one of the most recognizable faces in professional poker. She was the #1 ranked female player from 2014-2016 and holds both European Poker Tour and World Series of Poker championship titles after winning more

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Balaji's argument in The Network State, as I am interpreting it, is as follows. While we do need political collectives bound not just by economic interest but also by moral force, we don't need to stick with the specific political collectives we have today, which are highly flawed and increasingly unrepresentative of people's values. Rather, we... 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.

As a senior leader, you have to maintain a hold on your ego to avoid investing into meaningless work at a grand scale. Taking the time to understand the status quo before shifting it will always repay diligence with results.

Sam states that, for him, AGI is basically the equivalent of a median human that you could hire as a coworker.

However, most people in first world countries are in this situation of opportunity to do extreme good in exchange for a relatively small sacrifice, but most don't do it, mainly due to ignorance of a tractable way in which to do it.

Anti-rivalrous – those set of things in which, if I have it, you can also get a completely functional copy of it without me losing it + the more people that have it, the more valuable it becomes.

Thiel argues that innovation has stagnated in the last half a century, citing examples of how industries like energy, aerospace, automotive or biotech haven't had any major breakthroughs during this period.