Juan Orbea
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A node in a network
Juan Orbea
If you add a compounding effect on top of an already large number, it becomes very difficult to predict the size of future outcomes.
Kyle Harrison • Markets, Markets, and Markets
Why SETI Will Fail (and why we are alone in the Universe)
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
When the niche shifts from being just nature, to being consciousness and culture itself, wild type groups start to have a conflict. What emerges from this transition is the Domesticated type.
Jordan Hall • The Game of Thrones | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 4
The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
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It seems very unintuitive because we're in a very unusual place in the world. It's only over the last couple of hundred years there's such a wild discrepancy between rich countries and poor countries where people in which countries have 100x the income of the poorest people in the world and where we have the technology to be able to change the... See more
Will MacAskill • Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #228)
So far, I’ve been talking about the hardware of computing. The requisite hardware capacity is a necessary but not sufficient condition. A key advantage of nonbiological intelligence is that machines can easily share their knowledge. We exposed it to thousands of hours of recorded speech, corrected its errors, and patiently improved its performance.... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
— Oscar Wilde