Juan Orbea
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A node in a network
Juan Orbea
A hard decision is not hard because you can’t seem to “figure it out.” Hard decisions are hard because option A is better in some ways and option B is better in others. “When alternatives are on a par, it may matter very much which you choose, but one alternative isn’t better than the other,” Chang writes. “Rather, the alternatives are in the same neighborhood of value, in the same league of value, while at the same time being very different in kind of value.”
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
The U.S. government is pushing hard to fund the development of fourth-generation SMRs and microreactors. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) has allocated billions of dollars to startups, including $1.2 billion to X-Energy and $2 billion to TerraPower. Similarly, the Pentagon recently selected BWXT to... See more
Bessemer Venture Partners • Investing in a world powered by nuclear fission
Can we create new senses for humans? | David Eagleman
youtube.comI think there is an important idea hidden in [1]: while the "social technology" community has come up with many good ideas around better governance, and many good ideas around better public discussion, there is a missing emphasis on better social technology for sorting .
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Next generation smrs use a new kind of fuel called TRISO fuel that's much more efficient. T he US department of energy has called trisol fuel "the most robust nuclear fuel on earth". picture a sphere, about the size of a hand, inside there are thousands of tiny triso particles that harness the power of fission better than conventional uranium... See more
C Capital • C5 Capital - Next Generation Nuclear Technology
Performance Metrics
Total Value to Paid-In Capital (TVPI)
TVPI is a measure of both the realized and unrealized value of a fund as a proportion of the total paid-in, or contributed, capital. It is calculated by (total value) / (paid-in capital) where total value is (distributions + net asset value). A TVPI over 1.00x means an investment’s value
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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