The better AI gets at doing our work for us, the more we outsource our thinking to it. Thus, as we make machines more humanlike, they make us more machinelike. Perhaps we should be less worried about AI becoming conscious, than about humanity becoming unconscious.
We are used to closed source companies capturing the value. Now, open-source protocols capture value. “This is the next phase of the internet after mobile” – Naval Ravikant
Many of the tools, API’s, and infrastructure created for financial applications were originally created for internal banking customers; however, now with the rise of consumer and business fintech applications, we are going to see outside developers as the new emerging customer.
When a student asks Butler what the answer is to ending the suffering in the world, she replies, “...there’s no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers–at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
reminds me of this quote: “If you think globally, you become filled with gloom. But if you take a little piece of this whole picture—my piece, our piece, this is what I can do here, I’m making a difference and they’re making a difference over there, and so are they, and so are they—gradually the pieces get filled in. And the world is a better place because of you.”
Can you program human movement with music? It turns out you can. You use an API called TikTok. That's delightful.
One of the most storied examples of how a subscription business model can thrive predictably comes from an industry where subscriptions weren’t an obvious fit -- Costco
First, I believe VR will be a major computing platform, as or more significant than the phone and PC were. Facebook should sell about 10 million Oculus Quests this year. The headset will continue to get smaller, lighter, higher res, more powerful, and with many more and better apps. This will drive exponential growth the same way it did with PCs... See more