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One of the views, famously, in the stories of progress, is how many people view the Manhattan Project as this massive moment of scientific discovery, and we did a lot of things at once, and we managed to make the nuclear bomb. But there’s another view of the Manhattan Project, which is that we assembled a lot of things that were on the shelf and ju

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One of the reasons that angel investing in the Bay Area was such a status symbol is that it was fairly exclusive.

No user-generated content platform that offers distribution (and not monetization) to the marginal content creator can succeed with a paywall.Examples:  Netflix and Spotify are great examples of paywalled content that primarily offer monetization to their suppliers. Medium is a good example of a failed paywall because its original value propos... See more

Eliot Couvat suggested recently, social tokens enable crowdfunding-as-an-investment

As Donald Knuth put it: “Ai has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires ‘thinking’ but has failed to do most of what people and animals do without thinking …”

What do we have left that is ours and ours alone? Sensorimotor skills that are all but automatic, yes. Consciousness, yes. Emotions. Instinct. Appetites, impulses and dr... See more

We are meeting, working, playing, and consuming online more than ever. And this is just the beginning.