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“The really great privilege of the elites of the future will be to erase the computer information about them, and assume their private identities again.” Marshall McLuhan, 1969

"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology."

— Renowned sociobiologist Dr. E. O. Wilson

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Andrej Karpathy says as we expand our brains into an exocortex on a computing substrate, we will be renting our brains and open source will become more important because if it's "not your weights, not your brain"

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Stephen Cave formalized “Freedom Quotient” as an additional dimension to evaluate human competencies beyond IQs (intelligent quotient) and EQ (emotional quotient). Cave defined FQ as a measure of natural free will, and he argues that smoothing out inequalities in FQ – and to raise the FQ of everyone – should be a goal of schools and of social

2025 is going to be a very different year. People on crypto twitter have focused heavily on price trends. “AI16z and Virtuals are going up, nice, I made $1m!” Is $1 million enough to offset the obsolescence of your career? The reality is that people are extremely under indexed. AI isn’t just another narrative. It’s the... See more

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stating so I don’t forget The lone wolves I’ve met who are near the billion dollar mark 1) got the numerator right — fee generating biz or high sharpe ratio anti fragile strategy 2) got the denominator right - denominated in btc 3) got drift right... See more

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“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”

— E. O. Wilson (1929 - 2021)

I like the idea that economics is a value system that shapes our decision-making in ways that are so ingrained in society that they’re invisible to us.

David Perell 9.10.2021

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The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.
E.O. Wilson

This quote implies an obvious question: what would it mean to invent a modern, godlike, institution?