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“toy” models of economies—simple models that are so abstract they bear little resemblance to reality.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
- Always be on the edge of the impossible.
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
My argument that the best way to assure AI safety is to link our machines tightly to our own minds, in the tradition of Ada Lovelace, JCR Licklider, Steve Jobs and @elonmusk ‘s @neuralink https://t.co/AWNxIplI7Y
Walter Isaacsonx.compolicies of “humor over rumor” and “fast, fun and fair” responses.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
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Nat Friedman
I'm an investor, entrepreneur, developer.
Some things about me:
Some things I believe:
I'm an investor, entrepreneur, developer.
Some things about me:
- Grew up in Charlottesville, VA
- On the Internet since 1991, which is my actual "home town"
- Went to MIT because I loved the Richard Feynman autobiographies
- Started two companies
- CEO of GitHub from 2018 through 2021
- Live in California
Some things I believe:
- As human beings it is our
Nat Friedman • Nat Friedman
These developments represent a colossal transfer of power away from traditional states and militaries toward anyone with the capacity, and motivation, to deploy these devices. There is no obvious reason why a single operator, with enough wherewithal, could not control a swarm of thousands of drones. A single AI program can write as much text as all
... See moreMustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
In 2010 Steven Johnson writes in his excellent Where Good Ideas Come From:
The great driver of scientific and technological innovation [in the last 600 years has been] the increase in our ability to reach out and exchange ideas with other people, and to borrow other people’s hunches and combine them with our hunches and turn them into something new.