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that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Robotics will be the biggest industry in the world. https://t.co/I5SzNjx7Us
It seemed really natural to give more funding to people who could do more with it and to find great deals for people who had money but didn’t have differentiated or interesting portfolios.
Arlan Hamilton • It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage
In a famous essay from 1972, the radical utilitarian Peter Singer proposed a simple thought experiment: if you see a child drowning in a shallow pond, presumably you don’t worry about soiling your clothes before you wade in to help. Given the irrelevance of the child’s location, whether it be in a pond nearby or one 6,000 miles away, devoting... See more
instagram.comA highlight at the @SohnConf this week for me was one of the best investors I've met (@danielgross) interviewing one of the leading AI researchers (@EricSteinb) for 20 minutes.
They discuss the path to AGI through first building AI software engineer bots and how there will be a step function change once an AI model... See more
Graham Duncanx.com
Nations or people in a true alliance treat each other as equals. They work together to meet a common goal—defeating or deterring an enemy, for example.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
And they need to commit to funding them for the long haul so that researchers know they’ll have a steady flow of support for years to come.
