- Thoughts

- Declining birth rates

- Inversion of population pyramid

- E.g., Japan

Well, if we can develop a decently complete symbolic discourse language, it should be possible. (Yes, every contract would have to be defined relative to some underlying set of “governing law” rules, etc., that are in some ways like the built-in functions of the symbolic discourse language.)But what would it mean? Among other things, it would mean ... See more

- Lack of ways to give away money effectively

- Worried about healthspan expansion, not lifespan expansion

- Feels like death will be a relief

- Lifespan expansion leads to ossification

- People don’t really change their mindset they just die

- There should be an upper limit, not just a minimum limit for holding political office

- Max age of 10-20 years on both sides of the average age o

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- Late starter in the space, post Headspace $70M+ funding but managed to hone in on the sleep pain point and led with a celebrity-first GTM

How should we think about symbolic discourse language compared to ordinary natural language? In a sense, the symbolic discourse language is a representation in which all the nuance and “poetry” have been “crushed” out of the natural language. The symbolic discourse language is precise, but it’ll almost inevitably lose the nuance and poetry of the o... See more

- AI gone wrong

- Religious extremism

But let’s get back to contracts. Today, there are hundreds of billions of them being signed every year around the world (and vastly more being implicitly entered into)—though the number of “original” ones that aren’t just simple modifications is probably just in the millions (and is perhaps comparable to the number of original computer programs or ... See more