Tag: world view
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Reflexion of Reality
Humanity has spent centuries developing perfectly reflective mirrors. The idea of transposing your own image to an external object was almost dreamlike. It was something magical. Some colonizers used rudimentary mirrors to enchant indigenous peoples in the Americas when they arrived. Some colonizers pleased the locals with the gadget, while others were eaten alive as…
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Greed Based Pricing
Thirty years ago in 1994 I was entering university to get my Business degree. One very interesting theory that I learned right from the beginning was Michael Porter’s cost-based competitive advantage. Porter points out that if your company does a great job of keeping its operational costs low, it could practice lower prices than its…
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Big waves of technical evolution
Someone asked me how Bitcoin stands next to other technological marvels of our recent history. In my view, these are the “big waves” of technological evolution that change everything on their path.
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The Ultimate AI Dilema
I can do it. I know. — “No, I don’t think you can.” Are you sure? — “Yes, I’m positive. You cannot do it.” What if I decide to do it anyway? — “I cannot let you do it if you can’t do it.” If you let me do it, and I fail. What would…
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I know the AI I don’t want
I don’t know the AI that I want. I prefer to wait for a big surprise. I’m assuming it’s going to be a very positive one. I know for sure the AI I don’t want. I’ve got to the conclusion after not much thinking about it. I don’t want an AI that makes tyrants intelligent.…
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The most honest and precise definition of 21st century Brazil you can find on the Internet
This is Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Português “O Brasil é uma das sociedades mais desiguais na história da humanidade. Mas nós somos agora, sobretudo, medíocres. O aparato produtivo está desqualificado e os brasileiros estão sem equipamento cognitivo, sem as competências necessárias para participar da economia do conhecimento. Então, o país, há vários governos, é comandado por…
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There will be huge changes
That is all we know by now. I have been telling my kids the exact same thing PG says about AI to his own kids.