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Electroflow
Albert Wenger – Oct 1, 2025
The future is electric. Electric vehicles (the fastest “production” car in the world is now electric ). Electric stoves . Electric heat pumps . Electric robots . And of course all the compute powering the AI revolution. At USV we [...] Read more
Philosophy Mondays: Values (Part 3)
Albert Wenger – May 6, 2025
In the last two Philosophy Mondays we first defined what values are and then posed the question of a basis for values . The key requirements for such a basis is that it has to be objective so that it [...] Read more
Humane Genomics
Albert Wenger – Feb 13, 2025
Miren
Albert Wenger – Feb 4, 2025
What a time to be building! Writing computer code has never been easier. We now have AI models that have memorized every conceivable API and can assist us or even write code for us outright. Especially the more recent so-called [...] Read more
Philosophy Mondays
Albert Wenger – Jan 6, 2025
So far on Continuations I have had two big series: Tech Tuesdays and Uncertainty Wednesdays (since I have migrated to Paragraph these have become somewhat buried but I will fix that). Both series ran over several years and I greatly [...] Read more
Reasserting the Rule of Law
Albert Wenger – Dec 11, 2024
Last week the CEO of United Healthcare was assassinated in midtown Manhattan. A surprising number of reactions amounted to some variant of “he had it coming.” Why were people defending what appears to be a vigilante killing? Because the rule [...] Read more
Continuations Now on Paragraph
Albert Wenger – Dec 11, 2024
A little over eight years ago I wrote that I was thinking about leaving Tumblr . More interestingly though, the headline of that post went on to say that I was "Looking for a Decentralized Blog Network"! I even explained [...] Read more
We Need Actually Open AI Now More than Ever (Or: Why Leopold Aschenbrenner is Dangerously Wrong)
Albert Wenger – Sep 15, 2024
Based on recent meetings it would appear that the national security establishment may share Leopold Aschenbrenner ’s view that the US needs to get to ASI first to help protect the world from Chinese hegemony. I believe firmly in protecting [...] Read more
Moderation in Social Networks
Albert Wenger – Aug 31, 2024
First Pavel Durov, the co-founder and CEO of Telegram, was arrested in France, in part due to a failure to comply with moderation requests by the French government. Now we have Brazil banning X/Twitter from the country entirely, also claiming [...] Read more