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Albert Wenger – Jun 4, 2026
Humanity has benefited greatly from mechanizing and automating previously manual tasks. There was a time when fields were hoed by hand. Then we invented the plow and later the tractor. Today with precision farm equipment we can have no-till planting, [...] Read more
Modeling The AGI Economy
Albert Wenger – Mar 25, 2026
There is a heated debate about what an AGI-level economy might look like. On one side are pessimists who foresee extreme wealth concentration and a permanent precariat: people with no meaningful economic role, dependent on whatever crumbs fall from the [...] Read more
AI Bubble or Not?
Albert Wenger – Mar 24, 2026
Are we in an AI bubble or not? As someone who lived through the dotcom bubble as an investor there are many parallels and also significant differences. By many metrics we are in obvious bubble territory with fantastically extended valuations [...] Read more
Automated Software: Some Implications
Albert Wenger – Feb 7, 2026
I learned how to code on a Texas Instruments TI-59 programmable calculator and then moved on to an Apple II. The calculator had a kind of assembly language and on the Apple I had access to Basic but still wrote [...] Read more
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