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Cartoon Humor Test for AGI
Albert Wenger – Jul 10, 2019
I wrote a post nearly four years ago titled Brief Q&A on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which has held up pretty well. Despite a lot of progress in specific domains since then there is no obvious sign that AGI is [...] Read more
Otis
Albert Wenger – Jul 9, 2019
Museums are a wonderful way to see art and to make art accessible to the public. On the opposite spectrum of accessibility are private collections, locked away in the homes, or sometimes simply the storage facilities, of collectors. Even for [...] Read more
Universal Basic Income: An Introduction
Albert Wenger – Jul 1, 2019
Here is the text of a speech I gave at the 72nd Annual NYU Labor Conference, which this year was on AI and Automation. Unfortunately there is no recording - I stuck relatively closely to this, but didn’t read it. ———- [...] Read more
Universal Basic Income: An Introduction
Albert Wenger – Jul 1, 2019
Here is the text of a speech I gave at the 72nd Annual NYU Labor Conference, which this year was on AI and Automation. Unfortunately there is no recording - I stuck relatively closely to this, but didn’t read it. [...] Read more
Babylon Berlin
Albert Wenger – Jun 26, 2019
One of the reasons I get a fair bit of reading done is that I avoid watching lots of television. On a flight to Germany last week though, I got sucked into watching Babylon Berlin. The series is set in [...] Read more
Algorand Launch
Albert Wenger – Jun 19, 2019
Today marks a big milestone for the Algorand Core Team and Algorand Foundation. They conducted the first on-chain Algorand auction and it came off without a hitch. It took a lot to get here and so: huge congratulations to everyone involved! Among other things this [...] Read more
goTenna Series C
Albert Wenger – Jun 18, 2019
We are excited that Founders Fund has led a Series C financing for goTenna. It is a recognition of the tremendous progress the company has made in serving the communication needs of first responders and other professionals. The goTenna Prooffering works with mobile phones [...] Read more
Joining the Libra Association
Albert Wenger – Jun 18, 2019
Today we announced that we have joined the Libra Association, the governance for a global stable coin. Nick has written a post on the USV blog explaining our decision. I have argued before that we don’t really know what path [...] Read more
Timing of World After Capital: An Echo of Keynes?
Albert Wenger – Jun 17, 2019
After a vacation, I am resuming work on World After Capital. I have been struck by the possibility that my book may suffer a fate similar to Keynes’s essay titled “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren.” Written in 1930, during the [...] Read more