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Continuing with the Ask Me Anything series, today’s question is about startup stress And here is my answer Part of reducing startup stress is to take time off. And that’s exactly what I will be doing. We are going away for a family trip and there won’t be any updates to Continuations until the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
There has been a fair bit of coverage of the potential dangers that an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) might pose for humanity. Here some questions about AGI with my currently best answers. 1. What is the difference between AI and AGI? Artificial Intelligence (AI) can accomplish specific […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Natural language is the general purpose “API” for humans and it seems it may become the same for software. Bots are all the rage on several platforms including Telegram and now Slack. Facebook is experimenting with M. There are bots to schedule meetings. Bots to order lunch. And so much more. Our […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
As more regular readers of Continuations will know I have been working on a book that pulls together many of the ideas I have been writing about here. So where does this effort stand? The good news is that over the summer I have produced a 120 page draft together with another writer. The bad […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This time in my Ask Me Anything series, I got a tough question about what kind of institutions we need to provide fairness in the age of the Internet. For example akin to what Public Libraries were in the age of books: And here is my answer which talks about policies rather than institutions. I […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Capital is no longer scarce. This is an assertion I made a while back in my post “Land, Capital, Attention: This Time it Is the Same.” Today I want to elaborate on that a bit. Estimates put global investible capital at north of $100 trillion. Global GDP by comparison is around $80 trillion and as […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
