all technology brothers should have a birthright trip to paris to see how good certain things can get and all the axes of civilization they don’t think about. they should also get one to singapore to witness the hollow Disneyland feigned joy of technocratic perfection
Our education system spends 12 to 22 years training most people to become LLMs.
Not even frontier models, just ones optimized for benchmarks (test scores).
In the age of AI, that’s a very dangerous training objective.
crypto is best thought of as the universal API for finance at planetary scale
the neutrality and censorship resistance of chains have the important effect that counterparty risk is reduced and thus capital can concentrate and mobilize
this is not possible without blockchains
I am unreasonably excited about self-driving. It will be the first technology in many decades to visibly terraform outdoor physical spaces and way of life. Less parked cars. Less parking lots. Much greater safety for people in and out of cars. Less noise pollution. More space reclaimed for humans. Human brain cycles and attention capital freed up from “lane following” to other pursuits. Cheaper, faster, programmable delivery of physical items and goods. It won’t happen overnight but there will be the era before and the era after.