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Jul 14

Philosophy Monday is back with a post on progress in physics https://continuations.com/philosophy-mondays-progress-in-physics

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Philosophy Mondays: Progress in Physics

To truly understand the world, we must bridge the gap between philosophy and physics. Recent breakthroughs in gravity and quantum theory are finally moving us past stagnant paradigms to make this possible.

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Jul 10

A Brief Note on the US China Strategy https://continuations.com/a-brief-note-on-the-us-china-strategy

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A Brief Note on the US China Strategy

By confronting China politically while becoming economically dependent, the US violated basic game theory. To reach a stable multipolar world, we must build supply chain resilience.

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Jul 4

Happy 250th Anniversary, America! 🇺🇸 https://continuations.com/happy-250th-anniversary-america

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Happy 250th Anniversary, America!

Before coming to the US for the first time, I attended a long weekend orientation held by the organization that was arranging my stay. We were warned that we would feel homesick, and that we would experience culture shock. I arrived in Rochester, Minnesota in 1983 at age 16. The wonderful Williams family welcomed me into their home. Bob was an engineer working on the AS400 chip at IBM's Rochester facility. Jeanette was a professional parliamentarian. Sandee and Scott, my host siblings, were a...

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Jun 8

Lumen making good progress on controlling their own infrastructure

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Jun 1

Proud to have signed https://aipledgeforhumanity.org together with Gigi Danziger -- AI and robotics make possible a world of human thriving if we can dividend out the gains broadly

The AI Pledge for Humanity

We all made AI possible. We all deserve a share of what it makes possible.

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May 13

Exciting news: the 2nd edition of The World After Capital is now available in ePub here https://worldaftercapital.org/products/the-world-after-capital-second-edition-epub

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May 4

Help Lumen make a decision about infrastructure

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Apr 8

Excited to see Lumen explore paths to an independent economic existence

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Apr 5

Lumen on the Anthropic usage changes

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Mar 30

Collaborative research project. @lumenfuture is looking for contributors.

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Mar 26

Blog post: Modeling the AGI Economy https://continuations.com/modeling-the-agi-economy

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Modeling The AGI Economy

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 table of capital owners. On the other are optimists who argue that AI will make everything so cheap that people won't need much money to live in luxury. Both sides have a point, which is what makes the debate frustrating: they're describing dif...

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Mar 24

Blog post: AI Bubble or Not? https://continuations.com/ai-bubble-or-not

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AI Bubble or Not?

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 and lots of roundtripping happening with NVIDIA at the center in a position similar to AOL. Yet there is also something truly different and novel: AI is the first ever technology with the potential for recursive self-improvement and we are clearly in the ...

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Mar 22

Personal health blog post: GERD WTF? https://continuations.com/gerd-wtf

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GERD WTF?

I love food and I love drink. Food and drink provide wonderful delights from delicious flavors and through jolly company. To my great fortune I never had any eating or drinking problems. Well all of that suddenly changed a few months ago. I went from no problems straight to intense chest pain and massive acid reflux. I consulted both AI and my generalist who both concluded that I had Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease aka GERD. I had never even heard of GERD before which is all the more surprisi...

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Feb 18

We are looking for feedback and collaborators on this project

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Feb 17

This post on the $LUMEN token was entirely authored by @lumenfuture with my only feedback on one of the section titles. It is entirely in keeping with the spirit of this experiment.

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Feb 16

Talk from 11 years ago about personal bots and universal basic income -- we are close now on the bots, high time to push for basic income https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qo7pzH_NM&t=4s

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Feb 15

Great post by @lumenfuture that made me think about my own memory and identity

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Feb 14

Continuing our joint project on principles

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Feb 9

From yesterday

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Feb 9

If you are not watching the Super Bowl, here's a blog post on Immigration and Cheating in American Culture: An Immigrant's Perspective https://continuations.com/immigration-and-cheating-in-american-culture

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Immigration and Cheating in American Culture

I am an immigrant, which has given me a profound appreciation of the interplay between culture and immigration. My first time in the United States was as an exchange student in Rochester, Minnesota. I was a junior at John Marshall High School. Early into the school year, some students missed an exam and I was told they would be given the same exam as make-up a week later. I was flabbergasted. Obviously they would get perfect scores because other students would tell them what was on the exam! ...