Monday, October 03, 2022

3: India

3: Ukraine

We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper Patrick Collison calls for a new “science of progress.” ......... And before you get to really unbelievable and sci-fi-like dimensions of artificial intelligence, you just have a thing that is going to democratize a lot of capabilities in a way that’s going to put the money for those capabilities both a little bit back into the pockets of the people who need them, and then a lot into the people who run the best A.I. rigs and is going to have a really weird geographically destabilizing effect. ....... try to assess what’s the sentiment of people in Poland, what’s the sentiment of people in India, or what’s the sentiment of people in Indonesia, they view the internet extremely positively .............. that paradox of the internet both democratizing geography, and then concentrating wealth and capital in very small areas is, to me, a central challenge