Yash Mimani aka ahafisher

- AI gone wrong

- Religious extremism

How should we think about symbolic discourse language compared to ordinary natural language? In a sense, the symbolic discourse language is a representation in which all the nuance and “poetry” have been “crushed” out of the natural language. The symbolic discourse language is precise, but it’ll almost inevitably lose the nuance and poetry of the o... See more

But let’s get back to contracts. Today, there are hundreds of billions of them being signed every year around the world (and vastly more being implicitly entered into)—though the number of “original” ones that aren’t just simple modifications is probably just in the millions (and is perhaps comparable to the number of original computer programs or ... See more

“Silk Road doesn’t really sell drugs. It sells insurance and financial products,” says Carnegie Mellon computer engineering professor Nicolas Christin. “It doesn’t really matter whether you’re selling T-shirts or cocaine. The business model is to commoditize security.”⁠

- Sustainable energy

- Tesla

- How many years did Tesla accelerate the transition to sustainable energy by?

- That will be the legacy of Tesla

- Thoughts

- Synthetic RNA is like the switch from analog to digital

- Most underestimate the power of this technology

- Love at work can make people at best halfway happy

- If not in love, not happy