Commoditizing ...

A couple weeks ago, Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛ and I had a chat about the world after capiltal at his NYC office. Episode 7: What happens when everything is free? youtube.com/watch?v=TrMgUG…

A couple more orders of magnitude to go ...

In a few years, we will start to have a relationship with our homes. In a few more years, they will start taking care of us. How do evolve our homes' personalities to best suit us?

As intelligences commoditizes, non-personal proprietary data stops providing a competitive edge. Even proprietary knowhow might not provide an edge.

What is concierge service? Is it always service fronted by humans? Concierge is thoughtful, complete, thorough, efficient, effective, anticipative, elegant ... and, doesn't require mindspace from the client.

Truth is a necessity for survival. Belief is an optimization to get you to truth. If the optimization is incorrect, survival could be at risk. We need to have beliefs to function efficient, but we should always be open to the possiblity that our beliefs have deviated from the

Finally... Some focused work on economic singularity... I hope... anthropic.com/news/introduci…

Incompetence is a cultural choice. The longer you tolerate it in your team, the more it becomes a conscious decision.

In a post AGI, the purpose of a brand shifts from getting people to trust you enough to buy from you... to getting people to talk to you. Once they talk to you, your AI can build a trust relation.

Since the GFC from 2008, we've realized current economic theories have basic assumption flaws; likely in the nature of humans and complex systems. Not too surprising that top economists could not forecast Argentina's trajectory from 2024. Not enough first-principles thinking?

For parents ...

Universal Basic Capital (UBC) should be preferred over UBI (Universal Basic Income). Why? On an ongoing basis, who decides what the UBI payments are? Whoever that is has disproportionate power over the rest of us. As the value of labor drops, UBC is bootstraped once -- capital

Cost of intelligence ==> 0

TRUST IS FUNDAMENTAL: Q: Is there a language where the word "trust" does not exist? Grok: No natural language lacks a concept for "trust" entirely, as it’s a fundamental human notion tied to social cooperation and relationships. However, the expression of trust varies. Some

Societies, economies, companies, communes, organizations, even biological ecosystems... are all collaborative systems... all of which require trust.

“Higher education as we know it is on the verge of becoming obsolete.” -- Jad Tarifi

Are exchanges or marketplaces defensible if the cost of finding and connecting to one tends to zero? What can the marketplace provide that is not commoditizable?