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Tech, progress, talent, science, and the long-term

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In Part 1, I laid out the simmer scenario as an alternative to explosion, stagnation in collapse, in which growth slows down sufficiently to remain…
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An alternative to explosion, stagnation, and collapse
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Why there will be many more effective altruist billionaires
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An interesting pattern recurs across the career of great scientists: an annus mirabilis (miracle year) in which they make multiple, seemingly…
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10x engineers, tech bubbles, and the PayPal mafia
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I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John…
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