Category: Future of Trends

David Shapiro is a former engineer who became famous through his dozens of well-received tutorials on Youtube. His work focuses on ensuring that advanced technologies are used safely, bringing about an abundant, post-scarcity, post-nihilistic future.

Peter St Onge is a Ph.D. economist in the Austrian tradition, a Mises Institute Fellow, and a former MBA professor in Taiwan. He's driven by a desire to understand how to make the world more prosperous using smart policy and technological advancements to advance freedom.

Dr. Terence Kealey is a professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom, where he served as vice chancellor until 2014. As a clinical biochemist, Dr. Kealey studied human experimental dermatology, and he discovered how distorting government money could be to the scientific enterprise.

Dr. Qichao Hu serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of SES. He is the recipient of MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35”, and works on building new kinds of batteries.

Julian Rodriguez is an entrepreneur, with a passion for leading teams that solve large problems. He joined Bitcoin Magazine in 2013, where he worked directly with Vitalik Buterin. He was a very early team member and advisor to several successful crypto and blockchain projects, including Ethereum, and he is a lifetime member of the Bitcoin Foundation.

We sat down with Zvi Mowshowitz, a CEO, rationalist, and professional trader, to talk about his analysis of the Future of Life Institute's open letter to halt AI progress.

The AI update for April 28th, 2023 features emergence in LLMs, the implications of AI Drake songs going viral, lessons from the history of AI, and more.

Tim Kravchunovsky is an experienced network engineer who has decades of experience in consulting and entrepreneurship. Today, he's the CEO of Chirp, where he's using decentralized technologies like the blockchain to change the internet of things.

The AI update for April 21st, 2023 features cognitive emulations, Sam Altman on the limits of scaling, Google and DeepMind teaming up, and Eliezer ditching alignment research for...catgirls?