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The burden of excellence
Where has my love for learning gone? An autopsy. Seven things I know is a series of hard personal recollections, a set of field notes into unlearning, a…
 • David Valente
New decisions in a cloudy world
How to keep a clear mind in the midst of the fog? Radical Uncertainty. Tribal AI divides. Deepfakes' threats to the extortion business. Chinese farmers…
 • David Valente
Navigating incompleteness
The seventh thing I learnt?
 • David Valente
From the Alphabet to Blockchain: Encoding the Author’s Voice
A recent thread on fidelity and compression explores human stories, alphabets and language models. What can we do to preserve originality in the digital…
 • David Valente
The force of habits
Why does acting in alignment with duty feels so foreign? The 6th chapter of Seven Things I know - Field notes from the frontlines of unlearning.
 • David Valente
The Map is not the Territory
Ninety Mental Models from Fernam Street (Review)
Dreams
What if we could communicate from within our dreams? How to lucid dream.
 • David Valente
Unbundling Twitter
A decentralized communication protocol could change for good the rules of the social media game. It's the greater web3 unbundling hitting Zuckerberg's…
 • David Valente
Intelligence
Will we hit the marginal returns of intelligence?
 • David Valente
Unbearable Slowness
At what rate do we process new information?
 • David Valente
Need for action
What drives us?
 • David Valente
99% of people just get AI wrong...
Microsoft tested GPT4 mathematical spark with trap questions. Are we one step closer to Artificial General Intelligence? Where will the future AI value…
 • David Valente
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