I’m interested in the examples of geniuses who could have brought huge change decades early, but for some misfortune/quirk affecting them. Henry Cavendish discovered an enormous amount of electricity and gas principles a hundred yrs early but never revealed them to the world.
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I work in the tech industry, where the young always have a huge, but short-lived advantage, until their skills obsolesce in a few short years, unless you can maintain a young learner's mentality throughout your career. It feels like a microcosm of the broader forces at play..
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I'm surprised at those executives short sightedness about finding the best talent for the long run, but I believe you
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I really don't think it's the executives' fault, it's more a byproduct of the rapid pace of refinement in how you build tech and what it can do. Executives are often left in the dust too when they settle for the tried and true, and are later supplanted by newer better upstarts.
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People like Elon Musk and Sam Harris have talked about it in the context of AI.
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I vaguely remember you talking about treaty agreements between nations to basically halt military tech advancement. I can't remember where I heard it specifically. Your podcasts sometimes run together a little bit for me.
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here's a similar exploration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem
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