Viewing profile — AElsinore77

I'm the above poster's cofounder that pitched this in person with YC on April 30, 2018 - exact same name and idea. I'm definitely curious if this is just innocent coincidence.

First thing I thought of too - the only category where students ranked themselves as less proficient than they were perceived to be is technology - the one area they are probably a…

This is quite interesting -- tangentially related, is anyone aware of studies of the long term effects of sports which include blood chokes (constricting carotids)? These might inc…

Manufacturing is a big one -- right now most factories are still run very manually, but advances in robotics, computer vision, and AI will change the game. In terms of companies he…

A great read! A sharp commentary on conflating our models of reality with reality itself. So many of our current debates are simply dialogues over which model of the world is most …

What strikes me most about philosophy is in how core it is to everything we do — and this is something I didn’t realize for the longest time. The foundations of the economic, socia…

An interesting angle on studying personality is through the lens of research on psychoactive substances. A study on magic mushrooms several years ago found that "just one strong do…

Bumping due to relevance to: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609408/quantum-computers-...

Is Bitcoin “legit?” Does it have any purpose or value? I think it does, and here are several lenses through which to see cryptocurrencies, that explain why: As an investment: The w…

If you encounter a problem with agencies collecting on illegitimate debt, it may be reported to the credit bureaus, which can be a big deal for you (buying home, etc). The bureaus …

Check out this: https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_how_your_brain_hallucina... Neural nets are doing something that the mind does too - it takes visual input, then it "predicts" a…

There's a lot of discussion here about "virtue" and "self-discipline" - I'd like to offer an interesting possibility that "discipline" is not about motivation or willpower, but is …

Another key trend to consider - China's labor costs are growing up to 2x per year: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/welcoming-our-... China's push for AI is a recognit…

This is a very interesting point. One distinction I'm getting hung up on is that this dilution is in the form of a different currency (Ethereum classic, Bitcoin Cash), not in Bitco…

Think of it as a high-risk hedge against future hyperinflation - the Fed can expand the monetary supply arbitrarily to infinity; but Bitcoin's expansion is limited by design. I thi…

If you are unable to observe a thing directly, and instead could only see it through a distortion lens, would you want the opportunity to look at it through multiple different dist…

In my experience, exercise was helpful, but mostly only after I realized what I could learn about myself from it. Primarily, it allowed me to better understand and manage 2 types o…