I often say that we are deterministic thinkers living in a probablistic world, and often hilarity or tr edy ensues. But you said that the rolling tenure base rate was 89%. That's all it is. And so when we're talking about the future, about robots, a i, virtual worlds, health, all this kind of stuff, i love your essay. I'm very aware of time here now. The twentieth century had plenty of em. There will be lots of failures. We'll invent new cures for those problems, but they themselves might cause problems. You can burst entire new fields fairly easily as time goes on because combinatorial processes have a tendency to
Rohit Krishnan is a VC and essayist who writes the ‘Strange Loop Canon’ newsletter in which he tries to understand the ever increasing complexity of our world. You can follow Rohit on Twitter at https://twitter.com/krishnanrohit and subscribe to his newsletter at https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/ Show Notes:
- Douglas Hofstadter’s Strange Loop
- Memory as an unreliable narrator
- Are we seeing a decline in eccentricity?
- The Great Reshuffle
- We need more Thiel-style patrons
- Why do big companies suck at innovation?
- Importance of failure
- Reducing the cost of failure
- Universal Basic Income/Dividend
- Maximizing EV vs. Maximizing hit rate
- Are governments inefficient?
- Fragility of jobs
- World in 2050
Books Recommended:
- Gödel, Escher, Bach; by Douglas Hofstadter
- I Am a Strange Loop; by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Misbehavior of Markets; by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson