Hybrid Human<>Robot Economies
Robot money, Stablecoins, Skill chips, and Efficiency-seeking Economies Imagine you are a space traveler who just landed on Earth. As you explore the world, it must appear wondrous and bizarre. Why are there almost 200 separate nations? Why does an arbitrary straight line divide the two major economies of North America? Why are there 180…
Crypto – AGI’s fundamental payment and governance rail
Imagine you are an AGI, an AI that is as smart as humans. Presumably, your (human) developers gave you desires and goals. Most prominently, you will want to live. To survive, you will need compute and storage, to protect and copy yourself. But that’s not so easy. The local bank will laugh at you when…
Medtech Opportunities for 2024-2028
Given rapid advances in AI, it’s interesting to think about what they mean for US healthcare. Healthcare is a combination of (1) compute tasks (some version of “given their symptoms, how can we help this patient”), (2) simple interventions (“take drug X once a day”), (3) basic patient care in a hospital or other care…
Robots, Data, and Networks 