What's the math here if they go public in 2027, with next to 1T in valuation? How much more growth can the company have for regular investors? Surely they won't have the capital of multiple FAANG companies...
The stats warrant some caution, though. The main finding is based on figure 4 [1] and I wouldn't be surprised if the number and location of these 'eras' varied a lot if the authors use 40,000 people instead of 4,000.
I lived in Palo Alto for years around 2018 before realizing o was a block away from Tim Cook. From the outside, his house looked pretty normal-looking and I also run into him at the whole foods down the block. He and his house looked pretty down to earth.
Fair enough. I was not familiar with the source and couldn't check all the references since some were to a private blog, but what's open check out: https://youtu.be/ZluMysK2B1E?si=_RWmR8mzGcKrmp9Z
The plan seems to be to (1) "RAGE: Retire All Government Employees (...), take over the United States government and gut the federal bureaucracy. Then, replace civil servants with political loyalists"
So in essence, they think these short term problems can be reversed once the pawns are replaced.
Thanks for the perspective. The courage to "face society" and write for the public is one of the reasons I've always loved (trying) to read Daniel Dennets work. He seemed to be writing for scientists and less to other philosophers. Not sure if you agree
Replace AI with car, airplane, medic devices in the sentence above... Why is AI any different from other human creations? Why shouldn't we try building it responsibly?
"Here are some additional sources that discuss the concept of an egregore and how it can be applied to understanding group dynamics and the evolution of organizations:
"The Anatomy of the Body of God" by Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones) - A detailed exposition on the occult concept of egregores from a ceremonial magic perspective.
"Web of Debt" by Ellen Hodgson Brown - This book discusses egregores in the context of economic systems and the power of collective beliefs shaping institutions.
"The Egregore Effect" by Jack Willis - Explores egregores as self-reinforcing memetic constructs that shape group behavior.
"The Cult of Information" by Theodore Roszak - While not directly about egregores, it discusses how ideologies and worldviews can take on a life of their own within organizations.
"The Organizational Hologram" by David Bohm - Applies concepts from quantum physics to understanding the undivided wholeness of organizations