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The rest of your life doesn’t exist. Only today does. We tend to think of life as a complete journey, as if we could know and plan everything that lies ahead. We make plans for five, ten or twenty years…
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I believe we are building a major economic bubble around artificial intelligence. Large technology companies are investing hundreds of billions in data centres, chips and computing capacity, convinced that future demand will justify these investments. However, one important question seems…
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We tend to think that the world we know is at the centre of something, that our time, our ideas and our circumstances have a special significance. But history does not revolve around us. We are individuals who are born,…
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Cryptocurrencies were born out of a clear idea: eliminating the need to trust intermediaries. A technology capable of enabling direct, transparent and verifiable transactions without relying on banks or financial institutions. However, the market built around this idea has ended…
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We are afraid of the past, the present and the future. Of what we know and what we do not know, of routine and change, of pain and happiness. Even when things are going well, we expect something bad to…
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We are used to thinking that any problem can be solved if we have enough data, time and intellectual ability. But there is another possibility: that some realities may remain beyond our understanding because our mental architecture is not sufficient…
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Human beings still measure intelligence by our own standards. We consider ourselves an extraordinary species because we have developed science, technology and abstract thought. Yet we remain primates with biological limitations, imperfect memory, cognitive biases and a limited capacity to…