Interview with Nectome CEO Robert McIntyre – Brain Preservation, Personal Identity, AGI, and More

Robert McIntrye is an all-around smart and interesting dude, and he’s the CEO of Nectome, a startup devoted to preserving the human brain. Last year, I wrote a summary of Robert’s brain preservation talk at the Long Now Foundation: The Greatest Film Career of All-Time He later read it and reached out to me about …

What Would You Store to Maximize Value in 100 Years? A Thought Experiment

When I was a kid, I used to not want to take my action figures out of the packaging because I knew it would mess up the collector’s value of it.  After all, it might be worth a lot in the future! Beanie Babies, football cards, Pokemon cards – these were precious commodities to childhood …

Notes from Vinay Gupta Talk

Intro Recently went to a talk from Vinay Gupta. Slides are here. I usually find most speakers disappointing in that their ideas aren’t really crisp, and/or too virtue-signally or hand-wavy. I was pleasantly surprised. It reminded me how much I respect how engineers think — first principles, clean slate, “how do we build this efficiently?” …